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Boris and Pallbearer at the Firebird 5/12/13: Review and Setlist

Boris, Pallbearer at the Firebird 5/12/13 Opinions tend to vary regarding Tokyo's Boris. The group is respected by most of the people that know anything about it, and for good reason: In the last twenty years, Boris has released nearly 30 full-length records and an infinite amount of singles, live ... More >>

Gateway to the West Fest Returns - The Full Lineup is Here

Gateway to the West Fest is a St. Louis festival of hardcore punk music that first took place seven years ago at South City's American Czech Center when local hardcore promoter Adam "The Devastator" Greer pooled his contacts from his years of booking shows and brought St. Louis the likes of Outbrea ... More >>

The Cardinals' Online Museum Goes on the Road

​It's a marriage made in...Arkansas? The St. Louis Cardinals' Hall of Fame Museum went into storage back in 2008, in anticipation of it moving to Ballpark Village. As we all know, that didn't quite work out, so in January of 2012, the museum moved to its new home: online at this shiny new website. ... More >>

The Six Best Chain Restaurants in St. Louis

Selecting Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. In this Gut Check series, we are chewing our way through notable runners up in a number of categories. To see hundreds more winners and finalists a ... More >>

When federal investigators busted Jeffrey Greenwell outside St. Louis, they hit the kiddie-porn jackpot

The trail of an international child-porn ring led to a tiny house in the woods outside St. Louis

Meet St. Louis' Greatest Athlete: Baxter the Flying Dog

image viaSt. Louis's greatest athlete in action. His trainer, Tony Lampert, is in the background.​Now that Albert Pujols has left us, you may think that the title of Greatest Athlete in St. Louis is up for grabs. But you'd be wrong. The new Greatest Athlete is a world-record holder and a force ... More >>

Wilco Gets the Lullabye Treatment: Listen To A Soothing "I Am Trying To Break Your Heart"

​No one can accuse this of being dad rock: On Aug. 30, Twinkle Twinkle Little Rock Star, a series that transforms artists' songs into children's lullabies, released a Wilco edition. The album features twelve tracks including "Heavy Metal Drummer" and "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart." Twinkle ... More >>

Help Find The Union Electric's Glenn Burleigh's Stolen Guitar

Photo by Jess Luther. Larger image below.​Have you seen the guitar pictured to the right? Glenn Burleigh, who plays these days with Union Electric, had his home broken into earlier this week, and among the things stolen was his guitar: A 50th anniversary Fender Telecaster with Japanese custom ... More >>

"Cops" TV Show Coming to Springfield

Image viaRun Ronnie, run!​We've been waiting for SO long, and now it's really happening!"Cops," America's oldest reality show, is coming to the Missourah Ozarks for the first time ever, according to the News-Leader. A quick visit to the show's page over at IMDB reveals that the "Cops" film crew ha ... More >>

Mountain Pure Bottled Water Recalled for Mold Contamination

arkansasnews.comMountain Pure water​ In Clinton, Arkansas? Don't drink the water! Not even the bottled stuff, because it's been recalled. Mountain Pure Water in Little Rock, Arkansas voluntarily recalled cases of 16.9-ounce bottles of water. The Arkansas Department of Health issued a statem ... More >>

St. Louis Chefs Fall Short in Food & Wine Vote

Screenshot: www.foodandwine.com​As seemed likely since early last week, all three St. Louis chefs competing to be named the "People's Best New Chef" by Food & Wine magazine fell short of being named a finalist for the Midwest region when voting closed yesterday.Lee Richardson of Ashley's at th ... More >>

Last Call for "People's Best New Chef" Voting

Screenshot: www.foodandwine.com​Voting ends tomorrow for Food & Wine magazine's "The People's Best New Chef" competition. Our three St. Louis competitors -- Anthony Devoti of Five Bistro, Josh Galliano of Monarch and Kevin Willmann of Farmhaus -- need your help to pull off a last-minute miracl ... More >>

"The People's Best New Chef" Voting Update

Screenshot: www.foodandwine.com​You have until Monday, March 1, to cast your vote in Food & Wine magazine's "The People's Best New Chef" competition -- and St. Louis' three competitors need your vote! As of 11 a.m. this morning, each of the three St. Louis chefs -- Anthony Devoti of Five Bistr ... More >>

UPDATE: Last of the Steam-Powered Trains May Puff Into Town -- If You Cast Your Vote

image viaThe ol' 844 steams down the track.​Update, January 18: The Little Rock Express beat out the Tuscola Turn, 76,217 votes to 73,175. Daily RFT apologizes to Tuscolans who cannot take a little trash-talking in the name of friendly competition. -------- The nineteenth century was definit ... More >>

Happy Big 3-0, St. Louis LGBT Media!

