Fired St. Louis Police Captain Should Be Reinstated, His Union Says
Fired in 2016, a St. Louis police captain is still waiting to return to work — three weeks after a city board found he should not have lost his job. The city's Civil Service Commission ruled in late...
View ArticleHillsdale Man Charged with Stealing Police Officer's Jeep and Guns
A 23-year-old accused of stealing a cache of weapons and equipment from Hillsdale police is now in custody and facing multiple felonies. Peter Bud Ray worked his way around the police station parking...
View ArticleJohnzell Moorehead Jr. Charged in Attack on Officer Seeking His Personal Vehicle
A 27-year-old south city man has been charged in the shooting of a veteran police officer in the wee hours of the morning last Thursday. Johnzell Moorehead Jr., who lives in the 3700 block of Gravois,...
View ArticleKen Bone, America's Favorite Undecided Voter, Made $150K Off His Indecision
If you ever see some quote-unquote normal person suddenly become Internet famous, and you observe them trading their privacy for fifteen minutes of celebrity, with all the backlash it inevitably...
View ArticleHoping to Spare Chief Wana Dubie a Pauper's Grave, Friends Step Up
Chief Wana Dubie, whose goofy name and forehead tattoo of a cannabis leaf belied a serious political agenda, died this summer, on August 17. But two months later, the senatorial candidate responsible...
View ArticleWith Lunch a Smash Hit, Grace Meat + Three Prepares to Take on Dinner
Fans of chef Rick Lewis' country-style cooking have reason to celebrate: Grace Meat + Three(4270 Manchester Avenue; 314-533-2700) is expanding to offer dinner service beginning next Wednesday, October...
View ArticleSt. Louis Board of Elections Goes Scot-Free for Stonewalling Absentee Request
The St. Louis City Board of Election Commissioners will pay nothing for stonewalling the attorney seeking absentee ballot information in a high-profile case last fall after a judge's ruling yesterday....
View ArticleSuit Triggers Largest Sunshine Law Penalty in Missouri History
After two years and nine lawsuits, Aaron Malin's campaign to hold Missouri's drug task forces accountable to the state's Sunshine law is paying off. But now, for the first time since the former...
View ArticleThe Blind Eyes Are Back for a Good Cause: A Friend's Daughter
Six or seven years ago, a pair of St. Louis rock bands forged a friendship based less on a similar sound and more on the members' personalities and shared, sardonic sense of humor. The Blind Eyes,...
View ArticleMarjorie Prime Is a Smart Sci-Fi Movie Without the Gizmos
Marjorie Prime is part of a curious but unmistakeable trend, one of several recent films to examine the effects of aging (others include I, Daniel Blake, Aquarius, Toni Erdmann and A Quiet Passion)....
View Article3 Bay BBQ & Bakery Offers Great Food Inside a Phillips 66 Station
In 2009, the heartless monsters at Sara Lee cut out a tube-shaped hole in the heart of hot dog lovers everywhere when they shuttered Best Kosher, the Chicago-based producer that made what was...
View ArticleChad Sabora and Robert Riley Are Fighting 'the Perfect Storm' of Opioid...
Chad Sabora parks his Ford SUV in front of the former beauty parlor at 4022 South Broadway, unlocks the building's front door and disappears inside. He reappears a moment later with a sidewalk sign.…
View ArticleCounty Police Officials Are a No-Show for Hearing on Galleria Arrests
An inquiry into the mass arrests of protesters last month at the St. Louis Galleria was missing a few key speakers — police commanders. St. Louis County Councilwoman Rochelle Walton Gray says County...
View ArticleNewly Announced: Galactic, Koffin Kats, Brian Regan, the Revivalists 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.…
View ArticleFilmed in St. Louis, Documentary For Ahkeem Extends Its Run
For Ahkeem, a documentary delving deeply into the life of a north St. Louis teenager, premiered locally October 12 — and has been selling out screenings ever since."We're turning people away,"...
View ArticleTorres Goes in a Synth-Rock Direction with Three Futures
Mackenzie Scott hates the term "indie," so she instead describes what she thinks is lacking in the "non-pop mainstream world.""The theatrical aspects of a live performance are what keep up the...
View ArticleShake Shack to Give STL a One-Day-Only Sneak Peek at Porano Pasta
If you've grown weary of waiting for the Shake Shack to finally open that St. Louis location already, have patience — the end is in sight. In fact, Shake Shack is offering a sneak peek at its...
View ArticleNew Video Shows Drunk Passenger Losing His Shit After 'Playing His White Card'
Perhaps the drunk passenger on a Frontier Airlines flight from St. Louis to Denver who raved to the black woman in the seat next to him about playing his "white card" knew what he was talking about:...
View ArticleThe Rep's First-Ever Hamlet Is a Hammy Take on Shakespeare's Classic
Hamlet begins in darkness with the appearance of a dead man's ghost and ends with the floor knee-deep in corpses, and in between these two moments in time the title character muses constantly upon the...
View ArticleSLMPD Sued Over Fatal Shooting of 21-Year-Old Davion Henderson
The family of Davion Mikael Henderson has filed a lawsuit against the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and two of its officers, saying their unlawful use of force led to his death earlier this...
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