Lexington (Kentucky)

Organic Produce to Your Door: Green B.E.A.N. Delivery Service Expands to St. Louis

Indiana native Matt Ewer has farming in his blood. At the ripe old age of eight, he started selling sweet corn door-to-door for his family's farm. When he was twenty, he began working in organic farming and not long after moved to the West Coast to study organic agriculture. Then he returned to Ind ... More >>

Code Dead: Do the encrypted writings of Ricky McCormick hold the key to his mysterious death?

Baroness

8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Kings for a Moment: The feds attack online poker, killing a $2.5 billion industry

Gabe Kea, Son of Former Blues Player Ed Kea, Blazing His Own Comedic Path

Gabe Kea: "I'm not Canadian, I just do Canadian things." ​By the age of four, comic Gabe Kea got his first mention in The New York Times, but the occasion was no joke: His father, Dutch-born Blues defenseman Ed Kea, was being profiled. In 1983, Kea père had hit his head on the ice during a Blues ... More >>

Cop Nabbed Gun Suspect Based on Way He Adjusted Pants

Is this man carrying a weapon?​Can a cop truly determine whether a man on a sidewalk is packing heat based on the way he adjusts his pants? No, according to the Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals in an opinion written this week. Will that ruling benefit Elton Norfolk, who was ... More >>

Charles Bryant and Michael Berry: Killed in Separate Shootings Last Night

The 3500 block of Vandeventer, where 38-year-old Charles Bryant was shot to death last night.​Two St. Louis men have been killed in separate shootings in north city -- one around 11:45 p.m. last night and a second around 1 a.m. this morning.Both men were found in north city, both were shot multipl ... More >>

Hoop Dreams: East of St. Louis, the prom attire is right out of Gone with the Wind

Missouri Preservation Announces Most Endangered Historic Places

image courtesy of Missouri PreservationSave the Oak Grove Mausoleum!​Yesterday Missouri Preservation released its annual list of the Most Endangered Historic Places in Missouri. The list now contains fifteen structures, nine held over from last year and six that are new additions. Among them a ... More >>

Murphy Lee and Kyjuan's Freaky Wine, Available at a Schnucks Near You

Murphy Lee and Kyjuan at the Freaky Wine debut last Fall. Courtesy of Freaky Muscato​Murphy Lee and Kyjuan of the St. Lunatics came out with a new Freaky Muscato brand wine, dubbed "Freaky," in December. The pair recently made two appearances at local Schnucks stores promoting product. Though ... More >>

Latest On St. Louis Bank Robbery Involving High-Speed Chase, Shootout and Hand Grenade

Yesterday's robbery of this bank had it all.​Did you hear about yesterday's wild bank robbery? St. Louis police report that the two suspects were released from the hospital this morning. Charges could come any moment now. In the meantime, here's the lowdown as reported by the St. Louis police:At 9 ... More >>

Ten Things To Do This Weekend: November 5-7

Doug Stanhope​Lots to do (again) this weekend. See the music page for some ideas -- and below for many more! Friday Bootleg Beats - Guy Fawkes Edition @ The Speakeasy (1009 Olive) This newish monthly unleashes a special Guy Fawkes edition tonight at the Speakeasy. Varying shades of electro fr ... More >>

Eric Manion: St. Louis Homicide No. 70; Shot Dead on Lexington

Police found the the body of Eric Manion, 34, lying dead in the street Saturday night in the 3400 block of Lexington.Lexington at Newstead near where Manion's body was found Saturday.​ Neighbors reported hearing a gunshots around 11:25 p.m. September 4. Manion had lived in the 4500 block of Kingsh ... More >>

Wallace Ellis: St. Louis Homicide No. 71; Teenager Shot on Lexington Avenue

Seventeen-year-old Wallace Ellis was standing outside in the 3900 block of Lexington Avenue (image below) yesterday afternoon when he was struck by gunfire and collapsed on a lawn. ​Witnesses report hearing three to four gunshots ring out in the north St. Louis neighborhood and then seeing two bl ... More >>

