Worklife

5 Helpful Tips for Doing Karaoke with Your Co-Workers

Karaoke can be a dangerous endeavor. What can you sing that won't make friends shun you? How can you go balls-out during your next performance? Each week in "Ask a Karaoke Host," RFT Music writer and professional karaoke host Allison Babka answers your burning questions about maximizing your melodio ... More >>

The Cookie-Themed Sesame Street "Call Me Maybe" Parody You Need to Watch Right Now

Because it's Friday. Because it's the end of an especially long work week at Gut Check International Headquarters. Because you didn't think we'd make it through the Year of the "Call Me Maybe" Meme without posting one of these, did you? For all these reasons, you must page through to watch Cookie M ... More >>

Chromeo

8 p.m. Monday, October 24. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Missouri Workers Exceed National Average for Secondhand Smoke Exposure

​Nearly 12 percent of Missouri workers are exposed to secondhand smoke on their jobs, according a study published this week by the Center for Disease Control. That's nearly double the national average of around 7 percent. The survey used data collected from all Missouri counties in 2007 and 2008. ... More >>

The Boss' Best Lyrics For Boss' Day

​Today is Bosses Day. If you knew that before you read it here, chances are your boss informed you of this fact when you arrived at work this morning. Unless your first name is Max and you have Conan O'Brien on speed dial, your boss is probably not the Boss. In all actuality, the untouchable B ... More >>

In the fantasy I Don't Know How She Does It, working moms can have it all

Appeals Court: "Disgusting" Gestures OK for Workplace

Wal-Mart managers got you down? Why not tell 'em how you feel?​Good news for all you disgruntled WalMart workers out there: You can flip off your boss. You can even tell your boss that he "disgusts" you. And even after all that, your boss still doesn't have the right to fire you for misconduct!Tha ... More >>

Revenge, On the Clock

Feel Free to Bitch About Your Boss on Facebook; Government Has Your Back

​You haven't had a raise in years. You got passed over for that last promotion. In short, your job has all the growth potential of prison's death row and your boss -- you're pretty sure -- is the lovechild of television's Donald Trump and Michael Scott.  Well, you could always quit. But then, ... More >>

Craftwork

Laclede Gas Changes Non-Discrimination Policy to Include Sexual Orientation

​Two months after the Human Rights Campaign ranked Laclede Gas as one of the the worst corporations to work for if you're gay, lesbian or transgendered, the St. Louis company has had a change of policy. As the Missouri gay-rights group Show Me No H8 reported Saturday, Laclede Gas has a new non-dis ... More >>

Yelp St. Louis Gets a New Community Manager

Abby Schwarz posing with Clownvis​​This week the Internet social review site Yelp formally announced that they've hired Abby Schwarz as their new community manager for St. Louis. Abby has been an active Yelp user since 2008 and applied for the job on a whim. If you've never used Yelp b ... More >>

Kiss, Kiss! Unreal Invites Jerry Berger to Work for Riverfront Times!

bergersbeat.comJerry Berger​Back when we was a pup, men were men and what happened in the newsroom stayed in the newsroom. That's why Unreal coughed up our morning tequila shot when we read Chad Garrison's scoop about 76-year-old Gossip Column Emeritus Jerry Berger getting banned from the Pos ... More >>

Gut Check's Week in Tweets

​Don't you know? Gut Check has a Twitter account. You can follow me @gutcheckstl. Here's some of what you missed this week:@stlbites i should clarify> i agree: marc baltes rocked Dorm Room @33wine8:37 AM Aug 25th@stlbites you had leftovers? i did everything short of plant my face in the bowl.8 ... More >>

Tomorrow: Let's Have Some Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace

Is your office like The Office when it comes to attitudes and policies regarding sexual orientation? Well, then, tomorrow is your big day. Pony up $100 and send your boss (and/or ignorant colleagues) to The Diversity Awareness Partnership's workshop, "Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace."  ... More >>

Lee Enterprises to Post-Dispatch Employees: We Need A Big Pay Cut

Lee Enterprises, parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the St. Louis Newspaper Guild, which represents many of the local daily's employees, including most of the newsroom, have still not worked out a new contract. The current contract expires this coming weekend.Updates on the Guild website sho ... More >>

Java Enabled: Coffee Break Point

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.The first shot was ... More >>

Prints of Parties

Snow Cone Week: Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine Update

English, Por Favor: Is speaking in Spanish a firing offense?

Langhorne Slim

8 p.m. Sunday, June 22. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue

The Great Starbucks Closure of 2008

Machine Head

6 p.m. Sunday, October 7. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

Josh Ritter

8 p.m. Tuesday, September 26. The Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard).

Cobra Starship / Gym Class Heroes

7 p.m. Sunday, September 24. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

Local Motion: Wydown

8 p.m. Friday, July 7. Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street)

.38 Special

Thursday, May 18, at 7 and 9 p.m. Bottleneck Blues Bar at Ameristar Casino (1260 South Main Street, St. Charles)

Doris Henson

Saturday, February 11, 8:30 p.m. at the Hi-Pointe (1001 McCausland Avenue)

David Lee Roth

Friday, November 25; Bottleneck Blues Bar
(inside Ameristar Casino, St. Charles Landing, St. Charles)

Tim Reynolds

Friday, July 15; Finale (8020 Bonhomme Avenue, Clayton)

Soldiers of Misfortune

Veterans wait (and wait) for their GI Bill benefits

Best Example of Taking One for the Team

Larry Washington

Best Use of the Worst Cheese

Tomato sandwich

Best Gun Shop Gimmick That Died

Machine-gun rentals

Best Rams Player

Isaac Bruce

Series/Festivals

Week of August 13, 2003

Answering the Call

IRS employees bring Jesus to the office -- and manage to raise Cain

Happy Hour

Casa Gallardo

Indoor Fireworks

A Teamster tries to smoke out lawbreakers at Schnucks

Squeal Like a Pig

Getting groped was a nightmare in a city that can't get a grip.

Check, Please

Joe Bonwich settles his tab at the Riverfront Times

Happy Hour

Casa Gallardo

Working Girls

Channing and Stiles are stranded, and their face-off makes for nasty Business

Nasty Boys

The women screwed by Rent-A-Center are threatening to take the company to the cleaners. But Ernie Talley and the rest of his Texas bubbas are trying to have the last laugh.

All Work and No Pray

A Muslim worker at the Ford plant faces a difficult choice

Do You Consider Yourself a Team Player or a Maverick?

Week of July 4th, 2001

Have You Ever Called in Sick When You Weren't?

Feature

Temporary Sanity

How to whet your career appetite -- and an employer's -- by working as a temp

The Doctor is Out

Sickened by the shift to managed care, more physicians are claiming disability, moving into administration or leaving medicine altogether