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A conversation the other day prompted me to reevaluate the way we talk about teens and social media. It's usually framed as whether social media is good or bad, and that's obviously not very useful. The internet has a tendency to bifurcate things. Most famously, I believe that the internet makes smart people smarter and ...continue reading "How to think about teens and social media"

The teenager and a 55-year-old man were critically injured in the shooting near a market at North Euclid Avenue and Hammett Place.

Country music artist Dierks Bentley will be playing the Confluence Music Festival in Madison, Illinois on June 4, 2023. This is a part of his Gravel and Gold tour.

The St. Louis venture firm's new $66 million investment fund includes a number of recognizable brands joining as investors.

Over half of St. Louis largest commercial lenders reported a decline in new commercial loans originated in 2022. One expert thinks 2023 will be even worse.

Neil Young is set to release two more additions to his Original Bootleg Series next month. The first, Somewhere Under The Rainbow, features Young and the Santa Monica Flyers, made up of Nils Lofgren, Ben…

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Our Mothers’ Gardens is a series uncovering repressed images of Black women held in photographic collections at the Art Institute of Chicago. The images often depict exploitation and violence towards

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The Studio Art faculty at Saint Louis University have invited artists to show drawing, sculpture, fibers, costume design, ceramics, jewelry, painting, and photography at McNamee Gallery, the curricular exhibition space

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Would You Love Me As A Pet? – a juried art exhibit. Companion animals fill our lives with friendship and devotion, while animals in the wild inspire us with their

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From Feb. 11 to May 14, the Aronson Fine Arts Center at Laumeier Sculpture Park will exhibit Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden.   Narcissus Garden is an immersive installation consisting of almost

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St. Louis Battlehawks fans are looking forward to March 25, when the team will finally play its first game against the Las Vegas Vipers (formerly the Tampa Bay Vipers). Any XFL fan knows that the rivalry between the two teams is intense, despite the fact this will be their first time meeting on the field (assuming this XFL season is not marked by financial or viral catastrophe, as has been the case in years past).

The agreement comes more than a month after an incident at City Foundry STL highlighted miscommunication in the system.

Well, this will be fun. As you’ll recall, in 2021, Texas signed into law a bill that effectively banned the right of companies to moderate content on social media. That law has been challenged in court, and while a district court tossed it out as unconstitutional (and obviously so), the 5th Circuit reversed in a […]

Tyler Cowen today: Recently I discussed the connection between high neuroticism and left-wing politics. In passing I mentioned that the right-wing had its own problems, leading a few of you to ask what those were. The classic response would be to accuse (credit?) conservatives as being low in empathy. Whether or not you agree historically, ...continue reading "We have nothing to fear but (conservative) fear itself"