Abraham Lincoln

There's No Raisin' the Sultana

Looky-Likey Lincoln

Ten Songs for Celebrating President's Day

It is that time of year again. That special time after Mardi Gras, in the middle of Black History Month, when we drop our Valentine's Day chocolates and honor the past and present Presidents of the United States of America (for the shortest month of the year, February seems to really be collecting h ... More >>

The Abolitionists

The Mayan Apocalypse Plans of Eight St. Louis Musicians

The Mayan Calendar says 2012 is the end: This Friday, December 21, specifically. and John Cusack likely won't be around to save our sorry asses. While some folks may be hoarding dish soap and cashing in on fear of the Mayan apocalypse, St. Louis musicians are having none of that. We asked local pe ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 9, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books and Subterranean Books. According to the Mayan calendar, the world's about to end thi ... More >>

Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg ably fill the hat in Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Was a Shitty Theatre Patron

Dr. Charles A. Leale was the army surgeon who first tended to Abraham Lincoln the night he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. The 23-year-old doctor was in the Ford Theatre before Lincoln and company arrived, and he was present at the moment the president died. Mere hours after Lincoln's death, ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending April 22, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. It was a week for new titles on the St. Louis bests ... More >>

Your 2011 St. Louis Bestseller List -- And This Week's, Too

It's been a year since St. Louis's independent booksellers banded together to form the St. Louis Independent Bookstore Alliance in order to fight the threat of Amazon. It worked: The only bookstores that closed in St. Louis this year were part of the Borders chain. The Alliance sponsored bookstore b ... More >>

Instructions on How to Hug a Fellow Man

While our literary hero, Geoffrey Delicatecharacter, is still on the mend (see Season 2, Episode 12, The Abraham Lincoln Joke Book), his flannel-wearing, Bud-drinking twin brother Norman fills in again this week, treating us to an excerpt from A Sensitive Liberal's Guide to Life by The Uptight Seat ... More >>

Man in Mask Tells a Very Long Abe Lincoln Joke

Daily RFT's Purple Prose has been on hiatus for a few weeks, but today it's back with a special guest, Norman Delicatecharacter, the twin brother of host Geoffrey Delicatecharacter. Today Norman reads from The Abraham Lincoln Joke Book. Enjoy. Or persevere. Whichever.

Intern Uncovers Previously Hidden Lincoln Papers

image viaDavid Spriegel, super intern.​Dear Interns of St. Louis, We here at Daily RFT know what a disillusioning experience internship can be. You walk in on your first day, full of hope that you will spend the summer accomplishing something meaningful and launching your brilliant career, wh ... More >>

Lincoln Travelogues

1860 Map Shows Missouri's Slave Population

Below is a map from the 1860 U.S. Census showing slave population in Missouri. Surprisingly, perhaps, the biggest concentration of slaves wasn't in the southern part of the state but, instead, along the Missouri River corridor. Two notable exceptions being New Madrid and Mississippi counties borderi ... More >>

Clutch

7 p.m. Thursday, November 4. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

Illinois Cyclists Now Officially Protected by Law

Image source​If, while driving in the state of Illinois, you have felt an uncontrollable urge to mow down a cyclist who insists upon taking up an entire lane on a busy street, slowing traffic to a crawl and just when you have someplace important to go, control thyself. A new law, signed yester ... More >>

New Belgium Ranger IPA, Iron Barley

The cheese stands alone. Much like Drink of the Week.​If Drink of the Week were a food, we'd be a soft, crumbly, stinky blue cheese. We'd be made from the rich, verdant milk of sheep that grazed in sunny meadows, unpasteurized (we're worth the risk), aged to perfection in a musky, dank French ... More >>

Civil War Atrocities Perpetrated Here Get Their Own Exhibit at National Archives

Image viaPOWs shot, execution style, here in the STL!​An interactive exhibit soon to open at the National Archives in our nation's capital will be spotlighting a rather dark event that occurred in St. Louis during the Civil War. (Check out this morning's story in The Washington Post)The year was ... More >>

Madonna's 1990 "Rock the Vote Ad" is Hopelessly Dated ... And That's a Good Thing!

