Critic's Pick: Pujol to Perform at Off Broadway This Wednesday, November 16
You could quite literally choke a horse with the number of white-hot Nashville bands working on the fringes of the city’s country heritage, and a fair number have used Music City as a launching pad...
View ArticleParlor, a 'Social Club' Offering Billiards and Arcade Games, Coming to the Grove
A brand new bar with pool, arcade games, pinball and a DJ booth is coming to the Grove.Parlor (4170 Manchester Avenue) plans to open in the 2,500-square-foot space that previously held Honey, at...
View ArticleHomeownership Among Millennials Drops in St. Louis Area
Poor millennials. It's been a hard decade for Americans eighteen to 34. Wages have been largely stagnant — and with credit hard to come by and housing costs skyrocketing in many cities, it hasn't been...
View ArticleGolden Road Brewing Is Bringing LA-Style Craft Beer to St. Louis
Meg Gill, founder of Golden Road Brewing, knew right away that St. Louis was the perfect place for her beer. "The more we learned about the St. Louis market, the more we realized that there was a real...
View ArticleSt. Louis Symphony Celebrates Increases in Revenue, Attendance in 2016
The 2015/2016 season is ending as one of the strongest in recent St. Louis Symphony history. That's according to a press release sent out yesterday by the SLSO, which says that the Symphony saw...
View ArticleWired Names American Wrestlers' Latest One of Six "Must-Listen" Albums of...
St. Louis act American Wrestlers is on the rise. For those who haven't been paying attention, the band, led by Scottish-born, St. Louis-settled songwriter Gary McClure, saw itself signed to the...
View ArticleSt. Louis ArtWorks Will Get a Huge National Award Today from Michelle Obama
St. Louis ArtWorks, a local arts program that provides life and job skills for underserved youth, is receiving the 2016 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award today — from none other than...
View ArticleA Skating Rink Is Coming to the Arch This Winter
This winter, you won't have to go to Forest Park if you want to skate outdoors. For the first time ever, a 46 foot by 92 foot ice skating rink will be set up in the shadow of the Gateway Arch — with...
View ArticleDazzling Killmen's Face of Collapse LP Gets a Deluxe Re-Release
Tim Garrigan joined Dazzling Killmen, the now-defunct St. Louis powerhouse credited as a pioneer of math-rock, in the early '90s, after the band had already been established as a power trio, with one...
View ArticleThe Handmaiden Surprises with Unexpected Depth
Set in Japanese-occupied Korea during the 1930s, The Handmaiden takes place mostly in a large country estate where the slightly unstable young Lady Hideko lives with her Uncle Kouzuki, who secretly...
View ArticleReview: Absolute BBQ Indian Wish Grill Is a Rare Delight
Venkatesh Sattaru doesn't understand how other Indian restaurants do it. Sub-continental cuisine, after all, requires time, involves complex spice blending and has so many sub-genres it's hard to keep...
View ArticleThe RFT's 2016 Guide to Shopping Local in St. Louis
We gave five shoppers $100 each. Here's what they found in Soulard, the CWE, Downtown, South Grand and Cherokee You may be looking for the kind of hand-made or purposefully repurposed goods that you...
View ArticleSex Offender Charged in High-End Wine Scheme
A St. Louis sex offender who remade himself as a high-end wine consultant is facing criminal charges of selling liquor without a license. Marc Lazar, 39, was arrested last week by city cops, who claim...
View ArticleRock & Brews Brings That KISS Magic to Chesterfield
Rock & Brews(17258 Chesterfield Airport Road, Chesterfield; 636-536-2739), the music-themed restaurant that opened last week in the Chesterfield Valley, wants to KISS away St. Louis' hunger. That's...
View ArticleLadue High Students Walk Out to Protest Racially Charged Incidents
More than 100 students walked out of Ladue Horton Watkins High Wednesday afternoon, protesting several recent racially charged incidents at the school. Last week, school district spokeswoman Susan...
View ArticleWebster University Administrator Allegedly Stole $380K, Feds Say
Deborah Pierce, who ran the Confucius Institute at Webster University, has been indicted. The 61-year-old St. Louis woman allegedly embezzled $380,000 by writing checks from the Institute to cash and...
View ArticleAquitaine Expands its Sound with Help from New Bandmates on Transformation
For Aquitaine, a rock & roll quartet built around its members' shared love of Brit-pop, shoegaze and fizzy, fuzzy power-pop, its initial releases were a few quick-hit EPs that sought to capture...
View ArticleWhite Flag Projects Is Selling Everything This Saturday
If you're looking for exhibition posters, display items like pedestals, or just some Eames chairs, White Flag Projects is having a hell of a sale on Saturday. The gallery, which was a pioneer in the...
View ArticleThe Picky Eater's Guide to Louie's Wine Dive
Picky eaters still like to drink wine, so we recently checked out the growing Iowa-based chain Louie’s Wine Dive (16 South Bemiston Avenue, 314-875-9373), which opened its first St. Louis location in...
View ArticleCrime Watch Daily to Focus on Bob Cassilly's Death in Episode Airing Monday
Set your DVRs: A new episode of Crime Watch Daily, the Fox television show, will focus on the death of City Museum founder Bob Cassilly. The episode is set to premiere this Monday, November 21, at 2...
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