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Belleville

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    St. Clair County Sheriff's Department Raids 13 Shops for Synthetic Drugs

    The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department joined forces with the Belleville Police, US Marshals, Cahokia Police, Mascoutah Police and the Fairview Heights Police to simultaneously execute search warrants at thirteen businesses in the county suspected of selling synthetic drugs. The 10 a.m. raid was ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 5, 2012

    The International Space Station -- and Beyond

    The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department joined forces with the Belleville Police, US Marshals, Cahokia Police, Mascoutah Police and the Fairview Heights Police to simultaneously execute search warrants at thirteen businesses in the county suspected of selling synthetic drugs. The 10 a.m. raid was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 26, 2012

    12-Year-Old Girl Reportedly Raped at Fun Spot Skate Center

    ​The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department is investigating an unidentified 12-year-old girl's claim that she was raped at Belleville's Fun Spot Skate Center on Saturday night. The victim's mother told police that her daughter was raped in the bathroom by a juvenile acquaintance. A 16-year-old boy ... More >>

  • Music

    January 26, 2012

    Belleville's all-ages haven closes after four years

    ​The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department is investigating an unidentified 12-year-old girl's claim that she was raped at Belleville's Fun Spot Skate Center on Saturday night. The victim's mother told police that her daughter was raped in the bathroom by a juvenile acquaintance. A 16-year-old boy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2011

    Belleville's Trauma Harness Brings Post-Punk Gloom to the Midwest

    Mabel SuenTrauma Harness dismisses the stage and performs on the floor at Illegal Tone in Belleville. ​ The Wicked Witch of Belleville likes to throw musicians into a dirty black cauldron. She vigorously stirs the pot, concocting odd bands that creep and slither their way into nearby cities. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    The Mississippi River Music Festival Returns, With Music From Belleville And Beyond

    ​In 2006, Don Bailey closed Three-1-Three, his music club in downtown Belleville, leaving a hole in a once-vibrant live music scene. "I always enjoyed Belleville and the music scene, from Uncle Tupelo to Fragile Porcelain Mice," says Bailey. "I booked over 2000 bands at the 313 Club, and I not ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Guns Claim Two More Children in St. Louis Region

    "From an infant's cold, dead hands!"​A ten-year-old Belleville boy accidentally shot and killed his five-year-old brother yesterday while playing with a shotgun kept in the home. An "extremely tragic accident" is how Belleville police chief William Clay described the incident. A day earlier -- Tu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Man Sues Bar After Getting Nailed in Face by Underage Boozer

    Is this the man who hit a Belleville man in the face with a bottle of vodka?​An underage guy walks into a bar. He somehow gets his hands on a bottle of vodka and takes a few swills. Eventually, he gets a little tipsy. In an uncontrolled moment of gesticulation, he swings his arm around wildly ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 13, 2011

    Art on the Square Highlights Weekend's Art Happenings

    We humans like to compartmentalize -- generally thinking of our senses as separate entities. Zach Smithey challenges that notion in his latest exhibit, The Process: Life and the Vibrations of Sound, that explores the idea of using paintings to visualize sound. Smithey's opening today at Concrete O ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 21, 2011

    Belleville Historical Society Plans Saloon Museum

    stag-beer.com​ Belleville loves its bars and taverns. They dot corners through the town, impervious to fads and trends, most of them still advertising Stag Beer, which moved production from Belleville to Milwaukee in 1988. The Belleville Historical Society is in the early stages of celebrati ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2010

    This Month in Science

    image via​Here in St. Louis, lots and lots of people are working tirelessly to explain the meaning of life -- not in the philosophical sense, but literally: How does the universe work? Here are some of the discoveries they've made this month, as reported in Riverfront Times and Daily RFT: It ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2010

    Patty Bigbee: Ass Clown of the Week

    Bigbee or is it Big Ass? ​It was a nail-biter that came down to the very end. Over the weekend our Ass Clown of the Week anal-ysts thought for sure that the federal authorities trying to confiscate Camp Zoe would come from, um, behind and capture the crown. Alas, it would not be. Patty Bigbee, the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    The Exterminator: Metro-East Folks Lurve It

    Image viaDaily RFT would feel uncomfortable moving any serious weight around The Exterminator​Yesterday, the BND dutifully asked Belleville residents: So now that you've got a 12,000-pound police Humvee with surveillance cameras that's parked right in your 'hood, aren't you worried about invasions ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    FYI: If You Plan to Trick-or-Treat in Belleville, You Must Be Under 13 and Done By 8 p.m.

    Halloween in Belleville: Grandpa approved.​There oughta be a law. A law against those hormonal tweens who show up at my house each Halloween. You know the ones I'm talking about. The kids who bang on the door long after I've turned off the porch light and counted up all the leftover fun-size Butte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2010

    Dancing Transsexual and Belleville Tire-Slasher One and the Same

    Last week an anonymous evildoers slashed 33 tires in various parking lots around Belleville. Yesterday Belleville police apprehended a suspect in two of the slashings -- and it was someone very well known to Bellevillians. David L. Stone, who also goes by Susan L. Stone, has become a regular presen ... More >>

  • Music

    August 25, 2010

    The Harmed Brothers

    9 p.m. Wednesday, September 1. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010

    Marquis Griffin: Belleville Homicide No. 2; 15-Year-Old Shot in Head

    Police have yet to issue charges in the slaying Sunday night of 15-year-old Marquise Griffin. â€‹The teen from Swansea was found dead in the yard at 502 N. Fourth Street (above) in Belleville. He'd been shot once in the head. 

