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Commatose! Hundreds of Copyeditors Descend on St. Louis

Copyeditors don't have the splashy bylines of reporters or the lovable kookiness of art directors. They sit at their desks with bowed heads, poring over their well-worn copies of the Chicago Manual of Style, checking to see if "postimpressionism" is one word, two words or hyphenated. They hear "und ... More >>

The Rams' Remaining Road

Following their dramatic, exciting, and way too close for comfort win over the Buffalo Bills last week, the St. Louis Rams find themselves a .500 football team (sort of; the tie with San Francisco is really a pain when one is attempting to cook up a narrative), and still -- still! -- in contention f ... More >>

Gut Check's Ten Snacks to Pair With Republican Convention Coverage

The 2012 Republican National Convention, or RNC, wraps up its four-day festivities tonight at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Florida with a speech by GOP candidate Mitt Romney. Over the course of the convention, speeches have been made by former governors (and presidential hopefuls) Tim Pawlent ... More >>

St. Louis-Based American Patriot Beer Makes Its Local Debut

Lifelong St. Louisan John Beal's favorite beer growing up was Budweiser. "I always wanted the Budweiser car to win," he says. When its parent company Anheuser-Busch was purchased by Belgian brewing behemoths InBev in 2008, the career roofer was "bothered" by the takeover, and decided to take matters ... More >>

Magic Mike reveals its cast but is no revelation

Wanna Start a Business? St. Louis is One of the Best Places to Do It

With the recession still in full swing and likely to continue for several more years, it seems like it would be a foolhardy proposition to start up a small business. But there is something infinitely appealing in working for yourself -- particularly since that makes you immune to layoffs. And accord ... More >>

The Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax: Indianapolis mobilizes for an epic battle with an urban legend.

MetroNixed: Metromix ends its local coverage

Metromix Will Eliminate Local Coverage Starting January 1

​If you ever get disgusted enough to give up reading the RFT, know that now there's one fewer source of information about shows, concerts, restaurants and other stuff going on around town. Starting January 1, Gannett Broadcast plans to eliminate local staffing and drastically cut coverage in ... More >>

Daily Beast: Our Moms Are Happier Than Yours

USA Today​According to the oh-so-scientific pollsters of the Daily Beast, St. Louisans, among other things, have nicotine addictions and a lack of book-smarts. So it's nice to know that the latest ranking chart of the pop-political website, released this week for Mother's Day, suggests that ou ... More >>

The Get Motivated! tour that barnstormed into St. Louis last week is as American as a get-rich-quick scheme

Nixon Strikes a Frugal Tone as St. Louisans are Outed as Cheapskates

​Yesterday was a big day in Missouri frugality. Gov. Jay Nixon proposed $300 million in budget cuts during his State of the State address -- even as the website Coupons.com ranked St. Louis as the fourth-cheapest city in the country. Nixon outlined a plan to knock down the state's 2012 budge ... More >>

Chidi Ahanotu: Former St. Louis Ram Ordered to Surrender Conference Championship Ring

baynews9.comChidi Ahanotu​A ring given to St. Louis Rams' players following the team's 2001 NFC championship is at the center of a nasty divorce trial in Florida.Yesterday a judge in Tampa ordered Chidi Ahanotu, a former defensive end for the Rams, to surrender the ring to pay for part of his ex-w ... More >>

Joyce Meyer Ministries Officially Cleared of Shady Accounting in Senate Probe

Image viaJoyce Meyer is on the level, says Sen. Chuck Grassley​Joyce Meyer Ministries of Fenton has "responded fully" to a federal probe of televangelist churches, and its "extensive reforms" are "commended," according to the final report released yesterday.  This in contrast to four other ch ... More >>

Top Ten Idiotic Political Quotes of 2010

Image viaUm, is that like really in the Constitution? ​Some people were worried that once "Dubya" left office we'd suffer from the loss of eyebrow-raising political quotes. However, there's one thing in Washington that's never in short supply: stupidity. The good folks over at About.com's Politic ... More >>

Construction to Resume on Shriners Children's Hospital in CWE

Construction will finally resume later this year for the new Shriners Hospital for Children in the Central West End a year after the recession put the project on hold, the hospital's board announced on Tuesday. Image sourceAn artist rendering of the new Shriner's Hospital for Children, if it ever g ... More >>

St. Louis Drops Too Spots In National Litteracy Rankings. Unreal Cries Out for New National Contests.

librarianavengers.orgUnreal issues a battle call: All in favor of starting a Hot Librarian ranking, spell Y-E-S!​If you thought the decade would end without some national ranking flipping the bird to our fair city, well, you've had your fill of the Christmas Kool-Aid, now haven't you? Party's ... More >>

