St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will bring music from Powell Hall to the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (3716 Washington Avenue, 314-754-1850, pulitzerarts.org) for the annual St. Louis Symphony: Live at the Pulitzer series. The night will feature a slate of performances from four of America's "most talented young composers," including Christian Quiñones, Peter Shin, Aiyana Braun and Nicky Sohn.
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will bring music from Powell Hall to the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (3716 Washington Avenue, 314-754-1850, pulitzerarts.org) for the annual St. Louis Symphony: Live at the Pulitzer series. The night will feature a slate of performances from four of America's "most talented young composers," including Christian Quiñones, Peter Shin, Aiyana Braun and Nicky Sohn.
A 19-year-old's second murder trial in three months ended this afternoon with him being found guilty of double homicide. After a two-day trial, a jury determined that Prinshun McClain murdered Terri Bankhead, 27, and her 8-year-old daughter, Da'Nilya Edwards, in August 2021 in the Fairgrounds neighborhood. In closing arguments, Assistant Circuit Attorney Natalia Ogurkiewicz referred to the case as a "nightmare story” for the two victims, but “an intricate production” for McClain, who went about the murders as if they were happening in a horror film of which he was the director.
St. Louisans have been mourning the loss of the Way Out Club deeply this month. Though the club announced its closure in 2021, it wasn’t until last week that the public was let inside for an epic estate sale of all things kitsch. But all of this attention to the space had people wondering what would come of it once the Way Out had been cleaned out.
Leaders in both St. Louis city and County announced today that they would be investing the historic settlement money they won after the Rams relocation debacle, so that the pile of money will get bigger as the region continues to not know what to do with it. Mayor Tishaura Jones announced today that the city would be investing $280 million with the Missouri Securities Investment Program. A portion of the settlement money — $30 million — heads to the Board of Aldermen for appropriation before June 30, 2023.
A St. Louis County woman was sentenced to three years in prison today after striking a Saint Louis University student with a stolen SUV in 2019. Aldina Sakanovic was fleeing police in a stolen Nissan Pathfinder when she ran a red light and hit 20-year-old Stephanie Grant, a biomedical engineering student, near the intersection at South Grand Boulevard and Laclede Avenue. At her trial in November, a jury found Sakanovic guilty of second-degree-assault, armed criminal action and resisting arrest.
St. Louis Metropolitan Police shot a 16-year-old boy more than a dozen times outside a north city gas station last fall. First reported by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, a newly-released autopsy report revealed police shot Darryl Ross 18 times after the teen tried to run from police outside a Shell gas station in the Old North neighborhood on September 11.
“Is it happy hour for you yet?” Drew Jameson asks me as a way of offering me a drink at 4 p.m. on a Friday night at the new Central Stage concert venue in Grand Center. (The answer: Yes.) Jameson is sitting inside the venue’s front room — a space that serves as a bar, ping-pong battleground and waiting area for the concert space in the back.
In the two days since Illinois' new assault-weapons ban was signed into law, multiple southern Illinois sheriffs have stated publicly they will not be enforcing it. Greene County Sheriff Robert McMillen said that the new law banning the sale of assault weapons is a “clear violation” of the Second Amendment.
St. Louis' cost of living is making it one of the most affordable cities in the country, according to a new report. SmartAsset, a financial technology company that frequently publishes studies, found that St. Louis ranks as one of the top cities “where minimum wage goes the furthest.” This really isn’t a product of the St. Louis’ minimum wage though.
Another historic St. Louis venue is closing its doors while the owners “re-think the future” of the space, according to KSDK.com. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups (700 South Broadway, bbsjazzbluessoups.com) is currently closed for business and a re-opening date is unknown. The club first opened in 1976 and was part of the famed “Blues Triangle” on South Broadway which included a trio of hot entertainment spots: BB’s, Beale on Broadway and Broadway Oyster Bar.
Columbia police conducting a welfare check on behalf of the mother of a worried Mizzou student discovered a dead body in a fire pit behind a house north of campus on Tuesday. The discovery of the body led to second-degree murder charges against 20-year-old Emma Adams, who was at the house where the body was found when police arrived. According to reporter Madeline Carter, when police asked Adams whose body was behind the house, she responded, "He was beating me," and that she had stabbed the man in self-defense.
The stuffed potato from South America Bakery (4279 Keaton Crossing Boulevard, O'Fallon; 636-477-6688) is less a creative interpretation of a spud and more a feat of culinary majesty — one that would feel equally on brand billed as a deconstructed-reconstructed "baked potato" at an avant garde temple to molecular gastronomy as it does as a humble snack at a fast-casual O'Fallon strip-mall storefront. At first glance, this stunning tuber presents as a baked potato in shape, size and color. However, a closer look reveals that it is actually a lightly fried russet-shaped fritter composed of fluffy mashed potatoes that have been fashioned to look like its original form.
We thought the day would never come, but soon you can apply to grow your own legal weed in the state of Missouri. Pass the bong, Cheech & Chong, the Show-Me State is almost ready to celebrate! The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services says that you should be able to submit your application to cultivate your own stash by February 6, the same day that adults ages 21 and over can legally possess, purchase, consume and cultivate marijuana for recreational use in the state of Missouri.
Missouri has a lot of problems, but if you were in the statehouse today, you would have thought the biggest one was what female legislators wear. Peter Merideth (D-St. Louis) shared the news on Twitter, "Debating the house rules on the floor today, and the first amendment offered by a Republican is about making stricter the rules of what women have to wear in here." Merideth continued:
Two leaders of St. Louis' alcohol-free movement are partnering up for a zero-proof cocktail series meant to show drinkers and non-drinkers alike there is more to the movement than Dry January. Hello Juice and Sans Bar will be launching their "AF Happy Hour" this Thursday, January 12, at Hello Juice's Kirkwood location (10463 Manchester Road, Suite F, Kirkwood; 314-394-0236), promising an evening of merriment, activities, socializing, delicious food and creative cocktails — minus the booze.
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