Last week I should have provided one additional answer in the poll:
Q: What does Stan Kroenke buying the rest of the St. Louis Rams mean for St. Louis, the Rams and the Edward Jones Dome?
1) He’ll be able to get...
The St. Louis Rams players might have had the day off on Tuesday, but there was certainly plenty of action at the team’s facility anyway. First, the team announced that wide receiver Keenan Burton has been released as the corresponding...
.Official theme song of this post here.One of last weekend's attractions was the Big Muddy Blues Festival, a free event sponsored by the merchants (which mostly means saloon keepers and restaurant owners) of the Laclede's Landing entertainment district, along the...
ONION SPORTS 2010 NFL TEAM-BY-TEAM GUIDE
St. Louis Rams
Strength: Going into 2010, the Rams are almost perfectly positioned to receive another high draft pick in 2011
Weakness: Battle for the quarterback position seems to be heating up, as neither starter A.J. Feely...
Now this is seriously embarrassing shit. In fact, I can’t believe I’m even posting this, but what the hell… This is from a cassette tape recorded from radio station AM 1450 KOKO in Warrensburg, MO, in October 1984. For some...
If you’re a Twitter user, you’ve probably changed the background of your profile page numerous times trying to find something you really liked. I’ve seen a ton. Some of them worked and some of them are just awful. So, stumbling...
When I arrived at the
Hall Tuesday morning to resume the
business of the St. Louis Symphony
after the long weekend, I was a
little surprised to see that so many musicians had already arrived. On a usual
rehearsal day double bassist Warren Goldberg gets...
Three years ago, on September 6th, 2007, I put up the first post on STL Hops. (Please don’t go and find it, all of those first posts were pretty terrible.) Little did I know that in three years STL Hops...
Newstead Tower Public House will be putting on another in their line of monthly beer dinners with this dinner being hosted by Greg Hall from the Goose Island Beer Company. Chef/Owner Anthony Devoti will be pairing four different Goose Island...
.More from the Japanese Festival at the Missouri Botanical Garden. The taiko drummers are always the hit of the show. St. Louis Osuwa Taiko are the superb local practitioners. This art has has thunder and drive but the polyrhythms can...
“Painted by Numbers” by The Sounds
“That’s What You Get” by Paramore
“Call Me” by Blondie
“Fast As You Can” by Fiona Apple
“Space Oddity” by David Bowie (he’s androgynous enough to fit the category today, I think)...
We’ve been gone. But it was summer vacation. It’s free entertainment. If we got paid for this we could pay people to impersonate us. So anyway Obama loves America so much, he puts his life on the line by eating...
Click on the title and read the article and then you'll see why the title is what it is. I mean seriously Las Vegas? Do they even have permanent residents? Or many anyway? I just don't see an NBA team...
We always list two things we won't argue about--barbecue and pizza. That said, the former Brooklynite who is the senior member of our partnership has found something surprising. Feraro's Jersey Style Pizza is the closest he's found to the pizza...
We here at Ramblin’ Fan have been calling for the Rams front office to make a move to bring in more talent at the skill positions for several months, and it looks like they finally listened. The team traded a...
My second Microfiction Monday!
Ted’s ability to morph into a boat had come in very handy in this ocean. That glowing asteroid had saved his life. Too bad about his family.
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One of our most looked forward to meals around Casa Del Roberts would have to be Buffalo Chicken Twister Wraps. These were inspired by restaurants such as KFC which offered fried chicken pieces in a Mexican-style flour tortilla. Well,...
HERESY CREATES PROBLEMS, and since even heretics are often decent enough men, they seek ways to fix those problems — just as long as the solutions don't require them to repudiate their original erroneous opinion. New heresies are born, or rather, they...
The calendar says that the seasons change in mid-September, but we all know that the unofficial end to summer is Labor Day. It's not as dramatic of an ending as it used to be around here; people wrapped up their vacations...
Welcome to another installment of Bionic Beauty Homemade with Joycey Couture!
Yeehaw! Football season is here again… the first game was September 2nd, but who’s counting? (I’m a football fan, can you tell?)
Whether you’re planning to tailgate, get a few friends...
The roster is officially set for the upcoming 2010 season for the Rams, as the team made its final cuts yesterday. I must admit that a few of the moves surprised me, and I will go over them in a...
I've come to the understanding that if you are a part of a community that spans the socioeconomicgeopolitical spectrum, you're going to encounter a multitude of different people, from different backgrounds, in different stages of their lives, with different problems.And...
.Our town's Japanese Festival takes place every Labor Day weekend at the Missouri Botanical Garden. They regularly bring over a group of retired sumo wrestlers from Hawaii. These guys are not active competitors but I'd hate to get between them....
Most everyone in the online chilehead community knows David "Hudd" Huddleston. In addition to being everything from a fiery foods reviewer to a wing-eating champ, Hudd is also one of the coolest, most genuine and likable people ever to take...
Here’s another fun quiz from Total Beauty- this time asking questions about your hair, how you style it, if you have bangs, etc. Answer the Q’s to find out what your hairstyle says about you… or rather what Total Beauty...
Lately, people scare me more than usual and I generally go out of my way to avoid them. I don't even like sending email because I know it's most likely going to be received by someone. The...
.Home now, reflecting on the experience of the last two weeks. Ireland has strong currents of both joy and sadness. These pictures illustrate the latter.The top picture is the Famine Memorial, outside of the town of Westport. It is in...
Yep. Second time trying the daily tweet digest. Second time cancelling the thing. I’ll tell you why. First, I make spelling errors over on Twitter and really don’t care. Here, those will drive me insane. Secondly, why bother following me...
Just in time for the holiday weekend the weather turned beautiful. Today is sunny, with a high of 73°. Time to get outside!Last weekend was my first attempt at riding a bike in many years. I passed, but just barely. ...
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