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Requiring paid vacation is rare in the United States — just Maine and Nevada have similar laws in place — although common in other industrialized nations.

ALTON - Melanie Parker, an Alton High School senior, has been selected as a finalist in the Saint Louis Young Artist Competition and will perform on March 18 at the Flute Day Festival. All flutists in this division will perform the first movement of Burton's Sonatina and two movements from Hindemith's Acht Stucke. She is thrilled to have this opportunity and excited to be able to perform in front of other flutists. The Flute Society of Saint Louis (FSSL) Young Artist Competition is held every year at SIUE's Flute Day Festival. Flutists from the Saint Louis area are welcome to apply to one of three divisions in the contest: Intermediate High School, Advanced High School, and College. Three finalists from each category are selected to perform for the final round at SIUe's Flute Day Festival. "We are extremely proud of Melanie's hard work and accomplishments," AHS Head Band Director Blake Korte said.

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MADISON, Ill. - World Wide Technology Raceway - the home of NASCAR, INDYCAR, and NHRA in the St. Louis-Metro East region - will host two job fairs next week in preparation for the 2023 events season. Many positions in all departments are available. Positions also are available at the Gateway Kartplex. The drag strip has launched a paid internship announcer program for students in broadcast curriculums. The first job fair will take place on Wednesday, February 22, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. The second will be held on Saturday, February 25, from 9 a.m. until noon. Both job fairs will be held in the infield media center, inside the oval track. To access an online application, please visit https://wwtraceway.com/job-application/ . World Wide Technology Raceway is located at 700 Raceway Blvd. in Madison, Illinois. Prospective candidates should bring a resume and identification. Please bring a completed application or your own pen to complete an application in person. For tickets an

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Adam Wainwright and Miles Mikolas will start the first two St. Louis Cardinals' games of spring training this weekend.

Big Shark Bicycle Company opened its fourth business in the St. Louis area at the City Foundry STL on Monday.  Located below the Alamo Drafthouse in a 4,100-square-foot street-level store, the bike retail and repair shop features “a diverse inventory of bikes and products, full-service repairs and professionally trained staff." 

ALTON - Alton Schools Superintendent Dr. Kristie Baumgartner today issued a statement about some precautionary measures taken for about 10 minutes at Alton Middle School on Friday, Feb. 17, 2023. "Shortly before 11 Friday morning, we were notified of a disturbance in the community by the Alton Police Department," Alton Schools Superintendent Dr. Kristie Baumgartner said. "The neighborhood this occurred in was near Alton Middle School. Therefore, as a precautionary measure, the school was placed on a very brief lockdown for approximately 10 minutes. "This was only a precautionary measure and law enforcement officials soon gave us immediate approval to resume our normal school operations."

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From Fire Engineering: St. Louis officials hope to better manage the city’s roughly 9,000 vacant buildings and 15,000 empty lots with a new strategy to prioritize buildings for demolition and rehabilitation. The St. Louis Community Development Administration earlier this month published a request for proposals for a citywide vacancy strategy. It contemplates spending as much as $500,000 […]

The seemingly endless possibilities of abstract painting continue to have resonance and relevance to comment on current political climates and contemporary aesthetic discourse. The works in the Presence as Object

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Fabricating Empire examines the relationship between the development of Central European folk costume and Austrian modern design, especially the textile department of the Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops.   Taking

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The Higgins Armory Collection at the Worcester Art Museum is the nation’s second largest collection of arms and armor, including more than 1,500 objects ranging from ancient Egypt to 19th-century

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Hong Kong–based artist Samson Young’s practice centers on installation-based work stemming from sound and music. He interweaves cultural paradigms across media while focusing on poetic translations between the sonic and

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1972 Fischer/Spassky: The Match, its Origin, and Influence celebrates the 50th anniversary of the American Robert “Bobby” Fischer’s historic win over the Russian Boris Spassky in the legendary 1972 World

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St. Louis is a kaleidoscope of architecture, filled with structures of every age, shape, and size. In Coloring STL, Missouri History Museum visitors will interact with these fascinating buildings in

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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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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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From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  Five low-income housing projects will receive direct grants from the city’s allocation of pandemic aid money. The projects were chosen by the St. Louis Development Corp., which is administering $20 million in American Rescue Plan Act money for affordable housing production. SLDC’s board approved the allocations of between $500,000 and $750,000 Thursday. Some […]

From St. Louis Post-Dispatch:  The region’s transit agency on Friday released a map revealing four new MetroLink expansion alternatives, all extending from north St. Louis into north St. Louis County. Each route would begin at Natural Bridge Avenue and North Grand Boulevard, the terminus of a planned route that would go to the new National […]

Following his appearance in a Super Bowl commercial, Ozzy Osbourne's now starring in another ad. The Prince of Darkness shows up in a spot for the new PlayStation VR2 virtual…

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Timothy’s owner Stephen Manns, who received the credit, says the money is “just sitting out there,” but many restaurateurs don’t realize that they may qualify.

From The Hill: In his State of the Union address this month, President Biden hailed a new Intel semiconductor project in Ohio that will create 10,000 jobs. “Jobs paying $130,000 a year,” he said, “and many don’t require a college degree.” Can any American hope to earn $130,000 without a college degree? Education pays, as the federal Bureau of […]