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A Number of Tragedies

2 years 4 months 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

U.S. Senate GOP colleagues fight Tuberville hold as top military nominees trickle through

2 years 4 months ago

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans are pushing back on Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s blockade of hundreds of U.S. military promotions as the upper chamber fills the remaining vacancies on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Senators on Thursday approved Adm. Lisa Franchetti in a 95-1 vote to be the first woman to lead the U.S. Navy. Gen. David W. Allvin’s […]

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Ashley Murray

Catch up with everything City SC with 'Soccer 101' podcast

2 years 4 months ago
He's one of the most popular radio personalities in St. Louis. He's also one of City SC's biggest fans, and if you're just getting into soccer because of this incredible inaugural season, he's the guy to go to for everything you need to know.
Reggie Lee

Missouri uses power of the pocketbook to prevent divestment in Israel 

2 years 4 months ago

Inside every major contract Missouri signs with a business sits a clause about boycotting Israel. All but the smallest companies have to agree not to participate in any movement that aims to boycott, divest from or sanction companies in Israel. Missouri isn’t alone. At least 36 other states have anti-BDS (boycott, divest or sanction) measures […]

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Meg Cunningham

'Gilded Age' St. Louis Mansion Gets Its Due in Today's Wall Street Journal

2 years 4 months ago
Russell Jackson's Central West End mansion is the kind of St. Louis home that people on the coasts have to see to believe. It's roughly 13,000 square feet and, from the outside, makes the White House look like a low-rent hovel. And here's what to people in Los Angeles or New York might be the most amazing part of it — Jackson bought it for just $1.1 million.
Sarah Fenske

King & I Mixes Old and New in Richmond Heights

2 years 4 months ago
One glance at the pot stickers, and it’s clear that the recently reopened King & I (8039 Dale Avenue, 314-771-1777) means business. Served steamed or fried and arranged like soldiers in formation, they emanate rising steam.
Rob Levy

With The Holdovers, Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti Triumph Again

2 years 4 months ago
Describing Alexander Payne as underrated clearly exaggerates the case: After all, among his many laurels, he’s shared a pair of Oscars for Best Screenplay and earned three nominations as a director.  But Payne never quite receives the fannish adulation showered on such filmmaking contemporaries as Paul Thomas Anderson, David Fincher, Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson.
Cliff Froehlich

British-Born Janet Evra Is Making Glorious Jazz in St. Louis

2 years 4 months ago
Janet Evra was born on the Fourth of July, a bit of poetic irony for a British gal singing and playing American jazz music. Then again, jazz is an international language, and Evra is a transcontinental artist — a world-hopping UK-born St. Louis transplant in love with bossa nova and French jazz.
Steve Leftridge