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A Tale of Two Coachella Bros

Editor's Note: The following is a dispatch from Coachella Music Festival, courtesy of our sister paper, the LA Weekly, and former RFT staff writer Ben Westhoff.It may be a bit early, but Coachella 2013 seems to be the Year of the Bro. For the ladies, it's business as usual, but the bros are really ... More >>

End zone: East St. Louis Flyers, Jose Oquendo and Missouri strip clubs score sympathy

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending October 2, 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. There are plenty of new titles on this week's adu ... More >>

Emperor X Buries Tape In St. Louis: "Look Under Mutant Picnic Tables" [Update: Found!]

Ed: The St. Louis node has been found! Thanks to the enterprising work of some local explorer, we can all hear our very own buried b-side: "Lagos Comdec." So far, of the 41 nodes buried around the country, only six have been found. Original post follows. These are exciting times for Chad Matheny, ... More >>

Emperor X Buries Tape In St. Louis: "Look Under Mutant Picnic Tables" [Update: Found!]

Ed: The St. Louis node has been found! Thanks to the enterprising work of some local explorer, we can all hear our very own buried b-side: "Lagos Comdec." So far, of the 41 nodes buried around the country, only six have been found. Original post follows. These are exciting times for Chad Matheny, ... More >>

World Taxidermy Championship Returns to St. Charles

Chad GarrisonThere's more than one way to skin and stuff a deer.​Once again the St. Charles Convention Center will be hosting the World Taxidermy and Fish Carving Championships. True to its name, the competition is the world's largest: Organizers expect 1,000 taxidermists and fish-carvers from ... More >>

Contest! Win a Hardee's Official Opening Day Party Zone Shirt and a Pair of RFT Sunglasses! [Updated With Winners!]

Chrissy WilmesSpecial thanks to our model, Calendar Editor Paul​In case you didn't know, the Cardinals' opening day is sort of a big deal. Folks skip work, camp out for tickets and tailgate a whole lot harder than usual. This year, aside from the smaller celebrations taking place all over St ... More >>

Readers blather about bondage and critique the Kevin Klines

Do You Have Old Pictures of Cicero's?

ciceroschatter.wordpress.com​Yesterday, Cicero's launched a blog with a detailed post by Chad, the son of the venue/restaurant's founder, Shawn Jacobs. He sketched out his own personal history with the venue and ended the post by asking if anyone had photos of the venue/restaurant they'd be wi ... More >>

Readers think the RFT is too lenient on Mexican immigration, while a German calls Americans prude

New Wash U Ban Also Outlaws Outdoor Smoking

Chad posted the news earlier this morning that Clayton has banned smoking outdoors in the municipality's parks and public properties, but he failed to mention that there's at least one other open-air place in St. Louis where lighting up is now off-limits.That would be Washington University, which pa ... More >>

An Open Letter to Ass-Clown Voters and Chad Garrison Haters

Dear voters,As managing editor of this newspaper, I come before you with an admission: Chad Garrison screwed up in his nominees for this week's Ass Clown of the Week. Here he is, folks, Chad Garrison!​In a rush to leave town for a bachelor party -- yes, a bachelor party; I honestly couldn't make t ... More >>

Dog people bear their teeth while others call for Jay Nixon's ouster

RFT readers debate the rights of animals, Dumpster divers, pregnant women and mustachioed men

Top 5 Moments From Last Night's TNA Lockdown

​TNA Wrestling brought its pay-per-view "Lockdown" to St. Louis yesterday (well, St. Charles anyway) and like any rasslin' event worth its tights included an impressive array of acrobatics and dirty tricks. Here, in ascending order, are the Top 5:

Party Crashers: Readers take digs at Cynthia Davis and Dana Loesh, want to dig up Native American artifacts

Nobody's home: Readers think Kinloch is worth saving, but not the home of Cookie Thornton's family in Meacham Park

RFT readers weigh in on Monsanto's tearless onion, Rep. Rob Mayer's new abortion bill, and whether nudity ought to be banned in Missouri strip clubs

Cherry Pickers: Readers question smoking-ban loopholes and a downtown farmers' market

Readers discuss the highs and lows of medical marijuana, while Skip Olsen's reputation goes up in smoke

Those Rams Fans Who Fell From the Stands Last Sunday? Here's the Video.

