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[UPDATED] Hey, How About Turning Union Station Into...A Soccer Stadium?

Update October 17: Alert reader Mike M. from Arlington, Virginia, has written in with a hopeful message about St. Louis' prospects for a Major League Soccer team. Find out what it is at the end of this post. ------ Original Post: As far as malls go, Union Station has always been kind of a dud. Sur ... More >>

The Secret History of the St. Louis Post Office and Its Amazing Pneumatic Tube

One hundred years ago, subterranean St. Louis was a fascinating place. There was, of course, the web of caves that stretched from Benton Park north to downtown and east to the Mississippi River with detours into neighborhood basements. Before the Civil War, the cave network may have been one of the ... More >>

Yet Another Knockout King Victim?

As if the murder of Megan Boke and a second armed robbery in the CWE weren't enough, now it appears the "Knockout Game" is alive and well in central St. Louis -- just in case you needed more proof that certain St. Louisans are capable of behaving like jackals. KMOV, KSDK, KTVI, KMOX and the Post-Dis ... More >>

Flashdance

Iron Fork 2012 Advance Ticket Sales End Today!

Attention all of you who have been procrastinating or sitting on the fence or living in the dark cave of your own ignorance: Today is the last day that you can buy advance tickets for Iron Fork, Riverfront Times' blockbuster tasting event tomorrow, March 22, at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott. ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: February 3-February 5

Friday (Feb. 3): Missouri Organic Association organic food workshops @ St. Louis Union Station Marriott Catch the last couple of days of this annual conference geared toward urban and suburan farms and gardeners, gardener wannabes and foodies, featuring plenty of workshops ranging from consumer he ... More >>

Cops Arrest Two Car Vandals

Willis​The Fourth of July theatrics in St. Louis this weekend weren't limited to concerts and light shows. In case you missed it, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, in dramatic fashion, apprehended two of the men suspected of twenty car break-ins that occurred near Union Station on ... More >>

Alison Krauss Coming to the Fabulous Fox

Wikimedia Commons​Alison Krauss, the bluegrass singer whose steller career has hit mainstream peaks with appearances on the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack and a recent collaborative album with Robert Plant, will be playing in St. Louis later this year. Her Paper Airplane Tour comes to th ... More >>

Riverfront Times Presents Iron Fork Thursday, April 7

Image via​For the fifth consecutive year, Riverfront Times will showcase food from multiple restaurants and host an Iron Chef-style battles between local chefs and bartenders. This year's Iron Fork will be held Thursday, April 7, from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at the St. Louis Union Station Marriott.General ... More >>

Punks Steal Historic Piece of Union Station After St. Pat's Parade Downtown

Anybody know these chumps? Last Saturday afternoon, while many green-clad St. Louisans were sh$thouse-wasted from St. Paddy's Day festivities downtown, these scoundrels were stealing history -- specifically, one of the "finials" (or big metal balls) from the main staircase at Union Station that desc ... More >>

10 Things to Do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, August 6-8, 2010

​It's been a busy week and we almost didn't get to this, but we wanted to make sure that everyone knows the cheap happenings going on around town. So here's a truncated version of this week's 10 things for $10 that includes a free movie night at Union Station, monster flicks, cult films, live ... More >>

St. Louis Food Blog Digest, 6.7-6.13

​Gut Check dishes on our favorite St. Louis food blogs. One Hot Stove: Nupur made Soy Kheema. Iron Stef: Stephanie made Rainbow Trout stuffed with Fennel. St. Louis Eats and Drinks: The Pollacks brunched at Wei Hong. 

What's Up Magazine Presents City Sound Tracks Festival Along the MetroLink on Saturday, March 27

Nothing beats a good train song -- "Folsom Prison Blues," "Cannonball Rag" and the grandaddy of them all, "Mystery Train" -- and nothing beats a music festival in the spring, especially when you can get in for the price of a MetroLink train ticket. City Sound Tracks, a festival organized by What's U ... More >>

Murphy Lee returns with a new album — and a positive outlook

2009 in Review: October

​Waldo Jaquith, Wikimedia Commons​October 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 ... More >>

FoodWire: Beechwood Bistro Closed?

