The St. Louis Weekend Events Guide for Thursday, July 9th through Sunday, July 12th, 2015.

A-List Party: A night to enjoy all the things you love about St. Louis. Enjoy savory cuisine samples from the city’s best restaurants, sip creative cocktails and beer by SELECT, mix and mingle with A-List winners and dance the night away to live music. The after-party begins at 10:30pm at Mandarin Lounge. Tickets are $45 GA and include: food samplings, entertainment, beer by Select, creative cocktails, and free admission to the after-party at Mandarin Lounge, or go VIP for $75.

Date: July 9
Time: 7-10:30pm
Place: Maryland Plaza – CWE

Feast in the Park: A free monthly event at Faust Park. Fanfare Band will be playing from 5:30-7:30pm and the Food Trucks will be onsite from 5-8pm. The trucks scheduled are: Zia’s “On The Hill”, Yo Salsa, Wing Nut, Vincent Van Doughnut, Smoke N Motion, Russo’s Catering, Que Sazon Food Truck, Locoz Tacoz, Kona Ice St. Louis West, Ho Ly Crepe, GoGyroGo, Curbside Cookery, The Cheese Shack, Bombay Food Junkies, and 2 Girls 4 Wheels. Edg-Clif Winery will be providing beer and wine and Treats Unleashed-St. Louis will be there for the pooches.

Date: July 9
Time: 5-8pm
Place: Faust Park – 15185 Olive Blvd, Chesterfield

Cherokee Nights: Come down to Cherokee Street on the 2nd Thursday of every month for Art, Music, Food, Buskers, and entertainment. Enjoy free samples, from cookies to tarot card readings. Hang out by the firepit or head into one of several businesses and listen to live music. Enjoy specials including Buy 1 Get 1 Margaritas, $10 beer buckets, no cover charges, and more.

Date: July 9
Time: 5-11pm
Place: Cherokee Street

2nd Thursdays at The Foundry: The Foundry Art Centre and Saint Charles Riverfront Arts invites one and all to their jointly hosted community arts series entitled “2nd Thursdays” at the Foundry Art Centre. This is a unique, family-friendly community arts series where guests can be creative: Draw with Artists, Paint with Painters, Create with Potters, Make Jewelry with Jewelers, Write with Writers, Act with Actors, Dance with Dancers, and listen to live original music. Food trucks will be on site and there will be a cash bar. Admission is free.

Date: July 9
Time: 5-8pm
Place: Foundry Art Centre – 520 N Main

Tour de Belleville: A family friendly, noncompetitive trek over a relatively easy course to give riders a scenic view of the city at night. This annual community event helps raise funds for safety equipment and providing a quality recreational opportunity for individuals and families in our community. For everyone’s safety, helmets are required and lights are requested. The theme this year is Beverly Hillbillys. Str 6 will be performing live. Registration is $16 per rider.

Date: July 10
Time: 8:30am
Place: Union United Methodist Church-721 East Main St

Let Them Eat Art: Take a self-guided tour through historic downtown Maplewood and enjoy live art demonstrations, entertainment and food & drink specials sold streetside by Maplewood’s award-winning restaurants. Enjoy a Cakewalk parade down Sutton Blvd at 6:30pm, live music from The Gene Dobbs Bradford Blues Experience and Farshid Ethniko, and others including Miss Jubilee and Kecia Davis. Entertainment from the St. Louis Hoop Club, Dream Seekers Dream Interpretation, Belly Dancing, Impish Grin Face Painting and Tarot Card Reading at Mystic Valley. Great food & drink specials from 30 different venues including Maplewood’s award-winning restaurants, Vom Fass wine tastings and chocolate tastings at Kakao Chocolate!

Date: July 10
Time: 6-11pm
Place: Maplewood – Manchester Rd

Food Truck Friday: Head out to Tower Grove Park with your lawn chair or blanket to enjoy delicious food from 15-20 food trucks. Everything from pizza, Italian, gyros, donuts, seafood, tacos, cupcakes, pie, steak sandwiches, and more. There’s something for everyone, plus beer trucks. So you can, but don’t have to, BYOB. In addition to the great food and community atmosphere, the Cree Rider Family Band will be performing live.

