Larry Rice

Answers to the Riverfront Times 2012 News Quiz

In January Riverfront Times published its annual "News Challenge" -- 78 multiple-choice questions testing how well readers paid attention to current events over the past twelve months. Within a week, more than 100 of you submitted your answers to us. A few weeks later a dozen readers e-mailed a simi ... More >>

Man Plummets to His Death at New Life Evangelistic Center [UPDATE]

Update: The victim has been identified as David Douglas. Daily RFT also received a response from Reverend Rice. According to the St. Louis police, a 46-year-old man plummeted to his death on Tuesday at the New Life Evangelistic Center in downtown. The center, run by Reverend Larry Rice, has been a ... More >>

5 Ideas for Fenton's Vacant Chrysler Site

Last month Daily RFT examined a Facebook campaign that seeks to bring an IKEA to the 295 acres in Fenton that -- until 2009 -- was home to a Chrysler plant. As we confirmed from IKEA, the former site of the automaker (above) is too big for one of its stores. So what might this prime real estate alon ... More >>

Rev. Larry Rice Considering Lawsuit as City Shuts Street Outside New Life Evangelistic Center

The battle between the city of St. Louis and New Life Evangelistic Center head Rev. Larry Rice wages on. The latest clash began last night as the city enacts "special enforcement" on a section of Locust Street west of 14th Street, right outside the NLEC. The sidewalk is often lined in the wee hour ... More >>

Rev. Larry Rice's Integrity Village Goes Up in North County, Comes Down Same Day

After attempting to open a tent city for the homeless in St. Louis City only to have it condemned and shut down immediately, Reverend Larry Rice followed through on his promise to rebuild his homeless tent community in the County. On Saturday morning, Rice and volunteers from the New Life Evangelist ... More >>

Romanik's Interlude: An ex-con finds his second calling as the "Grim Reaper of Radio"

Rev. Larry Rice Intends to Sue the City Over Integrity Village Condemnation

The New Life Evangelistic Center has sent out a press release announcing that Reverend Larry Rice will file a federal lawsuit against both the City of St. Louis and St. Louis Public Safety Director Eddie Roth for shutting down his tent city, Integrity Village.

Tent City Revival: Rev. Larry Rice's Next Integrity Village Is A Secret

The Rev. Larry Rice will not quit on St. Louis' homeless population; the entirety of his public life is proof of that. So the recent city-ordered dismantling of Integrity Village, his tent city just off I-44, was certainly not the end of Rice's efforts to establish a public and free-standing communi ... More >>

Integrity Village Is Shut Down and Larry Rice Arrested

As promised, St. Louis City issued a condemnation order for Rev. Larry Rice's Integrity Village late yesterday afternoon, and just after 6 p.m. the police arrived to clear the site. Given the option of packing up the tents and leaving the neighborhood voluntarily or being arrested, Rice chose arrest ... More >>

Rev. Larry Rice Wants to Open Tent City Between I-44 and Vandeventer

KSDK is reporting that the Reverend Larry Rice will open his proposed homeless tent city on the north side of I-44 at Vandeventer Avenue. Last week Rice announced he had leased two acres on privately-held property that he would use to house the new tent city, which he is calling Integrity Village.

Integrity Village Tent City Location Revealed, with Map

Rev. Larry Rice has released a map pinpointing exactly where his proposed tent city for the homeless, Integrity Village, will be located. Blue pins on the map below show the future site of the haven.

Springfield Asks Feds to Shut Down Larry Rice's Day Shelter

​Claiming to be fed up with handling complaints leveled at Larry Rice's Veteran's Coming Home Center, Springfield City Manager Greg Burris has formally requested on behalf of Springfield civic leaders that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services rescind the deed to the center.The move wou ... More >>

God Loves Homeless People, Church Sign Confirms

Pastor Rick Meyer is out with a new sign in front his United Church of Christ in Maplewood. Unlike other messages, this one doesn't seem all that controversial. Does it? ​Rev. Larry Rice would certainly be in agreement.

