Pulitzer Prizes

In the Galleries - Donald Judd: The Multicolored Works at the Pulitzer

Into the Wild Blue Yonder

Roger Ebert: Why There Can Never Be Another

Amateur Hours: Tedious Piano Lesson exposes a Black Rep that's out of tune

Going Southie: David Lindsay-Abaire digs back to his Boston roots in Good People

Love and Other Follies

Love Triangle

Halfway Home: Clybourne Park's first act provides some of the best theater you'll ever see

To Stage a Mockingbird

Past Made Present: Creative history in the making

Ellen Back Again: Arnie Robbins steps down as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and RFT checks in with his predecessor

Jon Hamm Raps, Advises Teenage Girls

A colleague suggested that we add a special blog category here at Daily RFT for news of Jon Hamm. It would be a public service, the sort of thing they give Pulitzer Prizes for. (Maybe not exactly the sort of thing. But it would still be a public service.) In the meantime, while we work on it, enjoy ... More >>

RFT Spring Arts Guide 2012: Visual Arts

Slow Art Day

Lee Enterprises Defers Pension Payments to Employees

Post-Dispatch employees enrolled in the Pulitzer pension plan received letters this weekend notifying them that Lee Enterprises chose to exercise an election that allowed the company to defer paying into the plan for all of 2011. So Lee deferred making payments to employee pensions for 2011, but gav ... More >>

Maim Event: St. Louis Actors' Studio doesn't quite slay the darkly comic Killer Joe

P-D Employees Protest CEO's Half-Million Dollar Bonus

Many of you shared our outrage a few weeks ago when we reported that Lee Enterprises, parent company of the Post-Dispatch, gave its CEO Mary Junck a $500,000 bonus for successfully guiding the corporation out of bankruptcy. CFO Carl Schmidt made out pretty well, too: He got $250,000. The P-D employ ... More >>

Of Angels and Angles

Bottoms Up

In the Still Epiphany

With The Might Have Been, rookie novelist and Webster U prof Joe Schuster hits one out of the park at age 59

Ask a Mexican: Buy banned books!

Until Death Do Us Part

Flesh Wound: The Rep's production of David Mamet's Race is barely skin deep

Lee Enterprises Out of Bankruptcy

​Late yesterday afternoon Lee Enterprises officially left behind its bankrupt status. The parent corporation of our own Post-Dispatch, as well as more than 40 other daily newspapers, successfully repackaged boatloads of debt without paying any of it down or selling it off. That means the big payme ... More >>

Parallel Porking: You don't need a permit to see How I Learned to Drive, but you'd best buckle up

Time Heals No Wounds

P-D Parent Co. Gets Debt Extension; Bankruptcy Still an Option

A reprieve -- or maybe a Chapter 11 reorganization, for Lee Enterprises.​Lee Enterprises, the Iowa-based owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other newspapers, including the Arizona Daily Star, announced late this afternoon that it reached an agreement with "a significant majority" of its debt ... More >>

Lee Enterprises, Post-Dispatch Parent Co., Could Be Delisted from NYSE

Lee Enterprises could lose its spot on the New York Stock Exchange.​The stock for Lee Enterprises, the Iowa-based newspaper company that owns the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has dropped to bargain-level prices -- as of July 1, it was trading at a mere 99 cents per share.And that could have serious re ... More >>

Bar Is Hell: OnSite Theatre's production of Savage in Limbo will drive you to drink

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

CityGarden: Now It's a Cinema, Too

Cinema at CityGarden -- as if this downtown park wasn't cool enough before, now they're screening indie movies.​Earlier this month, the downtown sculpture garden/playspace CityGarden was honored with a major award from the Urban Land Institute -- it's the best use of public space in the nation.But ... More >>

Max & Louie Productions gives us a saccharine take on Ann Landers

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

¡Ask a Mexican!

Lanford Wilson, 1937-2011: He made it to Broadway but never shed his Missouri roots

Post-Dispatch Parent Company to Avoid Bankruptcy

A miracle indeed: The P-D will escape bankruptcy.​Lee Enterprises Inc., the Iowa-based company that purchased the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the thirteen other papers in the Pulitzer chain in 2005, appears likely to avoid bankruptcy, the Wall Street Journal reports today.The company's sudden solv ... More >>

The Olive Garden's Tuscan Cooking "School" Is Real -- And So Is This Review

​Credit Eater with digging up this gem, a Reddit Q & A with an ex-manager at the Olive Garden. In it, the ex-manager reveals that there truly is an Olive Garden Culinary Institute of Tuscany, the existence of which has been the target of  much disbelief and derision.If you have a very gen ... More >>

Normal Is Relative

Normal Is Relative

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

Soundtrack for Dreamscapes

Grieving tastefully in Rabbit Hole

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

Grand Funk

Wildly successful restaurateur Eddie Neill does it again -- or does he?