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Sixteen Songs Forever Ruined By Their Commercial Parodies

Most people who meet me learn within about thirty minutes that I'm in a state of constant agony. Not because of some sort of tragic childhood or traumatic physical ailment, but because I have television commercials circa 1987 to 2000 stuck in my head at all times. The word "bucket" triggers the song ... More >>

SXSW 2013: Critically Important Questions Raised By This Year's Event

Editor: We have so many questions here in Austin. Here are 50 of them. 1. Will I like the pedicab costumed as The Hulk if he gets angry? 2. Are we all really just in New York? 3. Is this t-shirt rad? 4. Do you want to get some 'za, which is now absolutely the slang for pizza? 5. How far can yo ... More >>

All Action, No Bull

What do Karen O, Passion Pit and Robert Smith Have in Common? They All Really Want You to See the New Tim Burton Movie

The new Tim Burton movie, Frankenweenie, comes out this week. It's about a boy and a zombie dog, and actually our reviewer says it's a damn good time. But more than the movie itself, we are intrigued by the two-pack promo mailer we got here at RFT Music HQ from Disney yesterday. It features the s ... More >>

Lawsuit Settled Alleging Mouse in Mountain Dew

As bizarre lawsuits go, it was the case that kept on giving. In 2009, Ronald Ball of Granite City sued PepsiCo, claiming he'd gotten sick from drinking a can of Mountain Dew.It wasn't the soft drink, though, that caused him to vomit up the neon green beverage. It was the mouse he says he found insid ... More >>

Taco Bell Test Markets MTN Dew A.M. Breakfast Cocktail, Gut Check Proposes Ten Alternatives

This week, Reddit reported that select Taco Bell locations are test marketing a new breakfast cocktail comprised of one part orange juice, one part Mountain Dew. Dubbed "MTN Dew A.M.," the drink is described as a "mixology" of the two beverages, proving that Taco Bell has no idea what "mixology" mea ... More >>

The Six Best Songs Over Thirty Minutes Long

"American Pie" is eight and a half minutes, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is seventeen. It is not uncommon for a prog track to reach twenty minutes, but it takes a certain breed to break the half-hour barrier. Below is a list of the six best songs over thirty minutes long. Feel free to interject your favorit ... More >>

The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012

The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Thursday 3/15/2012

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving music e ... More >>

Why the SI Swimsuit Issue Doesn't Care if Anyone Goes to its Music Festival [Update]

There is a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Music Festival, sponsored by Lexus, where blog-approved bands like White Denim and the Black Lips will play at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. Wait, what? The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Beauties & Beats Music Fest (didn't spend much time on that name, di ... More >>

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 >>

Was a Mouse Really Found in a Mountain Dew Can? Local Lawsuit Goes Viral

​Remember Ronald Ball, the Illinois man who's been suing PepsiCo on a claim that he opened a can of Mountain Dew and found a dead mouse inside? The Madison Record broke the story a year and a half ago, followed by the Daily RFT (here and here). But yesterday, websites from the Daily Mail in Great ... More >>

The Royale's David Mueth: Featured Bartender of the Week

Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar, a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders. This week Robin Utz profiles the Royale's David Mueth. Below is a Q&A with Mueth followed by the recipe for Mueth's Sazerac.Robin UtzMueth strains the whiskey into a chilled glass to make a Sazera ... More >>

Pagans Coming to Tower Grove Park

​Are you an effective priestess? Do you need to bring more ritual into your daily life? How's your chant and drumming?Brush up on all that and more this weekend at the St. Louis Pagan Picnic, running Saturday and Sunday in Tower Grove Park. The organization running the event's web site claims that ... More >>

St. Louis Native Seeks to Sack the Competition at National Best Bagger Championship

  This ain't your typical sack race. Today, February 14, St. Louis native Scott Hall will represent Missouri at the 2011 National Grocers Association Best Bagger Championship. Having out-bagged all comers at the state level, Hall is set to compete against professional grocery baggers from 21 st ... More >>

10 Crimes That Prove Junk Food Makes People Stupid

New York Post"Hand over the bearclaws or I'll make another crappy sequel!"​This week researchers at Bristol University released a study claiming that kids who consume junk food before age three are more likely to have lower IQs in the future. While nutritional research should always be taken w ... More >>

Dr Pepper Test Markets Manly Diet Soda

Across the state, Dr Pepper's trying to appeal to men who enjoy diet soda but hate how drinking it makes them look oh so very girly. The Kansas City Star reports that the company's test marketing their new product, Dr Pepper 10 to the beef-loving cowboys in Kansas City. The newspaper says, "Accord ... More >>

