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Imagine Dragons and Owl City at the Pageant 5/15/2013: Photos

Imagine Dragons and Owl City both performed at the Pageant last night as part of the Yahoo on the Road tour. The Yahoo! logo was plastered everywhere, as the bands tore through their sets to the delight of the excited crowd.

Senator Brian Nieves Writes Insane E-Mails to Constituent Who Doesn't Want His Newsletters

We have to imagine that, as an elected official in Missouri who has experienced some controversy, State Senator Brian Nieves must be used to getting a fair amount of hate mail. And we'd guess that this message he received last Friday is, relatively speaking, pretty mild: "Take me off your mailing ... More >>

Web Vigilantes Try To Flush Out "Adam Lanza" Twitter Account Owner; Mistakenly Threaten Elderly St. Charles Resident and Business

Since the tragic shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, most of the country has responded with prayer, grief, and calls for dialogue on gun control and mental illness. A small subset of the population, however, has used it as an excuse to become the world's worst people, starting Twitter accounts suppo ... More >>

The Bleacher Report Formula for Web Dominance: Garbage In, Money Out

Music Is Not A Sport

Art and life co-habitate, informing, imitating, and enriching each other constantly. Each week in Better Living Through Music, RFT Music writer Ryan Wasoba explores this symbiotic relationship. Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen is kicking ass in the Olympics, and doing it efficiently as to minimize drag i ... More >>

Anti-Gay Chick-fil-A Ditched By Muppets, Humans, You? Vote Here!

It's never been a secret that Chick-fil-A, a fast food chain that is closed on Sundays and has previously spouted an anti-gay agenda, lacks a certain separation of church and chicken. We've shared our views on the company's politics before, as have many, and now it seems the rest of the world is tak ... More >>

It's the Brand-Spankin'-New RFT Commenting System

As of late yesterday afternoon, the RFT has a new commenting system for its articles and blogs. It's called Livefyre, and though it might not look much different from the old system, it brings all kinds of new features to make your Gut Check (and Daily RFT and RFT Music) experiences sleeker and, dar ... More >>

We Have A New Commenting System for Your Enjoyment

Good news, everybody. As of a few moments ago, all three Riverfront Times Blogs (Daily RFT, Gutcheck and RFT Music) have a shiny new commenting system with lots of bells and whistles. It's called Livefyre and it's going to change how you interact with us. So, what sort of features will you now be en ... More >>

We Have a New Commenting System: Get Yourself Acquainted

Good news, everybody. As of a few moments ago, all three Riverfront Times Blogs (Daily RFT, Gutcheck and RFT Music) have a shiny new commenting system with lots of bells and whistles. It's called Livefyre and it's going to change how you interact with us. So, what sort of features will you now be en ... More >>

Fiona Apple's Comeback Tide Rises with Release of "Every Single Night"

Fiona Apple is in an elite club of critical darlings that persevered, despite finding commercial success during the 1990s. Using the word "Despite" may sound odd, since selling a lot of records should indicate that a musical artist has something unusual to offer - a boisterous voice, an instrumental ... More >>

Bowling for Chumps: All set for your trip to fabulous Shreveport to watch Mizzou in the Independence Bowl? You may as well go -- either way, you're paying for it.

Bella and Edward lock it down in Breaking Dawn Part 1

St. Louis: No. 1 in Fantasy Baseball

Wrong kind of fantasy. It's a shame we can't find some way to combine this with baseball, though, isn't it? ​St. Louis is a baseball city. We all know this. We St. Louisans love baseball in a way you don't generally see in other places. Green Bay loves football in a unique way, a way that goes dee ... More >>

Striving to better, the Kevin Klines may mar what's well.

The RFT 2011 St. Louis Web Awards: Best Sports Blog

Changes Afoot at Bon Appetit and the New York Times

Changes are afoot in the food publishing world. Yahoo reports that longtime New York Times columnist Mark Bittman is ending his column, "The Minimalist", after thirteen years. His last installment of the recipe column that spawned his "How to Cook Everything" books will run this Wednesday. On Fe ... More >>

Downtown Macy's Downsizing

Google MapsThe Macy's will now occupy the first three floors. ​The Macy's in the Railway Exchange Building at Olive and 6th Street is downsizing, according to blogger Steve Patterson. Patterson writes on his Urban Review STL that the city's only downtown department store will now occupy three floo ... More >>

Will Somebody Please Fund Andy Abrams' Movie, Tattoo Jew?

Justin Dawson​Tattoo Jew. Now there's an oxymoron. By law, Jews aren't supposed to have tattoos. It's right there in the book of Leviticus, alongside the prohibitions against cheeseburgers (technically, a calf cooked in its mother's milk) and butt-sex. But for the past five years, Andy Abrams ... More >>

Local Blogger Rediscovers Earliest Known Photo of a Human Being

Last week, a local blogger known as the Hokumburg Goombah, and also as Gig Thurmond, awoke to, like Lord Byron, find himself famous. In blogger terms, this means "when we got home after running errands, visiting a sick friend, and getting dinner, and we checked the counter [yes, it has come to that, ... More >>

Interview: Carolina Chocolate Drops' Dom Flemons on His Musical Background, Expanding the Band's Audience Bowling in St. Louis

