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RFT's 11 Most Popular Stories of 2015

By Riverfront Times Staff on Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 5:51 pm

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Published May 22, 2015

Finally, some good news out of Jefferson City: this May, Governor Nixon commuted the sentence of Jeff Mizanskey, who'd scored a spot on the RFT's cover as the poster boy for drug sentences run amok. Our subsequent cover story took a deeper look at how Mizanskey's family, friends and politically engaged Redditors helped win his freedom.

Photo by Kholood Eid.

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Published April 7, 2015

Writer Sara Graham's look at seven awesome destination restaurants near St. Louis blew up –- and kept blowing up for weeks on end. Use it to plan your next road trip.

Photo by Three Ring Zing Photography.

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Published January 23, 2015

Mike Matheny's dream house? You guys are totally nosy!

Photo by Coldwell Banker Gundaker.

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Published March 2, 2015

“Stan is not the man” –- and a host of other things you'll never hear come out of the city's collective mouths.

Photo by Flickr / National Park Service.

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Published July 13, 2015

Superstar summer intern Emily McCarter scored big with this look at the latest “sport” to set up shop in a city that just can't have enough of them.

Photo by Flickr / Texas A&M University- Commerce Marketing Communications.

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Published January 28, 2015

Drew Ailes' contrarian take on a problem plaguing the music industry had readers threatening to never read us again – yet clicking angrily all the way through.

Photo by Flickr / Robin Czn.

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Published May 12, 2015

Who doesn't love watching adorable first-year med school students throttling down? We said in our headline that their “Uptown Funk” parody should go viral – and it did, along with our blog post telling the back story.

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Published May 6, 2015

Who said long-form journalism is dead? Staff writer Danny Wicentowski's deep dive into the dark goings-on at a local evangelical church earned many, many more pageviews than most stories you'd classify as clickbait. Thanks to Wicentowski's sensitive telling, readers understood the damage wreaked by a predator –- and the fallout now shaking a major north county church.

Photo via Twitter.

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Published January 28, 2015

You mean “Hoosier” doesn't mean “white trash” in Indiana? St. Louis loves reading about St. Louis, and this listicle proved an unsurprising smash hit.

Photo by Flickr / Beau B.

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Published February 26, 2015

Shock punk band Without Mother Fucking Order offered to kill its drummer if only we all contributed $100 via GoFundMe. Alas, the band raised just $27 before the crowd-funding site pulled the campaign, but not before tens of thousands of people read all about it on our website.

Photo by Peter Yarmouth / Black and Blue Records.

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Published August 12, 2015

Who knew so many people loved the throwed rolls at Lambert's? When we broke the story that a St. Louis woman was suing the Sikeston restaurant after taking a throwed roll to the noggin, it almost broke the Internet. We even got a call from a local lawyer unfortunate enough to share his last name with the attorney who'd filed the suit –- he was getting threats and asked we clarify this litigation wasn't his handiwork.

How big was this story? Let's just say it bested the second-place finisher by more than half a million pageviews.

Photo by Johnny Fugitt.

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