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Missouri's Lost Musician

LouFest Joins with Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits Producer: What Will it Mean?

The confetti has barely settled on LouFest year three: Despite some uncooperative weather, this year's incarnation, featuring headliners Girl Talk and the Flaming Lips, was its biggest yet, with some 12,000 in attendance. And today, the festivals organizers have an announcement that will dramaticall ... More >>

Lawsuit Settled Alleging Mouse in Mountain Dew

As bizarre lawsuits go, it was the case that kept on giving. In 2009, Ronald Ball of Granite City sued PepsiCo, claiming he'd gotten sick from drinking a can of Mountain Dew.It wasn't the soft drink, though, that caused him to vomit up the neon green beverage. It was the mouse he says he found insid ... More >>

Wine Wars

Mary Junck, Stackin' Up that Paper

Lee Enterprises disclosed yesterday that CEO Mary Junck acquired 500,000 shares of company stock. That stock was worth $1.31 per share at the close of business on the date the paperwork was filed, but Junck paid nothing for it.Junck received the stock as a "Grant by the Issuer's independent Executiv ... More >>

Google Acquires Zagat

​Well, now, this is interesting: Google announced today that it has acquired reader-generated-review pioneer Zagat. Marissa Mayer, a Google vice president, made the announcement on the search engine's official blog:Moving forward, Zagat will be a cornerstone of our local offering--delighting p ... More >>

P-D Parent Co. Gets Debt Extension; Bankruptcy Still an Option

A reprieve -- or maybe a Chapter 11 reorganization, for Lee Enterprises.​Lee Enterprises, the Iowa-based owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other newspapers, including the Arizona Daily Star, announced late this afternoon that it reached an agreement with "a significant majority" of its debt ... More >>

Lee Enterprises Wants to Cut Post-Dispatch Newsroom

Paper cuts: Hard to stop the bleeding.​Lee Enterprises is mailing out buyout offers this week to its roughly 150 employees in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newsroom. The Iowa-based parent company of the St. Louis daily has seen its depressed stock price dip impossibly lower this summer and hopes to ... More >>

East St. Louis Loses Only Hospital; Kenneth Hall Closing After 120 Years

The Kenneth Hall Regional Hospital in East St. Louis will close within the next three to four months.Kenneth Hall Hospital should close by end of summer.​The Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board voted to shutter the hospital yesterday. The facility -- founded in the 1890s -- had op ... More >>

R.I.P. Steve Mizerany; "Decent Boy" Gave St. Louis Deliciously Awful Commercials

stlmedia.netMizerany and his business partner called themselves the "Decent Boys."​Our condolences to the Mizerany clan on the passing of their family patriarch. Steve Mizerany, 87, passed away Friday of pneumonia.  Those who lived in St. Louis in the 1970s and '80s are no doubt familiar with ... More >>

Borders Liquidation Sales Start This Weekend

image viaBorders wants your help to make its St. Peters, Chesterfield and Ballwin stores look this...clean and well-lighted.​It was only two days ago that the Borders Group filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and published a list of the 200 stores doomed to extinction, but the chain mea ... More >>

Max Starkloff: A Remembrance

Jennifer SilverbergMax Starkloff and his beloved wife and business partner, Colleen​As I began researching my recent feature story about the twentieth anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act, I heard the same thing from person after person: "You have to be sure to interview Max and Coll ... More >>

Cypress Hill

8 p.m. Monday, August 16. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

How Does Your Credit Rating Compare to the State of Missouri's?

Image source​Well, Missouri rates a AAA, suckas! (Huge entities like states apparently rate their own special system.) This rating, bestowed by New York-based Fitch Ratings, praised the state for its "maintenance of budgetary balance despite revenue weakness and the expiration of stimulus fun ... More >>

Todd Epsten Quits Police Board After Losing Presidency to Bettye Battle-Turner

Epsten is out, Battle-Turner is in.​In a move that could only happen in the backward world of St. Louis politics, the president of the Board of Police Commissioners was unceremoniously stripped of his title yesterday at a public meeting. Moments after losing the post, Todd Epsten resigned from ... More >>

In Missourah, "Fag" is Off the Record, Folks

www.mssulions.comDiscrimination against the lion prompted a "ferocious" response.​Did you hear the one about the Missouri Southern State University commissioner resigning after calling the school's mascot a "fag"?No joke. The comments came during a MSSU Board of Governors retreat on Saturday. Davi ... More >>

Post-Dispatch Parent Made Bank (Sorta) This Last Quarter

Wikimedia Commons​Circulation, print advertising and online ads this past quarter all declined (again) on the books of Lee Enterprises, the corporate parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. But so did the costs of compensation, newsprint and ink. Which is good news for Iowa-based Lee.&nbs ... More >>

