The pizza that is now "dominating menus from New York to Los Angeles," according to Bloomberg News, is a "crisp-crusted, tavern-style pie." Its "slim" crust "can be as crunchy as a Saltine cracker when it's done right." Yep, sounds familiar.
St. Charles’ new seafood restaurant seems to tear a page from The Old Man and the Sea. In our story, the titular fisherman is St. Charles, a city pining for fish.
As Show-Me State stoners spend $4 million a day on weed, one lucky toker won't have to spend a dime on weed come September. Good Day Farm, a cannabis brand with dispensaries in the St. Louis area, is throwing a sweepstakes to award one lucky person 365 free, half-gram pre-rolls. The rules are simple.
MONDAY, JULY 24. Local grocer Fields Foods seems to be in deep trouble: Its Pagedale store, a much-lauded collab with a local nonprofit, has closed less than a year after launching, and across the city, shelves are empty.
Representative Cori Bush is once again asking the federal government to solve homelessness. The Democrat from St. Louis has re-introduced a U.S. House resolution to declare unalienable rights for unhoused persons and provide solutions to end homelessness by 2027. A similar measure sponsored by Bush failed to pass in 2021, but she may face a more sympathetic crowd this time around.
By day, Brett Johnson, 45, works in a steel yard, but by evenings and weekends he marches to protect foreskins. Johnson is the director of Cockfight, an organization that advocates banning circumcision.
Missouri's plan to execute a St. Louis man this Tuesday is back on — and he now has just one last long-shot chance to stop it. A three-judge panel of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals granted convicted killer Johnny Johnson a reprieve last week, swayed by his lawyers' arguments that Johnson's long history of mental illness deserved further analysis before he could be killed. [content-1]
But on Saturday, the full bank of judges overruled that panel, denying Johnson's appeal.
Since 2003, Missouri has set aside a weekend at the beginning of August when families won’t pay state tax on new clothes and school supplies as they prepare for the start of the school year. For just as long, every city, county and special district that imposes its own sales tax has had the authority to opt out of the Back to School tax holiday.
Hazelwood School District officials are "disappointed" and "embarrassed" after an chaotic pep rally held at Hazelwood Central High School last fall led to a rising star local rapper getting escorted out of the school. The district invited rapper Sexyy Red, a St. Louis native, to perform at the high school along with other performers at a rally for the school's homecoming last October. The event didn't garner public attention until footage of it surfaced online a few weeks ago, causing some to criticize both the district and Sexyy Red.
Progressive arena-rock legends Kansas are a dozen shows into the 50th Anniversary Tour, subtitling the 50-city run after its latest career-spanning compilation, Another Fork in the Road. In advance of the band’s St. Louis stop tomorrow, I spoke with founding guitarist Rich Williams on the phone from Pittsburgh, where the tour was kicking off that night.
Newly released security video taken at the St. Louis city jail shows multiple instances of what critics say is the wanton use of mace on numerous detainees in the facility. In one instance shown on video, a detainee is seated at a bench in a common area, his head in his hand, when six corrections officers enter, two of whom immediately deploy mace. In another instance from the video, a corrections officer approaches a cell door and motions for it to be unlocked.
A St. Louis icon has passed on to the big dance floor in the sky. Love him or leave him, everybody in St. Louis knew Beatle Bob. Known for his black mop top, polyester suits and aggressive dancing, Robert “Beatle Bob” Matonis could be seen dancing in the front row of concerts all over St. Louis (and beyond) for the past 25+ years.
Does The Merry Wives of Windsor work as a 1990s-style sitcom with doltish husbands who have wisecracking, out-of-their-league spouses? You bet your Falstaff!
The number of “violence interrupters” in three key areas of St. Louis city has decreased significantly, albeit temporarily, after a city contract with the Cure Violence program ended earlier this month. In 2019, the city entered into a $7 million, three-year contract with Employment Connections to run two Cure Violence sites, one in the Dutchtown neighborhood of south city and the other covering parts of the Wells Goodfellow and Hamilton Heights neighborhoods in north city.
Now that the Barbenheimer blitzkrieg has finally touched down at multiplexes all over the place, collectively bringing in more audiences than any superhero flick in the past six months, we can talk about the other big-screen showdown that is currently popping off in theaters across the country: Disney’s Haunted Mansion and A24’s Talk to Me, two scary movies that involve grieving Black folk who see dead people. Let’s start with Haunted, the — shall we say — lighthearted one of the pair.
A St. Louis-based conservative blogger whose conspiracy theories stirred up Trump voters after the 2020 election will likely have to answer in court to the claims against him. St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Michael Stelzer ruled against James Hoft of the Gateway Pundit in a seven-page order earlier this week. The judge's ruling effectively stymies two possible strategies for Hoft to combat the suit filed by two Georgia poll workers accusing him of defamation — dismissing both Hoft's counterclaim against the women and barring him from pursuing an anti-SLAPP claim.
A St. Louis physician who operates multiple urgent cares as well as a south city hospital was arrested by federal authorities today on conspiracy charges. Prosecutors allege that patients at Dr. Sonny Saggar's healthcare facilities were attended to by people who were assistant physicians not under proper supervision. According to an indictment filed yesterday against Saggar, his medical offices made wide use of assistant physicians, who have graduated from medical school and have passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination, but have not completed a postgraduate residency.
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