While other varieties might catch the eye thanks to their colorful sprinkles, chocolatey icings or powdered sugar dustings, a classic glazed is the best indicator of whether a doughnut shop is worth its salt. Thankfully, our city is blessed with an embarrassment of riches in the doughnut department, with most shops pulling off a respectable, sugar-glazed round.
Kali the polar bear may be one of the most popular attractions at the Saint Louis Zoo, but he recently found himself upstaged by a mama squirrel on a mission. A bystander captured a video just outside the zoo's polar bear enclosure that showed one very determined squirrel getting her baby back to the nest. The video shows Mama attempting to whisk her smaller (but relatively large) youngster high up a tree.
A pastor in rural Missouri has discovered a groundbreaking new treatment to cure millions of people affected by a disorder previously thought incurable. Rick Morrow, lead pastor of Beulah Church in the Ozark town of Richland, Missouri, knows just what to do to cure autism. One must simply cast the demons out.
In the past nine months, more than 900 marijuana-related criminal convictions have been expunged in the city of St. Louis. However, in that same time period, more than five times as many cases have been deemed not eligible for expungement.
You don’t expect an art museum to be the place you take your shoes off and sink your toes into some lush carpeting. But that’s exactly the setup for Hajra Waheed’s installation Hum, which opened as part of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’ fall exhibits over the weekend.
The Missouri Attorney General's Office has apparently been shopping at Dollar General…a lot. In a lawsuit filed today in St. Louis Circuit Court, Andrew Bailey accuses the retailer of deceptive practices for regularly charging more for products than the price listed on its shelves.
When Greg Mueller talks about barbecue, something changes within him. It's not a personality shift: Rather, Mueller gives the impression that he is receiving some sort of divine intercession from the barbecue gods, relaying knowledge with a religious fervor of everything from the relationship between smoke color and the rate of combustion to the nuances of Missouri white oak and hickory to the beauty of pure wood smoke.
St. Louis scored a biggie recently when Eric Clapton announced that Enterprise Center would be one of just five stops on his extremely limited 2023 North American tour. The arena filled up for Clapton’s show last night, and when the legend strolled on stage just before 9 p.m., the crowd roared to its feet, starstruck.
Prosecutors this week filed felony stealing charges against a St. Louis woman who they say stole 23 bottles of tequila from a Costco in south St. Louis County. According to a police probable cause statement, Caylen Woods smuggled the bottles of booze out of the store by concealing them in a child carrier and diaper bag. She made multiple trips from the store to her car and back again.
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Sugaree (1242 Tamm Avenue, sugareebaking.com), the beloved Dogtown purveyors of pies, cakes and all things sweet, is back. The bakery announced it had reopened for online orders yesterday on Instagram. "Sugareebaking.com is live!!!!
In a very brief hearing today, the 35-year-old whose new wife fell to her death following a St. Louis Cardinals game in 2019 pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault. As part of the plea agreement, the assault charge against Bradley Jenkins was reduced from a felony. He will serve two years probation.
Today, national culinary magazine Food & Wine announced its 2023 11 Best New Chefs in America — and St. Louisans will find one of the names very familiar. Steven Pursley, who opened his Japanese ramen shop Menya Rui (3453 Hampton Avenue, 314-601-3524) in April 2022, made the exclusive list. Food & Wine cited his "tender, bouncy, delectably slurpable noodles," which led reviewer Khushbu Shah to eat four bowls of ramen in one sitting, as the star of the show.
When U.S. Representative Cori Bush toured the St. Louis City Justice Center last Friday, what she saw was a "well-prepared sanitized tour" detached from the reality of the jail. That's according to Matthew Mahaffey of the state's public defender office, who is frequently in the jail meeting with clients.
The 2023 Music at the Intersection is a wrap, and the festival was by all measurements a triumph in its third year. A head-spinningly incredible lineup, perfect weather, a wonderful audience of 12,000, and a terrific arrangement and assortment of food, beverage and vendors.
Every so often, the stars align, each element of craft is executed at the highest level and a company mounts a truly remarkable production. The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis (130 Edgar Rd, Webster Groves; 314-968-4925; repstl.org) achieves this rare pinnacle with captivating performances and a story centered on faith, reinvention and achieving the American Dream.
Washington University in St. Louis joined University of Missouri Health as the latest provider of care to transgender minors to announce it is canceling pre-existing prescriptions for puberty blockers or hormone-replacement therapy. A new state law restricting access to gender-affirming care bars those under 18 from beginning new treatments. But in a compromise with opponents of the ban, lawmakers grandfathered in patients who had begun a medical transition before the law went into effect on August 28.
Big Mike Aguirre returned to St. Louis for the Blues and Soul showcase at Music at the Intersection — and traveled much further than most of its other performers. Somewhat accidentally, Aguirre left St. Louis for Anguilla during the COVID-19 pandemic and, until this past weekend, hadn’t been back since.
In the past few years, St. Louis has finally begun reckoning with its destruction of the Black neighborhood that once filled what's now Midtown — thanks in large part to local author Vivian Gibson's luminous memoir, The Last Children of Mill Creek. An art installation near Citypark even marks the once-thriving community, razed in the name of "urban renewal." Saint Louis University apparently didn't get the memo.
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