Academy Awards

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Take Your Best Picture Alongside Oscar

A Gut Check Oscar Party

The Academy Awards are on Sunday evening, and to celebrate, Gut Check has come up with some questionable delicious movie and food pairings. Some were simple and obvious (Life of Pi...pie...), while others were not as straightforward (Amour? Hmm...). But we're clever here at Gut Check, so we got you ... More >>

Contest: Pick the Oscars® Winners, Win a Night for Two in the Loop

With the 2013 Academy Awards (Sunday, February 24) a month out, we've decided to hold this contest in conjunction with the benevolent Joe Edwards empire for our fellow movie geeks. If you consider yourself a film expert (or even if you just think you could make a few winning picks), you could win ... More >>

Who the Hell Cares if Beyonce Lip-Synced the National Anthem at the Inauguration?

Barrack Obama was inaugurated for his second term as President of these United States this Monday -- a day that notably was also a national holiday in recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. I'd wager that Dr. King would have seen this as a "win" -- a victory for the equality the man fought his entire ... More >>

William Friedkin tells us about Killer Joe and what's wrong with Hollywood

Science and Romance: When Worlds Collide

Jivin' Jailbirds and All That Jazz

With his first movie in fourteen years, Whit Stillman returns, triumphant and worried

Academy Awards 2012: A Breakdown of the Two Animal Race for Best Original Song

Most people wouldn't care to know who prevails in a fight between puppets and animated birds -- unless they've taken some sort of hallucinogen. But that's precisely the battle set to be resolved Sunday during the latest iteration of the Academy Awards. The Best Original Song award this year is a tw ... More >>

The RFT Web Awards Food Winners

Last night, in a star-studded ceremony that the Academy Awards can only dream of matching, the RFT handed out its 2012 Web Awards. Read the complete list of winners here (or pick up the issue on newsstands today), and join us after the jump for the list of food-related champs and the worthy runners- ... More >>

Wash. U. Scientists Discover Reason for Stuttering is in the Genes

Not even Geoffrey Rush and an Oscar can cure your stuttering problem.​If everything you know about stuttering comes from movies such as last year's Oscar-winner The King's Speech, you may be forgiven for believing the speech disorder is the result of a sad childhood and a profound lack of self ... More >>

July 15 is a very important date for the lovers of One Day

Anthony Bourdain Visits the Ozarks Tonight

Photo: The Travel Channel​When Anthony Bourdain appeared in St. Louis last year, he noted that while he had no plans to feature our city in his Travel Channel show No Reservations, he would be visiting the Missouri Ozarks for an episode of the upcoming season.That episode airs tonight at 8 p.m. ce ... More >>

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St. Louis' Very Own Oscar Winner

image viaSt. Louisan and Oscar winner Colin Firth in one of his most celebrated roles: Mr. Darcy in the BBC's Pride and Prejudice.​Unreal has learned the hard way that we should read our New Yorkers as soon as we get them, because if we had, OMG, we would have learned that Colin Firth, Oscar w ... More >>

Five Bistro's Midweek $25 Prix Fixe: Fine Dining at a Finer Price

fivebistro.comChef and owner Anthony Devoti of Five Bistro, located on Daggett Avenue on the Hill​When it comes to dining, many folks who have no qualms whatsoever about diving into unfamiliar cuisine still have reservations (no pun intended) about venturing into a new price range -- or a styl ... More >>

The Firth King, and Other Acadamy Award-Inspired Fast Food Treats

In honor of being nominated for Best Actor in his role as stammering King George VI in The King's Speech, fast food-loving Brit Colin Firth will get to create his own sandwich at Burger King if he wins the Academy Award. hollywoodnews.com​ Firth hasn't said what he'll put on his burger if he ... More >>

Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts and Cheese-ology Macaroni and Cheese

Katie Moulton"Limited Edition Spinach Artichoke Mac & Cheese": Not for chips or children.​ Could this be the year that Oscar gets a Woody Woody gets an Oscar? Though three animated films -- Beauty and the Beast, Up and this year's Toy Story 3 -- have been nominated for the Academy Award for ... More >>

Sorry, Gwyneth: Eight Actresses Who Actually Can Sing

In the old days, just being an actress wasn't enough. Everyone had to be a double threat just to keep up with singing actresses like Julie Andrews, Doris Day, Marlene Dietrich and Judy Garland. But then musicals fell out of fashion and we find ourselves asking, "Why the hell is Gwyneth Paltrow singi ... More >>

Mizzou Students In Running to Cover Oscars for MTV, And They Need Your Vote!

mtvU.comErica Coghill: C'mon people, send this future star to the Oscars. ​Daily RFT received a request -- okay, a plea -- yesterday from University of Missouri undergraduate Erica Coghill asking that we pass on the news that she and three other Mizzou students are finalists in MTV's Oscars Corres ... More >>

The Empire of Crime Strikes Back

Protesters Planning Mock Awards Ceremony at Peabody Energy Headquarters in St. Louis Today

Image viaProtesting Peabody Energy: Not a coal black tie affair.​You know how The Razzies are the anti-Oscars? They're the "awards" that "salute the worst that Hollywood has to offer" each year? Well, that's kind of what a group of climate change protesters have planned this afternoon in downtown ... More >>

Who's Been Sleeping In My Bed?

Dance Into Her Heart

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Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers

8 p.m. Friday, April 23. The Roberts Orpheum Theater, 416 North Ninth Street.

The Morning Brew: 3.16

​Beer laws and typos lead to police raids and a lot of fine craft beers going down the tubes in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania laws, instilled when Prohibition ended, dictate that beer manufacturers register with the state before selling beer in the state. Misspelling or abbreviating a beer's name ... More >>

Feel the Push

The year's 10 best movies and more: 2009 in film!

Aerosmith

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 10. Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.

Gut Check: Winners and bloggers

Open Comment Thread: The 2009 Grammy Awards

Because I'm on vacation, I'm writing this FROM THE PAST (ooh, spooky), and there won't be any live-blogging about Sunday's Grammy Awards broadcast from me this year. However, consider this post an open commenting thread for the show. According to Grammy.com, the list of performers is crazytown:Curre ... More >>

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Up the Academy

The Oscar telecast has, for a decade, been Gil Cates' golden moment

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