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Flogging Molly, Bryan Adams Returning to St. Louis
St. Patrick's day starts a week early next year in St. Louis: Flogging Molly's annual Green 17 tour is scheduled to hit the Pageant on March 10, 2010. Fan community registrants can buy tickets now, although the show's on sale to everybody on November 14. On another note, Bryan Adams is scheduled to play an acoustic show on Monday, December 7, at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $49.50 to $69.50, and the show starts at 8 p.m.
November 2, 2009Unreal Forgets Alzheimer's Awareness Month!
www.stationbay.comUnreal's inbox overfloweth on Mondays, so you can imagine our discombobulation when a missive pops in from Amanda Hassler, a flack at BrightonUSA who wants to know if RFT is covering Alzheimer's Awareness Month.OMG! We forgot!If you or a loved one has a similar problem, the press release on the jump might interest you....
November 2, 2009Missouri Arts Council Names 2010 Award Winners; Opera Theatre of St. Louis Honored
The Missouri Arts Council yesterday announced its 2010 arts award winners. The only St. Louis organization and/or artist to make this year's list was Opera Theatre of St. Louis. The full list of winners by category: Arts Education: Dr. Robert Gifford, Cape GirardeauArts Organization: Opera Theatre of St. Louis, St. LouisCreative Community: The City of Lee's Summit, Lee's SummitIndividual Artist: Jim Leedy, Lake LotawanaLeadership in the Arts: Marie Nau Hunter, Columbia Philanthropy: Joseph L.
November 3, 2009Hallowed Be Thy Name: A member of the Schlafly clan figures to do the Lord's work by cleansing the Bible of its "liberal bias"
November 4, 2009(City)Garden Spot: Downtown's new cultural gem gets a restaurant to match
November 4, 2009Pointe of Power
November 4, 2009The Beertender: What to Drink This Fall
If you've been paying attention over the past few years, you know how the beer selection in the St. Louis area has ballooned. (Seventeen breweries!) With so much out there, it can get a little overwhelming at times. Here are a few Must-Trys and New-&-Excitings to seek:(Don't forget that STL Hops posts beer lists for quite a few local establishments.)Ayinger Weizenbock (Brauerei Aying, Germany): Long considered one of the greats, Ayinger makes definitive German beers, so anything new from
November 4, 2009St. Louis County Council Clears Way For North County Casino
Image ViaWhile thousands of St. Louis county voters took to the polls yesterday to decide important issues like a smoking ban and increased 911 funding, the fate of the largest stretch of undeveloped Mississippi River waterfront in the St. Louis region was left in the hands of six members of the St. Louis County Council.They voted 4-2 in favor of re-zoning 376 acres of wetlands south of the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area for commercial development, specifically a massive casino and resort
November 4, 2009Know Your Local Meth Maker; Eight County Residents Sentenced for Psuedoephedrine
Yesterday the U.S. Attorney Michael Reap announced the sentencing of eight St. Louis County residents for possession of psuedoephedrine with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine. The suspect participated in the scheme between June 2006 and March 2009, according to prosecutors, and appeared before the Honorable Jean Hamilton for sentencing. Know any of these folks? April Delaney, 33, St. Louis, MO; sentenced to 100 months;David Goodrich, 48, St. Louis, MO; sentenced to 84 months;She
November 5, 2009Stuck to My Ribs: Bono's Pizzeria
Josh BacottOne of the detriments to living in a city that claims its own "style" of pizza? A significant chunk of the locally-owned establishments ignore the alternatives.Seemingly every neighborhood joint that offers delivery specializes in thin-crust St. Louis-style pizza. As a lifelong resident of the Gateway City, I'm an unabashed lover of St. Louis-style pizza. I typically live by the credo the more provel, the better.But one problem with our city's trademark pizza is that when a guy ha
November 6, 2009Ten Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, November 6-8, 2009
You could go out this weekend and spend a wad of cash drinking like a sailor. Or, you might find yourself online or at the mall, and end up charging a ridiculous-looking thermal coat to your Visa. But why put yourself in the poorhouse (or the poky) when all the following events are just $10 or less? P.S. We've got plenty of music choices this weekend, too. Image ViaSee Bob Run premieres Friday.See Bob Run at the ArtSpace at Crestwood Court (Opens Friday) See Bob Run, a one-woman show by Canad
November 6, 2009St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 10.24-11.6
Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.A Veggie Venture: Alanna advised on vegetarian Thanksgiving options.The Cheesemonger's Wife: Annie dreamed of classes at The School of Artisan Food.Off the Menu: Joe reported on Chesterfield Valley going indie, a hometown girl taking gooey butter cake to NYC, and Ami's finding a new home.
