Last night or early this morning, the newly rehabbed Tim's Chrome Bar in Bevo Mill lost its face. A heap of bricks from the exterior of the bar facing Gravois, as well as its distinctive rust-colored sign, plummeted from the two-story building to the sidewalk below. Bar manager Chelsea Pfister says the damage occurred sometime after 9 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4, and before 6:30 a.m.
This is sort of an odd picture. It's the Washington Monument, of course, but it doesn't really look very tall. Is it because of the trees, which distort our sense of scale? Or about shooting it from slightly above its base? Or about the cropping of the photo? I'm not sure.
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, opening April 13, is a documentary about John Lennon’s relationship with his personal assistant May Pang. It began in 1973 when Lennon and Yoko Ono were on a break, with Ono encouraging Pang…
Like the rest of us, the members of Metallica are getting older. With one of their fellow "Big 4" thrash bands — Slayer — already retired, when will it be time for the…
Edge Centres, an Australian-based operator of data centers, has entered the U.S. market through the acquisition of a St. Louis firm Hyson International.
Via Alex Tabarrok, here's the racial and ethnic breakdown of inventors in the United States. The figures are from a new demographic study done by Ufuk Akcigit and Nathan Goldschlag: Every nonwhite group is massively underrepresented except for Asians, who are massively overrepresented. Women are also enormously underrepresented: In this study, "inventor" is anyone with ...continue reading "Raw data: Race, gender, and ethnicity among US inventors"
“Evergreening” refers to the practice by pharmaceutical companies of making small changes to a drug, often about to come off patent, in order to gain a new patent that extends its manufacturer’s monopoly control over it. The first Techdirt post about evergreening appeared almost exactly ten years ago. It concerned the rejection by the Indian […]
Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer has shared his thoughts on the band's new albums, Unlimited Love and Return of the Dream Canteen. During an interview with Brazil's…
Marcus Kerr was running his own food truck in California in 2018, when he parked by a marijuana dispensary one day. “I just ended up meeting the owner of this company, and they had my food,” he said.
Firms in the contracting industry are "held hostage" by supply chain shortages and the resulting material delays, according to local executives in the industry. Here's how companies are getting creative to complete their projects.
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