In theater, the term jukebox musical is most often used to refer to a musical that features a singular songbook, usually popular tunes from an era, performer or group. Moulin Rouge! The Musical, at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, pushes the envelope on this idea with fantastically entertaining results ..read more

St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones announced Friday that following a shooting downtown that left one dead and another critically injured, the encampment of unhoused people living near the Municipal Courts Building will be cleared. Jones and representatives of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department have so far refused to comment on whether or not anyone from the encampment was actually involved in the shooting. This morning at approximately 7:30 a.m. — hours before the regularly scheduled Board of Aldermen meeting — a St. Louis Metropolitan Police officer was in the area to address a mobile ..read more

After producing several successful theatrical cabarets this spring, the Midnight Company turns its attention to the stage with an impressive production of Mickle Maher’s Spirits to Enforce. The clever script deftly re-imagines the otherworldly spirits released at the end of The Tempest as modern day superheroes on an unusual mission. Smart casting, and a clear vision with choreographic staging by Lucy Cashion, keeps the audience laughing throughout the quick moving mixed worlds comedy ..read more

A new bill making its way through the St. Louis Board of Aldermen is being supported by a nonprofit organization that says it hopes to make child care more accessible to the average St. Louisan. But the local public school advocacy group Solidarity with SLPS argues it will instead unfairly burden taxpayers and disproportionately support private education systems. Board Bill 7, sponsored by Ward 10 Alderwoman Shameem Clark Hubbard, would add a question to the November 2024 ballot asking voters to approve a levy that would increase the city’s sales tax by 0.5 percent ..read more

A couple weeks ago, Steve Perron was sitting on his front porch and thinking about cicadas. A former KMOV producer, he remembered all the various stories the station had run about not letting pets scarf up too many of the insects.  “The fact is that the vast majority of them come up out of the ground [and get eaten],” Perron speculates, explaining how he’s spotted very few live bugs ..read more

The man believed to be behind a series of recent peeping Tom incidents in Clayton’s Moorlands neighborhood has a long history of engaging in such voyeurism. Even so, he’s only facing a misdemeanor charge ..read more

Two men are currently in jail, charged with using a stolen SUV to rip an ATM from its foundation at a St. Louis County bank — an M.O. the two men also may have employed on two other occasions in recent weeks.  St. Louis County Police were already surveilling the Dellwood home that Charles Staples, 35, and Makez Kimble, 34, used as the base of operations for their brazen scheme when, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, they say the two men emerged from the garage in a Dodge Durango. The stolen Durango itself was already known to police, who had obtained a search warrant to track it via ..read more

In Thai, “tee rak” means “my love” or “my dear,” said Tee Rak chef and founder Alada Poodtajan. “I call my family ‘tee rak,’ I call my husband ‘tee rak,’” she adds. The name reflects her affection for Thai cuisine, but it’s also a call to customers to come and enjoy her food ..read more

While most 16-year-olds are thinking about homework or what to wear to prom, at least seven Missouri legislators remain convinced they should be allowed to sign marriage licenses and plan shotgun weddings. Child marriage has been a longstanding embarrassment for the Show Me State. It wasn’t until 2018 that legislators got around to banning marriage for residents 14 years of age and younger — and even then, 50 lawmakers voted no ..read more

Did your power flicker last night in south city? If so, it might have been because of the storms rolling through town. It might have also been because of an Ironton man stealing 35 feet of copper wire from a power substation in St. Louis Hills, doing $100,000 of damage in the process.  ..read more