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Missouri Hate Tweets: State Has High Rates of Homophobia, Racism, N-Word Usage (MAPS)

Compared to many other states in the country, Missouri has a high concentration of racist, homophobic tweets that include offensive, hateful language. And the tweeters are located all over the state. So says a neat new interactive map called the Geography of Hate, which analyzes geocoded tweets tha ... More >>

Don't Take the Synthetic Hallucinogen "N-Bomb," County Cops Warn

St. Louis County cops are warning you: The synthetic hallucinogen "N-Bomb" -- a.k.a. "legal acid" and "25-I" -- is available here. And it could kill you.  Their warning comes after undercover detectives from the county were able to purchase some in the area recently. (Can't tell from their e-ma ... More >>

Missourians File Petition With White House to Secede From Union

Missouri has joined a growing list of states petitioning the federal government for secession in the wake of President Obama's reelection. Residents in at least 20 states have posted petitions on the White House's "We the People" website. "We the People" allows anyone to suggest a policy initiativ ... More >>

17 Missouri Women Who Could Kick Todd Akin's Ass

Or, Why You Shouldn't Be Ashamed to Be a Female Voter in Missouri It's become pretty clear over the past few weeks that Todd Akin hates women. Oh, he hasn't said that in so many words -- which is actually pretty surprising since he doesn't seem to care much about the possibility of offending his fe ... More >>

St. Louis-Based American Patriot Beer Makes Its Local Debut

Lifelong St. Louisan John Beal's favorite beer growing up was Budweiser. "I always wanted the Budweiser car to win," he says. When its parent company Anheuser-Busch was purchased by Belgian brewing behemoths InBev in 2008, the career roofer was "bothered" by the takeover, and decided to take matters ... More >>

Woody Guthrie has plenty to say, 100 years after his birth

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 >>

Spankalicious Moves to Cincinnati, but His Roots Remain in St. Louis

Courtesy of the artistSpankalicious at the Copper Dragon last week in Carbondale, Illinois. ​Local bounce beatsmith Spankalicious recently made the move to Cincinnati, and tomorrow night he plays one of his last 2011 dates in St. Louis at 2720 Cherokee (2720 Cherokee Street, 314-664-9900) with ... More >>

Claire McCaskill Third Most Vulnerable Senator, Washington Post Says

Claire McCaskill: Vulnerable, but not because her challengers are so awesome or anything.​So Todd Akin is a smug know-it-all convinced that only those with his political beliefs are capable of respect for the Almighty. And so what if Sarah Steelman's campaign thinks 100 x 1,000 = 10,000?Never mind ... More >>

Federal Funds for Food Pathogen Screening in Danger

Wikimedia CommonsSprouts of doom.​ Despite growing concerns about E. coli outbreaks in food supplies, the Chicago Tribune reported yesterday that the federal government might eliminate the screening test for the form of E. coli that recently sickened more than 4,000 people and killed more than ... More >>

Bad Nuts! Peanut Butter and Hazelnuts Recalled

Wikimedia Commons​ Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't, because you're too busy suffering the effects of salmonella or E. coli. Unilever has issued a voluntary recall on Skippy Reduced Fat Creamy Peanut Butter Spread and Skippy Reduced Fat Super Chunk Peanut Butter Spread wit ... More >>

Missouri Attorney General Goes to Bat for Arizona's Immigration Law

Koster: Como se dice "bandwagon" in espanol?​Two days after Republicans bolstered their numbers in the Show-Me State and across the nation, Missouri's Republican-turned-Democrat attorney general is out with a move that's sure to please the Tea Party masses. Chis Koster announced today he is leadin ... More >>

Down on the Farm: Multimedia

​This week's feature story, "Down on the Farm," chronicles an increasingly heated national battle over "factory-farmed" food. On one side: a phalanx of corporation- and family-owned farms across the country. On the other: the Washington, D.C.-based Humane Society of the United States.Caught in the ... More >>

Missouri Comes to Its Census; Leads National Average in Returning Questionnaire

​Not only is today April Fool's Day, but it's also Census Day. Now ain't that a coinky-dink? So let's crunch some numbers, shall we, to see how Missouri fares compared with the rest of the fruited plain in filling out and returning the questionnaire. As of right now, the national partic ... More >>

There S/he Is! The Miss Gay America Pageant prances into St. Louis — and Unreal drinks it all in like a camel at Hoover Dam

Java Enabled Previews the Midwest Regional Barista Competition

​"It's like Iron Chef with baristas making coffee drinks."That's how Josh Ferguson, owner of Kaldi's Coffee Roasting Company, describes the Midwest Regional Barista Competition. The competition gathers the best baristas from Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dako ... More >>

Message Bored

Week of February 8, 2007

Cool to be Kind

Voluntary poverty, sustainable agriculture, helping one's fellow man. A Catholic Worker community quietly grows in north St. Louis.

Lewis & Clark & Clark & Clark

The very last Lewis & Clark story this paper will publish this year.

CSI:IRAQ

Sonny Trimble's grave undertaking: unearthing the victims of Saddam's slaughter.

Lyle Lovett

7 p.m. Friday, July 28. Overlook Stage (Sullivan Boulevard, on the Arch Grounds).

The Clown Priest

St. Louis’ Carl Kabat is back in the home he knows best -- a prison cell

Local Motion: MU330

Friday, March 31 at 8 p.m. The Billiken Club at Saint Louis University (Busch Student Center, 20 North Grand Boulevard)

What the Chuck?

Our best pal, Chuck Klosterman, brings Killing Yourself to Live to Left Bank Books

Chewing the Fat

A heaping helping of retorts to Unreal's "Lard Have Mercy"

Letters

Week of November 11, 2004

Best Bed and Breakfast

The Park Avenue Mansion

Shortwaving Radio

Proposed legislation by the U.S. Senate aims to deter the spreading radio empire. Good luck.

Off the Rails

The Guns N' Roses tour collapses, and Axl folds. Is anyone really surprised?

Home-Grown

Webster Groves R&B sensation Toya prepares for the big-time

Kind of Blue

The Big Muddy Blues Festival cascades over Laclede's Landing

Dayton Contemporary Dance Company

Dance St. Louis

What Is Your Greatest Athletic Feat?

COUNTRY HOME

Talented musicians bring new life to old standards at a St. Peters bar

WHERE COLUMNISTS GO TO DIE

Elaine Viets pens murder mysteries set in a parallel St. Louis from her new home in South Florida

Strip Search

Looking for Ozark culture amid the neon, glitter and traffic of Highway 76 in Branson

News of the Weird

Hightower Power

Radio gadfly and author Jim Hightower discusses his talk show, the fate of the populist movement and the perils of the middle of the road