​For three decades, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in St. Louis has had a voice in print. Several evolutions from its beginnings, Vital VOICE Magazine is celebrating 30 years of LGBT media, and it's shaping up to be quite the party."We have really grown and showcased how grea ... More >>

Jacques Hughes: Why He Had to Challenge the City Over a Noose Hung in the Courthouse

Jacques Hughes: "The sad part is this lawsuit never had to happen if the sheriff had given us 30 minutes of his time..."​Jacques Hughes was working as a sheriff's deputy in 2006 when his colleague William "Patrick" Hill alerted him to a prank in the basement of the Civil Courts building. One of th ... More >>

The Arkansas School for the Deaf Isn't F-F-F-Foolin' Around

Armageddon it.​(Via Deadspin) This week, the Arkansas School for the Deaf joined the Great Plains Schools for the Deaf Conference. The Little Rock-based school is now eligible to compete against teams from states such as Kansas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Missouri (specifically, the Missouri School fo ... More >>

Chef's Choice: Cary McDowell, Winslow's Home

Cary McDowell has been doing some reminiscing. "Maybe it's a function of turning 40," he says. "I feel very circular. I started my love of professional cooking at a very young age with a group in Little Rock, Arkansas, and they encouraged me to go off and do great things and work with the best peop ... More >>

Holiday Sneer: Do unscrupulous websites and fire-protection districts mess with our happiness quotient?

Cha-Ching! Feds Ask Public to Play "Who's That Bank Robber?"

Congratulations, St. Louis! No fewer than 59 bank robberies have gone down in the area so far this year. That tops last year's total of 45 ... but pales in comparison to the 77 heists that local bandits pulled off in 2002 -- a banner year.Bandittrackerstlouis.com, a website rolled out this morning b ... More >>

An ode to Michael Jackson; plus, NeighborhoodScout tells us who's bad

14th Street and MLK Drive Named St. Louis' Most Unsafe Neighborhood

In a survey of the nation's most crime-ridden neighborhoods by Dr. Andrew Schiller of the website NeighborhoodScout.com, St. Louis' very own downtown, specifically the intersection of 14th Street and Martin Luther King Drive, ranked fourteenth.How nice that this statistic appears just in time for th ... More >>

Wifi comes from peas, woman accusing cop of illegal behavior has to answer some Qs

STL Fed Reserve VP: Recession Will End in '10

Read Arkansas Business much?Didn't think so. That's what Unreal's here for! Speaking yesterday in Little Rock, Julie Stackhouse, a senior VP with the St. Louis Federal Reserve, saw a hint of blue financial sky amid the gray.Isn't it nice to be reassured (again) that THIS ISN'T AS BAD AS THE GREAT DE ... More >>

Death Watch: Final Exit's clandestine ways have put the assisted-suicide network on life support

Breathe Uneasy: St. Louis Ranked Worst City for Asthma

flickr.com/photos/wheatfieldsThe Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America recently came out with its annual ranking of worst cities for asthma. Leading the list is St. Louis. The study, funded by drug company AstraZeneca, took into consideration factors such as a city's air quality, pollen score, po ... More >>

The Ghosts of St. Louis Football, Part 2

I barely remember the St. Louis football Cardinals. I was only eight years old when they left; the extent of what I really have of them is an old nylon backpack in burgundy and a glass mug with the gridbird logo on the side. Even so, the team has a special little place in my heart. I suppose it prob ... More >>

Review Setlist Videos: Lucinda Williams at the Pageant, October 19, 2008

Unwed Sailor

Two More Post Memos We Forgot to Post

"When you think about it, is it really the school’s responsibility to prepare students for the outside world?"

Week of June 28, 2006

Vodka and Grapefruit

Unreal gets the lowdown on the Dirty Dog, meets plants who love a free lunch and finds a blogger who can't get enough Favre. Plus, Scientology's "volunteer ministers" are bringing relief to hurricane victims -- but not the kind you'd think.

Travelers' Tales

A soda called Pipi Bubble, Austria's last wandering shepherd, a boat made of 164,321 wine corks: It's all here

Weekend Forecast: Flurries

Flurries of fists, that is

Heaven Help Us

Unreal doles out seven helpful tips for a highly productive workplace, finds a local blogger in the closet and mourns the passing of Our Fair City; plus, we learn that God’s third in the gay evangelical ménage

Welcome to the Cabaret

The bar is open

Kids Today

Sekisui Pacific Rim has no problem making the grade

Star Flack

Publicist extraordinaire Jane Higgins has put St. Louis hip-hop on the map

A Curious Grace

With your ass on my face

Blowing Up the Apple

Week of July 23, 2003

Brassed Off

The up-and-coming St. Louis Brass Band gives some lip to more established groups

Family Affair

Gigging cousins Big Smith keep traditional tunes from going extinct

Best TV-News Anchor

Vickie Newton, KMOV (Channel 4)

Terra Scoped

Contemporary Museum St. Louis discovers treasure with the help of some maps

Loving Cup

East Side jazzman Eddie Fisher's soulful classic "The Third Cup" is a hot-ticket item all over the world -- too bad it's been out of print for 20 years

Feel His Pain

Billy Bob has a simple plan: to sing about life and lovin' his wife

Letters

Week of May 2-8, 2001

Mama Let 'em Play

St. Louis may be the center of the classic-rock universe

News of the Weird