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Food Talk STL Ends Run on KFNS 590 AM

David Craig announced this weekend that he is putting his radio show Food Talk STL "on hiatus." Food Talk STL has aired on Saturday morning on KFNS (590 AM) since February 2012. The station recently announced a change from mainly sports-oriented programming ("The Fan") to a male-oriented format ("Th ... More >>

St. Louis: The 23rd Drunkest City In America

We didn't make the top five, ten, fifteen or even twenty, but hey, we weren't left out altogether. According to the Daily Beast, St. Louis ranks 23 in its study and list compiling the 25 "drunkest cities" in America in 2012. Maybe we're a skosh too sensitive, but we're sort of offended by our ranki ... More >>

Lee Enterprises Lost More Money in 3rd Quarter. Oh, and Paywalls Are Coming to "Nearly All Markets"

Lee Enterprises announced a third-quarter loss of only $1.5 million, which is down quite a bit from the losses of $155 million in the same quarter of the previous year. Successfully pushing that decimal point two places to the left means that shares only lost three cents of their value in the third ... More >>

EDC 2012: Coachella or Electric Daisy Carnival: Which One is Better?

See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage Dance music is coming to an arena near you: Kaskade will be the first DJ ever to play Staples Center (July 27). And mainstream concert promoters such as Live Nation are diving into the electronic dance explosion. Electric Daisy Carnival, which is being hel ... More >>

The Polyphonic Spree

9 p.m. Friday, May 11. Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

South Korean Oreo Ad: Mother's Milk and Cookies [NSFW]

The ad agency Cheil Worldwide created this print ad for Oreo cookies in South Korea. It pretty much speaks for itself. You can view the uncensored version after the jump -- plus register your opinion in our poll!

Lee Enterprises, Post-Dispatch Parent Co., Continues Downward Slide

courtesy of Google Finance.Lee Enterprises' stock (shown in blue) is down 20 percent in the last six months, as this graph shows. Fellow media giants Gannett (in red) and McClatchy (in yellow) have also lost considerable value.​Another quarterly report, another piece of bad news.That's the woefull ... More >>

What's Brewing? St. Louis.

Beyond Schlafly: Three microbreweries for the St. Louis summer

The Cinnamon Roll at Square One Brewery

Aimee Levitt​The idea of going to a microbrewery for Sunday brunch brings to mind the Replacements song "Beer for Breakfast." It begins, "All I wanna do is drink beer for breakfast/All I wanna eat is them barbecue chips" and ends, "Halle-fucking-lujah, I'm a bum!" It really is a wonderful song ... More >>

P-D Parent Company, Lee Enterprises, Has a Bad Day

Stock down; refinancing on hold. Not a good day for the P-D's parent company.​The parent company of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Lee Enterprises, announced plans yesterday morning a plan to refinance nearly $1 billion of debt -- only to announce later in the day they were abandoning those plans du ... More >>

Comment of the Day: Clydesdales and Elton John Don't Mix

Today's comment comes from a post reviewing last night's Super Bowl ads with ties to St. Louis. One reader was not impressed with Anheuser-Busch's advertisement featuring its famous Clydesdales, a western gunslinger and Elton John's "Tiny Dancer." KittyLitterKing writes: "Tiny Dancer" is just as bad ... More >>

St. Louis Happy Hours: Lafayette Square

Square One Brewery's Clock Always Says Beer-Thirty

Kristen KlempertSquare One Brewery & Distillery, Lafayette Square​The Joint: Square One Brewery & Distillery 1727 Park Avenue; 314-231-2537 The Hours: Mon.-Fri. 4-6 p.m. The Deal: $1 off all house drafts and house spirits; discounts on select appetizers. Make ours a beer...

Profits Up at Post-Dispatch Parent Company Even As Ad Sales Fall

Online revenue is growing for the Post-Dispatch's parent company -- but not nearly fast enough to replace the print advertisers being lost.Profits up; revenue down -- that generally means fewer journalists.​That's the latest news from Lee Enterprises, based in Davenport, Iowa. The St. Louis Post-D ... More >>

Nelly Will Be Getting Hot in Herre -- Er, Branson -- After All

Well, it appears that Nelly's Branson concert is on after all: According to Fox 2 (via the Associated Press): A promoter says the much-delayed concert by rapper Nelly has a venue in Branson. Concert promoter Paul Dunn said Nelly will perform indoor at the Mansion Theater on Aug. 21. According to t ... More >>

Ad Revenue Still Down At Post-Dispatch Parent Company -- But Profits Are Up

This just in: Lee Enterprises, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a host of other newspapers, lost another 4.9 percent in ad revenue this quarter.​That's not, of course, a headline you'll see in the Post-Dispatch. In its brief report on page A11, the paper reports the latest quarter's fi ... More >>

Ever Had the Urge to Dress Up Like a Cow? Today's Your Day!

