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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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A staple holiday decoration, the Christmas tree, is going to cost you more this year and you can blame inflation.

A man is behind bars nearly two months after he injured an officer in a traffic stop over a stolen pickup truck.

“Severe weather is not expected” from the storm, according to online posts from the National Weather Service's forecast office for the St. Louis area.

The City of St. Louis Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry is offering free firewood to the City of St. Louis residents. 

Twitter is full of people talking about a huge uptick in youth turnout in Tuesday's midterm election. This is typical: The story about last night's unusually high under-30 turnout is not "young people showed up to save democracy." It's "young people were treated as a constituency with valid needs, so they finally had a reason ...continue reading "Youth turnout this year definitely wasn’t up. But it might not have been down either."

Fraud attempts are on the rise, resulting in financial and privacy losses for businesses across the globe. Fraudsters are working hard to stay ahead by frequently testing for new vulnerabilities in businesses’ systems and processes. According to a 2022 study from the Association for Financial Professionals, 71% of organizations were targets of payment fraud attempts and attacks in 2021. The question becomes not if your organization’s finances will be a fraudster’s target, but when. Fortunately,…

Free wood! From now until March, you can grab free firewood at select city parks, courtesy of the St. Louis Department of Parks, Recreation and Forestry. All the wood comes from dead or damaged trees that forest and parks employees had to remove.

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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Jason P. Lodes, 37, of Wentzville, died at the scene of the crash near Winghaven Boulevard.

The Senate race in Nevada is tightening while they're not even bothering to count votes in Arizona. I guess the old image of vote counters toiling through the night has been relegated to the ash bin of history. In any case, the latest numbers have improved the odds of Democrats winning the Senate even without ...continue reading "Democrats inch toward winning the Senate. Republicans inch toward losing the House.*"

Paul McCartney will make sure fans have a "Wonderful Christmastime" by giving them the perfect gift: The 7" Singles Box. The collection includes 80, count 'em, 80 7-inch Paul McCartney…

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Scammers are not slowing down in 2023. They will likely take what they have learned in past years and continue to evolve their attempts to gain financially at your expense. Federal Trade Commission data shows that consumers reported losing more than $5.8 billion to fraud in 2021, an increase of more than 70% over the previous year. Stay informed on these emerging business and consumer fraud trends to ensure you are doing what you can to protect you and your business. Business email compromise (BEC)…

On Wednesday morning, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released its own findings saying Jana Elementary was safe.