One of the staple St. Louis holiday season events will be making its return in a little over a week. The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Garden Glow (4344 Shaw Boulevard) is set to bless our eyeballs beginning on November 13.…
Not only did the month of October see a healthy number of restaurant openings — one reminiscent of pre-pandemic levels — it also saw an exciting diversity of concepts. Botanica, Commonwealth and Tempus all doubled down on the belief that upscale, full-service dining is alive and well, opening up their dining rooms (Tempus had been carryout only for its first year operations) from Wildwood to Grand Center to the Grove, respectively.…
Just as you cannot fully describe the splendor of seeing the sun rise over the Grand Canyon to someone who's never had that experience, it's difficult to fully communicate the grandeur of the Creole chicken-and-shrimp nachos at Creole with a Splash of Soul. Less the sort of bar staple you pick up with your hands, these are closer in spirit to Mexican chilaquiles; the seasoned tortilla chips are not a vehicle for shoveling toppings, but rather a base for a mountain of bell peppers, onions, jalapeños, juicy hunks of Creole spiced chicken and flawlessly cooked shrimp covered in a sauce somewhere between blackened alfredo and a luscious fondue.…
Mission Taco Joint co-owner Adam Tilford completed his family with the adoption of his son, Mateo, and he’s looking to give back once again to an organization close to his family’s heart: The Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition.
The Family First program at Mission Taco Joint(multiple locations including 398 North Euclid Avenue, 314-930-2955) donates $1 for each kid’s meal sold. A press release details the coalition works “to create permanency in children’s lives in foster care and works with the most vulnerable kids to get them placed in a forever home.” The program lasts throughout the month of November, coinciding with National Adoption Month.
“This is our third year working with Mission Taco Joint for National Adoption Month,” Natasha Leonard, director of external relations at the Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition, says in a statement.…
St. Louis County Executive Sam Page says children could receive their COVID-19 shots as early as Saturday.
The FDA recently approved Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines for children ages five to eleven years old for emergency use. With the final steps of the CDC’s approval hopefully happening this week, Page says the county can be ready as early as this weekend.
The county executive says he doesn’t believe there will be any need for a mass vaccination site but cautioned that supply might be “tight” for a few weeks as the shots open up.…
Clementine’s Creamery (multiple locations including 1637 South 18th Street, 314-474-5800) and favorite St. Louis son, Andy Cohen, are launching a new ice cream flavor, and it’s available at Clementine’s scoop shops starting today.
Named “Peppermint Andy,” the new flavor is a swirly pink peppermint-chocolate mix and it’s arriving just in time for the holiday Mariah Carey season. It’s made with Clementine's dairy base, crushed King Leo Peppermint candies, dark chocolate curls and a hint of vanilla.
The new flavor is more than just a new sweet treat, though; it’s the first step in a charitable chain.…
St. Louisans often joke about whether a loud boom is "gunshots or fireworks," but there was little guesswork needed to identify the sounds that interrupted St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones on Friday at a press conference as she spoke about gun violence.
Held in Dutchtown, the press conference featured Jones and Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas.…
Live music has had quite the return this year and the Grand Arts Center isn’t slowing that trend down. The Dark Room at the Grandel (3610 Grandel Square; 314-710-5643) opens back up on November 13 and has a slew of scheduled shows already.…
Driving go karts on a track is fun, but driving go karts on ice sounds even better. It’s called “Ice Karting” and it looks fun and slightly dangerous (but in the fun way).
In St. Louis, you’ll be able to try it out for yourself soon at Centene Community Ice Center(750 Casino Center Drive, 314-452-2244) in Maryland Heights, right near Riverport.
The ice karting event will include a custom-made ice track, obstacles you’ll have to steer around and crazy racing outfits that you can wear so you can “race around the track in style.”
But if racing isn’t your thing, they’ll have other ways to entertain yourself on site including curling and hockey shooting.
