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On the first Monday of last month, in a cardboard box behind a nondescript building on the cusp of the city's emerging "Grove" district, lay a chronicle of the Rabelaisian...
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Over the past few weeks, we've been reminded about the one-year anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina, about its aftermath and how the Gulf Coast — and New...
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When I moved to St. Louis three years ago, the first place I stopped was Chesterfield Commons. This wasn't by design. I was on Highway 40, needed to pee and wasn't going to...
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A first-time feature film about a failed indie rocker, his beautiful girlfriend and his sanctimonious nature-boy brother on a road trip: There are so many ways that The Puffy...
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Theater
Act II Theater Company
St. Peters Community & Arts Center, 1035 St. Peters Howell Rd., St. Peters, 636-397-6903. www.brinkster.com/act2.
Act, Inc. Theater...
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The Gateway Cup is a killer criterium, and this year, the four-day bike-race series (from September 1 through 4) finds speedsters and fans in the friendly confines of...
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University City has compiled and organized more than 100 fun things to do during the 2006 U. City Centennial Celebration, but don't worry if you've fallen behind, because...
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Now, Ms. Day knows how very many festivals there are this weekend, and she understands that you might be having a difficult time deciding which one(s) to grace with your...
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Labor Day weekend seems to be the time for bike-riding: You've got the Gateway Cup all weekend (see "Race Face"), and today, there's the Tour de Judy, a family ride on the St....
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The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church's 89th annual Greek Festival has nothing to do with sororities and fraternities — but it does have much to do with Greek culture....
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At last year's Japanese Festival, the crowds were massive. We're talking Shinjuku-subway-crowd-at-rush-hour massive. Happy, sweaty people wandered cheek-to-jowl through the...
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Kristopher Pollard is a St. Louis native currently living and working in Milwaukee, "the city of the future." He makes especially charming drawings of the pen-and-ink variety...
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If there's one thing musicians love, it's honorifics. Just look at Queen Latifah, Dr. Hook and Reverend Horton Heat. It must be great to slap on a title like that without all...
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More and more, we're starting to think that Tom Hanks really is an astronaut. For starters, there's his performance in Apollo 13; he seemed to really know what he was doing in...
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Catharina van Eetvelde addresses ideas of cross-fertilization in her animated work Cruise. Fittingly, Cruise itself is a product of cross-fertilization; van Eetvelde's...
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This summer it was back to business-as-usual at the Muny. After a solid 2005 season in which six of the seven shows ranged from good to outstanding, with just one dud, this...
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Arrested Development: Season Three (Fox)
The final collection of Arrested Development discs feels sadly incomplete: only 13 episodes this time, the result of Fox's inability...
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Standing before a crowd of roughly 50 colleagues at last week's noontime rally, Carolyn Tuft hardly looked like the city's most beleaguered reporter. Dressed in a floral-print...
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The MySpace bulletins and e-mails arrived fast and furious on Friday, August 25, as word spread around the city that the Hi-Pointe (1001 McCausland Avenue; 314-781-4716) music...
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A little purple pearl of cassis sits nestled at the bottom of the Monarch Martini. You just want to reach into the glass, pluck it out and string it into a necklace. But,...
