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The Eight Bars With the Best Beer Selections in St. Louis: 2013

Selecting Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2012 wasn't easy. 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 eight bars with t ... More >>

St. Louis Record Store Day 2013: A Comprehensive Guide

Mark your calendar and prepare your wallet: This Saturday, April 20, marks the sixth annual Record Store Day. Originally begun in 2008 as a way to pull music fans away from their computers and back into the already-dwindling brick-and-mortar shops, Record Store Day has grown larger with each passing ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows in St. Louis This Weekend: March 8 to 10

Working for an alt-newsweekly can be pretty damn entertaining. Outside of reporting on the latest in local music, food and news, we get to investigate messed up Craigslist ads gone viral, exchange yo momma style comebacks to St. Louis city haters and even play the occasional pranks on each other (se ... More >>

Unified Equine Selects Rockville, MO, for Horse Slaughter Plant

Sue Wallis' Unified Equine announced yesterday that Rockville, Missouri, population 150 or so, would be home to the company's first food-grade horse slaughter plant by the end of the summer. This is the second proposed Missouri location for the Wyoming state senator's plant. Mountain Grove was the f ... More >>

Doom Town brings stories home from Europe

A Comprehensive Guide to Record Store Day 2012

This just in: Vinyl is BACK! Now in its fifth year, Record Store Day has made its international mark, recognized by labels, bands, and collectors worldwide. Celebrating the cultural impact of the independent record store, RSD offers everything from live performances to special discounts to limited e ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From April 16 to 22

Ok folks, this week is insane -- the number of excellent shows that did not make the cut for this post could easily fill another, if not for the nagging reality that time is finite. We don't want to short-change you though, so here's the runner-up rundown: Crowbar at Fubar on Monday, Cursive at Off ... More >>

Madonna is Coming to the Scottrade Center: Pre-Sale and Ticket Information [Update]

Madonna, fresh off a Super Bowl appearance and more aware of how to capitalize than possibly anyone in pop music, has just announced a massive 2012 tour. And just days before Madonna 2012 World Tour goes out in (presumably) a blaze of infinite production value in Miami, she'll make a stop here in St ... More >>

The Adventures of Tintin and Haddock at the Scottish Arms

Deborah Hyland​With the spate of recent comic book adaptations, it's not surprising to finally see a Tintin movie. The real surprise is how long it took. Christopher Reeve reestablished the Superman franchise in 1978; Spiderman swung across the screen in 2002. Even the uber-imperialist Phantom ... More >>

New Year's Eve in St. Louis: Ten Best Things to Do Under $10

It's a metaphor: We do not advocate infant boozing. ​The best part of New Year's Eve is getting ready for it. The worst part is usually right around 11:57pm, when it dawns that you just blew a couple hundred dollars to end up chugging pink Andre curbside while your best friend blows chunks in ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: November 25-27

Friday (November 25): Black Friday @ Oceano Bistro Enjoy half price appetizers, $5 martinis, $2 select beers and $5 select wines during this post-turkey day Clayton intoxication celebration. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Holiday Beer Tapping @ International Tap House (both locations) Both locations of Interna ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: September 30-October 2

Friday (Sept. 30): Olivette On the Go Festival @ Stacy Park This neighborhood fest features dance lessons, live music and a bonfire on Friday night, a chili cook-off on Saturday, and a fun run on Sunday to name just a few items on the schedule of festivities. Free admission. Friday, Sept. 30 from 3 ... More >>

St. Louis Chefs Are an Educated Lot

Chrissy WilmesChris Williams of Franco studied at the Culinary Institute of America in New York.​Last week Eater asked chefs if they thought culinary school was worth the time and expense for aspiring chefs. The answer was a resounding "probably not." The discussion made us wonder how well-e ... More >>

Colleen Clawson of Big Sky Cafe

This is part one of Emily Wasserman's Chef's Choice profile of chef Colleen Clawson of Big Sky Cafe. Part two, a Q&A, will be posted tomorrow, and part three, a recipe from Clawson, on Thursday. Emily Wasserman​Trying to find the Big Sky Cafe (47 South Old Orchard, Webster Groves; 314-962-575 ... More >>

Puppy Mill Law Enforced for First Time; 70 Dogs Taken from Missouri Breeder

The dogs rescued lived among rodent droppings. Old and sick dogs had been shot to death.​Inspectors from the Missouri Department of Agriculture today removed more than 70 dogs from a Monett-based breeder in the first-ever enforcement of the state's new Canine Cruelty Prevention Act. Violations ... More >>

