The St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase is going to be a little different this year — and much of the same. "It's in essence, the same thing, sort of," says Chris Clark, artistic director at Cinema St. Louis, which puts on the showcase.
I’ve long been passionate about the Greater Alton area, feeling it’s grossly underrated considering its striking topography, scenic river vistas, interesting characters and historic architecture. The Melvin Price Lock and Dam on the Mississippi makes the river more like a lake up there, dotted with recreational boats from the popular Alton, West Alton and Grafton Marinas and filled with numerous wooded islands with sandy beaches. When friend and media personality Steve Potter told me about a Pride Garden Tour happening this past Sunday, I rounded up friends and made a day of it.
An unidentified man died after being tased by police last night in the Gravois Park neighborhood. According to an SLMPD incident report, a little before 9 p.m., police were called to a home on the 3700 block of Minnesota Avenue to assist EMS workers dealing with a man who had turned violent. Police say they found the man in the back of the house laying in a stairway leading to the basement, nude and disoriented.
A lot of people were disappointed when Joe Edwards, a business owner on the Loop, sold the Tivoli Theater to One Family Church. Aside from having a suggestively shaped sign (if you flip it upside down) and a name that spells I Lov It backward, the Tivoli was also a beloved St. Louis independent movie theater. The church said it would reopen and show movies again, and today it made good on that promise by introducing First Fridays, a chance to watch films in the Tivoli again.
This morning, the St. Louis Board of Aldermen unanimously gave its approval to the final wording of a bill that would require individuals open-carrying firearms to have a concealed carry permit. The bill still needs to be voted on a final time by the board next week Thursday.
On paper, a 3-0 defeat seems definitive and dominant. But St. Louis City SC’s 3-0 defeat to Los Angeles FC was deceitful. The match had been dull and uneventful until the 72nd minute when LAFC opened the scoring.
Since 2010, every single person convicted of felony murder in St. Louis city has been Black, according to reporter Thomas Birmingham who did a recent deep dive on the peculiarities of felony murder in Missouri for the Appeal. Felony murder is a charge brought by prosecutors against individuals whose participation in a lesser criminal act leads to someone's death.
Time has run out for Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to appeal a judge’s decision limiting his authority over school districts and clarifying that school boards can establish disease mitigation methods, such as mask mandates. Bailey had 40 days from Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Marco Roldan’s May 27 ruling to ask for a new trial.
Yard Eagle, the St. Louis indie-roots band led by singer/songwriter/guitarist Jakob Baxter, is one of just three local acts invited to play the inaugural Evolution Festival, the two-day music, bourbon and barbecue festival being staged in Forest Park in August featuring such big-name acts as Brandi Carlile, the Black Keys and the Black Crowes. "It's something that just legitimately fell into our laps," Baxter tells me over soups and salads at the Fountain on Locust.
Birth control pills will soon be as easy to buy as allergy meds or a pack of gum. The Food and Drug Administration announced today that it will clear a daily birth control pill called Opill to be the first contraceptive of its kind to be sold without a prescription.
The number of civilians working for the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in non-officer roles took a big hit during the pandemic, according to data made available by the department to the Riverfront Times through a records request. As of last December, the department's civilian staff — which includes dispatchers, forensic technicians and clerks, among other jobs — was down more than 20 percent at the end of last year compared to pre-pandemic levels.
With articles celebrating its arrival in the New York Times, Forbes and other national outlets, Counterpublic definitely brought St. Louis' art scene to new heights of awareness. The triannual public art installation opened April 15 and closes this weekend on Saturday, July 15. This year's iteration focused on a stretch of Jefferson Avenue running from Sugarloaf Mound at Ohio Avenue to the Griot Museum of Black History, where Jefferson crosses St. Louis Avenue.
Thursday 07/13 Flower Power
The Missouri Department of Conservation has a very important announcement: It's Sunflower Season, baby, and you and your peasant dress are invited to come selfie the day away at the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area (801 Strodtman Road, 314-877-6014) again.
After two years of selling fresh, locally-grown food in south city, MARSH Grocery and Diner has announced it will be closing at the end of next week, St. Louis Public Radio has reported. MARSH opened in the summer of 2021 on South Broadway, charging customers on a sliding scale based on their ability to pay. “Our model is not-for-profit. We're not pulling any profit for our own capitalization, and we're paying people high wages,” one of the cooperative's founding members Beth Neff told the Riverfront Times last year.
This story originally appeared in the Missouri Independent. Revelations that government officials and private companies downplayed or failed to fully investigate the dangers of radioactive waste in St. Louis sparked outrage among state and federal lawmakers Wednesday and a promise from U.S. Senator Josh Hawley to seek funding for residents who have become ill. At the heart of the bipartisan calls for action were the findings of a six-month joint investigation by the Missouri Independent, MuckRock and the Associated Press that delved into thousands of pages of previously-unreleased government documents detailing the St. Louis area’s legacy of contamination.
If there’s one thing Ronald Reagan did right — and we really mean one — it was to commemorate ice cream on National Ice Cream Day every third Sunday in July. Established in 1984, its legacy continues to this day, where Americans continue to lead the world in ice cream consumption (about 20 pounds a year each, according to the U.S. Census Bureau). What better time of year to celebrate this frozen delight than smack in the middle of a St. Louis summer.
Renters in St. Louis will soon have easier access to legal representation when facing eviction. Mayor Tishaura Jones signed a bill to create a Right to Counsel program that will provide representation to tenants facing eviction proceedings in the city.
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