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Opus, Poke Us: Two disparate productions get it on

Quick! Last Day to Sign Petition to Make Missouri a Separate Country

Time is running out, America-haters! If we're going to transform our beloved state into a new country -- The People's Conservative-Freakshow Republic of Missouria -- we must act today!You'll recall how, In the wake of President Barack Obama's re-election, certain Missourians felt it necessary to sec ... More >>

Dog Daze: A surprising number of venues offer summer respite for man and best friend

The Ten Biggest Presidential Endorsements by Musicians in the 2012 Campaign

Megadeth rocker Dave Mustaine raised a few collective eyebrows this week when he endorsed former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum's bourgeoning presidential bid. The former Pennsylvania senator has been gaining steam as of late after prevailing in a trio of February contests, including Missouri's non-bindin ... More >>

Peter Kinder: The American Spectator Profile

We really just wanted an excuse to run this picture again: ladies and gentlemen, we give you Peter Kinder and Tammy Chapman.​Back in the '90s, The American Spectator famously introduced America to an Arkansas woman named Paula Jones -- and it was President Bill Clinton's attempts to fend off J ... More >>

1,050-Calorie "Steak Gorgonzola Alfredo"? Michelle Obama Says Yes, We Can!

​Gut Check ain't exactly nostalgic for the good ol' days of the George W. Bush administration. Still, a phrase that Dubya once used has stuck with us over the years: "the soft bigotry of low expectations." He was talking about education, but you can apply it to all sorts of things.Like, say, the h ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Why don't more Mexicans go to museums?

Apathy R Us: No Anti-GMO Rally Set for St. Louis

ethicurean.com​ On March 26, protesters plan to gather in twenty cities across the nation at locations including the White House, New York City Hall, Atlanta's CNN Building and the Los Angeles Federal Building. The reason? To demand honest labeling in foods that contain genetically modified i ... More >>

Comment of the Day: McCaskill as Tax Imposer

Today's comment comes in response to an article on how Missouri's Democratic senator, Claire McCaskill, recently acknowledged that she'd failed to pay personal property taxes on her private airplane. In responding to a McCaskill supporter, commenter "Hector Garbanzo" let loose this impressive screed ... More >>

McCaskill Concerned About St. Louis Nabbing 2012 Democratic Convention

Senator Claire McCaskill hasn't heard that St. Louis will or will not host the 2012 DNC convention. In fact, she hasn't heard a thing and the silence from the White House may not bode well. "I wish I knew. I'm worried that I don't, to tell you the truth," McCaskill told the Post-Dispatch yesterday. ... More >>

7-11 Doesn't Want to be Opportunisitc, Preceeds to Beat Slurpee Summit Idea to Pulp

7-11 freaks out at the prospect of a Slurpee Summit. USA Today reports that the company got really excited when President Obama suggested the possibility of a "Slurpee summit" with the new Republican leadership. They've contacted the White House and offered to cater the summit. A new ad campaign wil ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

Bob Dylan

8 p.m. Thursday, October 21. The Chaifetz Arena, One South Compton Avenue.

Tonight: Tef Poe & The Force Host Money Never $leep$ Release Party at The Gramophone

​Tef Poe is a little schizophrenic on his new record. That's a good thing.Among his multiple personalities (self-diagnosed in metaphors and similies) are "the backpacker version of Yo Gotti,"  Michael Jordan with a Scottie Pippen trigger finger, and "the rap version of Richard Pryor." The lat ... More >>

Observations: Titus Andronicus at Vintage Vinyl, Sunday, March 14

RFT freelancer Todd McKenzie posted a few Tumblr observations about the Vintage Vinyl in-store performance from the New Jersey working-man shoegaze band Titus Andronicus. To wit: *Despite a barrage of three noisy guitars, the loudest and most aggressive part of the Titus Andronicus sound has to be ... More >>

2009 in Review: April

​​In 2008, then-Senator Barack Obama fell in love with Pi's pizza during a campaign visit to St. Louis. In April of this year, President Obama invited Pi's Chris Sommers and team to the White House to cook that pizza. Surely, that couldn't annoy anyone, right? Except for the owners of Chicago pi ... More >>

A Man Alone

Ten Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, October 16-18, 2009

Here's your guide to having fun this weekend on a budget. Looking for live music? Check out our weekend concert calendar. Where the Wild Things Are opens Friday. Read J. Hoberman's review.​Where the Wild Things Are at various theaters (Friday)While J. Hoberman questioned some of director Spike Jo ... More >>

