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As the St. Louis Chamber Chorus returns to the stage after 20 months, artistic director Philip Barnes discusses choirs in the age of COVID-19 and masks you can actually sing in.

As of 2020, more people are dying than being born in Missouri. St. Louis University professor Ness Sandoval explains how we got here and what it will take to rebound from that decline.

The Native American Rights Fund donated 20 acres of ancestral Osage lands in Lafayette County, Missouri, to the Osage Nation this month. Andrea Hunter, the director of the Osage Nation Historic Preservation Office, discusses the gift, and the sale of Picture Cave, in this episode.

This weekend on Cherokee Street, you'll find a thrift store grand opening, a beauty pop-up, a comedy open mic and curbside concerts by all-stars like Beth Bombara and Sweetie & the Toothaches.

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Profits from the food and wine experience, For the Love of the Chef, will go to help the renowned chef and owner of LoRusso’s Cucina.

The restaurant is a collaboration between Six Mile Bridge Beer and acclaimed chef Ben Welch.

If you're looking to get out this weekend in St. Louis, there is no shortage of festivals and celebrations – but you might have trouble picking which ones to go to.

Frustration over the media’s coverage of autism, myths surrounding the disability, and policies shaped by society’s misconceptions have prompted a journalist to try to change perceptions. We’ll speak with Eric Michael Garcia, author of “We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation.”

If you’ve been to a beer garden around St. Louis today, it’s hard to imagine the scene of shady tables and chatting friends provoking a violent outburst. While they aren’t so hotly debated today, a battle over beer gardens was raging in the mid-1800s. As thousands of German immigrants came to St. Louis, they brought their old world cultures …

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Continuing St. Louis Public Radio political correspondent Jason Rosenbaum's partnership with Left Bank Books, Rosenbaum talks with journalist Eric Michael Garcia about his new book "We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation." The two discuss how the politics of autism have changed, how the vaccine panic of the 1990s and 2000s sowed the seeds of COVID-19 vaccine misinformation — and how pop superstar Sia screwed up royally with how she portrayed nonverbal autistic people.

Simple tacos make a quick and easy weeknight supper! Just make sure you have a delicious sauce to serve along side it! These ultra healthy cauliflower tacos are not just...

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In this week’s “Communities Forward” podcast, we have Opal Jones, President and Chief Executive Officer of DOORWAYS, an interfaith non-profit organization in St. Louis, Missouri that provides housing and related supportive services to people living with HIV/AIDS.  DOORWAYS assists over 3,200 individuals annually in 132 counties in Missouri and Illinois.  As the lead executive, Opal […]

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Michael Politte was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for allegedly murdering his mother as a 14-year-old. Attorneys and advocates explain the growing body of evidence that he’s actually innocent — and Politte tells his story.

Mark your calendars for collaborations with Izumi, Salt + Smoke, Nudo House and more.

The restaurant fills part of the space formerly home to Mangia Italiano.

Missouri public school districts can still issue mask orders to slow the spread of COVID-19. That’s after a judge denied Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s effort to immediately block the mandates throughout the state.

The Legal Roundtable digs into litigation around mask mandates and how Zoom testimony affects the right to confront your accuser — and the panelists disagree as to whether they’d settle with the NFL and Stan Kroenke or take their chances at trial.

Today is one of the most important days in the history of Freedom of the Press Foundation, and especially for SecureDrop, our open-source whistleblower submission system used by over 70 news organizations worldwide. Let me explain.

We have long been strong believers that open source technology — specifically privacy preserving tools that don’t attempt to make money through the traditional surveillance capitalist model — can have an outsized impact on protecting our rights online. In times where governments and tech giants have unprecedented surveillance capabilities, policy and legal protections often don’t shield reporters from having their sources exposed. Projects like SecureDrop are vital for enabling important investigative reporting in the digital age. While news outlets are understandably tight-lipped about how they use SecureDrop, the proof is in the pudding.

But herein lies the conundrum: while open-source software tools can be more impactful in protecting press freedom than anything else, they are also the hardest to fund. Many traditional foundations don’t have the expertise or ability to evaluate software projects, and are wary of directly funding their development. The few grantmaking outfits who specialize in open-source software development sometimes only fund prototypes or new projects, which leaves the tools journalists likely rely on most — those that have a track record of success — in a perilous funding desert.

In many ways, we’ve been lucky. Despite the many fundraising difficulties that open-source tools often face, we’ve had the benefit of loyal support from donors with long-term vision. With their help, we’ve been able to sustain the project. But developing and maintaining high-risk software which is relied on by so many journalists all over the world is also very expensive, and it means cobbling together support from dozens of different sources. SecureDrop represents 40% of Freedom of the Press Foundation’s $4 million budget, yet it is still drastically underfunded compared to for-profit tools of all kinds.

Over the past eight years, we have slowly grown our SecureDrop team by piecing together dozens of general support grants, private donations, and support contracts from news organizations. And while we’ve had great success compared to many other open-source projects, it always feels like a precarious position — especially given how many journalists and whistleblowers rely on SecureDrop for protection.

Today, for the first time, that calculus has changed. We’re thrilled to announce the largest grant in the history of Freedom of the Press Foundation that will ensure SecureDrop survives — and thrives — for years to come. The Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web — a new grantmaking organization whose mission is to permanently preserve humanity’s most important information — is funding FPF at over $1.7 million for each of the next three years, for a total of $5.8 million.

The funding will largely go towards sustaining and expanding our SecureDrop team, funding the development of the next-generation of the system, including exploring a new zero-trust architecture for the decentralized servers. This grant will ensure that SecureDrop will not only be sustainable over the long term, but will be easier to use and hopefully safer than ever. In short, it will have a game-changing impact on how we can build and improve SecureDrop for journalists around the world. You can read about some of our technical plans for the future here.

In addition to helping upgrade SecureDrop, FPF will leverage its collaboration with FFDW to support several other efforts critical to safeguarding free speech, a free press, and the preservation of critical information using the decentralized web. Some of these projects include: publishing our comprehensive U.S. Press Freedom Tracker data on the decentralized web every year, exploring how we can further help news outlets who are under threat of being taken offline, and evaluating state-of-the-art privacy preserving tools within the decentralized web ecosystem that could provide network-level anonymity in decentralized web projects, in addition to our existing reliance on the Tor network.

We are incredibly grateful to the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web for believing in our mission and our results. And we can’t wait to get to work.

This article originally ran in the St. Louis Business Journal on September 28, 2021.  With demand for warehouse space at an all-time high, the St. Louis area will get its first speculative industrial warehouse to measure more than 1 million square feet next year in the Metro East. When the fourth warehouse at Gateway Tradeport in Pontoon Beach finishes construction in the […]

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The new bar manager at the Southern-inspired restaurant weighs in on an iconic St. Louis dish, sweet/salty food combinations and more.