You won't have to leave your couch to listen to the sweet sounds of classical music this year. Instead, you can have an orchestra in your living room: The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra will once again stream performances with its digital concert series.…
You won't have to leave your couch to listen to the sweet sounds of classical music this year. Instead, you can have an orchestra in your living room: The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra will once again stream performances with its digital concert series.…
If you’ve walked into a store recently, you likely have seen chocolates, flowers, cards and an array of gifts celebrating romance and love. Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching, and a local nonprofit is working to share the love with families dealing with pediatric cancer.…
Grab your leashes and get ready to head to Clayton because Le Meridien St. Louis Clayton(7730 Bonhomme Avenue) is putting on a date night for “your one true love: Your dog,” the organization announced in a press release.
The Doggy Date Night package, taking place on February 5, is a one-night event that features room service with a special gelato for your pup’s dessert, a complimentary “yappetizer” at the bar’s “Yappy Hour” and a caricature drawing of you and your dog. The bar’s “Yappy Hour” from 4 to 6 p.m. includes bites and drinks for both human and furry companion; a portion of the proceeds made from the “Yappy Hour” will be donated to the APA of St. Louis.
The doggy date night is just a piece of the hotel’s mission to treat your dog as part of its own family.…
Chef Brandi Artis gets asked the same question over and over again: What is it like to work with your wife? And even more so, what is it like to work with your wife, dear friend and her wife?…
If sipping beer and protecting abortion access are two of your passions, we have an idea for your Valentine’s Day weekend plans.
Earthbound Beer(2724 Cherokee Street, 314-769-9576) will host a “For the Love of Abortion Access” fundraiser a day before Valentine’s Day (February 13 for those who ignore the holiday.) A portion of the sales from noon to 10 p.m., including carryout orders, will be donated to the Missouri Abortion Fund.
The Missouri Abortion Fund is a potential source of funding for patients who can’t afford the full cost of abortion care.…
St. Louis loves a pop-up bar and now we have another one to look forward to in a couple of months.
Starting Wednesday, March 16 and running until the end of April, the bar at 5800 Gravois Avenue (the former Lemmon’s location) will become the Neverland Bar.
Brought to you by the same people who previously opened the Alice Cocktail Experience in the same spot, this Peter Pan-themed bar promises to offer fun, like “hiding from Captain Hook or tasting the magic of Tinkerbell in cocktail form.”
Tickets to the 90-minute experience are $45 and include two cocktails. These events usually sell out quickly, so make sure to buy your tickets early if you want at ExploreHidden.com.
Email the author at jaime.lees@riverfronttimes.com
Break out your rhinestone-covered sunglasses, Elton John is returning to St. Louis on March 30.
This is the fourth year of the legendary entertainer’s “Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour.” Elton John already played a “farewell” show in the same arena back in 2018.
Fans will have to be pandemic-prepared if they want to attend, though.…
The push to legalize recreational marijuana use in Missouri is coming from multiple directions, with a handful of proposed initiative petitions and at least one bill, and potentially more, backed by Republican lawmakers.
Each hopes to place the issue on the 2022 ballot for voter approval.
And each proposal also includes a provision that, while often overlooked in the marijuana debate, is considered a transformative piece of the legalization puzzle — the expungement of nonviolent marijuana offenses from criminal records.…
St. Louis' medical examiner is investigating the death of a woman who was found dead in her tent early Thursday morning in north city.
Police were called to the 700 block of Aubert Avenue in the Fountain Park neighborhood for reports of a sudden death. There they discovered 27-year-old Alexis Bolden.…
Two days after framing Missouri's "balanced response" to the COVID-19 pandemic as a success, Governor Mike Parson announced in a press release that the federal government is sending military medical personnel to St. Louis to relieve strained hospital staff.
"In Missouri, we took a common-sense approach to the pandemic, never shut down businesses," Parson said in his State of the State address on Wednesday.…
As abortion access continues to be targeted by various states, including Missouri, a partnership between the Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and the Hope Clinic for Women has built a solution: A logistics center to help patients overcome barriers to abortion access.
Known as the Regional Logistics Center, the organization operates as a call center that can connect patients with existing resources like abortion funds — and even arrange travel and lodging while they wait for care.…
A man who stole a hearse that was carrying a woman's body was sentenced Friday to six years in prison.
Brian Schaake, 39, and an accomplice snatched the in-service William C. Harris Funeral Home van on February 11, 2021, as it idled at a QuikTrip in Spanish Lake, according to law enforcement. For the next 24 hours, police searched frantically as tipsters reported sightings around the Metro area.
Like a shot of sunshine on a cold, COVID-wary afternoon, Licorice Pizza looks to be one of the most acclaimed films of the season — keeping open the doors of more than a few arthouse cinemas, at least for another few weeks (God willing). This, in and of itself, feels cause for celebration.…
With Valentine's Day a little over three weeks away, plotting gifts to shower your loved ones with can be a little bit complicated if you want to break the mold of flowers or heart chocolates. If you're looking for something slightly different this year, set your sights no further than your local dispensary.
CLOVR, a Kansas City-based cannabis-infused product manufacturer, doubles as Cupid this year, aiming to help you give the perfect gift: Partnered with Christopher Elbow Chocolatier, the companies crafted chocolate bonbons.…
A man posing as a St. Louis County public health inspector collected gas station employees' personal information and then administered nasal-swab COVID-19 tests, according to charges filed Thursday.
The man showed up March 16, 2021, at the QuikTrip on Page Avenue, just east of North Lindbergh Boulevard in north county, and said he was conducting coronavirus tests to determine how certain restrictions would be enforced, a probable cause statement filed by county police says.
He had employees fill out forms with their names, dates of birth, driver's license numbers, addresses and phone numbers, police say. He then swabbed their noses and left, driving away in a Pontiac Solstice convertible.
The man also popped up in a strip mall about twelve miles north and east.…
Footage from a Ferguson officer's body camera blew up the cover story he told about why he punched a handcuffed man in the face. On Tuesday, now ex-cop Jackie Matthews pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating the arrestee's civil rights and filing a report to impede an investigation.
Matthews was indicted in November 2020, though documents filed with the court at the time alleged only that he had "knowingly made a false entry in a record" and that he had assaulted a suspect who was handcuffed "and not posing any physical threat to anyone."…
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