When I caught up with St. Louis stand-up comedian and huge football fan Jake Beckman, he was reeling and wallowing in despair. Beckman, 31, is a longtime Philadelphia Eagles fan.
When it came time for St. Louis CITY SC to design its food program, the brand-new stadium's creators clearly surveyed the fake-cheese nachos, hotdogs and weak lagers taking up space on menus at other stadiums and realized fans deserve better. To avoid the pitfalls of mediocre-yet-expensive fare, the stadium tapped James Beard Award-winning chef Gerard Craft as chief flavor officer.
It’s been all eyes on the skies lately as Missourians have seen Venus, Jupiter and even a Chinese spy balloon overhead. (Yeah, we thought that spy balloon totally looked like a flying Schnucks bag, too.) Today might bring the most exciting development yet, however, because tonight Missourians might be able to see the aurora borealis a.k.a. the Northern Lights.
Soccer is here in St. Louis — and the party is ready to start. In the lead-up to CITY SC’s historic first home game against Charlotte FC on at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 4, the team, fans and local businesses will host a number of festivities to hype up excitment.
Well, it was bound to happen. It appears that Rush Limbaugh’s gravesite has become a gender-neutral bathroom. The unrepentant bigot died on February 17, 2021 and was buried in St. Louis’ famed Bellefontaine Cemetery (4947 West Florissant Avenue).
Police have arrested 23-year-old Deshawn Thomas in connection to a shooting downtown on Monday. A shocking video, allegedly of the shooting, was posted to Twitter Monday night before being removed. The video seems to show a shooting that occurred in broad daylight at the 700 block of North Tucker Boulevard.
Nathan Price wasn’t sure what he was going to pour into his glass. For years, the St. Louis native ran Burnt Barrel Designs, producing custom glassware, bottle openers and other drinking accessories out of his Lake St. Louis home as a side hustle to his fulltime gig at Lou Fusz Automotive.
A South Grand legend has left us. Banh Mi So #1 (4071 South Grand Boulevard) has quietly closed, leaving all of the south side to mourn this huge loss. Owned by husband-and-wife Thomas and Lynne Truong, the little Vietnamese restaurant was famous across St. Louis for its fantastic spring rolls and perfectly toasted banh mi sandwiches.
This afternoon in a St. Louis city courtroom, 21-year-old Daniel Riley sat a few feet away from the parents of Janae Edmondson as they recounted the painful recovery their daughter is undergoing in a Saint Louis University hospital a week after Riley allegedly struck Edmondson with a car, resulting in the loss of both her legs. "This is not the life she expected," Janae's mother said. She added that in the past few days her daughter has asked her heartbreaking questions like, "Am I ever going to walk again?
If you are only going to see one show at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis this year, Confederates, by Dominique Morisseau, is what you should see. The play expertly conveys two compelling narratives in an intense and exceptional bit of storytelling that effortlessly time-shifts from a contemporary U.S. university to a southern plantation during the Civil War.
Over 7,500 Missourians have had their marijuana criminal records expunged from public record after a constitutional amendment legalized recreational weed in Missouri. Last fall, voters approved Amendment 3, which not only legalized recreational cannabis in Missouri but kick-started a process to expunge criminal records related to nonviolent marijuana offenses that otherwise would have been legal had Amendment 3 always been a part of Missouri’s constitution.
The alleged cult that in 2021 bought a Wildwood mansion from Nelly is now trying to buy a 284-acre property in Florissant where Boeing used to operate its Leadership Center. According to an individual familiar with the Kingdom of God Global Church's business dealings, the organization is attempting to take out a $25 million loan in order to purchase the sprawling property, which until the fall of 2020 was used by Boeing for corporate retreats and training.
At Mission Taco Joint in St. Charles (1650 Beale Street), you won't only find tacos and the like now. You'll also find pinball, NBA Jam and a wall-sized mural.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20 KSDK’s Christine Byers breaks the story of the month: The tragic double amputation of a visiting teen volleyball player is due to a St. Louis driver named Daniel Riley — and despite facing felony charges over allegations he stole a gun at gunpoint in 2020, Riley was not in jail, allowing him to instead wreak havoc on the St. Louis streets. Blame Kim Gardner!
Celebration Day played two sold-out nights at the Pageant over the weekend, a late-February tradition for St. Louis’ all-star Led Zeppelin tribute band. The show has become heaven for a crowd that has worshiped Zeppelin since Mondale was vice president, but the men in Celebration Day have earned rock-star status themselves by bringing the music to badass life with remarkable accuracy and muscle since 2006. This year’s installment came with a massive, video-screen backdrop that provided close-ups of the band in action, embellished with psychedelic swirls and other trip-tastic effects.
Reggie Allen, the son a Metro East strip club owner who faced charges after fatally wounding a patron in 2009, allegedly killed himself after a standoff with police on Sunday. Police say Allen, 40, killed another man in his neighborhood in Dupo, Illinois, yesterday afternoon before fleeing the scene in a Bobcat. Confronted by a Dupo police officer, Allen allegedly shot him in the shoulder and neck, and then stole his police vehicle, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Loop will be hopping on Saturday, April 22, because it is not only Record Store Day, but Sunshine Daydream and Emporium Smoke Shop have teamed up to bring the street its first ever 420 Fest. Despite being cannabis inspired, the event will be fairly family friendly and is more about the culture of marijuana than about selling actual reefer. (And you know how we feel about that.)
This weekend saw five people, including four teens, lose their lives on the city's roads. One person died Saturday in Bevo Mill, and preliminary police reports suggest an unidentified reckless driver caused the four other fatalities on Sunday.
By day, the City Museum (750 North 16th Street, citymuseum.org) is swarming with tourists, school field trips and wild-ass kids. But nighttime at the City Museum is when the grown ups can pop in and enjoy a little adult time. The museum's "City Nights" series is a collection of seven events that take place over the summer on the rooftop of the City Museum at night.
U.S. Representative Cori Bush got married earlier this month in a private ceremony in St. Louis. The progressive Democrat signed a marriage license with the St. Louis Recorder of Deeds on February 11 before she wed in a private ceremony.
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