Remember the two dummies who tumbled out of the stands at the Edward Jones Dome in hot pursuit of a cleat worn in Sunday's game against the 49'ers? Well, lucky for you the moment is preserved for eternity on YouTube.Enjoy: And to answer Chad's question from his previous post on this: Yes this is de ... More >>

Readers defend their right to defer health care, enjoy "bad" Christmas music, and shoot home invaders graveyard dead

Animated Characters: Con-goers insist that yaoi ain't yucky

RFT readers weigh in matters of biblical proportions, and huff and puff about the newly passed smoking ban

Stuffed Up: Readers consider a life without Sudafed and ponder St. Louis' dismal rankings in national polls

Have you heard the one about the two cowboys at the Shoji Tabuchi Theatre? Plus: Skeptical skeptics and pointless laws.

RFT readers show no mercy for weak-kneed liberals, Gary Kaplan or Milton "Skip" Ohlsen

For some readers, stuffed dead squirrels were a little too real, and a tea-party protester was a little too fake

Java Enabled: On the Road, Coffee-Style

There was a time when Alex McCracken was the most quoted man on coffee in St. Louis. When he was Kaldi's trainer, McCracken was regularly interviewed by St. Louis publications whenever they had a caffeine-related question. But you can only field questions about someone else's café so long before y ... More >>

Readers turn a critical eye toward the city and its ass clowns, then praise Citygarden

Hanging Chad: RFT readers sound off on our man Garrison's provocative headline on the Forest Park murder

Readers on inmates' last meals, idiot Americans and smoking bans

Readers compare St. Louis to Austin and contemplate the Internet's darker sides

Readers dish on Dressel's, Screamer's and taking the Busch out of Busch Stadium

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

Chad GarrisonSomehow, it's already May. Don't know about you, but my brain is still playing catch up from approximately mid-March. At any rate, it's been another fun week on Gut Check, what with Dara sneaking into the race track, Zach accepting a bet to drink only one cup of coffee a day, Dave profi ... More >>

RFT readers express virulent feelings about soldiers fleeing to Canada to escape the Iraq War

Red-Light Cameras in City of St. Louis Now Require Warning Signage to Be Posted in Close Proximity

Chad Garrison, who is on vacation this week and will, if all goes as planned, return next week tanned, rested and blogging, has written extensively on the topic of red-light cameras.If he were in the blogger's seat today, Chad would have passed along news that the St. Louis Board of Aldermen have pa ... More >>

Petition Will Ask City to Cede Land for Homeless Camp

Fresh off a protest march on City Hall this morning, a group of advocates for the homeless say they plan to circulate a petition asking that St. Louis City cede land for use as a permanent camp for the indigent.Brian Ireland, a case worker at New Life Evangelistic Center, says the one-acre tract wou ... More >>

Larry Salci's Latest Trainwreck

Larry Salci, the former president and CEO of Metro, is back in the news. Salci this week announced that his current firm, Colorado Railcar Manufacturing, has ceased operations and will have no employees as of tomorrow, December 31. Salci took over as president and CEO of Colorado Railcar, a manufact ... More >>

MP3: Bob Case, "Devil in the White House"

Extreme Makeover: RFT readers sound off on Sarah "The Clotheshorse" Palin

Former Web Editor at Post-Dispatch Rejoins Post's Old Guard

Daily Web Crawl

In His Life There's Been Heartache and Pain

Cafe Soul at Lucas School House: A Review of the Open-Mic

Meet the RFT Staff!

My Sweet Lore

Oh, those wacky Final Four campuses!

Soeur Thing

Les Nubians take one big step forward for humankind

Open Season

A performer's diary charts the brilliant, the bawdy, the baked and the banal among St. Louis open mics

Best Bowling Lanes

Tropicana Lanes