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.…
Accompanied today by St. Louis Public Schools superintendent Kelvin Adams and the City of Saint Louis Department of Health director Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, Mayor Tishaura Jones urged parents to get their children vaccinated.…
Ten-year-old Lyla McCarty loves to bake. She sells cookies on the side of the road to help raise money for a rare nerve condition called complex regional pain syndrome, or CRPS, a condition she was diagnosed with in February.…
DĂa de los Muertos — also known as the Day of the Dead — is a colorful celebration of life, and the Missouri History Museum(5700 Lindell Boulevard; 314-746-4599) is hoping to mark the holiday with a celebration of its own.
Over the weekend, November 6 and 7, the museum will be pulling out all the stops: Altars, art displays, crafts, arm painting, souvenir printmaking and more will all take place in order to commemorate Latin American culture. Dance performances and live music will also be at the festival.…
On Saturday, November 6 my film, Ferguson Rises, will premiere at the Tivoli Theater as part of the 30th annual St Louis International Film Festival. Having spent so much time in and about St Louis over the last seven years, I can say its good to be home, this time with a completed film in hand.…
Over the past eighteen months of pandemic times, restaurants have closed, bars have shuttered and local hangouts have hung on by a thread. Many nights a quiet eeriness looms over the Delmar Loop — and not just because it's Halloween season.…
More than four years after their arrests during a police protest, a pastor and activist have won their fight to put their case in front of a jury.
The Rev. Darryl Gray and Calvin "Cap" Kennedy were at the rear of a protest march on September 29, 2017, when officers slammed Gray to the pavement and cuffed him outside of Busch Stadium. Kennedy came to Gray's aid and was tasered and tackled before officers dragged both men away.
The case is an outlier among the numerous protest-related arrests made during the 2017 demonstrations that followed ex-St. Louis cop Jason Stockley's acquittal on a murder charge.…
We know that everybody likes an apple bottom, but apparently some people also like a pumpkin head, too.
In a video posted this morning in the Instagram account run by Taco Circus (4940 Southwest Avenue, 314-899-0061) a woman is shown twerking on Delmar Boulevard while wearing a large pumpkin like a helmet.
The caption on the video:
“Halloween may be over for some of us, but for others, it is just getting started”
There are no other clues in the scene as to why this little show is happening, but it appears to be going down in the middle of the Delmar Loop, just east of the Chuck Berry statue.
We’re sure ol’ Chuck wouldn’t mind the show and, well, neither do we.…
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra has become synonymous with the holiday season, and the group plans to celebrate that fact. It's been 25 years since its album Christmas Eve and Other Stories came out, which launched the group’s career and has spurred several winter tours, including this year's.…
In 2018, chef Ben Grupe took his first steps down a long-dreamed-of path toward opening his own restaurant. He left his gig as executive chef at Elaia, turned his attention away from the prestigious culinary competition world and got to work doing a series of R&D pop-up events, all with an eye to his highly anticipated debut restaurant, Tempus(4730 Manchester Road, 314-349-2878).…
Just in time for the holiday season, Walgreens is ready to help kiddos get vaccinated. Beginning on November 6, the pharmacy will begin to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to kids ages five to eleven.
“Walgreens pharmacy team members have significant experience vaccinating children and adolescents, and are ready to immunize this newly eligible population safely and as quickly as possible,” Kevin Ban, the chief medical officer at Walgreens, said in a statement.…
Welcome back to the Big Mad, the RFT's weekly roundup of righteous rage! Because we know your time is short and your anger is hot:
GOPorn: Looking grizzled, and if we’re being honest, a touch haunted by what he’s seen, Josh Hawley emerged from the killing fields of The Culture War to deliver a lesson on manhood.…
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