Video games were once synonymous with cartridges. A St. Louis game developer, Graphite Lab, is turning back the clock with its release of “Mr. Run and Jump.” Out on modern consoles from Playstation, Xbox and Nintendo, a version of the game is also being released for the Atari 2600 — and, for the first time since 1990, Atari is releasing the new game on a cartridge. Graphite Lab developer John Mikula reveals how he created “Mr. Run and Jump” as a passion project and what happened after Atari took notice.
Based on the iconic 1985 Paramount Pictures film, which was inspired by the classic Hasbro board game, Clue is a hilarious farce-meets-murder mystery. The play begins on a dark
The Missouri Botanical Garden is an idyllic place to listen to live music. On Wednesday evenings throughout the summer, the garden hosts free, open-air concerts as part of the annual
In 2023 so far, immigration courts have approved nearly half of all asylum cases they've heard: There's a remarkable spread in asylum leniency by judge and by city. In Houston, judge Bruce Imbacuan has granted asylum in 0% of the 105 cases he's heard. In San Francisco, judge Gordon Louis has granted asylum in 99% ...continue reading "Raw data: Asylum requests granted"
Charlie Hinderliter, senior vice president of the St. Louis REALTORS® never thought achieving St. Louis County building code uniformity would be simple. But his steady hand is making progress on herding the building code cats into the corral. In August, two public-facing events are scheduled at the Masonry Institute offices 1429 Big Bend Blvd. in […]
Presented by TourCo, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Merry Wives) will be performed at 24 parks throughout the St. Louis region from Aug. 1 to 27. Suki Peters, a celebrated Shakespearean
Some unfortunate news. AZ Central reported yesterday that James Larkin, who was a free speech pioneer who built an alt-weekly newspaper empire, and then spun out the controversial classifieds ads site Backpage, died by suicide, one week before his latest trial. While there’s been plenty of discussion about Backpage, related to questions around Section 230, […]
The Obama Foundation Leaders USA program has tapped Dr. Frederick L. Echols, a former St. Louis Health Director, as one of its 2023 “Inaugural Cohort” members.
Dozens of Illinois state employees across multiple agencies are under investigation by a state watchdog for claims they fraudulently obtained payments from a federal pandemic-era loan program.
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