Email Author Paul Friswold

2013 Stories by Paul Friswold

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  The Blintz and the Pauper: Shlemiel the First, a klezmer musical, rocks the shtetl

  published May 23, 2013

  There's something wrong in the little village of Chelm: Shlemiel and Tryna Ritza's marriage has become a habit instead of a relationship. A... More >>

• A Dark Note

  published May 9, 2013

  Was composer Richard Wagner an anti-Semite? Historians and musicologists continue to debate the point, which is difficult to winnow out of the... More >>

• Smut Puppets

  published May 2, 2013

  Avenue Q tells the story of a group of twentysomething puppets trying to survive in an "outer-outer borough" of New York City in a... More >>

• Lights Up in the Gallery

  published March 28, 2013

  The Foundry Art Centre (520 North Main Center, St. Charles; 636-255-0270 or More >>

• Super-8 Movie Madness

  published May 2, 2013

  It's the first Tuesday of the month, which means its time for Super-8 Movie Madness. Curator Tom Stockman has been presenting a series of... More >>

• Pig Party

  published May 2, 2013

  Fans of the eloquent letter-writing dog Ike (star of the Dear Mrs. Larue series of childrens books) are already familiar with the sly wit... More >>

• Nothing Going On

  published April 18, 2013

  Samuel Beckett's absurdist masterpiece Waiting for Godot is inexplicable. Two bums named Vladimir and Estragon fritter away their... More >>

• Sisters Act

  published April 25, 2013

  Anton Chekhov's drama Three Sisters is perhaps not surprisingly about the intertwined lives of three sisters, Olga, Masha and Irina.... More >>

• Shots of the Century

  published February 21, 2013

  Few of us contemplate how to best celebrate our hundredth birthday -- cake, I guess? -- but the staff of the Sheldon made plans well in advance.... More >>

• Viva Cherokee

  published May 2, 2013

  Get up early and have a big breakfast, because Cinco de Mayo comes one day early on Cherokee Street this year. The perpetually-growing... More >>

• Something in the Water

  published May 2, 2013

  The Creature from the Black Lagoon may be the most unappreciated of the Universal Monsters. He has no real name, he's confined to... More >>

• Red War

  published April 25, 2013

  The St. Louis Cardinals finish the current homestand with a three-game series against the Cincinnati Reds. The last time the teams met the... More >>

• Group-Think Yourself Happy

  published January 24, 2013

  Modern artist Jeremy Deller's chosen medium appears to be our collective consciousness. Deller creates moments in which our attention is jointly... More >>

• Nothing Like A Good Rut

  published April 18, 2013

  Eddie and May are in love. Or maybe they're just in a rut -- let's say they're actually in rut, because the physical part of their relationship is... More >>

• Earth Day II

  published April 25, 2013

  All right, technically Earth Day was earlier this week. But isn't the message of Earth Day that we should be invested in the ecological future of... More >>

• Biking in the Dark

  published April 25, 2013

  The metro area's numerous parks are a boon to recreational cyclists -- there's so many of them that you can ride a different park every week and... More >>

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  No Plan A: The hip-hop drama Smash/Hit! tries to have it both ways

  published May 2, 2013

  Money and Chance are two young men from the streets who have committed themselves to hitting the big time as rappers and doing it with artistic... More >>

• MeraMacbeth

  published April 18, 2013

  As anyone who watches Game of Thrones can tell you, power's not just the ultimate aphrodisiac, it's the ultimate motive for murder. Macbeth... More >>

• Scene from A Marriage

  published April 18, 2013

  Union Avenue Opera begins its nineteenth season with Trouble in Tahiti, Leonard Bernstein's modern meditation on a marriage that has... More >>

• Release the Craic

  published April 18, 2013

  All musicians play for the love of music, but perhaps only the Celtic cultures play for the love of craic. The origins of the word... More >>

• History in a Bottle

  published April 11, 2013

  There is no better way to learn about history than with a drink in hand. A little spirited lubrication helps those mental gears get whirling, and... More >>

• The Wisdom of the People

  published April 4, 2013

  Newcomers to St. Louis seem baffled by us. Who are the scrubby Dutch? Why do we insist on calling fried ravioli toasted? What's the deal with our... More >>

• New Language from an Old Tongue

  published April 11, 2013

  It's a strange and alienating experience to live in a foreign country, even if you speak the language. The more you use the local language, the... More >>

• Strings Attached

  published April 4, 2013

  Michael Hollinger's Opus is a play about a string quartet skirting along a series of potential disasters. First violinist Elliot has... More >>

• The Power of Conviction

  published April 4, 2013

  Catholic priest Andres Gonzalez is a man with serious problems eating at his soul. For starters, he's living in Spain during the darkest days of... More >>