Professional Services Sector

Food Talk STL Ends Run on KFNS 590 AM

David Craig announced this weekend that he is putting his radio show Food Talk STL "on hiatus." Food Talk STL has aired on Saturday morning on KFNS (590 AM) since February 2012. The station recently announced a change from mainly sports-oriented programming ("The Fan") to a male-oriented format ("Th ... More >>

St. Louis: The 23rd Drunkest City In America

We didn't make the top five, ten, fifteen or even twenty, but hey, we weren't left out altogether. According to the Daily Beast, St. Louis ranks 23 in its study and list compiling the 25 "drunkest cities" in America in 2012. Maybe we're a skosh too sensitive, but we're sort of offended by our ranki ... More >>

George Allen Expected To Be Released Wednesday Morning

George Allen has been locked up for about three decades for the brutal rape and murder of court reporter Mary Bell in 1982. But a campaign to prove his innocence has convinced Cole County Judge Daniel Green that he didn't get a fair trial, and tomorrow -- barring a procedural move from the Missouri ... More >>

Lee Enterprises Lost More Money in 3rd Quarter. Oh, and Paywalls Are Coming to "Nearly All Markets"

Lee Enterprises announced a third-quarter loss of only $1.5 million, which is down quite a bit from the losses of $155 million in the same quarter of the previous year. Successfully pushing that decimal point two places to the left means that shares only lost three cents of their value in the third ... More >>

EDC 2012: Coachella or Electric Daisy Carnival: Which One is Better?

See also: Our Complete Coachella Coverage Dance music is coming to an arena near you: Kaskade will be the first DJ ever to play Staples Center (July 27). And mainstream concert promoters such as Live Nation are diving into the electronic dance explosion. Electric Daisy Carnival, which is being hel ... More >>

Lee Enterprises, Post-Dispatch Parent Co., Continues Downward Slide

courtesy of Google Finance.Lee Enterprises' stock (shown in blue) is down 20 percent in the last six months, as this graph shows. Fellow media giants Gannett (in red) and McClatchy (in yellow) have also lost considerable value.​Another quarterly report, another piece of bad news.That's the woefull ... More >>

P-D Parent Company, Lee Enterprises, Has a Bad Day

Stock down; refinancing on hold. Not a good day for the P-D's parent company.​The parent company of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Lee Enterprises, announced plans yesterday morning a plan to refinance nearly $1 billion of debt -- only to announce later in the day they were abandoning those plans du ... More >>

Comment of the Day: Clydesdales and Elton John Don't Mix

Today's comment comes from a post reviewing last night's Super Bowl ads with ties to St. Louis. One reader was not impressed with Anheuser-Busch's advertisement featuring its famous Clydesdales, a western gunslinger and Elton John's "Tiny Dancer." KittyLitterKing writes: "Tiny Dancer" is just as bad ... More >>

Square One Brewery's Clock Always Says Beer-Thirty

Kristen KlempertSquare One Brewery & Distillery, Lafayette Square​The Joint: Square One Brewery & Distillery 1727 Park Avenue; 314-231-2537 The Hours: Mon.-Fri. 4-6 p.m. The Deal: $1 off all house drafts and house spirits; discounts on select appetizers. Make ours a beer...

Profits Up at Post-Dispatch Parent Company Even As Ad Sales Fall

Online revenue is growing for the Post-Dispatch's parent company -- but not nearly fast enough to replace the print advertisers being lost.Profits up; revenue down -- that generally means fewer journalists.​That's the latest news from Lee Enterprises, based in Davenport, Iowa. The St. Louis Post-D ... More >>

Grinding Justice: Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution and doesn't work

Ad Revenue Still Down At Post-Dispatch Parent Company -- But Profits Are Up

This just in: Lee Enterprises, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and a host of other newspapers, lost another 4.9 percent in ad revenue this quarter.​That's not, of course, a headline you'll see in the Post-Dispatch. In its brief report on page A11, the paper reports the latest quarter's fi ... More >>

Ever Had the Urge to Dress Up Like a Cow? Today's Your Day!

Chick-fil-A will give you a free meal today if you show up dressed like a cow. No, really. Chipotle wants you to know it has its sustainably raised heart in the right place. But it's not a marketing strategy. Except it is a marketing strategy. First Lady Michelle Obama has had it up to here with c ... More >>

Don't Worry: Multigrain Pringles Are Available in Ranch Flavor

​You know what's easier than snacking healthily? Thinking you're snacking healthily and letting the, uh, chips fall where they may.At least, that's Gut Check's takeaway from an article in today's New York Times detailing the marketing push behind new Pringles Multigrain Crisps. In devising the ma ... More >>

Google Touts Economic Impact in Missouri, Says Nothing of Profits Headed to California

