Personal Finance

Raising Cain on Stage

Ask Fan Landers: What Can I Do To Make My Album A Success?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Collected Creativity

There's One in Every Family

Nelly's Ex'treme Institute: Photos from Last Night's Webcast Party

Contrary to what you might think, local legend Nelly's latest collaboration isn't with some up-and-coming rapper or hot-shot producer; it's with St. Louis-based Vatterott College. Located on Laclede's Landing, Ex'treme Institute (800 North Third Street, 888-669-0633) by Nelly opened its doors last ... More >>

The Thanksgiving Tradition

Post-Dispatch Sued (Again) Over Retiree Benefits

​The beleaguered St. Louis Post-Dispatch -- already fending off a lawsuit from the Newspaper Guild over retiree benefits -- now faces another suit from the union representing its mailroom workers.The CWA Local 14620, also known as the St. Louis Mailers Union No. 3, represents the 220 employees who ... More >>

Lee Enterprises Gets Another SEC Warning -- Stock Faces Delisting

Lee Enterprises has loads of debt -- but the company's current market value has dipped below $50 million.​Lee Enterprises -- parent company of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Arizona Daily Star and a number of other smaller newspapers -- has been warned a second time in as many months that it cou ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Why do Mexicans come to this country illegally instead of legally?

Comment of the Day: Time to Drug Test that CEO

While the real dialogue on DailyRFT today could be found on a post about the efficacy of red-light cameras in saving lives, the most succinct and humorous comment of the day came in response to a post about a bill allowing welfare recipients to be drug tested. Commenter "AN" had this to say: So seri ... More >>

Survey Sez: Missouri "Sharply Divided" on Health Care Reform

Missouri is still divided on Obamacare.Courtesy of Minnesotamajority.org​ Almost a full year after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. health care reform, a.k.a Obamacare) into law, Missouri remains sharply divided on its merits, according to a new survey from a local ... More >>

Local Musicians' Union Thwarted in its Plot to Undermine Kansas Show at Family Arena

The Musicians' Association of St. Louis has threatened to protest Saturday night's Kansas concert at the Family Arena in St. Charles because the band chose to be accompanied by the Truman State University's student orchestra instead of professional musicians. This is all part of a charitable endeavo ... More >>

Netherlands vs. Brazil

Obama Administration's No. 1 Insurance Watchdog Used to Stir Things Up in MO

Image viaJay Angoff, former Missouri bureaucrat, is now Obama's big insurance guy in D.C. ​The gigantic healthcare overhaul that Obama et al somehow pulled off this year is going to so deeply change the health insurance game, they had to create a whole new federal body just to deal with it-- and t ... More >>

Holy Collection

Ink-Stained Kvetch: Post-Dispatch Retirees Make Good on Threat, Protest Ex-Employer

It all piles up.​Several dozen former employees of the Post-Dispatch gathered yesterday morning outside the newspaper's office on Tucker Boulevard to protest cuts to their health-care coverage. As first reported last week in Daily RFT, Lee Enterprises, owner of the paper, notified former employees ... More >>

You Vant to See this Play

Book Blow-Out

Injured St. Louis Tea Party Protestor Has No Health Insurance, Asking For Donations for Medical Bills

thinkprogress.orgGladney in a wheelchair two days after his "beating".​In yet another example of how truth is stranger than fiction, I present you with the case of Kenny Gladney. Who is Mr. Gladney, you ask? He's the current poster boy for the St. Louis national Tea Party movement. Gladney is the ... More >>

Big Boutique But Not Big Bucks

Good News For Your Next Vacation to Afghanistan

www.funnyphotos.net.auPlanning a little weekend getaway to lovely Afghanistan? Bird watching in the FARC-controlled jungles of Colombia? Visiting a quaint little health spa in Mogadishu? You're in luck.Thanks to a bill signed into law today by governor Jay Nixon, Missouri life insurance providers ca ... More >>

Looky Here

Earthly Pursuits

Piano?

Prepare for prepared piano

Closing: Blue Water Grill

Scott Linehan: I Can See Him Now

Glenn in the Glen

Goose and Maverick will be there, too

Live in the Past

At least for a weekend

Money Hubble

Cause and Effect

The Ur Critic

Jazz Pizzazz

Strike a Pose

Support Your Local Hooker!

What Is the Worst Bill You've Ever Had to Pay?

Week of December 22, 2004

And Then There Was One

A great hip-hop station switches format and leaves St. Louis a little poorer

Bad Medicine

Has the St. Louis College of Health Careers failed to deliver on promises of a good education and rewarding jobs?

Chutes and Ladders

Bill Stallings, the mastermind behind the Chase Hotel renovation and one of St. Louis' biggest movers and shakers, has tumbled hard

Best Gadfly

Tom Sullivan

Hard Hat

Week of May 28, 2003

Best Mexican Deli

La Tropicana Market

Money Doesn't Buy Politicians?

Even the worst judges ought to know better than that