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Out Every Night: The Best Shows in St. Louis from May 20 to 26

Next weekend looks pretty awesome, though anything does when an extended weekend awaits most of us thanks to Memorial Day. Keep that extra sleep time in mind while slogging through the work week and affording yourself some time to enjoy visits from acts like Andrew W.K., Soundgarden and El Ten Eleve ... More >>

Walmart Missed Connections: Top Seven Missouri Craigslist Posts

Recently, Psychology Today put out an intriguing little infographic charting the most common places a Craigslist "missed connection" occurs by state. The most lovesick locale in Missouri? Walmart. Some people might call this the end of romance or a signal of the decline of Western society as a whol ... More >>

The Flu Epidemic is Here

Should we put an exclamation mark after that? As in, "The flu epidemic is here!" Last month we only had Christmas to dread. But now you can look forward to a week in bed, in acute misery. The Center for Disease Control has declared it so. In case you're curious, Google has prepared a map of the spr ... More >>

Mountain Lion in DeKalb County: The 5th Sighting Since September

This mountain lion was photographed with a wildlife cam on private land in the wee hours of Wednesday, December 12. By my count, that's the fifth sighting of a big cat in Missouri since September 10. As we've said several times before, this could be different  cougars or all the same cougar; it ... More >>

Another Mountain Lion Sighting - This Time Near Branson!

And so it continues. The Missouri Department of Conservation has just confirmed the fourth Mountain Lion sighting in the last two months. All have occurred in southern Missouri. The most recent photo was taken by a wildlife camera in Taney County, near Branson, on Halloween night. We know mountain l ... More >>

Ben Bedford Makes Midwestern History Sing: Listen

Springfield, Illinois-based songwriter Ben Bedford finds his muse in the Midwest - the landscape, the people, the diction, the names of the rivers and towns. Across three albums, and especially on the just-released What We Lost, he transcends local color and the minutiae of his considerable, even bo ... More >>

Ghostly Image is Missouri's 33rd Mountain Lion Sighting Since 1994

Related content: - Meandering Missouri Mountain Lion Last Seen in Michigan- Petition Aims to Stop Senseless Killing of Missouri's Mountain LionsThe Missouri Department of Conservation has confirmed the sighting of a mountain lion outside the town of Ellington in Missouri's Reynolds County. A trail c ... More >>

St. Louisians Lead the Charge to Re-purpose "Columbus Day"... You Still Probably Won't Get the Day Off Though

Karl Frank Jr. was never comfortable celebrating Christopher Columbus' accidental discovery of America, and he certainly never cared for the mixed legacy Columbus left behind. So today--the federal holiday created in 1939 by FDR to honor the Italian explorer and slave-wrangler who "sailed the ocea ... More >>

Another Mountain Lion Caught on Camera Last Week in Shannon County

They keep coming. The Missouri Department of Conservation has confirmed that the animal in the photo to the right is indeed a mountain lion. It was photographed September 10 and 11 by a wildlife cam on public land near Eminence.  According to MDC, "widely scattered mountain-lion sightings have ... More >>

"Pink Slime" Manufacturer Sues ABC News, Probably Because of Headlines Like This One

Not long ago -- say, the winter of 2011-2012 -- Beef Products Inc. (BPI) of Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, was just another faceless corporate cog in the American food system, producing a substance called finely textured lean beef, which few of us knew existed Then along came an ABC News report that r ... More >>

50-Plus St. Louis Hip-Hop Artists You Should Know

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 >>

Hip Hop (Group/Collective): Meet the 2012 RFT Music Award Nominees

The 2012 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is two weeks away. And if that is our own St. Louis Music holiday, then consider this the season: Throughout May, we've been making our cases for all 125 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year, introducing the nominees from one or more o ... More >>

WhiteOut and RT-FaQ Shine With Video for "When the Stars Come Out"

Rapping tends to be a solitary exercise, a musical journey where an emcee combines poetic dexterity and creative self-expression to captivate an audience. But there's something especially impressive when a group of performers band together, unselfishly sharing the spotlight for the greater good. Su ... More >>

Meandering Missouri Mountain Lion Last Seen in Michigan

First things first. The word Missouri in the headline above probably should be in quotes. Why? Because the cougar photographed in north-central Missouri's Linn County in December 2010 is probably not originally from the Show-Me State.  How do we know this? Because conservationists tracking ante ... More >>

Little House in the Present: America's economic downturns run through Laura Ingalls Wilder's books like a big three-hearted river

Venturing Further Into the Little House, "The Book No Depression Could Stop"

This week's feature story, "Little House in the Present," is, among other things, about the circumstances that led Laura Ingalls Wilder, a farm wife in Mansfield, Missouri, to write the Little House on the Prairie series, a collection of autobiographical novels about her childhood on the American fr ... More >>

Featured Review: Sea of Hot Pink Buffalo

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Haley Bonar/Daniel Martin Moore/Holcombe Waller

8 p.m. Wednesday, June 29. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

$60 Million A.G. Edwards Settlement Gets Appeals Court OK

It's $21 million for the lawyers who steered a lawsuit against A.G. Edwards, alleging unjust enrichment.​A $60 million class-action settlement agreement between A.G. Edwards and a group of account holders who accused the company of a conflict of interest and unjust enrichment has been permitted to ... More >>

Readers question whether anarchists are right to target Cherokee Street and whether prairie chickens are worth it

