Sharon Stahl to Retire from Washu, Bonnie & Clyde Musical, Scott Brown Wins

Berger's Beat
September 11, 2014

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Another milestone with the 80th anniversary of when criminal superstars Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and shot to death. So, New LIne Theater’s 24th season will bow Oct. 2-25 with the St. Louis premiere of the jazz-rock musical, “Bonnie & Clyde”. . .Joe Downs of the Opus Group is now setting sights on Columbia, MO for a 259-bed apartment complex to bow in the fall of next year in time for the Mizzou semester. . .In a recent interview, Cardinal Timothy Dolan expressed frustration at how long it takes to defrock a pedophile priest. “Although we bishops have sympathy for the workload of the Holy See, we still cringe at the slow pace of even clean-cut cases that need to be dealt with decisively,” he told Crux, a new on-line Catholic news source. . .Two local men – Kirkwood native Bryan Bacon and St. Charles resident Chris Wimmer - are featured in an investigative report by a Pittsburgh newspaper that says 157 adults have accused 31 members of the U.S.-based Marianists of child sexual abuse. Eight of the alleged offenders worked in our town. Bacon was allegedly abused by Brother William Mueller of Vianney and Wimmer was allegedly abused by Brother Louis Meinhardt and Brother John Woulfe at Chaminade. . .Scott Brown has won the GOP nomination for a New Hampshire U.S. senate seat. A few short years ago, he represented Massachusetts in that same body for one term – taking Sen. Teddy Kennedy’s seat – before being ousted by rising Democratic star Elizabeth Warren. If Brown wins in November, he would become only the third U.S. senator to serve multiple states. Another was James Shields, who represented Illinois and Minnesota before being elected from Missouri in 1879. . .Coming up! The movie, “Merchants of Doubt,” that pulls back the curtain on the “illusionists” that use pseudoscience to spin and creat reality deployed by gas and tobacco companies. . .After 26 years as WashU vice chancellor for students, Sharon Stahl will retire. . .Cheers for SLU’s Dr. Daniel Hoft, topper of the Center for Vaccine Development, where researchers are attacking influenza on multiple fronts as they search for a universal vaccine that protects people from the flu.