If you're among the more than 3 million people with Twitter accounts, you can now start following the RFT.
We promise not to Twitter any boy's funeral or sell you stuff you don't need using it.
While you're contemplating, you can watch this video of Twitter getting (deservedly) knocked for its cutesy name by Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart:
- Nick Lucchesi
I headed down to Off Broadway on Friday night to join folks
primed and ready for a true potpourri of local music: One-man spazz show
Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship, retro-pop power trio Blind Eyes, the
bartender-meets-Brit-prep of the Hibernauts and the shiny, neon synth-punk
theatrics of the Makeshift Gentlemen.
The turnout was impressive, considering the cross-town
competition of Pomegranates, Ocean Rivals and the Mhurs at the Bluebird. (How'd
it go?) (SYYR)
Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship's s
Stephen Colbert had a little message for Sen. Claire McCaskill's mom, Betty, during the first segment of his show last night. "Now, Mama McCaskill, don't get mad at your daughter, everyone in Congress was twittering!"Apparently Betty McC. was a little peeved at the senator's poor etiquette during President Obama's speech to Congress on Wednesday night. According to a tweet that the Senator fired off yesterday, "Ok ok. Mom's upset that I was rude at Pres. speech re:tweets. For the record, I tweet
​RFT staff writer Aimee Levitt and her cat, Bess, continue their culinary adventure.Like every other food blogger in St. Louis and probably the country, I went to see Julie & Julia over the weekend. (It was mandatory. There was a memo and everything.) I enjoyed it. A cat played a minor but almost heroic role. And it was so goddamned inspiring that upon returning home, I went online to see if Julia Child had ever bothered to concoct any cat food recipes. Alas, she never did, the selfish bit
Wikimedia Commons​While the rest of America's auto-dealers are crying about the end of "Cash for Clunkers," the guv-mint bail out of GM, and other forms of socialism in this once-prosperous capitalist society, one Chesterfield car salesman knows what a true American patriot needs to make it through this recession: machine guns.Lynch Hummer in Chesterfield-- the largest Hummer dealership in the United States, according to Motor Trend-- has opened a new wing of its store called "Adventure Shooti
Bill Chott has collaborated with some of the biggest names in comedy these days
-- Stephen Colbert, Adam McKay, Amy Poehler. Which you can read all about in this week's feature story, "Big Funny."Back in 2001, Scott Dikkers, founder of The Onion, was getting into the film-making business and asked his friend Bob Odenkirk to recommend an actor for a short pic Dikkers wanted to do, The Kill. (Which you can watch above.)
