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Pujols homered off of Cubs' Drew Smyly on Monday night, giving him at least one home run against 449 unique pitchers, tying MLB's all-time home run leader Barry Bonds for most off of different pitchers.

Journey's first studio album in 11 years, Freedom, was released last month. The 15-track collection includes songs that sound like they could have come from various periods in Journey's history,…

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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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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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Fox in the Mirror, a 20–minute video by Argentine artist Liliana Porter, is comprised of short vignettes depicting objects coupled with piano scores, solos, or

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Oscar Murillo (born Colombia, 1986) examines notions of cultural exchange, globalization, labor, and action through monumental paintings that reflect the processes of their making.  

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Catching the Moment celebrates the acquisition in 2020 of 833 works of contemporary art assembled by Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons. Comprised primarily of prints—and including a

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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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Former Blue Öyster Cult drummer Albert Bouchard has premiered a new video for his own version of his old band's 1983 tune "Shadow of California," which appears on his 2021…

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The "GIVE 75" campaign continues with a food drive benefiting Operation Food Search.

Another day, another click bait-y article on a virtually unknown website downplaying the St. Louis food scene. This time, the offender is Clever, a real estate site that matches buyers and sellers with agents (in other words, not a food website); the subject is barbecue, a sacrosanct St. Louis culinary institution that anyone born within one hundred miles of the arch is bound by duty to defend. In a recent analysis conducted by Clever to determine the "Best BBQ Cities in America," St. Louis comes in at number 26 out of 50 — a ranking that puts our fair city in the bottom half of the list, coming in under such places as Las Vegas, Nevada, Jacksonville, Florida, and Sacramento, California.

We've heard a lot about how COVID-19 has devastated the commercial office market as more and more people work from home. And it's true that the vacancy rate of office space has gone up over the past couple of years. But the Wall Street Journal tells us the pandemic was not really to blame: America’s ...continue reading "The increase in the office vacancy rate isn’t really a pandemic phenomenon"

Other former members of the Board of Aldermen are expected to plead guilty later this week.

Join the ranks of the hardworking team at the City Streets Department, apply for jobs, and learn how we can help you get CDA certified.

August is National Black Business Month.

People living in Jefferson County are mad about a proposed new apartment complex near Arnold.

You might look at the overall population numbers for the city of St. Louis the last several decades and see a consistent albeit slowing decline. However, the top line number represents only a high level view of the 66 sq. miles of St. Louis and its residents. An examination of the neighborhood level population numbers […]

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