Episodios

  • St. Louis rapper Big Boss Vette turns hardship into certified gold

    St. Louis rapper Big Boss Vette turns hardship into certified gold
    May 23 2025
    Female rappers are dominating the charts, including St. Louis’ very own Diamond Smith — better known by her stage name Big Boss Vette. The writer and rapper behind hits like “Snatched” and “Pretty Girls Walk” reflects on her St. Louis roots, her fast-growing career and the lessons she’s learned along the way.
    Más Menos
    24 m
  • ‘Don't ever try to outrun a tornado’ — and other storm myths busted

    ‘Don't ever try to outrun a tornado’ — and other storm myths busted
    May 22 2025
    As a tornado swept through St. Louis on Friday, traffic stood still on Interstate 170 near Berkeley after a handful of drivers parked underneath an overpass. Experts have long warned motorists not to do so during storms, but the idea that it’s a safe practice persists. National Weather Service meteorologist Kevin Deitsch and AAA spokesperson Nick Chabarria bust — or validate — common storm and tornado myths and warnings, including: “Do tornadoes avoid cities and places with lots of concrete? Is it safe to take a shower during a thunderstorm?”
    Más Menos
    26 m
  • A tornado tore St. Louis apart. Community relief efforts are bringing it together

    A tornado tore St. Louis apart. Community relief efforts are bringing it together
    May 22 2025
    The tornado that tore a path through St Louis on May 16 has sparked ongoing community relief efforts on the city’s north and west sides. Three organizers of that effort, Kayla Reed, Aaron Williams and Ohun Ashe, share their experience and takeaways as they work with hundreds of volunteers to distribute aid, clear debris, and reach people who are still in crisis without basic services.
    Más Menos
    25 m
  • Local restaurants, World Central Kitchen feed people impacted by St. Louis tornado

    Local restaurants, World Central Kitchen feed people impacted by St. Louis tornado
    May 21 2025
    Local restaurants are working with World Central Kitchen to provide thousands of meals to people impacted by the EF3 tornado that hit the St. Louis area on Friday, May 16. Kate Dozier, a St. Louisan and member of the World Central Kitchen Chef Corps, shares how World Central Kitchen assembles and deploys its disaster response teams. Tom Schmidt, co-owner of Salt + Smoke; and Qui Tran, owner of Mai Lee and Nudo, talk about what’s motivating their partnership with World Central Kitchen – and how it reflects one way STL’s food and hospitality community is coming together to support disaster-impacted St. Louisans with nourishment.
    Más Menos
    26 m
  • How Missouri teen Ruby Leigh yodeled her way to ‘The Voice’ finale — and rocked with Green Day

    How Missouri teen Ruby Leigh yodeled her way to ‘The Voice’ finale — and rocked with Green Day
    May 21 2025
    When Ruby Leigh stepped onto “The Voice” stage in 2023, she got all four chairs to turn during her blind audition. Just 17 at the time, Leigh went on to finish as runner-up on the NBC singing competition. But her journey started long before reality TV, in the tiny town of Foley, Missouri, population 100. Leigh talks about her journey as a self-taught singer, her time on national TV, performing at the Grand Ole Opry, and what it was like sharing the stage with her favorite rock band, Green Day.
    Más Menos
    25 m
  • A north St. Louis family counts its blessings, and frustrations, in the wake of the tornado

    A north St. Louis family counts its blessings, and frustrations, in the wake of the tornado
    May 20 2025
    Gloria Nolan is counting her blessings after an EF3 grade tornado tore through her neighborhood near Fairgrounds Park in north St. Louis. She shares her family’s experience surviving the storm, assessing the damage and securing assistance for the long road to recovery.
    Más Menos
    18 m
  • Missouri’s political leaders honor Kit Bond as a bipartisan doer at state funeral

    Missouri’s political leaders honor Kit Bond as a bipartisan doer at state funeral
    May 20 2025
    During a state funeral at the Missouri State Capitol on Tuesday, former U.S. Senator and Governor Kit Bond was remembered as a dedicated public servant who forged bipartisan ties. Bond died last week at the age of 86. STLPR’s Jason Rosenbaum talked with people who worked closely with Bond over his more than four decade public service career.
    Más Menos
    10 m
  • It took years to close the Workhouse. Now a $4 million settlement is in sight

    It took years to close the Workhouse. Now a $4 million settlement is in sight
    May 20 2025
    A lawsuit that accused St. Louis running an “unspeakably hellish” jail has ended in a $4 million settlement. Pending a judge’s approval, the settlement would allow at least 16,000 people who were jailed in the now-demolished Workhouse jail to file a claim. ArchCity Defenders Executive Director Blake Strode and Inez Bordeaux, a former Workhouse detainee who became an organizer of the Close the Workhouse campaign, explore the eight-year path to the settlement, and the past and future of the Workhouse.
    Más Menos
    23 m
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_T1_webcro805_stickypopup