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Public Enemy, Har Mar Superstar, Water Liars, Pink and More in This Week's Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

REO Speedwagon, Brandy, Sasha, Boris and More in This Week's Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Josh Ritter & the Royal City Band, Kishi Bashi, Yonder Mountain String Band and More in This Week's New Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Game Changer: Chris Kluwe is prying open America's last closet: major league sports

Matisyahu, Psychedelic Furs, Teenage Bottlerocket and More in This Week's New Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Megan Boken: St. Louis Homicide No. 80; Former SLU Volleyball Player Killed in CWE

Megan Boken, 23, a native of the Chicago area, was shot to death on Saturday afternoon near the intersection of Maryland and Taylor avenues. Witnesses told police that Boken was in her car at 2:20 p.m. when a man either exited the vehicle or opened the door and fired two shots, hitting her in the ne ... More >>

Police Say Megan Boken Was Killed During Attempted Robbery

Police are now investigating the murder of former SLU volleyball player Megan Boken as an attempted robbery. They have no evidence that Boken knew her killer, and that it now appears that nothing was stolen from her person or her car. Boken was shot while sitting in her car near the intersection of ... More >>

"Batman" Lenny B. Robinson Stops in STL with Tricked Out Batmobile [VIDEO]

"Batman" spoke to DailyRFT about the shooting in Aurora, his kids, and driving a car that shoots fire but doesn't have A/C (go figure).

Dwayne L. Buckingham: Visiting Author Leads Way to True Love and Holy Matrimony

Attention ladies of St. Louis: We are in the middle of a R.E.A.L. Love Celebration. Dwayne L. Buckingham, a psychotherapist and author from Silver Spring, Maryland, has come to town to promote his new book, Qualified, Yet Single, and will explain to you tonight why even the most eligible-seeming men ... More >>

Neighborhoods Across U.S. Are Growing More Diverse, But St. Louis Is Lagging

The Manhattan Institute, a conservative research foundation, released a large study this week claiming that the nation's all-black "ghettos" are dissolving and that American neighborhoods have never been so racially integrated since 1910. Using census data, the authors of the report, titled "The En ... More >>

Missouri's Prison Population Getting Older

In Missouri, the percentage of state prisoners age 50 and over has doubled in the past ten years, rising to 15.3 percent of all inmates in fiscal year 2010, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch, titled "Old Behind Bars: The Aging Prison Population in the United States." That change repr ... More >>

National Ink for Missouri's Teacher-Student Facebook Law

​The Show-Me State made an appearance on page A1 of Sunday's New York Times in an article outlining the various ways U.S. school districts are grappling with the ethical and legal implications of electronic communication between teachers and students. Missouri has in some respects been ahead ... More >>

St. Louis Dethroned: City Now Ranked 4th Most Dangerous Place in America

​Our reign is over. St. Louis is no longer the Most Dangerous City in America, a title it held in '06 and again in 2010. Flint, Michigan, has stolen our thunder to become the new No. 1, according to the latest crime rankings from the always controversial CQ Press.The publisher of crime data statis ... More >>

Gay Old Times: It's LGBT history to us. To them, it was life.

Man Says Marketing Firm Promoting Menthol Ciggies Canned Him Because He's White

Image viaThe firm told Hogan STL didn't have a market for any more of these. ​The second sentence of Daniel P. Hogan's federal complaint reads, "Plaintiff is a white male." Not usually the basis for complaining. But Hogan's lawsuit, which just got transferred into Missouri's Eastern federal distri ... More >>

CWE Bissinger's Now Open for Morning Treats, Too

Laura MillerNow available at breakfast, too. (Dear God!)​As a chocolatier offering scrumptious tortes, pastries, wine pairings and even the occasional chocolate martini, Bissinger's at Maryland Plaza has long been a favorite spot of midafternoon snackers and dessert-minded revelers.But now you don ... More >>

Does DeCoster Egg Farms Have (Salmonella-Tainted) Egg on Its Face Conscience?

