St. Louis' College Hill neighborhood will soon have a new source for sweet treats. Uhuru Food & Pies is set to open this summer at 3719 West Florissant Avenue in what used to be Kay's Kitchen. The Oakland, California, business has an unusual model.
Jasmine Raskas first picked up a paint brush in high school but didn't take her skills seriously until 2016 and her first exhibition. "I had been making art my whole life and always believed I would retire as an artist, or get to it more seriously at some later point in life," Raskas says.
For Simiya Sudduth, art really got started with Frida Kahlo. "I've always been a creative person," Sudduth says, explaining that she'd picked up her artist mom's Kahlo book one day.
Narrative prints filled with satisfying linework and whole worlds of layered meaning. Bright murals that draw upon tarot to deliver powerful messages about healing and equality.
Two hero baristas have been fired by Starbucks after preventing the store where they work from being robbed. On Sunday, December 17, two men walked into the coffee shop at 212 South Grand Boulevard in St. Louis, carrying what appeared to be guns and telling everyone in the store to get on the ground and give up any valuables they had on them.
Beloved University City coffeehouse and bike shop Cursed Bikes & Coffee (7401 Pershing Avenue, University City) is soon to be no more. The business announced yesterday on Facebook and Square that Sunday, February 4, would be its last day in business.
Criminal defense attorney David Mueller announced this morning he is dropping out of the race for St. Louis Circuit Attorney. Mueller announced his candidacy last April amid the turmoil engulfing then-Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner.
Nobody puts Schlafly in the corner — for too long anyway. For the first time since that nasty COVID-19 shut down in-person entertainment, the local microbrewery will have live music in both its city and county locations: Fridays at the Schlafly Tap Room (2100 Locust Street) and Saturdays at Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue, Maplewood).
St. Louis' population decline is often talked about in the context of the city's population peaking shortly after World War II and then dropping steadily in the seven decades since. But Saint Louis University professor and demographer Ness Sándoval says that to only focus on the city is to miss the bigger issue bedeviling St. Louis, and that is people leaving the region altogether — specifically, Black families.
St. Louis prosecutors have turned over their first batch of evidence in their case against the co-owner of an LGBTQ bar charged with assault last month after a police SUV smashed into his business. That evidence, however, doesn't include any video, body cam or otherwise.
On and off since 2014, Danielle Hopkins has rented from Dara Daugherty, the St. Louis slumlord who was hit last week with a lawsuit from the city accusing her of operating “illegal rooming houses” in 39 condemned houses across south city. Most recently, Hopkins spent roughly five years at a house on South 38th Street in Dutchtown, a house that the city says has been condemned since November 2018.
A beloved Hill mainstay is getting top honors from the Missouri Restaurant Association. Anthonino’s Taverna owners and siblings Anthony and Rosario Scarato have been selected as the association’s 2023 Restaurateurs of the Year.
Somewhere in Jefferson County firefighters ought to be both breathing a sigh of relief and patting themselves on the back. Wild footage posted to various Twitter accounts shows an engine with the Rock Community Fire Protection District spinning out of control on a residential street.
If Missouri employees ask for workers’ compensation after an on-the-job injury, employers can require them to take a drug test for marijuana. If they test positive — even if they hadn’t consumed marijuana for days — their compensation and death benefit may be reduced by 50 percent.
Stews Food & Liquor opened on Friday, January 19, at 1862 South 10th St. in the former home of The Wood Shack in the Soulard neighborhood of St. Louis. The new restaurant is co-owned by bartender Nate Burrows, previously of Cinder House and Jack Nolen’s, chef Brent Petty, previously of Cinder House, and Kristen “Stew” Leahy.
Over the course of six weeks, starting late last year and ending last week, a Jefferson City woman allegedly fed her husband a series of poisoned smoothies and meals in an apparent attempt to kill him. The smoothies fortunately didn't kill the man, who is unnamed in court documents.
Emma Miller is living every teenage fashionista’s dream with her online boutique, Style It Out. “I [started] during COVID 2020, my freshman year; I was 14,” Miller says.
For the past four months, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (3716 Washington Avenue) has featured in its modernist concrete halls some of the most beautiful ghosts in a city that's full of them. In conjunction with the National Building Arts Center based in Sauget, Illinois, its Urban Archaeology: The Lost Buildings of St. Louis exhibit gives our city's detritus the attention it deserves, even as it asks important questions about what gets saved and what gets destroyed.
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