Art can be theraputic, both for the creator and for the viewer -- especially when the former is an inmate. The incarcerated individuals who have works in the Insider Art exhibition gained a positive outlet of self-expression, and also are providing people with a different perception of those in prison. Check out the listings here for more details about Insider Art and other exhibits opening this weekend.

Larry Daniels

Skull with Rat, from Insider Art.

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Belas Artes 2010 African World Festival: Colors of Africa art exhibit coincides with month-long celebration of African music, film, dance and workshops. Saturdays. Continues through July 31, free. Belas Artes Multicultural Center & Art Gallery, 1854 Russell Blvd., St. Louis, 314-772-2787, www.belas-artes.net.

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William Holbert, or is it William Cortez?

​The suspect arrested for killing St. Louis native Cheryl Lynn Hughes in Nicaragua told authorities in Central America that his name is actually William Dathan Holbert -- a U.S. citizen featured on the show America's Most Wanted for fraud, car theft and resisting arrest.

Holbert -- traveling as William Cortez --  was arrested this week trying to enter Costa Rica with his wife, Jane Cortez. The couple was arrested on suspicion of killing Hughes and another person -- Bo Icelar -- in Nicaragua and burying their bodies in a shallow grave. Hughes moved to the Central American country a decade ago.

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​A coalition of Tea Party groups plan to picket tomorrow in Sunset Hills near the Republican Party's St. Louis headquarters.

The groups say they're protesting Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann's decision to come to Missouri to stump for Senate candidate Roy Blunt. Bachmann is seen as something of a Tea Party hero. Meanwhile, local Tea Party groups says Blunt is anything but -- having aligned himself with big government principles like TARP and Cash for Clunkers.
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​You know what time it is kids!? It's time for Daily RFT's Ass Clown of the Week.

[Emoticon alert!!] Hopefully we can have as much fun today as we did last week! ;-) That was fun, wasn't it? :-(

This week's nominees...

1. Marilyn Cork: The area woman charged with running over her ex-boyfriend in the parking lot of the St. Louis County Courthouse after the two had just argued against each other in small-claims court. Cork may have been upset that her ex brought his new fiance to the hearing.

2. Kings of Leon: The rock band abruptly ended its show Friday night at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater after allegedly getting shit on by pigeons nesting in the rafters.
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Not in St. Louis you don't!

​St. Louis resident Tarrell Campbell, 34, St. Louis, pleaded guilty this morning in federal court to one count of voter fraud for voting twice in the 2008 general election.

According to court documents, Campbell had been a long-time registered voter in the city of St. Louis when he moved to Edwardsville, Illinois in June of 2007, and then registered to vote in Illinois. As the 2008 general election approached, Campbell voted in October in Illinois, under that state's early voting procedures, and later voted in the City of St. Louis on election day November 4, 2008.

United States Attorney Richard Callahan noted that Campbell voted both times under his actual name and that neither of the registrations involved fraud at the time of registration. The problem Callahan said is, "you just can't vote twice!"

So who did Campbell vote for -- Obama or McCain?
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​No, it's not the Final Exit Network, the assisted suicide group that has been in legal hot water since March of last year when several of its members were busted in a sting in Georgia. This case is much smaller.

Jacob Runge, 22, of St. Peters was acquitted in a Clayton courtroom yesterday of charges of voluntarily manslaughter for providing his friend Alex Harkins with the gun he knew Harkins would use to take his own life. This was the first assisted-suicide case to go to trial in Missouri in 101 years.

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Seventeen-year-old Wallace Ellis was standing outside in the 3900 block of Lexington Avenue (image below) yesterday afternoon when he was struck by gunfire and collapsed on a lawn.

​Witnesses report hearing three to four gunshots ring out in the north St. Louis neighborhood and then seeing two black males running west on Lexington.
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​Something tells me the Columbia, Illinois, police department is about to get a few more job applicants now that one of its patrol cars includes a 2008 BMW M3 -- a car capable of hitting 60 mph in 4.3 seconds and maxing out at speeds north of 150 mph.

The Columbia po-po added the car to their fleet when it was seized during a drug arrest. The city's police chief tells KMOX that the department's DARE officer will use the car to warn kids of what kind of toys they could lose if they get involved in drugs. Though it seems to that message might back fire. Are we supposed to believe that the former owner of this car was able to purchase it without the use of drug money?

You knew those stadium nachos weren't healthy in the first place.

​ESPN is out with a review of health citations for food at all the nation's pro-sports stadium and arenas.

The bad news: That $6 beer and $5 hot-dog you just ordered may contain moldy ice and rodent droppings.

The good news: Odds are you're safe if you eat stadium fare in St. Louis.
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​Owners of Lure Nightclub discovered Wednesday that they were the sole downtown bar to receive a citation letter from the St. Louis liquor commissioner calling them to a meeting to discuss nuisance complaints. Now comes news that they're also the target of a petition drive from neighboring businesses and residents.

Wednesday's citation letter attributed Lure customers with a spate of violence downtown -- including street fights, gunshots as well as "lewd and indecent" behavior. Two other nightclubs mentioned by city officials last week as problematic -- Sugar and F15teen (Club 15) -- did not receive such letters. Instead, the city says it's now willing to work with those clubs without the threat of revoking their liquor license.

Pat Washington, spokeswoman for Lure, tells Daily RFT that Lure's owners, siblings Nick and April Trupiano, can't help but feel targeted by what seems to be a coordinated attack from city officials. She notes that several media outlets received the citation letter Wednesday before the Trupianos got wind of it.

"It appears someone is pissed off at City Hall and the information is freely flowing," says Washington. "You got to wonder: Why is the city willing to work with the other bars but not Lure?"
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