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If ever there were a time for St. Louis to scrap politics as usual, it's now. A ginormous bounty of $513 million awaits dispersal by the city and county.…

The Missouri History Society is hosting a series of events in celebration of Black History Month.…

On February 3, during the first heavy snowfall of the season, Kris Naeger and Kevin Venice became St. Louis legends.…

The Gallery at The Kranzberg (501 North Grand Boulevard, 314-533-0367) is debuting a new exhibition. Partnering with St. Louis based artists, Kira Gresoski and Natalie Ranier, The Gallery at the Kranzberg presents Bodies of Water and Women.…

Christina Bennett was just a teenager when her now father-in-law, Ed Bennett, purchased the beloved Florissant institution Hendel's Market (599 St. Denis Street, Florissant; 314-837-2304). His intention was to turn the century-old grocery store and butcher shop into a restaurant, modeled after what he did several years before with the old Barn Deli cafe at the historic John B. Myers house up the road from Hendel's.…

Spring is on the horizon, and with it comes a slew of returning events, including none other than Cherokee Street’s Cinco de Mayo festival. After a two year pause due to the pandemic, Cherokee Street is bringing its festival back in person, and it’s looking forward to hosting a day full of music, food and wrestling.…

It is a common misconception that comic collecting is a solitary hobby.…

For those St. Louisans who are not athletically gifted enough to participate in the Winter Olympics, perhaps the City Foundry (3730 Foundry Way) will give you a chance to shine. The organization has arranged for St. Louisans to participate in their first Winter Games.…

Welcome Neighbor STL has hosted its Drive-Thru Supper Club since World Refugee Day in 2020, according to founder and executive director Jessica Bueler. For each event, refugees create a homecooked meal for people to pick up.…

On the Tuesday afternoon before Winter Storm Landon unleashed its frosty havoc on our fair city, the most glorious thing appeared on my front porch. A small, red plastic tub, lined with red-and-white-patterned tissue paper was propped on the doormat the way you'd think someone might drop off a stray kitten.…

The City of Florissant announced Wednesday that an otter has taken up residence in St. Ferdinand Pond, a development that historically would be extraordinarily rare in Missouri thanks to their nearly complete eradication due to hunting. That changed in the early 1980s, and over the ensuing decade nearly 900 North American river otters were released into Missouri streams and rivers, according to a 2000 report by Missouri Department of Conservation.…

In Lafayette Square — the neighborhood between Highway 40 to the north and Interstate 44 to the south — stands the oldest private lane in St. Louis.…

The Curador cannabis lab in north St. Louis has everything it needs to craft its ultra potent line of Head Change "sauce cart" vape cartridges. Well, almost everything.…

Shuck yeah, Schlafly is bringing back their Stout and Oyster Festival in March. Two years have passed since the last Stout and Oyster Fest, and this year the festival will kick off on March 25 and 26 at the Schlafly Tap Room (2100 Locust Street, 314-241-2337).…

Close followers of Nelly’s Instagram account were shocked today when a video of oral sex was briefly posted to his Instagram stories. In the uncensored video, a woman is performing oral sex on a man who is groaning in approval of her efforts.…

St. Louisans know the Lumière Place Casino as the soaring riverfront tower with the perpetually pixelated light display whose appearance in the rearview mirror signals to drivers that they've taken the wrong right turn onto the MLK bridge to Illinois — but the casino's ownership group is angling for a change. On February 7, Caesars Entertainment announced a grand rebranding that will see the casino renamed Horseshoe St. Louis, a plan that seems to assume that St. Louisans comprehend the concept of “names” in a way that, frankly, flies in the face of our city’s many mispronounced French streets and total disregard for the existence of whatever “Panera” is.…

Missouri Senator Eric Burlison, R-Battlefield, is hoping for another smash hit. Mostly living in infamy for the clusterfuck that is the “Second Amendment Preservation Act,” which has caused many headaches for law enforcement and prosecutors alike, Burlison has now gone a step further in his quest to Make Missouri Murder More.…

The corrections systems at the city and state level are in chaos. Just this week, three people were stabbed in three days at a prison in Bonne Terre, four teens escaped from a juvenile detention facility in St. Louis, and some nut mailed the director of Missouri prisons an envelope full of white powder, leading to the evacuation of the Missouri Department of Corrections' headquarters in Jefferson City.…

West End Grill and Pub (354 North Boyle Avenue, 314-531-4607), a beloved mainstay of the Central West End dining scene that traces its roots all the way back to the iconic Duff's, will soon be a memory. The restaurant will serve its lasts guests on Sunday, February 13th in the form of a Super Bowl blowout that is sure to draw longtime employees, regulars and those just wanting to say their goodbyes to a piece of the city's restaurant history.…

This story was originally published by the Missouri Independent.…