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Olutosin Oduwole: Illinois Student Freed After Alleged Terrorist Threat Attempt Faces Appeal

Should a university student be imprisoned for a piece of paper that appears to threaten a "murderous rampage similar to the [Virginia Tech] shooting?" That question, it seems, will continue to be debated in court, with news this week that the Illinois Attorney General is appealing the overturned co ... More >>

Body Horror: Identity Thief's creators fear what audiences love about Melissa McCarthy

The thrilling manhunt of Zero Dark Thirty

The Convention That Could Have Been: What if STL Had Hosted the DNC?

If life in St. Louis is better than it was four years ago, it still ain't got nothin' on the summer of 1916--the last time we hosted the Democratic National Convention. You might remember that in 2010, St. Louis was a finalist to host the convention that brought 35,000 people to Charlotte, NC this ... More >>

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

Never Forget: 9/11 Memorials, Events in STL This Sunday

There will be 3,000 flags planted in Forest Park to honor the dead.​ On September 11, 2001, the country was shaken by terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Ten years later, St. Louis is coming together to remember -- and pay homage both to those lost in the attacks and ... More >>

Always I Fight On

Veterans for Peace Praises WikiLeaks; St. Louis Group Wants Medal for Informant

​Updated 4:00 p.m. with comments from Veterans for Peace president.By now you've certainly heard how the website WikiLeaks this week released some 91,000 classified and/or sensitive military reports detailing the failures of the war in Afghanistan.In Washington, the release of the documents is dra ... More >>

Cindy Sheehan: "It's been change in the wrong direction"

Cindy Sheehan today in St. Louis.​The image most of us conjure when the name Cindy Sheehan surfaces is that of an enervated woman standing in the summer swelter on the side of the road, a few miles from George W. Bush's ranch near Crawford, Texas. Sheehan's four-week long vigi ... More >>

Blown to Peaces: Weather Underground leaders claimed their bombings were devised to avoid bloodshed. But FBI agents suspect the radical '70s group killed a cop in the name of revolution.

Prince Ea draws the notice of VIBE magazine for his unique take on history and relationships

Guantánamo's Final Days: America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms

Dead Pool

What made Lionel Sands go off the deep end?

"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

What If . . .

A cadre of Missourians stand at the vanguard of the 9/11 "truth movement." Just don't call them conspiracy theorists.

Fear of Flying

You may not want to see United 93, but you should

Blood Business

Why We Fight probes America's passion for war

Film Openings

Week of June 15, 2005

Home Fires Burning

A soldier returns a changed man in the gripping Danish drama Brothers

War: What Is It Good For?

In Ridley Scott's latest epic, it's good for one really stunning siege

"I Punched Saddam in the Mouth"

Meet Samir, the St. Louis auto mechanic who pulled Saddam Hussein from his spider hole

Geeks Gone Wild

If you can't get laid at a science-fiction convention, you can't get laid!

The Dixie Chicks with James Taylor

Wednesday, October 6; Fox Theatre

Exception to the Rule

Amy Goodman shares her ideas for getting Democracy Now!

Film Openings

Week of March 3, 2004

Dirty Little Secrets

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department keeps a tight lid on internal affairs. Even if it means breaking the law.

The Mallinckrodt Project

Week of August 20, 2003

Move On

Sure, those horrific 9/11 images are rolling again, but an old vet says to get a grip

Chronic Town

Afroman's hit ode to chemical stimulation has him high on life in Mississippi

Emmy or Not to Emmy?

That's been the long, hard decision for TV academy chairman Bryce Zabel

Reel War

The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles

Arabian Knight

Jack Shaheen crusades against cinema's depiction of Reel Bad Arabs

Tempest Tossed

Writer Terry Tempest Williams believes the chaos and terror of recent weeks could bring about a restoration of place and spirit in America

The Calm Before the Storm

For anti-war protesters, the enemies are indifference and irrelevance

Patriot Games

With a distant war, a vague enemy and no access, local media are left waving the flag

The Brave & the Bold

On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.

Broken Promise

The city puts the squeeze on some retired cops

Law & Disorder

As one of TV's best and best-loved series launches a new spin-off, its creator grapples with the aftershocks of terror

War Room

The Flying Luttenbachers are booked for the Way Out Club in a show tailor-made for these trying times

An Act of War, Not a Crime

This is no time to be wringing our hands. We have to treat this as an act of war.

Hack Mentality

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

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Fight

Even before the military started shelling, Washington University hoisted the white flag

A Cheney Link to St. Louis

Published the week of July 26-August 1, 2000

Lost at Sea

Editor Cole Campbell has left in his dinghy, and the mutineers at the Post-Dispatch are jubilant. Now, the flagship is listing and the crew has no idea where it's headed.

Howard's End

After nearly three decades on the run, a fugitive from the raucous anti-war era is outed

OUR OLD HOMETOWN FIGHTER PLANE