a Better Bubble™

RFT 📰

Nashville Police Officer Arrested for Appearing in Adult Video

4 months 3 weeks ago
A Nashville police officer, Sean Herman, 33, has been arrested and charged with two counts of felony official misconduct after allegedly appearing in an adult video on OnlyFans while on duty. Herman was fired one day after detectives became aware of the video last month.
Ryan J Smith

Cate Zone Chinese Cuisine Excels in Its Second Location

5 months 2 weeks ago
Cate Zone Chinese Cuisine (24 Four Seasons Shopping Center, Chesterfield; 314-392-9624) has been prudent. The restaurant specializing in northeast Chinese cuisine has opened a second location in Chesterfield where the Asian population is the second largest ethnic group, accounting for 13.1 percent of residents in the 2010 Census. It joins a strip where the breadth of international cuisine makes you feel quite pleased to be in this “melting pot.” Seoul Taco is here, so is Chimi’s Fresh Mex. Talayna’s Pizza and Pasta occupies a spot, and so does Saint Louis Bread Co. 
Alexa Beattie

Surtsey Has Become One of St. Louis' Best Bands, With a Sound All Its Own

5 months 2 weeks ago
Joe Bassa, lead singer of the alt-country band Surtsey, named the group after an island off the coast of Iceland, where Bassa was born. Surtsey — the place — is an uninhabited volcanic island with a unique ecosystem due to a lack of human impact. Surtsey — the band — exists within its own unique musical ecosystem, but it’s one created by vital human interaction.
Steve Leftridge

Red Tape May Be Choking Your Favorite St. Louis Food Truck

5 months 2 weeks ago
A committee meeting Monday at the St. Louis Board of Aldermen elicited head scratches, face palms and disbelief from officials as food truck operators detailed the amount of bureaucracy and red tape they have to navigate to stay in business. To operate in the City of St. Louis, food truck owners have to go through an arduous, 10-step process that can take months. And, they have to do this every year, operators told aldermen. 
Kallie Cox

Jane Smiley's New Novel, Lucky, Draws on Her Charmed St. Louis Childhood

5 months 2 weeks ago
Like any good St. Louisan, Jane Smiley has an opinion on the high school question. "If you ask somebody in St. Louis, 'Where did you go to high school' — because each school is so unique, you do get a sense of what their life was like and where they live," says the John Burroughs graduate. "Where are you from?
Jessica Rogen

Caught on Video, Sheriff Says He’s Ready to ‘Turn It All Over’ to Deputy

5 months 2 weeks ago
Video of St. Louis Sheriff Vernon Betts taken by a former deputy suggests that the sheriff has a successor in mind to hand the reins of the department over to, even as Betts is in an increasingly heated campaign for reelection.  "I ain't here for all this rigmarole," Betts says in the video while seated behind his desk at the Carnahan Courthouse. "The Lord sent me here to turn this department around and I'm doing the best I can and I think I've done a good job.
Ryan Krull

Fenton Man Charged in Sword Attack on Roommate

5 months 2 weeks ago
A warrant is out for a Fenton man's arrest after he allegedly attacked his roommate with a sword.  Police say that on Sunday, Angelus Scott spoke openly about "slicing his roommate's head" before he grabbed a sword, raised it up and then swung it down at the roommate.  The roommate grabbed Scott's hand in time to prevent injury.
Ryan Krull

St. Louis' New Museum of Illusions Is Ready to Book Your Visit

5 months 2 weeks ago
These days, once you're done filling up at City Foundry's food hall, you can buy a new shirt, putt-putt a glow-in-the-dark golf ball, or see a classic movie. You can catch a band at City Winery or have a drink underground at None of the Above. But it's not until this weekend that a visit to the repurposed industrial site can include admission to the Museum of Illusion, part of a fast-growing chain of private museums that might seem more at home in Las Vegas than St. Louis.
Sarah Fenske

St. Louis to Develop First Citywide Transportation Plan in Decades

5 months 2 weeks ago
The City of St. Louis is working to develop its first citywide mobility plan in decades, Mayor Tishaura Jones’ office announced Tuesday. This plan seeks to make it easier for everyone — drivers, pedestrians, bikers and public transit users — to safely commute within the city. The plan will bring together other city projects like the Brickline Greenway, Future64, the MetroLink Green Line, and more, “while establishing new priorities for a safer, more efficient and better-maintained transportation network across the City,” according to the release. 
Kallie Cox

