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  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    Funnybone Emcee Sean O'Brien And His Incredible Norm Macdonald Story

    ​Comic Sean O'Brien is a big, burly, fast-talking loudmouth -- and he must be, for in his post as emcee at The Funnbyone in Westport, he's the cheerleader, clown ambassador and authority figure for the club, and in a sense, for the entire local scene. We caught up with him last week. Daily RFT: On ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2012

    Wee Trio Plays Bowie at the Bistro

    The music of David Bowie might seem an unlikely subject for a tribute by an all-instrumental jazz group, but on its new CD Ashes To Ashes -- A David Bowie Intraspective, the Wee Trio digs into the Thin White Duke's catalog with intriguing results. Featuring interpretations of six songs ranging from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2011

    Black Moth Super Rainbow's Tobacco On The New Album (Maybe), Drugs and Prank Calls

    ​For a guy who makes some of weird sounding shit, Tom Fec is a pretty normal dude. He exercises. He dreams of giving up, getting fat and going bald. He loves the '80s, but not in a lame, ironic way. But Fec crafts day-glo hallucinogenic pop with Black Moth Super Rainbow, and drops bass like a ... More >>

  • News

    May 19, 2011

    Back from the Undead: Happy 100th to homegrown horror icon Vincent Price

    ​For a guy who makes some of weird sounding shit, Tom Fec is a pretty normal dude. He exercises. He dreams of giving up, getting fat and going bald. He loves the '80s, but not in a lame, ironic way. But Fec crafts day-glo hallucinogenic pop with Black Moth Super Rainbow, and drops bass like a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Jane Eyre and the Scottish Arms

    Our heroine may be "poor, obscure, plain and little" -- but that's nothing that a piping-hot shepherd's pie won't cure!​ We had this idea that we'd go watch Jane Eyre and then eat Jamaican food. We were, admittedly, feeling a bit postmodern. Since we last spent much time with Jane Eyre, we'd rea ... More >>

  • Film

    March 24, 2011

    A new adaptation of Jane Eyre stresses the pursuit of independence

    Our heroine may be "poor, obscure, plain and little" -- but that's nothing that a piping-hot shepherd's pie won't cure!​ We had this idea that we'd go watch Jane Eyre and then eat Jamaican food. We were, admittedly, feeling a bit postmodern. Since we last spent much time with Jane Eyre, we'd rea ... More >>

  • News

    February 24, 2011

    Yeah, Pomplamoose sold out to Hyundai, but this indie duo just might revolutionize the music business

    Our heroine may be "poor, obscure, plain and little" -- but that's nothing that a piping-hot shepherd's pie won't cure!​ We had this idea that we'd go watch Jane Eyre and then eat Jamaican food. We were, admittedly, feeling a bit postmodern. Since we last spent much time with Jane Eyre, we'd rea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    The Contradictory Link Between Poverty and Obesity

    The Philadelphia Inquirer dedicated its Sunday front page to the link between poverty and obesity. They feature a family living in the second-hungriest congressional district in the country. "'One of our biggest misconceptions is that it's poor people's fault,' said Adam Drewnowski, a University of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2010

    RIP Joe Deal, Influential Landscape Photographer and Wash. U. Professor

    Joe Deal, a landscape photographer who played an influential role in the development of the "New Topographics" movement, which showed the influence of humans upon the natural world, died last Friday in Providence, Rhode Island, of bladder cancer. He was 62. From 1989 to 1999, he served as dean of wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    What Is This Magazine Cover with Snoop Dogg Trying to Tell Us?

    ​ The following weekend magazine cover is awesomely subtle. Snoop is scheduled to play the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, this Saturday, and it's clear that this particular publication has an ingenious art director. Look how they cleverly placed Snoop's head just in fr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    St. Louis: Sixth Drunkest City

    Books have been written about our love affair with booze, and all we get is a lousy No. 6 ranking?​Next month Men's Health will come out with its listing of the "100 Drunkest Cities in America." As of right now, the magazine's website has yet to publish the findings, but USA Today has the scoop. F ... More >>

  • News

    January 6, 2010

    Is There a Doctor in the House? Confined to his home for a decade, Doug Lindsay is certain he knows what ails him, and he thinks he knows the cure.

    Books have been written about our love affair with booze, and all we get is a lousy No. 6 ranking?​Next month Men's Health will come out with its listing of the "100 Drunkest Cities in America." As of right now, the magazine's website has yet to publish the findings, but USA Today has the scoop. F ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 21, 2009

    Catch This!

