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Review: Good Day Farm's Rainbow Sprinkles Strain Celebrates Pride Month

2 years 7 months ago
Good Day Farm certainly knows how to attract some attention. The Arkansas-based cannabis company made a hilariously big splash when it entered the Missouri medical marijuana market back in February, marking the occasion with the creation of a sewer-lid sized gummy weighing 135 pounds and containing 116,000 milligrams of THC.
Thomas K. Chimchards

Honoring Juneteenth National Freedom Day

2 years 7 months ago
SPRINGFIELD - The United States and Illinois flags at half-staff from Sunrise Sunday, June 19, 2022, until Sunset Monday, June 20, 2022. The Department of Central Management Services has received notice from Governor JB Pritzker that all person or entities covered by the Illinois Flag Display Act are to fly the flags at half-staff in honor of: Juneteenth National Freedom Day Please lower the United States flags and the State flags at all buildings occupied by your agency’s personnel from: Sunrise: Sunday, June 19, 2022 until Sunset: Monday, June 20, 2022 More information is available at https://www.illinois.gov/ about/flag-honors.html

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Update: Another Deceased Person Located: St. Louis County Police, Bomb and Arson Detectives Probe Deaths From House Explosion

2 years 7 months ago
ST. LOUIS COUNTY - St. Louis County Police Crimes Against Persons and St. Louis Regional Bomb and Arson detectives are currently investigating a house fire/explosion which resulted in the death of one individual and injuries to 4 additional individuals. St. Louis County Police announced late Friday that an additional victim has been discovered at the scene who suffered fatal injuries. St. Louis Regional Bomb and Arson Detectives and ATF are continuing the investigation. At 1:21 a.m. on June 17, 2022, St. Louis County police officers from the North County Precinct responded to a call for service for a house fire in the 6600 block of Parker Road. Responding officers located a residential house fire and an individual just outside the residence deceased. That individual appeared to have injuries consistent with the fire. The age and gender of this individual are not known at this time. Four additional individuals were transported to area hospitals with life-threatening injuries. Preliminary

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Family Business Profile: Kloss Furniture grows again after surviving 45 years of ups and downs

2 years 7 months ago
Kloss Furniture has endured nearly every challenge that can hit a family business since the retailer was founded in 1976 in Highland, Illinois. After a fire and a recession, the Kloss family has rebuilt the company from the ground up twice. Today the company, led by CEO Steve Kloss and his son, President Josh Kloss, is entering a new era that the family believes could be one of its strongest. The retailer is expanding back into Missouri later this summer after figuring out innovative ways to adapt…
Gloria Lloyd

St. Louis Standards: Almonds Thrives by Being Nuts About Its Customers

2 years 7 months ago
Tony Almond can't help but chuckle while recalling a conversation he had with his son one night after dinner service at his longtime Clayton restaurant, Almonds (8127 Maryland Avenue, Clayton; 314-725-1019). The younger Almond was decompressing after a busy night and was particularly vexed about a customer who came in insisting that he be seated, even though he had no reservation and the dining room was packed. To his son, the behavior seemed entitled, but in Almond's mind, it was a sign he was doing something right.
Cheryl Baehr

Film Review: Cha Cha Real Smooth Is a Shallow Attempt at Depth

2 years 7 months ago
Like recent Oscar Best Picture winner CODA, also produced by Apple TV+, Cooper Raiff’s Cha Cha Real Smooth bodes to net a lot of fans — and for almost exactly the same reasons. Both follow an artsy white person’s coming of age (one about to enter college, one just graduated); both explore the joys and woes of quirky nuclear families (one composed primarily of deaf people, one with a bipolar mom or an autistic teenage daughter); both refreshingly normalize people with disabilities, mental or physical, as invaluable parts of their communities. None of these reasons (especially the third) are invalid, and both movies might be considered mainstays for a new wave of inclusivity in American pop culture.
Eileen G'Sell