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Who Will Save Us from the Plastic Pen Invasion?

The plastic pens waited, biding their time, until America turned its weary attention to the final hours of the interminable campaign. Then -- THEN! -- they struck again. In August, the plastic pens snuck into frozen bratwurst patties. Now they've come for our grill-marked chicken-breast strips.

The Ten Best Concerts of the Summer

Well, the white trousers are back in storage and the river flotation seat with tall-boy sized cup-holders is deflated. We may have a few warm days ahead still, but summer is behind us. Lest it all fade into a haze of sweating (so it was hot this summer...), we here at RFT Music have preserved the bi ... More >>

The 18 Best Fans, Musical Moments and Trends at LouFest 2012: Day Two

18. We Remembered to Check The Weather Forecast Soak us once, shame on you, Mother Nature. But soak us twice, and we better be either 1) drunk enough not to care and/or 2) having an intimate slow dance in the rain. Umbrella or not, the diagonal downpour that cut Dawes' set short and delayed Dr. Dog ... More >>

Wayne A. McKinney: St. Louis Homicide No. 6; Shot Behind the Wheel

​Homicide detectives were called to the 2800 block of Dayton in the Jeff-Vander-Lou neighborhood (above) yesterday around 1 p.m. to investigate another apparent murder. Wayne A McKinney, 34, was found riddled with bullets, still behind the wheel of a white 2001 GMC Yukon. The incident report notes ... More >>

Wayne's World

XV, Ana Sia Lead This Week's Show Announcements

The Throne is to Otis Redding as Kansas chief XV is to Dion and the Belmonts--no one is mad about the reminder to revisit. Vizzy brings his backpack rap to Cicero's on February 2. New Orleans brassy ball busters Bonerama return to the Old Rock House on February 12. Plenty of DJs, dubheads and EDM w ... More >>

Bob Seger, Lucero Lead This Week's Show Announcements

Bob Seger, what a babe. ​Don't know what to get dad for Christmas and/or St. Nicholas Day? Classic rock icon Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band are at the Scottrade Center on December 9, and you can pretend it's papa's fault you "have" to fulfill your lifelong wish of seeing "Night Moves" pe ... More >>

Black Moth Super Rainbow's Tobacco On The New Album (Maybe), Drugs and Prank Calls

​For a guy who makes some of weird sounding shit, Tom Fec is a pretty normal dude. He exercises. He dreams of giving up, getting fat and going bald. He loves the '80s, but not in a lame, ironic way. But Fec crafts day-glo hallucinogenic pop with Black Moth Super Rainbow, and drops bass like a ... More >>

Wayne Coyne Comes to St. Louis to Deliver Skulls, Sweaty Hugs and Much Love

Chrissy WilmesWayne with Jim Utz, Promotions Manager at Vintage Vinyl​Typically, it might seem a bit odd to send a reporter to cover an in-store signing. What's there to report? Some famous dude(tte) signing autograph after autograph, making impersonal chit chat and rushing off fans, inevitabl ... More >>

St. Louis City Dead Last in Healthy Living Factors, Study Sez

via http://1055jyy.blogspot.com/2009_05_31_archive.htmlSt. Louis sucks at healthy living. But we still beat a few rivals at staying alive.​Finally, something to celebrate!A new county-by-county system to take the nation's temperature on a variety of health-related factors has determined that St. L ... More >>

MO Auditor Dings Cops for Missing Asset Forfeiture Reports

​Last month, in a story about the Camp Zoe case called "Shakedown," the RFT's Keegan Hamilton detailed the shocking process by which federal and state law enforcement authorities may legally seize cash, land or other valuables from a citizen -- even in cases in which the citizen has never been cha ... More >>

How to Avoid Becoming a Grinch This Holiday Season

image via​It's so easy to succumb to Grinch-ish-ness this time of year. It's dark, it's cold and you can't go anywhere without hearing fake-cheerful Muzaked Christmas songs. This all makes you especially vulnerable to the good sad songs, like "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" or "I'll B ... More >>

Review Setlist Photos: The Flaming Lips and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Energize and Illuminate the Pageant, Friday, September 17

(Photos by Todd Owyoung coming!!) The Flaming Lips tries desperately to give more to its fans than it takes from them. It wants your emphatic applause, it wants your unconditional love, it wants your $37.50 - all fodder for creating an atmosphere that feels nothing short of magical. Wayne Coyne, S ... More >>

RFT readers debate the rights of animals, Dumpster divers, pregnant women and mustachioed men

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

The Wearing, Giving Away and Eating of the Green at Chipotle

Corned beef and cabbage not your thing? According to Wayne, the official St. Louis Chipotle Tweeter, if you're wearing green, you can score free guacamole on your burrito at any local Chipotle Mexican Grill. ​

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of March 8

Vintage Vinyl 1. BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB---Beat The Devil's Tattoo* 2. TITUS ANDRONICUS---Monitor 3. FLOGGING MOLLY---Live At The Greek Theatre 4. LUDACRIS---Battle Of The Sexes 5. GORILLAZ---Plastic Beach 6. MURPHY LEE---You See Me 7. SADE---Soldier Of Love 8. BROKEN BELLS---Broken Bells 9. JIM ... More >>

Patriot Dame: Dana Loesch, Tea Party co-founder and rising star of conservative talk radio, reporting for duty!

