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Deep Covers: Bhi Bhiman re-imagines rock favorites on Substitute Preacher

Pogrom Notes: C.P. Taylor's WWII drama Good is bad (in a good way)

Missouri's Askinosie Chocolate Wins National Award For Its Licorice Chocolate

Askinosie Chocolate based in Springfield, Missouri, was recently awarded its fifth silver Sofi Award in the category of "Outstanding Chocolate" by the National Association of Specialty Food Trade (NASFT) for its new dark milk chocolate and black licorice bar. It's also a finalist for the organizati ... More >>

Emily Wells and the Portland Cello Project at Old Rock House, 5/8/12

Emily Wells | The Portland Cello Project May 8, 2012 Old Rock House Emily Wells is a one-woman symphony on record. Nimble violin harmonies meet looming keys and trunk-rattling drum beats. She's also pretty handy with a guitar, banjo, assorted percussion and plenty more. And that is to say nothing ... More >>

The Ten Best Dessert Spots in St. Louis

Selecting Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. In this Gut Check series, we are chewing our way through notable runners up in a number of categories. To see hundreds more winners and finalists a ... More >>

New Line Theatre Announces Third St. Louis Political Theatre Festival

The current election cycle -- which began January 20, 2009 -- is approaching the vinegar strokes, which means everybody involved gets louder and makes less sense. If you want to be involved in the process but perhaps need to refocus your thoughts, there's no better method than the theatrical. Hence ... More >>

Madonna is Coming to the Scottrade Center: Pre-Sale and Ticket Information [Update]

Madonna, fresh off a Super Bowl appearance and more aware of how to capitalize than possibly anyone in pop music, has just announced a massive 2012 tour. And just days before Madonna 2012 World Tour goes out in (presumably) a blaze of infinite production value in Miami, she'll make a stop here in St ... More >>

Team Margaret: Karina Longworth on why you've never heard of her favorite movie of the year, plus nine more bests

Lucinda Williams at the Pageant, 10/12/11: Review and Setlist

Lucinda Williams' 2009 show at the Pageant. Photo by Jon Gitchoff.​Lucinda Williams | Over the Rhine The Pageant October 12, 2011 Note: If you shot good photos at the show and want to share 'em with our readers, please e-mail versions at least 550p wide, along with your name so we can credit ... More >>

Spirits of St. Louis Aquavit, Square One Brewery and Distillery

Image Via​What do the countries of Scandinavia have in common? For one thing, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland are some of the happiest places on Earth. Every time a new study comes out attempting to quantify "life satisfaction," these countries hold court in the top ten, trading off the nu ... More >>

The Seven Deadliest Music Festivals

wikimedia commons​It has been a particularly grim summer already in music festival fatalities, with one death over the weekend at Electric Daisy and two more at Bonnaroo a couple weeks ago. But this is hardly a new phenomenon: The combination of crushing crowds, heat and mind-altering substanc ... More >>

Bob Dylan's Five Least Receptive Audiences

Image via​Bob Dylan played his first ever show in Vietnam over the weekend as part of a brief tour of Asia. There was some amount of fanfare associated with this tour, and this stop in particular, given that so much of Dylan's most vibrant work was written as a response to military action in p ... More >>

The Raveonettes at the Firebird, Friday, April 8: Review

The Raveonettes. Photo by Jon Gitchoff.​Check out the full slideshow of the Raveonettes at the Firebird. The Raveonettes/Tamaryn The Firebird Friday, April 8, 2011 Better than: The government shutdown riot we were so hoping for. There was nothing rotten about Denmark last night at the Fireb ... More >>

Catching Up With Pokey LaFarge: A New Album, New Label and New Countries to Conquer

Bill Streeter​Tonight at the Sheldon Ballroom, it's Christmas with Pokey -- LaFarge, that is. He and the South City Three are performing as part of KDHX's Sheldon Sessions along with the Western Satellites. Tickets are $10, and the show starts at 8 p.m. In addition, he'll be on the MetroLink's ... More >>

The World Cup trophy is pretty darn ugly. But nothing says balls like the Golden Cup!

