Email Author Paul Friswold

2010 Stories by Paul Friswold

• The Return of Lewis & Clark

  published December 2, 2010

  Neil Simon’s comedy about two Vaudevillians who reluctantly reunite for a TV special after not speaking to each other for more than a decade... More >>

• The Force of Good Is Strong in This One

  published December 2, 2010

  A brave young boy lives in the desert with his mother, dreaming of a better life and occasionally embellishing the truth to make his daily life... More >>

• ArtD goes Off

  published December 2, 2010

  You're gonna get a lot of party invites this time of year — well, you are; no one invites stinky ol' calendar editors anywhere. Consider... More >>

• Markt It, Dude

  published December 2, 2010

  Germans invented so many useful things: The Heimlich maneuver, the zeppelin and many of the traditional Christmas elements such as the decorated... More >>

• Corral a Friend for the Chorale

  published December 2, 2010

  Many people are planning to scale back their Christmas spending, which is a good idea. It's certainly a better idea than cutting down on the... More >>

• Make Mine an Old-Fashioned

  published December 2, 2010

  It's easy to fall into December's trap; too many events to attend, too many lists to check, too many places to go, too many people to see. You get... More >>

• Featured Review: As Bees in Honey Drown

  published December 9, 2010

  Featured Review: As Bees in Honey Drown A meditation on the cult of celebrity and the perceived value of sizzle versus steak, Douglas... More >>

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  St. Louis Stage Capsules

  published December 9, 2010

  Newly Reviewed Featured Review: As Bees in Honey Drown A meditation on the cult of celebrity and the perceived value of... More >>

• The Prints of Cherokee Street

  published November 25, 2010

  St. Louis' largest growth industry is most likely printmaking. In the last decade, as big corporations have moved their headquarters out of the... More >>

• All It's Cracked Up To Be

  published November 25, 2010

  How do you count down the days till Christmas? Some people use the traditional Advent calendar, some folks gauge the holiday proximity by the... More >>

• Dress Up, Drink Up

  published November 25, 2010

  You know that guy you frequently spend the evening with, the one who makes the perfect boilermaker and always freshens the peanut bowl? Yeah, he... More >>

• Brass Bonanza

  published November 25, 2010

  Susan Slaughter may have retired from her position as the principal trumpet for the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, but she still plays a role in... More >>

• The Sting

  published November 25, 2010

  Evan is a young fiction writer who has created a bit of buzz for himself with his first novel. Into his life swoops the improbably-named Alexa... More >>

• Artgasm: This Weekend's Art Openings, November 26-28, 2010

  published Nov 24, 2010

  Most of the galleries forego opening a new show this weekend, what with all the turkey comas, family obligations and Black Friday riots. However, if you're in the market for some objets d'art that you... More >>

• Oz-some

  published November 18, 2010

  Even after all these years, The Wizard of Oz still has the power to fascinate audiences of all ages. Some of that is attributable to... More >>

• Gore Beyond Gore

  published November 18, 2010

  In the canon of grindhouse flicks, William Lustig's Maniac holds a special place. Sure, Tom Savini's special effects are... More >>

• Fun Before the Candle Lighting

  published November 18, 2010

  Well, it's official: Chanukah creep is real. This year the Festival of Lights begins on December 1, but the Missouri Botanical Garden (4344 Shaw... More >>

• Will We Live to See Blernsball?

  published November 18, 2010

  Professional sports dominate the airwaves, the book racks and about 48 percent of the average male brain. It's a dominant cultural force, but... More >>

• Train, Train

  published November 18, 2010

  As eternal as they seem, our Christmas traditions do change over time; after all, how much figgy pudding did you eat last year, and when was the... More >>

• Who Dat Ninja?

  published November 18, 2010

  Menahem Golan's 1981 "action" flick Enter the Ninja is often fingered as being the spark that set off the '80s ninja explosion, but... More >>

• Home Is Where the Bar Is

  published November 25, 2010

  The Pazinskis, the Polish-Catholic family who live upstairs from their family-run tavern, are facing a year of great personal changes. Older... More >>

• The End of Christmas Creep

  published November 18, 2010

  In the old days, you didn’t see Christmas decorations until the day after Thanksgiving, because Christmas season didn’t start until... More >>

• Eat On and On

  published November 18, 2010

  This is the day when all diets should die, when your sense of restraint should be restrained and your first and last thoughts should be of pie.... More >>

• Walkies and Quiet Time

  published November 18, 2010

  The best advice for living ever given comes at the end of Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, when Eric Idle in drag recommends, in... More >>

• A Well-Loved Tom

  published November 11, 2010

  Thomas Jefferson is a man whose life has been researched, documented and discussed down to tremendous detail — you write something as... More >>