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The Ten Most Important St. Louis Restaurant Openings of the Aughts #1: Niche (2005)
Niche (2005)If a hurricane hadn't sent Josh Galliano here, both An American Place and Monarch would have had very different trajectories. And if an ambitious young chef in Salt Lake City hadn't taken the time to research emerging markets to open his first restaurant, we might not have had Niche. Can you imagine our dining scene without Gerard Craft, the first St. Louis chef to be a finalist for the James Beard Foundation "Best Chef - Midwest" award, the first to be named a Food & Wine mag
December 29, 20092009 in Review: October
Waldo Jaquith, Wikimedia CommonsOctober saw the return of Drink of the Week, the column founded by Randall Roberts and continued by Kristie McClanahan that muses on life and libations. Alicia Lohmar is the new author, and we're thrilled to have her as part of the Gut Check family. The rest of the month after the jump.
December 29, 20092009 in Review: November
November was all about Thanksgiving -- though not in the traditional sense. No, our Thanksgiving was all about booze. (Or maybe that is traditional.) Anyway: The Beertender told you what beers to drink with Thanksgiving dinner, the Noble Writ discussed how to pair wines with your feast, and we listed what you need for a true dive-bar Thanksgiving. The rest of the month after the jump.
December 30, 2009St. Louis Police Report 206 Calls for Gunfire on New Year's Eve; Two Bizarre Related Injuries
Last week, St. Louis New Years Eve revelers hit the town, dressed to the nines with champagne aspirations, but most would greet the first light 2010 with splitting hangovers and foggy recollections of bad decisions. But, hey, at least they didn't wind up handcuffed to a hospital bed, riddled with bullets, like one south city carouser. This has to be the strangest incident of the 206 calls to St. Louis police between 6 p.m. on New Year's Eve and 2 a.m. on New Year's Day, all of which were related
January 5, 2010Serious Eats Celebrates The Good Pie
Slice, the pizza-centric site from food blog Serious Eats, has once again filed a report on a St. Louis pizzeria. Daniel Zemans has previously filed reports on Thai Pizza Co., Pi and Imo's. Now (last week, technically) he offers a glowing review of Midtown's Neapolitan pizzeria The Good Pie (3137 Olive Street; website):I look forward to a return visit so I can try some of [owner Mike] Randolph's other offerings, but as long as this pizza is on the menu, I will never visit The Good Pie and not
January 5, 2010St. Louis Public Library Moves Up in Ranking, Even as City's Overall Literacy Score Drops
The annual ranking of "America's Most Literate Cities" came out last month.The good news: For the sixth straight year the St. Louis Public Library was ranked as one of the top five library systems in the nation for cities with populations of over 250,000. According to Central Connecticut State University, which compiles the annual ranking, the St. Louis Library is the second best in the country -- trailing only Cleveland's library. Last year the St. Louis Library ranked No. 4. The bad: Despit
January 5, 2010St. Louis Art Capsules
January 6, 2010City Opens Warming Centers as Winter Storm Predicted to Bring Snow, More Frigid Temps
Warming Center: Like this, only warmer.Baby, it's cold outside. A winter storm warning suggests that St. Louis could get hit with up to six inches of snow by Thursday evening. In the meantime, temps are predicted to remain well below freezing through Sunday. St. Louis has now opened up several warming centers throughout the city. Check out the list of sites after the jump.
January 6, 2010At Least One Group In Town Is Excited About the Snow
And no, we're not talking about nearly every student in the metro area who's outside being pelted by snowballs right about now.While you're grumbling about your street not getting plowed (hey, the MetroLink is still running on-time) or shoveling the sidewalk, you can bet the penguins at the St. Louis Zoo are loving this sh*t:Image ViaThis was actually taken during the big snow in March 2008. Still, the penguins have to be pumped again this year.Got any good St. Louis snow photos? Share them i
January 7, 2010Restaurant Roll Call for 2009
RFT editorial coordinator Courtney Schilling and I did our best to compile as thorough a list of openings and closings as possible. Inevitably, though, some places will slip through the cracks. Please drop us a line or leave a comment with additions or deletions. - IanIan FroebMcCormick & Schmick's unleashed its seafood upon St. Louis this year.BY COURTNEY SCHILLING Before we get too far into this new decade, how about one last recap of last year's never dull restaurant scene?It seemed a
January 7, 2010Police Release Names of Victims Killed in Bloody Rampage at North St. Louis Factory
As reported last night, St. Louis police say four people, including the gunman, died yesterday in a deadly assault at the ABB Incorporated plant in north St. Louis. Five others were taken to the hospital where as of last night two remained in critical condition and two more in fair condition. A fifth shooting victim was treated and released yesterday. Early this morning police released the names and descriptions of those who died. They are: Carlton J. Carter, a 57-year-old black male of th
January 8, 2010St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 1.2 - 1.8
Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.Off the Menu: Joe broke news about the closing of the CWE Companion cafe, David Bailey's upcoming venture, and upcoming openings of Babbo and Olive Street Smokehouse.STL Bites: Bill had a posting frenzy with info about his favorite dried pasta, restaurant gripes, starting a blind bacon-tasting club and Brasserie by niche opening for lunch.Sounding My Barbaric Gulp: Kelly summarized 2009, then made Duck Ragu and Venison Burgers.
