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Arkadin Cinema has announced a new season of outdoor film viewing in its backlot.

After the jury in his murder trial failed to reach a verdict last week, a Soulard bar owner will await retrial outside of city jail.

Eleven years ago, Joel Crespo and Brian Hardesty set out on a mission: To be pioneers in the city's nascent food truck scene by introducing St. Louis diners to modern Filipino cuisine through their brand, Guerrilla Street Food (43 South Old Orchard Avenue, Webster Groves; 314-274-2528). Now, after over a decade defined by success on both those counts, the business partners are ready to step away from their beloved food truck and brick and mortar and are looking for a buyer to carry on their legacy.

When St. Louis County resident Joshua Danrich was little, he disassembled Hot Wheels and put them back together. He daydreamed of owning a Bugatti, Lamborghini, or Corvette.

Welcome Neighbor STL is gearing up to do its biggest event yet, and director Jessica Bueler is thrilled. The nonprofit has partnered with Washington University’s ThurtenE Carnival in order to bring meals from refugee chefs into the mix.

Update 3:55 p.m.: This story was updated to include a statement from Sam Page's office. St. Louis County voters approved a proposition Tuesday that will bar county executives from holding other jobs.

Nick Bognar has heard St. Louis diners ask the same question over and over throughout his time in the area's restaurant scene: Where do we get good sushi? Now, he's hoping to definitely answer that query with the forthcoming restaurant, Sado, a new concept that will set the bar for Japanese dining in the metro area. "The idea is for us to bring a focused sushi bar to St. Louis," Bognar says.

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.

This article originally appeared in our sister paper, Cleveland Scene. Prior to the 2012 release of Kishi Bashi's debut album, 151a, Kishi Bashi (née Kaoru Ishibashi) played in the indie rock band Jupiter One.

St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed doesn’t keep his disapproval of Proposition R quiet. In a press conference Monday, Reed slammed the proposition that would change the city’s process for redrawing wards if approved by voters tomorrow.

Chris Rock is in the news because he just announced a second date at the Stifel Theatre in St. Louis, on June 12. Oh!

This month, there was a  flurry of growth in the St. Louis metro area's restaurant scene, almost all of it occurring far outside the city center. From Westport to Mehlville, Chesterfield to Edwardsville, IL, restaurateurs looked to the 'burbs — and in some cases, the exurbs — to test out new concepts or build their already established brands.

If the Republican Party were allowed to script the first headline of a Democrat's campaign for U.S. Senate, it would read something like this:

As the host of Them Yo People!, local television star Gary Boyd is the underground king of St. Louis.

This story was originally published in our sister paper, MetroTimes. Cannabis prohibition is now quite possibly the closest it has ever been to ending in the United States — finally.

According to Missouri Governor Mike Parson, the COVID-19 pandemic has officially entered “endemic” status in the state, as of April 1. “The COVID-19 crisis is over in the state of Missouri,” Parson said in a press conference on March 30, “and we are moving on.”

On Tuesday night, police arrived to an Overland house to find 65-year-old Hossein Cyrus Rastegar dead. His body was bound with vacuum cord and rope, and his feet and hands were tied behind his back, says St. Louis County Circuit Attorney spokesman Christopher King.

One day in mid-March, Kosta’s toilet overflowed.  Once it started, it wouldn’t stop. “It was like a chemical bomb had gone off inside it,” said Kosta, a local rapper.

Paint melts off the side of one of Sarah Knight’s sculptures, dripping a rainbow of colors, while other sculptures glisten with yellow glaze in a waterfall cascade. Some of these sculptures sit atop a bed of sparkling rocks collected from Knight’s family’s lakeside cabin.

A night of soul-stirring jazz awaits you at the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts on Thursday, April 14. “An Evening with Branford Marsalis” is must-see.