From jams at the National Blues Museum to celebrating a big anniversary to Blueberry Hill to the St. Louis Symphony's Forest Park Concert, the weekday events this week are thoroughly musical. But there's also a scavenger hunt and Sarah Kendzior's book launch on tap.
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:
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.
St. Louis County politicians gathered on Wednesday to announce the overhaul of Airport Road, which will reduce driving lanes, redo sidewalks and install stoplights, among other things.
St. Louis residents who received $500 to help make ends meet during the pandemic most often spent the money on food and utilities. The city has released a preliminary analysis of the program.
Area residents have until Oct. 7 to apply for federal relief funding tied to the record-shattering rains and flash flooding that soaked the region in late July.
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…
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."
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 […]
Salve Osteria (3200 South Grand Boulevard, 314-771-3411) may be less than four months old, but if you ask Natasha Bahrami, its seeds were planted all the way back in 2014. That's the year Bahrami returned to St. Louis from Washington, D.C., armed with an infectious passion for gin and a newfound desire to embrace a career in the industry she'd known all her life. As the namesake of the beloved Cafe Natasha's, Bahrami had always understood the restaurant was her birthright, but she was never quite comfortable with the idea of simply carrying on what her parents started four decades prior.
HIGHLAND - Everyone wants to tell the story of their lives, and artists are no exception. The Highland Arts Council will celebrate world-class art in a hometown atmosphere with its 18th annual Art in the Park event. At this free, two-day outdoor and indoor juried show, you will have time to meet artists and listen to the stories behind their artwork. How were they inspired to create it? What does it take to create such a piece? Where were you when the inspiration hit? All this will happen during Art in the Park on October 8 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and on October 9 from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. at Lindendale Park in Highland, Illinois. Brady Kesner, Photographic artist from Highland, Illinois might tell you this. “I spent four days in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park of East Tennessee chasing this landscape photography addiction that I have and came home with some nice images and a relaxed state of mind. Nature is good for that. I got rained on all four days and didn't
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