ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Aldermen in St. Louis are deliberating on the fate of the former St. Louis Workhouse, a medium-security jail that ceased operations in 2022. The city asked consultants to assess potential uses for the property located on Hall Street in North St. Louis. This afternoon, the Aldermen's Public Safety Committee will review [...]
St. Louis, MO — As downtown St. Louis braces for increased traffic for the Cardinals Home Opener, Metro Transit offers an alternative for those looking to avoid the hassle of driving. Use either the MetroLink or Metro bus services for your commute. It doesn't get much more convenient than taking MetroLink and getting off the [...]
ST. LOUIS -- As anticipation builds for the upcoming solar eclipse, there's good news on the weather front. Initial concerns about cloudy skies seem to be fading, with signs indicating clearer conditions as we approach Monday's celestial event. The path to totality lies south or southeast of St. Louis, recent forecasts offer hope for optimal [...]
Sedation means patients will be in the clinic a bit longer, up to an hour as the medicine wears off, and need to have someone with them to drive them home.
Lion’s Choice is ready for Version 2.0 — and it's starting by giving one of its signature items an employee-inspired reboot. The Original Roast Beef Sandwich remains on the menu, but now you can also order what it's calling the Remix: roast beef, two slices of Swiss cheese and a garlic aioli sauce sandwiched between two pieces of buttered Texas toast. CEO Fred Burmer says the sandwich is just one piece of an "awakening" for the beloved St. Louis-based fast food company, which first debuted in 1967.
In March 2022, Bridgeton police investigated pediatrician Craig Spiegel for a possible sexual assault after the mother of a patient accused the doctor of forcibly putting his hands down her pants. The patient’s mother was in an exam room where, moments before, Spiegel had been performing a check-up on her son. That investigation fizzled after five months, with no charges being filed.
Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winning drama August: Osage County takes an intimate look at a seriously dysfunctional family and its varied, often disturbing, dynamics. The Repertory Theatre St. Louis lays the troubled family’s turbulent relationships and dark secrets bare in a stunning production that is, frankly, the most compelling and captivating interpretation of the script I’ve ever seen. Beverly Weston, a professor and once promising poet, and his wife Violet have been married for a long, contentious time.
Alice Childress’ The Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and White is a powerful examination of miscegenation that’s at once tender, hopeful and realistically prejudiced. The Black Rep explores this moving script in an excellent, nuanced production highlighted by captivating performances. From enslavers abandoning (or selling) their children born by Black women to laws against marriage between people considered to be of different races to prohibitions against affection and marriage among same sex couples, our country has constructed barriers and fought against love time and again.
The American dream is alive and well in Bevo Mill. What was originally a German-centered neighborhood has over the decades become home to immigrants from Iran, Mexico, Syria and more. In the late 1990s, the dense, walkable neighborhood housed so many refugees from Bosnia that it took on the nickname "Little Bosnia."
Three Missouri Republicans – including one running for statewide office – are being sued for defamation over social media posts incorrectly identifying a Kansas man as an undocumented immigrant and the shooter at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory celebration. On Tuesday, Denton Loudermill of Olathe, Kansas, filed federal lawsuits against state Sens. Rick […]
Mike Mills sold over 60 million albums as bassist and songwriter with R.E.M., which emerged from the college-rock scene of the 1980’s to become one of the world’s most successful bands. Now he’s blending genres with his concerto for orchestra and rock band.
Mills and violinist Robert McDuffie will perform it Friday with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, in a program that also includes orchestral interpretations of R.E.M. songs.
ST. LOUIS -- Happy Home Opener, STL! A stubborn area of low pressure has drifted into the Ohio River Valley, and we are still stuck on the back side of it. Clouds will continue to wrap in from the northwest and we’ll watch for some showers, especially this afternoon east into Illinois. It will be [...]
The Rolling Stones are giving music fans a chance to own an autographed guitar that’s actually been played by Ronnie Wood, and it's all for a good cause. The Rock & Roll Hall of…
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