A state law raising the minimum funding Kansas City must provide its police department doesn’t impose any cost on the city or violate the state constitution, the Missouri attorney general’s office argued Wednesday. Deputy Solicitor General Jeff Johnson, representing the state auditor and secretary of state, told the Missouri Supreme Court Wednesday that legislation forcing […]
Ask the experts from the Missouri Department of Transportation, St. Louis and St. Charles counties and St. Louis City your questions about highways and roads. The live chat starts at 1 p.m. on Wednesday.
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The National Independent Venue Association has responded to the launch of Live Nation's On the Road Again program, issuing a statement criticizing the ticketing giant's campaign as an "initiative to…
The European Court of Human Rights is hearing one of the most ambitious legal efforts yet to force action on climate change. If successful, it could be legally binding.
A new animated short film based on the classic tale of Peter & The Wolf is set to debut October 19 on Max. The film features illustrations by U2’s Bono as well as music and…
The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments over the constitutionality of a wide-ranging law passed by the legislature last year banning sleeping on public land. Missouri lawmakers made sleeping on state-owned land a Class C misdemeanor, along with a slew of other provisions such as restricting state funding for permanent supportive housing in favor […]
Sure, you've seen fairy gardens along the sidewalks of city streets — a little cottage here, a kitschy fairy queen there, some shiny stones creating a path for a unicorn between them. But the outcropping of fairy homes on the piney edge of Francis Park is an actual fairy village.
When Tina Turner died in May, there was an outpouring of emotion across the world as fans mourned. We felt the loss most acutely here in St. Louis because we considered Turner one of our own.
That final episode of Mad Men is iconic for good reason, as it perfectly captures 1950s ad man Don Draper moving into the groovy late-1960s by both achieving hippie spiritual enlightenment and also learning how to use said enlightenment to sell soda. However, even more importantly for Jon Hamm, St. Louis' favorite son and one of the city's most ardent boosters, it was on the set of the Mad Men finale that he met his future wife, Anna Osceola.
We've had many favorite animals at the Saint Louis Zoo, but we were still not prepared for the joy that would enter our hearts when we encountered Rhubarb the ginger monkey. A Francois' langur (pronounced frahn-SWAH LANG-err), her beautiful hair was the color of the setting sun when she was just a newborn babe.
3610 Grandel Square, kranzberg-artsfoundation.org/the-grandel Today the Grandel Theatre is a multi-use space holding a theater, room for private events and the Dark Room, a nonprofit performance space, photography gallery, restaurant and bar.
601 South Holmes Avenue,
Kirkwood; bikegrantstrail.com Grant's Trail is 10 miles of walking and biking bliss, where the only human interaction you're expected to participate in is maybe nodding when someone flies past you in the opposite direction.
Multiple locations including 13343 Manchester Road, Des Peres; traderjoes.com Now that "girl dinner" has become a pop culture phenomenon, everybody has finally figured out that women just want to eat a series of snacks for dinner and call it done.
3503 Roger Place, friendlyssportsbar.com If you're looking to meet a cishet man who is into cishet man things like sports and fried food, head on down to Friendly's, because that's pretty much all they serve here.
If we're being honest, the Circuit Attorney's Office has been a heck of a lot less fun to cover since Kim Gardner resigned in May. No, the office hasn't been perfect since former federal prosecutor and Dowd Bennett partner Gabriel Gore took over on May 30, but things have been way less chaotic. While that may be a bummer for the city's journos, it's a godsend for everyone else.
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