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Rep. Tony Dugger On His Voter ID Bill: "Most Of The Feedback...Was On The Negative Side"

Last week, we brought you news of a controversial GOP bill to mandate all voters in the state of Missouri show some form of photo identification in order to cast a ballot. The proposal sparked backlash even before a scheduled hearing on Tuesday -- with opponents slamming the ID bill as a Republican ... More >>

2013 RFT Web Awards Winners

It's been said that employees engaging in social media while at work cost the U.S. economy $650 billion a year in lost productivity. That's $4,452 per company, and it doesn't even factor in the economic losses from plain, old Web surfing. Throw that into the mix, and good lordy: No wonder the econom ... More >>

Missouri Native Who Jumps to his Death in San Francisco Becomes Social Media Sensation

Our sister paper SF Weekly has a terrific feature story this week called "Public Influence," on the suicide of Dylan Yount, a Harrisburg native and Mizzou graduate who plummeted to a very public death from his apartment building. Our own former RFT fellow Albert Samaha tells the sad tale through th ... More >>

Graffiti Artists Tag U.S.S. Inaugural as River Waters Recede

St. Louis street art has finally hit the river. Graffiti taggers recently left their marks on the rusting hulk of the U.S.S. Inaugural, a World War II-era minesweeper that now rests on the banks of the Mississippi River, about a mile south of the Poplar Street Bridge. Water levels on the river betw ... More >>

Does Spotify Mean the End the iPod and Your Music Collection?

When I bought my first iPod--this was the first iPod, when the scroll wheel actually spun around--it was a severe blow to my nerd-cred, which I guarded pretty jealously at the time. (It was the only cred I had.) Relying on iTunes and its untouchable database to maintain my MP3 collection, instead of ... More >>

Carrie M. Becker: 2012 Riverfront Times MasterMind Award Winner

Reverse Caption Contest: Win a Pair of Two-Day LouFest Passes and Announcement Party Tickets

Next Tuesday, April 3, LouFest will announce the lineup for its third installment in Forest Park on August 25 and 26. The big news will come at a party at Plush (3224 Locust Street, 314-535-2686) and the Blind Eyes and Morning Teleportation will play. We have a few tickets to the announcement part ... More >>

Point and Clique: The 2012 RFT St. Louis Web Awards

Local Artist Wonders, What If Barbie Were Secretly a Hoarder?

If you've seen St. Louis artist Carrie M. Becker's recent collection "Barbie Trashes Her Dream House" -- and odds are that you have, since the photos have gone viral over the past few days, appearing in, among many other places, Jezebel, the Huffington Post and Time.com -- you may wonder if there's ... More >>

Remembering Bob Cassilly's Cementland: A Photo Tribute

Jennifer SilverbergBob Cassilly​It was Bob Cassilly's unfinished symphony: The noted sculptor and City Museum impresario spent more than ten years working on a project he called Cementland. And this morning, when police say his body was found there, apparently killed in a bulldozer accident, t ... More >>

Chinese Lantern Festival to Light Up Missouri Botanical Garden in 2012

courtesy of the Missouri Botanical GardenGlorious Chinese lanterns are coming to the Missouri Botanical Garden for a three-month festival in the summer of 2012.​ The first hint that there was something big coming from the Missouri Botanical Garden came with the cute but cunning guerilla press ... More >>

Congrats to the RFT's Music-Related Web Award Winners for 2011!

Wikimedia Commons​Late yesterday, the winners of the RFT's first-annual web awards went live on our website. Included in that bunch is a bunch of music-related winners. The best music blog award went to I Went To a Show -- because, according to judges, "It's great to see the local-centric cont ... More >>

Finalists for RFT Web Awards -- Revealed!

​The votes are in for the RFT's first-ever Web Awards! And while we're not about to tell you who won -- not quite yet, anyway -- we've got the full list of finalists right here.The winners were nominated by you and chosen by our esteemed panel of judges. We'll be announcing the winners online next ... More >>

Finalists for RFT Web Awards -- Revealed!

