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Shakespeare, Comic Books -- for Joss Whedon, It's All the Same Thing

Team Kerouac: Kristen Stewart and Garrett Hedlund chat about the film version of On the Road

Brad Paisley Tells Country Audiences There's Nothing Wrong With White Folks Becoming the Minority

Every couple weeks, starting now, RFT Music takes a hard listen to the music in which millions of Americans soak. Brad Paisley, "Southern Comfort Zone" Current Billboard Country Singles Chart Position: 10 The Verdict: Holy shit, songs on the radio can still be important! So, here, in a shimmering ... More >>

Rage Against the Machinima: As YouTube becomes increasingly wealthy, its stars and the networks who contract with them battle for money and creative control

The Electric Pencil: A long-lost cache of sketches by a state mental hospital inmate finally yields up some of its secrets

2016: Obama's America: The Five Most Hilarious Lowlights

Noah Bledsoe Sentenced to 15 Years for Having Sex with Male Minors

Former St. Louis paramedic Noah Seth Bledsoe, 33, was sentenced in federal court to 15 years and supervised release for life for engaging in sexual activities with three minor males. Bledsoe had pleaded guilty to one count each of attempting to persuade a minor to engage in sexual activity, persuadi ... More >>

Tupac Shakur is Still Alive

Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis City. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

Banned Books Restored to Republic, MO, School Libraries -- Sort Of

image viaGuess who left Hogwarts to go work at the Republic school libraries?​Hey, guess what kids? Banned Books Week starts on Saturday, and the fine, upstanding citizens of Republic, Missourah, are all ready to celebrate. In June, you may recall, Republic's school board banned two books from ... More >>

Air Force Band "Sidewinder" Comes Home After Blowing Everyone's Mind Covering Adele

Last month, a locally-based Air Force band called Sidewinder blew up the YouTubes with a video of them performing Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" on a morale mission in the Middle East. Sidewinder, led by the amazing pipes of Staff Sergeant Angie Johnson, is a part of the 571st Air Force Band based ... More >>

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ShootPaul: Go Ahead, You Know You Want To

image viaPaul Jackson and Jake Houvenagle, the masterminds behind ShootPaul.com, and a friend.​About six months ago, Jake Houvenagle and his friend Paul Jackson came up with a stupid drunken idea: They would build a Web site that would allow users to virtually shoot at Paul with a paintball gu ... More >>

Missouri Legislators Discuss Fingerprint, Retinal Scans for ID'ing Voters

"Think about the future?" says senator Tim Green. "Photo ID -- five years down the road -- may be a thing of the past."​Republican lawmakers in Jefferson City are once again attempting to change Missouri law by requiring that voters present photo IDs at the poll. The G.O.P. legislators argue that ... More >>

Joel King takes Real Life from the street to the stage to the nation

Michele Bachmann Calls It In: Campaigned for Roy Blunt Via Skype

Image via​When people say that elected officials phone it in, they really aren't kidding. Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann campaigned for fellow Republican Roy Blunt's Senate campaign here via Skype over the weekend, the St. Louis Beacon reports. Bachmann was hospitalized over the wee ... More >>

Bean-to-bar manufacturers Patric and Askinosie are putting Missouri on the chocolate map

Unreal's Kinda Guy: A.J. Jacobs, A Human Guinea Pig

Courtesy of Simon & SchusterWho has two thumbs and agreed to pose nude for Esquire (as an experiment, of course)? This guy!​A.J. Jacobs, the quirky Jew who lived biblically for a year (and lived to tell) and read the entire encyclopedia (see above parentheses), visits the St. Louis Jewish Book ... More >>

The Great Google Wave Spaz-Out of 09

Photo by Sam Howzit via Flickr (creative commons attribution 2.0)​Last week Google sent out the first batch of 100,000 invites for their new collaboration product Google Wave, resulting in the most ridiculous jockeying for invites since Joost a couple of years back. Twitter went crazy with otherwi ... More >>