Email Author Nick Lucchesi

2010 Stories by Nick Lucchesi

• Blogger Joe Stumble of Last Days of Man On Earth, Shares His Three Favorite Posts

  published Mar 05, 2010

  Joe Stumble, 39, runs the local mp3 blog Last Days of Man on Earth, which shares downloadable tracks from underground bands from eras gone-by. It's a treasure trove for music lovers who want to hear t... More >>

• Photos: Story of the Year, Soul Descenders, Building Rome and OutRAGEus! Last Night at the Pageant, 3/4/10

  published Mar 05, 2010

  Last night at the Pageant, St. Louis' Story of the Year celebrated the release of its most recent Epitaph Records CD, The Constant, at the Pageant with local openers Building Rome, OutRAGEus! and Soul... More >>

• Nupur Kittur of One Hot Stove Serves Up Her Three Favorite Blog Posts

  published Mar 05, 2010

  Nupur Kittur, 30, got her first taste of food blogging by sending another food blog a recipe and a photo of the finished dish. She admittedly was so excited by seeing her work published, she began her... More >>

• Adam Shriver, the Voice Behind the St. Louis Activist Hub Blog, Shares His Three Favorite Posts

  published Mar 05, 2010

  By now, regular Daily RFT readers have noticed that in addition to profiling some of our favorite bloggers in St. Louis, we're also asking the writers to share some of their all-time favorite posts. F... More >>

• Missouri Politics Blogger John Combest Shares His Three Favorite Posts

  published Mar 05, 2010

  Since 2001 John Combest has been scouring news Web sites from across Missouri and aggregating links to the most interesting stories on his eponymous blog, johncombest.com. While not a blogger in the t... More >>

• Blogger Kelly von Plonski of Subterranean Books' Three Favorite Blog Posts

  published Mar 05, 2010

  Kelly von Plonski of Subterranean Books in the Delmar Loop is one of the 13 bloggers in this week's feature story that profiles online writers we love. As a bonus to readers, we've asked those blogger... More >>

• The Four Best Posts from Joe Sports Fan, St. Louis' Smart-Ass Sports Blog

  published Mar 05, 2010

  Matt Sebek is one of four writers for sports blog Joe Sports Fan, the irreverant national sports blog by St. Louis sports fans. Sebek is also one of the 13 bloggers in this week's feature story. Below... More >>

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  Finally, a Use for Empty Budweiser Cans!

  published Mar 04, 2010

  Hoosiers in in St. Louis have found creative uses for empty Budweiser cans for centuries. There have been beer can-stacking competitions at local bars in St. Louis for hundreds of years.At least that'... More >>

• "Grammar Police" Celebrate National Grammar Day With Smugness

  published Mar 04, 2010

  Today is National Grammar Day, giving English teachers, journalists, copy editors and persnickety folks everywhere a justifiable reason to nit-pick. And with social media applications like Twitter and... More >>

• St. Louis Show Flyers For This Week: March 4, 2010

  published Mar 04, 2010

  In this era of Facebook and MySpace concert promotion, Photoshopped gig flyers and text-message show alerts, you might have noticed fewer hand-drawn, Xeroxed paper flyers stapled, taped and pinned to ... More >>

• The Three Best Blog Posts from CourtneyChesley.com

  published Mar 04, 2010

  Courtney Chesley, a.k.a. Courtney Watson, is the author of CourtneyChesley.com. She's one of the online writers featured in our "Blogger's Baker's Dozen," this week's story on our favorite local voice... More >>

• The Three Best Blog Posts from an Angry Black Bitch

  published Mar 04, 2010

  Pamela Merritt, the self-described "Angry Black Bitch," doesn't look all that angry in the photo below, but she "writes poignantly, passionately and hilariously about race, politics and any other top... More >>

• The Three Best Blog Posts from Urban Science Adventures!

