Clik here to view.
Up-Down Arcade Bar Faces Showdown Over Liquor License at City Hall Wednesday
It's been almost four months since Up-Down Arcade Bar signed a lease to move into the former home of Herbie's Vintage 72 in the Central West End — but there hasn't been can of paint opened or a nail...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ghost Ice Is One of This Year's STL 77
This year the RFT recognizes St. Louis'stellar music scene by presenting the STL 77, our list of 77 acts who did big things in the last twelve months. From now through June 17, the date of our huge...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stacy Johnson, Singer with Ike Turner and Benny Sharp and the Sharpees, Has Died
Stacy Johnson, St. Louis soul and blues singer and songwriter, died May 11 after a long struggle with cancer. He was 72.…
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cursed Bikes & Coffee Opens This Week in University City, Combining Just That
For years, Jeff Gerhardt has built custom bicycles for customers who want their frames just so — taking the knowledge he gained in his half-dozen years at Big Shark Bicycles to make a name for himself...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bates Is One of This Year's STL 77
This year the RFT recognizes St. Louis'stellar music scene by presenting the STL 77, our list of 77 acts who did big things in the last twelve months. From now through June 17, the date of our huge...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kingshighway Workers Pave Around Single Parked Car, Because St. Louis
On Saturday, to the joy of St. Louis commuters, the Kingshighway bridge rumbled with the sounds of regular street traffic for the first time in 22 months. As we noted last week, the bridge's reopening...
View ArticleClik here to view.
At Teatopia, Reginald Quarles Is Looking for a Way to Make People Feel Better
Reginald Quarles, the owner of Teatopia(2619 1/2 Cherokee Street, 314-669-1464), has always loved tea — though it's only recently that he found out what it actually tastes like."I have always been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Joan of Dark Is One of This Year's STL 77
This year the RFT recognizes St. Louis'stellar music scene by presenting the STL 77, our list of 77 acts who did big things in the last twelve months. From now through June 17, the date of our huge...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Trauma Harness Is One of This Year's STL 77
This year the RFT recognizes St. Louis'stellar music scene by presenting the STL 77, our list of 77 acts who did big things in the last twelve months. From now through June 17, the date of our huge...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Missouri DUI Checkpoint Funding Gets Slashed to $1
Sobriety checkpoints are going the way of the floating McDonald's in St. Louis. A bill approved by the Missouri legislature earlier this month strips funding for such checkpoints from $20 million...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tapped Brings 48 Taps — and Self-Pour Technology — to Maplewood
Ryan and Lindsay Reel had been talking for years about opening a restaurant when Lindsay stumbled on the perfect concept in New Orleans: A self-pour wine bar. Ryan Reel was intrigued, but offered one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Edward Crawford, Protester Made Famous in Ferguson Photo, Gets Hero's Send-Off
The first time Robert Cohen saw Edward "Skeeda" Crawford, it was through the viewfinder of a camera. It was just after midnight on August 13, 2014, four days after the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.…
View ArticleClik here to view.
Attorney General Asks Judge to Revoke Sheriff Cory Hutcheson's Bond
A rural Missouri sheriff who had to turn in his gun after an inmate's death is a "danger to the community" and should be in jail, Missouri Attorney Josh Hawley says. Today, Hawley asked a judge to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In St. Louis Blues, Abigail DeVille Explores the City Through Its Trash
Everyone has a relationship with trash," says 35-year-old New York artist Abigail DeVille, whose sculpture St. Louis Blues currently occupies an entire room of its own at CAM as part of its Urban...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Upstream Theater's A Human Being Died That Night Is All Too Relevant
You don't expect a play written by a South African, adapted from a South African book about South Africa in the immediate post-Apartheid era, to feel downright American. And yet there are moments in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brother Ali Is Coming to the Firebird to Support His Stellar New Album
Quiet moments aren't easy to come by when you're a rapper on tour. That's a bothersome reality for Brother Ali, legally blind since birth and particularly attuned to noise and the absence of it.…
View ArticleClik here to view.
Boxing Biopic Chuck Charmingly Tells the Story of a Real-Life Rocky
If you were a boxing fan in the 1970s, the sport turned into a kind of ritual, especially after Muhammad Ali's definitive 1974 triumph over George Foreman in Zaire. Every few months, you'd turn on the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant Revisits the Now-Familiar Franchise
Filmgoers today would probably find it hard to believe the complete innocence with which the earliest audiences encountered Ridley Scott's Alien 38 years ago. The initial ads were so discreet that all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Mac's Local Eats Is Serving Terrific Food at the Tamm Avenue Grill
Chris "Mac" McKenzie won't let me in on his secret. I was waiting in line to place my order at his Dogtown cafe, Mac's Local Eats, when I heard a guy ahead of me say something about a "Lumberjack."…
View ArticleClik here to view.
Pokey LaFarge: 'The Best Music Is Yet to Come'
Talking to Pokey LaFarge is an interesting experience, with little moments that both confirm and confound expectations. That he makes a pot of coffee by heating water in an old metal pot on a stovetop...
View Article