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Chef Clara Moore Exceeds Kickstarter Goal for Book Project, Hosts Party Friday, May 24 to Celebrate

Last month Gut Check reported that chef Clara Moore, former executive chef and regional manager of local grocery and restaurant chain Local Harvest Cafe & Catering, had launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a cookbook and grocery guide with food writer Matt Sorrell. As of this writing the projec ... More >>

St. Louis Developer Creates Video Game You Draw and Play

Is the ability to create your own video game worth $100,000? Robin Rath is betting that you'll think so. Rath, a St. Louis web designer and serial entrepreneur, is the mad scientist behind Pixel Press, a mobile app that lets you draw, play and share your own video game. Through his software company ... More >>

Sanctuaria's Mint Julep: Gut Check's Hump-Day Cocktail Suggestion

Wednesday. Hump Day. Congrats, you've made it halfway through the work week! Unfortunately, you still have two days to go. Dunno about you, but in order to survive the midweek blues, we're going to need a drink. Which brings us to our Wednesday Gut Check feature: "Gut Check's Hump-Day Cocktail S ... More >>

Jenna Fischer, Murphy Lee, Joe Buck and More Lend Their Voices to Citygarden

Since its opening four years ago, Citygarden has become a must-see St. Louis destination. Now the downtown sculpture park is worth a listen, too. See also: - Jenna Fischer Defends Imo's Pizza - Jon Hamm Brags About St. Louis Cardinals Today Citygarden unveiled an iPhone app that offers -- among ... More >>

Last Shot: Chemical Warfare Takes Its Toll

[Editor's Note: Long-time concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out two years ago that he had stage IV colon cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music events, on top of other freelance work and working a day job at a hospital, of all places. As he continues to fight for his l ... More >>

Tarantino, Alone: Hollywood insider, Quentin Tarantino tells of his struggle to make Django Unchained

Also Read: Django Unchained upends the Western -- and America's original sin

The Tedium of Rock & Roll: Bo and the Locomotive Finish Work at Native Sound

It's Saturday and Bo Bulawsky and Steven Colbert thumb their Hill Climb Racing cars ahead on a smartphone and iPad, respectively. They lounge on a boxy, plaid couch in the rear nook of the Native Sound recording studio while Andy Arato stands in the center of the room overdubbing a bass line to a so ... More >>

Homespun: The Brainstems

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Get Infected by The Brainstems' St. Louis Bash "River Des Peres": Listen Here

In an age when albums are recorded on iPads and digital recording technology offers novices the chance to make albums with crystal clarity, it's refreshing that the new Brainstems album sounds like shit. You wouldn't want the boozy bonhomie of this band to be filtered or cleaned up in any real way - ... More >>

Advice for Police Chiefs: Evidence Should Be Gathered, Not Enjoyed

Yesterday, 27-year-old Dallas Hill -- police chief in the small town of New Athens, Illinois -- was charged with three felonies on the accusation that he snatched an iPod and iPad from the evidence room "for his own personal use" over the summer.The items, which had been seized in a commercial burgl ... More >>

A Haunting on Cherokee Street: What's Up With Those Flashing Windows?

Passersby could be forgiven for thinking there's something a little spooky going on at the corner of Cherokee and Jefferson streets. Every night for the last year and a half, the windows of the building on the southwest corner light up in different colors, changing much too quickly to be the work of ... More >>

Mizzou J-School Leader's Testimony Could Hurt Apple in Huge Lawsuit Against Samsung

In what Wired magazine is calling "the patent case of the century," Apple is suing Samsung for "slavishly" copying Apple's tech and design as seen in -- among other things -- the iPad. Apple believes Samsung is trampling on its patent rights. The local-ish connection is this:   Earlier this wee ... More >>

