John Burroughs

Music Video: St. Louis Native Bhi Bhiman Covers Dire Straits' "Walk of Life"

John Burroughs grad (class of 2000) Bhi Bhiman left St. Louis after high school and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. But once a Redbirds fan, always a Redbirds fan -- Bhiman once wrote a song in celebration of former Cardinals star Albert Pujols -- and when RFT Music asked Bhiman to tell us ... More >>

How Can You Possibly Live Without a Jon Hamm Coloring Book?

It may be traditional to have ham for the holidays (even, in some circles, for Hanukkah), but we're willing to bet that more people would prefer Hamm -- Jon Hamm, that is, the Mad Men star who St. Louisans love to claim as their own, even though he hasn't lived here for years. (But he went to John B ... More >>

Thirty years after a white minister's son was beaten to death in the Central West End, one black man remains in prison. But there's plenty of guilt to go around.

Talking St. Louis, Baseball, Country Blues and Crooning With Bhi Bhiman

Bhi Bhiman is an unlikely young hero for whatever remains of the folk-side of the singer-songwriter scene. The 29-year-old, second-generation Sri Lankan American grew up in Ballwin, Missouri. His new record, Bhiman,, is an album that twists and turns and sometimes sails through Americana conceits, i ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending February 12, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. It was a fine week on the bestseller list for St ... More >>

Busch Family Member New Director of Endangered Wolf Center

​It seems there are two types of folks in the Busch family. The colorful ones whose dalliances, excesses and questionable behavior (Gussie and August IV come to mind) capture headlines. And everyone else. Virginia Busch falls squarely in the latter category. So obscure is this member of St. Louis' ... More >>

While You Were Eating Left Over Turkey, Teenage Boys Were Living Out Gridiron Dreams

Jennifer SilverbergProud American Traditions: Jazz... Ford... Capitalism... Thanksgiving weekend high school football state championship games.​Not even a man wearing a cowboy hat while eating a Big Mac, listening to Bruce Springsteen and trading derivatives on his iPad is more American than high ... More >>

For Sale: Childhood Home of William S. Burroughs

image viaFor sale: One fine-looking house with an impeccable literary pedigree.​If you can imagine it, William S. Burroughs was once a child right here in St. Louis. His grandfather, also named William S. Burroughs, founded the Burroughs Adding Machine Company which presumably did pretty well ... More >>

LouFest High School Battle of the Bands Finalists Announced

​LouFest two continues to take shape. Earlier, we brought you the news that this year's festival would feature local high school bands on the Area K stage. Today, the twelve finalists, half of which will play 30 minute sets on that stage, were announced. " We see it as a way to inspire even t ... More >>

"Lady Jazz" Mae Wheeler: One of Seven St. Louis Arts Honorees Named Today

Mae Wheeler, a.k.a. "Lady Jazz"​The Arts and Education Council is out with the twentieth edition of its St. Louis Arts Awards honorees. Among those heading up the 2011 class (to be recognized at a January ceremony) are Mae Wheeler, a local singer better known as "Lady Jazz"; Wayne Salomon, directo ... More >>

New Guide to All Things Prep Snubs Ladue and Its Yacht Club

image via"Muffy, we've been snubbed!"​Now we know that most of this country's preppies are concentrated in the northeast. That is, after all, where most prep schools and all the Ivy League colleges are. But according to True Prep, a sequel of sorts to the 1980 classic The Official Preppy Handbook, ... More >>

From Mark Twain to Jonathan Franzen, St. Louis has been home to a surprising number of great writers

10 Things to Do for $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, May 7-9, 2010

It's that time of week again: In these hours before the weekend, you're left to wonder how to spend the next 50-60 hours. Before you begin the YouTube marathon on your couch, scan our weekly list of suggestions for affordable entertainment and then get out there! (But first, get dear old mom somethi ... More >>

Country sweetheart Leslie Stevens brings her band to St. Louis for a homecoming

Chef from Michael Mina Group Set to Open Hyper-Local Spot in Northeast Missouri

​From Vegas to Rutledge: Carron gets back to nature (and homemade gouda).​Anthony Carron, a John Burroughs grad who worked his way to the top of the Michael Mina restaurant empire, tells Gut Check that he's setting aside the fancy toque for a time in order to stick his hands in the dirt in north ... More >>

Plot of Gold: Town & Country's Don Weir bled clients out of millions to bankroll a lavish lifestyle

Red-Light Cameras, Cocaine Addiction and Public Radio: 2008's 10 Most-Read Stories

(The eyes have it! Here are the Top 10 most-read stories online, which were published in 2008 by the RFT. After the jump, we also included a few stories that came back from the dead in '08 because of timely news -- earthquakes and college basketball among them. Below, RFT Editor Tom Finkel ... More >>

Fizzled Out: Andrew Gladney, heir to the 7-Up fortune, is off to a federal penitentiary

Icing the Cupcakes: Rachel Watson rouses racial emotions with her sizzling editorial in University City High School's student newspaper

7-Up vs. Coke, Part 2: From dot-com darling to disaster, the spectacular flameout of Andrew Gladney. Heir to a fortune, Andrew Gladney went from John Burroughs to Yale and came home to found Savvis Inc. Then he squandered it all.

7-Up vs. Coke, Part 1: From dot-com darling to disaster, the spectacular flameout of Andrew Gladney. Heir to a fortune, Andrew Gladney went from John Burroughs to Yale and came home to found Savvis Inc. Then he squandered it all.

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School Ties

How many city officials send their kids to city schools?

Too Large for Worry, Too Strong for Fear

Unreal meets a guy who's Optimistic about Iraq, laments the banning of ephedra and listens in on an argument between sports columnists; plus we help you (yes, you!) enter the P-D essay contest

Back to School

Week of March 12, 2003

Best Coach to Return to High School

Marvin Neals, Cardinal Ritter Prep

Letters

Week of February 28, 2001

Minister to his Needs

The Rev. Dickson Beall became a local champion of the First Amendment after he opened the St. Marcus Church basement to progressive theater groups in the 1990s. Few people knew what Beall was up to offstage.

Best Underground/Under-the-Ground Writer

William S. Burroughs

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