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The Six Best Songs About Cats

When discussing animals in song, it is important to distinguish between a track that uses an animal as a metaphor - for freedom or wildness, usually - and a song that is actually about an animal. We will be exploring the latter in this month's animal-style Nitpick Six series. Here are the six best s ... More >>

Rescuing the Pets and Stray Cats of Hopeville

Even in Hopeville, there were pets. The stray cats who wandered in found homes, of sorts, with the stray human who had set up camp there. "There aren't any feral cats," says Dawn Blaloch, a volunteer with the St. Louis Area Community Cat Coalition. "They're better socialized than my cats. They're t ... More >>

Adopt Hello Kitty and Friends

Dogs on the Cat Walk

7 Shot Screamers

9:30 p.m. Friday, December 23. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Stephaney Kemper, Cat Whisperer Groomer

Stephaney Kemper and Martini.​Stephaney Kemper is a professional cat groomer, the only cat groomer in Missouri certified by the National Cat Groomers Institute of America in Greenville, South Carolina. She works at Dogs in Suds Grooming in St. Charles. And why, you ask, would anybody voluntar ... More >>

Salmonella Detected in Cargill Turkey Last Year

​The Wall Street Journal reports today that the USDA first detected salmonella Heidelberg in Cargill's Springdale, Arkansas, turkey-processing plant last year but was restricted by its own rules from doing anything about it.Cargill recalled 36 million pounds of ground turkey after at least 77 peop ... More >>

Hey, Crafty Cats

I Can Has Cheezcat at SXSW

​What hath the internets wrought? Mostly, hilarious cats. And now, they've been rendered in cheese. Really, why not?This weekend at South by Southwest, Austin's annual music and technology conference, St. Louis-based Friskies cat food unveiled an enormous (640 pound) statue, made of cheese, commem ... More >>

Discount Snips for Missouri Cats

"Come on down...and get your balls cut off!"​Bob Barker was right: You have to get your cats spayed or neutered. As adorable as you might think kittens are (and you would be 100 percent right; cats are the planet's finest species), they need a lot of care and resources. Un-altered felines are at i ... More >>

Snowed-Out Feline Absurdity Returns to the Lou

Certainly the most unfortunate casualty of the Giant Storm that Wasn't was Tuesday's scheduled performance of the Amazing Acro-Cat Circus. A troupe of house cats trained by Chicago's Amazing Animals by Samantha, the cats performed amazing feats and rocked out Monday night at 2720 Cherokee, sponsored ... More >>

Comment of the Day: St. Louis Centre, This City's Real Black Hole

Today's comment of the day comes in response to a post about the movie The Black Hole that aired last weekend on the SyFy Channel. The 2006 film, starring Judd Nelson and based in St. Louis, imagines what would happen if a research experiment goes horribly wrong, creating a black hole that threatens ... More >>

Glenn and Ryuko Forever: Danzig and His Wicked Pussycats

image via Yep. Danzig with a cat. ​ Recently, the Internet has taken an interest in Glenn Danzig's domestic companions. Whether it's the implications of a romantic partnership with Henry Rollins or the paparazzi photo of Danzig carrying a box of multiple cat household Fresh Step (see photo aft ... More >>

Purina Wants Your Help Proving Multiple Cat Owners Aren't Filthy Animal Hoarders

Purina hopes to dispel the above stereotype of multi-cat homes.​Did you know that 50 percent of Americans without cats have purposely not visited a home because the homeowner had two or more cats? And, three in five (60%) of Americans without cats say they would be willing to give up something lik ... More >>

The End of Cooking for My Cat

Aimee Levitt​About two years ago, my cat Bess and I embarked on a culinary adventure. One boring afternoon as we sat together on the couch reading Jeffrey Steingarten's essay "The Man Who Cooked for His Dog," Bess shot me a pointed look from her big green eyes, and the message she had been try ... More >>

