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Ballwin police chief on paid leave until further notice after unanimous vote

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

BALLWIN, Mo. - The Ballwin police chief has been placed on paid leave until further notice and FOX 2 is working to find out why.FOX 2's partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch obtained the minutes for a Ballwin board of aldermen meeting on October 9. That's when the board voted unanimously in a closed session to put Police Chief Douglas Schaeffler on leave. Sex offender banned from rec centers after FOX 2 tip Ballwin Mayor Tim Pogue, all eight aldermen, and Schaeffler himself have not responded to requests for comment. Ballwin's city administrator told the post that city officials cannot comment on the matter because it is a personnel issue.

Su Teatro’s “Wolf at the Door” a grim and gratifying fable | Review

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

It was the evening of last weekend’s solar eclipse and a full moon hung above the set of “Wolf at the Door,” at Su Teatro Arts and Culture Center.On stage, in a modest hacienda, two women prepare for the arrival of a baby. It is a chilly night in 1800s Mexico. Between her intermittent moans, a pregnant Isadora (Paola Miranda) paces the room, hoping to ease her contractions. Her Rocio (Magally Luna), once her nanny and now her housekeeper, makes preparations. The two talk with hope about the baby and Isadora’s family’s impending visit. They speak less enthusiastically about Isadora’s husband, Séptimo (Camilo Luera). He hits his wife, even when she is pregnant. When the baby arrives early and stillborn, the fault for the heartbreak is his.While Isadora is still holding the swaddled infant, Séptimo comes through the door and proves just what kind of man he is. When Rocio tells him the child was a boy, he quips at Isadora, “At least you got that right.” Then adds with disgust, “bu...

Things to do this weekend: Spooky Halloween parade, bloody marys, flannel fest

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

Halloween townSaturday. The 6th annual Broadway Halloween Parade will once again creep its way down Broadway, bringing with it spooky floats, bands, music and marchers. The parade, which is typically a spectacle to behold, will run along Broadway in Denver, between 5th Avenue and Alameda Avenue, with various stores and businesses participating.Hosted by the Broadway Merchants Association, the family-friendly event starts at 6 p.m. Wear a costume and be prepared for anything. More information at thebroadwayhalloweenparade.com.Cheers for beerGoldspot Brewing Company is located in Denver’s Regis neighborhood. (Patrick Traylor, The Denver Post)Sunday. Denver’s Goldspot Brewing hosts its third annual Queertoberfest from noon to 7 p.m., with delicious beers from more than a dozen breweries like Bierstadt Lagerhaus, Novel Strand Brewing, Our Mutual Friend, Celler West, Woods Boss Brewing and Burns Family Artisan Ales. There will be two food trucks (Little Red’s Kitchen an...

Garfield County leaders tell library to keep “pornographic materials” away from kids in latest salvo over Japanese graphic novels

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

Garfield County’s elected commissioners this week directed the county’s library board to ensure “pornographic materials” aren’t accessible to children at public libraries and can’t be checked out by young people.How the commissioners would enforce that order — the latest flare-up in a fight over library materials in the Western Slope county — and how the county even defines pornography were unclear when the board voted unanimously to approve the message Monday.Commissioner Tom Jankovsky acknowledged in an interview with The Denver Post on Wednesday that the Garfield County Public Library District’s Board of Trustees is an independent body that doesn’t have to follow the county’s directive. But, he said, “the reason that motion was made is because we do have the ability to remove all board members from the library board.”The commissioners “don’t want to go there,” Jankovsky said, but it is...

Music mega-stars Drake, Beyoncé, Harry Styles and more continue to snub Denver

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

If you’re a fan of Beyoncé, Drake, Adele, Harry Styles, Janet Jackson, Metallica, The Chicks, Pearl Jam, or Billy Joel, you have no choice but to leave Colorado for their current run of shows.Why is that? Especially when Colorado is getting concerts from undisputed heavyweights such as Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Madonna, Zac Brown Band, Olivia Rodrigo, Foo Fighters and Morgan Wallen?Fans and critics have posed the question often. U2 hasn’t played Colorado since 2015, skipping us with its last couple of tours despite previously playing here regularly. As a colleague of mine pointed out, they used to love us, having filmed “Under a Blood Red Sky” (at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in 1983) and part of “Rattle & Hum” (at McNichols Sports Arena in 1987) in Colorado.Drake performs at the Pepsi Center in Denver on Oct. 2, 2016. (Seth McConnell, The Denver Post)How ridiculous is it that Drake and 21 Savage, three days before their Sept. 8 show at Ball Arena, ...

