La Calle (4121 Manchester Avenue, 314-328-1452) takes “street food” literally — the name, Spanish for “the street,” crowns a menu filled with dishes named after streets. See, for example, the Chouteau Avenue burrito or the Papin Street quesadilla.Â
A St. Louis man who last month was charged with 12 counts of stealing from the Target at Hampton and Chippewa is facing new charges of stealing from the Target at Hampton and Chippewa. On May 26, Nicholas Pannell, 39, of south city, allegedly loaded up two duffle bags with Target merchandise and headed out the front door. Shortly after the incident, a security guard told police he recognized Pannell from "several face-to-face encounters with him while he was stealing from the store."
A St. Louis judge has dismissed chess player Hans Niemann's $100 million lawsuit that had alleged defamation and conspiracy over claims he cheated at a chess tournament here. Niemann says he was defamed by grand master Magnus Carlsen, who'd alleged Niemann cheated Carlsen in order to win the prestigious Sinquefield Cup — and then was blocked from play by Chess.com, which had recently merged with Carlsen's eponymous online chess company, Play Magnus. U.S. District Court Judge Audrey Fleissig dismissed key claims in the suit yesterday with prejudice, meaning they cannot be refiled.
Jermasa Johnson-Dees has big plans. After operating a cannabis cuisine and edibles business, STL Spacetreats, Johnson-Dees hopes to someday open a dispensary under the same name in Missouri. That's why she plans to apply for one of Missouri's new microbusiness dispensary licenses, made possible by the 2022 constitutional amendment that legalized recreational marijuana in the state.
The Muny’s 105th season offers a show to satisfy almost every musical taste, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast is this year’s family friendly, young audience hit. The love story with a lesson features big, bold characters; catchy, upbeat tunes and effective use of stagecraft, particularly with the cleverly extravagant costumes, eliciting lots of positive reactions and applause.
Over the weekend, police in St. Louis recovered a number of guns and ammunition magazines from a party being held in what they suspect was a short-term rental property downtown. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department say officers responded to a disturbance call relating to party happening in an apartment on the 300 block of North 10th Street. At the party, multiple people were found to be in possession of firearms, including one that had been reported stolen from Des Peres.
A Missouri woman was placed in solitary confinement after being sexually assaulted by a cellmate in 2015 — and was kept there for six years. That's the shocking allegation at the center of a lawsuit filed today in U.S. District Court's Western District against Missouri Department of Corrections Director Anne Precythe and 11 staffers at the Jefferson City Correctional Center. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a woman identified only as "Jane Roe," who the lawsuit describes as a Black, transgender woman who is HIV-positive.
Ralph Yarl, the Kansas City teen shot in the head after knocking on the wrong door in April, is speaking publicly for the first time about his recovery as well as the man who shot him. In April, the 16-year-old was going to pick up his siblings in north Kansas City when he mistakenly knocked on the door of 85-year-old Andrew Lester. Lester's address was very similar to and only one block away from where Yarl's siblings were.
One hundred twenty-nine pedestrians were killed by drivers in Missouri in 2022 — a 7.5 percent increase from the year before and one of the 10 biggest percent increases in the U.S. That's according to a new report from the Governors Highway Safety Association, which offers a comprehensive look at state and national numbers for pedestrian safety. The overall outlook is deeply troubling: Last year, the nation notched its highest number of pedestrian deaths since 1981.
A few days after a drive-by attack left her home riddled with bullet holes and her dog injured, St. Louis musician Ellen Cook has been feeling the support from her community but also can't help but be conflicted about the city she's called home for decades. As Ellen Hilton Cook, the singer has been playing piano and writing music most of her life.
Aldermanic courtesy, already a target of reform by some St. Louis progressives, now has a foe of an entirely different political stripe, who says he wants to do away with it completely. Libertarian attorney Bevis Schock announced earlier this month that he had signed onto a lawsuit against the city with the intent of having aldermanic influence over tax abatements and zoning variances declared illegal.Â
MONDAY, JUNE 19. It’s one of those Mondays when St. Louis wakes up to confront the horror of the previous weekend, this time a mass Father’s Day shooting.
Planned Parenthood's clinic in Fairview Heights has handled a 35 percent increase in abortion patients since the federal right to abortions was overturned a year ago, leading to abortion crackdowns in many neighboring states. And more than 40 percent of abortion patients — a 700 percent increase — have traveled to the Fairview Heights health center from outside the bi-state region of Missouri and Illinois in the past 11 months, according to Planned Parenthood.
Since the opening of Zanti’s Deli (181 Concord Plaza Shopping Center, Sappington), husband and wife Roberto and Annette Zanti have been busy serving Italian sandwiches in a counter-service setting. The 10 sandwiches include the Zanti’s Italiano — a customer favorite with mortadella, salame, ham and capocollo — and a classic meatball sub made with homemade meatballs.
Change was needed after consecutive 3-1 defeats for St. Louis City SC. Head coach Bradley Carnell decided to field his 18th varied starting line-up of the season against the San Jose Earthquakes.
On Thursday, Levi Henning left his home in St. Louis’ West End on his way to a court hearing where, after five years, he was finally going to be done with the criminal justice system. Henning’s attorney David Mueller said that Henning didn’t have to be at the hearing where a judge was set to dismiss a 2018 robbery case against him, but Henning had wanted to be there.
The Sexiest St. Louisan alive is officially off the market. People Magazine reports that Jon Hamm got married on Saturday, tying the knot with 34-year-old actress Anna Osceola in Big Sur. The John Burroughs School alumnus, 52, has never previously been wed. Significantly, the series that made Hamm a major star, Mad Men, filmed its series finale in Big Sur, and the then-unknown Osceola played a small role in the episode as a receptionist.
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