Email Author Alex Weir

2013 Stories by Alex Weir

• Home Is Where the Brew Is

  published May 2, 2013

  Fellow beer lovers: let us give thanks. We must be living through a golden (don’t expect us to pass up a beery pun) age of craft beers and... More >>

• Manly Movies

  published April 25, 2013

  The concept of manliness seems to be, like an epic 60-yard Hail Mary pass into the end zone, perpetually up for grabs. Maleness is as much a... More >>

• One Night in China

  published April 18, 2013

  Quick question: What's the best way to take in 5,000 years of an ancient culture's musical and choreographical civilization without even getting... More >>

• There's No Raisin' the Sultana

  published April 18, 2013

  Most of us think of the sinking of the Titanic as the biggest disaster in U.S. maritime history, but an even worse incident occurred 47 years... More >>

• 'Hawk Hunting

  published April 11, 2013

  On a spring Sunday morning there's always going out for breakfast, maybe enjoying a nice walk or bike ride, or attending the faith service of your... More >>

• It's Cruel Not To Be Kind

  published April 4, 2013

  If you care about animals' welfare, the worst thing is to see them suffer the abuse or neglect of human beings. We're not a perfect bunch but we... More >>

• Spring Colors in the Air

  published March 28, 2013

  We all thought the big holiday season ended on January 1. Wrong-o. Holi is a major holiday observed by Hindus primarily in India and Nepal as well... More >>

• The Art of the Rescue

  published March 21, 2013

  Urban Wanderers is an exhibition that spotlights professional works of art inspired by abused or abandoned animals taken in by the... More >>

• War, As She Saw It

  published March 14, 2013

  Martha Gellhorn was born and bred in St. Louis. Let's pretend she was still alive today and you met her somewhere here. Maybe you'd know of her... More >>

• Joey's A Great Hoofer

  published March 14, 2013

  One of the most awe-inspiring and moving live performances this guy has ever seen was War Horse at Lincoln Center in 2011. Now St.... More >>

• A Fuller Life

  published March 14, 2013

  People rarely use the term "Renaissance man" these days perhaps for a couple of reasons. One, it leaves exceptional women out of the equation, and... More >>

• It's A Glorious Racket

  published March 7, 2013

  Ah, the halcyon early '80s: asymmetric hair; clothes that often resembled loud pajamas with zippers sewn on; a still-intact and still-dangerous... More >>

• Joey's A Great Hoofer

  published March 7, 2013

  One of the most awe-inspiring and moving live performances this guy has ever seen was War Horse at Lincoln Center in 2011. Now St.... More >>

• It's A Dog's Life

  published March 7, 2013

  Maybe you've known people with "problem pets." Rover won't roll over; Kojak the cat refuses to come when yelled at, or tries to scratch the... More >>

• High School Face-Off

  published February 28, 2013

  Those of us who love hockey the most have played it, too. We're not just Facebook gasbags, armchair defensemen, hat-trick hotshots in our heads... More >>

• Looky-Likey Lincoln

  published February 21, 2013

  Abraham Lincoln went through hell and high water trying to find a commanding Union general-in-chief who was neither incompetent nor insubordinate... More >>

• LA Story

  published February 14, 2013

  California, and in particular Los Angeles, seems as much a place of figurative darkness as of its famous, ever-present sunlight and star-powered... More >>

• Shark Hunt!

  published February 14, 2013

  You know the flame you get when you switch on the burner of a gas stove? It's blue, and it's hot. That's exactly how the St. Louis Blues... More >>

• Last Night on Earth

  published February 14, 2013

  Martin Luther King Jr.'s transcendent final speech, given at the Mason Temple in Memphis on April 3, 1968, is one of the towering pinnacles of... More >>

• Reap What You Sow

  published February 7, 2013

  Bobby Gould's doing alright for himself. He's been promoted to head of production at a major Hollywood movie studio, but things are as slippery... More >>

• The Music of the Night

  published January 24, 2013

  Over most of human history wolves and people have had a highly contentious relationship -- and it's always the former party losing the argument.... More >>

• Hot Topic

  published January 24, 2013

  Our Saint Louis Zoo isn't just a top-tier destination for families looking to spend an enjoyable day out among the animals; it's also a great... More >>

• Braque Is Back

  published January 24, 2013

  Whereas Jonathan Richman and Paul McCartney both wrote songs referencing Pablo Picasso, we don't know of any popular music that alludes to Georges... More >>

• The Abolitionists

  published January 3, 2013

  Though what they advocated -- an end to the enslavement of African-Americans -- is taken for granted today as the obvious and only corrective to a... More >>