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With Bold Ideas, No Money and Almost No Chance, Republican Makes Bid for STL City Sheriff

Will pigs fly in St. Louis today? Maybe if 31-year Robert Vroman Sternberg manages to knock out a longtime incumbent today to become St. Louis' first Republican sheriff since 1928. Sheriff James Murphy has held onto his office for 24 years, despite a series of controversies that have made him look ... More >>

Heart Art! And Radio!

Farewell to Red Bones Den, North St. Louis' Home of the $6 Beer

Wilco Auctions Off Peabody Tickets For Gateway Greening

Wilco is auctioning off a pair of orchestra-row seats for its sold-out Tuesday show at the Peabody Opera House. The band will donate 100 percent of the proceeds to Gateway Greening, a non-profit organization that promotes community food projects, educations and wellness programs and civic greening ... More >>

And in Other Mall-Related News ... St. Louis Galleria Celebrates 25 Years on Friday

Galleria hits the quarter-century mark.​Yesterday we wrote how Northwest Plaza -- once the city's premier shopping center and the world's biggest mall -- is to be auctioned off this month as part of its foreclosure. As we reported, Northwest Plaza began its fall from grace about two decades ago, o ... More >>

Self-Sufficient St. Louis to Hold Fundraiser for Dave Hagerty Community Garden on Sunday

​Self-Sufficient St. Louis is holding a fundraiser event on Sunday for the Dave Hagerty Community Garden. Sunday's fundraiser will be at Off Broadway, which neighbors the Garden. Admission is a $10 donation and will feature performances by Ellen the Felon and the Mattranome, The Airliners, Syn ... More >>

Moon Dust Stolen from NASA Recovered in St. Louis

www.regencystamps.comThe "speck" in question. Click photo for a full-size view of the moon dust.​A speck of moon dust believed to have been smuggled out of NASA years ago has returned to the space agency after spending time in both Germany and St. Louis. The dust was supposed to be placed up for a ... More >>

1015 Locust Fails to Sell at Auction

courtesy of auction.com1015 Locust Street: Still waiting for the right suitor to propose.​So much for that.1015 Locust, the downtown office building that went up for online auction earlier this week, is looking less like the belle of the real-estate ball and more like the kid with B.O. that no one ... More >>

Now Up for Auction Online: 1015 Locust

courtesy of www.auction.com1015 Locust Street: It could be yours.​If you've ever wanted to own your very own downtown office building, this might be your lucky week.Beginning at noon today, 1015 Locust, a 263,201-square-foot commercial building in downtown St. Louis, went up on the (virtual) aucti ... More >>

Step Away From the Pork Chop: Great American Meatout Saturday

For friending, not eating.​Quit eatin' meat, wouldya? It's no good for you or the planet. That's the message the St. Louis Vegetarian Society would love for you to get on Saturday. That's the date of the annual Great American Meatout, a day vegetarians across the planet -- in all 50 states and two ... More >>

Hundreds of Bank Safety Deposit Boxes Go Unclaimed in Missouri

More than a thousand of these were popped open today in Jefferson City.​Missouri Treasurer Clint Zweifel cracked open 1,200 safety deposit boxes today sent to his office from banks across the state. Among the curios inside the boxes were gold coins, military medals, 19th-century U.S. currency and ... More >>

Food Insecurity Rates at Record High

The USDA's annual report shows that 17.4 million American families grappled with food insecurity in 2009. That's 15 percent of the population. The Los Angeles Times reports that this is more than three times the number of hungry families from 2006. Hunger be damned, there's wine to be auctioned! A ... More >>

Salmonella Patients Testify in Congressional Food Safety Hearings

As reported yesterday, several giant egg farms are testifying before Congress after last month's massive salmonella recall. Also testifying - several people sickened in the outbreak, including a 77-year-old Colorado grandmother who nearly died from salmonella-related septic shock. Despite not being ... More >>

Timothy Kebel: Illinois Man Scammed $100,000 Worth of Cardinals World Series Tickets Off eBay

Timothy Kebel, 34, of O'Fallon, Illinois pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud yesterday in East St. Louis federal court. His crime? Bilking eBay vendors out of more than $100,000 worth of tickets to the 2006 NLCS and World Series. Kebel admitted that he won 31 auctions for game tickets, completed t ... More >>

