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The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Weekend: May 4 to 6

Cinco de Mayo, Derby Day and First Friday are only a few of the excuses to get out and get your drink on this weekend. Besides that, rejoice over the bounty of a new farmers' market season in Tower Grove Park, celebrate Big Sky Cafe's 21st anniversary or take a tour or class this weekend. Details on ... More >>

Grand Market to Open in Strauss Park This Summer

St. Louis has oodles of markets, but there's nothing quite like Grand Market, slated to open in Strauss Park (Washington & North Grand Boulevards) this summer. According to market coordinator Martin Casas, the market will be part arts venue, part specialty store and part produce vendor. It will ta ... More >>

20 Reasons to Love Winter in St. Louis

We admit it. Winter in St. Louis can be pretty damn dreary. Weeks can go by without a ray of sunlight penetrating the grey sky. And then there's the cold -- a humid frigidity that drills right to the bones. It's enough to bring on a deep depression if you cannot open your eyes to all the great thi ... More >>

KDHX: Not Playing the Hits for 25 Years

YOU Can Restore Missouri's Tarnished Political Reputation: MOLLI's List Benefit Tonight

Since the bust of Rush Limbaugh went up in the state capitol, Todd Akin offered up his theories of "legitimate rape" and the legislature overrode Governor Nixon's veto of the bill that would allow employers to deny insurance coverage of birth control, Missouri has become a laughingstock among progre ... More >>

Sweetie Pie's at the Mangrove Closed; Original, Upper Crust Still Open [Updated 2x: Closure "Temporary"]

This might serve as a spoiler for fans of Welcome to Sweetie Pie's, the reality show on Oprah Winfrey's OWN cable network. For Gut Check, it's news: Sweetie Pie's at the Mangrove (4270 Manchester Avenue; 314-371-0304) in the Grove district of the city's Forest Park Southeast neighborhood has closed. ... More >>

The Nine Best Hotels in St. Louis

The 2012 Best of St. Louis issue is fast approaching. Have you voted yet? Go do it now before it's too late! Have you finished debating the finer points of the 2011 issue? We haven't, hence this list. While researching contenders for a certain Best Of category last year, we realized our town has a h ... More >>

Moves and Grooves: Art stands up, fills the streets and joins the circus

Philip Slein Gallery Moving to Central West End; Shearburn Heads to Grand Center

​It's a game of musical chairs for a trio of St. Louis art galleries. Next month the Philip Slein Gallery on Washington Avenue plans to move to the current home of William Shearburn Gallery in the Central West End. Shearburn, in turn, is moving temporarily to Grand Center, to the building that onc ... More >>

New Year's Eve in St. Louis: Ten Best Things to Do Under $10

It's a metaphor: We do not advocate infant boozing. ​The best part of New Year's Eve is getting ready for it. The worst part is usually right around 11:57pm, when it dawns that you just blew a couple hundred dollars to end up chugging pink Andre curbside while your best friend blows chunks in ... More >>

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 >>

Clothes Make the Man

Cafe Pintxos: The Case of the Transient Tapas

New Year's Eve Theme? Grand Center Wants Your Help

Above: The dance theme in Never Been Kissed was famous couples throughout history. Below: Want a Never Been Kissed-themed dance? Make it happen.​If you missed your chance, either on purpose or by accident, to be on your high school's prom committee, don't worry about it. You can be on the city ... More >>

Cryptic Highlights this Weekend's Art Openings

Allison Schulnik is a multi-media artist whose paintings, drawings, short films and "things" both disturb and entice with her eerie depictions of animals, people and hobo clowns. Her work, along with the works of five other artists, will be on display at the Contemporary Art Museum as part of the ex ... More >>

St. Louis Public Radio To Break Ground on $10-Million Building This Month

news.stlpublicradio.orgA rendering of KWMU's future digs.​St. Louis Public Radio (KWMU 90.7 FM) announced yesterday that it plans to break ground April 15 on its new headquarters in Grand Center. The station has been operating out of a basement bunker on the campus of University of Missouri - St. ... More >>

Patients at Area VA Hospital Denied Soft Foods

Hospital officials get saucy.​No applesauce for you! In a devastating account of medical malpractice, four nurses who work at the John Cochran VA Medical Center have come forward to reveal a litany of violations occurring inside their facility. Their disclosures were made public during a pres ... More >>

The top ten St. Louis music news stories in 2010

Milagro Modern Mexican has ambitions far beyond south-of-the-border same old

Art/Food: Contemporary and Pulitzer Collaborate on Art for Food's Sake, and Food for Art's Sake

On June 5, Grand Center neighbors the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis join forces to present Art/Food, an event designed to bring together the two different mediums -- and the two different institutions -- for an afternoon. Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCA ... More >>

Review Slideshow: Kota Wood Fire Grill

Jennifer SilverbergJason Tilford, executive chef at Kota Wood Fire Grill​Hey, guys, let's put on a show! Bring your costume and change for the meter. My review of Kota Wood Fire Grill (522 North Grand Boulevard; 314-535-5577), the new restaurant at Grand Center, is now available online. Coming soo ... More >>

10 Things to do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, May 14-16, 2010

It's that time of week again -- you're hopefully left with at least a few hours of free time where you can decide to do whatever you feel like: No time-sucking birthday lunches, Saturday morning soccer games or shift-covering for your slacker of a coworker. ("How has he not been fired yet?" you may ... More >>

It's Art: Yasmina Reza's celebrated play has lost neither allure nor impact

St. Louis' Top 10 Cheap New Year's Eve Parties for 2009

If you plan on having an Andre champagne sort of New Year's Eve, these options may suit your budget.​Now more than ever, we need not-expensive alternatives to kicking a tough 2009 out the door and welcoming a new year. So we're bringing it back to you this year, our top ten list of cheap New Year' ... More >>

Insect Inside

In fact, there are a bunch of 'em!

This Week's Review: Wm. Shakespeare's Gastropub

My review of Wm. Shakespeare's Gastropub is now available online.

Mastering the Art

Older paint, newer digs

Your Weekly Food Blog Digest

Current Shows

Robert Duffy encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Moving Units

A local club finds a new owner, while Lojic leaves the Lou for LA

Movin' Right Along

KDHX holds a pledge drive, and the Creepy Crawl sets a moving date

Letters

Week of October 13, 2004

Our Contemporary

Help the Contemporary Art Museum celebrate its first anniversary in style

Art House Movies

Contemporary gets a silver screen

High (Wire) Noon

Circus Flora goes West

Letters

Week of April 21, 2004

Final Fling

First Night St. Louis and Celebrate 2004 let you party, party, party -- and still like yourself in the morning

A New View

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis comes in like a lion

Ring Around Grand Center

The return of Circus Flora

Prediction: Butts Hit Seats in Six

Free flicks at the Fox

Sounds Around Town

Week of June 12, 2002

Catching Some Z

Trust us -- the food at Z is great. You just won't be able to see it.

The Deal of the Century

Convention and Visitors Commission honcho John Ferrara gets hot and bothered about the RFT's treatment of the Trans World Dome deal; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles

OUR MAJESTY

Jazzing up the Omni Majestic's Mahogany Room

Night & Day

May 19 - 26, 1999

This Week

This Week

From the Norm

South African architect Jo Noero designs buildings that put people first, helping revitalize a country devastated by apartheid. Now he's working in St. Louis to rebuild the inner city. His greatest obstacle: "You can't do that here."

This Week

This Week

Highlights from RFT's "Calendar"