Social and Behavioral Sciences

A Very Mayan Christmas

7 p.m. Friday, December 21. St. Louis Skatium, 120 Catalan Street.

[VIDEO] St. Louis Zoo Chimps Torment Stray Raccoon, Launch It Through the Air

According to the user who posted the video on YouTube, this incident happened last Friday at the St. Louis Zoo.  You can hear one lady say, "Poor thing. Let it go, let it go!" They're chimps. They probably ate it. 

Doesn't "Hot-Spot Policing" Just Push Criminals Down the Block? Nope. Here's Why.

With the city set to spend a quarter of a million dollars on "hot-spot policing," we started wondering: Does the underlying theory even make sense? Cops used to think of crime as a sort of balloon: If you apply pressure on one small area, it just spreads out. So what's the point? But that's not the ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Why do gabachos complain so damn much?

Panty Raid

Attention Deficit Theater

Lez Zeppelin

8 p.m. Sunday, March 11. Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

SNAP Releases Transcript of Church Lawyers Grilling Director David Clohessy

​On January 2, David Clohessy -- director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) -- sat down with lawyers representing Catholic priests. It was not to chat over tea.The attorneys deposed Clohessy for over six hours as part of a lawsuit that a anonymous victim has brought agains ... More >>

Neighborhoods Across U.S. Are Growing More Diverse, But St. Louis Is Lagging

The Manhattan Institute, a conservative research foundation, released a large study this week claiming that the nation's all-black "ghettos" are dissolving and that American neighborhoods have never been so racially integrated since 1910. Using census data, the authors of the report, titled "The En ... More >>

James Clark and Norm White want their Neighborhood Alliance to save St. Louis' worst neighborhoods. Then they want it to save America.

Paleo enthusiasts turn the "caveman diet" into a lifestyle

Mizzou Archeologist Discovers Oldest Statue in Western Hemisphere

courtesy MU News BureauThis is a sculpture of a trumpet player. Really.​Remember all the fuss over the "new" astrological sign Ophiuchus a few months back? It may have nothing on the fox, a key figure in the Andean zodiac. On a recent dig in the Andes Mountains, about 30 miles north of Lima, ... More >>

Population Trends Shows Cairo Disappearing With or Without Flood

Cairo: Stuck between a couple wet spots.​In 1950 the city of Cairo, Illinois, located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, had 12,123 inhabitants. By 2010, just 2,831 called the city home. That's a decline of more than 76 percent in 60 years or a 12.6 percent loss per decade. More ... More >>

Missouri Redistricting Map Kills Carnahan's District, Favors Republicans

Photo: Chad GarrisonRuss Carnahan just had the rug pulled out from under him.​Yesterday state representative John Diehl (R - Town & Country) proposed the first redistricting map for Missouri following the 2010 Census. Due to faster growth elsewhere in the nation, Missouri is to lose a congress ... More >>

Population Center of United States Moves Southwest Through Missouri

A hundred years ago Bloomington, Indiana, had its time in the spotlight.​The 2010 U.S. Census is expected to show the mean center of the U.S. population continuing its southwestern slide across Missouri. One hundred years ago, the nation's population center was in Bloomington, Indiana, as evident ... More >>

Census Numbers Give St. Louis Mayor a Black Eye

​Updated with new and improved visual! The U.S. Census is out with its official tally of the St. Louis population. The result shows that the city lost 29,000 people between 2000 and 2010 to end the decade with a population of 319,000. That's a decline of eight percent from the 348,189 people livin ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Sac and Fox Nation: Missouri Desecrated our Ancestors. We Want 'Em Back (And Some!)

Image viaThe DNR has been keeping Native American bones like these for decades. ​UPDATE 3:47 pm: The parties just settled today. Details forthcoming....The Sac and Fox Nation wants its grandfathers back.  Right now, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources is storing tribal bones in banke ... More >>

Back On Top: St. Louis Named Most Dangerous City in 2010

​Updated 11:40 a.m. with response from St. Louis police department. We're No. 1!  Again. After first being named "America's Most Dangerous City" in 2006 and coming in second place last year, St. Louis has once again reached the top. This morning CQ Press released its annual crime rankings com ... More >>

St. Louis' Racial Divide: Mapped!

​File this under "cool infographic of the day." Eric Fischer, a (by all evidence) nerdy dude from California who is very interested in cities and how they work, used the 2000 Census data from the 40 most populous cities in the U.S. to make maps that visualize the racial segregation in all tho ... More >>

Pinalcchio: Forensics experts say a deputy's tale about getting shot by drug smugglers doesn't add up

Asylum Denied: Only a fraction of Mexicans get U.S. asylum.

This We Know: Juara the Orangutan Did NOT Die of Physical Exhaustion

Sorry if we hurt your feelings.​Wow. The coincidence. We almost wonder if we had something to do with it? Yesterday, Daily RFT reported new findings suggesting that orangutans are perhaps the laziest creatures in the animal kingdom. Then, hours later, the St. Louis Zoo announces that its 25-year-o ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Missouri Comes to Its Census; Leads National Average in Returning Questionnaire

​Not only is today April Fool's Day, but it's also Census Day. Now ain't that a coinky-dink? So let's crunch some numbers, shall we, to see how Missouri fares compared with the rest of the fruited plain in filling out and returning the questionnaire. As of right now, the national partic ... More >>

From the Blog: Lawn-mower drunks, Juan Encarnación now playing politics, and ancient Cahokian savages

Ask a Mexican: Why Mexicans hold their ladies' licenses, pack napkins in dispensers and are so damn laid-back

Young Widows

9 p.m. Tuesday, November 11. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 10.9

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 9.24

Ohtis

9 p.m. Saturday, September 13. Billiken Club, in the Busch Student Center on the campus of St. Louis University, 20 North Grand Boulevard.

Lucy Kaplansky

8 p.m. Friday, January 25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Taylor Swift / Kellie Pickler / Brad Paisley

7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 10. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights).

A Queer Debate

Joanna Connor

Sunday, April 23, at 9 p.m. BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups (700 South Broadway)

"Women Change America"

It's more than a theme, it's the truth

Belly Up to the Proscenium

The Playhouse at West Port Plaza offers a little deep thinking with your beer drinking

Before The Ball

The Century Building fell to the wrecking ball, but Larry Giles got some of the best parts

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of December 3, 2003

Roll Over, Tutankhamen

Pyramids, death metal and a roadie with the mummy's curse? Meet Nile.

Best Used-Book Store

Subterranean Books

Best Ethnic Radio Show

Sabados Tropicales, KDHX (88.1 FM)

Body Solutions

The circumstances of Linda Sherman's death remain a mystery. Police hope TV will give them a break.

Structurally Speaking

Art St. Louis

FROZEN ASSETS

Metro Theatre Company brings Nicholas Kryah's cool Iceman to the stage

DEMONS IN THE COURTROOM

Vince Greer heard voices in his head, then killed his mother. But prosecutors have their own departures from reality.

IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE ST. LOUIS

Jobs are leaving, the tax base is shrinking and the population is dropping. North County is feeling the squeeze.

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.

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