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2008 Stories by Kristie McClanahan

• Drink of the Week: A Toast to People of the Year

  published December 24, 2008

  Even as restaurants and bars continue to shutter in this woeful economy, alcohol sales are buoyant. This seems to imply that people are still... More >>

• Drink of the Week: Bacardi Silver Raz

  published December 17, 2008

  A few beautiful things we've seen this month: a dad skipping — honest-to-God skipping — into a Kohl's, his giggling kids in tow. A... More >>

• Drink of the Week: Goose Island Nut Brown

  published December 10, 2008

  The first answer is: "About three bottles of wine." The second one: "December 30." The story goes that the Shaved Duck was named following... More >>

• Drink of the Week: Apple Bottom Martini

  published December 3, 2008

  Someone in the group orders a Pimp Juice and vodka. It's a one-line joke meant to evoke laughs, and it does. After comparisons to the... More >>

• Drink of the Week: Spanish Coffee

  published November 26, 2008

  College campuses are giant narcolepsy colonies; sleeping pretty much anywhere is perfectly acceptable. And sometime halfway through our sophomore... More >>

• Drink of the Week: Midnight Sun

  published November 19, 2008

  From the outside, its most distinguishing characteristic is the blue and yellow sailboat that looks as though it were swept there by some freak... More >>

• Reel It In: SLIFF rolls on with a host of events before the film fest wraps on Sunday

  published November 19, 2008

  The St. Louis International Film Festival continues this week and wraps with a closing-night party at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room at 8 p.m. on... More >>

• Film's Rolling: The St. Louis International Film Festival celebrates its seventeenth year

  published November 12, 2008

  Now in its seventeenth year, the St. Louis International Film Festival continues to bring fresh ideas and bold story telling from all corners... More >>

• Drink of the Week: Citrus Plunge

  published November 5, 2008

  On a busy stretch of Hampton Avenue sat not-so-busy China 1 Buffet, a narrow white building that never seemed to have more than one car parked... More >>

• Drink of the Week: Long Strange Tripel

  published October 29, 2008

  Barack Obama handily won the Scholastic News election by a margin of eighteen points. The students who vote, from kindergarteners to high... More >>

• Drink of the Week: North Coast Brother Thelonious

  published October 22, 2008

  A few sips into our Warsteiner Oktoberfest, and we were plenty happy with our selection: It was smooth, seasonal, and when we tilted the glass at... More >>

• Drink of the Week: Horchata

  published October 15, 2008

  "My mom will bring the fruit out for you in just a minute." Great, we say. We're the first customers of the day at Lily's on Kingshighway, a... More >>

• Drink of the Week: 2006 Green & Red Chiles Mill Vineyard Estate Zinfandel

  published October 1, 2008

  Wine 101 Essay Question: Tonight you've learned about tannins and the effect they have on wine. Discuss, citing examples from Juniper Grill... More >>

• Drink of the Week: Ocean Spray 100% Orange Juice

  published September 3, 2008

  They tracked our whereabouts like hypersensitive cadaver dogs, onto our every change of address, name or job. It was as though they knew our... More >>

• Drink of the Week: Tennent's of Scotland

  published August 27, 2008

  The Highlander Bar and Grill is the third, easternmost point of what we think of as south city's Bermuda Triangle — that odd, dark mile or... More >>

• Drink of the Week: Tokyo Rose

  published August 20, 2008

  Though many brothers and sisters share characteristics — the width of the bridge of the nose, jaw line, eye color — it's usually... More >>

• Drink of the Week:
  Bomb Pop Martini

  published August 13, 2008

  Politics and sport are inextricably linked, perhaps never more so than in the Beijing Olympics. There's fury over human rights (or lack... More >>

• Drink of the Week: Blue Machine

  published August 6, 2008

  Four weeks ago we prepped for our first fitness boot camp class the best way we knew how — by eating a ton of Greek food the night... More >>

• Is that a Poopdeck in your plans, or are you just happy to see me?

  published July 23, 2008

  "I'm filled with bodies, used hypodermic needles, sunglasses and catfish. My levels of E. coli are borderline unsafe. On the weekends I really... More >>

• Premium Ivory Coast Pomegranate Margarita

  published July 16, 2008

  When everything from nachos to sports went "extreme" — or, even more obnoxiously, "Xtreme" — there was another, subtler shift in... More >>

• Texas Tornado

  published July 9, 2008

  On one corner is the $5.5 million condo development called Lehman Place, a hulking mass of a building that stands where the comparatively tiny... More >>

• Boulevard Lunar Ale

  published June 25, 2008

  Last week, The Today Show aired a segment on how to fall asleep. We initially scoffed at it, thinking it ridiculous that they'd waste... More >>

• Partini

  published June 18, 2008

  Whenever a new place opens in the footprint of an old beloved one, the rumors start to swirl long before its doors first swing open to a... More >>

• Paint the Earth

  published June 11, 2008

  We've always wanted to own a bar. Not own and operate it, mind you — that seems like entirely too much work — just own it. Or hold... More >>

• The Carrie

  published May 28, 2008

  "Did you know that she works for the Riverfront Times? You might want to tell your boss that." Aw, crap. We can feel ourselves blushing... More >>