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The Ag-Gag War: How undercover animal-rights activists are winning it

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 >>

YMCA St. Louis Lawsuit: Two Men Sue Over Alleged Swimming Instructor Molestation

This week, two men have filed a lawsuit against the YMCA of Greater St. Louis -- more than twenty years after a swimming instructor allegedly molested them when they were just middle school age. The petition, on full view below, says that both plaintiffs want to ensure this abuse does not happen t ... More >>

Black Spade & Nato Caliph's Cassette EP Force Majeure: Review

Force compatriots Black Spade and Nato Caliph commit their long-running musical kinship to tape for the first time on Force Majeure. And I mean "tape" literally -- this nine-song program (featuring two interludes and a remix) is being released on cassette and .mp3, and the abbreviated format shows t ... 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 >>

First Look: Zoup! Joins West County Center

The food court at West County Center (I-270 & Manchester Road, Des Peres; 314-288-2020) will gain a new dining option with the opening of Zoup! tomorrow, November 1. Three guesses as to what Zoup! specializes in (hint: the cast of Seinfeld will be excited so long as the restaurant doesn't hire irate ... More >>

Anti-Coal Activists Want City to Wake Up to "Peabody Takeover"

When it comes to Peabody Energy Corp., it's hard to tell who's being naughty or nice. This week, the activist group Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment has been staging demonstrations against Peabody, the largest private-sector coal company in the world, headquartered in downtown St. ... More >>

The Ten Most Egregious Tax Loopholes in the U.S.

Danforth Center Has Big Plans to Eradicate World Hunger

image viaRamadhan Abdulla, a Tanzanian cassava farmer who has benefited from the Danforth Center's expertise and the Gates Foundation's money.​If there were an easy way to end starvation around the world, somebody would have thought of it by now. Obviously. But there are still one billion peop ... More >>

Express Scripts Tearing Up Fortune 500 List

Express Scripts is St. Louis' largest company -- by far.​The pharmaceutical management company Express Scripts isn't just the largest St. Louis company on this year's Fortune 500 list -- it's actually made the magazine's list of fastest growing companies across the nation.With 81.8 percent revenue ... More >>

Danielle Nierenberg: Former Resident of Defiance Reports on State of the World from Africa

image viaDanielle Nierenberg in Arusha, Tanzania.​Danielle Nierenberg, a former resident of Defiance, Missouri, now a project manager at the Worldwatch Institute, a think tank in Washington, DC, spent the past year and a half traveling through sub-Saharan Africa as part of a project called Nou ... More >>

Home Movies: SLIFF honors a native son and gives us films worth watching

PBS Tells You How to Host a Food, Inc. Potluck

Image sourceParty over Food, Inc. PBS-style!​Tomorrow night, April 21, PBS (locally, KETC-TV, Channel 9) will be broadcasting the documentary Food, Inc. for the first time as part of its POV documentary series. The network suggests you celebrate this wondrous event by hosting a viewer potluck with ... More >>

A Blogger's Baker's Dozen: The RFT staff presents a sampler of St. Louis' must-read contributors to the blogosphere

Meltdown in Venice: Larry Burgan wages an uphill battle to prove he was poisoned by radioactive waste

Viagra Maker Hard On St. Louis; Pfizer Announces It Will Slash 600 Local Jobs

A pharmaceutical giant's love affair with St. Louis is over, and it seems no amount of drugs and/or chemical enhancements will ever rekindle the flame. Just when you think Pfizer will grow, it shrinks. It happens to lots of companies.​Yesterday, Pfizer (maker of Viagra, Celebrex, Lipitor and count ... More >>

May the UrbanFORCE be with you, and hey, still looking for Cardinals home addresses?

Is an Influx of Stimulus Cash Too Much for UrbanFORCE to Handle?

flickr.com/photos/eszter​Thanks to the federal stimulus, Friday, August 7, was payday for hundreds of urban youths. At least, it was supposed to be.The teens had all found work this summer through UrbanFORCE, a program sponsored by the St. Louis Agency for Training and Employment (SLATE) that matc ... More >>

Unreal News Challenge 2006

Week of December 21, 2006

Tom Sullivan Takes on the Post

How Sweet It Is

Jennifer's is a thick slice of Midwestern paradise

Cocky to the Core

Meet the hotshots at this St. Louis ad firm. They're special. Just ask them.

Nice Genes

Upstream Theater's Soul of a Clone

New Year's Eve Listings

Week of December 29, 2004

New Year's Eve Listings 2004

Week of December 22, 2004

2003 New Year's Eve Guide

2003 New Year's Eve Guide

Crack Up

How to gain success and notoriety in the crack trade

Odd Ducks

The fight to preserve St. Charles County floodplains makes for some strange bedfellows

Tombstone Blues

Wealthy investors spend millions to resurrect the neighborhood near Bellefontaine Cemetery. They discover that money can't do everything.

Sherman's March

The venerable Billy Sherman's Deli makes a move but doesn't stray too far from where it came

The Job Hunter

Boeing triumph touches Bond's political Seoul

A Mayor Runs Through It

With the determination of a Missouri mule, Mayor Mike Swoboda drags a $40 million development into the heart of Kirkwood

The Graveyard Whistlers

Maritz Inc., the St. Louis giant nobody knows, the company that created the gold retirement watch and other corporate incentives, faces the future with a frozen smile

St. Louis Needs a Better Idea

Five Ford-tough choices follow decision to close Hazelwood plant

J.A. Lobbia: A Tribute

Lobbia's impact on this newspaper was without parallel

Letters

Week of October 17, 2001

The Fire Down Below

For more than three decades, Eric Vickers has been lighting brushfires, crusading against the racism he sees around him. Now, the civil-rights lawyer and activist finds himself burned.

The Right to Answers

Nobody knows why the babies are dying near Weldon Spring. But the grownups can't help asking whether the site's toxic stew is to blame.

Life in the Bughouse

The Insectarium's keepers are mad about their charges

The Talented Mr. Spellmann

Lindenwood University's president may be a genius, a savior and a visionary. He may also be higher ed's worst nightmare.

Will the Real John Ashcroft Please Stand Up?

Missouri's junior senator says he is a pro-consumer health-care reformist. But the insurance companies, HMOs and big business, which give him millions, think he's on their side.

Of Condoms, Catholics and Blood

Disturbed by the Red Cross' promotion of condom use, local Catholics are finding other organizations to handle blood drives. But is their stand having the intended result?

Behind the Veil

A new book rips the shroud off St. Louis' premier social organization

Fertile Imagination

In the era of modern agribusiness, organic farmer Paul Krautmann faces a tough row to hoe, but his innovative natural solutions yield delicious results

Lost at Sea

Editor Cole Campbell has left in his dinghy, and the mutineers at the Post-Dispatch are jubilant. Now, the flagship is listing and the crew has no idea where it's headed.

Uneven Kiel

Local Quixote Ed Golterman tilts at civic windmills in his quest to rehabilitate Kiel Opera House

Symphony Overtures

A great orchestra at great risk, the SLSO seeks major donors to close the endowment gap between their $28 million and the $100 million of their competitors

Wigged Out

Insurance-company evil comes in all sizes