The Pulitzer Arts Foundation presents the first retrospective of trailblazing artist Barbara Chase-Riboud (b. 1939, Philadelphia) in over forty years. This exhibition will be the largest monographic exhibition of her
An installation by artist Luigi Toscano presents nearly 100 large-scale photo portraits of Holocaust survivors, including 12 who live in the St. Louis area.
An agency charged with conserving groundwater in arid western Kansas plans to truck thousands of gallons of water from the Missouri River nearly 400 miles almost to the Colorado border. Half of the 6,000 gallons drawn from the river will be poured onto a property in Wichita County. The other half will be taken into Colorado. Groundwater […]
Celebrate the life and work of Dr. Jane Goodall, who braved the unknown to provide a remarkable window into humankind’s closest living relatives – chimpanzees.
U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley and U.S. Rep. Cori Bush want the federal government to complete an immediate cleanup of the school in Florissant following a report of radioactive contamination on the property.
A Boston biotech company was paid over $16 million in Missouri for its work operating a little-used COVID testing program that only 25 school districts opted into. Ginkgo Bioworks was originally contracted by the state last year to operate a screening COVID testing program backed by nearly $185 million in federal funds. The program had […]
This featured exhibition in the Great Hall of the St. Louis Public Library – Central Library explores how iconic characters both reflect and influence American
On Sept. 16, Everything Is Golden, a solo exhibition by St. Louis-based artist Lizzy Martinez, opens as the first exhibition of the 2022-2023 Millstone Gallery season at COCA. In the
If you ask Vince Valenza for the origin story of Blues City Deli (2438 McNair Avenue, 314-773-8225), you might think it begins with a fateful trip to New Orleans for a work conference that inspired him to begin making muffalettas at home, or even his turn as a blues musician, which gives the deli its musically inflected spirit. In actuality though, the roots of the sandwich shop go much deeper. "It goes back to when I was a child — not that I thought I was going to open a deli someday, but because we had this tradition on Saturdays of sitting around the table for lunch," Valenza explains.
Rani Molla writes at Vox about job burnout: Some 43 percent of US office workers “feel burned out at work,” according to the latest quarterly survey by Slack’s Future Forum. That figure is near its peak level last year, though Slack has only been tracking this data since May of 2021. First off, Slack is ...continue reading "Let’s talk about burnout"
Last night three individuals smashed the window on the front door at Steve's Hot Dogs on South Grand and entered the restaurant looking for cash. Surveillance video shows three men dart inside the lobby of the restaurant. One heads directly to the cash register, but seems to come up empty-handed.
New York state-based artist Jean Shin, Laumeier’s 2022 Visiting Artist in Residence, describes her work as “giving new form to life’s leftovers.” Her sculptures and