F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nine Prohibition-Era Cocktails in Honor of The Great Gatsby (And Because We Like to Drink)

"There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars...In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so lon ... More >>

Beautiful, Damned: Gatsby's sometimes great, but not always good

What Gatsby Gets Wrong: Ten Ways the New Movie Will Trip Up the Lazy Students of Tomorrow

See Also: 10 Shot Comparisons Between the 1974 and 2013 Gatsbys

Mauve Up: The script's a tad purple, but a spirited production calibrates The Violet Hour

Roman Holiday: Woody Allen talks about his new film and old themes (art, death, love)

Why There Are No Crashes on Your Brain's Information Superhighway

F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." In a less metaphysical sense, the sign of a well-working brain is the ability of multiple networks to work at the same ... More >>

Anchorman 2 Will Make You Just-Kidding-But-Seriously Love Some Bad Seventies Songs Again

You probably saw this Thursday morning, attached to a mostly accurate quote on your Facebook news feed: Will Ferrell appeared as Ron Burgundy on Conan to announce Anchorman 2. That's great, and anybody who's ever derived any joy from quoting any movie will have long since dug their "I Love Lamp" shi ... 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 >>

Sarah Palin's Paul Revere And Three Mostly Accurate History Songs

by Bob Weinstein; Wikipedia. ​Note to self, as a future historical-figure-ghost: If Sarah Palin and Paul Revere are any indication, the best way to trend on Twitter 200 years after your death is to have someone controversial give a particularly strange recounting of your life's work, as inform ... More >>

Jonathan Franzen Deserves the Freedom Hype

Every writer hates a winner. And so with Jonathan Franzen's new novel earning raves from just about everybody who matters in American letters, we've been subjected to the predictable envious backlash about how Franzen is overrated (and annoying), how middle-aged white guys get preferential treatment ... More >>

Shots and Books

Is There a Doctor in the House? Confined to his home for a decade, Doug Lindsay is certain he knows what ails him, and he thinks he knows the cure.

Secret Sharer: Orange Girls mount a pitch-perfect telling of Donald Margulies' Collected Stories

St. Louis Author Defends A Moveable Feast, Reveals That Hemingway's Friends Called Him "Ernest"

simonandschuster.comA new edition of Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast hits bookstores today, to the outrage of at least one of Hemingway's old pals, writer and St. Louis memoirist A. E. Hotchner, best known for King of the Hill.A Moveable Feast, published posthumously in 1964, is Hemingway's own ... More >>

Old Man Pitt: The curious case of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Two writers debate the pros and cons of indie-rock/Afropop sensations Vampire Weekend, who are making their St. Louis debut on September 10

Interpol

8 p.m. Wednesday, August 1. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

How did the most macho of words get emasculated?

Week of December 21, 2006

Margaritaville Lives

We picnic with Parrotheads, get literary with book-minded bands and witness an old-fashioned blues royale

Finest Workshows

A Michael Stipe speech actually tugs some heartstrings

Something Old, Something New

Shakespeare sings, but The Left Hand doesn't

Phair Trade

The critical response to the new Liz Phair album is senseless, sexist and stupid

Bucking the Odds

Seabiscuit is a different breed of summer "ride" movie

Rental Unit

Matt Sharp proves there's life after Weezer

Ain't We Got Fun

By Eric LeRoy Wilson (Historyonics Theatre Company)

Monitor Wizard

Video artist Van McElwee injects warmth and life into an ostensibly "cold" art form

THE ROAD TO WELLES-VILLE

St. Louis native George Hickenlooper takes another step on his Hollywood career path with the Orson Welles adaptation The Big Brass Ring -- but a happy ending's still not in sight.

Reel Life

Neal Gabler alerts the masses to the proliferation of entertainment in his book Life the Movie