Charlie Chaplin

Sammy Hagar, Bob Schneider, STRFKR and More in This Week's Show Announcements

Here again: every newly announced show for the week! On page one you'll find a quick list of shows that particularly caught our attention, followed by embedded YouTube videos; there, you can check out some of the artists you may not be familiar with. Page two contains our complete listing of new sho ... More >>

No Bounce: Boeing-Boeing is an outdated French farce that never translated well

Rage Against the Machinima: As YouTube becomes increasingly wealthy, its stars and the networks who contract with them battle for money and creative control

Pogrom Notes: C.P. Taylor's WWII drama Good is bad (in a good way)

'I Am Fighting To Obtain Your Hearts And Ears For The Duration Of A Lifetime.' Download The New Tef Poe Mixtape Now

​Tef Poe has a new mixtape, Power Over Everything. This is a stopgap, a lead-up. In Poe's own words, "I am asking you to view this as an off-season exhibition game." But this is not a man who takes breaks. This is not a chance to ease up but a chance to push harder, a chance to try new things ... More >>

Jim Carrey and his tuxedoed friends on a grim march to nowhere in Mr. Popper's Penguins

The Marrying Kind

Go See the Chaplin

Citizens of Columbia Finally Atone for 1923 Lynching of Mizzou Janitor

image viaThe Old Stewart Road Bridge in Columbia, where James T. Scott was lynched.​Back in the spring of 1923, someone raped fourteen-year-old Regina Almstadt, the daughter of a professor of German literature at the University of Missouri. Regina told Columbia police that the rapist had a Cha ... More >>

Can You Hear Me Now? Nope.

​Did you see that video of the time-traveling lady at the Hollywood premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film "The Circus?"You didn't?Check out the video here. Now, it does really look like the woman is adopting the all-too-familiar posture of someone exchanging inanities with her BFF by phone as sh ... More >>

Dinner and a Movie: Modern Times and the Cheesecake Factory

Image source​Sometimes, observes Nora Watson, an editor interviewed in Studs Terkel's Working, people's jobs are too small for their spirits. You want to dance your way down the assembly line, but if you do that you throw the whole system out of whack. "You want it to be a million things that it' ... More >>

Modern Problems

Apocalypse Whatever: Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

Loudest. Talkie. Ever.

Silent Lucidity

God. Country (and what a country!). BRANSON.

Join us on a guided tour of emigré comedian Yakov Smirnoff's adopted home, a veritable geezer's Shangri-La.

Sake Martini

Shogun, 10550 Baptist Church Road; 314-842-8889

Last Call

We remember Frederick's Music Lounge

RFT New Year's Eve Guide

Week of December 22, 2005

Five Days of Fear

Halloween till you puke

Paperback Master of Puppets

We talk mashups with Beatallica, skewer Ember Swift and find out what Robert Earl Keen is really saying

Kate Flying

Catch Kate Baldwin in St. Louis while you can

Hollywood Babbles On

Lessons learned where the red carpet ends

Forget MILFs

We're hot for elves

Playing on Fear

Spielberg and Hanks spawn a daring new genre: The post-9/11 comedy

Irish Invasion

Tionól comes back for more

Series/Festivals

Week of February 25, 2004

Living for Cinema

Art reflects life at this year's St. Louis International Film Festival

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Anarchy in the UK

Owen Wilson and Jackie Chan are Knights fallen on their arses

Heartbreak Hotel

Zhang Yimou's Happy Times is a painfully funny depiction of desperate lives

Lazarus, Reborn

Peter Bogdanovich wasn't dead. He was just acting like it.

Cat Fight

Bogdanovich works out his demons on Citizen Hearst

Fake Mustache

Groucho Marx returns from the grave in Frank Ferrante's one-man show

Surround Sound

"Night at the Oscars" juxtaposes the music of the St. Louis Symphony with clips from acclaimed films

The Biggest Ball

Clayton welcomes the St. Louis Art Fair

Boogie Nights

Bring in da funk, bring in da bucks: backstage with Dr. Zhivegas, St. Louis' most popular -- and derided -- cover band

Drag King

Actor-comic Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved

Best New Film Series

Fontbonne College

There He Goes Again

If you liked the City Museum, just look at what Bob Cassilly is doing now

JOE THE KING

Written and directed by Frank Whaley

Strip Search

Looking for Ozark culture amid the neon, glitter and traffic of Highway 76 in Branson

Lights Fantastic

Short Cuts