Who are your favorite actors, singers, instrumental wizards? In our end-of-the year email survey of reportedly the most knowledgeable folks in Ladue, Frontenac and environs, you dropped many names. From the area's best-known rapper and some Hollywood stars to a few up-and-comers you'll be able one day to say you knew "back when," what follow are your picks for top performers in and around Ladue-Frontenac Patch. Ranking them was comparing apples and oranges. So, once we'd winnowed down submissions to 10, we drew out of a hat. The envelope—slips of paper, I mean—please… Mark and Burke Moses…
Some call the current calendar year two thousand ten while others call it twenty ten. Either way it was a memorable year for area athletes and teams who compiled numerous state championships, including three on one memorable November day. It was a challenge to cut the list to 10 since there were so many great accomplishments throughout the year. It shows how special a year that it was that a moment like a 1-0 win by the St. Joseph's softball team in the state quarterfinals over a 28-3 Troy team to advance to their first final four did not make the list. But here are 10 moments which stand out…
The word can be tracked from the word 'briu' of the region of Provence in southeastern France, to the word "brio" in Toscana in central Italy, and then straight to "BRIO", the Tuscan Grille in Frontenac at 1601 South Lindbergh Boulevard. In all instances 'brio' means the same thing…liveliness and vigor. That describes the atmosphere of BRIO when I went there on Saturday afternoon to find out their Top 10 appetizers for 2010. I went in about 1:30, thinking that I'd beat the lunch rush. The first indication that I was mistaken was when I couldn't find a parking space on the vast lot. The …
