St. Louis in the National Media

addxb2 · Post3:34 PM - Apr 02#28762026-04-02T15:34+00:00

St. Louis’s own Slayyyter releases new electro-pop grunge album, WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, including song $t. Loser. The song includes the lyric, “So pretentious looking down at my St. Louis misery”

You’re not going to hear it on the radio but it’s well on its way to being an electronic summer hit.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sl ... n-america/

SRQ2STL · Post8:45 PM - Apr 02#28772026-04-02T20:45+00:00

addxb2 wrote: ↑
3:34 PM - Apr 02
St. Louis’s own Slayyyter releases new electro-pop grunge album, WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, including song $t. Loser. The song includes the lyric, “So pretentious looking down at my St. Louis misery”

You’re not going to hear it on the radio but it’s well on its way to being an electronic summer hit.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sl ... n-america/

Well with a lyric like that, thank god it won't... may it remain eternally buried and unnotable.

BarryGlick · Post9:30 PM - Apr 02#28782026-04-02T21:30+00:00

may it remain eternally buried and unnotable ty!

TalkinDev · Post7:32 PM - Apr 09#28792026-04-09T19:32+00:00

St. Louis features as a prominent location (Notable St. Louis Chess Club and the Sinquefield Cup) in this Netflix chess documentary...
"Untold: Chess Mates"

Watched it last night and its a good quick watch.

framer · Post7:55 PM - Apr 09#28802026-04-09T19:55+00:00

Nothing to do with St. Louis, but if you like documentaries about elite-level board game players, check out Word Wars (2004). Who new Scrabble could be so cut-throat?

SRQ2STL · Post4:17 AM - Apr 17#28812026-04-17T04:17+00:00

St Louis original Balkan Treat Box got a shout out segment on The Drew Barrymore Show:

addxb2 · Post3:35 PM - Apr 25#28822026-04-25T15:35+00:00

addxb2 wrote:St. Louis’s own Slayyyter releases new electro-pop grunge album, WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA, including song $t. Loser. The song includes the lyric, “So pretentious looking down at my St. Louis misery”

You’re not going to hear it on the radio but it’s well on its way to being an electronic summer hit.

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sl ... n-america/

Sold out three nights at The Pageant before heading out on her world tour. St. Louis finding a global club voice is good!

From what I’ve seen, people are making the trip from NYC and Chicago to see her in STL.

Her Coachella crowd

dbInSouthCity · Post8:34 PM - Apr 25#28832026-04-25T20:34+00:00

Times of London write up

https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destina ... -m6nfgktr2

StlAlex · Post8:58 PM - Apr 25#28842026-04-25T20:58+00:00

It's like a parody.

The only times anything suburban was mentioned was that the metro area goes into Illinois and the Delmar Loop (and the Loop is hardly suburban). Clayton didn't even get mentioned!

What was the biggest complaint? Car-centrism.

Absolutely hilarious.

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framer · Post9:25 PM - Apr 25#28852026-04-25T21:25+00:00

Nice write-up.

Ragtimer · Post10:23 PM - Apr 25#28862026-04-25T22:23+00:00

Great article! So glad to see STL getting positive reviews from international tourism publications! The car-centrism thing doesn’t bother me too much. I don’t know if it’s entirely true, but it does seem difficult to traverse “79 fascinating neighborhoods” solely on foot. Even the stretch between Downtown and Soulard would not be a particularly pleasant walk. I wonder if he considered renting a bike?

stlgasm · Post1:13 AM - Apr 26#28872026-04-26T01:13+00:00

"second biggest city in Missouri"??? Come on.

jshank83 · Post4:34 AM - Apr 26#28882026-04-26T04:34+00:00

stlgasm wrote: ↑
1:13 AM - Apr 26
"second biggest city in Missouri"??? Come on.

I noticed that also but since it is technically correct it is hard for me to fault them too much.

gone corporate · Post7:33 PM - Apr 26#28892026-04-26T19:33+00:00

How’s this for a superlative, then? Last weekend was certainly the most fun I’ve had west of the Mississippi. Meet you in St Louis.

