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Streaming’s Latest ‘Innovation’: Ads When You Hit Pause

2 years 1 month ago
Now that growth is saturated in the streaming sector, companies are increasingly behaving like the cable TV giants they once disrupted in a bid to deliver Wall Street improved quarterly returns at any cost. Even if it means annoying consumers and damaging the company’s long-term brand. Netflix now wants to harass you for doing something […]
Karl Bode

Refugees came to Noel for opportunity. Tyson’s plant closure leaves their futures uncertain

2 years 1 month ago

NOEL, Mo. — On a Sunday afternoon in rural southwest Missouri, dozens of friends and family gather at a modest one-story home to sing and celebrate in the language of their homeland, more than 8,000 miles away.  Some arrive from church, crowding into a living room to celebrate two brothers — one turning 7 and […]

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Clara Bates

A Number of Tragedies

2 years 1 month ago

Laumeier Sculpture Park’s 2023 Visiting Artists in Residence are Pittsburgh-based artists Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis. This collaborative duo utilizes innovative approaches to conceptualism and minimalism to realize their […]

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Rachel Huffman

You Could Spend Halloween Night at a Drag Show at City Winery

2 years 1 month ago
Halloween's placement on a Tuesday this year means all the best parties will be the previous weekend — but you can't just spend the night at home fielding cheesy jokes from trick-or-treaters, can you? If you don't have kids to monitor and you're too old to beg for candy yourself, you're in that sweet spot for Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun: A Halloween Drag Show. The one-night-only event happening this Tuesday, October 31, at City Winery (3730 Foundry Way, 314-678-5060) features some of the best drag artists in town, including but not limited to hosts Moxie Contin and Lucy Couture.
Sarah Fenske

Next for a new U.S. House speaker: Three-week deadline to dodge a government shutdown

2 years 1 month ago

WASHINGTON — Newly elected U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson has three weeks to broker an agreement with Democrats to avoid a partial government shutdown when a short-term spending law expires on Nov. 17. The Louisiana Republican, who has leaped from relative obscurity to one of the four congressional leaders, has already spoken with his Senate […]

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Jennifer Shutt