“When I played in front of people, I would get so nervous, and my right hand would shake so badly.  How it used to be, every note I played would shake,” CHS junior and violinist David Corbo said....

“I did it for myself, not for other people,” CHS junior Josh Cui said.  “I feel like people would have been supportive of my art, but I just never really talked about it.  It was just a personal...

“We had about three weeks left in Iraq, and then we were gonna be packing up and heading back home. We were occupying a building [that] was part of the Iraqi government complex. The insurgents tried...

When Sam Hack steps into the spotlight, it is not just as a popular substitute teacher at Clayton High School. Hack has been invested in the world of theatre since he was a little boy. “I was...

“I put on a uniform one day and all of a sudden [enlisted soldiers] were saluting me,” CHS chemistry teacher Brad Krone said. “I didn’t know how to salute.” In May of 1994, Krone was commissioned...

Before the sun comes up on the small blue hut on the corner of South Brentwood and Clayton, Betty Boyd is already at work serving her customers at the local IHOP, or as she calls them: family. Boyd has...

“My pops told me at a young age, ‘Music is the universal language. It’s a universal connector. It’s what has connected humankind and allowed us to make it through all these different situations....

Torrence Breaux lost everything. “I made a bunch of stupid decisions, following the wrong people, listening to the wrong crowd, trying to make fast money. I had a job, and would quit the job because...

Cbabi Bayoc is becoming a well-known name in the St. Louis area. The artist, a St. Louis local himself, had his work featured as the cover of Prince’s 2001 album, “The Rainbow Children,” and has...

Built in 1922, the Hi-Pointe Theatre on McCausland Avenue is the oldest continuously- operating, single-screen movie theater in the St. Louis Metropolitan area.   Throughout its many years, the Theatre...