Aggregator

The final So Many Dynamos concert at Delmar Hall will feature the musicians who have been a part of the band over the years.

The St. Louis Boundary Commission approved putting the proposition on the ballot finding that the two municipalities share the same school system and would benefit from a merger.

A Lot of Good Reasons Pan d’Olive ticks a lot of boxes for me. It’s not far from where I live. It has a spacious parking lot and a bar area the size of a tennis court. (Well, maybe not quite that big. 🙂 I’m especially partial to the cozy row of private booths that... 

Read More »

The post Pan d’Olive for a Real Meal Deal appeared first on Good Food St. Louis.

Light and windows are deeply intertwined with my work as a ceramicist and photographer. My porcelain hand-built sculptures blend an organic and contemporary style that takes shape using a traditional

The post Light from a Window by Susan Zimmerman appeared first on Explore St. Louis.

The St. Louis Artists’ Guild would like to present Tales by Light, a national juried photography exhibit featuring photographers using various photographic techniques to showcase how light can impact your

The post Tales by Light a National Photography Exhibition appeared first on Explore St. Louis.

Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s–1970s, is the first ticketed exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum to focus on modern Native American art. Expanding the narrative of mid-century abstraction,

The post Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s–1970s appeared first on Explore St. Louis.

St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, filled with structures of every age, shape, and size. In Coloring STL, Missouri History Museum visitors will interact with these fascinating buildings in

The post Coloring STL appeared first on Explore St. Louis.

There's a party going on at Third Wheel Brewing (4008 I-70 North Outer Road, St. Peters; thirdwheelbrewing.com), which spans two storefronts of an industrial strip mall along an I-70 service road on the outskirts of St. Peters. Inside the main taproom, patrons swarm the large rectangular bar for food specials and drafts of fresh Curbside Stand, a popular tart lemon-and-blackberry Berliner Weisse seasonal release.

ALTON - The Alton VFW Post 1308 invites everyone in the community to come out, enjoy a beer and support local veterans. With a long list of events ahead, member Chad Sibley says there’s no time like the present to see what your local VFW has to offer. The VFW provides many services to veterans and their families. But Post 1308 also has a bar, games and an upcoming quarter auction that they hope will help engage people and raise money for their community efforts. “We do more for veterans in the nation. That’s our slogan,” Sibley said. “We want to serve and we love to serve, and that’s why we joined. It’s kind of a way for us to keep serving our community and protecting our citizens. Whatever we need to do to help the community, especially veterans, we’ve got resources.” The VFW Post 1308 connects veterans with each other and services that could benefit them. For example, they often provide medical equipment like wheelchairs

Continue Reading

The city is reacting to party-house problems, but it could also use this as an opportunity to signal that it gets the value of the sharing economy.

ALTON - The Alton Branch NAACP announced a leadership change as Leon Smallwood Bey is moving into the president's seat and vice president Rosetta Brown will now move into the first vice president position. The Alton NAACP branch is one of the oldest, strongest and active organizations around, Brown said. Mike Holliday Sr. has resigned his position as president due to health reasons. "The future of this grand organization will stay strong and will continue to move forward," Smallwood and Brown said. "We have a competent and committed Executive Board and also an entire membership who is very dedicated to The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) which is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate race-based discrimination." Vision Statement The vision of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure a society in which all individuals have

Continue Reading

A woman accused of firing a shot at Hollywood Casino over the weekend reportedly claimed it happened as a "celebration of life."

HARDIN - At 12:13 p.m. on Aug. 5, 2023, law enforcement officials from the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office and the Illinois Department of Natural Resources Conversation Police executed multiple court-authorized search warrants on Jefferson Street, Kampsville, Calhoun County, Illinois in reference to an on-going methamphetamine and firearm investigation. Subsequent to the execution of said search warrant, methamphetamine, methamphetamine-related drug paraphernalia, baggies, scales, firearms, firearms suppressor, and surveillance equipment was located and seized. Arrested as a result of the search warrant are: Derek A. Boxdorfer, age 38, of Kamspville, was arrested on the following charges: Unlawful Possession with Intent to Deliver Methamphetamine, Unlawful Possession of Methamphetamine, Unlawful Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Felon (2 counts), Unlawful Possession of Firearms Ammunition by a Felon, Unlawful Use of Weapon (Firearms

Continue Reading

CHICAGO – The Mega Millions jackpot for tonight’s drawing has soared to a mind-blowing $1.55 billion – the largest Mega Millions jackpot in the game’s history and the third largest lottery jackpot won in U.S. history. Illinoisans across the state are lining up at their local lottery stores to snatch up a ticket in hopes that their chosen numbers or even a quick pick is the lucky combination that brings them the big win. So, are there any ‘lucky’ Mega Millions numbers? For every drawing, five white balls are drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 70, and one gold Mega Ball is drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 25. While the odds are exactly the same for each number to be drawn - because numbers are drawn completely at random - the following table outlines the numbers that have been drawn the most in 2023. Plenty of Mega Millions players in Illinois have already walked away with a lot of cash this year after their winning numbers

Continue Reading

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Arrest warrants are issued for riverfront brawl in Montgomery, Alabama. Video captured a white group attacking Black riverboat workers, triggering a widespread fight. There are four active warrants and police are reviewing footage. Several detained, pending charges. The incident began with Black crew member seeking a pontoon boat was attacked by a [...]

Lawmakers in some states have been laying the groundwork to add geothermal power to the electrical grid and pump underground heat into buildings. Now, a technological breakthrough could dramatically expand those ambitions — and perhaps unleash a new wave of policies to tap into geothermal sources. Last month, a company announced the successful demonstration in the West of […]

The post Tech breakthrough could boost states’ use of geothermal power appeared first on Missouri Independent.