August Busch IV to Leave AB Board

August A. Busch IV will be leaving the board of the company he used to run.​This just in: August Busch IV, whose girlfriend died after a drug overdose at his Huntleigh estate in December, is leaving the board of the company once known as Anheuser-Busch -- a company his family ran from the 1860s un ... More >>

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Brazilian Investment Firm Buys Burger King

Image viaBurger King now has an even greater global presence!​Brazilian investment firm 3G will purchase perpetual fast-food bridesmaid Burger King for roughly $4 billion, the New York Times reports. The deal holds some (admittedly tangential) interest for St. Louis.A backer of 3G is Brazilian bil ... More >>

R.I.P. Michael Been of the Call

Michael Been, vocalist/guitarist for '80s band the Call, apparently died today in Belgium. He was 60. Been is the father of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club bassist/vocalist Robert Been (who's also known as Robert Turner), and was working as the band's sound engineer. According to reports from the Pukkel ... More >>

A Good Time By Design

New Belgium Ranger IPA, Iron Barley

The cheese stands alone. Much like Drink of the Week.​If Drink of the Week were a food, we'd be a soft, crumbly, stinky blue cheese. We'd be made from the rich, verdant milk of sheep that grazed in sunny meadows, unpasteurized (we're worth the risk), aged to perfection in a musky, dank French ... More >>

The Bridge Tap House sweats the small stuff, to great effect

St. Louis Record Store Day Recap: Apop Records Spotlights Up-and-Comers Shaved Women, Maximum Effort and Glow Dick, Veterans Bob Reuter, Strangulated Beatoffs and Skarekrau Radio

Nick LucchesiBob Reuter performs at Apop Records on Record Store Day​On Saturday, April 17, St. Louis was treated to a whole day of BBQ, beer and full-blown sonic wonderment as Apop Records proudly hosted its second-annual Record Store Day since moving to the Gateway City in 2007. In the ag ... More >>

SXSTL: St. Louis sends several representatives to Austin for this year's SXSW festivities

The Axe Continues to Fall at Anheuser-Busch InBev

And this time more St. Louis jobs were on the chopping block. The once-local company announced last Friday afternoon -- prime time for issuing bad news press releases -- that a "small number" of domestic brewery workers were being laid off.Image Via​Via the St. Louis Business Journal:Jim Brickey, ... More >>

Tonight! D. Rider, Jon Hardy and the Public, Rise and Fall MP3 Madness

Enough to do this weekend for ya? Goodness... ​ D. Rider Who: The new band founded by Todd Rittmann of post-rock pioneers U.S. Maple. Think brain-bending percussion, diffracted found sounds and sinewy guitars. Where: Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center With: The Conformists RIYL: Cheer-Accident, B ... More >>

Summertime St. Louis: Summer of Salvation. The Terminator is back. Plus, 39 other movies we can't wait to see this season.

Like Busch Stadium Only Cheese-Burgerier

Buffett: A cheeseburger in a paradiseAnheuser-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 major professional sports venue -- after Busch Stadium -- to name itself after an A-B product.The St. Loui ... More >>

Beer School, Week 3: Matt's Belgian Waffle

Among this week's letter writers: an actual cougar and a Real Man of Genius

Quack Addict: Let nothing come between Ian and his duck-fat frites

B-Sides enters the Vortex with Erykah Badu and catches up with Centro-matic lead singer Will Johnson

What You Missed: Rib America, '80s Prom, DeVotchKa, DJ Boddhi Satva, Zombie Prom

Springboard Ale

LeGrand's Market
4414 Donovan Avenue
314-353-6128

Grub Street

Gastropub, shmastropub. Newstead Tower Public House is Ian's kind of bar.

Wet Painters

Grad students in Wash. U.'s art school contend with a rainout.

The I-70 Series: Schlafly vs. Boulevard

Will Boulevard's home-field advantage be enough to run the Lou's microbrew out of KC?

Film Openings

Week of December 7, 2006

Cruise Control

Chimay Red Trappist Ale

Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-727-4444

Series/Festivals

Week of January 7, 2004

Violence and Drama in Belfast

When Irish eyes ain't smilin'

Best Cheese Counter

Whole Foods

Zapped

Marie Daulne brings her soulicious music to Mississippi Nights

Out of Africa

Lumumba delivers a thrilling, if necessarily simplified, history lesson

Royal Treatment

Matt McGuire and Kirk Warner serve up meals fit for a king

River Run

Whalen's on the Wharf sets its ambitions high and fulfills them admirably

Listening Post

News of the Weird