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  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Cheese-Sauce Meth Smuggler is Taco of the Town

    ​Breaking Bad is a terrific TV show, maybe the best currently in production. It is also -- and this is a crucial point here -- a work of fiction.So when ice-cold badass Gus Fring smuggles meth inside buckets of batter for his fried-chicken empire, the proper response is 1) to applaud the brillianc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 22, 2011

    Two St. Charles Bodybuilders Indicted for Selling Chinese HGH

    Two bodybuilders from St. Charles County have been indicted for conspiracy to purchase and resell Chinese-processed Human Growth Hormone, the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri announced yesterday. Gregory Loomans, 40, and Keith Ashabranner, 32, each face up to five y ... More >>

  • News

    December 23, 2010

    Return to Sender: What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the feds got moving?

    Two bodybuilders from St. Charles County have been indicted for conspiracy to purchase and resell Chinese-processed Human Growth Hormone, the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri announced yesterday. Gregory Loomans, 40, and Keith Ashabranner, 32, each face up to five y ... More >>

  • News

    December 16, 2010

    The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

    Two bodybuilders from St. Charles County have been indicted for conspiracy to purchase and resell Chinese-processed Human Growth Hormone, the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri announced yesterday. Gregory Loomans, 40, and Keith Ashabranner, 32, each face up to five y ... More >>

  • News

    October 20, 2010

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

    Two bodybuilders from St. Charles County have been indicted for conspiracy to purchase and resell Chinese-processed Human Growth Hormone, the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri announced yesterday. Gregory Loomans, 40, and Keith Ashabranner, 32, each face up to five y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 18, 2010

    St. Louis County Man Faces Stiff Penalty for Selling Fake Erectile Dysfunction Medication

    image via​Mark Hughes, a 47-year-old St. Louis County man, pleaded guilty Monday to selling thousands of fake Viagra and Cialis pills over the last several years. We think it sounds like he should bone up on proper business practices? It's going to be hard to explain this one at his next high scho ... More >>

  • News

    August 25, 2010

    Asylum Denied: Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.

    image via​Mark Hughes, a 47-year-old St. Louis County man, pleaded guilty Monday to selling thousands of fake Viagra and Cialis pills over the last several years. We think it sounds like he should bone up on proper business practices? It's going to be hard to explain this one at his next high scho ... More >>

  • News

    August 11, 2010

    Seized: Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

    image via​Mark Hughes, a 47-year-old St. Louis County man, pleaded guilty Monday to selling thousands of fake Viagra and Cialis pills over the last several years. We think it sounds like he should bone up on proper business practices? It's going to be hard to explain this one at his next high scho ... More >>

  • News

    June 2, 2010

    Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

    image via​Mark Hughes, a 47-year-old St. Louis County man, pleaded guilty Monday to selling thousands of fake Viagra and Cialis pills over the last several years. We think it sounds like he should bone up on proper business practices? It's going to be hard to explain this one at his next high scho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    How To Get 1,000 Free Sheets of Printer Paper: Request Someone's File From U.S. Immigration

    Photo by Nicholas PhillipsFive inches of blank pages! Thanks, federal government!​As part of some routine fact-checking for our current cover story on local Hispanic publisher Cecilia Velazquez, RFT requested her file from U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS).And what a response we got! N ... More >>

  • News

    April 28, 2010

    A report from Juarez, Mexico, the bleeding front line of the war on drugs

    Photo by Nicholas PhillipsFive inches of blank pages! Thanks, federal government!​As part of some routine fact-checking for our current cover story on local Hispanic publisher Cecilia Velazquez, RFT requested her file from U.S. Customs and Immigration Services (USCIS).And what a response we got! N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2008

    Gentleman Auction House Tour Diary, Day Seven: Rochester, Buffalo, New York

    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 >>

  • Dining

    January 24, 2007

    Top Ramen (Chicken Vegetable Flavor)

    $0.23
    Grand Supermarket
    2700 South Grand Boulevard

  • News

    March 29, 2006

    The Split from Hell

    Vinson v. Vinson: It'll be a cold day in Hades before you see another divorce trial this bizarre

  • News

    February 15, 2006

    Out of Egypt

    From a long-buried pyramid to the Saint Louis Art Museum: The mysterious voyage of the Ka-Nefer-Nefer mask.

  • Music

    January 25, 2006

    Shabooh Shoobah

    INXS' Garry Beers weighs in on all things Rock Star, Karl Sanders of Nile expounds on Egypt, and B-Sides shakes our Groovethang

  • Film

    June 4, 2003

    2 the Extreme

    The high-speed sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious delivers more noise and more flash

  • Culture

    August 23, 2000

    Video Killed the Pornography Star

    If you're looking for a porn theater in St. Louis, head east -- the Colony is all you'll find

  • News

    January 5, 2000

    EYE OF THE NEEDLE

    Kellwood's taking fashion forward by making virtually all our clothes in the Third World. But the St. Louis giant carefully cloaks its operations, its plant locations and its monitoring of labor conditions.

  • News

    December 29, 1999

    Grab Bags

    Don't try to sneak home, or TWA will take your luggage hostage

  • News

    July 28, 1999

    Lost in America

    When the feds busted the "Black String Gang," they scratched the surface of the Vietnamese youth problem in South St. Louis. But no one's bothered to dig deeper into how it started.

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