2023-230-PM
A lunchtime update. Hope everyone has a good weekend.
STL: Friday, August 18, 2023
Events 📆
- Enjoy a free concert from the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, fireworks at Forest Park next month - KSDK
- The Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend, August 17 to 20 - RFT
- This weekend’s best food and drink events in St. Louis: August 18-20 - feastmagazine.com
BuySTL 👜
- A-B heir Billy Busch open to buying back Bud Light brand - FOX 2
- Fields Foods Employees Say They Knew Nothing of ‘Employee Group’ Plans - RFT
- In St. Charles, Erbe Farms is growing and selling some of your favorite fungi - feastmagazine.com
- Lufthansa hopes to expand Frankfurt flight as passengers pack seats, leaders declare success - stltoday.com
- Metro East Dispensary Sees ‘Drastic Decrease’ After Missouri Legalizes Weed Sales - RFT
- Missouri Drew 1,600 Applicants for 48 Micro Cannabis Licenses - RFT
- US Steel says union cannot block company’s sale - stltoday.com
Restaurants 🍲
- 5 St. Louis spots making killer fried chicken sandwiches - feastmagazine.com
- Divas Dine at Casa de Tres Reyes, The Main House & Hendel’s - flovalleynews.com
- New bar planned for Midtown this fall - KSDK
- Six restaurant kitchens now open at The Hill Food Co. - St. Louis Magazine
- St. Louis barbecue chain to open new restaurant location in Florissant - St. Louis Business Journal
- The Key Bistro opens in the Missouri History Museum - St. Louis Magazine
- The Wood Shack Is Now Bigger — With an Expanded Menu - RFT
- This St. Louis deli stop named Yelp’s best in the Midwest - FOX 2
Neighborhoods 🏡
DIY 🪓
- Soundproofing my studio: what’s in a wall? - Jeff Geerling’s Blog
Recipes 📇
Sustainability ♻️
- Missouri River Basin Has Average Month In July - The Waterways Journal
Nature 🦝
- An Invasive Hornet That Murders Honeybees Has Arrived in the United States - Gizmodo
STL99 😱
- A food oasis suddenly dry as Pagedale grocer closes - stlamerican.com
- Byers’ Beat: ‘We were just kind of thrown to the wind’ | Retired dispatcher says St. Louis 911 crisis was a long time coming - KSDK
- Deal dead for sale of AT&T tower in downtown St. Louis - stltoday.com
- Chess.com cuts ties with ‘St. Louis Chess Club’ over sexual assault allegations - FOX 2
- Chess.com ends relationship with Saint Louis Chess Club ‘for foreseeable future’ over sexual assault allegations - KSDK
- Fox 2 cameraman breaks leg, needs surgery after he’s hit by Hillsdale village vehicle - stltoday.com
- St. Louis homeless shelter needs a new home. But no one wants it near them. - stltoday.com
STL100 💯
- St. Louis CITY SC has plans to install 11 mini-pitches around the region - St. Louis Magazine
- St. Louis Parking Dispute Resolved By Justice Toilet - RFT
99MO 😱
- Study: Missouri among ‘most dangerous states’ for motorcycling - FOX 2
100MO 💯
- The world’s largest spool of thread is in Missouri - Boing Boing
Crime 🗯
- SLMPD Daily Crime Report SLMPD
DotGov 🏛
- Kansas newspaper publishes in defiance of police raid — and gets seized property back - Missouri Independent
CityGov 🏛
- City of St. Louis partners with longtime local nonprofit to replace Cure Violence program - KSDK
- CDA Housing Awards 2023 - City of St. Louis - News
- St. Louis OKs $1.9M more for violent crime ‘interruption’ programs - stltoday.com
LocalGov 🏛
- Emergency meeting called in Jennings after mass resignations - FOX 2
- Emergency meeting called in Jennings after several resignations by employees - KSDK
- Flood, levee issues dominate public hearing on Mississippi River policy - stltoday.com
MoGov 🏛
- Cannabis trade group pushes back on Missouri regulators after encouraging investigation - stltoday.com
FedGov 🏛
- Feds raise concerns about long call center wait times as millions dropped from Medicaid - stltoday.com
Covid19 Info 🦠
- Is it too soon to get your flu shot? Here’s the answer - KSDK
STLhelp ☎️
Jobs 📄
History 🦕
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Clear and cool Friday, Excessive Heat Watch issued from Sunday afternoon through Wednesday - FOX 2
- Honey, can you shrink the plugin? Mozilla allows desktop extensions on Firefox for Android - The Register
- Internet Archive’s Copyright Battle with Publishers Leads to Lending Restrictions - TorrentFreak
- NASA’s spectacular view of St. Louis from space - FOX 2
- Record labels hit Internet Archive with new $400M lawsuit for preserving 78 rpm records - Waxy.org
- SUSE to flip back into private ownership after just two-and-a-bit years - The Register
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