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Kendrick Lamar Brings the House Down at the Chaifetz Arena 4/17/13: Review and Setlist

Compton's new "King of West Coast Hip-Hop" (so dubbed by the likes of Dr. Dre, the Game and Snoop Dogg) made a stop in St. Louis last night to a packed Chaifetz Arena. The prodigious, fan-favorite rapper was welcomed by a rabidly excited crowd, and performed with the confidence of a veteran, rather ... More >>

Team Kerouac: Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund chat about the film version of On the Road

Two Men Invade St. Louis Home, Terrorize Women Twice in Two Weeks, Police Say

Ryan Hudson, 20, and an accomplice broke into a St. Louis home on January 5, forced one woman to put her face in a chair and held a gun to the head of another woman as she filled the suspects' bag with money. Then two weeks later, the same men returned to the home -- and robbed the same two women ... More >>

Disappearing Ink: What will happen to all the books?

The Ten Biggest Concert Buzzkills: An Illustrated Guide

By Dave Herrera As vastly different as our tastes are when it comes to music, there's one thing we can all agree on, and that's our distaste for and subsequent amusement/bemusement/resentment with certain individuals who insist on behaving badly at shows. You know who we're talking about. The Talke ... More >>

[UPDATED] On the Map: National Food Truck-Tracking Site and App to Add St. Louis This Week

Updated January 29: Roaming Hunger's St. Louis food-truck-tracking page went live on Wednesday, January 23, and it seems there are still a few kinks to be worked out. When Gut Check took a gander at the site this week, only ten of the 30 trucks in town were actually on the map. More trucks are slo ... More >>

2012 SLIFF Film Festival capsule reviews

SLIFF Picks Up Speed: the Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival has never looked better

Another Newman Charged With Robbing, Shooting Young Woman In Face

Remember those brutal robberies near I-44 and Grand Boulevard where people were giving up their goods but still getting shot - sometimes in the face? Less than two weeks ago, authorities arrested Vincent Newman of Midtown on the belief that he was responsible. Now they now believe one of the inciden ... More >>

Busted! Scamwich Artist Unmasked by Local Restaurant Owners

Local chef and restaurateur Mike Johnson didn't just fall off the Sysco truck yesterday. A graduate of the New England Culinary Institute, the man has mapped out a restaurant résumé that begins when he was fifteen and spans two continents; on this one alone he has toiled in kitchens from Napa to L ... More >>

Drinking with Guided By Voices: Can we Keep Up with Bob Pollard? (Spoiler Alert: No)

I'm not what you'd call a drinker. Not by any standards. Yes, I enjoy a cocktail or two weekly, but I like to be in control, I like to drive and I already fall down enough as it is -- so booze is not my friend. And while I love sipping on a glass of Maker's Mark (neat, please) and I can always find ... More >>

The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: September 28 to 30

So did everyone check out this week's Best Of issue? What did you think of our music picks? RFT Music co-conspirator Ryan Wasoba was mourning the fact that there has been woefully little nay-saying of our selections in his column this week, and I got to say that I'm with him. Where's the righteous i ... More >>

The Ten Best Concerts of the Summer

Well, the white trousers are back in storage and the river flotation seat with tall-boy sized cup-holders is deflated. We may have a few warm days ahead still, but summer is behind us. Lest it all fade into a haze of sweating (so it was hot this summer...), we here at RFT Music have preserved the bi ... More >>

Dinosaur Jr at LouFest, 8/25/12: Review, Photos and Setlist

Dinosaur Jr LouFest 2012: Orange Stage Saturday, August 25 The Dinosaur Jr diehards moved in as soon as the Son Volt crowd moved out. Claiming rib-bruising spots against the metal crowd-control fence, they stood patiently -- prepared to wait out Phantogram's electro-beeps blazing in the distance fr ... More >>

Bonnaroo 2012: Big Ass Water Slide, Illicit Koozies and Bands

Bonnaroo is an entirely different world, one where the air always smells of weed and the people you encounter share any kind of resources they have, the way we were taught as children but adults seldom practice. People were kind. Musicians were gracious. Deep-fried oreos were a reality.

