Wall Street

Baden Shooting: Teen Hit in the Chest in Broad Daylight, Clinging to Life, St. Louis Police Say

One day after a sixteen-year-old accidentally shot himself in the leg in St. Louis, another teenager is suffering from gunshot wounds -- and officials aren't sure he's going to pull through. St. Louis police report that cops located a sixteen-year-old boy who was lying on the front steps of a resi ... More >>

Hostess: It'll Cost You at Least $410 Million to Make Twinkies

Gut Check was prepared to exceed our longstanding investment ceiling of $100 -- which we usually limit to the racetrack and, truth be told, seldom reach (or risk successfully) -- to snare the rights to make Twinkies, now that Hostess Brands Inc. is going belly-up and all. Turns out we're still a te ... More >>

Country Club Sopranos: American banks are on a massive crime spree. Obama and Romney hope you won't notice.

David France's stirring history of ACT UP

University of Corporate Greed: America's for-profit colleges leave taxpayers and students high and dry

America's Petro-Terrorists: Wall Street and Washington conspire to destabilize the U.S. economy, one barrel of oil at a time

Kings for a Moment: The feds attack online poker, killing a $2.5 billion industry

Northside Appeal Preview: Juicy Excerpts from a Boisterous Legal Back-and-Forth

​In just a few hours, lawyers of Paul McKee will be trying to convince a state appeals panel to let the developer move forward with his $8.1 billion-dollar plan to rejuvenate North St. Louis. (Click here for a primer on the situation). The stakes are high, and the issues are rather technical, what ... More >>

Food Trucks Donate to Occupy St. Louis Protesters

Photo courtesy of Brian Villa​Recently Mother Jones writer Tom Philpott advised "foodies" to join the Occupy Wall Street movement, since the corporate food industry is a part of the Wall Street greed being protested. For two St. Louis small food businesses, they were already there. But when ... More >>

Union Workers to Join Occupy St. Louis for Major Demonstration Today

Photo: Brian VillaToday's march promises to be several times larger than Occupy STL's first demonstration (above) on October 1.​Several hundred -- perhaps as many as a thousand -- union workers are expected to join members of the Occupy St. Louis movement this afternoon for a massive march through ... More >>

Ten Musicians Who Support Occupy Wall Street

Adbusters​"Occupy Wall Street" started out as a 1,000-person mid-September protest in a New York City park against, among other things, financial disparity and corporate influence. Since that time that protest has grown into a nationwide movement, spurring on the creation of "Occupy" spinoffs ... More >>

Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin: Defending the Republic

Can you feel it? Discontent has been in the air this week. The news has been full of #OccupyWallStreet and its various regional sympathy protests. On the face of it, it's hard to think of something more diametrically opposed to the Occupy movement than "Defending The Republic," a rally/appearanc ... More >>

Lupe Fiasco At The Chaifetz Arena, 9/29/11: Review, Photos, Setlist

Lupe Fiasco | New Boyz Chaifetz Arena September 29, 2011 The world is going mad as Lupe Fiasco leaps onto the stage, flying in from somewhere behind the black curtain to take his pulpit behind the microphone stand. "I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bull shit..." He is rapping "Wo ... More >>

Report: Wall Street Speculators Drive Up Oil Prices

The view from Wall Street these days.​Tired of paying nearly $4 per gallon to fuel up your car? Wondering who's making a fat profit off your daily commute? A new investigative report puts the blame on Wall Street, specifically hedge funds and investment banks that today are involved in the lion's ... More >>

Could Missouri Be Next State to Push For Internet Gaming?

Online gaming: New Jersey legislators deal. The governor folds.​The Wall Street Journal had an interesting piece yesterday about state lawmakers trying to tiptoe around federal laws prohibiting online gambling. The effort put forth by legislators in New Jersey and Iowa would allow only residents o ... More >>

What to Read When You're Snowed In

image via​A power outage could take your beloved Internet,TV and Wii away from you, but fortunately, there are other forms of entertainment besides Charades. Like books! (That is provided you have a flashlight or a candle.) Nikki Furrer, owner of Pudd'nhead Books (currently the reigning Best ... More >>

Marilyn Tomlin: St. Louis Homicide No. 133; Stabbed to Death on Wall Street

A 59-year-old woman was stabbed to death yesterday evening in the 800 block of Wall Street in north St. Louis. The 800 block of Wall Street as viewed from Broadway in north St. Louis.​Police say Marilyn Tomlin was stabbed multiple times and pronounced dead on the scene around 6 p.m. Police took in ... More >>

William Upski Wimsatt, Author of Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs, Talks Tea Party and Missouri's Progressive Potential

Image viaWilliam Upski Wimsatt​In 1994, a 21-year-old graffiti artist from the southside of Chicago named William Upski Wimsatt published Bomb the Suburbs, an introspective, non-fiction account of race, politics, art and social change during hip-hop's golden era.Almost two decades later, Upski -- ... More >>

Is Goldman Sachs Responsible for World Food Crises? One Group Thinks So.

