Cincinnati

Godmother of Punk Patti Smith Talks New Album, Book and Burroughs: "I wanted to come to St. Louis because I just wanted to say hello to William."

Patti Smith reads from her poetry and performs a rock set at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard; 314-535-4660 ) Sunday at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30. There's no simple way to describe Patti Smith, the profoundly influential, incantatory songstress, poet, artist and writer ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Charles Dickens, From a City You Hated!

Today's your 200th birthday, and we salute you. It's true you died way back in 1870, so you're probably not aware that we are saluting you. But how amazing is it that people actually remember your birthday -- nay, make a thing of it -- even without friendly reminders from Facebook, because you're no ... More >>

Pomegranates

8:30 p.m. Wednesday, January 18. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Gabe Kea, Son of Former Blues Player Ed Kea, Blazing His Own Comedic Path

Gabe Kea: "I'm not Canadian, I just do Canadian things." ​By the age of four, comic Gabe Kea got his first mention in The New York Times, but the occasion was no joke: His father, Dutch-born Blues defenseman Ed Kea, was being profiled. In 1983, Kea père had hit his head on the ice during a Blues ... More >>

Heartless Bastards Will Play the Firebird in February

​Heartless Bastards, the garage rock outfit from Cincinnati signed to Fat Possum, has just announced a show at the Firebird (2706 Olive Street, 314-535-0353 on February 8th. Tickets are $13 to $15 and go on sale this Saturday, December 3rd, at noon. It's been a couple years since the band l ... More >>

Spankalicious Moves to Cincinnati, but His Roots Remain in St. Louis

Courtesy of the artistSpankalicious at the Copper Dragon last week in Carbondale, Illinois. ​Local bounce beatsmith Spankalicious recently made the move to Cincinnati, and tomorrow night he plays one of his last 2011 dates in St. Louis at 2720 Cherokee (2720 Cherokee Street, 314-664-9900) with ... More >>

Emily Pulitzer Restoring Girlhood Home in Cincinnati

​An alert reader pointed Daily RFT today to a recent article in the Cincinnati Enquirer that reports how St. Louis' Emily Pulitzer is spending a small fortune to restore her childhood home. The modernist-style house (right) was built in 1938 on nine wooded acres in the Woodlawn suburb of Cincinnat ... More >>

Atmosphere at The Pageant, 8/17/11

A previous Atmosphere show. ​Atmosphere The Pageant August 17, 2011 Roughly twenty years into their career, the guys in Atmosphere still exploit the attitude that comes with cornering a niche in modern hip-hop that doesn't depend entirely on being white. Last night's show at The Pageant was ... More >>

Humdrum Hits The Road, Blows A Tire In Brooklyn And Comes Back With Tour Advice

Humdrum on a Subway in NYC. Courtesy of Dan Meehan​Humdrum recently returned from its second tour, and first to hit the coast. Among the band's standout stops were Cincinnati, Ohio; Ithaca, New York; and Washington, D.C. And, as with most tours, a few things did not go according to plan. For i ... More >>

Comedian Brian Regan on the Nuts 'n' Bolts of Stand-Up (and SpongeBob SquarePants)

Photo by Evans WardPOP TARTS!​In the fine tradition of American comics (such as Bill Cosby) whose stuff isn't raunchy, but somehow gets people heaving with mirth, we give you Brian Regan. He's been selling out theaters for years -- notably, without the help of Saturday Night Live, his own TV show ... More >>

About that Census: At Least We're Not Detroit, or Cleveland, or Pittsburgh, or Cincinnati

A Census employee works the streets of (INSERT MIDWEST CITY) last summer.​Yesterday St. Louis officials all but conceded that the 2010 U.S. Census got it right: The city did lose 30,000 people, or 8.3 percent of its population, over the past decade. And while there's been lots of hand-wringing abo ... More >>

Tour Diary, Day Two: The Incurables Open for Alejandro Escovedo in Cincinnati

In October, the Incurables had the opportunity to open several Midwest dates for Alejandro Escovedo. Guitarist/vocalist Jimmy Griffin agreed to keep a tour diary for A to Z. Here's the second installment; part one is here. All photos are from the Bloomington, Illinois, show. Stay tuned to A to Z for ... More >>

Foxy Shazam storms the scene with glam

Enlou, Featuring Several Ex-Say Panther Members/St. Louisians, Releases a New EP

​Two former members of St. Louis indie popsters Say Panther are heading back to River City with their new project, Enlou. Robby Ritter (ex-Ghost of the Forest, Say Panther) and James Bishop (ex-Say Panther) and the rest of the Cincinnati quintet will bring their sparkling indie pop -- which ... More >>

