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Each week, we bring you our picks for the best concerts of the next seven days! To submit your show for consideration, click here.

A measure recently approved by St. Louis County Council asks county employees to simply keep it in their pants. Approved Tuesday, a bill introduced by Councilman Tim Fitch bans county employees from engaging in sexual acts while on county property. The rule may seem a no-brainer, but apparently employees need to be reminded not to have sex at their workplaces after a leaked video in June showed a former St. Louis County employee having sex with a woman in the county administration building.

The moment that Victor Goines really got into jazz is seared into his memory. He was 13 and had only begun to experiment with the genre, imagining himself as a classical clarinet player instead. But there Goines was with a fellow budding musician — his good friend since kindergarten — who put on a record of John Coltrane’s “Countdown” and played along on his trumpet.

As Albert Pujols chases the landmark 700 home runs, prominent media members have pointed, not so subtly, at the possibility of Pujols cheating. On September 12, Max Kellerman, the famous ESPN TV show host, hinted that something else might be causing Pujols’ magical run on the show This Just In.

Both gustatory and visual delights await St. Louisans planning their weeks. There's wine, chocolate, tea and more as well as treats for the eyes from Laumeier Sculpture Park and the Contemporary Art Museum.

All the best things to do this weekend seem so St. Louis. Whether you want to hit up the balloon glow, wander into the Pulitzer Art Museum, grab your kiddos and head to Oktoberfest at Grant's Farm — or check out any other fantastic events happening this weekend — it's sure to be a classic. Don't forget to plan your week as well:

When he was a young boy growing up in Southern California, Aaron Martinez would regularly pile into the car with his family and drive south to Mexico. It was as common an occurrence as a St. Louisan packing up to go to Lake of the Ozarks for a long weekend, only instead of a bumper-to-bumper trip down the hellscape that is I-70, Martinez and company would cross the border and head down the MEX-1D for a scenic coastal drive that would lead them past any number of beachside fish-taco stands, shrimp shacks and cevicherias.

There is more to this week's Savage Love. To read the entire column, go to savage.love.

Here, again, is every newly announced show for the week! Click through and start planning ahead.

A Georgia man is accused of traveling to St. Louis to commit a “brazen retribution killing” after a family member was killed here in July. Darius Griffin, 31, made his initial appearance in federal court this afternoon.

A civil rights attorney filed a lawsuit in St. Louis Circuit Court yesterday accusing Mayor Tishaura Jones, City Counselor Sheena Hamilton and others of "repeatedly, knowingly, and purposely" violating state transparency laws. If the allegations are proven, the lengthy legal complaint could cost the city more than $500,000 over Sunshine Law violations alone, with the potential for legal fees on top of that. The suit is being brought by Elad Gross, a lawyer who ran to be the Democratic nominee for Missouri attorney general in 2020.

A national magazine has named a St. Louis haunted house one of the 13 scariest in the country. The Darkness, located in Soulard, earned fourth place in “America's Scariest Haunted Houses of 2022,” according to the publication, Hauntworld Magazine. The magazine lauded The Darkness for its variety of ways to spook customers.

The Amazon fulfillment center that dominates an industrial park off I-70 in St. Peters covers nearly 900,000 square feet — the equivalent of 16 football fields. Known within the Amazon empire as STL8, the cavernous facility employs 3,000 workers, and every day, 24/7, they are monitored, scanned, tracked, sensored, surveilled and beeped at within an inch of their lives. No offense is too small to escape detection and a write-up.

This morning, on the seventh and likely final day of the conspiracy-to-commit-murder trial of former reality TV star Tim Norman, Assistant U.S. Attorney Angie Danis called the death of Norman’s nephew Andre Montgomery Jr. an “execution.” She called Norman the “executioner,” his alleged plot to kill the young man a “hunt.” Tim Norman is accused of hiring people to kill his nephew, Andre Montgomery Jr. Montgomery was shot and killed outside a home recording studio in 2016. Both Montgomery and Norman previously appeared on the reality TV show Welcome to Sweetie Pie's.

Six deaths have occurred at the St. Louis City Justice Center in the last five months, leading city public defenders and several criminal justice reform nonprofits to call on Mayor Tishaura Jones to reform the jail. This morning the St. Louis City Office of the Missouri State Public Defender System, Action St. Louis, the ArchCity Defenders and several other criminal justice reform organizations signed on to a statement detailing what they call "deplorable" conditions at the jail and outlining steps they believe need to be taken toward reform. The letter was drafted in response to the deaths of six detainees that have occurred at the jail since April.

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) gave a speech that was "more like a sermon" at the National Conservatism Conference on Monday, claiming that, "without the Bible, there is no modernity. Without the Bible, there is no America," according to Salon. The three-year-old conference, often called NatCon, is about the future of the conservative movement and nationalism.

Keith* has been working the intersection of Skinker Boulevard and Forest Park Parkway for longer than most of the college kids who attend Washington University, just across the street, have been alive. He's been there — off and on, depending on whether he can land another job — for more than 20 years.

Before talking about St. Louis’ 911 system, Jia Lian Yang took a temperature check of the crowd. “One sound that expresses how you feel, on the count of three,” Yang said. “1-2-3.”

Put away your pumpkin spice lattes, it’s still summer in St. Louis. Cooler temperatures have had us dreaming of cozy sweaters and crunching leaves, but St. Louis summer isn’t done with us quite yet. It’s still summer by the calendar (it doesn’t end until September 22), but it’s also still summer in the forecast, too.

Former reality TV star Tim Norman, 43, took center stage at his own murder-for-hire trial this morning. Norman was the final witness called by his own defense on the morning of the sixth day of the trial. "Did you have anything to do with the murder of Andre Montgomery?" his attorney Michael Leonard asked.