Jason StoffDom Flemons of Carolina Chocolate Drops at LouFest.​It's been a long year for the Carolina Chocolate Drops, who have been on the road in tireless support of Genuine Negro Jig. The trio will make its third St. Louis appearance of 2010 tonight at the Sheldon; earlier in the year, the ... More >>

RFT Parent Company Responds to Child-Prostitution Lawsuit Against Backpage.com

​This past Friday brought news that a Clayton attorney had filed suit against backpage.com, claiming the website knowingly allowed Latasha Jewell McFarland to pimp out a fourteen-year-old runaway as a prostitute. McFarland pleaded guilty earlier this month in federal court and is awaiting sentenci ... More >>

Tony La Russa and The Razzle Dazzle Kid

​Going into the long Labor Day weekend, I fully expected to be focused on the Cardinals. Sure, there was the Mizzou-Illinois game to attend, and a couple other college football games I found intriguing, and there was the Greek Festival down at St. Nicholas' church. (By the by, memo to the festival ... More >>

Starbucks to Offer Free Wi-Fi

Image source​As if the instant coffee and custom Frappuccinos weren't enough (and they probably weren't), Starbucks has now decided to offer free Wi-Fi to all its customers starting July 1. Previously customers had to pay for Internet access in two-hour increments through their Starbucks card ... More >>

Public Relations Fail: Mark McGwire, the Cardinals and a Crowded Hallway

It started out so well for Big Mac. The Cards hired George W. Bush's former press secretary and master of atonement Ari Fleischer to help the team's new hitting coach gently break the news that he was on the juice. After a misty-eyed interview with local/national broadcaster Bob Costas, media critic ... More >>

Shoppers Digging the Bargains on New Site: Deals.Woot.com

​Still have some Christmas shopping to do? Short on cash? You might want to check out the new site Deals.Woot.com launched by semi-local e-tailer Woot.com last month that gives the Digg treatment to finding bargans online. Users can submit deals they find around the net and other users can vote th ... More >>

Weed Eaters: A raw-food movement is beginning to sprout in St. Louis

OMG! GMAIL FAILED!

​Yesterday Gmail went down for about two-and-a-half hours. The event caused so many people to go to Twitter to kvetch about it, that it nearly took down that site as well. To be accurate, people who use Gmail via an email client like Apple Mail or Microsoft Outlook had no problems getting their em ... More >>

Female Athletes Can Be Assholes, Too

flickr.com/photos/hernanvalenciasSolo goaltending for the U.S. Olympic team.​And that is a good thing, writes Jason Zengerle in a brief profile in The Atlantic of St. Louis Athletica goalie Hope Solo.Solo's polarizing persona is what makes her so crucial to the new league's fortunes. The last prof ... More >>

Unreal plays matchmaker and goes on the hunt for a man with a fetish. Plus: Our Local Blog o' the Week and a Pit-Stain Contest.

Google "Alerts" Herald Really Important News, like today's, "Man With Workout-Ball-Slashing Fetish Charged"

Every once in awhile Google's and Yahoo's "alert" e-mails bring Unreal a nugget of can't-live-without news, like an announcement of a gigantic bible-eating & pie-beating convention at America's Center, or the publication of a book about how not to make sex with your mother-in-law really awkward. ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Friday, 5.29

The U.S. and Russia continue talks over Russia's ban on U.S. meat after the swine-flu outbreak. (Guardian)The governor-general of Canada is in trouble for eating raw seal meat. (BBC News)Pittsburgh fishmongers crack down on Detroit residents buying octopus before the Stanley Cup Finals begin.(Yahoo! ... More >>

Josh McDaniels Gets Put in His Place

Over at Deadspin right now, the latest edition of the Deadcast (which, by the way, if you don't listen to on a regular basis, should be the #1 thing on your to-do list right now), has Michael Silver, a wonderful journalist from Yahoo! sports, laying a verbal beatdown on Josh McDaniels. Of cours ... More >>

RIP: Donnie Avery's Fantasy Value

He was hyped by optimistic, shortsighted pundits as the "2008 fantasy football sleeper at wide receiver," now the promising fantasy career of Rams rookie Donnie Avery has officially flamed out. It was a brief, meteoric rise to prominence that lasted just five weeks before ending with a whimper yeste ... More >>

Rams Wide Receiver Donnie Avery: Fantasy Football Sleeper, Adept Dancer

Bandit Man

Unreal intercepts a bit of Wash. U. correspondence and reflects on the best TV show ever.

The Morning Brew: Friday, 10/5

The Jeff Weaver Wire Watch -- Special Sidney Ponson Edition!

The Jeff Weaver Wire Watch -- Special Sidney Ponson Edition!

Bracketology

Two SLU professors say they’ve solved the world’s most challenging math problem: your office NCAA pool

Letters

Week of June 22, 2005

Blues' Dues

At this benefit concert, you'll get the blues and a local Web site will get the green

Letters

Week of November 12, 2003

Toss it Outback

Kangaroo Jack is a real punch in the pouch

Sicbay Basics

The members of this Minnesota trio listen to one another, not to the demands of focus groups, songwriting formulas or the perceived heat of famous producers

Caught in the Web

Internet-only radio stations take a beating

Spark & Spiel

Circuit-benders make music from obsolete electronics. You won't believe your ears.

Beyond Salvation

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

Goin' Back to Cali

The re-emergence of Del tha Funkee Homosapien heralds a renaissance for Bay-area hip-hop

Which Cybercrime Activity Worries You Most?

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