Canada

SIUE Backs Off Controversial Plan To Capture, Kill Canada Geese After Campus Backlash

The geese that roam the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville can be aggressive and threatening -- and sometimes even attack humans. At least this is the case according to some campus officials, who announced yesterday morning in an e-mail to students a plan to gather up geese on campu ... More >>

Steddy P and DJ Mahf Invade Canada and Open for Masta Ace: A Tour Log

Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis city. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

Voight-Kampff Signs to Deranged Records

St. Louis-Minneapolis hybrid Voight-Kampff has moved up the big(ger) leagues of the DIY realm. It's just been announced that the band is the newest addition to one of Canada's most successful/relevant DIY labels, Deranged Records (home to bands like Culo, No Class, Wild Child, Brain Tumors, White Lu ... More >>

Schnucks Booze Pro Solves Holiday-Drinking Quandries

A few weeks back, Schnucks unveiled its twenty or so newly minted Certified Specialists of Wine who have earned their CSW certification by passing "a rigorous exam developed by the Society of Wine Educators," which is just dandy. But we wanted to see how one of these CSWs would do handling some se ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Can illegals enjoy a pleasure cruise in the U.S.?

Wendy's Adds Poutine to Canadian Menus Nationwide, Argues It's Canada's National Dish

America has a tendency to ignore Canada, our neglected neighbors to the north, only paying enough attention to mock their accents. Canada, however, has a history as rich as our own -- minus a civil war, of course. They vote for an elected government, put their pants on one leg at a time and even dri ... More >>

Gabe Kea, Son of Former Blues Player Ed Kea, Blazing His Own Comedic Path

Gabe Kea: "I'm not Canadian, I just do Canadian things." ​By the age of four, comic Gabe Kea got his first mention in The New York Times, but the occasion was no joke: His father, Dutch-born Blues defenseman Ed Kea, was being profiled. In 1983, Kea père had hit his head on the ice during a Blues ... More >>

A New Entry in The History of Bad Officiating

Oh, sure. I could have gone with a picture of Russel Crowe or Kirk Douglas here, but I like to think you all expect a little more thought put into the joke pictures we use here at the RFT. ​A funny thing came on the newsfeed on my sidebar the other night. I was just typing away, trying to get some ... More >>

Let Them Eat Goose! Uses for the Canada Geese Being Fed to the Poor.

Wikimedia CommonsWho wants neck meat? Canada geese to be fed to Pennsylvania's poor. ​In most circles, goose is a delicacy. But that's not Canada goose, which New York considers a dangerous, airplane-downing nuisance that craps every seven minutes. The state's found a way lower the pest popu ... More >>

Dairy Queen Builds World's Biggest Ice Cream Cake

Dairy Queen CanadaCelebrating 10 tons of Dairy Queen ice cream cake with .... ice cream cake!​ Oh, Canada! You've created the world's largest ice cream cake! In honor of the Dairy Queen ice cream cake's thirtieth birthday, volunteers in Toronto built a 10.13-ton ice cream cake. It beats the ... More >>

French Bliss

Frito-Lay Canada Responds to Noisy Sun Chips Bag with Reason, Humor, Ear Plugs

A few weeks ago, Gut Check reported that Frito-Lay was pulling its new, EXTREMELY LOUD compostable Sun Chips bag from the market. In Canada, however, the bag will remain.Why?Because, as Frito-Lay Canada sustainability leader Helmi Ansari makes clear in this charming video (via Gizmodo), Canadians ar ... More >>

Gut Check's Week in Tweets

​Don't you know? Gut Check has a Twitter account. You can follow us @gutcheckstl.Here's some of what you missed on the Twitter feed this week: A truffle shop makes for a stinky, stinky neighbor: http://nyti.ms/cEw0Gl Chinese Interests Prep for Possible Take-Over of Canada's Biggest Fertilize ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy on Elusive American Success, Being D.I.Y. and Proving Thom Yorke Wrong

Blue Rodeo, basking in the sun​Canadian rockers Blue Rodeo are playing at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room tonight as part of Twangfest. Magnolia Summer, These United States and Ray Wylie Hubbard are also on the bill. The show starts at 8 p.m. and it's $20. BR hasn't been in St. Louis for many moons ... More >>

Lush Cosmetics Employees Stripping to Stop Canadian Oil Production

Artist's butcheringLeft, soaps sold by Lush Cosmetics. Right, the Canadian tar sands. Only if a good scrubbing by one would clean the other.​While the Deep Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico continues to cough up oil underwater, a chain of organic soap shops is planning a separate protest this ... More >>

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! The White Stripes' New DVD, Under Great White Northern Lights Screening at the Halo Bar

Jack White will be at the Pageant on April 24 with one of his non-White Stripes bands, the Dead Weather. But he'll make an appearance -- at least in cinematic spirit -- this Sunday at the adjacent Halo Bar, when the bar screens the White Stripes' new DVD, Under Great White Northern Lights. The descr ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 2.23

