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PrideFest Move to Downtown Like "Watching Your Kid Grow Up," Says Aldermen Candidate

Lisa Miller, a candidate for the Board of Aldermen for the 15th Ward, says she had a range of emotions when she heard the news that the annual PrideFest would be moving from Tower Grove to downtown this year. "It's almost as if you're watching your kid grow up," says Miller, who is gay and has liv ... More >>

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

Combat veterans fall prey to gambling addictions at an alarming rate. Where's the military when the chips are down?

Kingshighway Skatepark Gets Nod in Popular Mechanics

courtesy of KHVT (Kingshighway Vigilante Tranny)Build a skate park, change the world!​OK, so they didn't find a cure for cancer or resolve the ongoing crisis in Libya. But the founders of the Kingshighway Skatepark still get a shot-out in the August issue of Popular Mechanics -- they're one of ten ... More >>

The Ten Most Effective American Protest Songs

This one doesn't make the cut, unfortunately.​It's Fourth of July weekend, and in the haze of the heat, barbecue, domestic beer, and red-white-and-blue buntings, it's easy to get caught up in ranting-chanting, "USA! USA! USA!" The founding fathers and a lot of musicians might not agree with ... More >>

Watch Out: Here Comes the Missouri Militia

Jim Youchoff and the Missouri Milita want you to know that they're not a pack of crazy racist right-wing extremists.​Major Jim Youchoff is the commanding officer for the St. Louis Brigade of the Missouri Militia, and he looks exactly how you'd expect him to look, based on that title: 57 years ... More >>

Missouri National Guard Mobilized in Joplin After Deadly Tornado

courtesy of the National Guard BureauThe Missouri National Guard, on the ground in Joplin. (It does kind of look like WW II, no?)​ The news in Joplin, Missouri, is even worse than initially feared. Not only are there at least 89 people dead, but a broad swatch of the town has been destroyed. T ... More >>

Rugby Burn: Gravely injured in a fluke house fire, Iraq War vet Stephen Ellis is dead set on returning to the sport he loves

Nearly 100,000 Missouri Veterans Honored

Medal for World War II vets.​For more than a decade, the state of Missouri has awarded medals and certificates to all its native -- or transplanted -- sons and daughters who've served in World War II, the Korean War or the Vietnam War . And the program is coming up on quite a milestone: 100,000 ve ... More >>

UPDATE: Mayor, Rest of City Get Ready for Impending Snowpocalypse

​Egypt is in total chaos right now, you may have heard. The government has been overturned and there's rioting in the streets. But the Egyptians are way luckier than St. Louisans because even though their country is a shambles, it's going to be 70 degrees and sunny in Cairo tomorrow. And what ... More >>

It's Just Snow, People!

​Oh no! Call in the National Guard! A few inches of snow have accumulated...in fucking January! Who could have ever seen this coming? Let's all freak out, buy up all the bread and toilet paper in stock at the stores -- since we seem to be on the verge of shitting ourselves anyway -- and sit at hom ... More >>

Fair-y Tales: Russell Pearce and other illegal immigrant populists rely on misleading, right-wing reports to scapegoat immigrants and terrify penny-pinched Americans

Grinding Justice: Operation Streamline costs millions, tramples the Constitution and doesn't work

Pinalcchio: Forensics experts say a deputy's tale about getting shot by drug smugglers doesn't add up

The Missouri National Guard Has a Suicide Problem

And, no, it's not jihadists strapping bombs to themselves. (Thank God.)Unfortunately, for reasons still unknown, six members of the state's National Guard have killed themselves this year. That's the most in one year since the Guard starting keeping track in 2001. Remarkably, none of the six were de ... More >>

Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

'Cause Nothing Stops the HydroHoosier, Creve Coeur Drag Boat Race Officially On!

flickr.com/photos/13kingdomsAhh, the HydroHoosier. Though rare in these parts, he is an indefatigable beast who will persist in "gunnin' it and stunnin' shit" no matter what financial difficulties may accrue.So in case you've heard that the 30th Annual Budweiser Creve Coeur Drag Boat Classic on June ... More >>

It's That Time Again -- Vote For "Ass Clown of the Week"

flickr.com/photos/pomoWow. Lot's of candidates for Daily RFT's weekly Ass Clown award. Good luck voting. I predict a tight one this week. And the nominees are...1. Father charged with attacking shopkeeper to defend honor of his shoplifting daughter -- Remember this one from late last week? An employ ... More >>

Dramatic Footage of Stolen Plane Landing in Missouri

Federal prosecutors yesterday charged a Canadian flight student with transportation of stolen property and illegal entry for flying a stolen Cessna 172 aircraft into the United States and landing it in southeast Missouri on Monday. The pilot, Adam Dylan Leon, apparently wanted to to die -- telling p ... More >>

Janet Napolitano’s Sorry Service in Arizona Makes Her a Terrible Choice for Homeland Security Secretary

Hairy Times: St. Louis-based American Mustache Institute wants to put the 'stache back in style

Hot Damn! McCain's Pick of Palin Sets Bill for VP Debate in St. Louis

Beer, Guns and Big Bird

Unreal gets down to brass tacks with the NRA, Anheuser-Busch and Big Bird, shares an intimate Keith Urban moment and cries bloody Murder.

Noneteenth

Readers can’t find Juneteenth on their calendars.

Dead Pool

What made Lionel Sands go off the deep end?

Film Openings

Week of March 22, 2007

The Strange, Strange Tale of the U.S.S. Inaugural

An old warship meets its most formidable enemy — the Mississippi River.

"When was the last time these two sat and listened to their elders at a sacred fire, or sought their own hearts?"

Week of December 14, 2006

Happy Feet

B-Sides compares Tony Danza's tap-dancing and acting, gets cozy with Quintron and Miss Pussycat, and doesn't balk at a new scene trading card

Frog Eyes

Sunday, May 28, at 8 p.m. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center (3301 Lemp Avenue)

Last Rites

Ghouls and grief along the Columbia debris trail

Chin Music

Henry Rollins takes no prisoners, wants no sympathy and gives good quote

Hard Luck, Hard Time

Donald Thweatt was once ready to fight for his country. Now he's fighting for his freedom.

DAMMED TO ETERNITY

James Scott was sentenced to life in prison for causing a destructive levee break during the Flood of '93. But was he simply an easy scapegoat for a town raging at its devastation?

THE HOLE TRUTH

The tragic story of caver Floyd Collins makes for an unlikely but entertaining and touching musical