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Featuring architectural photography by Ken Konchel and mixed media jewelry by Lois Jacobs.   Ken Konchel has won 74 awards in juried exhibitions and art

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1972 Fischer/Spassky: The Match, its Origin, and Influence celebrates the 50th anniversary of the American Robert “Bobby” Fischer’s historic win over the Russian Boris Spassky

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St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, filled with structures of every age, shape, and size. In Coloring STL, Missouri History Museum visitors will interact

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This exhibit showcases reproductions of the work of Missouri’s first known woman artist, Anna Maria von Phul. Her artwork illustrates life in the Missouri Territory

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Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi creates large-scale, figurative, and often text-based paintings, drawing from the tropes of history painting and cinema to probe systems of knowledge

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Chinese Silk Textiles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties showcases fine examples of Chinese textiles from the Museum’s collection, including clothing, embroideries, hangings, and banners

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In the dramatic years between the two world wars, German art ranged from an activist realism to a utopian idealism. This exhibition presents a selection

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The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents the first retrospective of trailblazing artist Barbara Chase-Riboud (b. 1939, Philadelphia) in over forty years. This exhibition will be the

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St. Louis just can’t stay quiet. The region has produced legends who are on a first-name basis worldwide, like Ike & Tina, Miles, Chuck, and

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Huber, along with the rest of the 2022 class of Hall of Fame inductees, will be honored at .ZACK on November 4.

This story originally appeared in Investigate Midwest.  Two of America’s largest meat companies — JBS and Tyson Foods — have invested in a smartwatch application that allows managers to monitor workers’ movements. The startup behind the application, Mentore, claims to improve worker productivity while reducing injuries. The repetitive, fast and taxing work of cutting and packing protein […]

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Advance retail sales figures for September are out today. And just to be different, I'm reporting them adjusted for both inflation and population growth, annualized into a full-year spending figure. Ordinary newspapers will tell you that retail sales were flat compared to last month, but only this blog will take the next step and adjust ...continue reading "Real per-capita retail sales dropped 0.4% in September"

Florissant fire crews worked to carefully and safely rescue a kitten stuck inside an HVAC unit Thursday night.

When county officials showed up at her home, she said the animal control officer told her that even with six stray dogs on her property, he couldn't do anything.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. Jane Goodall, who braved the unknown to provide a remarkable window into humankind’s closest living relatives – chimpanzees.

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An upcoming event this weekend about an hour outside of St. Louis could be the site of a new Guinness World Record.

CHICAGO (AP) — AT&T Illinois has agreed to pay a $23 million fine to resolve a federal probe into its illegal efforts to influence former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, prosecutors announced Friday. The U.S. Attorney's office in Chicago said in a news release that under the agreement, the company admits that it arranged to [...]

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Police were called to the 4700 block of Wren to investigate a possible homicide. The victim's body was found in the front yard. There are about 30 evidence markers on the porch and in the yard. This is a developing story. More details will be posted as they come into the [...]

Reparations is often something people hear about in an international setting — such as ongoing reparations that are paid to Holocaust survivors or reparations South Africa paid to apartheid victims. This weekend, elected officials — including St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones and Congresswoman Cori Bush — will gather for a “Reparations Block Party and Teach-in” […]

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