November 6, 2009Choose St. Louis' Most Underrated Restaurants
David Benbennick, Wikimedia CommonsYou're the critic.Niche. Monarch. Pi. Certain St. Louis restaurants are discussed frequently around these parts. Too frequently, some might argue. But regardless whether or not you believe those particular places are deserving of the hype, you probably can think of at least one area restaurant that undeservedly flies under the radar.I want to highlight these places. Or, rather, I want you to highlight these places. Choose the restaurant you think is the most
November 9, 2009Say Panther (Finally) Releases New Album
myspace.com/saypantherVia Twitter, via Facebook, via Eleven magazine: Say Panther has finally announced the release party for its long-awaited (and long-recorded) album, As We Grow. The big day is November 24 at the Chapel, along with Target Market.Along with reporting this news and posting an MP3, Eleven's blog has some bummer news:Unfortunately, this will be the last show for Say Panther for quite some time. Lead singer/guitarist James Bishop will be departing St. Louis on indefi
November 10, 2009Tomorrow: DJ Trackstar's Farewell Show at the Gramophone
Jennifer SilverbergTomorrow night at the Gramophone, come on out and bid a fond farewell to mover and shaker DJ Trackstar, who is heading west with his fiancee. The show is free, and will feature DJ Spec and special guest DJs to be announced. A to Z shot the busy man an email with some questions about his future -- and he took the time to answer them below. Where are you going? San Diego, CA What will you be doing? Will you continue doing music? C'mon! Of course! I'll be on the same hu
November 10, 2009Jeff Cooper, Other Team Owners to Form New Soccer League
simmonsfirm.comJeff CooperTired of waiting for Major League Soccer (MLS) to grant St. Louis an expansion franchise, Jeff Cooper is joining other soccer team owners to begin -- in the words of Penny Marshall -- a league of their own. Cooper, a well-off Illinois attorney with the Simmons Law Firm, has been attempting to get an MLS franchise in the St. Louis area for a number of years. In a statement today, Simmons announced that he and the owners of soccer franchises formerly of the USL-1 confe
November 10, 2009Q&A: Jeff Cooper Discusses Plans for Professional Soccer Team
Jeff CooperEarlier today Daily RFT shared an announcement about a new professional soccer league that plans to bring a team to St. Louis. This afternoon, we got in touch with the league's spokesperson, Jeff Cooper, the Illinois attorney who's been trying to bring a Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise to St. Louis for years. Cooper already owns the professional women's soccer team, St. Louis Athletica, and will also be the principal owner of the men's outdoor team when the new league starts th
November 10, 2009FoodWire: Four Forbes Stars for Tony's Restaurant
Forbes Travel Guide -- formerly known as Mobil Travel Guide -- is out with its annual star ratings of restaurants nationwide, and Downtown institution Tony's (410 Market Street; website) is the highest-rated St. Louis restaurant, scoring four out of a maximum five stars. The only other four- star restaurant in Missouri is the American Restaurant in Kansas City.No Missouri restaurants joined the rather select company of five-star winners. According to the Forbes website, a four-star restaurant "p
November 10, 2009St. Louis Craigslist Musician Post of the Week: Why Does Your Band Suck?
