St. Louis police announced this morning that they apprehended a 29-year-old suspected of robbing Pi Pizzeria earlier in the week. According to police, around 9 p.m.
If you're out on the town this holiday season and realize you've spent a little too much on pumpkin spice cocktails and are now a bit short for your Uber Ride home, the Missouri Department of Transportation has your back. Through the wee hours of January 1, every Missourian can claim two $10 vouchers for Uber ride shares with the code SoberMO23. The code is eligible to be used from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Every time someone decides to drop a sequel to The Exorcist franchise, it’s always a direct sequel to recently departed director William Friedkin’s shocking original, the one that fucked up so many moviegoers’ days when it was released 50 years ago. When William Peter Blatty, who wrote the book and the Oscar-winning screenplay adaptation, made the bold move to write and direct The Exorcist III (the first and last supernatural film to feature wordless cameos from Fabio and Patrick Ewing as angels) in 1990, he ignored everything that happened in John Boorman’s reviled 1977 follow-up The Exorcist II: The Heretic.
Let’s start with the big Dylanological news. Bob Dylan gave St. Louis a hometown surprise at last night’s sold-out Stifel Theatre show by opening with “Johnny B. Goode,” the first time he’s ever played the song at one of his own shows.
St. Louis rapper Sexyy Red says she has nothing to do with a sex tape that was leaked on her social media one day after she said she "loves Trump." A video posted to the rapper's Instagram on Wednesday has since been removed. Sexyy Red, a.k.a. Janae Wherry, took to social media today to deny she leaked the tape herself.
Melbourne on the Mississippi Festival w/ Lothario, Alien Nosejob, Felchers, Citric Dummies, Science Man, Cruelster, the Haddonfields, DJ Martin Meyer
5 p.m. Friday, October 6.
A Hazelwood man filed suit this week in federal court, challenging a Missouri law that says he must display a "no candy or treats at this residence" sign at his house on Halloween because he is a sex offender. Thomas Sanderson, 58, has been on the state’s offender registry since 2006.
One of the foremost defenders of embattled St. Louis-area police officers appears to have gone from backing the blue to taking their asses to court. Jeff Roorda, we hardly knew ye. The often-bombastic former business manager of the St. Louis Police Officers Association filed suit yesterday against his own former police union, saying they breached his contract and interfered with his performance.
September was a little quieter than August in terms of restaurant openings, but we still saw some real treasures pop up in St. Louis in the past month. A big one is definitely El Molino del Sureste, the second concept from chef Alex Henry and his brother Jeff, who are the minds behind the St. Louis Foundry Food Hall spot Sureste. Like the latter, El Molino del Sureste focuses on dishes from their native Yucatan.
A fiscal operations support manager at the St. Louis City Justice Center says he was fired by the jail's director after writing two letters of concern about the jail operations to the city's Division of Civilian Oversight. Opeoluwa Oke worked at the city's Comptroller's Office and the City Emergency Management Agency before taking the job at the City Justice Center in June.
Attention all strange and unusual St. Louisans — a new pop-up cocktail bar is opening up locally just for you — live people not welcome. The Burton Bar, a Beetlejuice-themed speakeasy, opens today at Utopia Studios (3957 Park Avenue) in Botanical Heights. The pop-up is promising an "illicit, edgy atmosphere," vintage decor, themed cocktails (there has to literally be a Beetlejuice cocktail, right?)
When you order the chicha morada at Los Incas (4279 Keaton Crossing Boulevard, O'Fallon, Missouri; 636-244-0326), you get more than a glass filled with pellet ice and gorgeous, magenta-hued liquid that tastes of tropical fruits, cinnamon and licorice. You get a conversation with Lugia, co-owner Luis Moreno's sister, who will passionately describe experiencing the non-alcoholic beverage in her hometown of Lima, Peru.
Criminal charges have been dropped against the St. Louis man who made headlines earlier this year for facing charges of being an accessory to kidnapping. Fabian Marta, 51, was found himself in the media spotlight because he'd also donated to the anti-sex trafficking film Sound of Freedom. He's one of more than 6,000 people who made an average donation of $500 to help the film be shown in theaters, where it has grossed more than $200 million.
The man who allegedly ran over a Fox 2 journalist in August has been charged criminally by prosecutors in St. Louis County. The single misdemeanor charge of operating a motor vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner was filed this morning against Earl Longmeyer, 57, a Hillsdale village employee.
Stages St. Louis closes its 2023 season with a perennial audience favorite, the “based on a true story” jukebox musical Million Dollar Quartet. Stages’ entertaining production puts the audience in the studio with producer Sam Phillips then takes a nostalgic trip through the early days of rock with rousing songs, big stars and drawn-out dramatic tension.
Members of St. Louis' queer community were upset when a church bought the Tivoli Theatre in the Delmar Loop two years ago. They were even more upset when they learned about One Family Church's opposition to same-sex relationships and non-cisgendered identities. The church has committed to showing movies in the theater again — but it will not screen movies with LGBTQ+ characters or themes, given its stance on queer identity.
Last Thursday night, Bill Donius and Jay Perez hosted the St. Louis Public Library Foundation's gala committee kickoff at their stately Kingsbury Place residence. The elegant soiree was attended by dozens of library supporters, including Tom and Ulrike Schlafly, Liz Austin and Brooke Meek.
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