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Washington University Students Debunk St. Louis Crime Statistics With Rap Song (VIDEO)

Last week, we wrote about yet another national crime ranking that put St. Louis at the top -- which, unsurprisingly, the mayor and the police department were quick to dismiss. Their argument is that the methodology of these rankings is inherently flawed and that these reports make the metro area see ... More >>

New Favorites, Old Friends: An Updated Guide to Restaurants in Lindenwood Park

St. Louis' neighborhoods are gems in their own right: full of history, great people and, as far as Gut Check is concerned, fantastic food. Each week we'll take you into a specific neighborhood and point you in the direction of the best places to grab some bites.

Gut Check to Andrew Zimmern: OMG! We're So Sorry!

The voicemail sent a chill straight down Gut Check's spine and back up again: "Hi, this is Alison ________. I'm calling from Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. There was a piece that was published about Andrew Zimmern coming to the Soulard Market. The network has just asked me to give you guys a ca ... More >>

VIDEOS: Catch a Glimpse of Anheuser-Busch's 2013 Super Bowl Ads

For the 25th consecutive year, Anheuser-Busch is once again the sole beer sponsor of the Super Bowl. This year the St. Louis-based brewer plans to unveil at least four commercials during Sunday's big game that is expected to draw at least 111 million viewers. See also: - Anheuser-Busch Dethroned ... More >>

Forbes Names St. Louis #20 Dirtiest City in America

St. Louis earned a place on a Forbes magazine list alongside the likes of New York City and Los Angeles. Unfortunately that list was of the dirtiest cities in America, as determined by air and water quality.

15 Presidential Debate Dinner Ideas Inspired By Obama and Romney Campaign Spending

Last week Politico broke down information from a recent review of Federal Election Commission reports detailing Mitt Romney and Barack Obama's campaign spending. It contains everything from office supplies and gas expenses to which hotels and restaurants the respective campaigns patronize most often ... More >>

Stan Kroenke: 92nd Wealthiest American and 10th Largest Landowner

The owner of the St. Louis Rams is making news this week, but not for anything regarding the uncertain future of his football franchise.

Introducing the "Illegitimate Rape" Whistle

Should have seen this coming -- after Rep. Todd Akin's incredibly stupid comments about "legitimate rape" someone has started producing "illegitimate rape" whistles. But the product has a major design flaw. As the producers say in their own promotional literature, there is no such thing as "illegit ... More >>

Want Guys With That? Hamburger Mary's strolls into St. Louis with LGBT flair — and food to match.

Unified Equine Selects Rockville, MO, for Horse Slaughter Plant

Sue Wallis' Unified Equine announced yesterday that Rockville, Missouri, population 150 or so, would be home to the company's first food-grade horse slaughter plant by the end of the summer. This is the second proposed Missouri location for the Wyoming state senator's plant. Mountain Grove was the f ... More >>

Forbes: Kobe Beef Is "Food's Biggest Scam"

Forbes has published a damning indictment of what the article's headline calls "Food's Biggest Scam": Kobe beef. Author Larry Olmstead doesn't pull his punches: You cannot buy Japanese Kobe beef in this country. Not in stores, not by mail, and certainly not in restaurants. No matter how much you ha ... More >>

"The Sweet Escape" Showcased Akon's Cooperative Mentality

Akon hasn't been perfect throughout his career, but it's hard to accuse him of being selfish. The St. Louis native developed a propensity to share the spotlight with other artists, even if it means his presence isn't always noticed. That cooperative mentality allowed Akon's behind-the-scenes career ... More >>

Stan Kroenke Advances to Next Round of Dodgers Bidding

​Billionaire sports fan Stan Kroenke has been approved by the Los Angeles Dodgers (and its investment bank) to meet with Major League Baseball concerning his offer to buy the team. Kroenke is not the only big-bucks guy to get that approval. According to the anonymous sources "very close to the sal ... More >>

Stealing from the rich to...oh, whatever. Funny is the message in Tower Heist.

