Farmington

Meth Explosion Sends Suspect Running Naked Through Streets

Police say they've located the nude man seen fleeing an explosion early Wednesday morning in Farmington. The suspect, a 22-year-old male from the nearby eastern Missouri town of Bismarck, checked himself into Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis last week and is undergoing treatment for severe burns ... More >>

John Mancuso On His New Venue, the Mad Magician, and Plans to Revive STLPunk

At the beginning of the year, some show announcements put a mysterious new local venue named The Mad Magician (5625 Manchester Avenue) on the RFT Music radar. A quick Google Maps street view search revealed that it replaces the former A-B's Place Bar (prior to that, it was M.P. O'Reilly's). We con ... More >>

James Gardner Committed as Sexually Violent Predator for Sodomizing Boy, 7, Abusing Girl, 3

James Arthur Gardner, a 44-year-old St. Louis man who was convicted and imprisoned for sodomizing a seven-year-old boy, has officially been found to be a "sexually violent predator," Attorney General Chris Koster announced yesterday. That means Gardner will be committed to the Sex Offender Rehabil ... More >>

The Ten Best Musical Happenings of 2012: Humble Edition

Editor's Note: The end of 2012 is upon us, so we thought we'd put a cap on things by sharing some of our personal favorite shows, albums, events and general shenanigans. Join us as we indulge in some navel-gazing! I am not the most active of local scenesters. I am not up on many of the year's crit ... More >>

Frances Madeson's Madison County Crier Will Make You Ashamed to Be a Liberal

Frances Madeson was a Missouri girl who moved to New York City. After her marriage ended, she left the big, bad city and moved to Farmington in Madison County, about an hour and a half south of St. Louis, where she set up a business writing letters and resumes for the good country people. Soon enou ... More >>

Tailgaters Go All Out For Mizzou and SEC

Open-container laws went unheeded Saturday in Columbia as football fans began tailgating as early as ten hours prior to the 6:30 p.m. kickoff of Mizzou's first SEC conference game. By late afternoon, the parking lots surrounding the stadium were a sea of gold and black, sprinkled with a bit of red f ... More >>

Fireworks Are Canceled Everywhere; Is This the Year Without a Fourth of July?

The region's continued dry stretch and the oppressive heat are forcing municipalities to cancel or delay Independence Day fireworks displays. The risk of fire is just too great, and so Arnold, Chesterfield, Columbia (IL), Ellisville, Eureka, Farmington, Kirkwood, Pacific, Potosi, Washington (MO), We ... More >>

The Vault's Final Show: The End of an Improbable Music Venue in Farmington

Bob Reuter's Alley Ghost, the Hooten Hollars and Rum Drum Ramblers rocked a full house Friday at the Vault. The crowd was an amalgamation of twenty-somethings to retirees to families. Children ran under legs. Everyone mixed between dancing up a sweat and savoring the performances with a theater like ... More >>

Grass Widow at the Vault, Farmington, 6/5/12: Review, Setlist and a Photo

Grass Widow | The Langaleers The Vault, Farmington, MO June 5, 2012 Sometimes showgoing throws you a curve ball. I drove an hour and a half to Farmington with the intent of catching Grass Widow, a great Bay Area trio who's touring on the strength of a fine new CD, Internal Logic. Mission accompli ... More >>

Grass Widow on Labels and Touring: "Bring some good pals, drink lots of water. Go swimming when possible."

Here's a show worth a weeknight road trip: acclaimed Bay Area trio Grass Widow is playing in Farmington at The Vault (204 South A Street, Farmington, MO, 573-783-0173) this Tuesday, June 5. Touring on the strength of its strong new album, Internal Logic (the first on the band's own HLR label), this ... More >>

Q: What do you call a restaurant-winery combo in Chesterfield? A: Tame old tame old.

Should Undocumented Sexual Predators Be Detained or Deported?

Missouri Department of Mental HealthHe came for the American dream, but this is what Javier Calleja will likely get.​In a unanimous opinion made public this morning, a three-member panel of judges with the Missouri Court of Appeals in the Eastern District sent a pointed -- some might say ironi ... More >>

Richard Bradley: St. Charles Man Labeled Sexually Violent Predator; Detained Indefinitely

​Richard Bradley, 42, became the 12th Missouri prisoner this year committed to the state's Sex Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment Service in Farmington where he could stay the rest of his life. Bradley will join 174 other sex offenders who've completed their sentences for their crimes but bee ... More >>

Ten Best Food Events this Weekend: May 27-30

Photo by Steve Mitchell/Festival Partners LLC​Summer's so close, we can taste it. Find out exactly what flavors lead into the season at events such as Rib America Festival and the Third Annual Rib-Off at Iron Barley during the extended holiday weekend. Friday (May 27): Rib America Festival @ ... More >>

