St. Louis gets all of the sports teams that we want and nobody can stop us. We’ve been flexing with the St. Louis Cardinals and the St. Louis Blues for years and now we have St. Louis City SC and the Battlehawks are back. We are truly blessed.
Workers at more than 100 Starbucks locations across the country are striking today after employees say Starbucks refused to negotiate union contracts. St. Louis area Starbucks have joined in what’s come to be called the #RedCupRebellion.
Don’t tell St. Louis this soccer game didn’t mean anything. Don’t tell that to Patrick Koetting, who drove two hours from Cape Girardeau, or Sam Wise, who took a half-day off work and started tailgating at 11:30 a.m., or the guy who ran up to Wise and yelled, “This is fucking awesome, Sam!” Don’t tell that to the St. Louligans fan club.
Missouri schools have banned nearly 300 books after a new state law banned school personnel from providing sexually explicit material to students, a nonprofit organization reported this week. PEN America reports that at least 11 Missouri school districts yanked books off their shelves in response to the new law. Banned material include works on Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, graphic novel adaptations of works by Shakespeare and Mark Twain, the Gettysburg Address and Maus, a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel.
November is National Adoption Awareness Month, and November 19 — the Saturday before Thanksgiving — is National Adoption Day, meant to bring awareness, in particular, to the many children in the foster system waiting to be adopted. Like many families who did adopt through the foster system, November 19 is our “Gotcha Day,” the day our child’s adoption was officially formalized in court and the first day we were able to bring him home not as our foster placement but as our fully adopted son.
Eat Crow (1931 South 12th Street, 213-994-1400) serves a taco salad. It's an observation that might otherwise go unsaid, were this a typical Tex-Mex, ground-beef-in-a-tortilla-bowl sort of thing. Eat Crow's version is nothing like that, but is instead an actual salad of tacos.
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If your idea of a librarian is the shushing spinster depicted in "Marian the Librarian," you clearly need to get out more — or at least visit your local library.
One of St. Louis’ finest performers has left the building. Roland Johnson, the king of St. Louis blues and soul, has moved on to that great Stax studio in the sky.
CITYPARK Stadium is designed to be loud. The 22,500-person stadium boasts the closest seats in Major League Soccer, the steepest supporters’ section and a metal overhang that will project the noise. But the noise has to come from somewhere.
On Wednesday, November 16, Off Broadway will host Philadelphia ska-punk quartet Catbite, along with St. Louis bands the Centaurettes and Fight Back Mountain. Catbite was last in St. Louis in June, when the band opened for prolific pop-punk artist Jeff Rosenstock at Blueberry Hill.
If you’re an optimist about the future of Jana Elementary School, then you got a big dose of very good news Tuesday night. That’s when the employees of SCI Engineering told the Hazelwood School District Board of Education that an earlier report of dangerous levels of radioactive waste at Jana are exaggerated, and that the neighborhood school in Florissant remains safe for staff and students.
A man who robbed an O’Reilly Auto Parts store in Jennings and crashed into a funeral procession while fleeing from police received a 10-year prison sentence in federal court today. Diven Steed, 27, had previously pleaded guilty to robbery, along with a charge of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime.
Weekends Only, the Webster Groves-based furniture retailer whose business plan is largely predicated on having inconvenient hours, is doubling down on that bold strategy with one that is even less accommodating: having no hours of operation whatsoever. In an unorthodox move for which only time will determine its efficacy, the local chain will soon close all of its eight stores all seven days per week instead of just four. News of the switch was first reported by online trade publication Furniture Today, which cites the retirement of owner Tom Phillips as the motivating factor.
When Vito and Amy Racanelli signed on to be the creative forces behind the newly imagined Tempus — an opportunity that followed the departure of the restaurant's acclaimed chef and creative force Ben Grupe — they knew they had only one option: to think completely out of the box. "When I got in here, it was amazing," Vito Racanelli says. "But I got to talking and realized that I don't think I'd want to open a restaurant because there's too much pressure.
A special prosecutor appointed to investigate the case of a man set to be executed on Nov. 29 wants Missouri courts to vacate his conviction — and order a new trial. The prosecutor’s motion alleges that “improper racial factors” spurred the death-penalty case against Kevin Johnson, and that he was treated differently than white defendants in similar situations. Johnson, 37, killed Kirkwood Sgt. William McEntee in 2005.
Human skulls and bones were found in a Jefferson County wooded area last week. The remains belong to Jerry Crew, 36, a resident of Cedar Hill, who has been reported missing for over a year, having last been seen in April 2021.
A daring yet dastardly meat thief is currently on the lam after stealing lamb from a high-end St. Louis-area grocery store over the weekend. Corporal Jenny Schwartz with the Clayton Police Department says a man stole two racks of lamb valued at $125 each from Straub’s in Clayton on Saturday. The meatlifter then walked out of the store without paying and fled the scene in the passenger seat of a car.
When filmmaker Geoff Story bought his circa-1863 Federal-style home in LaSalle Park in 2002, neighbors shared the folklore of previous owner Barbara Clark, who left the cavernous residence nearly a decade earlier and moved to Vero Beach, Florida. "The main thing they talked about were the lavish parties," Story recalls.
This week marks the beginning of a new era of sports in St. Louis. Professional soccer is here. On Wednesday, CITYPARK stadium, home to St. Louis’ future Major League Soccer team, will host its first soccer match — an international friendly between CITY SC 2 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen, a German team.
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