Google busts out some big figures.​Was I the only one who thought it strange yesterday that Google decided to make public its "economic impact" in Missouri and other states? The news release yesterday was apparently the first time ever that the search engine has shared its state-by-state financia ... More >>

Pete Rahn to Leave MoDOT for Company Tied to State Contracts

modot.comRahn drew attention to highway work zones in 2006 when he set up his office alongside a Missouri freeway. ​Updated 4:25 p.m. MoDOT informs Daily RFT that it has entered into 52 contracts with HNTB since Rahn's arrival with a total cost for those contracts at more than $75 million.  O ... More >>

A Heated Deposition Turns the South Butt Case Into One Giant "Clusterf@#k"

​Remember how The South Butt LLC -- a Mizzou freshman's apparel company that's getting sued by The North Face for trademark infringement - has that motto, "Never Stop Relaxing!"? Well, on Friday, the student's father, Jim Winkelmann Sr., stopped relaxing. Eighteen minutes into a deposition held by ... More >>

CloudCamp STL Rolls into Town on Thursday

CloudCamp is coming to St. Louis this Thursday. CloudCamp is a conference that's structured in a similar way to a BarCamp except that it's all about cloud computing. Cloud computing is basically running applications and using other IT resources over the Internet (the "cloud") rather than on your des ... More >>

Oh, Meth! New Campaign Against Meth Use Hopefully as Catchy as Old One

As we reported last week, U.S. "Drug Czar" Gil Kerlikowske is in St. Louis today to unveil the White House Office of National Drug Policy's new anti-meth campaign. Here's hoping the campaign is as good as the last one featured here.  Continue on to view the full press release of today's announ ... More >>

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...

Scratch that Story on Mayoral Candidate and Contract with Red-Light Camera Vendor

Earlier this week I posted a tidbit taken from the St. Louis American's Political Eye column. The Political Eye reported how dark horse mayoral candidate Denise Watson-Wesley Coleman entered a lucrative, $160,000 contract back in 2006 to do debt collection work for the city's red-light camera vendor ... More >>

City Turns Over Unpaid Red-Light Tickets To Collection Agency

flickr.com/photos/fringehogNote: A follow-up to this story can be found here. The City of St. Louis has yet to issue warrants against those who refuse to pay tickets generated from red-light cameras, but it has turned their names over to a collection agency. Last month scofflaws who haven't paid the ... More >>

President of St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners To Step Down

www.slmpd.orgChris GoodsonChris Goodson, president of the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners, announced today that he will step down from his post at the end of February. Goodson was appointed to the board by former Gov. Matt Blunt in February 2005. He has been serving on an expired term since ... More >>

Square One Brewery to Add Distillery

Lafayette Square microbrewery Square One Brewery is adding a distillery. Look for micro-distilled spirits to arrive early next year.

AdOne Media CEO Jim Neumann Files for Bankruptcy

Beermosa

Square One Brewery
1727 Park Avenue
314-231-2537

Does the NO in NOLA Mean No Taco Trucks?

Dan Horkheimer: "He Loved the Community"

The Morning Brew: Friday, 8/3

The Burning Baby

(Liluma, Central West End)

Hellogoodbye

7 p.m. Saturday, October 21. Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street).

Roll Out the Barrel

The kitchen’s a tad flat, but cheers to the beers at Square One Brewery

Trailhead Red Amber Ale / Lafayette Lager

Trailhead Brewery, 921 South Riverside Drive, St. Charles; 636-946-2739. Square One Brewery, 1727 Park Avenue; 314-231-2537.

Spring in Your Sights

The Guy Ain't Right in the Head

But his wallet's just fine, thanks

Cocky to the Core

Meet the hotshots at this St. Louis ad firm. They're special. Just ask them.

Quick Picks

Week of October 20, 2004

Blowing a Fuse

A black-owned St. Louis advertising firm is stirring the political pot

Quick Picks

Week of September 15, 2004

WWE in the House

And it's a house of pain

Worcester Booster

Almost-Blues and faded Stars

Gentlemen, Start Your Zambonis

Game on (finally)

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queens of the Stone Age and the Mars Volta

Wednesday, May 7; Savvis Center

Backfire

Former exec's suit could blow Enterprise's files wide open

Members of the Firm

Law-firm employee apparently didn't see enough dicks at the office

He Got Game

Bill Laurie has a basketball jones that won't go away. Who cares whether it makes economic sense?

Best Radio Commercials

Zipatoni Industries on KDHX (88.1 FM)

A League of Their Own

The WNBA pays St. Louis a brief, tantalizing visit

No Way Out

When Wendy Huddleston fell $1,370 behind in child-support payments, she was jailed indefinitely. She needed money or a lawyer -- and she had neither.

WHOOPEE FOR WACO

St. Louis will play host to former Sen. John Danforth's investigation of the Branch Davidian siege