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Six Best Lookout! Records Releases

​Lookout! Records officially shut down this month, which is not shocking news to anybody familiar with the long-running punk rock label. The company's financial struggles were well known to the public, and since 2006 it has only stayed in business to keep up its back catalog. In honor of the i ... More >>

While You Were Eating Left Over Turkey, Teenage Boys Were Living Out Gridiron Dreams

Jennifer SilverbergProud American Traditions: Jazz... Ford... Capitalism... Thanksgiving weekend high school football state championship games.​Not even a man wearing a cowboy hat while eating a Big Mac, listening to Bruce Springsteen and trading derivatives on his iPad is more American than high ... More >>

Live Chickens Arrive at SLU Culinary Camp

Image sourceJanelle Criscione sends one of her chickens off to college.​Six Rhode Island Red hens came home to roost at Saint Louis University's summer culinary camp last week, where they were feted with cornbread and toasted with mint lemonade before they were permitted to settle down to thei ... More >>

RIP, Missouri Terrorist, er, "Minuteman"

Over at the Columbia Daily Tribune, columnist T. J. Greaney has composed a strange tribute to Robert Bolivar DePugh, leader of an anti-Communist militia group (or a domestic terrorism cell, depending on your point of view) called the Minutemen. DePugh died June 30 in his basement apartment, beneath ... More >>

Party Cove Records Its First Death of the Season

flickr.com/photos/jamescarrLake of the Ozark's Party CoveHeading down the Lake of the Go Carts, err Ozarks, infamous Party Cove this 4th of July weekend? Take heed. The backwater Sodom and Gomorrah claimed its first life of the season last week. The Missouri Water Patrol reports that 33-year-old Tod ... More >>

Interview MP3 Video: Swedish Punks Masshysteri Proclaim Love for Chuck Berry, Touring

The Swedish punk band Masshysteri, which is in the middle of a one-month trek through the U.S., is playing The Wedge tomorrow, March 31. (Read Jason Toon's critic's pick here..) I called up guitarist and singer Robert Petterson to ask about the tour thus far. Luckily, he was sitting in a van in traf ... More >>

Photos: Life in the "Fourth Most Dangerous City"

St. Louis, ranked the "most dangerous city" in America in 2006, is now fourth on the list that's published by an independent firm criticized for its methods.On Monday, RFT photographer Jennifer Silverberg documented some of the people working and living in the "fourth most dangerous city in the coun ... More >>

Neko Case Breaks Ankle, Will Not Be at New Pornographers Show Tomorrow Night

Final Chapter

KETC-TV is collecting stories from St. Louis’ veterans of World War II – while there’s still time left.

Tom Sullivan Takes on the Post

Aerial Erotica

Three St. Louis-area women take burlesque to new heights

Not Rockne

A worthy actor rides the bench in the listless Coach Carter

Urbane Living

St. Louis designer Rocio Romero's prefab homes are generating a buzz across the nation

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