Yesterday was a doozy. It has left me wondering what, pray tell, is happening in the city of St. Louis — and pleading with our leaders to address traffic violence as the urgent crisis it has become.Â
A Missouri death row inmate set to be executed on Tuesday has a credible case of innocence that needs to be investigated, say multiple organizations for wrongfully convicted individuals in a recent court filing. The Midwest Innocence Project, Innocence Project and the nonprofit law firm of Phillips Black requested Governor Mike Parson appoint an independent board of inquiry to evaluate Leonard “Raheem” Taylor’s innocence late yesterday. Taylor, who was convicted in 2008 for the 2004 murders of his girlfriend Angela Rowe and her three children, says he was 1,800 miles away at the time.
The day has come. High-quality marijuana flower, edibles, vapes and more are now available for Missourians to buy for recreational use. That’s right, if you’re 21 years old or older and you have a legal Missouri ID, you can just walk into a dispensary and buy up to three ounces of the good stuff.
Remember how good ice cream was as a kid? At some point, any one of us would have given most anything to scarf down a bowl of the frozen delight for all our meals. But that was never allowed.
Our adopted football team, the Kansas City Chiefs, are once again playing in the Big Game this February 12, but no matter if you have watched every (scripted?) tackle and touchdown this season, or you once thought game day parties had something to do with Superb Owls, one things for certain: The real stars on Sunday are the snacks.
Since its founding, Prison Performing Arts has impacted the lives of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated teen and adult participants through its arts-focused programs. Talented St. Louis-based playwright Courtney Bailey dug through the organization’s vast archives to form The Golden Record, a fanciful pastiche that honors PPA’s continuing work and contributing artists.
Last Thanksgiving, in my wife's hometown back east, my whole in-law family was somewhere between pie and a tryptophan-induced nap when, for the first time all day, a silence fell over the gathering. Everyone was feeling contemplative and grateful. But my wife's aunt couldn't bear a pause in any conversation.
It looks like the weed gods want you to stay toasty all weekend because adult-use legal marijuana will be available to Missourians as soon as tomorrow. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services says that they’ll begin “approving requests from facilities to convert medical facilities to comprehensive facilities (medical + adult use) starting Feb. 3, 2023.” This means that if you’re one of the people who didn’t get a medical card and you’ve been staring at your local dispensary longingly all of this time that medical marijuana has been legal, you can soon just walk into any dispensary and buy whatever you please.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee and conservative news website The Washington Free Beacon are accusing Missouri Senate candidate Lucas Kunce of talking in a fake Southern accent. This morning the NRSC tweeted out a video created by the Free Beacon which splices up clips of Kunce's ads, interviews and social media videos, accusing him of using two different accents when talking to different audiences. The only problem is that Kunce's accent doesn't change from clip to clip.
January means new beginnings, and that trope carried through to the St. Louis restaurant scene, which saw more openings of food spots and watering holes than closings last month. Possibly none brought more excitement than the soft openings of Union Loafer's Bagel Union, a Webster Groves corner takeout spot. St. Louis eaters were always going to be thrilled about this one, but coming on the heels of Bagel Factory's closure induced a fever pitch to its many soft openings.
Family members of the victims of alleged serial killer Gary Muehlberg are saying that Muehlberg should have to face them in court — and in person. "I think meeting all of us face to face is the least he should have to do," says Saundra Mihan, whose 18-year-old daughter, Robyn, was abducted by Muehlberg in March 1990 and left dead on the side of a county highway four days later. "No cop-out for him," she adds.
Two beloved food giants in the region are teaming up to bring the city even more of what St. Louisans love: great food under one roof. Today, Danni Eickenhorst, CEO of HUSTL Hospitality Group, announced that Steve's Hot Dogs and the Fountain on Locust would be joining forces with Alpha Brewing Company Distillery to create a new food mecca. The concept will be named Makers Locale (5232 Delmar), which will be located within the Delmar Maker District, and is slated to open this fall. The Makers Locale will have a shared 8,000-square-foot beer garden and patio, and include an events space that will extend off from Third Degree Glass Factory.
As a chef at some of St. Louis’ most storied restaurants, Bob Brazell has mastered several different realms of cookery. But a recent partnership with a local cannabis company set him on a new challenge. Sinse Cannabis needed someone to help craft flavor profiles for a new line of gummies and reached out to Brazell to tap into his culinary skills.
Even if you've never heard of The Smile, you're probably familiar with another band two of its members founded: Radiohead. Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and guitarist Jonny Greenwood formed The Smile with jazz drummer Tom Skinner during the COVID-19 lockdowns and then debuted at a surprise live-streamed show in 2021. The Smile sounds like a stripped-down version of Radiohead, for sure, but its songs have a lot of layers for a three piece comprised of drums, bass and guitar.
Professional soccer is almost here in St. Louis. Single-game tickets for St. Louis CITY home games went on sale this morning at 10 a.m. Fans of St. Louis soccer might need to move fast though: Season tickets are already sold out.
If you tuned into MTV around 1990, chances are good that you were watching a glam-metal video. In those days, the lipstick-and-leather hair-metal bands — shimmering with spandex, Aqua Net, triple-innuendos, finger-tapping guitar solos, castrato vocals, cherry pies, girls writhing on the hoods of Jaguars, etc. — dominated the Dial MTV most-requested video countdown every day. Amid a steady stream of Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and Guns N' Roses videos, you might have caught a clip from a young band out of St. Louis called King of the Hill — often stylized as an attention-demanding KINGOFTHEHILL — with an equally over-the-top video for their debut single "I Do U."
Your first clue that Shabu Day (8237 Olive Boulevard, University City; 314-755-1075) is less a restaurant than a salve for the cold and dreary Midwest winter are the windows. Completely covered in steam, they obscure the goings-on inside the dining room from the outside, creating a sense of mystery on the approach. Inside, however, the picture becomes clear as a multitude of sensory experiences greets you upon your arrival.
Popular St. Louis rapper Arthur Pressley, better known as 30 Deep Grimeyy was sentenced in federal court today to more than 7 1/2 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The felon-in-possession charge, which Pressley pleaded guilty to last October, stemmed from a January 5, 2021, police stop during which Pressley and three other men in a 2008 Pontiac G8 were pulled over in north city. On the backseat, between Pressley and another man, sat a Beretta M9.
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