January 8, 2010Over the Weekend: Photos from the St. Louis Burlesque Showcase, the Grand Opening of Lola and an MMA Fashion Show
It was a diverse weekend for coverage here for RFT photographers this past weekend. We sent them to a burlesque dancing showcase that got all the St. Louis-based performers of the saucy arts in a single room together, then to a grand opening of a new restaurant downtown and finally to a fashion show dedicated to mixed-martial arts. Without further ado, here's a recap of our weekend coverage: St. Louis Burlesque Showcase Photo: Crystal RolfeOn Friday night, St. Louis burlesque dancers converged
January 11, 2010An Office Peeping Tom and Drag Race Love: Another Week in craigslist Missed Connections
Each week, we scour the local Missed Connections section of Craigslist, in search of the best posts. Here are some that caught our eye recently. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerlos/ / CC BY-SA 2.0Thankyou - 53 - (St.Louis, Mo)I don't know who you are but your loft is a couple floors above and across from my office on Pine. You dance undressed on your second level floor before the sun awoke. A tall full figured women with long beautiful legs. I will never know your name but I havn't felt like
January 11, 2010Post-Dispatch Readers Grumble Over Jury for New Arch Grounds Design
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elasticsoul/ / CC BY-SA 2.0Here 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 Boston Globe and contributing editor for Architectural RecordGerald Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters and Director of the African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St.
January 12, 2010World Cup 2018: St. Louis Loses to Kansas City
gousabid.comSt. Louis fails to net World Cup bid.St. Louis won't host any World Cup 2018 games.The USA Bid Committee this afternoon announced the roster of U.S. cities that will vie to host games during the world soccer championships. The eighteen cities chosen: Atlanta, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, Seattle, Denver, Tampa, Indianapolis, Baltimore, Nashville, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Boston, New York -- and yes, Kansas City. There were 27 cities in the runnin
January 12, 2010St. Louis Art Capsules
January 13, 2010Featured Review: Erik Spehn: Six Whites/Three Reds
January 13, 2010Hearts of Glass
January 13, 2010St. Louis Conference to Focus on Stem Cell Research
The Missouri Coalition for Life Saving Cures is hosting its first-ever "Hope Summit" next weekend in downtown St. Louis.The summit -- to be held Saturday, Jan. 23 -- is open to the public and will, according to the coalition, "build on Missouri's reputation as a leader in stem cell research and to discuss the potential for cures for our sick and injured loved ones."Keynote speaker for the event is journalist Chris Mooney, author of the books "Unscientific America: How Scientific Illitera
January 13, 2010"Journalist, Gadfly and Muckabout" Thomas Crone Launches New Blog: CreativeSaintLouis
creativesaintlouis.com/Thomas Crone, a former RFT staff writer and self-described "university professor, club/radio deejay and occasional bouncer-for-money," has unveiled a new blog designed to spotlight our city's creative forces.It will hew to a particular weekly schedule: on Mondays, CreativeSaintLouis will spotlight a person who makes St. Louis kick ass; on Tuesdays it'll be a place; Wednesdays will have a "thing"; and Thursdays "history and tradition." Then Friday is "show and tell" (unc
January 13, 2010Greetings From the 11th Most-Literate City in the Nation!
Recently spied this motel sign along Page Avenue -- just outside St. Louis City limits. And we wonder why our city's literacy ranking dropped again this year.Page Inn, 6230 Page Avenue, in WellstonOn the flip side, I hear their suites are really roomy.
