St. Louis native and Boston Celtics player Jayson Tatum is paying tribute to his hometown in his newest sneaker release: the Jordan Tatum 1. The timing for the shoes, which are made by the Jordan Brand, couldn't be better as Tatum co-leads the Celtics into the NBA playoffs with teammate Jaylen Brown. The Boston Celtics will be taking on the Atlanta Hawks in Boston on April 15, the same day his St. Louis Jordan drops.
Thursday 04/13 Game On
In addition to being critically acclaimed, this year's prestige HBO drama The Last of Us led to a wider conversation in film and TV circles about why movies based on video games had been so bad for so long.
When the shooting started at the Ely Walker Lofts in the Washington Avenue Loft District on the morning of March 25, Lindsay Braswell was alarmed but not shocked. It was the second shooting the building had seen that month. The first was on March 10, in an apartment with frequent domestic disputes.
Mission Taco Joint is on a tear. The 10-year-old restaurant chain has just announced another new opening. In addition to a Busch Stadium spot that started serving on Cardinals Opening Day, the West Coast-style taco spot announced this week that it would open a location in the Clayton Village Shopping Center (1000 Woods Mill Plaza, Town and Country).
Of the two Republican candidates officially running for Missouri attorney general next year, neither would respond to repeated questions from the RFT about whether they would prosecute women who terminate pregnancies. The first post-Roe abortion ban enacted by a state, Missouri's trigger law, which went into effect last June, offers unique wording.
As St. Louis as the Arch, Cardinals baseball and stolen catalytic converters, toasted ravioli is a strong contender for our fair city's most iconic dish. And yet, all t-ravs are not created equal.
John Enlow has been running his food truck, CJ’s Gourmet Mobile Deli, since 2014, and customers have steadily been asking if he had vegan food items. In response, Enlow created a vegan menu, which debuted in January this year.
The Arkadin Cinema and Bar (5228 Gravois Avenue) has rolled together the perfect double feature to celebrate 4/20. On Thursday, April 20, kicking off at 7 p.m. is a screening of the infamously hilarious (or hilariously infamous) Reefer Madness. The 1936 scare film's intended moral is to steer clear of the devil weed, making it more than a little ironic that it's now almost exclusively watched by stoners.
In a motion filed yesterday evening, embattled St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is asking a judge to dismiss the removal process against her by saying Gardner's personal conduct should be judged separately from any potential blunders by staff attorneys who prosecute cases in her office. The 40-page motion says that Gardner is proud of her hardworking staff and what they do for the city, but also repeatedly emphasizes that if there is any truth to the failures Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is alleging — and Gardner contends there is none — those failures are the fault of Gardner’s subordinates.
The jail population in the city of St. Louis is up 28 percent since the start of the year as judges are allowing fewer defendants to go free on bond in the wake of the firestorm that followed the maiming of Janae Edmondson downtown in February. Daniel Riley, the 21-year-old accused of causing the crash that cost Edmondson her legs, was free on bond when he struck the 17-year-old, despite having violated the terms of his bond dozens of times.
Hi-Pointe Drive-In’s name will take on a whole new meaning next Thursday. The fast-casual burger joint is going all out for Missouri’s first 4/20 holiday after the legalization of adult-use marijuana with a special “munchie menu.” We’re obsessed with this giant pot-shaped toasted ravioli, called a “Tdab”:
This 4/20 head over to Pop's Blue Moon (5249 Pattison Avenue, 314-776-4200, popsbluemoon.com) and get High on the Hill. The event will feature music from headliners tristaño and LuSid. Rounding out the evening will be Dhoruba, Rayne Overall and Ellen Cook.
South Grand will soon have a new destination for sandwiches courtesy of a rising star chef and some familiar St. Louis restaurant industry players. Grand Sammies & Sides, from chef Pat Skiersch, will open inside Grand Spirits on Thursday, April 20, serving a small menu of classic sandwiches and a handful of side dishes from a window inside the natural wine shop and bar. "I started working for [executive chef] Matt [Wynn] when he opened Salve last year, but I've always wanted to open my own thing and do sandwiches," Skiersch says.
If you can't wait for the next season of Bridgerton, the Netflix miniseries about a huge family with lots of beautiful siblings to marry off, then rest assured, help is coming. While the series won't return until the fall (most people's best guess), there is another miniseries debuting on Netflix next month called Queen Charlotte about how the queen fell in love with King George III. Even better, on Tuesday, May 9, you can hear from Julia Quinn, who wrote the Bridgerton series that Shonda Rimes has brought to life in her Netflix show.
Stray Dog Theatre takes audiences on a fanciful journey Into the Woods Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim’s grown-up musical about fairy tales, is successfully reframed and refreshed in Stray Dog Theatre’s charming, more intimate production. Set in a library, the show inventively taps into the audience’s collective memory with a look, feel and tone that leans into the natural exaggeration of the stories the book reimagines.
Back in February, we thought St. Louis-born SZA had turned her back on her hometown. The singer behind hits like "Kill Bill" and "Good Days" is even wearing a St. Louis Blues jacket on the cover of her SOS album (the one she's touring behind), so we felt the diss especially deeply. Well, we should not have doubted our hometown hero because in a recently released batch of tour dates, SZA is stopping by Enterprise Center (1401 Clark Avenue, 314-622-5400, enterprisecenter.com) on October 11.
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