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Fat Lady Sings: Karaoke Columnist Hopes You've Had the Time of Your Life

Karaoke can be a dangerous endeavor. What can you sing that won't make friends shun you? How can you go balls-out during your next performance? Each week in "Ask a Karaoke Host," RFT Music writer and professional karaoke host Allison Babka answers your burning questions about maximizing your melodio ... More >>

Ku Klux Klan Can Pass Out Handbills in Missouri, Court Rules in Free-Speech Case

In a victory for First Amendment supporters -- and white supremacists -- a federal judge ruled yesterday that a St. Francois County city cannot prohibit the Ku Klux Klan from distributing leaflets on city streets. The decision isn't all that surprising. The courts have ruled in favor of the Traditi ... More >>

21 Best Halloween Candies Of All Time

Gut Check isn't so old that we don't remember the hierarchy of Halloween candy: i.e., good stuff and crap. While neighbors who neglect to buy the best sweets suffer at the hands of t.p.-ing teenagers, Gut Check's house remains unscathed. Stay on the good side of neighborhood ne'er do wells by dolin ... More >>

David Freese's High School Coaches Reflect on Former Player's World Series Heroics

David Freese was great in high school, but did anyone foresee a World Series hero?​When all is said and done, David Freese's performance in Game 6 of the World Series might go down as one of the greatest postseason performances of all time. At bat in the bottom of the ninth with two outs and down ... More >>

Best and Worst Halloween Candy Countdown: No. 13

It wasn't all that long ago that Gut Check was donning our finest Disney princess Star Wars character drag outfit and joining the swarms of greedy American children on the hallowed Halloween quest for candy. So we remember well the post-trick-or-treat ritual of sorting the bounty into two piles, i.e ... More >>

Angela Halliday was a junkie. Does that make her a murderer?

Shit Colby Rasmus' Dad Says: The father of the St. Louis Cardinals phenom is never at a loss for words. But what he says might surprise you.

Cardinals Stuck in Routine: Rehire McGwire and Duncan for 2011

Will leftover buns score runs next season? Ehh.​Meet the new bosses, same as the old bosses. So it shall be in the Cardinal clubhouse again in 2011, as the club has agreed on contracts with pretty much the entire coaching staff, including Dave Duncan and Mark McGwire, the only two anyone real ... More >>

Reason No. 1,381 Why Albert Pujols is Awesome: He Gives Autographed Bats To Kids Injured By His Homers

So you're a Little League player attending a Cardinals game with your parents. You have prime seats in the front row in dead centerfield. You even bring your glove with you in case a homerun ball comes flying your way.Then, in the sixth inning, Albert Pujols steps to the plate and crushes line drive ... More >>

The Five Biggest B.S. List Makers on the Internet

Image sourceNow THAT is a well-reasoned and objective top ten list.​This week's RFT feature story takes a satirical look at the arbitrary and often asinine world of online rankings, studies and surveys. We're talking about the lists that attempt to quantify the unquantifiable and compare the uniqu ... More >>

18 Symbols That Should Be Made "Official" in Missouri

​In Missouri, legislators didn't think it was a good idea to name a dead dog as the official state canine. On Thursday, the state House defeated a bill aimed at making "Seamen," the dog that accompanied Lewis and Clark on their trip West, the official canine in our state. As the Post-Dispatch ... More >>

Good Game: The Post Sports Bar in Maplewood is a winner

"Very Conservative" Lad Forming Newer, Younger TEA Party

anytimecostumes.comTaxed enough already, kid? ​You know how it is each April. You'd think your kids would be happy. Summer is just around the corner. Little League season is starting up. In short, there's a lot to look forward to. But no. All your kids can think of is the @$%&in' government. ' ... More >>

Foul Territory: Unreal goes outside the lines during All-Star Week

My Cardinals: Tim Lane

This past year, over at Viva El Birdos, I wrote a post on Christmas Eve called "God Bless Us, Everyone." It wasn't about baseball, as is often the case with the things that I write, but about my own feelings at Christmas about, well, just life in general. I was pretty proud of the way the piece turn ... More >>

My Cardinals: Larry Borowsky of VivaElBirdos.com

You know, back when I started putting these together, I had thought to lead off with Larry Borowsky, since he's really the guy who gave me my start writing about the Cardinals. I was just a blogger over at Viva El Birdos, which Larry founded, and he asked me if I wanted to contribute to the front pa ... More >>

Unreal takes back the Big Red, talks to a Steeler, and dances the inaugural night away

Perverts Beware: St. Louis area police have your number

Texas Tornado

Chuy Arzola's
6405 Clayton Avenue

That's Not Sporting!

Isn't poor sportsmanship OK when you know you're right?

Monster Next Door?

From Webster Groves High to Imo’s Pizza to a cheap apartment in a forlorn corner of Kirkwood. For years Michael Devlin was all but invisible. Now he’s Public Enemy No. 1.

Hold 'Em Tight

Unreal went to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker and all we got was this lousy story.

Four-on-Four

It's four times the fun

Oblique Strain

When a blogger fingered him in the Jason Grimsley scandal, strength coach Chris Mihlfeld found himself in a world of pain.

False Start

A Ladue man gets hit with a time-out just as he nears his goal of building a decent athletic field for city schoolkids.

Tom A. Toe's Life

The Missouri Botanical Garden lets you put those grow lights to good use

Bears Are Us

Bad News Bears isn't about baseball. It's about America.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of July 13, 2005

Film Openings

Week of June 22, 2005

Skin Crawls

Gregg Araki's latest is more icky than mysterious

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, 05 may be a pleasant surprise.

Now You See It

Susan Miller's My Left Breast riffs on loss of all kinds

Tony La Russa's Manhattan Project

A top-secret squad of "Shadow Cardinals" improves with age at a remote training center in Kansas

Baby Blak

Once You Go Blak (Rapster)

Genome Whiz!

Learn fun things about the humble mole rat, getting busted in East St. Louis and why our city wants to have the blues

Paul Faaaaag!

The creator of TV's Freaks can't stop talking about being a geek

They Take the Heat

Week of January 2, 2002

Dead Wrong About Frank

Frank was an angry, violent 9-year-old on his way to becoming a sociopath. Jim Holland saw something else.

Kong Reads His Poetry

William Trowbridge, deprived of pop culture as a child, infuses his work with it as an adult

The Midas Touch

Cardinals owner Bill DeWitt Jr. has a knack for making money without risking his own. Meet the guy who wants you to cough up $250 million for a new stadium.

Richard II

By William Shakespeare (St. Louis Shakespeare Company)

Plight of the Gypsies

Home is where they have to take you in. But for the Roma refugees who've come to St. Louis, there's no such place.

STILL MAKING SENSE

The Talking Heads' David Byrne once again reinvents himself, this time as an ambassador of Latin American music