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Organic Produce to Your Door: Green B.E.A.N. Delivery Service Expands to St. Louis

Indiana native Matt Ewer has farming in his blood. At the ripe old age of eight, he started selling sweet corn door-to-door for his family's farm. When he was twenty, he began working in organic farming and not long after moved to the West Coast to study organic agriculture. Then he returned to Ind ... More >>

Drinking with Guided By Voices: Can we Keep Up with Bob Pollard? (Spoiler Alert: No)

I'm not what you'd call a drinker. Not by any standards. Yes, I enjoy a cocktail or two weekly, but I like to be in control, I like to drive and I already fall down enough as it is -- so booze is not my friend. And while I love sipping on a glass of Maker's Mark (neat, please) and I can always find ... More >>

Hear the Song Pokey LaFarge had on Last Night's Boardwalk Empire [Update]

Update: Pokey LaFarge reached out to us this morning to shed some light on the actual source of his inspiration for the recording of "Lovesick Blues" you heard last night on HBO: It was Emmett Miller, who committed the song to tape in 1925. "Just trying to give a nod to a cat who never got his due," ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From September 10 to 16

Under normal circumstances I despise inane small talk and "how's the weather" chatter, but for the purposes of filling these show-pick-posts' opening paragraphs with content, its a consistent fallback. That said, I wore a jacket outside this weekend! WHOA HOLY SHIT. Sometimes I think I could write ... More >>

Heartless Bastards at the Firebird, 2/8/12: Photos

Heartless Bastards has moved from Dayton to Austin in the course of a career making dusty rock. Its newest release, Arrow, is its most refined work to date. You can listen to it now a week ahead of its proper release through NPR's First Listen series. The band stopped by the Firebird last night, a ... More >>

Wayne A. McKinney: St. Louis Homicide No. 6; Shot Behind the Wheel

​Homicide detectives were called to the 2800 block of Dayton in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood (above) yesterday around 1 p.m. to investigate another apparent murder. Wayne A McKinney, 34, was found riddled with bullets, still behind the wheel of a white 2001 GMC Yukon. The incident report notes ... More >>

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 >>

A Salty Salute: St. Louis Does Guided by Voices

8 p.m. Thursday, November 24. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

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 >>

Nation, St. Louis, Add More Poor People to Poorest Neighborhoods Over Last Decade

​A new report out by the Brookings Institution, an independent research group, shows that the number of Americans living in extreme concentrated poverty grew by a third over the past decade, climbing from 9.1 to 10.5 percent since 2000, according to census data. The jump in extreme concentra ... More >>

The Mississippi River Music Festival Returns, With Music From Belleville And Beyond

​In 2006, Don Bailey closed Three-1-Three, his music club in downtown Belleville, leaving a hole in a once-vibrant live music scene. "I always enjoyed Belleville and the music scene, from Uncle Tupelo to Fragile Porcelain Mice," says Bailey. "I booked over 2000 bands at the 313 Club, and I not ... More >>

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A decade after the heyday of St. Louis' rave scene, it still feels like the morning after

Joseph Price Has a Top Hat For All Seasons

​Joseph Price, 55Festival of Nations, Tower Grove ParkIn an effort to celebrate the people who keep our city interesting, Daily RFT is launching a new weekly blog post, "Bold Types," featuring photos and street interviews with the fashionistas, fresh faces and free spirits of our town.I had to ... More >>

Steddy P On His Spring Tour with DJ Mahf: Jameson for Dinner

DJ Mahf and Steddy P at Smashburger. Photo by Eric Farlow​Earthworms' DJ Mahf and Steddy P from Kansas City, who founded IndyGround Entertainment, just got back from a second tour this spring. They were traveling in support of their most recent album, What Happened Tomorrow, which you can dow ... More >>

Kold-Draft: The Machine Behind the Ice Revolution

www.kold-draft.comA Kold-Draft ice cube​If you've read this week's article on the ice revolution in mixology -- if you haven't, hurry! before it melts! -- you know that its local origins can be traced back to Ted Kilgore, now of Taste, using a Kold-Draft ice machine to Monarch when he worked there ... More >>

It's Official (and Even True!): St. Louis is One of America's Most Romantic Cities

photo illustration by Kholood EidSt. Louis is for lovahs!​Last month's craptastic weather may have been good for at least one thing: It helped catapult our fair city onto Amazon.com's list of the Most Romantic Cities in America. St. Louis is now officially the 18th most romantic city in the na ... More >>

Hawthorne Heights

7:30 p.m. Monday, November 29. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Heartless Bastards

8 p.m. Monday, April 12. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard.

