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What Gatsby Gets Wrong: Ten Ways the New Movie Will Trip Up the Lazy Students of Tomorrow

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Queens of the Drone Age: Mizzou Journalism Program Will Soon Have Its Own Drone

A team of tech wizards and journalists at the University of Missouri-Columbia are about to begin work on cutting-edge technology that's rapidly advancing into the world of journalism: Drones. Not the kind that drop bombs -- that kind that can be flown to areas where news is breaking and can be film ... More >>

Nelly: No Idea Tour Bus Was Full of Drugs and "Mad As Hell" [UPDATE]

Update: Some measured words from Jay E, the producer of Country Grammar and frequent Nelly collaborator. Yesterday, news broke that Nelly's tour bus was stopped at a Texas border patrol checkpoint and cops found an obscene amount of drugs onboard. One person -- Brian Keith Jones -- took the fall, ... More >>

Nelly's Tour Bus Busted with Heroin, Weed, Loaded Gun [UPDATE]

Update: A Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department press release confirms that drug-sniffing dogs led cops to the enormous stash. Nelly's tour bus was just busted last night in Texas with massive amounts of weed, heroin and a loaded gun. Daily RFT is not certain what's crazier -- the sheer amount of ... More >>

Modern Family's Eric Stonestreet a Royals Fan (Cardinals Hatred Explained)

In ABC's hit comedy Modern Family, Eric Stonestreet plays the role of Cameron -- a gay dad in Southern California who is constantly defending his home state of Missouri to his partner, Mitchell. "You know, Missouri's more cosmopolitan than you give it credit for, Mitchell," says Cameron in one episo ... More >>

How Violent Idiot Chris Brown Continues to Play the Victim: A Timeline

As a reader of music blogs, you have by no doubt by now heard that violent idiot Chris Brown has done (another) stupid thing by getting a tattoo on his neck that looks suspiciously like a battered woman. Like, you know, the woman he battered in 2009. He claims it's actually a sugar skull -- an icon ... More >>

Iron Man Doesn't Know What Shawarma Is? Bull. Crap.

Ever the pop-culture sheep, I plunked down my hardly earned 26 clams and took my wife to see The Avengers this past weekend. Now, growing up, I was always more of a DC than a Marvel kid, so I appreciated the movie as popcorn entertainment, not a geek apotheosis. At any rate, I'm not to here to provi ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church Threatens to Protest Harrisburg, IL Tornado Victims' Funerals

​Not this bullshit again. The Westboro Baptist Church -- those laughable scamps with the collective IQ of a single beet -- announced on their blog that they're delighted that six people were killed by the tornado that touched down in Harrisburg, Illinois on Wednesday, February 29. So happy are the ... More >>

Anaheim Restaurant Introduces Albert Pujols Burger

Screenshot: www.tmz.comThe Albert Pujols-inspired "Machine" burger​The OC Sports Grill is located only an Albert Pujols-style moonshot away from Albert Pujols' new home, Angels Stadium. So it should come as no surprise that, a mere 48 hours after El Hombre donned his new team's cap and jersey for ... More >>

Stan Kroenke Files For Restraining Order

Stan Kroenke​Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the St. Louis Rams, was reportedly in fear for his safety recently when his former house servant -- Mark Waldo -- went wacko.According to TMZ, Waldo stole a gun from Kroenke's Malibu, California, mansion and threatened to shoot himself in the hea ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan's Billy Joel Tattoo: Five Other Lyrics She Could Have Used

Photo credit to... what's that? You figured it out already? ​Lindsay Lohan got a Billy Joel lyric tattooed on her rib cage, and frankly we can't believe it took this long. The gossip mill says that, "It represented where she is in life and everything she's been through ... it signifies that sh ... More >>

