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RIP Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman: Does This Mean the End of Slayer?

As a lifetime die-hard Slayer fan, I had to do a double-take when I got a text from RFT Music editor Daniel Hill asking if I'd like to write a piece on the passing of Jeff Hanneman. "Fuck yeah I'd like to write something about Slayer," I thought. But wait a minute... WHAT? I had not yet heard of h ... More >>

We Hang Out With Some Crazy Marines Drinking Their Asses Off at Coachella

The following comes from Nate Jackson, of the RFT's sister paper, the OC Weekly.In full grips of the dry desert heat, the fine art of day drinking at Coachella becomes a game of survival of the fittest. Sweltering temperatures in the high 90s aren't necessarily ideal conditions to bombard your liver ... More >>

Tony LaRussa's Wife: Huge Metalhead?

Lita Ford, Doro Pesch, Elaine LaRussa. Names that come to mind when thinking of the top heavy metal babes of all time? Not exactly, but it seems the wife of the man who led this city's baseball team to two World Series championships may prefer the mosh pit over the dugout herself. See also: - The 2 ... More >>

Murphy's Law

8 p.m. Saturday, August 25. Fubar, 3108 Locust Street.

Gin Blosssoms, Sugar Ray, Everclear, Lit and Marcy Playground at the Family Arena, 8/7/12: Reviews, Photos and Setlists

Summerland Tour 2012 Family Arena August 7, 2012 "Everyone here will know at least one song by one band tonight," Art Alexakis, lead singer of Everclear, promised early in the night at last night's Summerland concert at the Family Arena (2002 Arena Parkway, St. Charles; 636-896-4200). Alexakis was ... More >>

Farewell to Red Bones Den, North St. Louis' Home of the $6 Beer

The Lawrence Arms

8 p.m. Thursday, January 12. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Not Waving but Drowning

9 p.m. Saturday, December 31. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

100 St. Louis Bands, 100 Drink Pairings: A Comprehensive Guide

It's like having Tom Crusie at your beck and call at every St. Louis show. ​Oh, the interwebz. You give us so many awesome gifts. You even take things that are already awesome, and then you put a kitten on them and make them even awesomer. For that we thank you. Today we celebrate Drinkify.or ... More >>

Hog Bomb, HotShots

Mary ManganYou won't find bacon in HotShots' Hob Bombs.​You've probably heard the term "McJob," or, even more likely, "GenX," both of which were coined by Douglas Coupland in his 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. We're going to borrow a couple more: Nutritional Slummi ... More >>

Eight Fast Food and Alcohol Matches Made in Heaven

aldenteblog.comYou want fries with that Burger King beer?​ Taking lead from a handful of Whopper Bars -- Burger King restaurants that serve beer -- and a few Seattle Starbucks outlets that have started serving beer and wine in the evenings, Sonic's jumping on the fast food booze bandwagon. Two ... More >>

Osama bin Laden Felching the Fat Dixie Chick, and 6 Other Appropriately Themed Celebratory Cocktails

​A dispatch Monday afternoon from the all-things-food site Eater.com noted that restaurants are offering drink specials in honor of the killing of Public Enemy No. 1 Osama bin Laden. A few establishments among the handful of examples Eater cited were serving free drinks, but the majority were ... More >>

Hurricane Recipes? Try a Gulf Spill! Top 10 Natural Disaster Cocktails

Given that Saturday's Mardi Gras celebration is the proverbial bad-taste storm before the calm, it's only fitting that the big party's signature drink is sweet, lethal and named after an actual storm. That's right: the Hurricane. If you're in the mood for something different this weekend, Gut Check ... More >>

Drunken Dunkin' Donuts!

​It's a positively Homer Simpsonian concept with a Mr. Burns execution. Chef Zac Young of Flex Mussels in New York City and Top Chef: Just Desserts has been injecting doughnut holes with upscale booze. Of course, it's a hit. How could it not be? It's doughnuts and alcohol! But not everyone can ... More >>

Photos: Buckcherry, Hellyeah at the Jagermeister Music Tour, Pop's, Friday, February 4

On Friday night, the Jagermeister Music Tour -- which features Buckcherry, Hellyeah, All That Remains and the Damned Things -- came to a reopened Pop's. Photographer Steve Truesdell took in the action and brought back a slideshow of photos. A few samples are below.Steve TruesdellHellyeah at Pop's ... More >>

Brad Pennies(TM) Rare Mark McGwire Mis-Pressing!

