Shelton Boyd-Griffith and his husband Tre'Von Griffith founded WerQfest in 2020 to highlight the Black queer, trans, and non-binary community in St. Louis.
While Taylor Swift seemingly attracted some shade recently from Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, she's now gotten some major praise from a woman who's opening for Foo Fighters this summer: Chrissie Hynde…
Based on recent Supreme Court rulings, it's not quite right anymore to say that we have a liberal bloc and a conservative bloc. We now have three blocs: Liberal (Kagan, Sotomayor, Jackson) Conservative (Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett) Ultra-conservative (Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch) The liberal and ultra-conservative wings are almost always on opposite sides in hot button cases. ...continue reading "The Supreme Court now has three blocs"
A domestic disturbance call in north St. Louis late Thursday morning resulted in a shooting and a woman taking her own life after police arrived at the scene.
Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman is back with new music.The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer will release his ninth studio album, Drive My Car, on Aug. 9. It will…
You just can’t tell Florida “no,” which is a bit ironic. The state obviously feels it can say “no” to all sorts of things, even if doing so means violating the Constitution. Another dumbass bill written by dumbass legislators and signed into law by the state’s dumbass governor, Ron DeSantis, continue to bleed money from […]
Here's the drop in murder rates in the largest US cities. Most of the data is through the end of March. The data from Boston comes from a New York Times story this morning. Homicide is down almost everywhere, and in Boston it's down a phenomenal 78%.
From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A fight between a general contractor and owner threatens to further delay the completion of a $150 million music production facility here that officials said would grow jobs and boost the region’s visibility in the entertainment industry. Arco Construction last week ordered its crews and subcontractors to stop working at Gateway […]
The ruling may clear the way for investors citywide to buy properties from the city's land bank or at tax sales unencumbered by delinquent sewer bills.
From New Civil Engineer: 3D printing technology could be deployed for bridge construction, but there are still some factors hindering its adoption. The evolution of 3D printing technology in the past two decades has made it increasingly popular in the automotive and aerospace industries, as well as in the production of medical devices. This technology […]
From Gensler: The shift in priority towards whole-life carbon in the last five years has been a seismic change for the industry, one we’re just starting to see the effects of in the buildings we live and work in. But unlike the cutting-edge sustainable buildings of the past — characterized by highly visible features like […]
From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine: On Monday, June 24, on a 98-degree afternoon, O’Fallon and St. Charles City hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for a new regional law enforcement facility to be constructed on an 87-acre site at 2400 Hwy. 79. St. Charles County Council member, Mike Elam (District 3) was the event’s master of ceremonies. The […]