(Welcome to a recurring feature on A to Z: The Craiglist Musician Post of the Week. Associates and friends keep sending me links to funny and/or bizarre listings -- ones that deserve to be shared with the world.) Why is St. Louis' original music scene perceived as weak? Well, the author of "St. Louis Original Scene (In The Pocket)" has the answers: The fact is that St. Louis' original bands suck. Entirely too many young kiddies who don't bother to take the time to understand and study music
November 10, 2009RFT readers weigh in matters of biblical proportions, and huff and puff about the newly passed smoking ban
November 12, 2009St. Louis Art Capsules
November 12, 2009Holiday Ink
November 12, 2009Legal Challenge to Smoking Ban Would Be Tough Sell, Say Law Experts
Even before voters in St. Louis County overwhelmingly approved a smoking ban last week, opponents of the ban warned that they might challenge the statute in court. At a press conference in October, Bill Hannegan of "Vote No on Proposition N" and Keep St. Louis Free said he and others were examining the constitutionality of the ban.While opposed to any law prohibiting smoking, they argue that the the county ordinance is particularly unfair because it exempts casinos and bars that derive
November 11, 2009Presenting: The DisAbility Project in "The DP Rap"
This week's RFT feature story is about the DisAbility Project, a theater troupe here in St. Louis made up of actors who have disabilities. All week long on Daily RFT, we'll be posting video of the DP in action. All skits were shot during a performance on October 28 at the Saint Louis Art Museum for an audience of students, ranging from elementary to high school.We begin with "The DP Rap", led by Ana Jennings.
November 11, 2009FoodWire: Serious Eats Samples Imo's Pizza
Slice, the pizza blog run by the national food blog Serious Eats, once again has visited a St. Louis pizza joint. Previous installments considered the pies being served at Thai Pizza Co. and Pi, but now author Daniel Zemans has gone straight to the heart of the subject: Imo's Pizza. Though the title of Zemans' post, "Imo's Pizza: St. Louis' Inexplicably Addictive Pie," might suggest a negative opinion of the Provel-topped pizza, Zemans throws a curveball:My name is Daniel, I'm a proud Chicagoan
November 12, 2009Presenting: The DisAbility Project in "Facts and Figures"
This week's RFT feature story is about the DisAbility Project, a theater troupe here in St. Louis made up of actors who have disabilities. All week long on Daily RFT, we'll be posting video of the DP in action. All skits were shot during a performance on October 28 at the Saint Louis Art Museum for an audience of students, ranging from elementary to high school.In this skit, called "Facts and Figures", cast members share some sad facts about how disabled people have been treated throughout
November 13, 2009FoodWire: St. Louis Pizza Haus Closed
Looks like St. Louis Pizza Haus (6602 Delmar Boulevard) has closed. The Delmar Loop restaurant has a for-lease sign in the window, most of the furniture has been removed and the phone number has been disconnected. (The website remains active.) St. Louis Pizza Haus opened in 2005, advertising its brick oven as its signature aspect. With my office in the Loop, I'd eaten there a couple of times and thought it was decent pie and offered a nice change of pace from Racanelli's New York-style pizza acr
November 13, 2009St. Louis Food Blog Digest: 11.7-11.13
Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs. Sounding My Barbaric Gulp: Kelly experienced the pain in the ass of French cooking. Iron Stef: Stef hung out with the Forking Fantastic authors.Show Me Vegan: Lisa reviewed Eating Animals.