R.I.P. Michael Schafermeyer, A.K.A. the Frozen Food Section's Helias, 1978-2010

Michael Schafermeyer​Michael Schafermeyer, a prominent DJ on the St. Louis underground rap scene, died early yesterday morning in Baltimore, of an apparent alcohol and drug overdose. He was 31. Schafermeyer grew up in Jefferson City, taking his DJ moniker Helias from his eponymously named hig ... More >>

10 Things to Do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, March 12-14, 2010

We've moved! A to Z will be the new setting of this popular weekly list. Many of the events were music-centric to begin with, so this feels like a good home. Now on with it: If you want to have fun this weekend but stay on-budget, here are our ten suggestions that'll each cost you $10 or less. As al ... More >>

Take a Beercation to Louisville with the Beertender

Fleur-Design, Wikimedia Commons​Beercation (n.): A short, inexpensive trip whose primary justification is the pursuit of rare, local or otherwise unattainable beer.Among potential beercation destinations, my current front-runner is Louisville, Kentucky, only four hours east on I-64. Maybe not the ... More >>

The Big Bloody: Driver Whacked at Stoplight in North St. Louis

Travis Moore, 28, was killed last night at the intersection of Kingshighway and Lexington. View Larger MapSt. Louis police say Moore, of the 5100 block of Enright, pulled up to the intersection around 8:09 p.m. Wednesday. While stopped at the light, a gray, late-model vehicle pulled up alongside Moo ... More >>

In the Studio: Cameron Matthews, a.k.a. Bear Ceuse

(Welcome to In the Studio, a section on A to Z that spotlights -- what else? -- local artists in the studio. If you are also recording/recently recorded -- or are a studio engineer/producer and working with people -- email me, with the phrase "In the Studio" in the subject heading.) courtesy of Cam ... More >>

2009 Visual Arts MasterMind: Cameron Fuller

These United States

7 p.m. Saturday, July 11. Luminary Center for the Arts, 4900 Reber Place.

Time For Missouri Fans to Panic -- Mike Anderson Going to Memphis?

All along through the tournament run that Mizzou just made, I would constantly hear from people, "Oh, Anderson's gone. Kentucky is going to snatch him up." But Kentucky wasn't going to take Mike Anderson. I thought they would go for a bigger name, a splashy move that makes bold headlines all ov ... More >>

Prisonshake took fifteen years to release its new double album, Dirty Moons – but the wait is worth it

Following the Missouri River 340: A How To

Up Show-Me Creek: Blisters, hellish heat, a boatload of vomit and lots of painkillers. It's all part of the Missouri River 340 race.

The Hibernauts, Ideal Free Distribution and Museum Mutters: Saturday Night Special, with bonus Apples in Stereo sighting

Vote for Irene Allen!

We announced the Music Award nominees. Not everyone was pleased.

Bounty by the County

The state’s winemakers and food producers aren’t exactly key playersin the global economy. A Mizzou professor aims to change all that.

Broke Bat Mountain

Tony La Russa loves So Taguchi; Kevin McGowan hates Twain. And as for Unreal? Well, we're pretty darn fond of Budweiser slogans and a rather imaginative local blogger.

Mounting Evidence

Unreal straddles the saddle, observes the finer points of drunk-dialing and eavesdrops on a Nelly fan in federal lockup. Plus, a local blogger spies Kenny Rogers on the Lido Deck.

All the Young Punks

The Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center relieves social constipation, one ear-splitting roar at a time

Take a Shrill Pill

Jonathan Reynolds' Stonewall Jackson's House takes an unfortunate detour from the incisive to the didactic

One-Track Mind

On top of old Fairmount: Collinsville's humble racecourse is home to one of the nation's winningest Thoroughbred owners

Hitting the Mark

Official genius Ken Vandermark wants to reach people who don't know they like jazz

Herky Jerk

Doe Run's owner has done this before -- and that has regulators braced for trouble

Nobody Move

The Old Court House puts a freeze on the Bill of Rights in celebration of July 4