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The housing market is out of control right now. There's a historic shortage of housing stock, and things are particularly bad in the St. Louis region.…

Ten thousand handmade roses now hang on the outside of Aronson Fine Arts Center at Laumeier Sculpture Park (12580 Rott Road) in tribute to Missourians who have lost their lives to COVID-19. Each rose represents one life lost.…

UPDATES: A statement from the mayor's office is below, and Cori Bush has reiterated her stance against qualified immunity. In a rare break with Tishaura Jones' administration, civil rights activists and  politicians sharply criticized City Counselor Sheena Hamilton today in front of City Hall.…

When Monica Lee moved home to St. Louis from Beijing in 2020, she was shocked by what she didn't find. Nowhere in her hometown carried bingsu, the dessert that she'd come to love during the several years she lived in Asia; it was so ubiquitous everywhere she traveled in the region — China, South Korea, Southeast Asia — that she took for granted the delectable treat was just as popular back home.…

The RFT is thrilled to announce our new staff writer, Monica Obradovic! A Webster University journalism graduate and former RFT intern, Monica comes from the Southeast Missourian in Cape Girardeau, where she covers city government and education.…

It comes as no surprise that the progressive city of St. Louis is knee-deep in one of the most important criminal justice reform issues in America. Too bad it's on the wrong side.…

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Kris Kleindienst and her team at Left Bank Books (399 North Euclid Avenue, 314-367-6731) knew they were going to have to do something about ongoing book bans in school districts around the state after the Wentzville School District banned Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.…

Mark Goldstein started working at Henke's Tavern (901 North Lafayette Street, 314-710-7075) in Florissant when he was in high school in the mid-1980s, and already the stories of kids from the nearby Sacred Heart school skipping out at lunch to pop over to the bar were legendary. But there was one particularly epic event that stood out in his mind when he heard the tale.…

Just days after St. Louis County dropped its mask mandate, St. Louis City is following suit. St. Louis City’s current mask mandate expires on March 5 at 11:59 p.m. and the Health Department will not ask the Board of Alderman to renew the order.…

Local fans of incredibly overpowered, sewer-lid-sized THC edibles have much to celebrate, as the world's largest cannabis-infused gummy was recently born right here in Missouri.…

One Saturday in February, a couple walked into CC's Vegan Spot — but they were no regular customers.…

They say everything's bigger in Texas, which is accurate when it comes to the body count in Netflix's recently released Texas Chainsaw Massacre.…

While we typically like to deliver the bad news after celebrating the good, there is no way around it this month: February delivered a couple of real heartbreakers. West End Grill & Pub, the longtime eclectic restaurant on the eastern edge of the Central West End, served its last guests on Super Bowl Sunday.…

Missourians from across the state took to highway overpasses this week to show their support for a rolling temper tantrum of hundreds of flag-covered vehicles, whose main objective appeared to be to piss off as many people as possible by creating huge traffic jams in protest of COVID restrictions, which largely no longer exist.…

Twenty years ago, Greg Sestero was a model who had been trying to break into Hollywood when he agreed to help an eccentric entrepreneur he met in an acting class named Tommy Wiseau make an indie feature film.…

Sixty miles south of St. Louis, the low-lying Eastern Diagnostic and Reception Correctional Center sits off bucolic Highway K. Parallel fences of razor wire ring the facilities.…

Easton Romer had been hearing the rumors for years: Jeffrey Plaza, the beloved strip mall filled with several immigrant-owned businesses on University City's northwestern edge, was going to be demolished to make room for a Costco. Romer was always skeptical that the deal would actually go through, so he carried on at his Jamaican mainstay, De Palm Tree, figuring the news was nothing more than idle chatter.…

In July 2018, President Donald Trump faced widespread condemnation for having sided with Russia over U.S. intelligence agencies at his infamous Helsinki summit with dictator Vladimir Putin.…

As a child, Kurt Bellon remembers hearing the Japanese folklore of Momotaro, which translates to “peach boy.” The story highlights the adventures of a boy who is born from a peach. “[The story is] about making friends with different people by sharing the food and the gifts that you have.…