World Cuppage: Netherlands 2 - Brazil 1; Orange Elation at Barrister's

photos by Keegan HamiltonThe Dutch fans went wild at Barrister's when their team beat Brazil​During their Netherlands' 6:30 a.m. group stage match against Denmark a few weeks back, the Dutch fans at the Scottish Arms were less than lively. The Clockwork Orange won the match 2-0 amidst many yawns a ... More >>

Something Fishier This Way Comes

​Bad week for tuna lovers. On Sunday the New York Times Magazine ran a feature warning of the dwindling numbers of bluefin tuna, those big and tasty cash cows of the deep. Now the paper's Green blog brings word that saltwater fish are more apt than their freshwater cousins to cause mercury poi ... More >>

Netherlands 2, Cameroon 1; Japan 3, Denmark 1: Multitasking at the Post Sports Bar & Grill

Ian FroebToo. Much. Action. at the Post Sports Bar & Grill​Keegan is out of town for a few days. I will try to fill his boots.Why are the final matches in each group played simultaneously? Not for the entertainment value.In 1982, unheralded Algeria finished group play with two wins and one los ... More >>

World Cuppage: Netherlands 2 - Denmark 0; Going Dutch at the Scottish Arms

photos by Keegan HamiltonNetherlands fans cheer for goals...and pasties.​The clock just struck 7 a.m. and there's beer and pasties all over the place. No, it's not the end of a debauched night at a strip club in Sauget. It's Monday morning World Cup soccer at the Scottish Arms.The "pasty," in this ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Movies

The Morning Brew: 4.27

The best restaurant in the world for 2010 has been announced, and it's Noma in Copenhagen. The Guardian reports on the restaurant's upset of El Bulli, the winner for the past four years and the return of rustic over modernism. Tweezers: they're not just for splinters and unwanted facial hair anymo ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 4.13

Brewers at Denmark's Carlsberg Brewery walked off the job last week when it was announced they'd no longer get to drink three free beers per work shift. The Calgary Herald takes a Canadian look at why this effort by management to promote employee health went wrong. Need another food website? Huffi ... More >>

Hops on Top: Mikkeller 1000 IBU India Pale Ale

Gut Check closely monitors new releases of beer, wine and other booze, searching for things we (and, yeah, you) shouldn't miss. We then give a select few bottles a spin before you plunk down your hard-earned. Dave NelsonBitter! Sweet?​Just in is a limited offering from the always innovative D ... More >>

Laura Veirs fires up her new album, July Flame, as her popularity continues to increase

The Beertender: Get Hip to Hops

Ever seen that ad where Jim Koch of Samuel Adams noses around a hops field and says, "Hops are to beer what grapes are to wine"? While it's not quite an SAT-worthy analogy, it does make the point that there are different varieties of hops -- and that they are crucial to beer.Hops are the spice of be ... More >>

Java Enabled: How Do You Store Your Beans?

The only time I've ever had something remotely close to an argument with another coffee drinker was over how beans should be stored at home. How often have you heard of someone storing their beans one way and thinking, "Oh god, they're ruining that coffee"?For me, the greater question is why there's ... More >>

Unemployment Can Be Fun!

flickr.com/photos/amin_tabriziLane Wallace came to an astonishing revelation two weeks ago, which she very kindly shared in The Atlantic: It is better to be unemployed in New York, L.A. or Silicon Valley than anywhere else in this great nation of ours.Of course, if all those unemployed New Yorkers o ... More >>

Petur Ben at the Schlafly Tap Room, Tim Rakel and David Rovics at Black Bear Bakery

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7 p.m. Monday, May 21. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

SXSW: The Rest

The Chosen Films

Film Openings

Week of June 15, 2005

Home Fires Burning

A soldier returns a changed man in the gripping Danish drama Brothers

Scotch Risky

The Black Rep moves Macbeth to war-ravaged Africa

Director's Cuts

A Danish filmmaker gives up pretension in favor of cannibal butchers

Film Openings

Week of December 8, 2004

Bedrock, Cock Rock

We cave dive for beats and talk with Kip Winger and Sonia Dada

Back on the Chain Gang

The Raveonettes are androgynous-Nordic-black-leather sexy -- oh, yes

Best Cheese Counter

Whole Foods

Best Fresh Seafood Counter

Bob's Seafood

South(side) of Heaven

No hoosier jokes, just fine city folks

Film Openings

Week of March 19, 2003

Pastries

St. Louis Bread Co.

Atom Smash

Wash U. brings to town Michael Frayn's Tony-winning Copenhagen and with it an intellectual cornucopia

Captive Audience

The Prison Arts Project helps local inmates present a mesmerizing Hamlet

Pastries

St Louis Bread Co.

Night Light

Fresh from a successful European tour, St. Louis' Nadine returns to showcase songs from the new Lit Up from the Inside

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