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Enjoy This Monday Morning Beer Porn from St. Louis Microfest 2013

Pale Ale from Kirkwood Station More than 100 breweries were on tap in Forest Park Friday, May 3 and Saturday, May 4. Despite wet weather on Friday night, the beer was flowing. Photos by Steve Truesdell for the RFT. See the full slideshow here: 2013 St. Louis Microfest photos.

It's Deschutes Base Camp Week in St. Louis!

It's freakin' beer mania here in St. Louis this week! Deschutes Brewery is in town from Portland, Oregon, and they're partnering with various bars and restaurants in town to bring you a plethora of beer-related activities and events. The festivities, which Deschutes calls Base Camp for Fanatics, o ... More >>

At Odds with the Modern World: Widowspeak chronicles its nostalgic struggles on Almanac

The Year-End List of Lists to End All Year-End Lists This Year (You Wish)

I am a chronic ranker of things, a lister. You give me a category - movies, music, vegetables, just about anything besides my children - and I'll give you a nice, neat list of my favorites. For my summary of the year 2012, a single Top Ten List didn't seem sufficient, so instead I submit my Top Five ... More >>

Five Comics Tell Their Best Stories from the Road

Every comic worth his weight in salt (why is that a saying?) has some good and bad stories they picked up on "the road." If you plan on having any sort of career in comedy it is something you have to go through. I have my stories. The night Steven Wright walked into the club I was in to do a set. Th ... More >>

Devil's Wine Box: Missouri's tie to The Possession

Odd Future's "Camp Flog Gnaw" Tour is Coming to the Pageant -- Full Tour Schedule Included Within

Odd Future has just announced a show on September 14 at the Pageant. The members of the rambunctious skate-rap collective that will be in the house are Tyler the Creator, Hodgy Beats, Left Brain, Domo Genesis, Mike G, Earl Sweatshirt and Taco. Tickets are $25 in advance or $27.50 day of show -- the ... More >>

Broke*: A Film About Music Screening Tonight at Off Broadway

Broke*: A Film About Music is a new documentary about the State of the Music Industry, following in particular the success and failures of musicians Reva Williams and Will Gray. But it deals with the challenges faced by musicians in a dying market in global, ambitious terms and features interviews w ... More >>

The Ex Cop Donut Shop: Keeping South County Safe for Bacon Doughnuts

Yes, in case you happened to be wondering, Frank Loforte, owner, proprietor and head doughnut-maker at the Ex Cop Donut Shop (4584 Telegraph Road, Oakville; 314-894-2677) is, indeed, an ex-cop. So's his wife and business partner Linda. Both served in the City of St. Louis Metropolitan Police Departm ... More >>

Blind Pilot at Plush, 3/2/12: Review, Photos, Setlist

Blind Pilot | Cataldo Plush March 2, 2012 The crowd had gathered in Midtown to see Blind Pilot, the charming, affable and endlessly melodic folk band from Portland, Oregon whose star has been steadily rising since 2009. But the concert was as much a rock show as it was a proving ground for Plush, t ... More >>

Jeff Mangum's Tour Kicks Off Today

Sasha Barr​Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum launches his first national tour since 1998 today. Unfortunately, none of the shows are in St. Louis -- he'll play a pair at the Athenaeum Theater in Chicago on February 6 and 7. Still, his resurrection has not gone unnoticed in these parts. In this ... More >>

Jay Farrar's Woody Guthrie Tribute Album, New Multitudes, is Out in February

Woody Guthrie left behind notebooks full of words, snippets and entire lyrics. The Woody Guthrie Foundation, led by his daughter Nora, has been lending them to artists to create music around his words. You may remember the series' most successful installment to date, Wilco and Billy Bragg's collabor ... More >>

Mikey Wheling's lo-tech sci-fi heartbreak trilogy

The Raincoats and Grass Widow at the Double Door, Chicago, 9/19/11: Review and Setlists

The Raincoats. Photo by Mike Appelstein​The Raincoats | Grass Widow The Double Door September 19, 2011 After three decades of sporadic activity, it's about time the Raincoats played the Midwest. This legendary late '70s/early' 80s London band toured the East and West coasts during its init ... More >>

Study: St. Louis Is Nation's 36th Most Caffeinated City

Image via​The website Bundle has released a study that purports to have determined the country's most caffeinated cities. Yes, there is a slideshow accompanying the study. No, this isn't straight-up Huffington Post-style linkbait.According to Bundle, Chicago is America's most caffeinated city, wit ... More >>

Tornado Alarms Got You Down? Move to Corvallis, Washington

The Ingalls would have been better off staying in Wisconsin. And why, oh why oh, did we ever leave Ohio?​With all the flooding downstate, and the tornadoes that destroyed one wing of Lambert and almost all of the city Joplin, and the golf-ball-sized hail that pummeled parts of St. Louis yesterday, ... More >>

Seven Ways to Shoplift $5 Million Worth of Groceries

Wikimedia Commons​How is this even possible? Richard Lavern Remington and Angela Rose Evans of Portland, Oregon are accused of shoplifting over $5 million worth of groceries from multiple Safeway stores over several years. They stuck to stealing small, expensive items like batteries and toil ... More >>

Updated! Fast Food Industry Mag QSR Names Pi Pizza Truck Among Top 20 Food Trucks in U.S.

