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May 11, 2012
Judge Invalidates Citizens' Petition to Strip Trupiano Family of Nightclub Liquor License
The Trupiano siblings -- operators of The Social House in Soulard and the now-defunct Club Lure on Washington Avenue -- won a big battle this week in the long-standing war over their liquor license. On Wednesday, 22nd Circuit Judge Mark Neill invalidated a petition drive that had been launched again ... More >>
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February 27, 2012
Bryson Demoted From Public Safety Director Post Days Before Correction Commish's Hearing
Charles BrysonOn Friday the mayor's office demoted Charles Bryson from his post as Public Safety Director and assigned him to his previous job, a neighborhood specialist for the administration. The move comes days before the civil service commission is to hold a hearing to examine whether Correct ... More >>
Dining
January 5, 2012
A Real Cluster Truck: As food trucks proliferate, tension builds between mobile vendors and immovable eateries
Charles BrysonOn Friday the mayor's office demoted Charles Bryson from his post as Public Safety Director and assigned him to his previous job, a neighborhood specialist for the administration. The move comes days before the civil service commission is to hold a hearing to examine whether Correct ... More >>
Blogs
December 21, 2011
Food Trucks Hit Speed Bump at Broadway and Pine [Updated]
A major update, including new details on the cause of the dispute and a lengthy interview with the owner of Monty's Sandwich Emporium, follows the original post after the jump.Over the first year (and change) of the St. Louis food truck boom, one of the trucks' favored parking spots has been the dow ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2011
City Approves Funding for New Animal Shelter on North Side
City leaders are taking steps to curb St. Louis' stray dog problem.The city's Estimates and Appropriations Committee unanimously approved yesterday a proposal to use $170,000 from last year's budget surplus to build a new animal shelter in north St. Louis. The plan is to lease and renovate a va ... More >>
Blogs
October 20, 2011
Report: AB-InBev Outraged Over World Series Bet Excluding Budweiser
Cardinals and Budweiser: Nothing to make light of.St. Louis gossipmeister Jerry Berger writes this week that Anheuser-Busch InBev "is pissed" with a friendly wager that Mayor Francis Slay made with Arlington Mayor Robert Cluck over the World Series. The bet would have Slay winning some Texas stea ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2011
Man's House Burns, St. Louis City Cites Him for Melted Siding
Three weeks after a fire destroyed this home (left), the city cited the homeowner for broken windows and "defective" siding.Okay, so the following story fits the purposes of a blog for a couple of reasons. 1. It's not earth-shattering news, though I suspect it will fire up a few people who've bee ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2011
South City BDSM Club Faces More Obstacles to Opening
photo by Melissa MeinzerJoe Kriegesmann: "Satan's Master" in his office at The FaciliyJoe Kriegesmann, a genial fellow despite his nom-de-scene, "Satan's Master," says he just wants to follow the rules. He says he's been trying -- trying to figure out which rules apply to him and how to follow th ... More >>
Blogs
July 19, 2011
Kaldi's, Pi in Mix for the Del Taco Flying Saucer?
The saga of the (now former) Del Taco building, a.k.a. the flying saucer, at 212 South Grand Boulevard has taken yet another intriguing turn, with two of the city's most powerful politicians tweeting competing ideas for saving the iconic structure from possible demolition.On Saturday, Mayor Franc ... More >>
Blogs
July 6, 2011
John Foster Courtney Death Leads to Increased Police Presence in the Grove
Justin Kramarczyk faces a felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident.John Foster Courtney, a popular rugby player and 29-year-old south-city resident, lost his life July 4 -- 23 hours after he was struck by a driver speeding through Manchester Road in the popular Grove district. Witnesses ... More >>
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July 5, 2011
Cranky Yellow Closes Its Doors -- For Now -- After Receiving Another Notice from City Hall
Cranky being cranky. Courtesy of David Wolk.Cranky Yellow has had a rough go of it the past few months. The indie curio shop has been blasted by the City of St. Louis and the state for various code violations such as failing to properly dispose of trash, failing to pay taxes, and now, for hol ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2011
BDSM Club "The Facility" Now Open in South City
