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KDHX Announces Midwest Mayhem Lineup, Holds Pledge Drive

KDHX (88.1 FM) has just announced the lineup for this year's Midwest Mayhem festival at the City Museum. This annual event is consistently one of the weirdest and wildest in the city, having been named in the past by RFT Music as the Best Music Festival. See Also: -KDHX: Not Playing the Hits for 25 ... More >>

The Class War Between Food Culture and Music Culture

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship I'm a sucker for the Food Network. Chopped is my jam, I have strong opinions about specific Iron Chefs, an ... More >>

Best of Missouri Market Preview -- Including Seven Show-Me State Products to Taste Test

If you're looking for the the cream of the crop from the Show-Me State, head down to the Missouri Botanical Garden (4344 Shaw Boulevard; 314-577-9400) this weekend. The annual Best of Missouri Market will take place Saturday, October 6, and Sunday, October, 7, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The market will a ... More >>

Shell-Shuckin' and Brew-Boozin'

Get Punch Drunk

The Eight Bars With the Best Beer Selections in St. Louis

Selecting Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. In this RFT Music series, we're beeboping and scattin' our way through notable runners up in a number of categories. This week: The bars with the b ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: June 1-3

Friday (June 1): Friday Night Patio Dinner @ Bevo Mill Warm up to summer weather with seasonal entrees prepared weekly using Soulard Farmers' Market goods by owner and executive chef Milan Manjencich every Friday night from now through the fall. Expect plenty of German dishes such as beef schnitzel ... More >>

Apop Record Store Day Block Party

10 a.m. Saturday, April 21. Apop Records, 2831 Cherokee Street.

A Certified Cicerone™ (Beer Sommelier) Speaks

Screenshot: www.cicerone.org​With the ongoing boom in the craft-beer market, the once simple beer list (Bud? or Bud Light?) can seem as intimidating as the fustiest tome of Bordeaux verticals. That's where a Cicerone -- or, if you like, a beer sommelier - can come in handy. The Cicerone pro ... More >>

The Pageant Has The Fourth Most Ticket Sales Of Any Club In The World So Far This Year

Photo by Todd Owyoung.Some of the Pageant' s 119,416 so far in 2011. ​Pollstar has just released the ticket sales number for the first three quarters of 2011, and the Pageant has once again sold the fourth most tickets of any club venue in the world. Our hometown venue has seen more people ... More >>

Love Among the Dead

Ten Best Food Events this Weekend: July 8-10

City of Maplewood​ Friday (July 8): Let Them Eat Art @ Historic Downtown Maplewood Maplewood's tribute to Bastille Day features 50 venues including Schlafly Bottleworks, Acero, Water Street Cafe and Cocktail Bar full of artists, entertainers and musicians. Have your art and eat out, too! 6 to ... More >>

Beyond Schlafly: Three microbreweries for the St. Louis summer

Pollstar: The Pageant Is In the Top Five for Worldwide Club Venues

Kholood EidFans at the Pageant during November's Iron and Wine show​Hot off the presses, just got word that a local venue has received a big honor from industry tour-tracker Pollstar: For the year 2010, the Pageant was ranked No. 4 in the world in concert-ticket sales for club venues, with ove ... More >>

Nightclubbing: HandleBar Grand Opening Tonight

Here's one way to brighten up this dark, chilly Friday: Head over the brand-spankin' new HandleBar (4127 Manchester) tonight for its grand opening bash. $2 Fat Tire drafts, music by Box of Nerves, New Belgium and PBR giveaways and a "special surprise" from the bartender if you bike to the joint--tho ... More >>

10 Things to Do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, Aug. 13-15, 2010

As the temperature tops 100, RFT has discovered some cool ways to stay, well, cool in these dog days of summer. We've got art, music, magic and more indoors, plus a skate show and bike race for you daredevils who want to brave the heat. Viva la air conditioning!

Cycle of Assault

It's Not Too Late to Plan for Bloomsday!

Image source​It's rare that a classic of world literature is set on one particular calendar date. Maybe that's why June 16, the day on which James Joyce's Ulysses is set (1904 edition), also known as "Bloomsday" has achieved such immortality. Well, that and its main character Leopold Bloom spe ... More >>

Record Store Day in St. Louis: What's Going on at Vintage Vinyl, Apop Records and Euclid Records?

[Update, April 14, 3 p.m.: Now updated with info on what's going on at Slackers!] On Saturday, April 17, record stores around the country are celebrating Record Store Day -- a time to unplug from iTunes, eMusic and Amazon MP3 (or torrent sites) and purchase tunes in-person. As enticement, Record S ... More >>

The Beertender: Extolling the Glories of Berliner Weisse While Stoked on Lou Reed

www.colnect.com​Lou Reed's 2007 concert film Berlin features the rocker performing in its entirety the 1973 album of the same name. More than 30 years later, the repertoire remains pure Reed: loss, hate, depravity, a sourness for this cold, cruel world that's most evident when he closes with an un ... More >>

Fired AB-InBev Workers In Belgium Took Their Bosses Hostage

photo by Reuters via Brisbane TimesAngry Belgian brewers took hostages and burned pallets in the street​Yesterday, Anheuser-Busch InBev announced that nearly 800 workers in Belgium and Germany -- ten percent of the company's European workforce -- were about to lose their jobs in a cost-cutting mea ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Duchesse de Bourgogne, Brasserie by Niche

