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Derby Day Best Bets

For the past 139 years, on the first Saturday in May, women have donned obnoxiously large hats and sipped mint juleps, men have bet their hard earned money, and three-year-old thoroughbreds have sped down a track in Louisville, Kentucky in an attempt to claim the biggest prize in horse racing. The ... More >>

Top Eight St. Louis Bar Bathrooms for a Quickie

You're sitting across the table from an attractive paramour, sipping drinks and making small talk. There's a lull in the conversation, your eyes meet. You stare deep into each other's souls, and like knowledge being dropped from the heavens, suddenly you both know. You must have sex as soon as poss ... More >>

[UPDATED] Hey, How About Turning Union Station Into...A Soccer Stadium?

Update October 17: Alert reader Mike M. from Arlington, Virginia, has written in with a hopeful message about St. Louis' prospects for a Major League Soccer team. Find out what it is at the end of this post. ------ Original Post: As far as malls go, Union Station has always been kind of a dud. Sur ... 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 >>

Sip the Summer Away: Ten great outdoor-drinking destinations

Eat Me in St. Louis: Ten Splurge Restaurants for March Madness Visitors

Hello, fans of North Carolina, North Carolina State, Kansas and Ohio, and welcome to St. Louis for the -- deep breath -- 2012 NCAA Division One Men's Basketball Championship Midwest Regionals! You've come all the way to St. Louis to watch your beloved team fight for a berth in the Final Four. Why n ... More >>

The Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax: Indianapolis mobilizes for an epic battle with an urban legend.

Catching a Cardinals Game from 26 Stories Up -- The View From Three Sixty

​Those of you who follow me on Twitter know that my press credentials didn't get me the greatest of seats to Tuesday night's playoff game at Busch Stadium. National media and legitimate sports reporters gobbled up the good seats in the press box (as they should), leaving this blogger to catch the ... More >>

LouFest 2011: What to Expect, What to See and More

​It's no secret we're all aflutter over the return of LouFest, our city's very own large-scale indie music festival. Not only does the to-do feature eighteen bands on two stages over two days, it's set in the green jewel of our city, Forest Park, and attracts national acts in genres from hip h ... More >>

July 2011 Openings & Closings

Maplewood's the Red Lion was among July's closures.​July was yet another busy month for restaurant openings and closings in St. Louis. Notable debuts include the first area location of the "better burger" chain Smashburger and Three Sixty, the rooftop restaurant and bar atop the Hilton at th ... More >>

Preview: 360 Bar at the Hilton Opens Monday, July 25

10 points if you can hock a loogie and hit the Arch. ​Gut Check was feeling a little poor yesterday. $5 parking seemed an unnecessary expense, so we parked on the street, surrendering our last quarters to the meter. As we sweated our way down the sidewalk and into the air-conditioned plush of ... More >>

Animal lovers protect Canada geese from death -- by harassing them

The Terrace View, Jonathan Olson Part Ways

Robin WheelerChef Jonathan Olson​Jonathan Olson is no longer running the kitchen at The Terrace View (808 Chestnut Street; 314-436-8855), the Jim Fiala restaurant inside the grounds of Citygarden.Neither Olson nor Fiala, in separate phone interviews, wished to delve into the details of the split." ... More >>

Rich Dad? Poor Dad! BBB Urges Caution on Kiyosaki-Inspired Seminars

Rich Dad, Poor Dad seminars offer get-rich advice -- but left Shawn Moody significantly poorer.​Shawn Moody just wanted to get back to work. After a career in sales, the 50something Moody found herself unemployed in early 2010. So when she heard about the Rich Dad, Poor Dad seminars coming to her ... More >>

Paddy O's New Rooftop Bar is Pretty Sweet

Yesterday atop Paddy O's new rooftop bar.​We bloggers don't get a chance to leave our parents' basement very often. So forgive me if this is old news to those of you living above ground. But I just gotta say: The new rooftop deck at Paddy O's is pretty cool. And it's even better while playing hook ... More >>

Get Your Early-Morning Soccer Kicks Here

​It's 6:30 a.m. on a recent Sunday morning inside Tigín Irish Pub on Washington Avenue -- the perfect time for a breakfast pint of Guinness. OK, so it's not actually 6:30 a.m. -- it's more like 9:45 (some morning drinkers are bolder than others). But a few of the patrons here actually did st ... More >>