photo by Melissa MeinzerCages at The FacilityIf you were to visit one of the newest businesses licensed to operate in St. Louis, you wouldn't see people having sex. Not that. But you might see a person getting florentined: They'd be cuffed standing, facing a wall, with a person behind the ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2011
Rex Sinquefield's Placement on St. Louis Art Museum Board Violates Law
Sinquefield: Francis Slay has his back on museum placement.The Post-Dispatch this morning follows up on a story Daily RFT broke months ago. That's the fact that Rex Sinquefield, the financier who spent $11 million to get a recall of St. Louis' earnings tax on next month's ballot, is not registere ... More >>
Blogs
March 16, 2011
Cranky Yellow, Cherokee Street Oddity Emporium, Tries to Fight City Hall
Amanda BeardDavid Wolk moved to St. Louis immediately after graduating high school in 2005, and spent an entire year designing websites in order to save up enough money to open Cranky Yellow - a curio shop, underground music venue and art gallery of a sort on Cherokee Street. Since the store ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
Why Your City Street Continues to Resemble a Swiss Glacier
The intersection of Chouteau and Vandeventer as photographed this morning.Daily RFT has fielded several inquiries from readers wanting to know why their St. Louis street remains snow-packed and why the city isn't doing anything about it. Yesterday we got on the blower with City Hall. Here's the d ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2011
UPDATE: Mayor, Rest of City Get Ready for Impending Snowpocalypse
Egypt is in total chaos right now, you may have heard. The government has been overturned and there's rioting in the streets. But the Egyptians are way luckier than St. Louisans because even though their country is a shambles, it's going to be 70 degrees and sunny in Cairo tomorrow. And what ... More >>
Blogs
January 12, 2011
Eleven St. Louis City Bars Where You Can Smoke Indoors
We're twelve days into the smoking ban, and there's still no master list of places in St. Louis city exempted from the ordinance. In an A to Z post published yesterday, Kara Bowlin, Mayor Slay's press secretary, explained that exemptions are determined after the Department of Health coordinates its ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
Smoking Ban: Week 2, and Everyone's Still Confused
With 23 percent food sales, Milo's clears the exemption threshold, but Alderman Joe Vollmer might still adopt a no-smoking policy to keep families coming in.As expected, one week into the smoking ban, and the ashtray wars are on! Yesterday, local blogger/gadfly/development activist Steve Patt ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
St. Louis Smoking Ban: Still Confusing In Week Two
With 23 percent food sales, Milo's clears the exemption threshold, but Alderman Joe Vollmer might still adopt a no-smoking policy to keep families coming in.As expected, one week into the smoking ban, and the ashtray wars are on! Yesterday, local blogger/gadfly/development activist Steve Patt ... More >>
Blogs
January 10, 2011
Slay to Nixon: Don't Hose Us With Your Firefighter Bill
The city will reportedly file a summary judgment motion against the state today.Last summer we posted a story about Mayor Slay's disgust with the Statehouse for trying to rewrite city bylaws on firefighter residency. At the time, Governor Nixon had signed a bill permitting veteran firefighter ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2011
Everything You Wanted to Know About the St. Louis Smoking Ban -- But Were Afraid to Ask
Where can I go to do this?With all the hoopla surrounding the new smoking ban, we've yet to find a good resource offering a list of city establishments where patrons can still light up. Certain bars are exempt, right? How's a smoker to know?! As it turns out, there's good reason for the c ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2011
Everything You Wanted to Know About the St. Louis Smoking Ban -- But Were Afraid to Ask
Where can I go to do this? With all the hoopla surrounding the new smoking ban, we've yet to find a good resource offering a list of city establishments where patrons can still light up. Certain bars are exempt, right? How's a smoker to know?! As it turns out, there's good reason for the conf ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2010
Eads Bridge Closed for 40 Days Beginning Monday
The oldest (and first) major bridge to span the Mississippi River will be closed to vehicular traffic beginning Monday so workers can provide "preventative maintenance" to the structure's deck.The bridge -- which was built in 1874 -- was reopen to cars just seven years ago after undergoing a $35- ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2010
St. Louis Is Second Most Dangerous City in the U.S.? Really, Forbes?
