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Judge threatens Kim Gardner with contempt of court after attorney no-shows murder trial

2 years 7 months ago
There are three attorneys now juggling close to 500 felony cases in the St. Louis circuit attorney’s office, so what’s happening to the cases assigned to those who have recently resigned or taken abrupt leaves of absence? Two of three murder trials did not proceed Monday. One resulted in a judge giving St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner seven days to tell him why she shouldn’t be put in jail, pay a fine or both for being in contempt of court after no one from her office showed up for…
Christine Byers

Planned Parenthood has pop-up clinics for patients seeking gender-affirming care

2 years 7 months ago
Planned Parenthood hosted three pop-up clinics for new patients seeking gender-affirming care on Monday.  One was in the Central West End in St. Louis, another in Fairview Heights, Illinois, and the other in Springfield, Missouri. It was in response to a recent emergency regulation on gender transitioning from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey put a timer on last week when he said new restrictions on gender-affirming care are coming including restrictions…
Justina Coronel

The Dallas Symphony performs a Katherine Balch world premiere, plus works by Borodin and Stravinsky

2 years 7 months ago
Composed in 2022, whisper concerto is true to Balch's style in that it sounds at once perfectly idiomatic and utterly strange. Beautiful—sometimes even conventionally tonal—melodies commune lovingly with shameless noise. Virtuosity gives way to entropy only to catch its breath and come back weirder and wilder, transformed by the volatile power of orchestral collaboration. Shards and fragments of free jazz mysteriously reassemble themselves, against all odds, into a peculiar chorale.
René Spencer Saller