Come Together

Exonerated: Steven Spielberg's Art Dealer in Case of Rockwell Painting Stolen from St. Louis

Rockwell's Russian Schoolroom disappeared during a 1973 gallery heist in St. Louis.​Daily RFT spoke to a very elated Judy Cutler on Friday as the Rhode Island-based art dealer made her way back east from a Las Vegas courtroom. For the past three years Cutler and her husband, Laurence, have been in ... More >>

St. Louis Hairdresser Who Found New Moon Script in Dumpster is Selling Plunder on eBay

Courtesy of Albert WatkinsRay in Hollywood last fall for the New Moon premiere.​Remember Casey Ray? The luckiest Dumpster-diver ever? Her story just keeps on going. Sort of like the Twilight saga. Now she's auctioning off her autographed New Moon script on eBay. Bidding starts at $10,000. (For ... More >>

Chasing Pablo: For old-school art pickers, the thrill is fading — and so's the payoff

Well-Versed

Outside, Looking In

In the Studio: Gentleman Auction House

(Welcome to In the Studio, a section on A to Z that spotlights -- what else? -- local artists in the studio. If you are also recording/recently recorded -- or are a studio engineer/producer and working with people -- email me, with the phrase "In the Studio" in the subject heading.) courtesy of Gent ... More >>

We Salute You

Emergency Umbrella Cleaning Out Its Overcrowded Warehouse

Columbia, Missouri's Emergency Umbrella Records -- label home to STL's own Gentleman Auction House, among others -- is facing a massive storage crunch. In other words, they're running out of room to store its back catalog. The fallout? The label's backlog of CDs and LPs might be destroyed. A Faceboo ... More >>

Reminder! @rftmusic Tweetup This Sunday at Off Broadway!

We're a mere two days away from the first-ever @rftmusic Tweetup, where the music geeks and dorks of the Lou's Twitterati will gather before Matt & Kim and Gentleman Auction House and...be awkward together. Woo! The fun starts at 6 p.m. -- when you get to the door, tell 'em you're there for the ... More >>

Bands: St. Louis Showcase Is Looking for Your MP3s!

Singer-songwriter Sheila Shahpari (say that five times fast) wrote in to tell us about a charity event she's helping organize: The St. Louis Showcase, which takes place next Friday, August 21, at Mad Art Gallery. The event will benefit LifeFeed, Jazz St. Louis, and Play It Forward -- and to help add ... More >>

FBI on Online Auction Fraud: Don't Let it Happen to You!

flickr.com/photos/jusumCan't you imagine this headline getting read in a sonorous voice? Maybe even by McGruff? Anyway, our friends at the FBI are always eager to help us out, which is why they've sent out this press release about how to avoid online auction fraud. Now if only they could tell us how ... More >>

Picture Perfect

A celebration to last throughout the years

Gentleman Auction House

Christmas in Love EP
(Emergency Umbrella)

Gentleman Auction House Releases a Holiday EP, Records a WOXY Lounge Act Session

BreakthruRadio.com Shines the Spotlight on St. Louis

Gentleman Auction House on Daytrotter

Groove Is In the Heart: Gentleman Auction House gets its groove on with Alphabet Graveyard

Get Your Trivia On

They've got questions; you've got answers

Gentleman Auction House's Book of Matches EP In Stores Today, May 6!

Eat and Drink Well

And do some good

Gentleman Auction House Signs to Emergency Umbrella, Releases Alphabet Graveyard Bonus New MP3!

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar, February 8-10

Gaming for Good

Go South for Animal Index

Martin, Mosaic and More

Art with Heart

Great Bakery, Great Cause

Steal Das Book

Rod Shene paid a paltry few grand for a volume worth $500,000 or more. Only one hitch: The German government wants it back.

Out on the Missouri prairies, an odd collection of lawmen hunt modern-day cattle thieves.

Meet the "cow cops."

The Sole of the City

Perfect Gentleman

Gentleman Auction House's big noise draws equally big attention.

On Your Mark, Get Set, Make Your Mark!

All These Females Crawl

And so do the males

Side Dish

Phillips-Selkirk uncorks its St. Louis wine auction