Shakespeare Glen in Forest Park once again bursts to life with audiences gathering over picnic baskets and enjoying a free, professional production by the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival. A summer staple since the early 2000s, this year’s play, Twelfth Night, gets a vibrant, contemporary interpretation under the direction of Lisa Portes that ripples with life as bold style and infectious music accompany the Bard’s delightful romantic comedy.
The virtual Jerry Garcia Archive Museum, which will provide a digital library of historical information about the late Grateful Dead star, is set to open June 7, and the occasion will be celebrated in the…
In the fall of 2016, the Connecticut Department of Children and Families began using a predictive analytics tool that promised to help identify kids in imminent danger. The tool used more than two dozen data points to compare open cases in Connecticut’s system against previous welfare cases with poor outcomes. Then each child received a […]
A Florida couple faces dozens of charges for allegedly partaking in "a brutal pattern of child neglect, abuse and torture" against children in their home, detectives said.
It is amazing the degree to which some people will engage in confirmation bias and believe absolute nonsense, even as the facts show the opposite is true. Over the past few months, we’ve gone through the various “Twitter Files” releases, and pointed out over and over again how the explanations people gave for them simply […]
LA mayor Karen Bass is using the return of congressional earmarks to get creative with homelessness: Bass asked every member of the House and Senate who represents Los Angeles to use one of their allotted 15 annual earmark requests on a project relating to the homelessness and housing crisis that her team had identified in ...continue reading "More money won’t help LA’s homeless"
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 9, guests at the Saint Louis Zoo can enjoy a family-friendly event with several different activities involving ocean and marine life.
More children are being separated from their mothers, putting them at greater risk of health and behavioral problems and making them vulnerable to abuse and displacement.
By Claire Savage | Associated Press/Report for America
Seal is my new life coach. Most of Seal’s Friday-night concert at the Stifel, billed as a 30-year celebration of the release of Seal’s first two albums, was classic Sealness, filled with his best-known songs and soul-haze vocals over first-rate instrumental craftsmanship served up with enough sensual charisma to induce spontaneous ovulation for those in the audience in the applicable age range, of which, admittedly, there weren’t many.
Neil Young fans have a lot to look forward to in July. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer has announced the fifth installment in his Official Release Series, this time…
Torkwase Dyson’s artwork engages urgent issues regarding architecture, infrastructure and the social and political impacts of the climate crisis, bringing them into conversation with historical and contemporary reflections on the
On view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum until July 24, “Killing The Buddha”: Reconstructing Zen is the 2023 Arthur Greenberg Undergraduate Curatorial Fellowship exhibition, located in the Teaching
On view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum until Aug. 6, African Modernism in America is the first major traveling exhibition to examine the complex connection between modern African
St. Louis sure loves its outdoor drinking and eating festivals, often centered on consumables that are delicious but a bit messy to eat from a paper plate while standing in a park (looking at you, barbecue). If you like the idea of an outdoor food fest but just feel like you haven’t found your version — the classy version — yet, then the Clayton Music & Wine Festival may be for you. Held in Carondelet Park (100 Block Carondelet Plaza, Clayton) this Saturday, June 10, the festival promises an “elegant” evening of wine, music and entertainment.
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