“Victory has a hundred fathers, and defeat is an orphan.” That was one of President John F. Kennedy’s many great lines, uttered in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco.
A St. Louis alderwoman has resigned for a new gig and a pay raise. Sunday will be Christine Ingrassia's last day as Ward 6 alderwoman. She will join Board of Aldermen President Megan Green's office as director of operations the following day.
There are plenty of people who missed their prom because they didn’t feel welcome. The event is usually a heteronormative affair without room for people who don’t fit the gender binary, so plenty of folks had to miss out on what should’ve been a standard high school experience. But Metro Trans Umbrella Group’s Glow Up Prom is the event that welcomes everybody.
Dark green walls, a bustling dining room, a long bar, artfully arrayed sports memorabilia and more widescreen televisions than can be counted greet visitors entering the brand new Pitch Athletic Club & Tavern (2 South 20th Street, thepitch-stl.com). It's a bit like walking into high-end man cave — one so upscale that even the man-cave averse will happily enter — and it gives out serious sports-watching vibes. But that's not too surprising since being the perfect place to watch a game is the whole point of the Pitch.
For as long as he can remember, Dominique Dobbs has loved blues music — all its instruments, texture and emotion. “I was always hypnotized with old-school samples,” he says.
The London Tea Room may be regretting having made its October move from Tower Grove South to Downtown West. The relocation was in part motivated by the bigger space and a proximity to the new St. Louis City SC soccer stadium. However, according to the St. Louis Business Journal, the Tea Room filed a lawsuit last month claiming the space on Locust Street it moved into was not as advertised.
Music fans know David Yow as the electric frontman for bands like Jesus Lizard (and, as of lately, Flipper), but film fans have a whole different relationship with him. The multi-talented singer also has dozens of acting credits to his name that span all the way back to the early '90’s. Yow will be in town next Saturday, March 4, for a Q&A at an event called “UNTITLED: An Evening of Short Films at Alamo Drafthouse.” The Alamo Drafthouse (3765 Foundry Way, Suite 275; drafthouse.com/st-louis) has become the new hot spot at City Foundry and is hosting all of the hottest movies of late. (Including the upcoming much-hyped Cocaine Bear, of course.)
If you love visiting Missouri wineries — all the swirling of glasses, tiny samples, refreshing the palate with crackers — but don't like the long drive into the boonies, then get excited. This one is for you. Today, a new winery announced it will be opening up a location right here in St. Louis city proper.
Amid increasing calls for her resignation, embattled Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner dug in this afternoon, hosting a press conference that at times turned contentious, with supporters taking it upon themselves to shout out answers to questions reporters put to Gardner. With several dozen of her supporters gathered on the fourth floor of the Carnahan Courts Building, Gardner's own demeanor was measured, but some of the supporters were feisty in their defense of her, applauding much of what Gardner had to say and jeering at several questions asked by reporters. At the press conference, Gardner doubled down on her strategy of blaming Judge Bryan Hettenbach for 21-year-old Daniel Riley remaining free on bond even after he violated that bond dozens of times.
If you were one of the sky's admirers last night during sunset, you were probably treated to a stunning view: Two planets, Venus and Jupiter, were visible next to the waxing crescent moon. If you missed out, you're in luck, because the sky's going to do it again. Tonight, just around sunset, the two planets will be visible just under the moon.
Just after midnight on April 13, 2016, the driver of a red Lexus struck and killed Jameca Stanfield as she tried to cross North Grand Boulevard. Notice of her death wouldn’t have extended beyond a few short news stories had it not been for her sister, Tiffanie Stanfield, who has fought for justice for her sister and so many other hit-and-run victims in the years after Jameca’s death.
For the second time this month, Ben the bear broke free from his confinement at the Saint Louis Zoo. KMOV reported at 1:24 p.m. that the Andean bear broke out of its confinement in the River’s Edge section of the zoo earlier this afternoon. Zoo officials told FOX2 that they could see Ben, who was wandering around the River’s Edge area.
Aaron Sorkin knew when he took on the task of adapting Harper Lee's famous, required-ninth-grade-reading novel To Kill a Mockingbird that he was "going to ruin everyone's childhood," he told Datebook when the play was touring San Francisco. The writer of The West Wing and A Few Good Men made so many changes to the original story — expanding the role of Calpurnia the housekeeper, changing Atticus Finch from saintly lawyer into more human man, etc. — that Lee's estate sued him.
Look for a high-risk, high-reward strategy as St. Louis CITY SC launches its inaugural Major League Soccer season Saturday against Austin FC at Q2 Stadium in North Austin, Texas. Despite being the new boys on the block, CITY Head Coach Bradley Carnell made it clear on The CITY Voice podcast that his team won’t play it safe this season. “I always like risks, you know? I believe in high-risk, high-reward.”
After decades of waiting, Major League Soccer is arriving in St. Louis on March 3 — and now soccer is just rolling into the city. CITY SC announced today that the United States women’s national team will visit the brand new, 22,500-seat CITYPARK stadium on April 11 at 6:30 p.m.
Video posted to social media this week shows a Lemp Avenue street sign and stoplight taking a serious L in a battle against a tractor-trailer. The Facebook video posted by Mario McKinney shows an orange Schneider tractor-trailer merging onto what appears to be Highway 55, hauling some atypical cargo. Atop the truck's trailer is the green Lemp Avenue street sign, as well as the stop light attached to it and the entire pole that ought to be securing it all to the ground.
The controversy surrounding increasingly embattled Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has scrambled political lines, with former allies calling for her removal and at least one fierce critic defending Gardner's handling of the case that sparked the maelstrom. Over the weekend, 21-year-old Daniel Riley caused a car crash that left multi-sport athlete Janae Edmondson, 17, pinned between two cars. Both of her legs have since been amputated.
John Mueller, 50, is a St. Louis native (Lindbergh High School) and serial entrepreneur who started out in Nevada's cannabis industry in 2016. After selling the operation three years later, he moved to the Midwest and now has 26 dispensaries across six states, including 15 Greenlight Dispensaries in Missouri.
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