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Richmond Heights

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    [UPDATED] Hadley Township Developers Want Huge Handouts From Richmond Heights

    Response from the city appears at the end of this article.At long last Richmond Heights believes it has a plan for the long suffering Hadley Township, the mostly African-American neighborhood east of Hanley Road and south of Dale Avenue that city officials have allowed to rot for a decade under the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    March 2012 Openings & Closings

    March followed the trend of the past year or so, with openings (including new food trucks) far outpacing closings. That said, it's difficult not to focus on one particular closure as the month's big news: Monarch, which ended its nine-year run. (Still no word on what will happen to its Maplewood s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2012

    Richmond Heights Approves Protections for LGBT Community

    ​The Richmond Height City Council last night approved an ordinance providing discrimination protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered residents. The measure passed by a vote of 6-2, making Richmond Heights the fifth city in the region to offer such protection. St. Louis, Clayton, Oli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    This Weekend, Catch Live Music at...Schnucks?

    The check out at the Schnucks in Richmond Heights is a gridlock six carts deep and ten lanes wide. The soundtrack is a chorus of bar-code beeps. But if you walk away from the registers, toward the expansive produce section, the mood shifts. The lights are softer, the ceiling higher and what you hear ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2012

    Year of the Dragon

    The check out at the Schnucks in Richmond Heights is a gridlock six carts deep and ten lanes wide. The soundtrack is a chorus of bar-code beeps. But if you walk away from the registers, toward the expansive produce section, the mood shifts. The lights are softer, the ceiling higher and what you hear ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 1, 2011

    Get Low

    The check out at the Schnucks in Richmond Heights is a gridlock six carts deep and ten lanes wide. The soundtrack is a chorus of bar-code beeps. But if you walk away from the registers, toward the expansive produce section, the mood shifts. The lights are softer, the ceiling higher and what you hear ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    Tidbits from DeMun Oyster Bar, Perennial Artisan Ales, Orange Leaf Frozen Yogurt

    Jennifer SilverbergDeMun Oyster Bar in Clayton​- DeMun Oyster Bar (740 DeMun Avenue, Clayton; 314-725-0322) has announced a change in hours. Beginning today, Monday, October 31, the seafood-centric restaurant will be open from 4 p.m. daily. Lunch will be available on Saturday only, beginning at 11 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2011

    Vino Nadoz Opening at the Boulevard in Richmond Heights This Week

    Vino Nadoz was transformed from a Cold Stone Creamery to a sleek 43-seat restaurant by the architects at SPACE.​For the past nine years, Steven and Kathy Becker have been serving up fast-casual meals at Nadoz Euro Bakery & Café -- with the original location at the Coronado Ballroom in midtown ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    Storm Shutters Richmond Heights Restaurants [Updated]

    ​Big Bend Boulevard has reopened south of Clayton Road in Richmond Heights, but utility crews remain on the scene, repairing damage from Sunday's severe storms. Those storms have forced at least two area restaurants to close temporarily.Pointer's (1023 South Big Bend Boulevard; 314-644-2000) remai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    What St. Louis Is Stockpiling for Snowpocalypse 2011

    ​If you stopped by the Schnucks in Richmond Heights between noon and one o'clock today, hoping to find milk, eggs and bread before Snowpocalypse 2011 descends upon us in a fury of snow, ice and wind...you were in luck, actually. From what I could see, all three staples were fairly well stocked, th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2010

    Get Up in Dem Guts

    ​If you stopped by the Schnucks in Richmond Heights between noon and one o'clock today, hoping to find milk, eggs and bread before Snowpocalypse 2011 descends upon us in a fury of snow, ice and wind...you were in luck, actually. From what I could see, all three staples were fairly well stocked, th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2010

    Richmond Heights Wants to Become "Tourist Destination" -- by Taxing the Hell Out of Tourists

    Admit it: You'd pay ungodly tax rates to vacation here.​With a tax rate on hotel rooms of 15.67 percent, the suburb of Richmond Heights already has one of the higher hotel tax rates in the nation -- higher than such tourist meccas as San Francisco and New York City, the St. Louis Business Journal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Review Preview: Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium

    Jennifer SilverbergThe "Just Beet It" salad at Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium​This week I visit Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium, a small new Richmond Heights restaurant that serves sandwiches (of course), burgers, hot dogs, salads and more. Join me after the jump for a sneak preview of my review.

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium Now Open

    Ian Froeb​George Mahe first reported on Feast (the blog) that the awesomely named Fozzie's Sandwich Emporium has opened at 1170 South Big Bend Boulevard in Richmond Heights. The small free-standing building -- formerly a Chinese restaurant, thoroughly renovated -- includes some outdoor seating and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Where Do Old Nuns Go When Their Convent Shuts Down?

