Vodka drinkers of the St. Louis area can enjoy a new addition to their cabinets that also supports a good cause. From the team at 4 Hands Brewing Co. (1220 S 8th Street, 314- 436-1559, www.4handsbrewery.com), 1220 Spirits has launched their Pride encrypted vodka bottle to celebrate Pride Month and also help out LGBTQ+ Missourians.
We might set some new records for heat next week in St. Louis. Current forecasts show that our temperatures might be at or near 100 degrees on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the coming week.
Two blocks south of Crown Candy Kitchen in Old North St. Louis, at the corner of Warren and 14th, there’s an unassuming square plot of green with a light pole in the center. Curving toward the pole is a row of sunflower seedlings just starting to leaf. Seed Louie, a scarecrow, sits atop the pole wearing gardening gloves, a pink matted wig, a dirty brown beard and jean overalls; he holds a tin Route 66 sign.
When My and Tami Trinh opened Pho Grand (3195 South Grand Boulevard, 314-664-7435) in 1989, the South Grand commercial district looked much different from the vibrant, international culinary landscape that exists there today. That was intentional. "Back when we opened, this was a special heritage district, and there were no Asian restaurants," Tami recalls.
Last night, an 18-year-old was injured attempting to escape from the same juvenile detention center where on Sunday three other youths locked an employee in a bathroom in a separate escape. Around 8 p.m. Wednesday, police say that the 18-year-old hid behind a wardrobe on the third floor of the Hogan Street Regional Youth Center until staff left the room.
The week ahead offers a number of landmark music events in the river city as Jazz St. Louis continues its belated 25-year anniversary with the JSL @ 25 show series, which includes singer and saxophonist Grace Kelly alongside other contemporary jazz greats. The last three days of Twangfest are sure to pack Off Broadway on Thursday, Friday and Saturday with Ha Ha Tonka, the Jawhawks and Cracker all headlining their respective nights.
A would-be thief who also happens to be a deer was left empty-hooved this morning after brazenly smashing its way into a bank in downtown St. Louis without a clear heist plan. KMOV reports that the attempted smash-and-grab took place at the UMB Bank located at Broadway and Market around 5:30 a.m. Thursday.
John Covelli and the Hard Bop Messenger’s album Live at the Last Hotel, stretches and reshapes hard bop, a jazz subgenre that is more intense and rhythmically propulsive than the bebop that it grew from. There are elements of funk, blues and swing in the album as well as John-Coltrane-influenced chord change schemes. “It’s just fun to listen to, makes you want to dance; it makes you want to move, snap your fingers, tap your toes,” Covelli says.
The Riverfront Times has been awarded a $4,500 grant from the International Women's Media Foundation's Reproductive Rights Reporting Fund to investigate reproductive rights in Missouri. The International Women's Media Foundation is an NGO that helps female journalists working in global news media. The organization offers safety training, byline opportunities and emergency support for women journalists and photographers around the world.
If you're anything like me — a middle-aged Englishman with an ever-increasing variety of aches and pains (new favorite: left shoulder) and an ever-decreasing bank balance — then you may occasionally allow yourself to be swayed by special offers in the cannabis market. But just how effective are the varieties at the lower end of the price list?
The first inkling that Sabroso Cocina Mexicana (1146 Old Saint Charles Road, St. Ann; 314-918-5037) is anything but a standard Tex-Mex restaurant comes courtesy of the queso fundido. Rather than having the characteristic unctuous, Velveeta-like texture with a negligible amount of chorizo folded in its liquid form, Sabroso's queso fundido is a sizzling, fajita-like marvel.
A jam-packed weekend awaits you, St. Louis. Whether it's celebrating Pride, tapping into your inner artist or just getting your drink on, there's not an event that won't suit your fancy this weekend. And if you're looking for a little bit of relaxation over your weekend, that's fine, there are weekday events, too.
If you're wanting to go out during the week but haven't a clue where to start, let us help you. There's the classic St. Louis route (trivia) or seeing a show (Chicago) or maybe you want to spice it up and relive the glory days of the St. Louis Blues winning the Stanley Cup. Either way, there's much to do during the week in St. Louis — and even more this weekend.
Less than a week after three St. Louis officials were indicted on federal corruption charges, Mayor Tishaura Jones surmises that there are "more indictments to come.” “We’ve known that aldermanic courtesy has been something that has been at the board for a long time,” Jones told reporters at a press briefing Wednesday. “We don’t know how many other people are involved, and I think there are more federal indictments to come.”
A beloved Richmond Heights specialty store is being recognized for its cheese program, thanks to Yelp. The online review site recently named Parker's Table (7118 Oakland Avenue, Richmond Heights; 314-645-2050) the best cheese shop in Missouri, an honor based on user ratings. As cheesemonger Phil Billingsley notes, the fact that this honor was customer-driven makes it all the more sweet.
St. Louis area pizza fanatics are in for a treat: Beginning next week on June 15, certain ‘za joints will be offering one pizza at half off until October through the Pizza Passport. [content-1]
Brought to you by STL Square Off Pizza Festival on the Hill, in partnership with the Pizza Connoisseurs of St. Louis, a Facebook group devoted to the art of reviewing pizza in the St. Louis area, the passports allows St. Louisans to sample the region’s offerings. The passport allows those who purchase to get any size of a pizza from 30 restaurants at half price — including one of the Facebook group’s favorite spots, Nubby’s BBQ (6039 Telegraph Road, 314-293-9686).
Last week, an unsealed indictment sent shock waves through St. Louis. Three high-ranking St. Louis city officials — now-former Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed and former Aldermen Jeffrey Boyd and John Collins-Muhammad — all face federal corruption charges.
Following federal corruption charges and public backlash, Lewis Reed has resigned as president of St. Louis Board of Aldermen. His resignation comes five days after prosecutors indicted him on federal corruption charges relating to bribery. In a statement from his office, Reed says he was “heartbroken” and “saddened” in his decision to step down.
A St. Louis Justice Center Corrections Officer who admitted to permitting two detainees to brutally attack another detainee was sentenced in Federal court today. Demeria Thomas, 38, was sentenced to the maximum penalty, four years, after pleading guilty to deprivation of rights under color of law, a civil rights charge. Judge Matthew Schelp called Thomas' actions "depraved."
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