​I adore French food. I love food in general, and that love affair really began during a college semester spent studying in France. I returned home plump as a Christmas goose's liver, despite walking or riding a bike nearly everywhere I went. I simply could not pass the elaborate window display o ... More >>

The Beertender Can't Get Enough of That Wonderful Duff's Beer Dinner

​As if the holiday itself wasn't great enough, this year's Twelve Days of Halloween included some pretty fantastic beer moments. Celebrating the long-awaited opening of Foam on Cherokee Street. Sharing a friend's homebrew made with hops he grew himself. Pouring my own beer during a Mike Sweeney-le ... More >>

Is AB-InBev Trying to Play Down the Belgian Roots of Bud Light Golden Wheat?

anheuser-busch.com​On Monday, Anheuser-Busch-InBev announced the nationwide release of Bud Light Golden Wheat, the latest spin-off of the company's most popular brand (Chelada, anyone?) and another attempt by the world's largest brewer to break into the micro-brew market and quench the nation's ev ... More >>

Photos: Beer and Bikes in Forest Park for the New Belgium Urban Assault Ride, 8.16.09

Photo: Nick SchnelleSee more photos from the New Belgium Urban Assault Ride.​Beer and bikes came together Sunday in Forest Park for the New Belgium Brewing Urban Assault Ride, a bike race that included what most races should include: kegs upon kegs of beer. St. Louis was one of ten cities across t ... More >>

Ten Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend, August 14-16, 2009

TGIF! Here are ten things to do this weekend that won't bust your budget. soulardbluesband.com​Soulard Blues Band at Broadway Oyster Bar (Friday)The Soulard Blues Band has been around for more than 25 years, but this current lineup came together about two years ago. They play at 9:30 p.m. Friday. ... More >>

This Means UAR

Unreal Discovers The Most Beautiful Crapper in the World

flickr.com/photos/earthwormOne of Unreal's favorite features in our apartment is the little shelf next to the toilet, which we naturally use to store our bathroom reading. Here we keep back issues of The Atlantic and The New Yorker, assorted volumes of Best American Essays and our alumni magazine. U ... More >>

Dolphins Stadium Might Be Named After Jimmy Buffett's Beer Ideas for St. Louis

The Daily RFT reports: Anheuser-Busch is said to be working on a contract to purchase the naming rights to Dolphins Stadium in Miami. If concluded, the stadium would be the second professional sports stadium -- after Busch Stadium -- to name itself after an A-B product. The St. Louis brewer (via B ... More >>

The Monads Do Europe: Tour Diary Entry, Number One

(Last week, we told you that the Monads were going to be invading Europe. The band is going to be kind enough to send along some dispatches from the road. Here's the first installment!)Hey all, it's your good friend Patthew writing you from far across the Atlantic Ocean in a country called Belgium. ... More >>

Gut Check's Swag Bag: Michelob Hop Hound Amber Wheat

Ian FroebStill Life with Hop Hound and Black CatPeople send Gut Check stuff to try. So we try it.The typical Monday morning here at Gut Check International Headquarters goes something like this: Stumble into office, clutching thermos of coffee. Check voice mail, bracing self for angry messages from ... More >>

The Monads Touring in Europe in March

Matt Shivelbine of the Monads dropped me a line to say that the energetic twang-punk quartet is going to be heading to Europe next week for a series of shows in Belgium and the Netherlands. He says the trek was set up via a European booking agency called Surfing Airlines, which has brought over Amer ... More >>

FoodWire: New Belgium Brewer Tonight at Pi

Are you a fan of Fat Tire, Blue Paddle, 1554 or any other beers from New Belgium Brewing? You can meet brewer Lauren Salazar from 6-8 p.m. this evening at deep-dish mecca Pi (6144 Delmar Boulevard; Web site).

AB/InBev Loves It Some Futbol, err, Football

The economy has several advertisers sitting out this year's Super Bowl, but not AB/InBev. The Belgium-based brewer of Bud Light and everyone's favorite, Hoegaarden, has bought four-and-a-half minutes of time during the February 1 contest. The company's creative director, Bob La ... More >>

Foam, Sweet Foam: With a beer list as broad as a Clydesdale's backside, the Stable is true to its Lemp Brewery roots

E-Mail of the Day: Pujols in Belgian Garb

Belgium to St. Louis: We're Not So Different, Are We?

Is St. Louis the New Brussels?

Or is Brussels the old St. Louis?

The Amazing Racers

Belgian Waffling

A street hustler sells his child, then fights to undo his mistake

Single-Track Mind

Out of Egypt

From a long-buried pyramid to the Saint Louis Art Museum: The mysterious voyage of the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask.

La Fin du Monde

Saleem's, 6501 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-721-7947

Lindeman's Framboise

33 Wine Bar and Shop, 1913 Park Avenue, 314-231-9463

Vidna Obmana

Spore (Release)

Cursing and Belittling

Week of March 13, 2002

Caught in the Net

A quick surf turns up quite a catch

Beer Selection

Growlers Pub

Plight of the Gypsies

Home is where they have to take you in. But for the Roma refugees who've come to St. Louis, there's no such place.

2000 Seen By ...

Directed by Alain Berliner, Tsai Ming-liang and Laurent Cantet