When gaining confidence on a bicycle, a useful game to play is something called the lava box. Participating cyclists line themselves up in a one-way-facing circle, inside the bounds of a cone-outlined square of pavement.
After two and a half months in the St. Louis County jail, former police officer Matt McCulloch was yesterday granted a less restrictive bond, allowing him to enter in-patient treatment at a hospital in St. Charles. McCulloch, 39, the son of longtime St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch, is currently facing 11 felony charges after opening fire at a Kirkwood middle school’s trunk or treat event on a Sunday evening last October.
The week after New Year's Day is often the quietest one of the year — everyone's partied out, no bands are coming through town and even the comedians are staying home nursing their hangovers. What's an extrovert to do?
Now that the flurry of December theater openings has passed, I'm taking a few moments to reflect on the year. All in all, 2023 was a good year for theater and theatergoers — and I'm cautiously optimistic that 2024 will continue the trend.
When Jessica Silas started taking classes at the Improv Shop two years ago, she realized all the improv groups around her were predominantly white. But soon, that reality will be no more.
The year 2023 offered St. Louisans more concerts, more venues and more festivals than ever before. As the streaming revolution obliterated revenue flow received from recorded music and the pandemic shutdowns had fans starving for live music and artists desperate to get back on stage, this year represented the concert industry roaring back to full strength.
Barrel-aged beer is big business in this town. Four of the highest-rated beers in the world — Side Project’s M.J.K., Beer : Barrel : Time, and O.W.K. and Perennial’s Barrel-Aged Abraxas — are brewed, bourbon-barreled and aged right here in St. Louis.
On December 29, 2013, Donald “Donnie” Erwin left his Camden County home to buy cigarettes and never came back. It wasn’t until a YouTuber and drone pilot took an interest in Erwin’s case that investigators finally got some leads.
It almost doesn't need to be said that the end of the year is replete with too many festivities. By the time the New Year's Eve countdown rolls around, most of us have had enough.
When Jonathan Ross-Mooneyham bought his Kia in 2021, it was a “big purchase.” He had recently become financially stable after expending much effort to improve the credit score he’d tanked as a young adult. A 2017 Kia Sportage he purchased from a used car lot in St. Louis County was the closest thing he ever had to a new car.
A Missouri woman whose life was the subject of an HBO documentary and Hulu series is set to be released from prison today. In July 2016, now-32-year-old Gypsy Rose Blanchard received a 10-year prison sentence for the killing of her abusive mother, Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard.
Having moved to St. Louis not so long ago, I recently learned gooey butter cake is a St. Louis delicacy. Now, I’ve always loved gooey butter cake — just never looked into its history.
It's a somewhat sad moment in the St. Louis restaurant scene. In just a few days, longtime Botanical Heights restaurants Elaia, Olio and Nixta will leave their homes on Tower Grove and McRee avenues for good, after negotiations by restaurant owner Ben Poremba to purchase the buildings failed. Without a doubt, Poremba and his restaurants are responsible for the area's renaissance, and since the 2012 opening of Elaia and Olio, the south city enclave has flourished with new businesses, such as Union Loafers and La Patisserie Chouquette, opening.
Nurses at SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital are striking today and tomorrow. Chief among their complaints are union busting by management and the outsourcing of jobs to nurses from temp agencies, according to their union, National Nurses United. The walkout comes after the hospital and the union failed to come to an agreement for a new contract, which has been in negotiations since May, and a one-day strike in September.
Thursday 12/28 A Run-By Fruiting
Given that staging Mrs. Doubtfire is, perhaps, now a crime in some states thanks to the transphobic culture warriors who insist on clogging up the gears of our politics, the production coming to Fox Theater (527 North Grand Boulevard) should present the rarest of rare fun: wholesome family entertainment that also may be on the wrong side of the law, depending on where you are in the country.
An Imperial woman who worked as a receptionist on the Mercy Hospital South campus is facing a felony stealing charge for allegedly making unauthorized Cash App payments to herself from the account of a patient who had been deemed legally incompetent. Karen Shelvy passed away in August of last year, and the unauthorized Cash App payments from her to Kelsi Haner occurred the previous March.
You'd be forgiven for forgetting it's winter this year. After all, St. Louis saw temperatures in the upper 50s on Christmas, brushing what FOX 2 says is the region's record of 64 degrees. It was definitely not a white Christmas.
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