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St. Louis Scores Three Winners on Daily Meal's "America's Best Ribs" List

The Daily Meal has ranked "America's Best Ribs" in a slideshow, and three St. Louis restaurants are among the top twenty barbecue joints. Bogart's Smokehouse (1627 South Ninth Street; 314-621-3107) ranks #19, Roper's Ribs (6929 West Florissant Avenue, Jennings; 314-381-6200) is #18, and Pappy's Smok ... More >>

Thieves' Bazaar: Hospitals, doctors and dealers have made Medicare the nation's sweetest crime. The feds are now trying to shutter the door.

Unfit for Print: An angel investor pitches in to salvage the reputation of a St. Louis publisher

Kiernan Maletsky is Leaving the Riverfront Times

It's true. After 21 months in St. Louis that have been both the shortest and longest of my life, I will move to Dallas to be the music editor of our sister paper, the Dallas Observer. It feels like a short time because it is. People told me I might find cold shoulders in St. Louis, but I didn't. I ... More >>

Sleigh Bells and AraabMuzik Are Coming to the Pageant: Presale and Gift Card Giveaway Happening Now

Sleigh Bells and AraabMuzik have just announced a co-headlining fall 2012 tour, and it will stop at the Pageant (6161 Delmar Blvd) on October 28. Expect the loudness and riffage to have your ears ringing right through Halloween. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 5 p.m., unless you head over to the ... More >>

Beth Bombara, Karl Eggers and JJ Hamon on Tour Pacing and Harmonica Thieves

Beth Bombara is one of St. Louis' most talented -- and busiest -- musicians. She sings, plays keys and guitar in Old Lights, is the entire backing band for Cassie Morgan and maintains an active outfit under her own moniker. With banjo player Karl Eggers, she recently embarked on a tour of the West t ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Why can't we all call the Rio Grande the same thing?

SaveMore.Com: Another Daily Deal Site Runs Afoul of the BBB

​SaveMore.com, a Texas-based daily deals site, has had more than 1,000 complaints from 45 states filed against it in the last ten months, according to the Better Business Bureau. The business currently has an "F" grade with the BBB, the lowest possible ranking. That's quite an achievement for a bu ... More >>

The Blues' Sprint to the Finish Line

The NHL season is coming to a close, and the St. Louis Blues -- excuse me, that should be Your First Place St. Louis Blues -- are getting ready for their final push to the finish line. ​There's plenty on the line for the Blues, who currently sit atop both the Western Conference and the NHL as ... More >>

The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012

The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Thursday 3/15/2012

If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving music e ... More >>

Black Milk at the Gramophone, 3/11/12: Review

Black Milk | J. Pinder | A.Dd The Gramophone March 11, 2012 One of the Motor City's finest underground emcees, Black Milk, made a stop in the Grove last night, bringing with him an impressive lineup of hip-hop acts from across the country for his Claps and Slaps tour. Unfortunately, hardly anybody ... More >>

Madonna is Coming to the Scottrade Center: Pre-Sale and Ticket Information [Update]

Madonna, fresh off a Super Bowl appearance and more aware of how to capitalize than possibly anyone in pop music, has just announced a massive 2012 tour. And just days before Madonna 2012 World Tour goes out in (presumably) a blaze of infinite production value in Miami, she'll make a stop here in St ... More >>

Mormons: A Shallow Yet Helpful Guide to See If You Should Hate Them or Not

The Radiohead Presale is Tomorrow Morning: How to Increase Your Chances

Don't be like this dance enthusiast and miss out. ​You know by now: Radiohead has announced the first leg of its 2012 tour and St. Louis has one of the shows. It's on March 9th at the Scottrade Center, and tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster on Saturday at 10 a.m. But some spots (history ... More >>

Radiohead is Coming to the Scottrade Center! [Update]

​Update: There will be a four ticket maximum per person for those purchasing through Live Nation. Prices for the St. Louis show have not yet been announced. However, they range from $45 to $69 for the Dallas show (before fees) and $34 to $54 for the Phoenix one. Other Lives will open this enti ... More >>

Lost Boys: New research demolishes the stereotype of the underage sex worker — and sparks an outbreak of denial among child-sex-trafficking alarmists nationwide

Did Mayor Slay dis Anheuser-Busch? Readers sure hope so.

St. Louis Wins World Series, Barbecue, Dr. Pepper, "Irish" Nachos, More

Screenshot: www.nolanryanbeef.comNolan Ryan wouldn't have smiled so broadly if he'd known how this World Series would end.​St. Louis didn't just win the World Series on Friday night. The Cardinals' victory ensured that the city would collect on friendly wagers with counterparts in the Dallas-Fort ... More >>

Study: St. Louis Is Nation's 36th Most Caffeinated City

Image via​The website Bundle has released a study that purports to have determined the country's most caffeinated cities. Yes, there is a slideshow accompanying the study. No, this isn't straight-up Huffington Post-style linkbait.According to Bundle, Chicago is America's most caffeinated city, wit ... More >>

81,000 Households in Metro St. Louis Don't Have a Car

Who knew so many St. Louis households depended on one of these?​The Brookings Institution is out with a study looking at the public transportation access within America's biggest cities, and St. Louis is near the bottom of the list. According to Brookings, 82 percent of area residents without a ca ... More >>

Recent Kings Of Leon Cop-Out Vindicates St. Louis in "Pigeon Gate"

Erin KinsellaPre-pigeon gate: Kings of Leon at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater on July 23, 2010.​The day has come. A little more than a year ago, Kings of Leon aborted its concert at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater after just three songs, claiming, in an incident forever to be mocked as "p ... More >>

