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Karate Bikini's Sauce of the Applehorse: Review and Preview Track

One of the ironies with power pop is that while it's the quintessential teenage soundtrack -- a mix of hormones, harmonies and bright-eyed optimism -- the best practitioners of the form are usually on the wrong side of eighteen. Tim McAvin is no teenager -- he has been playing in bands around St. Lo ... More >>

Homespun: Karate Bikini

Sauce of the Applehorse
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Why Kids are an Exhausting and Rewarding Audience: A Conversation with Elizabeth Mitchell

Elizabeth Mitchell didn't set out to sing children's songs -- or, more specifically, "all ages folk music." Along with husband Daniel Littleton, she was best known as the main voice of Ida, a NYC-based acoustic band with several hushed, emotionally driven albums to its credit. During the day, howeve ... More >>

Fashion Week Music: The Highlights, The Appearances And The Odd Soundtracks

Richard GuatyAnna Wintour eyeballing Nicki's tights. Oh, to peek inside the mind of the Vogue editrix in chief in this moment.​Thank science Fashion Week is over. Isn't it just torture? If there's something worse than not being in New York City for the circus that is Mercedes Benz Fashion Week ... More >>

RIP: The Eight Most Hopelessly Awesome Made-Up Music Words

Bootylicious, adj. Definition: this. ​When was the last time you heard someone say they were "gettin' jiggy with it" (and didn't slap them)? The answer is probably not recently enough. In honor of the woman we saw invoking the word "Bootylicious" on the back of her tiny shorts this weekend, we ... More >>

Midnight in Paris Brasserie by Niche

Champagne and pommes frites at Brasserie: a meal we'll surely be nostalgic about in 2020.​Most Woody Allen fans, it's safe to say, are incurable nostalgists. Even in the '70s, an Allen film was an escape to another time -- his characters were modern New Yorkers with their "analysts" and adultery, ... More >>

Summer Smooches

Summer Smooches

Johnny Flynn discusses Mumford and Sons and why American crowds are better

Piano Bard: Cabaret crooner Steve Ross is the sultan of the Steinway

Don't call Freedy Johnston's Rain on the City a comeback

Weather With You: Elvis Perkins in Dearland continues to bewitch listeners with its second album

O, Brother!: Producer and guitarist T-Bone Burnett joins Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at the duo's Fabulous Fox performance

Mo' Muny!: What happens when the Muny looks back on its 90 years? (Hint: It ain't "magic.")

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

Avenue Q is a naughty Sesame Street parody. So that makes Dennis Oscar the Grouch!

Andrea Marcovicci's lifelong affair with Fred Astaire.

It's as strong as ever in Andrea Sings Astaire.

Go! 12/28 - 12/30

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

Buss Stop

The Rep gives Kiss Me, Kate mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

A Really Big Shrew

Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

Bebel Gilberto

Momento (Six Degrees)

Best of the West

Sondre Lerche

Phantom Punch (Astralwerks)

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater.

The Best Seats in the House

In the orchestra pit at the Fox Theatre

Jane Monheit

Saturday, November 5; Sheldon Concert Hall (3648 Washington Boulevard)

Farce As the Eye Can See

ACT Inc. and Fontbonne get it on

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Crash and Yearn

Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

Take Me Out to the Muny

How to make money and stultify people

Film Openings

Week of July 14, 2004

Just One of Those Biopics

The songs are immortal, even if Porter pic isn't

I Want My STL TV

Public-access music programming is great -- when the public can access it

Red Sox Fans, Take Heart

Andrea Marcovicci sings from hers

This Anything Should Go

Holiday offering satisfies an appetite for cheap, contrived fare

Bill Charlap

Monday, October 14; Generations

List-omania

RFT music geeks pick the best recordings of 2001

High Society

Music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Arthur Kopit; based on the film High Society and on the play and film The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry (Stages St. Louis)

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