Guantanamo Bay

Senator Kit Bond Gets Frothy Over 'Terrorists' and 'Rights'

John McCain managed quite a feat this week: He somehow got both Glenn Beck and John Stewart to agree with each other. The issue? How flat-out wrong the Arizona senator is when he says that U.S.-born people merely suspected of being terrorists should be denied their Miranda rights. Agree with McCain ... More >>

Need A Job? The F.B.I. is Hiring!

​So, you think you've got what it takes to be a G-Man, do you? Well, then, the F.B.I. wants to hear from you!The feds are looking to hire 3,450 positions this year, including: 900 special agents 550 intelligence analysts 2,000 professional support staff (clerical, administrative, IT, HR, acc ... More >>

About Those Terrorists Moving In Next Door

So you may have heard that Missouri will soon be getting some new neighbors. Yesterday, Illinois governor Pat Quinn received a letter from President Obama informing him that the terrorism suspects currently detained in Guantanamo Bay will be moved to a largely unused prison in Thomson Illinois, a fe ... More >>

Divide and Conquer: Alien invasion as apartheid metaphor? It works in District 9.

Kit Bond: Obama "Sending Terrorists to A Neighborhood Near You"

Last month he accused the commander in chief of turning the U.S. into a "banana republic" by releasing the torture memos. Now, in the senator's weekly GOP radio address, closing Gitmo equates to moving the 9-11 planners into your subdivision. Other highlights include: pronouncing the name of hi ... More >>

Live Blogging Obama's 100 Day Meeting at Fox High School

10:25: Hello everybody! Have a seat10:26: It's good to be out of Washington and back in the Midwest! Yes. I love you, too!10:27: Obama gives shouts out to Senator Claire McCaskill, Governor Jay Nixon, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, State Auditor Susan Montee, and everyone at Fox High School. Th ... More >>

Nazis, Angry Tax Payers Can't Wait For April Rallies in St. Louis

flickr.com/photos/anjan58St. Louis! Are you ready to rally?! It's shaping up to be springtime for Hitler -- and fiscal conservatives! -- next month in downtown St. Louis. As I mentioned earlier this month, a group of "like-minded" folks upset with the Obama administration's stimulus plan are plannin ... More >>

James Yee

Animal cruelty, Guantanamo and dirty stares at coffee shops have RFT readers all wound up.

Guantánamo's Final Days: America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms

A Stiff Drink (or Ten) for Bush's Last Day

I just can't envision myself, you know, the big straw hat and a Hawaiian shirt sitting on some beach. Particularly since I quit drinking.- President George W. Bush at his final press conference, 1.12.09This is the most self-aware statement our soon-to-be former president has ever uttered. Not only ... More >>

Richmond Heights' "American Wife" Author Imagines Inauguration Day

There are plenty of writers this week who are trying to make George W. Bush appear likeable and, yes, even sympathetic. It is his last week in office, after all. But let it be known that Curtis Sittenfeld was there first, and before the Bushes have even left the White House, she's already moved on.T ... More >>

Second Spin: Christmas In Poland

Artist: The Schola Cantorum of SS. Cyril and the Methodius Seminary, Directed by Rev. Henry A. Waraksa Album: Christmas In Poland From: Vintage Vinyl Year: Unknown. Label: Capitol Records What it sounds like: Christmas in Gitmo. 

Unreal strips down with Sarah Palin, flushes a pumpkin and balloons up for Halloween

Spend an Afternoon in a Gitmo Detention Cell ... at the Airport Hilton

Bush's Brain: Oliver Stone assigns motive to Dubya's m.o., but at this point, who cares?

Towering Cinema: Philippe Petit's World Trade Center tightrope walk was made for the movies

Five years after government resignation, protester still fired up

Malcolm struggles to land canned squid

SABA Sisig Spicy Squid Bits

Ghost Boat

Four people disappeared from the Joe Cool. They may never be found.

Dr. Feelgood

Michael Moore’s pill goes down easy, but his diagnosis of U.S. health care still devastates.

Pearl Harbor

Doing justice to Mariane and Daniel’s story.

Model Children

Despite a nonexistent marketing campaign, Cuarón's latest is not to be missed.

2006: The Year in Music

Week of December 28, 2006

Jogging While Intoxicated

Just in time for the worst storm in recorded history, Unreal catches up to Hash House Harriers, the drinking club with a running problem

Last Call

We remember Frederick's Music Lounge

Sing Us a Song

Aging piano man Billy Joel pleads for AC/DC's mercy

Turkey Gone Wild

We raise a glass to everyone's favorite Thanksgiving spirit, imagine Tofurky dinner at the White House and eat one hundred T-ravs. Plus: Where in the world is Floyd Crues?

Chin Music

Henry Rollins takes no prisoners, wants no sympathy and gives good quote

SLU Blue

Week of August 28, 2002

Simple Men

Though shallow and woefully outdated, A Few Good Men is given depth by the Off Center Theatre Company

CUBA LIBRE

A local couple brings the long-forbidden culture of Cuba to St. Louis and vice versa