Singer-songwriter Lucie Silvas pours her heart into her songs, and it’s paid off. Silvas, 41, will open for nine-time Grammy award-winning singer and Missouri native Sheryl Crow and rock band Heart when they come to St. Louis on July 9. Silvas has...

"Is this a Jewish publication I’m talking to?” Kinky Friedman asks by phone from a casino in upstate New York. My reply is that the Jewish Light is at least the fourth Jewish publication to have interviewed him since what he calls his “spiritual...