10 Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, February 19-21, 2010

Yet another Mardi Gras has passed in St. Louis and now only memories (and compromising photos) remain. If you're not entirely worn-out from last weekend, look forward to this weekend: fire-breathing burlesque, a Jersey Shore cast member, munching on crickets and worms and a goth versi ... More >>

Hawthorne Heights

6 p.m. Saturday, December 19. Fubar, 3108 Locust Street.

The Breeders' Kelley Deal talks Fate to Fatal and filming a video in St. Louis. Plus, the best of last week on the music blog.

Show Review Photos: Andrew Bird and the Heartless Bastards at the Pageant, March 15, 2009

Andrew Bird concerts don't follow the normal dynamics of a rock & roll show. The singer, guitarist and violinist takes time to create layers of loops with his battery of effects pedals, and most songs take a minute or so to come into full bloom. What the audience experiences is not so much a con ... More >>

Kirkwood's King of Comedy: Greg Warren's standup career takes him all over the USA, but St. Louis remains his home

SLU vs. La Salle: A Not-So-Special Senior Moment

photos by Keegan HamiltonThe Saint Louis University basketball team tried hard on Saturday against La Salle, they really did. They clawed for every rebound, dove for every loose ball and hustled themselves to exhaustion on defense, erasing any lingering doubts about whether they have bought into Ric ... More >>

SLU Basketball: The 2008-2009 Season Defined

Rick Majerus and Co. lost again Wednesday night, this time falling 70-68 to Duquense. It's their second consecutive defeat after the glimmer of hope against Dayton, a game that feels like it was played ages ago.

Second Spin: Slave, Slave

Artist: Slave Album: Slave From: Vintage Vinyl Year: 1977 Label: Cotillion Records What it sounds like: George Clinton and P-Funk performing during an acid trip gone bad. 

Know Your Scat Records Discography, Part I: Electric Eels, Mirrors, Gem

The Collector: St. Louis artist Bill Keaggy takes the ordinary and makes it extraordinary

She's Crafty: The Breeders' Kelley Deal talks knitting, nudity and Steve Albini's bodily functions

The Breeders, SXSW setlist

Kim Richey

8 p.m. Tuesday, September 11. Lucas School House, 1220 Allen Avenue. Also doing a free in-store at Euclid Records, 601 East Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves. 5 p.m. Monday, September 10.

Emo-tional Breakdown

B-Sides issues emo bands an important memo, weighs in on Pandora's St. Louis band assessment and blings out with the Loop Underground and "Yo! RFT Raps"

Get Down with Dave

Chappelle returns with a raucous Block Party

Hawthorne Heights

Friday, October 28; Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois)

Clarinet for Beginners (1993)

Week of October 5, 2005

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004s best roots music while its still hot.

Autograph Hounded

O.J. is coming to the STL (shh!); plus the inside scoop on the Post-Dispatch's labor woes, a chat with Cedric's manager and the reason why you won't hear "Dude Looks Like a Lady" at JJ's

Guided by Voices and The Brian Jonestown Massacre

Wednesday, January 21; Mississippi Nights

The Greening of McRee Town

There was nothing wrong with the Missouri Botanical Garden's downtrodden neighbor to the north that a bulldozer couldn't fix

Breeders

Title TK (Elektra)

Too Good to Be True

What's the point of cracking open this Nutt?

Flaming Wreck

Owen Wilson goes down Behind Enemy Lines and lands in familiar terrain

Cop Out

Police commissioner Eddie Roth leaves for an Ohio newspaper

Side Dish

At www.stainedapron.com, angry waitstaff dish up complaints about boorish patrons

Guided by Voices with Creeper Lagoon

Monday, May 14; Mississippi Nights

Guided by Voices

Isolation Drills (TVT)

Color Bind

Two new plays explore race relations

Hit Parade

News of the Weird

News of the Weird