Oceania

Where You Should Eat Tonight and What You Should Order

Verbatim text exchange with our s.o. on a recent Friday as Gut Check slouched home from the blogger salt mines for the weekend: Gut Check: driving home right now S.O.: I'm blank on dinner ideas Gut Check: am at the whole fds intersection S.O.: Still blank Yes, we all have issues. Some of them, ... More >>

One-Way Ticket: Priscilla Queen of the Desert is all spectacle and no substance

Outback Drag Queens

The Movies to Know from Sundance and the Year Ahead

The Top Six Lyrics by Earl Sweatshirt

Tonight marks the first time that the rowdy Los Angeles hip hop collective Odd Future makes a stop in St. Louis, on a tour that is also the first that member and standout lyricist Earl Sweatshirt is able to attend. For a large portion of Odd Future's hype-laden ascent, Earl (whose real name is Thebe ... More >>

The Smashing Pumpkins Are Coming to St. Louis [Update]

Update, 8/27: Details have emerged. The Smashing Pumpkins' St. Louis date is October 18 and the venue is the Chaifetz Arena. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. The Smashing Pumpkins just announced a fall 2012 North American tour; the Canadian dates have been announced but so far only the U.S ... More >>

The Shins at the Pageant, 6/5/12: Review, Photos and Setlist

The Shins | The Antlers | Deep Sea Diver June 4, 2012 The Pageant "Should I be surprised at the amount of fist-pumping happening in the audience?" I wondered to myself last night on the Pageant floor during the Shins first song of the night, "Phantom Limb," from 2007's Wincing the Night Away. It wa ... More >>

Glitz, Glamour and Garters

RFT Spring Arts Guide 2012: Dance

Baroness

8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

RIP Parasol Records: The Changing World of Independent Music Retail

When Champaign/Urbana, Illinois' Parasol Records announced this week that it was closing its retail store and suspending its mailorder operation, the general reaction seemed sad but not surprising. On Facebook, some former customers reminisced about ordering records through Parasol's service, and th ... More >>

The Naked and Famous is Coming to the Gargoyle

​New Zealand electropop outfit the Naked and Famous is coming to the Gargoyle on Wash U's campus. The show's on April 12th, and tickets are $10 for the public. They'll be on sale soon through Metrotix and the Edison box office. As with all shows at the venue, its free to Wash U students. The ... More >>

The Get Up Kids Return

MU330

9 p.m. Saturday, June 11. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

You Can Now Blame Your Depression on Your Parents and Their Lousy Genes

image viaPeople with depression have some fancy designer genes.​It's become a convention -- OK, a cliche -- to blame one's parents for one's failure to achieve fulfillment and self-actualization and all those other things that people go to therapy to attain. But a team of researchers at Washin ... More >>

Ronnie Smith, Sled Dogs Make National Geographic

National GeographicThe southernmost aeronautical waypoints between Antarctica and New Zealand, renamed by Col. Ronnie Smith.​Last fall, Air Force Colonel Ronnie Smith succeeded in his campaign to rename the aeronautical waypoints between Christchurch, New Zealand, and McMurdo Station, the U.S. ... More >>

Pro Athletes Only Endorse Healthy Food, Right?

plbsports.comRemember Flutie Flakes?​Parents are so gullible. An Australian study published in Public Health Nutrition indicates that half of Australia's parents don't read the nutritional information and were twice as likely to buy junk food for their kids if it's endorsed by a professional ... More >>

Yes, We Had No Bananas on Sunday

Kate StewartBananas at the Hampton Village Schnucks on Jan. 31. ​Sunday night, Facebook and Twitter lit up with a panic. Not just from the news of the impending storm doom, but because of a lack of bananas. Readers reported that Schnucks stores in Richmond Center only had organic bananas in ... More >>

Twelve Local Artists Not to Overlook in 2011

​A lot of local artists cross A to Z's way. Some send us albums; others Tweet at us. Still others drop us email. (Hint: We love email. Especially if it's telling us about who you are and what you're up to. Even if we don't respond, we read everything.) But despite the constant hum of informati ... More >>

Ibogaine is a hallucinogen that has helped addicts kick their drug habits. Is it the trip that does the trick?

For Your Next Vacation, How About Some Twister Chasing?

Yes, it's the end of September and summer vacation season is officially deader than the Cardinals' playoff hopes. But it's never too early to start planning for next year. A couple of University of Missouri professors report that Missourians who are sick of float trips and paranoid about the e coli ... More >>

Kit Keith: New and Used

Top Ten Google Street View Photobombs (PICS)

Search Engine Land​In honor of yesterday's epic "Dead Girl" Google Street Bomb, as reported by Gawker, we've put together a list of the top ten Google Street View Photobombs. 

