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This exhibit showcases reproductions of the work of Missouri’s first known woman artist, Anna Maria von Phul. Her artwork illustrates life in the Missouri Territory during the 1810s and 1820s,

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Botswana-born artist Meleko Mokgosi creates large-scale, figurative, and often text-based paintings, drawing from the tropes of history painting and cinema to probe systems of knowledge production, the politics of representation,

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Chinese Silk Textiles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties showcases fine examples of Chinese textiles from the Museum’s collection, including clothing, embroideries, hangings, and banners made between 1570 and 1911.

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In the dramatic years between the two world wars, German art ranged from an activist realism to a utopian idealism. This exhibition presents a selection of work that questions the

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The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents the first retrospective of trailblazing artist Barbara Chase-Riboud (b. 1939, Philadelphia) in over forty years. This exhibition will be the largest monographic exhibition of her

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St. Louis just can’t stay quiet. The region has produced legends who are on a first-name basis worldwide, like Ike & Tina, Miles, Chuck, and Nelly. It’s been home to

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Every month, just before the BLS releases inflation numbers, they tease us with a new release of the Producer Price Index. Here it is for November: The PPI for final demand fell slightly to 3.6%. (As usual, this is the month-over-month change converted to an annual rate of change.) The intermediate demand index came in ...continue reading "Producer price inflation remains solidly under control in November"

The former Eat Rite Diner in south St. Louis has a new look and new name. It is now home to Fleur STL.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Thursday signed into law a measure that officials say will eliminate a $1.8 billion debt in the pandemic-battered account that pays out unemployment benefits.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. Jane Goodall, who braved the unknown to provide a remarkable window into humankind’s closest living relatives – chimpanzees.   On Oct. 7, the

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EDWARDSVILLE - The Edwardsville Township officially kicked off the construction of Township Hall with a commemorative groundbreaking on December 8 th at noon. The Township Hall is located at 300 Park Street in Edwardsville. The current Township Supervisor, Kevin Hall said, “As many of you know, this groundbreaking is a long time coming at over 8 years from the first facilities meeting back in 2014. Thank you to former Supervisors Frank Miles & Fred Schulte, Facilities Committee Chair Matt Chapman, Jamie Henderson & Joel Hall from Henderson Associates, and Mark Kabureck of Millennium Construction for all of your hard work getting us to this day.” The renovation contract was awarded to Millennium Construction for $1,385,000 with architectural work handled by Henderson Associates. The project will bring many improvements and upgrades to a building that date from the late 1980s. It will include an increase in space, updating to ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) requirements,

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Did anyone see this coming? The ever-mysterious Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has decided to switch her political affiliation to Independent. She says she won't caucus with Republicans, and if she continues to caucus with Democrats the party breakdown in the Senate will stay at 51-49. If she doesn't caucus with anyone, it will be 50-49. So ...continue reading "Kyrsten Sinema decides she doesn’t want to be a Democrat any more."

Missouri's attorney general asked a judge on Thursday to sanction St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, accusing her of concealing evidence in her effort to vacate the conviction for a man who has spent nearly 30 years in prison for murder.

In the wake of Elton Musk's takeover of Twitter, Elton John has become the latest rocker to announce that he'll no longer use the social media platform. In what's apparently his farewell tweet,…

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Missouri’s largest operating holiday model train displays will be in the Earl C. Lindburg Automobile Center at the National Museum of Transportation this holiday season.   On Nov. 25, opening

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This featured exhibition in the Great Hall of the St. Louis Public Library – Central Library explores how iconic characters both reflect and influence American culture from the 1960s to

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Larry Boone, a finalist for St. Louis police chief, spent more than 30 years with the Norfolk, Virginia, police department. He's a police reform advocate, and he left Norfolk abruptly after a news conference he didn't attend.