Ira DeWitt Sues Singer Johnny Gill Over Twitter Outburst

DeWitt and Gill: Record producer sues her star.​The wife of Cardinals president William DeWitt III has filed suit in Los Angeles against former New Edition front man Johnny Gill. Ira DeWitt owns Nofti Records, a small label based in the St. Louis suburb of Brentwood. Gill, who reached fame in the ... More >>

Charlie Sheen's Ex Brooke Mueller to Kick Her Habit With ... Ibogaine

courtesy of the Riverfront TimesShock the Junkie: It's Brooke Mueller's turn, reports TMZ.com.​You gotta love those crackerjack reporters at TMZ.com. Not only are they soo all over the Charlie Sheen saga -- they've actually stayed on top of the equally tragic tale of the mother of his surrogate-sp ... More >>

The Breastaurant Reality Show: An Exclusive Gut Check Preview [Spoilers]

​TMZ (via Eater) reports that VH1, which once specialized in adult-contemporary music videos, is producing a reality show set at a Long Island breastaurant called Canz.You might be surprised to learn that Gut Check's network of undercover operatives reaches into the world of reality-television. We ... More >>

HandleBar's Keeley McGrew: Featured Bartender of the Week

Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar, a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders. This week Chrissy Wilmes profiles HandleBar bartender Keeley McGrew. Below is a Q&A with McGrew, followed by the recipe for a Hot Taty, her reimagined vesion of the classic Hot Toddy. Chrissy Wil ... More >>

Robert Brothers Sued For Not Paying for Programming on WRBU Channel 46

cnn.comIn 2009 CNN pegged Steven (left) and Michael Roberts empire at $1 billion.​Given its daily lineup of reruns of Roseanne, Cosby Show, Tyler Perry's House of Payne, and tired crime-show dramas, one might think that WRBU my46 wasn't paying anything for its programming.  Turns out, maybe t ... More >>

Billy Ray Cyrus Wrote a Poem About Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in a St. Louis Hotel

​(Via TMZ, via Mike A) GQ just posted a lengthy interview with Billy Ray Cyrus. The country star-turned-actor opens up about the troubles of his daughter, Miley, the effects of the TV show Hannah Montana on the family, his divorce and an impending new album. Relevant to us: Cyrus says that he ... More >>

TMZ Captures ex-Ram D'Marco Farr Cursing at Parking Valet

101espn.comFarr (far right) and his posse on ESPN 101. ​First thought: I thought the goal of TMZ was to embarrass real celebrities? Second thought: D'Marco sounds like such a nice boy on the radio. If you haven't heard yet, the cameras of TMZ caught former St. Louis Ram D'Marco Farr spouting off a ... More >>

Congrats to the RFT's Music-Related Web Award Winners for 2011!

Wikimedia Commons​Late yesterday, the winners of the RFT's first-annual web awards went live on our website. Included in that bunch is a bunch of music-related winners. The best music blog award went to I Went To a Show -- because, according to judges, "It's great to see the local-centric cont ... More >>

The Inevitable Lawsuit Befalls the Food Truck Porno

Flying Pink Pig star Ron Jeremy (right) later donated his mustache to the homeless man pictured here.​Gut Check's exhaustive coverage of The Flying Pink Pig, the porno shot on location in an actual food truck, continues -- though absolutely NOT because we want the producers to send us a free scree ... More >>

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 >>

Video: The Aquabats' Child Crowd-Surfers at the Pageant Make TMZ

If you happened to be perusing the gossip site TMZ yesterday -- don't lie, you know you read it -- you may have seen footage of a kid being thrown into the crowd at an Aquabats show. This happened to take place during the Aquabats' set at the Pageant on Sunday, November 14. Vocalist Christian Jacobs ... More >>

Lady Gaga's Meat Dress Draws Scorn of PETA, Butchers

Screenshot: www.usatoday.com​Fact: Intermittently interesting pop megastar Lady Gaga wore a dress made out of meat at MTV's Orgy of Irrelevance Video Music Awards. The blogosphere observed, snarked and was prepared to move on. Shockingly, not everyone wanted to let the matter drop.First, we have P ... More >>

