Skip to contentSTL: Saturday, October 15, 2022
Events 📆
- Hot Dog! Oscar Mayer Wienermobile Coming To A Schnucks Location Near You This Weekend – RiverBender
- Cherokee Street Jazz Crawl will celebrate 10 years with its biggest lineup yet – St. Louis Magazine
- 25th annual Bands of America returns to St. Louis – FOX 2
- Peak fall colors may come to St. Louis sooner than expected – FOX 2
- The City Museum is turning 25, here’s how you can join the celebration – KSDK
- The best food and drink events in St. Louis this weekend: Oct. 14-16 – feastmagazine.com
BuySTL 👜
- St. Louis Alamo Drafthouse opening in November – FOX 2
- Grant’s Farm make changes after complaints from guests about traffic at Halloween Nights – FOX 2
- Here’s how many hotel rooms and apartments are planned at historic Jefferson Arms building – KSDK
- Teams behind City Foundry, Old Rock house move ahead with plans for a new St. Louis concert venue – KSDK
- Bunge joint venture seeks to turn cooking oil into fuel – St. Louis Business Journal
- Missouri clinics offer free vasectomies, citing a surge in demand – KSDK
Restaurants 🍲
- St. Louis Standards: La Pizza Is a Slice of New York in University City – RFT
- The Fattened Caf Fosters Collaborations for Filipino American History Month – RFT
- Karen’s Diner opening permanent location in south St. Louis – FOX 2
- 12oh7 Herban Eatery cooks up casual plant-based cuisine in the Delmar Loop – feastmagazine.com
- Look for Lions Choice ‘golden tickets’ to win free food for a year – FOX 2
STLfood ⚜️
- Ice cream maker expands to North City: ‘We want to see change happen’ – KSDK
- Earthbound’s All Flannel Everything – feastmagazine.com
Neighborhoods 🏡
STL100 💯
- City Museum 25-year anniversary defies early predictions – FOX 2
- St. Louis Character: How Dave Blum created a one-of-a-kind skate park inside a neo-Gothic church – St. Louis Business Journal
- Renovations of local historic landmark back on track – FOX 2
- Urban League opens Save Our Sons location on city’s southside – stlamerican.com
STL99 😱
- High levels of radioactive lead found at Jana Elementary School | ‘This has been here since the 1940s’ – KSDK
- Kia, Hyundai thefts still booming in St. Louis area despite prevention efforts – stltoday.com
- Metro East business owner acquires 300 catalytic converters illegally – FOX 2
- East Alton scrap-metal dealer closes after 287 catalytic converters seized by investigators – KSDK
- Scrapyard closing after catalytic converter sting – FOX 2
- Spire seeking a 10% rate increase on natural gas – stltoday.com
- Let’s Convert the Loop Trolley Into a Rolling Bathroom – RFT
- Police release image of object that killed driver on I-64 – FOX 2
- Police recover metal that struck woman’s car before deadly St. Louis crash – FOX 2
- Police arrest suspect in wire theft, resulting in mass internet outages in St. Louis – FOX 2
- FBI and Illinois State Police warn of rideshare carjackings on the rise – FOX 2
- ‘I did not feel safe’: Former rideshare driver not surprised by FBI carjacking warning – KSDK
- HBCU football game in St. Louis this weekend canceled – stlamerican.com
- University, tourism officials say organizer dropped ball for weekend football game at Dome – stltoday.com
- KIPP High School in St. Louis shifts to online learning after another student brings gun on campus – KSDK
- Soulard bar owner says break-ins are bringing down business – KSDK
- ‘He told me to shoot the dogs’: Mother says she can’t get help with stray dogs that bit her daughter – KSDK
- St. Louis advocates optimistic the city’s reparations effort will advance – Missouri Independent
WW99 😱
- Elon Musk Says He’s Just Following Ukraine’s Suggestion to ‘F*ck Off’ by Asking Pentagon to Fund Starlink – Gizmodo
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX Isn’t Willing to Fund Starlink in Ukraine, Wants Pentagon to Pay for It – VICE US
- SpaceX reportedly fed up with providing free Starlink to Ukraine – The Register
- ‘He’s God’: China’s Top Leadership Is Set for a Reshuffle. But Xi Jinping Is Here to Stay. – VICE US
- New Chinese Cyberespionage Group WIP19 Targets Telcos, IT Service Providers – SecurityWeek
- Chinese Cyberspies Targeting US State Legislature – SecurityWeek
- China doesn’t need to take Taiwan’s fabs to escape US trade bans – The Register
Police 🚓
- St. Louis police find more than 20 stolen vehicles during raid of Dogtown ‘chop shop’ – stltoday.com
- Aldermen endorse better pay, benefits for St. Louis police – stltoday.com
- Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department Goes Completely Rogue, Blocks Inspector General’s Access To Files, Facilities – Techdirt
