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The Purina Pet Parade Returns to Soulard This Sunday

2 years 9 months ago
The 29th annual Purina Pet Parade returns to St. Louis' Soulard neighborhood this Sunday, February 20 and our tails are wagging. The parade kicks off St. Louis’ Mardi Gras party season and will feature hundreds of outrageously costumed pets and their owners, all decked out for charity.…
Jaime Lees

St. Louis Standards: Hendel's Is Florissant's Definitive Dining Establishment

2 years 9 months ago
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.…
Cheryl Baehr

Cherokee Street's Cinco de Mayo Festival Will Return This Spring

2 years 9 months ago
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.…
Jenna Jones

City Foundry to Host Its Own Winter Olympics-Style Event

2 years 9 months ago
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.…
Jenna Jones

The Wandering Sidecar Brings Cocktail Joy to Your Front Door

2 years 9 months ago
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.…
Cheryl Baehr

Florissant Otter Gentrifies Pond, Deserves Personal Space

2 years 9 months ago
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.…
Danny Wicentowski

Schlafly's Stout and Oyster Festival Makes Its Return Next Month

2 years 9 months ago
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).…
Jenna Jones

Oral Sex Video Posted on Nelly’s Instagram Account

2 years 9 months ago
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.…
Jaime Lees

They Want Us to Call Lumiere Casino "Horseshoe St. Louis" Now, Apparently

2 years 9 months ago
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.…
Danny Wicentowski