While the genre’s been compacted into a cliche over the years (especially immediately following its heyday in the late ’80s and early ’90s), and also justly satirized for it, the fundamentals of the buddy cop film return each summer to theaters. Here are twenty films from the genre that’s been a mainstay in theaters and […]
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St. Louis Rib Fest
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What Is Suadero? (Besides Tasty, That Is)
Photo: Ian Froeb Photo: Ian Froeb While waiting for lunch at La Vallesana a few days ago, I noticed a meat on the taqueria’s menu that I’d never seen before: suadero. I don’t speak Spanish, but sometimes I can figure out unfamiliar words through the other languages I’ve studied or English cognates or just sheer […]
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Kitchen Nightmares: Dillons Revisited
Alas, FOX left us hanging once again this week. If you watched Kitchen Nightmares last night, you saw a repeat of the disaster at Dillons. According to Reuters, it appears Martin “dunderhead” Hyde tried to sue our favorite expletive-spewing chef over that episode: Ramsey [sic] filmed “Kitchen Nightmares” at Dillons in April and Hyde, who […]
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Kitchen Nightmares: Dillons
RFT editorial intern Jeanette Kozlowski is a big fan of bad-boy British chef Gordon Ramsay. Each week she’ll recap the latest episode of Ramsay’s new FOX series Kitchen Nightmares. If you’ve ever been nervous about eating at an empty restaurant, this second installment of Kitchen Nightmares will certainly reinforce the natural instinct to flee when […]
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Peter Hook No Longer with New Order — So Why Does the Band Play On?
So, it appears that bassist Peter Hook has decided to leave New Order. (That, apparently, was news to the rest of the band.) Drummer Stephen Morris and vocalist Bernard Sumner are (ostensibly) carrying on under the New Order name. My question is: Why? Look, I love New Order as much as the next person. I’ve […]
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I Punched Saddam in the Mouth
Meet Samir, the St. Louis auto mechanic who pulled Saddam Hussein from his spider hole
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The Case That Haunts
On a mild winter day in February 1983, two men rummaged through the basement of a vacant apartment building at 5635 Clemens Avenue in northwest St. Louis. Their purpose, they would later tell police, was to find a metal pipe they could use to fix their broken-down jalopy. After searching the main floor, the men […]
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The Case That Haunts
The most notorious cold case in the history of the St. Louis Police Department still haunts homicide detectives
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Dirty Little Secrets
The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department keeps a tight lid on internal affairs. Even if it means breaking the law.
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The Nine Best Blues Clubs 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 RFT Music series, we’re beeboping and scattin’ our way through notable runners up in a number of categories. This week: The best blues clubs in St. Louis. See also: […]