Tila Tequila Reportedly Attacked at the 2010 Gathering of the Juggalos

The annual Gathering of the Juggalos took place last weekend in Hardin County, Illinois, roughly three hours southeast of St. Louis. Like past years, the camaraderie-fostering event features a performance from Insane Clown Posse and its associated musical acts, as well as appearances by other artist ... More >>

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Central Illinois Congressman is DC's Hottest Male Eye-Candy

It's official: Representative Aaron Schock of Illinois's 18th Congressional district has been anointed the hottest member of not just the House but also the Senate, eclipsing former Cosmo centerfold and current Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown. You can tell because a photo of him in a bathing suit ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: NOFX's Fat Mike Talks Cokie the Clown, Playing at Pop's and His Lyrical Evolution

courtesy of Fat Wreck ChordsNOFX returns to the St. Louis area for the first time since 1998.​In this week's paper, Michael Dauphin scored a rare interview with NOFX figurehead Fat Mike. The band will be performing at Pop's on Saturday, May 1, its first local club appearance since the late '90 ... More >>

St. Louis Hairdresser Who Found New Moon Script in Dumpster is Selling Plunder on eBay

Courtesy of Albert WatkinsRay in Hollywood last fall for the New Moon premiere.​Remember Casey Ray? The luckiest Dumpster-diver ever? Her story just keeps on going. Sort of like the Twilight saga. Now she's auctioning off her autographed New Moon script on eBay. Bidding starts at $10,000. (For ... More >>

St. Louis Salon Owner Who Found Movie Scripts in Dumpster, Sues Film Company

Casey Ray in Hollywood last fall. ​Remember the story of Casey Ray, the St. Louis hairdresser who found the script to New Moon in a Dumpster last spring? Turns out Ray actually found two movie scripts in the trash outside the Chase Park Plaza. One for the teen-vampire flick New Moon and the other ... More >>

What? TMZ Got it Wrong!? St. Louis Dumpster-Diver Is Enjoying Hollywood Vacation

Had a conversation today with Albert Watkins, the attorney for Casey Ray. Ray, if you'll recall, is the woman who in May found a copy of the script for the Twilight sequel New Moon in a Dumpster outside the Chase Park Plaza hotel in St. Louis. Watkins says a TMZ.com news item about Ray -- mentioned ... More >>

Woman Who Found New Moon Script in Trash is in L.A. For Premiere; Question Is, Is She Satisfied?

Photo courtesy of Albert WatkinsCasey Ray​Remember the case of Casey Ray?Ray was loitering outside a St. Louis hotel where George Clooney and other actors were staying this past spring when she found the script to the Twilight movie sequel, New Moon, in a Dumpster. (What Ray, a hairstylist, was do ... More >>

Joe Buck Live, Take 2: Who's Gonna Call Him a Cocksucker.com Connoisseur This Time?

si.comBroadway Joe: The man least likely to pottymouth that other Joe​This just in to the Unreal e-mail bag. The second installment of HBO's quarterly Joe Buck Live show's slated for Tuesday, September 22. Per the press release (boldface is ours):In addition to a previously announced live gatherin ... More >>

Video: Michael Jackson Tribute Spin at Vintage Vinyl

Dropped by the Vintage Vinyl Michael Jackson tribute spin last Thursday. A good-sized crowd milled around in the aisles, many of them dancing and grooving to the hits being thrown down by DJ Needles and crew. What stood out is the music -- you don't really realize how many hits (scratch that: killer ... More >>

R.I.P. Michael Jackson, 1958-2009

Although TMZ.com reported this news quite a bit ago, the Los Angeles Times just confirmed via sources that the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, has died at the age of 50. Jackson reportedly went into cardiac arrest earlier today and was rushed to the hospital. CNN and the LAT report ... More >>

R.I.P. Ike Turner, 1931-2007