Hey all you cool cats and kittens, Carole Baskin, the controversial figure from the hit Netflix docuseries Tiger King, is closing down her cat sanctuary, Big Cat Rescue, to merge with Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in the Ozarks. It's good news if you like big cats (or if you have an ex-husband's corpse you need to dispose of). Baskin will be selling her 67-acre Tampa rescue and transporting 35 of her 41 big cats to Eureka Springs in Arkansas, just an hour outside of Branson.
If you've purchased anything from Seafood City in on Olive Boulevard, the health department is strongly advising you to throw it away. If you've already eaten said seafood, well, good luck. The St. Louis County Health Department announced yesterday that they had inspected the University City market on Wednesday and discovered it was open for business despite being ordered to close three months ago.
Béla Fleck might not only be the world's greatest banjo player but also the instrument's boldest explorer. As a synthesizing conceptualist, he has become the sole proprietor of any number of post-bluegrass genres, uniting with the world's greatest jazz, world and classical masters to such an extent that Bélaphiliacs can hardly keep up with the breadth of Béla's talent and ambition. It's a boundless musical virtuosity that has bagged him 15 Grammys and 33 nominations.
Within a few hours of what was supposed to be the start of his trial this afternoon, the Circuit Attorney's Office dismissed multiple charges against Elijah Graham. Graham, 20, had been facing charges of assault, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and tampering with a motor vehicle stemming from a February 2022 incident in which, according to a probable cause statement, Graham and another individual shot at a third man from a Toyota Highlander in the Columbus Square neighborhood. The victim was struck by the gunfire, sustaining serious but nonfatal wounds.
A shudder of horror went through St. Louis music fans earlier this year when the legendary BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups (700 South Broadway, bbsjazzbluessoups.com) closed its doors temporarily for renovations without announcing a reopening date. With Beale on Broadway closing permanently in 2019, many worried that BB's might follow suit. But that fear, thankfully, seems to be unfounded.
A life-saving medication that rapidly reverses the effects of opioid overdoses will soon become way easier to get. The federal Food and Drug Administration has approved naloxone, or Narcan Nasal Spray, for over-the-counter use. Naloxone has been available at most Missouri pharmacies without prescriptions since 2017.
To call it an eyesore would be an understatement. For years Pine Lawn Alderwoman Dionne Jones has been trying to do something about the pile of charred rubble at Dardanella and Kienlen avenues, but it’s a task made all the harder because she can’t get a straight answer about who owns the property. "You have [neighbors] who are ashamed to invite friends over," she says.
John Mayer has a split personality, musically speaking. On one hand, he is the guitarist/vocalist for Dead & Company, stepping into the Jerry Garcia role to help keep the long, strange trip going for Grateful Dead fans.
When Keeley Kromat talks about how her daughter started hormone replacement therapy, she describes it as when she “got my child back.” Before, Kromat’s daughter, Rowan McGrew, was “sullen and withdrawn,” and it was difficult to get her to talk.
There are your classic ballpark eats: peanuts in a too-tall bag, extra-salted and buttered-up pretzels, dogs with all the fixings, or a cold beer (or two or three — we don’t judge). But St. Louis has a new food item to add to the rooster that’s sure to be an instant classic: Poké bowls.
Amid the festivities for Cardinals Opening Day, PETA is planning to add a sobering message for Budweiser: Stop chopping off the Clydesdales' tails. Starting at 12:30, PETA will fly a banner that calls out Budweiser for mutilating its famous Clydesdales' tailbones so that the horses will all have a certain aesthetic when hitched to the beer wagon. While the practice may seem harmless, it actually isn't.
St. Louis' biggest independent theater festival is going huge this August — offering admittance to every single act that applied. That's something new for St. Lou Fringe Fest, says president and artistic director Matt Kerns. Previously, organizers used something like a lottery system for most of the acts, hand-selecting a few headliners but otherwise leaving selection to chance.
Jason Tilford can't help but chuckle at the request he and his brother Adam would often get when they opened their first Mission Taco Joint (Multiple locations, including 6235 Delmar Boulevard, 314-932-5430) on Delmar Boulevard in 2013. "We'd get asked all the time if we had a regular taco," Jason recalls, referring to the Old El Paso-style ground beef and iceberg lettuce concoction of so many St. Louisans' youth. "Sometimes, we'd run them as a tongue-in-cheek special and even put them on the menu as a 'regular taco' at Busch Stadium.
A date has been set for the first hearing in Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's efforts to remove St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner. Judge John Torbitzky has scheduled both sides to appear in court in St. Louis on April 18 for a hearing during which all pending motions in Bailey’s quo warranto proceeding will be heard. Quite a few motions are currently pending in the matter.
Jolman Nunez vividly remembers being the new kid in town when he and his brothers, Jesus and Ever, arrived in St. Louis back in 2007. Just nine years old, Jolman had moved here with his siblings from their native Honduras to join their mother, who had already been here for a few years.
A shooting that left three kids under the age of 10 dead in Tennessee has Missouri Senator Josh Hawley demanding a hate crime investigation. Never mind that Hawley was the only U.S. senator to vote against a 2021 bill to help victims of hate crimes. Never mind that Hawley failed to call for action after a school shooter targeted students at CVPA High School in St Louis, leaving a teacher and teenager dead and many more injured in the state Hawley supposedly represents (but doesn't actually live in).
Chances are high that it's going to get windy here in St. Louis on Friday, with the National Weather Service saying we could even see tornadoes in the area at the end of the work week. A cold front is due to arrive in the metro region late Friday afternoon, bringing with it the possibility of large hail, damaging winds, and possibly even tornadoes, the NWS says. KSDK meteorologist Anthony Slaughter said on Twitter that the city will be in the bullseye for the potential severe weather.
There's a new relic in town — and it may be the holiest digit to grace this city of sin. The relic, now in the possession of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, is purportedly a piece of toe once belonging to St. Louis IX, the French king for whom St. Louis, Missouri, is named. Yes, toe.
Yesterday a St. Louis man called a halt to his trial in circuit court on its second day and pleaded guilty to opening fire at police officers in 2021. He was then sentenced to 21 years in prison. According to a police probable cause statement, on May 28, 2021, 32-year-old Darne Ricks was in Gravois Park when he sped away from officers attempting to pull him over in relation to an armed robbery investigation.
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