​The votes are in for the RFT's first-ever Web Awards! And while we're not about to tell you who won -- not quite yet, anyway -- we've got the full list of finalists right here.The winners were nominated by you and chosen by our esteemed panel of judges. We'll be announcing the winners online next ... More >>

Is the RFT Haunted?

Scoodog via FlickrIs that a ghost at the Tivoli/RFT offices?​Way, way back in the day (well, the early 90s), before the Loop became a nice place again and the Riverfront Times was still by the river front, the Tivoli building housed a movie theater, three floors of dilapidated apartments and a ... More >>

Skaters Organize to Help Expand Kingshighway Skatepark

See more photos of the Kingshighway skatepark on KHVT's Flickr page​Not-for-profit organizations normally choose vanilla-sounding names in order to attract (or at least not scare off) potential donors. As the name indicates, Kingshighway Vigilante Tranny (KHVT for short) is not a normal not-for-pr ... More >>

St. Louis' Racial Divide: Mapped!

​File this under "cool infographic of the day." Eric Fischer, a (by all evidence) nerdy dude from California who is very interested in cities and how they work, used the 2000 Census data from the 40 most populous cities in the U.S. to make maps that visualize the racial segregation in all tho ... More >>

PBS Tells You How to Host a Food, Inc. Potluck

Image sourceParty over Food, Inc. PBS-style!​Tomorrow night, April 21, PBS (locally, KETC-TV, Channel 9) will be broadcasting the documentary Food, Inc. for the first time as part of its POV documentary series. The network suggests you celebrate this wondrous event by hosting a viewer potluck with ... More >>

At Least One Group In Town Is Excited About the Snow

And no, we're not talking about nearly every student in the metro area who's outside being pelted by snowballs right about now.While you're grumbling about your street not getting plowed (hey, the MetroLink is still running on-time) or shoveling the sidewalk, you can bet the penguins at the St. Loui ... More >>

This October Already Wettest on Record and Guess What? It's Raining Again!

Katie White Snow via Flickr​Last Friday, October 23, was an exciting day for St. Louis weatherwatchers: 1.91 inches of rain landed at Lambert Airport, giving October, 2009, the final boost to become the wettest October in recorded St. Louis weather history, soundly beating 1919 by .3 inches. (It w ... More >>

Rock Hill's Legendary (Infamous) Ticket-Writing Traffic Cop Set to Retire Radar Gun

Courtesy Rock Hill Police Department Officer Ron Zeigler loves signing his autograph -- on your speeding ticket, that is.​Gentlemen, start your engines. Twenty-six years and 150,000 traffic tickets later, Rock Hill's rainmaker is hanging up his radar gun. You heard right folks, Officer Rona ... More >>

Rockies vs. Cardinals 9/27/09: The Photographer Who Caught the Catch That Probably Wasn't

​In just a moment we're going to hear from Craig Welling, a Denver blogger who snapped a photograph that was the source of much argument and consternation around the Interwebs last week.First, some background. On Tuesday RFT sports blogger Aaron Schafer dipped into a brewing controversy surro ... More >>

The Great Google Wave Spaz-Out of 09

Photo by Sam Howzit via Flickr (creative commons attribution 2.0)​Last week Google sent out the first batch of 100,000 invites for their new collaboration product Google Wave, resulting in the most ridiculous jockeying for invites since Joost a couple of years back. Twitter went crazy with otherwi ... More >>

Rockies vs. Cardinals 9/27/09: The Photographer Who Caught the Catch That Probably Wasn't

​In just a moment we're going to hear from Craig Welling, a Denver blogger who snapped a photograph that was the source of much argument and consternation around the Interwebs last week.First, some background. On Tuesday RFT sports blogger Aaron Schafer dipped into a brewing controversy surr ... More >>

