Marc Maron has a long history with St. Louis. The Los Angeles-based comedian has been touring comedy clubs for years, and he always makes time to stop in St. Louis and enjoy all that we have to offer. He also has a special relationship with our town because he’s had a long-time obsession with ice cream from Clementine’s Creamery.
In 2015, Manny Negron was just beginning his career in beer. He had talked his way into a gig tending bar at a Centennial, Colorado, brewery that specialized in German styles, and after long shifts slinging steins, he and the bar manager would sit in the empty bier hall and pound pints of the house-made Helles lager.
Thousands of bikers planned on riding through the streets of St. Louis for the Moonlight Ramble this past Saturday. But a last-minute call-off cancelled the annual event. The cancellation was due to issues with a third-party security company, according to an email sent to participants.
It's not hard to spot a maverick in the wild. For example, take Casey Jovick, the owner of Jovick Brothers Burgers (4993 Loughborough Avenue, 314-390-2899), which opened in Princeton Heights on August 22.
Dred Scott's great-great-great granddaughter says she's raised the money and is ready to unveil a monument to her famous ancestor later this month. Lynne Jackson set up a GoFundMe three years ago, seeking to raise money to install a memorial at Calvary Cemetery in north St. Louis. That's where Scott was buried in 1867, after being moved from his original, unmarked grave near what's today Saint Louis University.
If your Starbucks frappucino has tasted like ass recently, we may know why. A Starbucks barista in Ballwin with a purported diaper fetish was put on blast today for allegedly stuffing whipped cream down their diaper from behind a Starbucks counter. Social media trolls Libs of TikTok posted video of the action on Twitter on Friday.
St. Louis Shakespeare Festival scores with The Game’s Afoot If you’re from the St. Louis region, chances are you’re aware of the city’s long-standing connection with soccer.
Prosecutors charged a 36-year-old St. Louis man with murder Friday afternoon, accusing him of killing Rosa Davis at an apartment in the Central West End on Tuesday. Police say surveillance video of the apartment building shows that Joel Davis was the last person to enter and leave the apartment before and after Rosa's death.
After months of “crying for help,” members of the St. Louis’ jail oversight board see relief in an aldermanic proposal to give the board more power. Board Bill 93, introduced today by Ward 14 Alderman Rasheen Aldridge, would allow the nine-member board to investigate complaints about the city jail faster and give them permission to hire an independent attorney.
A local Nashville-style hot chicken chain may soon be filling the hole left by the departure of the South Kingshighway Courtesy Diner. St. Louis Board of Adjustment staff confirmed this morning that the city had approved an appeal that would allow a building permit for 3315 South Kingshighway Boulevard. The appeal was filed by Chuck Taylor, who is the owner of Chuck's Hot Chicken, and the approved permit will allow Taylor "to make interior and exterior alterations (zoning only), per plans, for carry-out restaurant with sales windows."
We’ve come a long way since the escapades of Nancy Botwin through the streets of Agrestic in Showtime’s “Weeds”. Since the acceptance of medical and recreational marijuana at the state level in the US, alongside the “new age of TV” there are tons of shows about weed - - or at least feature them heavily (to say the least!). With summer winding down and cooler days on the horizon, let’s take a look at some of the awesome shows about or featuring weeds.
A 28-year-old mom living in Hazelwood has been charged with felony assault for attacking her daughter's substitute teacher. Prosecutors says Jasmine Chamberlain was upset at the teacher, so she punched her in the face. The teacher punched right back.
Although now dead for nearly 50 years — she expired in 1976 at age 85 — Agatha Christie remains as mysteriously ubiquitous as ever. Rivaled in sales only by William Shakespeare — and let’s acknowledge that he received a 330-year head start — Christie has conservatively moved more than 2 billion books since The Mysterious Affair at Styles, her 1920 debut.
Last week, prosecutors in St. Louis dropped murder charges against a 52-year-old woman who for almost two years stood accused of killing a woman who rented a room from her. During the time the charges were hanging over her head, Consandra Perry spent more than a year in the troubled City Justice Center and, in the words of her attorney, "I don't think she has anything left."
On the cover of Paul Niehaus IV's debut album, If I Stay Too Long, Niehaus sits in a rocking chair picking a resonator guitar on the porch of a wooden shack near the famous crossroads where, according to folklore, blues legend Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil. With his tinted black-frame glasses and black mutton chops, mustache and soul patch, Niehaus resembles a young Leon Redbone.
Get your tissues and prepare for a night of teenage angst. Olivia Rodrigo is coming to town. The singer-songwriter and former Disney star will grace St. Louis with her presence at the Enterprise Center on March 12.
Thursday 09/14 Home Sweet Home
It's been said many times that St. Louis has a chip on its shoulder, an inferiority complex, a tendency toward self-sabotage.
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