No Ordinary Rabbit, a restaurant and wine and cocktail bar, is set to open at 1621 Tower Grove Avenue in Botanical Heights by September 1 in the former home of Ben Poremba’s Nixta, a distinct and whimsical “tiled” building a few paces from Union Loafers Cafe & Bread Bakery. Steve Gontram, owner of 5 Star Burgers in Clayton, is partnering with 5 Star general manager David Zitko, who will be a co-owner of this new venture. It’s a good partnership as, in addition to his management skills, Zitko happens to have a dextrous wrist with a cocktail shaker.
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In what has become a celebrated tradition for local lovers of boobs, butts and bawdy behavior (the four Bs!), the 13th Annual Show-Me Burlesque festival is bringing glitz, glam and a whole lot of ass to Cherokee Street this week. Though founder Lola van Ella no longer lives in St. Louis, she has made an indelible impression on the number of shaking ta-tas the city sees in any given year — and that's a beautiful thing, in our book.
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has launched an internal investigation in response to a video taken over the weekend showing an officer light up a stogie in the middle of placing a man under arrest. That video, originally posted by Voice of the People News, shows the officer pinning the detained man on the ground with his knee. The officer has one hand on the man’s chest and the other on a cigar.
A warrant was issued yesterday for the arrest of Arnoldo Galvez, a man living in St. Louis originally from Mexico, who allegedly threatened to kill a man helping members of Galvez's own family seek asylum in the United States. According to a St. Charles County Police probable cause statement, Galvez went so far as to threaten to burn down the house of the individual helping Galvez's wife and other family members obtain asylum. He is now facing a felony harassment charge in St. Charles County.
Jen Jester is no stranger to grief. Throughout her career as a midwife and doula, she has become adept at helping grieving parents advocate for the ashes of their lost children, at helping mothers say goodbye to babies that were never born, and at sitting with these parents as they experience the darkest days of their lives. Jester learned these skills by helping three patients through their abortions.
St. Louis police are watching you with 630 cameras, two unmanned aircraft systems (a.k.a. drones), 379 license plate readers and more. These eyes in the sky are documented in the city’s first annual surveillance technology report. The report, compiled by St. Louis Metropolitan Police Commissioner Robert Tracy, details the use of surveillance technology in the city.
In January, the City of St. Louis sent a very unusual notice to one of the biggest law firms headquartered within it: a Statement of Tax Delinquency. The notice was sent to Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner, one of the few white-shoe law firms remaining in downtown St. Louis. Most of its competitors have decamped to Clayton, where the lawyers aren't subject to the city's 1 percent earnings tax.
Police have identified the 19-year-old woman killed over the weekend on a MetroLink platform. Police say that Jordan Gunn was on the platform near Forest Park and the Missouri History Museum on Saturday, May 11, when another teenager, a 17-year-old, opened fire, striking her in the chest and killing her. The shooting occurred around 3:30 p.m. and Gunn was initially taken by an EMS crew to a hospital, where she was listed in critical condition before succumbing to her wounds.
A St. Louis bakery known for its gluten-free, vegan, allergy-friendly offerings will open the doors to its new and expanded location in Maplewood on June 1. Prioritized Pastries Chef-owner Alex McDonnell told Sauce Magazine she was closing the bakery's five-year-old home on Devonshire Avenue in south city in February, saying she'd simply outgrown the 200-square-foot space. Now she's moving into the former home of Pie Oh My (2719 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood), which is where she baked when she first dreamed up the concept for Prioritized Pastries.
Yemanja Brasil Restaurante, the once-fine-dining Brazilian restaurant at 2900 Missouri Avenue in Benton Park, didn’t know if it was going to make it. In January and February of this year, owners Lemya Sidki and chef Raul Uribe (Sidki’s husband) took drastic measures and, for the first time in 29 years, closed their doors unsure when, or if, they would reopen. But, after securing a loan and lowering prices to create a more casual dining experience to lure new customers, business may be picking up.