Upcoming Social Media and Tech Events in St. Louis

Photo by Flickr User Francis Storr​There haven't been a lot of Tweet-ups in St. Louis in recent weeks. Maybe Twitter is becoming so mainstream that you could theoretically have a spontaneous Tweet-up almost anywhere you are, at any given moment. But Tweet-ups aren't the only opportunity to meet yo ... More >>

Introducing FaceFeed: Friendfeed Acquired by Facebook for "Roughly $50 Million"

​ Facebook announced yesterday that it is aquiring Friendfeed for "roughly $50 Million" acording to Techchrunch. This may or may not mean anything to you depending on if you are a current user of Friendfeed. Friendfeed has always been one of the secondary status update services that started shortl ... More >>

Ten Tech Releases to Look for this Fall

Photo by Marcin Wichary via Flickr​It's August. The economy is bad. Things are slow, but technology marches on. In spite of the global economic slowdown, there will still be plenty of new high-tech products to look forward to this fall. A lot of them will actually be cheaper (even Apple has lowere ... More >>

Social Media Directory of St. Louis Local Politics [OPEN THREAD]

Last week when I wrote about Mayor Slay's Twitter account I mentioned that there were only four members of the board of Aldermen who use Twitter. But a commenter named Colleen was kind enough to point out that Shane Cohn Alderman from the 25th ward also tweets under @shanecohn. Shane Cohn himse ... More >>

The Final Word on Brad Thompson's Options

Via shgmom56/FlickrBrad Thompson in 2008.Okay. the verdict is in. We finally have an answer. After much debate, much discussion, and a fair bit of research which made me question my sanity, as well as whether or not the word option actually existed in baseball, the answer finally came from the ... More >>

Former Rams QB Tony Banks Could Have Saved Dirk Nowitzki a Lot of Trouble

Via Flickr.The Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki.The sad, sad tale of Dirk Nowitzki's relationship trouble just keeps getting worse. It isn't bad enough that the German-born basketball player's girlfriend, one Cristal Taylor (original name Crystal Taylor), was recently revealed as a longtime scam ... More >>

Yovani Gallardo is Better Than the Cardinals

Remember in the first series of this season, when the Cardinals were playing the Pittsburgh Pirates, and we all felt really good? We all thought, "Hey, this'll be great! The Cards can get off to a hot start, sort of pad the old record a little bit. After all, what are the Pirates for?" Well, th ... More >>

East St. Louis Mayor Says City's Nightclubs Will Continue to Stay Open Late

photo by Keegan HamiltonEast St. Louis mayor Alvin Parks said Friday that the city's bars, liquor stores and nightclubs will continue to serve alcohol until the current closing time, despite criticism.Parks doubles as East St. Louis' liquor commissioner and said nightclubs will remain open until 6 a ... More >>

Photos: The Rural Alberta Advantage at the Billiken Club, Tuesday, March 31

A few miles away from the Masshysteri-a at the Wedge, The Rural Alberta Advantage played a short but sweet set culled from its 2008 album, Hometowns. (Flickr set; critpick) In front of a small, appreciative crowd, the bass-less trio spun songs about everything from rockslides to running aw ... More >>

The Chesterfield Mall is Watching You

Tojosan, Flickr Creative CommonsSomewhere, something is watching you...It is a fact of life that people go to the mall to look at things. Especially thirteen-year-old people who have no other place to go. But now, at least at Chesterfield Mall, the things are looking back.AdSpace, the New York compa ... More >>

Show Review Photos: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings and the Menahan Street Band at the Pageant, Friday, December 5

(Photos and words by Annie Zaleski. Do not use photos without permission. Entire Flickr set here.)It's Sharon Jones' world, and we just live in it. That was certainly obvious last night at the Pageant, when the 52-year-old dynamo strutted, sassed and sang for an adoring crowd full of dancing foo ... More >>

Photos: Shame Club and Riddle of Steel at the Bluebird, Friday, August 22

Photos and Review: Sigur Ros in Kansas City, Uptown Theater, June 12, 2008

Photos: Radiohead at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, St. Louis, May 14