January 14, 2010A Table for How Many? at Haveli Indian Restaurant
We don't expect our favorite Italian, American, Thai, sushi or Bosnian restaurants to serve food buffet-style. But when it comes to Indian food, St. Louisans have become spoiled by lunch buffets and often don't even consider having Indian food for dinner."How would I know what to order on the dinner menu?""I want to try some of everything!"Charles Haynes, Wikimedia CommonsIf the quotes above sound like you, consider trying a large group dinner at one of St. Louis' Indian restaurants. You can
January 14, 2010Dissecting Teen Homicide Numbers in St. Louis
Photo: Jennifer SilverbergA street memorials honors Robert Walker, a 17-year-old gunned down in St. Louis in 2006.Last week I asked the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to provide me with some raw numbers concerning homicides. In particular, I was interested in knowing how many teenagers died last year -- and in recent years -- as a result of violence in St. Louis. I asked for this information because based on the details of murders reported in our crime section, "The Big Bloody", it
January 15, 2010FoodWire: Opera Theatre of St. Louis Hosts Wine & Beer Tasting Friday, 2.5
The Opera Theatre of St. Louis will host its annual Wine & Beer Tasting on Friday, February 5, from 6-8 p.m. at the Sally S. Levy Opera Center at Webster University. The tasting will feature wine from Robust, Niche, Onesto Pizza & Trattoria, Big Sky Cafe and several wine distributors; Gray Eagle Distributors will supply the beer. There will be food from numerous local restaurants, including Companion, Eleven Eleven Mississippi and SqWires.Tickets are $75 per person. Proceeds benefit a pr
January 15, 2010St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 1.9-1.15
Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.Feast: George warmed up with a list of local restaurant fireplaces and a guide to pronouncing restaurant names. STL Hops: Mike gave the latest report on St. Louis' Hopslam fever epidemic, the announcement of the 2010 Craft Beer Week and Centennial Beer Festival and the "Five Taps at iTap" contest for their first anniversary.The Cheesemonger's Wife: Annie announced the birth of The Food Blog Mafia.
January 15, 2010Daily RFT Asks: Wha Cha Doin' This Weekend?
After the deep-freeze St. Louis has gone through over the last couple of weeks, we ask some people in the Loop what they're up to over the weekend. Ironically, on the first warm weekend in a while, it seems the Loop Ice Carnival is the favorite weekend destination.Chris, South Africa"I'm going to the Ice Carnival and a friend's birthday party in the Central West End."Kelsey Richardson, South County"I'm gonna work, hang out with friends, and smoke some Hookah."
January 15, 2010The Axe Continues to Fall at Anheuser-Busch InBev
And this time more St. Louis jobs were on the chopping block. The once-local company announced last Friday afternoon -- prime time for issuing bad news press releases -- that a "small number" of domestic brewery workers were being laid off.Image ViaVia the St. Louis Business Journal:Jim Brickey, vice president of people, said in a statement: "In our breweries today, a small number of salaried employees were notified that their jobs were eliminated. These were difficult decisions to make, but
January 18, 2010Get Born Gets Dead
getbornbeat.blogspot.comThat's the headline on the blog of the local reading series and poetry 'zine and, frankly, we don't think we can improve upon it. After three years, Get Born has decided it's not needed anymore and will be...um, getting unborn, after one final reading once the weather gets warmer."We started readings in the first place because there weren't any others like that at the time," says Joseph Sulier, one of the group's leaders. "There are a lot of readings now. It's serve
January 19, 2010By the Boards: Dennis Brown on St. Louis Theater January 21-24
Picture This...PhotographyIf Tennessee Williams had died in 1945, if he had never written A Streetcar Named Desire or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or any of his other plays and screenplays and novels and poems and essays, he would still hold an indelible place in the American theater as the author of The Glass Menagerie. This is one of those rare "rite of passage" plays. Young actresses cut their teeth on the fragile Laura; young actors test their chops on her anguished brother Tom. The arc of the
January 21, 2010Shocking Revelations in MovieMaker Magazine's List of Top 10 Cities for Filmmakers
Surely the people behind a magazine called MovieMaker would have seen Up in the Air. Surely those same people, if they were compiling a list of the ten best cities in the U.S. for moviemakers (or MovieMakers), would have taken note of how well St. Louis plays Omaha and several other middle-American cities, not to mention the impassioned speech George Clooney makes about halfway through in praise of Lambert Airport. Paramount PicturesWouldn't they?Apparently not.That's a far more logical
January 21, 2010King Khan and the Shrines Just Announced a Tour...
