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Missouri Leads the Nation in Meth Labs (Again), Jefferson County Second Highest In Country

Toward the start of every new year, the Drug Enforcement Agency adds up the number of "meth incidents" from the previous year and divvies them up by state. More than once, Missouri has come out the state with the highest number of meth lab busts. The latest figures show that 2012 was another banner ... More >>

Rockville MO Horse Slaughter Plant Update: Nothing Doing So Far

In June of this year Sue Wallis, the CEO of Unified Equine, announced that a shuttered cattle processing plant in Rockville, Missouri, would soon be home to her company's first horse slaughterhouse in America. Work was to begin immediately so that horses could be processed for human consumption as s ... More >>

Here's Tom Cruise as a hair-metal god and hair metal as un-awful in Rock of Ages

Woody Guthrie has plenty to say, 100 years after his birth

Arlo Guthrie, Roseanne Cash, the Flaming Lips and More at the Woody Guthrie Centennial Concert

Arlo Guthrie | Old Crow Medicine Show | Tim O'Brien | Jimmy LaFave | Roseanne Cash | Hanson | Del McCoury Band | Jackson Browne | The Flaming Lips | John Mellencamp This Land is Your Land: Woody Guthrie Centennial Concert Brady Theater, Tulsa, Oklahoma March 10, 2012 After decades of neglecting the ... More >>

For Sale: Bonnie and Clyde's Guns

Ever wanted to own a set of guns that belonged to two celebrated Depression-era outlaws? Well, now's your chance! A tommy gun and 12-gauge 1897 Winchester shotgun seized when police raided Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker's Joplin apartment in April of 1933 will be up for auction later this month in K ... More >>

Lawsuit Accuses QuikTrip of Predatory Pricing

QuikTrip was accused before of price cutting.​You love their corndogs, taquitos and bathtub-sized fountain drinks. And the cheap gas isn't bad, either. But is QuikTrip's low-priced petrol illegally inexpensive? That's what a lawsuit filed last week in federal court contends. Members of t ... More >>

Bill Would Require Nearly All St. Louis Dogs and Cats to Be Sterilized

Bob Barker approves this message.​A bill under consideration in the St. Louis Board of Aldermen could make St. Louis one of the most restrictive cities in the nation when it comes to owning cats and dogs. Board Bill 107 would require all pet owners to spay or neuter their dogs and cats and microch ... More >>

The Dive Poets Recommended Tour Essentials: AAA "Plus," Ramen, Canned Meat and Peanuts

Anna Moffatt and Eric Sargent in Tulsa. Courtesy of the Dive Poets.​Roughly half of St. Louis' finnest fiddlin' folk/Americana outfit, the Dive Poets, took to the road recently -- Jeff York and Renato Durante stayed home with new babies, and Eric Sargent, Karl Eggers and Anna Moffatt comprised ... More >>

Interview: Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey Keyboardist Brian Haas on the Band's St. Louis Show Tonight

From left, Chris Combs, Brian Haas, Josh Rayner and Jeff Harshbarger ​In the Greek epic poem The Odyssey, it took the hero ten years to get home after the Trojan War. For Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, it's been nearly that long since their last performance in St. Louis. "I'm thinking the last pl ... More >>

10 Crimes That Prove Junk Food Makes People Stupid

New York Post"Hand over the bearclaws or I'll make another crappy sequel!"​This week researchers at Bristol University released a study claiming that kids who consume junk food before age three are more likely to have lower IQs in the future. While nutritional research should always be taken w ... More >>

Missouri Legislators Out to Screw Restaurant Workers

Jennifer SilverbergThe Bleeding Deacon Public House: Owner Michael McLaughlin stands up for servers' right to a decent wage.​Over at Daily RFT, blogmeister Chad Garrison has a post about the various ways in which some Missouri legislators are attempting to undermine the already tenuous livelih ... More >>

St. Louis Quick Shop Owner and Manager Plead Guilty to Food-Stamp Scam

T.R. Corner Store at 3935 S. Grand​The owner of two St. Louis convenience stores and one of his managers pleaded guilty this week to a food-stamp scam that defrauded the government of $400,000. According to federal authorities, James Norvell Fitch Jr. of Florissant operated T.R. Corner Store on So ... More >>

St. Louis Is Second Most Dangerous City in the U.S.? Really, Forbes?