After a pipe burst at Clementine’s Naughty & Nice Ice Cream in Lafayette Square six months ago, the storefront at 1637 South 18th Street is finally set to reopen on Wednesday, May 15. “This is my flagship shop, and we have been working around the clock to reopen as quickly as possible,” owner Tamara Keefe said in a release. “We hope everyone loves the updates just as much as we do.
When the Missouri legislature brought back tax credits for film productions, there was hope it would lead to a boom in big-budget movies being made locally even beyond On Fire, the adaptation of John O'Leary's memoir that filmed in and around St. Louis last fall. But whether state lawmakers would excitedly welcome the new film that really should be filmed in St. Louis is not yet clear. The film is currently titled Monsanto, and it comes from Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, the guys who brought you the Dick Cheney biopic Vice and the climate change flick Don't Look Up.
For Opera Theatre of St. Louis, the past few years were tough. The pandemic upended the viewing habits of many of its biggest fans, who stopped attending live theater as COVID-19 ravaged the nation — and even when life returned to normal for most Americans, they didn't come back. That's what makes Anh Le, the opera company's director of marketing and PR, downright stoked as she looks at the ticket sales for the festival season that kicks off later this month.
A bill proposed at the St. Louis Board of Aldermen would ask voters to raise sales taxes to fund early childhood education programs. This bill has led to contentious debate and, yesterday, was unanimously opposed by the St. Louis Public Schools Board. Board Bill 7, sponsored by Ward 10 Alderwoman Shameem Clark Hubbard, would add a question to the November 2024 ballot asking voters to approve a levy that would increase the city’s sales tax by 0.5 percent.
Loud booing and chanting punctuated some of the speakers at the commencement for Washington University this morning — most often Chancellor Andrew Martin, who has become the focal point of anger from activists after mass arrests on campus April 27. Administrators had ordered a temporary encampment erected on campus that day to disperse, and when protestors refused to do so, 100 were arrested, including 23 students and at least four faculty members. Martin later begged students not to protest at this year’s commencement and presided over fencing going up around campus.
Get ready to laugh, St. Louis. This morning, Stifel Theater (1400 Market Street) announced that three very funny people will be visiting town this year. First up are Patton Oswalt and Tig Notaro, who are coming to town as the headliners of the Flyover Comedy Festival on November 15.
The team behind Polite Society and The Bellwether have opened a new cafe just north of Tower Grove Park at 4100 Shenandoah Avenue. Brian Schmitz and Jonathan Schoen, along with beverage director Travis Hebrank (co-owners of Be Polite Hospitality), have picked a good spot to deliver another warm and comfortable gathering space – their signature brand – to a wider audience. Well Met Cafe, which opened May 1, occupies a former gallery space where Shenandoah and Thurman avenues meet.
A group of Republicans refusing to follow the strictures set forth by their party’s far-right wing were kicked off the ballot in one Missouri county last week on the same day that, in another part of the state, a former KKK member fought to remain on the GOP ballot for governor. On Thursday, in Vernon County in southwestern Missouri, what one strategist calls the “crazies” in the Missouri GOP scored a win in court when a judge barred eight candidates from running as Republicans in the August primary. Judge Gayle Crane’s ruling was a boon for those in the state party advocating that all Republican candidates pass a vetting process before being allowed on the ballot with an R next to their name.
I'll admit, I viewed the Sinse Fire preroll that had been dropped off at my place of employment with some trepidation. While I'm a person with a high tolerance, a daily smoker even, my personal tastes tend toward regular ol' flower, or maybe a couple puffs on a vape pen. Occasionally, I'll have a gummy.
Emanuel Taranu, a self-described “humble carpenter and urban prospector” was hunting for treasure in the Delmar Loop when RFT photojournalist Zachary Linhares came across him on April 20. And by “in the Loop,” Linhares found him literally hunting for detritrus in the tracks of the Loop trolley. Perhaps a dangerous mission, but one Taranu is experienced in handling.
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