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Church of Scientology

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Church of Scientology's "Psychiatry: An Industry of Death" Exhibit Returns to St. Louis

    Psychiatry buffs rejoice and praise Xenu! The "state-of-the-art international touring exhibit" Psychiatry: An Industry of Death, sponsored by the Citizens Commission on Human Rights is returning to Missouri for the first time since its appearance at the Jamestown Mall three years ago! You can catch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Local Scientologists Close Ranks, Leaving Mother on the Outside

    ​Tony Ortega, editor-in-chief at our sister paper the Village Voice, has written extensively about Scientology for sixteen years. His latest look at the group's inner workings takes place here in St. Louis, and involves a long-time Scientologist leaving the fold, driving a wedge between her and he ... More >>

  • News

    December 29, 2011

    The 2011 Unreal News Challenge

    ​Tony Ortega, editor-in-chief at our sister paper the Village Voice, has written extensively about Scientology for sixteen years. His latest look at the group's inner workings takes place here in St. Louis, and involves a long-time Scientologist leaving the fold, driving a wedge between her and he ... More >>

  • Film

    December 22, 2011

    Karina Longworth Picks 10 for '12

    ​Tony Ortega, editor-in-chief at our sister paper the Village Voice, has written extensively about Scientology for sixteen years. His latest look at the group's inner workings takes place here in St. Louis, and involves a long-time Scientologist leaving the fold, driving a wedge between her and he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    Interview: Troubadour Dali's New Album (Out Tomorrow) Is Not About Dinosaurs

    Joanna Humphrey​There is a pretty brazen vacuum somewhere in the room next to where two members of Troubadour Dali are conducting a three-way phone interview. It would appear that the shoegaze-y psych-pop band is never far from its noise roots, though this time it's more obnoxious than it is d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Get To Know R6 Implant: (Maybe) "The Most Intense Rock and Roll Experience of Your Life"

    Photo courtesy of R6 Implant.​ The good thing about a band calling it quits in St. Louis is that its never really done. R6 Implant is playing a farewell-of-sorts show on Saturday at Cicero's, but this isn't goodbye forever. The bill is shared with the Lion's Daughter, Galaxicon and Iron Hills. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2011

    Anonymous Takes On Monsanto, and Monsanto Responds

    The Anonymous slogan: "We do not forgive. We do not forgive. Expect us."​In the latest of a string of increasingly ballsy attacks, Anonymous -- a loose collective of online ne'er-do-wells -- has trained its sights on the Creve-Coeur-based agri-giant, Monsanto. Anonymous got national attention for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2011

    Is God The New Black?

    Terry Richardson/Rolling Stone​A span of three weeks separated their respective Rolling Stone covers--apart from the quality of the writing and the, howyousay, dynamism of each subject, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry's profiles in the formerly legendary mag offered the same startling conclusion--for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    RFT Showcase 2011: Highlights (Part Two)

    Pretty Little Empire. Photo by Steve Truesdell.​Ed: The RFT Music Showcase was Saturday. It was hot, it was crowded and you would have needed to be in ten places as once to see all the good stuff. Among those who tried was Diana Benanti -- she brings you part two of her highlights below. Read ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    William S. Burroughs, Scientologist

    image viaWilliam S. Burroughs: even weirder than we thought.​Picture it: Tangiers, 1959. William S. Burroughs, author of the newly published Naked Lunch (and, incidentally, scion of a wealthy St. Louis family), is visiting his friend Brion Gysin's restaurant when he meets John and Mary Cooke, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2011

    Church of Scientology Announces L. Ron Hubbard Centennial Three Days Late

    image viaHappy 100th birthday, L. Ron!​OK, it's true, the dateline on the press release the Church of Scientology sent us about the centennial of its founder L. Ron Hubbard was March 13. But it didn't land in Unreal's e-mail in-box until March 16. (Yes, we know, it's March 18 now, but we're st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2011

    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 >>

  • Film

    November 18, 2010

    Paul Haggis shows no improvement in The Next Three Days

    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 >>

  • News

    June 23, 2010

    Readers discuss who's to blame for the new Loop curfew, a teen's hanging death in Cahokia

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    March 4, 2009

    Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: Isaac Hayes, "Walk on By"

    The Singer: Stax recording artist, Shaft theme singer, King of New York, voice of South Park's Chef and Scientologist: Isaac Hayes amassed quite the rap sheet before his death last year. He started as a songwriter for Stax Records and became a singer in his own right in the late '60s. Toda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2009

    Are You as Poetic as Paris Hilton? Help Us Complete Her Latest Press Release.

    www.parishiltonsite.netAmerica's favorite celebutante, Paris Hilton, returns to St. Louis next month (March 14) to promote her new fragrance, Fairy Dust. As you may recall, Hilton made a similar trip to the Gateway City last year when she touched down at South County Center to endorse a perfume call ... More >>