JeffCo Man’s Monthslong Crime Spree Leads to 252 Charges in St. Louis

5 months 2 weeks ago
A Jefferson County man was already facing 15 charges in the City of St. Louis for stealing, property damage and possessing a stolen vehicle when, on Friday, he was charged with a staggering 252 additional crimes.  Prosecutors say that 36-year-old Gage Luttman’s reign of burglaries and property damage began in August of last year when he was captured on surveillance video stealing a Hyundai, which he then used to commit further crimes, such as stealing items like bikes, chainsaws, and tools from south city garages.  The Hillsboro resident then started hitting storage units.
Ryan Krull

Parson Orders State Not to Pay Legal Expenses for Senators Sued for Defamation

5 months 2 weeks ago
Missouri taxpayers will not cover the costs of damages that may result from defamation lawsuits filed against three state senators who incorrectly identified a Kansas man as the shooter at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade, Gov. Mike Parson said Monday. In a letter to the commissioner of the Office of Administration, the state agency that certifies payments from Missouri’s legal expense fund, Parson wrote that no payments related to the lawsuits should be certified “without my approval or a court order.” “I cannot justify money spent in this way,” Parson wrote.
Jason Hancock

Now Imo’s Is Giving Away Posters Designed by Dan Zettwoch

5 months 2 weeks ago
To celebrate 60 years of serving up one of the most St. Louis-style pizzas in St. Louis, Imo’s is again collaborating with a favorite RFT illustrator — this time, to produce a unique commemorative poster. Illustrator and cartoonist Dan Zettwoch, who famously designed the chain’s anniversary pizza box, has brought his signature style to the poster, which depicts the very first Imo’s, located at Thurman and Shaw avenues. “The poster pays homage to the humble beginnings of Imo’s Pizza the year 1964, when Ed and Marge Imo opened their first parlor,” according to an Imo’s news release.
Kallie Cox

By Spending Big to Lower MetroLink Access, BiState Shows Its Priorities

5 months 2 weeks ago
Did you know that this year BiState Development, the agency responsible for Metro Transit in St. Louis, will cover the annual fare for more than 50,000 riders with the help of corporate donors? No? Well, that’s because they won’t. Instead, BiState will spend $52 million on faregates blocking MetroLink access and new surveillance technologies at stations — what would be enough money to provide nearly 56,000 riders with free monthly metro passes for the entirety of a year.
Malik Lendell

America's Crummy Ex-Boyfriend Justin Timberlake Is Coming to St. Louis

5 months 3 weeks ago
Justin Timberlake is trying to bring his sexy back and to St. Louis. The somewhat-tarnished-by-his-ex's-allegations-of-cheating-and-mind-fucking pop star announced the final nine stops on his current tour today, and we're on the list. At 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 19, Timberlake will step on stage at Enterprise Center (1401 Clark Avenue) for an evening of song, dance and a light show not to be missed.
Jessica Rogen

St. Louis Lifts Hiring Freeze as Earnings Tax Survives Legislative Session

5 months 3 weeks ago
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones lifted the city’s short-lived hiring freeze on Monday following the end of Missouri’s legislative session on Friday. Jones cited the legislature’s failure to pass any laws that would damage the city’s ability to collect an earnings tax as her reasoning for ending the freeze. The hiring freeze took effect March 29 as a result of budgetary concerns and a sharp divide between the Mayor’s Office and the Board of Aldermen. 
Kallie Cox

9 Mile Garden Is Getting a Permanent Drive-Thru Coffee Truck

5 months 3 weeks ago
9 Mile Garden (9375 Gravois Road, Affton) is getting a new addition that's a bit unusual for a food truck destination: a permanent fixture. Today, the food truck garden announced it would be opening 9 Mile Garden Cafe, a drive-thru and walk-up coffee truck that will be parked on the grounds in perpetuity. The cafe, which will open at the end of this month, will offer a standard coffee menu, as well as specialty drinks such as a Whipped Mazagran, Carmel Cafe Da Olla and more.
Jessica Rogen