The St. Louis Board of Aldermen will revisit legislation meant to curb crime and violent parties at short-term rentals later this year. The board held its last meeting before summer recess yesterday and won't reconvene until September. Aldermen will take up short-term rental regulations then.
This weekend is your last chance to grab delicious burger deals at area restaurants and possibly become burger royalty. St. Louis Burger Week started Monday and goes through July 23. You can head over to area restaurants like Alpha Brewing Company (4310 Fyler Avenue) for its Barrel Aged Whiskey Steak Burger, or grab the Mittralette — a double cheeseburger with lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle topped with fries and andalouse sauce — at Hi-Pointe Drive-In (multiple locations including 1033 McCausland Avenue).
The all-white board running the Francis Howell School District voted to rescind a resolution displayed throughout school buildings that acknowledges the impact of racism on staff and students. A previous board governing the public school district in St. Charles County originally approved the resolution in 2020 after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis ignited a push for racial justice.
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen voted this morning to prohibit the open carrying of firearms without a concealed carry permit. Openly carrying or displaying firearms "readily capable of lethal use" within the city would result in an ordinance violation of unlawful display of a weapon and possible incarceration. The bill has exceptions for law enforcement officers or members of the armed forces on active duty.
The Missouri Botanical Garden will have not one but two corpse flowers ready to bloom this year. This is impressive because corpse flowers are endangered in the wild and seeing a corpse flower bloom is not easy. A corpse flower (scientific name Amorphophallus titanum) take 5 to 10 years from seed to first bloom, and when they bloom, it's usually only for 24 hours.
St. Louis rapper Sexyy Red has taken heat for her appearance at a high school in St. Louis. The 25-year-old artist is from St. Louis and best-known for her hit "Pound Town," which, like most of the rapper's songs, details her sexual exploits with wildly lewd and catchy lyrics. So some people were shocked when Sexyy Red was asked to perform at a high school in St. Louis. From the looks of the school's gym, we believe Sexyy Red performed at Hazelwood Central High School.
Though there's something to be said for the nostalgic joy of a chunky, hard-as-a-rock ice sphere served in a paper cone that disintegrates once all the syrup collects in its tip, it has nothing on today's shaved ice. Fluffy, soft and offered in a kaleidoscope of flavors, this frosty treat is one of the few things that can make summer in St. Louis a little more bearable — especially when enjoyed at one of these five fine establishments that represent the best our city has to offer.
Yesterday afternoon, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department announced they were seeking the public's help in locating Jataveion Scott, 19, as a "person of interest" relating to the killing of a gas station attendant that had occurred in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Police said that Scott had already been handcuffed when he managed to escape custody and was last seen last seen in the Peabody-Darst-Webbe neighborhood just east of Lafayette Square, running through the Peabody Housing Complex with his hands still secured behind his back. Scott was a person of interest in the killing of 22-year-old Iyaz Ahmed, who worked at the BP on Hampton Avenue between Highway 40 and Highway 44 in the Dogtown neighborhood.
Let’s look at the numbers. In Jeff Tweedy’s 21-song solo-acoustic show at the Sheldon on Tuesday night, he played 12 Wilco songs, five songs from his solo albums, a tune from side band Loose Fur, one song Tweedy wrote for another artist and two Uncle Tupelo tracks.
Plays about families, both comic and dramatic, are a cornerstone of theater. And, while the structure and constraints may vary, one theme remains almost universally present — change is about to test the family bonds.
Desperate dumbfuck Jason Aldean released a video for a new song the other day called “Try That In a Small Town.” We’d link the video for you but it’s already been taken down. In any case, in the song Aldean references the mass shooting at Las Vegas’ Route 91 Festival in 2017 and basically says it couldn’t happen in a small town because all of the good ol’ boys in the small town would’ve put up a better fight. He then goes on and on about how they’re never going to let anybody take their guns.
The bar at the new Idol Wolf in the forthcoming 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis (1528 Locust Street, 21cmuseumhotels.com/stlouis) is bright and airy with a semi-circular bar and gleaming bottles. It feels exceedingly modern and fresh and a vertical brick design under the bar extends into the dining room.
PuraVegan Kitchen announced today that it would be closing its doors. Your last chance to get a meal prep pick-up will be Tuesday, July 25, and online orders are open now. There will be a store closing sale on Saturday, August 5.
Tim Eagan stands just to the side of the grill in his open kitchen, bent nearly in half over the entree he's assembling, hands steady and eyes laser-focused on the plate as if he's performing complicated, life-saving surgery. One hand holds a stainless steel ring mold, which the other fills with layers of different ingredients, one by one, taking care that each layer is perfectly formed.
Six weeks into his new job as circuit attorney for St. Louis, Gabe Gore held a press conference this morning to tout improvements he's made at the troubled office he inherited, including clearing a chunk of the case backlog and re-establishing relationships with St. Louis police and other area prosecutors. However, Gore also said that prosecutors in his homicide unit still cary caseloads he described as "unsustainable," estimating that these attorneys are currently tasked with handling between 60 and 65 cases each.
The woman who was filmed giving oral sex to the then-chief of staff for St. Louis County Executive Sam Page in a county government building is now suing a host of people for allegedly disseminating the video. The suit identifies the woman only as “Jane Doe.”
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