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True Stories: Actors' Studio articulates Alan Bennett's Talking Heads

Answers to the Riverfront Times 2012 News Quiz

In January Riverfront Times published its annual "News Challenge" -- 78 multiple-choice questions testing how well readers paid attention to current events over the past twelve months. Within a week, more than 100 of you submitted your answers to us. A few weeks later a dozen readers e-mailed a simi ... More >>

Steedy As She Goes: War Horse will amaze — and test your endurance

Your Fast-Food Lent Options Are Bountiful

The Lent season gives rise to a great St. Louis tradition, the Fish Fry. But local church parishes aren't the only folks in on the fish. At least since 1962, when McDonald's debuted the Filet-O-Fish, fast-food restaurants have offered Lent-friendly options for patrons. Gut Check figured we'd run do ... More >>

Tone Rodent Bridges the Gap Between Noise and Music From Here To Brazil

Listen: Hear all of Tone Rodent's songs

This Week's Local Bestseller List: See the Play, Buy the Book

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 27, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books and Subterranean Books. For the first time ever, one of the top books on the local bestseller list has ... More >>

Former St. Louisan T.S. Eliot's Non-St. Louisan Wife Dies; Responsible for Existence of Cats

Valerie Fletcher Eliot, who was married to the poet T.S. Eliot, who grew up in St. Louis and then moved permanently to England although he occasionally mustered enough nostalgic feeling to write poems about the Mississippi (which he described as "strong brown god--sullen, untamed and intractable"), ... More >>

7 Foods the St. Louis Rams Shouldn't Eat in London

Early Tuesday morning the St. Louis Rams touched down at Heathrow Airport in London. On Sunday the team faces off against the New England Patriots in the annual NFL game in fabled Wembley Stadium. Sure, there isn't a lot of European interest in American football -- perhaps the Rams should consider ... More >>

The Nine Best Hotels in St. Louis

The 2012 Best of St. Louis issue is fast approaching. Have you voted yet? Go do it now before it's too late! Have you finished debating the finer points of the 2011 issue? We haven't, hence this list. While researching contenders for a certain Best Of category last year, we realized our town has a h ... More >>

St. Lou Fringe Review: Cecily and Gwendolyn's Fantastical Missourian Anthropological Inquisitorial Probe

How you feel about Cecily and Gwendolyn's Fantastical Missourian Anthropological Inquisitorial Probe, which runs all four days of the St. Lou Fringe (Thursday 4 p.m., Friday 8:30 p.m., Saturday 1 p.m. and Sunday 2:30 p.m., all at the Nash Building, 3000 Locust), depends on how you feel about interac ... More >>

Barbershop of Horrors

"Fast Eddie" Maher Will Be Deported

English fugitive Edward Maher, 56, has officially been deported from America back to his home country to answer for a heist he allegedly committed 19 years ago. The so-called "Fast Eddie" was arrested in rural Nixa, Missouri, where he'd been living for the past four-and-a-half years.

RFT Spring Arts Guide 2012: Theater

RIP Parasol Records: The Changing World of Independent Music Retail

When Champaign/Urbana, Illinois' Parasol Records announced this week that it was closing its retail store and suspending its mailorder operation, the general reaction seemed sad but not surprising. On Facebook, some former customers reminisced about ordering records through Parasol's service, and th ... More >>

Educators Go on TV to Discuss Dropout Crisis

​Not much has changed since Riverfront Times reported on the school dropout crisis back in January of 2009. Since 2004, the high-school graduation rate in the St. Louis public schools has slid from 61 percent to 45 percent, 30 percentage points below the average for the state of Missouri. Nobo ... More >>

Alison Weir Talks About Mary Boleyn and Slut-Shaming, Sixteenth-Century Style

If you've read The Other Boleyn Girl (or seen the movie), you probably think you know all about Mary Boleyn, Anne's beautiful, slutty and not-quite-as-bright sister. But the British historian Alison Weir knows way more than you do: She's been acquainted with Mary for nearly 40 years, thanks to an ab ... More >>

Hal Goes It: St. Louis Shakespeare hits Henry V out of the park

A Royal Production

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown, Paul Friswold and Lew Prince suss out the local theater scene

Kanye West Is Batshit Crazy: Decoding The Ten Boasts That Prove It

Image viaThe rules of the game: Try to guess what Kanye meant by these quotes in less time than it takes to make sure you read them correctly.​The only thing that's legitimately surprising about Kanye West comparing himself to Hitler last weekend is that he did so in a negative sense. To the a ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown, Paul Friswold and Lew Prince suss out the local theater scene

