The masters of marketing over at the St. Louis Bread Company Panera have a new weird-ass product for you to buy: a “BAGuette bag.” Advertised as the perfect size to carry one of Panera's new Toasted Baguette sandwiches, this pea-green purse has a strap, an embossed texture and gold hardware featuring a “P” for Panera. This is not, as many have pointed out, an April Fools Day joke, either.
St. Charles' historic Main Street is about to get a little more delicious. Savor, a restaurant featuring American cuisine and cocktails, opens today at 221 North Main Street from noon to 10 p.m. The restaurant is the longtime dream of co-owner Marsha Timme — one that was shaped while growing up watching her mother and grandmother around the stove crafting family recipes.
Teddy Lee spent dedicated two decades bringing St. Louis-area diners sushi, first at the original Wasabi downtown and eventually at other local spots. He was a dedicated craftsman, but he could not shake the feeling that he was meant to show diners a different side of his culinary skills — the one where his passion lies.
For three days in March, you won’t just find fine art in the Saint Louis Art Museum: You’ll also find flowers. From Friday, March 3, to Sunday, March 5, the popular exhibition Art in Bloom will return in-person to SLAM after two years of virtual programming with 30 floral designs on display. Each of the floral designs are paired with and inspired by a specific piece of art in the museum.
Recreational marijuana went legal on Friday, February 3, and stoners and wannabe stoners across the state wasted no time in going to their local dispensary to buy weed. According to MoCannTrade, Missouri sold $12,689,965 worth of product from Friday to Sunday. [content-1]
On Friday alone, Missouri sold more than $5 million worth of cannabis.
A former clerk admitted yesterday in federal court in St. Louis that she stole almost a half-million dollars from the small, cash-strapped north county municipality where she was employed. Maureen Woodson, 68, pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud. From February 2016 to April 2022, Woodson and then-assistant city clerk Donna Thompson wrote more than 600 checks to themselves without the knowledge of other city officials, whose signatures they regularly forged on the checks.
One of the best performances in the history of the Grammys happened last night on live television and Nelly was there to represent St. Louis. The Recording Academy marked 50 years of hip-hop with a blow-out celebration featuring a collaboration between decades of hip-hop artists. The all-star performance was a musical montage that hit on major songs and milestones in the history of hip-hop, from Grandmaster Flash to Lil Uzi Vert.
If you have someone in your life who loves you as much as they love St. Louis style pizza then you're in luck. Imo's is bringing back its popular two-topping heart-shaped pizza in time for Valentine's Day. According to Nichole Carpenter, director of marketing for Imo's, the pizza is one of the most popular promotions of the year.
A Missouri Senate committee will consider a bill tomorrow that seeks to ban school officials from discussing gender identity or sexual orientation — a bill that goes even further than the Florida bill it was modeled upon. Senate Bill 134 would bar nurses, counselors, teachers and other school personnel at public or charter schools from discussing gender identity or sexual orientation with minor students.
MONDAY, JANUARY 30 Ice fell from the heavens overnight, and St. Louis woke up to streets that didn’t look bad — but, this time, actually were. In one horrifying case, that meant a 30-car pileup in west county.
The Repertory Theatre St. Louis is a local institution recognized for long-standing excellence. Unfortunately, not every opening of every show is as smooth or error free as the company and audiences would like.
Move over Jack Dorsey, there's a new contender for the (we assume) highly coveted designation of top tech bro from St. Louis. Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. If you somehow missed the launch last November, the ChatGPT program can in seconds draft a work email, legal brief or any other piece of writing people were previously paid to do.
This Saturday, a new restaurant serving Filipino cuisine will open in Midtown St. Louis — but it's a restaurant that already has a big following. Kain Tayo first opened in Trenton, Illinois, in 2018, but owners Randy and Sally Arcega drew diners willing to make the 40-minute trek east from St. Louis. "The majority of our customers were coming from here," says Randy.
On Wednesday, Keisha Scarlett, chief academic officer and assistant superintendent of academics for Seattle Public Schools, was announced as the newest superintendent of St. Louis Public Schools. It will mark a major change for Scarlett, 48, who grew up in Seattle and spent 24 years there as a teacher, principal and administrator.
Insurrectionist Senator Josh Hawley did what he does best recently, which is to hoodwink people with a level of mendacity that would make Donald Trump blush. Hawley garnered a fair amount of national attention in January by naming a bill to ban congressional stock trading after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
A peaceful protest against police brutality and systemic racism in Belleville ended with a protester going to the hospital today. J.D. Nixon, whose group Empire 13 organized and led the protest, says that about 40 people marched through Belleville to protest the police violence that killed Tyre Nichols in Memphis and all the other Black lives lost to state-sanctioned violence.
Customers eager to get their hands on their first legal blunts trickled into St. Louis-area dispensaries Friday afternoon as the state began granting licenses to sell recreational cannabis. [content-2] The start of adult-use recreational marijuana sales on Friday came as a bit of a surprise.
St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has released photos of the police vehicle involved in last night's shooting in Soulard, during which two officers and one suspect were wounded. The photos released late this morning show an SLMPD SUV with bullet holes in its front and side as well as a smear of blood on its rear passenger-side door. Several windows appear to have been shot out as well.
The scandal that rocked St. Louis last year, bringing down three members of the Board of Aldermen, may have ensnared two more civic leaders. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, using details in a newly released search warrant, says that former U.S. Representative Lacy Clay (D-St. Louis) and Alderman Brandon Bosley also played roles in the bribery scandal that sent former Board of Alderman President Lewis Reed and former aldermen Jeffrey Boyd and John Collins-Muhammad to prison for taking bribes from a local businessman.
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