November 13, 2009Band Cancels Show in St. Louis Following Arrest in Kentucky
King Khan & BBQ ShowFans of the rock duo The King Khan & BBQ Show were disappointed last night when the band was a no-show for its scheduled concert last night at the Off Broadway in St. Louis. Today the Riverfront Times music blog A to Z has the skinny on why the band failed to appear. Turns out at least one member of the outfit got arrested yesterday in the-middle-of-nowhere-Kentucky. Kristin Klein, tour manager for the band, was arrested in Oak Grove, Kentucky, and charged with dri
November 13, 2009This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated
I don't know this for certain, but I think we broke the record this week for most posts on Gut Check in a single five-day week. At any rate, there was a lot going on, from Robin Wheeler's Chef's Choice profile of Companion founder Josh Allen to Drink of the Week's visit to the "Blood & Sand" cocktail event to one naughty drink coaster.What else did we do this week?Throwback of the House ate Polynesian Green Beans while remembering The Brady Bunch.The Sneak took on the St. Louis Internatio
November 13, 2009Presenting: The DisAbility Project in "Gettin' Jiggy" and "Employment"
This week's RFT feature story is about the DisAbility Project, a theater troupe here in St. Louis made up of actors who have disabilities. All week long on Daily RFT, we'll be posting video of the DP in action. All skits were shot during a performance on October 28 at the Saint Louis Art Museum for an audience of students, ranging from elementary to high school.The big dance number, "Gettin' Jiggy":
November 16, 2009The Taste of Victory is a Case of Schlafly Pale Ale
Today Bill Hannegan, founder of Keep St. Louis Free, stopped by the Riverfront Times to pay off a bet. As regular readers know, Hannegan and his group are dead set against smoking bans in St. Louis. Over the past few months, Hannegan and I have shared a few online jabs. In a post back in July I bet Hannegan that voters in Kirkwood would approve a smoking ban. And that's just what they did on Nov. 3, as did all voters in St. Louis County by a margin of nearly 2 to 1.) Hannegan (left) serves up so
November 16, 2009Season to Risk Anniversary Tour Hitting St. Louis
Season to Risk is one of those bands that's become more influential and beloved the less it plays live. The Kansas City post-rock act's alumnae are impressive: One-time drummer Tim Dow went on to be in post-Failure outfit Year of the Rabbit, while Joshua Newton has played with Every Time I Die, Reggie and the Full Effect and From Autumn to Ashes, and Paul Malinowski has become a well-respected producer. (St. Louis show-goers also know Steve Tulipana and BIlly Smith, as the pair frequently comes
November 16, 2009The Magnetic Fields in St. Louis in 2010
Here's one I didn't see coming: The Magnetic Fields will be performing in St. Louis at the Pageant on Saturday, March 6, 2010. The reserved show tickets cost $26 and go on sale this Friday at 5 p.m. The band has a new album, Realism, out January 23, and it's described on the band's website like this:Swerving from the unrelenting feedback pop of [2008's] Distortion, this record explores the various genres under the umbrella of folk. Stephin says, "I thought of the two records as a pair, and I ini
November 16, 2009Backstage With the DisAbility Project
Last week's RFT feature story was about the DisAbility Project, a theater troupe here in St. Louis made up of actors who have disabilities. All week long Daily RFT has been posting video of the DP in action. All skits were shot during a performance on October 28 at the Saint Louis Art Museum for an audience of students, ranging from elementary to high school.Before the show, four cast members talked with us about the audience for the day's performance and what they hoped everyone would get
November 17, 2009Thank God for Baltimore! St. Louis No Longer Leads Nation in Two Painful STDs
St. Louis shares many things in common with Baltimore, Maryland. We have the same brick infrastructure, the same *&%@ed up government, the same run-away crime and -- now -- the same STD. Yesterday the Center for Disease Control published findings indicating that Baltimore has surpassed St. Louis as the most chlamydia-infested region of the country. In 2008, 1,235 people per 100,000 residents in St. Louis had chlamydia for a total of 4,300 total cases. Baltimore had a higher infection rate
November 17, 2009The Sneak vs. the St. Louis International Film Festival, Round Two (Friday)
Shows: Ligeia, a locally filmed, very (very) loose adaptation of the short story by Edgar Allen Poe reimagined as a Gothic thriller; Albino Farm, a slasher film that might as well be about my fears of driving to the Lake of the Ozarks.Food: The Edgar Allen Pom, a cocktail I concocted, recipe to follow.Difficulty: Easy. The St. Louis International Film Festival opened soft on Thursday with a single showing of An Education so the true opening night at the Tivoli was packed. I was also able to
