Watching a massive hunk of glistening, herb-flecked chicken slowly rotate on a spit does more than whet the appetite; it makes your body course with the primal energy of juicy meat sizzling on an open fire that gets torn apart with bare hands. But hey, a pita works too.
On Saturday, the African People’s Education and Defense Fund (APEDF) held a grand opening of the Black Power Vanguards Community Basketball Court in north St. Louis. The event included a series of guest speakers and cultural artists, with live reggae music, the Dazzling Dancing Divas dance team and a ribbon-cutting with three-time Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
A little more than a month after she left her job as St. Louis Circuit Attorney, Kim Gardner was back in the courthouse downtown yesterday. The former prosecutor was called for jury duty, a courthouse source tells the RFT. Like the 343 other St. Louisans who received summons for jury duty this week, Gardner reported for duty at the Civil Courts Building on Tuesday, after Monday's Juneteenth holiday left the courts closed.
The people behind The Sweet Divine (1801 South 9th Street, thesweetdivine.com) have announced that they are closing their doors for good. In a post on social media this afternoon, owners Jenna and Jason Siebert say they're retiring from the bakery life and that they couldn't find anybody to take over the boutique cupcake and sweets shop. The beloved Soulard business was famous across St. Louis and beyond, gaining even more fans when they appeared (and won!)
St. Louis is a great place to take a walk, according to the New York Times. Earlier this week, the city made a very exclusive list when the Times featured it in its "In 7 Great Cities, 7 Great Walks." You may have heard of some of the other towns which made the cut, including Paris, Seoul, Sydney and Rio de Janeiro.
Tom Peterson loves St. Louis coffee shops. They're the sort of places you can grab a scone and a large, foamy cup of vanilla-scented brew and settle in with your laptop for hours to do some work.
Indie-filmmaker and St. Louis native David A. Malone has known he needed to make October 11th for most of his career. Since writing the film’s first draft in late 2021, Malone has made eight iterations of the script.
In March, a jury awarded former St. Louis police Sergeant Heather Taylor $300,000 after finding that police department leaders retaliated against her for speaking to the media. Now the city is trying to get that money back.
Missourians are very confused about the legality of birth control in the state, a new survey found. One in four Missourians do not believe or do not know that birth control pills are legal in the state. More than half (53 percent) do not believe or do not know that emergency contraception is also legal.
Insistently eccentric, involuted and reflexive, Wes Anderson's Asteroid City will likely only reinforce his detractors' animus toward the filmmaker's elaborate but undeniably insular world-building, but admirers — and I'm among them — will delight in the dizzying variations he works on signature themes and tropes. Although Asteroid City sometimes comes perilously close to the Rube Goldbergian joke constructions of Steven Spielberg's 1941 — with setups so baroquely complex that the payoff laughs are more theoretical than actual — it never tips over into self-indulgence.
Another group of St. Louis-area Starbucks workers is taking the plunge. Workers at the Starbucks in Affton (10015 Gravois Road, Affton) filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to unionize with Starbucks Workers United, the union announced this morning. The release suggests the workers are "fed up" with their store managers and district managers.
Jeremy Kaufman is a Washington University alumnus currently walking the picket lines in Los Angeles as a member of the Writers Guild of America (which has been on strike since May 2). A writer in Hollywood for more than a decade, he's worked on shows that have appeared on Amazon and Starz.
This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. Jeff Gray arrives home on a late Tuesday afternoon as the temperature outside hovers around 90 degrees, hotter than average for early June.
Summer is thought of as a fun, carefree time when kids can run wild and not have to deal with the hassle of school and other annoying things like learning. But for some local kids, not going to school means not having access to enough food to get them through each day. For families and caregivers who could use a little help with keeping their kids fed during these long, hot summer months: You are not alone, and you have options.
Nashville SC boasts the top defense in Major League Soccer along with one of the league's best players, 2022 MLS Most Valuable Player Hany Mukhtar. At the same time, St. Louis CITY SC faced a talented Nashville team without numerous key players.
On a walk Saturday night, Taylor Sprehe noticed something odd on the sidewalk in front of his house. A baggie full of what looked like small pebbles weighed down two pieces of paper. Sprehe thought it was garbage.
Though she didn't mention them by name, Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-St. Louis) is so exasperated by Missouri's current two senators, Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt, that she longs for the days of Roy Blunt. Yesterday Bush told reporters during a Juneteenth event that right now she's "in a tough spot" vis-a-vis working with the two Missourians currently in the Senate. "At least I had Roy Blunt," she said, referring to the two-term senator whose tenure in the Senate overlapped with Bush's in the House of Representatives by two years.
It’s 90 degrees out, but Kyle Kostecki’s standing on the concrete at South Grand Boulevard and Arsenal Street barefoot, his worn leather flip flops strewn to the side. Kostecki grabs a lot of attention; he’s wearing nothing but torn jean shorts, cheetah-print boxers that stick out the sides of his shorts, and a sports shoulder pad he fashioned into some kind of metal band armor.
Investigators are seeking the public's help in identifying the individuals suspected of perpetrating the mass shooting that killed 17-year-old Makao Moore and injured 11 other teens this past weekend at a party downtown that turned violent. This morning the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department released images of multiple individuals carrying weapons in the halls of the office building where the shooting occurred around 1 a.m. Sunday.
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