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May 24, 2012
Fudging The Numbers With Last.Fm
Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. I was thrilled five-ish years ago when I found out about Last.fm, the music recommendation service that d ... More >>
Blogs
May 22, 2012
Bagged Salad Recall Expands Nationwide
OK, so maybe you shrugged your shoulders at yesterday's news about the FDA's warning on Korean shellfish. Fair enough. Not exactly an everyday purchase around these parts. Bagged salad, on the other hand... The FDA has announced that River Ranch Fresh Foods of Salinas, California, has expanded its ... More >>
News
May 17, 2012
Ellen Back Again: Arnie Robbins steps down as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and RFT checks in with his predecessor
OK, so maybe you shrugged your shoulders at yesterday's news about the FDA's warning on Korean shellfish. Fair enough. Not exactly an everyday purchase around these parts. Bagged salad, on the other hand... The FDA has announced that River Ranch Fresh Foods of Salinas, California, has expanded its ... More >>
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May 3, 2012
Tour de Pours
OK, so maybe you shrugged your shoulders at yesterday's news about the FDA's warning on Korean shellfish. Fair enough. Not exactly an everyday purchase around these parts. Bagged salad, on the other hand... The FDA has announced that River Ranch Fresh Foods of Salinas, California, has expanded its ... More >>
Blogs
May 2, 2012
Amazon Agrees to Pay Sales Tax in Texas; What About in Missouri?
On Monday, the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and Amazon jointly announced they had struck a deal for the internet retailer to begin paying sales tax in the Lone Star state. Amazon has a distribution center in Irving, Texas, but has never paid sales tax for products shipped from the facility b ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2012
A Comprehensive Guide to Record Store Day 2012
This just in: Vinyl is BACK! Now in its fifth year, Record Store Day has made its international mark, recognized by labels, bands, and collectors worldwide. Celebrating the cultural impact of the independent record store, RSD offers everything from live performances to special discounts to limited e ... More >>
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April 19, 2012
Damn the Man - Save the Empire
This just in: Vinyl is BACK! Now in its fifth year, Record Store Day has made its international mark, recognized by labels, bands, and collectors worldwide. Celebrating the cultural impact of the independent record store, RSD offers everything from live performances to special discounts to limited e ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2012
The Seven Best Brewpubs in St. Louis
Gut Check has been looking back on the Riverfront Times Best of St. Louis 2011, but we're also keeping an eye on the Best of St. Louis 2012 by nominating finalists for our awards this fall. To see hundreds more winners and finalists, suggest your own contenders and download the Riverfront Times Best ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2012
It's Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's!
Today marks Ben & Jerry's annual Free Cone Day, with area locations slinging free scoops of ice cream from Noon to 8 p.m. Though many of its St. Louis stores have shuttered in the last few years, three shops still stand, and two are participating in Free Cone Day: Ben & Jerry's U. City (6380 Delmar ... More >>
Blogs
March 30, 2012
The Big (Tobacco-Related) Threat to Missouri's Budget You've Probably Never Heard Of
Is anybody in America more hospitable to small tobacco companies than the Show-Me State? Not only do we levy the lowest cigarette tax in the entire nation (a paltry 17 cents per pack). Our legislature is the only one that forces Big Tobacco to cough up payments for smoking-related health co ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2012
Mayor Alvin Parks Rethinks ESL's Late-Night Liquor Sales in Wake of Shootings
East St. Louis native and Illinois Senator Dick Durbin last month urged Mayor Alvin Parks to end the city's late-night liquor sales in the hopes that it would cut down on violent crime. As he had done in the past, Parks rejected the notion. But after two separate shootings long after midnight thi ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2012
Write a Kate Upton and Hardee's Haiku, Win a Kate Upton Poster and Hardee's Gift Certificate!
