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Saint Louis Art Museum Recruits Chef Edward Farrow for New Restaurant

Gut Check heard through the grapevine a few weeks ago that Chef Edward Farrow, most recently of Phoenix, Arizona, would be moving to town this summer to oversee the new restaurant and café at the Saint Louis Art Museum (Forest Park Street; 314-721-0072). Yesterday, a press release from the museum ... More >>

Disappearing Ink: What will happen to all the books?

[UPDATE] Will Illinois Legalize Gay Marriage During This Week's Lame Duck Session?

Update January 3, 2:15 p.m.: The same-sex marriage bill will not be heard by the state senate until next week, Illinois Senate Democrats said in a statement this afternoon. Several senators whose "yay" votes are considered necessary for the bill to pass are currently away from Springfield due to fam ... More >>

University of Corporate Greed: America's for-profit colleges leave taxpayers and students high and dry

The Role Mexican Food Plays in the Immigration Debate

Jim Crow's Alive and Well in 2012

Is Civil Disobedience the Answer to Immigration Debate?

Supreme Court Decision on Arizona Will Divide Nation

The Blues' Sprint to the Finish Line

The NHL season is coming to a close, and the St. Louis Blues -- excuse me, that should be Your First Place St. Louis Blues -- are getting ready for their final push to the finish line. ​There's plenty on the line for the Blues, who currently sit atop both the Western Conference and the NHL as ... More >>

Madonna is Coming to the Scottrade Center: Pre-Sale and Ticket Information [Update]

Madonna, fresh off a Super Bowl appearance and more aware of how to capitalize than possibly anyone in pop music, has just announced a massive 2012 tour. And just days before Madonna 2012 World Tour goes out in (presumably) a blaze of infinite production value in Miami, she'll make a stop here in St ... More >>

The Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax: Indianapolis mobilizes for an epic battle with an urban legend.

Tampons Soaked in Vodka: Quick Drunk or Urban Myth? [Updated]

Update: (Tuesday, November 22, 11:30 a.m.) Inevitably, perhaps, an intrepid blogger has tried the vodka-soaked tampon and reported on her efforts. Details follow the original post after the jump! ​Taking shots of booze through the eyeball. Soaking gummi bears in booze. What adult-defying method o ... More >>

The Radiohead Presale is Tomorrow Morning: How to Increase Your Chances

Don't be like this dance enthusiast and miss out. ​You know by now: Radiohead has announced the first leg of its 2012 tour and St. Louis has one of the shows. It's on March 9th at the Scottrade Center, and tickets go on sale through Ticketmaster on Saturday at 10 a.m. But some spots (history ... More >>

Radiohead is Coming to the Scottrade Center! [Update]

​Update: There will be a four ticket maximum per person for those purchasing through Live Nation. Prices for the St. Louis show have not yet been announced. However, they range from $45 to $69 for the Dallas show (before fees) and $34 to $54 for the Phoenix one. Other Lives will open this enti ... More >>

9/11 Anniversary Brings Questionable Food Tributes

Wikimedia CommonsWe will never forget. Unless we overdo it on the 9/11 commemorative wine.​In the decade since the 9/11 terror attacks, there's been no shortage of commemoration. Some touching and beautiful. Others ham-fisted but heartfelt. And some that were blatantly out to make a buck on a ... More >>

81,000 Households in Metro St. Louis Don't Have a Car

Who knew so many St. Louis households depended on one of these?​The Brookings Institution is out with a study looking at the public transportation access within America's biggest cities, and St. Louis is near the bottom of the list. According to Brookings, 82 percent of area residents without a ca ... More >>

Adobe Reds brings a taste of New Mexico to Midtown

Anheuser-Busch Wants to Trademark Your Area Code

Image viaAnheuser-Busch may not want to use this trademark -- but they definitely want to own it.​If brewing giant Anheuser-Busch gets its way, we won't just be living in the 314.We'll be living in the 314 (TM).The St. Louis-based brewery, now owned by Belgian conglomerate InBev, has applied for a ... More >>

Riverfront Times Editor Wins $10,000 Livingston Award

That's our winner: Sarah Fenske, a.k.a. Ms. Big Stuff​Sarah Fenske, managing editor of the Riverfront Times, was named today as one of three winners of the annual Livingston Award honoring the nation's best young journalists. Fenske, 34, won the award for an article she wrote last year while worki ... More >>

