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Gut Check's Guide to Drinko Cinco de Mayo in St. Louis: 26 Food and Drink Specials

Whether you observe Drinko de Mayo, or its less quippy counterpart Cinco de Drinko, we all unite this Sunday, May 5, to drink fishbowl margaritas in the streets of St. Louis. It might not be a real national holiday in Mexico or America, but that doesn't halt our revelry, and in the spirit of al past ... More >>

The Peacekeeper: If you must see The Host, please bring a young man with you

Tony LaRussa's Wife: Huge Metalhead?

Lita Ford, Doro Pesch, Elaine LaRussa. Names that come to mind when thinking of the top heavy metal babes of all time? Not exactly, but it seems the wife of the man who led this city's baseball team to two World Series championships may prefer the mosh pit over the dugout herself. See also: - The 2 ... More >>

Throwback Edition: Outback Steakhouse and Point Break

While RFTmusic was youthfully gallivanting in the rain at Loufest last weekend, Gut Check retained its crotchety demeanor, embarking on a dry, indoor miniature film fest with the help of Netlix, Family Video and our BFF, Chuck. It all began after we watched Crazy, Stupid, Love, in which Ryan Gosling ... More >>

Gut Check's Guide to Eats and Drinks at St. Louis PrideFest 2012

St. Louis PrideFest is the largest event of its kind in the Midwest. It draws more than 80,000 revelers each year and in 2011 was named "Best Festival" by the RFT. This year's festival is slated to kick-off on Saturday, June 23, at noon in Tower Grove Park (4256 Magnolia Avenue; 314-771-2679). The p ... More >>

Rockville Residents Embrace Horse Slaughterhouse

While animal-rights activists and are wringing their hands with the prospect of Unified Equine opening the nation's only horse-packaging plant in Missouri, residents of that town are delighted by the news. The Kansas City Star visited Rockville this week and reports a near unified front, with reside ... More >>

The Gay Selma: Schools ignore gay bullying at their own peril

Gut Check's Guide to Cinco de Mayo

Tomorrow, Saturday, May 5, is Cinco de Drinko Mayo. Though at best a regional holiday in Mexico, we here in the U.S. of A. can't get enough reveling on Sabado 5 de Mayo. Don't get us wrong, we at Gut Check also enjoy indulging in margaritas on the rocks and Mexican food, and thus have compiled a lis ... More >>

The Good Slaymaritan: St. Louis Mayor Comes to Aid of Knockout Victim

Slay as seen Friday on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho South Grand.​St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay got an up-close-and-personal view Friday night of a street crime known as Knockout King when he and his chauffeur drove up on a man beaten on the side of the road. In interviews yesterday, Slay said ... More >>

Riverbend Restaurant & Bar brings New Orleans' cuisine to St. Louis

Missouri Among National Leaders in Mental Illness Rates

​Yesterday, we reported on the surprisingly low percentage of drug and alcohol use in Missouri, based on the latest state-by-state data released each year by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Today we'll use that same ... More >>

Rich Dad? Poor Dad! BBB Urges Caution on Kiyosaki-Inspired Seminars

Rich Dad, Poor Dad seminars offer get-rich advice -- but left Shawn Moody significantly poorer.​Shawn Moody just wanted to get back to work. After a career in sales, the 50something Moody found herself unemployed in early 2010. So when she heard about the Rich Dad, Poor Dad seminars coming to her ... More >>

[UPDATE] In-N-Out in St. Louis -- Or Pie in the Sky?

image viaCould we one day see one of these in St. Louis? Pretty, pretty please?​Gut Check is old and cynical and few things get us to bounce up and down in our not-even-close-to-ergonomically suitable desk chair with pure joy and enthusiasm any more. This item from Eater was one of those few t ... More >>

Gone in 38 Seconds: Missouri Grocery Bagger Places 10th at National Championship

Our boy appears at the 1:09 mark, wearing #3!​As Gut Check reported Monday, St. Louis native Scott Hall competed in the National Grocers Association Best Bagger Championship in Las Vegas this week. The Missouri champ placed 10th out of 22 finalists at the national level, and while he's disapp ... More >>

Comment of the Day: Repeal of Puppy Mill Law Sparks Online Dogfight

Today's comment(s) of the day is more of an argument. The blowback follows our report this morning on the efforts in Jefferson City to overturn Proposition B, the so-called "Puppy Mill" law that places new restrictions on Missouri dog breeders. Soon readers "NikB" and "burgs" were at each others thr ... More >>

James Franco puts his mind to it in 127 Hours

SLIFF brings Icelandic improv, French rom-com, a Civil War spoof and more through November 21

Missouri Attorney General Goes to Bat for Arizona's Immigration Law

Koster: Como se dice "bandwagon" in espanol?​Two days after Republicans bolstered their numbers in the Show-Me State and across the nation, Missouri's Republican-turned-Democrat attorney general is out with a move that's sure to please the Tea Party masses. Chis Koster announced today he is leadin ... More >>

