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Ricardo's Closes After 26 Years in Lafayette Square
For 26 years, Ricardo's Italian Cafe (1931 Park Avenue; 314-421-4833) was a mainstay in Lafayette Square, serving heaping plates of pasta, chicken and steak that felt a bit old-fashioned in 2015, even...
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An Independent "Catholic" Church Is Moving its Headquarters to St. Louis
Can you be passionate about ordaining women priests, support gay marriage, hold your wedding outdoors and still call yourself "Catholic"? Folks in the Ecumenical Catholic Communion (ECC) do. The ECC...
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Pappy's Mike Emerson Chosen for Exclusive Michael Mina Tailgate Experience
While the San Francisco 49ers eat the Rams dust this coming January, their fans will be treated to a far tastier side of the Gateway City. Mike Emerson, pitmaster of Pappy’s Smokehouse, has been...
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Ratatat Breaks Its Five-Year Silence With Magnifique
Brooklyn's Ratatat has had a long, steady career, beginning in 2001 when its members met at Skidmore College. After dropping LP4 in 2010, the instrumental duo consisting of guitarist Mike Stroud and...
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The Best Concerts in St. Louis This Week, September 8 to 13
In a week packed with LouFest (and the more grassroots Tü Fest), huge events like Kid Rock with Foreigner at Hollywood Casino's Amphitheatre don't even rank on our list. One show that should be sold...
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LouFest Returns -- and Fans Are Ready for the Fun
by Jeremy Essig After years of scheduling conflicts, festival aficionado Katy Miller will finally get to see a music fest in her hometown. Anticipating a lineup that features her favorite band,...
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Review: Wood Cask Has Bad Food -- and Bad Service, Too
by Cheryl Baehr Friends, please gather 'round and lower your heads for a moment of silence as we say goodbye to a trend: the whiskey and comfort food joint. If the Wood Cask is any indication, it's...
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How an Unlikely Coalition of Family, Marijuana Activists, Redditors and a GOP...
by Ray Downs At 1:30 a.m. on September 1, Jeff Mizanskey woke up in his prison cell at the Jefferson City Correctional Center after a brief nap. The 62-year-old had been in prison for nearly 22 years.…
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Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine Questions the Cult of Apple's Founder
by Robert Hunt The last few years have seen a flood of documentary films of nearly every kind, from biographies of people and cultural events both great (Susan Sontag and Bob Marley) and obscure (the...
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STL Up Late Is Primed to Move From Live Performance to Television
In March 2015, local late-night talk show STL Up Late recorded yet another episode in front of a live studio audience. The cast and crew assembled much as they have since the show’s debut on October...
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St. Louis Is Cloudy with a Chance of Fever, Social Networks Say
It's still officially summer, but allergies, common cold and fevers are already popping up in St. Louis. That's according to the website/app Sickweather, which uses commentary on social media to track...
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Illinois Man Destroyed WWII-Era Military Records Because of Job Anxiety,...
An Illinois man admitted in federal court Tuesday to destroying certain World War II-era military personnel records that he was supposed to be scanning while employed at the National Personnel Records...
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Guess Where I'm Eating This Peach Pie and Win $25 to DePalm Tree
Peaches are closely affiliated with summer — but unlike white pants, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy them after Labor Day. Peach pie, peach cobbler, even peach jam — think of any of these fruity...
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Lemmy Will Never Die: A Motorhead Review, St. Louis 9/8/2015
“Who would win in a wrestling match: Lemmy or God?” In an oft-quoted scene from 1994's Airheads— a movie made during that strange period when Adam Sandler and Steve Buscemi could be considered “peers”—...
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Audio Tapes Reveal the Man in Marlon
by Robert Hunt Marlon Brando was not known for being particularly open about his personal life. He rarely gave interviews or hit the talk-show circuit.…
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Ashley Madison Data Dump Reveals Rex Sinquefield's Email, P.O. Box
Did the most powerful conservative in Missouri get swept up in the Ashley Madison data breach? Data downloaded after the adultery-facilitating company was hacked last month shows that someone using...
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Bud Light, Budweiser Are Still Tops in St. Louis, Drizly Says
InBev? What's InBev? Seven years after Anheuser-Busch was purchased by Belgians, Budweiser products remain St. Louis' go-to choice for booze. That's not just anecdotal — though you can certainly find...
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Chef Chat: Nancy Boehm Is Fearless in the Face of a Peach Pie
Nancy Boehm of Pint Size Bakery (3825 Watson Road, 314-645-7142) remembers the first time she baked a pie. She was somewhere around ten years old and heard her mom make a passing comment about a bowl...
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Newly Announced: Warren G, Big Freedia, Josh Groban, Failure and More
Here, again, is every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention.…
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New KDHX Mural Comes from an Unexpected Partner — Phillips 66
As St. Louis's main community-supported radio station, KDHX 88.1 FM is proud of its independence — so proud, in fact, that it published a humorous video on Facebook last June showing how a "fearless...
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