For the first time since the City of St. Louis accused her of masterminding a massive illegal rooming house scheme, Dara Daugherty took the stand in court yesterday, telling a judge that she no longer owns one of her portfolio's most squalid holdings. Daugherty testified she recently sold the home with the Dutch gambrel roof on Virginia Avenue, a nuisance property that was the bane of its neighbors and where the city claims Daugherty housed an ad-hoc, unpaid labor force that worked on her slum empire's "fixer-upper" properties. Yesterday’s hearing came as part of the city’s ongoing civil lawsuit against Daugherty and five of her family members and associates who are accused of running an illegal rooming house scheme that spanned 39 properties across nine south city neighborhoods.
We love getting out to the green pastures of Cottleville, and now we’ll have even more incentive to do so when Cottle Village Farmstead + Distillery (6470 Highway N, Cottleville) opens later this year. By then, this 4.5-acre plot of land and its various buildings (farmhouse, shed and barn) will have been retooled to create a unique drinking and dining experience, as reported by St. Louis Magazine. Stephen Savage, of Wheelhouse, The Midwestern and Start Bar, owns Cottle Village with his wife Emily Savage.
If you were opening a bar designed to be a hub for tabletop games and nerd culture, you might decide that there could be no better day to open for business than May 4. "May the Fourth be with you" puns have been an important play on Star Wars dialogue going all the back to 1979 and the reign of British Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher (yes, really). But as it turns out, that's not why husband-and-wife team Jason Moughton and Ruth Camburn are opening their new dungeons & dragons-focused eatery, Dirty 20 Nerd Bar (14051 Manchester Road, Ballwin), on May 4.
April brought a host of restaurants to St. Louis that are sure to be new favorites. But we also saw a surge of new old favorites come to the fore — including Union Loafers' new market at the Station, Pizza Via from the founder of Pizzeoli and Pizza Head, and a new location of health-focused cafe Revel Kitchen. Then came the third life of what is arguably St. Louis' best fried chicken.
A Southern Illinois University Edwardsville professor was among those arrested at Washington University Saturday during a protest calling for the university to divest from Boeing amid Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza — and his wife says he was brutally beaten. Steve Tamari, a history professor, was recording video of the students and activists circling the makeshift encampment as police began their arrests on Saturday. In a video posted by his wife, Sandra, Tamari is grabbed and wrestled to the ground by at least four officers.
Epic tales span generations, connecting historic events to contemporary perspectives and building a bridge of understanding. Such is the case with The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez. The play in two parts features gay men reconciling their lives and history — what was lost and gained — in the post AIDS-crisis era.
Five members of the St. Louis Charter Commission are calling on their chairperson to apologize for recent comments she made concerning a City Hall staffer’s involvement in a fatal car accident more than a decade ago. It is just the latest in a series of contretemps stifling the rare opportunity this body has to modernize city government. The letter was sent to Jazzmine Nolan-Echols, chair of the city’s Charter Commission, an entity established last year by voters to update the city’s century-old charter, the document that outlines how governance in the city gets done.
The ACLU of Missouri issued a harsh critique of Washington University’s handling of a Pro-Palestine protest and encampment on Saturday, saying it “chills, curtails, and restricts expression despite the university’s claims of commitment to that very principle.” A total of 100 people were arrested on campus during the protest on Saturday, April 27, including 23 Wash U students and at least four employees, according to Chancellor Andrew Martin. Six faculty members have now been banned from campus and forbidden from speaking with students and their colleagues even off campus.
Kim’s Bop Shop opened April 5 as a cloud kitchen operating out of the Hill Food Co. (2360 Hampton Avenue) in south St. Louis. It’s owned by Nicole and Sean Kim who have some interesting culinary credentials between them.
It's hard to imagine many things more lovely than strolling through the Central West End on a May day with a glass of rose in hand — which might be why the neighborhood's annual "walking wine fest" Rose All Day has sold out for the past five years. Everybody loves May weather in the Midwest, and everybody really loves rose! It's not too late, however, to get in on this year's festivities.
You know something’s up. There’s a whisk hanging on a pegboard, and a couple of slotted spoons. The oil in the multi-gallon vessel under the counter can’t possibly be motor oil.
The Brewery: Heavy Riff Brewing Co.
The Beer: Disco Apocalypse Rick Hagen, owner of Dogtown’s Heavy Riff Brewing Company, says building a beer is easier than naming one. “It’s happened where a beer has sat around for two weeks while we come up with a name.” For Hagen, lyrics often carry where mere words cannot.
As the St. Louis Board of Aldermen’s new session begins, Ward 14 Alderman Rasheen Aldridge hopes to explore legislation to allow cannabis cafes and extend the hours dispensaries can legally operate. Cannabis cafes would offer a place where people can smoke on site, likely in a special ventilated room. Aldridge says that while no bills have been formally introduced this session, he is working on legislation to make them possible.
Six faculty members from Washington University — four of whom were arrested at Saturday’s protest — are not only banned from campus, but are forbidden from speaking with Wash U staff and students even in off-campus settings. The university administration refused to provide comment on the bans. A total of 100 people were arrested on campus Saturday, including 23 Wash U students and at least four employees, according to Chancellor Andrew Martin.
Missouri’s first cannabis chief equity officer stepped down last week. Abigail Vivas, who assumed the role in February 2023, was charged with overseeing the equitable rollout of the state’s recreational program.
In a newly released statement, Washington University’s chancellor calls Saturday “a dark sad day.” And he isn’t referring to the dozens of arrests of community members and students. A total of 100 people were arrested on campus Saturday, including 23 Wash U students and at least four employees, according to Chancellor Andrew Martin. He says three police officers were injured during the arrests.
After hundreds of years of repeated attempts, colleges in the United States are once again trying to communicate that they are not particularly crazy about their students protesting on their campuses. They thought they had made this clear when the National Guard killed four students for protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State in 1970. Or when police officers killed two students for protesting racial inequality at Jackson State in Mississippi in the same year.
July 4th fireworks will be back at the grounds of the Gateway Arch National Park this summer, and after a one-year hiatus, the music is back, too, with the Urge and other bands set to play throughout a day of celebration. But the day's festivities are no longer Fair St. Louis. This time, the news comes from Celebrate St. Louis, a new name for an old entity.
A push to eliminate Missouri’s requirement for children under 16 to obtain official work permits before they can begin a job could be debated by the House this week. In order to work in Missouri, 14 and 15 year olds must obtain a certificate issued by their school, with information from their prospective employer about the details of the job as well as parental consent and age verification. The child’s school, or if they are homeschooled, a parent, must review that information to ensure it’s in line with state laws that restrict the kind of work children can do and their hours.
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