Groupon Fail: St. Louis business owners are souring on the once-mighty coupon startup

Monsanto Tenth Most Innovative Company in U.S., Forbes Says

​Monsanto is a huge, environment-contaminating, organic-seed-modifying beast, sure, but the company must be doing alright. After all, Forbes loves them. The business magazine recently released its list of the country's most innovative companies, and Monsanto hits the rankings high, at No. 10 ... More >>

Forbes Calls Salume Beddu the Best in the Country

Jennifer SilverbergA tasty spread at Salume Beddu​Yesterday lifestyle columnist Larry Olmsted of Forbes declared Salume Beddu the best salami in the country. "It's pretty crazy. We are both incredibly humbled by the article," Salume Beddu co-owner Mark Sanfilippo told Gut Check. "We just tr ... More >>

Should Missouri Subsidize Lead Company That Poisoned Town and Is Owned by Billionaire?

Photo: Jennifer SilverbergOutside the Doe Run smelter in Herculaneum.​The Herculaneum-based lead company, Doe Run, made news twice this week for two wildly different issues. On Tuesday, a trial began in St. Louis Circuit Court in which sixteen families from Herculaneum are suing Doe Run on claims ... More >>

The life, and death, of "Java" Joe Charleville, a local coffee icon

Slashfood Folds, Atlantic Food Changes Format

AOL​ Have the big food blogs officially run out of topics, or are they succumbing because of foodie backlash? Forbes reported yesterday that AOL's axing 30 of their brands, including six-year-old food website Slashfood. The website will be absorbed by the still-new food section at the Huffin ... More >>

St. Louis Ranked Eighth Most Toxic City

​A report out yesterday ranks metropolitan St. Louis as one of the most "toxic" (i.e. polluted) cities in the nation. The study by Forbes.com looked at cities based on five factors: air quality, water quality, the number of nearby Superfund sites, amount of days when the air-quality index (AQI) ex ... More >>

Rams Owner Stan Kroenke Wins Appeal For Public Funding For Belleville Walmart

Stan Kroenke can move forward on his plans for a Belleville Walmart.​Sure he's worth nearly $3 billion, according to Forbes magazine, but, hey, business is business. And earlier this month, St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke won another sweetheart deal for his bread-and-butter business: the Walmart ... More >>

Bumble Bee Recalls Canned Chicken for Hard Plastic Contamination

Not so fast with that speedy chicken salad. Chicago Breaking News reports a recall of 72,000 pounds of canned chicken salad sold under the name "Bumble Bee Lunch on the Run Chicken Salad Complete Lunch Kit" and "Bumble Bee Chicken Salad with Crackers." Consumer complaints of hard plastic in the prod ... More >>

St. Louis Is Second Most Dangerous City in the U.S.? Really, Forbes?

Okay, okay. We get it. We're all obsessed with where we rank, even if the data that fuels these most/best/worst cities' lists is contrived at best and completely unreliable at worst. So we can't blame Forbes for riding the trend with its newly-released "Most Dangerous Cities" list.Nope. Doesn't look ... More >>

Cards Fans Rank as Nation's Tenth Best? WTF?

image viaThis kind of devotion is only worth a number 10 ranking?​It had to happen. They've already ranked everything else (and by "they" we mean The Media), so why not sports fans? Is it really possible to give an objective rating to a city's sports fans? Can you say that the citizens of one ... More >>

St. Louisans Fleeing to the Coasts

Forbes.com just published a handy tool today where folks can track population migration from county-to-county based on data the Internal Revenue Service collected from 2008. Here's the migration pattern for St. Louis city: Image source​The black lines show where people came to St. Louis from ... More >>

The Five Biggest B.S. List Makers on the Internet

Image sourceNow THAT is a well-reasoned and objective top ten list.​This week's RFT feature story takes a satirical look at the arbitrary and often asinine world of online rankings, studies and surveys. We're talking about the lists that attempt to quantify the unquantifiable and compare the uniqu ... More >>

Worst or First! St. Louis' showings in a plethora of nationwide rankings.

Solution for Blues Ownership: Award Team as Consolation Prize to Losing Rams Bidder

​The largest investor in the St. Louis Blues, TowerBrook Capital Partners, wants to sell its ownership stake in the NHL franchise. TowerBrook -- a New York-based, private-equity firm -- never planned on being with the Blues for the long run. The company is friendly with Blues chairman and principa ... More >>

Iron Man 2 will lead to 3 and probably 4, but that doesn't mean it's good

A report from Juarez, Mexico, the bleeding front line of the war on drugs

The Morning Brew: 4.21

Foot-and-mouth disease is back. Three cows were found with the condition's mouth sores, so Japan has banned the export of beef for three months, according to Forbes. It's the first case of foot-and-mouth reported in Japan in ten years. Jack in the Box has introduced self-service kiosks. Slashfood ... More >>

