Missourians are just determined to live in crappy states, apparently. A recent poll completed by travel website familydestinationsguide.com found that Missourians, if given the chance to live anywhere else in the country, would choose to live in Florida.
The lean, muscular and gorgeous Ed Walton, of Blue Max Leather Club, was tied to an X-cross as a leather-clad man (also from Blue Max) flogged him for the gallery of onlookers. Front and center was "Maven of Mardi Gras" Luann Denten, donning a tiara over a big blond wig and wearing a hooped Victorian gown, sipping from a champagne flute.
At the age of seventeen, Precious Barry already has a robust resume. The Riverview Gardens senior has served as a youth outreach coordinator for Cori Bush, a sex-ed intern for Pro-Choice Missouri and a member of the St. Louis County Youth Advisory Council.
You read that headline right: Beyoncé is coming to St. Louis. The world-renowned, Grammy-award-winning artist announced her “Renaissance World Tour” on her Instagram page this morning. The schedule features an August 21 stop at the Dome at America's Center in St. Louis.
The Blue Man Group is a collection of highly-skilled world-class percussion musicians who also have extreme skills when it comes to engaging with an audience. But they’re also just dudes who paint themselves blue and bang on shit, which is why kids totally love them, too. The group is headed to the Fabulous Fox Theatre (527 North Grand Boulevard, fabulousfox.com) and will be performing from February 9 through February 12.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is too moderate — or at least that's what about 50 people who packed into Krueger's bar in Clayton last night seemed to indicate. They were there to support former Assistant U.S. Attorney Will Scharf, who announced he's running for Bailey's job. "There's a big difference between Republicans and conservatives.
Of all the deeply upsetting details in Tom Huck's relentlessly unsettling oeuvre, the dog dick has to take the top spot. The distressing bit of canine anatomy appears in what Huck himself has acknowledged may be his "most heinous print," "Anatomy of a Crack Shack," which was released in 2005 as part of his Bloody Bucket series.
The District in Chesterfield is quickly becoming one of the St. Louis area’s newest hot spots. People who live out in Chesterfield used to whine about having to come to the city for their entertainment, but now people in the city are whining about having to go all the way to Chesterfield for fun. Ah, how the tables have turned.
If you can't get them to hold your hand because they love you, maybe you can get them to hold your hand because they’re terrified? St. Louis’ premier haunted house is reopening for one night only on February 11 for a scary-special date night. The Darkness (1525 South Eighth Street) is always a destination spot for St. Louisans around Halloween time, but now spooky season is stretching into love season with the "My Bloody Valentine" haunted house event.
If you've ever enjoyed a Lion's Choice plant-based sub or a vegan soft taco from Mission Taco, you have Ron DeSantis to thank. No, not that Ron DeSantis.
Ginger pianists with mezzo-soprano vocal ranges are hard to come by these days, but local fans of Tori Amos will be excited to know that their favorite redheaded goddess is headed back to town this summer. Tori Amos just announced an American tour, and she’s booked to play the Stifel Theatre (1400 Market Street, 314-499-7600) on Friday, July 14. Ticket prices for the show range from $36.50 through $111.50.
Nearly a full year has passed since the early February weekend when 11 people suffered accidental fentanyl overdoses after smoking crack cocaine laced with the deadly opioid at the Parkview and Park Place apartments on Forest Park Avenue. Joseph Yancey recalls what went through his mind when he heard the first reports of fatalities — eight in all.
It’s been nearly 20 years since Lil’ Wayne released his critically acclaimed album Tha Carter in 2004. This spring, the rapper will be heading on a 28-city tour named after that album.
On January 20, the Post-Dispatch laid off one employee and eliminated two other open positions — but it took another week after that for managers to enact a second set of cuts. Last Friday, January 27, the daily slashed four positions from the paper's prep sports outfit, STLhighschoolsports.com. Along with a staffer who voluntarily left in December and won't be replaced, that means the prep sports team is now down from eight employees to three.
The City of St. Louis will likely pay $5.2 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by nearly 100 people who say their civil rights were violated amid the heavy-handed police response to protests in 2017. The 84 plaintiffs are expected to receive about $58,500 per person. "I have not yet found a class-action settlement in America that pays out this much per person pertaining to a police response to a protest," attorney Javad Khazaeli tells the RFT.
The Arts and Education Council of Greater St. Louis is leaderless — and quiet on the topic — as it moves to sell its long-time home, the Centene Center for the Arts in Grand Center. Lyah LeFlore-Ituen, who took the reins of the organization last July, said by phone on Friday that she is no longer with the Arts and Education Council. "I can confirm with you that I'm not the president and CEO," LeFlore-Ituen says.
Chances are you know about England’s Henry VIII and the fact that he had six wives. Henry’s matrimonial escapades were scandalous and, like the king himself, a bit larger than life.
Highways across southern Missouri are still coated in ice after wintry precipitation last night, and now there’s another round of sleet and snow on the way to the area tonight. If you live south of St. Louis or have to drive there anytime soon, you’ll definitely want to check out the forecast. The National Weather Service of St. Louis is predicting that portions south of the metro area will receive another inch of snow and another half inch of sleet that will impact the evening commute.
A St. Louis woman behind a new company offering stylish self-watering pots will show off her products to more than one million viewers Wednesday — as she makes her debut on a Good Morning America spinoff that airs nationally on ABC stations. Kay Wells is the "founder, engineer, owner and inventor" behind Posie Pots & 3D Prints, which offers custom pots for houseplants made with a 3-D printer. Each has a built-in reservoir so you don't have to worry about over-watering, or under-watering, or any of the mistakes that can doom a plant.
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