54th Street Grille and Chili's Provide Unwanted Extras, Get Sued

everydayisawesome.comDo not eat.​ Everyone wants a little something extra from their franchised bar and grill favorites, right? On March 2nd Missourian Mark Neville filed suit against the Shiloh, Illinois location of 54th Street Grille because of something extra in his meal. Neville claims t ... More >>

Missouri Right-To-Work Bill Appears Dead -- For Now

​The Missouri Senate yesterday failed to come to a vote after debating for three hours a bill that would prohibit unions from operating "closed shop" businesses in the state. Supporters of the so-called "right-to-work" initiative -- which bars unions from collecting fees and dues from all employee ... More >>

Joseph Miller: Latest Missourian to Be Confined Indefinitely After Serving Prison Sentence

Purgatory or Farmington, Missouri?​Joseph J. Miller isn't going to garner sympathy from most folks, and I'm certainly not defending the man. Still, I think it's curious how people like him can remain incarcerated in Missouri after they've served their so-called "debt to society." As the Missouri A ... More >>

Florence Poe, Oldest Missourian, Dies at 112

Image sourceFlorence Poe, until Sunday the oldest living Missourian, in 2006, on her 109th birthday.​Florence Poe, who was the oldest person in Missouri and the seventh-oldest person in the United States, died Sunday, March 21, in Cape Girardeau after suffering a stroke a week earlier. She was 112 ... More >>

Gay Wilkinson Drops An Anvil On CBS Evening News

​Gay Wilkinson has been a busy man since he and his anvil shooting hobby were the subject of a feature story in a recent Riverfront Times. Not only has the RFT-produced anvil shooting video in which he starred received more than a million views on YouTube, on Monday Wilkinson was profiled on CBS E ... More >>

Readers think the Boss, birther bashing and anvil shooting is a blast

How to Launch an Anvil 200 Feet in the Air

Our feature story this week delves into the wacky world of anvil shooting. According to esteemed anvil historian Richard Postman, anvil shooting is an American tradition that's been around for almost 300 years. It originated as a way for people to celebrate holidays with bang. A really, really big b ... More >>

It Ain't Rocket Science: Like the man says: People talk about the joy of sex, but it don't last nothin' like shootin' anvils

Show Review Setlist Photos: Aerosmith at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, Wednesday, June 10

A spectacular lightning storm delayed the Aerosmith show by about 45 minutes, which likely explains why the quintet's tour kick off was somewhat shorter than it should have been. But did the wait kill the buzz of the crowd at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater? Hell no -- not even when most of the la ... More >>

The Seven St. Louis Olympians

Earl Mullins has liftoff. Years in the making, his space museum in Bonne Terre has taken flight.

Road Warrior

The ride’s been bumpy, but Pete Rahn has made quite an impression since taking over at the reins at the Missouri Department of Transportation.

Evil Ink

A lust for the grotesque and a thirst for the jugular: the mad mind of printmaker Tom Huck

Close Calls

A local promoter's venue is shuttered

Angel's Wings

Only Jay Nixon stands in the way of Angela Coffel's freedom

HoJo Mojo

The last Howard Johnson's west of the Mississippi closes, leaving its patrons with no place to dine

Debt Rehearsal

Vacant buildings abound in St. Louis, but local bands are finding practice space hard to come by

Nasty Boys

The women screwed by Rent-A-Center are threatening to take the company to the cleaners. But Ernie Talley and the rest of his Texas bubbas are trying to have the last laugh.

Empty Promises

Missouri has been pouring millions into prisons that aren't being used. But stay tuned: If politicians have their way, there will be plenty of inmates to go around.

Shifting Ground

Not only are Angel's jailers changing the rules, they're fibbing about them

Fallen Angel

Angela Coffel, the first woman in Missouri deemed a sexually violent predator, is locked up despite overwhelming evidence that she isn't one.

Taking the Plunge

St. Louis' suburban cities have been competing for years to build the biggest and best places to play. Around here, keeping up appearances is serious business.

Pipe Schemes

The powerful Pipefitters union has a simple plan to provide job security for its members: It wants to take away other people's work.

TURNED 21 IN PRISON

Kevin Pelot struggles to articulate the thoughts fermenting inside him, sealed in the cask of prison life

Short Cuts

News of the Weird

Depth Charge

River diver Dennis Georges has one of the most dangerous jobs going -- and loves it

Publish or Perish

Self-promoting poet and noted Faulkner collector Louis Daniel Brodsky tends to his legacy: shepherding his entire life's work into print