In Missouri, a state where teenagers can legally walk around with firearms in plain view, it can seem at times as if someone needs to go out of their way to run afoul of gun laws. But a Hazelwood man managed to do just that when police encountered him intoxicated and asleep outside a laundromat in the county, a gun resting atop his dozing chest. He was charged last week Thursday with unlawful use of a weapon for using the gun while intoxicated.
My husband Jimmy and I were visiting friends in Portland, Oregon, over the holidays when I set my New Year’s resolution: Drive less. Our friends had gone down to one car, and biked, bused and cable car’d (not a joke) to work most days.
Sum Tea House (8501 Olive Boulevard, University City; 314-222-1540) has the best crab Rangoon in the St. Louis area. Admittedly, this is an odd place to start when discussing a boba shop that specializes in a kaleidoscope of teas, juices and milks.
Since 1953, the Donut Drive-In has been holding it down on Chippewa Street in Lindenwood Park. Though the ownership has changed hands, the drive-in still uses the same family recipes as 70 years ago.
St. Charles TikTok rapper Britt Barbie will no longer be headlining the Queens of the Lou festival. The "Period Ahh, Period Uhh" rapper announced her decision on Instagram two days ago, writing, "I will no longer be performing at queens of the Lou." Instead, Barbie says she will be holding her own meet-and-greet.
Erin Morrow Hawley, an attorney and wife of Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, is facing heated criticism after revelations that a high-profile Supreme Court case she was involved in was in part based on a falsehood. Erin Morrow Hawley serves as senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal advocacy group.
It was a big weekend in St. Louis for artists with ’80s heydays — first Debbie Gibson on Friday and then Bryan Adams with Joan Jett on Saturday. While Gibson showed plenty of vintage MTV footage on screen during her River City Casino show, legendary VJ Alan Hunter was not on hand; however, Hunter was indeed front and center for Bryan Adams though not as front nor as center as Ralph Morse, a classic rock superfan who wears black decorated bowler hats and scores the choicest seats for every legends show in town these days.
When former ’80s teen-pop sensation Debbie Gibson released the dance-oriented The Body Remembers in 2021, some critics celebrated the long-awaited return of the original pop-singer-songwriter princess to her rightful throne. A cruel COVID-19 summer or two later, Gibson has taken her new show on the road, including a Friday-night stop at St. Louis’ River City Casino.
A federal judge on Tuesday prohibited Biden administration officials from communicating with social media platforms about “protected speech,” a ruling emerging from litigation originally filed by former Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. The ruling, by Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, granted a temporary injunction barring numerous federal agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from contacting social media companies “for the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression or reduction of content containing protected free speech.”
This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. For the previous two chapters in this series, see Ready or Not: St. Louis grapples with climate change
A beloved St. Louis movie theater and an equally treasured St. Louis nonprofit recently realized they were made for each other — and then tied the knot. For the past 22 years, Cinema St. Louis, the non-profit behind the St. Louis International Film Festival, had lived nomadically.
After being very impressed with Vivid's Biscotti Gelato and their Gummiez strain, I was excited to try one of Vivid's recent releases: Jokerz Candy. A vibrant image of the strain, posted on Vivid's social media, immediately caught my attention.
Community members are asking for help after a five-year-old boy was killed by a tree that fell into his family's home in Jennings on Saturday. St. Louis County Police told KMOV that Robert "RJ" Lawrence III was in his bedroom when the tree fell into that portion of the house. The boy was knocked unconscious and trapped beneath the tree.
When Ryan Schepers met with Matt Thenhaus to discuss the possibility of hosting a wedding reception at the Fortune Teller Bar, the meeting wound up being between the (eventual) future and former owners of the Cherokee Street establishment. Instead of simply booking a date, Schepers, a bar regular, learned that Thenhaus was low-key shopping the Fortune Teller around.
It’s difficult to achieve the aesthetic refinement of a New England law library while housing a menu fit to feed pretty much anyone. With exposed brick walls and yellow pub lights, the Main House (500 South Main Street, 636-493-6332, mainhouseonmain.com) does just that. It is less “My Country ‘Tis of Thee,” and more Johnny Cash’s “Ragged Old Flag.” Polished but never stuffy, it’s the sort of joint where you can swig beers on the weekend or cozy up to a date with a sauvignon blanc.
As Missouri attorney general, Josh Hawley may have seemed mostly interested in wine shopping and gym workouts — but his political team worked overtime to propel him to higher office. A Cole County judge found last November that the AG's "knowing and purposeful" violations of Missouri's Sunshine Law were designed to benefit Hawley's political ambitions, which meant keeping taxpayers in the dark.
A jury in St. Louis city awarded $6.1 million to a former guidance counselor at Soldan High School who alleged age and gender discrimination. In his original suit, Ron Spivey, 64, says that at the time he worked at the north city school he was the only male counselor and that his younger supervisor, as well as the school system more broadly, "favored the younger female counselors at Soldan and mistreated [Spivey] as compared to those co-workers."
Reporters at St. Louis Public Radio have voted to unionize, their guild announced today. The announcement comes after a group of the station's journalists, producers, on-air talent and marketing staff voted on whether or not to join the Communication Workers of America, with the yeses carrying the day by a roughly 80-20 margin. The Communication Workers of America is a union with about 700,000 members in the United States and Canada.
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