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Patrick Bray: Blanchette Bridge Accident Claims Worker's Life Weeks Before Retirement

Patrick Bray, a 51-year-old worker on the Blanchette Bridge rehabilitation project, was preparing this month for his retirement. Just a few weeks ago, he told his brother that he only needed to work 56 more hours but planned to stay on until July 1 so he could provide insurance for his granddaughter ... More >>

Missouri Botanical Garden Wants to Know What St. Louis Eats

We all photograph our food these days. Just look at Instagram -- half the images in your newsfeed are bound to depict someone's dinner. Our food choices are inconsequential -- yesterday's lunch means nothing today, lest you be struck down with food poisoning. But what do our food choices say about S ... More >>

[VIDEO] Cardinals Lose, So Today is Free Doritos Locos Tacos Day

Though the sting of the Cardinals loss is still with us, it's high time we started looking on the bright side of life. Like, for instance, the fact that the Giants ultimately went on to win the World Series means -- it's Free Doritos Locos Tacos Day! That's right, for a short window of time today, ... More >>

The Best Ways to Watch "Hurricane Sandy" Roll in From Afar

If you've turned on the TV or gone on the internet today, you might know that the Eastern Seaboard is being battered by a freak hurricane, obnoxiously aptly named "Frankenstorm". Meteorologists and TV newscasters are running out of terrifying things to say about this bad boy, Hurricane Sandy, as i ... More >>

The Eight Best Places to Take Out-of-Town Guests in St. Louis

With the long weekend upon us, no doubt you've got some cheapy freeloaders crashing on your couch, looking to you for entertainment. Here are eight great diversions to while away the time, selected while we were researching last year's Best of St. Louis awards. Speaking of, this year's Best of St. ... More >>

Flyer Supplier: Thomas Crone's Old Crap is St. Louis History

As a long-time member of St. Louis media, Thomas Crone has been it all: author, journalist, photographer, DJ, webmaster, blogger, videographer, producer, director, actor, publisher, panelist and editor. (Including a spell as music editor of this fine publication.) The dude works on, like, ten proje ... More >>

Introducing the 2012 RFT Web Awards Finalists

​The good news? The St. Louis online community is alive and well. The bad news? There's so much great content out there, it's extremely difficult to come up with a list of the best of the best. But, hey, this is the Internet. People love them some lists. We'd hate to disappoint. So, then, the ... More >>

The RFT Web Awards' Music Finalists

The 2012 RFT Web Awards are a little over a week away, and finalists have been chosen by our panel of judges. This year's expanded list of categories includes a few related to music, including the return of Best Music Blog. There's also Best Club/Concert Web Site and Best Photostream/Flickr, which i ... More >>

Burger King to England: Your Women Are Ugly

Flickr​The U.K.'s all a-flutter with royal wedding fever. And really, who doesn't adore pretty princess-to-be Kate Middleton? She's been honored with a beer bearing her name, a Dunkin' Donut celebrating her nuptials to Diana's kid. She flipped pancakes on Shrove Tuesday and is getting acceptab ... More >>

Point & Clique: The 2011 RFT St. Louis Web Awards

Cross the Mississippi in Style in a Gondola!

No, not this kind.​Tonight, the architect Michael Van Valkenburgh and CityArchRiver2015 will presenting his firm's winning plan from this summer's contest to redesign the grounds around the Arch. Indulge your inner architect and check it out, 6 p.m. at the Ferrara Theater downtown. (They would dig ... More >>

RFT Flickr Pool Photo of the Day: Dawn Downtown St. Louis

RFT Flickr Pool contributor scoodog shot this pic of the depressed lanes of Interstate 70 earlier this month. Not bad -- especially considering it was snapped with an iPhone. Image by Scoodog via Flickr​Click to submit your photos to the RFT Flickr Pool.

RFT Flickr Pool Photo of the Day: Fire!

RFT Flickr Pool contributor MzSusanB spotted some St. Louis firefighters in action on her way to work last month and stopped to snap a few pictures. This one rules:Susan via FlickrSo hot in herre.​Click to submit your photos to the RFT Flickr Pool.

RFT Flickr Pool Photo of the Day: Reflecting on The Tivoli

A nice shot of the building next to RFT world headquarters via a reflection in the window of a shop across the street:Image by Scoodog via Flickr​Want to share your pictures? Upload them to the RFT Flickr Pool.

