After the 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the months of protests that followed, the city of St. Louis was forced to reckon with its Black residents’ longstanding distrust of its police and courts. Kim Gardner emerged as a voice for change.
Midtown is about to become a biscuit nexus. Earlier this month, Webster Groves darling Honey Bee's Biscuits announced that it was launching a new location in what used to be Beffa's Restaurant at 2700 Olive Street. Now a second biscuit spot is coming to Midtown.
Stray Dog Theatre invites audiences to put on their dancing shoes and boogie on over to the Tower Grove Abbey for Saturday Night Fever. The seminal disco movie and its inimitable soundtrack are transformed into a light-hearted pop musical that’s teeming with ’70s nostalgia, a little romance, infectious beats and signature dance moves.
A new facility promising to be the "World's Largest Indoor Padel + Pickleball Club" is coming to Olive Boulevard and Highway 170. The Padel + Pickle Club promises six "panoramic padel courts" and eight "advanced Cushionmaster II pickleball courts" at 1220 North Price Road in Olivette. What's padel, you ask?
Now you can wear your Imo's and eat it, too. St. Louis' most iconic pizza chain announced this morning that it's debuting a line of apparel later this week. The new Imo's-branded clothing is a collaboration with locally owned apparel company Series Six (26 The Boulevard, Richmond Heights).
The Midnight Company, and its artistic director, producer, frequent playwright and performer Joe Hanrahan, is quite possibly the busiest theater company in town. The fact the company has managed to add a full-length, full-scale production of The Lion in Winter to its season is remarkable.
Alex and Kelly Pearson-Potts first put up a gay pride flag at their home in St. Charles during Pride month. But when what Alex calls "drama" broke out surrounding the St. Charles County Library, with an angry group haranguing the library board over a local librarian's choice to wear both makeup and goatee, they put it back up and kept it up. The flag hung proudly from their porch — until this past weekend.
Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand, as all manner of ancient evil rises anew from its restless slumber intent on but one thing: participating in a "Thriller" flash mob for the amusement of the good citizens of O’Fallon, Illinois. And that’s just one, er, thrilling aspect of the Witches and Wizards Festival, which returns to O'Fallon Station (105 South Vine Street, O'Fallon, Illinois; 618-624-0139) this Saturday, October 14. In addition to the Michael Jackson-themed fun, this event will include fire dancers, a tightrope performance, a night market, a costume contest, a magician and more as downtown O’Fallon is transformed into a hauntingly fun ode to all things Spooky Season.
One of the joys of visiting the Green Shag Market (5733 Manchester Avenue, 314-646-8687) is the contrast between the exterior and the interior. Outside, it looks, to be frank, a bit dubious. Manchester isn’t the prettiest street, and the building itself is rather industrial.
The voicemail left on St. Louis police detective Roger Murphey's cellphone carried a clear sense of urgency. A prosecutor in the St. Louis circuit attorney's office was pleading with Murphey to testify in a murder trial, the sort of thing the lead detective on a case would routinely do to see an arrest through to conviction.
The podcast opens with a coaching session before what, at first, seems to be a meeting between a couple and a con artist. The woman isn't taking it seriously enough.
When LaTosha Baker first walked into 3615 Potomac Street, there was nothing there. Well, there was a building, but it had been completely devastated by time and being uninhabited.
If you want a quiet life with few risks, you should probably move to Nashua, New Hampshire. According to a new study from WalletHub, it's the safest city in the U.S., followed by Columbia, Maryland, and South Burlington, Vermont. But if you want a life of danger, with peril at every corner, you couldn't pick a better place to live than St. Louis — the least safe city in the whole damn country.
It’s a big day for Neil Salsich, the affable singer and guitarist for local roots-rock favorites the Mighty Pines. As we talk over the phone on October 4, Salsich is preparing to see Bob Dylan, one of his heroes, for the first time ever.
A 26-year-old Franz Park man is facing a felony stealing charge after allegedly trying to walk away from the dispensary warehouse where he worked with around $1,700 in Ghost OG marijuana. Charging documents filed against Corey Dunlap say that he was working at Proper Cannabis' Rock Hill warehouse in July when surveillance video showed him taking a box containing 30 packages of marijuana from a vault and hiding it under his desk.
Tumult has reigned in the two weeks following St. Louis community radio station KDHX's dismissal of 10 long-serving volunteer DJs. And there was no Friday exception made today. The mid-afternoon saw dueling press releases from KDHX management and the group of KDHX associate members seeking collective bargaining power.
It's been hard not to feel a bit envious of Kansas City lately. It's not just that what was once a much smaller cow town now has a bigger population than St. Louis due to its clever annexation of outlying suburbs and our continued decline. And it's not just that it has a cool-ass streetcar connecting all the neighborhoods near downtown while we have the shitty Loop trolley that goes nowhere very slowly.
Remember those book fairs in grade school, where Scholastic's catalogs would tantalize you with tiny little postage-stamp-sized images of the latest offerings from Sweet Valley Twins or Goosebumps? Remember how you'd put in your order and then obsess over and over about the paperbacks your teacher would soon be handing you?
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