​ The next obesity-fighter? British beef crisps. (The Telegraph)Australian farmer accidentally breeds peach-plum hybrid. (The Sydney Morning Herald)What your coffee says about you. (Toronto Sun)Vancouver stopped alcohol sales after U.S. - Canada hockey game. (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Historic Magazine Changes Name, Beaver Has Different Connotation These Days

​I still recall the outrage a few years back when Riverfront Times published a story in which we sampled and reviewed the muskrat, opossum, raccoon and other varmints for sale at Soulard's Farmer Market. It wasn't the vegetarians who complained. It was those who objected to the headline of the art ... More >>

¡Ask A Mexican!: Special, annual Canadian edition

Contest! Win a Jets Overhead CD and T-shirt

Everything's better in Canada, right? Including and especially its music, at least in recent years. (I'm being facetious, for the record. Mostly.) But Jets Overhead is one shining example of the country's solid exports. The band's sophomore effort, No Nations, recently came out on Vapor Records -- y ... More >>

Weird Animal Abundance in Missouri

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hvargas/ / CC BY-SA 2.0Mother Nature has been oddly generous to Missouri outdoorsmen this year, and here's one more example.  First we had that huge bumpercrop of paddlefish. Then our state's fishermen started breaking way more records than usual. Now the Missouri D ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 7.1

The people of North Korea face critical shortages of food, a new U.N. report warns. (AFP)The thriving business of shipping horses to Canada and Mexico for slaughter. (Salon)Speaking of controversial meat: Canadian restaurants are serving more seal. (New York Times)

Victim of Circumstance: Once more down the aisle with The Proposal

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 6.10

A great article by Mark Bittman on the dilemma of eating seafood in these sustainability-minded times. (New York Times)Norman Brinker, the chain-restaurant magnate whose portfolio included Chili's, Bennigan's and many, many others, has died. (AP)The had of Campbell's Soup thinks the U.S. should adop ... More >>

Campin' this Weekend? Don't Move Firewood!!!

flickr.com/photos/bobydimitrovIf you're going back to Nature this weekend, do Nature a favor: only use firewood you find at your campsite. Here's why: our state's forests are gettin' downright infested with the emerald ash borer. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, the emerald ash ... More >>

Canada's New Hockey Soundtrack

So I was looking around yesterday at all the teams still left in the NHL playoffs, and I have to admit to being more than a little shocked when I realized that there isn't a single Canadian team left in the hunt for Lord Stanley's Cup. In fact, not only was I shocked by the absence, I was pretty di ... More >>

Tonight! Hot Panda at Off Broadway

To describe today's St. Louis weather as dreary is putting it mildly. I've been listening to nothing but pre-1984 Cure all morning. (Really, dudes, all cats are grey.) However, there's a band coming to town tonight that just might put a wee bit of spring in your step: Hot Panda. Hailing from Canada, ... More >>

RFT readers express virulent feelings about soldiers fleeing to Canada to escape the Iraq War

No Canada: U.S. military deserters once again flock to Canada to avoid war. Looks like this time they picked the wrong country.

Monday, March 9; Morning's Newz

The Post-Dispatch reports that the gunman who killed the Rev. Fred Winters during a church service yesterday in Maryville suffers from a mental illness brought on by Lyme disease. The suspect, Terry Joe Sedlacek, was the subject of an August 2008 article in the Post-Dispatch that documented how a ti ... More >>

Hockey Erotica: What to Do on a Cold Night in Canada

When one looks at the scope of human history, there are a few ideas that truly stand out above all others. Air travel. The printing press. Motion pictures. And now, finally, a new idea has come along fit to stand with those. www.oyr.orgNever again will I look at goalie pads the same way.Hockey ... More >>

Who gives a Canuck?: A special Canadian edition of Ask a Mexican

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 9.18

Chipped Off: Is it insulting to serve margs and tortilla chips at a Mexian-themed party?

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 8.26

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 8.21

Gentleman Auction House Tour Diary, Day Seven: Rochester, Buffalo, New York

Nocturnal Emulsions

A Silver Mt. Zion at the Bluebird, May 27, 2008

The Morning Brew: Monday, 11/5

Hola, Hosers!

The Mexican devotes a column to the Great White North.

Head for the Mountains

Canada

8 p.m. Sunday, March 11. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City).

Frog Eyes

Sunday, May 28, at 8 p.m. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center (3301 Lemp Avenue)

Party Train

Janis, the Dead, the Band and others take the happiest trip of their lives

Working-Class Hero

Fred Eaglesmith is everyday people

Best Place to Bird-Watch

John F. Kennedy Forest, Forest Park

Sloan

Tuesday, Nov. 16; Side Door

ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL

A schedule and capsule reviews of the fest's offerings

St. Louis International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

A schedule and capsule reviews of the fest's offerings