Top Sellers at Area Record Stores: Week of February 1

Euclid Records is switching computer systems this week, so we only have Vintage Vinyl's top sellers. Behold! An asterisk denotes the band is coming to town. Look at all of those St. Louis acts in the top 25, too! Who says people don't sell records anymore? 1. GOV'T MULE---By A Thread 2. LIL' WAYNE- ... More >>

Throwback of the House: Three's Company for Sweet-Sour Appetizer Kebobs

Robin Wheeler​With the holidays officially upon us, Throwback will spend the next few weeks dragging out the party classics. Did you miss the days of bosses having secretary three-ways at office parties, or neighborhood shindigs where you spied Mom groping a Santa Claus who looked a lot like Wayn ... More >>

Brett Hull's Hall of Fame Speech: The Word Cloud and Transcript

​One-time St. Louis Blue Brett Hull was inducted into the NHL Hall of Fame on Monday in Toronto. Hull spent most of his career with the Blues, from the spring of 1988 to the summer of 1998, before he signed as a free agent with the Dallas Stars. Although he spent the majority of his career with th ... More >>

Big Muddy Blues Festival

1 p.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, September 5, and Sunday, September 6. Laclede's Landing.

Hornswoggled!: Welcome to Gerald, Missourah — the town that did just fall off the turnip truck

St. Louis Show Announcements, Week of February 10

Here are some of the new shows announced this week at venues around St. Louis! Pageant *The Decemberists, Sunday, May 31 BB's Jazz, Blues and Soups *Ernie Isley and the St. Louis Allstars, Saturday, March 7 *Bill Lupkin and the Workers, Saturday, March 14 *Chris Duarte Group, Wednesday, March ... More >>

Martian Chronicles: Wayne Coyne and Kliph Scurlock discuss the Flaming Lips' fantastical film freakout, Christmas on Mars

51st Annual Grammy Awards Announced: Lil Wayne, Radiohead, Rihanna, Daft Punk, etc.

The 51st Grammy Award nominations are in -- and are quite interesting. No, really. The entire list is here, but some highlights. And no, a highlight is not Paul McCartney earning a nomination for "I Saw Her Standing There." REALLY? Or Ministry earning a nod for a Stones cover of "Under My Thumb" -- ... More >>

SLU B-Ball: Young Ballers and Better Cheerleaders

Watching the SLU basketball last night for the first time this season, one thing became very obvious: It's going to be awhile before anyone not named Kevin Lisch or Tommie Liddell leads the team in scoring. During the first half of last night's match-up against Kent State (which the Bills lost 76-7 ... More >>

Christopher Desens of Racquet Club Ladue Wins Gold

An Interview with the Flaming Lips' Michael Ivins: Preview of St. Louis Pageant show

Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore do not make sweet, sweet music.

Music and Lyrics

Cold Hearted

Lost Planet delivers, but it's not for the timid.

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

Cleveland's Rocks

Parker Posey and Paul Rudd get their OH faces on.

Add It Up

The calculus of Pi Productions equals some dynamite music

Pooch Kicks

As kid-book adaptations go, Because of Winn-Dixie's no dog

Best Concert of the Past 12 Months

Flaming Lips at the Pageant

John Wilkes Booze

Tuesday, July 22; Way Out Club

Sounds Around Town

Week of May 28, 2003

Something's Fishy

Welcome to Aqua Vin, the seafood restaurant for people who aren't all that thrilled about the stuff

Lip Service

Steven Drozd talks about a decade's worth of weirdness with the Flaming Lips

Wayne Hancock

Friday, Jan. 11; Off Broadway

Hall Pass

Looking for influence, significance, development and perpetuation at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Beyond Salvation

Silverman's bitter "comedy" is enough to make you lose all hope

Lost in the Swamp

Sam Raimi does what he can with familiar material in The Gift

Pop Fiction

Popcorn takes on the topic of Hollywood violence in a hilarious but none-too-gentle way

State Fair

By Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (Stages St. Louis)

HAPPY, TEXAS

Co-written and directed by Mark Illsley

In the Beginning ...