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St. Louis Police Officer Shot in South City Last Night
A police detective investigating a stolen car was hit with gunfire last night at the corner of Cherokee Street and Jefferson Avenue in south St. Louis. Acting Police Chief Lawrence O'Toole said the...
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Police Car Crashes Into STL-Style House
An out-of-control police SUV crashed into a storefront on Cherokee Street early this morning — but the damage proved only minimal. The officer crashed his vehicle into STL-Style House(3159 Cherokee...
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Missouri Has Largest Racial Gap in the U.S. for Out-of-School Suspensions,...
In 2015, the Civil Rights Project at UCLA found that the use of out-of-school suspension for elementary school children in Missouri is the most racially unbalanced in the nation. Now the American...
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St. Louis County's 'Interfering' with Police Law Is Unconstitutional, Lawyers...
During the Ferguson protests, police repeatedly turned to a convenient, versatile charge they could use to lock up protesters who otherwise didn't seem to be breaking any laws."Interfering with an...
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The Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Week, October 12 to 18
Sure, it may not feel like fall outside — but what's bad for sweater-wearing makes for a great outdoor festival.…
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Westport Social Brings a Huge Adult Game Lounge to Maryland Heights
Westport Social (910 Westport Plaza, Maryland Heights) brings a much-needed new concept to the Maryland Heights area, one that’s a rising trend across the country: a modern adult game lounge without...
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St. Louis Expat Lizzie Weber Returns to Off Broadway This Sunday, Shares New...
People in her hometown of St. Louis know her as Elizabeth Schrank, but fans of heartfelt, carefully crafted folk and pop have increasingly gotten to know the name Lizzie Weber. Weber released her...
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Dog Shot by Retired Police Officer Leads to Questions in Manchester
Six-year-old Ruger was a good boy, his owners say — a friendly dog who never showed any signs of aggression. "If there was any problem, it was that he was too friendly and had too much exuberance,"...
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Pretzel Pretzel, 'Home of the Stuffed Pretzel,' Now Open in Affton
For a combined total of 25 years, Damon Daher and Tony Simmons have been working in the pretzel wholesale business while quietly developing a proprietary technique to make the best pretzel this city...
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Jimmie Edwards Appointed as St. Louis Public Safety Director
Acting St. Louis Police Chief Lawrence O'Toole — and the 3,349 other employees in the city's Department of Public Safety — are about to get a new boss. Mayor Lyda Krewson announced this morning that...
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Union Station Hotel Lobby Is Among Most Beautiful in the U.S., Magazine Says
Perhaps the only thing more romantic than a hotel lobby is a grand old train station — and the St. Louis Union Station Hotel (1820 Market Street) stunningly combines both. With an arched 65-foot...
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The 10 Best Concerts in St. Louis This Weekend: October 13 to 15
Taking a sideways turn from the last few weeks of tribute shows and cover bands, our guide to the weekend ahead offers up wholly original acts with an odd video game group thrown in the mix. And KDHX,...
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Five Protesters Arrested in Ferguson During 'Liberation Party'
Four weeks after protesters first took to the streets to express their anger over the acquittal of former St. Louis officer Jason Stockley, a demonstration in Ferguson led to five arrests. The arrests...
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St. Louis Protesters Go on the March Downtown, 30 Days After Stockley Acquittal
Protesters returned to the streets of downtown St. Louis this afternoon — the 30th day since the acquittal of a white ex-cop accused of murdering a black man."Let's talk about some of the bad,"...
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Flood Plain, New Non-Profit Gallery, Opens on Cherokee Street
Flood Plain (3151 Cherokee Street, floodplaingallery@gmail.com) is a non-profit, non-commercial art gallery that opened last month in the former home of another non-profit, non-commercial art gallery —...
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Feraro's Eyes County Expansion After Ivory Street Closure
Earlier this week, Feraro's Jersey Style Pizza closed its location in the city's Patch neighborhood. But Ben Abel, Feraro's majority owner, says that not only is its south county sister thriving — but...
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'I'm Playing My White Card': Drunk Man Berated Black Woman on St. Louis Flight
During a June 10 Frontier Airlines flight from St. Louis to Denver, an unidentified male passenger subjected a woman sitting next to him to a drunken tirade — even shouting repeatedly that he was...
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Found Love in the RFT Personals? We Want to Hear from You
Back when Ray Hartmann founded the Riverfront Times in 1977, it wasn't yet an alt-weekly in any sense of the word — one of those anti-war, anti-establishment newspapers modeled on the Village Voice....
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Local VFW Bans NFL Games from Its TVs; Others May Follow Suit
With the NFL under fire over players "taking a knee" during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality, the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in St. Charles has banned the NFL...
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Cathy Jenkins of Cathy's Kitchen Wants to Take You Around the World
Twenty-five years ago, Cathy Jenkins, who is now the chef and owner of Cathy's Kitchen(250 S. Florissant Road, Ferguson; 314-524-9200), was hard at work using her hands to create items that brought...
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