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Ryan "Irish Outlaw" Coyne Loses Fight in Las Vegas; Takes Home Nasty Cut [PHOTOS]

Sadly, Ryan "Irish Outlaw" Coyne's long-awaited fight in Las Vegas did not go the hometown boy's way. According to The Sweet Science, Coyne clashed with Kansas City's Marcus Oliveira for 11 rounds before going down once. Coyne managed to get back up and beat the countdown, but shortly thereafter fe ... More >>

Tasting Menus in St. Louis Might Stretch Your Budget, But They Won't Beach a Whale

Our friends at Eater are celebrating "Whale Week," a tribute to high-spending diners -- or whales, as they're known in industry-speak. As part of the festivities, Eater ranked the fourteen most expensive tasting menus in America. The cheapest ("cheapest") tasting menu on the list is at Daniel in New ... More >>

Kings for a Moment: The feds attack online poker, killing a $2.5 billion industry

The Pageant Has The Fourth Most Ticket Sales Of Any Club In The World So Far This Year

Photo by Todd Owyoung.Some of the Pageant' s 119,416 so far in 2011. ​Pollstar has just released the ticket sales number for the first three quarters of 2011, and the Pageant has once again sold the fourth most tickets of any club venue in the world. Our hometown venue has seen more people ... More >>

Bill Would Require Nearly All St. Louis Dogs and Cats to Be Sterilized

Bob Barker approves this message.​A bill under consideration in the St. Louis Board of Aldermen could make St. Louis one of the most restrictive cities in the nation when it comes to owning cats and dogs. Board Bill 107 would require all pet owners to spay or neuter their dogs and cats and microch ... More >>

London Calling's Five Year Anniversary Is Tomorrow Night

Emily MooreLondon Calling DJs Doug Curtis and Nick Openlander posing with their 2011 Best Party award.​ Once a fortnight for the past five years, London Calling's DJ Clockwork and DJ Nick O have entertained the PBR swilling, dance partying St. Louis public with their high-octane video sets. Th ... More >>

New Commercials Admit Miracle Whip Sucks

Domino's Pizza did it last year, airing commercials in which the company admitted that its pizzas aren't necessarily the best ones on the market while sharing the cold, hard truth from test groups. It used the ads as a jumping point to promise better pizza. Whether it has succeeded or not, we're ... More >>

DJ Deception Wins Red Bull Thre3style Saint Louis -- On to Las Vegas

Courtesy Red Bull​Last Tuesday, DJ Deception bested seven other local musicians at the Red Bull Thre3style Saint Louis competition at the Old Rock House, with a set that spanned hip hop, rock and electro music. Deception, who's a resident DJ at the Social House, Home Nightclub and Fusion Nig ... More >>

Girl Next Door Party This Saturday Features Celebrity Judge Bree Olson

​Our friends at insidestl.com our hosting their biggest annual event on Saturday: the Girl Next Door of the Year contest. And this year they've got one of the most talked about porn stars of late to help them judge the contestants. That's right Bree Olson -- the woman recently rumored to have spen ... More >>

Changes Afoot at Bon Appetit and the New York Times

Changes are afoot in the food publishing world. Yahoo reports that longtime New York Times columnist Mark Bittman is ending his column, "The Minimalist", after thirteen years. His last installment of the recipe column that spawned his "How to Cook Everything" books will run this Wednesday. On Fe ... More >>

Missouri Isn't Alone in Desire to Slaughter Horses

​State representative James Viebrock's (R - Battlefield) bill last year to make Missouri the only state in the nation with a horse slaughtering facility never gained much traction. Never the less, in 2009 the Missouri Senate unanimously pass a resolution calling for the resumption of horse slaught ... More >>

The Crystal Method's Scott Kirkland talks about the duo's New Year's Eve DJ plans in St. Louis

Daily Beast Thinks We're Getting Dumber

image viaThe Arch: symbol of our city's plummeting intelligence.​Honestly, why do we continue to pay attention when the Daily Beast decides to rank the nation's cities when all they ever do is make us feel bad about ourselves? St. Louis is a splendid place. And we are willing to bet that none ... More >>

