Break out your Dan Flashes shirt and Stanzo-brand fedora, because this week is all about I Think You Should Leave. The riotously funny Netflix offering debuts its highly anticipated third season on May 30, and if that’s not enough, the Heavy Anchor (5226 Gravois Avenue, 314-352-5226) will play host to a night of drinks and I Think You Should Leave trivia this Wednesday, May 31.
There’s nothing like watching a live-action remake of a Disney animated movie to remind you how much times have changed. The Little Mermaid, the Mouse Factory’s latest redo of a beloved cartoon classic, manages to be an even safer update of the G-rated original, which already took Hans Christian Andersen’s sad fairy tale and made it a family-friendly love story by adding some peppy Howard Ashman-Alan Menken tunes and capping it off with a positive outcome. The 1989 Mermaid is a quietly horny, coming-of-age film, with its busty, teenage sea creature getting the itch to be above land, mostly to get closer to the human prince she saved after a shipwreck.
Her coochie pink, her booty hole brown, her rhymes so fire she got Nikki Minaj to slam down. If the above sentence makes no sense to you, do yourself a favor and check out St. Louis rapper Sexyy Red's breakout hit "Pound Town." The pearl-clutching lyrics to this throwdown were enough to make Sexyy Red a viral sensation — and enough to grab the attention of Nicki Minaj.
Outside the new Ballpark Village location of Katie’s Pizza & Pasta Osteria (751 Clark Street, katiespizzaandpasta.com) it’s a sea of red with St. Louis Cardinals logos and baseball scenery as far as the eye can see. The stadium sits just a stone’s throw across Clark Street, and the Stan Musial statue — Cardinal Nation’s universal meet-up point keeps watch over jersey-clad passers-by.
A brazen carjacking that occurred near Busch Stadium last weekend during a Cardinal's game likely never happened. The crime-that-wasn't was initially reported as having gone down Saturday evening as the Cardinals hosted the Dodgers. Around 7:20 p.m., caddy-corner to Ballpark Village, a man supposedly walked up to the driver's side of a 61-year-old woman's BMW, pointed a gun at her and told her to get out of the car.
Hearts were broken across the world this week when it was announced that Tina Turner, the queen of rock and roll, had moved on to take her throne in the heavens. Here in St. Louis, we were extra crushed because she got her start in St. Louis. The Sumner High graduate put in years performing at local venues like the famous Club Imperial and then became a superstar, leaving a generation of fans who were able to tell their grandkids about the time that young Anna Mae Bullock rocked them.
A woman who last year shot at two students outside a city high school is now facing new charges in the county for using a stolen credit card to make $3,000 in purchases at a Walmart in Eureka. On December 6, prosecutors say Cierra Wealleans was captured on surveillance video outside the Confluence Preparatory Academy pulling a gun out of her jacket and opening firing outside the school as it was being dismissed. Wealleans was tackled to the ground, arrested and charged with assault, armed criminal action, and unlawful use of a weapon.
A judge in St. Louis City Circuit Court has forbidden the St. Louis Post-Dispatch from publishing material from the mental health evaluation of a man accused of killing a police officer in Tower Grove South in 2020. It's unknown what exactly is contained in the evaluation, but court filings made by those attempting to block its publication say material in it is "highly confidential" and that its being made public would hinder Thomas Kinworthy's ability to get a "fair and impartial trial."
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones moved to make St. Louis a more inclusive space for trans residents today. An executive order signed by Jones requires key city departments to implement new gender-inclusive practices in light of anti-trans legislation passing through the state legislature.
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It's no exaggeration to say the Whitaker Music Festival is one of St. Louis' great summer traditions. Shaw residents may curse the crush of traffic for these free Wednesday concerts, but we happen to know people who've met their future spouse at one, people who brought kids who've now grown up to bring their kids, and more.
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If you haven't been to a Twilight Thursday (or the previous iteration, Twilight Tuesday) event at the Missouri History Museum (5700 Lindell Boulevard, 314-746-4599), you're missing out.
An ownership dispute that put the future of the Fabulous Fox Theatre in question has been settled. Today, Fox Associates LLC and Foxland Inc. announced that they reached a settlement over the question of which group is the owner and operator of the theatre, a question that has been entangled in a lawsuit since 2021. Fox Associates, which purchased the theater in 1981 and then renovated it, inherited a lease to the theater's lot that is set to expire in 2025, as the Post-Dispatch reported. Fox Associates, which owns the land, wanted to assume the operations of the theater when that lease expired.
The City of St. Louis wants to hear from the people most affected by the Workhouse as elected leaders try to figure out what to do with the now-shuttered jail and the land it sits on. While it was open, the conditions at the Medium Security Institution — better known as the Workhouse — were called "hellish" by the activists trying to close it. In 2017, the ArchCity Defenders filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of those who had been detained there, the vast majority of whom were locked up because they lacked the money to post bond.
In life, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster was the founder of The Benedictine Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles in Gower, Missouri — an order that created chart-topping albums of Gregorian chants and Catholic hymns. In death, she's become known for refusing to decompose, according to Catholic News Agency. Lancaster died in 2019 at age 95.
Inflation these days, amirite? If you are feeling the pain at the pump, then this flash sale will be good news. Circle K is offering reduced price gas this afternoon from 4 to 7 p.m. in honor of Fuel Day, which is apparently today.
The meat to end all meats, brisket is not just an enjoyable cut of 'cue; it's the most sacred entry in the barbecue canon, its charred, peppery bark yielding to luscious, fat-ribboned beef that has the ability to stop space and time. It's life-changing when cooked properly, heartbreaking when not and, just like a margherita pizza at a Neapolitan spot, tells you all you need to know about a barbecue establishment.
The Queen of Rock and Roll, Tina Turner, died Wednesday at her home in Zurich, Switzerland, according to Reuters. She was 83 years old. Turner had a plethora of hits throughout her career, both as a solo act and as a duo with Ike Turner, to whom she was married.
Reality TV star and St. Louis native Brittish Williams pleaded guilty in federal court today to a slew of charges related to bank, insurance, tax and pandemic-relief fraud. The 33-year-old Clayton High School graduate has been featured on VH1's Basketball Wives and Marriage Bootcamp: Reality Stars.
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