Dogtown

What It's Like to Bartend in Dogtown on St. Patrick's Day [PHOTOS]

Gut Check enjoys the drinking and general debauchery that descends on Dogtown on St. Patrick's Day in St. Louis as much as the next functionally alcoholic food blog, but until this year, our experience was simply as another soused, green-clad reveler trying not to hurl in the streets. When we learne ... More >>

St. Patrick's Day Parade: Coolers Banned in Effort to Limit Trash, Underage Drinking

We all know the damage that parades can cause to St. Louis neighborhoods -- and the folks over in Dogtown have one idea to make the St. Patrick's Day Parade this weekend slightly less destructive. No coolers allowed. The new rule, parade organizers say, should help cut down on underage drinking ... More >>

Hibernians, Dogtown to Paradegoers: No Coolers for You

Dogtown residents are an almost universally genial bunch. They open their neighborhood and occasionally their bathrooms to faux Irish revelers, and generally accept that overflowing trash cans and parking inconveniences come with the territory for one rowdy day in March. And while paradegoers will ... More >>

Shipping Up To Dogtown

St. Patrick's Day Poll: Downtown vs. Dogtown

Forget Chicago and its green river. Heck, move over, Ireland! St. Louis has some of the biggest and baddest St. Patrick's Day celebrations around! With two parades -- one downtown on Saturday and one in Dogtown on Sunday -- St. Louis is the place to knock back a pint of Guinness in your finest gree ... More >>

Tequila Sanford, St. Louis Homicide No. 113: Shot in Head in Dogtown

City cops got the call shortly after 5:52 this morning. When officers arrived on the 6600 block of Oakland Avenue in Dogtown (just south of Forest Park), they found two victims. The first, 26-year-old Tequila Sanford (a black female), was pronounced dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to the head ... More >>

Brandon Jones Killed by Police During Interrupted Robbery

Police were called to the 6200 block of Famous Avenue in Dogtown on Tuesday for a reported burglary in progress. When they arrived just after noon, the burglary turned into a shoot-out and pursuit that still continues today.According to the police incident summary, the responding officers, a 48-year ... More >>

The 2012 RFT Music Awards Nominees

That's right, sports fans, it's once again time for the big ol' love letter to St. Louis music known as the RFT Music Awards and Showcase. The nominating committee has made its arguments and to show for it we have five of the best bands and artists in 25 categories. Many of these fine musicians wil ... More >>

Tidbits: More Beer, More Food Trucks

OK. Lots of stuff coming across the wire today -- including the very cool news of a local chef appearing on a new Bravo food show (more on that very soon!) -- so let's clear the decks of some more tidbits from the past few days. - Monday's "Tidbits" mentioned two more food trucks for St. Louis' eve ... More >>

Standup Andi Smith Gets Raw About Her Mom, Refinancing and Hot Female Comics

​While on stage, Andi Smith doesn't wrap her feelings in pretty bows, whether the evening's agenda involves Justin Bieber, at-risk children, or sweatpants. Nor does she mince words off-stage, as we found out last August when we did this Q&A  and crowned her Best Standup Comedian (Female) ... More >>

Roam, If You Want To

St. Patrick's Day in Dogtown: 49 Minors Charged With Possession

A drunken Irish jig or a street brawl? Who's to say?​Sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s drew one of the largest crowds ever to the Ancient Order of Hibernians' parade through Dogtown yesterday.The favorable weather also brought out tons of juveniles on spring break. Yet even away from the cla ... More >>

Ancient Order of Hibernians St. Patrick's Day Parade

Green Day

Are You Going to Vote Today?

