The Wall Street Journal has a seemingly insatiable appetite for trend stories that just aren't true. Here's the latest: Women’s Return to the Workforce Piles Momentum on a Hot Economy American women are staging a return to the workforce that is helping propel the economy in the face of high inflation and rising interest rates. ...continue reading "No, women aren’t returning to the workforce at an unusual rate"
Opera Theatre of St. Louis does a lot to remind folks that opera isn’t stodgy, it isn’t old and it isn’t dead. Instead, opera is an art form that can be used to tell powerful modern stories. That’s what Opera Theatre will showcase with its New Works Collective, three 20-minute operas about three very different stories that run Thursday, March 16, through Saturday, March 18.
Free-spirited country-rock belter Elle King packed the Pageant last night, a stop on her A-Freakin’-Men Tour, named after a lyric from her new album’s lead single, “Try Jesus,” a song she didn’t get around to playing in St. Louis. “When people play the same fucking sets in every city, that sucks,” she declared midway through the hour-and-45-minute set, referencing her tendency to change things up.
GODFREY - Keri Kiser, a Godfrey resident and mother, raised concerns about the speed limit on West Delmar Avenue while holding one of her children at the Godfrey Village Board of Trustees meeting on March 7. Kiser, whose two-year-old daughter was killed in a traffic accident in that same area, said the current 45-mile-per-hour speed limit is too dangerous for the neighborhood and that two businesses are controlling the speed limit for over 1,400 Godfrey residents. “There’s more than 1,400 people that live in that area … from Pierce down to Blue Fountain , it’s over 1,400 people - lots of families, lots of children,” Kiser said. “My daughter was the 2-year-old girl that was killed right there in front of my house on Pine Grove on West Delmar.” Not only was her daughter killed, but her dog was also hit by the car, which Kiser says was definitely speeding despite no official determination being made. “The circumstances of what happene
A federal grand jury issued three subpoenas to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services in December demanding records about a pair of St. Louis-area nonprofits and their involvement in a federal child nutrition program.
Homicide detectives with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department are looking for two men wanted in connection with a fatal shooting inside a north city apartment building.
Those who couldn't get enough of Janet Jackson's Lifetime documentary last year will be happy to know there's more to come. The network and A&E have greenlit a second documentary, titled Janet Jackson:…
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.
By 5-2 vote, council approved spending $300,000 to pay for an “educational campaign” to support marijuana sales tax measure appearing on April 4 ballot.
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are currently on their North American tour, and E Streeter Steven Van Zandt has no time for folks complaining about the show. When one person tweeted…
For 10 years, Food Pedaler has brought food to the doors of people in the Central West End and downtown via bike. The RFT caught up with owner Alex Ward as his company celebrates its decade anniversary.