Manchester

Maplewood: An Updated Guide to Restaurants on Manchester, from Big Bend to the City Limits

St. Louis' neighborhoods are gems in their own right: full of history, great people and, as far as Gut Check is concerned, fantastic food. Each week we'll take you into a specific neighborhood and point you in the direction of the best places to grab some bites. Maplewood crams a lot of life into a ... More >>

Sapore Italian Café Announces Move to Kirkwood

Sapore Italian Café (Baxter Road & Andersohn Drive, Manchester; 636-256-3949) announced this week that it will move to Kirkwood next month. The restaurant posted the following its Facebook page on Tuesday: We are excited to announce we are moving to Kirkwood mid-November! Our new home will be in ... More >>

Joshua Witkowski, Age 19: A Serial Sexual-Assailant?

On Tuesday, all the big news outlets in town reported that nineteen-year-old Joshua Witkowski of Winchester has been charged with sexually assaulting a fourteen-year-old girl in a wooded area of a park in Manchester.Since then, the Manchester police say, they've received more than a dozen calls from ... More >>

New Tapas Restaurant for Forest Park Southeast's Grove

The restaurant space at 4501 Manchester Avenue at the western end of Forest Park Southeast's Grove district has sat empty since the exceptionally brief run last year of Crostini Restaurant and Lounge. (Before that, the space was home to Mia Rosa.) Paper recently went up in the windows at 4501 Manch ... More >>

LouFest Lineup 2012: We Are Scientists Drops Off

We Are Scientists has just announced that it is canceling a series of upcoming tour dates -- including a scheduled set at LouFest -- due to lead singer Keith Murray's throat issues. The band's full statement can be found below. LouFest, meanwhile, took to its official Facebook page to say that an ... More >>

Reliving the Final Moments of LCD Soundsystem Last Night With Shut Up and Play the Hits

The man in the chicken hat is hoping things get weird inside. He smokes a cigarette, flicks it to the ground, then changes his mind and smokes the rest of it while standing in front of the Tivoli Theatre in Delmar. He's already holding a ticket, but at the advertised 7 p.m. show time, nearly 100 hop ... More >>

Fireworks Are Canceled Everywhere; Is This the Year Without a Fourth of July?

The region's continued dry stretch and the oppressive heat are forcing municipalities to cancel or delay Independence Day fireworks displays. The risk of fire is just too great, and so Arnold, Chesterfield, Columbia (IL), Ellisville, Eureka, Farmington, Kirkwood, Pacific, Potosi, Washington (MO), We ... More >>

The Veggielante Visits Foundation Grounds

Destination: Foundation Grounds (7298 Manchester; 314-601-3588) Neighborhood: Maplewood Cuisine: American, Contemporary Overview: Foundation Grounds is a colorful coffee shop and café in the bustling Maplewood neighborhood that prides itself on serving fresh, organic food and quality coffee. The ... More >>

Traditional Candies at St. Louis Sweet Shop Landmark Merbs Candies

Merbs Candies (4000 South Grand; 314-832-7117) has been a St. Louis favorite since 1921. This old-fashioned candy shop handcrafts all its chocolates, hard candies, candied apples and a variety of other specialties throughout the year. While all the delightful sweets are whipped up at the original lo ... More >>

The Ten Best 3 a.m. Bars in St. Louis

Selecting Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. In this RFT Music series, we're beeboping and scattin' our way through notable runners up in a number of categories. Not yet ready to call it a n ... More >>

World Series Game Seven: The Five Best Places To Watch The Cardinals In St. Louis

​Well sports fans, it's the day you've all been waiting for. The St. Louis Squirrels will face the Texas Trash 'Staches one final time on this most hallowed day of baseballing, Game Seven. 5. Friendly's: There's no point in going broke just for a baseball game, and at Friendly's, that's bare ... More >>

Jeff Smith Reveals Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Prison Sex But Were Afraid to Ask

Of course you wanted to know about it. That's the first thing just about any adult thinks of when they hear about a man going to prison. Even before the image of the bright orange jumpsuit comes to mind. A few weeks ago, disgraced former Missouri politician Jeff Smith, now a professor at The New Sc ... More >>

The 115 St. Louis Bars Where You Can Smoke This Weekend

In addition to friendly natives and muggy weather, St. Louis provides a myriad of places to light up.​Smoking ban? What smoking ban?We recently got an up-to-date list of bars that have received exemptions from the city's nine-month-old smoking ban from gadfly Bill Hannegan, who advocates for the f ... More >>

St. Louis Cops Show Sensitive Side With Christmas Concert

​They're big, they're packing heat and they go toe-to-toe with the city's most vicious gang-bangers for a living.But did you know the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department also has its own choir? As we reported earlier this year, the singing group is one of only four such police choruses in the ... More >>