The World Development Movement has accused Goldman Sachs of distorting the commodities market, leading to a potential worldwide food crises, a claim the Wall Street bank denies. The Daily Telegraph reports that Tim Jones, who wrote the accusatory report for the anti-poverty organization, explained, ... More >>

Show Announcements: Week of July 1

Fresh off a tour with The Temper Trap, the all-too photogenic L.A. foursome Warpaint will headline at the Luminary Center for The Arts on August 5. ​ 2720 Cherokee *Fur, July 20 Beale on Broadway *Bugs Henderson, July 31 Cicero's *Beckon, July 14 *Eagle Scout, July 1 *Liturgy, August 3 *That ... More >>

RFT readers debate Teabonics and speculate on splinters at the City Museum

Video: Sen. Claire McCaskill Talks Shit to Goldman Sachs Execs

There have been many, many headlines devoted to yesterday's "shitty" congressional hearings but, as is often the case, nobody tops the NY Post. Here's what their editors came up with:Image via​If you have no idea what we're talking about, well, Senator Carl Levin from Michigan and the Show-Me Stat ... More >>

No Justice: We've bailed out the banks. When do we go after the crooks behind our financial collapse?

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 8.12

​Dr. Marion Nestle explains the current food safety legislation. (The Atlantic)High shipping costs lead to innovations in plastic wine bottles. (Chicago Tribune)Chefs confession their fast food habits. (Esquire)Grocery store meat cutters get educated in culinary methods, while a mobile slaught ... More >>

The Big Bloody: Three People Found Murdered in Their Homes Blocks Apart in North City

Two phone calls to the St. Louis police led to the discovery of three bodies Sunday night in the Baden Neighborhood. View Sunday Night Homicides, June 19, 2009 in a larger mapPolice report receiving a phone call yesterday from a relative asking them to check on the well-being of two people living in ... More >>

Rally Downtown Today in Support of Obama's Consumer Financial Protection Agency

Americans for Financial Reform and ACORN plan to gather today in support of President Barack Obama's proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Like the Consumer Protection Agency, which safeguards people from hazardous product flaws involving housewares and other merchandise, the Consumer Finan ... More >>

Today Is the Day: Mr. Lif bounces back strong after life-threatening injuries

RFT Music Feature Subject Little Steven Introduces Living Things, Who Proceed to Burn $$$

Crystal Wiebe at the Pitch penned an interesting blogpost yesterday about a press release she received about a Living Things gig at SXSW, during which the band set fire to money onstage. She says:The stunts were done in protest "Wall Street's dirty ways" according to the release. The band also had t ... More >>

McCaskill: "I'm home from work. Time to focus."

Hats off to Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, who shows us again that she's one of us, "our Claire" even, this time via Twitter:http://twitter.com/clairecmcOne thing though, now that McCaskill's home from "work" (a.k.a. the U.S. Capitol), only now is she going to focus? The devotion to college bask ... More >>

Interview Outtakes: Henry Rollins Talks Politics

Vow Factor: You'll chuckle, you'll wince at The Wedding Singer

Saturday Night Fever: 30th Anniversary Special Collector's Edition

(Paramount)

Flirt Factor

Unreal learns the fine art of flirting and later endures a wrenching ordeal.

Still Funny After All These Years

You Can't Take It With You? Of course you can. In fact, you really should!

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R.I.P. Dr. Jockenstein

Film Openings

Killer Fibers

Week of January 15, 2003

Zero Hour

A man's last day of freedom becomes Spike Lee's meditation on 9/11

Film Openings

Week of December 4, 2002

Taking Stock

How to Succeed seems edgy amid today's big-biz flops

Wacky Warriors

St. Louis plays host to a strange and unusual national gathering

Hog Heaven

New Haven's Front Street Grille attracts a clientele ranging from bikers to locals but manages to make them all happy

The Fire Down Below

For more than three decades, Eric Vickers has been lighting brushfires, crusading against the racism he sees around him. Now, the civil-rights lawyer and activist finds himself burned.

Best Airline

Trans World Airlines

Welcome to Brooklyn

Damn the criticism -- Mayor Ruby Cook runs Brooklyn her way. But in this historic town, best known for its sex trade, she's not the biggest problem. Brooklyn is broke, divided and sinking fast.

The redemption of Bret Easton Ellis

A decade ago, the American Psycho author was vilified. Now, he could launch a franchise.

American Psycho

Co-written and directed by Mary Harron

THE BIG FIX

A desperate St. Louis pays top dollar to gamble on a risky convention-center hotel

Civilization and Its Discontents