UPDATE: The date for this event has been changed to Monday, August 28. The headline and the text below have been updated to reflect this change. Local dogs can live their best lives this Thursday during "Dog Day" at the St. Louis Wheel (201 South 18th Street, thestlouiswheel.com).
This year’s St. Lou Fringe was quite strong, and I saw so many shows that are worth repeated viewings. If you enjoy theater that’s not afraid to ask questions and seek new forms of expression, add the 2024 festival to your calendar.
If your last night bar-hopping on Morgan Ford Road was a decade ago, back when Three Monkeys Pub held down the north end of the district and Colorado Bob’s Ship of Fools was the ideal evening-ending shitshow, well, let’s just say you’re long overdue for a visit — and the 32nd Annual Morgan Ford Stumble is the perfect way to experience all the street in all its glory. After all, there have been some big changes. (Among many, many other things: Colorado Bob’s is now Bootleggin’ Bob’s and has barbecue; Three Monkeys is now Black Sheep and has a new sister venue, the ‘80s/’90s themed Three Little Monkeys, that has lots of people very excited.)
A corrections officer has been freed after being held hostage by detainees for approximately three hours this morning at the City Justice Center in downtown St. Louis. The tense situation at the city jail began at 6 a.m. at the facility on Tucker Boulevard across from City Hall.
Move over 573 — Missouri is getting another area code, and this one is another overlay. The 235 area code will begin being assigned to the region currently handled by the 573, which includes pretty much all of the eastern half of Missouri, minus the St. Louis metro. And, yes, we did just add a different overlay to metro St. Louis a few months back.
Beyoncé has St. Louis trippin', stumblin' over our disco cowboy hats to get in formation for the Renaissance Tour — and with that knowledge, the city has officially made August 21, 2023 "Queen Bey Day." "Beyoncé is an inspiration to independent women across the world, and St. Louis is ready to move to her iconic hits at tonight’s show," Mayor Tishaura Jones said in a press release. This is a reminder: The long-awaited tour stop is at the Dome at America's Center, and Mrs. Carter was last in St. Louis for the Formation World Tour in 2016.
Jay Farrar is not going to work the room. He’s not going to walk to the sides of the stage, wave or point to people in the audience, encourage the crowd to sing along, make eye contact or smile.
The Missouri History Museum is preparing to welcome a new, French-inflected restaurant this Wednesday, August 23. Key Bistro will serve lunch beginning Wednesday with brunch and catering to come later in 2023 — and its panoramic views of Forest Park should make it a mid-day destination. Grab-and-go offerings will provide picnic fodder for those who'd prefer to eat in the park.
Bob Dylan will be coming to St. Louis this fall as part of the tour that many have speculated will be the 82-year-old's last. The October 4 show at the Stifel Theatre is part of Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour 2021–2024, a departure from the Never Ending Tour banner beneath which he circled the globe again and again for more than 30 years, until 2019.
The metro area’s best spot at which to watch a movie from the comfy environs of your car, Skyview Drive-In (5700 North Belt West, Belleville; 618-233-4400), is hosting the Icon-a-Thon Film Festival this weekend, and it looks like it’s going to be legendary. The retro drive-in double-screen theater in Belleville will be showing nothing but iconic films and cult classics throughout the weekend. On Friday, August 25, they’ll be showing The Blob, Night of the Living Dead, Airplane and more.
You probably don't need us to tell you it feels like hell's front porch outside. Unless you're one of the lucky ones who has yet to leave the AC bliss of your home, allow us to paint a picture. It's too fucking hot.
A nostalgic hamburger chain named after a Saturday Night Live sketch will be closing its only Midwest location. Cheeburger Cheeburger (13311 Manchester Road, Des Peres) announced on Facebook that it would be closing after dinner service on Sunday, August 27. The owners wrote that they are retiring after operating the restaurant for 18 years.
A beloved spot in the industrial Near North Riverfront neighborhood for 48 years, Gregg's Bar and Grill (4400 North Broadway) has closed its doors. The eatery first closed on July 31 for what the owner suggested was a temporary "staff shortage." But that closure continued the following week, and late last night, the bar's owner posted on Facebook that the closure would be permanent. "To the many great guests of Gregg's.
Kid Rock joined a cancel culture crusade against Bud Light earlier this year when he flipped out over the beer brand partnering with trans activist and influencer Dylan Mulvaney. He got his panties in a twist because Anheuser-Busch sent Mulvaney a can with her face on it to celebrate her first “365 Days of Girlhood.” In fact, that flimsy aluminum beer can upset the little snowflake so much that he posted a video of himself shooting cases of the beer with a semiautomatic rifle while looking like he was going to cry. [content-1]
It was just the latest in a series of performative, high-profile “canceling”s from the “anti-woke” political right — you know, the group who is always whining about cancel culture?
It all started with a back-to-school party in an unspectacular Bronx apartment building. DJ Kool Herc, also known as Clive Clampell, and his sister Cindy Campbell had a simple idea — earn some money for new clothes, according to a 2013 Paste Magazine story.
Last week, the top official of a north St. Louis County municipality was allegedly in a vehicle that ran over a photojournalist hoping to interview her, leaving him with a broken leg that required emergency surgery. The incident, first reported by the Post-Dispatch yesterday, occurred last Friday outside city hall for the Village of Hillsdale, where Mitch McCoy, a reporter with Fox 2 (KTVI) showed up with cameraman Wade Smith to speak with Hillsdale Chairwoman Dorothy Moore.
Musical theatre is filled with great love ballads, going all the way back to "Tea for Two" (yes, "Picture you / upon my knee / just tea for two / and two for tea" counted as clever lyrics back in 1925). But in our book, the best show tunes are the acid ones, from "The Gentleman Is a Dope" in the otherwise forgotten Allegro to "Could I Leave You" from Stephen Sondheim's genius Follies (sample lyric: "Could I bury my rage / With a boy half your age in the grass?
The Wood Shack has a new home. It’s been just two months since the over-the-counter sandwich shop relocated to the former Twisted Ranch space at 1731 South 7th Street in Soulard — a move that transformed it into a two-floor restaurant complete with a lively patio and an indoor and outdoor bar.
Earlier this week, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen announced a survey to help it figure out how to spend the $250 million windfall it received from its lawsuit over the Rams' departure. But if you eagerly signed up to participate, thinking you could spam the survey with suggestions on how to spend the money on your pet projects, guess again. This survey has just two questions, and it is not asking you about your priorities.
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