Stephen King

The Best St. Louis Metal Shows in April

Looking for a good place to see flashy and exciting music played at high volume, have your mind blown by dark and powerful sounds, or just stomp around like a drunken goon with your shirt off? Then a heavy metal concert might be just the place for you. Each month I'll be offering my top picks of the ... More >>

10 Movies to Watch in 2013

See Also: Film Critics' Poll: Top 10 Films of 2012

Meet John Taff; St. Louis Horror Writer with "Weakest Stomach Imaginable"

John F.D. Taff can trace his obsession with horror to the nights he and his siblings would stay up waiting for their father to arrive home. "My dad worked as a St. Louis policeman and logged late and long hours," recalls Taff. "My mom was a big fan of horror films back then, only she was too scared ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Read it and weep. Like, a lot.​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 15, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. The children ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 25, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Amanda Doyle's Finally, A Locally Produced Guide ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 11, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Despite Amazon, e-books and the crappy e ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 4, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. The number one book on this week's bestsel ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending November 27, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. It's that most wonderful time of the year ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending November 13, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Sometimes the bestseller list has a sense of hum ... More >>

If Harry Potter Characters Had Bands: Twelve We'd Like To See

​If Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton's promise (which turned out to be a joke/hoax) to become a white rapper was just one more sad reminder of a series you used to love, we don't blame you -- but we would like to discourage you. Harry Potter, as I'm sure you will remember, is after all a little m ... More >>

Slobberbone

9 p.m. Wednesday, May 18. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Redrum, Redrum!

Redrum, Redrum!

Interview: Tef Poe on War Machine, His Fantastic New Album

courtesy of Tef Poe​Tef Poe's War Machine is a nineteen-track tour de force. The Force member's musical versatility has always been his calling card, and so it's not surprise that Machine embraces diversity and defies pigeonholing. Genre-wise, it touches on warm R&B, ominous hip-hop, celebrato ... More >>

Jonathan Franzen's Face Graces Cover of Time

​Webster Grovians, prepare yourselves! Tomorrow the newest edition of Time magazine hits newsstands, featuring, on its cover, the tortured visage of native son Jonathan Franzen beside the headline "Great American Novelist". Franzen is the first living writer to grace the magazine's cover since ... More >>

Tennessee Williams Writes Like ... H.P. Lovecraft? WTF?

We at the Daily RFT will admit to being suckers for the latest Internet craze, whatever it happens to be. Foursquare? We're on it. *%&^! My Dad Says? We read it every day back when it was just a stream on Twitter.We do not write like Stephenie Meyer. We do not write like Stephenie Meyer.​So la ... More >>

A St. Louis group tracks down pesky spirits and other paranormal activity

River Water Worries

The Sneak vs. the St. Louis International Film Festival, Round Two (Friday)

​Shows: Ligeia, a locally filmed, very (very) loose adaptation of the short story by Edgar Allen Poe reimagined as a Gothic thriller; Albino Farm, a slasher film that might as well be about my fears of driving to the Lake of the Ozarks.Food: The Edgar Allen Pom, a cocktail I concocted, recipe to ... More >>

Lit Up: Keisha Ervin's gritty tales of the St. Louis streets have made her one of the nation's hottest purveyors of urban fiction

Why I Continue to Hate the Boston Red Sox

Good Night, and Good Luck

One of Us Must Know

The elusive Bob Dylan, masterfully considered, in I'm Not There.

Fist Things First

Caligula: Imperial Edition

2006: The Year in Music

Week of December 28, 2006

How did the most macho of words get emasculated?

Week of December 21, 2006

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All Wet

M. Night Shyamalan steps up the lunacy with Lady in the Water

Naked Brides

Boo the Clown helps Unreal overcome our fear of clownkind, and La Leche League puts it all out there during World Breastfeeding Awareness Week. Plus -- want to see a truly blushing bride? Take away her dress.

Letters

Week of November 3, 2004

Chi-Chi Man Eye for the Straight Guy

We ponder gays and Beenie Man, review the Rock Bottom Remainders and chat with the Brian Jonestown Massacre

Geeks Gone Wild

If you can't get laid at a science-fiction convention, you can't get laid!

The Misfits

The fantastic, the majestic...the Decemberists

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of October 13, 2004

Man at Work

First Run Theatre offers plays that are under construction

Never the Twain Shall Meet

Resurrecting Solomon Carver

Hail to the King, Baby

Cast as an aging Elvis, Bruce Campbell must do battle with the evil, undead Bubba Ho-Tep

Dense King

There's more to Stephen King's Dreamcatcher than fits in its confusing film adaptation

Series/Festivals

Week of May 22, 2002

Asking for It

Storytelling continues Solondz's bluster of sex, rage and insanity

Surfin' Safari

Though both are set in beach houses, two plays approach the locale from opposite angles and shine a different light on their characters.

Stand By Them

Mystery and memory shine upon those with their Hearts in the right places

God Complex

With its fireworks and fanfare, Opera Theatre's Hippolytus and Aricia is a worthy and wonderful season finale

Ape Escape

Monkeybone, like a dream, is best when half-remembered

TV OD

Rocket Park appear not to be suffering from The Effects of Eating Too Much Television

Bill Gallo

THE GREEN MILE

Written and directed by Frank Darabont

Memory Lane

Defying danger and the forgetfulness of time, grieving families and friends are peppering Missouri's roadsides with shrines to loved ones killed in crashes