Chick-fil-A will give you a free meal today if you show up dressed like a cow. No, really. Chipotle wants you to know it has its sustainably raised heart in the right place. But it's not a marketing strategy. Except it is a marketing strategy. First Lady Michelle Obama has had it up to here with c ... More >>

Don't Worry: Multigrain Pringles Are Available in Ranch Flavor

​You know what's easier than snacking healthily? Thinking you're snacking healthily and letting the, uh, chips fall where they may.At least, that's Gut Check's takeaway from an article in today's New York Times detailing the marketing push behind new Pringles Multigrain Crisps. In devising the ma ... More >>

Google Touts Economic Impact in Missouri, Says Nothing of Profits Headed to California

Google busts out some big figures.​Was I the only one who thought it strange yesterday that Google decided to make public its "economic impact" in Missouri and other states? The news release yesterday was apparently the first time ever that the search engine has shared its state-by-state financia ... More >>

Attention Out-of-Work Ad Agency Folks: This Event is For You

All together now: "When life give you lemons..."​St. Louis was once known as an advertising agency mecca. Not any more. And especially not since the start of the Great Recession. Dozens -- if not hundreds -- St. Louis advertising and marketing creatives have been laid off just in the past three ye ... More >>

The Bronx/Mariachi El Bronx

7 p.m. Monday, April 12. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

Oh, Meth! New Campaign Against Meth Use Hopefully as Catchy as Old One

As we reported last week, U.S. "Drug Czar" Gil Kerlikowske is in St. Louis today to unveil the White House Office of National Drug Policy's new anti-meth campaign. Here's hoping the campaign is as good as the last one featured here.  Continue on to view the full press release of today's announ ... More >>

Break It Down

Strangely Compelling New Ads for Raisinets

Brilliant viral marketing campaign? Surreal drug trip? Allegory on racial integration? All of the above? We report (via Ad Freak), you decide: The second episode, after the jump...

Forty Files: Highway 40 Photo Documentary, Vol. 8

"This project is moving along great, and that's because of the Labor Union and all the organized trades that have all played their part." Wait a second! That's the radio ad for the labor union! I've been brainwashed. Could it be because the radio spot runs every ten minutes during Cardinals games!? ... More >>

Unreal Bares Our Soul

The movie Cold Souls sounds kind of like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind without the Jim Carrey-Kate Winslet part. In other words, it's about a company that extracts your soul and stores it for you in a glass jar. That's what Unreal has surmised anyway, based on the movie's viral marketing sch ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 6.25

How about a little news of the offbeat today:Wallabies eat poppies, make crop circles. (Reuters)Lil Jon's wine wins an award. For real. (Baller Status)Has Burger King's new print ad finally gone too far? Does anyone still care? (EW.com)

Cardinals to Particpate in Strange Pitch to Save Earth ... For an Hour

stlouis.cardinals.mlb.comYesterday I received a curious e-mail about a press conference at Busch Stadium scheduled for 2 p.m. this afternoon. The event sounded so preposterous that I immediately responded to the sender with the query: "Is this for real?" No, no! Came the reply from St. Louis marketi ... More >>

Square One Brewery to Add Distillery

Lafayette Square microbrewery Square One Brewery is adding a distillery. Look for micro-distilled spirits to arrive early next year.

Tomorrow Night: Dine Out for the United Way

First We Take Manhattan

Then we get married

AdOne Media CEO Jim Neumann Files for Bankruptcy

Drinks of the Year

Kristie raises a glass to her favorite drinks of 2007.

Beermosa

Square One Brewery
1727 Park Avenue
314-231-2537

Does the NO in NOLA Mean No Taco Trucks?

The Morning Brew: Friday, 8/3

The Burning Baby

(Liluma, Central West End)

Hellogoodbye

7 p.m. Saturday, October 21. Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street).

Liberté! Equalité! Hocké!

The St. Louis Blues want you back. And this year, they even have Ice Girls!

Roll Out the Barrel

The kitchen’s a tad flat, but cheers to the beers at Square One Brewery

Trailhead Red Amber Ale / Lafayette Lager

Trailhead Brewery, 921 South Riverside Drive, St. Charles; 636-946-2739. Square One Brewery, 1727 Park Avenue; 314-231-2537.

Cocky to the Core

Meet the hotshots at this St. Louis ad firm. They're special. Just ask them.

Pulitzer's Gain

Some say Pulitzer Inc.'s sale to Lee Enterprises blew in quicker than a shotgun wedding. Others saw it coming a mile away.

Blowing a Fuse

A black-owned St. Louis advertising firm is stirring the political pot

Best Gadfly

Tom Sullivan

Stick to Mich

Somebody's sure hot and bothered about Michelob's beer-bottle-babe ads

Porn Again

The girls of Vivid Video want to see what you've got

Best Radio Commercials

Zipatoni Industries on KDHX (88.1 FM)

The Medium Is the Mess

Prop A has billboard companies on the defensive and scrambling to put up more signs