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The Ten Best Food Events in St. Louis This Memorial Day Weekend: May 24 to 27

Food fests, barbecue and crawfish boils abound during this holiday weekend. If the smoky scent of grilled food doesn't getcha right off of the bat, consider hitting up some alternative events for eats including the St. Louis County Greek Fest and St. Louis African Arts Festival. Many ways to get bar ... More >>

Chef Clara Moore Exceeds Kickstarter Goal for Book Project, Hosts Party Friday, May 24 to Celebrate

Last month Gut Check reported that chef Clara Moore, former executive chef and regional manager of local grocery and restaurant chain Local Harvest Cafe & Catering, had launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a cookbook and grocery guide with food writer Matt Sorrell. As of this writing the projec ... More >>

St. Louis Developer Creates Video Game You Draw and Play

Is the ability to create your own video game worth $100,000? Robin Rath is betting that you'll think so. Rath, a St. Louis web designer and serial entrepreneur, is the mad scientist behind Pixel Press, a mobile app that lets you draw, play and share your own video game. Through his software company ... More >>

Chef Clara Moore Writing Cookbook and Grocery Guide, Launching Kickstarter Campaign April 24 [Update]

Update: Moore and Sorrell launched their Kickstarter campaign last evening. As of this writing, the project has $1,175 in pledges and 29 days to go. Our original post follows. ---------------------------------------------- In recent months chef Clara Moore moved from St. Louis to Seattle, Washington ... More >>

The Fortune Teller Bar's Mason Jar: Gut Check's Hump-Day Cocktail Suggestion

Wednesday. Hump Day. Congrats, you've made it halfway through the work week! Unfortunately, you still have two days to go. Dunno about you, but in order to survive the midweek blues, we're going to need a drink. Which brings us to our Wednesday Gut Check feature: "Gut Check's Hump-Day Cocktail Sug ... More >>

First Look: Bombay Food Junkies Food Truck

When Sid and Krupa Panchal moved from Mumbai (formerly Bombay) to St. Louis eight years ago, they knew they would miss the street food of the coastal Indian city. Finding that none of the Indian restaurants in town specialize in the type of food traditional to Mumbai, the Panchals took matters into ... More >>

Crowdsourcing Your Way to Financial Success: Nope, Sorry

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

KHVT Hosting Kickoff Party to Raise Funds for New Skate Park

Kingshighway Vigilante Transitions, or KHVT for short, aims to improve the community one skatepark at a time. But to make their plans completely concrete, they're going to need some more cents for cement. Their next step? A Kickstarter.com campaign. For the uninitiated, the crew of skate enthusiast ... More >>

Katie's Pizza & Pasta Finds a Home in Rock Hill

Katie's Pizza & Pasta started with a concept: artisan pasta and pizza. Thanks to a Kickstarter campaign, it raised over $40,000 for its development -- and attracted a few traditional investors to boot. Now, the new project from Katie Lee of Katie's Pizzeria Café (6611 Clayton Road, Clayton; 314-727 ... More >>

Bombay Food Junkies Hits Kickstarter Goal for Food Truck

So, yeah, maybe there's something to this whole using-Kickstarter-for-your-new-restaurant plan, after all. Bombay Food Junkies, a vegetarian Indian food truck start-up, reached its Kickstarter goal of $5,000 last week. It is the third recent local success on the popular crowdfunding site: Katie's P ... More >>

Excuse Me, Waiter, There's A Mouse In My Salad

Though stuffed dormouse was once a Roman delicacy and some rural Koreans still enjoy a glass or two of baby mice wine as a health tonic, here in 'Merica, we're not so fond of eating rodents. Which is probably why a patron at Katie's Pizzeria Café (6611 Clayton Road, Clayton; 314-727-8585) was non ... More >>

Katie's Pizza & Pasta Reaches Kickstarter Goal

Katie Lee of Katie's Pizzeria Café (6611 Clayton Road, Clayton; 314-727-8585) told us in January about her plans for a new venture, Katie's Pizza & Pasta. The new restaurant, she said, will be "an artisan Italian restaurant with an open kitchen, a wood-burning oven [and] some cool new techniques wi ... More >>

Strange Donuts Launches Kickstarter Campaign, Partners with Kuva Coffee

In January Gut Check reported that business partners Corey Smale and Tyler Fenwick planned to open Strange Donuts (2709 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood) in Maplewood in May. When we spoke with Smale in January, he told us he and Fenwick drew inspiration for Strange Donuts from hip doughnut shops in Port ... More >>

Bombay Food Junkies Truck Nears Launch, Turns to Kickstarter for Decoration Help

Gut Check told you last month about Bombay Food Junkies, a new food truck featuring vegetarian and vegan Indian cuisine. The wife-and-husband team of Krupa and Sid Panchal plan to serve pav, a sandwich-like dish that Krupa told us is the most popular street food in Bombay (or Mumbai, as the city is ... More >>

Bootlicker: St. Louis Artist Kelly Wild Wants Her Music Removed From Controversial Movie

