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The Queen of Hearts has returned! Tonight, at 7:00 p.m., Waterloo will hold its first drawing since the hiatus. The jackpot is now $1,230,904.

After nearly a year without its beloved neighborhood eatery, Benton Park residents have reason to celebrate: Benton Park Cafe (2901 Salena Street, 314-661-2368) will re-open at 7 a.m. this Thursday, January 19. The news was announced on Benton Park Cafe's Facebook page this past Sunday in a short post, noting that the restaurant had one more inspection hurdle to cross this week, but that all signs point to the breakfast-and-lunch spot being able to open as scheduled. "We are really excited to get this place reopened," co-owner Gavin Haslett tells the Riverfront Times.

Bond Architects, a St. Louis-based architecture firm, is excited to announce the promotion of four key team members to Principals — Rebecca Kleba, Michelle Wells, Erik Wilson, and Andrea Giovando. Each of these new leaders brings valuable unique perspectives to the firm’s leadership, which will support the firm’s future growth and development. Susan Pruchnicki, FAIA LEED […]

Fleetwood Mac, Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell are among the artists who have contributed items to the new MusiCares Charity Relief Auction, set to coincide with this year’s Grammy Awards. Items up for grabs…

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I'm probably going to regret this, but L'Affair Bostrom has intrigued me. Here's the background. Nick Bostrom is a professor of philosophy at Oxford University who did something unfortunate 26 years ago: he engaged in an online conversation with a bunch of other 23-year-olds on an email listserv. The topic was communication styles, and Bostrom ...continue reading "Why are online apologies never accepted?"

Three people were shot and killed within two hours Monday night as Martin Luther King Jr. Day came to a close. The fist shooting occurred around 8:30 p.m. at California Avenue and Chariton Street in south St. Louis city.

"This is these residents' homes. We are their family, and our work speaks for itself," one longtime employee said.

Fabricating Empire examines the relationship between the development of Central European folk costume and Austrian modern design, especially the textile department of the Wiener Werkstätte, or Vienna Workshops.   Taking

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Hong Kong–based artist Samson Young’s practice centers on installation-based work stemming from sound and music. He interweaves cultural paradigms across media while focusing on poetic translations between the sonic and

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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 in the legendary 1972 World

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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 with these fascinating buildings in

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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 production, the politics of representation,

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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 of work that questions the

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St. Louis just can’t stay quiet. The region has produced legends who are on a first-name basis worldwide, like Ike & Tina, Miles, Chuck, and Nelly. It’s been home to

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