Ozark Mountains

Tower Grove Farmers' Market: Scenes from Opening Day

It was a damp and chilly opening day for the eighth season of the Tower Grove Farmers' Market (Main Drive & Center Cross Drive, west of the wading pool; 314-771-4410 ), but that didn't stop St. Louisans from showing up to enjoy food, music and the variety of crafts from local artisans. Chilly weath ... More >>

At Odds with the Modern World: Widowspeak chronicles its nostalgic struggles on Almanac

The Five Best Uses of Animal Sounds in Songs

The ol' Casio keyboard sound effects never get a workout quite like they do around Halloween, when nearly every spooky song comes punctuated with a howl or a squeak. Or a half-dozen of them, as in the case of the maddeningly catchy kids' song "Pumpkin Jack." (Click here to listen, and don't say we d ... More >>

Matisyahu, Psychedelic Furs, Teenage Bottlerocket and More in This Week's New Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

Legal Moonshine Emerges from Copper Run Distillery in Walnut Shade, Missouri

Last week, Gannett profiled Copper Run Distillery out of Walnut Shade, Missouri, calling it the first legal distillery to crop up in the Ozark Mountains since Prohibition. Copper Run produces un-aged corn whiskey, also known as moonshine from a blend of 80 percent corn and 20 percent wheat. The end ... More >>

New York Times Runs A-1 Feature on Fast Eddie of the Ozarks

Maybe Edward Maher was channeling his inner-James by choosing to relocate to the Ozarks while on the lam.​Our very own Ozark Mountains make a splash on the front page of this morning's New York Times, as Kansas City-based A.G. Sulzberger recounts the incredible yarn of super-fugitive Edward Ma ... More >>

"Lost Boy" Member, Kiddie-Porn Producer, Sentenced

​A Michigan man who produced child pornography depicting young boys being sexually abused and shared it with one of the most notorious online pedophile groups ever busted by the federal government has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, the United States attorney for the Central District of ... More >>

In a tiny town just outside Joplin, a landmark adoption case tests the limits of inalienable human rights

Knockout King: Kids call it a game. Academics call it a bogus trend. Cops call it murder.

Try This: Ozark Black Walnut Ice Cream Sandwich from Dad's

Deborah Hyland​The cicadas are back. The spring rains have been making the weeds shoot up like... well, like weeds. It's nowhere near warm enough to run through the sprinkler, but that's no reason not to get a jump start on summer by devouring a few ice cream sandwiches. Ice cream trucks have ... More >>

First Prairie Chickens, Now Elk: A Look at the Dept. of Conservation's Latest Project

courtesy the Missouri Department of ConservationThe majestic elk...sort of like the ones that will be arriving in MIssouri next week.​Elk have not lived in Missouri since Abraham Lincoln was president. (Since 1865, for those of you keeping score at home.) For mere humans, that's a really, re ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Visits the Ozarks Tonight

Photo: The Travel Channel​When Anthony Bourdain appeared in St. Louis last year, he noted that while he had no plans to feature our city in his Travel Channel show No Reservations, he would be visiting the Missouri Ozarks for an episode of the upcoming season.That episode airs tonight at 8 p.m. ce ... More >>

The Firth King, and Other Acadamy Award-Inspired Fast Food Treats

In honor of being nominated for Best Actor in his role as stammering King George VI in The King's Speech, fast food-loving Brit Colin Firth will get to create his own sandwich at Burger King if he wins the Academy Award. hollywoodnews.com​ Firth hasn't said what he'll put on his burger if he ... More >>

See Food Documentary Fresh at Schlafly Bottleworks Tonight

Image via​Tonight, as part of its "Good Gardening Good Food" film series, Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue; 314-241-2337) will host a screening of the documentary Fresh.Here is the film's official synopsis:FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are ... More >>

Interview: Director Ana Sofia Joanes on the Making of Fresh

Dustin Meyer PhotographyAna Sofia Joanes, director of Fresh​As posted earlier today, the food documentary Fresh will be screened at 7:30 p.m. this evening in the Crown Room of  Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue; 314-241-2337).Gut Check had a chance to speak with director Ana Sofia J ... More >>

Tweakers 'N Diggers: Looters are pillaging Native American burial grounds to finance their meth habits

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: Friday, January 22 to Sunday, January 24

