In the most stunning, post-pandemic shakeup in the St. Louis restaurant scene to date, restaurateur Zoë Robinson has announced the sale of her acclaimed restaurant portfolio to her friend and local art leader, Susan Barrett. Under Barrett's new ownership, Robinson's restaurant's Bar Les Freres and I Fratellini will reopen beginning in early 2022 while Billie Jean will close and be rebranded as a new concept.…
Separated by security glass in a visiting room in the St. Louis Workhouse, Mike Milton looked into the face of a broken system. It was a weekday in early April 2019, and the face belonged to Samuel Lee Scott.…
Three women slowly make their way into a gallery, their arms and legs stretching down and up to a low, pulsing synth from the speakers. Their bodies are dressed in repurposed cotton in loose-fitting pastels.…
9 Mile Garden(9375 Gravois Road, Affton; 314-390-2806) and Taco Circus are partnering for a food-fueled board game night. St. Louisans are known for loving trivia nights and 9 Mile Garden is betting that we’ll love kicking our friends’ butts at board games, too.…
Honey, honey, it’s time to put on your shiniest jumpsuit and white go-go boots, because an ABBA tribute lands in April. Dancing queens ABBA fans can enjoy the concert at the River City Casino & Hotel (777 River City Casino Boulevard; 314-388-7777).…
St. Louisans showed up in a big way for ten-year-old Lyla McCarty. When a call to action was put out on social media to help raise money for the girl who suffers from a rare condition called CRPS, the bakery — MADE by Lia(610 Rue St Francois, Florissant; 314-551-2383) — hosting the fundraiser had a half-mile long line all three hours it went on.
And now, there's another opportunity to help support Lyla tonight.
One of the organizers and influencer Charlie Rocket announced on his social media that his organization, the Dream Machine, would be helping Lyla launch a website for those who missed out on the bakery sale where you can buy her pig cookies.…
When you first step inside the Drawing Board, there is nothing to make you think you are anywhere but a typical south St. Louis dive. The old, dark wood bar that looks exactly the same as when long-gone brewery staffers and metalworkers bellied up mid shift for a draught Falstaff, the low tin ceiling, painted over to cover decades of unfiltered cigarette smoke stain, and the pool table, illuminated by a vintage beige-and-orange Tiffany-style lamp, paint a picture of the quintessential southside watering hole.…
World Vasectomy Day is this month and Planned Parenthood is celebrating the holiday by offering up some free vasectomies and helping to get the word out about the easy, uncomplicated procedure.
If you have testicles and would no longer like to be fertile, let Planned Parenthood of St. Louis(4251 Forest Park Avenue, 314-531-7526) take all of your worries away.
Maybe you already have kids and don’t want any more. Maybe you enjoy sleeping in and disposable income and you don’t ever want to have wee ones.…
Daggett Avenue has a bit more color, thanks to Volpi Foods. After a successful summer search, local artist Jordan Bauer painted the deli and meat shop’s plain white wall and turned it into a colorful salute to St. Louis neighborhood The Hill, as well as celebrating Volpi Foods’ approaching 120th anniversary.
Volpi Foods (5256 Daggett Ave; 314-446-7950) first opened in 1902.…
If you've ever rounded the bend of Chippewa Street near Landsdowne only to jump for joy at the sight of Donut Drive-In's neon sign, wandered into Florissant's Old Town Donuts at just the moment the apple fritters are being pulled from the oven or been hurried along by former Wold's Fair Donuts matriarch Peggy, in all of her blue eye-shadowed glory, you know one thing: St. Louis is the doughnut capital of the United States. Possibly the world.…
Multiple fatal shootings, including one that claimed the life of a sixteen-year-old girl, have been linked to a 25-year-old man who is now facing a bevy of charges in St. Louis and St. Louis County.
Arrested Saturday by an FBI task force, Perez Reed has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, three counts of armed criminal action and another count of assault in St. Louis County; in the City of St. Louis, police are applying for two additional murder charges.…
Whether you're a server, chef or bartender, a new music video from St. Louis folk duo River Kittens will have your heels tapping as Allie Vogler and Mattie Schell weave crystalline harmonies out of the most aggravating parts of working in the food industry.
Released Thursday and filmed on location in The Fountain on Locust, the band's video for "Dressing on the Side" hits impressive high notes as a concept, with both singers delivering remarkable performances in-character as a pair of servers being steadily beaten-down by inane customer requests, complaints and come-ons.…
In a draft regulation proposed Thursday and published on the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services’ website, the law may be updated to allow promotions with one caveat: A disclaimer must be published alongside each advertisement. The disclaimer reads: “Medical decisions should not be made based on advertising.…
There’s something called a win-win situation, and it’s happening now until November 30 because of Schlafly Beer.
The company’s “Cans for Cans” program returns this year, where individuals can drop off two non-perishable canned goods to three Schlafly locations —- Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue; 314-241-2337), Schlafly Bankside (920 S Main Street, St Charles; 314-241-2337) or the Schlafly Tap Room(2100 Locust Street; 314-241-2337) —- and receive a free can of Schlafly beer.
One can of beer is redeemable per two cans of food, so guests can donate up to twelve canned goods and receive six cans of beer per visit. You’ll need your ID in order to prove you’re 21, but other than that, you just need your donation.
“The Cans for Cans program has been an annual initiative at our brewpubs for 5 years, and the St. Louis community always shows up,” founding brewer Stephen Hale says in a statement.…
A clash of cannabis laws hovers over the mysterious May seizure of $165,620 in Missouri medical marijuana-generated cash by federal agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration. The money was being delivered across Kansas — where state law considers marijuana entirely illegal — and on its way to its final destination in a credit union in Colorado, where cannabis is legal.…
John Parker can talk at length about O'Connell's Pub (4652 Shaw Avenue, 314-773-6600), about the cast of characters who have tended its bar and served its burgers, the ragtag crew of regulars who have sat at its bar, and, of course, that one night Allen Ginsberg came into the original Gaslight Square location and held court with his entourage, spinning poetry and pronouncing the realities of the world.…
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