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Victim of Love: Charles Bradley has no time to dream

The Electric Pencil Takes Manhattan

If you plan to be in New York this week, you might want to take a couple of hours and venture to Hirschl & Adler Galleries on Fifth Avenue, near Central Park, and take a look at their new exhibition, "Talisman of the Ward: The Album of Drawings By Edward Deeds." After all, it's winter and too told f ... More >>

Inside the World of Edward Deeds, the Electric Pencil

This week's Riverfront Times feature, "The Electric Pencil," tells the story of Edward Deeds, a patient at Missouri State Hospital No. 3, a mental hospital in Nevada, who created a pile of 283 colored pencil drawings that he bound into a book for his brother and sister-in-law. Today the drawings are ... More >>

The Master's Master: Paul Thomas Anderson talks 70mm, Joaquin Phoenix and researching Scientology for his sixth and most anticipated film

Hansen's: Our "Limb-A-Nator" Tree Service is a Trademark, So Hands Off!

Hansen's Tree Service has a flair for puns. The O'Fallon-based company's website announces that their services are "Tree-mendous!" Another page has some "tree trivia," which they call, "Treevia." You monster truck fans will certainly know about Hansen's giant vehicle-beast, which features a branch-c ... More >>

Blues Brass Take Home All The Awards That Matter

The 2012 NHL Awards were held last night in Las Vegas, Nevada, also known as The Hockey Capital of the Western World. (Note: this may not be entirely accurate.) There were dozens, perhaps hundreds or even thousands of awards handed out (also a little iffy factually, maybe), virtually all of which bo ... More >>

Dim Sum Dumpling Recall Makes Gut Check Go All A la recherche du temps perdu

As far back as Gut Check can remember [insert your own Proustian madeleine reverie here], we've been smitten with the Chinese chow-down concept of dim sum. Sitting around a table with eight or ten people, pointing at exotic-looking items on the carts that the servers push around, asking, "What's tha ... More >>

Combat veterans fall prey to gambling addictions at an alarming rate. Where's the military when the chips are down?

What People Are Saying About Santorum's Missouri Win

​Last night Rick Santorum swept the primaries in Missouri, Minnesota, and Colorado. As expected, his most decisive victory was in Missouri, where he took all 114 county for a 55 percent runaway, more than doubling Mitt Romney's 25 percent. In many ways, it's a hollow success. It didn't count towa ... More >>

Missouri's 2012 Primary Election Would Be Very Telling If It Weren't Officially Meaningless

​A couple of weeks ago, Huffington Post blogger Will Bower wrote, "This February 7th, 2012, I'll be paying closer attention to Missouri's primary results and asking myself 'What if Missourians had been able to go first this time 'round?'" Bower, an outspoken crusader for election reform, proposed ... More >>

Bradley Cook: Kirkwood Man Pleads Guilty to Trafficking Sex Slave

Bradley Cook: Here's betting his prison name will be "PutHim2GoodUse."​Bradley Cook of Kirkwood pleaded guilty today in federal court in Kansas City to commercial sex trafficking of a young, mentally deficient woman who prosecutors says was coerced into being a sex slave for several years while sh ... More >>

Lawsuit: "Notorious Overseas Oligarch" Trying To Buy Rare Earth Mine in Missouri

Ahti Vilppula made his millions in media and metals in Europe.​It reads like the plot to a James Bond flick. New complaints added to a federal lawsuit in St. Louis suggest that a Finnish businessman with alleged ties to organized crime in Europe and the Middle East is attempting to gain control of ... More >>

Ten Biggest Musician Death Conspiracies

wikimedia commons​There's always been a sense of glamour in the blur of all that is sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, and it doesn't end when the music's done, or even when the rock stars die. Instead, an eerie feeling of mystery and unfinished business surfaces when the demise of a music icon is ... More >>

Write On: Readers point out other authors we should have included on our literary tour of the city

From Mark Twain to Jonathan Franzen, St. Louis has been home to a surprising number of great writers

White Collar Crime: Anglican bishop Martin Sigillito is accused of fleecing regular Joes and Racquet Club jet setters alike out of $45 million

Foreigner's Kelly Hansen Talks About Lineup Changes, Touring with Styx and Kansas, and Showing the World What Love is Through Music Education

​Classic rock critics -- er, "haters" -- will take great pride and joy in letting you know how much your favorite rock band from the '70s or '80s sucks. Take a band like Foreigner, for instance, whose hit songs ("Juke Box Hero," "Cold As Ice," "I Want To Know What Love Is") should get a pass f ... More >>

Cannonball Re-Run: A screwball crew of gearheads retool the outlaw cross-country car race

Polk, It Is Your Destiny

That Pinnacle Casino Boss Who Tried to"Muscle" a St. Louis County Councilman? His Career Sleeps With the Fishes.

