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[Updated with Winners] The Tweet 16: Vote Now in Round One of RFT's Standup Throwdown!

Updated at 5:23 p.m. March 20: Congratulations to Lisa Rimmert, Jon Venegoni, Nick Branson, Mike Szymanski, JR Moore, Emily Hickner, Conor Hovis and Evan Rowe for making the Elite Eight. Comics stay tuned; We'll be announcing the specifics of the next round very soon! Thanks also to everybody else ... More >>

Carrie M. Becker: 2012 Riverfront Times MasterMind Award Winner

St. Louis Ranks Among Most Fashionable Cities in U.S.

Yeah, we were pretty shocked, too. Who would've thought that Cardinals t-shirts and Blues caps were the height of modern fashion? (Then again, Jon Hamm has been photographed wearing a Blues cap. Ah, Jon, you give us class!) But there it is, in another one of those scientific polls we love so much, t ... More >>

Express Scripts Tearing Up Fortune 500 List

Express Scripts is St. Louis' largest company -- by far.​The pharmaceutical management company Express Scripts isn't just the largest St. Louis company on this year's Fortune 500 list -- it's actually made the magazine's list of fastest growing companies across the nation.With 81.8 percent revenue ... More >>

Big Reveal on Jamestown Mall Set for Thursday

image via North county's Jamestown Mall in 2008: the loneliness of an empty mall​There are dead malls across America, littering the nation's suburbs like so many pieces of yesterday's trash.St. Louis County is determined that north county's Jamestown Mall not be one of them. So despite the loss o ... More >>

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

Interview: Sandra "Pepa" Denton of Salt-n-Pepa on Nicki Minaj, Telemarketing with Martin Lawrence and Breaking into the Music Business

Courtesy of It Is Done Communications​Following the success of last year's Fresh Fest concert tour, rap icons Salt-n-Pepa are making the rounds once again and bringing with them some of the finest names in vintage hip-hop. The Queens, New York, duo gained notoriety in the mid-'80s with its deb ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the St. Louis theater scene

Eat, Shop and See

Pro Tip: Pot Garden in the Closet? Don't Push Your Girlfriend Through a Sliding Glass Door And Then Call the Cops

Columbia has some of the most liberal marijuana laws in the state of Missouri. Thanks to a 2005 voter referendum, police in the college town cannot arrest anyone solely for misdemeanor possession (up to an ounce and a quarter) and the maximum penalty for holding that much reefer is just a $250 fine ... More >>

Throwback of the House: Three's Company for Sweet-Sour Appetizer Kebobs

Robin Wheeler​With the holidays officially upon us, Throwback will spend the next few weeks dragging out the party classics. Did you miss the days of bosses having secretary three-ways at office parties, or neighborhood shindigs where you spied Mom groping a Santa Claus who looked a lot like Wayn ... More >>

It Ain't Rocket Science: Like the man says: People talk about the joy of sex, but it don't last nothin' like shootin' anvils

Tour Diary: The Blind Eyes

The Blind Eyes are Seth Porter, Kevin Schneider and Matt Picker. They are playing on October 17 at Off Broadway with the Safes, Gentleman Auction House, and Beth Bombara. But last weekend, they trekked to the upper Midwest for a few shows. Porter was kind enough to share what happened. Read below! ... More >>

Extreme Makeover: RFT readers sound off on Sarah "The Clotheshorse" Palin

Malcolm blows his stimulus check on fast food

So Many Dynamos, Traindodge, Bureau, Riddle of Steel Video from the Saturday, February 16 Bluebird show

Unreal News Challenge 2007

Week of December 27, 2007

Guilt-Edged

Pugnacious defense attorney Frank "Tony" Fabbri never backed away from a fight. Then the lawyer ran afoul of the law.

"When was the last time these two sat and listened to their elders at a sacred fire, or sought their own hearts?"

Week of December 14, 2006

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

Kafe Kibosh

Hip-hop's answer to the Hard Rock Cafe dies before it's born

Reel Entertaining

Have fun watching other people's home movies at the Missouri History Museum. No, really!

The Kings of Kingshighway

The Roberts brothers fight to bring back life to north St. Louis

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Remember Paris

When Emerson pulls out of this small southern town, it'll leave bitterness and broken promises behind. That's what happens when a marriage ends badly.

Dead Man Voting

St. Louis elections are a national joke. Trouble is, it's not funny anymore.

James' Leg

When barrelhouse-blues pianist James Crutchfield died a few months back, not only did he leave a legacy -- he left a leg

Best Bi-State Bus Route

No. 70 Grand

Best Underground/Under-the-Ground Writer

William S. Burroughs

Killer Campaign

When the Benetton clothing company dared to humanize death-row inmates in a $20 million ad campaign, Attorney General Jay Nixon threw a fit. Then he played right into their hands and sued them.

A Run on the Bank

The South Side National Bank Building, an Art Deco icon at Grand and Gravois, could be rehabbed into apartments or replaced by just another Walgreens. The struggle is about to start.

Teenage Wasteland

They have run away from home or been kicked out, and there are about 5,500 of them in the St. Louis area. They're homeless teens -- too old for foster care, too young to live on their own.

Force Behind the Throne

A St. Louis barber-chair maker weathered the Depression, succumbed to Japanese competitors and adapted to changing fashion

EYE OF THE NEEDLE

Kellwood's taking fashion forward by making virtually all our clothes in the Third World. But the St. Louis giant carefully cloaks its operations, its plant locations and its monitoring of labor conditions.

BODY OF EVIDENCE

Years after Linda Sherman vanished, her skull turned up at a restaurant. Now the cops are hoping that new forensic tests will lead to her remains -- and nail their primary suspect. But he’s not worried.

Strip Search

Looking for Ozark culture amid the neon, glitter and traffic of Highway 76 in Branson

BYE BYE BIRDIE

By Michael Stewart, Charles Strouse and Lee Adams (Stages St. Louis)

The Lord’s Player

Leeora Daniels serves as coach, quarterback and cheerleader for the Gospel Super Bowl

Hot Water

Hit Parade