Local artist Gavin Kroeber has won a 2024 Creative Capital Award in Film and Visual Arts and Moving Image. Kroeber, a lecturer in architecture and in art history and archeology at Washington University, will receive up to $50,000 in unrestricted funds to create new works of art.
It was a random Saturday in mid-December 2023 when Jason and Nicole Thompson casually decided to embark on their lifelong dream. They had welcomed a small group of friends to their brand-new Midtown brewery the night before to celebrate obtaining their liquor license, the last legal formality on their checklist, and the private party had gone well.
When I heard about the new movie Miller’s Girl, my initial reaction was, We’re still making these? The story of a clever, cunning, desirable teenage girl wrapping a middle-aged man around her little finger and sending him down a life-destroying path was a major plot in the 1990s: Poison Ivy, The Crush, Wild Things.
It's the coldest day of the winter, with temperatures plunging well below zero, as I talk on the phone with violinist Molly Healey, who is feeling under all that weather. "I got the flu or crud or something," Healey tells me from her home base of Springfield, Missouri, on a good day to hunker down.
Do you have a fear of being one of those people who wanders off trail for about five feet, gets totally discombobulated and can't find their way back? A tense scene unfolds as various rescue agencies get called and begin combing the woods, maybe eventually finding you — or maybe not.
Lillie Crockett’s life has been a giant, hassle-filled question mark since the evening of January 14 — when frozen water pipes burst at the 252-unit Heritage House Apartments in Midtown St. Louis, forcing the evacuation of Crockett and 119 fellow residents. Crockett, 86, spent the next week at the Hilton at the Ballpark.
Rapper Michael Henderson — better known as CTS Luh Wick — was acquitted of murder this afternoon after a three-day trial in St. Louis city. Henderson, 19, had been accused of shooting 42-year-old Joseph Raymond Shaw in August 2022 on South Broadway.
Downtown St. Louis will soon have a new spot to grab a slice and a pint. Hot Pizza Cold Beer is slated to open on Friday, February 2, at 610 Washington Avenue in the Mercantile Exchange building in the former home of Pi Pizzeria.
A Clayton resident weighs in on the drama that's gripped his city: I am not a subject matter expert on real estate development or municipal politics, and like many parents of students, residents, and others, when I initially read about the Clayton School District’s now terminated purchase agreement to acquire the Caleres campus, I was surprised at the scale of the real estate transaction and the lack of communication and community outreach for such a massive endeavor.
Calling all bikers, drivers, walkers and riders! Yes, you, shimmying across Grand with that slice of cashew pepperoni from Pizza Head in your hand, desperately trying to avoid being mowed down by a motorist.
Sometimes to appreciate the beauty of St. Louis on a winter's day you need just need some perspective. Take last Friday. It was bitterly cold — the day's high was 17 degrees — and on the ground, it was easy enough to feel depressed.
In July 2013, I rolled up to the then-Delmar Boulevard office of the Riverfront Times, seven months pregnant and fresh off a plane from Washington, D.C., to begin a freelance gig as the paper's restaurant critic. People always ask how I got this job — it's probably the most common question I get, even before where to go to eat — and I still sometimes wonder that myself.
St. Louis police have put a stop to the year-long reign of window-smashing, cigarette-stealing terror one man inflicted on a Family Dollar in the Southwest Garden neighborhood. Police say that on no fewer than seven occasions between November 2022 and September 2023, 38-year-old Tim Watson threw a heavy object through the store's window, went inside and helped himself to cigarettes, in all but one case making off with more than $750 in product.
A high-speed police chase through north St. Louis yesterday ended with a 19-year-old driver in police custody — and his car flying off I-70 into a nearby embankment. RFT photojournalist Zachary Linhares captured the aftermath as a St. Louis Metropolitan Police officer eyed the stolen Hyundai Elantra after it crashed. Police say they were first alerted by the Real Time Crime Center that a stolen vehicle was traveling southbound on North Grand Boulevard, heading toward Washington Avenue, around 2:30 p.m.
Northview Village, St. Louis’ largest skilled nursing facility, made headlines in the New York Times, Washington Post and other national media when it closed abruptly in mid-December. The frantic transfer of 174 residents — many with only the clothes on their backs — to other care centers in the middle of the night led to emotional breakdowns, the disappearance for days of some residents and heart-wrenching efforts by family members to reunite with loved ones.
Thursday 01/25 And That's the Bottom Line
Get body-slammed by nostalgia at the Arkadin Cinema and Bar (5228 Gravois Avenue) this Thursday, January 25, as you celebrate the Rise of Stone Cold Steve Austin with a free viewing of the double feature Austin 3:16 Uncensored and Hell Yeah: Stone Cold's Saga Continues, two DIY films made in the 1990s chronicling the then-future WWF superstar's rise to fame.
Several St. Louis-based chefs, restaurateurs and restaurants were named this morning as semifinalists for the James Beard Foundation’s annual Restaurant and Chef Awards. Mainlander and Sado were nominated in the Best New Restaurant category.
If you love a good flaky croissant, one of the best in the U.S. is waiting for you in Kirkwood. A new Yelp list out this week names home-grown Nathaniel Reid Bakery (11243 Manchester Road, Kirkwood) the second best in the entire U.S. and Canada, too. It follows Nathaniel Reid's inclusion on a 2019 Yelp list of the best bakeries in the country.
St. Louis' most famous misdemeanant is again litigating issues around his crime — this time filing paperwork seeking an expungement. Mark McCloskey, who pleaded guilty in 2021 to misdemeanor assault after brandishing weapons at protestors walking through their gated community in the Central West End, filed the request yesterday in St. Louis Circuit Court. If granted, it would seal the records of his conviction.
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