Walt Whitman

Out Every Night: The Best Shows in St. Louis from April 8 to 13

Warning: show-going can be bad for your health. I type this with watery eyes, a sore head and throat, and a forever-runny, impossible-to-breathe-out-of nose. I suppose all that putzing around in the rain between breaking a sweat at shows over the weekend really exacerbated things quickly. Bah! Worth ... More >>

The Abolitionists

I Saw The Best Minds of My Generation Dressed as Zombies

Swedish Fish Vodka, Farmhaus

Alicia Lohmar​First, a quick retraction. We wrote in this very column, just a little over a year ago, "...don't sully the time-honored occupation of respectable drinking by concocting all sorts of foolishness that ends in '-tini' and isn't 'gin martini' or that contains the words 'nipple' or 'bomb ... More >>

The Truth About Walt Whitman and the North Grand Water Tower

image via​We uncovered a lot of fascinating stories last summer while we were compiling our Literary St. Louis project, and one of our favorites was that Walt Whitman's brother, Thomas Jefferson Whitman (known as Jeff), had designed and built the water tower on North Grand Avenue and 20th Stre ... More >>

Whitman Sampler

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

Out of the Fog: Will Oldham's warm and fuzzy return as Bonnie "Prince" Billy

RFT readers pen sweet shout-outs for Dr. Wizard

Coffee with milk

World's Fair Doughnuts,
1904 South Vandeventer Avenue;
314-776-9975.

Blade Run

"It's easier to get your genitals pierced than to get a good shave in St. Louis"

Working Girls

Talk about dispassion

Arch Madness

A rough guide to St. Louis

Dance Gets an "A"

And it stands for art

Green and Horny Margarita

Pueblo Solis, 5127 Hampton Avenue, 314-351-9000

Mississippi Drifting

Twenty-eight straight days pushing freight up and down the Big Muddy -- and oh-so-slowly

The Fire Theft with Saves the Day and Grandaddy

Wednesday, April 7; the Pageant

Quiet Impressive

Francis Cape whispers from the corner

What a Difference a Gay Makes

Jade Esteban Estrada tells the tales you won't find in textbooks

Hoosiers

The stereotype is all about cheap beer, fast cars and fat girls. But there's a little bit of hoosier in all of us.

Do You Believe There's a Guardian Angel Watching Over You?

Week of December 25, 2002

Meaner Streets

Scorsese looks at the roots of New York's violence, with mixed results

The Master

His inspired passion made him a favorite in the art world. Now Marcel Salinas is stuck in St. Louis, where hardly anybody knows his name.

The Awful Truth

The malaise of one suburban teen is made vivid in the disturbing first feature film L.I.E.

The Wild Ones

Like many great artists, violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg has an inner fire, but all some critics see is smoke

Unseen Beats

Ghost Stories

Tom Russell conjures the spirits of his ancestors -- and tells the epic story of America's immigrant history -- on The Man from God Knows Where

'Hood Winks

Playing With a Full Deck

An appreciation of the artistry of Ricky Jay

Oscar Ceremony

Big Apple Spiel

The Cruise takes us on a breathless tour of NYC and the whirligig mind of guide Timothy "Speed" Levitch