India's Wheat Surplus Rots While Country Continues to Suffer Malnutrion

With half of its child population malnourished, India has more wheat than it can store, which could lead to global food inflation. The Associate Press reports that India has no place to store a wheat surplus that could feed 210 million people. Instead, 17.8 million tons of wheat is rotting in the el ... More >>

Surf's Up

What's Good for the Goose - Foie Gras Gets Ethical

Guilt-free foie gras! A Spanish producer of the duck liver delicacy encourages his free-range ducks to gorge themselves at will, instead of using tube feeding. The results have chefs in the UK and Australia clamoring for more. Australian chef Sean Connelly told the Sydney Morning Herald, "It isn't ... More >>

The World Goblet: Semifinal 2 - Australia vs. France

​While scanning the World Cup groups in order to plan our daytime drinking over the next month, Gut Check noticed that most of the great wine-producing nations are represented in the tournament field, including all of those with a reputation for crafting good, value-priced wines. Because Gut C ... More >>

Something Fishier This Way Comes

​Bad week for tuna lovers. On Sunday the New York Times Magazine ran a feature warning of the dwindling numbers of bluefin tuna, those big and tasty cash cows of the deep. Now the paper's Green blog brings word that saltwater fish are more apt than their freshwater cousins to cause mercury poi ... More >>

The World Goblet Round 2: Italy vs. Greece

​While scanning the World Cup groups in order to plan our daytime drinking over the next month, Gut Check noticed that most of the great wine-producing nations are represented in the tournament field, including all of those with a reputation for crafting good, value-priced wines. Because Gut C ... More >>

The World Goblet Round 1: Germany vs. United States

​While scanning the World Cup groups in order to plan our daytime drinking over the next month, Gut Check noticed that most of the great wine-producing nations are represented in the tournament field, including all of those with a reputation for crafting good, value-priced wines. Because Gut C ... More >>

The World Goblet: The World Cup of Value Wines

via​While scanning the World Cup groups in order to plan our daytime drinking over the next month, Gut Check noticed that most of the great wine-producing nations are represented in the tournament field, including all of those with a reputation for crafting good, value-priced wines. Because Gu ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 6.1

The salt companies are fighting back. Even Alton Brown has paired with food giant Cargill to encourage the use of salt while other companies cut back. In case you missed it during the long weekend, The New York Times exposed what's happening behind the scenes as food processors brace for the hit o ... More >>

One Night Only! Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth Come to a Movie Theater Near You

Todd OwyoungJames Hetfield in St. Louis in 2008. More photos here.​Tickets are on sale now for what's being dubbed The Big Four Live -- a.k.a. the June 22 movie-theater simulcast of the Sonisphere Festival appearances of thrash legends Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. (Now I can't stop ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 4.19

A steer named Friction, who became beef products several years ago, is still at the center of law suits on the cattle show circuit amidst claims of rancher fraud. It all started at Kansas City's American Royal in 2007, when Friction vanished after placing in the competition, only to reappear with a ... More >>

Aiiiiii! First St. Louis-Area Zipline to Open May 1

courtesy of Meramec CavernsA worker puts the finishing touches on the Caveman Zipline.​Devoted watchers of the reality show The Amazing Race are no doubt well-acquainted with the zipline: Someone straps you into a harness attached to a pulley, and then you go whizzing down a wire at high speeds ov ... More >>

Monroe County Sheep and Craft Festival Celebrates Local Lamb

Robin WheelerSweet little lamb...gonna be good eatin'!​It's lamb season, and they're celebrating in Monroe County, Illinois. Take a short drive across the Jefferson Barracks Bridge this Saturday, April 10, to the Monroe County Fairgrounds in Waterloo to celebrate spring at the Monroe County Sh ... More >>

Thrill or Swill: A Pinot Grigio Worth Paying For?

Pinot grigio is an unequivocal commercial success. From sales of literally nothing in the mid-1970s, pinot grigio has risen to second place among white varietal wines in the United States, trailing only chardonnay. Success has come at the expense of value, however, and many of those pioneering pino ... More >>

Surf's Up

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: January 16 to January 18

Friday, January 16*Republic Tigers/Analysts/Oceania, Bluebird*Target Market/Jovian Chorus/Say Panther, Cicero's*Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Sheldon*Leroy Pierson/Los Carnales Blues Band, BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups*Rum Drum Ramblers, The Stable*Everett Dean, Deluxe*Left Arm, The Blind Eyes/The Abac ... More >>

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: January 2 to 4

Friday, January 2*The Educated Guess (CD release)/Jon Hardy & the Public, Off Broadway*Peanuts/Theodore/Pat Sajak Assassins, Schlafly Tap Room*Big Mike Aguirre, BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups*Nite Owl birthday bash w/Nikko Smith, Cicero's*Euforquestra/Heatbox/Public Property Diplomats of Solid Sound ... More >>

Save a Life Aquatic

Sharks need love, too

Journey Undersea via Balloon

Just Sipping Away

Time for wine!

A Sketchy Situation

Crowded Waters

Is Oceano Bistro just another fish in the sea?

The Summer of Shiraz

Vintage Balaban's

Chef Dan Joyce could rest on Balaban's laurels -- but he'd rather take St. Louis on some delicious adventures

Copia Runneth Over

The food's delish, but Copia still needs to prove a thing or two to oenephiles

Ghost Gum Wine Flight

Juniper Grill, 1928 South 12th Street, 314-621-9195.

High Concept