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UPDATE: Sculptor Hard at Work on Bust of Rush Limbaugh for Missouri State Capitol

Update, March 6: More information at the end of the post, including Senator Claire McCaskill's protest and an answer to commenter Mike N's question about whether this wad of bronze is funded by taxpayer money. ------- The eagle-eyed bloggers at Fired Up! Missouri posted the news earlier this after ... More >>

Daniel O'Connell, Former SLU President, Accused of Violating Sex Abuse Contract

Image ViaO'Connell teaching a class at Georgetown in 2007.​Father Daniel O'Connell, who headed Saint Louis University from 1974-1978, is facing the threat of a lawsuit from a New York woman who claims the priest sexually abused her decades ago. According to the Survivor's Network of those Abused b ... More >>

About Those Terrorists Moving In Next Door

So you may have heard that Missouri will soon be getting some new neighbors. Yesterday, Illinois governor Pat Quinn received a letter from President Obama informing him that the terrorism suspects currently detained in Guantanamo Bay will be moved to a largely unused prison in Thomson Illinois, a fe ... More >>

St. Louis Nation's 24th-Smartest City, But Wash. U. Medical Alums Still Allowed to Date Ivy-Leaguers

​Fall is a suspenseful time for the nation's smartest people. No, we're not referring to the announcements of the winners of the MacArthur Foundation "genius" grants or the Nobel Prizes. Those things are all small potatoes compared to The Daily Beast's ranking of America's Smartest Cities, which c ... More >>

Intolerable Cruelty: Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery with Burn After Reading

Surge This

Breaking out of the pack of Iraq war docs, No End in Sight devestates.

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.

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.

Bench the Billiken

Unreal seeks divine inspiration at the Pulpit Masters audition and laments the pending prohibition of the SLU Billiken. Plus, our newest feature: Somebody Buy my Crap!

Trolling for Endorsements

We wake up a Margaret Cho-approved congressional hopeful; plus, Unreal gets the Tiger Beat facts on local car dealers and Bill Haas goes south of the border

Shandi in Furs

Miss Missouri USA faces an ethical dilemma, Blake Ashby pontificates on the sweater vest, Unreal invents a surefire theft deterrent and Joyce Aboussie just gets scary; plus, the Sanford-Brown report and the reasons why the Lou is number two

Warning Signs

Paul Kjorlie hates vinyl banners in Soulard, so he hangs 'em from his house

Chin Music

Henry Rollins takes no prisoners, wants no sympathy and gives good quote

Father Knows Best

Lawrence Biondi radically remakes St. Louis University, leaving resentment in his wake

THE SIXTH SENSE

Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan

Russian Unorthodox

He has been an advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. He's renowned internationally as a journalist and scholar. And he has been a highly popular visiting professor at Webster University. So why is Nikolai Zlobin looking for a job?