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Vino Nadoz's Alex Ettinger: Featured Bartender of the Week

We challenge you to introduce us to a nicer, more modest and gentlemanly bartender than this guy. When we told Alex Ettinger of Vino Nadoz (16 The Boulevard, Richmond Heights; 314-726-0400) that we wanted to interview him for this column, he was so honored. He began to worry if he was dressed nice ... More >>

St. Louis Actors' Studio to Launch "LaBute New Theater Festival" in July

Eight professional playwrights and five high school students will have their one-act plays performed during the St. Louis Actors' Studio's first annual LaBute New Theater Festival this summer at the Gaslight Theater. As its title suggests, the festival pays homage to playwright Neil LaBute, best kno ... More >>

Bad Religion's Greg Graffin Challenges Authority Through Science

For more than 30 years, Bad Religion has carved out a niche as the thinking man's punk-rock band. When BR formed in Los Angeles in 1980, the inspiration for lyrics came from the topic of corporate greed and the conflicts between philosophy, science and religion. Bad Religion's sixteenth full-length ... More >>

Masked Gunmen Church Robbery: Thieves Enter East St. Louis Church During Service

A Sunday church service in East St. Louis became a frightening crime scene when three masked gunmen entered the house of worship and demanded that parishioners give them their money. "These are some trying times now," East St. Louis Police Chief Michael Floore tells Daily RFT this morning. The i ... More >>

Eclectic Ensembles: Embrace the strange and the scandalous

The Top Five Hip-Hop Albums of All Time, According to Lyfestile

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 >>

Market Moves and What They Mean For the Cardinals

The trade deadline is just a few days off now, and the Cardinals are in a dogfight for the NL Central. Whether or not that ultimately translates into actual movement for the Cards on the trade market remains to be seen, but the conditions are certainly right. It's been a fairly robust trade mar ... More >>

Eleven Things Every Independent Artist Should Work On

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 >>

Tenacious D, Alice Cooper, Mariachi El Bronx and More in This Week's New Show Announcements

Every newly announced show this week! Comedy and music fans, rejoice: The D is coming to town. For the uninitiated, I'm referring to Tenacious D -- the two-man wonderband will play the Pageant on July 23 with The Sights. They also just released a new video yesterday; see it below. For fans of southe ... More >>

Dave Matthews Band is Coming to the Verizon Wireless Amphiteater -- Presale Information

Dave Matthews Band in 2007​Dave Matthews Band has just announced its 2012 tour, and the extensive itinerary includes a stop in St. Louis -- Maryland Heights, technically -- at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (I-70 & Earth City Expressway. Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944). Brandi Carlile, who ... More >>

Emily Pulitzer Restoring Girlhood Home in Cincinnati

​An alert reader pointed Daily RFT today to a recent article in the Cincinnati Enquirer that reports how St. Louis' Emily Pulitzer is spending a small fortune to restore her childhood home. The modernist-style house (right) was built in 1938 on nine wooded acres in the Woodlawn suburb of Cincinnat ... More >>

Foo Fighters at Scottrade Center, 9/17/11: Review and Setlist

Photo by Jon Scorfina. Read why we had no professional photos here. ​Mariachi El Bronx | Rise Against! | Foo Fighters Scottrade Center September 17, 2011 It's been a huge year for Dave Grohl. His band, Foo Fighters, began 2011 with its most reliable line-up of the group's existence. That was ... More >>

James Clark and Norm White want their Neighborhood Alliance to save St. Louis' worst neighborhoods. Then they want it to save America.

