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This year brought us big ideas, exciting new works, and chances to get to know dozens of artists and performers.

By now we’ve well established that this particular series of media mergers — which began with AT&T’s doomed acquisition of Time Warner and ended with Time Warner’s subsequent spin off and fusion with Discovery — were some of the dumbest, most pointless “business” exercises ever conceived by man. The idiotic saga burned through hundreds of billions in […]

Wells Fargo's interest-rate outlook could be good news for many borrowers.

Thomas “TR” Reis was the type of man who grabbed life by the balls.  Reis partied hard, hunted deer and fished.

Here are the events we are looking forward to Dec. 15-21.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Dec. 23, 1959:

In the days when many children lived in orphanages and hospital wards, do-gooders visited them on Christmas with gifts and warm wishes.

Police are looking for the occupants of a vehicle involved in a police pursuit early Friday morning in the metro east.

New details on a Hazelwood crash Wednesday night involving two cars at Dunn and Brown Road.

Three people are in custody Friday morning following an armed robbery in St. Charles that led to a chase in St. Louis County and City Thursday night.

St. Norbert Parish in Florissant offers mass in Swahili and French. Advocates say the services allow African immigrants to establish friendships and discuss immigration issues.

The space is slated to remain a pizzeria under new ownership, while owner Vito Chirco is developing an AI-based app that he says “has the potential to be a game changer" for the restaurant industry.

Total Access Urgent Care is set to pay $9.1 million to the federal government to settle allegations that the company overbilled federal insurance programs for services, including COVID-19 testing.

Just three days before Christmas, police are investigating a woman's murder in the Wells-Goodfellow neighborhood.

One of the largest urgent care chains in Missouri will have to pay more than $9 million over insurance claims.

Mercy Hospital St. Louis' new care-at-home program is gaining traction.

25 Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers will graduate from the patrol's law enforcement academy Friday.

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Unless you have very small children, or are really into trains, you may be surprised to learn that the Polar Express, that dead-eyed animated Tom Hanks movie based on the book with the same name, is a huge holiday classic. It's such a classic, the evil geniuses at Warner Brothers have created a way for families to overextend their holiday budgets on the opportunity to ride the real Polar Express to see the real Santa Claus at the real North Pole.

Oftentimes when choosing what weed to hunt down to review, it's a matter of cruising on some shop menus then picking something that you'd think consumers would like to try. But this time, the weed selected me.