Steve Jobs

Jack Dorsey: Twitter Co-Founder, St. Louis Native, Now Officially a Superhero (PHOTOS)

Jack Dorsey is definitely a source of pride for St. Louis -- and now, we have one more reason to be extra proud. He's a superhero. The Twitter cofounder and richest, coolest St. Louis celeb ever (sorry, Jon Hamm), is now the superhero star of a comic book, because...why not? A company called Blu ... More >>

The Great MP3 Compromise: Credits Where Credits Are Due

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. For the average music listener, Mp3s are a compromise. Sound quality is traded for portability. For the ... More >>

Five Surefire Moves for Karaoke

Karaoke can be a dangerous endeavor. What can you sing that won't make friends shun you? How can you go balls-out during your next performance? Each week in "Ask a Karaoke Host," RFT Music writer and professional karaoke host Allison Babka answers your burning questions about maximizing your melodio ... More >>

[INFOGRAPHIC] Why St. Louis is a Sweet Place for IT Start-ups

There are plenty of reasons why the next Steve Jobs might want to plant his IT startup right here in St. Louis -- so many reasons, in fact, you could fill up a big ol' infographic with 'em. Which is precisely what the locally-based non-profit ITEN (Information Technology Entrepreneur Network) has do ... More >>

The Old 97's Return to 1997 at the Pageant: Time Tripping at the Genesis of Alt-Country

Old 97s, with The Travoltas and Rhett Miller (solo) The Pageant Oct. 16, 2012 Music is a funny thing. Like photos or scent, songs have a way of making us remember the past. Late relatives. Swim class. That road trip to Dollywood with a jerk you never should have dated in the first place. Chances ar ... More >>

The Ten Most Egregious Tax Loopholes in the U.S.

The Power of Time and Truth

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 >>

Rodney King and The Psychotic World We Live In

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 >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 22, 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 election time, which, as you know, m ... 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 >>

In the Galleries: Peat Street and EYEZ at Hoffman Lachance Contemporary, closes January 7

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 18, 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. 'Twas the week before Christmas and all anybody ... 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 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 20, 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 took a month, but The Year of the St. Louis C ... 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 >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

image viaJohn Hodgman: barefoot sage of the Mad Art Gallery.​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending November 6, 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 ... More >>

Jack Dorsey: Can He Take Over Steve Jobs' Role as High Priest of Geek?

The bigger question: Can Dorsey pull off the mock turtleneck? ​Will Jack Dorsey (founder of Twitter and Square) become the next Steve Jobs? That's the question that tech site gigaom.com recently tackled in an article comparing the St. Louis native to the late Apple founder. The website notes that ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending October 30, 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. Unbelievable as it may sound, on this wee ... More >>

Steve Jobs' Six Best Music Innovations

Apple (the Beatles record label) once sued Apple (the computer corporation). After initial squabbles over the right to name their companies after the same fruit, the two agreed that all was good as long as Steve Jobs and crew never entered the music business. As you can probably guess, as you likely ... More >>

Fresh-Squeezed Orange Juice, The Vine Mediterranean Café and Market

Our bodies are miraculous machines, almost as intuitive and user-friendly as Steve Jobs' creations. They try to tell us what is good for us, try to steer us in the right direction. When we need rest, we get tired. When we need to eat, we get hungry. Even what, specifically, we are hungry for is a co ... More >>

iCloud is the Shiniest, Newest Time-Waster for Apple Store Customer Service

Courtesy of AppleLet the chatboards begin.​Being Steve Jobs must be pretty awesome. It seems like the man makes more announcements than Obama does, though the negative implications of his are usually just that the newest version of the iPad completely trumps the one you bought only this mornin ... More >>

Why Steve Jobs is One of the Most Powerful People in Food

Yesterday TheDailyMeal.com revealed its 50 most powerful people in food, and the Canadian Press asked, "Steve Jobs is number five? Huh." Of course, it's because of the changes food apps for iPhones and iPads have created. They further break down the list that includes chefs, bureaucrats, tech innova ... More >>

iHelp for Autism: The iPad opens up new worlds for autistic children

St. Louis Online Retailer WOOT.com Acquired By Amazon

​Update 10:35 a.m.: Just got confirmation that Woot will move its St. Louis office -- and all employees -- to Seattle. The move will likely be made this month. ------The paint was barely dry on the walls of Woot.com's new St. Louis office when word spread yesterday afternoon that the online "deal ... More >>

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Rod Blagojevich on Celebrity Apprentice: Week Three

Image source​It's an incredible responsibility being governor of a major state. There's so much work to be done, so many photo ops to smile for, so many profane phone calls to be made, so many favors to be sold that it's a wonder the governor has time to sleep, let alone keep up with modern te ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 3.18

​Kraft to cut sodium in their processed foods by 10 percent. It's still not enough. (Los Angeles Times) Michelle Obama takes her childhood obesity battle to the Grocery Manufacturers Association. Food scientist Marion Nestle summarizes the speech, given to an organization based on the foods ... More >>

Apple Announcement a Big YAWNER

​So, my guess was wrong about Apple releasing the Beatles catalog on iTunes. I'm not ashamed of that. It was a long shot. But I did get some things right about the Apple announcement and I was surprised by quite a few things, too. I was right about iTunes 9. That wasn't hard to guess. I haven't ha ... More >>

June Phone Showdown: Palm Pre vs. Apple iPhone

June is turning out to be a big month for gadget geeks. Last week Palm finally released its much anticipated new phone, the Pre which looks a lot like an iPhone with a slide out keyboard. It's no surprise, some of the same engineers who designed the first iPhone also worked on the Pre. Right now it' ... More >>

Unreal's Minute-By-Minute Inauguration Coverage

Umm, Unreal was a bit confused about the start time for today's event. We thought it began at 10:30 p.m. CST. Who the hell throws a party at this hour of the morning? We haven't even had our first Bloody Mary. Thankfully, our limo pulled onto the National Mall just as things were getting under ... More >>

I Want My MP3

Digital music just gets better. See ya later, major labels.

King's Cups

Unreal gets tipsy on premium cocktails, then asks a bunch of questions about beer bellies and white weddings.

Art Attack

Stand clear: A young St. Louis sculptor named Moses has entered the building

iPod, youPod

Digital music lets us carry our personalities in our pockets

Hack Mentality

At 28, Spuds has become a cybersage for the young and the reckless. Now he's gone straight.

There He Goes Again

If you liked the City Museum, just look at what Bob Cassilly is doing now