South Grand Getting An Extreme Makeover and Some Unusual Street Art

Peat Wollaeger via FlickrPeat's pots are out, stainless steel panels are in.​South Grand Boulevard is about to undergo a $3 million facelift. Starting this month and lasting until spring of 2011 as part of the "Great Streets" initiative, a six block stretch from Arsenal to Humphrey Street will get ... More >>

RFT Flickr Pool Photo of the Week: "Tools"

Nestled amongst the massive collection of drunken party pics from Home Nightclub recently uploaded to the RFT Flickr Pool is this image, titled "Tools" by Susan63117:by Susan63117 via Flickr​It is almost timeless. It looks like it could have been taken in St. Louis anytime between 1810 and 2010. G ... More >>

RFT Flickr Pool Photo 'o Day: "6th Inning"

There's nothing quite like a beautiful sunset at the ballpark...Antonia Quest via Flickr​Want to share your own pictures? Click here to upload them to the RFT Flickr Pool.

Happy Birthday Citygarden!

Nikon 66 via the RFT Flickr Pool "Eros Bendato" by Igor Mitorag at the Citygarden​You, oh elegant downtown sculpture park, were opened to the public one year ago today. You haven't grown much since then (frankly, you were already pretty big to start with) but still, we've been through a lot togeth ... More >>

RFT Flickr Pool Photo 'o Day: "Air Force One in Blue"

The plane is approaching St. Louis, the photographer's caption says, but the inherent beauty of the image is that the aircraft just seems suspended indefinitely in the clouds. It would have made a nice DVD cover for Up in the Air, no?Antonia Quest via Flickr​Want to share your own pictures? Click ... More >>

Ten Amazing Pieces of Street Art in St. Louis

via FlickrPeat Wollaeger's "Blaster Head" is a mind blower.​Once upon a time, the River City had a reputation as something of a street art and graffiti mecca. That was way back in 2000 when Paint Louis was happening and some of the coolest cats to ever shake a can of spray paint made pilgrimages t ... More >>

10 Things to do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, May 14-16, 2010

It's that time of week again -- you're hopefully left with at least a few hours of free time where you can decide to do whatever you feel like: No time-sucking birthday lunches, Saturday morning soccer games or shift-covering for your slacker of a coworker. ("How has he not been fired yet?" you may ... More >>

Presenting Teabonics, the New Dialect of Political Discourse

Image source​Rule number one, if you're going to send something you wrote out into a public forum: PROOFREAD! You don't have to adhere to every last obscure rule of punctuation. But if you're going to, say, a rally to protest your government and you've taken the trouble to paint your back win ... More >>

RFT Flickr Pool Photo 'o Day: "Spring in the Park"

If this image doesn't make want to make you sneak out of your office and bathe in the sun at Forest Park then you are an albino with severe pollen allergies."Spring in the Park" by Antonia Quest via Flickr​Click here to upload your photos to the RFT's Flickr Pool.

Get $30,000 To Pimp a South Grand Sidewalk

image by Peat Wollaeger via Flickr S. Grand's "parking pots" are already amazing but what about the sidewalk?​The City of St. Louis' Board of Public Service issued a "Request for Qualifications" last week looking for artists to create two-dimensional sidewalk art to decorate one of they city's sig ... More >>

RFT Flickr Pool Photo 'o Day: Cherokee Street

Love this little gem posted onto our Flickr site today. BTW: Where do you get a "No Beggars" sign? Jamie Jessop via Flickr​Add your own photos to the RFT Flickr pool here.

RFT Flickr Pool Photo of the Day: Clouds of Doom Over Jefferson Barracks Cemetery

It's cold. It's cloudy. It's probably not going away anytime soon.Maybe that's why this photo of Jefferson Barracks Cemetery from the RFT's Flickr Pool feels just about right today:photo by Nikon66 via Flickr​Click here to add your pictures to the pool.

Photo: Yarn Bombing Hits the Loop

Via Artfinder12.2 on Flickr Yarn Bombing, it's like graffiti, only it's not.​The Daily RFT spotted this photo of a "Yarn Bombing" on the Delmar Loop on Flickr. For the uninitiated, "Yarn Bombing" is like graffiti, only less permanent and more fuzzy.The biggest mention of this street art form we co ... More >>

Someone Dropped a Bomb on Cherokee Street

This was uploaded to the RFT's Flickr pool earlier this week. Anyone know the terrorist artist that's responsible?Image by davidwraith can't sleep via Flickr​Upload you own pictures to the RFT's Flickr pool. Also check out more photos of kick-ass St. Louis Street Art by clicking here.

