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20 Eclipse Parties or Events Near St. Louis on August 21
What are you doing next Monday, August 21, at 1:18 p.m.? If you answered "work," time to rethink that plan.…
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Whose Streets? Speaks the Truth of What I Saw in Ferguson
I had heard the buzz about Whose Streets? from the critics. The critics didn't get repeatedly gassed, slammed to the ground and arrested in Ferguson.…
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Party Like a Rock Star in Music Record Shop's New Green Room and Event Space
Music Record Shop at .Zackhas expanded to the space next door to provide a luxury suite, used as a spot for touring bands to host their meet-and-greets, as well as a green room. The space is also...
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Missouri High School Removes Students' Yearbook Quotes for Being Too Gay
Two recent Missouri high school graduates were in for a surprise when they opened their yearbooks recently: In place of the funny quotes they'd chosen to go under their names, the school had left only...
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Francis Slay Jr., Son of Former St. Louis Mayor, Arrested for DWI
Francis G. Slay Jr, the son of longtime former St. Louis mayor Francis Slay, was arrested in Clay County — just north of Kansas City — early Friday morning for driving while intoxicated, according to...
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Dave Rawlings Machine to Bring a Taste of Nashville to the Sheldon This Thursday
The Dave Rawlings Machine began as antidote and anodyne to the fame achieved by Rawlings’ partner Gillian Welch, whose austere and mythopoeic folk had become a bar set so high only a bar band could...
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Jurassic 5's Chali 2na and UK DJ Krafty Kuts Join Forces at Atomic Cowboy...
Two heavyweights combine forces at this show for a decidedly must-see affair (especially for hip-hop heads). Chali 2na is best known as one of the founding members of the classic underground hip-hop...
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How Heartbreak and Psychedelic Drugs Brought Shakey Graves to the World
Shakey Graves says there are three types of songs: ones he sits down to write and kind of forces out; some he literally wakes up singing; and others that are like puzzles, where it’s up to him to...
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Used as a Bait Dog and Abandoned in North City, Buster Is Now on the Mend
When volunteers first saw Buster, the pit mix who had been found near death in north St. Louis, it was impossible to tell how old he was. Several of his front teeth were missing, his leg appeared...
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Goodbye to the Loop, a Place Where the Constant Has Been Change
I can’t remember exactly when I started at the Riverfront Times, but it was a long time ago — the web site was a .PDF of the paper that was uploaded on Wednesday morning. I can say that I’ve lived or...
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Marie-Anne Velasco of Nudo House Went from Banking to Ramen
These days, Marie-Anne Velasco is busy with Nudo House(11423 Olive Boulevard, Creve Coeur; 314-274-8046), the much buzzed-about ramen restaurant she just opened with business partner Qui Tran....
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Let's Face It: Men in Tech Lack a Few Things
Last week, Google fired the engineer who distributed a memo claiming that women were genetically ill-suited for careers in key tech roles as engineers and developers. It’s probably the last thing...
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No, a Missouri Man Did Not Visit a Prostitute Who Turned Out to Be His Wife
It's always a bad sign when a headline misspells the name of a city. But typos are the least of the fake-news errors in a wannabe viral story published last week that's probably popped up more than...
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St. Louis Renters Want to Move to Nashville, Study Finds
A whole lot of St. Louis renters would like to leave town, a new study says — and many of them have their eye on Nashville. The study, published today by ApartmentList.com, surveyed 24,000 renters...
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Seoul Taco to Open Chesterfield Location This Fall
If you love Seoul Taco and you live in west county, this is your lucky day: Another outpost of the Korean-Mexican eatery has just been announced for Chesterfield. Owner David Choi announced today in a...
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The Hippopotamus Is Charming Adaptation of the Stephen Fry Novel
Stephen Fry is a national treasure. Okay, he's not our national treasure, but even on this side of the Atlantic, there are plenty of opportunities to observe the English renaissance man as he pursues...
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Three Decades Later, Katrina Leskanich Is Still 'Walking on Sunshine'
Certain songs find second lives long after after their original release. Katrina and the Waves' 1985 single, "Walking on Sunshine," may be the ultimate example of such a song.…
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Tapped Brings Solid Grub — and Liberating Beer Technology — to Maplewood
If you want to know why a place like Tapped needs to exist, consider the scene that played out during one of my recent visits. A gaggle of beer bros had gathered in front of the restaurant's...
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For Fairmount Park Jockeys, the Stakes Are Higher Than Ever
Mike James never knew his father. C.H. "Rusty" James, a thoroughbred horse jockey, died in 1962 after an accident during a race in Decatur, Illinois.…
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Newly Announced: Corey Feldman, Mayhem, The Urge, Thou, SahBabii and More
Here, again, is every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention.…
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