Date: July 10
Time: 4-8pm
Place: Tower Grove Park

STL Summer Fest: Enjoy downtown Stl’s summer block party and bazaar. This free sidewalk party will be held at the MX District on the corner of Washington and 7th Avenues and will bring together STL’s best indie vendors for a fun-in-the-sun bash. The event will feature 40+ local makers, live music, street performers, cold Cruzan Rum cocktails, Leinenkugel’s Summer Shandy, and more. Upgrade to VIP and enjoy an exclusive VIP lounge on The Laurel Apartments’ chic courtyard deck while discovering the possibilities of some of the best city living in the area.

Date: July 10
Time: 5-10pm
Place: The MX & The Laurel – 622 N 7th St

Urban Wanderers: Faces Of Survival: The Opening Reception for Faces of Survival, understanding the plight of the St. Louis street dogs, is this weekend. Urban Wanderers features over 60 national artists with artwork inspired by the hopeful recovery stories of Stray Rescue’s abandoned and abused companion animals. Paintings, photographs, sculptures and more will be displayed and available for auction at blacktie-missouri.com/auctions. Shelter animals have even created their own artwork with their noses, tails and paws as well. Full bar and snacks available at all events,as well as valet parking.

Date: July 10
Time: 5-9pm
Place: Gallery 400 Event Space-400 Washington Ave

Friday Night Live: Don’t miss St. Louis’ own, The Urge, with opener, Tasi, at Friday Night Live! presented by 105.7 the Point. Rock out to hit songs like “Jump Right In” and “Closer” at the new permanent outdoor Busch II Stage. GA tickets for each show are $10.57 in advance and $15 day of show. A VIP ticket option (21+) is also available for $25 in advance and $30 day of show and includes special reserved seating, bathroom and bar service.

Date: July 10
Time: 6pm
Place: Ballpark Village – 601 Clark

Cardboard Boat Race & Dive-in Movie: The aquatic center’s first ever Cardboard Boat Race. Participants can build boats from corrugated cardboard and duct tape. The boats will race in heats for time and the fees to enter are $10 per boat. After a little friendly competition, relax in the water or poolside and enjoy the Dive-In Movie, Surf’s Up, beginning at dusk. The movie features a behind-the-scenes look at the annual Penguin World Surfing Championship, and its newest participant, Cody Maverick. The movie is free and open to the public.

Date: July 10
Time: 6pm
Place: Chesterfield Family Aquatic Center-16365 Lydia Hill Dr

Bud & Burgers Championship Festival: The Bud & Burgers competition to find America’s best amateur burger chef is coming to a close. This Saturday the winner will be crowned at the Budweiser Brewery. Tickets to check out the event are $20 in advance or $25 day of. Tickets include burger and Budweiser Signature Draught sampling as well as a 4D projection of Budweiser’s Made In America concert at NYC’s Liberty Island. Guests will have the opportunity to sample the burgers and cast their votes to help choose the winner, along with award-winning chef David Chang. There will be photo opportunities with the Budweiser Clydesdales, performance by Matt Stillwell, and the crowning of the burger champ at 9pm.

Date: July 11
Time: 3-11pm
Place: Budweiser Brewery – 1200 Lynch St

Taco Tequila Margarita: Enjoy over 40 tequilas, margaritas, and sangrias and treat yourself to a taco tasting. Includes 20 tasting tickets, souvenir tasting glass, taco tasting (1 taco w/ chips and salsa), entertainment and more. Featuring: 3R Tequila, Agavales Tequila, Agave Loco, Ancho Reyes Margarita, Big O Ginger Liqueur, Brown Forman, Cruzan Rum, Mastermind Vodkarita, Milagro Tequila Margarita, Pinnacle Vodka, Sauza Hornitos Tequila, Slices Sangria, TeQuava, Tijuana Sweet Heat Tequila. GA Tickets are $35 and VIP are $50 and include 1 extra exclusive hour and VIP seating. Full bar and food menu will be available.

