Gallery Visio and artist Kevin McCoy know how to throw an art opening. It was a packed gallery for the opening reception for Visio's one-man show "Raw." Local artist Kevin McCoy, a University of Missouri-St. Louis alumnus, was the solo artist for this show, the first of the new semester.
"Circumsizing the Industry," the new album by local emcees Space and Jonathan Toth from Hoth, seeks not just to circumcise the hip-hop industry but also to transform it completely. Both men are proud St. Louisans, where in their own words, "the nation's most dangerous city is at.
Likely, all that you know about Richard Nixon you learned in high school history class. You may have read about the Vietnam war, anti-war protests and the bombing of Cambodia, but most likely, it was Watergate and the fact that Nixon was the only President to resign from office, in advance of impeachment, that you remember.
"Spartacus," "Exodus," "Papillion," and "Lonely Are The Brave" are among the most inspiring movies about courage and the indomitable human spirit even made in Hollywood. Ironically, they were written by a war veteran who had been stripped of his livelihood and even jailed for refusing to turn in his friends and coworkers to government officials.