This Friday will be Cinco de Mayo, a celebration commemorating the anniversary of Mexico’s victory over the French Empire in 1862. Here in Missour-ah it’s mostly an excuse to eat tacos and drink Corona, so we’ve made a guide to where to find the best street tacos (corn tortillas are key), listen to Ranchera and Banda music, and get those drink specials.
As the number of children who fall victim to gun violence rises, a study conducted by the University of Missouri School of Medicine in St. Louis city shows that the vast majority of such shootings occur outdoors, and the shooter's motivation is entirely unknown. Mary Bernardin, assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine at the University of Missouri, says that this finding is important because the motivation behind pediatric shootings was not previously well understood. “Prior research has often described pediatric firearms victims as victims of assault between people who are known to each other, which implies fault on the part of the victim,” Bernardin said in a statement.
Forty years into it, BoDeans are still on the road. These days, that means that founding member Kurt Neumann is still singing and playing the easy-going rock & roll songs he wrote with BoDeans co-founder Sam Llanas, who is no longer with the band.
In its world premiere at the West End Players Guild (733 Union Boulevard, westendplayers.org), the romantic and musically inclined Finale gives audiences an intimate glimpse into the predilections, proclivities and genius of famed operatic composer Gioachino Rossini. Following the structure of a farce, the show is bawdy and comical, with a touch of musicality that helps convey the artist’s unique approach to writing as well as his complicated romantic history.
The board of directors for Jazz St. Louis is backing president and CEO Victor Goines, who is facing questions after a clash with the organization's Young Friends Board over a T-shirt designed by prominent St. Louis artist Cbabi Bayoc. The incident, which was detailed in an RFT story published Thursday, first came to public attention after an Instagram post by Bayoc on April 19. The artist wrote that he'd been told Goines rejected the T-shirt design because three white board members were offended by it.
Niche Food Group will soon add a ninth restaurant to its arsenal. The hospitality group, run by James Beard Award-winning Chef Gerard Craft, announced its newest concept today.
Another violent crimes prosecutor has left Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's office. Three days after assistant St. Louis Circuit Attorney Alex Polta departed the embattled office, Chris Desilets parted ways with Gardner this morning.
On a recent Friday, the fourth floor of the Civil Courts Building downtown was packed with a few dozen happy couples about to tie the knot. Judge Clinton Robert Wright, who performed the marriages one by one, kept things moving quickly without rushing any of the proceedings.
MONDAY, APRIL 24 Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon are both pushed out of their prime cable TV news spots, and for viewers who loathe misogynistic blowhards, today is Christmas in April! In St. Louis, Judge Scott Millikan opts against holding Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner in contempt — yet a second contempt hearing now looms in an unrelated case on Thursday. Any good showrunner would foreshadow that development with ominous notes.
A few days after a judge called the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office a “rudderless ship of chaos,” another violent crimes prosecutor is off the boat. Assistant Circuit Attorney Alex Polta has parted ways with Kim Gardner's office, leaving the city’s violent crimes unit with only three prosecutors remaining, according to a document shared with the RFT.
Growing up ravenous for any “young adult” content that offered the slightest glimpse of sexuality, I — along with generations of girls — gravitated to Judy Blume novels like a shark drawn to (menstrual) blood. But I was never a Margaret fan. Give me Deenie any day.
PRISM Theater Company delivers suspense with the taut, well-acted Doubt In the mid 1960s, a prestigious catholic run private school welcomes its first Black student and a new, youthful priest with a less rigid approach to education at the same time.
Yesterday, a circuit court judge succinctly summed up the disorder of Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s office as a “rudderless ship of chaos.” The eloquence of this comment has garnered Judge Michael Noble a spot in our inaugural 15 Seconds of Fame column, where we honor someone bringing attention to our area (for the right or wrong reasons).
A driver behind the wheel of a Mercedes G-Class sliced through a Springfield Panera restaurant yesterday, demolishing a wall and running over a booth that was fortunately not occupied at the time of the crash. "I just saw a G wagon in Panera. It was crazy," Missouri State University student Garrett Reinwald told KY3.
Hi-Pointe Drive-In will be opening its neon doors at a new spot. The restaurant group behind the iconic St. Louis eatery announced plans for a franchise location in Edwardsville, Illinois, yesterday.
Missouri’s reputation for extreme conservatism harms St. Louis, Mayor Tishaura Jones says. The mayor sat down with the Riverfront Times a day after she railed against “far right-wing Republicans” in Jefferson City during her second State of the City address earlier this week.
Just over a year ago, the news broke that Elon Musk — then primarily known as CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, the richest man alive, and a giant tool — had made the initial acquisition deal to purchase Twitter for approximately $44 billion. Right away, social media was not happy and plenty threatened to leave Twitter. “I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter,” Musk tweeted at the time, “because that is what free speech means.”
This afternoon a judge in St. Louis Circuit Court said that Kim Gardner was the captain of a “rudderless ship of chaos” and that there was sufficient reason to find the circuit attorney in indirect criminal contempt of court, a matter that required the appointment of a special prosecutor. Gardner was not present in the courtroom of Judge Michael Noble's this afternoon, but her personal attorney was, as were two assistant circuit attorneys from her office. Judge Noble took them all to task for the CAO's handling of the case of 26-year-old Steven Linell Vincent Jr., who is accused of shooting an 11-year-old girl in the JeffVanderLou neighborhood in October 2020.
Missouri doesn't do much right, but the state has proven it can absolutely run a marijuana program. Not only did adult recreational use sales start a few days early in February, but now the Department of Health and Senior Services says that it is launching the marijuana microbusiness program months ahead of schedule. [content-1]
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