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Brandi Carlile Breaks Through

Dave Matthews Band at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 7/11/12: Review and Setlist

Dave Matthews Band | Brandi Carlile July 11, 2012 Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Dave Matthews has exceeded the usual confines of a musician. He is an idea, a cultural shorthand, a punchline, a hero. No less a songwriter than Brandi Carlile (much more on her in next week's print edition), who opene ... More >>

Bonnie Raitt at the Pageant, 5/18/12: Review, Setlist

Bonnie Raitt | Marc Cohn May 18, 2012 The Pageant They'd come in from Kansas City, Columbia, Minneapolis, Chicago, Louisville and West County -- and places further, I'm sure. The general admission ticket holders lined up outside the Halo Bar four hours or more before the doors would open, tailgatin ... More >>

Gary Montgomery Charged with Animal Neglect; Stray Rescue Instrumental in Developing Case

The office of City of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce recently trained Stray Rescue of St. Louis personnel  in the intricacies of legally documenting the appalling cases of animal abuse that Stray Rescue staff encounter on a daily basis. The goal of this late-March meeting was to expe ... More >>

MO Auditor Dings Cops for Missing Asset Forfeiture Reports

​Last month, in a story about the Camp Zoe case called "Shakedown," the RFT's Keegan Hamilton detailed the shocking process by which federal and state law enforcement authorities may legally seize cash, land or other valuables from a citizen -- even in cases in which the citizen has never been cha ... More >>

Access Denied: St. Louis Twenty Years After the ADA

In this week's feature story, "Step Right Up," RFT Music Editor Annie Zaleski describes how the Americans with Disabilities Act has affected her life. Zaleski was diagnosed with cerebral palsy as a toddler and was entering fifth grade when President George H.W. Bush signed the legislation into law.T ... More >>

Have you heard the RedNeck Rap?

It now comes with a half-hearted apology/introduction full of hillbilly jokes. If you missed it when it debuted on the Interwebz last month, prepare to be embarrassed for Kansas congressman Bill Otto (Republican, duh), who composed an Obama diss track after returning from a family reunion in the Oza ... More >>

Review: John Prine at the Touhill, Friday, February 27

"Hello," John Prine said when he walked onstage at UMSL Friday night and picked up a guitar. Then he reeled off seven songs from his prodigious back catalogue before delving into his most recent collection, 2005's Fair & Square.That was just dandy with the audience at the sold-out Touhill Perfor ... More >>

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Patti Scialfa

23rd Street Lullaby (Columbia)

What About the Children?

Normandy settles with a former instructor accused of exposing a high-school principal's shocking behavior

Not Odd Enough

The mismatched couple of When Brendan Met Trudy never quite jells

White Out

A local contractor gets called a fake as the dispute over minority set-aside contracts heats up. The city and some local contractors say he is; the state says he's not.

Sound Checks

Are You Sure Hank Done It That Way?

An essential boxed set shows what was right about Hank Williams and what's wrong about country music today