I'll take that compliment very well. Solid article. Welcome, Brits!

SRQ2STL · Post1:58 PM - Apr 27#28902026-04-27T13:58+00:00

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑
8:34 PM - Apr 25
Times of London write up

https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destina ... -m6nfgktr2

They used all old stock photos though... that is face meltingly annoying...uughghhh....come on. To me, not gathering current shots of the city feels half-assed. Sure the writing is good, but maaaaaannnnnn.

Post2:04 PM - Apr 27#28912026-04-27T14:04+00:00

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑
8:34 PM - Apr 25
Times of London write up

https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destina ... -m6nfgktr2

Also.. no... absolutely not. Salt + Smoke is NOT the place to try T-Ravs. UGH! It's not even Italian, Reginald Pip Pip Bowler Hat!!!

dbInSouthCity · Post2:53 PM - Apr 27#28922026-04-27T14:53+00:00

Right, because toasted ravioli is a famous Italian dish…..

SRQ2STL · Post3:16 PM - Apr 27#28932026-04-27T15:16+00:00

dbInSouthCity wrote: ↑
2:53 PM - Apr 27
Right, because toasted ravioli is a famous Italian dish…..

It is, in our local Italian dining scene. It's a signature *St Louis* Italian dish. It actually does matter...for historical and cultural context. That's not nit-picky. The T-ravs at Salt + Smoke barely qualify. They are a part of our collective identity as much as the Gateway Arch. Have some pride and worry less about your emphatic need to also be snide and contrary, man.

jbacott · Post4:21 PM - Apr 27#28942026-04-27T16:21+00:00

In an article that is almost entirely positive about STL from a London based magazine, the thing you focused on is that they got their toasted ravs from a subpar provider? That's the opposite of "having some pride", that's nitpicking what wasn't even a negative line in the article.

GoHarvOrGoHome · Post4:28 PM - Apr 27#28952026-04-27T16:28+00:00

I mean the Salt and Smoke t-ravs do slap tho...

jshank83 · Post6:03 AM - Apr 28#28962026-04-28T06:03+00:00

I don’t think the currency of any of the photos they used is going to have any impact on who comes to visit based on the article. I doubt the t-ravs location does either since most haven’t ever had one. It’s more about saying they are an STL thing.

matguy70 · Post3:12 PM - May 07#28972026-05-07T15:12+00:00

Saw this posted on Facebook. Nice little write up. The title is "brilliant' IMO. Because, in reality... it is true. This city is where you can live easily and happily. STL has incredible diverse and cultural neighborhoods/districts. It welcomes and celebrates every type of lifestyles and seems to generate its own "harmonious" reality within. Anyway...

St. Louis: The City That Just Lets You Live

https://tellmeyourejoking.substack.com/ ... nnhbfdrl4a

symphonicpoet · Post5:36 AM - May 08#28982026-05-08T05:36+00:00

^Okay, a kid I played soccer with as a kid (Steve Ralston) made the article. When I was seven or eight, I knew he was good. I didn't know he was THAT good!

So I can say I played on the same team as an MLS assistant manager. Bravo Steve!

Ignoring the minor "F#%^ me!" moment of learning a childhood friend I lost contact with went pro thirty years after the fact . . . it really is a nice article.

chris fuller · Post12:24 PM - May 08#28992026-05-08T12:24+00:00

best cities for new grads
https://sherwood.news/personal-finance/the-best-us-cities-for-new-college-grads/

DogtownBnR · Post4:33 PM - May 12#29002026-05-12T16:33+00:00

This is a oldie, but a goodie..... Was randomly watching old videos. St. Louis makes a short cameo in the video by Phil Collins "Take Me Home". (1985)

Thought it was cool that STL was shown in this video with all of the great cities in the world. We had some prestige back in 1985. Short clip at the 4:44 mark.

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