| | | Jackson County's go-to funeral director has given grieving families the wrong ashes BY BEN PALOSAARI  After Carlotta Campbell died of head and neck cancer on November 27, 2009 (the day that she and her husband, Mike, would have celebrated their 44th wedding anniversary), Mike and the couple's daughter, Olivia Booher, met with Ronald Marts, proprietor of Marts Memorial Services, a storefront funeral home in Westport. They arranged for Carlotta's remains to be cremated. The family, which isn't religious, wanted only the kind of simple cremation that Marts specializes in. According to Missouri Division of Professional Registration records, he has been a licensed funeral director since 1976. What Campbell and Booher requested, Marts had done thousands of times. Campbell selected an urn and pai... more >>
| | | | | | | | Local Leading Ladies Channel Their Inner Chrissie Hynde BY JENNY KRATZ  Being Chrissie Hynde is no easy task. The enigmatic Pretenders frontwoman is equal parts bitch and muse, with professional and personal histories to make even the most established rocker cower: a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, one of the best debuts ever to grace the vinyl stand, a child with Kinks founder Ray Davies. These days, channeling Hynde requires a few different things — ... more >> | | | | | | | | Forbes Cross takes a new idea and a great chef downtown BY CHARLES FERRUZZA  You can't have too many concepts. Just ask Forbes Cross, who has opened so many different restaurant concepts over the past two decades that I can't even remember all of them. The best known of those was probably Michael Forbes Grill, the clubby Waldo pub that was his first great success, in 1985. Between the opening of that restaurant — which closed in 1999 — and his last venture in... more >> | | | | | | Hall Pass BY NICK PINKERTON  Rick and Fred (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis) are two domesticated husbands whose long marriages (to Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate, respectively) have achieved somnolent routine in suburban Providence, Rhode Island. Yet the wives worry. Rick is a girl watcher; Fred masturbates in the privacy of their parked Honda Odyssey. (His predicament is, throughout, the less dignified.) Under the g... more >> | | | | | | | | Wayward Blog ? It's been four months since Lee Mecker, the new owner of BuddiesKC, took over the freestanding spot at 3715 Main. He's been working at the gay bar off and on for the past 15 years. Upon his ... Fat City Let the countdown to The Drunken Fish (14 E. 14th St.) opening commence. The sushi spot, the fourth for the St. Louis-based restaurant group, opens its doors tonight at 5 p.m. tomorrow at 11 a.m... Plog ?1933 was a great year for America. It's considered the point when the country began to recover from the Great Depression and, not coincidentally, it's the year Franklin Delano Roosevelt repealed... | | | | |
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