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Graybar Named to '60 Best Companies to Sell For'
ST. LOUIS – Graybar, a leading distributor of electrical, communications and data networking products, announced Monday that it has been named to Selling Power’s list of the 60 Best Companies to Sell For. This year marks the 19th time Graybar has appeared on the prestigious list, which will...
LONGING By Lize Lewy Debuts At The Gaslight Theater In August
LONGING, the new work from breakout playwright Lize Lewy, makes its world premiere August 16th-18th at the Gaslight Theater, featuring direction by Kay Ailee Bush. Welcome to the world of Platforms, a virtual reality chat roulette app popularly used in the not-so-distant future of 2064. Mason, a brooding introvert (played by Andre Navid Eslamian), wanders aimlessly in pursuit of genuine connection. He encounters Lola (played by Leta DeBardeleben), an enchanting siren of the internet seeking reprieve from reality. Together, they navigate the challenges of connection in the digital age, exploring the hardships and misunderstandings inherent in their interactions, skillfully guided by intimacy direction from Summer Baer.
St. Louis teen entrepreneurs are becoming world travelers — a bag of coffee at a time
“Good morning!” calls a cheery teenager from a stand at the Tower Grove Farmers Market. William Snow, a rising junior at Soldan High School, is working the booth for the Show Me the World program, eagerly asking passersby if they would like to learn more. “I’m not a very...
WATCH | St. Louis (MO) FD Engine House 29 Experiences Flooding
The basement of Engine House 29 of the St. Louis Fire Department is experiencing flooding, the department reported in a post on X. Engine House No. 29 is located at 200 South Vandeventer Avenue, in Midtown. “As a neighborhood-based fire department, we face the same challenges as our community, like...
13-year-old St. Louisan packs her bags — and bass — to study at Juilliard
When Lyric Green learned that her friend and school orchestra’s only bassist was moving away, the reality that the orchestra would be missing its heartbeat didn’t sit right with the then 12-year-old. “I didn't want us to just have that empty spot on stage because usually bases help...
The Emergence Of Alec Burleson’s Hitting In 2024
Has Alec Burleson’s hitting in the 2024 season cemented him as one of the MLB’s best under 26?. During the St. Louis Cardinals final game before the All Star Break, he took a high, floating changeup from Jameson Taillon and sent it just over the right field wall, trotting the bases for his 17th home run of the season and tying Nolan Gorman for the team lead in that category. Although the Cardinals would go on to lose that game to the Cubs 8-3, Burleson ensured that Cardinals fans got a final reminder of his importance to the team’s offense and the impressiveness of his 2024 campaign.
WashULaw Launches Veterans Law Clinic
WashULaw is proud to announce the launch of its Veterans Law Clinic, a new initiative aimed at assisting veterans in requesting upgrades of their discharge characterization or corrections to their military records. This clinic addresses a crucial need, as veteran benefits are often contingent upon the reason for separation and the military’s characterization of the veteran’s service. Many veterans find themselves ineligible for valuable benefits due to the type of discharge they received.
Register for summer wellness challenge
The Office of Human Resources at Washington University in St. Louis is offering Go Gold!, a four-week challenge inspired by the 2024 Olympics to improve physical and mental well-being habits, beginning July 29. Registration is now open. The summer challenge will encourage participants to move throughout the day. The challenge...
Two Billikens Playing in Junior Nexus Championship
ST. LOUIS – Two incoming field hockey student-athletes were selected to the play in the 2024 U-21 Junior Nexus Championship. Ella Etherington , an incoming freshman midfielder from St. Louis, was selected for team Atlanta. Abby Schalow , an incoming freshman goalie from Newport Beach, Calif., is playing on team Amsterdam. The USA Field Hockey event is played from July 6-July 16 at the Virginia Beach Regional Training Center in Virginia Beach, N.C. It includes the top field hockey athletes from across the country. Etherington and Schalow are part of an five-player incoming class for fifth-year head coach Zoe Adkins...
New bar announced as one of first grant recipients designed to lure businesses downtown
ST. LOUIS — Earlier this year, city and community leaders announced new financial incentives to lure retailers to open up shop in downtown St. Louis. 5 on Your Side is now hearing from one business that's taking advantage. Organizers said as soon as word got out about the $350,000...
Bernie’s Redbird Review: The Cardinals Need More From These 10 Players In The Final Two-Plus Months Of The Season.
Good day to you. Thanks for checking out my columns on the Cardinals. Here’s another look at the Redbirds as they enjoy some rest and recreation during the All-Star break. I didn’t seek to list these in any special order; I’m just taking them one-by-one. And I’m not including players who may or may not return from injuries.
Makeba Williams honored by WASH U medical students
Medical students at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis recently honored faculty and residents with Distinguished Service and Teaching Awards. For the 2023-24 academic year students chose Makeba Williams, MD, an associate professor and the vice chair of professional development and wellness in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Scientists unveil ‘time-traveling’ quantum sensor breakthrough
Scientists have demonstrated a new type of quantum sensor that uses quantum entanglement to make measurements that seemingly “travel back in time.” The research, led by Kater Murch from Washington University in St. Louis and collaborators from NIST and the University of Cambridge, was published in Physical Review Letters on June 27, 2024. The process involves entangling two quantum particles, or qubits, in a quantum singlet state where their spins point in opposite directions.
St. Louis Blues analyst Joey Vitale
Joey Vitale joins the show for a special hour of talk ranging from how the summers have changed for kids from his days into his time as a parent, how black bears are connected to his knowledge of the wrist shot, why fighting can be a good thing in sports, the tricky part of coaching your kids at a young age, how baking was the thing that got him out of the depression that retirement had taken him, the ways they kill time during the really slow games, the people he learned from when he first got into broadcasting post-career, whether or not it’s wrong to take a picture of a recipe in a book that you didn’t buy and his thoughts on the Blues offseason moves so far.
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