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Free Tall Drink At Starbucks When You Buy VIA® Iced Coffee Through Sunday

Here’s a cool deal for a hot weekend.

Buy a pack of  VIA® iced coffee and Starbucks will give you a free tall (12 oz.) drink of your choice.

The deal is good through Sunday, July 7 at participating Starbucks.

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Container Store: Sale Plus Drawings For Free Gift Cards At Demos Saturday, Sunday

Need to get organized?

The Container Store‘s “Happy Organized Home Sale” is now underway with savings on a variety of products to get your home organized.

Check out the sale catalog. 

The store is also offering free in-store “Happy Organized Home” demonstrations at 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday where you can learn space-saving tricks for every room of your house.  And you can enter a drawing for a $15 gift card at the demo.

At 2 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday through Aug. 28 the Container Store’s experts will give a demonstration on organizing your closet and maximizing space in it.  A drawing for a $15 gift card will also be held at the end of the demo.

Also at 1 and 3 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday you can learn more about the elfa®, organization system. At each presentation a drawing will be held for a $25 elfa®, card.

In St. Louis The Container Store is at 1769 S. Brentwood Blvd. in the Brentwood Square Shopping Center.

 

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What To Do This Weekend In St. Louis: Lots Of Free Choices

Looking for things to do this weekend in the Lou that are free?

Check these out:

Free: Celebrate St. Louis Summer Concerts With Bell Biv DeVoe, Gavin DeGraw This Weekend

Free: Satin Performs At St. Louis Zoo’s Jungle Boogie Friday, July 15

Free: Gazebo Series 2011 Concert and Movies In Webster Groves

Free: Movie And Concert Friday, July 15, In Wildwood

Free: ‘Rear Window’ At The St. Louis Art Museum’s Outdoor Film Series Tonight

Free: ‘Forrest Gump’ Screening in Tower Grove Park Saturday Night

Free: Griffin & The Gargoyles Concert Saturday July 16

 Free: Butch Wax & The Hollywoods Concert In Bridgeton Sunday, July 17

Sappington Farmers’ Market: Cool Sampling Sunday Plus $7 Off A $30 Or More Purchase On Sunday

 

 

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Free: Gazebo Series 2011 Concert and Movies In Webster Groves

On tap tonight for the Gazebo Series 2011 in Webster Groves: a concert by  Supe Granda, a St. Louis  man who made his name playing with The Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

The movie is Weird Science  where two nerdish boys attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that. Staring Anthony Michael Hall and Kelly LeBrock.

The concert is at 7 p.m. with the movie at 9 p.m. at Big Bend and Old Orchard.

 

 

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Free: 'Rear Window' At The St. Louis Art Museum's Outdoor Film Series Tonight

Outdoor movies are back. It’s not exactly the drive-in but it’s fun.

Grab a blanket or some lawn chairs tonight and head to Art Hill in Forest Park where the St. Louis Art Museum‘s annual free Outdoor Film Series.  The theme of the series is “American Cool: Cinematic Icons of 5o’s and 60′s Cool.”

Tonight’s film: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly

This suspenseful mystery combines hot summer nights, cool Grace Kelly, voyeurism, and murder. An injured, homebound photojournalist can’t resist watching his neighbors through his apartment’s rear window until he imagines one of them has been murdered. Enlisting the help of his high society girlfriend and his nurse, he sets out to catch the killer.

The film is shown at 9 p.m. but you can pack a picnic (alcoholic beverages are ok) and come early. Bug repellent is also suggested.

The Art Museum’s website says this about the film:

Set in glamorous New York, this film stars Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, the fashionable “it girl” with a secret. Adapted from a book by Truman Capote, the film combines Givenchy couture, slapstick comedy, and melancholy moments to create a romantic comedy with ’60s style.

Upcoming films in the series:

  • Rear Window, July 15
  • Viva Las Vegas, July 22
  • Rebel Without A Cause, July 29

 

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24-Hours Of Potter Slated For Crowne Plaza Hotel St. Louis-Clayton Today

This event is not “cheap” but Potterheads may find it worth the cost.  It is, after all, 24 hours of Potter, a one-time celebration of the Harry Potter book series held at multiple site. The St. Louis event is at Crowne Plaza Hotel St. Louis – Clayton. It starts 6 p.m. on Friday, July 15 and runs to 6 p.m. on Saturday, July 16 with panels and events going all night.

Designed to be like a year at wizarding school, the event givers you wizard classes, quidditch games, discussions and lectures on the Harry Potter book series.

Admission is $25 if you pre-register and $30 at the door.

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Free: 'Forrest Gump' Screening in Tower Grove Park Saturday Night

Head for Tower Grove Park‘s pool pavilion Saturday night for a free movie. It’s “Forrest Gump” starting at dusk.

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Sappington Farmers' Market: Cool Sampling Sunday Plus $7 Off A $30 Or More Purchase On Sunday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sappington Farmers’ Market, 8400 Sappington, will hold an event it’s calling “Cool Sampling Sunday” from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 17.

Its notice promises “great sales with cool local vendors sampling cool local products” plus “prizes, fun, music and more.”

And you can also get a coupon good for $7 off a purchase of $30 or more good from 7 a.m.-8 p.m. on Sunday, too.

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Free: Burger At Ruby Tuesday If You're Fast Enough To Get A Coupon

Ruby Tuesday is giving away free burgers on Tuesday.

But to get one you’ll have to like the company on its Facebook page and do it quickly because they’re only giving coupons for the free burger to the first 100,000 people who respond.

If you “like” Ruby Tuesday and you get to their Facebook page fast enough, they’ll email you the coupon for the free burger within a few hours.

 

Thanks to Palm Beach On The Cheap for the tip.

 

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Jersey County Fair Offers Stunts, Tricks & Monster Trucks This Weekend

Fairgoers to the 142nd Jersey County Fair can reach for the stars with this year’s star studded line-up, including NTPA Grand National reigning champion “Silver Bullet” driven by Jordan Lustik, the nation’s best riders of freestyle motocross and the Hall Brother’s Monster Truck Racing Team. Come on out to the nine day extravaganza at the Jersey County Fairgrounds, July 9 – 17, 2011.

Fair details here.


 

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