The divine secrets of the Eskimo sisterhood in Something Borrowed

Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! does precisely that

Talib Kweli at Pop's, 4/19/11: Review

Photo by Jon Gitchoff​ Talib Kweli/Fred the Godson/Dusty Wallets/Earthworms Pop's Nightclub and Concert Venue Tuesday, April 19 Not to be discouraged by the lightning, hail and winds that tore through the area last night, fans of alternative hip-hop ventured out to see one of the genre's pre ... More >>

Kool Keith at the Firebird, Wednesday, April 6

Scott LayneKool Keith throwing it down at the Firebird.​Old-school Bronx rapper Kool Keith brought his warped mind to the Firebird last night. Mathias of Earthworms, Spark1Duh? and Red Zero (playing its first show together) opened. Scott Layne was there; relive the show through his photos. C ... More >>

The Opening Day Crystal Ball: 2011 MLB Predictions

I actually dressed up like this to write this post. I predict the itching of this beard will soon drive me to madness. ​Just a bare handful of hours, now, until the Cardinals' 2011 season gets underway. Plenty of ink and bytes have been spilled talking about what the season may bring, lots of it r ... More >>

Missouri's Tim Barnes Getting NFL Draft Hype

The Union Buster, preparing to take a swipe at the NFLPA Game and, possibly, Tim Barnes' future.​Tim Barnes, former center for the Missouri Tigers, is garnering some attention this week as he plays in the NFLPA Game. That's the National Football League Players' Association, better known as the Pla ... More >>

Don DeLillo Accepts St. Louis University Literary Award

Image viaDon DeLillo​Don DeLillo hearkened back to his days as a student at Fordham University in New York City as he accepted St. Louis University's annual Literary Award late Thursday afternoon. It was at Fordham, said the 73-year-old novelist, that he learned an important lesson: "There's no es ... More >>

Kicking Ass for Jesus: The Book of Eli's post-apocalyptic theology is a little warped

Pair of Jokers: Compare notes on late-career plays by Neil Simon and Herb Gardner

Inside Baseball: A tour of St Louis landmarks from the famous to the infamous (and everything in between)

Drone Henge: Ambient drone-metal band Sunn O))) makes a rare live appearance in St. Louis

Busch Stadium Better Than New Yankees and Mets' Ballparks, So Says New York Times

flickr.com/photos/prettywarstlSomeone really, really likes Busch Stadium. That person is New York Times sports writer George Vecsey. Fresh from a trip to St. Louis last week for an All-Star Game promo, Vecsey penned a piece for the Times on Monday comparing Busch Stadium to buried treasure. More spe ... More >>

Mettle to the Petal: Avalon Theatre proves The Subject Was Roses is still well worth bringing up

J'Accuse!

Doubt wags the finger of moral relativism

Why I Continue to Hate the Boston Red Sox

The Re-Entroducer

Oliver Wang’s shares his soul-sides.

Cannes and Abel

Ferrara’s beloved New York, this time via Rome.

King's Cups

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

From Russia with Zilch

The Sisters Rosensweig owes Chekov an apology.

Piano Appeal

Regina Spektor sells out — in the good way.

London Fog

Woody Allen wanders through Scoop

Street Fighters

V-licious

A confession: We just can't stop eating at Big V's

Radio Free St. Louis

King of traffic Tony J. is on the air again...on your computer

Terror Squad

True Story (Universal)

This Charming Man

Why Morrissey is newly hip among bands that sound nothing like him

What a Difference a Gay Makes

Jade Esteban Estrada tells the tales you won't find in textbooks

Moral Imperatives

New offerings tackle racism and the Holocaust

Jenny From the Crock

Lopez, as a Maid, puts the "back" in backlash

Afrodisiac

As Yohimbe Brothers, guitarist Vernon Reid and turntablist DJ Logic subvert expectations about genre, race and sexual desire

Series/Festivals

Week of June 5, 2002

De La Soul

AOI: Bionix (Tommy Boy)

Three Girls and a Marching Band

Our Song fills the streets of New York with hot, sweaty rhythm

Will the Real John Ashcroft Please Stand Up?

Missouri's junior senator says he is a pro-consumer health-care reformist. But the insurance companies, HMOs and big business, which give him millions, think he's on their side.

Symphony Overtures

A great orchestra at great risk, the SLSO seeks major donors to close the endowment gap between their $28 million and the $100 million of their competitors

ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY FILM FESTIVAL

A schedule and capsule reviews of the fest's offerings

St. Louis International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

A schedule and capsule reviews of the fest's offerings