Little Houses, Sunbonnets and Pig Bladders: Wendy McClure Talks About Laura Ingalls and The Wilder Life

​If you are a woman who grew up in the '70s and '80s, you probably spent a lot of time in the company of Laura Ingalls and her family as they rolled along in their covered wagon across the American frontier of the 1870s and '80s, either in the form of the series of books that Laura wrote as an ... More >>

Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj at the Scottrade Center, April 10: Review

Todd Owyoung​ Lil Wayne/Nicki Minaj/Rick Ross/Travis Barker/Mix Master Mike The Pageant April 10, 2011 Better Than: Whatever the hell else went on last night. They came in jacked-up ghetto cruisers and sensible Hondas; they came in glute-hugging tube dresses, crisp white T's and homemade sh ... More >>

Missouri Gets Top Grades in Denying Women Healthcare

Are we headed back to this?​Thanks to Roe v. Wade, the law of the land in this country is that abortion is legal. However, plenty of states are enacting laws that chip away at a woman's right to have the procedure. And in a piece yesterday on AlterNet.org, Amanda Marcotte ranked the ten worst stat ... More >>

Mountain Lion Spotted in Southern Missouri; Sixth Sighting Since November

The cat was seen March 9 in Oregon County (red).​The Missouri Department of Conservation has confirmed the sixth sighting of a mountain lion in the state in the past five months. The cougar was seen March 9 in Oregon County in south-central Missouri. A driver near the small town of Rover saw the a ... More >>

50,000 Sows Bought by Illinois Farm

​Not all family farms are small affairs. The Maschhoffs' LLC in Carlyle, Illinois -- one hour east of St. Louis -- is technically a family farm, in that it's owned by a family. A family that owns nearly 200,000 hogs. No, this isn't an episode of Confessions: Animal Hoarding. It's business-as ... More >>

Interview: Valient Himself of Valient Thorr on Rowing, Donating Kidneys, the Avett Brothers and a Special Motorhead Birthday

Image via​It's been nearly a decade since Valient Thorr arrived on Earth - Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to be exact - from its home on Venus. This Sunday the band will make its second St. Louis appearance in six months, opening for Motorhead at Pop's. In September Valient Thorr headlined at th ... More >>

Nelly on Blizzard Music Tour with 3OH!3, Sick Puppies and Cali Swag District

Image viaDreaming of warmer weather, no doubt...​Even the city's cuddle-thug is being swept up in the snowmageddon, it seems: Nelly is part of the Blizzard Music Tour, which kicks off March 1 in South Dakota. The lineup for the trek is interesting and very diverse: Besides Nelly, the show feat ... More >>

The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

Down on the Farm: Multimedia

​This week's feature story, "Down on the Farm," chronicles an increasingly heated national battle over "factory-farmed" food. On one side: a phalanx of corporation- and family-owned farms across the country. On the other: the Washington, D.C.-based Humane Society of the United States.Caught in the ... More >>

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 >>

Don C. Weir Locked up at Medium-Security Penitentiary in Illinois, Not Satellite Camp

​Many readers have been asking: Where in the world is Don C. Weir, the Town & Country financial advisor who stole $12 million in precious-metal coin investments from dozens of clients? (Check out our feature, "Plot of Gold"). According to the Bureau of Prisons' inmate locator page, Mr. Weir is ... More >>

Java Enabled Previews the Midwest Regional Barista Competition

​"It's like Iron Chef with baristas making coffee drinks."That's how Josh Ferguson, owner of Kaldi's Coffee Roasting Company, describes the Midwest Regional Barista Competition. The competition gathers the best baristas from Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dako ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 10.7

​ South Dakota town deals with 44 tons of rotting bison meat. (Associated Press)Cheesemonger refuses to sell unpasteurized cheese to pregnant customer. (BBC)Stars of Discovery Channel's The Deadliest Catch give Florida seafood industry a boost. (Tampa Bay Business Journal)Medical professor/pa ... More >>

Mac Lethal/Soulcrate

8:30 p.m. Friday, May 8. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Russian Professor Predicts Self-Destruction of U.S. by 2010; Missouri To Go Canadian

Igor Panarin, a Russian academic and former KGB agent, predicted ten years ago that the U.S. would self-destruct through civil war in late 2009. Now, thanks to the collapse of our economy, other people are finally starting to believe him. Most of these people are Russians, it is true, and it could b ... More >>

Mac Lethal/Grieves/Soulcrate Music

9 p.m. Thursday, December 18. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Shawn Colvin

8 p.m. Wednesday, December 10. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Look Out Below!: Arborists from around the world descend on Forest Park for the International Tree Climbing Championships

This Band Could Be Your Life, Part I: So Many Dynamos Tours to SXSW

Missouri Puts the F in F.O.I.

On the Passing of Thomas Eagleton

Film Openings

Week of January 19, 2006

Go West (and North and South and East), Young Men

A local band has some big tour plans this summer

Where's Florissant?

Some Lou denizens feel dissed by Miss USA (but Unreal still loves her!), a Pattonville student is treated criminally, and an 84-year-old grandma praises the Rams in song; plus, we clock local athletes on our gaydar

Film Openings

Week of October 9, 2002

Old West Rest

Joe Arena's cowboy obsession and the frontier trappings of his assisted-living home

United We Slam

GOP attacks Carnahan in the name of togetherness

Lotsa Matzo

After a tour of St. Louis' finest, our reviewer knows from deli

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