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Meet Netflix's Glass Blowing Stars at Third Degree on Friday

1 year 11 months ago
There are pretty much always stars doing their glass blowing thing at St. Louis' own Third Degree Glass Factory (5200 Delmar Boulevard, 314-367-4527, thirddegreeglassfactory.com). And really that's enough for us. But sometimes it's fun to import some outside talent — even if it's just so we can show off how great our local hot shop is.
Jessica Rogen

Zelenskyy pitches Congress on Ukraine military aid, but it’s tied to stalled border talks

1 year 11 months ago

WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy struggled Tuesday to convince members of Congress to approve billions in additional aid to his country at a crucial moment in the nearly two-year war with Russia. But the outlook was grim as lawmakers remained deadlocked on another piece of a supplemental spending bill under debate in the Senate […]

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Jennifer Shutt

Families line up hours before St. Louis food giveaway

1 year 11 months ago
BRIDGETON, Mo. -- SSM Health Depaul Hospital hosts a food distribution event to help families in need. They partnered with the St. Louis Area Food Bank to make this happen and gave away a variety of items, including meat, potatoes, apples, and snacks. The response was overwhelming. Cars started lining up as early as 5 [...]
Laura Simon

Pere Marquette Welcomes New Natural Resource Coordinator

1 year 11 months ago
GRAFTON - Pere Marquette State Park has renewed their outreach efforts with the help of Lev Smolianski, the new natural resource coordinator. Smolianski explained that there are several programs in the works for anyone who is interested in learning about Pere Marquette and the ecosystem it supports. Whether he teaches at schools or at the park, he loves watching people become more passionate about the environment as they learn about it. “When you bring these kinds of programs and lessons to folks, people become connected to their land. It changes the way they view the world,” Smolianski said. “I believe through this kind of work, people become better stewards of their environment. My ultimate goal is to create an ideal of conservation in the folks that I interact with, to preserve for future generations and to create sustainable, long term management of our natural resources.” To do this, Smolianski is upping Pere Marquette’s programming and amplifying

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Josh Hawley Back To Try To Hotline His Awful AI/Section 230 Bill

1 year 11 months ago
Last week, we wrote about the potential for Senator Josh Hawley to “hotline” the bill that he put together with Senator Richard Blumenthal to remove Section 230 from anything touching artificial intelligence. As we noted at the time, even if you hate both generative AI technology and Section 230, the bill was so poorly drafted […]
Mike Masnick

Daily Deal: TexTalky AI Text-to-Speech

1 year 11 months ago
Turn any text or script into a lifelike natural human voice in easy 3 steps using Textalky, a powerful AI text-to-speech synthesizer. No robotic voices. TexTalky uses the latest cloud-based AI technology powered by Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon. It covers more than 140 international languages and dialects, and over 900 kinds of lifelike human […]
Gretchen Heckmann

Meadows Renovations are Nearly Complete

1 year 11 months ago
From Mid Rivers Newsmagazine:  From 2019 through mid-2023, Mid Rivers Newsmagazine published several articles about The Meadows, its infrastructure, its stores and restaurants, and new apartments being built in the area that are bringing in more customers. Lake Saint Louis leaders and residents viewed The Meadows as “the new downtown” of the city. They still […]
Kacey Crawley

Delays To Des Peres City Hall Renovations Result In Cost Overruns

1 year 11 months ago
From Webster-Kirkwood Times:  Indecisiveness on the part of the Des Peres Board of Aldermen has resulted in the city hall renovation project possibly being delayed, and a parking lot not to be reconfigured. Des Peres Public Works Director Steve Meyer suggested in March that a new parking lot be built on the north side of […]
Kacey Crawley