​This message is for you residents of the even wards, especially wards 6, 16, 20 and 24. According to the experts, you're too lazy to vote in today's aldermanic primaries. Geez, we just voted last November, and now we've gotta go to the ballot box again? But voting today does matter. Why? ... More >>

Various Artists: STL LOUD Volume 1 EP
(self-released)

Grand Slam of a Mugshot: Police ID Man Shot Following Fiasco at Denny's

Trip Powers: Power trip goes wrong.​Meet Trip Powers, the man shot early Sunday morning while seriously craving a Grand Slam omelette. Or maybe it was a Moons Over My Hammy?In any case, here's how it went down, according to police. Powers, 39, arrived at the Denny's on Hampton Avenue around 3 a.m. ... More >>

Save the Date! First Annual Dogtown Street Musicians Festival Pays Homage to Community Buskers

Dogtown is known for its Irish pubs and St. Patrick's day celebration. Yesterday 5 Score Pachyderm, a local music-centric blog, broke the news of a brand new annual festival, this one showcasing the town's street musicians. image viaSome buskers outside of Dogtown's Seamus Mcdaniel's​On Sept ... More >>

Dogtown Awaits Your Pleasure

Dive or Not? Arena Bar and Grill Tests the Dive Bomber

Robin Wheeler​Can a bar be a dive if it has flowers planted in front and offers issues of local foodie magazines? Can a dive bomber be a dive bomber if she goes to a bar and drinks nothing but iced tea?Yes, if I'm having lunch at Arena Bar and Grill. This tavern on the bottom level of a rambling ... More >>

St. Paddy's Day is Over, But Leprechaun Mystery Remains

Dogtown has its parade. Mobile, Alabama, has its Leprechaun.

Monday, March 16, Morning's Newz

Paris Hilton wowed a crowd of 500-plus folks at the St. Clair Square mall this weekend. A few hardcore fans arrived to the store at 4:30 a.m. to meet the celebutante and buy her latest perfume, Fairy Dust.The Alton-Telegraph has video footage of anti-gay protesters who tried to crash the funeral las ... More >>

FoodWire: Chuy Arzola's Returns

chuyarzolas.comSauce and Feast broke the news earlier this week, and now there's a big, honking ad in the dead-tree edition of the RFT trumpeting the news: Chuy Arzola's, the Dogtown institution that closed last year, is returning.The Mexican restaurant will take over the Joe Boccardi's location at ... More >>

What If You Threw an Election and No One Showed Up?

Empty voting booths today in Dogtown. Mayor Francis Slay may be asking himself that question today. I swung by my voting station -- Roe Elementary School in Dogtown -- around 11:30 this morning. Just 82 people in the precinct had bothered to show up before me. The polling place was darn near empty d ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Bacardi Silver Raz

Steinberg Skating Rink
400 Jefferson Drive (in Forest Park)
314-367-7465

Come Back, Barack! Sugaree Opens Pie Store

Texas Tornado

Chuy Arzola's
6405 Clayton Avenue

The Last Days of Chuy Arzola's

SmartWater

Dogtown's Big Day

Samuel Adams Octoberfest

Seamus McDaniels
1208 Tamm Avenue
314-645-6337

In This Week's Issue

Music Awards Winners

A Bridge to Protest

Well, Where Have You Been Grocery Shopping These Last Three Weeks?

Week of November 5, 2003

Best Italian Restaurant (Cheap)

Spaghetteria Mama Mia

Best Seafood Restaurant

R.L. Steamers

Greek Cuisine

Olympia

Best Urban Myth

How Dogtown Got Its Name

Auto Iconography

Bad-boy skaters perpetuate their own myth in Dogtown and Z-Boys

Skate or Die

In the 1970s, the Z-Boys were hell on wheels. Today, they're shredding the big screen.

Best Neighborhood Grocery Store/Deli

Garavaglia's Deli & More

Greek Cuisine

Olympia Kebob House & Taverna

News of the Weir

Well-known St. Louis restaurateur Jack Weir brings us another offering

Best Guitar Store

Acme Guitars

Best Grocery Store

Gewinner's Market

Best Late-Night Cafe

Coffee House

Audiocity

Leroy Huddleston likes to reach out and touch his neighbors -- all day long

Fish Story

The new R.L. Steamers has quite a tale to tell