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Charlie Sheen's Ex Brooke Mueller to Kick Her Habit With ... Ibogaine

courtesy of the Riverfront TimesShock the Junkie: It's Brooke Mueller's turn, reports TMZ.com.​You gotta love those crackerjack reporters at TMZ.com. Not only are they soo all over the Charlie Sheen saga -- they've actually stayed on top of the equally tragic tale of the mother of his surrogate-sp ... More >>

The Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants, But What's Been Unearthed Reveals a Culture of Cruelty

Cecilia Velazquez: Ambitious and driven, the publisher of Red Latina doesn't always play nice with others

Tommy Sowers: Lessons Learned Traveling Missour-ah, Getting "Shoulder Deep" in a Cow

Sowers on the road with his dog, Chuck.​Over the past month, Democratic candidate Tommy Sowers has logged more than 3,000 miles in his Dodge pickup truck criss-crossing southeastern Missouri on an odyssey dubbed "Boots on the Ground." Yesterday we caught up with the 33-year-old Sowers -- a former ... More >>

The Dive Bomber Encounters the Most Tired Man in Soulard at Spooty's

There is no special name for the Wednesday before Mardi Gras. Well except Mercredi, which isn't special; it's just French. Soulard was already swinging harder than usual, and even if it's not the Wednesday before Mardi Gras, this was probably the least likely neighborhood in which to find a dive. P ... More >>

Sacrificial Virgins, Still-Stinky Garbage Pit Discovered at Cahokia

us.penguingroup.com​There's an interesting article in Salon today about a new book called Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi by an archaeologist named Timothy Pauketat.  Three guesses what it's about, and the last two don't count.According to Pauketat, Cahokia wasn't jus ... More >>

Why Make Fun of Francis Slay When His Staff Does Such a Bang-Up Job of It?

A few months back we at Daily RFT harnessed our wicked MS Paint skillz to doctor an image of Mayor Francis Slay enjoying himself at a Cancun disco. The altered photo was meant to poke fun at the St. Louis mayor and his (mostly) ridiculous "mini-polls" that his staff dispatches from City Hall every f ... More >>

Review Setlists: Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson at GCS Ballpark, Thursday, July 2

Everything looked bad but the weather. I crawled through traffic in parts of Cahokia and Sauget that will never make a John Mellencamp small town video. I stared at the lines snaking around the GCS Ballpark half an hour before show time. I forked out $10 for the pleasure of later waiting an hour to ... More >>

What You Doing for Spring Break? Mayor Slay Wants to Know.

Spring break or busts!The RFT received an e-mail blast yesterday from Mayor Francis Slay's re-election campaign. As some of you may know, the mayor is quite Internet savvy with his blog, podcasts and whatnot. He's also a big fan of so-called "mini-polls" in which he asks St. Louisans all sorts of pe ... More >>

Unreal delves into why St. Louis is a travel destination for cheapskates and then checks in with identical twins who were separated at birth

Brain Drain

Unreal learns how to keep young, bright St. Louisans in town — and alive. Plus: Blog o' the Week, advice for the apocalypse and a chat with Bill the Thrill.

A Star Is Born

B-Sides explores whether actors can really sing, downloads some Pixies goodness and has some devilish words for Bleeding Through

Tallboys

The answer to Larry Bird's prayers for a white basketball savior might reside just off Highway 67 in Poplar Bluff

Quiet Impressive

Francis Cape whispers from the corner

We Want EFX, Y'all

Grown Folks party deep

Film Openings

Week of April 23, 2003

Tradition's Slave

A selection of the local music scene's best and brightest offerings

The Graveyard Whistlers

Maritz Inc., the St. Louis giant nobody knows, the company that created the gold retirement watch and other corporate incentives, faces the future with a frozen smile

Board Games

New city school-board president, once a critic of the status quo, launches an investigation of two reformers

Happy Hour

Casa Gallardo

SHORTCHANGED

For years now, the Human Development Corp. has taken in millions of tax dollars to provide Head Start services for 2,500 of the city's low-income children. It has never come close. And the problems just begin there.

CONNECTIVE TISSUE

David Judd, UM-St. Louis prof and co-author of The Tourist City, wants St. Louis to be linked by more than just highways between sports palaces and shopping malls

CUBA LIBRE

A local couple brings the long-forbidden culture of Cuba to St. Louis and vice versa

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