Since 2019, a statue of two-time Gold Glove–winner Adam Wainwright has stood in a popular urban park in the city of Nanjing, China. Created by Harry Weber, the sculptor behind the Busch Stadium Ozzie Smith statue and countless others, China's bronze Waino is depicted having just released the ball, his eyes watching, waiting to see if the pitch finds its mark. But who is Wainwright pitching to?
Endless box stores, dirty windshields, parking lots with zero shade, stalled elevators, eyebrow scars, sputtering fluorescent lights, security fences, empty fridges, cocaine with strangers in sweaty bathrooms. Emily the Criminal may be one of the most honest LA movies — and American movies — of our times, if only for entirely renouncing most of the lies that Hollywood and mainstream media happily feeds us.
The late Jack Parker loved antiques — he collected and sold mainly arts-and-craft furniture with a special interest in Navajo rugs, Stickley furniture and work from Missouri painters from the second floor of his restaurant, O’Connell’s Pub (4652 Shaw Avenue, www.oconnells-pub.com). The shop was known as Second Floor Secondhand. Fast forward some 50 years and Jack Parker’s son, John Parker, has taken over both the pub and its second floor, morphing Jack Parker’s antique shop into an art gallery and live-music venue aptly called Jack’s Joint.
Let’s start with the absolute best part of the Muny’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: the set. I know that sounds like a diss (the singing and staging are also excellent), but you have to understand the incredibleness of this set. A combination of efforts from scenic designer Edward E. Haynes Jr, video designer Greg Emetaz, and lighting designer Jason Lyons, the set explodes with color, neon lights, twinkling stars and the rippling dunes of a storybook-style Egypt and Canaan.
Everything clicked for 18andCounting last summer. The St. Louis trailblazer of experimental hip-hop and art, also known as Stan Chisholm, had made it through a few years of full-time teaching experience and was grooving there. He had finally figured out how to balance his disparate artistic interests, which span many things music to many things visual art, and had gotten comfortable switching gears between all of those things.
Andrew Collins has rented his home in Florissant for years. But he suspected that was coming to an end when real estate brokerage firm Main Street Renewals bought his home last year.
For a fleeting moment in the spring of 2020, just about everyone in America came together as to the need for better police accountability. The world had just witnessed, on chilling video, the 8-minute-46-second strangulation murder of a defenseless Black man named George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers. Even as the nation’s streets erupted in spontaneous rage, an oasis of uncommon consensus emerged: Something had to be done to hold bad cops accountable for their misconduct.
Get your coats ready, St. Louis. We're in for it now. After a hard summer with historic flooding and severe heat waves, we'll get to enjoy just a bit of fall before the winter rocks us once more.
The Grand Motel will close for five months after coming to an agreement with the city of St. Louis on a public nuisance notice. At a hearing this morning, the city announced that under terms agreed to by owners Grukrupa Inc., the motel will be subject to city, state and federal inspectors and cannot reopen until “all code violations are abated.” In five months, the motel will have the ability to reopen if it meets that standard.
Noah MacMillan, a frequent contributor to the Riverfront Times and graduate of Washington University, died on July 31. He was 33 years old. His family shared news of the death on social media on August 1.
St. Louis is a beer town. According to beer historians, John Coons somewhat poetically opened the city's first brewery in 1809 at the site where the Gateway Arch now stands.
Here at the RFT, we know the importance of stretching a dollar. So for all you folks who want to hit up a bar for a good brew but don't want to spend a fortune, here are our recommendations for affordable beer bars.
Bridge Tap House & Wine Bar
1004 Locust Street, 314-241-8141
thebridgestl.com A narrow, two-story restaurant decorated with dark wood, willow chandeliers, an elegant bar and shelves filled with bottles, Bridge has some serious aesthetics.
Bridge Tap House & Wine Bar
1004 Locust Street, 314-241-8141
thebridgestl.com A narrow, two-story restaurant decorated with dark wood, willow chandeliers, an elegant bar and shelves filled with bottles, Bridge has some serious aesthetics.
Robert Merkle, 53, was indicted by a federal jury Wednesday on threatening and cyberstalking charges. The St. Louis man previously terrorized numerous local women and spent two years in prison for cyberstalking and sending women rape threats. Accused of three cyberstalking charges and two counts of transmitting a threat, Merkle could face up to 25 years in prison.
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