A couple weeks ago, Steve Perron was sitting on his front porch and thinking about cicadas. A former KMOV producer, he remembered all the various stories the station had run about not letting pets scarf up too many of the insects. “The fact is that the vast majority of them come up out of the ground [and get eaten],” Perron speculates, explaining how he’s spotted very few live bugs.
Dozens of loved ones, community members and faith leaders held their breath as the judge presiding over Maurnice DeClue’s certification hearing weighed whether to release the St. Louis County teenager from its juvenile detention center while she awaits trial. Nearly two months after DeClue was captured on video delivering a brutal beating that left another teen hospitalized, the 15-year-old sat next to her attorney in the small courtroom and held her hands before her face, forehead resting against her fingertips as if in prayer. “The motion is denied,” St. Louis County Circuit Court Judge Jason Dodson ruled.
The man believed to be behind a series of recent peeping Tom incidents in Clayton’s Moorlands neighborhood has a long history of engaging in such voyeurism. Even so, he’s only facing a misdemeanor charge.
Two men are currently in jail, charged with using a stolen SUV to rip an ATM from its foundation at a St. Louis County bank — an M.O. the two men also may have employed on two other occasions in recent weeks. St. Louis County Police were already surveilling the Dellwood home that Charles Staples, 35, and Makez Kimble, 34, used as the base of operations for their brazen scheme when, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, they say the two men emerged from the garage in a Dodge Durango. The stolen Durango itself was already known to police, who had obtained a search warrant to track it via the vehicle's WiFi.
In Thai, “tee rak” means “my love” or “my dear,” said Tee Rak chef and founder Alada Poodtajan. “I call my family ‘tee rak,’ I call my husband ‘tee rak,’” she adds. The name reflects her affection for Thai cuisine, but it’s also a call to customers to come and enjoy her food.
While most 16-year-olds are thinking about homework or what to wear to prom, at least seven Missouri legislators remain convinced they should be allowed to sign marriage licenses and plan shotgun weddings. Child marriage has been a longstanding embarrassment for the Show Me State. It wasn’t until 2018 that legislators got around to banning marriage for residents 14 years of age and younger — and even then, 50 lawmakers voted no.
Did your power flicker last night in south city? If so, it might have been because of the storms rolling through town. It might have also been because of an Ironton man stealing 35 feet of copper wire from a power substation in St. Louis Hills, doing $100,000 of damage in the process.
A hot chicken joint backed by Drake is set to land in St. Louis. LA-based Dave's Hot Chicken will bring seven locations in the area, with the first opening up sometime this year. The fast-casual restaurants specialize in sliders and tenders, with a variety of firey spice levels that end in "Reaper."
This week St. Louis sees a stop from the legendary NYC experimental rock act Swans, who will bring an apocalyptic cacophony of hypnotically delivered nihilism and complex soundscapes to Delmar Hall on Friday. Elsewhere, Atlanta's Mariah the Scientist comes through to the Pageant on Tuesday, fresh off last week's arrest in which she is accused of attacking a woman at a nightclub. (Gonna need that show money for lawyer fees, lest she end up joining her boyfriend Young Thug in the clink.)
There is a clear undertone of tension on the campus of Washington University as students finish finals and prepare for commencement, Sylvie Raymond, a senior who is graduating this coming Monday, tells RFT. “I'm a little nervous to see how everything plays out and what measures the school takes,” Raymond says. “And obviously, there's always the thought in the back of my mind, like, are they going to cancel graduation?”
More than 10 years have passed since Rue Lafayette closed, but people in Lafayette Square never stopped talking about it. The cafe at 2026 Lafayette Avenue was reportedly a victim of the divorce of its proprietor Araceli Kopiloff and her husband Richard Zimmer when it shuttered in 2013, and yet no one seemed certain the closure was final, even after the divorce was. Everyone seemed to think something, surely, could be worked out, and the occasional pop-up on-site in the years that followed only kept the flame alive.
Tim Convy shows up at a Webster Groves restaurant with a heavily wrapped right thumb, a casualty of a moving accident involving a van door, but he doesn’t let it bother him. Things are going too well for him. Sure, it’s his microphone-holding hand, the one he uses during his stand-up routines as one the area’s top comics.
A little ways south of St. Louis, close to where the countryside rolls, Pedal’N Pi is fueling customers for the road. If you’re a trail biker – and, actually, if you’re not – this is the place to come. It feels like a good business model, especially when the weather is fine (and it’s a perfect day for a ride) or you happen to have a hankering for some pretty excellent sourdough pizza.
It's a primordial thing. We've been roasting our food over a flame for years. Smoke has twisted in our hair ever since we chimps came down from the trees.
A company most St. Louisans have likely never heard of — Bet Tennessee — has dissed the city’s St. Louis SC Stadium by ranking it the number one most unsafe Major League Soccer stadium in the country. Just behind St. Louis in second and third place on the list are Houston Dynamo FC and the Portland Timbers. The sports betting website claims it factored in “the crime rating, total crime index, fanbase ranking, and crime grade,” for the exact zip code of each stadium.
A progressive advocacy organization launched a new initiative today that aims to “reclaim” the concept of freedom by calling out the hypocritical politicians who use the word — and then vote its opposite. Progress Missouri says its “Missouri Freedom Project” is an effort to chronicle the actions of politicians whose votes and actions stand in opposition to their speeches. “We’re trying to reclaim the word freedom from people who don’t seem to know the meaning,” says Liz McCune, executive director of Progress Missouri.
Thursday 05/09 Too Good to Be True
If you're one of the hundreds of thousands (or should that even be millions?) of theater lovers who thrilled to the glorious falsettos in Jersey Boys, the showstopping Broadway musical that's barnstormed the nation more or less continuously since its 2005 debut, you really need to catch John Lloyd Young: Broadway's Jersey Boy at the Blue Strawberry (364 North Boyle Avenue).
On the border of the Fairground and Hyde Park neighborhoods, a mammoth has lain dormant for 20 years. Since its closure in 2004, the three-story, 51,380-square- foot Eliot School has not seen much life — but for the occasional wind or graffitist. Opposite North Grand from the schoolhouse, Jubilee Community Church works tirelessly to bring community members back to life.
A group of neighbors are threatening legal action against the out-of-state owners of the old St. Alexius hospital campus in south St. Louis if the problems plaguing the property aren’t taken care of in 60 days. The letter from the neighbors accuses property owners Jeffrey Ahlholm and Lawrence Feigen of “willfully and maliciously” abandoning the buildings of the Jefferson campus of the shuttered hospital near Cherokee Street and Jefferson Avenue. The letter says the two men left a significant amount of valuable machinery and medical equipment on the premises, turning the eleven buildings into a haven for squatters and burglars.
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