Email Author Tom Finkel

2012 Stories by Tom Finkel

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  COVER STORY

  Thirty years after a white minister's son was beaten to death in the Central West End, one black man remains in prison. But there's plenty of guilt to go around.

  published December 13, 2012

  There was that thing about Todd Weems. He and his friends would be partying and having a good time, and then someone would look up and... More >>

• Ted Drewes Caption Contest: Name Those Nuns!

  published Dec 07, 2012

  So I was at Ted Drewes Frozen Custard (6726 Chippewa Street; 314-481-2652) the other night, chewing the fat with the Christmas-tree dudes about the December heat wave and the barely averted mistletoe ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Rick Majerus, Saint Louis University Billikens Basketball Coach, Dead at Age 64

  published Dec 01, 2012

  Saint Louis University basketball coach Rick Majerus, who led the Billikens to a 95-69 record over five seasons, died today of heart failure in Los Angeles. He was 64. Majerus had stepped down as hea... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  David Freese's Accident Report

  published Nov 29, 2012

  Riverfront Times has obtained an uncensored copy of the accident report stemming from David Freese's single-vehicle crash on Thanksgiving afternoon, November 22. Initially the St. Louis County Police ... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Why Stan Kroenke Should Lose the Moustache and "Hair"

  published Nov 19, 2012

  Stan Kroenke, owner of the St. Louis Rams, Arsenal Gunners, Colorado Avalanche and a few other sports teams we're too lazy to mention, No. 92 on the Forbes 400 list, subject of a recent and thoroughly... More >>

• Think Tank Ranks St. Louis High in "Creative Class" Output...Not!

  published Oct 19, 2012

  The other day a colleague forwarded along a link citing a study in which St. Louis was ranked no. 4 in the nation for our Creative Class* contributions to the nation's greater good. Or so it first ap... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  9 Great Wines for Butt-Chugging

  published Oct 04, 2012

  Gut Check's ears rarely prick up during the TV news. Some stuff, though, gets our attention. Like this ongoing saga out of Knoxville, and, more specifically, the University of Tennessee, whose Dreamsi... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Kansas City to Get IKEA Store, St. Louis to Get...More Dunkin' Donuts

  published Oct 02, 2012

  Dunkin' Donuts announced today that the St. Louis area will see three new DD franchise locations over the next couple of years. According to a press release, all three will be run by the same partners... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Taste Hosts Visiting Mixologists for Impromptu Thursday Happy Hour

  published Aug 30, 2012

  Into Gut Check's e-mailbox popped an announcement from Taste (4584 Laclede Avenue; 314-361-1200), inviting us to a spur-of-the-moment happy hour guest-bartended by visiting mixologists Phoebe Esmon an... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Dim Sum Dumpling Recall Makes Gut Check Go All A la recherche du temps perdu

  published Jun 13, 2012

  As far back as Gut Check can remember [insert your own Proustian madeleine reverie here], we've been smitten with the Chinese chow-down concept of dim sum. Sitting around a table with eight or ten peo... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Market Grill to Close June 9 -- A Sad Day in Soulard

  published May 25, 2012

  This just in from Market Grill (728 Lafayette Avenue; 314-436-7664) general manager Katie Shanahan: The restaurant will close June 9. "I thought I would let you guys know before rumor hits the street... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Ellen Back Again: Arnie Robbins steps down as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and RFT checks in with his predecessor

  published May 17, 2012

  On Friday, May 4, hours after St. Louis Post-Dispatch editor More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Screw Single-Malt Scotch, Bring Us Some Single-Udder Butter!

  published Apr 24, 2012

  Gut Check has been known to enjoy us some New Yorker every now and then. (And by "now and then" we mean "now and then." When someone tells us they read the New Yorker every week, we know they're 1) pa... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Food & Wine Magazine's Best New Chefs 2012: How Far Would You Driver

  published Apr 03, 2012

  At a big-ass party tonight in Manhattan -- the one in New York -- Food & Wine magazine editor Dana Cowin will announce this year's crop of "Best New Chefs." To you and Gut Check, that translates as: ... More >>