Busch Stadium to Get Wrigley Field Experience: Nearby Rooftop Bar

Google Earth​Okay, so it's not exactly a four-story brownstone. And it's not located right across the street from the action, but hey, it's as close as we've got to Wrigleyville rooftops in St. Louis. The downtown hotel St. Louis Hilton at the Ballpark announced this week its plans to add a roofto ... More >>

On Golden Wands

St. Louis SHOULD Host the 2012 Democratic Convention

flickr.com/photos/local_louisville/​When Democratic officials dropped by St. Louis last week to unofficially check out whether we can handle their next convention, we really showed 'em something. And I'm not talking about Chuck Berry and Nelly (though our native sons did a fine job). What I'm talk ... More >>

FoodWire: "Hiway Farty Party" at Fountain on Locust Sunday, 12.6

The Fountain on Locust (3037 Locust Street; website) is celebrating the reopening of Highway 40 -- or, as the locals love to call it, Highway Farty -- with a "Hiway Farty Party" from 5-9 p.m. on Sunday, December 6. The party will include 40-cent bowl of bean soup (with purchase of meal), a 40-cent " ... More >>

How 'Bout That New Hardee's Commercial? You Know, The One With Padma Lakshmi?

March Madness has taken on Super Bowl status in recent years with advertisers debuting dozens of new commercials during the tourney. This year, one of those ads has received a lot more attention than others -- at least among the folks I've watched the games with over the past two weeks. I'm talking ... More >>

SXSW Day 2: No Leonard Cohen, the Hold Steady Stay Positive, Blind Pilot Soars

Imagine, if you will, the worst possible way to spend a day at SXSW, one that doesn't involve an emergency colonoscopy or a Marnie Stern showcase, and then imagine something even more tedious and despairing, a day of utter humiliation and loathing. And then it really starts to go downhill.I should h ... More >>

Drink of the Week: Tennent's of Scotland

Highlander Bar and Grill
5656 Oakland Avenue

Feel a Draught?: Tigín opens an outpost in a Hampton Inn downtown? O'Really!

Review Preview: Tigín

Funeral for a Friend

6 p.m. Friday, June 15. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Blvd.

Have Your Cake

And celebrate it, too

Snakes in the Office

Copperheads invade a local real-estate company, but former employees say the biggest snake of them all is their ex-boss.

Skater Boyz N the Hood

Teen rebels rule in Larry Clark’s Wassup Rockers.

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

In Style

Elliott Davis and Larry Conners hit the catwalk, much to Ms. Day's delight

Room and Bored

400 Olive is a decent hotel restaurant -- but certainly not a destination in itself

Song of the STL

On Saturday, September 4, we tuned in to local musical frequencies in their vast and varied incarnations. What we heard, all day and all night:

Sounds Around Town

Week of June 30, 2004

Summer Film Previews

Our critics enter the summer-movie fray

Sounds Around Town

Week of March 10, 2004

Sounds Around Town

Week of December 31, 2003

2003 New Year's Eve Guide

Sounds Around Town

Week of October 29, 2003

Sounds Around Town

Week of August 27, 2003

Flying Bland

Cast against type, Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno get mired in stale formula

When Pigs Fly

On this flight, the biggest threat seemed to be a gassed-up, grabby pilot

Big Muddy Blues Festival

Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 1 and 2; Laclede's Landing

What Was Your Last Act of Philanthropy?

Week of March 7, 2001

After the Deluge

Since the Flood of 93, Chesterfield boosters have used millions in public money to raise a levee and turn the bottomlands into a boomtown. But betting against the river is risky business.

Joker's Wild

Casino lawyer Michael Lazaroff cheated for years -- and the insiders knew. Now that he's cut the deal of his life, why does anybody believe him?

Their Ticket Out

Development plans could mean the end of Edmundson. Most residents are ready to go.

NO-SELL HOTEL

Ex-Mayor Vincent Schoemehl swings a headache ball at the city's convention-center-hotel deal -- and misses

THE BIG FIX

A desperate St. Louis pays top dollar to gamble on a risky convention-center hotel

A Boondoggle for the Ages

Convention-hotel plan makes past fiascos look like genius