Subject: Beirut

• Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea: Ten Years After St. Louis Live Recording

  February 18, 2008

• THE EIGHTH ANNUAL ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

  November 3, 1999

• Dogs of War: Waltz with Bashir is both documentary and animated feature — and a remarkable bubbling up of repressed violence

  February 18, 2009

• Light Dining

  July 25, 2007

• New St. Louis

  Time for this town to cash in on Hurricane Katrina

  October 19, 2005

• More Shriek Than Shrek

  May 16, 2007

• The River of Dreams

  April 18, 2007

• Does Joe consider himself a metrosexual?

  August 30, 2006

• Shandy

  July 26, 2006

• Ask a Mexican!: Loco for Lebanon: Do Mexicans have genetic ties to the Middle East?

  April 22, 2009

• One Swill Game

  The long and tipsy road to the World Series of Beer Pong

  February 8, 2006

• Could Be Verse

  A love story told in iambic pentameter? Yes, and yes again.

  September 14, 2005

• Keep the Dream Alive!! Draft Sharpton for Mayor '09

  March 24, 2004

• Series/Festivals

  Week of January 29, 2003

  January 29, 2003

• Beating Swords Into Cameras

  Webster University hosts the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

  January 29, 2003

• Series/Festivals

  February 20, 2002

• The Fire Down Below

  April 18, 2001

• Blue-Light Special

  August 2, 2000

• BIG-SCREEN EPIC

  October 27, 1999

• Unreal ponders the eighth wonder of the world — a goat tower — and checks in with a bloggin' mom

  July 1, 2009

• Matt and Kim, Beirut at Pitchfork Music Festival

  Here's an unlikely duo from today's performances at Pitchfork Music Festival: Brooklyn's hyper-kinetic Matt and Kim battling for attention with the dreamy melancholy of New York's Beirut.Beruit at Pitchfork Music FestivalBeirut -- masterminded by Zachary Condon -- played with presence on the Pitchfork stage, eschewing confidence with its brass trumpets and tubas, mandolin strings and accordion keys. Barely into his mid-twenties, Condon acted like a veteran on the stage, although he did admit tha

  July 19, 2009

• 2009's Pitchfork Coverage: Videos, Interviews and Photos of Flaming Lips, Vivian Girls, Fucked Up, Black Lips, M83, more!

  Last weekend, Nick Lucchesi headed up to Chicago to cover this year's Pitchfork Music Festival. In case you missed his reports, here's a handy-dandy list of links to his photos, interviews and reviews: *A Flaming Lips photo essay *A video interview with M83's Anthony Gonzalez *Black Lips and the National

  July 20, 2009

• Homespun: The Bootz Orchestra

  September 2, 2009

• Homespun: The Bootz Orchestra, Bony Jars

  In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer reviews the Bootz Orchestra's album Bony Jars. He had this to say:From the sweetly sung ukulele reveries of Beirut to the raggle-taggle gypsy-punk of Gogol Bordello, the hybrid of Eastern European folk and Western pop has hollowed out its own niche in indie music over the past few years. The nine-piece Bootz Orchestra works in this genre as well, under the direction of St. Louis-born Kyle Butz. The core band members met at Boston's prestigious Berklee Co

  September 3, 2009