Boy Scouts of America

St. Louis Protesters Rally Against Allowing Gay Boy Scouts: "We Are Not Out To Discriminate"

Protesters are staging a rally in St. Louis today urging the Boy Scouts of America to reject a policy change that would allow openly gay members. Linda Briggs-Harty, a Brentwood mother who will be attending the rally, tells Daily RFT, "We are not out to discriminate." She says, "We are talking a ... More >>

Iron Deficiency: It's Shtick and Explosions for the Great Robert Downey Jr.

In the Galleries - Fort Arrowhead CLOSES April 5 at mushmaus

Answers to the Riverfront Times 2012 News Quiz

In January Riverfront Times published its annual "News Challenge" -- 78 multiple-choice questions testing how well readers paid attention to current events over the past twelve months. Within a week, more than 100 of you submitted your answers to us. A few weeks later a dozen readers e-mailed a simi ... More >>

Boy Scouts Anti-Gay Policy: Will St. Louis Organizations End Discrimination?

Last summer, we wrote about Eric Jones, an Eagle Scout at a camp in St. Joseph who was forced to leave the organization after twelve years, because he told the camp director he was gay. That violated the Boy Scouts of America's clear anti-gay policy, though Jones, a sophomore at Missouri State at th ... More >>

Missouri Eagle Scout Eric Jones Kicked Out of Boy Scouts for Being Gay

This past Tuesday, the Boy Scouts of America announced that after two years of careful consideration, an eleven-member committee concluded that the anti-gay policy "is absolutely the best policy for the Boy Scouts," in the words of its spokesman, Deron Smith. That means it's best for the Boy Scouts ... More >>

Jim Crow's Alive and Well in 2012

The RFT's St. Louis Summer Survival Guide

Perv and Protect: Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually molested by cops. Should the Scouting program share the blame?

Boy Scouts: Forget Bird Calls, and Earn a Merit Badge in Chess

Later, they would tell people that it was his chess merit badge that won her over.​You can earn a Boy Scout merit badge in fly fishing, in stamp collecting and in something called "pulp and paper." You can even earn one in journalism. But it wasn't until now that the Boy Scouts organization fi ... More >>

Happy 135th Birthday -- and Happy State Holiday -- Forest Park!

Forest Park turns 135 years old today. What do you give a St. Louis symbol for its birthday?​At 1,293 acres, the botanical Goliath that is Forest Park is hard not to love. If you profess not to love it, in fact, chances are you're a bad liar. Today marks the 135th anniversary of the park that ... More >>

St. Louis Snow Sled Brings the Movies

St. Louis Snow ConeThe coolest food truck - the Snow Sled​ St. Louis Snow Cone already has the coolest food truck in town - a 1957 Chevy van tricked out until it morphed into the Snow Sled. Might as well up the cool ante by adding a pop-up movie screen, classic movies and collaborations with a ... More >>

Beale Street Music Festival: Lessons Learned By An Unwitting Music Writer (Part One)

From Beale Street in an equally wet previous year. Photo by theogeo​Be prepared. Every festival-goer should take to heart this bit of Boy Scout zen. But when a pair of multi-day passes for the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, Tennessee fell into my lap on Friday afternoon, I had too lit ... More >>

Webster-Kirkwood Times Gobbles Up West End Word

Hopefully the sale will improve the Word's website, which currently provides little more artwork than this pathetic screen grab.​One wonders, does the Central West End have enough garden tours, ribbon cuttings and Boy Scout fund-raisers to satisfy the voracious news appetite of the Webster-Kirkwoo ... More >>

Kenneth Tomlinson: Police Captain and Scoutmaster Turned Child Molester Gets Life

Kenneth Tomlinson, aka "Big Dog" to the kids.​A year after he was charged with "deviate sexual intercourse" with Boy Scouts under his care, a former police captain and scoutmaster in Fredericktown was sentenced last week to three consecutive life terms plus plus 22 years.Kenneth Tomlinson pleaded ... More >>

Kenneth Tomlinson: Former Police Chief and Boy Scout Leader Now a Child Molester

​Kenneth Tomlinson has pleaded guilty to 22 counts of sexual abuse of minors all during the time that he served as police captain of Fredericktown and a Boy Scout leader in the southeastern Missouri town. In January, Tomlinson was charged with a dozen counts of first-degree statutory sodomy and fo ... More >>

