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Tidbits from Dooley's, Kirkwood Station Brewing Co.

Google MapsThe new home of Dooley's​- Downtown institution Dooley's Ltd. closed in 2008. Now, the St. Louis Business Journal reports that Sean Dooley, son of founder Alex Dooley, plans to open Dooley's Pub and Brew Haus at 601 North Grand Boulevard. (The address was previously home to the short-li ... More >>

Taste of India Closed? [Updated]

Google Maps​A reader contacted Gut Check via Twitter with word that Taste of India (3279 Hampton Avenue; 314-646-8488) might be closed. The restaurant wasn't open for its regular lunch hours when I visited today. The reader said it has been this way for "weeks."The restaurant's phone number remain ... More >>

Magazine Names St. Louis' Neighborhood "Best Bargain" in Nation

Google MapsA couple of the turn-of-century homes in Compton Heights, some of which can go for as low as $200,000, according to This Old House.​This Old House magazine shines a spotlight on St. Louis this month, singling out the Compton Heights neighborhood as one of the best bargains in the countr ... More >>

La Tejana lets its tacos do the talking

Google MapsA couple of the turn-of-century homes in Compton Heights, some of which can go for as low as $200,000, according to This Old House.​This Old House magazine shines a spotlight on St. Louis this month, singling out the Compton Heights neighborhood as one of the best bargains in the countr ... More >>

Downtown Macy's Downsizing

Google MapsThe Macy's will now occupy the first three floors. ​The Macy's in the Railway Exchange Building at Olive and 6th Street is downsizing, according to blogger Steve Patterson. Patterson writes on his Urban Review STL that the city's only downtown department store will now occupy three floo ... More >>

City Hall Vicinity Offers Hotdogs, Male Strippers

Happy birthday, Mr. Mayor!​Looks like the whiz-kids out at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA haven't worked out all the bugs yet.According to Google Maps, the adult performance agency "Life of the Party" sits right in the middle of Market Street between City Hall and Soldier's Memorial.  (L ... More >>

SEIU Rallies Outside Express Scripts, Inc.'s St. Louis Headquarters

Kase WickmanProtestors at Monday's rally outside Express Scripts' headquarters near UMSL​ For the last four days, two massive tour buses carrying 50 unionized employees of Express Scripts, Inc.'s Bensalem, Penn. facility have been rolling toward St. Louis. Monday afternoon, they gathered outside t ... More >>

Arnold, Missouri Makes a Cameo in "Top Secret America"

Big Brother lives in Arnold, MO​The investigative report "Top Secret America" published early last week by The Washington Post offers a startling peak into the mysterious world inhabited Big Brother. The authors describe how the NSA intercepts billions of phone calls, emails and text messages each ... More >>

AP Tries to Put Gulf Oil Spill in Perspective, Fails Miserably

Image sourceThe Count. Now an AP scribe?​Is constant bad news about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill getting you down? Then take heart in the fact that all the gooey black stuff washing up on white sand beaches, ravaging Louisiana marshlands, and choking pelicans to death wouldn't even fill the Sup ... More >>

Aldermen Considering A "Public Art Trust Fund" For St. Louis

Image sourceThe face of Citygarden​From Citygarden to the colorfully painted parking pots on South Grand, St. Louis already has its share of public art. The problem, some elected officials and activists believe, is that the vast majority of the city's public art is concentrated in already-bustling ... More >>

RFT readers debate the rights of animals, Dumpster divers, pregnant women and mustachioed men

Image sourceThe face of Citygarden​From Citygarden to the colorfully painted parking pots on South Grand, St. Louis already has its share of public art. The problem, some elected officials and activists believe, is that the vast majority of the city's public art is concentrated in already-bustling ... More >>

Carondelet Leadership Academy to Open in August

Carondelet Leadership Academy (CLA), a new charter school, will be opening in (where else) Carondelet next fall, in the old St. Boniface school at 7604 Michigan Avenue. The school will start out with 300 students in kindergarten through fifth grade but will expand up through eighth grade in future y ... More >>

The Latest On King Khan's Kentucky Adventure

KK & BBQ.​Free advice to all musicians driving from Nashville to St. Louis: Stick to the main roads, especially when in Kentucky.The King Khan & BBQ Show didn't show up for their nearly sold-out gig last night in St. Louis (original openers Those Darlins and Deer Tick's John McCa ... More >>

The Bus is Back In Town

www.flickr.com/photos/afagen​So our tongues may have been planted firmly in our cheeks when it came to the Best Bus Route category in our 2009 Best Of St. Louis issue:Best Bus RouteWe regret due to lack of funding service to this category is suspended.But despite seemingly every useful stop in the ... More >>

Introducing FaceFeed: Friendfeed Acquired by Facebook for "Roughly $50 Million"

​ Facebook announced yesterday that it is aquiring Friendfeed for "roughly $50 Million" acording to Techchrunch. This may or may not mean anything to you depending on if you are a current user of Friendfeed. Friendfeed has always been one of the secondary status update services that started shortl ... More >>

Fire Destroys Home of Carole Buck, Widow of Cardinals Broadcaster Jack Buck

www.nab.orgJack Buck​A fire early this morning ripped through the suburban St. Louis home of Carole Buck, widow of the late Cardinals broadcaster Jack Buck. According to media reports, the fire awoke Buck's widow, Carole Buck, around 1 a.m. this morning. She called 911 herself and escaped the blaz ... More >>

Retracing Sunday Night's Shooting Spree

I'm convinced that Google Maps will someday provide us with a form of virtual travel that's just as good as the real thing. For example, I already use the Web site (and its incredible Street View feature) to revisit places I've traveled and check out new places I'd like to see. It can also be used f ... More >>

Top 10 Places to Drink in St. Louis Before the Hold Steady Show

(poster by Logan Alexander; original here) The Hold Steady are playing Monday night at the Gargoyle on the campus of Washington University. It's a dry venue, meaning the only drinking patrons ever do there during a show there is in a bathroom stall or out of a water bottle filled with booze.No ... More >>

Van Halen: Is Geography on Its Side in St. Louis This time?

(poster by Logan Alexander; original here) The Hold Steady are playing Monday night at the Gargoyle on the campus of Washington University. It's a dry venue, meaning the only drinking patrons ever do there during a show there is in a bathroom stall or out of a water bottle filled with booze.No ... More >>

Test-Drive Your Highway 40 Detour

(poster by Logan Alexander; original here) The Hold Steady are playing Monday night at the Gargoyle on the campus of Washington University. It's a dry venue, meaning the only drinking patrons ever do there during a show there is in a bathroom stall or out of a water bottle filled with booze.No ... More >>

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Week of November 30, 2006