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No-Brainer: Legally Blonde is more than fair

Happy Presidents' Day to the Top Five Foodie Presidents

Washington has been focusing more and more on food and eating healthy lately, thanks to Mama Obama's presence in the white house. Michelle planted a garden on the White House grounds, which regularly provides produce to the prez and his family. She's working to make school lunches healthier, but she ... More >>

Wash. U is 16th Most Crime-Riddled Campus

According to The Daily Beast, Washington University is a premiere institution for hitting the books or getting hit over the head. Using data from the U.S. Department of Education, the blog used incidents of murder, robbery, assault, burglaries, and car thefts between 2008 and 2010 to populate their ... More >>

In the Galleries - Spirit and History CLOSES March 4 at the St. Louis University Museum of Art

Moneyball and an All-American Snack Banquet

Walking into Moneyball, it's hard not to anticipate the stereotypical baseball movie: chewing tobacco, player enlightenment, inspirational pep talks from the coach before the big game, maybe even some angels in the outfield. But above all, you expect a show, a tense series of games that eventually r ... More >>

Yowie: The Most Incomprehensible Band You'll Ever Meet

Courtesy of Yowie​To call Yowie an acquired taste would be a flagrant misrepresentation. Yowie is not something you can acquire. Try to understand its sonic mindfuckery, try to follow the preposterous complexity of Yowies' sound, and your dendrites will start to short-circuit. Music like this ... More >>

Wash. U. Finally Gives an African-American Woman Tenure

image viaParikh (center) and research subjects in Uganda.​Washington University's College of Arts and Sciences has granted tenure to Shanti Parikh, a professor of anthropology, making her the first African-American woman in the college's history to achieve that honor. How nice to know that it ... More >>

U.S. News College Rankings Put Wash. U. at Lucky 13

Wikimedia Commons​Hooray! This year's U.S. News and World Report college rankings are out! This is a chance for all college students, both current and former, to look through the rankings and claim bragging rights for their schools. These bragging rights are only good, of course, until college ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 6.22

Marie Callender's frozen meals yanked for possible salmonella tainting. Reuters reports that eight people have contracted the illness from the products. Healthy diets and the medicinal properties of some foods are causing drug interaction issues. The Wall Street Journal takes an extensive look at ... More >>

The Five Biggest B.S. List Makers on the Internet

Image sourceNow THAT is a well-reasoned and objective top ten list.​This week's RFT feature story takes a satirical look at the arbitrary and often asinine world of online rankings, studies and surveys. We're talking about the lists that attempt to quantify the unquantifiable and compare the uniqu ... More >>

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

Washington University Among the Most Stressful Colleges in America

Be nice to Wash. U. students. They're really stressed out.​Another day, another ranking. This one involves rating which of the nation's top 50 campuses are the biggest pressure cookers, of which Washington University placed No. 13 -- in between Yale and Dartmouth. Stanford is the leading ... More >>

Behold: An Inexpensive and Engaging Use for Ballpark Village

Recently Daily RFT was made aware of a possible solution for the St. Louis Cardinals much-delayed plans for Ballpark Village. Like the design of the new Busch Stadium, the plan hearkens back to the good ol' days of baseball. Ladies and gentlemen, we submit to you the Playograph!www.uniwatchblog.com ... More >>

St. Louis Nation's 24th-Smartest City, But Wash. U. Medical Alums Still Allowed to Date Ivy-Leaguers

​Fall is a suspenseful time for the nation's smartest people. No, we're not referring to the announcements of the winners of the MacArthur Foundation "genius" grants or the Nobel Prizes. Those things are all small potatoes compared to The Daily Beast's ranking of America's Smartest Cities, which c ... More >>

U.S. Snooze: Wash. U. Remains Best University in Missouri, Still Number 12 Nationwide

flickr.com/photos/34284761@N04​Yesterday, just in time for the arrival of this year's freshman class at Washington University, U.S. News and World Report released its annual college rankings for 2010. Wash. U. came in at number 12, tying with Northwestern. (Just call 'em the Princeton and Yale of ... More >>

17-Year-Old Chesterfield Scientist is Smarter Than You

courtesy of the Academy of ScienceWilliam Sun is smarter than you. He is now also richer (probably). He got to meet President Obama. And he can explain molecular biology in terms so plain that even a newspaper reporter can understand. William Sun will probably take over the world.Sun, a 17-year-old ... More >>

Washington University: Tourist Mecca?

Wikimedia CommonsWish you were here!An article in Sunday's New York Times touts the university campus as the hot new tourist destination. Universities, you see, usually have at least one picturesque corner or impressive building (fit for the cover of the admissions catalog), some sort of historical ... More >>

Erstwhile Unreal Columnist Wants Back on School Board

Filing begins tomorrow for the Elected School Board of the St. Louis Public Schools, and guess who plans to be first in line? St. Louis' evergreen political candidate, Mr. William "Bill" Haas. Although he's got degrees from Yale and Harvard, Haas has yet to join his Ivy League breth ... More >>

Built to Suit: Renowned set designer John Ezell never met a play he didn't like

Eero Saarinen's Legacy: More from the Man Who Gave Us the Arch

St. Louis Art Capsules

Malcolm Gay encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Malcolm Gay encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

The Polish Egg Man gets its world premiere here

7-Up vs. Coke, Part 1: From dot-com darling to disaster, the spectacular flameout of Andrew Gladney. Heir to a fortune, Andrew Gladney went from John Burroughs to Yale and came home to found Savvis Inc. Then he squandered it all.

Go Vertical

Corn Circles

Two recent college grads investigate the cyclical nature of America's obsession with corn.

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 11/1

Buckin’ Backhoes

Unreal does the "Thriller" dance, sips Starbucks with a fellow ex-barista and ponders the logistics of a backhoe rodeo.

Long-Term Memory

Who you calling "racist"?

Joe doesn't take too kindly to a reader's taunts.

Like Herding Sheep

De Niro takes a loooong, sloooow look at the history of the CIA

The St. Louis Comics Avalanche Continues

Studio Sessions

Ask a Negro Leaguer Column

Week of March 9, 2006

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

Thought for Food

Kitchen-science expert Harold McGee plays with food at St. Louis Community College-Forest Park

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Screw Ball

HotCity gets intimately acquainted with Adult Entertainment

Beethoven's Second

Camper Van Beethoven is back -- just in time

Emperor's New Prose

Reading Stephen L. Carter

Class War

Marty Rochester wages war against the dumbing-down of public education -- even in the best of schools

Dead On

Come November, you might discover JFK's real (fake) Assassin

Glazed Over

Building a 200-foot-long artwork along the floodwall has its perils

The Midas Touch

Cardinals owner Bill DeWitt Jr. has a knack for making money without risking his own. Meet the guy who wants you to cough up $250 million for a new stadium.

News of the Weird

Publish or Perish

Self-promoting poet and noted Faulkner collector Louis Daniel Brodsky tends to his legacy: shepherding his entire life's work into print

Worry, Don't Be Happy