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Review Preview: Café Pintxos

Jennifer SilverbergThe ensalda de pulpo (octopus salad) at Café Pintxos​This week, I visit Café Pintxos (3407 Olive Street; 314-338-2500), the restaurant inside the new Hotel Ignacio in midtown.The Basque term pintxos is roughly synonymous with tapas, and if you think of Café Pintxos as a tapas ... More >>

Missouri Democratic Party Calls on Peter Kinder to Reimburse Tax Payers for Lavish Hotel Stays

Peter Kinder appearing in a 2010 interview about his lawsuit to stop "Obamacare."​If you didn't see yesterday's article on Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder, stop what your doing and give it a read. Post-Dispatch reporter Jake Wagman provides a text-book example on how to nail a double-tal ... More >>

St. Louis Ritz-Carlton Offers Most Creative Interpretation Yet of Smoking Ban Rules

The Ritz-Carlton Lyin Lion​The Post-Dispatch reports this morning that the St. Louis Ritz-Carlton has become Clayton's first business ticketed for violating the city's smoking ban that went into effect last July. The pricey hotel received the citation Saturday while hosting its annual Cigar Club p ... More >>

Richmond Heights Wants to Become "Tourist Destination" -- by Taxing the Hell Out of Tourists

Admit it: You'd pay ungodly tax rates to vacation here.​With a tax rate on hotel rooms of 15.67 percent, the suburb of Richmond Heights already has one of the higher hotel tax rates in the nation -- higher than such tourist meccas as San Francisco and New York City, the St. Louis Business Journal ... More >>

Auction to Benefit a Possible Chuck Berry Statue Goes Well

Last week, the Daily RFT reported that KMOX's Charlie Brennan, who is spearheading the cause to get a Chuck Berry statue built in the Delmar Loop, hosted an online/on-air auction to raise money. The results are in: Over $13,000 was raised. The highest bids? $2000 for Tony LaRussa's personal season t ... More >>

Pitbull

10 p.m. Saturday, December 19. Home Nightclub, One Ameristar Boulevard, St. Charles.

Stars

8 p.m. Thursday, September 25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

Drury Hotels Wants Us to 'Spurge' On Our Spouse and Kids

8 p.m. Thursday, September 25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

Loop's Moonrise Hotel to Open April 2009

8 p.m. Thursday, September 25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

8 p.m. Thursday, September 25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

Make Romance

8 p.m. Thursday, September 25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

Smoke and Mirrors in Hermann, Missouri

8 p.m. Thursday, September 25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

Donkey Discord

Christmas in St. Charles gets a commercial sheen

Say the Magic Word

Poof! Hordes of talented magicians appear in St. Louis!

HoJo A-Go-Go

One Night Stand will baptize you in the name of rock

Best Weekend Getaway

Hermann

Brunch

MoKaBe's

Best Hotel Room

Westin Hotel

The Thrill of the Chase

Anton's, the first of the restaurants to open in the newly rehabbed Chase Park Plaza, delivers moderately priced luxury

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

WHITE NOISE

The appointment of a senior executive of the discrimination-claim-plagued Adam's Mark chain to a leadership position in the St. Louis County NAACP stirs outrage