Addiction and Recovery

First Look: Bombay Food Junkies Food Truck

When Sid and Krupa Panchal moved from Mumbai (formerly Bombay) to St. Louis eight years ago, they knew they would miss the street food of the coastal Indian city. Finding that none of the Indian restaurants in town specialize in the type of food traditional to Mumbai, the Panchals took matters into ... More >>

Bombay Food Junkies Hits Kickstarter Goal for Food Truck

So, yeah, maybe there's something to this whole using-Kickstarter-for-your-new-restaurant plan, after all. Bombay Food Junkies, a vegetarian Indian food truck start-up, reached its Kickstarter goal of $5,000 last week. It is the third recent local success on the popular crowdfunding site: Katie's P ... More >>

Bombay Food Junkies Truck Nears Launch, Turns to Kickstarter for Decoration Help

Gut Check told you last month about Bombay Food Junkies, a new food truck featuring vegetarian and vegan Indian cuisine. The wife-and-husband team of Krupa and Sid Panchal plan to serve pav, a sandwich-like dish that Krupa told us is the most popular street food in Bombay (or Mumbai, as the city is ... More >>

Bombay Food Junkies Truck to Bring Vegetarian Indian Street Fare to St. Louis

Since moving to the United States from their native Bombay, (or Mumbai, as it is now known), India, Krupa and Sid Panchal haven't found anything like the street food they enjoyed in their home city. So the wife-and-husband team are taking matters into their own hands: In the next few months, the Pan ... More >>

Man Plummets to His Death at New Life Evangelistic Center [UPDATE]

Update: The victim has been identified as David Douglas. Daily RFT also received a response from Reverend Rice. According to the St. Louis police, a 46-year-old man plummeted to his death on Tuesday at the New Life Evangelistic Center in downtown. The center, run by Reverend Larry Rice, has been a ... More >>

Trapped in the Closet

Combat veterans fall prey to gambling addictions at an alarming rate. Where's the military when the chips are down?

Which St. Louisans Have the Strongest Livers?

It's no secret that folks in the St. Louis region like to throw a few back from time time. Sometimes every day, in fact. We live in a beer town, and many of us are quite proud of that piece of our cultural heritage, thank you very much. But is it possible to split up the alcohol-consumption demogra ... More >>

Repeat DUI Arrestee Dan McLaughlin Keeps Job as Cardinals Broadcaster

​Good news, sports fans. The glory days of baseball broadcasting -- when a commentator could be forgiven for a bit of misbehavin' -- are alive and well. Why's that? Because this week Fox Sports Midwest announced it will retain Cardinals play-by-play broadcaster Dan McLaughlin for the 2012 season. ... More >>

The Lemonheads

8 p.m. Saturday, January 28. Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

Missourians Are More Sober Than Rest of U.S., Study Shows

​For those who think Missouri is home to a bunch of meth-makers, heroin addicts and beer swillers, the most recent national statistics out of Washington show that, surprisingly, this is far from being true. In fact, when crunching the latest data for both drugs and alcohol, Missouri ranks eith ... More >>

Dump Unwanted Prescription Drugs This Saturday

​In recent years, the act of raiding mom and dad's liquor cabinet has spun off into raiding grandma's medicine cabinet for kids who want to get buzzed. "Pharm parties" have cropped up across the nation, involving prescription drugs like Oxycodone, Fentanyl and Percoset. Opiate-drug addictions, ... More >>

Wash U Researchers Find Genetic Link Between Obesity and Alcoholism

She may be slim, but you should see her sister.​Step away from the cheeseburger, drunky. Researchers at Washington University have discovered a genetic link between risks for alcoholism and obesity. And the correlation seems to be increasing as Americans get fatter, as we've been doing at an alarm ... More >>

Ibogaine is a hallucinogen that has helped addicts kick their drug habits. Is it the trip that does the trick?

How Realistic is the Ibogaine Episode of Law & Order: SVU?

