Valentine's Day

Culture & History

Hopeless romantics can still find love in St. Louis. All it takes is leaving the house

Miya Norfleet

How are St. Louisans managing a dating pool that’s muddier than the Mississippi River in a post-COVID world?

Doug Brooks, 62, playfully hits Bill Rathmann, 62, after a performance on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024, at Toennies’ home in Damiansville. The group, associated with the Barbershop Harmony Society, is delivering singing telegrams on Valentine’s Day.

Culture & History

Cards, hugs and harmony: Valentine's Day festivities spread throughout Metro East

Eric Lee

From Breese to Cahokia Heights, Valentine's Day festivities — including serenades and card sharing — swept the Metro East.

Government, Politics & Issues

Want to help spread love this Valentine's Day? Write an Illinois senior citizen

Will Bauer

Metro East and Quincy-area residents who want to show senior citizens some love this Valentine’s Day can write a card, and their state senator will deliver it.

Arts

Listen: Love Songs To Keep You Warm On Cold Winter Nights

Emily Woodbury

In the middle of winter’s coldest month, we make time to celebrate love. What better way to get in the mood than to listen to love songs?

Amanda Clark (left) and Elizabeth Eikmann talked about Renegade STL's event highlighting notable stories of love and loss in St. Louis history.

Arts

Ulysses Grant, St. Louis city-county divide among notable stories of love, loss in St. Louis’ past

Lara Hamdan

St. Louis has a history that involves grand stories of love – and loss. Renegade STL will “celebrate” those stories at an upcoming event at the Novel…

Philip Barnes (left) and Francis Pott (right) talked about the St. Louis Chamber Chorus' concert highlighting the theme of love.

Arts

St. Louis Chamber Chorus will highlight the theme of love in ‘Love Dances’ concert

Lara Hamdan

The St. Louis Chamber Chorus' will explore the human condition at a performance commemorating Valentine’s Day. The concert is highlighted by the world…

How does love work in the brain? That's the question psychologist Sandra Langeslag has studied in her laboratory at UMSL.

Health, Science & Environment

What’s the science behind love? A Valentine’s Day exploration with an UMSL professor who studies it

Kelly Moffitt

Psychologist Sandra Langeslag runs the Neurocognition of Emotion and Motivation Lab at the University of Missouri-St. Louis . The laboratory's research is…

A selection of chocolates from The Candy Factory, a candy store highlighted in Deborah Reinhardt's "Delectable Destinations."

Arts

An early valentine from us to you — a guide to Missouri’s chocolate makers

Kelly Moffitt

Happy early Valentine’s Day! We’ve got a delectable present for you ahead of the holiday: an audio guide to Missouri’s chocolate makers.On Monday’s St.…

Arts

Celebrate or vilify Valentine's Day with music, poetry and chocolate

Nancy Fowler

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Feb. 8, 2012 - Whether you're bitter or bitten by the love bug this Valentine's Day season, there's…

A drawing depicts the death of St. Valentine — one of them, anyway. The Romans executed two men by that name on Feb. 14 of different years in the third century.

The dark origins of Valentine's Day

Arnie Seipel

Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate romance and love and kissy-face fealty. But the ancient Romans had bloodier, drunker and more naked notions to mark the occasion.