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Schnucks: Twenty Customers Who Won't Give Up On Supermarket No Matter What

Here at Daily RFT, we've been following the Schnucks cyber attack controversy pretty closely, chronicling the various apologies and legal complaints the company is facing tied to a security breach that left millions of customers' credit card numbers vulnerable. In our reporting, we've kept an eye ... More >>

Thieves' Bazaar: Hospitals, doctors and dealers have made Medicare the nation's sweetest crime. The feds are now trying to shutter the door.

5 Worst Easter Candies of All Time

As Easter Sunday creeps closer, Gut Check dreams of baskets piled high with pastel-colored candies, chocolate shaped like baby animals and, oh sweet Jesus, Cadbury eggs. We remember well the ritual of sorting the bounty bestowed by the big, weird Easter Bunny: Would it be good stuff...or crap? Want ... More >>

Wydown Middle School Students Launch Campaign to Ban Plastic Bags in Clayton

There are approximately 16,000 residents of Clayton. If each of them throws away eighteen plastic bags a year, they would collectively generate enough oil to drive a car around the equator 17.8 times. Why anybody would want to do that is a complete mystery, but this factoid, generated by a group of ... More >>

Why People Hate Christmas Music

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. I don't hate hearing Christmas music as much as I hate hearing people complain about Christmas music. " ... More >>

The Five Best Halloween Parties in St. Louis

Last minute, very important update! It's here! Happy day, everyone. And ho buddy do we have just the celebratory update to this here official RFT recommended Halloween show list: A bunch of punks and rock & rollers are going to do cover sets on the second floor of 2720 Cherokee. To wit, from the Fac ... More >>

The 10 Best Halloween Parties in St. Louis

That most excellent of holidays -- the one where we get to dress up in goofy costumes, the one where it's considered par for the course to vandalize your neighbors' houses, the one where strangers give children candy and everyone is cool with it -- HALLOWEEN is nigh! Skeleton decorations blanket the ... More >>

Taylor Swift Pizza = Synergy? Ordering Red From Our Local Papa John's

When I found out that Taylor Swift's new album, Red, would be available via Papa John's Pizza delivery, I pretty much had the same thoughts that I had upon hearing the first single off of Red: The fuck? Followed by: Mmmm. Tasty. Modern record labels are working hard to find new ways to get the prod ... More >>

The Luminary Is Finally Coming to Cherokee Street (Though Not Where Originally Planned)

Maybe the Luminary Center of the Arts really is an unstoppable force.  Their rise in the local arts scene over the last few years has been meteoric; their grassroots fundraising last year promised a move to larger quarters on Cherokee Street; but last spring, somebody (still unknown to Daily RF ... More >>

Rodney King and The Psychotic World We Live In

Editor: Tef Poe is an artist from St. Louis City. Through powerful imagery and complicated honesty, he has earned a reputation as one of the best rappers telling the story of St. Louis, which is about much more than one place. Poe has been featured in music publications such as XXL and Urb Magazine. ... More >>

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Best and Worst Easter Candy Countdown: Jordan Almonds, Worst

As Easter Sunday creeps closer, Gut Check dreams of baskets piled high with pastel-colored candies, chocolate shaped like baby animals and, oh sweet Jesus, Cadbury eggs. We remember well the ritual of sorting the bounty bestowed by the big, weird Easter Bunny: Would it be good stuff...or crap? Want ... More >>

In the Galleries: FeedBack at Luminary Center for the Arts, closing December 2, 2011

The Grease Police Blotter: A Round-Up of Recent Food Crimes

Wikimedia CommonsDo not cross. Not even if there's food on the other side. ​Oh, those crazy food criminals. They're at it again. Someone learned nothing from the guy who tried to steal ribs by shoving them down his pants. That special someone is Nathan Mark Hardy, who attempted to fill his c ... More >>

Food Truck Follies, Candy Conventions and Salt Savories: RFT Readers Chew the Fat

The 10 Most WTF Crimes Committed by Musicians

​Surely you have heard the charges made against Coheed and Cambria's bassist, Michael Todd, alleging that he robbed a Walgreens pharmacy before a performance, leaving with multiple bottles of oxycodone and hailing a taxi to the band's performance in Massachusetts. Hilariously baffling? Of cour ... More >>

Not Just Del Taco: Readers remember the restaurants we shuttered, the hoops they wore

