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Chuck Berry, Father of Rock & Roll, Dead at 90
Charles Edward Anderson Berry Sr., better known to the world as Chuck Berry, legendary guitarist and father of rock & roll, has passed away at the age of 90. St. Charles County police say they...
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Pokey LaFarge: Yes, We Should Mourn Chuck Berry
I was driving I-55 south from Chicago, the home of Chess Records, listening to Esther Phillips’"Oh, Papa." I swear when my co-pilot told me the news that Chuck Berry had passed, the skyline of St....
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Brand-New 'Rivergator Paddler's Guide' Provides a Map to the Lower Mississippi
From the city of St. Louis to the bayous of Baton Rouge, the Lower Mississippi River Water Trail spans hundreds of miles of water and thousands of picturesque sights. John Ruskey has been studying...
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How Chip Schloss Opened Atomic Cowboy — and Made the Grove a Destination
If everything had worked out according to plan, Chip Schloss would never have opened Atomic Cowboy(4140 Manchester Avenue, 314-775-0775). "When I bought this building in the Grove twelve years ago, I...
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Mount Pleasant Man Gets New Smile After Dognapping Attack
For anyone who grew up hating the dentist, the way Mark Swain spent March 1 sounds like something out of a horror movie: He was in a dentist's chair for nearly eight hours, without full sedation."I...
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Living Body Brings Its Noisy Indie-Rock to Foam Tonight
Chicago native Jeff T. Smith decamped to Leeds, England, a few years back and quickly found ways to incorporate his skills as a musical polymath with a sense of experimentation and collaboration. A...
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Missouri Bill Would Allow You to Resell Concert Tickets Without All the BS
Answering the prayers of concertgoers everywhere — especially those traumatized by Ticketmaster's paperless tickets — a bill now pending in the Missouri House would seek to ban non-transferable...
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SXSW 2017 Highlights From the Final Two Days: Chuck Berry Tributes and More
News of the passing of Charles Edward Anderson Berry broke across Austin less than hour before Ron Gallo took the stage outside Waterloo Records for his thirteenth or fourteenth show of the SXSW week,...
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Kinloch Mayor Darren Small, Wife Accused of Stealing Fire District Money
The mayor of Kinloch and his wife are facing federal charges alleging they stole money from the volunteer fire department in the north county municipality — and used the money on booze, cigarettes,...
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Busch Stadium MetroLink Shooting Victim Expected to Die; Person of Interest...
An innocent bystander shot during a vicious MetroLink robbery is expected to die, authorities say. The 57-year-old was hit by an errant bullet shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday, moments after he exited...
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Snax Gastrobar Brings a New Neighborhood Restaurant to Lindenwood Park
Snax Gastrobar(3500 Watson Road, 314-353-9463) is exactly the kind of restaurant you want in your neighborhood. It works as a place to have a burger, sandwich or salad for dinner on a worknight.…
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Bank of America Liquidated 97-Year-Old's Assets, Suit Alleges
Decades ago, a Hungarian immigrant living in south St. Louis named Karlo Tanko opened savings accounts at a branch of Boatmen's Bank that would grow to $60,564. And in 1996, when Bank of American...
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Kurt Wagner Brings His Lambchop Collective to Off Broadway This Wednesday
Since forming in the late ‘80s, Nashville collective Lambchop, the principal vehicle for songwriter Kurt Wagner, has been many things to many audiences. Americana heads dug the musicianship, folkies...
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Fortel's Pizza Den in U. City Slapped With Suit Over Unpaid Taxes
The University City location of a popular St. Louis-area pizza chain owes the state of Missouri nearly $150,000 in tax revenue — with delinquencies on sales tax remittances and employee withholding...
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Cardinals Nation Now Has Its Very Own Food Truck
If you ever find yourself craving a ballpark hot dog or "Cardinals Nation Nachos," you no longer have to buy a ticket or even wait until game day to get your favorite baseball fare. That's because the...
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MetroLink Shooting Victim Mac Payne Dies
A man shot Sunday night on a MetroLink train platform has died, authorities say. Mac Payne, 57, was struck in the head by an errant bullet just moments after he exited the train at the South 8th...
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Struck From the Ballot, Kacey Cordes Asks Judge to Strike Lyda Krewson and...
Hell hath no fury like a political candidate scorned. After a receiving a smackdown from a circuit court judge last week, persistent mayoral-hopeful Kacey Cordes has made it her mission to shame the...
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Never the Sinner, Now at the New Jewish Theatre, Revisits Leopold and Loeb
John Logan's drama Never the Sinner is inspired by the true story of young and handsome thrill-killers Leopold and Loeb, but it is not a blow-by-blow factual account. Instead, Logan goes looking for...
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The Solar Flare Pedal, Invented in Webster Groves, Has Won Big-Name Fans
Not quite a year back, the RFT profiled Brad and Auset Sarno, a Webster Groves couple with a variety of musical businesses growing inside of their tidy, two-story home. Down in the basement is where a...
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