Bo & the Locomotive Triumphantly Return, Having Only Slept On Cat-Piss Couches Once

Bourbon Street. Photos courtesy of Bo Bulawsky.​Bo & the Locomotive is gearing up for the release of its first full length, On My Way; it's out July 30th. The band is, in fact, exactly on its way, having just returned from a tour that took Bo and his band through the South. There were especia ... More >>

The Seven Deadliest Music Festivals

wikimedia commons​It has been a particularly grim summer already in music festival fatalities, with one death over the weekend at Electric Daisy and two more at Bonnaroo a couple weeks ago. But this is hardly a new phenomenon: The combination of crushing crowds, heat and mind-altering substanc ... More >>

BlackFinn American Grille to Open at the Galleria

Courtesy of BlackFinn American GrilleBlackFinn offers lobster mac & cheese.​Ben & Jerry's and the California Pizza Kitchen will be joined in the St. Louis Galleria in late September by a new concept for the Midwest: the BlackFinn American Grille. BlackFinn's menu items include seafood items s ... More >>

Tornado Alarms Got You Down? Move to Corvallis, Washington

The Ingalls would have been better off staying in Wisconsin. And why, oh why oh, did we ever leave Ohio?​With all the flooding downstate, and the tornadoes that destroyed one wing of Lambert and almost all of the city Joplin, and the golf-ball-sized hail that pummeled parts of St. Louis yesterday, ... More >>

What They Saw

The Ten Best Things To Do This Weekend in St. Louis: April 8 to 10

​It's FRIDAY, FRIDAY! Gotta get down on FRIDAY! Here's where you can find this weekend's FUN, FUN, FUN and partyin', partyin' (yeah), starting with locals Bikini Acid at Floating Laboratories and ending with Lil' Wayne and a few of his famous friends.

Wall of Shame

CNN, USA Today and other media organizations got fooled

Super Bowling for Dollars

The great American game is another chance to foist false research on a gullible media

TMZ Captures ex-Ram D'Marco Farr Cursing at Parking Valet

101espn.comFarr (far right) and his posse on ESPN 101. ​First thought: I thought the goal of TMZ was to embarrass real celebrities? Second thought: D'Marco sounds like such a nice boy on the radio. If you haven't heard yet, the cameras of TMZ caught former St. Louis Ram D'Marco Farr spouting off a ... More >>

Readers trash Reggie Allen and Steve Spagnuolo, and offer RFT a bribe we just can't take

Def Leppard Tribute Band Seeks One-Armed Drummer

Tribute bands are serious business. The moves, the fashion, the vocal tics, the hair -- for a tribute band, these elements must all be in place if it wants to become successful. Authenticity is so prized, in fact, that a Dallas-area Def Leppard tribute band is allegedly looking for a one-armed drumm ... More >>

Return to Sender: What would comprehensive immigration reform look like if the feds got moving?

Orthodox Synagogue Wants You to Know: Kosher Food Can Be Fun!

​About ten years ago, a certain reporter toiled as an editorial assistant at an educational publisher. The publisher was working on an anthology of Jewish literature, and, since it was a small and democratic sort of place, and also since the editors were fresh out of inspiration, they solicited ti ... More >>

Interview: The Walkmen's Peter Bauer on Recording, Songwriting and the Mystery of Lisbon

Billy PavoneThe Walkmen​For the Walkmen's sixth album, Lisbon, the band started out in the same New York studio where it had recorded the 2008 release You & Me. Then, however, the band left New York to take a chance on a studio in Dallas, which organ player Peter Bauer describes as a "small c ... More >>

Interview: John Rzeznik of Goo Goo Dolls on the Band's New Album, Covering Flesh for Lulu and Listening to Arcade Fire

​Nearly twenty-five years into its career, Goo Goo Dolls is one of the most consistent rock bands around. The Buffalo, New York-based band is playing at Family Arena tonight with Switchfoot and Green River Ordinance, in advance of its ninth studio album, Something For the Rest of Us. Due Augus ... More >>

St. Louis Continues to Next Round of The Other Guys Premiere Battle

Gunning for a St. Louis premiere. ​Did you feel like a winner when you woke up this morning? No? How about one-fifth of a winner? Because that's what you should feel like!The Other Guys stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg announced yesterday via a Facebook video that St. Louis is one of ... More >>

Ask a Mexican! Special Regional Anti-Mexican Slur Edition

A report from Juarez, Mexico, the bleeding front line of the war on drugs

St. Louis Men Have No Reason to Be Ashamed of Their Penis Size

Image sourceMen of St. Louis, it's time to take pride in your accomplishments!​Condomania, the venerable online condom store, has done our nation a great public service. After an exhaustive survey of 27,000 of its male customers, the largest such survey since the heady days of the Kinsey Repor ... More >>

Missouri State Troopers Nab 3,700 Pounds of Marijuana

Missouri Highway PatrolA file photo from a 2009 Missouri bust that netted just 1,350 pounds of pot.​Updated: 3:27 p.m.Just spoke to Sgt. Jim Haggett of the Missouri Highway Patrol's Troop E. Haggett informs that while large, Sunday's bust of 3,669 pounds of pot is shy of the record 4,100 pounds of ... More >>

Chile Reception: Ian goes for the burn with Mayuri's Indian cuisine

Radiohead at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, May 14, 2008

Heavenly Discovery

This gelato's so exceptional, it might as well be from another planet

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Golden Oldies

We talk with the Old 97's, turn up the freedom rock and marvel at Wilco's PR machine

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