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In the Galleries: Yvette Drury Dubinsky: There and Gone CLOSES June 22 at Bruno David Gallery

Out Every Night: The Best Shows in St. Louis from June 10-16

Happy Monday, everybody! We like to think of the start of each week as a new slate. Which shows will you go see? Some options include Canadian Rifle, Lord Huron and Kittypalooza. Read about these recommendations and more after the jump, and make this week a good one.

The Agonists: Shin Bet vets ponder the Israeli state they've protected

Best in Shaw: Botanical Heights hits the jackpot with chef Ben Poremba's far-from-identical twins Elaia and Olio

Slideshow: Photos from Inside Elaia and Olio

What's Up, Goyfriend: Talley's Folley nails the dance of forbidden love

Senior Federal Judge Squirms Over BDSM in Sex-Torture Case

Senior federal judge Dean Whipple of the Western District of Missouri doesn't seem to like where all this is going. The AP reports him getting a wee bit squirmy Thursday at the pre-trial hearing in Kansas City for the criminal case against Ed "Master Ed" Bagley of Lebanon. (Recall that Bagley has be ... More >>

Layla Lebanese Restaurant's makdous inspires an eggplant epiphany: The apotheosis of aubergine!

Best of Coachella's Final Day

See also: Our complete Coachella coverage By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more or less learned to ignore the dust and the heat. Here are our intrepid writers' favorite things about the final hours of the 2012 event.

Finding Hip-Hop in Kazakhstan and Country in India: American Voices Sets Up in St. Louis

Diplomacy between nations doesn't always involve dignitaries or high-level negotiations. A group with a presence in St. Louis engages in "cultural diplomacy," which involves exchanging musical expertise between Americans and countries often hit hard by conflict. Since it became incorporated as a non ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Charles Dickens, From a City You Hated!

Today's your 200th birthday, and we salute you. It's true you died way back in 1870, so you're probably not aware that we are saluting you. But how amazing is it that people actually remember your birthday -- nay, make a thing of it -- even without friendly reminders from Facebook, because you're no ... More >>

Bradley Cook: Kirkwood Man Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Sex Slave

Bradley Cook: Here's betting his prison name will be "PutHim2GoodUse."​Bradley Cook of Kirkwood pleaded guilty today in federal court in Kansas City to commercial sex trafficking of a young, mentally deficient woman who prosecutors says was coerced into being a sex slave for several years while sh ... More >>

Little House in the Present: America's economic downturns run through Laura Ingalls Wilder's books like a big three-hearted river

The Veggielante Visits Grace Manor

​The Veggielante has had it up to here with people bitching that St. Louis restaurants are vegetarian unfriendly. Sure, we'd like to see more restaurants offering more meatless dishes, but there are excellent choices out there if you take the trouble to look for them. We're not here to prosely ... More >>

Volcanoes' Album Is Out Saturday: 'Grind Or Mosh Is The Option'

Joe Apple​Meet Volcanoes, the drum and bass duo whose shitkicking noise rock has taken seismic toll on the eardrums of St. Louis' underground enthusiasts. Jon Ryan and Eric Peters are probably the most badass act to come out of St. Charles in quite some time, and definitely the most badass thi ... More >>

Beirut At The Pageant, 10/9/11: Photos

Beirut came to the Pageant to string lights from the ceiling and play lots of horns. And, by all accounts, to deliver a truly singular performance. After four years without a new full-length, the Sante Fe band returned with this year's The Rip Tide proved its particular blend of Eastern-Bloc-flavore ... More >>

Beirut and the Smith Westerns Lead This Week's New Show Announcements

Beirut. ​A spate of new concerts for your future listening pleasure: Beirut is coming to the Pageant on October 9, and the band's newest, The Rip Tide, is out on August 30. Ramshackle garage rockers the Smith Westerns are back at the Firebird in September. Everyone knows the best hardcore com ... More >>

A Grand Eating

Lanford Wilson, 1937-2011: He made it to Broadway but never shed his Missouri roots

Shocking New Revelations in Missouri Sex Slave Case

thewrap.comAlleged slave master, Ed Bagley Sr.​A Springfield man pleaded guilty yesterday to his role in a sordid sex slave case in which a Missouri woman was allegedly tortured and kept against her will for seven years. James Noel, 45, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Kansas City to o ... More >>