{Updated 2/9/11 4 p.m. with comment after the jump from Pi co-owner Chris Sommers.} In its February issue, QSR Magazine, which covers the fast-food industry waterfront, names Pi Pizzeria's Pi on the Spot among the Top 20 food trucks in the nation. Writes Daniel P. Smith of QSR (which we're pretty ... More >>

Battle of the Food Trucks: Tacos Tangle with Pizzas

Alissa NelsonGentlemen, start your engines!​In a world where our social interactions are dictated via our Internet connection, the food truck is king. Sure, you can experience the serendipity of random interaction, the chance street-food vendor, but who leaves these things to chance any more? ... More >>

St. Louis Officially Nation's Ninth Most Literate City

image via​Rejoice, St. Louis! There's been another list ranking America's cities and this time we didn't totally embarrass ourselves! Central Connecticut State University has released its annual rankings of the nation's most literate cities and this year, we've tied with Portland, Oregon, for ... More >>

Photos: MarchFourth Marching Band at 2720 Cherokee, Sunday, November 7

Last night, the MarchFourth Marching Band -- a Portland, Oregon-based troupe of ragtag brass, percussion and other assorted hangers-on -- entertained the crowd at 2720 Cherokee. Sarah Rusnak went to the show and brought back a slideshow. Evidence!Sarah Rusnak​

Digital indie whizzes Menomena refine their complex craft on Mines

Life Cycle

Show Review Photos: Blitzen Trapper and the Moondoggies Swelter and Sway at Off Broadway, Monday, June 21

Photo: Jon Gitchoff Marty Marquis of Blitzen Trapper last night at Off Broadway. See more photos of Blitzen Trapper last night at Off Broadway.​"Sweat," remarked Marty Marquis, guitarist for Portland, Oregon's Blitzen Trapper, "does bring us together." Due to the heat, the band took numerous t ... More >>

Blitzen Trapper

8 p.m. Monday, June 21. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

10 Things to do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, May 14-16, 2010

It's that time of week again -- you're hopefully left with at least a few hours of free time where you can decide to do whatever you feel like: No time-sucking birthday lunches, Saturday morning soccer games or shift-covering for your slacker of a coworker. ("How has he not been fired yet?" you may ... More >>

Waterloo Doing a Rare St. Louis Show This Weekend

​Waterloo vocalist-guitarist Mark Ray moved to Portland, Oregon, several years ago, meaning that the band rarely plays shows in town anymore. That's why this last-minute gig (with Magic City) will be such a treat. Live, the band's been known to play evocative covers -- at the Lot festival in A ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Best-Selling Author Scott Phillips Dreams About Vinyl, Writes While Listening to Michael Nyman and Yo La Tengo

Jon Scorfina​Scott Phillips is the national best-selling author of the novels The Ice Harvest and The Walkaway; his newest book is the Western-tinged, black comedy Cottonwood. He's also a vinyl collector who has recurring dreams of shifting through bin after bin of lost music in an imaginary r ... More >>

Changes at Pi's CWE Coffee Bar

Image via​The bad news: barista extraordinaire Alex Brooks is leaving Pi, according to a posting on the restaurant's Facebook page.Brooks came from Portland, Oregon, to get the coffee bar at the Central West End location (400 North Euclid Avenue) established. He's headed home to return to his stud ... More >>

Post-Dispatch Readers Grumble Over Jury for New Arch Grounds Design

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elasticsoul/ / CC BY-SA 2.0​Here are the folks who'll get to decide how the Arch grounds will look in 2015 (the year the monument turns 50). Commenters at stltoday.com are grumbling about one of them. Can you guess which one?Robert Campbell, architecture critic at The ... More >>

Gut Check: Kaldi's cops coffee kudos

Sole Proprietors: At long last, St. Louis gets a McCormick & Schmick's. Was it worth the wait?

Java Enabled: Blue Mountain Blues

Zach Dyer is a writer living in Saint Louis. He did his thesis research on coffee farmers in Southern Mexico. Since then, he has visited coffee plantations in Costa Rica and Mexico as well as roasters and cafés across the U.S. He blogs about coffee for Gut Check every Wednesday.It came in a small b ... More >>

Top 10 Indie Rock Albums of 2008

In 2008, independent rock returned to the underground, where it belongs. Given the grand catastrophe that is today's record industry, most major-label executives don't have the time or energy to convince music fans they might like something a little out of the ordinary. They're too busy recycli ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Thaxton Speakeasy Opens, Little Joy and Dead Trees at Blueberry Hill, Vic Chestnut, Elf Power at Off Broadway, Family Affair at Gramophone, Ludacris and Tim McGraw on SNL

Good morning, St. Louis.If you were caught up in the fever for Twilight, watching movies about carnies or pondering the settlement between KWMU and its fiery, fired boss Patty Wente, here's what you may have missed.

D.I.Y. Now for the Future: The Undertow Collective and Magnolia Summer are using technology to modernize their D.I.Y. creative vision

St. Louis Going Balls Out for Soccer Team

My Love-Hate Relationship with Counting Crows and Adam Duritz

Restaurant Tidbit: The Original Pancake House

Flirty Versus Filthy

Does it matter who's doing the cat-calling? Should it?

Circuit Breakers

Sparks fly as So Many Dynamos generates indie buzz.

Dry-Hump Fatigue

Our readers like barbecue and solid reporting. Chris Duncan humping random objects, not so much.

Menomena

Friend and Foe (Barsuk)

God Only Knows

Todd Snider's restless soul belies a heart of gold.

Beep Beep, Yeah!

B-Sides explores the van woes of Cars Can Be Blue, talks to Split Lip Rayfield's Kirk Rundstrom about conquering cancer for one last tour and downloads some screaming Sleater-Kinney.

Minmae

Saturday, May 13, at 9 p.m. Lemmons (5800 Gravois Avenue)

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004s best roots music while its still hot.

A New View

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis comes in like a lion

Dandy Warhols

Wednesday, Nov. 22; Firehouse

SNAP CALL

City Hall makes a quick pick in an ugly battle over Internet and phone service. Prepare to pay the price.