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One year after an ugly falling out with a previous tenant, a Soulard storefront will see new life as a cookie shop. Insomnia Cookies confirms that it will open a new outlet at 1001 Russell Boulevard later this spring. The store will be Insomnia's fourth in St. Louis.

Atlanta rapper Ludacris, best-known as the mind behind a string of absolute bangers throughout the late '90s and early aughts but perhaps more appropriately for these purposes also known as a guy who pretends to drive cars at a high rate of speed in the Fast & Furious franchise, has been announced as the headliner for this year's NASCAR-affiliated Confluence Musical Festival. The fest takes place at World Wide Technology Raceway (700 Raceway Boulevard, Madison, Illinois) on Saturday, June 1, and Sunday, June 2. The whole thing is meant to accompany the Enjoy Illinois 300 NASCAR event in town that same weekend.

Bud Light, the NFL's official beer sponsor, is planning to roll out a 60-second commercial during the Super Bowl this weekend featuring "The Bud Light Genie."

I’m not a religious man, but Jesus Fucking Christ. Yet another insane decision that allows the government to ignore constitutional rights has been handed down by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals — the one nationally known as the most cop-friendly circuit in the nation. The long journey to this horrible ending begins in 2018. […]

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Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin (pictured) and Ron Wyden, along with Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and Mike Lee, are sponsoring the most important press freedom legislation in modern history, the PRESS Act. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin Youth Climate Strike Chicago Illinois 5-3-19_0471 by Charles Edward Miller is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

First Amendment Watch at New York University interviewed our deputy director of advocacy, Caitlin Vogus, about the importance of the PRESS Act, the federal bill to protect journalist source confidentiality. The act passed the House without objection last month and enjoys bipartisan support in the Senate as well.

Vogus told First Amendment Watch that administrations from both parties have increasingly spied on journalists and their sources in an attempt to stifle important reporting and prevent government transparency.

The PRESS Act would address that problem by protecting journalists from surveillance, or from being compelled to reveal their sources or newsgathering material, and as a result, it would make sources feel much more comfortable coming forward to talk to journalists, to blow the whistle, to share important information that informs the public. It will improve the quality of journalism and ensure that Americans have access to the information that they need to be informed participants in our democracy.

You can read the full interview here.

The $5 ticket was purchased at Royals Liquor on North Lindbergh Boulevard.

The city is considering a proposal that would add traffic calming measures to Skinker Boulevard. Advocates are hopeful it would improve safer access to Forest Park.

The City of St. Louis community blood drive will be held on Monday, February 26th, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. in Room 208 of St. Louis City Hall.

Locals who enjoy spending their time on the pickleball courts may soon be in luck, as the alleged largest club in the world will soon be in the neighborhood.

In an unsurprising turn of events, the DC Circuit Court has ruled that Donald Trump doesn't have legal immunity for anything he happens to have done while president. Trump's lawyers continue to assert that this means "every future president who leaves office will be immediately indicted by the opposing party," but the court put quick ...continue reading "Court says it’s OK to prosecute Trump"

All tenant leases at Chesterfield Mall will come to an end on August 31, setting up the mall to permanently close this summer.

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  It was September 2021, and developer Steve Smith had finally finished the over $200 million rehab of the abandoned Federal Mogul factory into the City Foundry food hall and entertainment complex in Midtown. He and his firm submitted their application to redeem the $20 million in state historic tax credits they […]

From Leader Publications:  The Fox C-6 School District is taking steps to fix deteriorating asphalt at the Seckman schools campus and at Rickman Auditorium and to improve energy efficiency at Lone Dell Elementary School. Board of Education members voted 6-0 Jan. 16 to spend a total of $1,002,476 on the capital improvement projects. Board member […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  St. Louis aldermen on Friday gave final approval for tax incentives to support the redevelopment of a downtown St. Louis hotel. Aldermen voted 9-5 to approve subsidies to help fund Midas Hospitality’s $50 million renovation of the 266-room hotel inside the former Edison Brothers Building at 400 S. 14th St. […]

From St. Louis Magazine:  If you’ve driven by Westport Plaza in recent months, you may have noticed something curious. Its gilded office tower, the iconic shimmery gold structure that has defined the northwest county skyline for decades, looks a little different thanks to a rectangular slice that’s been carved out of its west-facing facade. It’s […]

PASADENA, CALIF. - Imagine all your favorite Illinois Route 66 photo ops packed onto one float in the legendary Rose Bowl Parade on January 1, 2024! That's exactly what happened on New Year's Day in Pasadena, California, with Illinois Route 66 icons like the Joliet Prison, Shea's Gas Station Museum, and the World's Largest Catsup Bottle (to name just a few) represented on an amazing float. Here's how it happened. In Pasadena, the theme of “Celebrating a World of Music” was chosen for the 135th Rose Bowl Parade. And in Chicago, the Illinois Office of Tourism (IOT) team pondered that theme as they thought about the state's rich musical heritage and the legacy of music associated with the greater Chicago area. Those musical thoughts, along with the IOT award-winning marketing campaign of “Middle of Everything” sparked the Enjoy Illinois float theme: “Illinois: The Middle of Beats and Blues.” “The thing is, music is a universal language, and of

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