Daniel Pujol on the United States of Being

Daniel Pujol is a man of many talents. Whether he's completing his degree, playing ragers at SXSW, putting out records or writing poetry in an online series with his girlfriend, Pujol remains a vital voice for the hustling world of evolutionary rock & roll. Checked by tastemaker Jack White and his T ... More >>

Willie Nelson at the Pageant, 4/17/12: Review, Photos and Setlist

Willie Nelson and Family | The Pernikoff Brothers April 17, 2012 The Pageant Halfway through last night's Willie Nelson show at the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard, 314-726-6161), with the obligatory Texas flag backdrop flying on stage and Willie about to launch into "Good Hearted Woman," a man asks ... More >>

Inside an Ashen Building, a Legal Aide Adds Color

"Does that make sense?" asks Vara Lyons. "I'm trying to not sound like a cerebral art historian." She can't help herself. Lyons is a legal assistant for the Community Affairs Bureau of City of St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office. She's also a self-described art history nerd whose life has been shad ... More >>

Diplo, Chiddy Bang, and Lunice at the Firebird, 3/30/12: Review and Photos

Diplo | Chiddy Bang | Lunice The Firebird March 30, 2012 In this day and age of corporate sponsorships often intertwining and ultimately propelling events by selling artists' "cool" - some kind of interesting (and confusing) standard is being set by the Axe: One Night Only tour featuring Lunice, Ch ... More >>

Wrong-man thriller Man on a Ledge goes thud

AWOLNATION at Pop's Nightclub: 1/21/12

AWOLNATION attracted a capacity crowd to Pop's Nightclub in Sauget on Saturday. The band induced crowd surfing, iPhone-video-taking and screaming along. The incomparable Todd Owyoung was there to take in the excitement -- see a few highlights from his set below. View a full slideshow of AWOLNATIO ... More >>

Spy Games and Celebrity Sightings at St. Louis-Area Bookstores

image viaWatch out, she may be packing an iPhone.​As everybody knows, the Christmas-shopping season is the most hectic time to be in retail -- as both a seller and as a consumer -- and this year, there's an extra frisson of excitement in St. Louis bookstores, thanks to some corporate espionage ... More >>

Jeff and Mary Clarke: Model Scouts Object to Nightline Report on the "Dark Side" of Modeling

Jennifer SilverbergJeff and Mary Clarke and a few of their clients: Cat McGrath, Kayla Travers, Karlie Kloss and Katie Fogarty.​This week is Fashion Week in New York City, which does not mean Missoni at Target as it does here, but instead tall, skinny girls walking down runways showing off the ... More >>

Marketing Trends Miller Lite Should Jump on to Sell More Brew

Image via​Ad Age reported that Miller Lite's sales have steadily decreased, and the company cites the same factors we all blame for our everyday problems and bad moods: the stupid economy and the shitty weather. But not all beer makers are faring poorly, and bad marketing strategies might be ... More >>

Don Perry and Bonnie Spinola on the Thrill of the Hunt

Jon Scorfina​ Often, the most sincere record collectors have no professional associations with the music industry. Their collections stem from nothing but a love of music. We met this week's Last Collector Standing through Anna Zachritz of Euclid Records, who suggested two of the store's most ... More >>

iCloud is the Shiniest, Newest Time-Waster for Apple Store Customer Service

Courtesy of AppleLet the chatboards begin.​Being Steve Jobs must be pretty awesome. It seems like the man makes more announcements than Obama does, though the negative implications of his are usually just that the newest version of the iPad completely trumps the one you bought only this mornin ... More >>

Attention, working moms: Author (and Schlafly niece) Suzanne Venker thinks you are destroying America

Review Setlist: Destroyer and the War on Drugs at Luminary Center for the Arts, Monday, March 28

Jon GitchoffDestroyer's Dan Bejar​A few years have passed since the last Destroyer date in St. Louis, 2008 if memory serves, during the exquisite tour for the Trouble in Dreams album. Dan Bejar, the band's singer and songwriter, did saunter on and off stage during the New Pornographers' 2010 a ... More >>

ATS Removes Red-Light Cameras Under Cover of Darkness

John RhodesRhodes calls this photo snapped last night "Iwo Jima in Reverse"​Updated with response from ATS Daily RFT just had an amusing conversation with Washington councilman John Rhodes. Rhodes was driving through his Franklin County town around 10 p.m. last night when he saw the damnedest site ... More >>

Arthur Lieber: Unlikely Candidate Becomes Unlikely Author

Arthur Lieber: an unlikely candidate, and now an author​It was roughly a year ago that Arthur Lieber started getting concerned. A self-described progressive Democrat, he was no fan of Todd Akin, the conservative Republican who represents Missouri's 2nd Congressional District. And as best Lieber co ... More >>

The RFT 2011 St. Louis Web Awards: Tweet of the Year

Point & Clique: The 2011 RFT St. Louis Web Awards

Chuck Berry Spied in St. Louis Apple Store Last Night

​Michael Kilfoy, owner of the St. Louis design/marketing firm Studio X, was getting his laptop worked on around 5:30 p.m last night when a fellow customer at the Apple store caught his eye. "I see this guy wearing a sailor's cap and I do a double-take," says Kilfoy. "Sure enough, it was Chuck Berr ... More >>

Finalists for RFT Web Awards -- Revealed!