When we’ve been out driving around lately, we’ve noticed that it seems like the Halloween decorations this year are particularly awesome. With more people spending time at home during the pandemic, it looks like St. Louisans have also found more time to make their houses look extra spooky this season.
We’d love to see all of the cool things you’ve done to decorate your yard this year.…
A company hired by Missouri officials to help review applications for the state's medical marijuana program has been ordered to pay $28 million to one of the applicants it rejected.
Wise Health Solutions, a joint venture between Oakland, California's Oaksterdam University and Nevada-based regulatory compliance company Veracious Investigative, was awarded a contract by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services in August 2019. According to a press release from the company at that time, its purpose was to "review applications for prospective medical cannabis businesses, in anticipation of Missouri's burgeoning medical cannabis industry."
But, as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports, the heads of at least one company that was passed over for a license believe that the process was unfair. St. Charles-based GMT Consulting, one of many groups who applied to be a part of the state's medical marijuana industry, leveled a lawsuit against Wise Health Solutions, asserting that its methodology in scoring potential participants was flawed, even going so far as to accuse the company of corruption.
The case wound its way into arbitration, and GMT prevailed.…
James Probstein cannot verify the urban legend that surrounds the chicken wings at his Ladue mainstay, Sportsman's Park(9901 Clayton Road, Ladue; 314-991-3381), but the rumors have been swirling for years. The word on the street is that Jackie Smith, the NFL Hall of Famer and former co-owner of the restaurant (along with James' dad Norman), was the person who brought Buffalo wings to St. Louis when the restaurant opened in the 1970s.…
The beginnings of Robhots can be traced back to January 2014 in Colorado, out of a need for a quality and consistent edible that was extremely effective. Starting in our rental house, Robhots quickly gained a following and a reputation for a great tasting, consistent gummy.…
America’s favorite drag queen, Trixie Mattel, has spent some time in St. Louis these past couple of days recovering from emergency surgery.
The television star, YouTube celebrity, podcast host, makeup entrepreneur, icon and skinny legend was headed into St. Louis for an event at Webster University but an emergency appendix surgery ruined all of those plans.
A Tweet posted last night said that Mattel was recovering at St. Mary’s hospital after Mattel’s appendix “basically imploded” on the airplane into town. Mattel hadn’t felt well lately and this explains it all.
That Tweet has since been removed but you know that Mattel is speaking the truth because this tweet from last night showed Richmond Heights as the location and referenced a Lindsay Lohan clip that is extra funny when one is bored and laid up in a hospital bed because their appendix got turnt.
We reached out for an interview but Mattel’s people declined.…
Grab your masks, your costume and get ready to party: The Central West End’s Halloween party is back on this year and it’s shaping up to be a good time.
Billed as the “Legendary CWE Halloween Party,” the party takes place on Maryland and Euclid Avenues, with the festivities running all day on October 30.…
A victim of convicted child sex predator Brandon Milburn is suing the First Christian Church of Florissant, alleging church leaders were repeatedly warned about the former youth minister's pattern of grooming boys and teens long before Milburn's arrest in 2014.
Two of Milburn's victims, abused in 2007 at the ages of eleven and twelve, reported him to police as adults. After a guilty plea, Milburn was sentenced in 2015 to 25 years in prison on seven counts of first-degree statutory sodomy.…
Dogs are man's best friend, but it turns out they're also our fiercest competitors: The dogs at Gateway Pet Guardians' animal shelter completely annihilated their caretakers in a viral hot dog contest.
To the tune of “Candy Shop” by 50 Cent, six staffers and five dogs go toe to paw in a hot dog catching contest. The TikTok has received over two million views and 300,000 likes on the site and is even going viral on Reddit.…
As spooky season closes out and the holiday season looms, you may be wondering just how to give back this year. If you’re a drinker and a giver, then Twelve Bars of Charity might just have the opportunity you’re looking for.
Twelve Bars of Charity, started in 2012, returns to St. Louis this year to raise money for eight different organizations.…
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