- Police tricks DeadBolt ransomware out of 155 decryption keys – BleepingComputer
- Ex Police Officer Used Law Enforcement Tech to Hack Women’s Explicit Photos – Hacker News
DotGov 🏛
- D.C. Attorney General Opens Investigation Into Republican Governors’ Shipping of Immigrants to the Capital – ProPublica
- Illinois charges extra $100 for electric vehicle license plate renewal – FOX 2
CityGov 🏛
LocalGov 🏛
- New Missouri state web portal designed to boost local government transparency – stltoday.com
- Rams settlement money moved into higher-yielding account – KSDK
- Jones, Page agree to move Rams money to higher-yielding investments – stltoday.com
- How Independence, Missouri, Spends Its COVID-Relief Money on Police – RFT
- New license plate reading cameras installed in Brentwood – FOX 2
MoGov 🏛
- Medical marijuana companies pour money into legalization PAC in Missouri campaign’s homestretch – FOX 2
- Missouri’s public education funding formula is due for a tune up – Missouri Independent
- REAL ID deadline less a year away: What Missourians need to know – FOX 2
- New Missouri voter ID law survives legal challenge – stltoday.com
- Lawsuit over Missouri Photo ID dismissed ahead of November election – FOX 2
- Indictment: State employee from Jefferson County stole $140,500 in unemployment benefits – stltoday.com
- Missouri Unemployment Worker Gave Free Money to Friends, Feds Say – RFT
- Missouri state employee accused of stealing public money for friends and relatives – KSDK
FedGov 🏛
- Trump ordered classified documents moved after realizing the feds knew he had them – Boing Boing
- New Secret Service Messages Show They Were Warned About Jan. 6: ‘Their Plan Is to Literally Kill People’ – VICE US
- Congress Just Subpoenaed Donald Trump over the January 6 Riot – VICE US
- Jan. 6 committee votes unanimously to subpoena Trump – FOX 2
- Texas’ Ridiculous Content Moderation Bill Put On Hold Until The Supreme Court Can Consider It – Techdirt
- Most PPP loans have been forgiven, despite signs of possible fraud – Hacker News
Jobs 📄
- Kodak Is Hiring Film Technicians: ‘We Cannot Keep Up with Demand’ – Hacker News
- Beyond Meat Plans to Chew Out 19% of Workforce as It Sees Revenue Drops – Gizmodo
- Oracle lays off more than 200 California-based workers – Hacker News
History 🦕
- The night the 66 Park-In Theater closed. Do you remember these other lost St. Louis treasures? – stltoday.com
Sustainability ♻️
- New process could make plastic recycling more profitable – Freethink
Infrastructure 🚽
- Water pipes hold flood of untapped electricity potential – The Register
- An (Im)perfect Way Forward On Infrastructure Moderation? – Techdirt
Ecology 🦤
- Alaska Canceled Snow Crab Season for the First Time Ever Because All the Crabs Are Gone – VICE US
- The ‘Deadliest Catch’ Disappears: Alaska’s Snow Crabs Have Vanished – Gizmodo
- ‘Double Whammy’ Could Wipe Out Carnivorous Plants – Gizmodo
WWW99 🕸
- Streaming services lost the plot – Jeff Geerling’s Blog
- Meta’s New Headset Will Track Your Eyes for Targeted Ads – Gizmodo
- Sci-Fi Reddit Community Bans AI-Art for Being ‘Low Effort’ Posting – VICE US
Twitter 🐦
- Twitter is testing a way for users to limit their mentions – Engadget
Space 🚀
- Astronomers Detect What Could Be Most Powerful Explosion Ever Recorded – Gizmodo
- Black Hole Pukes Up Star Years After Eating It – Gizmodo
- NASA’s Planet-Hunting Spacecraft Is in Safe Mode After Possible Computer Glitch – Gizmodo
- Scottish space upstart’s rocket crashes into the drink – The Register
- Japan space agency blows up eight satellites aboard Epsilon rocket – The Register
- Near-Earth asteroid tally ticks over 30,000 milestone – New Atlas
DIY 🪓
- Some Things I Took Away From An Event Apart 2022 in Denver – CSS-Tricks
- 5 Best SMTP Plugins for WordPress – noupe
- Show HN: FrankenPHP, an app server for PHP written in Go – Hacker News
- Postgres Full Text Search vs. the Rest – Hacker News
- An Open-Source HDMI Capture Card – Hacker News
- Show HN: Circumflex, browse HN in your terminal – Hacker News
Captain’s Blog 🏴☠️
- Fat Bear Election Scandal Exposes Cheating Bear, Restores Faith in Democracy – VICE US
- Internet Archive to open their physical archive for a rare behind-the-scenes tour – Boing Boing
- Toteable PC Is Inspired By Macs Of Days Gone By – Hackaday
- Sony Hopes the $500 ZV-1F Will Convince Content Creators To Ditch Their Phone For a Dedicated Camera – Gizmodo
- Tesla has lost more market cap in 30 days than any other company in history – Hacker News
- On the cheap, like a local, and without a lot of luggage – Hacker News
- Why I Don’t Use Netscape (1999) – Hacker News