We told you last month how model Kate Upton is the latest female celebrity to get all hot 'n' heavy with a Hardee's burger. Now the fine folks at CKE Restaurants, Inc., the parent company of Hardee's and Carl's Jr., have sent us a poster of Kate posing with the chain's new Southwest Patty Melt Thick ... More >>
Blogs
January 26, 2012
Megaupload Goes Down: Five Lost Music-Stealing Technologies
It's true: Megaupload has been gone an entire week, and for the millions of people who used the site because they like their totally legal for-pay cloud storage to come equipped with fake download links and massive flash banner ads I'm sure things have been difficult. For copyright holders, massiv ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2012
Was a Mouse Really Found in a Mountain Dew Can? Local Lawsuit Goes Viral
Remember Ronald Ball, the Illinois man who's been suing PepsiCo on a claim that he opened a can of Mountain Dew and found a dead mouse inside? The Madison Record broke the story a year and a half ago, followed by the Daily RFT (here and here). But yesterday, websites from the Daily Mail in Great ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2011
Five Suggestions to Help a Struggling Olive Garden
sogoodblog.comShould this be the new face of Olive Garden?This week, the Wall Street Journal reported some downer news regarding Olive Garden's business woes. Darden Restaurants, which owns Olive Garden, has expressed a dismal prediction of Olive Garden's sales continuing to plummet for the u ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2011
Spy Games and Celebrity Sightings at St. Louis-Area Bookstores
image viaWatch out, she may be packing an iPhone.As everybody knows, the Christmas-shopping season is the most hectic time to be in retail -- as both a seller and as a consumer -- and this year, there's an extra frisson of excitement in St. Louis bookstores, thanks to some corporate espionage ... More >>
Blogs
December 8, 2011
CDC Identifies Source of E. Coli Outbreak
Romaine lettuce sold at an area grocery chain and sourced from a specific farm was the source of the E. coli outbreak that sickened dozens in Missouri and several other states earlier this fall, according to a report published yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The report ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2011
Wolfbräu House of Beer to Open in St. Peters
Image viaWith the rapid growth of craft beer in St. Louis, it was only a matter of time before someone opened a retail store like Wolfbräu House of Beer (286 Mid Rivers Center, St. Peters; 636-242-1040). Founder Ryan Wolf describes Wolfbräu, scheduled to open the second week of December, as a " ... More >>
Blogs
November 16, 2011
Missouri Supreme Court to Strip Club Owners: "Tough Titties!"
Justices uphold Missouri's nudity ban for strip clubs.The Missouri Supreme Court yesterday handed strip club owners yet another loss in their legal fight to overturn a sweeping law regulating "adult-oriented businesses." The law passed in 2010 prohibits exotic dancers from displaying their genita ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2011
William K Busch Brewing Company Launches Kräftig Lager and Kräftig Light
Last week, the World Series trophy came back to St. Louis. This week sees the return of another tradition in the Gateway City: the Busch family brewing lager beer.William K. Busch, son of August A. "Gussie" Busch Jr. and great-grandson of Adolphus Busch, this summer announced the founding of the ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2011
Report: Shooting in Wellston Leaves One Dead, Six Injured
Wellston Food Market in the 6200 block of Page.KTVI reports that one person is dead and six other people injured this afternoon in a mass shooting, at least part of which occurred at the Wellston Food Market on Page Avenue. Developing...
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October 27, 2011
Music That Sticks to Your Ribs
Wellston Food Market in the 6200 block of Page.KTVI reports that one person is dead and six other people injured this afternoon in a mass shooting, at least part of which occurred at the Wellston Food Market on Page Avenue. Developing...
Blogs
September 16, 2011
1,050-Calorie "Steak Gorgonzola Alfredo"? Michelle Obama Says Yes, We Can!
