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5 Free Things to Do in the Lou This Weekend
So what if it's not a three-day weekend? The next three days are still chock-full of fun things to do.…
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"Black Lives Matter" Yard Targeted Again in Columbia, Illinois
Last week, we wrote about a family just across the river in Columbia, Illinois, whose Black Lives Matter signs were repeatedly vandalized. Sue Dersch, the family's matriarch and a nurse at...
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Liz Schuster Will Not Be Serving Provel at LouFest
LouFest organizers warned Liz Schuster that it would take a special kind of person to handle the music festival's food offerings. "They didn't say crazy, but..."…
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Tasing Inmate "Might Have Been Unreasonable"— But Still Legal, Court Finds
After stealing $7.38 worth of wine coolers from a convenience store on July 21, 2009, a "quite intoxicated" Danielle Hollingsworth found herself sitting in a processing cell in the St. Ann police...
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The 10 Best Concerts in St. Louis This Weekend: September 11 to 13
Music fans in St. Louis have never had a better scene than they do today. Venues in south city are packed with solid alternatives to LouFest, such as 2720 with Tu Fest, bringing roughly 30 bands...
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Mt. Thelonious' A Little More Time: Review and Stream
At the tail end of 2014, acoustic trio Mt. Thelonious released a digital EP called Other People's Music, and as the title suggests, the folk group took a swing at several rock and alternative staples...
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Seven Zero Eight, New Burlesque Club/Restaurant, Now Open in Laclede's Landing
Katerina Von Rocket and Eliot Winter should have been happy. Their burlesque troupe, Backlot Boudoir, was a big success in Fenton — drawing 1,000 people a night to quarterly performances at the...
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Doughocracy, New Fast-Casual Pizza Concept, Coming to the Delmar Loop
Nutella lovers, your dreams are about to come true. A new fast-casual pizza concept, Doughocracy, is opening this fall in the Delmar Loop — likely October or November. The main attraction will be the...
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Area Man to Wed St. Louis-Style Pizza
It's not easy being a transplant in this town. Between being unable to participate meaningfully in the conversation about high school and failing to pronounce things like a true St. Louisan (you're...
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Donald Trump Takes a Beating on Cherokee for Mexican Independence Day
The children were the first to seize upon Trump. Merciless, they hacked at his knees and midsection, relenting only when his sweet entrails burst forth and fell to the ground below.…
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The Ferguson Commission Has Released its Long-Awaited Report. Now What?
The Ferguson Commission wasn't built just to churn out a report. Assembled by an executive order from Governor Jay Nixon, the commission's sixteen members have spent the past ten months compiling...
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10 Mostly Random Observations from a LouFest First-Timer
LouFest can be a very strange, interesting place — pack thousands of people, dozens of bands and millions(?) of sponsors all into one Forest Park and that tends to happen.…
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The Best Concerts in St. Louis This Week, September 14 to 20
Something to consider: We are as far away from LouFest as we'll ever be, but stemming post-fest depression is easy with Josh Rouse on Friday or a more intimate show with Horse Feathers Sunday night....
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5 Surprisingly Great LouFest Performances
Much ado was made about this year's LouFest lineup, with many complaining that there weren't enough big-name acts or familiar bands on the bill. Those people are unadventurous whiners.…
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Grove Fest 10 Announces Lineup: Chali 2na and Saint Motel to Headline
This year's Grove Fest, the annual Manchester Avenue celebration heading into its tenth year, has announced the lineup for this year's event. Chali 2na and Saint Motel will be this year's headliners...
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Yet Another Band Van Break-In in Midtown St. Louis
Another band passing through St. Louis has suffered a van break-in in broad daylight — and one band member says she now has "absolutely no interest in coming to, or even through, St. Louis again."...
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Justin Bruegenhemke Is Eating Every Single Sandwich on the Hill
Justin Bruegenhemke is a man on a mission. The self-described “Dutch-German, displaced-Southerner living in an Italian neighborhood” is more than halfway to his goal of eating all 159 sandwiches on...
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LouFest's Local Acts Share Their Thoughts On Performing at the Huge Festival
Each year since 2010, LouFest has attracted top-flight national and international acts to St. Louis for a two-day, mid-September music festival in Forest Park — a nearby, less-hellish alternative to...
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Why Do We Complain So Much About LouFest?
St. Louis loves to complain. We're also passionate about our city.…
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Review: Lucky Buddha Is a Delightful Surprise
by Cheryl Baehr Lucky Buddha should be a catastrophe. A pan-Asian craft-cocktail lounge?…
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