Foxy Shazam

8 p.m. Tuesday, April 27. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

The Morning Brew: 4.1

Just in time for April Fool's Day, food fraud is on the rise. Some less-than-scrupulous food producers have recently been busted labeling cow milk as sheep milk and Mississippi paddlefish eggs as sturgeon caviar. Purposeful mislabeling effects five to seven percent of the American food supply, but ... More >>

River City Casino Reveals Restaurant Plans

Image via​River City Casino is slated to open Thursday, March 4, which means the p.r. blitz is in full swing. Yesterday, the casino revealed its lineup of restaurants.This is another property from Pinnacle Entertainment, whose Lumière Place is home to Hubert Keller's Sleek and Burger Bar (among o ... More >>

This Weekend: Seabird, Naughty By Nature, The Swell Season

​The Swell Season Where: The Pageant When: Tonight, December 4 With: Rachael Yamagata Sounds Like: Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova -- the Once co-stars who were in love and now aren't -- articulate the intangible facets of love, romance and heartbreak via gentle, achingly beautiful folk-rock. ... More >>

Headlights/Pomegranates/Fractured Army

8:30 p.m. Saturday, November 21. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

The Seedy Seeds

10 p.m. Saturday, November 14. Antarctica, 5226 Gravois Avenue.

Question the Answers: Yoni Wolf of Why? answers B-Sides' questions

Wussy

9 p.m., Friday, August 7. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

St. Louis Isn't Only Place to Experience a Weirdly Cool July

​Last month was one for the record books with St. Louis experiencing its sixth -- or was it seventh? -- coolest July in history. As it turns out, we were not alone. While our friends in the Pacific Northwest were suffering  some bizarre, surface-of-the-sun type heat, the Midwest and Northeast ... More >>

Bad Veins/Dead Confederate/The Domani International

9 p.m. Wednesday, July 15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

An ode to Michael Jackson; plus, NeighborhoodScout tells us who's bad

14th Street and MLK Drive Named St. Louis' Most Unsafe Neighborhood

In a survey of the nation's most crime-ridden neighborhoods by Dr. Andrew Schiller of the website NeighborhoodScout.com, St. Louis' very own downtown, specifically the intersection of 14th Street and Martin Luther King Drive, ranked fourteenth.How nice that this statistic appears just in time for th ... More >>

Apop Records Celebrates Its Fifth Birthday with Shows, Movies, Record Store Day

It's almost hard to believe that Apop Records (2831 Cherokee Street) has had a St. Louis storefront since 2007. Fittingly, the experimental record store/shop was ahead of the Cherokee Street renaissance curve -- in fact, the record store arguably kickstarted the resurgence. To celebrate its second L ... More >>

More Info on Breeders Video Shoot for "Fate to Fatal"

Last month, the Breeders shot a music video here in town for a song set to appear on a new EP. Just got a press release that the EP has a name: Fate to Fatal, which also happens to be the song featured in said video. The press release has more information about the music on the EP -- and how the ban ... More >>

Cut Off Your Hands/Headlights/Pomegranates

8:30 p.m. Sunday, March 15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Feeling Wordy at 30

The Jewish Book Fest celebrates a milestone

Deathmobile Barely Survives Race

Wash U. Students Construct a Soapbox Homage to Animal House

Best Pizza (Thin Crust)

The Pomegranates/Say Panther/Target Market

9 p.m. Tuesday, September 16. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue

Greg Dulli of Afghan Whigs/Twilight Singers/Gutter Twins on MTV's 120 Minutes

The Pomegranates at the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, Tonight!

Meet us in St. Louis, Mexicans

The Mexican takes a look at the biggest cities in the U.S. with the smallest Mexican communities.

Daily Web Crawl

Cincinnati Inquirer

The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis might live up to its name — by relocating.

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Bumpy Ride

The Rep premieres a turbulent Ace. Best to bring along your barf bag.

Last Year's Model

It might be the last dance for St. Louis' independent record stores.

Obscurity Knocks

CD Baby's weird and wacky Missouri musicians, "Yo! RFT Raps" talks to inBox magazine's svengali, and the Raconteurs star in this week's Download

Aloha

Wednesday, April 26, at 8 p.m. The Hi-Pointe, 1001 McCausland Avenue.

Return of the Taller Ballers

SLU's basketball season kicks off at Savvis

Budweiser/ MDA Poker Classic

A good time is in the cards

Ass Ponys and Bob Reuter

Friday, Nov. 9; Off Broadway

Hi-Tek

Hi-Teknology (Rawkus)

Street People

The People Project exposes the dysfunctions of the region

News of the Weird