Forest Park

Tequila Sanford, St. Louis Homicide No. 113: Shot in Head in Dogtown

City cops got the call shortly after 5:52 this morning. When officers arrived on the 6600 block of Oakland Avenue in Dogtown (just south of Forest Park), they found two victims. The first, 26-year-old Tequila Sanford (a black female), was pronounced dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to the head ... More >>

On the Edges

Young Woman Jogging in Forest Park Fights Off Sexual Assault

Tuesday evening, not long after sunset, a 27-year-old white female was jogging on the Forest Park footpath near the zoo, police say. She noticed a man approaching from behind. It was not just another jogger. It was a thin black male, she told police, about 5'10" tall with shoulder-length dreadlocks. ... More >>

A Walk in the Park

Joseph's Dreamcoat and Boogie Shoes

Ten Best Food Events This Weekend: June 1-3

Friday (June 1): Friday Night Patio Dinner @ Bevo Mill Warm up to summer weather with seasonal entrees prepared weekly using Soulard Farmers' Market goods by owner and executive chef Milan Manjencich every Friday night from now through the fall. Expect plenty of German dishes such as beef schnitzel ... More >>

In the Galleries - An Orchestrated Vision (Photography) CLOSES May 13 at the Saint Louis Art Museum

Storytelling in Stills

LouFest 2012 Dates Announced; Presale Tickets Available Now

LouFest 2012 is officially off the ground: Presale tickets for the two-day festival in Forest Park are now available. It's $50 for a two-day pass or $70 if you wait until the regular sale. Last year's presale sold out in two weeks. The third LouFest will be on August 25 and 26 on Forest Park's Cen ... More >>

City of St. Louis: Come Grab Our Wood. It's Free.

Image viaShe's getting wood! You can get wood! Get wood! These are all puns!​If you city residents wish to build a lusty fire at your house, you're going to need some wood. Big, hard, thick wood. Today is the first day that the Forestry Division will basically be plopping down its wood onto the lo ... More >>

An Unscary Good Time

Happy 135th Birthday -- and Happy State Holiday -- Forest Park!

Forest Park turns 135 years old today. What do you give a St. Louis symbol for its birthday?​At 1,293 acres, the botanical Goliath that is Forest Park is hard not to love. If you profess not to love it, in fact, chances are you're a bad liar. Today marks the 135th anniversary of the park that ... More >>

Gotta Try 'Em All

Flat Rates on Flat Works

Active Waiting

LouFest Returns in 2011, Pre-Sale Tickets On Sale Now!

​Mark your calendars for August 27 and 28, 2011: LouFest will be returning to Forest Park in St. Louis. In a statement released this morning, organizer Brian Cohen says: "We are excited to have year two now under way. In our first year I think we exceeded expectations. We're hoping to do th ... More >>

Wine for Life

Forest Park Cannon Officially Recognized After 110 Years

New marker ensures that cannon's history won't be forgotten -- again.​Congratulations Fred Ruhrwien! For years now Ruhrwien, an 81-year-old volunteer tour guide at Forest Park, has toiled to give an old Spanish cannon in the park the recognition he believes it deserves. Riverfront Times has chroni ... More >>

Forest Park: There's an App for That

​Have you ever gotten lost in Forest Park trying to meet friends or find the ice rink? Have you ever thought, "Damn, I wish I had guidebook to the park on my phone!"?  Well, now you're in luck. Behold the Forest Park Iphone App. The only app that helps you navigate the park's bikeways, find i ... More >>

Race Around the Lou

Vote for Your Favorite LouFest T-Shirt Design!

It's hard to believe that the inaugural LouFest is only a month away. August 28 and 29 in Forest Park you can catch acts such as She & Him, Broken Social Scene, Jeff Tweedy and Alejandro Escovedo. This week, the festival is holding a contest to choose the official LouFest T-shirt. Five designs have ... More >>

Loop Trolley: A Piece of Cake

RFT photo​Loop impresario Joe Edwards held a press conference this morning outside his Blueberry Hill restaurant to celebrate yesterday's awarding of a $24-million federal grant for his latest dream: a trolley connecting Delmar Avenue to Forest Park. On hand today for the ceremony were Congressmen ... More >>

Clangclangclang!!!! The Loop's Gettin' a Trolley!

Image viaClang clang clang will go the trolley! ​It's official: $24 million in federal funds have been secured for a trolley system connecting The Loop to Forest Park. Joe Edwards, the ponytailed Pope of U. City, just told Charlie Brennan on KMOX that the trolley path will start on Delmar near the ... More >>

Woman Found Bound, Half-Naked and Dumped Near Muny This Morning; Says She Was Raped

GoogleRed dot is front of the Muny, blue dot is ditch near where woman was found​The big buzz right now: early this morning, a volunteer boyscout leader was walking near a shallow ditch by the upper Muny parking lot and saw a woman on the ground. She was bound and only partially clothed. She repor ... More >>

Perfect Weather Forest Park No Admission Fee = Go See Hamlet

Image viaGet you some culture this Memorial Day Weekend, you heathens!​Gorgeous weather this weekend, kids! Combine that with world-class park grounds, timeless verse, and NO admission fee and you have a solution for all those who grumble that they're broke and that St. Louis has no culture: rende ... More >>

Naked Guy in Forest Park and a Jersey Shore Wannabe: Last Week in Missed Connections

Each week, we scour the local Missed Connections section of Craigslist, in search of the best posts. Here are some that caught our eye recently.POOR DUDE IS SAD THAT HIS EX-GIRLFRIEND WON'T TAKE HIS "SEED"; ALSO, HE'S A WOLF ​

To Be or Not To Be ... In the Trees

Be Eco-Logical

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.

Keep Watching the Sky

See Spots Survive

Cheers and Cheers

Discover Dance, Self

Look Up in the Sky! Purple Martins Are Going Nuts in Forest Park!

The purple martins in Forest Park are SUPER active right now. In the video here, listen how the birds are so loud that you can barely hear purple martin enthusiast John Miller do his commentary.

Star Bright

A Naked Road Race? Sign Unreal Up!

Wikimedia CommonsNothin' like a "brief" run in the parkNormally, Unreal would buckle up and run at the merest mention of the word "colorectal," but Unreal's pants practically plunked straight to the parquet this morning after we opened a catchy little e-mail entitled "Undy 5000." Has anyone heard of ... More >>

Go! The St. Louis Weekend Calendar, August 22-24, 2008

Social Animals

St. Louisans love a night out

Bike to Work Week: A Dirty Business at Times in the STL

Hot Sauced

Prehistoric Pathway

Animatronics dions rule the zoo

No Tiptoeing Necessary

Going Dental

Party Time, Elephant

Off to Verona

Walk It Off

Hay! Ride!

Go! 9/28-9/30

Hop to It

Ramble On