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Zoe Robinson of Bar Les Freres and I Fratellini Can't Stop, Won't Stop
An uncomfortable situation drove Zoë Robinson's first foray into restaurant ownership. "I was working at this very popular, high-falutin' restaurant in Lafayette Square in the early 1980s called...
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Critic's Pick: S.N.A.F.U. to Perform at Fubar This Tuesday, August 30
S.N.A.F.U.'s current tour, coming to St. Louis this week, definitely started off on the wrong foot. At 5 a.m. on the morning of Friday, August 19 the band loaded into its van, prepared to make the...
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St. Louis-Made Trump-Scented Candle Is the Classiest Candle of All Time
The new Trump-scented candle is bright orange, smells of suntan oil and steak, and comes with a shockingly yellow swath of faux-fur on top. In other words, it is almost exactly like Donald Trump...
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Pop's Nightclub Celebrates 35 Years with a Facelift
Big news from your favorite east side establishment: Pop's got a facelift. It now features a massive bass guitar stretched across the entrance. The Sauget, Illinois, concert venue, which turns 35 this...
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The Heir Apparent, in a New Production by St. Louis Shakespeare, Is a...
One of the perks of arriving early to a St. Louis Shakespeare production is that on certain nights the company presents a pre-show talk with key members of the artistic and technical staff. You get...
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Chef Ben McArthur Has Left J McArthur's, An American Kitchen
Ben McArthur, executive chef of the acclaimed J McArthur's, An American Kitchen(3500 Watson Road; 314-353-9463), has left the Lindenwood Park restaurant. His last day was Sunday. McArthur announced...
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St. Louis Woman Charged with Rape, Sodomy of Two Teens
A St. Louis County mom is facing charges of statutory rape and sodomy after confessing to ongoing sexual relationships with a pair of fourteen-year-old boys, police say. Patricia Bast, 38, admitted to...
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RIP Jorell Cleveland, 19 – My Little Brother
I met Jorell Cleveland for the first time at the Big Brothers Big Sisters’ former office in the Central West End. It was July 1, 2005, and he was about four feet tall with a big afro.…
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Eric Catalano's Tattoo Studio Offers Breast Cancer Survivors New Nipples —...
In a biker bar north of downtown St. Louis, a back staircase delivers Linda Kilhoffer to Eric Catalano's second-floor tattoo studio. The shop area is awash with the morning's sunlight.…
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Taqueria la Monarca Has Closed in University City
A low-key Mexican market that grew to include a restaurant, Taqueria la Monarca (8531 Olive Boulevard), appears to have closed its doors. When a reader tipped us off that staffers were moving out...
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Premiere: The Lion's Daughter Releases GG Allin Cover Song for the Dogs
Featuring 25 St. Louis bands covering 25 classic punk tracks — from GG Allin to Joy Division, Fear to Refused — the Nora-Fest compilation album, to be released this Saturday at Fubar, is an excellent...
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Adam Wainwright Makes Movie Debut in Film Premiering This Weekend, Proximity
The new movie debuting this weekend at the Wehrenberg Theatres was filmed in greater St. Louis, with scenes in Chesterfield, De Soto and Belleville, Illinois. But those locations aren't the only local...
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Things Got Weird (and Racist) at a 'Tea Party for Trump' Rally in Festus
Over the weekend, St. Louis' Tea Party joined forces with the miasma of American anxiety that is the Trump movement. At a rally Sunday at a Festus Harley-Davidson dealership, some 200 patriots who...
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St. Louis Man Fails to Burn Down Gas Station Over Cheetos, Scores Best...
Joshua Lee Crook is a man who likes Flamin' Hot Cheetos but who does not like paying for them. That's according to the St. Louis police, who allege that Crook, 33, attempted to burn down a gas...
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For St. Louis' DIY Music Community, a DIY Effort to Create a Safer Space
Sunday, August 14 saw Cherokee Street's Foam Coffee & Beer packed to the gills. Attendees filled every seat in the house, spilling cross-legged onto the floor, squished shoulder-to-shoulder beyond...
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The Problem with Bad Taxi Drivers
The Metropolitan Taxicab Commission says its regulations make taxis safer than Uber. But what happens when a driver shouldn't be on the road? When Carolyn asked her taxi driver to pull over during her...
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Mustard Seed's Kindertransport Grapples Devastatingly with the WW II Program
There is a secret character ghosting through the background of most scenes in Diane Samuels' Kindertransport, currently in production at Mustard Seed Theatre. The Ratcatcher is a figure in a...
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Review: A2 the GFCF Proves That Gluten-Free Can Be Delicious
Only a few weeks ago, A2 the GFCF was the last restaurant I would have taken seriously, let alone sought out. For one thing, there's that name, which when I uttered to my husband, he mistook for a...
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Horror/Sci-Fi Flick Morgan Is Harder, Better, More Forgettable
A large, heavily secured mansion in the middle of nowhere. A team of co-workers who spout long, jargon-filled speeches while dropping hints about their secret science project.…
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Newly Announced: Melissa Etheridge, Suicidal Tendencies, King Kahn and BBQ,...
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. Page two contains our complete listing of new shows, so...
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