Half-Shakespeare, All Entertainment

Girlfriend Rats Out Lover: "Tired of Him Smoking Pot All Day"

​Officer Lloyd Blake tells Daily RFT he had no idea what to expect when he arrived Saturday night at the Forest Manor Motel in Lebanon, Missouri -- 150 miles southwest of St. Louis. "Someone from the hotel had dialed 911 and then hung up the phone and wouldn't answer a return call," says Blake, a ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Preaches (Profanely) to the Choir at the Fox Theatre

​A standing ovation from an enthusiastic (though under capacity) audience greeted Anthony Bourdain as the chef turned author and TV host strolled onto the Fox Theatre stage on Friday evening. For the next two hours, Bourdain demonstrated the force of personality that has made him one of the bigges ... More >>

Missouri Sex Slave Kept in Dog Cage, Genitalia Nailed to Board

One of the devices used to torture the victim was an "Erostek" electrical charge.​The torture is almost too twisted to imagine. The "owner" of a former teenage runaway turned "sex slave" tortured the woman by allegedly sewing her urinary opening and vagina shut to "show what he expected of her." A ... More >>

Jesse Driskill: Most Disturbing Mugshots You'll See This Week

Driskill: Can now add a couple more teardrop tattoos.​Authorities in southern Missouri have arrested 30-year-old Jesse Driskill with the rape and murder of a 76-year-old woman and the killing of her 82-year-old husband in Laclede County. According to reports, Driskill shot to death Johnnie and Col ... More >>

May Sees World's Biggest Bowl of Hummus, Fattest Falafel and Longest Sausage

Image viaLadies and gentlemen, we have a wiener!​When historians write the final chapter on May 2010, what will be the top story? The horrendous oil spill still spreading in the Gulf of Mexico? The looming threat of war on the Korean peninsula?How about a sausage longer than 24 football fields?Tha ... More >>

An oral history of long-lost St. Louis punks the Welders

The Morning Brew: 5.10

Food poisoning claims three lives at Louisiana mental hospital and sickens 40 others. The Associated Press reports that patients at Central State Hospital in Pineville, Louisiana, were served chicken salad for dinner on Thursday. Patients started falling ill the next morning, with the three deaths ... More >>

Missouri Pair Busted for Driving Redneck Limo

flickr.com/photos/cindy47452What is a redneck limousine, you ask? Well, it's anything looking remotely like the vehicle pictured above. or...It's when you have your friends and their dog pile into the backseat of your auto while you throw the kids in the trunk. That's what a duo from Lebanon, Missou ... More >>

Unreal ponders the eighth wonder of the world — a goat tower — and checks in with a bloggin' mom

Ask a Mexican!: Loco for Lebanon: Do Mexicans have genetic ties to the Middle East?

Dogs of War: Waltz with Bashir is both documentary and animated feature — and a remarkable bubbling up of repressed violence

Critical Mass: The best movies of 2008

Hotter Than Hell

Our mother, the war

Demons Among Us: The RFT paid a visit to America's foremost demonologist in Chesterfield and came home with our head spinning

Shots in the Dark: Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

Shots in the Dark: Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone

The Few, The Proud, The Shattered

Tina Richards' son returned, suicidal, from Iraq battlefields. Now, the Missouri woman is waging her own war in Congress.

Our top DVD picks for the week of February 15

ALL RIGHT ALREADY!

Does Joe consider himself a metrosexual?

Week of August 31, 2006

Shandy

Schlafly Bottleworks, 7260 Southwest Avenue, Maplewood; 314-241-2337.

One Swill Game

The long and tipsy road to the World Series of Beer Pong

Week of December 22, 2005

* Power

Unreal wanders into an un-bear-ably raucous party, plans a Missouri escape and visits a local blogger who's worried about Sheryl Crow; plus, our fantastic suggestion for the Mark McGwire Highway

In Deep

New Jewish Theatre plumbs Talley's Folly

Joint Effort

Music, politics and business converge at NORML's 30th- anniversary celebration

Space Case

Witnesses testify in the mystery of the Metro East UFO

THE EIGHTH ANNUAL ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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Comprehensive coverage of the Eighth Annual St. Louis International Film Festival