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Materia Is Drawing Huge Crowds to Its Monthly Raves

2 years 11 months ago
No one seems to care that the building next to the club is on fire. It's about 11:30 p.m., and people in the line of twenty-somethings outside the warehouse in St. Louis' Near North Riverfront neighborhood are much more preoccupied with the music thumping from the venue than the smoke billowing from what looks like an abandoned building across the street.
Monica Obradovic

Capitol Perspectives: Does power corrupt in the Missouri House?

2 years 11 months ago

This column is prompted by the problems plaguing Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher who is facing calls by his colleagues to resign because of financial double-dipping by seeking reimbursement from the House for travel expenses that had been paid by his campaign. His troubles continue a pattern of House speakers who have run into trouble […]

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Phill Brooks

Looking Meadow Cafe Brings Its Community to Maplewood

2 years 11 months ago
Looking Meadow Cafe (2500 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood; lookingmeadowcoffeeco.com) might have opened its doors in late September, but owner Jamie Herman served her first cup of coffee long before that. The road to Herman’s brick-and-mortar venture has been full of twists and turns.
Kasey Noss

Things to Do on Thanksgiving in St. Louis This Year

2 years 11 months ago
Perhaps more than any other holiday, Thanksgiving is notorious for being all about family and food and staying inside with the aforementioned. Still, sometimes you want to get out and meet up with a friend or not spend the whole day before cooking.
Peter Cohen

How U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson helped derail a fight against election lies

2 years 11 months ago

Back in July, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. A federal court had recently granted a temporary injunction, in Missouri v. Biden, finding that the Biden administration had violated the First Amendment by coercing social media companies to remove content, related both to elections and the COVID-19 vaccine, that it […]

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Zachary Roth