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Earlier this month, the Shaved Duck got the kind of publicity that can drive a huge bump in foot traffic: The website Mashed declared it the best of all the "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" in Missouri.  From there came an onslaught of stories suggesting the Tower Grove East barbecue spot was, in fact, Guy Fieri's Show Me State favorite. But the restaurant's ability to cash in on its viral glory came to a screeching halt earlier this week. On Tuesday afternoon, at the tail end of the brutal cold snap that gripped St. Louis over Christmas, General Manager Katie Gwaltney keyed in to the Shaved Duck to find a flood.

Long term readers of Techdirt know that, since 2008, I’ve written a final post of the year on reasons to remain optimistic. It started when some people kept telling me that when they read what I wrote I sounded angry and frustrated, but when they’d meet me in person, I always seemed optimistic about the […]

SPRINGFIELD - Today, Governor JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Agriculture (IDOA) shared accomplishments made in 2022 to support our state’s number one industry. From the opening of the state’s first craft grow facility, to increasing Future Farmers of America (FFA) funding to ensure the future of agriculture in our state, to the success of the state fairs, great strides were made to further the success of agriculture in Illinois. “Illinois has always been—and will always be—an agricultural state. And this year, we continued to lay the groundwork for a thriving, sustainable agricultural industry for generations into the future,” said Governor JB Pritzker. “From waiving all FFA dues for agricultural education students to issuing hundreds of cannabis licenses to social equity applicants, 2022 was full of firsts—and we’re only getting started. My administration remains laser-focused on growing and supporting our number one

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The space, formerly a Schnucks grocery store, proved attractive since it is not far from a prominent site that once housed furniture retailers. Development costs for the new space totaled more than $2 million.

Southwest Airlines Co. (NYSE: LUV) officials on Friday were hoping to close out 2022 this weekend with near-normal flight operations at airports across the country. FlightAware reported early Friday that Southwest had just 39 canceled flights nationwide, and the Associated Press Friday afternoon reported a "relatively normal flight schedule" at the airline. That’s considerably different from passengers’ experience over the course of the past week. The airline has been operating at just a…

Three former St. Louis aldermen will spend the next several years in minimum-security satellite camps in Arkansas, Illinois and Texas.

Kansas City's Arabia Steamboat Museum was supposed to move to St. Charles, but the deal fell through, leaving the museum's future uncertain.

Jealous of the groups that received NFL settlement money, the perennially cash-strapped transportation boondoggle that calls itself the Loop Trolley will extend the bottomless black hole it calls its coffers forward Oliver Twist style in the hopes of securing some more funding. Leadership throughout the region will concede that the trolley is pointless and unpopular but will insist that we need to give it a couple hundred million dollars or else the federal government will never talk to us again.

A befuddled Mike Parson, eager to hop aboard the right-wing anti-Big Tech train but very confused by the internet, will accuse Google of hacking after the site autocompletes a phrase in his search bar in a way he doesn't like. At a press conference, Parson will declare that the state is committed to "standing up against any and all perpetrators who attempt to steal personal information and harm Missourians" and will further add that "there is no way Google could have added the word 'idiot' to my search for 'Missouri governor' without hacking into the mainframe of my computer."

The city's refusal to release records to journalists and other members of the public has been a slow-burning story this whole year and a major disappointment to civic boosters who expect this behavior from politicos at the state level but are disheartened to see it here in St. Louis. Unfortunately, we predict this problem is going to get a lot worse — and weirder — before it gets better. Thus far, the city has claimed that records that do exist don't and that members of the public who submit very narrow, specific requests are actually being hopelessly vague.

As dawn breaks on a new year, we all hope that things will be better, or even better if your year didn't suck ass, this time around the sun. But if you're the impatient type, and you don't want to wait to find out what's going to happen, rise or ruin, rest assured that we have a solution for you: this article.

Now victorious in their decades-long quest to legalize marijuana, free-the-herb activists will learn that what they've sown isn't bearing what they'd hoped to reap as the legal weed market becomes a playground for investment bankers and venture capitalists rather than drug-rug-sporting hippies. Disillusioned, they'll switch allegiances and throw their support behind a different combustible: cigarettes.

In an attempt to rekindle the spark and recapture some of the magic of the summer of 2020, Mark McCloskey will stand in his front yard and open fire on the side of his neighbor's house with an AK-47. Right-wing talking heads will declare him a hero and say that the neighboring home shouldn't have come so close to McCloskey's property; McCloskey will subsequently claim that, actually, all of his neighbors' houses are, in fact, also his property.

St. Louis is more than fed up with the Kia Boyz running amok, taking our cars out for joyriding and to commit other crimes before crashing them into a light pole or the front window of a weed dispensary. [content-2]

The nonalcoholic beer market is on a tear, with nonalcoholic brew sales having increased by 90 percent in the past decade and growth that looks like it will outpace traditional beer sales in years to come. St. Louis is in a prime position to capitalize on the trend.

St. Louis is used to getting football stolen from the city. We had the Rams, the Super Bowl-winning Rams.