The Avett Brothers are loving you and you and you

Neon Trees

8 p.m. Thursday, August 5. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

Miss Missouri Pageant Underway [Updated]

Image sourceThere she is...​Erika Hebron of O'Fallon, aka Miss Gateway St. Louis, was crowned Miss Missouri 2010 on Saturday night. She'll be competing in the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas in late January. "I was actually so calm that it was kind of scary because I didn't even know what ... More >>

Pinnacle Pays For "Interfering With, Restraining and Coercing Employees" At St. Louis Casinos

Image viaLumiere Place employees get the last laugh in labor dispute​It's been a roller-coaster of a year so far for Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment. First the Missouri Gaming Commission revoked their license for the President Casino. Then they opened the fancy new River City Casino in Lema ... More >>

Want to Own the Amp Used at O.J. Simpson's Trial? Now You Can!

File under: You really never know what's going to show up for sale on Craigslist. About twenty minutes ago, a posting for the amp used in O.J. Simpson's 1995 murder trial popped up for sale in St. Louis. The seller says: I have the PA amp that was used in the Trial of the Century. It is a Stewart P ... More >>

FoodWire: Burger Bar Expanding to San Fran, Asia

Chef Hubert Keller is expanding the reach of his Burger Bar franchise, reports Eater. There are currently two Burger Bar locations, the original in Las Vegas and the second here in St. Louis, inside Lumière Place. A third location is slated to open next week in San Francisco. According to Eater, Ke ... More >>

Down in Front!: What's up with all the rude people at the theater?

George Clooney, Have You Considered...

Dear Mr. Clooney,We here at Gut Check International Headquarters are big fans of your work, dating all the way back to your turn as Jo's boyfriend on The Facts of Life.When we heard you were filming a new movie in St. Louis, we couldn't contain our excitement. We know people are claiming to have spo ... More >>

George Clooney, Have You Considered...

Dear Mr. Clooney,We here at Gut Check International Headquarters are big fans of your work, dating all the way back to your turn as Jo's boyfriend on The Facts of Life.When we heard you were filming a new movie in St. Louis, we couldn't contain our excitement. We know people are claiming to have sp ... More >>

The Close Talker: An Imagined Seinfeld Interview

Written By JULIE SEABAUGHJerry Seinfeld is coming to the Fox Theatre on Saturday. The comic will go down in sitcom history for introducing the world to puffy shirts, Festivus, the Soup Nazi, Manziers, the joy of eating cereal for dinner and a whole lot of nothing. But not content to let his legacy r ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Caps

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

St. Louis Stage Capsules

: Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

Let's Get High: Gambling once again on Lumière Place, Ian looks up Cielo

She's Crafty: The Breeders' Kelley Deal talks knitting, nudity and Steve Albini's bodily functions

Stripped Bare: Sometimes even Chesterfield CEOs, like Jim Neumann, must stand naked

Axes to Grind

The Guitar Hero frenzy careens toward overkill.

Martin, Mosaic and More

Reich Retch

Stages St. Louis offers a botched Cabaret

One Swill Game

The long and tipsy road to the World Series of Beer Pong

Flesh for Fantasy

Get your groove on at this year's St. Louis International Film Festival

Best Place to Play Darts

The Rec Room

Letters

Week of April 7, 2004

We Want EFX, Y'all

Grown Folks party deep

It's Getting Hot in Herre

Feel free to ogle naked people at Art Coop -- we promise you won't get slapped

Ichibantastic

New sushi joint is quite a catch

Ocean's Eleven, Give or Take

Soderbergh and Clooney knock over Vegas, without much to show for it

Best Casino

Harrah's

In Cold Blood

Novelist James Ellroy reshapes America's ugly history in his own image

Best Role Model

Bill Willert

The Modernist

Explosion (Matador)

Time Code

Written and directed by Mike Figgis

PRAYING AGAINST THE ODDS

Developers of a Lemay casino have political muscle on their side. But the School Sisters of Notre Dame are betting on a higher power.

Town Without Pity

Best Electric Guitarist: John Horton

Squeals of Delight