The company behind Mission brand tortillas and chips is taking on St. Louis' favorite Mission — Mission Taco Joint. The homegrown SoCal-style eatery is accused of unfair competition and trademark infringement, with the 60-year-old food products company accusing the St. Louis restaurant group of a "misleading representation" that is "likely to cause confusion" in the taco market. Mission Taco Joint started a full 10 years ago with a single restaurant on Delmar, and it's since grown to eight locations, as well as a food truck.
When Mighty Pines multi-instrumentalist Gerard Erker first heard about some drama at St. Louis community radio station KDHX, he knew he wanted to stay out of it. He’d let them figure out their issues, he thought. He cringed but thought something similar even when he heard the station had axed longtime DJ Tom “Papa” Ray.
City outreach workers are working to shelter more than 20 unhoused individuals still residing at an encampment in front of City Hall before a new curfew on the area begins tonight. Department of Human Services Director Adam Pearson told reporters Tuesday afternoon that the city will enforce a 10 p.m. curfew at the camp tonight after police and municipal workers tried to clear the camp yesterday. Pearson said the city has 50 beds available for those who would like them.
We all know someone who has been touched by the opioid crisis, but with help from the St. Louis County government (and the St. Louis County library system), we might be able to help save some lives that would otherwise be lost to overdose. St. Louis County has started a program to help get Naloxone (a.k.a Narcan) kits into the hands of residents so they can have the life-saving medication on hand. Narcan works by reversing the effects of an opioid overdose by blocking the effects of opiates on the brain and by restoring breathing.
Late yesterday, Missouri’s Division of Cannabis Regulation announced the first round of successful applicants to the state's marijuana microbusiness license program. The 48 awardees were selected in a random blind lottery on August 28. The Division of Cannabis Regulation says that the winners were drawn from a pool of more than 1,600 applications.
St. Louis Shakespeare Company takes audiences on a trip to a magical forest where unsuspecting human visitors are subject to the enchantment of faeries. Though the script has been edited to tighten the focus and reduce character count, the company and director Christina Rios deliver a faithful retelling of the Bard’s much loved A Midsummer Night’s Dream in ways that feel fresh, fluid and liberating.
Congresswoman Cori Bush expressed in a letter sent this morning to St. Louis Corrections Commissioner Jennifer Clemons-Abdullah that she is "deeply troubled" over the conditions of the City Justice Center. Ten detainees have died at the jail since January 2021, with three fatalities in the past six weeks.
Last Wednesday, the RFT published our annual Best of St. Louis issue — and as usual, we fully expected a bit of controversy. Best Restaurant in St. Louis?
St. Louis city officials called off the planned disbandment of a camp of unhoused people in front of City Hall in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Police had congregated at a park around City Hall late Monday night to evict the camp’s holdouts at 10 p.m., but protestors and some residents of the camp refused to leave.
The Missouri man who escaped from prison custody last month is now facing multiple charges related to his day on the lam. Tommy Boyd, 45, had been serving a 30-year sentence at Potosi Correctional Facility when he was transferred to Mercy South for medical treatment.
Ameristar Casino in St. Charles (1 Ameristar Boulevard, St Charles; ameristarstcharles.boydgaming.com) will soon host one of Amazon's latest attempts to streamline an experience no one had a problem with in the first place. On Wednesday, Ameristar will open Missouri's first Roll In & Out store near its riverboat casino. Billed as a "unique, hassle-free shopping experience," the stores have no cashiers and track which items customers pick up using artificial intelligence.
This story was produced in partnership with the River City Journalism Fund. The competition between St. Louis City SC and Sporting Kansas City is the latest edition of an interstate sports rivalry that goes back several decades and includes the baseball Royals and the Cardinals and the football Chiefs and the Cardinals (and then the Rams).
This week’s Harmonious Hooping Happy Hour is anything but your regular after-work alcohol-athon. Going down at HandleBar (4127 Manchester Avenue, 314-652-2212) on Thursday, October 7, this family-friendly affair will feature circus performers from Circus Harmony putting on live demonstrations as well as leading hula-hooping workshops for kids of all ages. [content-1]
Fare on offer includes pizza as well as plenty of adult beverage options, and it's all for a good cause, to boot.
The last big party of the season happens this weekend, and it’s sure to be a rager. GroveFest goes down this Saturday, October 7, and the event starts at 3 p.m. but doesn’t end until close to midnight. This year’s edition celebrates 50 years of hip-hop and will feature world-class performances from Big Freedia, Bates & the Strangers and more, but there’s also plenty of other entertainment to be had off of the main stage.
Last week, 28-year-old Brianna Coppage was put on leave by the St. Clair High School, the rural Missouri school where she taught English Language Arts to ninth and tenth graders. The reason?
David Boykin has spent the majority of his life surrounded by piles of high-end audio equipment in various states of repair. When he was growing up in the early ‘70s, his dad started a DJ company right as the disco craze was sweeping the nation.
A 44-year-old man died this morning in the custody of St. Louis' City Justice Center, marking the tenth death of a CJC detainee in the past two years and the third since August 20. A spokesperson with the Department of Public Safety confirmed that around 2 a.m.
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