Anyone else notice that corporate logo inked onto a player's arm this week during Monday Night Football? Turns out it belongs to Justin Smith the Missouri boy (and Mizzou grad) now a defensive t...
Continue reading "Football Player's Tattoo: At Least It's Not a Teddy Bear" [...]St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Robert Dierker, Jr., has won his court case challenging a red-light camera ticket issued by St. Louis, according to Missouri Lawyers' Weekly.Drivers aplenty have f...
Continue reading "Judge Robert Dierker Sticks It to the City, Wins His Right Light Camera Case"' [...]Several dozen former employees of the Post-Dispatch gathered yesterday morning outside the newspaper's office on Tucker Boulevard to protest cuts to their health-care coverage. As first reported...
Continue reading "Ink-Stained Kvetch: Post-Dispatch Retirees Make Good on Threat, Protest Ex-Employer" > [...]I suppose many of you figured this out a long time ago. Turns out that ousted Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich is a huge fan of Elvis Presley, which goes a long way in explaining the disgraced p...
Continue reading "Finally! An Explanation for Rod Blagojevich's Hair" [...] You know, really, it makes perfect sense. Chingy is always Inn the Holidae spirit. And Santa? Why he's a Balla. Just ask Mrs. Claus. ...
Continue reading "A Holiday Pairing Unlike Any Other: Santa and Chingy" > [...]Law officers in Madison County, Illinois, charged two individuals earlier this week with the killing of 19-year-old Stephen C. Nemsky. Nemsky, of Granite City, was found near his vehicle around...
Continue reading "The Big Bloody: Police Arrest Two for Murder of Illinois Teen Shot While Buying" [...]We know the local morning news comes at a time of day when many of us aren't our sharpest. That said, Martin Pion -- of Missouri Group Against Smoking Pollution (MO-GASP) -- may want to "sleep on ...
Continue reading "Why Smokers Understandably View Anti-Smokers as' [...]Missouri formally recognizes only four public holidays. Martin Luther King Day and Columbus Day, you're already familiar with. Jefferson Day (April 13) or Lincoln Day (February 12), perhaps not...
Continue reading "Has Republican State Rep. Mike Cunningham Proposed a Bill to Save Christmas?" > ' [...]So you may have heard that Missouri will soon be getting some new neighbors. Yesterday, Illinois governor Pat Quinn received a letter from President Obama informing him that the terrorism suspects...
Continue reading "About Those Terrorists Moving In Next Door" > [...]Christmas came about nine days early to Washington University this year when the Danforth Foundation donated $30 million to establish a new center to examine the role of religion in politics in...
Continue reading "Danforth Foundation Gives Wash. U. $30 Million to Study Religion and Politics" [...] Study officially links fructose syrup to obesity and diabetes. (Times Online)Companies don't keep promise to push healthy food to kids, but Campbell's is reducing the sodium in SpaghettiOs...
Continue reading "The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 12.16" > ' [...]You can bet that ex-casino boss Dan Lee would like to take back a few things he said to Steve Stenger and Charlie Dooley.Early last month, when Lee was the CEO of Pinnacle Entertainment, the Veg...
Continue reading "Missouri Gaming Commission: Ex-Pinnacle CEO Guilty of Bad" [...]The Tokyo Drift has arrived to the Midwest -- specifically the underground parking garage of the downtown St. Louis Hyatt Hotel. Check out this YouTube clip of parking valets abusing guests' cars ...
Continue reading "VIDEO: Hotel Valets Get Fast and Furious with Guests' Cars" > [...]My review of Pearl Café is now available online. Pearl Café, a Thai restaurant (with a few Vietnamese and Chinese dishes), is located at 8416 North Lindbergh Boulevard in Florissant. In this wee...
Continue reading "Review + Slideshow: Pearl Café" > [...]Banh mi are delicious and shockingly cheap. At Phuc Loi $3.50 scores you the banh mi dac biet, which layers ham, headcheese and pâté on a crusty baguette with cucumber, pickled daikon, carrot and...
Continue reading "The Top Ten Dishes of 2009 #7: Banh mi dac" [...]These days it's smart to be budget-minded and realistic when giving gifts. If you're like this blogger, that means forgetting that Hanukkah is coming and then blaming late gifts on finals or wa...
Continue reading "Farmer's Market Share Gives the Gift of Nuts in Your Mouth"' [...]Beercation (n.): A short, inexpensive trip whose primary justification is the pursuit of rare, local or otherwise unattainable beer.Among potential beercation destinations, my current front-run...
Continue reading "Take a Beercation to Louisville with the Beertender" > [...]The key to any Neapolitan pizza is the quality of its crust, and at its best, the Good Pie's is very good: Crisp on the bottom, and even dotted here and there with char, but with an ever-so-tende...
Continue reading "The Top Ten Dishes of 2009" [...]Via Founding Bloggers–
This is how the left honors dissent:
How dare he question the Goracle!
Related… The British media is now reporting that the entire global temperature record used by the IPCC to inform world government policy is a total crock.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are trading shots over climate change, CNN and a number of news outlets are reporting.
CNN has one of the livelier accounts in a Political Ticker post by Alexander Mooney:
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Gentleman Auction House
The Cans and Coats Christmas Show, with canned food and coat donations benefiting Food Outreach, is at 9 p.m. Saturday at Off Broadway.
The event is headlined by Gentleman Auction House, with Jumbling Towers, Jon Hardy and the…
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Surrounded by birthday loot.
[...] The Senate may actually be on the verge of creating a health care reform bill that should be killed. AP reports:
WASHINGTON — Former Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean argued Wednesday that the health care overhaul bill taking shape in the Senate further empowers private insurers at the expense of [...]
Throughout the City of St. Louis you will see steeples from the many churches. Most are outstanding structures. Some are still used while others are vacant and deteriorating.
Last weekend one of my brothers, visiting from Oklahoma City, wanted to see the New Cathedral. I hadn’t been inside [...]