Ballpark Village Gets (Temporary) Tenant -- the Boy Scouts

So here's the real plan: If we build a new stadium, eventually, a Boy Scout-themed tractor-trailer will come and park in the giant gaping vacant lot across the street.​Finally! Someone found a use for Ballpark Village, the long-stalled "development" across the street from Busch Stadium: a parking ... More >>

Ladue Rape Faker, Virginia Burns, Voted "Ass Clown of the Week"

Virginia Burns​We have Ass Clown, and her name is Virginia Burns -- the "disabled" woman who Ladue police say falsely reported she was raped and lied about being paraplegic. Fourty-four percent of Daily RFT readers picked Burns from a strong field of Ass Clown nominees last week. Coming in second ... More >>

This is Love: Your Wife is Charged with Boning a Boy Scout and You Bail Her Out of Jail

Wendy Rogers​The husband of Wendy Rogers sprung his spouse from jail Wednesday evening -- posting $10,000 cash on her $100,000 bail. Rogers, a now former Boy Scout leader, was allegedly caught in bed Sunday with a 15-year-old scout with Troop 35 in O'Fallon, Ill. According to the St. Clair County ... More >>

Hey St. Louis! How 'Bout a Game of "Ass Clown of the Week"?

​It's been a while since we rolled out Daily RFT's semi-regular feature Ass Clown of the Week. That said, this week is brimming with such outrageous tales of idiocy, we'd be remiss if we didn't return to the 'ol ass-clown well. You know the rules: Vote for the person (below) you think committed th ... More >>

Chef's Choice: Chuck Friedhoff, Persimmon Woods Golf Club

Robin WheelerChuck Friedhoff, Director of Food and Beverage at Persimmon Woods Golf Club​"I never realized that hot dogs and golfers are such a big thing," says chef Chuck Friedhoff, Director of Food and Beverage at Persimmon Woods Golf Club. "I've been told it's because it's an easy thing to eat ... More >>

Creepy Boarder Accused of Killing Richmond Heights Man

stltoday.comJohn Kuchler​Here's a follow-up to a story we reported yesterday. Police now confirm that the death of J.L. "Jack" Pierson, 81, and the burning of his home in Richmond Heights early Wednesday morning was indeed a homicide. Yesterday afternoon authorities in Oklahoma arrested the chief ... More >>

Grounded: Up soars in entirely unexpected ways

¡Ask A Mexican! Lovin' Legals: The results of the Mexican's essay contest for wabs who love the legals but hate the illegals

The Morning Brew: Friday, 8.8

Recycled Steel

You'll swear you've seen this Superman somewhere before

Ghouls on the Go

A Resident Evil remake captures all the creepy fun of the original.

Not for Attribution

A name-calling, race-baiting word war between two anonymous columnists? Unreal demands to mediate! Plus: Russ Carnahan goes to camp, a local blogger talks politics, and we try on a Beer Bra.

Hard Times Ahead

Unreal gets all hot and bothered over some very special plants (and a rather steamy billboard) and finds the key to St. Louis' revival. Plus, a local blogger is driven mad by public breastfeeding.

Letters

Week of November 11, 2004

Letters

Week of October 27, 2004

Get Lost, Kid!

The Cub Scouts tell the mother of a retarded boy her son's no longer welcome

Best Place to Meet Single Men

Upper Limits Rock Gym & Pro Shop

Best Décor

Iron Barley

Southbound

Iron Barley makes nostalgia taste so, so good

Baseball Been Very Bad to Me

The Frontier League shows the way

Ever Been Booted From or Banned From Any Place or Organization?

Week of July 16, 2003

Fine Tuning

Men croon, men swoon

Look but Don't Huff

Spider Sniff is not what you think

Take My Art, Please

Seeking to spread happiness, a Soulard artist gives his work away

West County Why

A musical about a gay couple is canceled but one about fascism is produced. The executive director of the West County Y tries to explain.

Letters

Week of March 21, 2001

The Talented Mr. Spellmann

Lindenwood University's president may be a genius, a savior and a visionary. He may also be higher ed's worst nightmare.

X-Men

Directed by Bryan Singer

Where Does He Get Those Wonderful Toys?

Just because you've grown up doesn't mean you have to get rid of your Hot Wheels

A Midsummer Night's Dream

By William Shakespeare (Guthrie Theater, Ovations! Series)

Letters to the Editor

Published the week of May 10, 2000

New Scout Motto: Be Prepared For Bigotry

THE ALL-AMERICAN MINSTREL SHOW

The black-and-white facts of the once-popular, now-reviled entertainment form

HEAVEN HELP US: THE NATIVITY FLAP IS BACK