Okay, okay. We get it. We're all obsessed with where we rank, even if the data that fuels these most/best/worst cities' lists is contrived at best and completely unreliable at worst. So we can't blame Forbes for riding the trend with its newly-released "Most Dangerous Cities" list.Nope. Doesn't look ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

New York City's Illicit Grilled Cheese Black Market Exposed

Underground dining takes a bike turn towards ridiculousness with New York City's grilled cheese black market. The New York Post visits with "Ronnie", who sells his grilled cheese sandwiches via text messages, delivered on his bike. "'This is my lunch break. I couldn't finish my day without one of th ... More >>

Rejoice Tiger Fans: Mike Anderson Rejects Oregon

Image viaMike Anderson gave the Ducks the finger.​Money isn't everything in college basketball. Well, not quite everything.Over the weekend Missouri basketball coach Mike Anderson turned down the opportunity to coach the Nike-sponsored Oregon Ducks. The estimated $3 million contract he was offered ... More >>

Ice-Cycles

Parachute/SafetySuit

8 p.m. Saturday, January 16. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

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 >>

Readers rave about Leonard Cohen's magical concert and rant about Andrew Schlafly's re-edit of the Bible

SXSW: Twangfest Party with Magnolia Summer, The Deep Vibration, Edward Burch

Roy KastenOtis GibbsSaturday afternoon at SXSW 2009 started early this year, with the second of the 10th annual Twangfest and KDHX parties at Jovita's (disclosure: I'm a KDHX programmer and Twangfest volunteer), and Nashville-based songwriter Otis Gibbs, whose protest sing-a-longs, earthy folk and b ... More >>

Outtakes MP3s: "Anarchy in the Ozarks"

In this week's paper, there's a long story about punk and hardcore in the Ozarks, titled "Anarchy in the Ozarks." Below find an excerpt from Ben Westhoff's piece that didn't quite make it into the final draft. Check out more information and music at Gabe Harper's blog, Ozark Punk Rock. MP3: Initial ... More >>

Anarchy in the Ozarks: Who'd have guessed there used to be a hardcore punk scene in the backwaters of Missouri?

Special tortilla-contest edition!

Greyhound Station, Downtown

Hee-Haw to Tulsa

Unreal FIXes a hangover, tries out for Mensa and attempts to pick up a pickup artist

Ludo is fired up and ready to play on the national stage

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaios Home Address

Flirty Versus Filthy

Does it matter who's doing the cat-calling? Should it?

Association of Alternative Newsweeklies Stands Behind Phoenix New Times and Village Voice Media

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

Strike up the Band

B-Sides catches up with The Simpson's Alf Clausen and Hanson: Testify!

God Complex

Elvira Arellano is no Rosa Parks. She's more like Jesus.

Cross Canadian Ragweed

8 p.m. Thursday, January 25. VooDoo Lounge at Harrah's Casino (777 Casino Center Drive, Maryland Heights).

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

New releases available this week

Sin Is In

At the Saints & Sinners Ball

Transdermal Celebration Canceled

Radar Station mourns a broken streak

Family Affair

Gigging cousins Big Smith keep traditional tunes from going extinct

A Musical Miracle

Violet heralds the emergence of an exciting new theater composer

Kingdom Comes

Girls who dress and act like boys, St. Louis' drag kings get up onstage to bend and blur the line between the sexes

Glorious Glut

Could '02' mean "Oh, too many records?"

Payback Time

As the debate over reparations heats up, James Hirsch offers a preview of what's to come

The Fire This Time

Rilla Askew penetrates the decades of silence surrounding the Tulsa race riot of 1921 in her novel Fire in Beulah

Letters

Week of February 7, 2001

The Girl Next Door

Directed by Christine Fugate

Letters to the Editor

Published the week of February 16

Twang-Bar King

News of the Weird