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    Honor System Alive and Well in Metro East

    Robin Wheeler​"You may have the honor, but they probably have the system," one diner said to another at JFires' Market Bistro in Waterloo, Illinois, during Father's Day brunch. The cynic was speaking of the honor-system farm stands that dot the nearby countryside, like Scharf Farm, located o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2010

    Belleville's Skyview Drive-In Bucks the Trend; Attempts to Expand

    www.drive-ins.comThe Skyview: In business since 1949.​Who said the drive-in theater is a dying industry these days? Okay, this website did. It tracks the ever declining number of outdoor cinemas in the United States. But don't share the dire predicaments with the owners of the St. Louis region's o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    The Peaches! They're Early!

    Robin Wheeler​Been jonesing for the first sweet, juicy local peach of the season? You don't have to wait as long as usual. Most years the first St. Louis-area peaches don't ripen till the end of June. So imagine Gut Check's joy upon walking into Eckert's Country Store yesterday to find tables ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Jarrell Fountain: Teenager Stabbed to Death Near Belleville Elementary School

    For the second time in a week a metro St. Louis man has been murdered at or near a local elementary school. Google Street View​Today's homicide was first reported at 6:30 a.m. when Belleville police were called to a home in the 300 block of N. First Street after the owner of the property discovere ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2009

    The Dive Bomber: An All-Star at the League Lounge

    Since I'm not a fan of sports (or swarming masses of humanity), the All-Star Game hoopla was wasted on me. Yeah, I know. The money and exposure are great for St. Louis, but I'd rather hit myself in the head with a bat than fight the crowds of crazy that converged on downtown this week.Still, as a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2009

    Big Weekend in Belleville

    Since I'm not a fan of sports (or swarming masses of humanity), the All-Star Game hoopla was wasted on me. Yeah, I know. The money and exposure are great for St. Louis, but I'd rather hit myself in the head with a bat than fight the crowds of crazy that converged on downtown this week.Still, as a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2009

    The Dive Bomber: The Cat & Fiddle Tavern

    Robin Wheeler writes for the blog Poppy Mom. She also has a strange attraction to drinking establishments with jars of pickled -- or possibly fossilized -- eggs. She reports on these dives for Gut Check every Friday.The Cat & Fiddle Tavern is located in an old house on the edge of Belleville. T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2009

    Would You Notice If Someone Shot You In the Head?

    A man from Belleville didn't, and apparently that's not entirely uncommon. From the Belleville News-Democrat:BELLEVILLE -- A doctor said Thursday it's possible for a person to get shot with a small-caliber bullet and not know it.That's what apparently happened to Robert Bunn Sr., 69, who was found d ... More >>

  • Music

    January 14, 2009

    Homespun: The Mhurs

    The Mhurs
    (self-released)

  • Calendar

    December 10, 2008

    Jingle Belleville

    East-side entertainment

  • Calendar

    November 12, 2008

    The Sweet Science of Printing

    Let’s get it on

  • Calendar

    August 6, 2008

    There's No Place Like Belleville!

    Broadway Center of Arts takes a bow

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2008

    Become a Chili God (In Belleville, At Least)

    Broadway Center of Arts takes a bow

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2008

    Square Deal

    Broadway Center of Arts takes a bow

  • Calendar

    May 23, 2007

    Walk the Walk

    Broadway Center of Arts takes a bow

  • Calendar

    May 16, 2007

    Square Up

    Broadway Center of Arts takes a bow

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2007

    Being There (and Here, and There Again)

    Broadway Center of Arts takes a bow

  • News

    July 12, 2006

    Smackdown in Belleville

    First came the crackdown. Now the mayor’s gone gunning for Three-1-Three.

  • News

    July 5, 2006

    “If farmers are supported, there can be many markets, enough for everyone to have access to local, quality food.”

    Week of July 6, 2006

  • News

    May 24, 2006

    Crackdown in Belleville

    Some bar owners worry that strict law enforcement could jeopardize their livelihoods

  • Calendar

    May 17, 2006

    Hip to Be Square

    Some bar owners worry that strict law enforcement could jeopardize their livelihoods

  • News

    December 7, 2005

    Win Lose Die

    Belleville racketeer Thomas Venezia goes out with a bang

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 29, 2004

    Best 'Ville

    Belleville

  • Calendar

    March 24, 2004

    Let's Go to the Hop

    And, like, dance or something

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Week of January 28, 2004

  • Film

    January 21, 2004

    Oh-la-la!

    Funky and grotesque, The Triplets of Belleville will animate your world

  • Music

    January 21, 2004

    Young & In the Way

    Cumberland Gap is not the fourth-best country band in St. Louis

  • Film

    November 12, 2003

    Living for Cinema

    Art reflects life at this year's St. Louis International Film Festival

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 24, 2003

    Best Drive-In Movie Theater

    Skyview Drive-In

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2003

    Two for the Show

    Art fairs return in pairs

  • Dining

    March 14, 2001

    Pie-Eyed

    Two Metro East purveyors of dainties satisfy all the senses

  • Calendar

    November 17, 1999

    STANDUP GAL

    Comedienne Lea Delaria brings her renowned cabaret act home to St. Louis

  • Dining

    September 8, 1999

    Working Folks

    Belleville's Three-1-Three does the job on a budget for proletarian gourmets

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