It was a big deal for Rachel Worcel when she was hired by the Simon Law Firm in St. Louis last month. Worcel, 48, has been a paralegal since 1999, but joining the civil litigation firm felt like a significant step up.
It’s nearly that time of year again, when hot air balloons spot the sky and illuminate the night for a picturesque weekend of family friendly fun in St. Louis. The Great Forest Park Balloon Race & Glow kicks off Friday, September 15, with the “glow” portion of its annual event at Emerson Central Fields (5625 Wells Drive, 314-289-5300) in Forest Park, where visitors are welcome to walk around and view the balloons at dusk while chatting with their pilots and crew. The next day, the balloons take off in a hare-and-hound-style race where competitors, or “hounds,” try to catch up with the leading “hare” balloon.
Believe it or not, September 17 means we are halfway to St. Patrick’s Day, and if you have a friend in Dogtown, they’re undoubtedly already making preparations. They — and you — can get a little parade pre-party in at the first-ever Dogtown Doggy Dash 5K, which debuts Sunday, September 17, at 9 a.m. And no, this isn’t just a dog-themed event in Dogtown; it’s a race where your dog can run right alongside you and even compete to be the top-dog finisher.
Lords and ladies, thy presence is hereby requested at the 25th Annual St. Louis Renaissance Festival, a whimsical celebration of all the fun and revelry for which the late Middle Ages are well-known. Pilot thy horse and carriage to the enchanted land of Wentzville, Missouri, to join the plebs and peasants in all manner of merriment. Verily, this event will contain all of the elements befitting a proper silver jubilee.
Like so many of us, Aaron Childs, 32, first came across cannabis in high school. It's not an exaggeration to say that, in the long term, it changed his life.
There is earning dad points, and then there's earning the kind of dad points that most of us can only dream about. Chris Kelling — on the way to opening his forthcoming restaurant Burger Champ (2704 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood) — earned the latter.
A pair of large vacant buildings in St. Louis’ Gravois Park neighborhood are proving popular with scrap metal thieves, who have gone to incredible lengths to pilfer from them. So far this year St. Louis police have been called more than 80 times to the Jefferson Campus of the shuttered St. Alexius Hospital and the abandoned National Graphics building next door.
KDHX is on the edge of showing another longtime volunteer DJ the door. On Friday evening, Paul Stark, host of the show Musical Merry-Go-Round, announced on Facebook that he'd been suspended via an email from KDHX Executive Director Kelly Wells and Board President Gary Pierson. "The Board of Directors and staff have received complaints about comments you made on your September 2, 2023, radio show and have begun a review of your show," the email read.
Last month, St. Louis officials explained away their move from aluminum to corrugated cardboard street signs by saying that flooding in the Street Department print shop had necessitated the change. But now the city says it never used corrugated cardboard, only a "hardened plastic corrugated material" — and that said switch had nothing to do with the flood. Oh, and it actually switched in the last year to a totally different material — and that was because of the flood.
Readers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch know Benjamin Hochman as a sports columnist, and he’s also the author of four non-fiction books about sports. But this week, he adds a new line to his resume: playwright.
A traveling circus that performed on St. Louis' riverfront last night had to find a new spot after a staffer in St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones' office told the circus to cease its performances. The Flotsam River Circus announced on Facebook today that due to "some powers within the city," circus members were scrambling to find another location to perform in St. Louis after hosting one performance near Laclede's Landing last night. Flotsam has given free performances along the Mississippi River since its troupe of performers, puppeteers and musicians launched from Minnesota in a homemade raft about six weeks ago.
You know these are strange times for moviegoers when legacy sequels borne of the 2000s and 2010s are now old enough to get legacyquels of their own. The concept dates back to at least the 1980s, with Psycho II (1983) and The Color of Money (1986) re-introducing a new generation of viewers to iconic characters from culturally significant films of the past.
This morning, U.S. Representative Cori Bush (D-St. Louis) toured the troubled City Justice Center in downtown St. Louis. The jail has been the subject of alarming headlines in recent weeks, as two detainees died there last month and an increasingly pitched battle is playing out between city leaders and the civilian board tasked with providing oversight of the facility.
The cursed history between Guns N' Roses and St. Louis continues, as their concert scheduled for Busch Stadium this Saturday appears to be postponed. That is according to KMOX, which broke the story around 1:30 p.m., citing an internal announcement that went out to stadium staff. No reason was given for the postponement, however the announcement did say that fans should keep their tickets as the show will be rescheduled.
St. Louis activist Sasha Zemmel crashed a New York Fashion Week runway in protest of Coach's use of leather on Thursday. Zemmel interrupted the show by strutting across the runaway with the bravado of a model while nude and covered in body paint made to give her a "skinned" appearance. The act was part of a protest against the fashion industry's use of leather.
If you've dreamed of learning how to swing dance, or just getting better at it, STL Swing has you covered. Show up at the Link Auditorium (4504 Westminster Place, 314-813-0009) at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, September 11, for a short introductory lesson. Then, from 7 to 9 p.m., the band STL Swing Harmonists plays — and we should note this is a group with but one stated purpose: "To make your dancing feel better and easier."
Sebastian Venable was a dilettante, a poet from a privileged New Orleans family who wrote just one poem a year, which he “printed himself on an eighteenth-century hand-press at his atelier in the French Quarter,” in the words of his adoring mother Violet. He professed no desire for fame in his lifetime; his mother was supposed to attend to that after his death.
It's been one of the biggest guessing games in town: When exactly will the battered local grocer Fields Foods close its two remaining stores? After several stores were unceremoniously shuttered last month, and the inventory cleared out, people began to wonder about the flagship store in Lafayette Square and the sole remaining satellite in Downtown West. Inventory had been perilously low in recent weeks.
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