AltWeeklies Wire
108 Degrees? Time to Melt Some Vinyl!new
How to take care of your vinyl records (with or without the heat).
Riverfront Times |
Cassie Kohler |
07-02-2012 |
Advice
Will Monsanto's Sweet 'EverMild' Tearless Onion Whet a Discriminating Palate?new
St. Louis-based Monsanto has a plan to make sweet-onion farmers weep. The seed company last week unveiled a tearless onion that it's dubbed the "EverMild," modeled after the famous Vidalia sweet onion from Georgia.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
02-19-2010 |
Food+Drink
Poetry in a Cold Climate: Ron Smith Found His Muse in Antarcticanew
Tall and thin with close-cropped hair, Ron Smith served with the Air Force's Operation Deep Freeze, rising to commander in 2004. In December 2008, he was transferred to Scott Air Force Base, where he now serves as the Air National Guard adviser for strategic planning.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
01-22-2010 |
Culture
A Screwball Crew of Gearheads Retool the Outlaw Cross-Country Car Racenew
Just like the madcap Cannonball Run races of three decades ago, the idea is to go as fast as you fucking can. And if that means doing 115 mph in a junky old police cruiser, rigging up auxiliary gasoline tanks, subsisting on beef jerky and peeing into plastic bags to save time, well, so be it. Welcome to the "twenny-nine-oh-four."
Riverfront Times |
Nicholas Phillips |
12-01-2009 |
Recreation
Thespians on Wheels: Joan Lipkin's DisAbility Project is on a Rollnew
On this sunny September morning, Lipkin is about to launch the fourteenth season of the DisAbility Project, one of the few theater groups in the country that produces original shows and promotes disability rights.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
11-13-2009 |
Theater
It Ain't Rocket Science: Inside the World of Anvil Shootingnew
Anvil shooting -- also called anvil launching, firing or ringing -- is practiced by a handful of passionate enthusiasts across the South, Midwest and Appalachia, primarily in Missouri and Mississippi.
Riverfront Times |
Keegan Hamilton |
10-27-2009 |
Culture
Bill Chott & His Fellow Improv Tricksters Aim to Bring Back St. Louis Sketch Comedy's Glory Daysnew
The Improv Trick has finally found a permanent dwelling in the increasingly hipster Cherokee 'hood. Chott has hired a full-time director of operations. The student roster continues to grow, and a program for at-risk neighborhood kids is in the works.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
09-11-2009 |
Performance
Digital Love: Checking in With St. Louis Digital Radio Station 3WKnew
A July settlement nails down a structure for small fries like 3WK to pay for the right to stream their music collection online. We figured it was a good time to check in with them and see how they were doing.
Riverfront Times |
Tom Finkel |
08-28-2009 |
Media
Tags: 3WK Internet Radio, internet radio
Taxidermist Rick Nadeau Has a Lot of Fun With His 'Little Buddies'new
Nadeau specializes in "characters": military squirrels in brightly colored felt berets clutching M16s with lit cigarettes dangling from their lips. There was Secret Squirrel who huddled in a trench coat and fedora, and a fiddler in railroad overalls.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
08-14-2009 |
Culture
Isn't That Super? A Dispatch from the 31st Annual Superman Celebrationnew
Each year since 1979, fans of Superman from around the world descend upon Metropolis, a sleepy hamlet (population 6,482) on the banks of the Ohio River at the southern tip of Illinois, to pay their respects to the iconic "Man of Steel." This year, we were there.
Riverfront Times |
Jennifer Silverberg |
07-31-2009 |
Culture
A Tour of St Louis Baseball Landmarks From the Famous to the Infamousnew
Welcome to St. Louis, a baseball town then, now and forever.
Riverfront Times |
Ian Froeb |
07-10-2009 |
Sports
St. Louis Puts Lipstick on the Pig to Clean House for MLB All-Star Gamenew
St. Louis has undergone a substantial facelift in the hope of impressing visitors to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. And, like a pretty-but-pimple-faced girl primping for prom night, the makeup is being applied in layers.
Riverfront Times |
Keegan Hamilton |
07-10-2009 |
Sports
Allison Burgess Stakes Her Reputation on Mystery Meatnew
In 2001 Burgess began working on her meat substitute in the kitchen of her home. Today there are six varieties of Match Meat: beef, chicken, pork, crab, and Italian and breakfast sausage. Made from soy protein, wheat gluten, water and natural flavorings, Match comes frozen and unseasoned, as bland as any supermarket meat.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
07-06-2009 |
Food+Drink
Russ Kremer, the Pope of Porknew
In tiny towns across Missouri, old-school hog farming stages a comeback -- and at tables across the nation, diners rejoice.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
05-26-2009 |
Food+Drink
East St. Louis Nightclubs Are Under Siegenew
East St. Louis mayor Alvin Parks decided late last month not to curtail the 6 a.m. closing time for bars and nightclubs, but the controversy is far from resolved.
Riverfront Times |
Keegan Hamilton |
05-22-2009 |
Recreation