We've all experienced this tragedy. You drive out to Kirkwood with your heart set on one thing and one thing only: A subtly sweet, butter-drenched kouign-amann from Nathaniel Reid Bakery. You park your car, walk through the bakery's front doors and patiently wait in line by the pastry case, only to find that when it's your turn to order, your beloved Breton pastry is nowhere in sight.
One particular beauty store is increasingly finding itself the target of thieves, both in St. Louis and nationwide. According to St. Louis County Police Sergeant Tracy Panus, three St. Louis County Ulta Beauty stores were each hit by thieves three times in August alone. The nine larcenies occurred at Ulta stores in Creve Coeur, Affton and Fenton.
House of Joy, a new play at the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis by Madhuri Shekar, seems to be throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks: a ghost story, a love story, political intrigue, fantasy, bawdy jokes, fight sequences, an assassination. As you can imagine, with that many different plot points, not much sticks. The play opens on Roshni (played by Tina Muñoz Pandya), who recently beat a man to death when he tried to hurt her sister.
Some books were banned recently from a few public-school libraries in the St. Louis area — a hideous exercise in primarily anti-LGBTQ bigotry — so you'd expect people of good conscience to scream from the mountaintops about the knuckle draggers responsible. Sorry, hard pass.
Seth Herter, 34, the so-called Samurai Killer, was acquitted of first-degree murder, armed-criminal action and two counts of stealing due to mental illness last week. The docket suggests the decision was an agreement between prosecutors and defense attorneys, and was then approved by St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Timothy Boyer. Herter was committed to a mental hospital on Thursday, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Karma Twoos can’t sit still during the interview. He grabs rocks from the ground and fiddles with them between his fingers. He pulls at his baby-blue ripped jeans, taps his cell phone and responds to texts.
Karma Twoos can’t sit still during the interview. He grabs rocks from the ground and fiddles with them between his fingers. He pulls at his baby-blue ripped jeans, taps his cell phone and responds to texts.
Looking at the elegant shape of the Gateway Arch, it sure doesn't seem possible that one could cram into a tiny elevator and take a somewhat terrifying ride to the top. How can an elevator (or in this case tram) curve? [content-1]
It's that unexpectedness, my friends, that makes our very own St. Louis Arch tram freaking amazing.
The most artsy voter registration event in St. Louis has returned. Dance the Vote STL will present Midterms Matter on Saturday, September 24, from 12:30 to 3 p.m. The nonpartisan event will feature St. Louis dance companies, including the St. Louis Academy of Dance and Skystone Dance Ensemble, doing interpretive dances around the act of voting.
Edrar ‘Bird’ Sosa vividly remembers the day he first heard about the headless child who would go on to become the city’s most notorious cold case. But it wasn’t cold yet. It was 1983, and Sosa was only about 10 years old, growing up in north St. Louis not too far from the house where the child’s mutilated body had been found.
Katherine Pinner is taking her name off the ballot, again. The conspiracy theorist blogger has gone back and forth on whether or not she will be the Republican taking on Sam Page in the race for St. Louis County executive in November. Pinner maintains a blog on which she describes herself as the daughter of Croatian parents, an author and an innovation consultant.
A federal grant will infuse millions of dollars into St. Louis’ manufacturing industry. Today, the St. Louis region won a $25 million Build Back Better grant through the U.S. Economic Development Administration to bolster the St. Louis Tech Triangle. The proposal, spearheaded by Greater St. Louis, Inc., focuses on three of St. Louis’ leading business sectors: advanced manufacturing, geospatial and biosciences.
Former reality TV personality Tim Norman, 43, is set to appear in federal court in St. Louis on Wednesday for the start of his trial as the alleged mastermind behind a murder-for-hire plot. Norman is the son of Robbie Montgomery, better known as Miss Robbie. She was a backup singer for Ike and Tina Turner as well as many other rock & roll legends.
A new seven-story apartment building, with ties to developer Lux Living, could soon tower over the Loop. The development, named "The Bond," would bring 300 apartments to 6630 Delmar Boulevard, and would include 133 studios, 134 one-bedroom units and 33 two-bedroom units. It would also include up to 20,000 square feet of retail space and over 512 parking spaces.
Midwestern students are the biggest regional losers on a new report released by the National Center for Education Statistics this week. The study, which examined reading and mathematics scores during the COVID-19 pandemic, looked at long-term trends in assessments for nine-year-old students. Across the U.S., students in this age group had scores that declined seven points in mathematics and five points in reading in the period from winter 2020 to the present and lower-achieving students' scores decreased more than those that were high performing. "This is the largest average score decline in reading since 1990, and the first ever score decline in mathematics," the report states.
Brentwood is adding a destination park to its city. On Wednesday, Brentwood's Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a total of $7.4 million to fund a state-of-the-art playground in the suburb. The new park will feature a rock climbing wall, zip line, net climber, boardwalk and a creek.
Growing up, John Marshall had a close, loving relationship with his grandfather and Ruiz Mexican Restaurant (901 North Highway 67, Florissant; 314-838-3500) founder, Jose Ruiz. However, the stories he hears from the Florissant mainstay's guests reveal a side to his grandfather he could have never imagined — and they never cease to amaze him. "I learn more about my grandfather from our customers than from spending time with him," Marshall laughs.
This story first appeared in the Missouri Independent. When the attorney general’s lawsuit challenging St. Louis’ plan to use federal funds to support abortion access was moved to federal court, it didn’t draw much attention.
Yesterday, a St. Peters woman was indicted in federal court on charges of fraudulently obtaining more than $200,000 in COVID-19 relief funds. Trashunda M. Harrison, 36, is facing two counts of bank fraud and seven counts of wire fraud. According to an indictment, from June 2020 to April 2021, Harrison submitted multiple Paycheck Protection Program loan applications for three businesses: The Quiet Space LLC, StrutN 80s LLC and Blow LLC.
The arts have a real, though often unquantifiable, impact on the lives of those in the greater St. Louis region. A new study, however, seeks to quantify the economic impact of the arts industry. This week, the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis announced that it was partnering with national arts advocacy organization Americans for the Arts on the Arts and Economic Prosperity Study 6, also known as AEP6.
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