Hulk Hogan Tonight at Downtown St. Louis Library

​Oh yeah, brother!Terry Bollea -- a.k.a. Hulk Hogan -- will be appearing tonight at the central library downtown from 7 to 10 p.m. Read the RFT preview of the Hulk's visit.The Hulkster swings through St. Louis to support his new autobiography "Hulk Hogan: My Life Outside the Ring", and guess what? ... More >>

That Little Light At the End of the Recession Tunnel is Actually Five Years Away

flickr.com/photos/mickdansforth​Last month, Macroeconomics Advisers, LLC, a Clayton-based economic consulting firm predicted that the recession should be ending just about now, with a significant caveat: We won't actually start to feel any relief until jobs start coming back.Economist Ben Herzon t ... More >>

St. Louis: Bigger than Tampa, Smaller than Wichita

flickr.com/photos/chrism70Wichita, a true metropolis.The U.S. Census Bureau today released its population estimates for 2008. According to the estimate, the population of St. Louis declined for the first time in four years with the bureau estimating that 354,361 people lived in the city in 2008 -- d ... More >>

Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and Now ... Billy Mays?

Apparently death comes in fours. Waking up this morning to news that Billy Mays -- the ubiquitous product pitchman who talked in ALL CAPS and wore a magnifcent Just-for-Men beard -- has died. Mays was found dead in his Tampa, Florida, home on Sunday. The day before he'd been involved in a rough plan ... More >>

14th Street and MLK Drive Named St. Louis' Most Unsafe Neighborhood

In a survey of the nation's most crime-ridden neighborhoods by Dr. Andrew Schiller of the website NeighborhoodScout.com, St. Louis' very own downtown, specifically the intersection of 14th Street and Martin Luther King Drive, ranked fourteenth.How nice that this statistic appears just in time for th ... More >>

Forget Busch Stadium, The Real Party Today is at Novak's

Sea ya at Novak's tonight. That's right. This evening, St. Louis' premier lesbian bar, Novak's, plays host to the annual Wolfe Video Women's Final 4 Party. Billed as one of the largest gay parties of the year, the event got its start nearly a decade ago in St. Louis -- the last time the city played ... More >>

JJ Grey and Mofro

8 p.m. Thursday, February 19. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Former RFT Ad Salesman Launches New Career as Professional Wrestler

I recently had a chance to catch up with former Riverfront Times ad man, Jason Garrison. (No relation to yours truly.)Garrison worked at RFT from mid-2005 to January 2007 before leaving to try his luck as a grappler with Ohio Valley Wrestling. Two months ago, the 26-year-old Garrison made a giant le ... More >>

No Hallucination, STL Addicted to Caffeine

An outfit called HealthSaver -- a "health-care discount program" -- has released its second annual HealthSaver Caffeinated Cities Survey. The survey looked at caffeine consumption in twenty major metropolitan areas, including St. Louis.How do we rank? Well, we love our caffeine -- God knows, it's t ... More >>

Companies Collide

Feel the togetherness

Bravo, Boss: Springsteen may have been late, but man, was he great

Review: Hold Steady, Stay Positive First Listen and Track-by-Track Analysis

Radiohead's 2008 North American Tour Setlists -- So Far

RFT readers show their deep admiration for skunks.

B-Sides marches to the beat of a 30-piece punk-rock marching band and explores the history of name-shifting

Radiohead at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, May 14, 2008

Radiohead Is Coming to St. Louis in 2008!!!!

Wade Boggs wonders if Joe is superstitious.

Week of March 15, 2007

"Just Google '[insert any city name] hash,' press enter and automagically -- 40 drinking buddies and a place to crash in any major city in the world."

Week of August 24, 2006

Hot Dog!

Stars to the Rescue promises to rock

Schticking & Screaming

The Evil Dead star lets us pick his Brain

Letters

Week of April 6, 2005

A Shot in the Arm

A federal appeals court says Darryl Burton might very well be innocent of the 1984 murder of Donald Ball. But there's nothing they can do about it.

Washington Avenue Beat Festival 4

Sunday, Sept. 2; Lo, Rue 13, Tangerine, Velvet and Galaxy

Getting What You Don't Pay For

Success ruins some of baseball owners' most tearful tales

Billy Club

A simple, happy message helped him become the nation's favorite preacher. Thanks to a Popsicle-slick PR machine and a talent for dodging tough questions, we've forgotten what Billy Graham is really all about.

News of the Weird

News of the Weird

Hotel Tab

The developers of the proposed downtown convention-hotel complex are asking for $116 million in public funding, but they refuse to guarantee that the jobs they create won't be mimimum-wage