Dr. Seuss

First Look: The Shack PubGrub Serves Comfort Food and More in Midtown

At the Shack PubGrub (3818 Laclede Avenue; 314-533-7000), the "green eggs'n'ham" boardwalk fries come out fresh from the fryer crispy and completely smothered in creamed spinach, diced ham with just-barely caramelized corners, fresh-chopped green onions and a cheery yellow sunny-side-up fried egg. W ... More >>

If More Kiddie Authors Had Written Books For Adults

J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, arrived in bookstores yesterday. According to advance reports, the new book contains lots of sex (in the form of "a miraculously unguarded vagina" and a used condom that is "like the gossamer cocoon of some huge grub"), domestic abuse and an ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending August 19, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books and Subterranean Books. Dear readers of St. Louis, Holy crap! You've finally done it ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending June 24, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. How un-put-down-able is Gone Girl, the new thriller ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 27, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Fifty Shades, Fifty Shades, blah blah blah. Once aga ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 13, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Following the ancient St. Louis precept that high sch ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending April 29, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. It's a pity Jean Carnahan decided not to call her ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending March 25, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. More than half of the titles on this week's adult ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List: March 19, 2012

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending March 11, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Back in August, our pages were aflutter ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending March 4, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. St. Louisans are apparently in a vengeful mood. G ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

image viaBehind the scenes at the Battle of Carthage...oh, wait, that's Guerrillas in Civil War Missouri. Not gorillas.​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending February 19, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Bo ... More >>

Let's Get Seussical

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 18, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. 'Twas the week before Christmas and all anybody ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 11, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Despite Amazon, e-books and the crappy e ... More >>

This Just In: Grinch steals Xmas but not much else

Green Christmas

Green Christmas

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 25, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Go the Fuck to Sleep is back on the bestsel ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 11, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. It's so good to see people planning ahe ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Tell us about that sexy jacket...​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 4, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. This w ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

This week's number five adult bestseller, the work of a couple of St. Louis cops.​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending July 24, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, ... More >>

Pick Up America: In St. Louis, Cleaning Up Your Mess

Lily BermanGreg Katski rolls a tire out of a runoff ditch in Columbia, Indiana.​Greg Katski found a sex toy on the side of the highway somewhere in southern Ohio. He specifies: It was a dildo. He happened upon meth kits in the middle of nowhere, Indiana, and has found needles all over the coun ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Jennifer SilverbergSick of this guy yet?​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 8, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. St. L ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 1, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. This week's St. Louis bestseller list is pa ... More >>

Top Ten Things That Have Been Inside The Beautiful Kind's Vagina: NSFW

Now that Kendra Holliday has outed herself as the face behind St. Louis' raciest sex blog, the Beautiful Kind, we thought it only fitting to commemorate her greatest hits. And no, we're not talking blog posts. We're talking penetration, baby! Here's our (admittedly subjective) list of the ten most ... More >>

Lavender Lemonade at Foundation Grounds Coffee House

Image via​Do the day-to-day realities of being a grown-up ever get you down? Update your anti-virus software! Oil change is due! The washing machine broke! Does the endless succession of problems to solve and commitments to honor ever seem too daunting to even contemplate? Some people are custom- ... More >>

Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey's Speech to Bishop DuBourg Graduates

​The co-creator of the Twitter was back in his hometown of St. Louis yesterday to deliver a commencement speech to the 2010 graduates of his alma matter, Bishop DuBourg High School. Jack Dorsey, peppered his speech with references to his childhood growing up in St. Louis. It was his fascination wi ... More >>

Wonder As She Wanders

Q&A with Mark McKinney of Kids In The Hall

Fast Track to Nowhere: It's anime on overdrive in the Wachowski brothers' souped-up, tricked-out Speed Racer

Oh, Niki, You're So Fine!

Sculpture is back in the garden

After the unspeakable Grinch, Horton is a surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation

That 1 Guy

9 p.m. Tuesday, October 16. Billiken Club, 20 North Grand Boulevard.

Our top DVD picks for the week of August 24

Trail of Tears

Prey should be called Dances With Tedium.

Seuss on the Loose

Origin of Innocence

The New World boldly reclaims the Pocahontas tale from Disney

Comings and Goings

Say farewell to cine16 -- then say hello again in January!

Beanie Babes

We're talking women's hats -- but Crowns won't bowler you over

Kitty Litter

The Cat in the Hat forms clumps for easy scooping and disposal

IMAX Redux

Science Center's Fall Film Fest

United We Slam

GOP attacks Carnahan in the name of togetherness

Ode to Joy

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens is not so much a eulogy of AIDS victims as it is a celebration of life

What Book Has Caused a Significant Change in Your Attitude or Beliefs?

Week of July 18, 2001

Letters

Week of April 18, 2001

A Kinder, Gentler Dope Fiend

In Ted Demme's Blow, Johnny Depp summons an American snowstorm

BS 2000

Simply Mortified (Grand Royal)

Green Dregs and Ham

The new Dr. Seuss adaptation is more cynical than the Grinch ever was

Best Children's Bookstore

Borders Books & Music, Clayton

Inside the Cat in the Hat

Revealing the dirty little secret of Dr. Seuss' feline friend