Bethalto

Comfort Shmumfort: Edwardsville newcomer Cleveland-Heath defies categorization most tastily

Call Them "Favorite" Foods: Cleveland-Heath Nears Opening

​Gut Check reported last month on Cleveland-Heath, the new restaurant opening at 106 North Main Street in Edwardsville, Illinois (the former Fond space). This week, Jennifer Cleveland, who owns the restaurant with partner (in life as well as business) Eric Heath, checked in with us to say that the ... More >>

Never Forget: 9/11 Memorials, Events in STL This Sunday

There will be 3,000 flags planted in Forest Park to honor the dead.​ On September 11, 2001, the country was shaken by terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Ten years later, St. Louis is coming together to remember -- and pay homage both to those lost in the attacks and ... More >>

Angela Halliday Case: Details From the Motel Death

​In this week's feature story, "Smackdown," we chronicle the life of Angela Halliday, a self-described heroin junkie from Bethalto, Illinois, who's now facing two drug-induced homicide charges for her alleged roles in a pair of drug deals that led to fatal overdoses. Yesterday, we reported o ... More >>

Angela Halliday was a junkie. Does that make her a murderer?

​In this week's feature story, "Smackdown," we chronicle the life of Angela Halliday, a self-described heroin junkie from Bethalto, Illinois, who's now facing two drug-induced homicide charges for her alleged roles in a pair of drug deals that led to fatal overdoses. Yesterday, we reported o ... More >>

Angela Halliday Case: The Final Drug Run

​In this week's feature story, "Smackdown," we chronicle the life of Angela Halliday, a self-described heroin junkie from Bethalto, Illinois, who's now facing drug-induced homicide charges for her alleged role in a drug deal that led to an acquaintance's fatal overdose. "Smackdown" doesn't d ... More >>

Musings of a Heroin Junkie: A Peek Into Angela Halliday's Blog

​In this week's feature story, "Smackdown," we chronicle the life of Angela Halliday, a self-described heroin junkie from Bethalto, Illinois, who's now facing drug-induced homicide charges for her alleged role in a drug deal that led to an acquaintance's fatal heroin overdose. Halliday, a fo ... More >>

Hoop Dreams: East of St. Louis, the prom attire is right out of Gone with the Wind

​In this week's feature story, "Smackdown," we chronicle the life of Angela Halliday, a self-described heroin junkie from Bethalto, Illinois, who's now facing drug-induced homicide charges for her alleged role in a drug deal that led to an acquaintance's fatal heroin overdose. Halliday, a fo ... More >>

Muslim Speaker on 9/11 Grounds for Controversy

​A local political discussion group that says it stresses civility over ideology is planning to have a "patriotic Muslim-American" speaker at their next kaffeklatsch -- on the eleventh of September. They've been booted from a venue they've used several times in the past. The coffee shop owner says ... More >>

Arson Suspected After East St. Louis "Skinhead Nazi Strip Club" Burnt Down Last Night

​The weird saga of the City Nights club in East Boogie just got a little weirder. And a lot hotter. Because it burned down last night. That's why we say, "hotter."  Only a few months after a black man was murdered in this apparently all-white dive, the building went down in flames at 12:20 a. ... More >>

Black Man Killed At "Skinhead Nazi Strip Club" in East St. Louis. Then it Gets Weird...

Of all the places to open a nightclub that advertises "Hot Girls, Cold Beer" and supposedly only allows white people to enter, East St. Louis, Illinois has to be at the bottom of the list of likely locations. Not only is the city's population 98 percent African-American, it also prohibits "sexually ... More >>

Madison County Man Arrested For Re-Enacting Old Yeller

Film still from The Everett Collection via Time.com​Imagine your dog is old. Really old. We're talking 100 dog years old.Now-- after a decade of playing fetch, belly scratching, begging for table scraps, and pissing on the carpet--- the dog is sick. It can't walk, can't see, can't hardly even eat ... More >>

Illinois Doctor in Trouble For DUI's Uses Fuzzy Math to Fool Court

mugshot via stltoday.comDr. Charles Earnshaw​On Tuedsay, Dr. Charles Earnshaw of Alton, Illinois pleaded guilty to driving under the influence and unlawful use of a weapon. As part of the plea deal, prosecutors agreed to drop other weapons and DUI charges the doctor was facing. The judge in the ca ... More >>

Last Call: Mayor Suspends Late Night Liquor Sales at East St. Louis Nightclubs after Bloody Weekend

photo by Jennifer SilverbergEast St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks​East St. Louis mayor and liquor commissioner Alvin Parks may have finally had it with his city's nightclubs. After a bloody weekend that left four people injured or dead in two days at nightspots scattered across town, Parks says last ca ... More >>

Happy Feet

B-Sides compares Tony Danza's tap-dancing and acting, gets cozy with Quintron and Miss Pussycat, and doesn't balk at a new scene trading card

Just Plane Amazing

B-Sides compares Tony Danza's tap-dancing and acting, gets cozy with Quintron and Miss Pussycat, and doesn't balk at a new scene trading card

Letters Column

Week of March 30, 2006

Hide and Seek

Unreal dons pleather for a BDSM gathering, shows up to the office naked and gets into the mind of chocolate thieves; plus, we want to know why the F we can't see Saving Private Ryan

Letters

Week of April 25, 2001

A Dying Art

When monumental stonecutter Alec Mackie retires, St. Louis will also mourn the death of his craft