The Blues might’ve lost to the Oilers last night, but St. Louis Blues fans still know how to have a good time. The big hero of the night was a shirtless kid who was shown on the jumbotron and who got everybody hyped AF to be in the big Blues house. Blues mascot Louie is supposed to be the guy who gets everyone amped, but this scrawny kid who was swinging his shirt around and kissing his little arm muscles was definitely the king of vibe at Enterprise Center last night.
It's a cool autumn evening in University City, and Loop mainstay Blueberry Hill's Duck Room is boasting a packed house for one of the more anticipated shows of the season. On stage, Spencer Bible deftly operates an insanely complicated midi rig, demonstrating considerable mastery over what would look to most outsiders more like a mysterious pile of wires and buttons than an instrument capable of inspiring a whole dance floor to shake their asses.
After power outages, name changes and years of waiting, St. Louis’ newly dubbed CITYPARK Stadium will host its first professional soccer match next month. The game will take place on November 16, a friendly between St. Louis CITY SC’s development team, CITY2, and the German-based team, Bayer 04 Leverkusen. Leverkusen competes in the German professional league, Bundesliga, where it currently ranks 15th.
Yesterday, a St. Louis County jury found a father and son guilty of assault after a game of Pokémon Go got out of hand in Kirkwood Park in 2018. Robert Matteuzzi, 75, and Angelo Matteuzzi, 33, were on a Pokémon Go team competing in Kirkwood Park when they got into an argument with an individual who, according to the Post-Dispatch, played under the name “Sammy the Bull.” Pokémon Go is a game where players collect virtual assets in different real life locations. The players were on different teams trying to collect the same virtual assets and began arguing.
Albert Pujols played his final season of baseball this year and finished out his career in a St. Louis Cardinals jersey, the same one he started in. Honors have poured in for the slugger, and next month the Musial Awards will give Pujols its highest honor: a Lifetime Achievement Award for Sportsmanship. But before that, he has gotten something some may argue is a little bit better: his own cereal.
Who else is ready for a week of delightful chills, sugar highs and happy, costumed revelers, both kid and adult? Yep, we thought so: just about all of you.
One of St. Louis' most respected bartenders is getting a national platform to show off her skills. Meredith Barry, co-owner of Platypus (4501 Manchester Avenue, 314-448-1622), will be competing on the new Netflix show Drink Masters, which premiers Friday, October 28. Produced by the Canadian company behind the network's hit series Blown Away, Drink Masters follows 12 mixologists from across North America as they compete for a $100,000 prize and title of "Ultimate Drink Master."
Jose Soriano is convinced he can feel his grandmother at La Oaxaqueña (2925 Lemay Ferry Road, Mehlville; 314-200-8212), the Mehlville restaurant his mom and stepdad opened this past March. He's only 10 and was not yet born when she passed away on Christmas Eve of 2005.
A 23-year-old former Hazelwood East student has had his life turned upside down after some in the media mistook his Facebook account as belonging to Monday's school shooting suspect, Orlando Deshawn Harris. Deshawn Harris, who currently lives in Spanish Lake, says that when he got off work Monday, "Everybody was posting me on Facebook, tagging me. I kept untagging. I said, 'Why does everybody keep tagging me on Facebook?'
St. Louis' shiny new soccer stadium hasn't even hosted its first game yet, but it's already making headlines. Specifically, the new pride of the city made the news earlier this week due to the fact that it's been unable to operate at full power for the last two months on account of flooding and a broken electrical pipe, which together fried some of the stadium's main breakers and resulted in the place running off of a generator. Then, just yesterday, the St. Louis Business Journal reported that managed care company and alleged medicaid fraudster Centene has backed out of its 15-year naming rights deal, rendering the stadium an underwhelming "CITYPARK" for the foreseeable future in what feels eerily similar to a South Park bit.
On Friday evening at 10 p.m., when most people are watching TV, partying or sleeping, the air in the Wohl Community Center is sticky and stuffy. Sweaty bodies run up and down the court. Old timers pile into a corner, arguing about the NBA back in 1995.
Four popular restaurants in St. Louis have seen break-ins or attempted break-ins in the past week. On Friday, the RFT reported that Steve's Hot Dogs on South Grand had the window on its front door broken and three men entered the restaurant looking for cash.
On Monday, the lives of countless families changed as a teenage shooter entered Central Visual and Performing Arts High School and fired shots at students and staff. The shooter killed two people 一 teacher Jean Kuczka, 61, and student Alexzandria Bell, 15 一 while several more were injured. Police have since identified former student 19-year-old Orlando Harris as the shooter.
The lights at the Saint Louis Art Museum’s (1 Fine Arts Drive, 314-721-0072, slam.org) latest exhibition are dimmed to protect the ornate vestments and tapestries that reside there — the fabrics, centuries old, are highly sensitive to light. Yet not even low lighting and the passage of centuries could keep the warm reds and deep blues of the textiles on display from popping. Indian chintz was made to last, and it’s done just that.
LeVaughn James died in Missouri Department of Corrections custody June 1, less than two weeks before he was to be released. His mother, Mary, had already sent the 45-year-old brand new clothes to wear home. Now, almost five months later, Mary says she can't find any closure because she still doesn't know the circumstances surrounding her son's death.
The family of Orlando Harris were aware of his weapon and mental health struggles before Monday’s shooting at a south city high school, police say. Harris’ family had connected him to mental health professionals and put him on medication. His mother at one point removed his gun from their house.
Here, again, is every newly announced show for the week! Click through and start planning ahead. And as always, here's your obligatory COVID safety warning: Be sure to check with the venues before you make plans to head to any of these shows, as the virus is still circulating and safety measures vary from venue to venue.
If you've ever shopped at Lowe's or partied in the Grove, you've definitely seen him. He's the man out there, grilling hot dogs, serving up a quick lunch or a late-night snack. His name is Larry Lunceford, a 52-year-old St. Louis native and owner/operator of Grove Dawgs.
This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Reproductive Rights Reporting Fund. Christy Mershon has heard her fair share of horror stories. As the proprietor of a haunted house in Cape Girardeau, she's heard, and lived, literal spine-tinglers of doors slamming and unseen children laughing.
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