Anheuser-Busch Sends 350,000 Cans of Water To Haiti.

Image via Flickr​No, it's not actually Bud Light.As the brewer has done in the past when there's been a natural disaster and clean water is hard to come by, they ship in drinking water in what looks like plain white beer cans. As memory serves, last time they did this was after Hurricane Katrina.T ... More >>

10 Random Tech Things We Did 10 Years Ago, But We Don't Do Today

The end of 2009 brings one of those arbitrary milestones that marks the end of a decade, which prompts some of us to look back at the last ten years to see how far we've come and how much has changed. Yes, this is yet another one of those lists. Here is a list of things we did in 1999 that we either ... More >>

Conservation Area Casino Faces Final Vote by County Council Tomorrow

The construction of a sprawling 376-acre resort and casino next to the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area in North St. Louis County faces it's most critical vote yet tomorrow night.The St. Louis County Planning Commission already gave the initial go ahead to rezone the massive swath of land in a floo ... More >>

Revolution 9.9.9: Will New Media Formats Bring the LP and The Beatles into Digital Age?

Photo by Crabchick via Flickr​Record companies have been dragged kicking and screaming by consumers (and Apple) into the digital age in the last ten years. And predictions are that 2010 will mark a tipping point where music purchased digitally via download will account for more than half of all mu ... More >>

Photos: Making the World's Longest BLT at Iron Barley, 8.9.09

The fifth-annual Tomato Fest at Iron Barley in South St. Louis wrapped up Sunday with owner Tom Coghill and a crew of 90 volunteers working to create the world's longest bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwich, at 179-feet, two-inches. (That's a lot of bacon -- 500 pounds of savory, crispy, delicious baco ... More >>

Thus Concludes The Coolest July St. Louis Has Ever Known

uploaded by Uncle Pilot to the RFT Flickr Pool​Technically as of last night, we're about to wrap up just the sixth coolest July on record. That doesn't mean it wasn't the coolest, though. The lowest average temperature in July came in 1961 and 1891, when it was typically a balmy 74.9 degrees. Here ... More >>

Photos: Fischerspooner at the Pageant, Thursday, May 14

It's impossible to describe the spectacle that was last night's Fischerspooner show at the Pageant, so I'm going to let photos I snapped tell the story. Entire Flickr set here. All photos by Annie Zaleski, all rights reserved -- please get permission if you want to re-use them. Casey Spooner ... More >>

New NYC Archbishop: Still a Cardinal (Fan)!

On Wednesday Timothy M. Dolan was installed as the tenth archbishop of New York. photo by catholicrelief (via Flickr)Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan's a New Yorker now -- but he'll always be a St. LouisanIn its coverage, the New York Times notes that Dolan touched on two hot-button issues for Catholics ... More >>

Business is Cooking at Local Crematories. Thank the Recession

Flickr Urn-ing your business.If things keep going the way the are, gravediggers will have to find something else to do with their shovels. As the recession deepens, families in increasing numbers, according to the National Funeral Directors Association, are taking their dead to cre ... More >>

State of Street Art: Vandalism or legit, it's not going away

Photo: You Must Really Like Vegetables

To go along with the Old School Tattoo Expo photos posted over the weekend, check out this Flickr group: Food Tattoos. Link via Iron Stef. - Nick Lucchesi

Setlist Photos Review: Calexico and the Acorn at Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, Sunday, November 9

Saint Louis Flyer Project TIRC Old-School Discussion

Show Review: Squeeze and Aimee Mann at the Pageant, Tuesday, September 2

Photos: Jon Hardy and the Public at the Chapel, Friday, August 8

Concert Review: Foo Fighters/Supergrass at Scottrade Center, Sunday, July 20

Show Review: R.E.M. at the United Center, Chicago, June 6, 2008

Photos: DeVotchKa at the Pageant, Friday, May 23, 2008

Photos: The Cure in Kansas City, Monday, May 19

Show Review: Tegan and Sara at the Pageant, Sunday, May 4

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