...and St. Louis isn't on the list of cities it's visiting. I can't say this is shocking: After the November incident where members of the King Khan & BBQ Show touring party were arrested in Kentucky -- causing them to miss their St. Louis appearance, and causing an impromptu Deer Tick show to happen at Off Broadway -- I wasn't expecting a return trip anytime soon. Has everyone else forgiven and forgotten? Do you want to see King Khan try for a St. Louis show once again?
January 21, 2010St. Louis: Violent Crime Down Slightly in City, Even More in County
The city and county police departments have released their 2009 crime figures, showing that violent crime fell across the region last year. In the city, crimes against persons dropped slightly by less than one percent in 2009, with one of the biggest percentage drops reported in the overall homicide rate. As reported in Daily RFT last week, the city reported 143 murders in '09 -- a 15 percent decline from the 167 in 2008. The downturn last year ended a five-year increase in homicides. Meanwhi
January 21, 2010Titus Andronicus' Record Store Tour Spinning Through St. Louis
Titus Andronicus just can't get enough of St. Louis. Last year, the band opened for Lucero and Los Campesinos! and later played a song of its own at the Firebird. On March 14 at 4 p.m., the band will be at Vintage Vinyl performing in support of its new album, The Monitor. This will be its only STL appearance: The show is part of an eight-city tour of indie record stores. It's also free and all-ages.
January 22, 2010St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 1.16-1.22
Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.STL Bites: Bill applauded The Good Pi for donating 100% of a day's profits to Haitian earthquake relief.Bruno's Dream: Bruno gave a behind-the-scenes tour of Volpi.Slow Food St. Louis: Eight-year-old Lucy wrote a bit about The Parker Ranch.Adventures in Eating Locally: In keeping with her resolution to blog more in 2010, Kimberly shared info on winter farmers markets and urban homesteading.
January 22, 2010This Week In St. Louis Elephant-Related News
Contributed by Kim BarksThis poor Elephant doesn't have a name, but anybody can suggest one for a $7.00 donation going to BackStoppers. What do an auto body shop, the St. Louis Zoo, an animal rights group, Mardi Gras and the Caribbean have in common?They're all part of this week's Elephant related news that have been stampeding through the RFT's inboxes. 1. First up, the St. Louis Zoo announced a few days ago that one of its Asian elephants, Rani, is pregnant.Good news, right? Well, the anima
January 22, 2010Ballot Initiatives for Local Police Control Cruise Through Administrative Hoops
Wikimedia CommonsLawyer Brad Ketcher has had three ballot-initiative petitions pertaining to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department approved by Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, her office announced yesterday.Ketcher is a political operative who led the successful 2008 ballot initiative to remove the $500 loss limits at Missouri casinos. Ketcher's minions now have until May 2 to gather enough signatures in order for Carnahan to certify any of the initiatives for the November 2010
January 26, 2010Reforming the Bail Bond Biz Might Be on Missouri's 2010 Agenda
Image viaBrace yourselves Daily RFT readers -- it's a double-dose of bail bond action for your snowy Tuesday afternoons.We already discussed the funny business that the Post-Dispatch recently uncovered at the city's Circuit Court and you've probably heard about the murder-for-hire plot between two bail bondsmen that was detailed in an RFT feature story last year. So what you might be wondering now is why the hell isn't anyone doing anything about all this?Well, somebody is. Sort of.Last year
January 26, 2010Poll: What is the Smokiest Bar in St. Louis?
