A new show debuting in St. Louis next weekend takes on a timely topic — the horrors of working for Amazon. The Workers' Opera: Blue Light Special takes it name from the lights that start spinning on the floor of Amazon warehouses when workers aren't moving fast enough, says Emily Kohring, the executive director of Bread and Roses Missouri, which is putting on the show. That sort of verisimilitude can only come from playwrights who've done their homework — or, in the case of Bread and Roses Missouri, members of the company who live that reality every day. For this show, writer/director Mariah Richardson worked closely with Amazon workers at STL8, the fulfillment center in St. Peters that has been target for union organizers, holding "story circles" to get their experiences and working with them in the creation of the opera.
The St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office has refused to charge the 33-year-old woman police arrested this morning related to a weekend shooting on Cherokee Street after the annual Cinco de Mayo parade. St. Louis Metropolitan Police said that Amber Booker was one of two individuals who opened fire on Cherokee Street around 7:30 p.m., wounding two 25-year-olds and causing a panic among the hundreds gathered on the street celebrating. Videos of the shooting circulated on social media.
Chloe Yates will never forget the call that changed her life. It was February 16 last year, and she was at her home in south county looking forward to a quiet evening until a friend called.
A teacher musing about why Black people can say the n-word, and then using it himself, has been placed on administrative leave after a recording of the incident went viral. The teacher at Glendale High School had clearly been engaged in the inappropriate discussion long enough for a student to whip out their phone and start recording. The student is trying to be discreet, so all you see is their arm, but the teacher can be heard in the background saying, "I don't like the word at all.
Tod Robberson, the Connecticut-based editorial page editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will be retiring on June 15. Longtime editorial writer Kevin McDermott will fill the role — and we can only assume he'll be doing it from St. Louis. A Pulitzer Prize winner for editorial writing at the Dallas Morning-News, Robberson has been with the paper since January 2016 — a tenure that saw him clash repeatedly with local progressives, including St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones.
The Missouri House sent legislation to the governor’s desk Wednesday morning barring transgender youth from beginning gender-affirming care. The bill passed 108-50. Only three Republicans joined every Democrat in opposition: House Majority Leader Jon Patterson, a doctor; Rep. Chris Sander, who is gay; and Rep. Gary Bonacker.
Animal rights activists at PETA have turned to an unlikely ally in their goal to stop Budweiser from clipping Clydesdales’ tails. In a letter to former president Donald Trump, PETA asked the spray tan enthusiast to leverage his status with Anheuser-Busch to stop the alleged amputating of Budweiser Clydesdales’ tailbones.
St. Louis police announced this morning the arrest of one of the alleged shooters from the weekend shooting at Cherokee Street's Cinco de Mayo party. Amber Booker, 33, has been taken into custody. Police say she is the one captured on video opening fire around 7:30 p.m.
Pepe Kehm has enjoyed a long and successful career in the St. Louis service industry, be it as a chef, an owner, an operator, a consultant or some combination of all four. Trying to unknot that personal history would take the entirety of this article's word count and then some.
Anyone who thought the announced resignation of Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner would be an immediate panacea for the city’s bottlenecked court system is in for a rude awakening . Of the more than a dozen criminal jury trials that were set to start in circuit court yesterday, none actually began. One of the cases was dismissed, and several others resulted in guilty pleas.
In the mid-1980s Dave McCreery, now 82, was drinking with one of his fellow Moolah Shriner clowns at a Shriners Temple in St. Louis when his pal, who worked construction, said that he was thinking about buying a building for sale on South Grand Boulevard. McCreery had built a successful career in the insurance business and thought that the two-story building across from Tower Grove Park at the corner of Grand Boulevard and Arsenal Street sounded like a good investment.
This week, John Mozeliak, president of baseball operations for the Cardinals, is getting his 15 seconds of fame for not seeming to realized that Willson Contreras is not Yadier Molina. It only took 625 innings and an abysmal start to the season to put that together. Once he did, he and manager Oli Marmol decided to move Contreras from catcher to designated hitter, a position that since its inception in the American League in 1973 is typically occupied by a player who can't field.
The pandemic took a lot of things, big and small, away from us. They've been trickling back as the case count has gone down and people feel more comfortable gathering together. But despite everything we've gained over the last 12 months, something has been missing in the St. Louis region, and it tasted of baklava, souvlaki and ouzo.
Kelly Clarkson and her stupid hair extensions are dead to us. In an outrageous decision that flies in the face of all taste and logic, last night Clarkson failed to move Neil Salsich through to compete in the live playoffs on The Voice.
Mother’s Day is usually about boring stuff like brunch and cheap flowers and shitty breakfasts in bed. But it doesn’t have to be such a snoozefest. Check out the event being hosted this weekend at the Country Rock Cabaret:
Missourians have spent over $1 billion on cannabis since the legalization of medical marijuana in 2020. The state surpassed the milestone on May 2, according to the Missouri Division of Cannabis Regulations — nearly three years since a cancer survivor bought the state's first legal medical marijuana in St. Louis County in October 2020. Cannabis sales have increased exponentially since dispensaries started legal adult-use sales on February 3.
The Black Rep has a reputation for staging evocative dramas and comedies that reflect the experience of being Black in the United States from both historic and contemporary lenses. When the company chooses to stage a musical revue, it applies the same high standards.
Stereotypes lead to assumptions and conclusions that may or may not be true and can make people feel demeaned, excluded and not seen. Sometimes stereotypes lead people to ostracize or hurt others, and sometimes they can be used to remind us all why they are so harmful.
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