    Books have been written about our love affair with booze, and all we get is a lousy No. 6 ranking?​Next month Men's Health will come out with its listing of the "100 Drunkest Cities in America." As of right now, the magazine's website has yet to publish the findings, but USA Today has the scoop. F ... More >>

  • News

    April 22, 2009

    Wild Rides: Sometimes the cars accelerate on their own. Sometimes they stop dead. Drivers of the hybrid Prius have discovered they can be an unexpected adventure.

    Books have been written about our love affair with booze, and all we get is a lousy No. 6 ranking?​Next month Men's Health will come out with its listing of the "100 Drunkest Cities in America." As of right now, the magazine's website has yet to publish the findings, but USA Today has the scoop. F ... More >>

  • News

    February 18, 2009

    Balloonatics: Hey kid, wanna see my balloon dog?

    Books have been written about our love affair with booze, and all we get is a lousy No. 6 ranking?​Next month Men's Health will come out with its listing of the "100 Drunkest Cities in America." As of right now, the magazine's website has yet to publish the findings, but USA Today has the scoop. F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2008

    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 >>

  • News

    October 29, 2008

    Unreal strips down with Sarah Palin, flushes a pumpkin and balloons up for Halloween

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2008

    Oxford Collapse Talks Spiral Jetty, Regional LPs/Cuisine Bonus MP3s

    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 >>

  • Culture

    August 27, 2008

    Meet our first MasterMinds: The RFT rewards four outstanding young St. Louis-based artists in the categories of film/video, visual arts, literary arts and performing arts

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2008

    Gentleman Auction House Tour Diary, Day Seven: Rochester, Buffalo, New York

    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 >>

  • Music

    February 13, 2008

    The Campbell Brothers

    8 p.m. Friday, February 15 and 11 a.m. Saturday, February 16. Edison Theatre, 6445 Forsyth Boulevard

  • Blogs

    January 16, 2008

    The Morning Brew: Monday, 1.16

    8 p.m. Friday, February 15 and 11 a.m. Saturday, February 16. Edison Theatre, 6445 Forsyth Boulevard

  • News

    September 12, 2007

    End Zone

    Battered by the pounding they took on the gridiron, former players say the National Football League has abandoned them.

  • News

    June 27, 2007

    Celebrate the Fourth of July? Joe says, "Ho, ho, ho!"

    The link between Dick Gregory, Don Imus and Santa Claus.

  • Home Entertainment

    July 5, 2006

    Bond in a Bikini

    Week of July 6, 2006

  • Culture

    June 7, 2006

    Toot Sweet

    Opera Theatre proves that less really is more with a brisk Jane Eyre

  • Calendar

    May 31, 2006

    No Plain Jane

    Opera Theatre proves that less really is more with a brisk Jane Eyre

  • Music

    April 19, 2006

    Aloha

    Wednesday, April 26, at 8 p.m. The Hi-Pointe, 1001 McCausland Avenue.

  • Film

    March 8, 2006

    Film Openings

    Week of March 9, 2006

  • Film

    March 8, 2006

    Free for All

    The Libertine's protagonist is a boor you can't ignore

  • News

    November 10, 2004

    You Could Put an Eye Out with That

    Unreal contemplates Lasik for our third eye, learns some icky facts about mattress returns and gets the cold shoulder from a motorcycle maven; plus, we talk with a man who's living in fagtopia

  • News

    July 14, 2004

    Stone Diaries

    After years of bitter silence, a Missouri baseball phenom talks about his legend

  • Calendar

    September 17, 2003

    Foehner's Keepers

    Gale Foehner kicks it old-school at Frederick's Music Lounge

  • News

    March 12, 2003

    Back to School

    Week of March 12, 2003

  • News

    February 26, 2003

    Class War

    Marty Rochester wages war against the dumbing-down of public education -- even in the best of schools

  • News

    October 23, 2002

    Whack Job

    Phoenix columnist howls in protest at La Russa's threat

  • Calendar

    December 5, 2001

    Open Sesame

    A new exhibit lets youngsters get up close and personal with their favorite TV show

  • Film

    May 16, 2001

    Under Ogre

    Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairytale

  • News

    May 31, 2000

    Waiting to Exhale

    Dr. Joel Cooper pioneered lung-volume-reduction surgery to save the lives of thousands of emphysema patients. Now he wants the government to get out of the way.

  • News

    January 12, 2000

    JUST THE FACTS, MA'AM

    Jury duty at the Civil Courts Building: same sit, different day; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles

  • News

    March 24, 1999

    News of the Weird

    Jury duty at the Civil Courts Building: same sit, different day; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles

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