Please look here and here for Haiti benefits happening around town this weekend. Friday, January 22 *Corey Smith, The Pageant *Jeff Coffin & the Mu'tet, 2720 Cherokee *Sarah Borges and the Broken Singles, Deluxe (last show at the venue) *Soul Kiss (reunion), Duck Room *Mario Pascal, Lamar Harris a ... More >>

KSHE Klassics -- A YouTube Compendium (Part 2)

​And now what you've all been waiting for: The second and final installment in RFT's carefully curated hastily thrown together assemblage of YouTubery that reflects the KSHE Klassics of our (or someone's, anyway) youth. In case you missed Part 1, in this week's issue, Annie Zaleski heralds the ar ... More >>

St. Louis Concert Announcements: Week Of November 17

Chris BuckThe Magnetic Fields​The Pageant *Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Saturday, January 2 *New World Spirits, Saturday, January 16 *Dark Star Orchestra, Thursday, February 11 *The Magnetic Fields, Saturday, March 6 Scottrade Center *John Mayer/Michael Franti and Spearhead, Saturday, March 20 ... More >>

St. Louis Concert Announcements: Week Of May 25

Pageant *18 & Life: The Favazz and KSHE Anniversary Show starring Joe Dirt and the Dirty Boys Band and The Who Band: A Tribute to the Who, Friday, June 19 *The Robert Cray Band, Tuesday, July 7 *The Wallflowers, Sunday July 26 *Rusted Root, Monday, July 27 *Xavier Rudd, Saturday, August 8

Riverfront Times' Kristen Hinman Wins James Beard Award

Riverfront Times staff writer Kristen Hinman last night won the James Beard Foundation Award in the category "Newspaper Feature without Recipes" for her article "The Pope of Pork." The article profiles Missouri hog farmer Russ Kremer and the Ozark Mountain Pork Cooperative.This is Hinman's second aw ... More >>

From Ozark Wimp to Muscle Man Behind a New York Publishing Empire

amazon.comThere's a new book out chronicling the rags-to-riches tale of Bernarr Macfadden, a sickly child from the Missouri Ozarks who moved to St. Louis in the late 1800s. While in St. Louis Macfadden discovered the virtues of weight-lifting and physical exertion -- even spending some time on the r ... More >>

Riverfront Times' Kristen Hinman a James Beard Award Finalist

Riverfront Times staff writer Kristen Hinman is one of three finalists in the "Newspaper Feature without Recipes" category of the 2009 James Beard Foundation Awards. Hinman is nominated for "The Pope of Pork," her profile of Missouri hog farmer Russ Kremer and the Ozark Mountain Pork Cooperative.The ... More >>

SXSW: Day 1 with M. Ward, Billy Bob Thornton, Caitlin Rose and Gringo Star

On Sixth Street in Austin, it's Day One of SXSW 2009 (for Day Zero, go here) and the promotional and busking stunts are on: A couple of kids dressed in epidermally fused body suits to hype (sweetly) their outer space band Frontier Brothers, some Transformer mechano-dude on stilts, a posse with a sig ... More >>

In This Week's Issue: Pork, Deluxe and Spanish Coffee

This week's issue is now available online. Kristen Hinman presents a feature story on Russ Kremer and the Ozark Mountain Pork Cooperative. I review Deluxe Fine Food & Spirits, a comfort-food joint and bar in Maplewood. Kristie McClanahan's Drink of the Week visits Cafe Ventana for a Spanish Cof ... More >>

The Pope of Pork: In tiny towns across Missouri, old-school hog farming stages a comeback — and at tables across the nation, diners rejoice

Unreal News Challenge 2007

Week of December 27, 2007

Steve Cash Comes Alive

And so do the groupies

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Big Smith

Friday, January 9; Mississippi Nights

Old News

Reissues of classics are the gifts that keep on giving

St. Chuck Amok

Different river, same idea

Sidesaddle Rebel

A Missouri native hits the trail to make sure her Civil War novel is authentic in all details

Saintly in St. Chuck

The Lord's county executive plans to cleanse his county's Family Arena

The Morells

Saturday, Sept. 2; Duck Room

Lunar Exploration

A journey with Missouri writer William Least Heat-Moon deep into America and his mind's interior landscape

Strip Search

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