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The Six Most Factually Inaccurate Lyrics In Songs

Songs exist in a general realm of fiction, even when they are theoretically true. Still, every once in a while a lyric comes along that makes you tilt your head and say "Wait a second..." Here are the six most factually inaccurate lyrics in songs. Let us know your favorites in the comments, and plea ... More >>

A Confluence of Geekiness and God's Gift to the Planet: This Week's Bestsellers

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending February 10, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books and Subterranean Books. If you heard a strange exploding sound recently, it may have been the combust ... More >>

Local Harvest Cafe & Catering Preparing Vegan Dinner for Al Gore's Weekend Visit to St. Louis

On Saturday, February 9, former vice president Al Gore will visit St. Louis County Library Headquarters (1640 South Lindbergh Boulevard, Frontenac; 314-994-3300) to talk about his new book The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. Late yesterday afternoon, Local Harvest Cafe & Catering (3137 Morgan ... More >>

Kansas City-Area Library Uses Butchering Demonstration to Lure Patrons

These are exciting times for library users. Not only can you go to the library to check out books for free, you can also go for a live demonstration of hog butchering! Well, uh, you can do that in Overland Park, Kansas, just outside of Kansas City. Not here. Not yet. But isn't it glorious to know ... More >>

Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg ably fill the hat in Lincoln

Birther Bill Gains Initial Approval in Missouri House -- Are You Shitting Me?

​Representative Lyle Rowland (R-Cedarcreek) successfully moved his "birther" bill through its initial reading in the Missouri House of Representatives yesterday. The bill (HB1046, read it here)  would require any presidential or vice presidential candidate to prove via birth certificate and a ... More >>

A Convenient Truth

Missouri Congressman Wants to Kill Funding for Climate Change

Luetkemeyer: Insert tinfoil hat above.​Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-9th District) is proud of his view that global warming is a myth. So proud, in fact, that last weekend he attached a provision onto a budget bill that would ban the United States from funding the Intergovernmental Panel on Cl ... More >>

Gibson Guy

Blagojevich Trial, Radio Silence Start Tomorrow

Image source​It's been a grim week so far -- oil continues to spill out into the Gulf, the Israeli Army fought a Gaza aid flotilla and Al and Tipper Gore are separating -- and it's about to get grimmer. Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who has been going to hilarious lengths to protes ... More >>

Three the Hard Way

No Country released on DVD

Go! 1/18-1/20

Daily Web Crawl

House of the Holy

(And the damned)

Daily Web Crawl

Why CNN.com Headlines Continue to Confound, Befuddle, Amuse

Charge of the Light Brigade

Racing to reignite the sun -- and our souls -- in Danny Boyle's sci-fi collage

Nothing But the Truth

Columbia's True/False Festival is the coolest four-year-old in Missouri.

Sympathy for the Devil

Even horny horse whisperers get off in Sundance docs.

Hey, Joe, what do you think about the troop surge?

Week of January 25, 2007

Bad News With Al

An Inconvenient Truth

Brush With Greatness

Okami shows that videogames can be art.

Al Gore sends Joe an inconvenient letter.

Week of July 13, 2006

The Director's Take

Davis Guggenheim captures the ideals of the "former next president"

Fahrenheit 2050

Al Gore takes on the other imminent threat to America

Ask a Negro Leaguer Column

Week of February 9, 2006

Classic Collection

The dècor is nothing to write home about, but Luciano's sure-handed take on Italian favorites ensures that you won't care

Joyce Abusive

Nobody's ever voted for Joyce Aboussie, but the congressman, the governor, the mayor and the county executive don't do anything political without her.

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter

Party Disloyalty

The 20th Ward delivers for the Democrats, then gets dumped

Wacky Warriors

St. Louis plays host to a strange and unusual national gathering

Blow Up the Box

TV managed to suck and blow in 2000, but still, we watched...and watched

The Taking of the Presidency

Supremes' credibility isn't helped by report of O'Connor's craving Arizona

If You Could Pose One Question To God, What Would That Question Be?

Week of December 20, 2000

And the Loser Is ...

From the boredom of the Florida marathon, presenting the Chaddys

Party Poopers

Where do the candidates stand on the real issue?

Noise Annoys

On their new album, In It for the Money, Supergrass make sonic clutter into highly interesting listening

Letters to the Editor

Published the week of September 6-12, 2000

Party Crashers

Ralph Nader tries to derail the corporate-sponsored presidential debates with a lawsuit. Protesters have their own plans to disrupt the Bush-Gore affair at Wash. U.

The Redundant-Component Campaign

Vote for Gore, vote for Bush -- what's the difference?

Lieberman's St. Louis Angle? It's Really a Stretch.

Published the week of August 9-15, 2000

Inside the Soap Box

Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

Which Qualities of George W. Bush or Al Gore Would You Like to See in Your Children?

So It's Come to This

Our fair city is overrun by presidential contenders; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles

Primary Color

Following the greenbacks as Missouri gears up for Super Tuesday

News-Telegraph Dies, Victim of Drug Overdose

The major news outlet for St. Louis' gay and lesbian community folds; plus, other St. Louis follies and foibles

HEDGING THEIR BETS?

Presidential candidate George W. Bush's campaign is raking in big bucks from St. Louis' wealthiest suburbs -- but those same donors are also ingratiating themselves with Democratic contenders

Pope and Circumstance

St. Louis turns out to greet John Paul II

Would Prozac Have Helped the Post? Probably Not

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