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There's Always a Cardinal on the St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 6, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books and Subterranean Books. There are some changes to the local bestseller list this week. For one thing, fo ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 30, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books and Subterranean Books. This week's bestseller list displays the effects of final-de ... More >>

The Jersey Invasion: Not Fade Away lays bare David Chases' rock & roll heart

It's World Book Night, So We Visit a ReadMob and Get Advice from Tim O'Brien

Sometime today, if you're lucky, somebody will shove a paperback book in your face and demand you take it home and read it. There are worse fates that could befall a person. The reason for this ardent promotion of literacy is World Book Night. A conglomeration of publishers, booksellers, librarians ... More >>

Finding Hip-Hop in Kazakhstan and Country in India: American Voices Sets Up in St. Louis

Diplomacy between nations doesn't always involve dignitaries or high-level negotiations. A group with a presence in St. Louis engages in "cultural diplomacy," which involves exchanging musical expertise between Americans and countries often hit hard by conflict. Since it became incorporated as a non ... More >>

A Veteran's Day Look at Military Chow

Wikimedia CommonsA Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in Afghanistan.​Talk to any veteran, and there's a good chance you'll hear about military food, from mess halls to MREs, food drops and sharing with the needy, and of course the local eats from the far-flung places where they've served. E ... More >>

The Way We Were?

A Horrible Job Done Well

The Black Angels at the Old Rock House, 4/22/11: Review

Black Angels. Photo by Jon Gitchoff.​ Black Angels/Tone Rodent/Suuns Old Rock House April 22, 2011 Better Than: Timothy Leary's best acid trip. Pity the folks turned away at the door of the Old Rock House last night. It's been four long years since the Black Angels played here, and the band ... More >>

Pho Long Moves...Though Not Very Far

Ian FroebA bowl of pho at Pho Long​Just got the word from one of my trusted operatives that as of today Pho Long has relocated from its former digs at 8613 Olive Boulevard to a larger space in the same strip mall, Jeffrey Plaza. The new address, 8629 Olive, used to be home to the dearly departed I ... More >>

Eat Shit Die: Eight Alternatives to the Eat Pray Love-Themed Bachelor Party

​Surely you jest, WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The piece you ran about Eat Pray Love-themed weddings seemed like a joke. But when we hit the part about including the bachelor party in the overarching theme of a middle-aged navel-gazer's big adventure, it began to dawn on us that y ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of August 26

Electronic Luddites, Ontario's Holy Fuck don't mess around with loops and laptops. Catch them with Houston drone angels Indian Jewelry at the Firebird on October 22 ​ The Ambassador *Melanie Fiona, September 4 Billiken Club *Active Child, October 26 Ciceros *Bass Line Bums, September 8 *B ... More >>

Ruining Woodstock: Who knew three days of peace & music would oppress us for 40 years? (Plus: this movie)

Bleeping Lame

photobucket.com/albums/h30/hamwadThis rant has nothing to do with Vietnam.​The Big Lebowski is one of the funniest movies ever made. It's also, as Paul Friswold pointed out in this week's calendar section, one of the most quotable. It's no coincidence, then, that the film contains a shit ton of sw ... More >>

This Week's RFT, March 12-18

The wait is over. This week's Riverfront Times hits newsstands throughout the St. Louis area today, and here are some of the highlights you'll find both in print and online. Unreal offers up some news of the weird about the dumping of human placentas down the drain in Urbana, Illinois. See ... More >>

St. Louis Theater Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene in St. Louis

Interview Outtakes: Henry Rollins Talks Politics

Dinner Is Served

Ian takes one for the team and counts down the ten best restaurant dishes of 2007.

Jungle Fever

Help!

Run for your life if you can, little girl: Julie Taymor’s ’60s-set musical is a bust.

The Restorative Powers of Pho

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown, Paul Friswold and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Smells Like Victory

Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier

History Lesson

Your Government at Work

Films Without Borders

The fourteenth annual St. Louis International Film Festival gets off to a great start

Killing Time

In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy

Free At Last

A harrowing journey leads to America, and then to someplace better

Series/Festivals

Week of June 29, 2005

Wonk Jams

A St. Louis rocker is laying down the Democratic soundtrack. Is that a good idea?

Current Shows

Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Current Shows

Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

How to Beat Beat Fest

The intrepid clubgoer's guide to Wash. Ave. success

A Year That Trembled

From the grindhouse to the art-house, movies in 2003 made us shake with sadness and fear

The Sorrow and the Pity

In a year of big-screen sadness, our critics comfort those who triumphed

I Love the '80s

The neglected Fontbonne Film Series

I Am Siam

The Legend of Suriyothai gives sixteenth-century Thailand an epic identity

That '70s Movie

Moonlight Mile wastes its setting and its star

Soups

St. Louis Bread Co.

Cornholed Again

The San Francisco Mime Company is anything but silent in its presentation of Eating It, a political statement wrapped in cornhusk

Best Restaurant Character

Andy Ayers, Riddle's Penultimate Café & Wine Bar

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.

In Cold Blood

Novelist James Ellroy reshapes America's ugly history in his own image

Best Role Model

Bill Willert

Letters to the Editor

Published the week of July 5-11, 2000

Pho Nouveau

A move to larger quarters brings Pho Grand nigh unto perfection

Howard's End

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

Billy Club

A simple, happy message helped him become the nation's favorite preacher. Thanks to a Popsicle-slick PR machine and a talent for dodging tough questions, we've forgotten what Billy Graham is really all about.

Kronos Quartet

25 Years (Nonesuch)

In the Beginning ...