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A Brief History of Movie Characters Getting Whacked in the Balls

Five Years of the Best St. Louis Song: Listen Here

Our yearly giant love letter to St. Louis -- the Best Of issue -- comes out tomorrow. We've encountered some confusion out there, so this seems like as good an opportunity as any to explain that this is different from our RFT Music Awards, which are ultimately determined by a public vote. With the B ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Muy Caliente Summer Edition

SLU Moves On; Mizzou Goes Home

​Okay, so who had St. Louis U advancing and the Missouri Tigers going out in the opening round? Show of hands, please. Alright, everyone look around. See those people with their hands up? Those people are liars. Do not trust them, no matter what they tell you. You do, and you'll end up with t ... More >>

Emails from Speed Camera Vendor Demonstrate Persistent Salesmanship

​Arnold councilwoman Doris Borgelt doesn't know what to make of the emails sent to her from John Baine, co-founder of the somewhat controversial speed-camera company B&W Sensors. On the annoying spectrum, the electronic messages seem to fall somewhere between Viagra deals and spam emails to jo ... More >>

The Drug Cocktails That Might Fuel Five Of Our Favorite Musicians

Big Boi mugs for the camera.​Did you hear the one about the rapper who got busted for Ecstasy and Viagra? Earlier this week, Outkast rapper Big Boi got pinched for MDMA powder, Ecstasy pills, and an illegal prescription of the little blue pill for his disco stick. Which got us thinking -- what ... More >>

Todd Akin Barfs Up Rockwellian Metaphors in U.S. Senate Campaign Video

Warning: The following video should be viewed in immediate vicinity of a toilet or lined trash receptacle. ​If you haven't heard, Missouri Congressman Todd Akin announced today that he's running for Senate. In so doing, Akin released the following video, which is so chock-full of Norman-Rockwell-l ... More >>

Can't Score a Bottle of BrewDog's Royal Wedding Boner Beer? Try a Crazy King George!

brewdog.com​All this royal wedding talk is enough to drive Gut Check to drink. Well, nearly anything is enough to drive Gut Check to drink. Usually all it takes is something along the lines of, "Hey, want a drink?" Sometimes a mere grunt'll do. At any rate, if beer's your thing, you won't be ... More >>

Public Display of Affection-Free Valentine's Day Dining Options

image viaPlease, no humping in public on Valentine's Day.​It's the worst night of the year to get a bite to eat without being accosted by crowds of smoochy couples, many who only set foot in a restaurant once a year and don't know how it works. Still, you've gotta eat. Where to go in St. Louis ... More >>

Oysters and Love and Other Drugs

Kholood EidOysters Bienville: Feeling randy yet?​The night began auspiciously, with the Cure's "Friday I'm in Love" on the car radio. How better to set out for a Dinner and a Movie that commenced with shellfish at the Broadway Oyster Bar and move on to a screening of Love and Other Drugs, star ... More >>

Ass Clown of the Week: Idiot Ne'er-Do-Wells, Meatheads, Bogus Dick Docs

​They're baaack! After a few weeks off for good behavior, local yokels lacking morals -- or common sense -- struck back with a vengeance this week. You know the rules, vote for the person who's actions or words you think makes them this week's biggest Ass Clown.  And the nominees...1. Rich St ... More >>

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 >>

The Morning Brew: Monday, 11.16

​ Butchering gets hip in new Brooklyn shop. (New York Daily News)How to lie when the food sucks. (Chicago Tribune)Manufacturers must prove caffeinated alcoholic beverages are safe. (Los Angeles Times)What's for dessert? Passion fruit and Viagra. (Associated Press)

Viagra Maker Hard On St. Louis; Pfizer Announces It Will Slash 600 Local Jobs

A pharmaceutical giant's love affair with St. Louis is over, and it seems no amount of drugs and/or chemical enhancements will ever rekindle the flame. Just when you think Pfizer will grow, it shrinks. It happens to lots of companies.​Yesterday, Pfizer (maker of Viagra, Celebrex, Lipitor and count ... More >>

Unreal's Kinda Guy: A.J. Jacobs, A Human Guinea Pig

Courtesy of Simon & SchusterWho has two thumbs and agreed to pose nude for Esquire (as an experiment, of course)? This guy!​A.J. Jacobs, the quirky Jew who lived biblically for a year (and lived to tell) and read the entire encyclopedia (see above parentheses), visits the St. Louis Jewish Book ... More >>

Wednesday, April 1: Morning's Newz

The FBI is reportedly investigating members of the Missouri House over so-called "pay-to-play" appointments for committee seats. The specter of the FBI probe prompted legislative General Counsel Don Lograsso to send a memo to all House members this week warning them not to accept "campaign contribut ... More >>

Discount Cards for Stache Growers

You know it's a down economy. No news there. But amongst all the chatter about bailing out financial industries, and now the auto industry, the St. Louis based American Mustache Institute is offering a salve for the weary: discount cards for mustache growers  Well, they're working on it anyway ... More >>

Ask a Cougar Nominees, Round 2

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown, Paul Friswold and Lew Prince suss out the local theater scene

Can Steak-umm take Malcolm's mind off of losing Anheuser-Busch?

Are You Going to Prom

Can Taqueria los Tarascos' tacos make you feel homesick for a place you've never lived? Si!

From Russia with Lust

Here She Is, Miss Neurobiology

Joe takes a swing at the pageant industry

Booger and Borat. You Likes?

Revenge of the Nerds: Panty Raid Edition

Why Joe would never shill for Viagra.

Week of February 1, 2007

Film Openings

Week of August 2, 2006

Off the Tracks

Clive Owen gets pushed to his limits, right along with the audience

Ask a Negro Leaguer

Week of July 20, 2005

The Great Imitator

The scourge of syphilis re-emerges, deadlier than before

Hard Times Ahead

Unreal gets all hot and bothered over some very special plants (and a rather steamy billboard) and finds the key to St. Louis' revival. Plus, a local blogger is driven mad by public breastfeeding.

Whippet Good!

We get super-high on nitrous -- but we don't quite reach the altitude of Harry Bonecipher's eXXXclusive in-flight adultery club. Plus, say hello to a local blogger who just can't get enough Winona.

Back to the Future

We tell the Bravery's fortune, decode a rock opera and groan over Sting's intoxicated verbosity

Casanosa

Studly Raja turns twelve

Why Lollapalooza Died

We explore campaign theme songs, examine the death of Lollapalooza and get down verbally with Paul Oakenfold

If You Wanna Run Cool

Municipal codes keep fortunetellers, prophets and paupers out of St. Louis, Jeff Smith's campaign violates the time-space continuum, and Bill Haas fights back; plus, if the conversion van's rockin', don't come knockin'.

Lust in Translation

The Opera Theatre warms up with a sexy Carmen

Beyoncé

Dangerously in Love (Columbia)

La Lucky Brand White Fungus Bird's Nest Drink

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Film Openings

Week of May 1, 2002

Deep Banana Blackout

Thursday, Oct. 4; the Gargoyle (Washington University)

Best News Story To R.I.P.

Steve Fossett, hot-air balloonist

R. Kelly with Sunshine Anderson and Syleena Johnson

Friday, July 13; Fox Theatre

The Best of "Street Talk" for 2000

Week of December 27, 2000

What Are You Doing About Male Impotence?

Published the week of July 19-25, 2000

Flaccid or Turgid?

Strip Search

Looking for Ozark culture amid the neon, glitter and traffic of Highway 76 in Branson

START SPREADING THE NUDES

New Line Theatre's Scott Miller bares all about Head Games

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