ST. LOUIS -- Mark Loehrer has a popular Instagram account where he recolors vintage photos of people and places in St. Louis. He works at a history museum and colorizes the photos to change the way people think of St. Louis. He has been doing it since 2019 and each photo takes around four hours [...]
What the fuck is wrong with state lawmakers? It seems that across the country, they cannot help but to introduce the absolute craziest, obviously unconstitutional bullshit, and seem shocked when people suggest the bills are bad. The latest comes from California state Senator Steve Padilla, who recently proposed a ridiculous bill, SB 1228, to end […]
The Rolling Stones are getting their fans hyped up for their upcoming tour. The band is set to kick off their Hackney Diamonds tour in a month, and they just revealed on…
Last Friday evening, scores of artists, academics and community members filed inside the intimate, narrow halls of Webster University’s Hunt Gallery for the unveiling of an art show centered on St. Louis’ tumultuous racial history. Ferguson and Beyond: Artistic Responses to a Decade of Social Upheaval, open now through April 26, is at once a glimpse back in time and a mirror of the present moment. As we approach the 10th anniversary of the Ferguson Uprising, the exhibition urges viewers to contemplate the fatal shooting of Michael Brown Jr. by police officer Darren Wilson and the outpouring of protests and social activism that ensued as a result, both locally and around the world.
Authorities on Thursday referred eight more teenagers to family court and recommended they be charged with assault in connection with a March 8 after-school fight that hospitalized one teen girl.
Earlier this week, eight additional juveniles were referred to St. Louis County Family Court for possible charges related to the brutal assault of Kaylee Gain, a beating captured in a viral video that shocked the conscience of the region and beyond. The assault on Gain occurred after school on Friday, March 8. Video of the incident shows Gain and another teenage girl appearing to square off against each other in a residential street near their high school.
CHEROKEE STREET, ST. LOUIS, MO — St. Louis’s annual Cinco de Mayo Festival will take place on Cherokee Street on Saturday May, 4th 2024, 11AM - 8PM. Organized by Cherokee Street Foundation — the street’s events non-profit organization — the Cinco de Mayo festival will once again take over six blocks of Cherokee Street – […]
An unflattering portrait of Sir Paul McCartney has brought in a nice chunk of change for charity.London artist Wilfrid Wood created a sculpture of The Beatle's face to be used as…
BLK MKT has opened in Maplewood. Motortown Pizza in Richmond Heights and Thai Table in Maplewood are also in the news. Feast — Motor Town Pizza offers Detroit-style pies and more at new Richmond Heights storefront Feast — Go green with lettuce wraps from these 3 St. Louis spots Fox 8 News — Ohio town […]
The team behind Union Loafers Cafe and Bread Bakery and Bagel Union will open a “little provisions store” selling bagels, cream cheese, a variety of salads and other products at 2232 Thurman Avenue in Shaw in early April. The as-yet-unnamed market will initially open on Saturdays and Sundays, with the weekend of April 6 set as the tentative launch date. The roughly 1,500-square-foot former gas station at the intersection of Thurman and Cleveland avenues has served as Loafers’ commissary kitchen for the past three years, and the majority of the space will still be kitchen space.
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