A lawsuit filed against the City of St. Louis last week alleges that the city still hasn't resumed recycling pickups — and that it's illegally charging property owners for services it doesn't actually provide. The suit notes that anyone who signs up for water service in St. Louis is also signed up for trash service, which comes with a $14 monthly fee. In its marketing materials, the city says that includes "single stream recycling services" for all residents.
Oh, it's so funny to be seeing them after so long, girl. Elvis Costello, keyboardist Steve Nieve and drummer Pete Thomas: still together, still rocking, still playing their brilliant catalog of songs that stretches back nearly 50 years.
The Missouri History Museum (5700 Lindell Boulevard, mohistory.org/museum) will open its new store concept — Sold on St. Louis — on Wednesday, February 14. The store will sell unique gifts, art and specialty items from a carefully selected list of St. Louis vendors, including Arch Apparel, Salt + Smoke, Golden Gems, Kakao Chocolate Company, Pure Perfection Candles, Ridge Trail Honey and Old Vienna.
Two weeks after St. Louis sued Dara Daugherty and her associates for allegedly running a 39-property illegal rooming house operation throughout south city, Brentwood shut down an illegal rooming house Daugherty was running there. This house was also apparently Daugherty’s personal residence.
Wesley Bell is touting big fundraising numbers this morning as incumbent Congresswoman Cori Bush's campaign has some red ink on its books. In a press release sent out this morning, Bell, who is currently the prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County, said that he raised $492,000 in the final months of 2023 after entering the race for Missouri's first congressional district in October.
The last outpost of the beloved Lebanese-inflected burger joint Layla has closed without much ado. Layla and the Bad Egg (20 Allen Ave, Suite 130, Webster Groves; laylastl.com) quietly closed its doors in October, a representative from the building's owner confirmed to the RFT today. Michael Koch, director of investments for Novus Companies, says the eatery has been closed since — and will not be reopening. It was one month before the closure that Novus filed a suit against Layla owners Jason and Maria Sparks in St. Louis County Court, seeking $37,376.64 in missing rent, as the St. Louis Business Journal reported at the time.
Anheuser-Busch has welcomed a new Clydesdale foal at Warm Springs Ranch (3118 25270 Highway 98, Booneville; warmspringsranch.com). The new foal — a sweet little boy — will be joining more than 70 other Clydesdales at the 300-plus-acre breeding and training facility.
St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell is seeking to overturn the conviction of death row inmate Marcellus Williams — using a relatively new state law that allows prosecutors to intervene in cases where they believe someone was wrongly convicted. Williams was found guilty of the 1998 murder of former Post-Dispatch writer Felicia "Lisha" Gayle. Bell filed a motion to vacate that conviction in St. Louis County late Friday. As he writes, DNA evidence discovered in 2017 has cast serious doubt on the jury's conviction.
When Brianna Velarde decided to open a tea shop, one big thing she was hoping to create was a little extra community in Tower Grove East. That seemed especially important because when she'd moved in about two and a half years ago, two juggernauts in nearby Tower Grove South — VP Square and the London Tea Room — had recently left.
Acclaimed pitmaster David Sandusky earned national recognition for Beast Craft BBQ (20 S Belt W, Belleville). But the new concept he plans to open this coming month is something quite different: an operation embedded within a Knights of Columbus Hall in Fairview Heights, Illinois. Smoke & Kettle (5420 Old Collinsville Road, Fairview Heights, Illinois) will offer a fish- and chicken-forward menu — just in time for Lent, which begins on Wednesday, February 14, this year.
On April 1, 2023, the traffic light at Morgan Ford Road and River Des Peres Boulevard fell onto a car driving past — and that’s no April Fool’s joke. Milo Rankins, of the city’s Carondelet neighborhood, filed a lawsuit against the City of St. Louis last week saying that it had a duty to maintain the intersection and be aware that its traffic lights were at risk of falling.
The circus is coming to town — the Circus of Dreams, that is. Infinite Wonder Productions will present its brand new circus pop-up experience starting Friday, February 2, at Lemmons Restaurant (5800 Gravois Avenue) in South City.
What better way to wind down on a Wednesday night than with some of St. Louis' best singer-songwriters? This Wednesday, January 31, the Focal Point (2720 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood) hosts its first-ever STL Singer-Songwriter Showcase, a rare chance to learn the stories behind the songs in the St. Louis music scene.
The owners of the building that houses Bar:PM, the LGBTQ bar struck last month by a careening St. Louis Police SUV, are now being told by the city their building could be condemned because of the damage done by the cop car. KMOX’s Sean Malone had the scoop Friday, citing a letter the City of St. Louis sent to Kevin Benear and John Claus, who own the building on South Broadway in the Carondelet neighborhood.
St. Louis audiences are getting their first look at two well-received recent Broadway shows with the current run of Funny Girl and last weekend’s Jagged Little Pill at the Fabulous Fox Theatre (527 North Grand Boulevard, fabulousfox.com) . Both shows are thoroughly compelling, and Funny Girl, featuring breakout star Katerina McCrimmon, is absolutely worth your time and attention during this premiere tour. Funny Girl, loosely based on the rise of comedian Fanny Brice and fall of her second husband Neal Arnstein, is stuffed with a little something for everyone.
The St. Louis Zoo (1 Government Drive, stlzoo.org) is hosting its first-ever Animals Aglow lantern festival this spring with more than 60 larger-than-life lanterns depicting animals, plants and traditional Chinese elements. The night event will take place Wednesday through Sunday starting March 13 through May 5 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
No one could envy Jo Bozeman as she walked into a packed meeting room at the Hilton by St. Louis International Airport on Thursday night. Bozeman is the president of the Heritage House Corporation Board of Directors.
Nine months before the City of St. Louis took legal action against Dara Daugherty and her associates' wide-ranging "illegal rooming house" scheme, attorney Ryan Gavin took Daugherty to court with similar allegations — and won a $1.8 million judgment against her. Gavin filed the lawsuit against Daugherty and one of her LLCs in April of 2023 on behalf of James Cole, who had rented a room from Daugherty in the Benton Park West neighborhood.
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