Gut Check ain't exactly nostalgic for the good ol' days of the George W. Bush administration. Still, a phrase that Dubya once used has stuck with us over the years: "the soft bigotry of low expectations." He was talking about education, but you can apply it to all sorts of things.Like, say, the h ... More >>
Blogs
August 4, 2011
Marketing Trends Miller Lite Should Jump on to Sell More Brew
Image viaAd Age reported that Miller Lite's sales have steadily decreased, and the company cites the same factors we all blame for our everyday problems and bad moods: the stupid economy and the shitty weather. But not all beer makers are faring poorly, and bad marketing strategies might be ... More >>
Blogs
July 27, 2011
Formerly AB-Owned Purus Vodka Expands Distribution
Image viaThis sexy bottle is "designed to emulate the shape of a water droplet off of the Italian Alps!" Recognize!In 2008, InBev bought Anheuser-Busch, creating ABInBev, now the world's largest brewer. Of course, you know that! The story dominated the news for a large chunk of that summer. ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2011
Anheuser-Busch Wants to Trademark Your Area Code
Image viaAnheuser-Busch may not want to use this trademark -- but they definitely want to own it.If brewing giant Anheuser-Busch gets its way, we won't just be living in the 314.We'll be living in the 314 (TM).The St. Louis-based brewery, now owned by Belgian conglomerate InBev, has applied for a ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2011
August Busch IV Saga Tackled by BusinessWeek
August Busch IV gets the BusinessWeek treatment.Cocaine! Oxycodone! A former Hooters waitress, dead in a darkened bedroom!A very bad beer baron!A BusinessWeek feature story that hit the Internets today, "Fall of the House of Busch," details the 2010 death of the girlfriend of August Busch IV, Adr ... More >>
Blogs
June 10, 2011
Just When You Thought You Were Free of Zhu Zhu Pets...
image viaDespite appearances, it's not a horror movie.Warning to anyone who has a small child or has to spend a lot of time in the presence of a small child: Zhu Zhu pets, the scourge of a couple of Christmases past, are back! Well, they were never actually gone -- except for the 2009 holida ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
What's Brewing? St. Louis.
image viaDespite appearances, it's not a horror movie.Warning to anyone who has a small child or has to spend a lot of time in the presence of a small child: Zhu Zhu pets, the scourge of a couple of Christmases past, are back! Well, they were never actually gone -- except for the 2009 holida ... More >>
News
May 26, 2011
Beyond Schlafly: Three microbreweries for the St. Louis summer
image viaDespite appearances, it's not a horror movie.Warning to anyone who has a small child or has to spend a lot of time in the presence of a small child: Zhu Zhu pets, the scourge of a couple of Christmases past, are back! Well, they were never actually gone -- except for the 2009 holida ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2011
Hospitals Lose in Big Tobacco Money Grab in St. Louis Court
Just because you light up doesn't mean Big Tobacco has to share the cost of your subsequent hospital care, a St. Louis jury decided today.After thirteen years of litigation, three months of trial and just over six days of jury deliberations, a group of 37 area hospitals have struck out in their a ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2011
Get Ready, Arrogant Bastards! Stone Week Starts Tomorrow.
Stone Brewing Co. Few craft brewers have arrived in St. Louis with the anticipation and fanfare of Escondido, California's Stone Brewing. But they're here this week, bringing all the Arrogant Bastard Ale and Stone Ruination IPA we've been longing for. The beer hits store shelves and bar tap ... More >>
Dining
April 14, 2011
Six-Pack City: Six Row Brewing Company adds food to the equation
Stone Brewing Co. Few craft brewers have arrived in St. Louis with the anticipation and fanfare of Escondido, California's Stone Brewing. But they're here this week, bringing all the Arrogant Bastard Ale and Stone Ruination IPA we've been longing for. The beer hits store shelves and bar tap ... More >>
Blogs
April 13, 2011
Six Row Brewing Company: Review Slideshow
Jennifer SilverbergA pint of the "Whale" beer at Six Row Brewing CompanyOne of the many new craft brewers gracing the St. Louis scene over the past couple of years. My review of Six Row Brewing Company (3690 Forest Park Avenue; 314-531-5600) is now available online, and be sure to check out Jenni ... More >>
Blogs
April 12, 2011
Review Preview: Six Row Brewing Company
Jennifer SilverbergBeer flights at Six Row Brewing CompanyI took a break from writing reviews last week. What did I do instead? I drank beer. Specifically, I drank beer at Six Row Brewing Company (3690 Forest Park Avenue; 314-531-5600). I also tried some of the fare from the brewpub's relatively ... More >>
Blogs
March 28, 2011
Goose Island Sells Out to Anheuser-Busch
