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The aftermath of the Oct. 24, 2002 school shooting at Central Visual Performing Arts High School includes ongoing healing but the grieving also continues.

This featured exhibition in the Great Hall of the St. Louis Public Library – Central Library explores how iconic characters both reflect and influence American culture from the 1960s to

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On Sept. 16, Everything Is Golden, a solo exhibition by St. Louis-based artist Lizzy Martinez, opens as the first exhibition of the 2022-2023 Millstone Gallery season at COCA. In the

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A worker in north St. Louis made a gruesome discovery Thursday morning as he found a man who had been murdered covered up on a street.

Multi-platinum entertainer Thomas Rhett will join the home teams of 40 cities next summer, and on Thursday, November 3, he reveals the US tour dates for his Home Team Tour 23.

While traditional local papers deserve no shortage of blame for their failure to adapt, media scholars have long pointed out that media consolidation paved the way for a lot of the problems we’re seeing today. The end result of consolidation was the gradual elbowing out of small local news outfits, leaving the sector peppered with […]

Police say thieves broke into a Save-A-Lot grocery store around 3:00 a.m. Thursday.

Twelve years ago I wrote a screed about how banks charge high swipe fees on credit cards and then rebate a part of those fees to their richest customers: This is fundamentally my problem with overdraft and interchange fees: they’re surreptitious ways for the poor to subsidize the rich. There’s no law against that, of ...continue reading "We have quantified the madness of reward cards"

New York state-based artist Jean Shin, Laumeier’s 2022 Visiting Artist in Residence, describes her work as “giving new form to life’s leftovers.” Her sculptures and installations transform familiar objects into

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The Crestwood Schnucks will see several updates, including a food hall, “Fresh Pour” drink area and remodeled bakery, deli and seafood departments.

Emerson has been in the St. Louis area for 132 years. Now local leaders will try to prove the region should be its corporate home for the decades ahead.

The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum reopened this week after a $21 million renovation that took two years to complete. The museum is now 36,000 square feet, four times larger than it was before. "The stories of St. Louis survivors really guide the visitor through the process," Amy Lutz of the Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum said. "We use the most up-to-date technology, up-to-date research to make that happen." Lutz said the Holocaust is a difficult history. Visitors will hear first-hand…

Jodie Vice Lloyd contributed significantly to this work. In recent years, St. Louis has been seen by many as a case study of urban decline. Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City by Colin Gordan and The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter […]

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