Last month, on April 16, the Saint Louis Zoo (1 Government Drive, stlzoo.org) welcomed a female Grevy zebra foal — Roxie. The adorable foal, who weighed 95.8 pounds at birth, was the first ever animal born at the Saint Louis Zoo WildCare Park, a safari park under development in north county. “This is both a joyful and historic moment for WildCare Park," ...

Ahead of commencement and in the aftermath of a Pro-Palestine protest and 100 arrests, Washington University says it plans to fence in its campus and increase security. The fence could be seen being erected around parts of campus this morning. In an email sent to employees and students, the university says it will change how its Danforth campus can be ...

Slumlord Dara Daugherty took the stand earlier this week in St. Louis Circuit Court and testified that she had relinquished one of her most problematic properties, a home on Virginia Avenue in Tower Grove East. But in an order issued yesterday, Judge Jason Sengheiser indicated he has some doubts about that. He wrote that after careful examination of ...

If you associate Sauget solely with strip clubs and heavy industry, prepare to be shook: Next weekend, the East Side town originally christened Monsanto, Illinois, is going to be crawling with kids. The Big Bounce America is setting up at the home of the Gateway Grizzlies, Grizzlies Ballpark Field (2301 Grizzlie Bear Boulevard, Sauget, Illinois), beginning ...

Literary fans will unite as St. Louis literary magazine december premieres its St. Louis LitFest at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard) on Friday, May 17.  The new festival is a production of local nonprofit literary magazine december.  “One of the parts of our mission is building community as well as publishing writers and ...

The Original Crusoe's (3152 Osceola Street) finally closed its doors in Dutchtown two weeks ago — eight months after owner Stevie Limmer LaChance first announced it would be shuttering. LaChance had been buoyed by the outpouring of support for the south city mainstay, which her father founded in 1979. She grew up in the restaurant before taking over ...

Anyone who has ever had a labor of love turn into a major headache should be able to relate to Lindsay Dausman.  In 2015, she and her husband bought a century-old, three-story home on Westminster Place in the Central West End. Dausman's hope was to fix it up, restore its original beauty and add a few modern elements before selling it to someone who wanted ...

Not even a year after the Wood Shack relocated to a bigger location at 1731 South 7th Street, the Soulard smokehouse is closing. The Wood Shack announced its forthcoming closure on Instagram this morning, writing "Thank you so much dining with us. Now it's our dinner time.

St. Louis is about to get a lot more caffeinated. Today, local specialty roaster Blueprint Coffee opens a new headquarters and roastery in the Tiffany neighborhood just north of Shaw. The new facility at 1600 South 39th Street is large — 11,000 square foot.

The race for St. Louis city sheriff has narrowed into a two-person affair, with Anthony Anderson dropping out of the race and throwing his weight behind Alfred Montgomery, the former deputy challenging incumbent Vernon Betts.  “Let St. Louis know, I’m supporting the young guy,” Anderson said in a phone call yesterday with the RFT. A retired St. Louis ...

Landmark south city bar and grill the Haven (6625 Morgan Ford Road) has closed its doors, possibly temporarily, following the death of owner John Gasperi early last month. The restaurant announced Gasperi's April 9 passing on its various social media platforms, writing on Google that "John loved the Haven, and its employees, and customers more than ...

It's going to be a busy Friday at the Saint Louis Art Museum (One Fine Arts Drive, slam.org) as the museum opens two exhibits that draw on its permanent collection. Both Romare Bearden: Resonances and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith will make their debuts. Romare Bearden: Resonances is centered around Summertime, a piece from SLAM's permanent collection that ...

It has taken nearly two years, but the residents of a small corner of the city's Forest Park Southeast neighborhood are again able to get permits for parking — and if that doesn't sound like cause for celebration, perhaps you have not lived in St. Louis long enough. The saga began in the spring of 2022, when the nonprofit Park Central Development ...

Sugar Shack Cafe (1416 East 20th Street, Granite City, Illinois) has opened in the former home of Petri Cafe. The 1950s-vibe diner, owned by Trecie Wilson and Steven Perkins, served its first breakfast April 1. The couple most recently ran their Madison, Illinois, location of Sugar Shack as takeout only, but now they have closed that location and jumped ...

Two bills introduced with the St. Louis Board of Aldermen aim to ensure that attorneys can visit their clients in jail and allow city officials to visit the jail without prior notice. As controversy after controversy roils the St. Louis City Justice Center, jail administrators have responded by blocking attorney access and barring them from bringing ...

A total of 140 Washington University School of Law faculty, students and alumni have signed an open letter condemning the university for the mass arrests and suspensions that followed Saturday’s Pro-Palestine protest. The letter — addressed to Chancellor Andrew Martin and Vice Chancellors Anna Gonzalez, Nichol Luoma, Beverly Wendland and Robert Wild — ...

The doughnut news is good: After more than 70 years in business, South City’s Donut Drive-In is spreading the wealth. A new sister shop – Donut Drive-Up (8950 Manchester Road; Brentwood) – will open by the end of May in the former To Go Sushi space. Owner Kevin McKernan bought the original Donut Drive-In (6525 Chippewa Street) in 2020 after it went on ...

For the first time since the City of St. Louis accused her of masterminding a massive illegal rooming house scheme, Dara Daugherty took the stand in court yesterday, telling a judge that she no longer owns one of her portfolio's most squalid holdings. Daugherty testified she recently sold the home with the Dutch gambrel roof on Virginia Avenue, a nuisance ...

If you were opening a bar designed to be a hub for tabletop games and nerd culture, you might decide that there could be no better day to open for business than May 4. "May the Fourth be with you" puns have been an important play on Star Wars dialogue going all the back to 1979 and the reign of British Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher (yes, really). But as it ...

We love getting out to the green pastures of Cottleville, and now we’ll have even more incentive to do so when Cottle Village Farmstead + Distillery (6470 Highway N, Cottleville) opens later this year. By then, this 4.5-acre plot of land and its various buildings (farmhouse, shed and barn) will have been retooled to create a unique drinking and dining ...

April brought a host of restaurants to St. Louis that are sure to be new favorites. But we also saw a surge of new old favorites come to the fore — including Union Loafers' new market at the Station, Pizza Via from the founder of Pizzeoli and Pizza Head, and a new location of health-focused cafe Revel Kitchen. Then came the third life of what is arguably ...

A Southern Illinois University Edwardsville professor was among those arrested at Washington University Saturday during a protest calling for the university to divest from Boeing amid Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza — and his wife says he was brutally beaten. Steve Tamari, a history professor, was recording video of the students and activists ...

Epic tales span generations, connecting historic events to contemporary perspectives and building a bridge of understanding. Such is the case with The Inheritance by Matthew Lopez. The play in two parts features gay men reconciling their lives and history — what was lost and gained — in the post AIDS-crisis era.

Five members of the St. Louis Charter Commission are calling on their chairperson to apologize for recent comments she made concerning a City Hall staffer’s involvement in a fatal car accident more than a decade ago. It is just the latest in a series of contretemps stifling the rare opportunity this body has to modernize city government. The letter was ...

The ACLU of Missouri issued a harsh critique of Washington University’s handling of a Pro-Palestine protest and encampment on Saturday, saying it “chills, curtails, and restricts expression despite the university’s claims of commitment to that very principle.” A total of 100 people were arrested on campus during the protest on Saturday, April 27, ...