Seven Sins: A True Crime Anthology Torn from our Headlines

Every week writers for Riverfront Times and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing--a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories. Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into an ebook: Seven Sins: A True Cri ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending February 5, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. This week on the bestseller list, we have ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Read it and weep. Like, a lot.​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 15, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. The children ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 25, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Amanda Doyle's Finally, A Locally Produced Guide ... More >>

Wanna Play With Your Food Before It's Food? There's an App For That

courtesy Playing With PigsIt's about to be playtime for these piggies!​In certain circles, it's come to be accepted that a happy pig will not get bored and attack its fellow pigs or feel undue amounts of anxiety. And a happy pig is not one that wallows in shit all day -- pigs are actually very ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 11, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Despite Amazon, e-books and the crappy e ... More >>

While You Were Eating Left Over Turkey, Teenage Boys Were Living Out Gridiron Dreams

Jennifer SilverbergProud American Traditions: Jazz... Ford... Capitalism... Thanksgiving weekend high school football state championship games.​Not even a man wearing a cowboy hat while eating a Big Mac, listening to Bruce Springsteen and trading derivatives on his iPad is more American than high ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending November 13, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Sometimes the bestseller list has a sense of hum ... More >>

Ticket Winners: Best of St. Louis Party

Announcing our winner(s)!​Our contest yesterday asking readers to tell us why they deserve free tickets for RFT's "Best of St. Louis" party on Thursday drew some great answers.Regular commenter Mike N. gets the award for the saddest response: Um, well, I have no friends, so I would only need ... More >>

Steve Jobs' Six Best Music Innovations

Apple (the Beatles record label) once sued Apple (the computer corporation). After initial squabbles over the right to name their companies after the same fruit, the two agreed that all was good as long as Steve Jobs and crew never entered the music business. As you can probably guess, as you likely ... More >>

New Year's Eve Theme? Grand Center Wants Your Help

Above: The dance theme in Never Been Kissed was famous couples throughout history. Below: Want a Never Been Kissed-themed dance? Make it happen.​If you missed your chance, either on purpose or by accident, to be on your high school's prom committee, don't worry about it. You can be on the city ... More >>

iCloud is the Shiniest, Newest Time-Waster for Apple Store Customer Service

Courtesy of AppleLet the chatboards begin.​Being Steve Jobs must be pretty awesome. It seems like the man makes more announcements than Obama does, though the negative implications of his are usually just that the newest version of the iPad completely trumps the one you bought only this mornin ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Check Out Our Brand New Best Of iPhone App

​Of course you know about our annual Best Of issue -- the RFT's guide to finding the best of everything in St. Louis. But what you may not know is that there's an app for that. With the brand-new Best Of app from Village Voice Media, you can read up on (and get location info for) all those hi ... More >>

Check Out the RFT's New Best Of iPhone App

​Of course you know about our annual Best Of issue -- the RFT's guide to finding the best of everything in St. Louis. But what you may not know is that there's an app for that. With the brand-new Best Of app from Village Voice Media, you can read up on (and get location info for) all those hi ... More >>

Check Out The Brand New Best Of iPhone App

​Of course you know about our annual Best Of issue -- the RFT's guide to finding the best of everything in St. Louis. But what you may not know is that there's an app for that. With the brand-new Best Of app from Village Voice Media, you can read up on (and get location info for) all those hi ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Featured Art Review: Ryan Thayer's Timemachines

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Updated! Fast Food Industry Mag QSR Names Pi Pizza Truck Among Top 20 Food Trucks in U.S.

