Yesterday in St. Louis Circuit Court, a judge handed down a life sentence plus 17 years to a 34-year-old man who in 2020 caused a car crash that killed one woman and injured another. On July 21, 2020, Deandre Carter was driving a stolen Mitsubishi Outlander SUV at a high rate of speed westbound on Page Boulevard when he used the shoulder to pass another car. He clipped the side of that car in the process of passing it, then swerved onto the other side of the road and into oncoming traffic.
In its second year of existence, Music at the Intersection came into its own. A diverse crowd of more than 8,000 music-hungry individuals crowded around four stages across Grand Center to see more the many genre-spanning acts. Reportedly, though most hailed from our fair city, others traveled from cities as far as New Orleans.
T-Rav Man (government name Nick Lammering) burst across our screens at a St. Louis CITY SC game in mid-March wearing a toasted ravioli hat that could become more famous than the Green Bay Packer cheese heads. Lammering's partner, Laynee Knipmeyer, sewed the head and now her brilliant t-rav head design will be available to purchase in a very small batch come Friday, April 14, at 6 p.m. This drop will only include 6 t-rav heads.
Since Dawes’ 2009 debut, singer/songwriter/guitarist Taylor Goldsmith has proven that the Los Angeles band craft Laurel Canyon rock and Big Pink Americana as well as anyone on the contemporary scene — so well in fact that both Jackson Browne and Robbie Robertson tapped Dawes to back them in the studio and on the road. Since then, Dawes has refined its classicist comforts but, across eight studio albums, has stretched to occupy a warm, intelligent roots-rock lane wholly its own.
Six years ago, Rosie Will's family got into the barbecue game, taking over Sawmill BBQ in Cahokia, Illinois. At the time, that operation was little more than a pavilion next to a trailer which served as the kitchen.
A federal judge’s ruling against the most common medication abortion drug could have a “devastating” effect on Missourians, according to a Missouri abortion advocate. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump-appointed judge, ruled that the Food and Drug Administration didn’t properly approve mifepristone 20 years ago.
On April Fools's Day, those watching the St. Louis CITY SC game got a huge dose of on-screen cuteness when the camera panned to T-Rav Baby. She was wearing a ravioli pillow and pink headphones and cheesing for the camera. Of course, we had to celebrate her and tracked down her dad, Chris Buerke, to find out more about how T-Rav Baby came to grace our screens.
MONDAY, APRIL 3 CNN is back on its bullshit, providing wall-to-wall coverage of a failed former real estate developer soon to be arrested in New York. Y’all know things are happening in statehouses across America that have far more impact on our lives? Let’s start with Jefferson City.
Playwright Heidi Schreck’s provocatively structured What the Constitution Means to Me takes us back to her teen years to posit the value the Constitution holds to us in 2023. Max & Louie Productions and director Nancy Bell ensure the show is funny, thoroughly engrossing and engaging by casting the effervescent Michelle Hand as the playwright.
At 17, midfielder Miguel Perez is St. Louis CITY SC’s youngest player. But his youth belies his experience. Miguel has been playing soccer for 13 years.
Criminal defense attorney David Mueller says he will run for St. Louis Circuit Attorney, making him the first challenger to announce a campaign against embattled incumbent Kim Gardner. Mueller, a 37-year-old St. Louis native and political newcomer, tells the RFT he feels called to run for the city's top prosecutor job because, after decades of population decline, he thinks the city is at an inflection point.
A bill that seeks to crack down on distracted driving has cleared the Missouri Senate — and has just over a month to achieve passage in the House before the close of the session. The Siddens Bening Hands-Free Law (Senate Bill 56 and 61), named for two victims of distracted driving, would bar people from holding their phone in their hands while driving — which includes texting but also holding a phone up to your ear. The Missouri Senate gave the bill its approval just over a week ago.
Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from Jim Merkel's book Walking South City: A Journey through Historic St. Louis Neighborhoods. You can preorder it now at reedypress.com.
A Budweiser distributor in Springfield, Missouri, canceled showings of Budweiser Clydesdales this week after Bud Light’s partnership with a transgender influencer sparked right-wing backlash. Wil Fischer Distributing called off the showings this week but did not cite the beer company’s partnership as the reason for doing so.
St. Louis Punk Rock Flea Market is coming to Kiener Plaza (601 Market Street) next month, and this flea market is offering more than just tchotchkes — this flea market is also a concert. The event runs from 11 a.m. until 8 p.m. on Saturday, May 27, and will be offering a full day of entertainment alongside a wide variety of purchasable odds and ends. In addition to the 50 vendors who will be on site that day, the Punk Rock Flea Market will host 10 live bands throughout the day.
Yesterday, Attorney General Andrew Bailey subpoenaed the St. Louis city Comptroller's Office and Budget Division, indicating that as part of his effort to remove Kim Gardner as circuit attorney he is trying to investigate the finances of her office. The subpoenas include the specific topics Bailey's office intends to ask the two city entities about, including information about the CAO's budget and payroll. From the start, Gardner has blasted Bailey's effort to remove her as a "gross power grab," singling out his wide-ranging requests for depositions and discovery as overly broad, saying in court filings that he is embarked on a "fishing expedition."
Blueprint co-founder Nora Brady is gearing up to participate in the U.S. Barista Competition for the sixth time, and the St. Louisan has her eyes squarely on the win. "I've always done pretty well, [but] I'm still yet to secure that first place. So it is pushing me forward because I really want it, and I know that I can achieve it," Brady told the RFT in February.
The City of Maplewood will pay out $3.25 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it ran a debtors' prison — which includes $1 million in legal fees for ArchCity Defenders, the nonprofit law firm that filed the class-action suit in 2016, and the two firms assisting it. That's according to an order filed in federal court Wednesday by U.S. District Court Judge Catherine D. Perry. In addition to its own fees and those of Tycko & Zavareei LLP and Keane Law LLC, ArchCity Defenders says the payout will be distributed among the more than 7,000 people jailed by the St. Louis suburb and the 20,000 people who paid fines and fees from 2011 to 2021.
An Illinois couple in their early 20s were charged on Tuesday with the murder of their 3-month-old boy, who died in St. Louis last spring. The Illinois State Police said on Tuesday that Logan Hutchings and Sophia Kelly, both 21, brought their child, Ocean, to a hospital in St. Louis last June. The baby was found to be suffering a skull fracture and multiple rib fractures.
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