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Seayou in the Present: Ian Fisher & the Present release record, split time between St. Louis and Europe

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Ian Fisher & the Present Release New Video "Why Do I Go?"

Ian Fisher & the Present debut a new video today for "Why Do I Go?" off of the band's latest, self-titled effort. The video was shot in Vienna, Austria (half of the duo takes up residency in Germany) by Anna Kohlweis with assistance by Yavuz Odabas. In it, Fisher and Ryan Carpenter (aka "the Present ... More >>

Exit Music

The Stage is Alive

Q: What do you call a restaurant-winery combo in Chesterfield? A: Tame old tame old.

Figure Noir

The Ultimate St. Louis Snack - Old Vienna Pork Steak Potato Chips

Old ViennaThe real taste of St. Louis - Old Vienna Pork Steak Potato Chips​Could anything be more St. Louis than Old Vienna Pork Steak Flavored Potato Chips? Well, Provel flavored chips come to mind, but those don't exist. Yet. Old Vienna's come through with the pork steak flavored ones. O ... More >>

Can the Mizzou New Music Initiative Turn Missouri Into the Next Vienna?

Photo by Justin BernhautTomorrow, Alarm Will Sound (pictured) will take on the original work of eight composers as part of the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival.​Patrick David Clark uses the word kaleidoscopic three times in a single discussion about the field that has become his life: music co ... More >>

More Weiner Problems. This Time With Hot Dogs

Wikimedia CommonsWither, Tony Packo's? Hot-dog lawsuits in Toledo and Chicago.​ At least these problems aren't Congressional in nature. Some of the nation's favorite hot dog institutions have troubles more judiciary and executive in nature. In Chicago, Vienna Beef is suing Scott D. Ladany, a ... More >>

Action, not emotion, in the tale of a criminal who went the distance in The Robber

Kid from Vienna, IL, Won $5,000 For Painting This

Beating out 27,000 other inferior kids (ages kindergarten through high school) from all 50 states, a teen living across the Mississippi River from Cape Girardeau emerged victorious in the Federal Junior Duck Stamp Art contest on Friday. The aptly-named Abraham Hunter, a 17-year-old from Vienna, Illi ... More >>

Valentine's Dinner Deal at Robust Wine Bar

​The best Valentine's Day dinner deal we've found so far has to be the prix fixe tasting menu offered at Robust Wine Bar & Cafe. Three courses, each with its own three-ounce wine pairing, for $55 per person. Better still, the Webster Groves wine bar will feature this deal all through Valentin ... More >>

Thrill or Swill: Zweigelt

Image viaVineyards in Austria​Austria is well-regarded by wine cognoscenti as a source of extremely fine riesling and the iconoclastic signature white, grüner veltliner. Austrians are a proud bunch, and only about 20% of the nation's vinious produce escapes their borders. Of that, a whopping 3% - ... More >>

Netherlands 2, Cameroon 1; Japan 3, Denmark 1: Multitasking at the Post Sports Bar & Grill

Ian FroebToo. Much. Action. at the Post Sports Bar & Grill​Keegan is out of town for a few days. I will try to fill his boots.Why are the final matches in each group played simultaneously? Not for the entertainment value.In 1982, unheralded Algeria finished group play with two wins and one los ... More >>

Tom Cruise, please stop talking

PC World Magazine Puts in a Good Word for St. Louis' Google Fiber Bid

photo by Jennifer SilverbergWasabiNet creators Minerva Lopez and Ben West​St. Louis has been vying for Google Fiber for nearly six months. Mayor Slay made sure the city submitted its application for the new ultra-high speed Internet way back in March, tapping his Vanguard Cabinet to help complete ... More >>

Thrill or Swill: A Pinot Grigio Worth Paying For?

Pinot grigio is an unequivocal commercial success. From sales of literally nothing in the mid-1970s, pinot grigio has risen to second place among white varietal wines in the United States, trailing only chardonnay. Success has come at the expense of value, however, and many of those pioneering pino ... More >>

20 Unholy Recipes: Dishes So Awful We Had to Make Them

After about a year of perusing old-school cookbooks looking for weird recipes and spotting bizarre trends (hot dogs eggs, inside a Jell-O mold) from the '50s, food blogger Robin Wheeler compiled her twenty most stomach-turning concoctions. (Do not view this list before lunch. Jeez, or maybe after ... More >>

The Noble Writ: Wine Shopping from Afar

A point comes in many wine lovers' lives when they are unable to find a bottle they really want in their local wine shops. It might be a wine from the birth year of a special person, a bottle enjoyed while traveling or just something about which they've read that simply captivates their imagination. ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene in St. Louis

Fascinating Spam from Switzerland, or Rue Arnold de Winkelried, Here We Come!

​A little nugget from the Unreal e-mailbox, which raises several questions at once:1. Why the $67 price tag?​2. By the same token, where'd they come up with the $5,254.96 figure? Why not shoot the moon and go for $5,254.97?3. The small print at the bottom ...​says:To unsubscribe please go here ... More >>

The Noble Writ: A Riesling Primer

Riesling is my favorite white grape variety, and if pressed, I'd probably choose it as my favorite grape overall (pinot noir being its only real competition). So it pains me that so many folks interested in wine seem to ignore it, if not deride or despise it. There are many misconceptions about ries ... More >>

Love That Bevo Pie: Never hear of Laganini, the south-side Bosnian pizzeria? You have now.

The Noble Writ: Green Wine for St. Patrick's Day?

Dave Nelson is the author of the blog Beer, Wine and Whisky. He writes about wine for Gut Check every Tuesday.A green wine for St. Patrick's Day?Not exactly. But when this wine lover's thoughts turn to spring, I'm reminded of a handful of refreshing white wines that I tend to neglect during winter. ... More >>

Show Review: KDHX's Midwest Mayhem at the City Museum, Thursday, May 22

Reel World

Smokin’: Mark Fischer and Rolling Stone

Skin Graft's Mark Fischer Weighs In on Rolling Stone's AIDS Wolf Camel ad

Goblet Up!

Webster Groves gets a wine bar. Will Ian drink to that?

Show Time in St. Louis

SLIFF celebrates its sweet sixteenth with a two-week party.

Final Chapter

KETC-TV is collecting stories from St. Louis’ veterans of World War II – while there’s still time left.

PEZheads

These guys don’t a give a rip about the candy. It’s all about the plastic dispensers.

Unsane

9 p.m. Sunday, May 27. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Primordial Undermind

9 p.m. Friday, March 2. Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue).

Hold Your Horses

Bandidas

Nino Franco Prosecco Rustico

Lorenzo's Trattoria, 1933 Edwards Avenue, 314-773-2223.

Copia Runneth Over

The food's delish, but Copia still needs to prove a thing or two to oenephiles

A Very Long Run

South of the Border

Just west of the Mississippi

Travelers' Tales

A soda called Pipi Bubble, Austria's last wandering shepherd, a boat made of 164,321 wine corks: It's all here

I Am un Cheval Andalusia!

The Lipizzaner stallions dance their way to the St. Charles Family Arena

Which Group, Club or Society Really Annoys You?

Week of September 1, 2004

What's the Grossest Smell You've Ever Smelled?

Week of August 11, 2004

How Sweet It Is

Cyrano's is back -- dessert lovers everywhere, rejoice!

Series/Festivals

Week of April 24, 2002

Series/Festivals

Week of December 26, 2001

Behold, A Pale Horse

The Lipizzan stallion is a hoofer extraordinaire

MASKS: FACES OF CULTURE

St. Louis Art Museum

Night & Day

May 26 - June 2, 1999