Date: July 11
Time: 12-4pm
Place: Big Daddy’s Soulard – 1000 Sidney

Stamped STL Bar Crawl: Stamped STL will be visiting its Cherokee street participating locations on Saturday. Purchase a Bar Bible to get your buy-1-get-1 drink specials. It is a $20 purchase and you will be able to get at least $15-20 worth in free drinks on the pub crawl by using it (but over $125 in total). They will also be available for purchase at the event. There will also be giveaways including: 2x Zoo Safari Passes, Stamped STL 2015 Bar Bible, Stamped STL & STL-Style Crawl Cherokee T-shirt, and Mr. Nice Guy Cherokee St. gift cards. Bar crawl schedule is: 8pm-8:45pm: Livery Company, 8:45pm-9:30pm: Earthbound Beer, 9:30pm-10:15pm: Art Bar, 10:15pm-11pm: Yaquis, 11pm-12am: Melt

Date: July 11
Time: 8pm
Place: Cherokee Street

Picasso at the Wheel Summer Tour 2015: Chart-topping San Francisco-natives, Train, are taking their latest hit album Bulletproof Picasso on the road with a 40+ city summer tour across North America with special guests The Fray and Matt Nathanson. Enjoy their new single “Bulletproof Picasso” along with signature hits including: “Drops of Jupiter,” “Marry Me,” “Hey Soul Sister,” and more. Tickets start at $25.

Date: July 11
Time: 7pm
Place: Hollywood Casino – 14141 Riverport Dr

Slide The City: A 1,000 foot water slide down Market St in downtown St. Louis. The slide was made right here in the good ole US of A and travels throughout the country. Slide the City is a family friendly slip-and-slide water party event. There will be live music, food, drinks, water, and of course the biggest slip and slide ever to hit asphalt. Don’t worry, we’ve got it padded. Make sure to bring your water buckets, floaties, and water toys to squirt, spray, splash, and get all attending soaked.

Date: July 11 & 12
Time: 11am-2pm
Place: Market St & 20th – Downtown STL

Catsup Bottle Festival: The 17th Annual Brooks® World’s Largest Catsup Bottle® Festival Birthday Party & Car Show is this weekend. This year the festival will feature the Trailnet Big Bottle Bike Ride, Ketchup Tasting, Hot Dog Eating Contest, Hula Hoop Competition, Tater Tots Covered in Ketchup Eating Contest, Water Balloon Toss, St. Louis Rams Cheerleaders, Little Princess Tomato & Sir Catsup Contest, Ronald McDonald Show, food and drinks, and The C.I.A. Cruzin’ In Antiques Classic Car Show.

Date: July 12
Time: 10am-5pm
Place: Woodland Park, Collinsville

Perfect Wedding Guide: Wedding Show:The Perfect Wedding Guide is the top resource for everything you need to know for your wedding in St. Louis. They are hosting a wedding show this Sunday. There will be over 50 vendors, all there to offer you their services (and probably some sweet discounts) for your special day. In addition, the first 100 brides will receive a SWAG bag, $500 in Perfect Wedding Guide cash to use at the show to book a vendor or purchase your wedding dress or other items for sale at the show, and a $200 Symbolize It gift card. Plus…a free honeymoon trip giveaway for the Cancun Hard Rock Resort, compliments of Travel Haus of St Louis. In addition to vendors and giveaways, there will be a hair and make-up show courtesy of Salon Antebellum. In addition, Salon Antebellum owner and Sexy Hair platform artist, Kelly Bileddo, will be doing a live stage demo. The cost to get into the show is just $7 online in advance or at the door. Engaged couples can register online in advance to get in free with Coupon Code: Couple.

Date: July 12
Time: 12-4pm
Place: River City Casino

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