Last week, Daniel Lee, CEO of Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment, unsuccessfully attempted to "muscle" St. Louis County Councilman Steve Stenger into voting against re-zoning land in North St. Louis County to clear the way for the construction of a new casino by a Pinnacle rival. This morning, the P ... More >>

Did A Vegas Casino Boss Try To Make A St. Louis County Councilman An Offer He Couldn't Refuse?

Image Via​Reporter Paul Hampel has an incredible story in today's Post-Dispatch about the CEO of Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. (the Vegas-based company that owns Lumiere Place, the Admiral and the new casino in Lemay) attempting to "muscle" a member of the St. Louis County Council before Tuesday's v ... More >>

Oh, Meth! New Campaign Against Meth Use Hopefully as Catchy as Old One

As we reported last week, U.S. "Drug Czar" Gil Kerlikowske is in St. Louis today to unveil the White House Office of National Drug Policy's new anti-meth campaign. Here's hoping the campaign is as good as the last one featured here.  Continue on to view the full press release of today's announ ... More >>

U.S. Drug Czar to Unveil New Anti-Meth Campaign in Drug's Hotspot: St. Louis

​Whatever your feelings about the Obama administration, you can't say that the president's office ignores St. Louis. Obama chose to visit the nearby suburb of Arnold for his 100th day in office. A couple month's later the prez returned to St. Louis to throw out the first pitch at the All-Star Game ... More >>

Ohlsen's Former Wife Testified that He Was Behind "Voters for Truth", Used Multiple Aliases

Jeff Smith​The former wife of Milton "Skip" Ohlsen testified last year that her ex-husband operated Voters for Truth, the political committee at the center of a federal probe into state Senator Jeff Smith (D - St. Louis) and state Rep. Steve Brown (D - Clayton).  Smith and Brown are reportedl ... More >>

Voodoo Child: Being Jimi Hendrix's baby brother can be a tough row to hoe, especially if you play guitar

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

7-Up vs. Coke, Part 1: From dot-com darling to disaster, the spectacular flameout of Andrew Gladney. Heir to a fortune, Andrew Gladney went from John Burroughs to Yale and came home to found Savvis Inc. Then he squandered it all.

Double Down

Gary Kaplan put all of his chips on BETonSPORTS and drew the worst hand of his life. Now he’s making tuna casserole in a St. Louis jail.

The Rockwell Files

Steven Spielberg's stolen painting, a St. Louis art thief, and a plot to kill Martin Luther King. It could make a helluva movie.

Preview: Kristeen Young

Orange You Mad at Dennis?

A Riverfront Times theater critic gets a critique of his own.

Spanorama

A new installation does justice to the functional beauty of the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge

What If . . .

A cadre of Missourians stand at the vanguard of the 9/11 "truth movement." Just don't call them conspiracy theorists.

One Swill Game

The long and tipsy road to the World Series of Beer Pong

Tunnel Vision

A new casino takes its downtown development plans underground

Keira Get Your Gun

Domino chronicles the life of a model turned bounty hunter

Letters

Week of June 29, 2005

Where Do Wolf Babies Come From?

Sometimes Mother Nature can use a little human intervention

Letters

Week of November 11, 2004

Blowing a Fuse

A black-owned St. Louis advertising firm is stirring the political pot

End of the Road

Trio is the network where great shows go to die, and so much more

Film Openings

Week of October 23, 2002

Chris Cross

Behind the Greenlight is a producer proud to be an ass

The Shame of Our City

Week of November 14, 2001

Unlucky Seven

Faced with an unprecedented rash of inmate suicides, St. Louis was slow to respond. Now there's a new jailhouse boss in town.

Tempest Tossed

Writer Terry Tempest Williams believes the chaos and terror of recent weeks could bring about a restoration of place and spirit in America

Joker's Wild

Casino lawyer Michael Lazaroff cheated for years -- and the insiders knew. Now that he's cut the deal of his life, why does anybody believe him?

Shelf Life

A new chapter for Loop mainstay A Collector's Book Shop

PRAYING AGAINST THE ODDS

Developers of a Lemay casino have political muscle on their side. But the School Sisters of Notre Dame are betting on a higher power.

Letters to the Editor