It's election day in communities across America. Here in Missouri, St. Louis County voters -- only 10 percent them, actually -- are expected to to go to the polls to vote on a smoking ban for bars and restaurants.​Stereotypically, it's been the younger generations who are least likely to vote, and ... More >>

Victor Victorian

World's Most Boring Museum to Open in Springfield, IL

flickr.com/photos/34748725@N00From the Museum of Funeral Customs (RIP). Unreal has long been plotting a brief jaunt up to Springfield, Illinois, not only to satisfy our Lincoln fix, but also to consume horseshoe sandwiches and visit the Museum of Funeral Customs.Alas, while Lincoln's tomb, hous ... More >>

The Dish: The Gettysburger at Blueberry Hill

OK, so I've always kind of had a thing for Abraham Lincoln. My ardor has diminished slightly over the years -- I no longer believe I am he reincarnated (we do have the same initials, after all) -- but I have never forgotten that I grew up in the Land of Lincoln, where his birthday is a school holida ... More >>

More Shocking Revelations About Abraham Lincoln!

Abe's heard those rumors and he's PISSED.Just in case you're not reeling enough from Unreal's exclusive report about Abraham Lincoln's religious heritage, here's some more Lincoln trivia, courtesy of Christopher Buckley at The Daily Beast. Didja know Mary Todd Lincoln was a man?  It explains so ... More >>

Abraham Lincoln Was a Jew: An Unreal Exclusive!

Comcast Really is Trying to Make it Up to You (with Porn)

You know, you hear a lot about what a lousy cable company Comcast is. Pretty much any time you browse a forum of people talking about television, whether it's sports or just general programming, you hear complaints from all quarters about Comcast. Bad reception, poor customer service, lack of HD cha ... More >>

The Town that Launched Obama Owns Up to Its Fractured Racial Past

The Wall Street Journal ran a fascinating Inauguration Day story yesterday on Springfield, Illinois.  It was in the Illinois capital -- just 90 miles northeast of St. Louis -- that Barack Obama launched his presidential campaign in February 2007. It was also in Springfield that Abraham Lincoln ... More >>

It's a Wonderful Line: What was Jimmy Stewart's favorite cinematic moment?

Political Fringe: The Marginal Parties at the Veep Debate

Rail-Splitter, Country-Uniter

Abraham Lincoln's legacy

Playing Politics: The world might be a better place if presidents still went to the theater

The Last Likable Republican

Assassins fires a seldom-seen blast from the Sondheim canon

Lincoln Up

Noneteenth

Readers can’t find Juneteenth on their calendars.

Oh Brother!

Film Openings

Week of April 12, 2007

Good Eatin'

Unreal tastes gourmet Ozarks cuisine and uncovers a strange collection — all from the comfort of our bathrobe.

Gotta Get Back in Time

Pitchers & Catchers

Why no Gay Day at Busch Stadium? Who’d win an indoor football game between teams QB’ed by Neil Young and Alanis Morissette? Unreal asks the tough questions.

Ask a Negro Leaguer Column

Week of February 9, 2006

Ask a Negro Leaguer Column

Week of October 12, 2005

Letters

Week of May 4, 2005

Thinkin' Lincoln

The Lincoln Library will bring visitors from around the world -- but for us, it's just a short drive away

Creek and Creek

Café Balaban, 405 North Euclid Avenue, 314-361-8085

Zuzu's Juju

A cinematic classic, adapted for the stage, still packs a punch by reveling in the Christmas spirit

Nobody Move

The Old Court House puts a freeze on the Bill of Rights in celebration of July 4

Westerfield Haul

Leaving the eaten path for a sumptuous dining experience at the Westerfield House

Mike Seeger

Sunday, March 19; Monday Club

Views of the Weird

A look at the ghosts of Alton -- and the people who believe in them