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Has St. Louis Literary Magazine River Styx Reached the End?

Funding cuts and staff shortages have put the future of the magazine in peril

By Monica Obradovic

Jul 6, 2022

In the late 1960s, a group of young poets formed a new literary community in St. Louis. Poet Dan Spell had just returned to St. Louis in 1969 after spending four years in the Navy...

Jan Garden Gastro gives a music and spoken word performance of La Prose du Transsiberien, a 1913 book by Blaise Cendrars.

Mandarin House, a Beloved St. Louis Institution, Has Closed

The longtime restaurant was one of the area's foundational Chinese eateries

By Cheryl Baehr

Mandarin House has served its last guests.

Drove of Kittens Pushes St. Louis-Area Cat Rescue to the Brink

The Catty Shack, a family-owned non-profit, says a busy kitten season has depleted its funds

By Benjamin Simon

Tim, who helps run the cat rescue, Catty Shack, with his family, plays with some kittens.

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