Holiday Season

St. Louis White Christmas Expected 24 Hours Late

St. Louis could experience a white Christmas after all, just not in the traditional sense with the snow arriving Christmas Eve and blanketing the ground in time for St. Nick's visit. Instead, the white stuff is expected to begin late on Christmas Day (Tuesday) and last into Wednesday morning.

The Train Attraction

Presents and Pasties

The Worst of the Season

For Christmas, What do you Get the Music-Loving Acquaintance who Already has Nothing?

Deep inside Spotify headquarters, at this very moment, some poor marketing team is tasked with the idea of making Spotify gift accounts sound like a good idea for a Christmas present. I know this because I am too cheap to pay to make the Spotify ads go away. So far they've been wise enough not to ... More >>

Holiday Wreath Auction

Ready, Set, Lights!

The Seafarer at Union Avenue Christian Church

Four Catholic Masses for Hearing Gorgeous Traditional Christmas Music in St. Louis

Image via​Say what you will about the Catholic faith: It has inspired, over the centuries, some haunting and beautiful Christmas melodies, and our city's faithful know how to do them justice. Here are four masses for tasting the tradition:    St. Margaret of Scotland [map]Best mass for m ... More >>

RFT Music Presents the Worst Christmas Song of All Time

Linda Bennett with Ricky Nelson on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet in 1960, fifteen years before the atrocity that is "An Old Fashioned Christmas (Daddy's Home)."​Yesterday Jezebel anointed "The Christmas Shoes" the worst Christmas song of all time. We at RFT Music agree that this maudlin ... More >>

Where to Eat on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Image via​For some folks, Christmas is a day of mandatory family time in celebration of some cool old cat's birthday, and for others, it's an ever-annoying nuisance that means little to them except that there's nothing to do. But there's one thing we all have in common: We gotta eat. -Demun ... More >>

Every Bert Dax Christmas Volume Nine Track, Streaming with Commentary: Part Two of Six

Image via.​A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume Nine has now officially been released. The ninth annual X-Mas compilation, a joint release by Rob Severson from Pancake Productions (subject of this week's music feature) and Matt Harnish of The Bert Dax Calvacade of Stars, features a pool of truly ... More >>

The Ten Best Things to do in St. Louis This Weekend: December 9 to 11

Celia's Yuletide Xpress comes to Off Broadway on Sunday.​It's the most wonderful time of the year! Well, OK, not actually if you're looking for big-name tours. But that doesn't mean you have no choice but to hole up this weekend. Soul party-starters JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound play Off Broad ... More >>

Ralph Linder: St. Louis Christmas Tree Farmer

Julia GabbertRalph Lindner puts it in park at his O'Fallon Christmas tree farm.​Ralph Lindner passes the small lake on his property as the sun starts to descend behind the hills lined with conifers. Lindner, 73, has trouble walking far. Instead, he's utilizing his "wheelchair" -- a red Snapper ... More >>

Puttin' the Ass in Christmas

Krumpet's Revenge

Hot Snow

From Russia, With Love

Gut Check's New Year's Eve Recommendations

Image viaRaise a glass (or three) to 2011.​This is a sticky post. The latest Gut Check post follows this one.While Gut Check prefers to spend New Year's Eve nursing a bottle of whiskey and another twelve months' worth of accumulated regrets, I suspect more than a few of you plan to ring in 2011 wi ... More >>

How to Eat Your Christmas Tree

Chef Rene Redzepi thinks it's a shame that Christmas trees are used for a few days then discarded, so he writes in the New York Times that perhaps we should considering eating our Christmas trees. "Maybe for us Westerners the Christmas tree becomes, if only briefly, like a beloved pet. And who would ... More >>

Funky Butt Brass Band Christmas Show

9 p.m. Saturday, December 18. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Serenity Now

Hanukkah Music to Cook By

image via​Can we just agree that Hanukkah food kicks all sorts of ass over Hanukkah music? Yes, yes, yes, there's "The Hanukkah Song." Let me tell you about "The Hanukkah Song." It's the Hanukkah version of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer": amusing the first time you hear it, exponentiall ... More >>

Hanukkah Tunes: The Remix, Courtesy of Anander Mol, Anander Veig

image via​Can we just agree that Hanukkah food kicks all sorts of ass over Hanukkah music? Yes, yes, yes, there's "The Hanukkah Song". Let me tell you about "The Hanukkah Song." It's the Hanukkah version of "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer": amusing the first time you hear it, exponentially ... More >>

Intercontinental Christmas

Corral a Friend for the Chorale

Untamed Evenings

Train, Train

Halls Decked to the Nines

Let's Go See Santa

The Reason for the Season in Song

Sweeter than Figgy Pudding

Not Your Garden-Variety Caroling

Pork You, Christmas

Holidays (and Nights)

What Day Is It?

Bulbs of Passion

Millions of lights every night

Stocking Stuffing: Ian jots down his 2008 Christmas wish list for the local food scene

Cold, Cold War

It's a North Pole nightmare

Sounds of the Season

The Black Cat classes it up

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

Keepin' It Jolly

Make Romance

Sometimes You Feel Like a Nutcracker

Drunk on Xmas Spirits

It’s New, It’s Now, It’s Yum

The Jingle Bell Bach

Boughs of Holly

And then some

Go Deutsch

Lego My Messiah!

Behold! In Belleville, the glory of the Lord shines 'round about...lots of blocks.