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Whether you want to actually address climate change on a personal level, or you recently learned that turkeys can purr and even recognize human faces — whatever it is, you’re ready to stop eating animals.…

Welcome to the Riverfront Times’ Five Days of Resolutions. Start living right.


St. Louis Hills resident Danielle Meert isn't a hateful woman, except when it comes to lawns.…

Aaron Sorkin’s Being the Ricardos isn’t great for reasons that are interesting, and is downright bad for reasons that are, perhaps, even more interesting.…

This article originally appeared in our sister paper, CityBeat. We here at RFT love a good made-for-TV holiday movie — the cheesier the better.…

Bringing a festive feel to St. Louis City Hall is no easy task. The building's exterior looks like a Victorian fortress dipped in bark, so a few giant wreaths over the front will do; but the interior, with its vast rotunda and soaring marble staircase, is the holiday domain of David Thackwell.…

When James Bommarito ticks off the list of things his dad, Vince, pioneered in the St. Louis restaurant scene, it stops you in your tracks.…

The St. Louis Blues always bring the party. One of the coolest parts of the live hockey experience is enjoying the community and having fun with your fellow hockey fans.…

Both Schnucks and Dierbergs will be closed this weekend in order to give their employees more time with their loved ones this year, the two grocers announced.

Schnucks and Dierbergs both will close tomorrow for Christmas Eve at 5:30 p.m. and won’t return until Monday, December 27. For last minute grocery shoppers, that means today is your best bet to get the last ingredients for your dinners – fancy or casual.…

As part of a “Love Thy Neighbor” initiative started by Soulcial Kitchen, the organization is headed to East St. Louis to serve 100 hot meals to those in need. A Soulcial Kitchen-branded food truck will head to East St. Louis City Hall (301 Riverpark Drive) in order to pass out the meals.…

Pizza Champ (forthcoming location at 2657 Lyle Avenue, Maplewood) may have been born of pandemic-related necessity, but soon it will become a full-fledged part of the St. Louis food and beverage scene. The popular pizza pop-up, courtesy of Elmwood's (2704 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood; 314-261-4708) Adam Altnether and Chris Kelling, is set to become a standalone, brick and mortar restaurant in Maplewood early next year, featuring the pizzas, salads and sandwiches that have gained it a loyal following over the past year and a half.…

This story was originally published by the Missouri Independent.

A company denied licenses to grow medical marijuana in Missouri urged the state Supreme Court last week to compel regulators to provide application info that the health department has argued it’s constitutionally obligated to protect.

At issue is the Department of Health and Senior Services’ refusal to turn over applications of successful license holders, despite being ordered by lower courts to disclose them.…

On a recent Friday afternoon, with a drizzle falling and temperatures a few degrees above freezing, a familiar ritual of St. Louis was underway — the annual scramble to accommodate the surge of people seeking shelter from cold, dangerous weather.

"I love summer, hate the winter," says Kevin Ricks, 56, as he sits by a window in Il Monastero, an events center at Saint Louis University temporarily repurposed to accommodate cots and dinner service for people coming in from the streets.

Thirty-four people had already claimed the pop-up safe haven's 40 cots by mid-afternoon, and organizers were working to secure more beds for what was expected to be an overflow crowd by nightfall. Every year, a network — formal and informal — rallies to plug gaps in the city's shelter system.…

An application portal for the direct cash assistance program has been put on pause after the city received over 10,000 applications in four days.

United Way of Greater St. Louis, one of the city’s partners for the program, paused the portal this afternoon to take time to process and review the submitted applications. Opened on December 18, the program aims to assist St. Louisans in need who have lost income due to COVID-19.…

Copper Pig (4611 Macklind Avenue; 314-499-7166), a beloved Southampton gathering place, has served its last guests. The restaurant, which opened six years ago, announced the closure on Facebook Monday evening after service, citing simply "Thank you.…

Are you ready for some political football? The kickoff is moments away.…

Inside the salt room, Scott Mickey flew above the bright expanse of his own consciousness. His eyes were closed.…