Friday 09/01 Back to the Movies
In addition to having a suggestively shaped sign (if you flip it upside down) and a name that spells I Lov It backward, the Tivoli (6350 Delmar Boulevard) was a beloved St. Louis institution during its time as an independent movie theater.
Back-to-school shopping is your first indication that summer is ending soon. Once you start seeing everybody's first-day-of-school pictures, it gets a little more real.
A local mom is suing her son's daycare center after an incident with a bottle warmer left the boy seriously burned. Tiara Cornell is suing the owner of Kids Biz Preparatory, a licensed childcare center in Hazelwood. She says her then 18-month-old son, who is being identified only by his initials, JC, was "negligently supervised" while at the center in May 2019 — and that a hot bottle warmer was left "unguarded" and his proximity. When he pulled on the cord, scalding water poured onto his arm.
Though Caesar salads have become so ubiquitous you can find them everywhere from high-end steakhouses to fast food value menus, a properly done, quintessential version reminds us why they've become such an essential part of the American dining canon. Though our town has a few exciting modern interpretations, these five classics show why the Caesar is such a beloved dish — and has so much staying power.
Ridgeview Apartments’ already notorious reputation grew even worse Tuesday night, when SWAT officers from the North County Police Cooperative stormed the site in Riverview Village to arrest a homicide suspect hiding out there. News of the suspect’s arrest was announced via the public release of an interdepartmental memo from Tom Tumbrink, the village’s interim police chief, to Mayor Mike Cornell, the recently elected leader of the North County hamlet just north of St. Louis and west of the Mississippi River.
Local microbrewer 4 Hands Brewing Company is expanding. Today, the brewery announced that it would open 4 Hands at The District (17081 North Outer 40 Road, Suite 17073, Chesterfield) tomorrow. The new location will feature a 10,000-square-foot tasting room with 25 drafts on tap, 1220 Spirits and Withered Oak whiskeys.
Salsa Rosada (3135 Olive Street, 314-601-3038) would likely not exist if not for Major League Baseball. At least, that's how owner Mandy Estrella explains it in between her near- daily deliveries to Busch Stadium during baseball season.
When announcer Johnny Olson belted out, “Come on down! You’re the next contestant on The Price is Right," I had little interest in the wide-eyed polyestered tourists running down the aisles with their hands over their heads like orangutans, their names on giant price tags pinned to their chests, taking their place on “contestant’s row” and guessing how much a sailboat costs in order to get on stage to win cars and vacations and dinette sets.Â
Yet more turmoil has hit St. Louis’ most tumultuous independent radio station. KDHX has fired two longtime volunteers: DJs Andy Coco and Drea Stein. Without using names, KDHX Executive Director Kelly Wells announced the terminations in a statement yesterday that began by noting the importance of donors and volunteers.
A homegrown gyro chain will continue its westward expansion. Owner Vedad Becirovic says Soulard Gyro will open its fourth shop, at 12205 Dorsett Road in Maryland Heights, later this year. As the name suggests, the first Soulard Gyro was located on 12th Street in the city's Soulard neighborhood.
A 2021 murder case that caused chaos at the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office at the tail end of Kim Gardner’s tenure appears to still be causing problems for the prosecutor's office under new leadership. The murder trial of 18-year-old Jonathon Jones was supposed to start this Monday.
The inaugural Evolution Festival, the two-day music, bourbon and BBQ fest in Forest Park, is in the books. I took in the whole kit-and-kaboodle — every band, every bourbon, every booth — and here are 25 highlights, sights, sounds, tastes and observations from the big weekend.Â
A 20-year-old from Eureka faces three separate charges after bring a gun to a fist fight. According to Overland Police, on Monday, Zackary Goughenour texted a 17-year-old that he wanted to fight. But when he later showed up at the victim's home and began to "mess with" vehicles parked outside, he didn't just bring his fists — but rather a gun.
Alex Henry — chef-owner of Sureste, City Foundry Food Hall stall serving the cuisine of the Yucatán — has a simple and compelling reason to open up his first brick-and-mortar restaurant. “We ran out of space,” he says with a little laugh.Â
On a recent Saturday at George Washington Carver Farms, a room full of teenagers have a lot of questions. About 10 had gathered at the nonprofit’s location in north St. Louis’ Fairgrounds neighborhood to learn about the cannabis industry.
The No. 3 restaurant on a new list of nationwide "Top 100 Budget Eats" is a tea shop on Cherokee Street. And it's not the only St. Louis restaurant ranking high on USA Today's list. No. 6 is Blues City Deli, the beloved Benton Park sandwich shop.
Family members say the woman who was stabbed to death at a gas station in St. Louis last week was the single mother of an 8-year-old son. Natalie Stepney, 33, has been identified by law enforcement as the victim in a violent interaction at the Gas Mart at Delmar and Goodfellow boulevards last Monday. A police incident summary says that officers arrived on the scene to find Stepney "unresponsive" and "suffering from multiple stab wounds." Booker T. Boyd, 52, has been charged in her death.
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