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COVID-19 has entered a new stage of super aggressive evolution: The pace of evolution is so fast that many scientists depend on Twitter to keep up. A month ago, scientists were worried about BA.2.75, a variant that took off in South Asia and spawned a cloud of other concerning sublineages. In the United States, BA.4.6 ...continue reading "We are awash in new COVID-19 variants"

Ameren has completed a $215 million infrastructure project for the St. Louis region nearly six months ahead of schedule.

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

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This October, slink over to the Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House for some family-friendly insect fun!   From Oct. 1 to 30, the Butterfly House

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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

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Vocalist Miss Jubilee (aka Valerie Kirchhoff) leads this high-energy jazz and blues ensemble, paying homage to the female blues singers of the 1920s and ‘30s

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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

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This exhibit showcases reproductions of the work of Missouri’s first known woman artist, Anna Maria von Phul. Her artwork illustrates life in the Missouri Territory

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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

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Chinese Silk Textiles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties showcases fine examples of Chinese textiles from the Museum’s collection, including clothing, embroideries, hangings, and banners

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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

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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

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From St. Louis Business Journal:  The new owner of a shopping center that sat mostly vacant for years is taking advantage of a wave of new development along South Lindbergh Boulevard by adding a retail store new to St. Louis along with a pair of sought-after chain restaurants. The shopping center at 6926 S. Lindbergh […]

Two award-winning rock bands, Muse and Evanescence, are coming to St. Louis next March as part of a worldwide tour.

From Builder:  The softening of the U.S. housing market means short-term demand for construction labor will likely also soften, according to a new report from the Home Builders Institute (HBI). As part of the Fall 2022 HBI Construction Labor Market Report, the estimated number of construction worker growth required for the sector is approximately 740,000. This estimate is […]

From St. Louis Business Journal:  A new Grand Center concert venue proposed by the developer behind City Foundry and the operator of the Old Rock House is moving ahead after a delay of several years. Developers are in the process of seeking city approvals for the new concert hall, called The Sovereign, that would be built […]

Today is the 8th anniversary of my cancer diagnosis. And I'm still alive! Hooray for modern medicine! Seriously. My doctors have all been fine and I appreciate everything they do. But I'm alive because medical research has produced a sea change in treatments for multiple myeloma over the past decade, and if I'm lucky I'll ...continue reading "Today is my 8th anniversary"