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Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers Coming to St. Peters

Time to cross another chain off the don't-have-yet list. Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, a Wichita, Kansas-based chain, will open its first area location at 1365 Jungerman Road in in St. Peters. Though Freddy's is new to St. Louis and its exurbs, the chain already boasts locations throughou ... More >>

Homespun: Max Load

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BDR Records Re-Releases Material By Classic St. Louis Band Max Load

It's no stretch at all to think of BDR Records as St. Louis' very own Numero Group. That Chicago-based imprint quickly became the king of archival reissues, resurrecting long-forgotten and barely remembered sides from music scenes in Cleveland, Wichita and, on the Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples ... More >>

Local Record Store Day Wax from Tim Rakel's Extension Chord Records, Cassie Morgan, and More

It's one of the perks of this gig that, sometimes, Record Store Day comes a little bit early. The Vinyl Fairy has been making stops at my doorstep and leaving advances of this weekend's local wax offerings, which are every bit as exciting as, oh, the 1,000-quantity Todd Rundgren picture discs (or wh ... More >>

Answers to the Riverfront Times 2012 News Quiz

In January Riverfront Times published its annual "News Challenge" -- 78 multiple-choice questions testing how well readers paid attention to current events over the past twelve months. Within a week, more than 100 of you submitted your answers to us. A few weeks later a dozen readers e-mailed a simi ... More >>

Cambodian Weed

The invasive plant water spinach is banned in some states — and essential to Asian cooking. In a small village outside Houston, relocated Cambodians are growing and selling it across state lines, up North, out West, hoping to get rich.

Carrie M. Becker: 2012 Riverfront Times MasterMind Award Winner

Philip Glass Makes You Look Old

The classical music of 75-year-old Philip Glass occupies an unlikely place in pop culture. It still attracts the same age group it did when the composer first performed his minimalist works more than 40 years ago. This audience is ever present for the renowned artist's recent performance at the Ka ... More >>

The Six Best Chain Restaurants in St. Louis

Selecting Riverfront Times' Best of St. Louis 2011 was no picnic. Choosing the winner meant several worthy candidates would go unmentioned -- until now. In this Gut Check series, we are chewing our way through notable runners up in a number of categories. To see hundreds more winners and finalists a ... More >>

Wayne's World

Glen Campbell at the Bezemes Family Theater, 9/9/11: Review and Setlist

Roy Kasten​Glen Campbell The Bezemes Family Theater at the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts September 9, 2011 The sound sailed out across the theatre. It was the last note of the last song of the last encore for the last show in St. Louis (St. Charles to be exact). That was it for Glen Camp ... More >>

The Nine Most Bizzare Moments In Juggalo History

image via​Last week, as they do once a year, fans of Detroit hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse converged on Cave-in-Rock, Illinois (160 miles southeast of St. Louis) for the Gathering of the Juggalos. It's a time when fans of the band and their Psychopathic Records label mates convene for music, ... More >>

Not Just Del Taco: Readers remember the restaurants we shuttered, the hoops they wore

Post of the Month: "New Age of Crave": White Castle Introduces New Breakfast -- and New Direction!

Gut Check is constantly working to bring the latest food news to our readers. As a result, we do a lot of blogging. In an effort to draw attention to great posts that may have otherwise been lost in the blogosphere (and to recognize our hard-working writers), we present Post of the Month. Katie M ... More >>

SXSW Days 3 and 4: Dum Dum Girls, Joy Formidable, La Sera, The Vaccines, Josh Ritter, Lucinda Williams, Venice Is Sinking, Eli "Paperboy" Reed, Asobi Seksu, Hurray For the Riff Raff and Twangfest Party, Friday, March 18 and Saturday, March 19

Dana PlonkaLa Sera at Waterloo Records​At the end of the final night at South By Southwest 2011, I walked down 6th Street, a scene you can surely picture without my assistance. But I have this press badge to earn, so: By 1 a.m. on Saturday night / Sunday morning, downtown Austin was a zombie m ... More >>

Jimmy Webb

Corle 2 Da's Guide to St. Louis Restaurants

For several days now, Gut Check International Headquarters has been grooving to the beat of "So St. Louis" by Corle 2 Da. A (NSFW!) lyrical celebration of everything St. Louis -- including Riverfront Times! -- it's pretty much the best thing ever this week.What makes the video especially awesome are ... More >>

