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The new book “Black St. Louis” explores the life of Black people, from the founding of the city to the start of the 21st century. Through colorful imagery and detailed documentation, co-authors Calvin Riley and NiNi Harris tell the stories of enslaved people, night-club owners, soldiers and everyday Black St. Louisans.

The Hoffmann Family of Companies is expected to announce that they are temporarily scaling back business operations in the rural St. Charles County community, according to company officials.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is advertising a low, low rate of just $26 a year for new online subscribers. But if you already rely on the daily for your local news, get ready to pay up: Digital access for existing subscribers is increasing 75 percent. The latest hike is part of a rapid series of price increase for online access.

St. Louis has no shortage of great holiday pop-ups, but come the new year, suddenly nothing is going on. Frankly, it's a bit of bummer, even if our livers appreciate the break. Finally, someone has stepped up to right this great wrong.

Otterbox has a huge variety of phone cases with varying degrees of protection and designs. But its latest Lumen Series Passport for iPhone cases puts a map on your phone for quick reference.

Virginia-based Performance Food Group will be relocating operations and more than 300 jobs from its current warehouse on North Broadway in St. Louis to a nearly 350,000-square-foot facility in Ferguson.

Green Door Art Gallery presents Finding Flow: Immersed in the Act of Creating fea-turing acrylic paintings by Angela Fromme, Gary Lang and Luciana Sabatino, mixed me-dia paintings by Elena Rybak […]

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Drawn from the rich collection of the National Building Arts Center (NBAC), Urban Archaeology brings together salvaged architectural elements from landmark buildings, residential homes and neighborhood institutions built in St. […]

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Bold abstraction and intense color are signatures of the New York-based painter Sarah Crowner, who brings these elements to the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, beginning Sept. 8. In three new site-specific […]

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Las Vegas-based artist Justin Favela will present a new site-specific installation and solo exhibition on the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis’ Project Wall. Favela creates vibrant large-scale murals and sculptures […]

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The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents new works by Dominic Chambers at his first museum exhibition in his hometown of St. Louis.   Chambers creates vibrant paintings that engage […]

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Joe Biden, from a position of weakness, is trying to cut a punitive deal on border policy without the House.

On This Day, December 15, 1967… The Who released their third album, The Who Sell Out, a concept album created to sound like a broadcast from one of the pirate radio stations…

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The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis presents Montreal-based artist Hajra Waheed’s first major solo museum exhibition in the US.   Waheed’s multidisciplinary practice explores the legacies of colonial and state […]

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The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century presents a sweeping art history of hip-hop culture and its myriad expressions across the globe. The multidisciplinary and multimedia […]

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St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, filled with structures of every age, shape, and size. In Coloring STL, Missouri History Museum visitors will interact with these fascinating buildings in […]

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SPRINGFIELD – As the Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) approaches the halfway point in resuming customer Medicaid redeterminations following the end of the pandemic-era continuous Medicaid coverage requirement, Illinois has the highest renewal rate among states, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker . The tracker relies on renewal data that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) collects from states. Following the end of the continuous coverage requirement earlier this year, states resumed Medicaid renewals, or redeterminations, which are regular customer eligibility verifications. According to the data tracker, at this stage of the unwinding process, Illinois and Maine have the highest renewal rates among all states, at 90%. HFS credits robust preparations and ongoing process improvements to being able to preserve health care coverage for Medicaid-eligible individuals across the state.

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ALTON - The National Great Rivers Museum (NGRM), in partnership with Meeting of the Rivers Foundation (MTRF), is extending the deadline for entries for their third annual “Winter on the River” Photography Contest. “We’re still getting a lot of questions from the public regarding the contest, so we’ve decided to extend the deadline through January 2 nd ,” said Elise Ratcliff, Natural Resources Specialist and Photography Contest Coordinator. “That will give everyone through the holidays to get their submissions together.” The exhibit, featuring community photography, is still planned to open on January 6 th , in conjunction with the region’s Eagle Ice Festival. As part of the Festival, the NGRM will have eagle spotting scopes, eagle crafts, eagle films, and eagle-watching tours on top of Melvin Price Locks and Dam every 30 minutes between 10am – 2pm. “This free event is a great way to kick off Eagle Season, with several

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