For Missouri veterans, the state's marijuana programs are looking a lot like green gold. As of today, the Department of Health and Senior Services has transferred more than $29 million from Missouri's medical marijuana program to the Missouri Veterans Commission since the program's inception in 2018. Today alone, DHSS moved $13 million such funds from the medical program.
When Hannah Dinkel started as director of literary arts at the Jewish Community Center last year, she imagined there would be some authors who would be way too prominent to land for the annual St. Louis Jewish Book Festival. Mitch Albom — author of Tuesdays with Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven and so many other huge hits — definitely fell into that category.
Old Town Donuts (510 North Florissant Road, Florissant; 314-831-0907) returned to business as usual this morning after a roach infestation forced the beloved doughnut institution to close last week. On Facebook on Friday, Old Town Donuts announced the 24-hour doughnut shop was temporarily shut down because a few "unwanted guests" were harboring in a piece of new equipment. St. Louis County Health Department initiated the inspection after complaints about roaches surfaced on social media, according to the Post-Dispatch.
As Priscilla, filmmaker Sofia Coppola’s engrossing new film begins, it’s 1959 and 14-year-old Priscilla Beaulieu (Cailee Spaeny) is living in Wiesbaden, West Germany, where her stepfather, an Air Force captain, is stationed. Lonely for her friends back in Texas, Priscilla spends a lot of time painting her nails, spritzing her hair with Aqua Net, and reading fan magazines about the stars of the day, among them Fabian, Bobby Darin and that paradigm-shifting sensation, Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi), who just happens to be in Germany, too, serving out his own military service.
This past week, 31-year-old Megan Gaither left her job as an English teacher after it came to light she had previously moonlighted as a creator of adult content on OnlyFans. If this story sounds familiar, it's because virtually the same thing happened to Brianna Coppage at the beginning of this month.
This story was produced in partnership with the River City Journalism Fund. St. Louis City SC and Sporting Kansas City’s first-ever matchup on May 20 proved to be an unforgettable night, as City SC claimed an emphatic 4-0 victory at Citypark against its biggest rival.
A new cooking school in St. Louis hopes to empower people of all skill levels to engage with food in creative ways through inventive and playful classes. Cooking with Local Mushrooms, Plant-Based Thanksgiving and Homemade Gnocchi are just a few of the offerings at Fennel Cooking Studio (3043 Olive Street, 314-200-5410), which owner Jackie Price opened in Midtown last month.
St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell has dropped his bid for U.S. Senate to run for Congress against Representative Cori Bush. In a statement Monday, Bell said he intended to run for senate because he felt "our future as a democracy was in peril" after Hawley "long abandoned Democratic principles" — but he's now feeling a call to a different role. "Over the last several weeks, as I've campaigned around the state, I've heard one refrain from Democrats above all else: yes, we need you in Washington, but St. Louis needs you in the House of Representatives," he said.
Just two weeks after he allegedly assaulted two different Washington University students near campus, a Florissant man faces a slew of new criminal charges stemming from a series of seemingly random violent attacks in the Central West End. The terrifying encounters took place at 8:30 a.m. near the intersection of Euclid and Pine on Sunday morning.
As a biology professor who studies circadian rhythms, Washington University’s Erik Herzog has strong feelings about the seasonal time changes that will have us “falling back” on November 5 — namely, that we need to scrap them. The former president of the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms is proud to have led the organization to a position that has now been adopted by all of the medical and scientific societies that have taken a position on time changes: That permanent Standard Time is the preferred schedule, and our twice-annual adjustments are not worth the damage.
Arts nonprofit Bread and Roses Missouri hopes to connect with St. Louis pride through its new play, 1877, which premieres November 16 at the Missouri History Museum. It’s the highly relevant true story of the general strike of 1877, a significant event in the labor movement that took place in the city of St. Louis.
When Joshua Love visited art museums and galleries, he would notice something off: There weren’t many Black female artists featured. Instead of just wondering at the deficit, he decided to do something about it: start his own art show featuring the very artists who are too often neglected.
A night of music, cocktails and art-making awaits you at SLAM Underground: Drip. This Saint Louis Art Museum (One Fine Arts Drive 314-721-0072) event brings together two of its current exhibitions, The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century and Aso Oke: Prestige Cloth from Nigeria, by inviting St. Louisans to immerse themselves in Black culture and fashion.
As I waited for KISS to take the stage at Enterprise Center on Tuesday night, one of the final shows on the final leg of their final End of the Road Tour, I couldn’t help but imagine some young kid decades ago falling in love with KISS and therefore rock and roll music. That kid would be middle-aged by now, probably with teenage kids of his own, and here he would be on this night facing a full-circle moment.
The last outpost of the Boardwalk Waffles empire has shuttered. A visit to the ice cream and waffle spot's former south county location at 4348 Telegraph Road found it to be closed and without its former signage. Eric Moore opened his first Boardwalk Waffles & Ice Cream in Maplewood in 2017, and the idea of a scoop of ice cream served atop a waffle seemed to be a hit.
James Harnden has been a longtime activist for cannabis legalization, ever since he got slapped with a low-level felony possession charge for having an ounce of weed. The 56-year old Rockford, Illinois, resident says that charge has cost him job opportunities for 30 years. Earlier this year, he saw an advertisement in the Craigslist “gigs” section posted by a Michigan cannabis real estate group called Canna Zoned MLS.
Halloween's placement on a Tuesday this year means all the best parties will be the previous weekend — but you can't just spend the night at home fielding cheesy jokes from trick-or-treaters, can you? If you don't have kids to monitor and you're too old to beg for candy yourself, you're in that sweet spot for Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun: A Halloween Drag Show. The one-night-only event happening this Tuesday, October 31, at City Winery (3730 Foundry Way, 314-678-5060) features some of the best drag artists in town, including but not limited to hosts Moxie Contin and Lucy Couture.
Arrests for marijuana possession in Missouri reached a 28-year low in 2022, but marijuana possession still accounted for nearly half of all drug arrests in the state, according to new FBI data. Out of 20,829 arrests across the state for drug possession in 2022, 8,863 arrests were for marijuana possession.
The Burney Sisters, the Columbia, Missouri-based sibling combo that specializes in preternaturally tight harmonies, sublime Americana originals and instrument-swapping musical dexterity, have been wowing audiences since before the girls were old enough to ride in the front seat of a car. April Shafer first put instruments in her daughters' hands when the girls were still pre-K. They were busking on Columbia sidewalks when their ages had barely reached double digits and were performing publicly as the Burney Sisters when Olivia was 13 and Emma was 10.
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