Okay, okay. We get it. We're all obsessed with where we rank, even if the data that fuels these most/best/worst cities' lists is contrived at best and completely unreliable at worst. So we can't blame Forbes for riding the trend with its newly-released "Most Dangerous Cities" list.Nope. Doesn't look ... More >>
Blogs
September 20, 2010
Judge Rules to Revoke Lure Nightclub's Liquor License
Judge Margaret Walsh today announced her ruling on a hearing held earlier this month to address complaints surrounding Lure Nightclub on Washington Avenue. Per Walsh's order, Lure's liquor license is to be revoked October 17. The order is subject to appeal within 30 days from today.Kara Bowlin, pres ... More >>
Blogs
August 27, 2010
Lure Nightclub Ending "Red Hot" Thursdays; Liquor License Hearing for Today Postponed
Photo: Egan O'KeefeBlack Eyed Pea member Will.I.Am. deejaying at Lure this month.Nick Trupiano, co-owner of Lure Nightclub, says his Washington Avenue establishment is ending its "Red Hot" Thursdays promotions -- a hip-hop night that has drawn complaints from residents and scrutiny from city offi ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2010
St. Louis Launches New Tactic to Get You to Pay Red-Light Camera Tickets
Yes, but can the city enforce the tickets?The St. Louis Board of Aldermen last month approved legislation allowing the city to fine people up to $500 for failing to appear in court on summons regarding municipal law violations. The law addresses any municipal law infraction, though it seems speci ... More >>
Blogs
May 27, 2010
St. Louis to Resume Twice Weekly Trash Pick Up; Considering Curbside Recycling
'Cause we don't want our alleys looking like this.Mayor Francis Slay's office today announced that St. Louis is resuming twice-weekly trash pick up effective immediately. In an effort to save money, the city began a trial once-a-week trash pick up program last November that affected about 40 per ... More >>
Blogs
May 21, 2010
Poll: Guess Which St. Louis Alderman Wants to Decriminalize Weed
Photo: Jennifer SilverbergIs Ken Ortmann the reefer reformer or are we just blowing smoke?Earlier this morning we posted the news (via Mayor Slay's website) that a member of the St. Louis Board of Aldermen is considering a measure that would decriminalize marijuana in St. Louis, meaning that poss ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2010
The Five Biggest B.S. List Makers on the Internet
Image sourceNow THAT is a well-reasoned and objective top ten list.This week's RFT feature story takes a satirical look at the arbitrary and often asinine world of online rankings, studies and surveys. We're talking about the lists that attempt to quantify the unquantifiable and compare the uniqu ... More >>
News
May 12, 2010
Worst or First! St. Louis' showings in a plethora of nationwide rankings.
Image sourceNow THAT is a well-reasoned and objective top ten list.This week's RFT feature story takes a satirical look at the arbitrary and often asinine world of online rankings, studies and surveys. We're talking about the lists that attempt to quantify the unquantifiable and compare the uniqu ... More >>
Blogs
May 11, 2010
City Officials Blame Rev. Larry Rice for "Hopeville" Homeless Camp, Detail Eviction Procedures
Just received an e-mail from Mayor Slay spokeswoman Kara Bowlin detailing the city's plan to evict dozens of homeless people from a makeshift encampment under Tucker Boulevard to make way for a $34 million construction project.Aimee Levitt posted about the Hopeville conflict yesterday on Daily RFT, ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2010
Mayor Francis Slay Wins Census Bet With KC Mayor Funkhouser
Loyal readers may recall that last month Daily RFT reported that Mayor Slay had bet Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser that his citizens would be more diligent about mailing in their census forms. The stakes: a case of the losing city's best local beer and finest barbecue. Now the results are in, Sl ... More >>
Blogs
April 5, 2010
How is St. Louis Doing in Google Fiber Race?
Last month we were the first to tell you that St. Louis was officially bidding to become the test market for Google's utra highspeed fiber optic internet service. The deadline to submit the application was last week so we thought we would follow up with Mayor Slays office and see how well the pro ... More >>
Blogs
February 19, 2010
St. Louis Will Bid to Be a Google Fiber Test Market
Last week we reported that Google is looking for a test market for a fiber optic Internet service that could promise Internet speeds to users that could reach 100 megabytes-per-second or more (currently the fastest broadband available is about 18 mbps). The question: will St. Louis bid to b ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2010
Saint Louis Zoo Will Remain Free for All -- Even "Zoosiers"
Image sourceEven if you're from -- omigod! -- Jefferson County, they'll still let you in. For free.Mayor Slay just Tweeted earlier this afternoon that the Saint Louis Zoo will remain free for all visitors. "A gift from city and county taxpayers," he writes.Last week the Missouri Senate had voted ... More >>
News
January 27, 2010
When sweeping smoking bans take effect next year, many bar patrons might not even notice the difference
Image sourceEven if you're from -- omigod! -- Jefferson County, they'll still let you in. For free.Mayor Slay just Tweeted earlier this afternoon that the Saint Louis Zoo will remain free for all visitors. "A gift from city and county taxpayers," he writes.Last week the Missouri Senate had voted ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2010
St. Louis' 2009 Newsmakers: Mayor Slay Buries the Lede
mayorslay.comThe mayor doesn't suggest you cast a vote for him. Now that 2010 is afoot, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay wants your take on the biggest news-makers of 2009, a la Time magazine's "Person of the Year". In his weekly poll released today, Slay asks you to pick from his pre-fab list of las ... More >>

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