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Politico’s New Owner Heads To The Fainting Couch Over TikTok

2 years 9 months ago
New Politico owner and Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner has called for a ban on TikTok at the Vox Media Code conference. In fact, the lion’s share of the conference involved folks hyperventilating in one form or another over the existential threat posed by a popular social media app: Like most of the folks freaking […]
Karl Bode

How Brooks Goedeker Changes Neighborhoods

2 years 9 months ago
From St. Louis Magazine:  For a hype man, Brooks Goedeker is not an amped-up guy—not really ever, but specifically not on the November afternoon I’m riding shotgun in his Ford Explorer. We’re rolling east on Chouteau toward Grand (both wearing masks) and he’s making the case—in his slow, quiet way, and as an ambassador for […]
Shruthi Beedu

The Best Things To Do in St. Louis During the Weekend, September 9 to September 11

2 years 9 months ago
This weekend in St. Louis shines with a diversity of stuff to do. From visual art at the Contemporary Art Museum and the return of the Saint Louis Art Fair to a native plant sale to a 911 storytelling event from Forward Through Ferguson, we've got it all in the Lou. Start planning your weekend, but don't forget about the weekday events:
Riverfront Times Staff

St. Louis Restaurant Openings and Closings: August 2022

2 years 9 months ago
Last month, two high-profile openings infused some much needed positive energy into the metro area's dining scene. Press, a casual smashed pizza concept from Logan Ely and the team behind Lucky Accomplice and the pop-up space Shift, opened in Fox Park and breathed fresh life into a former vacant industrial storefront. It's the second time since the start of the pandemic that Ely and company have taken the leap to open a new restaurant (Lucky Accomplice opened its doors in September of 2020), proving that there is still success to be had in this tough era for the industry.
Jenna Jones and Cheryl Baehr

Bye bye, Bread Co. | St. Louis-based café chain announces Panera rebrand for some locations

2 years 9 months ago
Just like provel cheese, toasted ravioli, thin-crust pizza and gooey butter cake, referring to Panera Bread cafes as "Bread Co." is a hill that many St. Louisans would die on. But those living outside city and county limits might soon be forced to change their ways. Some café locations undergoing remodeling outside of the Lou may be making the branding switch from St. Louis Bread Company to Panera, according to a spokesperson with the Missouri-based company. The bakery-café chain began in 1987…
Jennifer Somers, KSDK

Startup creating 'QVC for small businesses' lands spot in Mastercard incubator program

2 years 9 months ago
Retail technology startup oneKIN hopes its selection into an incubator program staged by financial services giant Mastercard helps accelerate its growth as it gears up to release new technology for retailers. St. Louis-based oneKIN plans this fall to release a livesteaming shopping app its CEO describes as a "modern day, AI-powered QVC for small businesses."
Nathan Rubbelke

Summoning inspiration from solitary, Missouri resident wins PEN America prison writing award

2 years 9 months ago

TOPEKA — Alex Tretbar scratched Lou Reed lyrics into the concrete “rhomboid exoskeleton” of an Oregon jail’s solitary confinement hole, then found the strength to write about it. “Some people work very hard,” the song goes, “but still they never get it right.” Tretbar, a Wichita native and University of Kansas graduate, references the experience […]

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Sherman Smith