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Kansas City-Area Library Uses Butchering Demonstration to Lure Patrons

These are exciting times for library users. Not only can you go to the library to check out books for free, you can also go for a live demonstration of hog butchering! Well, uh, you can do that in Overland Park, Kansas, just outside of Kansas City. Not here. Not yet. But isn't it glorious to know ... More >>

What to Read When You're Snowed In

image via​A power outage could take your beloved Internet,TV and Wii away from you, but fortunately, there are other forms of entertainment besides Charades. Like books! (That is provided you have a flashlight or a candle.) Nikki Furrer, owner of Pudd'nhead Books (currently the reigning Best ... More >>

Video Game Tournament ... at the Library? WTF?

​Call us old fashioned, but should the city's library system really be hosting video game tournaments? That's what Daily RFT set out to answer yesterday after receiving an announcement for the St. Louis Library's Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament this coming Saturday at the Carpenter Branch on So ... More >>

St. Louis Cop Avoids Jail Time in Corruption Case

Brezill will be able to play Wii on probation!​A rookie St. Louis cop was spared jail time today for stealing electronics from an arrestee -- who happened to be carting the loot around as part of her "work" as an informant for the feds. U.S. District Judge Donald Stohr today sentenced 25-year-old ... More >>

St. Louis: Ten Dumbest Crimes of 2009

Even leaving aside the public servants (Jeff Smith, Steve Brown, T.D. El-Amin) who got caught red-handed this year, 2009 offered a bumper crop of truly stupid crimes.    ​10. Savvy Hillbillies Employ Dogs Eight men from 'round the town of Doniphan allegedly thought they could outsmart ma ... More >>

Frontyard Features Looking For New Venue To Screen Unedited Version of The Big Lebowski

blog.newsok.com/staticblogDe Jesus is excited about not being edited out of his movie this time​Last week Frontyard Features rolled a gutterball by screening (without warning) a highly censored version of The Big Lebowski at downtown's Old Post Office Plaza. Even Martin Casas, the classy owne ... More >>

Unreal covets a cool bathtub and encounters a blogger's reluctant case of Wii envy

The Virtualous Life

Live's better with a reset button

Hey Dead Dude: Can You Hear Me Now?

www.flickr.com/photos/jonjon_2k8With four billion of them in use, few things on Earth are as ubiquitous as the cell phone. We take them everywhere, to dinner and a movie, to the bedroom, and yes, to the bathroom. And now, in increasing numbers, people are taking them to their grave.Ed ... More >>

FoodWire: Hyatt Regency Downtown Reveals New Restaurants

Renovations continue at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (315 Chestnut Street). The $63 million project, scheduled for completion this summer, will feature three new restaurants, including the return of Ruth's Chris Steakhouse to downtown. Here are the details, from the press release: Dining ... More >>

Everything Unreal always wanted to know about sex but was afraid to ask

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 12.16

In today's news: Whole Foods has support in Congress, China bans substances from food, AB InBev loses a court battle and Iron Chef America for the Wii.

Unreal checks in on how the old folks and the college kids roll, and gets to the bottom of a local housing fashion statement, the siding mullet

Blast Works makes blowing stuff up DIY-friendly

Castle of Shikigami III tests the bounds of Wii loyalty

Steven Spielberg goes direct-to-video-game with Boom Blox for the Wii

There's more of the same in Mario Kart Wii, and that just might be plenty

House of the Dead returns for the Wii, stiff as ever

Trailer for Competitive Eating Video Game

Fuzzy Fights: The combat's cuddly in Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Iron Chef America -- The Game!

No amount of sharpening can save this dull blade.

Samurai Warriors: KATANA

Go! 1/25-1/27

Shift Happens

Indy Legends brings Brickyard history to life.

Gaming's Greatest Hits

A look back at the best of 2007.

Go! 12/21-12/23

Plumb Tuckered Out?

A breathtaking journey through space revives Super Mario.

Bang Bang For Your Buck

It's five great games for $60 -- shoot first and ask questions later.

Party Pooper

The Wii's latest pool game is a cue stick in the mud.

Daily Web Crawl

'Roid Rage Returns

Metroid Prime 3 is the best you can get for the Wii.

Bend It Like Bowser

Soccer gets a surreal twist in Mario Strikers Charged.

Star Dreck

Alien Syndrome will alienate some, infect others.

Mechanical Bull

A few more changes would've helped Transformers.

All Class

The Wii's Big Brain Academy makes summer school cool.

It Takes a Village

The terrorizing townsfolk of Resident Evil 4 shamble onto the Wii.

Bored Games

All the beer in the world can't save Mario Party 8.

Superzero

Spider-Man 3 spins a web of mediocrity.

Balls of Fury

Marble Mania rolls out a winner for the Wii.

Rolling Paper

Super Paper Mario is flat-out fun.

Hot Mama

Cooking Mama for the Wii looks good enough to eat.

For the Birds

Wing Island might make you cry fowl.

No Replay for Wii Play

There's not much besides an extra controller to these minigames.

BY CHRIS WARD

There's more than one way to play with your Wii.

Week of February 22, 2007

Dr. Feelgood

You're not a doctor, but Trauma Center lets you play one on TV.

A Legendary Outing

Twilight Princess is the best Zelda ever.

Wii Love It

Nintendo finally gets 1-Up on the competition.

Brush With Greatness

Okami shows that videogames can be art.

Monkey Trials

Super Monkey Ball Adventure takes a wrong turn.

Next Big Things

The five biggest attention-getters at E3.