Donovan Crowder, 30, admits that smoking free weed was a motivation for starting his cannabis podcast. "But then we [he and his co-host at the time] started actually getting local traction in the community, and I kind of started feeling as though we were a voice for the underground cannabis thing," he says.
Ice cream, orange juice and an energy drink were among the loot that an axe-wielding man stole from a downtown Dollar General this past weekend. On Sunday, 41-year-old Bruce Steele carried an axe into the DGX-branded Dollar General location on Washington Avenue, according to a police probable cause statement. Steele "made threatening statements" before pilfering some merchandise.
If you find yourself in need of emergency contraception in the St. Louis area, you have a few options at your disposal. You can buy some at your local pharmacy for $40 - $50, you can get some for free or low-cost at Planned Parenthood locations or you can ask your doctor and your insurance might pay for it. But now there's another option for emergency contraception if you want to get it for free or without an appointment.
“My God, it’s good to see you/right here in the flesh.” Those are the opening lines of Nickel Creek’s ambitious new Celebrants, the band’s first album together in nine years.
He's spent years as your imaginary boyfriend, and now, John Cusack is coming to St. Louis to charm you in person. Cusack is hosting a screening of his classic movie “Say Anything” at the Stifel Theatre (1400 Market Street, stifeltheatre.com) on October 28. His character in Say Anything, Lloyd Dobler, famously doesn’t want to “sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed.” Cusack probably doesn’t want to do any of that, either.
A 23-year-old was shot leaving a party at a short-term rental in south city's Shaw neighborhood early Sunday afternoon. A St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department incident report says that the shooting occurred a little after 1 p.m. on the 4200 block of Castleman Avenue. The victim sustained a gunshot would to his abdomen and was taken to the hospital, where he is in critical but stable condition.
Stages St. Louis opens its season with a fantastic interpretation of Aida, the hit Broadway musical collaboration between Elton John and Tim Rice. Vibrant colors, dazzling costumes and a palpable sense of confidence envelop the audience, drawing us into a painfully tragic story that feels as timeless as love itself.
You can now buy alcohol through the end of the 8th inning at St. Louis Cardinals games. With the way this season's going, you're going to need it. The Cards are in the midst of a brutal slump at 12 games below .500.
A scheme to defraud an insurance company over repair costs for a hybrid car is at the center of a federal indictment of former north city alderman Brandon Bosley. Bosley is charged with three counts of wire fraud, acts he is alleged to have committed between February and April 2022, when he was still in office. According to the indictment, Bosley purchased a 2010 Toyota Prius from a used car business in Jennings.
Did you know the second-most frequently performed American opera — right after Porgy and Bess — is Susannah? American opera’s low profile nevertheless means that Carlisle Floyd’s 1955 work is no Oklahoma or West Side Story, classics so ubiquitous they somehow creep into every child’s consciousness.
"Adulting" doesn't have to mean boring. Indulge your inner child this summer and go to camp. A series of six events held by the Missouri Department of Conservation will recreate the fun of summer camps for participants 18 or older.
On May 24, the Gentle Barn — a national non-profit animal sanctuary with locations in St. Louis, Nashville and Los Angeles — won best Animal Video at the 15th Annual Shorty Awards for its “Farm Animals React to Their Names” series. The Shorty Awards is an international competition that honors excellence in social media content as well as the organizations and brands that produce it.
The St. Louis County Department of Public Health is urging anyone who purchased oysters from the Fruit Stand & Seafood in Manchester to throw them away, saying that a man died after consuming oysters from the business earlier this week. The 54-year-old man died on Thursday at St. Claire Hospital in Fenton from an infection of Vibrio vulnificus, a bacteria that thrives in warm, coastal waters and is carried by oysters, according to a statement from the county health department. "There is no evidence that the business did anything to contaminate the oysters, which likely were already contaminated when the establishment received them," the department said.
It really wouldn't be St. Louis without some kind of water issue. Since it hasn't flooded from deluges of rain in the last few days, of course a water main would break. A whole 20 inch break, in fact, according to a city notification.
A month after a serious water main break shut down all traffic on Interstate 64, there's been another break causing serious headaches in the city — this time near Lansdowne Avenue and Chippewa Street in the St. Louis Hills neighborhood. "In one split second, it went all the way to LeGrand's and up to the doors of the firehouse [across the street]," said one woman who lives in an apartment right in front of the break who asked the RFT not to print her name. She says the break occurred around 11:30 a.m. and water continued gushing for about two hours.
Metro Transit will make its third slash to services in seven months on Monday, but the agency promises they’re working on changes. Staff shortages have plagued the public transit agency in recent years and led to another reduction of services scheduled to take effect on Monday.
Vincent Stemmler, a Kranzberg Arts Foundation’s artist in residence since 2021, doesn’t want to tell a story of redemption. Stemmler’s art isn’t meant to elicit an idealized emotion, nor is it meant to fit into any one simple descriptor.Â
If you want to spend an evening laughing a relatable insights into daily life, then get your tickets for Saturday, November 11, when Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Gaffigan will be hitting the Enterprise Center (1401 Clark Avenue, 314-622-5400, enterprisecenter.com). Both known for clean comedy, Jerry Seinfeld had the hit show Seinfeld in the 1990s (it was kind of popular) and the Netflix show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Jim Gaffigan is primarily known for his routines about food, including the hysterical Hot Pockets bit.
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