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St. Louis Homicide No. 41: Robert Coley Killed In Alleged Drug Sale, Two Suspects Flee

It's been a violent 24 hours in the city of St. Louis. As news broke yesterday about the tragic slaying of an immigrant refugee working at a 7-Eleven in south St. Louis, another fatal shooting took place in the Carondelet neighborhood of the city. This killing was apparently tied to a drug deal ... More >>

The Ag-Gag War: How undercover animal-rights activists are winning it

Wheezy Rider: Robert Redford and co. face the '60s in their 70s

Loving Pig's Face and Learning to Leave His Roast Chicken Alone: A Q&A with Vino Nadoz's Chris DiMercurio

This is part two of Gut Check's Chef's Choice profile of Chris DiMercurio of Vino Nadoz. Read part one, a profile of DiMercurio, here. Part three, a recipe from DiMercurio, will be published on Friday. Chris DiMercurio worked alongside -- and learned from -- some of St. Louis' talented young chefs ... More >>

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From December 10 to 16

And now a Public Service Announcement from RFT Music: It's wintertime, folks, and you know what that means: It's cold! And as we all know, in the cold, everything dies. The trees, the bugs, at least one ill-prepared bird I found in my side yard -- and most important for the purposes of this post: t ... More >>

Carlie Trosclair: 2012 Riverfront Times MasterMind Award Winner

St. Louis' AAA Building and Lyon School Make List of Missouri's Endangered Places

The AAA Building on Lindell Boulevard joined a ten other structures yesterday named on a new list of "Missouri's Most Endangered Historic Places." Last summer a developer proposed raising the the mid-century building -- known for its oval design and glass walls -- around the same time that preservat ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

Hell Is Other Actors: Sad to say, the Rep Studio's Circle Mirror Transformation has no exit

Circle Gets the Squares

Solae Wants You to Grill on Meatless Mondays. But Do You Want To?

meatlessmonday.comFiring up the grill for Meatless Monday? Not so fast. ​Since the beginning of year, the Meatless Monday movement has gained momentum, thanks to publicity from vegetarian Paul McCartney and carnivore Mario Batali. The Oprah Effect kicked in, with the former talk show queen off ... More >>

Attention, working moms: Author (and Schlafly niece) Suzanne Venker thinks you are destroying America

Missouri Latest State to Push for Online Sales Tax

Local retailers want to wipe that smug smile off those Amazon.com boxes. ​Two state representatives held a press conference today in the University City Loop, calling attention to legislation that would add sales tax to purchases Missouri residents make over the Internet. State representativ ... More >>

The city's long-running slop-pop experts celebrate turning eighteen this weekend

Eat Your Way Out of the Snow: Seven Snow-Based Recipes

Did you scoff at the storm warnings, shun the overcrowded grocery stores, and post insults on Twitter about just how stupid it is to panic at the impending snowmaggedeon/pocolypse/MG? And do you now find yourself snowbound and eying your dog because he's looking mighty tasty? Don't panic! And plea ... More >>

Grace Potter On Meeting Robert Plant, Bending Genre Rules and Going to Strip Clubs

In this week's paper, Katie Moulton spoke with Grace Potter, the leader of the currently sizzling Grace Potter & the Nocturnals. Moulton spelled out some of the band's accomplishments in recent times - including opening for the Avett Brothers and smoking on VH1's Divas Salute the Troops special - an ... More >>

Bluesy rock goddess Grace Potter reveals how Beavis and Butt-Head helped her career

St. Louis Happy Hours University City/Loop

Review Photos: Mountain Man Bewitches the Jonsi Crowd, The Pageant, Tuesday, November 2

(For a review of Jonsi's headlining set, go here.) Todd OwyoungMountain Man at the Pageant​We can't seem to get enough of older sounds these days. If it's not the retro Americana movement (we see you, Pokey) or the recent soul renaissance, it's neo-folk. Mountain Man, in a sense, spans these g ... More >>

