9 Mile Garden (9375 Gravois Road, 9milegarden.com) gives St. Louis so much more than just tasty food truck options. The Affton spot also serves as an informal community center, offering everything from on-site yoga to movie screenings.
Billed as the largest multicultural event of the year, the Festival of Nations is one of the major events that St. Louisans look forward to each summer. Hosted by the International Institute of St. Louis, the two-day festival offers food, fashions and performances from around the world.
If the residents of the city and county were polled today about the single most pressing problem facing the St. Louis area, the result would be overwhelming: crime. It wouldn’t be close.
Missouri Senate candidate Lucas Kunce is attracting some big names to his campaign. In addition to being endorsed by Pro-Choice Missouri, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and VoteVets, Kunce has also attracted the support fellow Missouri boy Jon Hamm. A former Marine who did tours in Afghanistan and Iraq before joining the Joint Staff at the Pentagon (where he worked with the CIA, the FBI, the State Department, the National Security Council and the Department of Homeland Security), Kunce has also become a big name in Missouri politics.
Our favorite Midwest t-shirt company is at it again and this time they mean business. RAYGUN is an Iowa-based t-shirt and custom printing business, but they sure do keep a close eye on Missouri politics.
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley's infamous chicken run has inspired the Missouri Democratic Party to plan a race outside the political sphere. The Jan. 6 Committee showed a video last night of Josh Hawley running away from the Jan. 6 rioters just hours after he raised his fist to them in solidarity. In response to mass calls for a Hawley-inspired run, The Missouri Democratic Party will host a "Hawlin' Hawley" 5k.
If you had outdoor plans for this weekend, you might want to reconsider. The latest local weather reports are saying that the St. Louis area will be dealing with excessive heat all weekend, with heat index values reaching up to 110 degrees today and tomorrow. Sunday might be just as hot, too, but local meteorologists aren’t quite sure yet what the day will bring.
Nearly one in five American adults say they suffer some type of mental health concern. Approximately 75 percent of post-9/11 veterans and active-duty service members say they have experienced post-traumatic stress due to their military service. I have seen evidence of this first-hand.
This story was originally published by the Missouri Independent. Whether Missouri voters will get a chance to legalize recreational marijuana in November is still in question. The latest incomplete tabulations from Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s office, obtained under a Sunshine Law request, show the Legal Missouri 2022 initiative is short of the necessary signatures in four of the six Congressional districts necessary to make the ballot.
With their convenience and high-powered, brain-scrambling effects, cannabis concentrates have seen significant uptake across the industry in recent years, and with good reason. In my experience, straying outside the boundaries of toking flower usually results in the sessions that have the most memorable stories.
Alex Donley's first bite of solid food as an infant was a piece of hot salami from Gioia's Deli. That early taste may well have sealed his fate. Nearly 40 years later, Donley, now the owner of Gioia's, is still inseparable from the famous sandwich that he says represents his hometown.
For Christa (Jackson) Edelen, president of the Holly Hills Improvement Association, the public planter is proof of what’s wrong in her south St. Louis neighborhood — and what’s right. The city erected the concrete planter in the roundabout between Lyle House and Carondelet Park years ago, but no one bothered to maintain it. “It was just an eyesore,” Edelen says.
Finally, there’s a solution for people who want to try beer from across the U.S. without spending too much time in the car. The Factory STL (17105 North Outer 40 Road, Chesterfield; 314-423-8500, thefactorystl.com) will kick off its inaugural beer festival Brewski Kicks on Route 66 on Saturday, July 30.
Everything locked down during Maxine Thirteen’s 25th year — but she kept painting. One of her first works during that time was a self-portrait on a large, 25-by-25 inch canvas.
There is video of Missouri Senator Josh Hawley running away from the riot at the Capitol and it debuted tonight in the January 6 hearings. Hawley became a symbol of the January 6 riot at the Capitol when he was captured in a photo raising his fist as a gesture of support to rioters.
Illinois State Police’s Division of Criminal Investigation has launched an investigation into the in-custody death of Chuny Ann Reed, 47, a St. Louis woman who remains the only person charged in connection with the deadliest mass drug overdose event in St. Louis history, according to an Illinois State Police statement issued Thursday. [content-1] Reed died at a hospital in Mt. Vernon, Illinois, on Monday morning after suffering a “medical episode” four days earlier at the Pulaski County Jail, in Ullin, Illinois, located 145 miles southeast of St. Louis. Reed had been an inmate at the jail awaiting trial on a federal charge of distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine resulting in bodily injury at the Parkview Apartments at 4451 Forest Park Avenue.
The second individual charged in connection to the June 2020 murder of retired police officer David Dorn pleaded guilty today to significantly reduced charges. Mark Jackson, 24, appeared in court today, wearing an orange jumpsuit with City of St. Louis Corrections emblazoned down the back. With his attorney Terence Niehoff, the cuffed Jackson accepted a plea agreement with the circuit attorney's office in which Jackson pleaded guilty to charges of robbery and burglary, both felonies.
Founded in 2016 by Timothy Stokely, affectionately nicknamed the “king of homemade porn,” OnlyFans has become an insanely popular earning platform over the last six years, growing from 384,000 creators to 1.6 million just in 2020. The website has been the subject of controversy, mentioned in pop culture, and a significant source of income worldwide, paying out $5 billion to its creators every year. Now that’s some serious cheddar!
Heads up: If you're one of the residents of this fine city who gets your health via fresh juice, bone broth and other wellness-forward delicacies, this rebrand is for you. Conor VanBuskirk, one of the minds behind Beets & Bones, which closed its doors earlier this year, is set to fill the gap that the popular Clayton spot left behind. The new concept, Manifest Juice and Broth (8401 Maryland Avenue), a "health cafe and to-go spot" that will open on Monday, July 25, and be open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Vienna Austin noticed something off when she sat down to read Hazelwood’s city code about a year ago. Austin, a 16-year-old trans woman and a long-time Hazelwood resident, had grown interested in politics after the killing of George Floyd in 2020 and recently turned her attention to local politics and Hazelwood’s city code. Upon glancing through the city’s chapter on human rights, Austin saw Hazelwood’s fair housing code prohibited discrimination for a variety of reasons, including race, color, religion and sex, but it provided no legal protections for sexual orientation or gender identity.
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