Rock Hill Cop Shot Responding to Domestic Disturbance

A Rock Hill police officer was shot multiple times last night around 11:30 p.m. while responding to a domestic disturbance call. The officer -- who's identity has not yet been made public -- underwent surgery at St. John's Mercy Medical Center throughout the early morning hours. Google Street View†... More >>

Photos: The Hood Internet Last Night at the Gramophone, February 12, 2010

Many players were involved in last night's Hood Internet show at the Gramophone, so it may not come as a surprise that the Manchester venue was packed for Steve Reidell -- who makes up one half of the The Hood Internet, a Chicago-based duo famous for splicing rap and indie rock.Photographer Egan O'K ... More >>

Our story on Rock Hill's ticket-writing traffic cop brings out the beast in RFT readers, while smoking-ban opponents organize

Rock Hill's Legendary (Infamous) Ticket-Writing Traffic Cop Set to Retire Radar Gun

Courtesy Rock Hill Police Department Officer Ron Zeigler loves signing his autograph -- on your speeding ticket, that is.​Gentlemen, start your engines. Twenty-six years and 150,000 traffic tickets later, Rock Hill's rainmaker is hanging up his radar gun. You heard right folks, Officer Rona ... More >>

New Venue: The Fox Hole at Atomic Cowboy

​ Although the space has been having shows on a semi-regular basis for a few months now, new music venue the Fox Hole at Atomic Cowboy is set to have its "grand opening month" in September. "We want it to be [a] band's favorite place to play," says Chip Schloss, owner of both Atomic Cowboy a ... More >>

Dr. Feelbad: When a west-county physician went haywire, no one intervened to shut him down

A Table for How Many? at Café Lazeez

Café Lazeez 14248 Manchester Rd (Suite H), Manchester636-527-5900 Pizza, Burgers, Biryani, and KabobsThe sign outside of Café Lazeez reads, "Pizza, Burgers, Biryani, and Kabobs." This sounded like a place that would please everyone in our large group. My only hesitation in bringing the gang? ... More >>

Maplewood Official is Cuckoo for Clooney

Yesterday, my colleague Kristen Hinman wrote an open letter to George Clooney after observing the actor dining at Niche restaurant last Saturday.Hinman's letter (published in Daily RFT) elicited a quick e-mail from Maplewood Community Development Director Rachelle L'Ecuyer who e-mailed in to tell us ... More >>

FoodWire: Wine Dinner at Five 3.12

Forest Park Southeast* bistro Five (4317 Manchester Avenue; Web site) is hosting a "Provence Wine Dinner" on Thursday, March 12. The dinner will pair chef Anthony Devoti's cooking with selections from Major Brands sommelier Linda McGovern. The dinner is from 6:45-9:30 p.m. and costs $55 per person. ... More >>

International Coach Meltdown!

Recently, I put together some of my very favorite coaching meltdowns of all time. I was pretty happy with the list, even though there were a few that I simply couldn't include; I wanted to keep it to five, and I am a man of my word. So overall, I thought it was a pretty good list. In the comments se ... More >>

Mavericky!: Alderman and ex-cop John Hoffmann aims to rid Town & Country of dirty rotten four-flushers, varmints and deer

Now Open: Deluxe (with Bonus Maplewood News)

Review Preview: Señor Pique

Over the Weekend: Weird Al Yankovic at Family Arena, '80s Prom at Gramophone, White Hot Party at rBar, Jon Hardy and the Public at The Chapel

Show Review: Hip-Hop Showcase at the Gramophone, Friday, July 11

Bar of the Week: rBar

Comings, goings — and did local heroine Christina Machamer kick ultimate ass on Hell's Kitchen?

Q&A and Listening Session with R&B Superstar Ne-Yo at the Gramophone

Agave gives Mexican cuisine the white-tablecloth treatment.

It just might be able to find its niche in the Grove.

Raita On

The honeymoon is over for Ian — but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

A Review of Control, the Joy Division biopic

Tracklists for Joy Division Reissues on Rhino -- Vinyl! Studio albums! Control soundtrack! Killers covering "Shadowplay"!

A Look at Upcoming Restaurants

Small Plates: Wednesday, 6/27

Always Open

Ian brings you everything but an After Diner mint.

Local Motion, Weekend Edition

Tonight, Make Mine Maplewood

Number Crunch

Give us Five!

Letters Column

Week of April 20, 2006

Rémy Martin V.S.O.P. Fine Champagne Cognac

Maplewood Liquor, 7203 Manchester Road, 314-645-5731

Elbow

A Cast of Thousands (V2)

Small Wonder

Café Brasil is Carnaval for your palate

Behold! Wizardry!

Booksellers prepare for Harry Potter-palooza 5

Side Dish

Diving into the stream of consciousness and coming up with St. Louis food news

The Homes Jack Destroyed

In the 'hood from hell, they're not urban pioneers -- they're survivors

Not Half Bad

Alea's Place, featuring Persian dishes supplemented with Italian standards, needs to brush up on basics but still serves enticing fare