[UPDATE] Webster University: Snarky Parking Sign Greeted with Even Snarkier Response

reddit.comClick image for larger view.​Update: Gary Gottlieb explains why he put the initial "Is It Worth It?" sign on the parking spot.A picture snapped in a parking lot at Webster University is quickly making the rounds on the Internet. As of this writing the photo -- depicting a reserved parkin ... More >>

Jónsi/Mountain Man

8 p.m. Tuesday, November 2. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

Happy Birthday

8 p.m. Monday, August 2. Off Broadway,

Crossroads Alum Killed in Haiti

blog.art21.orgMcGarrell in Haiti.​Flo McGarrell, an artist and graduate of Crossroads College Prep, was killed in Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti. He lived in Jacmel and specialized in agrisculpture, sculpture constructed from organic material and plants.After leaving St. Louis, McGarrell studied at ... More >>

Love and Christmas

Wounded, Laid-Off Lee Enterprises Reporter Gets Hired & Hitched

Todd Smith was the only person wounded in the Kirkwood shootings to survive. ​In case you missed Deb Peterson's schmooze on Todd Smith, the former Suburban Journals reporter who was wounded in the Kirkwood City Hall shooting a year before being laid off by the employer he took a bullet for: Smith ... More >>

KWMU Now Calling Itself "St. Louis Public Radio"

​The local National Public Radio affiliate, KWMU (90.7 FM), has re-branded itself. The station, which broadcast out of the University of Missouri - St. Louis, is now calling itself St. Louis Public Radio / 90.7 KWMU or just "St. Louis Public Radio" for short. Why the need for the change, and hasn' ... More >>

Missouri Can Play the Tax Shell Game with the Best of the Them

flickr.com/photos/Up Your Egp Tax haven protests in New Jersey last month.Hundreds of millions of dollars are sucked from the pockets of taxpayers in every state in the union, with Missouri finishing No. 19 in revenue lost to offshore tax havens. Released on Tax Day by the U.S. Public I ... More >>

The Entirely 100% Unauthorized August Busch IV Dating Contest!

Think you've got what it takes to mend August Busch IV's broken heart? Now's your chance to pounce!There's no sugar-coating this one: It has been a rough couple of months for August Busch IV. In November the beer scion watched helplessly as Belgian brewing behemoth InBev swooped in to buy the former ... More >>

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic F ... More >>

See Vermont via Rail

Have a rail good time

Square One Brewery to Add Distillery

Lafayette Square microbrewery Square One Brewery is adding a distillery. Look for micro-distilled spirits to arrive early next year.

R.I.P. Dave Ricketts and Bobby Murcer

R.I.P. Dave Ricketts and Bobby Murcer

Legend Has It

That old "last man on earth" setup? It really works.

Sending Out an S.O.S.

Independent media and labels bear the brunt of the postal service raising its rates.

Red Heart the Ticker

9 p.m. Monday, February 12. Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue).

Don't Fear the Editor

Hey, St. Louis musicians — don't be shy

Matt Pond PA

Thursday, February 23. 8 p.m. at Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois)

Bing It On

Mr. Night rediscovers the meaning of Christmas. Thanks, Mr. Crosby!

Imperfect Unions

A new documentary sells gay marriage as the only answer to discrimination

Maritime

Tuesday, June 1; the Rocket Bar

Endorsements

Wait no more: Unreal's presidential-candidate endorsements are in; plus we lament the loss of "Poetry Beat," check in with the lads at Sanford-Brown and wonder if we can get a direct line to God

Letters

Week of January 21, 2004

The Bright Side of Life

Eric Idle's not dead yet

RV There Yet?

The Missouri History Museum's new exhibit will have you itching to hit the road

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped, the Folksmen turn it way down from 11

Color Bind

Two new plays explore race relations

What Lies Beneath

Directed by Robert Zemeckis

Sound Checks

News of the Weird