Full disclosure: I hate St. Louis Christmas. Despite not being Christian, I’d never frowned upon the holiday living in Ohio. I had other people of my faith around me, and we noshed on Chinese takeout on Christmas Eve.
St. Louis has an abundance of top-quality museums for checking out visual art, but for a real-time look at contemporary artists, there's nothing better than heading to Instagram. Those of us who can't stand another moment with a screen should head to a local gallery instead.
The Great Southwest Airlines Meltdown of 2022 continues with 2,300 more flights canceled today. The discount carrier says its schedule will be back to something resembling normal tomorrow, but we’ll believe it when we see it.
Ever since St. Louis’ famed Way Out Club announced its closure last summer, music fans have wondered what would happen to all of the treasures it contained. Now we finally have an answer. The eclectic collection of bits and bobs that gave the Way Out Club its lived-in, homey vibe will soon be up for grabs to the public through an estate sale.
Two PETA protesters who disrupted a December 21 meeting of the Moolah Shriners were arrested by St. Louis County Police — but they say they intend to sue after allegedly being assaulted by fez-wearing Shriners. Sasha Monik, 32, and Kyle Mayberry, 40, were each charged with misdemeanors of disturbing the peace and trespassing after bursting into the evening meeting. Monik, dressed as Santa, strode to the front of the room and announced the Shriners would be getting coal for Christmas for "abusing animals in your circus," while Mayberry filmed.
It's January — the season of resolutions, of new activities, of buying a gym membership and going twice before forgetting about it and losing a bunch of money. Instead of going through that rigmarole, head to Circus Harmony. In recognition of the human tendency to have big ideas but not always follow through, everybody's favorite "social circus" has put together a sort of smorgasbord experience.
Singer-songwriter Hillary Fitz is not your typical banjo-clawhammering, collegiate-tennis-playing, jungle-dwelling, Spanish-speaking, yoga-teaching, holistic-gardening ICU nurse. She's quite a bit more dynamic than that.
As I reflect on the year in food, I can't help but be overwhelmed by a mix of emotions. On the one hand, I've eaten some of the best dishes of my life in 2022, marveling at the restaurant owners and cooks who, in the face of incessant struggle, dedicate themselves to bringing us the particular joy that food and drink can offer. The restaurant industry is a difficult business on a good day; for the past three years, those difficulties have been magnified by forces that have exposed the industry's systemic flaws and blown up the notion of "business as usual."
There are few joys on New Year’s Eve for the homebody. You can play board games, you can log onto various screens and play online with the other introverts, or you can even drink yourself into a stupor, watch a ball drop and then promptly crash on the couch. But of all these tantalizing options for those who cannot seem to bring themself to a party in the year of 2022 — or is it technically 2023?
Over 400 St. Louis families adversely affected by the pandemic will receive monthly payments from the city. Mayor Tishaura Jones has signed Board Bill 116 to establish Missouri’s first guaranteed basic income pilot.
Break out the shorts, St. Louis; better weather is on the way. We’ve made it through some of the coldest winds of the past few decades and now we’re being rewarded with a sunny sky and decent temperatures. Fifty degrees might not be ideal weather, but it’s pretty darn good for December in any year.
Whether developers seeking to tear down a mid-century modern building in Midtown St. Louis to build two hotels can get demolition permission could come down to one question: Whether they're serious about building the hotels. A development company called 2601 Market Hotel Investors LLC has applied for a permit to tear down the five-story building at Jefferson and Market streets that once housed A.G. Edwards. The concrete structure was designed in 1968 by the St. Louis firm Raymond Maritz & Sons, and later saw a series of additions as A.G. Edwards ultimately became part of Wells Fargo.
Darren Aronofsky has long been obsessed with the frailty — and defilement — of the human body. From a heroin-addicted amputee in Requiem for a Dream (2000) to an aging, steroid-addled hardbody in The Wrestler (2008), from a bulimic ballerina in Black Swan (2010) to a pregnant trophy wife in Mother! (2017), the filmmaker’s most memorable leads move through the world in bodies that betray them or are betrayed by them in equal measure.
In February, two boozy legends captured our hearts. The first heavy snowfall of the year spurred Kris Naeger and Kevin Venice to come to Art Hill and enjoy the snow as many St. Louisans do. But local stores were sold out of sleds.
The Kia Boyz TikTok challenge phenomenon was a fun story for a whole two minutes, but St. Louisans are long sick of getting their Kias and Hyundais stolen en masse. Over two weeks this summer, 356 were stolen in the city alone.
The Supreme Court's June decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was a seismic event in this country, one whose aftershocks will be felt for years to come. That the highest court in the land would vote to strip away an essential human right and open the door to the criminalization of a basic health-care procedure was seen as an appalling development by a majority of the country — and an ominous sign of that court's radicalization. But while many despaired, St. Louis activists got to work.
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