After an employee was fired on Friday morning, Ladue Starbucks employees have gone on strike, forcing the store to close. Bradley Rohlf, a shift supervisor, says he was fired for his role as a union organizer and for wearing union-related T-shirts. “They're just trying to dig up any kind of details they can to find a reason that they can justify firing me,” he says.
Metra Mitchell peers out from the window next to her front door, a wide, devilish grin on her face. She clutches a handful of remotes, selects one and gleefully presses a button. Outside, animatronic skeletons activate and smoke spews.
Bar K (4565 McRee Avenue, 314-530-9990, barkdogbar.com) will host its first annual Howl-O-Ween Party. The newly opened dog park boasts over 100,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor space for doggos in addition to three bars scattered throughout the space. For Howl-O-Ween, Bar K's normally cutesy space will transform into a ghoulish scene.
If you ask Vince Valenza for the origin story of Blues City Deli (2438 McNair Avenue, 314-773-8225), you might think it begins with a fateful trip to New Orleans for a work conference that inspired him to begin making muffalettas at home, or even his turn as a blues musician, which gives the deli its musically inflected spirit. In actuality though, the roots of the sandwich shop go much deeper. "It goes back to when I was a child — not that I thought I was going to open a deli someday, but because we had this tradition on Saturdays of sitting around the table for lunch," Valenza explains.
Last night three individuals smashed the window on the front door at Steve's Hot Dogs on South Grand and entered the restaurant looking for cash. Surveillance video shows three men dart inside the lobby of the restaurant. One heads directly to the cash register, but seems to come up empty-handed.
There’s a new record for most dogs at a movie screening — and it took place in nearby Litchfield, Illinois. On Saturday, the Litchfield Skyview Drive-In, about 45 minutes from St. Louis, welcomed 199 dogs at its showing of A Dog’s Way Home. It trampled the previous record of 120 dogs in attendance, set in 2019 in São Paulo, Brazil, at a screening of Pets 2.
The chess cheating scandal that started here in St. Louis but has made headlines across the globe has now led to a $100 million lawsuit. Today in federal court in St. Louis, 19-year-old professional chess player Hans Niemann filed a lawsuit against Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, 31, seeking $100 million in damages. The lawsuit accuses Carlsen of slander, libel and civil conspiracy, among other things.
One of St. Louis' biggest rap stars is set to go on trial in federal court Monday. Arthur Pressley, better known as 30 Deep Grimeyy, is facing charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and obstruction of justice. Pressley has released numerous music videos with millions of views on YouTube.
The Mighty Pines’ Neil Salsich is in a jubilant mood ahead of his band’s first-ever namesake music festival. It’s Sunday morning at a Compton Heights coffee shop, just a few hours after a late-night private gig, but the singer/guitarist is wide-eyed and animated when discussing Pines Fest, an inaugural multi-band showcase at the Big Top in Grand Center. “We’ve been thinking about this for a long time,” says Salsich.
Each week, we bring you our picks for the best concerts of the next seven days! To submit your show for consideration, click here. All events are subject to change, especially in the age of COVID-19, so do check with the venue for the most up-to-date information before you head out for the night.
Taqueria Morita, the newly opened outdoor Mexican restaurant, will move inside for the winter. Chef Aaron Martinez says that Taqueria Morita, which has been located on a patio outside Vicia in the Cortex district, will call Winslow’s Table its home for the next few months. Taqueria Morita will start serving dinner on October 26.
Stan Kroenke is going to have cut a check for $571 million. That's his share of the $790 million settlement that St. Louis city and county as well as the Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority reached last November with the Rams owner and the NFL over the shenanigans surrounding the team's move to Los Angeles in 2016. The initial lawsuit accused the NFL and Kroenke of violating the NFL's own rules around relocation.
It's not every day that America's preeminent short-story writer comes to town. But at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, author George Saunders will be reading from his new work and speaking at the Skip Viragh Center for the Arts at Chaminade High School (425 South Lindbergh Boulevard). Saunders is a cross between Kurt Vonnegut and Anton Chekhov.
Tis the season to visit graveyards, and while a daytime tour of Bellefontaine Cemetery (4947 West Florissant Avenue, 314-381-0750, bellefontainecemetery.org) may not bring on scary chills, it will definitely offer a glimpse into the history of St. Louis. The graveyard is famous for the important historical figures buried there, often in elaborate tombs and mausoleums. The Wainwright Tomb was drafted by a young Frank Lloyd Wright, who went on to become one of America's most famous architects.
The St. Louis region is fortunate to have multiple theaters that produce shows for, and often with, younger audiences. Since the early 1970s, none have done so more regularly or consistently than Metro Theater Company, which celebrates 50 years this season. The company is among the longest running professional theater companies dedicated to art, education and developing cultural curiosity for the next generation.
Knowing the résumés of the parties involved in Westchester (127 Chesterfield Towne Center, Chesterfield; 636-778-0636), I expected a good meal. What I didn't expect was that partners Brian Herr, John Cowling and chef Matt Glickert have created some sort of wormhole that allows them to bend space and time to transport diners from a banal west-county strip mall into the sort of gilded, speakeasy-style dining room you'd find in 1920s Detroit.
“Game, my ass.” —J.D. Salinger Tomorrow I go back in to teach another day on the path of a career that still keeps moving along after 25 years. When I see my fourth hour class, I’m going to be battling the same recent battle: Will you please put away your cell phones?
A St. Louis man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison today for running a drug ring distributing methamphetamine, cocaine and cocaine base in the area. James L. Brownridge, 49, pleaded guilty in July to charges of conspiracy to distribute, as well as possession with intent to distribute a variety of drugs. In addition to meth and cocaine, they included fentanyl, heroin and marijuana.
Over the last few years, Shayn Prapaisilp has seen an increase in interest around snack foods from different countries at his family's international grocery stores, which include Kirkwood's Global Foods Market as well as Jay International (on South Grand) and United Provisions (in the Delmar Loop). Now, he and his team are launching a new program that will help his customers explore that interest and open their eyes to the way people nosh around the world. Beginning this November, Global Foods Market will begin offering a curated subscription box featuring snacks from a different country each month.
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