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The Rise, Fall, and Revival of Swing Music

1 year 11 months ago
In the late 1920s, a number of innovative jazz musicians made an exciting discovery: by ignoring the 2/4 time signature popular with dance bands and playing in 4/4 time, they could up the tempo of a piece while simultaneously allowing for a greater rhythmic freedom. Spurred on by this discovery, musicians like Louis Armstrong began…
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Well Met Cafe Adds a 'Neighborhood Gem' to Shaw

1 year 11 months ago
The team behind Polite Society and The Bellwether have opened a new cafe just north of Tower Grove Park at 4100 Shenandoah Avenue. Brian Schmitz and Jonathan Schoen, along with beverage director Travis Hebrank (co-owners of Be Polite Hospitality), have picked a good spot to deliver another warm and comfortable gathering space – their signature brand – to a wider audience. Well Met Cafe, which opened May 1, occupies a former gallery space where Shenandoah and Thurman avenues meet.
Alexa Beattie

More addiction patients can take methadone at home, but some states lag behind

1 year 11 months ago

Matt Haney’s home in San Francisco isn’t far from a methadone clinic. The 42-year-old state lawmaker has watched people line up early each morning outside the clinic in the Tenderloin, a community long considered the epicenter of the city’s substance use epidemic. His neighbors wait for the daily dose of methadone that relieves their cravings […]

The post More addiction patients can take methadone at home, but some states lag behind appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Anna Claire Vollers

Sam Bankman-Fried Is Not Entirely Wrong

1 year 11 months ago
FTX’s victims are getting up to 143 percent of their money back, because the system treated it like the fraud it was. As the Steward case shows, that’s not usually how bankruptcy works.
Maureen Tkacik