Aggregator

The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has teamed with Universal Music for a new songwriters award named after the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer.   The Bob Dylan Center Songwriter Fellowship…

Source

Bond Architects is proud to announce that we have been selected by the City of Crestwood for Pre-Referendum Design Services for the city’s proposed New Community Center and Pickleball/Family Games Complex in Whitecliff Park. Final design of the project will commence only if the Referendum passes in April 2024. The new Community Center and Pickleball/Family […]

Students boarded buses at 9 a.m. to be transferred to Stevens Middle School after the air conditioning went out at Pierre Laclede Elementary School.

An investigation continues into the death of a Missouri prison inmate — the third inmate to die at the same lockup this month and the eighth this year.

Michael Hudson was serving a life sentence for murder and other crimes in St. Louis.

Former President Donald Trump surrendered Thursday on charges that he illegally schemed to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, a brisk 20-minute booking that yielded a historic first: a mug shot of a former American president.

CARROLLTON - St. John the Evangelist in Carrollton has announced a two-phase $4 million project to renovate the school. Carrollton Principal Julie Lake said the school is preparing for the next 150 years of education with the project. "For almost 150 years, St. John the Evangelist School has provided a school where education, service, and faith combine to provide each student with a foundation of high standards in knowledge and ethics," she said. "St. John’s was established as an elementary school in 1877 and was originally staffed by the Dominican Sisters. Today, as a Catholic elementary and middle school, the teaching philosophy at St. John’s is guided by the belief that each student is a unique gift of God, created with special gifts and talents. It is our goal to nurture and develop those gifts to the benefit of the Church and the community." The renderings are still preliminary designs but give a simulated image of what the finished St. John's project could be. As

Continue Reading

After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, Louisiana Republican state Sen. Beth Mizell looked for a way to address her state’s abysmal record on infant and maternal mortality, preterm births and low birth weight. Louisiana has one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans, with no exceptions for rape or incest. Mizell […]

The post Abortion-ban states pour millions into pregnancy centers with little medical care appeared first on Missouri Independent.

A local bank fired its CEO after he was ousted from the holding company's board of directors and replaced by his successor.

There’s a growing feeling, among both experts and ordinary Americans, that our democracy isn’t functioning well — and even that it’s under threat. “American democracy is cracking,” the Washington Post reported August 18. “I’m terrified,” one democracy expert told the paper. “I think we are in bad shape, and I don’t know a way out.” […]

The post Americans are worried about democracy. You wouldn’t know it from the GOP debate. appeared first on Missouri Independent.

Amid the growth, the industry is changing. One expert said that "reinsurance has tightened up, resulting in very strict underwriting guidelines and less capacity for risk," which has led insurance carriers to stop writing new business in 2023.

Back in June, we wrote about a ridiculously weak lawsuit from the big music publishers against exTwitter, claiming that the platform, mostly known for text, and which barely has any reasonable system for posting or listening to music, was a music piracy haven. As we noted, the publishers’ lawsuit seemed misguided in multiple ways, beyond […]

When you first walk into St. Louis’ newest art store, everything is as you’d expect: There are racks and shelves filled with paints, printing supplies, papers, canvases and pretty much anything else you could imagine needing to create art — and also plenty you couldn’t. There are the helpful and intimidatingly cool store clerks, who immediately ask if they can guide you to anything specific. There’s even the whiff of oil paints wafting on the air.

Sunset over Indio.

The Rolling Stones have paid tribute to their late drummer Charlie Watts, who passed away two years ago on August 24, 2021. The band posted some dashing photos of Watts through the…

Source

When the most glamorous woman in all of St. Louis, Becky “Queen of Carpet” Rothman, passed earlier this year, we couldn’t help but wonder what would happen to all of her sequined gowns and fantastic footwear. Well, as it turns out, you can go buy pieces of her wardrobe this weekend, so you can keep a piece of the Queen (of Carpet) with you for all eternity. [content-1] A selection of the St. Louis commercial legend's designer clothes and accessories will be available to get in a sale hosted by Jonnco For Antiques LLC this weekend.

The band, once a Cherokee Street staple, now lives in Brooklyn.

From Bloomberg CityLab:  In 1960, two highway segments cut through majority-Black neighborhoods in Washington, DC. Interstates 395 and 695, known locally as the Southwest and Southeast freeways, forced the removal of at least 1,400 occupied housing units and ejected about 4,700 residents. That was just a small fraction of the total population that was displaced […]

As a new Missouri law takes effect next week that bans gender-affirming treatments for minors, the New York Times dove deep into one St. Louis pediatric transgender center facing pushback through a series of events described as a "political storm."