{Updated 2/9/11 4 p.m. with comment after the jump from Pi co-owner Chris Sommers.} In its February issue, QSR Magazine, which covers the fast-food industry waterfront, names Pi Pizzeria's Pi on the Spot among the Top 20 food trucks in the nation. Writes Daniel P. Smith of QSR (which we're pretty ... More >>

This Year's Five Best Super Bowl Commercials

​That was, without a doubt, one of the worst Super Bowls I can ever remember. Oh, sure, the game was just fine. Instant classic material, I guess. Two great quarterbacks, historic franchises, a great comeback that almost happened, plenty of drama in the last two minutes, and a brilliant storyline ... More >>

Why Steve Jobs is One of the Most Powerful People in Food

Yesterday TheDailyMeal.com revealed its 50 most powerful people in food, and the Canadian Press asked, "Steve Jobs is number five? Huh." Of course, it's because of the changes food apps for iPhones and iPads have created. They further break down the list that includes chefs, bureaucrats, tech innova ... More >>

Repackaged Industrial Ground Beef Recalled

The USDA has ordered a ground beef recall. Ozarks First reports that 226,000 pounds of hamburgers have been recalled by One Great Burger in New Jersey. The company, which mainly sells to institutional customers, allegedly repackaged meat that had been returned to them, changing the date on the packa ... More >>

L.A. Times Restaurant Critic Outed. Literally.

Veteran restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila had an encounter that won't lead to a sparkling review. Tuesday night, while dining at Red Medicine in Beverly Hills, a managing partner took her photo and kicked her out. The manager, Noah Ellis, posted the photo on the restaurant's website with the messag ... More >>

Chilean Wine Sales Skyrocket After Mine Drama

Chilean miner rescue leads to increase in Chilean wine sales. Harper's Wine and Spirits notes that British retailer Tesco has had a 325% increase in sales of wine from Chile since the rescue of the miners who'd been trapped since August. Gourmet Live shares one of the stories from their iPad app r ... More >>

And Then Along Comes Franzen

Corpses Aren't Lovin' It in Anti-McDonald's Ads

It's all McDonalds' fault. The Wall Street Journal reports that nonprofit group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine will air advertisements in Washington, D.C., targeting McDonald's as a cause of heart disease. The spot features a dead man in a morgue, hamburger in hand, with the golden a ... More >>

Review Slideshow: Cheese-ology Macaroni & Cheese

Jennifer SilverbergCheese-ology owner Bill Courtney​Grab a spiral notebook and a #2 pencil -- or whatever kids take to school these days (iPads?) -- because class is in session: My review of Cheese-ology Macaroni & Cheese is now available online. For more mac & cheese, view Jennifer Silver ... More >>

Nervous 'bout Nieves: Readers are wary about aspiring pol's alleged temper

iHelp for Autism: The iPad opens up new worlds for autistic children

The Chemical Brothers Promote New Interactive Audio-Video Album With iPad Giveaway

The Chemical Brothers' Further​Tuesday, June 22 marked the release date of the Chemical Brothers' seventh album, Further. Although, "album" doesn't begin to define the project, which consists of eight new tracks, each with a corresponding film produced by Adam Smith and Marcus Lyall in conju ... More >>

Tilt-A-Whee!

Video: Justin Kockott, 19, Smashes Brand New iPad with Aluminum Baseball Bat

​Justin Kockott, a 19-year-old Pittsburgh high school student, is enjoying his fifteen minutes of Internet fame today after he smashed his $499 iPad with a baseball bat. If you were burned out by the hype over this latest Apple gadget, you're sure to enjoy this video. The LA Times intervi ... More >>

The Force aims to again put St. Louis hip-hop on the national map

Ben Folds and Robert Smith Owe Steve Jobs a Drink

Robert Smith isn't smiling. But he should be.​So, if you've been on the Internet at all today, you'll know that Apple unveiled its tablet iPad this morning. The excellent blog Slicing Up Eyeballs posted the promo video for the device and pointed out that at 1:15 or so, the background music is ... More >>

Geeks Gone Giddy: Tomorrow's Apple Announcement Has Internet Abuzz

Moses unveils Tablet v. 1.0​Don't know if you've noticed yet, but today is like Christmas Eve in Geekdom as techies the world over eagerly anticipate Apple's media announcement scheduled for 11 a.m. (CMT) tomorrow. At least one site is already gearing up to live blog tomorrow's press conference. A ... More >>