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Worst of Coachella 2013: Weekend Two

Here's everything that bothered us about Coachella's second weekend. Hey, at least there was no dust storm! Native American Headdresses These have still not gone away. In fact, one particularly irritating woman (not pictured) wore a towering feather mohawk weave, a sartorial statement that combined ... More >>

Head-On St. Peters Crash Kills Ruth Thimmig, 91, Donald Gemienhart, 90; Charges Expected

A 91-year-old woman and 90-year-old man have both died after a head-on collision in St. Peters. The St. Peters Police Department is still investigating the fatal crash that happened on Saturday around 5 p.m. when officials say a 42-year-old female driver crossed a center lane of traffic and struck ... More >>

SyFy's New Series Defiance Premieres, Based in Futuristic St. Louis (RECAP)

It has been almost a year since the first rumblings of SyFy channel's original science-fiction drama Defiance made waves on the Internets. Daily RFT's interest was piqued by its setting: It unfolds 33 years in the future in St. Louis, though Earth has been terraformed by an alien species crashing in ... More >>

North Korea (and audiences) Go Home Unhappy in Red Dawn

Frances Madeson's Madison County Crier Will Make You Ashamed to Be a Liberal

Frances Madeson was a Missouri girl who moved to New York City. After her marriage ended, she left the big, bad city and moved to Farmington in Madison County, about an hour and a half south of St. Louis, where she set up a business writing letters and resumes for the good country people. Soon enou ... More >>

Boot camp makes men of deadbeat dads

Vicious Cycle: Dorian Williams thought he was a bike champion, shrinks and FBI be damned

Tony Perolio Fit A Lifetime of Accomplishment into His 30 Years

Anthony Perolio was a Marine, a gifted drummer, an engineer, an athlete, a leukemia survivor, a loving husband and the father of two joyous poodles. His on-paper accomplishments, though varied and many, pale in comparison to who Tony was when he woke up every morning and went to sleep every night -- ... More >>

Eddie Roth: City Hall's House Organ at Post-Dispatch Now Working for Mayor Slay

Image via stloday.comEddie Roth​One could say that Post-Dispatch editorial writer Eddie Roth wrote himself into a job. As Mayor Francis Slay announced Tuesday, he's hired Roth for a new title within his administration called "Chief Performance Officer." Roth begins work August 8. He'll be paid a s ... More >>

Are STL Blacks Keeping Each Other Down? New Documentary, "City of Haterz," Says Yes

Graphic by Virgil Boyd Jr.Do area blacks suffer from the "slave mentality"?​In his recent documentary, City of Haterz, local filmmaker Horace Williams explores a combustible hypothesis, best summed up by DJ Cub of Derrty DJs in the first few minutes of the film: "[St. Louis is] a 'crabs in the bar ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown, Paul Friswold and Lew Prince suss out the local theater scene

Comment of the Day: St. Louis Hater is a "Gutless Turd"

Today's comment comes in response to a comment made yesterday on a story about a pair of soldiers who were mugged while in St. Louis this week for "Marine Week." Jeff Rainford, chief of staff for Mayor Francis Slay, has said that the Marines were drunk during the incident and had changed their story ... 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

Frank Buckles: Last U.S. Veteran of World War I (and a Missouri Native) Buried Yesterday

Buckles' 1917 Army photo taken when he was 16.​A man born in 1901 in the small northwestern Missouri town of Bethany was laid to rest yesterday in Arlington Cemetery with full military honors. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden attended the services. Frank Buckles was widely consi ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church Sues St. Charles City; Wins Injunction vs. St. Charles County

Plaintiff Megan Phelps-Roper protesting in St. Louis last summer.​It took the Westboro Baptist Church just one day to sue St. Charles after the city last week enacted an ordinance restricting when and where protesters can picket during funerals. Westboro Baptist Church has made a name for itself i ... More >>

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

Interview Outtakes: Tom Russell, Playing at Off Broadway on Friday, Turner Hall on Saturday

This week in the RFT, freelance writer Roy Kasten interviewed Tom Russell about his creative process, especially for the new album Blood and Candle Smoke, which prominently features the sounds of Calexico, and some of his strongest compositions after over 30 years of songwriting. He'll be in the St. ... More >>

Senator Kit Bond Leads Charge to Save Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet, Missouri Jobs

Among the cuts Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposed in his 2010 budget in April was for funding of the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter plane. Yesterday Missouri Senator Kit Bond and several colleagues sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee to restore funding for the F/A-18 and, i ... More >>

No Canada: U.S. military deserters once again flock to Canada to avoid war. Looks like this time they picked the wrong country.

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

Prized Fighter: Boxing in St. Louis will never die — not as long as Kenny Loehr has a kid in the ring

Old School: Unearthed in a cluttered storeroom, a pair of vintage St. Louis hip-hop recordings help tell the history of rap

Captain America

Navy SEAL Eric Greitens has come home to St. Louis to help fellow Iraq vets.

Final Chapter

KETC-TV is collecting stories from St. Louis’ veterans of World War II – while there’s still time left.

Leave Greenberg's Art Alone

Hey America: Stop it with your eminent domain and wimpiness, already!

Doomsday Disciples

Be it nuclear holocaust, quake or hurricane, St. Louis' Zombie Squad is ready for anything — even an attack from the living dead.

Print the Legend

Clint Eastwood strips away the myths surrounding the Greatest Generation.

CSI:IRAQ

Sonny Trimble's grave undertaking: unearthing the victims of Saddam's slaughter.

One Day in September

A toned-down Oliver Stone finds uplift in the rubble of the Twin Towers.

Talk Pretty

David Sedaris' publicist asks Unreal to bend the space-time continuum. Plus: the blog of a former Cards hurler, and an obituary for Jim Igoe, the Delmar Poet.

Head Cheesed

Unreal longs for the sexual adventures a Gravitizer can provide -- but, uh, not tonight; we have a migraine. Plus, more fun with Scientologists!

Rocky Waters

Annapolis salutes all the classic boxing clichés

Holiday Feast

Our critics chew on the film trends of '05

Film Openings

Week of October 19, 2005

Mon-tell It!

Meet the super-classy Montel Williams Tuesday at the Touhill

Slay Ride

Slayer reigns in blood but still makes time for the kids

Brilliant!

The Beer Hall of Fame is a cool idea -- perhaps too cool for St. Louis

Trolling for Endorsements

We wake up a Margaret Cho-approved congressional hopeful; plus, Unreal gets the Tiger Beat facts on local car dealers and Bill Haas goes south of the border

Film Openings

Week of April 21, 2004

He Can Make It

The strangest fact in the George Jones bio is that he's survived at all

Dead On

Come November, you might discover JFK's real (fake) Assassin

Speed Isn't Enough

Tim McAmis, drag-racing champ, tries to be a millisecond faster than the big-money boys. Tough duty.

Film Openings

Week of June 12, 2002

Series/Festivals

Week of March 6, 2002

Hell and Back

Scott's Black Hawk Down pays grim, gritty homage to real-life warriors

Divine and Conquer

Dowsing has long been used to find water, but contemporary practitioners are also plumbing spiritual depths

Letters to the Editor

Published the week of February 23

News of the Weird

Copping an Attitude

Riot police led by St. Louis Police Chief Ronald Henderson bring a violent end to 1999 Soulard Mardi Gras festivities

Town Without Pity