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First-Hand Accounts Show the Horror of East St. Louis' 1917 Race Riot
This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most brutal and shameful episodes of mass violence in American history. Dubbed the East St. Louis "race riot," the events of July 2 and 3, 1917,...
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Illphonics Reaches Back to Its High School Roots with Purple Piano Society
Because Illphonics is a St. Louis band and its is a St. Louis story, the genesis of its new album starts where every St. Louis story eventually winds up: high school.…
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Photo Exhibit Shows the World Through the Eyes of St. Charles Homeless
The photographs being displayed at the new group show opening at the St. Peters Cultural Arts Centre(1 St. Peters Centre Boulevard, St. Peters) tonight aren't the work of professional artists — but...
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Urban Fort Will Create an Indoor Play Place for Kids and Their Parents in...
A new kind of family center will be opening in McKinley Heights this fall — and it owes its inspiration to a minivan full of disappointed kids on an unpredictably rainy summer afternoon. Urban Fort...
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Missouri Had the Second Highest Number of Lynchings Outside the South
Race relations have a troubled history in Missouri, and new data released on Tuesday by the Equal Justice Initiative, or EJI, reiterates just how bad things were. The focus?…
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You Could Turn $1 into $10,000 — If You Happen to Find the Right $1 Bill
Yep, you read that headline right. Starting today, Ally Financial Inc. is launching a campaign entitled "Hardest Working Dollar" that will garner some fortunate St. Louisans $100 and $5,000 — and even...
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The Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend, June 29 to July 5
It's Fourth of July weekend, which means some of you lucky people are heading into a four-day weekend. I don't understand why we don't celebrate Independence Day with a quad-weekend every year — it's...
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Time Capsule Retrieved From Base of St. Louis' Confederate Monument
Workers removing the final pieces of the base of the Confederate monument in Forest Park this morning made a find — a time capsule concealed within the poured concrete. Although the century-old...
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Escaped St. Louis County Inmate Now Faces New Charge
An escaped inmate who was captured after four days on the run is facing a new charge. Bruce Brutsman Jr., a 36-year-old south county man who looks a little like the bald bailiff Bull Shannon from...
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St. Louis Restaurant Openings & Closings: June 2017
The month of June was not without sad news for the restaurant scene. Iron Barley is leaving the city for a new home in High Ridge.…
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Promoter Confronts Hate Speech at Pridefest
PrideSTL: a place for proud members and allies of the LGBT community, gay-friendly businesses and organizations, and last weekend, an anti-LGBT woman spewing hate speech. As a promoter working at the...
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Tweet by Tweet, Museum Will Trace East St. Louis' Bloody Race Riot
Months after the smoke cleared from East St. Louis, a congressional committee interviewed dozens of witnesses who testified to the acts of violence meted out by white mobs on black residents from July...
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Fair St. Louis, KSHE Pig Roast, Shinyribs and More Concerts This Weekend
Sure the 4th takes place on a Tuesday, but that only means that we get to enjoy a long weekend of parties and explosions in the name of America, starting tonight. With Akon, 3 Doors Down and Eve 6 on...
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Tin Roof Is Now Open Downtown, Bringing Live Music and Southern Classics
If you're looking for a place to party before (or after) the Cardinals' game, some live music downtown or just some Southern-inflected food in a laidback atmosphere, Tin Roof(1000 Clark Avenue,...
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What the Hell Is This Six-Ton Potato Doing in St. Louis?
If you didn't think St. Louis could get any wackier going into the holiday weekend (with sinkholes swallowing cars downtown and surprise time capsules turning up under the Confederate monument in...
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Sexy St. Louis Zoo Gorilla Came in Like a Wrecking Ball
Why, hello there. Yesterday the Saint Louis Zoo shared a photo on Facebook that a visitor had taken of one of its gorillas. All normal enough — except this particular gorilla seemed to feel that the...
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Soulard Blues Band Releases Its Eleventh Album — But Who's Counting?
The Soulard Blues Band has a new album available, sensibly titled Soul and Blues. It's far from the group's first; that one, Live at Burkhardt's, came out in 1979.…
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The Hero Gently Pokes Fun at Sam Elliott's Marlboro Man Image
Though he's been a leading man for more than 40 years, Sam Elliott has had a strange kind of celebrity. From almost the beginning of his career he's been a walking Marlboro man at a time when...
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Fairview Lounge Offers Incredible Peruvian Food, Inside a Gas Station
Even the most adventurous eaters have a list of culinary no-nos that remains sacrosanct. Don't go to a buffet within an hour of closing, steer clear of mayonnaise-based sandwiches on airplanes and...
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The Bevo Question
What will happen to St. Louis' Little Bosnia when it's not so Bosnian? Tony Zanti walks up the sidewalk along the newly laid blacktop of Gravois Avenue as drivers zip past a string of revamped...
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