  • Film

    October 1, 2008

    Oh, God! You Devil's Advocate: Bill Maher makes an adolescent case against religion

    www.parishiltonsite.netAmerica's favorite celebutante, Paris Hilton, returns to St. Louis next month (March 14) to promote her new fragrance, Fairy Dust. As you may recall, Hilton made a similar trip to the Gateway City last year when she touched down at South County Center to endorse a perfume call ... More >>

  • News

    April 2, 2008

    Rick Majerus: Have You No Decency?

    www.parishiltonsite.netAmerica's favorite celebutante, Paris Hilton, returns to St. Louis next month (March 14) to promote her new fragrance, Fairy Dust. As you may recall, Hilton made a similar trip to the Gateway City last year when she touched down at South County Center to endorse a perfume call ... More >>

  • Film

    March 28, 2007

    Full-serve philosophy: A gas station attendant pumps out enlightenment.

    Peaceful Warrior

  • Film

    August 2, 2006

    Full-Serve Philosophy

    A gymnast pumps advice from a gas station attendant

  • News

    April 12, 2006

    Talk Pretty

    David Sedaris' publicist asks Unreal to bend the space-time continuum. Plus: the blog of a former Cards hurler, and an obituary for Jim Igoe, the Delmar Poet.

  • News

    March 22, 2006

    Head Cheesed

    Unreal longs for the sexual adventures a Gravitizer can provide -- but, uh, not tonight; we have a migraine. Plus, more fun with Scientologists!

  • News

    December 28, 2005

    Unreal News Challenge 2005!

    Time again to take the year-end quiz

  • News

    December 7, 2005

    Applied Pressure

    Should St. Louis County grant tax breaks to Scientology-linked tutoring programs?

  • News

    November 23, 2005

    "The word ‘faggot’ seems to come very naturally to Mr. Crawford.”

    Week of November 23, 2005

  • News

    November 23, 2005

    Exercise Is Like Opium

    Unreal visits an anger-management expert. Then, feeling better, we scan the Bargain Box for a money-maker (note: not for shaking) and talk about psychiatrist-patient luv with a Scientologist (oops). Plus: the local blog of an alleged killer.

  • News

    November 9, 2005

    Week of November 9, 2005

    "Scientology has answers to life's problems."

  • News

    October 26, 2005

    L Is for L. Ron

    The state approves a tutoring program linked to Scientology, and everybody cries foul

  • News

    September 14, 2005

    Vodka and Grapefruit

    Unreal gets the lowdown on the Dirty Dog, meets plants who love a free lunch and finds a blogger who can't get enough Favre. Plus, Scientology's "volunteer ministers" are bringing relief to hurricane victims -- but not the kind you'd think.

  • Dining

    July 20, 2005

    Cîroc martini

    Lucas Park Grille, 1234 Washington Avenue, 314-241-7770

  • News

    July 13, 2005

    Everybody's Doing It

    Unreal plays fair with an all-inclusive sex survey and celebrates the St. Louis Centre skybridge's dramatic relocation to the Loop

  • News

    July 6, 2005

    Chewing the Fat

    A heaping helping of retorts to Unreal's "Lard Have Mercy"

  • News

    November 17, 2004

    If and When the Messiah Returns, Must It Be in Human Form?

    Week of November 17, 2004

  • Music

    September 1, 2004

    Rock Opera of Ages

    Introducing Pyromania!, the show-stopping, arm-severing Def Leppard musical

  • Music

    August 11, 2004

    Ultimate Rock Fantasy

    Forget the office-football draft, dude. Here's a far cooler way to waste your time and your employer's money.

  • News

    July 7, 2004

    Look Away

    Unreal covers it all: Funnylady Kathleen Madigan, a traveling preacher who lacks Judgment and Bob Horner's Fatkins diet; plus, a new sport for extreme St. Louisans!

  • Calendar

    February 11, 2004

    Un-Cabaret's Ripping Yarns

    Life with Dick

  • Film

    June 11, 2003

    Hollywood Babble-On

    Ron Shelton tries to mock the LA cop-buddy movie, but the joke's mostly on him

  • News

    May 7, 2003

    God and the 1040

    Week of May 7, 2003

  • Film

    March 26, 2003

    Film Openings

    Week of March 26, 2003

  • Film

    January 29, 2003

    Dead Again

    There's fresh meat for the Reaper in Final Destination 2

  • Music

    January 12, 2000

    "EXTREME" NOISE TERROR

    The best loud stuff Japan has to offer

  • News

    February 17, 1999

    Breaking Down the Wall

    A quiet revolution is taking place as religious groups begin ministering to the poor using government money -- and succeeding where government couldn't. But eternal vigilance may be the real price.

  • News

    December 2, 1998

    News Real

    A quiet revolution is taking place as religious groups begin ministering to the poor using government money -- and succeeding where government couldn't. But eternal vigilance may be the real price.

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