Cardinals Ranked as No. 8 Most-Valuable Franchise Worth $488 Million

Bill DeWitt Jr. as depicted in a 2001 RFT cover story.​It's the Cardinals home opener this afternoon, and if the team's owner Bill DeWitt Jr. were to give a speech today, one suspects it would begin: "The state of Redbird Nation is strong."  The Cardinals have won their first two series on th ... More >>

Forbes Rates Enterprise's Jack Taylor Richest St. Louisan

Image sourceEven a billionaire has a right to be cranky when he drops 80 places on Forbes's list of the world's richest people.​Times are tough here in St. Louis, even for billionaires. In Forbes magazine's annual ranking of the world's richest people, Enterprise Rent-a-Car owner Jack Taylor fell ... More >>

Forbes Magazine Ranks St. Louis as No. 7 "Most Miserable" City

Another week, another poll ranking St. Louis as one of the crappiest places to live. This one from Forbes, which is out with its survey of "America's Most Miserable Cities". ​The magazine ranks cities based on a number of factors, including: unemploymenttaxes (both sales and income)commute timesvi ... More >>

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Adds Investigative Reporters to Masthead

The Anheuser-Busch InBev beat remains vacant, but the local daily is beefing up its investigative chops in other areas with the just-announced hiring of two new reporters. Jim Doyle, a former investigative reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle who's been covering airier subjects of late, will wor ... More >>

Rams Get Saved by Illinois Businessman Shahid Khan

Bernie Miklasz of the Post-Dispatch scooped everyone late last night with the big news that Shahid Khan, an Urbana, Illinois-based businessman, is the new owner of the St. Louis Rams.With the ownership question answered, can the Rams returning to their winning ways?​Khan is president of Flex-N-Gat ... More >>

FoodWire: Four Forbes Stars for Tony's Restaurant

Forbes Travel Guide -- formerly known as Mobil Travel Guide -- is out with its annual star ratings of restaurants nationwide, and Downtown institution Tony's (410 Market Street; website) is the highest-rated St. Louis restaurant, scoring four out of a maximum five stars. The only other four- star re ... More >>

Latest Rankings Continue to Show St. Louis and Missouri Suck

media.photobucket.com/image/we suck/emilyandbobby​At first it seemed like an aberration that St. Louis and the Show-Me State consistently came in last (or first in a bad way) in every national poll, study, and ranking under the sun.First we topped that dubious "most dangerous city in America" poll ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Monday, 9.14

​ Chipotle takes lead on supporting fair treatment of migrant tomato workers. (Gourmet)In defense of canned food, and the family who lived on stuff in their pantry all summer. (The Boston Globe, Omaha World-Herald)What's the big deal with the little hoki fish? (Dailyfinance.com)Is vegetable ... More >>

We try to calculate the Rams' worth, catch up with Kenny Hulshof and remember the good old days of air travel

How in God's Name are the Rams Worth Twice as Much as the Cardinals?

fanshop.sfgate.comWhen it comes to inflated valuations, the Rams are solid gold.If somehow you haven't heard yet, the St. Louis Rams are up for sale to the highest bidder, leaving open the possibility that the franchise could move out of Missouri. Sports columnist Bernie Miklasz broke the news Sunda ... More >>

Atreking Along

Dancing through it all

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 8.13

Unreal Makes Bid for Blues

Hey, Bill and Nancy Laurie: Unreal's got $200 and a hot new dance craze! Plus, we learn how to dupe the beer vendors at Fair Saint Louis, join a local blog in the clubhouse and get Matt Blunt's feelings on (Confederate) flag-burning.

Pulitzer's New Prize

The Cardinals have billed Michael E. Pulitzer as an owner, even when he wasn't. Now that he is, can we trust the Post to tell the truth?

Schnucks: Not the Friendliest Weeks in Town

Published the week of September 20-26, 2000

FIELD OF SCHEMES

The strategy for a new baseball stadium includes enlisting the involvement of key downtown developers while limiting public say over subsidies

Easy Money

Developers like the Sansone Group are using a state law to rake in millions of tax dollars for retail projects in the burbs. Trouble is, the legislation was designed to help blighted inner cities.

We Don't Get Fooled Again? Don't Be So Sure