An Electrifying Weekend

Best Comments on Daily RFT -- July 24-30

flickr.com/photos/jeyhLet's hear that one more time. ​Because comments from you, dear readers, tend to get buried pretty quickly on this here blog, we thought it would be fun to highlight a few of our favorite responses for the week. So, here they are -- in no particular order...1. A post question ... More >>

It's Official: Obama to Drink Bud Light at Today's Beer Summit

​Earlier this week we speculated on which brew President Barack Obama would enjoy at today's "Beer Summit" called to diffuse the tiff between Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge police officer James Crowley.Gates is said to be partial to the Jamaican beer Red Stripe. While Crowley prefers microbre ... More >>

Dear Obama: Don't Forget to Buzz the Arch When You Leave. It Will Make a Great Picture!

Dear Prez: You're probably boarding Air Force One right now after that town-hall meeting down in Arnold, but just a reminder...

And the Most Asinine Comment on the Post-Dispatch's Pi Article Is...

By a landslide, the winner is "mednek," whose comment on the Post-Dispatch article about Pi cooking pizza at the White House managed the trifecta of being racist, inaccurate and off-topic. The nature of the winning comment seems especially appropriate given the national attention that Post-Dispatch ... More >>

Obama Predicts Early Exit for Mizzou, Illini in Tourney

Wikimedia CommonsIn perhaps the biggest sports media coup in history, the worldwide leader got the leader of the free world to post his March Madness bracket on ESPN.com rather than the site for NCAA tournament sponsor CBS.Obama agreed to the deal way back in October during an interview with ESPN's ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 1.29

In today's news: bad news for Starbucks, the Obamas hire a chef and a Norwegian wins the Bocuse d'Or

Anyone Catch that Blago Speech Today? Bizarre.

The governor wasn't exactly Perry Mason there in his closing arguments this morning before the Illinois Senate. Unfortunately, I could only catch bits and pieces of the speech on KTRS (550 AM), which annoyingly kept cutting to commercials every five minutes, but what I did hear wasn't good. The gove ... More >>

Richmond Heights' "American Wife" Author Imagines Inauguration Day

There are plenty of writers this week who are trying to make George W. Bush appear likeable and, yes, even sympathetic. It is his last week in office, after all. But let it be known that Curtis Sittenfeld was there first, and before the Bushes have even left the White House, she's already moved on.T ... More >>

Everyone Can Read Your Facebook Page -- Don't Put Racial Slurs On It (Texas Football Content)

MP3: Bob Case, "Devil in the White House"

Nas/Talib Kweli/ Jay Electronica

8 p.m. Wednesday, September 3. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

Look out, aliens

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 4.15

Mano a Mexicano

The Harlem Car Bomb

John Dean: “I Never Thought Anyone Could Trump Buchanan”

All Hail the Musical!

Harolyn Blackwell makes it easy

"Brokedown Palace"

Not just a Claire Danes movie

Film Openings

Week of April 20, 2006

Turn It Up, Mr. Prez!

B-Sides unearths some tight presidential tunes, finds the softer side of the Simpsons' notorious bully and knows way too much about the Spin Doctors

Turkey Gone Wild

We raise a glass to everyone's favorite Thanksgiving spirit, imagine Tofurky dinner at the White House and eat one hundred T-ravs. Plus: Where in the world is Floyd Crues?

Beethoven's Second

Camper Van Beethoven is back -- just in time

Annie's Back, Thank Heaven

The sun'll come out all week in Forest Park

Chopping Spree

Cut and roll your own Xmas tree

You Don't Know Dick

St. Louisans, take some civic pride in Nelly-sanctioned model searches, fire-loving artists, Vespa-ridin' cops and one really underwhelming presidential campaign

Violent Femmes

Tender-hearted mutants kick significant keister in X2: X-Men United

If You Were to Croak in Your Residence, How Long Before Somebody Would Find You?

Week of November 6, 2002

Fine for Littering

St. Louis loves its Litterthugz

Shooting for the Moon

The Black Rep's Legends takes slightly erratic flight

Which of Your Character Flaws Are You Least Likely to Change? Part 1 of 2

Week of January 3, 2001

CALIGULA

Directed by Tinto Brass