Homeless Men Created Human Slaughterhouse in East St. Louis

​Remember that gruesome scene from Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs -- the one where a victim is bound to a chair, tortured, cut up, and doused with gasoline in an abandoned warehouse? Well, that scene carried out in real life last month in East St. Louis, according to new details revealed i ... More >>

A New Arch for a New St. Louis: Let's not just redesign the grounds around the Gateway Arch. Let's go for the whole enchilada!

City Officials Blame Rev. Larry Rice for "Hopeville" Homeless Camp, Detail Eviction Procedures

Just received an e-mail from Mayor Slay spokeswoman Kara Bowlin detailing the city's plan to evict dozens of homeless people from a makeshift encampment under Tucker Boulevard to make way for a $34 million construction project.Aimee Levitt posted about the Hopeville conflict yesterday on Daily RFT, ... More >>

As Rev. Larry Rice Looks to Expand Shelters, St. Louis Residents Continue Complaints

The Rev. Larry Rice made headlines last week when the the government denied his controversial request to convert a federal court building in Cape Girardeau into a homeless shelter. Now Rice says he plans to sue for the rights to the building. Meanwhile, here in St. Louis, Rice's New Life Evangelisti ... More >>

Anyone Else Unable to Get Local Channels Through Digital Broadcasts?

flickr.com/photos/89978611@N00Your TV got snow? I'd like to know. Comment below.I realize I'm in the minority here being among the 10 percent of the U.S. population who do not subscribe to satellite or cable television.But I've got to kvetch to the small fragment of folks out there like me. Can you ... More >>

Gimme a brake: Readers talk red-light cameras and Larry Rice

Another Homeless Rally Planned Without the Participation of Larry Rice

  A group of homeless St. Louis residents and advocates plan to march on City Hall and the social service agency St. Patrick Center this morning. Not expected to take part in the protest is the Rev. Larry Rice, director of the downtown homeless shelter New Life Evangelistic Center and a frequen ... More >>

Violent Attack at Homeless Shelter Has Critics on the Offensive

Bravo, Boss: Springsteen may have been late, but man, was he great

RFT readers sound off on the rift between Lucas Park loft-dwellers and Rev. Larry Rice's homeless shelter

Fried Rice: Lucas Park residents are fed up with the Rev. Larry Rice and the homeless shelter he runs

Unreal News Challenge 2006

Week of December 21, 2006

Letters Column

Week of May 24, 2006

Unreal News Challenge 2005!

Time again to take the year-end quiz

Pray the Gay Away

Pastor Jim Venice says he can turn homos into heteros. Credit cards welcome.

Ask a Negro Leaguer

Week of September 21, 2005

News to Muse

The Year in Review: A Quiz

Best Book Store to Die in the Past Year

A. Amitin Bookshop

Party Down

Tangerine. Lo. The Chocolate Bar. All of them brought to you by the genius of Blake Brokaw. All of them dead. The king of St. Louis nightlife reveals his dark side.

Letters

Week of March 10, 2004

Homeless Holy Wars

The defiant Reverend Larry Rice infuriates big developers and city leaders over a proposed shelter in a downtown federal building

Go Tell It in the Garden

The Lofties Sisters bring gospel music to the masses (and the flowers) at the Missouri Botanical Garden

The Afterlife: What Might It Be Like?

Week of September 10, 2003

Letters

Week of September 3, 2003

Inn Again

Week of August 13, 2003

Cut!

Week of July 30, 2003

Bad Business

Week of July 16, 2003

Larry's Club

Larry Rice drafts the homeless in his fight against Washington Avenue bars

More Please, Sir

Posties want a raise -- a big one

Songs of Shame

Slay and Rigali arias soured by lack of decisive action and bully-boy politics

Which Two St. Louisans Would You Like to See Locked in a Room Together?

Week of February 6, 2002

Letters to the Editor

Published the week of July 12-18, 2000

Clarence, Missing in Action

Mayor Clarence Harmon may have nominated Capt. Beverly Noble-Barnes for a controversial promotion, but he didn't attend a police-board meeting to back her up

Rice Mulls Race

The Rev. Larry Rice ponders a gubernatorial run

SOMEWHERE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL

Onion Horton and the Rev. Larry Rice make a strange pairing on WINU

Hit Parade

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