Music at the Intersection is bringing an embarrassment of riches to St. Louis–based music lovers this weekend. For the second annual festival, organizers tapped more than 50 acts to play across four outdoor stages over two days, with top-notch performers including Erykah Badu and Gary Clark Jr. topping the bill.
From jams at the National Blues Museum to celebrating a big anniversary to Blueberry Hill to the St. Louis Symphony's Forest Park Concert, the weekday events this week are thoroughly musical. But there's also a scavenger hunt and Sarah Kendzior's book launch on tap.
This weekend in St. Louis shines with a diversity of stuff to do. From visual art at the Contemporary Art Museum and the return of the Saint Louis Art Fair to a native plant sale to a 911 storytelling event from Forward Through Ferguson, we've got it all in the Lou. Start planning your weekend, but don't forget about the weekday events:
Last month, two high-profile openings infused some much needed positive energy into the metro area's dining scene. Press, a casual smashed pizza concept from Logan Ely and the team behind Lucky Accomplice and the pop-up space Shift, opened in Fox Park and breathed fresh life into a former vacant industrial storefront. It's the second time since the start of the pandemic that Ely and company have taken the leap to open a new restaurant (Lucky Accomplice opened its doors in September of 2020), proving that there is still success to be had in this tough era for the industry.
Salve Osteria (3200 South Grand Boulevard, 314-771-3411) may be less than four months old, but if you ask Natasha Bahrami, its seeds were planted all the way back in 2014. That's the year Bahrami returned to St. Louis from Washington, D.C., armed with an infectious passion for gin and a newfound desire to embrace a career in the industry she'd known all her life. As the namesake of the beloved Cafe Natasha's, Bahrami had always understood the restaurant was her birthright, but she was never quite comfortable with the idea of simply carrying on what her parents started four decades prior.
The vast majority of auto thefts and attempted auto thefts do not lead to charges in either St. Louis city or county. From August 1 to August 13, approximately 462 cars were reported stolen or attempted stolen in the city of St. Louis. But during that same 13-day period, a review of court records shows only one individual was charged in city courts for a crime related to auto theft.
In August, St. Louis was hit with restaurant closings, hit-and-runs, car theft hijinks and FBI raids. Plus the viral TikTok "Kia Boys" trend took the city by storm (in a bad way) and speaking of storms, people were still reeling from the flood damage.
This story originally appeared in the Missouri Independent. Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has lined up behind a U.S. Supreme Court case legal experts believe could radically reshape how federal elections are conducted by handing more power to state legislatures and blocking state courts from intervening. Ashcroft announced last week that his office had filed an amicus brief in support of Republicans in North Carolina who are asking the nation’s highest court to restore a Congressional map that was rejected as a partisan gerrymander by that state’s Supreme Court.
Reality TV star James Timothy Norman’s trial started yesterday in St. Louis. Norman has been accused of masterminding a murder-for-hire plot, that resulted in the death of his nephew Andre Montgomery. Both men appeared on the Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s reality TV show.
Update: So, we jumped the gun on that goodbye. A spokesperson for St. Louis Bre — I mean, Panera — responded to our request for comment Wednesday afternoon and clarified that all bakery-cafes in St. Louis city and county will keep their St. Louis Bread Co. name — but, some locations in the metro area are now switching to Panera. “We are so proud of our hometown, where we started more than 30 years ago, and we remain committed to serving the STL community — all bakery-cafes currently in St. Louis city and St. Louis County are proudly remaining as St. Louis Bread Co. locations,” Jess Hesselschwerdt wrote in an email to the RFT.
Update: So, we jumped the gun on that goodbye. A spokesperson for St. Louis Bre — I mean, Panera — responded to our request for comment Wednesday afternoon and clarified that all bakery-cafes in St. Louis city and county will keep their St. Louis Bread Co. name — but, some locations in the metro area are now switching to Panera. “We are so proud of our hometown, where we started more than 30 years ago, and we remain committed to serving the STL community — all bakery-cafes currently in St. Louis city and St. Louis County are proudly remaining as St. Louis Bread Co. locations,” Jess Hesselschwerdt wrote in an email to the RFT.
A St. Louis man who lived in Germany for three decades under a false identity was sentenced in federal court yesterday to time served and three years of supervised release. DeLeo Barner, 59, pleaded guilty in May to one count of passport fraud for obtaining passports under the identity of another St. Louisan. Though he avoided prison time, the supervised-release portion of Barner's sentence may be a significant hardship for the man who built a life and a family in Germany.
A giant of the city's cocktail scene and popular spot for burgers, shawarma and fries has served its last guests. Layla (4317 Manchester Avenue), the 10-year-old Grove restaurant and bar, has closed. A spokesperson for the restaurant who asked to remain anonymous confirmed the news to the Riverfront Times in a phone call yesterday afternoon, noting that the closure was technically being referred to as temporary, though the restaurant would likely never reopen.
It feels like a normal day at the Wohl Community Center — kids running everywhere and adults doing their best to keep up. Then, suddenly, out of nowhere, Jayson Tatum appears.
A hit-and-run involving a Kia resulted in the death of a bicyclist on South Grand Boulevard just east of Tower Grove Park Tuesday afternoon. Around 12:40 p.m., the driver of a white Kia collided with a bicyclist who was pronounced dead at a hospital soon after, according to a police incident summary.
A trip to Ohio stopped short on August 24 when authorities in St. Peters stopped a man transporting undocumented immigrants in his van on Interstate 70. Francisco Ibarra-Hernandez was headed east on I-70 in a Toyota Sienna when St. Peters Police stopped his vehicle and found 11 undocumented immigrants inside, including Ibarra-Hernandez. Prosecutors have accused Ibarra-Hernandez of taking money to take the illegal immigrants from Phoenix to job sites across the country.
In one of his latest open records requests, the Missouri Attorney General and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, Eric Schmitt, is diving into the emails of the University of Missouri's student paper. The open records request, filed in June, targets three years worth of emails between the Columbia Missourian and PolitiFact.
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