Last week, we told you about the backlash local filmmaker Terry Artis was facing for his movie Bootlicker, screening at the Tivoli Theatre today. Part of the controversy stemmed from a flyer for the movie that depicts Mayor Francis Slay as some sort of slave master towering over his black supporters ... More >>

No Sweat: St. Louis Filmmaker Faces Obstacles for Documentary on Clothing Industry

Tom Kavanaugh realizes his documentary on sweatshops in the clothing industry won't be an easy one to make. For starters, the companies he plans to profile -- Walmart and Nike, to name a few -- aren't likely to cooperate. Then there are the language barriers and other logistical challenges of shooti ... More >>

Katie Lee of Katie's Pizzeria Café Plans New Venture, Turns to Kickstarter [Updated]

Katie Lee, the eponymous owner of Katie's Pizzeria Café (6611 Clayton Road, Clayton; 314-727-8585), is planning a new venture, Katie's Pizza and Pasta, and you can help her get it off the ground through the crowd-sourcing website Kickstarter. "It's a little scary," Lee says of the Kickstarter effo ... More >>

Pudd'nhead Books to Close December 31 -- Barring a Holiday Miracle

It's been an open secret for weeks now. All you have to do is look at the shelves, either empty or filled with books with their covers facing outward, to take up more space. It's a jarring site, especially at the height of the holiday shopping season when the shelves should be packed, with more pile ... More >>

Tikka Tikka Taco Truck Looks to Kickstarter for Startup Help

Do you like Indian food? Do you patronize food trucks? Do you have even one measly dollar to spare? Michael Swaleh wants to talk to you. Swaleh and his brother, Shaun, have turned to Kickstarter to raise $60,000 to buy the food truck that will launch their concept, Tikka Tikka Taco.

Should I Publicly Humiliate My Bandmate for What He has Done?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. Send your problems to he ... More >>

Amanda Palmer Didn't Do Anything Wrong

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship Amanda Palmer is having a rough week. Her situation (abridged) is as follows: Palmer developed a cult foll ... More >>

The Luminary Is Finally Coming to Cherokee Street (Though Not Where Originally Planned)

Maybe the Luminary Center of the Arts really is an unstoppable force.  Their rise in the local arts scene over the last few years has been meteoric; their grassroots fundraising last year promised a move to larger quarters on Cherokee Street; but last spring, somebody (still unknown to Daily RF ... More >>

Pledge to the Marcoot Jersey Creamery's Kickstarter and Name a Calf

The ladies at Marcoot Jersey Creamery have a pitch for you: Help them buy a cheese press and they'll let you name a calf. For the low, low bid of $30 to their Kickstarter campaign, Amy Marcoot says she'll send a picture and a certificate for the calf, and register it under the chosen name with the ... More >>

Murder by Death

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Help Make Honey Badger BBQ Sauce, Defeat Cobras, Et Cetera

As you've probably guessed by now, Gut Check spends all of our time eating, drinking and Internetting (with occasional dance breaks and naps). We're constantly consuming, and in our quest for food news and oddities we sometimes stumble upon horrific aberrations both in the realm of food itself and i ... More >>

Live & Let Dye: Civil Ape Launching New Line of Apparel

Lately Damon Davis and Lenard Blair have been using cotton as their canvas and it suits them to a T. Civil Ape, the Cherokee Street creative collective and studio space, is looking to Kickstarter to launch their latest venture: a line of screen-printed apparel baring their unique designs.

Collaborating Over the First Course

Seen Those Vivid New Trash Bins? Thank the High Schooler Who's Doing It for Free

One day last November, Jacob Schmidt schlepped a bag of trash into the alley behind his parents' house in Compton Heights. He looked at the dumpsters and thought, "These things really 'uglify' the city."  So Schmidt, then a junior at Metro high school, asked city officials if he swirl some colo ... More >>

The Fringe is Near: Arts Festival Needs Your Help

In 24 days, the first St. Lou Fringe Festival will take over Midtown. And what is a fringe festival, you ask? The short answer: It's a performing arts festival comprised of 30 local and national acts -- singers, dancers, actors, acrobats -- that will go on for four days in four venues, all on Locus ... More >>

Ben Folds Five's Kickstarter-y New Album Is The Good News From Music's Niche-ification

Here's how things were different the last time Ben Folds Five released an album, without digital music stores, social networking, or anything like Kickstarter: Ubiquity was a possible outcome for rock-and-roll albums. Not just from huge names, either--in the same way baseball's late-90s power bing ... More >>

The New Music Circle Showcase Celebrates the end of the 2011-2012 Season

In celebration of the completion of their 53rd season, the New Music Circle will be hosting a local showcase today, May 11 at the William A. Kerr Building. Curated by NMC concert programmer Jeremy Kannapell, the evening's schedule includes performances from local acts including: Joseph Raglani, Kevi ... More >>

Woody Guthrie's New Years Rulin's: Photographer Corey Woodruff's Ambitious Tribute

A local photographer is commemorating Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday by giving a modern twist to a series of resolutions the iconic singer made back in the 1940s. And he's launched a Kickstarter drive so that his work can be showcased to the general public. Guthrie - an Oklahoma-born folk singer an ... More >>

