I wish Hollywood would stop making Harrison Ford go back in his past so he can basically do young-man shit. Yes, he's the man who easily slipped into the roles of such iconic mavericks as Han Solo, Rick Deckard and Indiana Jones.
Several hours after a four-alarm fire decimated Sk8Liborius, Antajuan Adams was still mourning on the sidewalk. The blaze started late Wednesday night and had engulfed Sk8Liborius by Thursday morning, decimating the skate park housed in a former Catholic church.
How to describe the St. Louis-based based band Glory N’ Perfection on the occasion of the release of its debut album? The easiest thing would be to call the group a five-piece country-western outfit.
Missouri Governor Mike Parson has dissolved the board tasked with looking into Marcellus Williams' innocence claim — and lifted the stay that kept the St. Louis man from a date with the executioner. Williams came within hours of being executed in 2017 when Governor Eric Greitens issued a stay and convened a board of inquiry to look at his case. The board delivered an oral recommendations to Parson and last met in 2021, St. Louis Public Radio reported last year.
Avery Anderson was told faith would “fix” her identity as a lesbian shortly after coming out her freshman year of high school. Her mother, determined to rid her daughter of what she deemed sinful, forced Anderson to attend Christian services.
It's a beautiful afternoon in University City as Jeff and David Lazaroff — better known to St. Louisans as the eclectic jazz-and-soul-infused Americana band Brothers Lazaroff — invite me into their music studio and practice room, located inside the home David shares with his wife and two kids. When David brings me a cup of coffee, it's in a Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum mug, complete with a guitar-shaped handle. It's an unsurprising gesture from a duo that lives and breathes music as players, writers, genre mixologists, sound explorers and ardent fans.
A St. Charles native who rose to stardom on the internet will soon play her music IRL. Britt Barbie, an aspiring rapper who rose to fame through TikTok, will headline a music festival in St. Louis this August called Queens of the Lou. Barbie's song "Period Ah, Period Uh" catapulted her to viral fame last fall.
A city detective filed suit today against the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department alleging that a supervisor told her to take her clothes off and then retaliated against her when she complained about the behavior. The lawsuit was filed in St. Louis City Circuit Court by detective Taylor Hosna, who is gay, and who is one of only two gay detectives in the department's juvenile division, according to her lawsuit.
After what one judge called "a roller coaster," the cases against two men accused of killing a 7-year-old and her father more than two years ago have been set for trial. This is hardly the first time that the murder cases against Javonn Nettles and Andre Anderson have been set for trial but, in a signal of increased confidence in the prosecutor's office under Gabe Gore, court watchers expect these new trial dates to actually hold true.
A St. Louis County man has been charged with one count of arson after an argument over cigarettes with his mother led him to try to burn down the south county house he lives in. The police probable cause statement says that Matthew Pellegrini, 29, got into the argument with his mother on the 7300 block of Navarre Circle near Laclede Station and Rock Hill roads, near Grant’s Farm.
Lee Enterprises recently cut most of its 77 newspapers to three editions each week — and also moved to have the U.S. Postal Service, rather than carriers, deliver the editions. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is an exception to both changes, says United Media Guild President Jeff Gordon. Like other bigger Lee papers in Omaha and Buffalo, the Post-Dispatch remains a daily — for now.
A judge has batted down the city of St. Louis’ attempt to claw back the $300,000 a jury awarded a former police sergeant who was racially discriminated against by her supervisors. Former St. Louis Metropolitan Police Sergeant Heather Taylor was awarded the judgment in March after a jury agreed that she had been retaliated against after speaking to the media about how the department hadn't paid the bill for its ShotSpotter technology.
A catastrophic fire took down St. Louis’ famed Sk8Liborius (1850 Hogan Street) overnight, marking a devastating loss for the tight-knit local skateboard community. The previously abandoned north city church (originally the Roman Catholic parish of St. Liborius) was adopted by St. Louis’ skate community years ago, and they fixed it up and turned it into an spectacular indoor skate park.
Thursday 06/29 Sea Bugs, Thai Style
If you love a good seafood boil as typically prepared (seafood, potatoes, corn, cajun flavoring) and have a palate open to adventure, we have just the event for you.
If summer in St. Louis had a taste, it would be one part Maull's, another part Busch, a sprinkle of a Friar Tuck's turkey leg and a generous spoonful of frozen custard. Perhaps our fair city's greatest culinary contribution, this frosty treat hits the spot on those days so hot and humid you have to peel off your jorts when you come in from grilling the pork steaks.
Webster Groves’ Community Days is what the Fourth of July is all about. The community gathers for a parade on Tuesday, July 4, with relish, often setting out lawn chairs and blankets the day before to reserve a primo viewing spot. The parade steps off at 10 a.m. at Lockwood and Selma avenues and ends up at Elm Avenue and Glendale Road by Hixson Middle School.
Yoga can be a fine time in and of itself. Bending your horrible body into whimsical shapes is apparently a health-conscious thing to do, and it can prevent said horrible body from betraying you in increasingly painful ways as the ceaseless march of time degrades your overall structural integrity. But you know what would make it even more fun?
If Busch-fortified, Maull's-slathered Boston butt is a Saturday afternoon cookout, Your Place Diner's (5510 Virginia Avenue, 314-260-9069) smothered pork steak is Sunday supper at Grandma's. Slow-cooked to the point it falls apart at the mere suggestion of a knife prod, the tender pork is both a worthy component in its own right and a canvas for rich, meaty brown gravy that soaks into every crevice.
If you’re down to roll the dice on your evening entertainment, drop into Mystery VHS Night at Arkadin Cinema & Bar (5228 Gravois Avenue, 314-221-2173) this Thursday, June 29. Here’s how it works: You bring any random VHS tape, and it gets you in for free. That tape could contain your home movies, a quality classic film, a bargain-bin horror flick, whatever.
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