St. Louis on the Air
St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis on the Air creates a unique space where guests and listeners can share ideas and opinions with respect and honesty. Whether exploring issues and challenges confronting our region, discussing the latest innovations in science and technology, taking a closer look at our history or talking with authors, artists and musicians, St. Louis on the Air brings you the stories of St. Louis and the people who live, work and create in our region.
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Feb 10, 2021 • 15min
‘Hope Is Rising’: Sauce Magazine Highlights 5 New Restaurants In The Region
Sauce Magazine executive editor Meera Nagarajan highlights five new food-and-drink establishments in the St. Louis area.
Feb 10, 2021 • 16min
Black Squares Has Big Plans To Bring Chess To More Black St. Louisans
Black Squares is a new program looking to expand access to chess for low-income and Black and brown youth in north St. Louis. The founders explain how they're planning to make a St. Louis version of Washington Square Park in the Hyde Park neighborhood.
Feb 10, 2021 • 16min
Ice Cream Demand Fueled 2020 Growth For Metro East's Prairie Farms Dairy
Prairie Farms representative Darin Copeland discusses the initial impact of the pandemic on the company’s production, which Prairie Farms products have proven pandemic popular and how its farmers have been able to keep up a new set of demands.
Feb 9, 2021 • 34min
‘We Need To Get Back To Trials’: St. Louis Mayor Says COVID Pause Triggered Unrest At Downtown Jail
Mayor Lyda Krewson discusses the causes of recent unrest at the City Justice Center, as well as changes to the police 911 dispatch system, the state's vaccine rollout and more.
Feb 8, 2021 • 21min
World Chess Hall of Fame’s New Exhibit Highlights Chess Prodigies
The World Chess Hall of Fame's most recent exhibition, “Masterminds: Chess Prodigies," explores the stories of chess prodigies from past to present.
Feb 8, 2021 • 14min
Cortex-Based PercayAI Is Harnessing Data, Academia To Speed Up Scientific Breakthroughs
Allyson Mayer, a computational biologist for the St. Louis startup, is particularly hopeful about a current project she hopes will help COVID-19 "long-haulers."
Feb 8, 2021 • 16min
Human Pest In Your Life? MoBot Will Name A Cockroach In Their Dishonor
Tad Yankoski, Missouri Botanical Garden’s senior entomologist and "bug dad," returns to the program to dismantle cockroaches' bad reputation and detail some of their positive attributes.
Feb 5, 2021 • 22min
‘It’s The Same Fears’: A Missouri S&T Class Finds Solace In Pandemic Literature
Bubonic plague. Influenza. The Red Death. An infection of zombies. For humanities scholar Marie Lathers, reading fiction about these and other pandemics has proved to be a surprisingly comforting experience over the past year. And now, she's leading a group of Missouri S&T students on a similar journey.
Feb 5, 2021 • 15min
5 Years After Rams Broke Local Hearts, Plenty Of St. Louisans Are Rooting For Chiefs
With Sunday's big game looming, Jeremy Housewright and Kendel Beard join host Sarah Fenske to share their perceptions of Chiefs fandom growth in the St. Louis region and what sets the Kansas City team apart.
Feb 5, 2021 • 13min
Analysis: Parson Doubles Down On Enforcing Unemployment Overpayments
STLPR's Corinne Ruff gives us a closer look at the enormity of what the Missouri Department of Labor is demanding back from residents whom it mistakenly overpaid a collective total of $150 million in unemployment benefits — and how lawmakers are fighting against that demand.
