Tony's Sweet Heat Peppers Make You Feel Like You 'Just Ate the Sun'
For 30 years, Anthony Patton has been bringing jalapeno snacks to football parties. It wasn't until a few years ago that he realized he wanted to bring his own jalapeno party to us.…
View ArticleBlues City Deli, Bogart's Make Yelp's Top Places to Eat in 2018
Last year, Blues City Deli(2438 McNair, 314-773-8225) made Yelp's list of the top 100 places to eat in the U.S. But this year, the beloved Benton Park sandwich shop did one better — it earned a slot...
View ArticleThat 90's Shop Will Bring Retro Fashion and Pop Culture to Florissant
They say that everything old eventually becomes new again, and that will certainly be the case with That 90’s Shop: Retro Fashion and Pop Culture store. Set to open in May 2018, the shop is owned and...
View ArticleChild Marriage Is A-OK, Say 50 Missouri Lawmakers
Last night, members of the Missouri House faced a vote on a bill that would bar marriage for state residents fourteen or younger. Fifty of them voted no.…
View ArticleIn A Fantastic Woman, Daniela Vega Proves to Be Just That
There may be a double meaning in the title of Sebastián Lelio's new drama. From one point of view, Lelio's heroine, Marina (Daniela Vega), lives up to the title, displaying considerable courage under...
View ArticleIn Superheroes of Blackness, Lamar Harris Goes Black to the Future
All the best superheroes have alter egos, another facet that adds humanity to their heroic personae. Mild-mannered Clark Kent labored as a gumshoe reporter when he wasn't leaping tall buildings as...
View ArticleCafe Piazza Offers a True Taste of Sicily in South City
Vito LaFata III wants to capture Sicily in a box. Though his first restaurant, Vito's Sicilian Pizzeria & Ristorante, has become an institution in its 23 years of existence, the second-generation...
View ArticleFor St. Louis' Homeless, Winter Was a Perfect Storm
Only the top of the St. Louis skyline is visible from the collection of tents and homemade sheds huddled together on a slab of concrete just east of the Mississippi River. From here, on the edge of...
View ArticlePerennial City Composting Aims to Make Composting as Easy as Taking Out the...
For the last five years, Tim Kiefer and Beth Grollmes-Kiefer have been, indirectly, in the business of helping people create waste — getting them food via Kiefer's bicycle-driven food delivery...
View ArticleNewly Announced: Todd Rundgren’s Utopia, Raheem DeVaughn, Powerglove and More
Here, again, is every newly announced show for the week!…
View ArticleSt. Louis Morning Host Cassiday Proctor Gives Birth Live on the Air
Plenty of women work right up to the day they give birth — but Cassiday Proctor took it a step further yesterday: The 106.5 the Arch morning host actually gave birth live on the air. …
View ArticleAssistant AG on Anthony Lamar Smith Case Should Be Punished, Lawyer Says
The legal battle over a set of disappearing, reappearing police lab reports is heating up, more than six years after Anthony Lamar Smith was killed by a St. Louis cop. The lab results showed that...
View ArticleGonna Be Lots of Kids Born 9 Months After This Boyz II Men / SLSO Concert
Locals should expect a dramatic surge in St. Louis' population come March 2019, some nine months after the newly announced Boyz II Men concert with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra on May 31. The show...
View ArticleSt. Louis Artist's 'Nosferatu!' Kickstarter Finds Big Success
The first time Marie Enger had ever heard of Nosferatu was in high school. She was trying to impress a college design program during an interview, and she pretended to know about the film when her...
View ArticleMayor's Narcan Promise Still Unfulfilled in St. Louis
Seven months after Mayor Lyda Krewson's office announced an initiative for all St. Louis police officers to carry Narcan on their belts, the city has yet to equip a single officer with the overdose...
View ArticleThe Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Week, Feb. 22 to 28
There's one week left in this Black History Month, and the intriguing events just keep coming.…
View ArticleThird Inmate Alleges He Was Held in St. Louis Jail After Release Date
A third former inmate has filed suit against the city of St. Louis and the sheriff's office — alleging that he too was held in the city's Workhouse for days after he should have been released....
View ArticleArnold Man Dustin Lockwood Had Guns, Explosive Materials on School Grounds,...
A south St. Louis County man had guns, explosive materials and what investigators suspect is a homemade silencer when he was arrested on Tuesday outside a high school, authorities say. Dustin...
View ArticleGateway Pundit's Theory About School Shooting Survivor Was Too Crazy for CPAC
It's a rarely acknowledged fact that St. Louis plays an outsized role in feeding the right-wing media cauldron with its necessary diet of Trump-mania and conspiracy theories — and with all due respect...
View ArticleMissouri Governor Greitens Indicted for Invasion of Privacy
After weeks of media scrutiny and public hand-wringing, Governor Eric Greitens has been criminally indicted for felony invasion of privacy. The indictment — handed down this afternoon by a St. Louis...
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