Photographs by Alyssa Vanderweg. As part of the Missouri Historical Society’s ongoing Collections Access project, the collections management department recently cataloged 38 charcoal portraits by St. Louis artist Mildred Bailey Carpenter. Mildred was born in St. Louis in 1894 and attended art school at Washington University in St. Louis. In 1914, she married her art …
Ready, set, go! The Gateway Dirt Nationals, an indoor racing event, features Late Model and Open-Wheel Modified classes. Held at The Dome at America’s Center, the 1/5-mile, semi-banked dirt oval […]
How are people feeling about their personal finances? Income is one way of looking at this, but balance sheets are another. That is, how much wealth do households have? Are their savings accounts flush? Are they relatively free of debt? Net worth is the simplest way of looking at this: Since the start of the ...continue reading "Household balance sheets are doing pretty well these days"
Everything inside Amazon’s Edwardsville Fulfillment Center is big. The facility itself is nearly 800,000 square feet, with a workforce of 700 people, and filled with approximately nine miles of conveyor belts.
It’s not like cops needed any more help being intolerant. It seems to come with the job. A badge, a gun, and a sense of superiority tends to turn even marginal cops into people who spend their entire careers adding to the “us vs. them” chip on their shoulders. But even cops with the best […]
A vandal destroyed a preservation area in House Springs overnight. Veteran Danny Tuggle had set the area up, hoping to share the Christmas spirit with his community.
While it's too soon to tell if a turnover of the puck or leadership behind the bench will result in winning ways for the St. Louis Blues, one thing is for certain: Coach Craig Berube was one of a kind.
A Washington, D.C.-based filmmaker’s plan to survey a south St. Louis neighborhood with drones outfitted with lights and loudspeakers is getting mixed reactions from neighbors and city leaders.