Kevin Bowers 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 ArticleBlack Fast 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 ArticleOld Crow Medicine Show Will Perform Dylan's Blonde on Blonde In Its Entirety...
Old Crow Medicine Show owes Bob Dylan a solid, so it makes perfect sense that the band would build a tour around tackling the entirety of Blonde on Blonde in honor of its 50th anniversary. Without...
View ArticleSigma Beta Delta Assistant Charged with Stealing Over $30,000 at UMSL
An office assistant for an honor society at the University of Missouri-St. Louis stole more than $30,000 from the organization, authorities say. Amber Bauer, 39, of Florissant was working in the...
View ArticleCardinals Invite Anti-LGBT Speaker Lance Berkman to 'Christian Day'
The St. Louis Cardinals, who typically have a full roster of theme ticket days scheduled throughout the season, will host their 27th annual "Christian Day" at the stadium on Sunday, July 30. Among the...
View ArticleClass-Action Suit Targets Missouri's Use of Psychotropic Drugs on Kids in...
Missouri kids in foster care are far too likely to be doped up with too many prescription drugs, at too young an age and with too little information given to foster parents. Those are the explosive...
View ArticleRichard Donaldson, 17, Charged as Adult in Tower Grove South Murder
A seventeen-year-old has been charged as an adult in the shocking murder of a grandfather, who was killed in an attempted carjacking in February in the Tower Grove South neighborhood. Richard...
View ArticleMissouri Legislator Decapitates Live Chicken on Facebook Because Abortion
Lest anyone needed more proof that state Representative Mike Moon (R-Ash Grove) has completely lost his marbles, the Tea Party Republican provided ample proof yesterday on Facebook. Perhaps most...
View ArticleBlight Future 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 ArticleThe Gaslight Squares 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 ArticleMichael "Kup" Kupstas Is the New Leader of the Pack at Lion's Choice
Long before being recruited to lead the pack as CEO at Lion's Choice, before helping to oversee Panera's exponential growth and before his studies at the Wharton School and MIT became a reality,...
View ArticleTaxi Commission Has Been Billing Carriage Companies, Even After Halting...
Last week, the RFT revealed that the area's Metropolitan Taxicab Commission, or MTC, quietly pulled back from regulating horse carriage companies in the city and county more than six months ago —...
View ArticleBrian Owens Releases New Soul-Soaked Cover of Johnny Cash Classic
Local soul singer Brian Owens is scheduled to release his album Soul of Cash later this summer, an offering which will contain covers of famous Johnny Cash songs including "Folsom Prison Blues,""Walk...
View ArticleBug Chaser 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 ArticleCardinals Will Host Pride Night in 2017, Team Says
The Cardinals are ready for Pride Night — and it's happening in 2017. Last night, after controversy erupted over the team scheduling former player and anti-LGBT speaker Lance Berkman to speak at...
View ArticleJuan Thompson Pleads Guilty Over Campaign of Terror Against Ex-Girlfriend
Juan Thompson, a disgraced former reporter from St. Louis, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to cyberstalking and making hoax bomb threats — charges that carry a maximum of ten years in...
View ArticleBand Aid Is a Self-Absorbed Mess About Self-Absorbed Messes
It sounds like an uninspired sitcom version of a thirty-something couple: A man and a woman arguing about dirty dishes talk around the subject. They pretend to be righteously outraged by each other's...
View ArticleTitle and Deed Is a Smart New One-Man Show About Loss
Will Eno's one-man show Title and Deed is part monologue, part mystery. It's rife with clever wordplay, which is delivered by a lone philosopher preoccupied with his own wanderlust.…
View ArticleReview: Like Home Is a Delicious Taste of France in St. Louis
By the time she was fourteen, Clemence Pereur knew she wanted to cook. The owner of Midtown's three-month-old café Like Home enrolled in a culinary program right out of high school in her native...
View ArticleIntroducing the STL-77: The 77 Acts That Make St. Louis Sing
This weekend, the RFT's ShowcaseSTL kicks off in the Grove — the biggest all-local music festival in St. Louis history. For the first time this year, we'll be rocking out for two days, with three...
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