Wildwood Latest Missouri City to Require Prescription for Pseudoephedrine

Thirty-one Missouri cities now ban the over-the-counter sales of these drugs. When will all of Missouri follow?​The west St. Louis County 'burb of Wildwood last night became the 31st Missouri city to ban over-the-counter sales of psuedoephedrine. The drug -- found in such cold medicine as Sudafed ... More >>

Local Dentist Wants to Steal All Your Candy, Ban Fun (For a Good Cause)!

image viaDon't be fooled: He's a candy vampire!​Hey, kids! St. Louis dentist Dr. James Maxwell is secretly a goblin who wants to steal all your hard-won trick-or-treating loot. It gets worse than that: He's enlisting the help of your parents to snatch the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, fun-size ... More >>

Iowa Company Voluntarily Recalls Millions of Eggs

380 million eggs have been recalled for possible salmonella. CNN reports that Wright County Eggs in Iowa voluntarily recalled the possibly-tainted eggs. The company plans to pasteurize their remaining stocks of the eggs to kill the bacteria. St. Louis area Walgreens stores sell eggs from Wright Coun ... More >>

Prisoner of Love: One Woman's Mission to Unite Family Members with Loved Ones Behind Bars

Nikki Smith has vivid recollections of driving a young woman to the Tipton Correctional Center in Tipton, Missouri, so her incarcerated husband could see for the first time his two-year-old daughter. Nikki Smith and her son Edward Thames Jr.​Smith also remembers transporting a ... More >>

Thespians on Wheels: Joan Lipkin's DisAbility Project is on a roll

The Dive Bomber: Larry's Tavern

West County does not have dive bars. I don't spend much time in the area, but my prejudice tells me that there are no dives in the western bottomlands.Just to prove my prejudice wrong, my Screamer's friends Grandma and Grandpa encouraged me to go west to Larry's Tavern in Grover for a dive and one ... More >>

Lit Up: Keisha Ervin's gritty tales of the St. Louis streets have made her one of the nation's hottest purveyors of urban fiction

Sweet Treatment: An experimental program offers rich rewards to drug-addicted ex-cons in St. Louis who keep themselves clean

Show Review: Tiffany at Home Nightclub, Friday, July 18

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Arrested Development

A look at north St. Louis from ground zero.

DIY DNA

Unreal learns some CSI-style tricks. And then: a tale of whiskey and venereal disease.

The Little City That Couldn't

Buried in bureaucratic incompetence and scandal, Pine Lawn might be headed for a pine box.

Africa in America

And in St. Louis, no less!

Super Cities: London (1994)

The Great Gray Grinch gets its own infomercial

Steve Earle and the Dukes

Thursday, April 7; the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard)

Crash and Burn

Fire chief is killed after ex-con flees

Back to Basics

Unreal offers tips to the youngsters, learns about the much-desired Dodge Neon and breaks down the real cost of a Thickburger; plus, did Roosevelt High School take the name of Baton Bob in vain?

Look! A Freeway!

Unreal checks out the Lou from a fast-moving tour bus, learns the essentials of RV'ing and eats waaay too many Chilitos

World of Hurt

The St. Louis Police Department faces a taboo topic: Domestic violence within its ranks

Going Postal

Maybe it’s time to revisit Steve Stogel’s redevelopment plan for the Old Post Office downtown

Dancing Fools

Waltz down to the Casa Loma, the ballroom that refuses to die

Letters

Week of September 17, 2003

The Rec-ing Crew

Week of April 16, 2003

Cock-a-Doodle To-Do

Unlike most local-music showcases, the annual Rooster Lollipop extravaganza is one to look forward to

Get a Room

Lodging revenues are down since Sept. 11, and that could mean trouble for the arts

Wrecking Brawl

For eight years, the city has kept Mark Finney from replacing the historic Syndicate Trust Building with a parking garage. He says, "Buy it or get the hell out of the way." It's time to put up or shut up.

Hold Those Cheers for the FDA

The drug we should stop using "immediately" has been questioned for decades

Letters to the Editor

Published the week of July 12-18, 2000

Sun Sets on the Boulevard

The disabled residents of the Boulevard Apartments don't know why they're being asked to move or where they might end up. And HUD and Paraquad aren't saying much.

Kevn Kinney with Webb Wilder

Friday May 12; Duck Room

A Tale of Two Buildings

Things are looking up for the Arcade Building, but what will happen to the Marquette Building is anyone's guess; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles

The Dogs Bark, The Caravan Moves On

St. Louis comings and goings in anno Domini 1999