    Image sourceMaybe retired nuns get to sit in the sun all day and drink piña coladas like this sister.​Do you send them to an old nuns' home? Isn't that what most convents are turning into these days anyway? In the case of the Franciscan Sisters of Mercy who live in St. Mary of the Angels Con ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 19, 2010

    The End Is Nigh

    Image sourceMaybe retired nuns get to sit in the sun all day and drink piña coladas like this sister.​Do you send them to an old nuns' home? Isn't that what most convents are turning into these days anyway? In the case of the Franciscan Sisters of Mercy who live in St. Mary of the Angels Con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 10, 2010

    FoodWire: St. Louis Bread Co./Panera Bread Announces It'll Make Calorie-Counting A Cinch

    ​Direct from Richmond Heights headquarters today: Panera Bread says it'll be posting calorie counts on all the menus at its company-owned Panera Breads and St. Louis Bread Cos. by April 2010. The hometown baker says it expects the franchise-operated outlets to do the same by the end of 2010. "We a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    Highway 40 to Open December 7

    Interstate 64, a.k.a. Highway 40, will open December 7 -- a month before the deadline to complete the massive rebuilding of the roadwayAt a press conference this morning near the intersection of Hanley Road and the highway, Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT) director Pete Rahn said the pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Forty Files: Highway 40 Photo Documentary, Vol. 9

    Here's the latest picture in my occasional photo documentary on the Highway 40 construction. Follow the jump at the bottom of this post to compare yesterday's pic with one from last week. Also, discover the real reason I take these photos!The view Thursday, August 20, from the Boland Place overpass ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Forty Files: Highway 40 Photo Documentary, Vol. 8

    "This project is moving along great, and that's because of the Labor Union and all the organized trades that have all played their part." Wait a second! That's the radio ad for the labor union! I've been brainwashed. Could it be because the radio spot runs every ten minutes during Cardinals games!? ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2009

    Developer Has Big Goaaal! in Mind in Richmond Heights

    ​A firm called Gateway Real Estate Partners has proposed building a $395-million soccer stadium and mixed-use development in Richmond Heights. The 18,000-seat stadium and related development would sit south of Highway 40 and east of Hanley Road on the land that was to house the failed Hadley Towns ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Forty Files: Highway 40 Photo Documentary, Vol. 7

    Wow. We forget to take a photo for one week (one stinking week!) and all of the sudden there's a highway. (Or, part of a highway at least.)​As you can see from the last photo we took on July 24 (viewable after the jump), a lot of progress has been made on the Highway 40 rebuild in the past few day ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2009

    Forty Files: Highway 40 Photo Documentary, Vol. 6

    What's going on with the Highway 40 construction? Glad you asked. As you can see from this photo captured late last week in Richmond Heights, construction crews are still pushing a lot of dirt around. That said, the project is actually beginning to look like a road. ​Comparing this photo with one ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Forty Files: We Have Sound Walls and Gravel and No Big Bend Bridge

    What's going on with the Highway 40 reconstruction, you ask? Well, it's been several weeks since we updated our photo-log of the highway project, and as you can see from the picture below everything is moving along swimmingly. In this shot from June 5, it appears they're working on installing a soun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    Friday Filler -- Fill Dirt, That Is

    So, it's been a few weeks since we updated our ongoing photo documentary on Highway 40 re-construction. Here's the scene today in Richmond Heights as viewed from the Boland Place overpass looking east toward Big Bend Boulevard. As you can see from the photo below, the crew has moved a few dirt piles ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 12, 2009

    Bye-Bye Highway 40, Hello Highway Dirty

    It's been a week since RFT uber-blogger Chad Garrison posted this photo of the dirt rut formerly known as Highway 40 (shot from the newly finished Boland Place overpass in Richmond Heights.) The shot looks directly east, toward Big Bend Boulevard.As you can see from the photo below, not much has cha ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2009

    Cheap, Cheap, Fun, Fun

    Affordable clothes make for a good time

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Scenes from Election Day: The Heights in Richmond Heights, St. Louis County

    Affordable clothes make for a good time

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2008

    Photo: A Sticky Election Poll, Vote with Your Gum

    Affordable clothes make for a good time

  • News

    August 20, 2008

    Out-of-control shoplifting at the St. Louis Galleria. Violent attacks in the Delmar Loop. Is MetroLink a vehicle for crime?

    Affordable clothes make for a good time

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2008

    The Boulevard at Sunset

    Eat, drink and donate

  • News

    February 27, 2008

    Lighten Up, Dennis: Readers want Dennis Brown to rejoin the rank of the commoners

    Eat, drink and donate

  • Calendar

    February 6, 2008

    Going Ratty

    Eat, drink and donate

  • Calendar

    November 21, 2007

    Fairy Thee Well

    Eat, drink and donate

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2007

    Go! 10/5-10/7

    Eat, drink and donate

  • Calendar

    July 11, 2007

    Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

    Eat, drink and donate

  • Calendar

    June 27, 2007

    B Cool

    Eat, drink and donate

  • Calendar

    May 2, 2007

    Fashion Forward

    Eat, drink and donate

  • Calendar

    February 28, 2007

    What's Hotter than Hott? Torrid.

    Eat, drink and donate

  • Calendar

    November 22, 2006

    Sugar and Spice

    Can even make shopping today nice

  • Calendar

    September 20, 2006

    Easy Street

    Can even make shopping today nice

  • News

    April 12, 2006

    Letters Column

    Week of April 13, 2006

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 29, 2004

    Best Way to Blow Your Low-Carb Diet

    The Pointersaurus Challenge

  • News

    August 11, 2004

    Rat Times at Richmond Heights

    Has the MetroLink expansion unearthed a rodent invasion?

  • Music

    July 7, 2004

    Gimme Shelter

    MapleHood Rekkids will rock for food; R.I.P., Mike Blake.

  • News

    July 7, 2004

    Rabble Rousers

    Who's that knocking on your door?

  • Calendar

    December 3, 2003

    Bell-Weather

    And puppet time

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 24, 2003

    Best Basketball Court

    Chaney Elementary School

  • News

    June 20, 2001

    The Health (Club) Menace

    Competition is healthy for the marketplace -- except when the government tips the scales

  • News

    June 6, 2001

    Taking the Plunge

    St. Louis' suburban cities have been competing for years to build the biggest and best places to play. Around here, keeping up appearances is serious business.

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