Subject: Marketing

• The Morning Brew: Friday, 8/3

  August 3, 2007

• Gut Check's Kitchen Whips up a New Look!

  As you can see, today we launched a new design for Gut Check and the other RFT blogs. It's a work-in-progress -- the monthly archives, for example, should return soon -- but I'm pretty damn happy with it.That said, if you encounter any problems or notice any bugs, please shoot me an e-mail at ian.froeb@riverfronttimes.com with BLOG PROBLEM as the subject, and I'll pass along the issue to our Web team.This is just the beginning of what should be a year of exciting developments for Gut Check. Stay

  January 12, 2009

• Post-Dispatch Plans To Pump Up The Pep!

  This just in!The Post-Dispatch is launching a marketing blitz today entitled, "Turn Up The Moxie!"Can you feel the excitement already?!An e-mail from publisher Kevin Mowbray sent yesterday afternoon to all of the paper's employees explains the facts behind the campaign! Read it after the jump!

  March 19, 2009

• David Byrne

  October 15, 2008

• Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival

  July 16, 2008

• Lady Elaine

  November 7, 2007

• The Jumbo Poodle (or maybe the Yappy Dog)

  May 9, 2007

• Deanna to Ray: Shut Up!

  February 14, 2007

• Owen

  November 1, 2006

• Liberté! Equalité! Hocké!

  October 11, 2006

• Busta Rhymes

  Monday, October 31; the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard)

  October 26, 2005

• GWAR, with All That Remains and Alabama Thunderpussy

  February 23, 2005

• 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

  February 5, 2003

• Point Return

  Pointessential 7 has the sound you've come to expect

  November 27, 2002

• Best Long-Running Production

  Late Nite Catechism, Grandel Theatre

  September 25, 2002

• Martinis

  April 18, 2001

• Killer Campaign

  August 16, 2000

• Raising a Stink

  August 2, 2000

• Porn to Sell

  July 26, 2000

• News of the Weird

  May 5, 1999

• Vets push for exposure, and a local Hooters Girl gets it. Plus: Colt 45 works every time.

  July 8, 2009

• Unreal Bares Our Soul

  The movie Cold Souls sounds kind of like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind without the Jim Carrey-Kate Winslet part. In other words, it's about a company that extracts your soul and stores it for you in a glass jar. That's what Unreal has surmised anyway, based on the movie's viral marketing scheme. We won't find out for sure until it comes out on DVD because, guess what? Cold Souls is never gonna open in the state of Missouri. Ever.Putting bitterness aside, because Unreal is exceptionally g

  August 7, 2009

• Upcoming Social Media and Tech Events in St. Louis

  Photo by Flickr User Francis Storr​There haven't been a lot of Tweet-ups in St. Louis in recent weeks. Maybe Twitter is becoming so mainstream that you could theoretically have a spontaneous Tweet-up almost anywhere you are, at any given moment. But Tweet-ups aren't the only opportunity to meet your online friends in real life. There are a few social media and tech events starting to stack up in the near future. Here are some of them. Arch Reactor Open HouseWhen: Wednesday August 19th, 2009 @

  August 18, 2009

• Strangely Compelling New Ads for Raisinets

  Brilliant viral marketing campaign? Surreal drug trip? Allegory on racial integration? All of the above? We report (via Ad Freak), you decide: The second episode, after the jump...

  August 19, 2009