No password needed, bub.Riverfront Times reporter Keegan Hamilton writes this week how many bars in St. Louis and St. Louis County will be exempt from indoor smoking bans once those laws go into effect January 2011. Which brings to mind the question -- which bar in St. Louis or St. Louis County do you think is the smokiest? We're out to find out and want your input. Click the link below for this quick, one-question survey and we'll post our findings soon here on the Daily RFT. var PDF_s
January 27, 2010Gaming Commission Torpedoes President Casino
danesnotesonboats.blogspot.comThe S.S. Admiral a.k.a. President CasinoAs expected, the Missouri Gaming Commission this afternoon voted unanimously to strip the gaming license to the President Casino in downtown St. Louis. The commission voted 4-0 to revoke the license despite strong objections from St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay who argues that the loss of the casino will greatly reduce city finances. The gaming commission wants to open up the boat's gambling license -- currently held by Pinnac
January 27, 2010High-Speed Rail From St. Louis to Chicago Gets $1.1 Billion in Funds
Four-hour train trips to Chicago -- at speeds hitting 110 m.p.h. -- are one step closer to becoming reality. President Barack Obama will be in Florida today to unveil how the government plans to spend $8 billion it's set aside in stimulus money for some 13 high-speed rail corridors throughout the United States.
January 28, 2010FoodWire: Mangia Italiano Goes Non-Smoking on Monday, 3.1
My colleague Annie Zaleski reports that as of Monday, March 1, Mangia Italiano (3145 South Grand Boulevard; website) will be completely non-smoking, ten months before the new smoking bans goes into effect in St. Louis City and County.What impact will the smoking ban have? What are the potential loopholes? My colleague Keegan Hamilton addresses these questions in this week's RFT feature story, which you absolutely must read.
January 28, 2010Cherry Pickers: Readers question smoking-ban loopholes and a downtown farmers' market
February 3, 2010Hop to It
February 3, 2010Plaintiffs Seek Class-Action Lawsuit Against St. Louis Red-Light Cameras
Lawsuit is latest to highlight cracks in the St. Louis law.Daily RFT yesterday spoke with St. Louis attorney Russell Watters. In December Watters filed a lawsuit on behalf of three people -- Alexa Smith and Timothy and Belle Keane -- who've received red-light camera tickets in St. Louis. The suit challenges the constitutionality of the the city's red-light camera ordinance and seeks class-action status that would refund everyone who's paid the $100 fine associated with the cameras. Last
February 3, 2010St. Louis: A Destination as Distinctive as....Bastrop, Texas?
Image Via St. Louis' sister city in the Lone Star State?A high honor was bestowed on St. Louis today: The National Trust for Historic Preservation named the city one of "America's Dozen Distinctive Destinations."The list has been published annually since 2000 and commends cities that "offer an authentic visitor experience by combining dynamic downtowns, cultural diversity, attractive architecture, cultural landscapes and a strong commitment to historic preservation, sustainability and
February 3, 2010Signing Day: Four St. Louis Area Athletes Among 23 Expected to Sign with Mizzou
We'll use any excuse to run this photo. Click for larger size.It's a semi-holiday for college football fans today. As the first Wednesday in February, it's National Signing Day, or the day when an athlete can officially autograph a binding letter of intent to play sports at a university.The University of Missouri football program is expected to add 23 players to its roster, including four from the St. Louis area, one of whom is already enrolled for classes in Columbia. While high school playe
February 3, 2010The Five Smokiest Bars in St. Louis
Last week, in conjunction with our feature story on smoking ban loopholes, we asked readers to name the smokiest bar in St. Louis. More than 330 people responded.The overwhelming winner? "All the bars where you can smoke."When it came to an actual watering hole in the city or county, the results were less definitive. At least 75 different establishments received one or more votes. Still, five places set themselves apart from the pack.
February 4, 2010St. Louis: Sixth Drunkest City
Books have been written about our love affair with booze, and all we get is a lousy No. 6 ranking?Next month Men's Health will come out with its listing of the "100 Drunkest Cities in America." As of right now, the magazine's website has yet to publish the findings, but USA Today has the scoop. Frankly, Daily RFT is a little disappointed with the results. St. Louis comes in a measly No. 6. Have the authors of this study ever been to a Blues game, next weekend's Mardi Gras Parade or any one of
February 4, 2010Exclusive MP3s and a Studio Report: Resoldered
courtesy of Resoldered"You Failed Me" var so = new SWFObject( "http://img.riverfronttimes.com/players/vvmMiniPlayer2.swf?k=QC4;MCF=&autoPlay=no", "theSWF", "91", "32", "8", "#FFFFFF" ); so.write( "player_1265316003" ); Resoldered Who: A '90s-punk-leaning Edwardsville/St. Louis band concerned with where the political and personal intersect. Jason Hodge (ex-Polar Bear Project) replaced Cory Blad on vocals as of July 2009. What Recording: Everybody in Between, a full-length, twelve
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