Fans of Stephen Sondheim, families looking for entertainment options that aren’t holiday themed and musical aficionados are in for a treat with New Jewish Theatre’s fanciful production of Into the Woods. The beloved musical twists familiar fairy tales into a new adventure filled with humor and charming characters.
The Crazy Patty's Reuben at Shay's Creole Smokehouse (912 South Main Street, St. Charles, 314-852-2803) is less a sandwich — or a clever reference to a character in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia — than a realization that you are eating a Reuben as god intended. The key is owner Shay Landry's pastrami, a succulent, peppery, smoke-laden masterpiece that drips with mouthwatering jus and rendered fat that soaks into the perfectly griddled marble rye and mingles with the tangy, housemade Thousand Island dressing to form a glorious sauce.
If a Washington, DC-based filmmaker gets his way, surveillance drones will be hovering over St. Louis’ Gravois Park neighborhood starting next month as a way to fight crime. Fox 2's Andy Banker reported last night that the filmmaker plans a two-week test run in January during which residents can access a live feed from the drones between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. The St. Louis Board of Education voted 5-1 last night to cancel its participation in the College Kids Savings Account program — a signature program for Mayor Tishaura Jones during her time as city treasurer. The board voted to invoke the 60 days’ notice provision to cancel its memorandum of understanding with the St. Louis treasurer’s office, which has continued to run the program under Jones’ hand-picked successor, Treasurer Adam Layne.
The vice chair of the civilian board tasked with overseeing operations at the St. Louis city jail has resigned. Janis Mensah penned a brief resignation letter addressed to Detention Facility Oversight Board Chair Darryl Gray as well as Ruby Bonner, the deputy commissioner of the Division of Civilian Oversight.
Taqueria Morita — the popular taco pop-up from St. Louis dining scene darlings Tara and Michael Gallina of Vicia/Take Root Hospitality — is no longer a roving restaurant. The hospitality group announced today that it has found a permanent home just one block away in the former Wasabi space at 4239 Duncan Avenue adjacent to the Aloft Hotel in the Cortex, which closed approximately two weeks ago.
Inside the underground tunnels at the City Foundry (3730 Foundry Way) lies St. Louis’ newest best kept secret — None of the Above. The new luxury cocktail lounge from Niche Food Group, the hospitality group from James Beard Award-winning Chef Gerard Craft, will open on Thursday, December 14, just in time for holiday celebrations.
KMOV's rebrand to First Alert 4 got us thinking. With St. Louis news outlets in open warfare over who’s "first" on everything, whether that be weather or news, no one is thinking about what the people actually want.
Dreaming of a white Christmas this year? If you'll be here in St. Louis, you may want to adjust your expectations. It's not just that the weather continues to feel more like fall than winter this month, with high temps this week predicted to soar yet again past 50 degrees.
Back in September, Andy Frasco & the U.N. held one of Music at the Intersection’s most outrageously raucous and rocking parties. In his typical fashion, Frasco obliterated any distance between performers and the audience, standing on his piano, conducting the band like his hair was on fire and leaping into the crowd to teach everyone to dance the Horah.
While the holiday season is packed with a variety of big, delightful shows, a few local companies are offering more intimate plays with smaller casts and more personal themes. West End Players Guild’s Walter Cronkite is Dead and St. Louis Actors’ Studio’s Barrymore offered two fantastic theater options for theatergoers looking to be entertained without all the holiday trimmings.
Venice Cafe, the eccentric bar and music venue in St. Louis’ Benton Park neighborhood, is apparently confusing patrons of Venice, Italy. At least, that’s what a letter received by the bar yesterday claims.
There are pretty much always stars doing their glass blowing thing at St. Louis' own Third Degree Glass Factory (5200 Delmar Boulevard, 314-367-4527, thirddegreeglassfactory.com). And really that's enough for us. But sometimes it's fun to import some outside talent — even if it's just so we can show off how great our local hot shop is.
Platypus (4501 Manchester Avenue) has earned raves in its two years in business — and now the national press is playing catchup. The cocktail bar in St. Louis' Grove neighborhood, which combines expertly mixed drinks with a friendly dive feel, was the RFT's Best New Bar in 2022 and Best Late-Night Bar this year. Now it can add to those accolades "Best Underrated Bar" by no less than Liquor.com, in a list that draws on the expertise of 60 hospitality industry professionals.
Great Rivers Greenway will open a new Chain of Rocks Park just in time for spring. The new park will be on the Missouri side of the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge and will aim to bring people to the site on a regular basis with enhancements in safety, security, event opportunities and the facilities needed to support them.
The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of an unknown subject who brutally attacked a transgender person on a city bus. The suspect, a Black man who the FBI estimates to be about 30 years old, punched, kicked and pointed a gun at the victim during the minute-long attack. It started after the suspect boarded a MetroBus at Chippewa Street and Grand Boulevard in the Dutchtown neighborhood of St. Louis city at approximately 3:30 p.m. on April 13.
A St. Louis man is facing two firearm-related felonies after pulling a gun on a woman he'd met only a few days prior. Police say that 36-year-old Tony Bess Jr. met the Hazelwood woman earlier this month on a dating app and moved into her home a short time later.
Bestselling author and St. Louis native Scott Alexander Hess will discuss his latest novel with filmmaker Geoff Story at Spine Bookstore (1976 Arsenal Street) on December 18. Publisher Rebel Satori released A Season in Delhi as the first of its new Bijou Book collection — a numbered series of shorter works, novellas and novelettes.
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