POWERplex Concerts Attract Many Wanting Safe, Fun Time

POWERplex Fills Entertainment Void for Eager Guests; Hosts Local Grads too On May 21, POWERplex, off Highway 370, began hosting outdoor concerts and movie nights. The venue follows all the…

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This latest rendering of the Sports Youth complex depicts the area just north Highway 370 where six hotels and several restaurants have already committed to build there. The white building in the center is Cabela’s, which will still be the anchor store in the complex. The black roof section is the interior of what was St. Louis Mills Mall. It will house the volleyball courts, the Bradley Beal basketball Center and pickleball courts; many of them already going in. The POWERplex dome is just visible at the top left of the rendering.

Powerplex Offers Outside entertainment

  Concerts, Movies May 21-June 6 at Old St. Louis Outlet Mall Parking Lot   POWERplex, located at the site of the former St. Louis Outlet Mall in Hazelwood ,…

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Lady J Huston joined the revellers in the Parade. ~ Photo by Bob and Pat Lindsey.

MARDI GRAS IN OLD TOWN FLORISSANT

First Annual Mardi Gras was held and enjoyed on Feb. 15.   Florissant Old Town Partners Presented “Mardi Gras Prom Party Fleurisant Style” on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020, and a…

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Elegant New Year’s Eve table setting at the Eagan Center. ~ Nichole Fetters photo

Florissant Seniors Welcome in 2020 with . . .

20th Anniversary New Year’s Celebration   By Nichole Fetters Each year on New Year’s Eve, Florissant’s finest seniors and their friends gather in the gymnasium at the James J. Eagan…

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SANDRA OLMSTED’S CINEMATIC SKINNY: ELECTRIFYING AMERICA

‘THE CURRENT WAR: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT’ RE-IMAGINES AMERICAN BUSINESS       BY SANDRA OLMSTED In The Current War: The Director's Cut, writer/director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon provides a compelling history lesson that is…

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22nd Annual Florissant Old Town Fall Festival

October 13! The pumpkin decorating station (above photo) located in front of Dooley’s Florist and  Gifts is a popular attraction every year for both children and adults! Participants are encouraged…

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SANDRA OLMSTED’S CINEMATIC SKINNY: ‘JUDY’:

Judy: Zellweger

Channels Garland

by Sandra Olmsted

[caption id="attachment_20581" align="alignleft" width="300"]Zellweger-in-Judy.jpg Renee Zellweger as Judy Garland belts out a song.[/caption] Largely driven by Renée Zellweger's compelling and loving performance, director Rupert Goold's heartfelt biopic Judy chronicles only the last month's of Judy Garland's life. Financially ruined by film producer and third-husband Sid Luft's (Rufus Sewell) gambling addiction, Judy Garland (Zellweger) finds herself penniless, homeless, and mostly unemployable by 1968. Read more on Sandra Olmsted’s Cinematic Skinny: ‘Judy’

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