For Jeffrey Boyd, Experience Honed in a Tough Ward
On the morning of Saturday, January 7, people pack into the Best Place Event Center on Martin Luther King Drive to grab flyers and other promotional materials and listen to a training seminar on how...
View ArticleAntonio French Seeks to Translate a National Profile to St. Louis Electoral...
Alderman Antonio French already has one task on the agenda for his first day as the mayor of St. Louis: Fire the city's police chief, Sam Dotson. "Chief Dotson has to go," says French.…
View ArticleLyda Krewson Is a Centrist — and the Best-Funded Candidate in the Race
St. Louis — a city whose natives proudly divide themselves neighborhood by neighborhood, even high school by high school — is universally sick of crime. "When I'm out knocking on doors, and you get to...
View ArticleFor Lewis Reed, Hard Questions About Abortion — and No Comment
One month ago, State Senator Jamilah Nasheed levied a startling accusation against Lewis Reed, the president of the city's Board of Aldermen and, at the time, a fellow candidate in this spring's...
View ArticleTishaura Jones, Beloved by Progressives, Hopes to Transcend the City's Racial...
Tishaura Jones' mayoral campaign headquarters is based on Delmar Avenue, just east of the heart of the Central West End — and no, she says, it's not silly to ask if the address was chosen with...
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How to Live in St. Louis Like a Tourist and Love St. Louis Like a Native The RFT's Inaugural City Guide will be a fun, frisky mix of insight into how to maximize your time in St. Louis – whether...
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Married to a Rock Star, Stephanie Howlett Did the Unthinkable
Last month, attorney Stephanie Howlett did something that few (if any?) members of the St. Louis legal community have done before: She married a rock star. But it's what she did this month that had...
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St. Louis Police Dispatcher Whose Error Led to Double Murder Didn't Know...
In July 2014, Tony Jordan Jr. was murdered in the courtyard of his own apartment complex in the city's West End neighborhood. The man who shot him had broken into a friend's apartment within the...
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You Don’t Actually Like the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Friends, you are being fooled by your own brains. You don’t actually like the music of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.…
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Bomb Threat Forces Evacuation of St. Louis Jewish Community Center
A threatening phone call claiming a bomb had been set within the Creve Coeur campus of the St. Louis Jewish Community Center, or JCC, triggered an evacuation of the facility this morning. The JCC...
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Newly Announced: Santana, Mac Sabbath, Webbie, Minus the Bear, Def Leppard...
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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This is How Much it Costs to Smoke in Missouri Over a Lifetime
People are often bombarded with messages about why smoking is harmful, to your budget as well as your health. Yesterday, financial website WalletHub dug deep to find out just how much the habit costs...
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Missouri Man Gets 3-Year Prison Sentence for Pointing Laser at Police Chopper
A 24-year-old in Kansas City has been sentenced to three years in a federal prison — simply for pointing a laser at a police helicopter. Jordan Rogers was on his porch one day in 2013 when he heard a...
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LéPonds Raises the Temperature with New Seven-Song Album Heat
On the first truly cold weekend in December, Lisa Houdei cultivated her own warmth on the eastern edge of Cherokee's antique district.…
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Mike Huckabee Robocall Could Yield Huge Payoff for St. Louis Attorneys
In September 2012, as many as four million landlines across the U.S. got a call from Mike Huckabee — well, at least the voice of Mike Huckabee. The call purported to be a survey asking whether those...
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Girl Scouts March In Trump Parade Has Some St. Louis Parents Concerned
When Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States this Friday, approximately 8,000 people will celebrate his new position by marching down Pennsylvania Avenue. But should the...
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5 Better Things to Listen to While Watching the Inauguration on Mute
So. Who's looking forward to the Cheeto piss wizard's inaugural address?…
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Blues City Deli Named One of the Best Eateries in America
You may already be complaining about 2017, but the new year has managed to get something right: Blues City Deli(2438 McNair, 314-773-8225) just made the list of Yelp's 100 Best Places to Eat in...
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Backers of MLS Stadium in St. Louis Claim 'Path Forward' to Public Funding
It was little more than a week ago when reporters were all but writing obituaries for a proposal to build a $200 million pro-soccer stadium in downtown St. Louis. The state funding backers had counted...
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Chesterfield Mall Boots Dog Adoption Center Set to Open This Weekend
Sixty-five shelter dogs were slated to travel from rural Missouri to Chesterfield Mall this weekend, hoping to find their forever home at a new adoption center. But now Chesterfield Mall has kicked...
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