Fountain on Locust Flush With Best Restroom Victory

Kase WickmanVictory at last!​Now there's even more incentive to visit the little girls' room at the Fountain on Locust (3037 Locust St., 314-535-7800): Before, you were just utilizing one of the top ten restrooms in America. As of this morning, that porcelain (er, black plastic) throne you're ... More >>

10 Things to Do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, June 25-27, 2010

Photo: Steve TruesdellWe're all in this together, people. See more photos from 2009 PrideFest. Read Paul Friswold's excellent write-up of PrideFest this year. ​Certainly the largest parties this weekend will revolve around PrideFest near Tower Grove Park, but St. Louis has enough Zombie flicks, ro ... More >>

Class-Action Suit Calls YTB a Pyramid Scheme

​A class-action lawsuit first filed in federal court in Illinois has been re-filed in Madison County accusing the Wood River-based YTB of being a "pyramid scheme." The lawsuit follows years of allegations that YTB -- which sells home-based travel companies -- operates as a Ponzi scheme. In 2009, t ... More >>

St. Louis Rugby Rams Charge Through National Tournament

The St. Louis Rugby Rams, the region's only wheelchair rugby -- aka, murderball -- team, placed second in Division II the USQRA (US Quad Rugby Association) National Playoffs in Birmingham, Alabama, last weekend, in their first-ever appearance in the national tournament. Team member Eric Newby also w ... More >>

Missouri Attorney General Calls for Execution of Man Linked to Larry Flynt Shooting

Larry Flynt has been in a wheelchair since the 1978 shooting.​Attorney General Chris Koster yesterday called on the Missouri Supreme Court to set execution dates for two convicted murderers. The first, Joseph Franklin, was convicted in 1997 for the shooting death twenty years earlier of a man out ... More >>

The Novice Foodie and the Cheesemonger

User "Myrabella," Wikimedia Commons​I love most cheeses in most forms, but I don't really know much about cheese -- good cheese, I mean, artisanal cheese. Being friends with local food blogger the Cheesemonger's Wife has taught me that I'm missing out. So I asked the Cheesemonger himself, Simon L ... More >>

Don't Let It Bring You Down, But Missouri Is Actually a Pretty Miserable State

flickr.com/photos/blazin glory ​We have an enduring preoccupation with happiness. It's an American art form.  Pollsters are constantly probing our psyches, measuring our mood swings, tracking our current level of contentment. Interestingly, though hardly surprising -- as T ... More >>

Overhauled 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 a ... More >>

Polk, It Is Your Destiny

Unreal channels our inner Billy Mays (may he rest in peace), hawks All-Star banners and checks in with a Graybar blogger

Caseyville Joins the Craigslist Sex Crackdown

Last week, the Cook County Sheriff's Department filed a federal lawsuit demanding that the creators of Craigslist.com take down their site's "erotic services" section, calling it "The largest source of prostitution in America."www.bnd.comApparently the fuzz in the Metro East community of Caseyville ... More >>

How About Those Billikens?

Mardi Gras kept me from joining the sold-out crowd on Saturday at Chaifetz Arena, so when I saw that Saint Louis University's men's basketball team somehow managed to beat Dayton 57-49, my eyes nearly popped out of my mildly hungover head.Just from speaking to others who attended and reading th ... More >>

SLU Beats UMass, Realizes It Has Experienced Players

There's been much ado in the land of SLU about the youth of the Billikens. When the season started, there were seven true freshmen on the roster and, thus far, freshman have played about half of the team's minutes. With an average player age of just older than 19 years old, they are the fourth young ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

Malcolm Gay encapsulates the St. Louis art scene.

St. Louis Art Capsules

Malcolm Gay encapsulates the St. Louis art scene.

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

St. Louis Art Capsules

Malcolm Gay encapsulates the local art scene.

St. Louis Art Capsules

Malcolm Gay encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene.

On the Wall

Malcolm Gay encapsulates the St. Louis art scene.

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St. Louis: We Just Found Google

First Among Worst

The Mexican explains why Our Lady of Guadalupe is Muslim, sorta.

Week of January 4, 2006

Mind Games

Shane Carruth's Primer goes back to the future, and it's a weird, wild ride

Series/Festivals

Week of September 15, 2004

Yes, You Can

In the Garden State, home is where Zach Braff's heart is

Bully on the Block

The Humane Society stands in the way of a grant that could step up spay-and-neuter efforts in St. Louis

Termagant of Endearment

Liv Tyler makes the boys go crazy in One Night at McCool's

Material Needs

Artist James Michael Smith makes no illusions

Children of the Corn

Brett Herbst's creations give new meaning to the phrase "growth industry"

YO, GRAND DRAGON, YOU MISSED THAT CANDY WRAPPER

MoDOT gives the Ku Klux Klan the cold shoulder, but the appeal goes on

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