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Lucero to Bring Its Country-Punk Sound to Off Broadway This Thursday
Lucero took the long way around to its Memphis, Tennessee home. Starting out as a Pogues-meets-Drive-By-Truckers outfit — with everything, tattoos included, turned to eleven — Lucero has made its best...
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St. Louis Knowledge Workers Make Big Gains While Blue-Collar Workers Lag
How affordable is St. Louis? The answer differs sharply depending on where you're coming from. A new study from Apartment List shows that wages have risen in the metro area, even when adjusted for the...
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How Sue Wong-Shackelford Found Her Passion at Kalbi Taco Shack
Growing up in Sue Wong-Shackelford's household, there was no way to avoid the cooking bug. Born in Hong Kong, the owner of Kalbi Taco Shack(2301 Cherokee Street, 314-240-5544) came to the United...
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Big Muddy Blues Festival Set to Return Labor Day Weekend With an All-Local...
Clear your Labor Day weekend for eighteen hours of local blues music at Laclede's Landing: the Big Muddy Blues Fest is coming back with a bang. This will be the event's 22nd year, and the second in a...
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Newly Announced: San Fermin, Clint Black, the Lillingtons, MDC and More
Here, again, is every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention.…
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Diesel Island Releases Self-Titled Original Music Debut After More Than a...
Back in 2004, when Diesel Island played its first show in the low-ceilinged basement of the pizza-and-beer iteration of Lemmons on Gravois (not to be confused with the fried chicken version, or the...
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Larry Rice Fighting to Reopen New Life as Day Center for Homeless
The Rev. Larry Rice says he is ready to file a new federal lawsuit if the city blocks his plans to open a daytime center for the homeless. Rice's overnight shelter, New Life Evangelistic Center, was...
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Dumb Dude from the Dickies Ruins Last Few Minutes of Lackluster Career
The short version of the story is this: Ancient punks the Dickies were on the Warped tour as some sort of senior outreach program and a couple of women who were a part of the touring party made signs...
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Missouri Secretary of State Says Trump Can Have Voter Lists, But No SSNs
Jay Ashcroft must be loving this. Ashcroft, Missouri's new secretary of state, campaigned hard on a platform of fighting voter fraud and continues to publicly defend the state's voter ID law — and...
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The Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend, July 6 to 10
The positive in a shortened work week? The weekend is closer than it appears.…
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No Siree, the Loop Is Not Getting a Ferris Wheel After All
The dreams of all those who longed for high-flying family entertainment in the heart of the Loop have been dashed to pieces. The developers behind a plan to erect a Ferris wheel within the lot at...
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America's First Mug Shots Were Taken in St. Louis. Now They're an E-Book
Shayne Davidson has always spent a lot of time among old photographs and records. But when she happened across an especially mysterious portrait several years ago, her longtime interests in history...
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Hey, St. Louis: You Are Missing Some Really Good Theater
A few months ago, I saw a production of Hamlet as part of Shake38, a St. Louis-only fest of Shakespeare's 38 plays performed all over the city. The organizers don't tell you much going in, so all I...
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For Pride St. Louis, Record-Setting PrideFest Wiped Out Six-Figure Debt
For Pride St. Louis, this year's PrideFest was a winner in more ways than one. Not only did the organization attract a record number of attendees — but it managed to wipe out its debt.…
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The 10 Best Concerts in St. Louis This Weekend: July 7 to 9
Tribute acts honoring Prince, King Crimson and the Misfits can all be found in our picks for the next three days. Craving something new and original?…
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Tribune Columnist Ol' Clark Suspended After Writing Fake News About Cops
If you're going to write a column bashing local cops over a minor traffic ticket while melodramatically suggesting your life was danger, even when a dashcam video exists to proves otherwise — maybe...
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Second Ringleader Charged in Big St. Louis County Burglary Bust
St. Louis County police detectives are quietly building the case against an alleged burglary ring accused of looting construction sites across four counties and the city during the past three years....
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Clementine's Is Now Serving Both Naughty and Nice Ice Cream in DeMun
On July 4, Tamara Keefe opened the second outpost of Clementine's Naughty and Nice Creamery (730 De Mun Avenue, Clayton; 314-858-6100) — a storefront in the leafy De Mun neighborhood, alongside the De...
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Delays Push Back Loop Trolley Rollout, With Tracks Still Largely Untested
Summer is here, but the Delmar Loop remains trollyless. What gives? After years of preparation, the $52 million trolley line — which will run to destinations between the Loop and the Missouri History...
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Alderman's Dick Move Reveals a Big Problem at City Hall — Aldermanic Courtesy
Last Wednesday, at City Hall, Alderman Joe Roddy called a colleague to the carpet — in a really unfair way. Alderwoman Christine Ingrassia was standing before the Housing and Urban Development...
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