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Panic at Wash. U.! School Fails to Make Top 100 in International Employability Survey

When you're paying more than $50,000 per year for your college education, you expect a return on your investment -- like, say, a job when you graduate. So maybe you can understand the rumblings of panic emerging from Washington University after the International Herald Tribune released the results ... More >>

Ellen Back Again: Arnie Robbins steps down as editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and RFT checks in with his predecessor

Icing on the Kook: Mustard Seed presents a Winter's Tale for our times

St. Louis Firefighters' Pension Argument Fails Bullshit Detector

​Earlier this week Chris Molitor, president of the firefighters' union Local 73, wrote a guest commentary in the Post-Dispatch criticizing Mayor Francis Slay's push to reform the firefighters' pension. The pension, btw, now accounts for a third of the fire department's total budget, has more than ... More >>

The 2011 Unreal News Challenge

Little House in the Present: America's economic downturns run through Laura Ingalls Wilder's books like a big three-hearted river

Stealing from the rich to...oh, whatever. Funny is the message in Tower Heist.

Groupon Fail: St. Louis business owners are souring on the once-mighty coupon startup

Occupy STL -- Voices from Kiener Plaza

​The man in the light blue button down is just on a quick smoke break. He's from southwest Missourah, in town for a meeting, soaking up a nice day in Kiener Plaza in the heart of downtown St. Louis and he's stumbled upon a square full of sleeping bags and Imo's boxes and pitched tents and people t ... More >>

Road Rage Leads to Murder in North St. Louis

A nineteen-year-old is dead following an incident of road rage last night in the Baden neighborhood of north St. Louis. ​According to police, Christopher Walton-Jones, 19, and another person were driving south on North Broadway (above) when a pickup truck heading east on Wall Street entered North ... More >>

President Obama's Jobs Plan -- Voices from Barrister's

Albert Samaha"Stimulus has become a bad word," says Lasky (left).​Last Monday in his jobs speech, President Barack Obama made a serious effort to wrest control of the Narrative away from the Republicans.For months Democrats have complained about how they kept ending up negotiating on Republicans' ... More >>

Senate Debate: Carnahan Goes for the Jugular; Blunt Dons His Teflon Suit and Counterattacks

​Robin Carnahan wasted no time going after her Republican opponent, Roy Blunt, in the first face-off between the two candidates yesterday. Sporting an aqua-marine blouse, Carnahan leaned on the dais during her two-minute opening statement and blasted Blunt with allegations made in her campaign ads ... More >>

Political Drinking: Robin Carnahan, Roy Blunt Debate Tonight

​Senatorial hopefuls Robin Carnahan and Roy Blunt will square off tonight in Kansas City and again tomorrow at Lake of the Go Carts. Only tonight's debate will be televised -- 9 p.m. on KETC Channel 9.So, what to look for in tonight's debate? Political blogger John Combest has a few ideas. This mo ... More >>

The Rep's You Can't Take It With You will make you want to take it with you

Cop Out: Will Ferrell and Adam McKay re-team, with decreasing returns

Patrick Robinson, St. Louis Homicide No. 31; Shot Dead on Warren Street

Police have identified the man shot in the chest early Saturday morning in north St. Louis. Patrick L. Robinson was pronounced dead around 1:30 a.m. Saturday in the 900 block of Warren Street. Bing Maps900 block of Warren​Robinson, 30, lived in the 800 block of Wall Street.

Rent a Wreck: For a former video-store giant, not such a blockbuster decade

Cindy Sheehan: "It's been change in the wrong direction"

Cindy Sheehan today in St. Louis.​The image most of us conjure when the name Cindy Sheehan surfaces is that of an enervated woman standing in the summer swelter on the side of the road, a few miles from George W. Bush's ranch near Crawford, Texas. Sheehan's four-week long vigi ... More >>

The New Neosurrealism: Artist Creates Portraits of Naked Obama Riding His Unicorn

Unreal knows we were not the only one completely captivated by JibJab's satiric take on last year's Presidential campaign. To refresh your memory, that was the one with all the candidates singing a little ditty called "Time for Some Campaignin'" (to the tune of "The Times They Are A-Changin'"). Yeah ... More >>

The Big Bloody: Suspect Arrested in Grisly Double Homicide

Police HandoutReginald FrazierEarlier this week we told you about the three people found dead in their north city residences this past Sunday night. Yesterday St. Louis police announced the arrest of a suspect regarding two of the murders that occurred inside a home in the 800 block of Wall Street. ... More >>

Mickey Rourke climbs back in the ring with The Wrestler

Everything but the Crèche: The Rockettes kick it Xmas-style at the Fox — but what's with the biblical grand finale?

Proposition Hate: Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time

The Pope of Pork: In tiny towns across Missouri, old-school hog farming stages a comeback — and at tables across the nation, diners rejoice

Hairy Times: St. Louis-based American Mustache Institute wants to put the 'stache back in style

The Post-Dispatch is shedding news pages and slashing editorial staff – and there's no end in sight

Speed Bumps

Unreal narrowly averts Car-mageddon, dispels a Brad Pitt rumor and gets some berry good news about vino.

Metro Messed-Up

Same Old Story

Sequels, prequels, and threequels headline Hollywood 2007.

Alley Cat

Somebody forgot to tell Emil Williams Jr. that bowling is for fat, beer-guzzling honkies

Metro Messy

Transit chief Larry Salci knows he has his critics. Ask him if he cares.

King Ink

Meet Brad Fink, a man of color whose body is the perfect canvas for his work

Must Be the Money

Billionaires for Bush step out of their limos and deliver a message

Summer Film Previews

Our critics enter the summer-movie fray

Cash Landing

With bills coming due at Lambert, St. Louis considers drastic change

Letters

Week of February 4, 2004

Tailspin

Lambert's billion-dollar expansion hangs on a wing and a prayer: The numbers no longer add up

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A park is coming to a village of the damned

Remember Paris

When Emerson pulls out of this small southern town, it'll leave bitterness and broken promises behind. That's what happens when a marriage ends badly.

Scraps of Joey

A new posthumous solo album is a revealing glimpse at Joey Ramone's optimistic final days

Bowling Alone

Arcade Lanes is nothing fancy, and Jim Lampson likes it that way. Could this faded jewel be the best bowling alley on earth?

The Brave & the Bold

On September 11, the world needed superheroes. It found them not in comic books, but in real life.

Maverick Steps

Paul Taylor, at 70, is still exploring the dance frontier

Jackpot

Missouri's "get-tough" gaming commission gives an embattled casino what it wants

Will the Real John Ashcroft Please Stand Up?

Missouri's junior senator says he is a pro-consumer health-care reformist. But the insurance companies, HMOs and big business, which give him millions, think he's on their side.

Boiler Room

Written and directed by Ben Younger

Sympathy for the Devil

Six years ago, a St. Louis judge took a hell of a risk. He let Von Nebbitt go free despite years of drug dealing and stealing, weapons offenses and parole violations. One of them has learned a lesson.

Short Cuts