Kentucky Knife Fight's Late Night Ride: Watch the New Video Here

Kentucky Knife Fight was not kidding around with its new video for "Love the Lonely." The band launched a Kickstarter and premiered it at a show last weekend at Off Broadway. For the fanfare we have the clip you see above, produced by First Punch Film and starring KKF front man Jason Holler as the s ... More >>

StewedSTL Hits Kickstarter Goal, Holds Fundraiser Thursday

StewedSTL is having a good month. And, no, while Gut Check doesn't hide the fact that we are, at heart, selfish bastards, we aren't talking about the local food, drink and restaurant podcast's star turn when its hosts emceed this year's Iron Fork. (Though that was awesome, too.) A few weeks ago, S ... More >>

Kickstarting Creativity

The 8-Bit Bar Announces its Intended Location Along with a Kickstarter Campaign

Social media fuels a lot of things in this day and age, but perhaps nothing quite like the modern-day nerd. After only four or five days on Facebook, Timothy Scherer's geek bar brain child, The 8-Bit Bar, has already garnered more than 1,000 fan page "likes." Scherer, along with the help of his sign ... More >>

Won't You Support Joe Sports Fan?

​If you haven't heard, RFT's favorite sports blog is transitioning. Joe Sports Fan launched nearly a decade ago and quickly became one of the best sites for ridiculing our national obsession with sports.Now Joe Sports Fans is getting down to its true roots: St. Louis. In February the site revamped ... More >>

Shabazz Palaces Coming to the Luminary Center for the Arts

The 2012 calendar is rapidly filling at the Luminary Center for the Arts (4900 Reber Place, 314-807-5984). Today the venue announced the addition of Shabazz Palaces -- the Seattle based group comprising Ishmael Butler (formerly of Digable Plantes) and multi-instrumentalist Tendai Maraire. The duo's ... More >>

Best Kickstarter Campaign: Sentinels of the Multiverse

Introducing the 2012 RFT Web Awards Finalists

​The good news? The St. Louis online community is alive and well. The bad news? There's so much great content out there, it's extremely difficult to come up with a list of the best of the best. But, hey, this is the Internet. People love them some lists. We'd hate to disappoint. So, then, the ... More >>

Eric Hall's Live Solos 2011: The Best Value in St. Louis Music

Eric Hall does not play songs. It's hard to describe the meaningful element of his improvised electronic performance without falling into hopeless abstraction: He fills the room, sends his audience within themselves and documents a time and place. Each show is recorded and mastered, and Hall has bee ... More >>

Luminary Center for the Arts Headed to Cherokee Street

Jennifer SilverbergLuminary Center for the Arts Directors Brea and James McAnally​​So many things have been heading south lately -- the temperature, the economy -- and so is the Luminary Center for the Arts. But for the four-year-old gallery, performance space and arts incubator, south is on ... More >>

The Campfire Club

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Glass Teeth's Matty Coonfield Talks About The Band's Breakup And Final Show

Nick LucchesiJeff Robtoy in his element.​Tomorrow night, there are no fewer than four major local shows vying for your weekend attention. Two of them are sad occasions -- Dynabro Griffin Kay's final performance with So Many Dynamos, Glass Teeth's final show as the five-man powerhouse you've co ... More >>

Kickstart Some Art, Help Fund Free Easter Photos at Cherokee Photobooth

Courtesy Cherokee PhotoboothCute Easter kids from last year.​Looking for something adorable to put in Grandma's Easter basket? Hop on over to Cherokee Photobooth for their second free Easter photo session and get a portrait taken in front of a chalk mural by local artist Ryan Frank.You may recall ... More >>

Blind Eyes, Sleepy Kitty, The Incurables, Old Lights among locals releasing new albums

The Blind Eyes​St. Louis' unseasonably harsh winter has been a boon for local bands, many of whom have spent the time indoors hammering out new tunes. Here's a brief round-up of upcoming releases from The Blind Eyes, Sleepy Kitty, The Incurables and Old Lights.

Record Monsters! Yet Another Way to Repurpose Your 45s

Image via​Vinyl LPs have proven themselves a durable medium. They've stood the test of time and have re-emerged in the digital age as a concrete audiophile alternative to the mp3. Sometime between the birth of the CD and the vinyl resurgence, folks started getting crafty with their records. ... More >>

Leslie Sanazaro Returns with Daughters of Cambodia Tour, Album

Bob Reuter​Singer-songwriter Leslie Sanazaro has a free show tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Wine Press (4436 Olive Street). This show holds particular meaning for her, though: She'll be debuting new songs from a forthcoming album, Daughters of Cambodia, which is due in May 2011. The album is ... More >>

Homespun: Beth Bombara

Wish I Were You (self-released)

Hear New Beth Bombara Tunes, Help Her Fund a New Vinyl Album!

Jon GitchoffBeth Bombara at the 2010 RFT Music Awards Presentation Celebration.​Singer-songwriter Beth Bombara is nearly done recording her first full-length album in the home studio she shares with her husband/fellow local musician, Kit Hamon. "There's pros and cons recording in your own ho ... More >>