  published Mar 04, 2010

  Meet DN Lee, author of Urban Science Adventures! Lee is one of thirteen local bloggers profiled in this week's feature story. In that spirit, we've asked her to submit their three favorite posts fro... More >>

• The Three Best Posts from Ecology of Absence, the St. Louis Historic Preservation Blog

  published Mar 03, 2010

  Michael Allen is the author of Ecology of Absence, a blog on "historic preservation, community and future making" here in St. Louis. Allen is also one of the RFT's Blogger's Baker's Dozen: a sampler o... More >>

• The Three Best Posts from Punching Kitty, St. Louis' Gossip Blog

  published Mar 03, 2010

  For our second blogger spotlight, we present to you the Gawker of St. Louis, Mike Flynn of gossip blog Punching Kitty. (Read our feature story on thirteen bloggers we love, published this week.) Below... More >>

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  The Three Best Posts from The Beautiful Kind Sex Blog

  published Mar 03, 2010

  The first in our series of our favorite bloggers' favorite posts comes from the anonymous author of the juicy sex blog, The Beautiful Kind. (This week's Riverfront Times' feature story profiles thir... More >>

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  It's Official: We've Launched Our Free "Happy Hours" Smart Phone App!

  published Mar 02, 2010

  RFT and Village Voice Media today are rolling out our "Happy Hours" smart phone application for the iPhone, Google Android and the mobile web. The free application gives you a street-level guide on ha... More >>

• A Blogger's Baker's Dozen: The RFT staff presents a sampler of St. Louis' must-read contributors to the blogosphere

  published March 3, 2010

  We are a nation of bloggers, a chattering class of more than 20 million, pecking away, yearning to be heard, craving a response. If journalists... More >>

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  St. Louis Sports Blog Joe Sports Fan Rolls Out Web Show

  published Mar 02, 2010

  Irreverent sports blog Joe Sports Fan, St. Louis' answer to Deadspin, rolled out its St. Louis-centric sports web-show on Monday. The debut episode covers much of the same territory as the sports blog... More >>

• Photos: Skeletonwitch, Howl and Everything Went Black Last Night at Fubar, 2/28/10

  published Mar 01, 2010

  Athens, Ohio's Skeletonwitch finished up a short U.S. tour in St. Louis last night with openers Howl of Providence, Rhode Island. Although on previous tours both bands have played warehouses and basem... More >>

• Photos: Led Zeppelin Tribute Act Celebration Day Last Night at the Pageant, 2/26/10

  published Feb 27, 2010

  Celebration Day, a local Led Zeppelin tribute act, played the Pageant last night. The band -- which features members of El Monstero, Joe Dirt, The Feed and Dr. Zhivegas -- plays again tonight, althoug... More >>

• Hummer Dealership Without the Hummers Will Focus on Gun Sales

  published Feb 26, 2010

  Lynch Hummer in Chesterfield was once the largest Hummer dealership in the country, according to Motor Trend magazine. With the botched sale of the GM line to China, the brand has been discontinued bu... More >>

• Maplewood Applebee's Customers Take to Twitter Over Bomb Threat

  published Feb 25, 2010

  A couple of Twitter users have just tweeted that the Applebee's restaurant in Maplewood was evacuated before dinner tonight because of a bomb threat. And the experience, according to one customer, was... More >>

• Photos: Trey Anastasio of Phish Last Night at the Pageant, 2/23/10

  published Feb 24, 2010

  Those who missed Phish's sold-out show at the Fabulous Fox Theatre this past June (review here, slideshow here) had another opportunity to see its frontman Trey Anastasio last night at the Pageant. Ph... More >>

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  Weinstein Co. Doesn't Take Kindly to "Inglourious Backes" T-Shirt Design

  published Feb 24, 2010

  The "Inglorious Backes" T-Shirt design, which touts Blues forward David Backes' on-ice muscle, was a hockey blog favorite until filmmakers The Weinstein Co. contacted the online retailer selling the s... More >>