Sorry Chicago, but your craft beer star now belongs to St. Louis. Well, technically, it belongs to Belgium. It was announced this morning that Anheuser-Busch is buying Goose Island, the 23-year-old Chicago miccrobrew stalwart. (A-B has distributed Goose Island since 2006.) After the jump: ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2011
Record Store Day Announce 2011 Releases, Ozzy Osbourne Commands Your Attendance
Record Store Day is a relatively new and relatively awesome Holiday. It's like Christmas for music nerds, only better -- rather than forcible family-togetherness and buying gifts for other people, record collectors are lured with live music, beer and shiny new wax into spending the day with t ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2011
Missouri Latest State to Push for Online Sales Tax
Local retailers want to wipe that smug smile off those Amazon.com boxes. Two state representatives held a press conference today in the University City Loop, calling attention to legislation that would add sales tax to purchases Missouri residents make over the Internet. State representativ ... More >>
News
March 10, 2011
Repudiated upon its 1961 release by the tough-talking clergyman who inspired it, The Hoodlum Priest remains as obscure and intriguing as ever
Local retailers want to wipe that smug smile off those Amazon.com boxes. Two state representatives held a press conference today in the University City Loop, calling attention to legislation that would add sales tax to purchases Missouri residents make over the Internet. State representativ ... More >>
News
March 10, 2011
The Cover of the March 10 Print Edition
Local retailers want to wipe that smug smile off those Amazon.com boxes. Two state representatives held a press conference today in the University City Loop, calling attention to legislation that would add sales tax to purchases Missouri residents make over the Internet. State representativ ... More >>
Blogs
March 3, 2011
Last Collector Standing: Kate Eddens on Working at Thrill Jockey and Vintage Vinyl, and Her Musical Education (and Evolution)
Jon ScorfinaAs major record labels have struggled to adjust to the new digital landscape, independent labels have thrived by sticking to the tried and true demand for vinyl. We caught up with Kate Eddens, a former employee of both Thrill Jockey records and Vintage Vinyl, at her south city hom ... More >>
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February 3, 2011
Neither Baller Nor Shot Caller
Jon ScorfinaAs major record labels have struggled to adjust to the new digital landscape, independent labels have thrived by sticking to the tried and true demand for vinyl. We caught up with Kate Eddens, a former employee of both Thrill Jockey records and Vintage Vinyl, at her south city hom ... More >>
Blogs
December 27, 2010
YouTube Removes Pro-Palestinian/Anti-Motorola Video
Two weeks ago, we told you about the local activists who busted out an anti-Motorola song-and-dance routine at the Best Buy and AT&T stores in suburban Brentwood -- and we posted a video of the performance. That video quickly drew more than 35,000 hits.Last week, however, YouTube unceremoniousl ... More >>
Blogs
December 6, 2010
Left Bank, Subterranean Books Now Selling Google eBooks
As of this morning, two of St. Louis's proudly independent bookstores have joined in the digital revolution: Subterranean Books in the Delmar Loop and Left Bank Books in the Central West End and downtown are now offering Google eBooks on their respective websites. Both stores have been selli ... More >>
Dining
August 4, 2010
Fermenting Ferguson: Cork Wine Bar and Hill Brewing Company are the new kids on Ferguson's block
As of this morning, two of St. Louis's proudly independent bookstores have joined in the digital revolution: Subterranean Books in the Delmar Loop and Left Bank Books in the Central West End and downtown are now offering Google eBooks on their respective websites. Both stores have been selli ... More >>
Dining
June 3, 2009
Brew, Baby, Brew: The ranks of St. Louis' craft brewers are swelling as we swill
As of this morning, two of St. Louis's proudly independent bookstores have joined in the digital revolution: Subterranean Books in the Delmar Loop and Left Bank Books in the Central West End and downtown are now offering Google eBooks on their respective websites. Both stores have been selli ... More >>
Blogs
May 29, 2009
Speaking of Butt Heads... Cigarette Litter Annoys People Across Nation
Wikimedia CommonsThe New York Times reports today that "dozens of municipalities across the nation" have passed laws banning smoking on beaches and playgrounds, because citizens are sick of not only stepping on cigarette butts, but paying millions of dollars a year to clean them up.From the Times:
Culture
April 3, 2002
Deathwatch
A documentary on the Ronald L. Jones Funeral Home premieres at Webster University
News
July 25, 2001
Really Strange Bedfellows
With good guys like this, who needs bad guys?
News
August 9, 2000
Daycare Nightmares
In response to growing demand, the number of daycare facilities in Missouri is increasing each year. So are the problems.
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