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Videos: Top Ten TSA Airport Groping Scandals

Last week, footage of Transportation Security Administration officials at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport trying to pat down a three-year-old girl in a wheelchair went viral -- and brought national attention to TSA in St. Louis. Nathan Forck, the father trying to get his family to Disney Wor ... More >>

Video: Lambert Airport TSA Tries to Pat Down Three-Year-Old In Wheelchair, Going to Disney

This is not how the Forck family's trip to Disney World was supposed to go. An Osage Beach, Missouri family says they suffered quite an ordeal at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport earlier this month when Transportation Security Administration officials tried to pat down their three-year-old ... More >>

Holy Ship!! Day One: A Surprise Guest Whose Name Rhymes With Drillex

On Friday afternoon, nearly 3,000 raver chicks, dude guys, scenesters, club kids and DJs assembled at a port in Fort Lauderdale and boarded the MSC Poesia, a.k.a. Holy Ship!! (There are two exclamation points because this is the second edition of the EDM party cruise put on by L.A.'s Hard Events.) T ... More >>

Jonathan Franzen's Dramatic Adventures in Webster Groves Real Estate: The Play!

A new play based on Jonathan Franzen's essay "House For Sale" opens this Saturday, October 13, at The Duke on 42nd Street, a theater in New York. Actually, it's just previews; the "post-opening" is October 25. (But where is the actual opening?) The essay concerns Franzen's return to Webster Groves ... More >>

The Six Worst Songs On Great Albums

Even on a quote-unquote perfect album, one song has to be inferior to the others, just as one song has to rule the roost. Such is the yin and yang of nature. Here are the six worst songs on the best albums. 6. Wilco - "Heavy Metal Drummer" from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Heavy Metal Drummer by Wilco on ... More >>

M83 at The Pageant, 5/2/2012: Review, Photos and Setlist

M83 | I Break Horses The Pageant May 2, 2012 The crowd at the M83 show last night was ecclectic. Girls wearing their best Forever 21 skirts, middle aged men and women sprinkled in the balcony and a parade of bros, hipsters and people looking generally out of place. That's what happens when there is ... More >>

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A decade after the heyday of St. Louis' rave scene, it still feels like the morning after

Ivy Magruder of Vin de Set

This is part one of Amanda Woytus' Chef's Choice profile of chef Ivy Magruder of Vin de Set. Part two, a Q&A, will be posted tomorrow, and part three, a recipe from Magruder, will be published on Thursday. Amanda WoytusChef Ivy Magruder welcomes you into his magical kingdom, Vin de Set.​When ... More >>

Newsflash: If You Play With Your Kid, It Won't Be Depressed!

image viaOr maybe a sad kid just needs a trip to Disney World and a pretty, pretty princess dress, just like Suri Cruise's.​A team of child psychiatrists at Washington University has made an amazing discovery: The best way for parents to relieve depression in their toddlers is to play with the ... More >>

A New Arch for a New St. Louis: Let's not just redesign the grounds around the Gateway Arch. Let's go for the whole enchilada!

Is the steak house at the new River City Casino worth the price of admission? Bet on it.

Review Preview: Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse

Jennifer Silverberg​Grab a handful of Benjamins and your eating pants: We're headed to River City Casino for a date with Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse. Follow me after the jump for a sneak preview of my review of the top-dollar restaurant.

The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

There S/he Is! The Miss Gay America Pageant prances into St. Louis — and Unreal drinks it all in like a camel at Hoover Dam

Nervous Nights: A writer memorializes New Jersey rock innovators the Feelies on the occasion of CD reissues

St. Louis is no fun — and that's a good thing! Plus: Obama's pants, an allegedly felonious Purina fat cat and more.

Last Week's Most Popular Daily RFT Posts, July 20-26

G'morning! If you're just not ready to unclench the weekend from your grip, rewind with these highlights from last week on the Daily RFT, the top-ten most-read postsJoker Bites His Wife's Face, Tells Cops He's BatmanThomas Byrd of Granite City, Ass Clown of the Week nominee, was sentenced to 24 year ... More >>

Pet Food Executive Lived Like Fat Cat, Allegedly Bilking Nestle-Purina for $250,000

Thomas Faulkner on the Purina Cat Chow diet.The former director of marketing for Nestle Purina Petcare has been indicted on fraud charges for use of his company credit card. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Thomas Faulkner billed the company more than $250,000 in fraudulent invoices that he ... More >>

You Get What You Play For: Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler, to promote his new album

Schnucks Wins Coveted Black Pearl Award

flickr.com/photos/misterajcWhat is the Black Pearl Award, I hear you ask in a tone of great bewilderment? And why is it coveted?We at Gut Check are here to help!We must also confess -- we were drawn to this arduous research task by our fondness for pirates.Shopping at Schnucks, particularly during t ... More >>

Show Review: Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship, The Blind Eyes, The Hibernauts and The Makeshift Gentlemen at Off Broadway, Friday, January 9

I headed down to Off Broadway on Friday night to join folks primed and ready for a true potpourri of local music: One-man spazz show Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship, retro-pop power trio Blind Eyes, the bartender-meets-Brit-prep of the Hibernauts and the shiny, neon synth-punk theatrics of the Makeshi ... More >>

Unreal plumbs the flavor of French vodka, consults our advice-giving pastor and ponders the Tao of Patrick Swayze

Ghost Boat

Four people disappeared from the Joe Cool. They may never be found.

The Morning Brew: Monday, 1.7

Eh ~scape

The Central West End's newest upscale eatery has Ian looking for the exit door.

Small Plates: Thursday, 6/7

Wall-of-fuzz indie-rockers Silversun Pickups are today's unlikeliest burgeoning mainstream stars.

(Even if they're not even aware of it.)

Happy Feet

B-Sides compares Tony Danza's tap-dancing and acting, gets cozy with Quintron and Miss Pussycat, and doesn't balk at a new scene trading card

Shoe Be Do Be

Unreal looks into the future and sees... debt and tennis shoes. Plus: a bat house for sale and a Benz full of beer.

Duwe Ever!

Unreal gets hot and bothered over a former GOP spokesman, calls up a north-county man with some James Bond-ish crap to sell and finds a local blogger with “zero redeemable qualities to speak of.”

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of April 27, 2005

Return of the Taller Ballers

SLU's basketball season kicks off at Savvis

Toast the (G)Host

C'mon, scaredy-pants, visit the (super-haunted) Lemp Mansion and Brewery

Iron Chef

Stainless-steel Viking

Holy Soleil!

Cirque du Soleil's Dralion ain't your average clowns-in-tiny-cars circus fare

Mag Hags

What's wrong with the state of music journalism -- and how to fix it

Satisfying and Delicious

The Japanese Festival features some tasteful performance art

Best in Show

Nobody denies Debi Baker's talent with animals. Too bad she doesn't have the same gift with people.

Letters

Week of October 3, 2001

Born Again?

Tammy Faye Bakker's back, but don't be afraid this time

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Directed by Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey

Logan's Run

The ownership ranks of professional racing are dominated by fast cars and big money. What's a chiropractor from St. Louis doing in a place like this?

Letters to the Editor

Published the week of February 23

Critical Mass

RFT music critics offer a cut-and-paste compendium of the year in music. Everyone's wrong. Everyone's right.

THROB, THROB

Herewith, a guide to the latest crop of musical heartthrobs

PETER AND THE WOLF

Why Missouri Botanical Garden's Peter Raven, world-renowned environmentalist, courts Monsanto's favor, boosts its biotech and takes its money

Would You Keep or Sell McGwire's No. 500?

The Cowboy Way