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Brad Pitt Regrets Dropping Out of Mizzou

Brad Pitt wishes he did not drop out of the University of Missouri. Why? Because who would do such a foolish thing? What kind of guy would just give up on academics? Pitt, who grew up in Springfield -- where his parents still live -- opens up about his loneliness and his unfinished academic caree ... More >>

Organizing for Action: New Incarnation of Obama Campaign Group Ramps Up in Missouri

Barack Obama's reelection campaign may seem like a pretty distant memory at this point, but the group that ran his ground game across the country has morphed into a grassroots organization that is now ramping up its actions in Missouri. That nonprofit is called Organizing for Action, the latest in ... More >>

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 >>

Akin $270K in Debt from Failed Senate Bid

The Federal Election Commission released its post-general election report yesterday. All the giddy spending of election season has settled into the cold, harsh reality of paying for it all. Especially if you lost. It's as though post-Christmas gloom has come three weeks early! The news is especial ... More >>

[PHOTOS] Euphoria and Overpriced Champagne at the Chase: MO Dems Watch Party

Who was the saddest man at the Chase Park Plaza last night? He was tough to find amid a jubilant crowd 500 strong celebrating big Democratic victories at all levels of government, but tucked in a corner behind shrieking college students and a woman sobbing into her cell phone, we found him. Mark "J ... More >>

Kendrick Lamar's Debut is One of the Most Important Hip-Hop Albums of Our Era

Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis City. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

Election Night Comedy Debates: Spend One Last Night With Seven Of the Mouthbreathers You Blocked On Facebook Months Ago

Weather permitting, the end to the 2012 election season will arrive tomorrow night when the votes are tallied up and America prepares for the next four years. Not only does this mean we might be able to turn our TV's on without being lambasted with political rhetoric, this should also mean those ann ... More >>

7 Presidential Election Watch Parties, Freebies and Food Specials [Updated]

Gut Check is ready for the 2012 presidential election. Months of punditry, the presidential and vice-presidential debates and our Facebook newsfeed have prepared us ad nauseam, all leading up to tomorrow's presidential election. Naturally, watching the returns is a lot more exciting for Gut Check w ... More >>

Newt Gingrich: "When McCaskill Says She Hates Coal, She's Saying She Hates Missourians"

We have a fresh dispatch from Bullsh*t Mountain this morning, courtesy of Newt Gingrich. The former Republican Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives is in western Missouri this week, appearing at fundraisers and rallies with Todd Akin in the final days of his campaign. In the last month of ... More >>

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

U.S. Deer Collision Map Curiously Similar to Red State, Blue State Divide

West Virginia leads the nation in something. And, no, we're not talking about obesity or smoking or party schools. West Virginia is the most likely place in America for motorists to crash into deer!  According to State Farm insurance claims and statistics from the Federal Highway Administratio ... More >>

The Ladies of Booty Halloween 9

Halloween means well thought out and designed costumes. But, it also gives women a reason to dress as scantly clad as possible under the guise that nurses definitely wear lingerie in the operating room. And while lace and skin-exposure might not in fact be appropriate hospital attire, it was practic ... More >>

Todd Akin's Greatest Hits -- Coming Soon to a Mailbox Near You!

Forget Mitt Romney's "binders full of women." The joke will be totally passe by next week. But Todd Akin -- now that is a gift to Democrats that keeps on giving. From his explanation of "legitimate rape" to his complaint that his opponent Claire McCaskill was not sufficiently "ladylike" during their ... More >>

5 Things to Say to People So They Stop Talking About Baseball: #realtalk

Sometimes a journalist has gotta say the things no one else will say. So here goes nothing. There are probably three people in the greater metropolitan region who like me, have no interest getting wrapped up in the whirlwind of disappointment that is serious Cardinalmania. But as we take on the Bra ... More >>

The (Potentially Lethal) Guided By Voices Drinking Game

Rock and roll heroes Guided By Voices (playing tomorrow night at Plush; the show starts at 8 p.m. and tickets are $25 in advance) has undergone numerous lineup changes throughout its nearly 30-year history. But at least one aspect of the Ohio outfit has remained constant in all that time: its member ... More >>

Less Than Jake at the Firebird, 9/19/12: Highlights

Less Than Jake The Firebird Sept. 19, 2012 Remember when ska enjoyed that revival in the '90s? And remember when Less Than Jake said, "This ska thing is great, but it could use some pop punk, too?" And remember when it combined those things to such great effect that critics said, "This shit will ne ... More >>

Digging Deeper Into Paul Ryan's iPod Playlist: From AC/DC to Zeppelin and Beyond

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. When Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan spoke at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday, he pok ... More >>

University of Corporate Greed: America's for-profit colleges leave taxpayers and students high and dry

Working and Not Working: DW Gibson Talks About His Conversations With America's Unemployed

For many journalists, including DW Gibson, Studs Terkel's Working, originally published in 1974, remains a touchstone. Terkel took his tape recorder out into the streets of Chicago and interviewed some 200 people about what they did all day and how they felt about it, and then edited their responses ... More >>

Jim Crow's Alive and Well in 2012

The Gay Selma: Schools ignore gay bullying at their own peril

Familiar Ring: What must Devon Alexander "The Great" do to live up to his nickname?

Tea Party Princess: Victoria Jackson went from the big leagues of comedy to the rabid right of modern politics

Missouri's GOP Senate Candidates Seek to Create Space in Ideological Cluster

Who will face off against Senator McCaskill in November 2012?​The race for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination in Missouri runs around a thin, muddy track. There isn't much elbow rooms for the candidates, three self-described conservative Republicans with no significant differences in policy positions ... More >>

Missouri Likely To Favor Any Republican Candidate Except Palin in 2012

​A Public Policy Poll released yesterday indicates that all but one of a handful of Republican presidential candidates would win Missouri in 2012. That exception is Sarah Palin.The poll found that former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee would be the strongest candidate for Missouri's 11 electoral v ... More >>

Fish Out of (Frozen) Water: Renée Zellweger as the anti-Norma Rae

Janet Napolitano’s Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary

Special Election Edición: Where's the love for Obama?

Blood Letting: The Mexican explains why Hispanics love to rent Blood In, Blood Out

The Harlem Car Bomb

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