28 Cats Rescued From Columbia Motel 6

Columbia's Animal Control rescued 28 cats from a single hotel room in a Motel 6 on Tuesday, June 15, after receiving a complaint from another guest. Inside the room, Animal Control staff found overflowing litter boxes and a tarp covered with piss and shit. The cats, mostly oriental shorthairs betwe ... More >>

Cat-stravaganza Headed to St. Charles; Respek da Feline Byitches!

icanhascheezburger.com​Told u dis day wold come. Dis our day. Respek de feline! Cat show for bootiful, sexy cats. Feline joolry for sale. Furballz galore. Raffle!Press ruhlease below tell more info.Wat!? Wat dis about no bring yur cat to show?! Who de hell made dat rule?? Show yur self muhdefuker! ... More >>

Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles

9:30 p.m. Friday, January 22. Deluxe Restaurant & Bar, 2733 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood.

What Do Bess and Stephen Colbert Have in Common?

​RFT staff writer Aimee Levitt and her cat, Bess, continue their culinary adventure.Like every other food blogger in St. Louis and probably the country, I went to see Julie & Julia over the weekend. (It was mandatory. There was a memo and everything.) I enjoyed it. A cat played a minor but alm ... More >>

Best Read of the Morning: Appetizers for Cats

fancyfeast.com/appetizersFancy Feast's "Seabass & Shrimp Appetizers in a Delicate Broth"One of our favorite Post-Dispatch scribes, Todd Frankel, has a most delicious story out today documenting a secret operation at Nestle Purina. The project, 3.5 years in the making, is hailed as a plan to shak ... More >>

Cooking for Your Cat: In Which Bess Meets Her Match, or The Carnivore's Dilemma

RFT staff writer Aimee Levitt and her cat, Bess, continue their culinary adventure.One of the hazards of my job is forced immersion -- some might say obsession -- in a particular subject for months at time. Pick-up artists, education, death, comic books, vampires...the books and articles pile up. (S ... More >>

Cooking For Your Cat: Cat Munchies

RFT staff writer Aimee Levitt and her cat, Bess, continue their culinary adventure.Bess just hissed.This is a rare occurrence these days. In our old apartment, she hissed a lot, but that was because one of our cat-roommates, Henry, was an asshole. He liked to eat her food and lie on her favorite spo ... More >>

Paws for a Cause

Cooking for Your Cat: Batter Blaster

Gut Check: When the going gets tough, the $6 Gourmet gets going

Cooking for Your Cat: Shrimp Frozen Yogurt

Cooking for Your Cat: Trident Alaskan Salmon Burger

Cooking for Your Cat: Sardine Heaven

Read All About It

Small books, big exhibition

One Ring Zero

7 p.m. Thursday, March 27. Vintage Vinyl, 6610 Delmar Boulevard and 7 p.m. Friday, March 28. Saint Louis Art Museum, One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park

Clowded House

Review Preview: "Three for the Road"

Not-So-Fast Times at Scottrade High: A Review of the High School Reunion Show

Kittie

7 p.m. Saturday, May 26. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

The Starlight Mints

9 p.m. Friday, May 4. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City).

Gore Gore Girls

9 p.m. Tuesday, May 1. Atomic Cowboy (4140 Manchester Avenue).

Christmas Eve Has Found You

Back on the Prowl

A well-publicized catfight comes to an end (for now)

Manischewitz Sweet Whitefish & Pike

$4.69
Straub's
302 North Kingshighway

Rogue Wave

Thursday, September 22; Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City)

Stardust

(Jeanne Trevor at Brandt's Café, the Loop)

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of January 5, 2005

Felix da Housecat

Friday, July 2; Kastle

Greg Freeman, 1956-2002

Worm bids farewell to a friend

Kittie with Poison the Well, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage and Hotwire

Tuesday, July 9; Pop's

Best Neighborhood Grocery Store/Deli

Garavaglia's Deli & More

Bring Us Mingus

Fans of the late jazzman will find an upcoming Webster University concert to their liking

FLOTSAM & JETSAM

Our-way-or-no-highway robbery in the NBA; you too can help underwrite World Wide Magazine; the Post's Greg Freeman loses a source of inspiration

Letters to the Editor