Vol. 32, No. 38
An Arrow Runs Through It: Bowfishers take aim at Asian carp
By Keegan Hamilton
Go! The St. Louis Weekend Calendar, September 19-21
By Nick Lucchesi
Baseball Card of the Week: Mike Perez Can Bend Time
By Aaron Schafer
Videotaping Cops Case in Portland Shows Differences From Brett Darrow Case Here
Lori Drew Moving From Waterford Crystal Drive
So What Would Sarah Palin Name Us?
When Did La Russa Become a Sacred Cow?
Crystal City Smelter Lands in Wall Street Journal
Penis Biondi or One More Reason the Internet Can't Be Trusted
An Open Letter to the Cardinals (From a Cubs Fan)
Breaking: Hundreds Fall Victim to Fatal Boredom After Linehan Speech
Fizzled Out: Andrew Gladney, heir to the 7-Up fortune, is off to a federal penitentiary
By Kristen Hinman
Photos: GroveFest on Manchester, 9/20/08
Over the Weekend: GroveFest, Sushi-Eating Contest, Alleycat Race, White Flag Projects, Mark Twain, John Waters, The Eagles, Pointfest
Unreal remains on the prowl for cougars, sees some men about a dog and checks in with an endangered virgin
RFT readers are still in a tizzy over Kevin Slaten's temper and whether MetroLink imports crime
Amazing Facts & Beyond: The word of God
By Kevin Huizenga
¡Ask A Mexican! Special Catholic Edition: Who's headed for Hades?
The Cover of the September 19 Print Edition
Show Review + Setlist: The Eagles at the Scottrade Center, September 20, 2008.
By Annie Zaleski
St. Louis Flyer: The Galaxy Schedule, August ????
Saturday Night in St. Louis: Dark Meat, Detroit Cobras, Ha Ha Tonka -- and An Observation
St. Louis Video: Descendents, "Sour Grapes" at Mississippi Nights
St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar: September 19-21 (Bonus September 22!)
Second Spin: Cock Robin, Cock Robin
Video: The B-52's on The Guiding Light, 1982
Movin' 101 Switching to Sports Talk Radio in 2009
The Ten Best Albums Resulting From the Uncle Tupelo Break-Up
Show Review: Ill Bill, Strata-G, Sean Price at Pop's, Thursday, September 18
Sir Ben Kingsley as Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat
David Byrne Kicked Off Tour This Week -- Here's the Setlist
Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: Earth, Wind & Fire, "Reasons"
Rockwell Knuckles Updates on His New Album, Opens for Royce Da 5'9" on Monday, September 22
Ted Nugent: "“I’m Dirty Harry with a ponytail, and I’m at Paul [McCartney]’s service."
St. Louis Video: Young Fresh Fellows, "Young Fresh Fellows Theme" and "Hang on Sloopy," November 23, 1985
'90s Hip-Hop Jam of the Week: Positive K, "I Got a Man"
St. Louis Video: Midtown Thieves, "Powder Keg" and "
St. Louis Video: Deborah Harry, "French Kissing in the USA"
Video: Vivian Girls, "Tell the World"
Ludo at Pointfest This Saturday, Hot at the Apple iTunes Store
Ted Nugent Sends New Book to Sarah Palin
O, Brother!: Producer and guitarist T-Bone Burnett joins Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at the duo's Fabulous Fox performance
By Roy Kasten
Foreigner's Lou Gramm — touring as a solo artist with his new band — answers our urgent questions, while Old 97's Murry Hammond steps out with a gospel-folk solo record
By Chad Garrison and Roy Kasten
Xavier Rudd
8 p.m. Friday, September 19. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
By Shae Moseley
OFFICE
9:45 p.m. Friday, September 19. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
By Jaime Lees
Detroit Cobras
9 p.m. Saturday, September 20. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
The Eagles
8 p.m. Saturday, September 20. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.
By Gray, Chris
Lagwagon
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, September 23. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.
By Ryan Wasoba
Neko Case/Giant Sand
8 p.m. Wednesday, September 24. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
By Christian Schaeffer
Felice Brothers/AA Bondy
9 p.m. Wednesday, September 24. Billiken Club, in the Busch Student Center on the campus of Saint Louis University, 20 North Grand Boulevard.
French Kicks
11:45 p.m. Saturday, September 20. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
By Flannery Cashill
Royce Da 5'9"
9 p.m. Monday, September 22. The Gramophone, 4243 Manchester Avenue.
The Helium Tapes
The Helium Tapes (self-released)
Tonight! Pattern is Movement, Grampall Jookabox, PWRFL Power at the Billiken Club
Oxford Collapse Talks Spiral Jetty, Regional LPs/Cuisine + Bonus MP3s
Homespun: The Helium Tapes, The Helium Tapes
It's Talk Like a Pirate Day! ARRRR!
Interview: Paul Hahn, Elven Language Scholar + Bonus MP3
MP3 Weekender: KRISTEENYOUNG, Ha Ha Tonka
Tonight! Murry Hammond of Old 97's at Off Broadway
The Buzz: Follow the glow of Firefly Grill all the way to Effingham
By Ian Froeb
The Morning Brew: Thursday, 9.18
Three for Three: 9.19-9.21
Has Red Sea Parted?
Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest
The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse? Ore-Ida
The Morning Brew: Monday, 9.22
Jacques Pepin in St. Louis October 15
Photos: Sushi Eating Contest at Wasabi, 9/21/08
Review Preview: Firefly Grill
The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 9.17
The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 9.16
Bistro Toi Update: Indeed, Asian Fusion
In This Week's Issue: Firefly Grill
On the Fat Map, Missouri Is an Orange State
Coming Soon: Gio's Ristorante & Bar
The Morning Brew: Friday, 9.19
How many strikes before you call a restaurant out?
Your Friends and Neighbors: Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace
By Scott Foundas
Guitar Anti-Hero
Strings attached
Hay, It's Grand
Craft Alliance doubles the fun
By Mark Fischer
Grossly Entertaining
John Waters oeuvre of ordure
By Paul Friswold
Expand Your Mind
It's His America
We're just living in it
By Ellis E. Conklin
Raw Deal
That's how they roll
By Alison Sieloff
Chefing It Up
This one's for all the cloves of garlic
Dance-Enhanced
Your lunch hour was never so fun
Number One With A Bullet
Shooting out the glass ceiling
By Nicole Beckert
Your Orchestra Awaits You
Do you really want to disappoint the brass?
Get Off Your Can!
(And donate some cans)
By Ms. Day
Deal or No Deal?
Get Your Grove On
Party, fiesta
By Amy George
So Cool, It's Hot!
Mid-century modern is back
Cold Hard Fact
As the bears go, so go we
Live, From New York
It's opera tonight
Last Night: Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain at Lindenwood University, 9/20/08
Last Night: "Who Needs Guitars Anyway?" at White Flag Projects, 9/20/08
Hung Up Wet: John Waters Film Feature at Laumeier Sculpture Park a Wash
Invite Only: Stray Dog Theatre gives Paul Rudnick's Regrets Only a hilarious outing
By Dennis Brown
Ember Alert: Orange Girls present a red-hot production of Scorched
St. Louis Stage Capsules
Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene
By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold