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Some are born to the stage. Others find their ways there by chance. Tre’von Griffith developed an interest in theater growing up in north city.

Not long after taking over the iconic St. Louis-style pizza label Mama Lucia's, Scott Ashby learned the hard way that one simply does not mess with a classic. "We took off the picture of [Mama Lucia's founder] Miss Tumminello very briefly, and boy, did we get so much flack for it," Ashby says. "The previous owner had taken it off for a short time, too, and both times, she went right back on.

In her third time running for the seat, Laura Keys won a special election Tuesday to become the new alderwoman in the 21st ward. Keys, a Democrat running in the city’s newly nonpartisan elections, gained nearly 57 percent of the vote, securing 671 of the 1,193 total votes. Joann Dyson Williams finished second with nearly 32 percent.

To the surprise of a whole metro area, the Loop Trolley actually managed to make it through its entire first ride without incident Thursday afternoon, traveling its full 2.2-mile route without once breaking down or ramming a parked car. Even more surprising, the old-timey mode of transportation actually saw some ridership, likely due to the fact that it is now free to board, making those paying $27 a pop for a weekly bus pass just to get to work look like suckers. Though nearly half the people on that first trip were Metro employees and officials, it still made for a thrilling sight.

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

Chris Cochran insists that the origin story for St. Louis-based Karl Bruce caviar is not all that romantic. As the owners of the food consulting company, Marginwise, Cochran and his business partner, Mark Schepker, were looking at the portfolio of clients one day and both came to the same conclusion: They were missing a luxury brand. Since creating brands was a main focus of their consulting business, they decided to launch one of their own rather than waiting for an already existing one to approach them.

Here, again, is every newly announced show for the week! Click through and start planning ahead. And as always, here's your obligatory COVID safety warning: Be sure to check with the venues before you make plans to head to any of these shows, as the virus is still circulating and safety measures vary from venue to venue. Adam Maness & Friends: Tue., April 11, 10 a.m., $20-$23.

Last week, attendees of Coalition Life's annual benefit dinner got more than they bargained for when the evening's programming was interrupted by a group of protesters, who took the stage and the mic in a booty-shorted, twerktacular display of pro-choice resistance to the group's anti-abortion agenda. The benefit dinner and decisively disruptive spectacle each took place in an event space in Terminal 1 at Lambert Airport last Wednesday night and were the result of a considerable amount of planning on both sides.

Dawan Ferguson, 49, the St. Louis man who last month was found guilty of murdering his disabled son in 2003, was today found guilty of more child abuse including first degree statutory rape of a person less than 14 years old, first-degree statutory sodomy of a person less than 14 years old, second-degree statutory rape, second-degree sodomy and second-degree child molestation. Testimony in the trial was gruesome and tragic to hear. According to one of the victims, who took the stand during the trial, Ferguson started grooming her when she was 11.

Body positivity, French films and a fundraiser against abortion bans all take place this weekend. Sprinkled throughout the metro area, each event will offer something different. Pick your weekend plans, but don't leave out your weekday ones, either: [content-1]

It seems to be quite the literary week: William Shakespeare and Lewis Carroll both have their moments. Alice in Cottleville returns, as does St. Louis Shakespeare Festival's productions. Either way, we're all looking for somethin' to do, and these are some pretty great options.

An iconic St. Louis restaurant is about to undergo a significant transformation: Grbic Restaurant (4071 Keokuk Street, 314-772-3100), the 30-year-old restaurant that introduced St. Louis diners to Bosnian cuisine, will close to the public on August 28 to focus solely on the special events side of its business. The Grbic family announced the closure in a Facebook post on August 2, assuring longtime guests that this is not a goodbye but is simply a new way forward for the beloved restaurant. "This morning, I was in a sad place but then all of a sudden, my brain stopped me and was like, 'No, no.

Steve’s Hot Dogs (3145 S Grand Boulevard, 314-932-5953) serves the official hot dog of St. Louis (made on a Vitale’s roll lined with provel cheese and more) but its new seasonal hot dog may give the former a run for its money. The hot dog shop announced that the Pork Steak Dog is the new seasonal dog. Resting inside the bun is the smoked dog, topped with shredded pork steak, slaw, crispy onions and Steve's Honey Chipotle BBQ sauce.

I had never had a Cuban sandwich in St. Louis before dining at Havana's in late July. It's not for lack of trying; I'd eaten many sandwiches that called themselves Cubanos, featuring pressed bread stuffed with pork, ham, mustard and pickles, but having finally experienced Tamara Landeiro's glorious dish, I can now say, with absolute certainty, that this was my first time. While the others that came before it can be classified as riffs on or homages to the Cubano, Landeiro's is truth — the quintessence and what all others are trying to be when they stack all the right ingredients on Cuban-esque bread yet somehow fall short.

Voters packed the polls in Holly Hills to approve a new special business district on Tuesday. The district passed with nearly 61.9 percent of the vote, totaling 887 yes votes and 545 no votes, according to final, unofficial results. More than 62.6 percent of registered voters cast their ballot in the Holly Hills special election, an unprecedented amount was triple the average citywide turnout percentage.

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Here we go again. Another storm is expected to roll through the St. Louis area tonight and with it comes even more worry for local families. We set records last week for the amount of rainfall received and now even more is on the way.

Boeing will avoid a strike after local union members approved a new three-year contract on Wednesday morning. The news comes after members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837 union voted to strike last week.

A federal judge has ordered a New York man to spend 40 days in jail and pay $8,000 in restitution after the man caused an American Airlines to cut a flight to Las Vegas short and land in St. Louis. James Maloney of Honeoye, New York, lunged at a flight attendant during a 2020 flight to Las Vegas, causing the flight to divert to St. Louis.

This reporting was supported by the International Women's Media Foundation's Reproductive Rights Reporting Fund. Kansas voters showed full-throated support for a woman's right to choose yesterday, voting 58 to 41 to keep the right to an abortion in the state constitution, unofficial, preliminary results show. Money poured in on both sides for the first statewide vote on abortion since Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the federally protected right to an abortion.