Image viaA hallucinogenic cure for drug addiction raises eyebrows -- cast of SVU included​This week's feature story, "Shock the Junkie" takes an in-depth look at ibogaine, a potent hallucinogenic drug that's derived from the roots of an African shrub and used as a treatment for drug addiction.Ibog ... More >>

Blame the Recession for Your Drinking Problem

​Has this ever happened to you?Your concerned friend/family member/bartender/bootlegger gives you big, sad eyes, puts a gentle hand on your elbow and says, in a hushed voice, "I just don't know, Daily RFT reader. You're still incredibly handsome, but you've changed. I think you have a drinkin ... More >>

Drink More, Live Longer? Perhaps.

Drink up! Time published a report that heavy drinkers live longer than non-drinkers. Alcoholics Anonymous has always attributed this to many non-drinkers being recovering alcoholics who damage their bodies beyond repair before they stopped drinking. But a new study claims people who don't drink have ... More >>

Elizabeth Cook

7:30 p.m. Thursday, August 12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

A Common Sense Approach to Meth Finally Comes Before Congress

Russ Carnahan​"After decades of failed methamphetamine policy - from increased sentences for nonviolent meth-related offenses to making every American show ID to buy cough medicine - Congress is finally learning what teenagers learn in high school economics: as long as there is a demand for someth ... More >>

Rob Ruzicka's 30th Birthday Show

9 p.m. Saturday, April 10. Fubar, 3108 Locust Street.

Hey, Sorry About That Hole I Put In Your Colon...Want a Painkiller?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dno1967/ / CC BY 2.0Imagine that a doctor inserts a thin tube into your intestines to poke around (a.k.a., a colonoscopy), then proceeds to...fall asleep. This actually happened at Des Peres Hospital in 2003, and not because the physician was bored. Dr. Michael Impey was ... More >>

Hope Floats

Sweet Treatment: An experimental program offers rich rewards to drug-addicted ex-cons in St. Louis who keep themselves clean

Photos: The Pageant fills with Obama Supporters for VP Debate Watch Party

RFT reader wishes the Cubs 100 more years of failure

Fizzled Out: Andrew Gladney, heir to the 7-Up fortune, is off to a federal penitentiary

Holy Junkies: Michael Timmins and the Cowboy Junkies release a 20th anniversary edition of Trinity Sessions

Yo quiero Chihuahuas!

A tale of the toughest dog in North America.

Driving While Mexican-American

The Mexican muses on the high rate of DUIs among Hispanics.

Asian Persuasion

P.F. Chang's China Bistro
25 The Boulevard
Richmond Heights
314-862-2624

In This Week's Issue

Yogi DeTox Tea

Schnucks
60 Hampton Village Plaza
314-353-5060

The Locust

7 p.m. Sunday, November 25. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard

Rehab for Rockers

Gregg Allman and Friends

8 p.m. Sunday, January 14. Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard).

Don't Know Smack

Down from the mountain, a softly lit Heath Ledger can't save this by-the-numbers Aussie drug flick.

Aerosmith

7:30 p.m. Sunday, October 15. UMB Bank Pavilion (14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights).

Trick or Treatment

Court-ordered classes for two-bit crooks: Are they a waste of time and money?

Kids & Drugs & Rock & Roll

At the Crossroads Program in Chesterfield, teen sobriety is supposed to be fun. It's also expensive -- and not everyone's buying.

Best Local Boy Gone Bad

Mike Danton

Sea of Change

Don't like what's playing at the Red Sea? Come back tomorrow.

If You Had to Give Up Caffeine or Alcohol for the Rest of Your Life, Which Would You Choose?

Week of September 8, 2004

Gone but Not Forgotten

The dark legend of GG Allin still drives the Murder Junkies

These You've Got to See

Five educational films that'll alter your mind

Cowboy Junkies

Monday, July 9; Pageant

What About the Children?

Normandy settles with a former instructor accused of exposing a high-school principal's shocking behavior

Steve Earle

Transcendental Blues (E Squared)

Mary Gauthier

Drag Queens in Limousines (Groove House)

Dilated Peoples, Jurassic 5, Beat Junkies

Thursday, August 5 ; Karma

Sympathy for the Devil

Six years ago, a St. Louis judge took a hell of a risk. He let Von Nebbitt go free despite years of drug dealing and stealing, weapons offenses and parole violations. One of them has learned a lesson.