The intense late summer heat, combined with travel schedules, made it harder to get things done in August. I originally intended to write this column about how the residents of Benton Park roll out the red carpet when cycling events come through.
Over the last several years, SATE, a.k.a. Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble, has applied an inventive, fully connected approach to classic plays and literature, bringing a fresh, malleable perspective to works from Jane Austin, the Brontë sisters and Shakespeare. This Palpable Gross Play, a playful riff on the forest scenes in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, joins the company’s canon with wit, imagination and exuberance.
Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will not be holding a fundraiser later this week at Webster Groves hotspot Olive + Oak, the restaurant announced today on social media. The 38-year-old businessman and conservative author's campaign had advertised the event as "An Evening With Vivek Ramaswamy," including both a cocktail hour and a private dinner. For the low low sum of $3,300, attendees were offered not only that private dinner at one of St. Louis' top restaurants, but also a "phone call with Vivek" and a signed book. For $500, attendees could expect access to the cocktail hour and a keynote address.
The litigation that broke out over allegations of cheating at St. Louis' Sinquefield Cup has been resolved — and with the settlement, accused cheater Hans Niemann has been reinstated at Chess.com. The settlement comes two months after U.S. District Court Judge Audrey Fleissig dismissed most of Niemann's claims in a 31-page order. Niemann's lawyers had vowed to refile in state court.
The owners of Metro East businesses 1929 Pizza & Wine and C&B Boiled Bagels say that they have received death threats in the wake of a festival cancellation that some view as the co-owners' fault. The problems began last Tuesday, August 22, when the Wood River Enrichment Network posted on Facebook that it was cancelling the fifth iteration of its Annual Wood River Food Truck Festival, which would have taken place on Saturday, October 7, in downtown Wood River, Illinois. Though the organizers did not cite a reason for the cancellation, right away commenters began pointing fingers at Amy and Matt Herren, referring to them as owners of local pizza and bagel spots.
When Eric and Judy Stein discovered the Focal Point in the early 1980s, they found themselves a second home and an extended family. At that point, the presenting organization was only a few years old, birthed out of the long-running Music Folk shop in 1975 before moving to another facility in Webster Groves in 1992.
There is no other way to say it: Ridgeview Apartments is a disaster zone. With trash pick-up canceled months ago, piles of fetid, stinking garbage cover one parking lot, right next to several abandoned cars.
With their lacy edges and swirl of sweet topping, the buttermilk pancakes on the Pym-Cakes Platter at GOTham and Eggs (3139 South Grand Boulevard, 314-616-4006, gothamandeggs.com) look like the ideal. They’re golden, perfectly dotted with blueberries and are just begging to be drenched in syrup, butter or jam.
A St. Louis judge ruled Friday afternoon that a new state law — blocking Missouri’s transgender youth from beginning new gender-affirming-care treatments — can take effect Monday. Circuit Court Judge Steven Ohmer denied a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Missouri and Lambda Legal.
A downtown St. Louis mainstay will shut its doors for good this week. The family-friendly burger and shake joint Baileys' Range (920 Street) announced last night that it would close after 12 years. Its last day of service will be Thursday, August 31.
About a year ago, Tesseract Theatre Company announced the production of its first musical and, with it, a risk that pushed the company’s growth. The first two musicals it produced were small, intimate shows.
Another day, another Missouri bigot making a fool of themselves. Today's local embarrassment comes from an altercation outside of a post office in Kirkwood, where a disgruntled white woman angrily yelled "You're not equal!" to a Black postal worker. The woman was upset for an unknown reason, but according to @TizzyEnt, who shared video of the incident on Twitter, the yelled-at employee had walked the woman out of the post office after she made a scene.
Well after a SWAT team put an end to the hostage situation at the St. Louis City Justice Center Tuesday morning, chaos continued to reign at the jail for days, according to multiple attorneys with clients in the facility. Attorneys speak of detainees not being adequately fed or clothed, being housed in an area that is supposed to be a temporary transfer point, and being denied access to legal counsel.
When you think about the greater St. Louis area food and drink, gooey butter cake, t-ravs, sweet wine and lot of craft beer probably come to mind, not artisanal coffee roasters. But really, with java giants Kaldi's, Goshen and Blueprint in town, you should be thinking bean. Our near neighbors in southwest Illinois, on the other hand, are ahead of the game in this respect.
Freshly divorced and effectively destitute, former homemaker Marianne (Juliette Binoche) arrives in the northwestern French coastal city of Caen seeking a fresh start. She haunts employment offices and job fairs, looking for an employer who will take a chance on a middle-aged woman with a 23-year gap in her résumé.
The Innocence Project and other advocates have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Mike Parson for disbanding the Board of Inquiry examining the case of a man on Missouri's death row — saying Parson cannot dissolve the board until it issues a report and recommendation in his case. The lawsuit on behalf of Marcellus Williams was filed in Cole County Circuit Court this afternoon. Williams came within hours of being executed in 2017.
When you first walk into St. Louis’ newest art store, everything is as you’d expect: There are racks and shelves filled with paints, printing supplies, papers, canvases and pretty much anything else you could imagine needing to create art — and also plenty you couldn’t. There are the helpful and intimidatingly cool store clerks, who immediately ask if they can guide you to anything specific. There’s even the whiff of oil paints wafting on the air.
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