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The Morning Brew: 5.11

USDA hold poultry to a higher standard. Business Week reports, "The new standards, which outline best practices for averting poisonings, lower the allowable percentage of positive tests for pathogens in birds processed by poultry companies such as Tyson Foods Inc. and Pilgrim's Pride Corp. They are ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 5.11

USDA will hold poultry to a higher standard. Business Week reports, "The new standards, which outline best practices for averting poisonings, lower the allowable percentage of positive tests for pathogens in birds processed by poultry companies such as Tyson Foods Inc. and Pilgrim's Pride Corp. The ... More >>

Wash. U. Seniors Attempt to Set Guinness World Record

Graduation is a bittersweet time for college seniors. The Washington University senior class council is trying to ease the pain this year by bringing the Class of 2010 together this Sunday, May 16, to set a Guinness World Record: the world's longest massage chain. The previous record, 617 people, w ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 3.12

​What became of Anna Ayala, the California woman who placed a severed finger in her chili and blamed Wendy's? She cooked the finger, went to jail, and got banned for life from Wendy's. (San Jose Mercury News)In the last century, Americans have lowered beef intake while eating more cheese, chicken ... More >>

The Dive Bomber Turns Tail and Runs at Behrmann's Tavern

There's a man perched on a barstool at Behrmann's Tavern, nodding off between sips of his Jack and Coke. He hardly flinches when a couple walks by, setting off a frenzy of angry barking from what sounds like a pack of dingos next door. image creditEven the Dive Bomber just has to skedaddle sometim ... More >>

Now Open: Foam

Nicholas PhillipsFoam's front room​As my stalwart colleague Nick Phillips noted a few weeks ago, Foam -- the long-awaited coffeeshop/bar on the corner of Cherokee and Jefferson -- is now open for business. I dropped by on Saturday night and was really impressed by the vibe and atmosphere at th ... More >>

Middle-of-the-Road: Neither horrific nor disasterrific, this Cormac McCarthy adaptation takes the path of least resistance

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 10.13

​ The American Academy of Family Physicians  receives a grant from Coke to teach consumers about healthy soda consumption. (Chicago Tribune)Cuba decreases state-funded lunches that feed one-third of the population. (Christian Science Monitor)Small coffee and tea farmers already feeling ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Friday, 10.2

​ Coke changing labels to make calorie counts more obvious. (MSNBC)New dinner party trend - share the work and the expense. (Chicago Tribune)Americans aren't eating enough fruits and vegetables. Michelle Obama to tackle the issue on November 10th episode of Sesame Street. (U.S. News and Worl ... More >>

That Couldn't Possibly Work In St. Louis, Could It?

blameitonthevoices.comSeattle Police are taking a more relaxed approach to drug laws...​St. Louis police prefer to wage the war on drugs the old fashioned way. Coke dealers on the Northside? Root 'em out, round 'em up, make a few arrests, and confiscate some dope for the TV cameras. Meanwhile in S ... More >>

The Best of Gut Check: Ian vs. the Corn Refiners Association

Wikimedia CommonsWhile Gut Check is on vacation, enjoy highlights from the past two years.Silly me, thinking I could share my desert-island fantasies without any consequences.In last week's review of Taqueria el Jalapeño, I wrote the following:It won't surprise regular readers of this column to lea ... More >>

The Best of Gut Check: Hecho en Mexico

While Gut Check is on vacation, enjoy highlights from the past two years. Every few years I fail miserably to overcome my adolescent's addiction to Coca-Cola. I make it a few weeks or months -- but then, usually without thinking about it, I'm dropping fifty cents into the office soda machine or snag ... More >>

The Sneak: The Sneakcratic Dialogues

Fernando de Sousa, Wikimedia Commons Dara Strickland is a leading expert on sneaking food and drink into the movies. She reports on her exploits for Gut Check (from an undisclosed location) every Monday.One of the most famous portions of Plato's Republic is the Allegory of the Cave, a purported dia ... More >>

Taqueria el Jalapeño Review Prompts P.R. Blitz

Wikimedia CommonsSilly me, thinking I could share my desert-island fantasies without any consequences.In last week's review of Taqueria el Jalapeño, I wrote the following:It won't surprise regular readers of this column to learn that if I were stranded on a desert island, I'd want the only restaura ... More >>

Friday Night Lights: F5 Records Hip-Hop anchors Hi-Fidel and Serengeti collaborate on an electroshocked ode to excess

Show Review: Lambchop and Theodore at Off Broadway, Friday, January 23, 2009

Outside on the Off Broadway smoking patio, the whole hope thing was getting out of hand. "Do you have any joints?" some random dude inquired as I huddled next to the propane heater. "Joints? Plural?" I replied. "Would you settle for a three-day-old roach?" He wasn't settling. "Do you think they'll p ... More >>

Red-Light Cameras, Cocaine Addiction and Public Radio: 2008's 10 Most-Read Stories

(The eyes have it! Here are the Top 10 most-read stories online, which were published in 2008 by the RFT. After the jump, we also included a few stories that came back from the dead in '08 because of timely news -- earthquakes and college basketball among them. Below, RFT Editor Tom Finkel ... More >>

George Kissell, 1994: Ten minutes with a Legend

The Dish: Boylan's Natural Cane Cola

Savvis Co-Founder Andrew Gladney Gets 33 Months in Federal Pen

Bar of the Week: Drinking a Black-and-Red at Foley's Bar in Maplewood

Bar of the Week: rBar

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar, April 11 to 13

St. Louis Gigantic Concert Calendar, April 7 through August

St. Louis Concert Calendar, March 11 through June

St. Louis Concert Calendar February 26 through June

St. Louis Concert Calendar, February 5 through June

St. Louis Concert Calendar, January 29 through May

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In This Week's Issue

Apples in Stereo

9 p.m. Friday, March 2. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City).

The world can be cruel to the very, very sweaty.

Plus: The great pop-vs.-soda debate and a chat with Missouri's Most Handsome.

Pop Go the Weasels

Critical Fatwa

Week of February 16, 2006

Tom's Diner

When David Cronenberg picks up a pistol, Violence begets comedy

Garden State

Many gardens, four tours

Best Vegetarian Restaurant

Everest Café

Best Cheap Thrill

Horse Hooky Tuesday

Kome and Get It

Kookin' for Kids serves up supper

You're Not Tied Down

So have a good time

Shedding

Thursday, May 27; Dressel's

Dirty Movies

For fun and profit (fun, mostly)

Common, with De La Soul at the 2004 Mixx DJ Competition

Saturday, April 24; the Pageant

Squeeze Lemmons Film Night

(Get Lemmonade)

These You've Got to See

Five educational films that'll alter your mind

Sensitive Swordsman

Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz mines his ladies'-man rep for creative gold

Best $1.19 Sandwich

QuikTrip

The Good Woman of Setzuan

By Bertolt Brecht (University Theatre at SIU-Edwardsville)

JONATHAN LASKER: SELECTIVE IDENTITY

JANE McADAM FREUD: RESONATING

Forum for Contemporary Art

The Clothes Make the Man

St. Louis is kind of a drag -- in the best sense of the word