November 17, 2009Readers rave about Leonard Cohen's magical concert and rant about Andrew Schlafly's re-edit of the Bible
November 18, 2009Gut Check: Let Us Praise the Unsung Restaurant
November 18, 2009Headlights/Pomegranates/Fractured Army
November 18, 2009The Boorays
November 18, 2009We Built This City: Two new music documentaries on local classic-rock legends rock SLIFF
November 18, 2009Mayor Slay Once Again Pushing for Local Control of St. Louis Police
St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay used last week's critical audit of the St. Louis Police Department as one more reason why the law enforcement agency should be under local control. The St. Louis police department has operated under state control since the Civil War when out-state legislators feared that city cops might assist the Union Army. www.mohistory.orgUnion sympathizers? Turn-of-the-century St. Louis cops. At a meeting yesterday of the St. Louis Police Board of Commissioners, Slay told his
November 19, 2009Overhauled South Grand Wins Praise from Urban Planners for Being Completely Great Street
Astute city-watchers will have noticed some changes on the six-block stretch of South Grand Boulevard between Arsenal and Utah in the past few months: fewer driving lanes, new stoplight patterns, wider crosswalks and those weird little bulb things to keep impatient drivers from trying to cut ahead and mow down a few pedestrians. The changes were all part of the St. Louis Great Streets Initiative, a plot by a cabal of urban planners to turn St. Louis' streets into "interesting, lively and attract
November 19, 2009Effort to Overturn St. Louis Smoking Ban Would Focus on Casino Exemption
Photo: Jenn SilverbergHannegan lighting up at one of his favorite haunts, Herbies' Vintage '72.St. Louis' most tireless smoking-ban opponent Bill Hannegan stopped by the Riverfront Times the other day. In so doing, Hannegan hinted how his Keep St. Louis Free plans to topple the ban in the city that is slated to go into effect January 2010.The strategy, says Hannegan, would be to challenge the ban's exemption that allows for smoking to continue unabated in St. Louis casinos. A quick refresher
November 19, 2009Video: Old Dog, New Trick Trailer, Screening Tonight!
Two locally produced documentaries about St. Louis music are premiering tonight as part of SLIFF. The Pride of St. Louis chronicles the rise and fall of Mama's Pride, in the words of brothers Danny and Pat Liston, while Old Dog, New Trick throws the spotlight on Steve Scorfina, a founding member of REO Speedwagon and member of Pavlov's Dog. The 7 p.m. Tivoli screening will be followed at 9:30 p.m. by a show at the Duck Room with Danny Liston and the Scorfina band. Tickets are $10 to the movies,
November 20, 2009St. Louis Food Blog Digest 11.14 - 11.20
Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs.Cupcake Project: Stef played Guess the Dessert and made sweet potato, turkey dinner and malva pudding cupcakes.Happy second anniversary to STL Hops! Mike had information about the Happy Holidays Homebrew competition and shared his beer list for Brasserie by Niche.Beer Wine and Whisky: Dave heads north for some red wine and fish fry.
November 20, 2009Download: So Many Dynamos' Daytrotter Session
It's good to see so many St. Louis bands recording sessions for Daytrotter, the Rock Island, Illinois, website/company/music mecca that's become a must-visit destination. Joining Gentleman Auction House and Pokey LaFarge in the website's spotlight is So Many Dynamos, whose session went live this past weekend. Head here to download four live versions of songs from The Loud Wars.
November 23, 2009St. Louis Moves up Rankings, Now No. 2 "Most Dangerous City"
St. Louis came close to its 2006 title as the nation's "Most Dangerous City", but alas it was not to be this year. Today CQ Press released its annual crime survey, a report which until recently ranked cities under the moniker "most dangerous." Today CQ Press uses the more PC term "crime rank" to compare cities. Based on FBI data from 2008, Camden, New Jersey, now enjoys the highest rate of violent crime with 2,332.6 violent crimes per 100,000 population.St. Louis is now ranked No. 2 (up from
November 23, 2009Last Jeff Smith Post: The Letters
One supporter of Jeff Smith compared him to a Kennedy.Lt. Governor Peter Kinder, Build-A-Bear CEO Maxine Clark and an ex-girlfriend are among the hundreds of people who wrote to a federal judge asking for leniency in the sentencing for former state senator Jeff Smith. The letters, along with some penned for former state representative Steve Brown, had been closed to the public but were unsealed in federal court late last week.Smith had spent his two-plus months prior to sentencing lobbying hi
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