Normally, St. Louis voters can count on bombastic Republican politicians coming from far flung parts of Missouri (who’s even heard of Ash Valley?) or at least as far as St. Charles County.
St. Louis theatergoers interested in challenging and entertaining drama should catch Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman, featuring Cameron Jamarr as Clay and Eileen Engel as Lula, presented by Soul Siren Playhouse. The seldom-performed yet still relevant play is an intense and pointed deconstruction of the story of Adam and Eve. This Eve also plays the snake.
Nick Bognar’s award-winning restaurant Sado (5201 Shaw Avenue), which was Sauce Magazine’s No. 3 Best New Restaurant of 2023 and a James Beard Award semifinalist, will open a new omakase concept called Pavilion this spring in the restaurant's courtyard on the Hill. The custom-built, glass-enclosed Pavilion will evoke Japanese garden vibes and will offer guests a ticketed tasting menu of items that showcase Bognar’s talents with the cuisines of Southeast Asia and Japan in artfully arranged dishes.
If you have attended an Eagles concert in the last 10 years, it’s likely that the band’s latest stop in St. Louis — Tuesday at Enterprise Center — was essentially the same show you’ve already seen: The setlist, the running order, the video backdrops, even the stage banter were all nearly identical. This set was, however, a bit shorter than on previous tours; the Eagles were here just 14 months ago in the same arena playing the entire Hotel California album, among other hits, and this time they kept things tighter to make room for opener Steely Dan, limiting the 20-song, two-hour concert to nothing but the band’s biggest songs.
The Benevolent King, which has featured Moroccan-inspired dishes since it opened in 2018, has reimagined itself and plans to open as a Japanese restaurant on February 14. The new concept is brought to you by Ben Poremba, chef-owner of Bengelina Hospitality Group.
It was less than a year ago that a young rapper who grew up in St. Louis dropped her first single and saw her entire life change. The catchy rap track "Bing Bong" went viral on TikTok and, in a short period of time, labels were circling, rising star rapper Sexyy Red was collaborating with her on a remix and the artist — who calls herself BlakeIANA, a variation on her real first name, Blake — was performing in arenas.
A bit over a year ago, catastrophe struck one of St. Louis' most loved barbecue restaurants. Since opening in 2008, the Shaved Duck (2900 Virginia Avenue) had been a favorite of both its Tower Grove East neighbors and food writers across the U.S. Guy Fieri even named it Missouri's best barbecue. But the terrible cold snap that gripped St. Louis around Christmas of 2022 caused a pipe in its building to burst.
A children’s story hour at Springfield-Greene County Library devolved into a bizarre political rally last Friday, and days later spiraled even further into a book-burning by a Republican candidate for Missouri’s secretary of state. In a post to X (formerly Twitter), that has since been censored, an unhinged video shot outside of the library shows Valentina Gomez setting two queer books aflame and vowing to burn more should she succeed in securing public office.
Fans of impossibly flat food carved into whimsical shapes in service of the Greek god Eros have much to celebrate this week, as St. Louis' premier purveyor of Provel has announced the triumphant return of its heart-shaped pizzas. Imo's (multiple locations including 1000 Hampton Avenue) made the announcement about its popular pies on Wednesday morning. In a break from years past, the extra-romantic version of St. Louis' most polarizing foodstuff will be available for a full week this year instead of just on Valentine's Day, with the limited run stretching from February 8 to 14.
Among the most prolific and popular writers of the 20th century, these days, Dame Agatha Christie is primarily known for the stage adaptations of her novels. Filled with purposeful misdirection and an abundance of eccentric characters, the plays are perennial favorites of theater companies large and small.
You can't generally count on St. Louis snowplows to clear your streets, but as one unlucky city resident learned, you can't count them out entirely: She was nailed by one on a snowy day just over a year ago, and she has the video to prove it. The footage, shared by attorney Ben Sansone, shows cars speeding along St. Louis Avenue on December 22, 2022, part of the bitter cold snap that preceded Christmas that year. That's when a driver named Mya Holliday attempted to turn right onto Union.
Last month, the City of St. Louis filed suit against a woman who’d been running a series of illegal rooming houses — with 39 houses in the city limits alone. Dara Daugherty and her associates operated in plain sight for years, racking up countless code violations as their properties played host to stabbings, overdoses and even deaths.
For the third time in three weeks, Garnetta Finger boarded a bus Tuesday and rode to a motel intended to be her temporary home. But almost as soon as she unpacked her suitcases in the one-room apartment she was given at the Cozy Suites motel, in the Central West End, Finger clamored for new accommodations.
One year after an ugly falling out with a previous tenant, a Soulard storefront will see new life as a cookie shop. Insomnia Cookies confirms that it will open a new outlet at 1001 Russell Boulevard later this spring. The store will be Insomnia's fourth in St. Louis.
Atlanta rapper Ludacris, best-known as the mind behind a string of absolute bangers throughout the late '90s and early aughts but perhaps more appropriately for these purposes also known as a guy who pretends to drive cars at a high rate of speed in the Fast & Furious franchise, has been announced as the headliner for this year's NASCAR-affiliated Confluence Musical Festival. The fest takes place at World Wide Technology Raceway (700 Raceway Boulevard, Madison, Illinois) on Saturday, June 1, and Sunday, June 2. The whole thing is meant to accompany the Enjoy Illinois 300 NASCAR event in town that same weekend.
The city is considering a proposal that would add traffic calming measures to Skinker Boulevard. Advocates are hopeful it would improve safer access to Forest Park.
Mere months after decamping from its longtime St. Louis home in favor of the hustle and bustle of *checks notes* Maryland Heights, KMOV (Channel 4) saw fit to return to the mean streets of downtown this week to film a promo in the part of the city where the big buildings can be found, which presumably makes for a better backdrop than the sea of strip malls for which its new HQ is better known. The trademarked champs of First Alerting had set up shop in the temporarily closed 1300 block of Washington Avenue on Monday afternoon when ace Post-Dispatch photographer David Carson, who was in the neighborhood at the time, decided to fire some shots of the non-photographic variety across their bow. "This is rich," Carson tweeted at 12:37 p.m. "@KMOV moves their offices out of downtown St. Louis and flees to St. Louis County for their new studio.
The St. Louis County man accused of brutally beating another motorist in a road rage incident near Ballpark Village in October now faces charges in an unrelated assault — one that took place before his alleged rampage downtown. John Jacob Ehlinger, 35, was arrested last month on a charge of third-degree assault, a felony, court records show. The charges stemmed from an August 2023 incident in which Ehlinger was caught on surveillance video kicking and punching a casino security guard.
We have but one question for you, people of St. Louis: Y'all ready for KMoney the Poet? The St. Louisan born Kristen Elizabeth Harris is the featured author for Poetry for Personal Power’s book share event on Sunday, February 11, at the 14th Street Artist Gallery (2701 North 14th Street).
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