Ask a Mexican: Special Soccer Edicion

McDonald's Introduces the UK to Incorrect Tastes of America

burgerbusiness.comMcDonald's brings the U.S.A. to the UK.​ Because mediocre fast-food burgers aren't nearly American enough, UK McDonald's restaurants are in the midst of their annual Great Tastes of America promotion. Each week for five weeks, McDonald's outposts in England and Ireland featur ... More >>

Bush's Soufflé Rises While Bin Laden Falls: Five Other Noshes During Great Moments in History

Image via​Last week, George W. Bush revealed what he was doing when Barack Obama called with the news that U.S. forces had found and killed Osama bin Laden:"I was eating soufflé at Rise Restaurant with Laura and two buddies," Bush said..., according to an ABC News contributor who attended the eve ... More >>

Social Distortion at the Pageant, 5/4/11: Photos Setlist

Social Distortion. Photo by Jason Stoff​Taking the stage to 2Pac's "California Love," Social Distortion brought its California hustle and flow to The Pageant Wednesday night and treated the packed house of rowdy punks, jocks, skaters and auto mechanics to almost two hours of unadulterated punk ... More >>

BREAKING: Bishop/Attorney Martin Sigillito Indicted

Bishop/Attorney Marty Sigillito​Updated 4:16 p.m. with press release outlining indictment. We have all but official confirmation that Martin Sigillito -- the Clayton attorney and American Anglican bishop who already stands accused in civil court of running a $45 million ponzi scheme -- has finally ... More >>

Get Your Early-Morning Soccer Kicks Here

​It's 6:30 a.m. on a recent Sunday morning inside Tigín Irish Pub on Washington Avenue -- the perfect time for a breakfast pint of Guinness. OK, so it's not actually 6:30 a.m. -- it's more like 9:45 (some morning drinkers are bolder than others). But a few of the patrons here actually did st ... More >>

Sweet Mystery of Life: Frankenstein comes to the stage at the Tivoli Theatre

Jane Muscroft of Queen's Cuisine: Recipe for Eccles Cakes

This is part three of Deborah Hyland's Chef's Choice profile of Jane Muscroft of Queen's Cuisine (qconline.us). Part one can be found here. Part two, a Q&A with Muscroft, is published here. Deborah Hyland​ According to The Food Lover's Companion, Eccles cake, named after the town of Eccles, ... More >>

Jane Muscroft of Queen's Cuisine

Deborah Hyland​Somewhere along the line, Americans got the idea that "high tea" meant "fancy," as in "high class." In fact, a high tea is simply a light meal with a meat dish or two, often eaten by laborers. The stereotypical tea with scones, clotted cream and jam is properly known as "cream t ... More >>

Interview: Godfathers Vocalist Peter Coyne on Acting, Journalism and New Songs

After visa issues forced the Godfathers to postpone a few shows on its current U.S. tour, the show is happening tonight at Off Broadway. Here are outtakes from our recent interview with vocalist Peter Coyne.​Mike Appelstein: You know, I saw you play at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Cliff Hardesty, Owner of CD Reunion, on BBQing with Ozzy and the Who's Iconic Album Covers

Jon Scorfina​Sometimes the best reason to collect records is for the unabashed love of the music. Picking up from a short winter hiatus, Last Collector Standing met up with Cliff Hardesty, who, above anything else, is a genuine music lover. He is also the owner of multiple record stores, inclu ... More >>

A Time for Champions

1 p.m. Sunday, November 21, at the Tivoli

Czech Yourself

Concert review: Los Campesinos! thrill enthusiastic fans with a passionate performance at the Firebird, Tuesday, October 26

Los Campesinos! delivered an impressive show last night at The Firebird, but the real stars of the evening might have been the group's fans. The devoted 150 or so patrons in the audience not only danced, jumped and clapped throughout the concert, but knew every one of the Los Campesinos'! verbose ... More >>

Ten Things To Do This Weekend: October 15-17

G Tom Mac​Besides the shows listed on the music page -- including the Skarekrau Radio DVD screening/puppet show extravaganza at Apop Records and tonight's Space Parlour shindig at the Firebird -- here are some other music-centric options for this lovely fall weekend. Have you found your sweate ... More >>

Pokey LaFarge forges his own path through old-time country and blues

Metal veterans Anvil embark on a tour to support their documentary and new album

Gateway to the East?

A Stepmother's Love

Oh, He Was A Dandy

A Shot of Shakespeare

Party Like a Puritan

That ship has sailed

End of the Journey

Life in Africa during wartime

They Read, You Listen

It's a pretty nice arrangement, really

Grub Street

Gastropub, shmastropub. Newstead Tower Public House is Ian's kind of bar.

India à la Mode

Rasoi plays with Indian cuisine — and that's a good thing. Anyone for a Bollywood Popper?

Royal Romance