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Rage Against the Machinima: As YouTube becomes increasingly wealthy, its stars and the networks who contract with them battle for money and creative control

Ask a Mexican: Why do gabachos complain so damn much?

"Masters of Sex": Showtime Orders First Season of Masters and Johnson Drama

A pair of Washington University sex researchers are about to get the Mad Men treatment. About a year ago, Showtime announced that it approved a pilot based on the work and exploits of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the legendary sex researchers who attempted to demystify everything from the ... More >>

Ellen Back Again: Arnie Robbins steps down as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and RFT checks in with his predecessor

Ayad Akhtar Talks About American Dervish, The Invisible Hand, Bacon and Seinfeld

Ayad Akhtar is a lucky man. His first novel, American Dervish, came out in January and has received extravagant praise from the likes of the New York Times and NPR; you can hear him read from it this Wednesday, February 29, at Left Bank Books. Next month, for a few days anyway, he will have two play ... More >>

Jeff Mangum's Tour Kicks Off Today

Sasha Barr​Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum launches his first national tour since 1998 today. Unfortunately, none of the shows are in St. Louis -- he'll play a pair at the Athenaeum Theater in Chicago on February 6 and 7. Still, his resurrection has not gone unnoticed in these parts. In this ... More >>

Groupon Fail: St. Louis business owners are souring on the once-mighty coupon startup

Project Nim and Three Monkeys

Kristie McClanahan​The argument of nature versus nurture seems to be a sure-fire way to pass the time on cable-news shows, particularly when it comes to the "born gay" versus "became that way" argument, but it also pops up during discussions about birth order or, when we were in college, putt ... More >>

Interview: Amanda Rainey of Dubb Nubb and Special Passenger Records

Cory Taylor Cox ​In this week's print issue, we spent some time with Delia and Hannah Rainey, the twin sisters of Dubb Nubb, and older sister, drummer and Special Passenger Records owner Amanda Rainey. Below is some of our interview with Amanda, in which she provides the label's history and ph ... More >>

Missouri Suit Alleges False Claims on Dial Complete Handsoap

St. Louis woman Michelle Carter alleges that a misleading ad campaign convinced her to give Dial's Complete Foaming Antibacterial Hand Wash a try.​A St. Louis woman filed suit in federal court Friday -- alleging that the Dial Corporation made "false and misleading" claims while selling her its foa ... More >>

Ke$ha

8 p.m. Tuesday, February 22. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Mizzou Scientists Experiment With Homegrown Replacement Joints

image viaThe nice scientists at Mizzou helped Bunny grow a new shoulder!​It would be convenient if human bodies were like starfish, able to regenerate missing limbs or anything else they need. We can't yet, but a team of researchers at the University of Missouri and Columbia University may be clos ... More >>

Fair-y Tales: Russell Pearce and other illegal immigrant populists rely on misleading, right-wing reports to scapegoat immigrants and terrify penny-pinched Americans

Kevin Jackson wrote the book on how to win (white) friends and influence (black) people

Ask a Mexican: Beck It Up: So, what does guero really mean?

Class Action Suit Against Dial Claims Soap Company Plays Dirty

​Are you one of those people who uses soap in the belief that it'll kill germs and win you more friends? If so, you may be one of the kabajillions (technical term, you know) who were excited by the prospect of Dial Complete, a soap that claims to eliminate 99.99 percent of germs. And if you w ... More >>

Washington University Among the Most Stressful Colleges in America

Be nice to Wash. U. students. They're really stressed out.​Another day, another ranking. This one involves rating which of the nation's top 50 campuses are the biggest pressure cookers, of which Washington University placed No. 13 -- in between Yale and Dartmouth. Stanford is the leading ... More >>

Was Joseph Pulitzer Gay? And Other Questions Prompted by New Biography

​Author James McGrath Morris is out with the most comprehensive biography to date on St. Louis Post-Dispatch founder and America's first media baron, Joseph Pulitzer. Pulitzer: A Life in Politics, Print and Power recalls chronicles the Hungarian immigrant's arrival to America his formative years e ... More >>

Update: Wash. U. Student to Appear on Jeopardy! This Afternoon

courtesy of Jeopardy! Wash. U. junior Nick Yozamp is competing on Jeopardy! this afternoon.​Updated February 10: After overcoming a $5,200 deficit in Monday's game, Yozamp advanced to the Jeopardy! College Championship finals, airing tomorrow, February 11, and Friday, February 12, at 3:30 p ... More >>

Blown to Peaces: Weather Underground leaders claimed their bombings were devised to avoid bloodshed. But FBI agents suspect the radical '70s group killed a cop in the name of revolution.

Jeff Smith Campaign Documentary Makes for An Interesting Post-Mortem, Particularly in the Case of the Dead Campaign Worker Caught Up in Smith's Crime

​Somebody told Daily RFT there was a striking moment in Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? when an independent campaign consultant talked about what a nice, smart, capable guy Jeff Smith is -- but that to win in politics the then-29-year-old needed to get more cutthroat. We couldn't find sai ... More >>

Two writers debate the pros and cons of indie-rock/Afropop sensations Vampire Weekend, who are making their St. Louis debut on September 10

7-Up vs. Coke, Part 1: From dot-com darling to disaster, the spectacular flameout of Andrew Gladney. Heir to a fortune, Andrew Gladney went from John Burroughs to Yale and came home to found Savvis Inc. Then he squandered it all.

More Than a Beck Album

The Mexican gets to the root (word) of güero.

Thy Neighbor's Worth

A new St. Louis online paper will let you know whether that family moving next door is rich and famous.

How Does It Feel?

Recent lawsuits puncture the veil of secrecy surrounding lethal injection

New St. Louis

Time for this town to cash in on Hurricane Katrina

Chilly Willy

The Winter's Tale will leave you cold

Death Warmed Over Again

A family's crisis feels a bit too familiar in Imaginary Heroes

School Ties

How many city officials send their kids to city schools?

City Limits

If you're young and female, New York Minute is your movie

Speak Now

Or forever hold your peace

Spin in the No-Spin Zone

Some folks deserve our congratulations (kisses, Wash. U.!), some our patronage (we love Don Bellon's beautiful, found-object-filled deli) and still others our furrowed brow (hijinx on Bill O'Reilly's Web site: wha'?)

Breakfast of Champions

He scaled an intellectual Everest at age twelve. What's he like at sixteen? Meet George Thampy.

Demolition Man

To save St. Louis public schools, Bill Roberti and his band of hired guns plan to blow things up. Who'll pick up the pieces when they're gone?

Dream Weaver

Spider-Man slings pop mythology for the masses

Hide-and-Seek

Week of March 27, 2002

Dental Damned

In Novocaine, Steve Martin sticks his fingers into all the wrong places

Just Plain Fulks

Fed up with industry demands, Robbie Fulks releases his unusual new album on his own label

The Real Worlds

The avant-garde SITI Company melds fact and fiction in a new take on Orson Welles' infamous practical joke

Left in the Dust

Historyonics' Dust Tracks leads nowhere

Luminous Motion

Directed by Bette Gordon

What about Bob?

Drug courts save lives and save money. That's not good enough for St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch.

GLOBAL VIEW

Duncan Bauman is alive and well, and still trying to have the last word. Period.

Public Exchange

Artist Mary Miss' plan for the space next to the new Federal Courthouse is vastly different from the statues and monolithic sculptures of the past. It's public art that actually keeps the public in mind.

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