Abortion activists have a new target: men

Tom Cruise, please stop talking

Last Collector Standing: Best-Selling Author Scott Phillips Dreams About Vinyl, Writes While Listening to Michael Nyman and Yo La Tengo

Jon Scorfina​Scott Phillips is the national best-selling author of the novels The Ice Harvest and The Walkaway; his newest book is the Western-tinged, black comedy Cottonwood. He's also a vinyl collector who has recurring dreams of shifting through bin after bin of lost music in an imaginary r ... More >>

Show Review: Freedy Johnston at Off Broadway, Thursday, February 11

Chris CarrollFreedy Johnston​What becomes of the one-hit wonder? In the case of Freedy Johnston, whose 1994 song "Bad Reputation" was a bittersweet slice of acoustic alternative rock back when that was a viable genre, it appears that you simply keep writing good, catchy, heartfelt songs regard ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 11.19

​ Despite E. coli outbreaks, meat companies aren't required to test ground beef. (The Atlantic)Wichita loves its salad. (Wichita Eagle)Iowa might ban Everclear. (KCCI - Des Moines)A rendition of Bach's Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, the cantata about coffee, nuptials and dirty deals. It's a ... More >>

St. Louis: Bigger than Tampa, Smaller than Wichita

flickr.com/photos/chrism70Wichita, a true metropolis.The U.S. Census Bureau today released its population estimates for 2008. According to the estimate, the population of St. Louis declined for the first time in four years with the bureau estimating that 354,361 people lived in the city in 2008 -- d ... More >>

SXSW Report: Saturday with PJ Harvey and Beyonce's Little Sister, Friday with New York Dolls and Camera Obscura

Where to begin? I should start with the ornamental comb, like three white gleaming stakes from some Gnostic purification ritual, holding a jet-black stack of hair atop the fiery head of Polly Jean Harvey. She's never wanted for making an impression. Wrapped in white, backed by a hard avant-garde blu ... More >>

The Raveonettes, Land of Talk, Jens Lekman at SXSW

The Linemen emerge as the best straight-shooting country band in town.

(And please don't call 'em "honky-tonk.")

Training Day

Feel-good football tale scores with charm and sincerity.

Beep Beep, Yeah!

B-Sides explores the van woes of Cars Can Be Blue, talks to Split Lip Rayfield's Kirk Rundstrom about conquering cancer for one last tour and downloads some screaming Sleater-Kinney.

Common Cold

Harold Ramis' Ice Harvest is just a reheated Christmas caper

Verboten!

We ban rock cliches, fatwa Eric Clapton and read up on music nerds

Geeks Gone Wild

If you can't get laid at a science-fiction convention, you can't get laid!

Dylan Friends

In which Radar Station meets some folks who kinda like Bob Dylan

Another Steakout

Don't let the Lou become the sole property of Bloosiers; plus, we try to go on a wholesome date (to Mel's new movie, perhaps?), visit one of the few remaining typewriter stores, learn a thing or two about balls and make some super suggestions for Lambert

American Band

Tight melodies, true grit, a love of hair metal: The Doxies have it all

Truth or Derek

"Dangerous" Derek McQuinn sold his soul for a piece of the Gold Exchange

Sounds Around Town

Week of July 31, 2002

Whoa, Nelly!

Sick of the St. Louis superstar's coverage in our pages? Let us know.

Sounds Around Town

Week of July 17, 2002

Nasty Boys

The women screwed by Rent-A-Center are threatening to take the company to the cleaners. But Ernie Talley and the rest of his Texas bubbas are trying to have the last laugh.

Blue Christmas

Neophyte novelist Scott Phillips raises holiday hell

List-omania

RFT music geeks pick the best recordings of 2001

Fine Print

Unhappy customers say a dealer's arbitration clause turned into a license to steal

The Big Kahuna

Directed by John Swanbeck

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The Conviction of Tim Dreste

Tim Dreste's journey from Christian missionary to anti-abortion racketeer cost him a $6 million federal fine for his role in threatening to "kill, assault or do bodily harm" to abortion providers. But he isn't about to stop his crusade.

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