​The votes are in for the RFT's first-ever Web Awards! And while we're not about to tell you who won -- not quite yet, anyway -- we've got the full list of finalists right here.The winners were nominated by you and chosen by our esteemed panel of judges. We'll be announcing the winners online next ... More >>

Finalists for RFT Web Awards -- Revealed!

​The votes are in for the RFT's first-ever Web Awards! And while we're not about to tell you who won -- not quite yet, anyway -- we've got the full list of finalists right here.The winners were nominated by you and chosen by our esteemed panel of judges. We'll be announcing the winners online next ... More >>

Left Bank, Subterranean Books Now Selling Google eBooks

​As of this morning, two of St. Louis's proudly independent bookstores have joined in the digital revolution: Subterranean Books in the Delmar Loop and Left Bank Books in the Central West End and downtown are now offering Google eBooks on their respective websites. Both stores have been selli ... More >>

Chuck Berry Interviewed in the New Rolling Stone

rollingstone.com​The latest issue of Rolling Stone is receiving more attention for its cover than for its contents -- perhaps it has something to do with the naked True Blood actors splattered in "blood." (See right.) However, anyone who doesn't flip to the articles might miss something rather ... More >>

Blago Uncensored Ring Tones -- Now with F-Bombs!

Several weeks ago, an Illinois newspaper offered free Blagojevich ringtones so that online readers could enjoy Blago's "profanity-laced tirades" on incoming calls. We liked the idea. However, we didn't like that they'd bleeped out all the profanity from the "profanity-laced tirades." (We know dail ... More >>

Beatle Bob: Approaching 5,000th Consecutive Day of Seeing Live Music

www.lynnterry.comBeatle Bob struts his stuff.​On Christmas Eve 1996, St. Louis legend Beatle Bob set out on a mission with no end in sight. His goal? Attend a live-music act every day of his life. Now, 13-and-a-half years later, Beatle Bob is approaching a major milestone: his 5,000th consecutive ... More >>

Illegal

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone

Last Collector Standing: Carlos Ruiz Isn't a Pretentious Record Store Guy -- He Just Draws a Comic About One

Jon Scorfina​The "pretentious record store guy" has long been the bane of the record shop. Despite their wealth of archaic knowledge, music lovers were never sure whether these pompous clerks were an asset or a plague to their shopping experience. Local comic artist and graphic designer Carlos ... More >>

A New Arch for a New St. Louis: Let's not just redesign the grounds around the Gateway Arch. Let's go for the whole enchilada!

Dr. Peanut: A St. Louis pediatrician battles child malnutrition in Haiti with peanut butter

The TSA Gets Put on Notice -- And Yes, Removing Your Shoes at the Airport is Idiotic

It is high time the TSA get its comeuppance for  airport screening indignities.​On March 29, 2009, Steve Bierfeldt was detained in a small room at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport and interrogated for a half-hour by the Transportation Security Administration. Bierfeldt's ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Webster University's Andrew Allen Smith on Combining Record Collections with His Girlfriend, Movie Soundtracks and the Pixies

(The number of chain-record stores nationwide has dwindled. However, St. Louis has become an unlikely safe haven for indie record shops -- and for DJs who prefer to spin the black circle instead of scrolling their iPods. In this weekly column, we'll focus on personal portraits of St. Louis' record a ... More >>

In Honor of Apple's Big Announcement Today, Here are Some of Its Other Tablets

Today is the day when St. Jobs comes down from the mountain and delivers his (Apple's) "latest creation" ... that's what the official Apple press release says anyway. Nothing about a tablet or anything, just "our latest creation." You would think that with all the hype about a tablet, that Apple has ... More >>

St. Louis Company Hawks This Christmas' Hottest Toy. Are You Ready? It's an Artificially Intelligent Hamster!

But of course!Who wants to clean up hamster poop and pony up for rodent feed when fake little critters are available for only $7.99?Or, were available. The New York Times reports that Ladue-based Cepia LLC can't keep the shelves at Toys 'R Us, Wal-mart and Target stocked with its crazy-popular Zhu Z ... More >>

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Google Continues its Quest for World Domination with Google Voice

I finally got my Google Voice invite last week. Voice is Google's move into what has traditionally been the domain of the big telephone companies. The service is still in private beta, which means that you have to get an invite to try it out. It's very likely Google will roll out voice in a similar ... More >>

Last Minute Gift Ideas for Chris Duncan, Richie Incognito, Albert Pujols and Other St. Louis Sports Personalities

It's tough being a St. Louis sporting figure these days. Whether you're calling out your players for poor play, making demands for an $11 million luxury, or just trying to make sense of what you just saw happen to your team, life is flat out hard. But you know what can make it all better? Why, ... More >>