The Swell Season

8 p.m. Friday, December 4. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Can't Keep Track of the Financial Meltdown? The St. Louis Fed is Here to Help

The St. Louis FedWhen did it all begin? This financial mess we're in? And what were the major events that have defined it?  A new timeline feature available on the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis helps answer that. The voyage begins in late February 2007 when Freddie Mac announ ... More >>

Acción Social "On Hold" After Founder and Executive Director William Chignoli Resigns

photo by Jennifer SilverbergWilliam Chignoli on the steps of ASC's clinic on South GrandJust two months ago, the low-cost immigrant healthcare center La Clinica closed its doors owing to lack of funding. Now Acción Social Comunitaria, a local nonprofit that offers a broad array of social servi ... More >>

Busch: A Great Recession Libation

Sales of the "Blue Train" are heading for the mountains.Anheuser-Busch InBev posted strong gains yesterday for the first quarter of 2009. The results surprised some analysts who thought the weak economy and transition pains from InBev's 2008 acquisition of Anheuser-Busch could disrupt sales. Instead ... More >>

Anheuser-Busch Gaining Market Share, But at What Cost?

flickr.com/photos/tojosanThe Wall Street Journal features a front-page story today on the shakeup since InBev's acquisition of Anheuser-Busch last year.The paper notes that the brewer managed to increase its market share three-quarters of a percentage point in the first quarter of this year (the fir ... More >>

St. Louis Galleria Owners File For Bankruptcy

Photo: Jennifer SilverbergSt. Louis GalleriaThe company that owns St. Louis Galleria filed for bankruptcy protection today. This per the St. Louis Business Journal:General Growth Properties Inc., owner of the Saint Louis Galleria, has filed for Chapter 11 federal bankruptcy protection to reorganize. ... More >>

Breaking: Starbucks to Close 300 More Stores, Cut 6,700 Jobs

MSNBC reports that Starbucks will close 300 additional stores and cut 6,700 jobs, both at those closed stores and at its corporate offices. The coffee giant saw its profit drop 69% during the first quarter of its fiscal year. No word yet on where and when the closings will occur.

It's a Thriller on Broadway for Michael Jackson!

Via the Associated Press: Producer James L. Nederlander says he has acquired the rights for a stage version of Michael Jackson's iconic music-video spoof of horror films. The show will include songs from two of the pop king's best-selling albums, "Thriller" and "Off the Wall."... "I love the idea o ... More >>

AB InBev To Lay Off 1,000 in St. Louis

Anheuser-Busch InBev employees are buzzing about imminent job cuts in the wake of InBev's recent acquisition of St. Louis' corporate crown jewel. The company today announced that it would cut 1,400 jobs in the United States, about 75 percent of them (1,050 jobs) in St. Louis. According to ... More >>

E-Mail of the Day: Pujols in Belgian Garb

Robert Pollard at the Bluebird, Friday, October 10

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 3.20

Large Professor

Friday, February 24 at 7 p.m. at Vintage Vinyl (6610 Delmar Boulevard, University City)

Buddy Guy

Friday, September 9; Roberts Orpheum Theater (416 North Ninth Street)

Dave Audé

Saturday, October 23; Velvet

Best Antique Store

Joint Venture Antiques

Blues' Dues

At this benefit concert, you'll get the blues and a local Web site will get the green

Cash Landing

With bills coming due at Lambert, St. Louis considers drastic change

Tailspin

Lambert's billion-dollar expansion hangs on a wing and a prayer: The numbers no longer add up

Series/Festivals

Week of August 27, 2003

Series/Festivals

Week of July 30, 2003

The Worst of D.C.

Shock jock's found a new way to annoy people

Dressed for Deceit

Women contractors are tired of being asked to front for firms owned by white males

Chained Melodies

The merger of St. Louis-based Streetside Records with CD World may come at a price.

Roll Call

A rundown on the new kids in town

Best Culinary Francophile

Eddie Neill

Minister to his Needs

The Rev. Dickson Beall became a local champion of the First Amendment after he opened the St. Marcus Church basement to progressive theater groups in the 1990s. Few people knew what Beall was up to offstage.

The Foggy Flight Of TWA

The only thing St. Louis can count on is uncertainty

SHORTCHANGED

For years now, the Human Development Corp. has taken in millions of tax dollars to provide Head Start services for 2,500 of the city's low-income children. It has never come close. And the problems just begin there.

GLITTER GULCH

It's all in the game at Dave & Buster's

White Out

A local contractor gets called a fake as the dispute over minority set-aside contracts heats up. The city and some local contractors say he is; the state says he's not.

Saving the Day for Corporate Welfare