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2008 Stories by Tom Finkel

• Scott Linehan: I Can See Him Now

  published Oct 20, 2008

  Can you picture Scott Linehan watching his former team beat up on the Dallas Cowboys yesterday afternoonr sportsreport.freedomblogging.com I see him sitting on his couch in a dirty bathrobe, sporti... More >>

• Review + Setlist + Videos: Lucinda Williams at the Pageant, October 19, 2008

  published Oct 20, 2008

  On Little Honey, released last week, Lucinda Williams returns to the raw roots that fed her music -- and seduced a generation -- in the 1980s and '90s. The more pointy-headed thinkers of that generati... More >>

• Unreal Live-Blogs the Final Presidential Debate

  published Oct 15, 2008

  7:56 p.m.: Allrighty then. Unreal is going to attempt to live-blog the final presidential debate of the 2008 campaign. Whyr Good question. Because it's therer Because it's a defining moment in America... More >>

• R.I.P. Hydeware Theatre

  published Oct 07, 2008

  Hydeware Theatre, the avant-garde theater company that become notorious for its 2003 production of Edward Albee's Zoo Story (which concluded with one actor lying motionless in a pool of fake blood unt... More >>

• St. Louis Women's Professional Soccer Team Now Has Enough Players to Play an Actual Game

  published Oct 07, 2008

  Yesterday was draft day for the seven teams of Women's Professional Soccer, including our very own St. Louis squad (which was the subject of a news story in last week's issue. All the action took plac... More >>

• St. Louis Women's Professional Soccer Team Now Has Enough Players to Play an Actual Game

  published Oct 07, 2008

  Yesterday was draft day for the seven teams of Women's Professional Soccer, including our very own St. Louis squad (which was the subject of a news story in last week's issue. All the action took plac... More >>

• Kevin Slaten's Return: The Blowhard's Back!

  published Oct 03, 2008

  The excitement of last night's Veep Parade (and the, uh, slightly impaired feeling that accompanies a morning after going balls-out in the Veep Drinking Game actually managed to banish from Unreal's i... More >>

• St. Louis Post-Dispatch's New Look: Not a Pretty Picture

  published Sep 28, 2008

  It's been an awfully rough week at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: seventeen jobs eliminated, an entire Suburban Journal outpost shuttered, a Washington bureau gutted. Oh, and a major local auto dealer p... More >>

• Video Clip: Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, Wednesday, September 24 -- "Nothin'"

  published Sep 27, 2008

  Here's a video clip posted by a concertgoer who had a balcony seat at Wednesday night's Robert Plant/Alison Krauss/T Bone Burnett concert at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis. Kenny Williamson ... More >>

• Show Review + Setlist: Robert Plant, Alison Krauss and T Bone Burnett at the Fabulous Fox Theater, Wednesday, September 24

  published Sep 25, 2008

  Halfway through last night's Raising Sand tour stop in St. Louis, producer-bandleader T Bone Burnett thanked an enraptured Fox Theatre crowd. "It's good to be home," said Burnett, before delivering h... More >>

• Who's Watching the Post-Dispatchr

  published Sep 24, 2008

  There's a secret squirrel out there taking potshots at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch via a newish blog, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Watch.com. The squirrel seems to have a thing for the Post's political cov... More >>

• Indian Food Expert Raghavan Iyer in Town Next Week

  published Sep 11, 2008

  Author and cooking instructor Raghavan Iyer takes an appetizingly broad view of curry, describing it as "any dish that consists of either meat, fish, poultry, legumes, vegetables or fruits, simmered ... More >>

• More MetroLink Fallout: Post-Dispatch Editorial Board Farts in RFT's General Direction

  published Aug 29, 2008

  Yesterday morning the civic-journalism digestive tract that, metaphorically speaking, is the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board defecated on Riverfront Times' front stoop. www.otherwhirled.com ... More >>

• Ask a Cougar! (We Mean It!)

  published Aug 05, 2008

  All right, all you cougar lovers and cougar wannabes, here comes your chance to get the cougar cage-match started! Jennifer Silverberg As you know, we've been hunting for a suitable "Ask a Cougar!"... More >>

• Staycate the Premises!

  published Aug 01, 2008

  As a rule Unreal tries to avoid as many press conferences as possible. But a rare few we just can't ignore. keaggy.com St. Louis or bust! Such was the case yesterday when we got wind that Mayor Fra... More >>

• RFT on Tonight Show with Jay Leno

  published Jul 31, 2008

  If Unreal and the rest of the Riverfront Times editorial staff represent the "brig" on the paper's metaphorical ship of state (we do, and we're damn proud to say so), what does that make the ad depart... More >>

• Ballpark Village: A Heads-Up About Cordish's Rep for Draconian Dress Codes

  published Jul 29, 2008

  As you may have heard, the Ballpark Village deal was sealed last week. Ballpark Village idiocy: No yurts -- and a Cordish dress coder! The St. Louis Cardinals, the mayor's office and Baltimore-bas... More >>

• St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase: Cue the Credits!

  published Jul 25, 2008

  This just in from the hard-working filmophiles at Cinema St. Louis and the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase: The staff and board of directors of Cinema St. Louis want to congratulate all of the particip... More >>

• St. Louis Native Rocco Landesman to Buy Cubsr Unthinkable!

  published Jul 24, 2008

  Rocco Landesman, Clayton High School Class of '65, has submitted a bid for the Chicago Cubs. The big-time Broadway producer is one of the money men behind Mel Brooks' The Producers. Is this a Bial... More >>

• St. Louis Native Rocco Landesman to Buy Cubsr Unthinkable!

  published Jul 24, 2008

  Rocco Landesman, Clayton High School Class of '65, has submitted a bid for the Chicago Cubs. The big-time Broadway producer is one of the money men behind Mel Brooks' The Producers. Is this a Bial... More >>

• Cougar Week: Jon Stewart Mauled By One!

  published Jul 18, 2008

  See, we told you it was Cougar Week! Even Jon Stewart was attacked by one, last night on his Comedy Central show: -Unreal... More >>

• RFT Advice Columnist Wanted: Ask a Cougar!

  published Jul 18, 2008

  Are you a cougar who's bagged herself a passel of young male tail in the St. Louis wildr Do you have tips to offer aspiring members of the breed and the fellas who want inr Do you wish you could've st... More >>

• Rex Sinquefield's Chess Mecca in the CWE

  published Jul 17, 2008

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• War at Soldiers Memorial This Weekend -- And Other Weird Band/Location Pairings...

  published Jul 16, 2008

  The RFT staff was just sitting around the cubicle chewing the fat frites and perusing this week's concert listings when this one caught our eye: War: Sat., July 19, 8 p.m. Soldiers Memorial War at S... More >>

• Sen. John McCain Gives Lambert a Wave

  published Jul 15, 2008

  After receiving word yesterday that presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain would be rolling into Lambert Airport today on his new "Straight Talk Express" plane, Unreal got punch-drunk... More >>