Police have released a photo of individuals who they say are suspects in the Father's Day mass shooting that occurred downtown last Sunday, an incident which took the life of one 17-year-old and wounded 11 other teenagers. All five young people seen posing with weapons are wanted for questioning, police say. Police are asking anyone who knows the identities of anyone pictured to call CrimeStoppers.
Today, the Saint Louis Art Museum presents its first exhibition focusing on modern and contemporary Native American art. Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s-1970s uses themes of artistic continuity and student experimentation to reshape narratives of Native American art following World War II.
“You’re very fortunate to have such a phenomenal orchestra here in your city,” Natalie Merchant told the audience at the Stifel Theatre on Thursday night. Indeed, after just a single rehearsal with Merchant earlier in the day, the extraordinary St. Louis Symphony Orchestra provided intricate, gorgeous, backdrops to some of Merchant’s best-loved tunes, a few rarities and songs from her terrific new album.
Four plays kept St. Louis audiences riveted this month. Here’s my take on one production you may have missed and three more you’ll have to hurry to see.
Mama Lucia’s is no more. The iconic frozen pizza brand, now Lucia’s Pizza, has rebranded without its nonna as part of an aggressive marketing campaign to appeal to new audiences.
Police in St. Louis' the Ville neighborhood this morning were following a vehicle that was driving erratically when someone in an alley opened fire on the officers' car. Sergeant Charles Wall with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department says that the shooting happened around 11:30 a.m. as plain-clothes detectives in an unmarked car surveilled the other vehicle near Aldine and Billups avenues. The detectives' red sedan was then suddenly fired upon by an "unknown subject" shooting at them from an alley.
When an overwrought suburban mom spots a librarian across a book-filled room, and the librarian is wearing both a goatee and nail polish and (heaven forbid!) makeup, what’s a mom to do?
It took seeing somewhere between 40 to 60 locations for Patrick Webster to decide where he should open his first bar. He knew he wanted it to be in St. Louis city and that it should have an events space.
Prosecutors in St. Louis County announced charges yesterday against a 32-year-old woman who they say took it upon herself to chase down the men who stole her sister's car, causing a serious traffic accident and endangering children in the process. According to a police probable cause statement, Francesca Jones' sister had her 2020 Dodge Challenger stolen. One day after the alleged theft, Jones saw the vehicle on West Florissant near Goodfellow Boulevard.
Beer and religion have a complicated history. Some faiths frown upon or even forbid the consumption of any intoxicants, while Catholic monks have been practitioners and keepers of sacred brewing techniques for centuries.
A tea vendor that's built a following at the Tower Grove Farmers Market will take over a recently vacated storefront just down the street in Tower Grove East. Chimera Teas announced on Instagram earlier this month that it would be opening at 3149 Shenandoah Avenue later this summer. That's the charming storefront that previously housed Kitchen House Coffee, which closed in March after nearly nine years in business.
St. Louis City SC boasted a 6-2-1 Major League Soccer record at CITYPARK and a four-match home field unbeaten streak before Real Salt Lake visited. But Salt Lake defeated CITY 3-1 Wednesday with the absence of injured midfielder Eduard Löwen affecting the play.
Some of London's iconic black cabs have gone as yellow, red and blue as the St. Louis flag this week — with a campaign designed to promote the region's tourist attractions in one of the world's great cities. The temporary wraps are decorating an untold number of cabs (a spokeswoman would only say "multiple") for the next few weeks as part of Explore St. Louis' efforts in Great Britain. "With the Cardinals-Cubs series and St. Louis delegation visiting London, the Explore St. Louis team thought this would be a unique opportunity to invite and welcome folks from across the pond to visit and do business in St. Louis," a spokeswoman for Explore St. Louis tells us.
A 58-year-old St. Louis man who shot and killed a 15-year-old who had his hands up received a sentence in court today that a judge called "extremely favorable." Joseph Renick submitted an Alford plea to one charge of involuntary manslaughter in court this morning for the August 2019 shooting death of Sentonio Cox. Renick is white.
Writer-director Celine Song's melancholic romantic drama Past Lives opens with a heck of a shot. The camera slowly zooms in on an Asian woman and two men — one Asian, one white — chatting at a bar.
David Freese may have turned down St. Louis' Cardinals Hall of Fame, but he won't turn down our burgers. The former Cardinals slugger smashed a 23-patty burger at Mac's Local Eats yesterday. He didn't beat the restaurant's record (26 patties), but the patty count on Freese's burger matches Freese's jersey number, so we'll still call it a win. The giant beef-and-cheese tower is now named the "Freeseburger."
Thursday 06/22 Ain't No Dancer
If you haven't had a chance to check out Gay Asia, the film festival at Webster University's Winifred Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood, Webster Groves; 314-968-7485) that's been running all June, don't fret: They saved one of the best films for last.
The teenager who lost her legs in St. Louis in February after a 21-year-old free on bond struck her with his car is now suing the city. Janae Edmondson says in a lawsuit filed in city circuit court on Tuesday that the city had a duty to keep the intersection downtown where the crash occurred in a "reasonably safe condition."
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