​Looks like Union Station might have claimed another one: Beechwood Bistro by Sage, the offshoot of Soulard's Sage, appears to be closed. The restaurant was closed during its usual operating hours this afternoon, and the phone number (314-621-1161) has been disconnected. Beechwood Bistro opened in ... More >>

Is an Influx of Stimulus Cash Too Much for UrbanFORCE to Handle?

flickr.com/photos/eszter​Thanks to the federal stimulus, Friday, August 7, was payday for hundreds of urban youths. At least, it was supposed to be.The teens had all found work this summer through UrbanFORCE, a program sponsored by the St. Louis Agency for Training and Employment (SLATE) that matc ... More >>

Top 10 Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend, June 5-7

If you love summer more than any other season, the first weekend in June should mean something -- and if you find yourself having fun and spending wee amounts of green, you'll likely remember this weekend fondly while trudging through the slush of February. Here's our best attempt at directing you t ... More >>

Do It Again

Street Art is Not a Crime

Wikimedia commonsUnless of course you're caught drawing a smiley face on the subway in New York's Union Station. Then you'll spend two days in jail, even if you're a renowned artist in town for a major gallery opening.Such was the case of Yoshitomo Nara a Japanese sculptor (his work Light My Fire i ... More >>

FoodWire: Beechwood Bistro Now Open

Ian Froeb Beechwood Bistro is now open at the entrance of Union Station. The new restaurant should make a lot of noise at Union Station -- if only because the retail is so very quiet./rimshot/Beechwood Bistro comes to us from the same folks who opened Sage (1031 Lynch Street; Web site) in 2007. The ... More >>

Rave On! (Silently) at Union Station on Saturday, February 28

Wikimedia CommonsRaving it up old-school.Some old folks who have vivid memories of the nineties may think that 4:30 in the afternoon is a little early to start raving, and Union Station is kind of a strange locale when there are so many abandoned warehouses in St. Louis, but those folks are just sho ... More >>

Daily Web Crawl

Daily Web Crawl

Walk the Walk

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

Hpnotiq on the rocks

Plush, 1820 Market Street (in Union Station); 314-436-7578

Lost Downtown

An insider's guide to downtown St. Louis

Dances in the Dark

And in India

Best Mile of St. Louis

Market Street, between 4th and 20th streets

All Aboard!

We get political with Kerry and Dean, feel the bite of a "Mad Dog" and discover something amazing about Prius ownership. Plus, confidential to Unreal readers: Parking downtown is easy!

Bet Ya Didn't Know

Metropolis downtown walking tours illuminate

Best Place to Get Vertical Indoors

Upper Limits

Hard Schlock

The Hard Rock Café serves up a breakfast you won't soon forget

The Hill Still Sizzles

Week of June 5, 2002

Tough Enough

Union Station's security staff makes life difficult for "troublesome" employees

Lunatic Fringe

News from St. Louis' favorite rappers

Best Downtown West Fast Food

Pita King

Best Outdoor Dining

Harry's

Best Boat Ride

Paddle boats at Union Station

Side Dish

Mohanned Alsaliti takes his delicious Middle Eastern fare to Union Station

Alternate Route

Despite a new name and location, the sights are largely the same at Route 66 Brewery and Restaurant

Fiesta, Then Siesta

Ay caramba! Union Station's Latin American Festival promises fun, food and frenzied footwork

Eat Drink Man Woman

Taking some time to let 1999's dinners digest

CONNECTIVE TISSUE

David Judd, UM-St. Louis prof and co-author of The Tourist City, wants St. Louis to be linked by more than just highways between sports palaces and shopping malls

Sun Dance

Sound advice on the summer's hottest concerts

Listening Post

Crossing Signal

Cardinal Rule

Black and Blue

An anthology of African-American writing on St. Louis paints a bleak portrait of the city