Image via​A fascinating and deeply disturbing article in today's New York Times: DeCoster Egg Farms, the egg "empire" founded by Austin J. DeCoster that is at the center of the recent salmonella outbreak in eggs, has played a key role in the spread of salmonella over the past two decades.Farms tie ... More >>

A dog's life: Readers are moved by the plight of pit bulls

Nikki Llewellyn of Backstreet Jazz & Blues at Westport Mixes...a Risqué Martini

Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar, a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders. This is part one of Alissa Nelson's two-part profile of Backstreet Jazz & Blues bartender Nikki Llewellyn. Part two, a Q&A with Llewellyn, will be posted tomorrow. Alissa NelsonProceed with cauti ... More >>

Artgasm: This Weekend's Art Openings, June 11 - 14, 2010

Want to feel better about your current relationship status? Whether you're steadfastly single or smugly settled, you can visit the Museum of Broken Relationships and just be glad you aren't one of the anonymous donors who had to get rid of their ex's crap. The exhibit is just one of this weekend's a ... More >>

Mayor Slay Defends Stripper Mobile; Vehicle Turns Heads in St. Louis, Baltimore

Behold: A "Stripper Mobile"​Man, am I kicking myself right now. Late last Friday I got an invite to tool around downtown in the St. Louis Hustler Club's "Stripper Mobile" -- a converted U-Haul truck outfitted with plexiglass walls and (you guessed it!) strippers.Sadly, though, I had to pass on the ... More >>

The USDA's Long-Awaited Organic Pasture Access Rule: Only Two Months to Go!

image credit​Beginning in June, cattle across America will get a breath of fresh air. Last month the United States Department of Agriculture quietly issued a press release announcing that it had completed the five-year process of retooling the rules governing organic livestock practices. The ... More >>

Stripper from St. Louis, Citing 1930s Labor Law, Sues Exotic Dance Club in Federal Court

Once upon a time, Quansa Thompson was just a teenager at Cardinal Ritter and Gateway High School. Now she's a 29-year-old exotic dancer on the East Coast who's filed a federal lawsuit against a strip joint for violating a Depression-era labor law. Thompson sent us this photo of her in a 2008 calen ... More >>

Unreal channels our inner Billy Mays (may he rest in peace), hawks All-Star banners and checks in with a Graybar blogger

Heavy Metal Parking Lot: Judas Priest Then and Now

The more things change, the more they stay the same. This old adage was proved true last night in the parking lot outside the Judas Priest/Whitesnake show at Family Arena in St. Charles, as this slideshow here proves.Steve TruesdellA Judas Priest show now. More photos from last night here.Sure, the ... More >>

Final Exit: Do Not Enter

Sammy Hagar to Open Sammy's Beach Bar & Grill at Harrah's Casino, Maryland Heights

Even though Sammy Hagar isn't opening one of his patented Cabo Wabo Cantinas in St. Louis, he announced yesterday that he's opening another restaurant here: Sammy's Beach Bar & Grill, which will replace the Moby's Fish Tales restaurant in the Harrah's casino in Maryland Heights. During an interv ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Central West End Hosts Adult Costume Party, Sarah Palin at the Blues Game, Of Montreal at the Pageant, Danzig at the Pageant

Live-Blogging Iron Barley's Appearance on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives

St. Louis Concert Calendar: July 25, 2007

"The word ‘faggot’ seems to come very naturally to Mr. Crawford.”

Week of November 23, 2005

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of September 28, 2005

Think Pink

Hit the Landing for "Pink Week"

Cheryl Wheeler

Tuesday, March 15; Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue)

Letters

Week of February 2, 2005

Letters

Week of December 8, 2004

Soccer It to Me

The St. Louis Steamers heat up their home opener

Letters

Week of July 14, 2004

Dance Moves

Radar Station traces the twists and shakes of the local club scene

Trappistes Rochefort 10

Brennan's, 4659 Maryland Avenue, 314-361-9444

Another Steakout

Don't let the Lou become the sole property of Bloosiers; plus, we try to go on a wholesome date (to Mel's new movie, perhaps?), visit one of the few remaining typewriter stores, learn a thing or two about balls and make some super suggestions for Lambert

Inn Again

Week of August 13, 2003

Release the Hounds!

Dogs are born free, but parks are extra

Planet Asia

The newly renamed Asian Grille tries to be all things Eastern but fails

Flying Fish

Goofy name aside, Wholly Mackerel has a promising future

Letters

Week of August 1, 2001

Testing, Testing, Testing

Missouri's MAP is a fine, thoughtful standardized test. So how come it's wreaking havoc in the schools?

News of the Weir

Well-known St. Louis restaurateur Jack Weir brings us another offering

Perpetual Movement

American BT builds a new house, to rave reviews from both sides of the pond

BALABANTER

Revealing the people behind the scene