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The 8 Best Shows in St. Louis This Weekend: August 19 to 21
By matter of happenstance, the vast majority of our picks for the best shows in town this weekend feature local performers. And why not?…
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St. Louis-Based Upstart Bandunition Aims to Streamline the Process of...
As most musicians know, being a part of a band consists of a lot more than just performing and writing songs. In fact, those aspects aren’t even the half of it.…
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Pop a Civic-Pride Boner Over This Bitchin' St. Louis Commercial
Last week, the St. Louis Regional Chamber unleashed the fury of its new regional marketing plan upon an unsuspecting and unprepared world. Together with more than 30 partners, including Explore St....
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New St. Louis Cab Co., A Super Taxi, Is Taking on Uber — and Old-School...
Earlier this year, Mehari G. Tekle did something that no one in St. Louis has done for more than a decade: He opened a new taxi company. His brand-new operation, A Super Taxi, has an office in an old...
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St. Louis Smoking Ban Snares Just Two Bars (and They Say It's BS)
The city inspectors got Bernie's Place in June. The bar, which stands out in bright blue and yellow among the drab brick warehouses and machine shops of the Near North Riverfront neighborhood, didn't...
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Acclaimed Chef Rob Connoley on Returning to St. Louis and Preparing to Open a...
Rob Connoley didn't start foraging because he was following the trends or trying to emulate an acclaimed Danish chef. He did it out of necessity. "At first, I started out with a soup and salad cafe,...
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Missouri Prosecutors Seek to Block Medical Marijuana, Claiming Pot "Destroys...
Medical marijuana is legal in 25 states (along with Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico) but a dozen Missouri prosecutors are hoping to stop Missouri from becoming the 26th. To that end, the prosecutors...
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Critic's Picks: Robbie Fulks to Perform at Off Broadway on Thursday, August 25
Of all the insurgents to emerge from the alt-country scare of the mid-'90s, Robbie Fulks was the most versatile and, in certain moments, the most irreverent. A songwriting, singing and guitar-playing...
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Missouri Man's Death Penalty Appeal Draws National Interest
A man convicted of raping a Missouri mom and then slaughtering her and her two kids needs more money to get a fair shot at appeal. That's according to some of the nation's top legal defense...
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New COCA Show Will Display "Paint for Peace" Murals That Followed Ferguson...
For residents of both Ferguson and St. Louis as a whole, November 2014 will always be remembered as a dark time. After a grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson, the officer who shot and...
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Snoop Dogg's St. Louis BBQ Bender Also Included BJ's Gul-licious Backyard BBQ
He who would underestimate the appetite of a very stoned Snoop Dogg would be making a grave miscalculation. The legendary Long Beach rapper came to St. Louis last week as part of the High Road Tour...
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The New St. Louis Aquarium Is No Cause for Celebration
At a time when public sentiment against keeping animals in captivity is at an all-time high — and scientific awareness of the complex, emotional lives of aquatic animals is growing by the day — it is...
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Cloudy with a Chance of Toasted Rav Celebrates St. Louis Food Culture
If you've ever pondered the wacky weather in the children's classic Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and thought, "What this book needs is more St. Louis," Ryan Nusbickel has just the book for you....
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Dinner Event Features Food Grown — and Foraged — in Tower Grove Park
You may think of Tower Grove Park as a place to jog, or bird watch, or (if you're a kid) even splash around a bit. You probably don't think of it as a place to find nutrition — except perhaps on Food...
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Top-Ranked Female Cop Sues St. Louis Police Chief for Discrimination
Another high-ranking St. Louis police officer is suing the city and Chief Sam Dotson for discrimination. Major Rochelle Jones, a 33-year veteran of the department and its top female officer, claims...
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Let's Play STL Contemplates an Indoor Fun Center in Downtown St. Louis
A 16,000-square-foot space downtown could become an indoor recreation center — with everything from foosball to ping pong to bocce to batting cages, as well as a good place to sit down with a cup of...
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Coming Soon to a Field Near You: The Full Terror Assault II Metal Festival
When Shane Bottens decided to put together a music festival celebrating all things metal, he had a very specific vision in mind. "I always wanted to try my hand at the open air festival," he says.…
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Southside With You Tells the Story of When Barry Met Michelle
One summer day in 1989, a young Chicago attorney spent a long day with one of her firm's temporary associates. They visited an art museum, attended a community organization meeting and saw Spike Lee's...
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New Line's Tell Me on a Sunday Is Surprisingly Moving
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Tell Me on a Sunday is nothing like an "Andrew Lloyd Webber" musical. There is no bombast, no cast of thousands and no stray cats wandering across stage to the cloying strains of...
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13 Must-See Arts Events This Fall in St. Louis
That great autumn weather is nothing but myth in St. Louis anymore. Early fall is more like early summer, and late fall is essentially spring, only with the leaves jumping off the trees rather than...
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