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This is a live show with a studio audience. So, grab the wives and children and get yourself down to the STL Studio and make a little noise for us. Make your reservations now by sending your reservation requests to bryante@stlouiscity.com. Include your contact information and the number of people that will be attending with you.

The show will now air on Saturday November 27th at 10:00pm (CT) on my46TV following the "live" Wednesday 7:00 pm broadcast, on the show's home station STL TV.

Networking reception with light refreshments begins at 6pm. All audience members must arrive by 6:20pm. "Best of the STL" will begin promptly at 7:00pm - 8:00pm.

The STL TV studio is located at 4971 Oakland Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 (right down the street from the Science Center and directly across from SLU High School). Look for the STL TV red banners on the light poles in front of our building.

STL TV is now streaming LIVE on the web at stltv.net 24 hours a day!

To find out more about STL TV and additional air times for "Best of the STL", go to www.stltv.net.

Each year we send our assigned unit a Christmas Tree with lights and ornaments. This year will be no different. But, we are going to ask you to help us to do more. Our Assigned unit this year is deployed at a Forward Operating Base in Afghanistan. You have always come through for our guys. This year we are going to ask you to bring a gift for a soldier. I doesn't have to be much, a hand held game, a DVD, a CD box set, a new Corvette. You know, Something simple that a young soldier a long way from home, in a very dangerous place might enjoy.

All that's left is a sweet melancholy recalled in textile shades of red and blue. I saw Lightning 'cross the sacred mountains," Tyson sings, "Saw the dance of the turtle dove." The lovers, like a Navajo rug's woven storyline, are forever wound together by sweet strands of time. The diners gone, but their long-lost love, anchored by the storyteller's memory of "lying next to Katie on that old Navajo rug," lives on. "It's hard," the singer knows, "to find things that last anymore" like true love or "an old Navajo."

In dreamlike memory, Katie serves her coffee-shop lover "two eggs up on whiskey toast." The Whiskey Toast or rye-bread recipe below is a sourdough-style tangy loaf tempered by rich, dark molasses with an intoxicating aroma and chewy, barely crisp crust.

A diner favorite, "home fries on the side" is a delicious way to use up dinner's baked potatoes. I first sampled this breakfast delight recklessly thrown together by the short order cook at Kate's Café (no relation to Tyson's waitress), a waterfront snack with terrific greasy-spoon food and several inches of atmosphere in the corners. My version of Kate's hash-browned Idaho flowers are seasoned with stories of small-town roadhouses and corner diners, where cowboys and truckers still court spirited waitresses.

Remember sweet days long past and silently drink a "roadhouse coffee" toast to cowboys (or waitresses) you once loved.

"Ay Yi Yi, Katie, Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you?

Morning Home Fries

4 tablespoons olive oil

1 medium onion, chopped

6 large baked potatoes, cut in large cubes

½ teaspoon salt

½ teaspoon black pepper

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon paprika

Heat oil in heavy skillet; add onions and cook, stirring often, until translucent.

Add potatoes and mix well, coating them in oil. Add spices.

Mix skillet often so potatoes and onions are coated with the spices, and the edges get barely brown

Variation: For easy, one-pan breakfast add crumbled bacon or cooked ham, crack eggs on top, cover with shredded cheese, and bake at 350 degrees until the yolks are firm and the cheese is soft and melted.

"Whiskey Toast" Beer Bread

2 cups flour

1½ cups rye flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

1 tablespoon caraway seeds

1 12-ounce can warm beer (dark is best,

1 egg, beaten

¼ cup molasses

2 tablespoons butter, melted

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Oil a 10 inch Dutch oven or cake pan.

In a large mixing bowl combine flours, caraway seeds and baking powder.

In another bowl, beat together warm beer, egg, and molasses.

Pour beer mixture into flour and stir until a sticky dough forms.

Bake for 40 minutes.

Remove from oven and brush top with melted butter. Return to oven for 5 minutes or until crust is golden brown and bread is cooked through. It should make a hollow thud when rapped underneath.

If you missed What's on Watson you made a big mistake. It was great fun. The weather could not have been better and we met some great new friends. Who knew that St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay was a Jerry Jeff Walker fan and that Viva Terlingua was the first album he bought. It's good to know that rowdy ol' goat ropin' music made it to the city.

We always enjoy playing at the Domain Street Wine Bar. This last time was especially fun because our friend "Doc" Randell had his harmonica working. Is it immodest to say that we sounded pretty good? OK, we sounded pretty good. We will be back to the Wine Bar in December. We will be sure to let you know when the date is set.

We're on the road

November, 7th

8:00 to 12:00

Great Pacific Coffee Co.

November, 15th

Noon to 2:00

Peppermill Grand Opening

November 16th

2:00 to 7:00

AdoptaPlatoon 4th Annual Chili Cook-Off

The Great Pacific Coffee Company

November 19th

7:00pm

Live on Best of the STL on STL TV

November 22th

10:00pm

Best of the STL on MY46

June, 6th

Taste of Tilles Festival

Signs along the way

This Month

1871

A cow overturns a lantern in a barn, causing the 'Great Fire of Chicago'

1905

Aspirin developed by the German company Bayer

1908

First Model T Ford produced in Detroit

1929

"Black Thursday", one of the biggest Wall Street crash, spells out the beginning of the great American depression.

1949

The People's Republic of China created

1951

Jump-blues singer Richard Penniman, already going by the stage name Little Richard, makes his first recordings at Atlanta radio station WGST, though it would take four years and a move to clubs in New Orleans' French Quarter to turn him into a rock and roll phenomenon.

1955

A young singer and guitarist named Buddy Holly opens for Bill Haley and his Comets in Holly's hometown of Lubbock, TX, impressing Nashville talent scout Eddie Crandell so much he sets him up with studio time for his first demo.

1957

ABC television presents a star-studded new musical variety special sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, featuring Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, and The Four Preps all singing the praises of... the Ford Edsel, a new model which would soon be considered the standard by which all automobile flops are measured.

1971

Disneyworld opens in Orlando, Florida

1972

The song "My Ding-a-Ling" by Chuck Berry topped the charts and stayed there for 2 weeks.

1986

Chuck Berry is the center of an all-star "60th birthday" bash in his hometown of St. Louis, a tribute concert -- held three days before his actual 60th -- where the legendary rocker is joined by Keith Richards, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Etta James, Robert Cray, Linda Ronstadt, and many others on stage at the local Fox Theatre. The making of the concert and the show itself are filmed by veteran director Taylor Hackford for the critically acclaimed hits 1987 documentary Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll.

2001

Jay-Z was sentenced to three years probation after pleading guilty to misdemeanor assault charges for stabbing a record producer during a fight in a nightclub on December 1, 1999.

October is:

National Pizza Month

National Pasta Month

National Dessert Month

National Pretzel Month

National Seafood Month

Gourmet Adventures Month

Hunger Awareness Month

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