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He was identified as 75-year-old Michael Branlett

Banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck’s current tour includes a date this week at the Sheldon. Fleck has won 15 Grammy Awards blending bluegrass with other genres and highlighted the banjo’s roots through collaborations with African artists.

Like many of my discoveries, I find interesting buildings and stories by scanning around on Google Satellite, and in the course of doing so, I spot something anomalous, such as an obvious feed lot in the middle of the city,… Continue Reading →

Former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton liked to say that the minute you put your name on a ballot, you lose 50 IQ points. Trust me: He was only half-kidding. It’s not just that political neophytes do dumb things once they decide to run for office. It’s that ambition often clouds the thinking of even […]

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Spire customers will see an increase in natural gas prices starting next month after a price analysis found the rate charges to customers for 2021 was below the market rate. The price change, which will take effect Nov. 30, will increase the cost of natural gas for Spire East residential customers from 37 cents per therm to 59 cents per therm, a press release from the Missouri Public Service Commission said. Spire East includes customers in the city of St. Louis and the Missouri counties of St.…

Michael E. Branlett, 75, was driving east in the westbound lanes when he struck three vehicles and a guardrail, police said. Two people in one of the cars he hit suffered minor injuries.

Bones of the latest adult dinosaur were discovered, and experts determined that the Missouri dinosaurs were part of their own species, Parrosaurus missouriensis

Last year, if you would've asked Chris Armstrong his plans for his barbecue concept, he would've looked at you with a quizzical stare — the whole reason he was doing the project was that he had no plans. Having just gotten furloughed from his job as the Midwest sales manager for a Texas-based brewery, Armstrong was in need of something to do to pass the time and decided to throw himself headfirst into his passion for backyard barbecue.…

 
A few years ago, chef and guitarist Wil Pelly was hanging out with his bandmate, Matt Arana, one night after a gig; a couple of hours and several shots of brown liquor later, the two hatched a plan to open a music-inspired taco counter out of a concession stand in New Town. To their surprise, it was a roaring success — so much of one that Pelly, together with his partner Rebecca Schaaf, now boast a second, larger location on the Hill.

The new Rock Star Tacos (4916 Shaw Avenue) opened on November 19 inside Gaslight Studio, the recording studio and gathering space on Shaw Avenue, just west of Kingshighway Boulevard.…

The locally owned barbecue juggernaut has 16 locations across the nation, with more in the works.

I allowed myself to get hopeful about what a multibillion-dollar settlement could mean for our region. I should have known better.

The leader of St. Louis' Board of Aldermen on how the Rams settlement came to pass — and what it could mean for the city.

Graham Nash's new book, A Life in Focus: The Photography of Graham Nash, gets its official release today. The 79-year-old folk-rock legend helped curate the book, which celebrates his lifelong…

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From the very start, Aloys P. Kaufmann’s mayoral career was entwined with the destiny of Lambert International Airport (then called Lambert–St. Louis Municipal Airport), when his predecessor perished in a glider crash during a demonstration. Sworn into office in 1943, Kaufmann served as mayor for six years, winning reelection in 1945 and guiding the city …

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Jim Heidorn of Arnold, MO became a Real Rock Hero in the Real Rock Army today

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