Miso on Meramec's Mark Sandt: Featured Bartender of the Week

Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar, a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders. This week Alissa Nelson profiles Miso on Meramec bartender Mark Sandt. Below is a Q&A with Sandt, followed by a video of him mixing a Torched Cherry Limeade. Alissa Nelson​The thought of vi ... More >>

The potentially explosive "shake-and-bake" method is burning its way through meth land

Beyond Brunch: Give Mom Local Goodies for Mother's Day

Love your mom? Give her a Manwhore pot holder for Mother's Day!​Give your mom some credit. Sure, she might be a crazy bat now, but that woman gave up liquor and soft cheese while carrying you in her womb. She endured rotting McNuggets from your Happy Meals under the seats of her minivan. And t ... More >>

Chicken Joins List of Foods That Will Turn You into a Girly Man

Image viaBolivian President Evo Morales. Note the full head of lustrous hair.​Bolivian President Evo Morales made news earlier this week when, while speaking at an environmental conference, he declared that eating chicken could cause homosexuality and male-pattern baldness.The Guardian reports...M ... More >>

Mike Danton's saga continues, a mouse is found in a can of Mountain Dew, and dignitaries from Turkmenistan come here to learn (really) about St. Louis' education system. Plus: How will KMOX regain its No. 1 title?

Dudes Who Posted on CL Missed Connections Last Week: Near-Certain FAIL

Recall the goal of Craigslist Missed Connections: to reach someone with whom you had a positive and brief - but anonymous - encounter. Well, as we dutifully rooted through the local Missed Connections page yet again this week, we were struck by an abundance of posts, all authored by dudes, that appe ... More >>

No Hallucination, STL Addicted to Caffeine

An outfit called HealthSaver -- a "health-care discount program" -- has released its second annual HealthSaver Caffeinated Cities Survey. The survey looked at caffeine consumption in twenty major metropolitan areas, including St. Louis.How do we rank? Well, we love our caffeine -- God knows, it's t ... More >>

Glenn Branca's Symphony No. 13 (Hallucination City) and 100 Guitars: An Insider's Look

A Happening Happening

Artists, DJs, murals and you

Malcolm abandons Doritos mid-Quest

Bad Dudes

8 p.m. Sunday, May 4. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue

Funny Ha Ha

B-Sides finds out why Neil Hamburger isn't Yo La Tengo's favorite comic, then gets cinematic with Undertow Records' Monahans.

"You think it's unfair to say he's a monster?

How about 'deviate next door,' or 'pedophile next door'? Maybe just 'pervert next door.'"

"Without the Nights, the musical landscape of St. Louis would be drastically different."

Week of February 15, 2007

Vault

99 cents
Shell
6211 Delmar Boulevard

Monster Next Door?

From Webster Groves High to Imo’s Pizza to a cheap apartment in a forlorn corner of Kirkwood. For years Michael Devlin was all but invisible. Now he’s Public Enemy No. 1.

SoBe No Fear Gold Energy Drink, Rockstar Energy Drink and Full Throttle Energy Drink

Available at Walgreens locations throughout the St. Louis area

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House

Running on Empty

Truck firms are so desperate for drivers that just about anybody can get behind the wheel

Race Goggles

Unreal gets liquored up and starts demanding tasteless jokes. And in unrelated news, we talk teen sex with a Seattle sexologist and check out the locker room at the new Busch.

Stevie Nicks

The Halo Bar (in the Pageant), 6161 Delmar Boulevard, 314-726-6161

Double-flushers

We list this year's real stinkers, get some critical advice from the folks and look at some scary new downloading laws

Soul Doubt

Louis Schwartzberg aims for America's Heart, but mostly sticks to the surface

Take Wing(s)

They're buk, buk, buh-good

Free Wheelin'

They're all veteran competitors

No More Funny Business!

Local sketch comedy troupe the NonProphets are in it for the laughs

Best Gaming Store

The Gathering Ground

Hogs and Dogs

God smiles on bikers and barkers

Best Orange Soda

Vess Whistle Orange

Linkin Park with the X-ecutioners, DJ Z-Trip and Apex Theory

Wednesday, Nov. 28; Family Arena

BIGdumbFACE with El Greco

Monday, April 2; Pageant.

Best Place to Eat Junk Food

Barnes-Jewish Hospital (BJH South) Cafeteria

"EXTREME" NOISE TERROR

The best loud stuff Japan has to offer