DPS pushes back as city officials, including Mayor Johnston, seek to influence policy, board elections

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

Despite an anodyne name, the dormant City-School Coordinating Committee that Denver city officials are seeking to revive has become a flashpoint in a seeming power struggle with leaders of Denver Public Schools.The intent of the committee is simple enough, as city officials want to establish a formal channel for regular discussion of safety challenges and other school issues of public concern. But debate that played out in public Wednesday between district officials and City Council members — including over who will serve on the new panel and how it will operate — underlined potentially higher stakes, especially as Mayor Mike Johnston this week took sides in the contentious fall DPS board elections.Johnston previously referred to the fractious school board as “a public embarrassment” during this year’s mayoral campaign. He called for change Tuesday when he endorsed a trio of reform-minded candidates backed by Educate Denver, a civic group that also supp...

Colorado hardly regulates funeral homes and crematories. That could soon change.

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

When Colorado state Sen. Dylan Roberts first heard details about the Return to Nature Funeral Home in Penrose, he expressed profound disappointment.“I can’t believe Colorado is going through this again,” the Avon Democrat said. “Why is this continuing to happen in our state? It doesn’t seem to happen in most other states.”The situation was gruesome: Authorities found at least 189 improperly stored bodies in the funeral home specializing in green burial, an operation its owners had been running without a license. State regulators seemed to have no idea.The grisly news from the southern Colorado mortuary shined a spotlight on the state’s lax oversight of funeral homes and crematories. Colorado remains the only state in the country that doesn’t license funeral directors or require some certification. State officials don’t regularly inspect funeral homes and only devote one-quarter of one full-time position to regulate 220 funeral ho...

Riverside County deputy, barricaded suspect wounded in gunfire exchange

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

A Riverside County Sheriff's deputy and a barricaded suspected traded gunfire in Thousand Palms Wednesday night, wounding both of them and sending them to the hospital.At 7:08 p.m., deputies were sent to Ramon and Robert roads to find a person accused of felony hit-and-run, the department said in a news release.They found the driver, who was behind the wheel of a vehicle, and while detaining him, the passenger of that vehicle opened fire on deputies, who returned fire, striking the shooter at least once, the department said.After being hit, "the suspect barricaded inside the vehicle and refused to follow commands," the release said.A deputy was hit in the gunfire, and he was taken to a local hospital, where he remains in stable condition."The suspect, also struck by gunfire, was ultimately taken into custody," officials said. "Deputies provided medical aid, and he was transported to a local hospital; he is currently in stable condition."The driver was ultimately arrested on that fel...

Sticky Sweet: Dirty Honey prep for album release and L.A.show

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

Sticky Sweet: The two years since L.A. rock & roll band Dirty Honey released their self-titled debut album have been nothing if not eventful. That first album may have been created during a pandemic but, when the world reopened, these lads were able to take full advantage.Multiple grueling European tours saw their stock rise across the Atlantic, while over here they opened for bands as prestigious as Guns N’ Roses and the Black Crowes, earning a ton of new fans in the process.“It’s been an interesting ride to say the least,” says singer Marc LaBelle. “The last year or so has really been focussed on bringing our band and our style of music over to Europe a lot. I think we’ve been there three times in the last 18 months. We’ve done some really cool stuff along the way. Opened for Guns N’ Roses, and played Hyde Park [London]. Played a bunch of festivals over there, and really got acquainted with what it means to tour in Europe. It’s been really exciting, it’s been a lot of hard wor...

Preview: ‘Assassin’s Creed Nexus’ uses virtual reality to bring series closer to fans

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 12:00:23 GMT

“Assassin’s Creed” is built on a premise that’s tailor-made for virtual reality. Characters in the game enter a device called the Animus and they’re transported into the past, living out the lives of another person through data collected from people’s DNA. It’s essentially VR with a sci-fi twist. Given the synergy between the real-life technology and the series mythology, it was only a matter of time before Ubisoft made an “Assassin’s Creed” VR game. The one the Ubisoft Red Storm decided to make is surprisingly faithful to older games. I had a chance to spend an hour with “Assassin’s Creed Nexus,” and despite being on a completely different medium, I felt at home playing the game.THE STORY SO FAR“Nexus” takes place in Abstergo as players take on the role of an employee who works for Dominika Wilk (played by Morena Bacarrin). The company has discovered a way to recapture Isu artifacts through th...