Last week, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editor in Chief Alan Achkar did the one thing newspaper editors are cautioned never to do unless they're ready for a pitched battle: He messed with the funny pages. As Achkar explained in a front-page story on September 13, the daily was switching to a model in which comics are chosen by its corporate owners in Iowa, not local editors. "Our company, Lee Enterprises, is moving to a uniform set of offerings for its newspapers, with new strips and columns that you haven’t typically seen in the Post-Dispatch," Achkar wrote.
Before the ring of pinball machines echoed through arcades, Bagatelle was filling parlors and pockets across the world. Drawing from the private collection of Mr.
Garry McMichael: Retrospective features photography, drawings and paintings spanning the art career of the late Garry McMichael, long-time resident artist at Green Door Art Gallery.
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
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
This exhibit showcases reproductions of the work of Missouri’s first known woman artist, Anna Maria von Phul. Her artwork illustrates life in the Missouri Territory
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
Chinese Silk Textiles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties showcases fine examples of Chinese textiles from the Museum’s collection, including clothing, embroideries, hangings, and banners
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
Chef Tony Nguyen, co-owner of the white-hot Tower Grove South restaurant Snō, is currently being held without bond at the St. Louis City Justice Center on felony charges of domestic assault. Nguyen was arrested at 4:30 p.m. on September 19. Charges filed on September 20 consist of second-degree domestic assault and third-degree domestic assault, both felonies, as well as fourth-degree domestic assault, a misdemeanor, and unlawful use of a weapon.
Jacksonville residents and local grassroots organizations are working with city officials to take a markedly different approach to managing flood risks.
MISSOURI — Walmart plans to invest an estimated $240 million this year in the state of Missouri to update and remodel 41 local stores. In addition to the local jobs the investment supports, these store transformations will create an updated experience for customers, including expanded shopping options to help people save time and money. When [...]
There’s Always Something to Learn in the Kitchen When traveling abroad, I often take time for a cooking class. When Robin and I were in Florence some years ago, she arranged an in-house day with a California woman named Judy Witts Francini, who had lived in Italy for nearly 20 years. (Her husband is Florentine.)...
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