St. Louis County Councilman Ernie Trakas is questioning the cost of two Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District projects, which the public entity admits will cost $900 million but says are mandated by regulators.
The late musicologist and critic Richard Taruskin rejected the art-for-art's-sake argument that music is essentially innocent, pointing out that questions about Orff's intentions—specifically regarding the use of his music by the Nazis—are irrelevant because "[t]hey allow the deflection of any criticism of his work into irrelevant questions of rights: Orff's right to compose his music, our right to perform and listen to it. Without questioning either, one may still regard his music as toxic, whether it does its animalizing work at Nazi rallies, in school auditoriums, at rock concerts, in films, in the soundtracks that accompany commercials, or in [the concert hall]." (With no disrespect toward Taruskin's memory, I'd be astonished if you leave the Meyerson tonight any more animalized than you were upon entering it.)
Imo’s Pizza last week introduced a new limited-time menu offering. The specialty pie marks a change in strategy for the iconic purveyor of St. Louis-style pizza, as the family-owned company is adapting to what it called a “shifted,” post-Covid marketplace.
More than 200 students filed out of Gateway STEM High School on Thursday to try to keep sustained focus on gun violence in St. Louis and in schools across the country.
ST. LOUIS - New mothers can have a difficult time after giving birth. About one in five go through perinatal mental health disorders. This may include postpartum depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder. They can have severe consequences for both the mother and child if left untreated. LaCresha Cree Cunningham, LCSW of Healing Sacred Scars [...]
Mötley Crüe will relaunch their stadium tour with Def Leppard later this month, and it sounds like they are loving having guitarist John 5 on the trek with them. The former Rob Zombie guitarist replaced original Crüe guitarist Mick…
There’s that old saying: the coverup is always worse than the crime. There appears to be something of a corollary to that: the freak-out over a leak is always worse than the leak itself. Let’s call that Geigner’s Law, because why the hell not? You should recall that Nintendo has been in full freak-out mode […]
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