For actor Troy Bronson, portraying a former chemistry professor at Washington University brought new insights into history — and science, too. Joseph W. Kennedy played a key role in discovering plutonium in 1941, when he was in his early 20s.
Get ready to listen to some blues and sip on some bourbon! The new Blues, Bourbon and Beer event will bring soulful blues music, savory hors d'oeuvres, crafted bourbon and local beer to downtown St. Louis on Thursday, February 22.
During Mardi Gras, each Soulard intersection has its own tribe. For more than three decades, Menard and Allen was the epicenter of the LGBTQ community, and the balcony above Clementine's (now Duke's) was the focal point where drag queens, VIPs and chiseled Jägermeister reps like Steve Neely would toss beads and entertain.
Missouri Right to Life, an anti-abortion organization, has set up a hotline asking citizens to report the locations of signature gatherers working to place an abortion initiative on the ballot. But pro-choice locals are fighting back.
By the time you are reading this, a private, Christian company whose business model relies on flying drones over your house, may already be watching you. Despite community backlash, today marks the formal launch of SMS Novel’s surveillance drones in the city of St. Louis. SMS Novel, a drone surveillance company that markets itself on X (formerly known as Twitter) as specializing in interactive Christian films, announced it would launch its drones in St. Louis on February 5.
The secret to the croissant at Comet Bakery (640 West Woodbine, Kirkwood; cometcoffeestl.com) is butter. Not a normal croissant level of butter, but a truly astonishing quantity.
Too often, our differences can seem insurmountable. In these divided times, we tend to function as a fractured society almost by default, one that pits us against each other over the most inconsequential of differences — red vs. blue, woman vs. man, west of I-270 vs. those who prefer to live adjacent to such novel things as "culture" and "civilization." But once in a while, some unifying force comes along with a pull so strong it can't help but bring us together.
A resolution introduced by House Speaker Dean Plocher would commend Israel as a “a great friend and ally of the United States” — but activists say the resolution promotes the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee, a multi-faith coalition of concerned Missourians, condemned the resolution, calling Plocher’s rhetoric “white supremacist, anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic.”
As the former chief of staff for Kansas City Mayor Quenton Lucas, John Stamm knows just how tedious local government meetings can be. But he's also aware of just how important they are — and that's why his brand-new startup is aimed at cutting through the tedium and getting people the information they need about what their government is up to. Stamm's company is called Hello Citizen, and the premise is pretty simple: He trains artificial intelligence to listen in on the meetings of local government, many of which are now helpfully posted online.
A new art exhibit celebrating the talent of Black artists in St. Louis has opened at Beatnik Bob’s (750 North 16th Street) inside City Museum. The exhibit can be viewed during regular City Museum hours (Thursday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.) with purchase of a general admission’s ticket ($20).
After nearly three weeks as evacuees, the former tenants of Heritage House Apartments got a much-needed dose of good news Saturday. That’s when St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones announced that the city has secured at least one hotel, and was in the process of securing a second, to provide rooms for the evacuees, including 120 still sheltering at the Hilton by the St. Louis International Airport.
The new year brought some excitement to the St. Louis dining scene, with the long-awaited opening of 360 Westport (111 West Port Plaza Drive, Maryland Heights). Turns out the wait was worth it.
Inez Bordeaux knows firsthand the horrors of St. Louis’ City Justice Center because she was detained there 12 years ago. During this period, she and 20 other women were left in acell that was 10 feet wide by 8 feet high for days, she said during a Public Safety Committee meeting on Thursday.
In my latest foray into the Missouri recreational market, I had the unique opportunity to explore Purple #43, a creation from the esteemed Local Cannabis. This venture marked my fourth encounter with Local's offerings, each of which has consistently raised the bar in terms of quality and experience.
The Human Rights Campaign Foundation ranks Missouri last in its brand new State Equality Index, the most comprehensive survey of state-level commitment to LGBTQ+ equality. Twenty-three states accompany Missouri in the lowest-rated category on the list, which came out earlier this week.
Argylle gives us something we really don’t need right now: another exhausting, long-ass Matthew Vaughn movie. The British filmmaker/Guy Ritchie collaborator/husband of Claudia Schiffer has always had trouble deleting scenes from his lengthy genre spectaculars.
Lewis Reed, former president of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, has been making the most of his time in federal prison, picking up new handyman skills and even driving newly released inmates around Arkansas and Tennessee in a prison-issue vehicle. Reed, you may recall, was hit with a federal indictment in the summer of 2022 after taking very-well documented bribes from local businessman Mohammed Almuttan.
This morning the head of the city’s Building Division personally paid a visit to the LGBTQ bar that a St. Louis police SUV ran into in December. There, Building Commissioner Frank Oswald stressed to the owners of the building that the city has no intention of condemning their property or shutting down the bar located there.
St. Louis is set to get 28 new murals throughout the city by this summer through a partnership between St. Louis city and the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis. The effort, dubbed the St. Louis Mural Project, is funded through RAC’s ARPA for the Arts initiative.
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