Just as KDHX leadership attempted to mollify a roiling community with an on-air Q&A, the nonprofit's board of directors saw at least one departure. Board member Matthew Vianello confirmed to the RFT by email today that he resigned from his position on Friday morning. Vianello is an attorney with Jacobson Press P.C. in Clayton.
The city’s Board of Building Appeals hammered down its rejection of New Life Evangelistic Center in a lengthy order this week in which the board claimed the former shelter fell short of multiple safety measures — including fire safety. In July, the board sided with concerned neighbors who appealed the city Building Division’s permit for New Life to renovate its space at 1411 Locust Street in Downtown West.
Online speculation swirled among unhappy KDHX community members in the hours leading up to today’s live on-air Q&A with Executive Director Kelly Wells and Board President Gary Pierson. Others shared earnest questions, some hoping that they might finally get straight answers.
Shaker Heights is kind of like Cleveland's version of University City — an inner-ring suburb with lovely older homes that's both affluent and not affluent, depending on the block, and full of both good intentions and realities that don't always live up to them. And even if you've already read Celeste Ng's excellent fiction set there, you'd be wise to get Laura Meckler's new nonfiction book Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity.
From his recurring Bird Up! segments to his penchant for destroying the entire set at the start of each show to his torturing of unwitting celebrity guests, Eric Andre's absurd antics on his eponymous Adult Swim program ruthlessly skewer talk show convention while at the same time serving as damn entertaining television.
A deputy with the St. Louis City Sheriff's Office pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter today in St. Louis County. The plea hearing lasted only about 20 minutes but was filled with tension, as Judge Ellen Ribaudo's courtroom was packed with both supporters of deputy James Buchanan as well as the family of the man he killed.
St. Louis is often a divided town — Black vs. white, north vs. south, Democrat vs. progressive. Yet there's one man who can unite us all, and that is Mister Gary. St. Louis' self-proclaimed "king of hospitality," Gary Boyd is best known for his starring role on the public access TV show Them Yo People.
A church in Lebanon, Missouri, recently came under fire for promoting a youth-led bonfire in which participants will "burn books and ungodly artifacts." This being Missouri, people interpreted that to mean the church would host a Nazi-style book burn. The church's Facebook post about the burning-book bonfire has drawn 533 shares, most of them incredulous.
One of St. Louis' favorite free destinations is looking for an artist — and they'll pay you $5,000 if you're the one that they want. Grant's Farm wants to commission a mural to celebrate its 120th anniversary, and the St. Louis County tourist attraction has issued a call to artists willing to design it and paint it on the walls of its tiergarten. The building is near where the trams arrive at the farm, so you'd be painting a high-visibility spot (and who wouldn't want to take their breaks surrounded by baby goats?).
A 22-year-old Hazelwood woman is facing a felony after allegedly biting a city police officer. Prosecutors filed the assault charge against Domanique Burnside yesterday in St. Louis City Circuit Court.
As the idea of a healthy work-life balance grows more and more unfathomable in this era of late-night emails, weekend remote work sessions and work-from-home productivity monitoring, it’s unsurprising to see personal relationships take a serious hit. When we’re expected to do far more than ever before, for far less than what we’re worth, all from the comfort of our houses, there’s naturally going to be a change in dynamic with our loved ones.
Artist Adam Pendleton’s preferred hues may be black and white, but the message of his artwork, now on display at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (1 Brookings Drive, 314-935-4523, kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu), is anything but. To Divide By, which opened late last month, showcases the past five years of Pendleton’s artistic practice. In the exhibition, which encompasses all four of the Kemper’s special exhibition spaces, the internationally renowned, Brooklyn-based visual artist explores what it means for art to be abstract.
Attorneys for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch want to appeal a judge's ruling that bars them from publishing information based on an alleged cop killer's mental health evaluation until the trial is complete — but they face a procedural hurdle before they can even do that. That’s because St. Louis Judge Elizabeth Hogan failed to make her order barring the paper from publishing permanent, and temporary orders, no longer how long they’re extended, cannot be appealed.
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Kick off your Halloween season this year with Zombie Love, a mystery dinner theater show at the appropriately spooky Lemp Mansion (3322 Demenil Place, 314-664-8024).
A former north St. Louis county police officer already facing state charges for sodomizing a jail detainee is now facing federal charges for allegedly abusing many more men in a similar fashion. In June, Marcellis Blackwell, 34, who was then an officer with the North County Police Cooperative, was charged by St. Louis County prosecutors for sodomizing a handcuffed man. In that incident, Blackwell is accused of arresting a man, driving him to a "secluded area" not far from Normandy High School and fondling him.
In the relatively short period of four years, Cori Stewart has become one of the most active standup comics in St. Louis, even while frequently producing her own shows at a variety of rooms. Stewart’s time in St. Louis is growing short, though, as the attorney by day/comic by night is moving to Denver.
Normally, when people sue someone in St. Louis, they hire the St. Louis City Sheriff’s Department to serve their target with the lawsuit — whether that’s directly handing the suit to them or to a representative who agrees to accept service on their behalf. The sheriff in St. Louis, like sheriffs around the country, is paid to perform that function by many private litigants.
With all the time Josh Hawley spends defending his manhood, running away from mobs he incited and getting verbally slapped by people who actually know things, surely the last thing that's on the senator's mind is what to wear. That shows. Hawley made a rare appearance in Missouri last weekend to show face among autoworkers on strike in Wentzville.
It was initially booked as just a regular DJ night for KDHX DJs Rich Reese and bobEE Sweet, but now their gig this Saturday at the Royale (3132 South Kingshighway Boulevard, theroyale.com) is swiftly turning into an impromptu rally for the soul of KDHX. The local public radio station has seen nothing but turmoil lately, with management recently telling 13 volunteer DJs to take a hike and then even more DJs followed them out the door in solidarity. [content-2]
It’s been a hot mess, basically, but what do music-lovers do when the going gets tough?
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