They were on a Jägermeister binge at the Denver mint, evidently!​For links to the full set (so far) of Brad Pennies(TM), click through to the jump...

Show Review Photos: Crue Fest 2, featuring Motley Crue, Godsmack, Theory of a Deadman, Cavo, Drowning Pool, Rev Theory at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Tuesday, August 11

REVIEW BY MATTHEW JACKSON Photo: Steve TruesdellMotley Crue last night. See more photos from Crue Fest 2 last night in St. Louis.​ Let's get right to it: Motley Crue may be tabloid royalty -- from blowjobs to blackouts, is there anything we don't know about Mick, Tommy, Nikki, and Vince? -- bu ... More >>

Wine & Whining at Lindenwood U.

flickr.com/photos/markoweIt was at the Lindenwood University cycling team's second meet of the season at DePauw University that Paddy Kilmurray, the team captain, first butted heads with his coach, Adrienne Murphy."After the meet," recalls team member Addison Bain, 19, "she took us to a pub. She ord ... More >>

Pennywise

7 p.m. Sunday, April 19. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

St. Louis Serenade: Seven years in the making, Kyle Beachy's debut novel is a love letter to the Gateway City

Alton Confidential: Naked truths about bare-breasted barmaids, horrific murders and the ghosts that haunt our favorite little river town

The Wedge Grand Opening: Saturday, November 29, featuring LoFreq, Holy Python's Last Show

Though it's been open for business for about a month now, the Wedge is celebrating its official grand opening this Saturday, November 29. Besides drink specials (Jagermeister, Absolut Vodka and Jameson's Whiskey are sponsors, so you know they'll be potent) and free food samples, the venue ... More >>

St. Louis Mardi Gras Jäger Bomb

Drinks of the Year

Kristie raises a glass to her favorite drinks of 2007.

Lollapalooza, Day One: The Rest of the Fest

Irish Bridge Bomb

Pat's Bar & Grill, 6400 Oakland Avenue; 314-647-6553.

Party Foul

The state scolds Mardi Gras Inc. for goose-stepping over the line.

Party Nazis

Has Mardi Gras become a tool of mega-buck sponsors? That's what state and federal authorities are asking.

Halloween Listings

Week of October 26, 2006

Twist of Fate

This former St. Louis Blues star has skated on some thin ice since leaving the rink

Hair Shirt

Revealed! The diary of a traumatized Shih Tzu, a local blogger's bedroom confessions and the wherefores of wearing human hair! Plus, the triumphant (and drunken) return of Charles Bearkowski.

RFT New Year's Eve Guide

Week of December 22, 2005

Serengeti

Friday, September 23; the Hi-Pointe (1001 McCausland Avenue)

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of August 17, 2005

Roll Out the Barrel

Strassenfest is a barrel of laughs

The New Mini

Putting the "putt" in putt-putt

Romana Black Sambuca

Trattoria Strada Nova, 21 North Ninth Street, Columbia, 573-442-8992

Best Open-Mic Night

The Stagger Inn...Again

Best Bowling Lanes

Saratoga Lanes

Smashed Mouth?

A band with some redacted words for Enterprise Rent-A-Car

Livin' la Vida Slipknot

A brave soul brings Iowa hardcore into his life

Raising the Bar

A week of the drink

Mardi Gras Listings

Week of February 11, 2004

Amaro Nonino

I Fratellini, 7624 Wydown Boulevard, 314-727-7901

Brown Squirrel

Venice Café, 1901 Pestalozzi Street, 314-772-5994

Hoosiers

The stereotype is all about cheap beer, fast cars and fat girls. But there's a little bit of hoosier in all of us.

Drinkin' Dirt

Bargain brews such as Pabst Blue Ribbon are making a comeback in some of St. Louis' hippest clubs, but Anheuser-Busch isn't too worried

Best College-Town Bar

Stagger Inn... Again

Syrup, Lofreq and Swampass

Thursday, April 26; Way Out Club

QUICKIES

Beware of mysterious new bands bearing gifts; apologies to Devon Allman and the members of the Jerry Mathers