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Ukrainians find warm welcome in Sedalia after fleeing their war-torn country

1 year 6 months ago

Before Russia invaded her country, Yuliana Bezlysiuk was making plans. She had studied business and accounting in Ukraine, earned three degrees and found a job as a clerk at a Ukrainian university. Early one morning in February 2022, all of her plans and dreams disappeared. “In one day, all of my plans go,” she said. […]

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Maggie Girardi

A Number of Tragedies

1 year 6 months ago

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Rachel Huffman

Materia Is Drawing Huge Crowds to Its Monthly Raves

1 year 6 months ago
No one seems to care that the building next to the club is on fire. It's about 11:30 p.m., and people in the line of twenty-somethings outside the warehouse in St. Louis' Near North Riverfront neighborhood are much more preoccupied with the music thumping from the venue than the smoke billowing from what looks like an abandoned building across the street.
Monica Obradovic

Capitol Perspectives: Does power corrupt in the Missouri House?

1 year 6 months ago

This column is prompted by the problems plaguing Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher who is facing calls by his colleagues to resign because of financial double-dipping by seeking reimbursement from the House for travel expenses that had been paid by his campaign. His troubles continue a pattern of House speakers who have run into trouble […]

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Phill Brooks

Looking Meadow Cafe Brings Its Community to Maplewood

1 year 6 months ago
Looking Meadow Cafe (2500 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood; lookingmeadowcoffeeco.com) might have opened its doors in late September, but owner Jamie Herman served her first cup of coffee long before that. The road to Herman’s brick-and-mortar venture has been full of twists and turns.
Kasey Noss