Adobe Reds Now Open in Midtown

Ian Froeb​Adobe Reds opened this week at 3108 Olive Street in Midtown (the space previously occupied by The U and in the same building as Buffalo Brewing Co. and Pappy's Smokehouse).The restaurant dubs itself a "Southwestern Bar & Grill." Owner Tom Quinlan describes the cuisine as "More New Me ... More >>

Ask a Mexican! Special April Fools' Edicion

CitySolve Urban Race Coming to St. Louis in June

courtesy of Twilight Town TreksUrban racers at the Twilight Town Trek race in St. Louis last year. Don't they look like they're having fun?​If you were instructed to go a Central West End establishment called 3.14159, and then report to the "oculus tavern" across the street, where would you go?If ... More >>

Fair-y Tales: Russell Pearce and other illegal immigrant populists rely on misleading, right-wing reports to scapegoat immigrants and terrify penny-pinched Americans

Grinding Justice: Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution and doesn't work

Pinalcchio: Forensics experts say a deputy's tale about getting shot by drug smugglers doesn't add up

KETC/Channel 9 Trying to Create a "Safe Place" for Immigration Debate. Good Luck with That.

KETC/Channel 9, the local PBS affiliate in St. Louis, is surveying members for their views on immigration -- part of a new project called "Homeland," which the station hopes will create a "safe place where the community can come together to determine how to best deal with immigration."​Our first ... More >>

Seized: Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

Get Out!: Arizona and America Join Joe Arpaio in Rushing to Inquire: Are Your Papers in Order?

Illegal

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone

Calling All St. Louis Reality TV Wannabes, HGTV Wants You for My First Place

​Now that pseudo-reality TV show The Hills is over forever, and Dancing With the Stars is done waltzing until the fall, where are we supposed to get our reality-TV fix? (Other than the dozens of other reality TV shows still airing new episodes, that is.) It's like they say in that philosophic ... More >>

Cowboy Down

Rob Krentz's family talks about the life and death of the murdered Arizona rancher

St. Louis Teapartier Gina Loudon Wants You to BUYcott Stuff Associated With Arizona

Image viaLocal Tea Partier Gina Loudon on The Daily Showa few months ago.​From the uber-conservative local lady that brought you the Buycott of Whole Foods last fall (then went on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to chat about it): The St. Louis Tea Party's Gina Loudon is showing solidarity with Ar ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Special Arizona Buycott Edition

Amongst Us

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror becomes Arizona policy, thanks to state Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

An Opportunity to Stand Up

Village Voice Media underwrites an ACLU lawsuit against the state of Arizona

A Q&A With State Rep. Mark Parkinson, Supporter of an Arizona-style Immigration Law for Missouri

Image viaMark Parkinson: "95 percent of my constituents wanted me to get tough on illegal immigration"​Last week, Daily RFT reported on HB 2449, a bill introduced in the state House of Representatives that would stiffen penalties for people who "harbor" undocumented immigrants in Missouri and make ... More >>

Honor Thy Father: A Muslim man in Phoenix "honor killed" his Americanized daughter

St. Louis Men Have No Reason to Be Ashamed of Their Penis Size

Image sourceMen of St. Louis, it's time to take pride in your accomplishments!​Condomania, the venerable online condom store, has done our nation a great public service. After an exhaustive survey of 27,000 of its male customers, the largest such survey since the heady days of the Kinsey Repor ... More >>

What Are We Supposed to Do About All Those MetroLink Freeloaders?

Tunrstiles work just fine at San Francisco's BART, but then, that's a heavy rail system​One argument wielded by Proposition A opponents of hiking the St. Louis County sales tax a half cent to restore and expand Metro transit services is that there's too many  f ... More >>

Chasing Pablo: For old-school art pickers, the thrill is fading — and so's the payoff

Dear and the Headlights

8 p.m. Tuesday, September 15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Death Watch: Final Exit's clandestine ways have put the assisted-suicide network on life support

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

Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest

Smiles to Go

Felicity Huffman is desperately engaging in an off-kilter road movie

Letters

Week of July 28, 2004

La Russa's Lip

Week of November 6, 2002

Jams, Slams, and Christmas Hams

The Shop 'N Save/KMOX Shootout promises a peek at the future of pro basketball