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Photos from St. Louis Comic Con: Stan Lee, Henry Winkler and Billy Dee Williams

Comic book hero creator Stan Lee, now age 90, was in St. Louis on Saturday for the Wizard World St. Louis Comic Con at America's Center. The man who helped shape Spider-Man, the Hulk, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Thor, among others, met with fans bright-and-early for a Saturday, 9 to ... More >>

Non-Nerd's Guide to Wizard World Comic Con

Do you hear that -- that low hum of anticipation emanating from comic book shops and Risk tournaments throughout St. Louis? That's the sound of every nerdstuff enthusiast 'gasming as they prepare for Wizard World St. Louis Comic Con, which takes place Friday, March 22-Sunday, March 24 at America's C ... More >>

Sundance 2013: Sex with James Franco, Sultry Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Radcliffe's Jew-Fro, and a Great Film From Jordan

¡Olé! At Blood & Sand, membership truly does have its privileges

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 >>

Weezer's Lost "Songs From The Black Hole" Album Finally Released... By A Message Board

Twenty years ago, the people who yesterday released a complete, remarkably full-sounding version of Songs from the Black Hole, the lost Weezer rock opera begun and abandoned before Pinkerton, probably would have just started a zine or something. The internet's amplified a lot of things--celebrity s ... More >>

Avengers Movie Marathon: Your Super Power Better Be an Invincible Tuchus

The Avengers, this summer's first big comic book movie, is already tracking a robust 95 percent approval rating at Rotten Tomatoes thanks to numerous glowing reviews by the professionals. The Joss Whedon film opens worldwide next Friday. Well, technically it opens at midnight on Thursday, May 3, whi ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending October 9, 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. We don't know of any other author for young ... More >>

This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

Jennifer SilverbergCaprese pintxos from Café Pintxos. Where were they when Ian visited?​Gut Check lunched at House of India and got the scoop on some new resaurants opening in the Central West End and Delmar. What else did Gut Check do this week? We continued the countdown of our favorit ... More >>

Harry Potter: Franchise king, hero of a generation, fights his last battle

Super 8 and a Mighty Kids Meal

Chrissy WilmesMighty greasy!​Summertime is exciting -- vacations, relaxing, realizing you no longer fit into your swimsuit. Here at Gut Check, we think the best part of those sweltering months is the roster of big summer movies -- and 2011 is no exception. After all, there's the last film in t ... More >>

"You can't drink when you're dead": An interview with Steve Earle

Photo: Ted Barron​"I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" is the title of a beloved Hank Williams Sr. song. It's also the title of Steve Earle's new novel, as well as his newest album, and if it's not the motto tacked to his New York City apartment door it damn well should be. We reached Ea ... More >>

Interview: Godfathers Vocalist Peter Coyne on Acting, Journalism and New Songs

After visa issues forced the Godfathers to postpone a few shows on its current U.S. tour, the show is happening tonight at Off Broadway. Here are outtakes from our recent interview with vocalist Peter Coyne.​Mike Appelstein: You know, I saw you play at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New ... More >>

Local Dentist Wants to Steal All Your Candy, Ban Fun (For a Good Cause)!

image viaDon't be fooled: He's a candy vampire!​Hey, kids! St. Louis dentist Dr. James Maxwell is secretly a goblin who wants to steal all your hard-won trick-or-treating loot. It gets worse than that: He's enlisting the help of your parents to snatch the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, fun-size ... More >>

Twelve Ways to Keep Kings Of Leon Poop-Free Tomorrow Night

Wikimedia Commons​Tomorrow night, Kings of Leon returns to the scene of the bird-poop crime, the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater. The concert is a make-up date for the band's abbreviated July 23 show, during which pooping pigeons sent them offstage after three tunes. To ensure that tomorrow's co ... More >>

Interview: Tokyo Police Club's Graham Wright Discusses Stress and the Art of Hype Maintenance

Chrissy PiperTokyo Police Club​Toronto's Tokyo Police Club is an economical bunch. A two-minute song can pack in around a dozen unique hooks, which made 2006's A Lesson In Crime EP more rewarding than most bands' entire discographies. Although its touring schedule is almost as relentless as it ... More >>

Jugger: St. Louis' Own Post-Apocalyptic Bloodsport

Spring is officially in the air. In the St. Louis sporting world that can mean only one thing...grown men and women beating each other with clubs as they attempt to impale a dog skull on a stake.What, you were expecting something about the Cardinals? Too bad, we're talking about the Competitive Unde ... More >>

So Now You Want to Read Some Yaoi

Jennifer SilverbergRussia from Hetalia, embodied by Elise Z. See? Yaoi's totally harmless!​You've read this week's feature on Bishie Con and now you want to read some yaoi. Where to begin?Sarah and Anna, custodians of the Bishie Con manga library, recommend you start by searching the Internet. The ... More >>

One Vampire Movie That Really Sucks: Cirque du Freak tries to get in on the trend. Fails.

R.I.P. John Hughes, Director of Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club Movie Music Innovator

Talk about shocking news: John Hughes -- the movie director and screenwriter famous for his '80s teen movies -- died this morning of a heart attack. He was 59. Hughes' films -- especially the holy trinity of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink -- were innovative in the way they us ... More >>

By the Boards: Dennis Brown on the STL Theater Scene June 26-30

After more than a month of robust activity, it feels as if the local theater scene is about to take a brief hiatus. Blues in the Night at the Black Rep and Little Shop of Horrors at Stages are both closing this weekend. After this weekend The Lady from Dubuque returns to that netherworld where Edwar ... More >>

Summertime St. Louis: Summer of Salvation. The Terminator is back. Plus, 39 other movies we can't wait to see this season.

Transgressions One of Many Gay-Themed Books Stripped of Amazon Sales Ranking

Transgressions, the M/M romance savagely reviewed by Unreal last month, was among the first books stripped of its Amazon.com sales ranking last weekend. (And, no, it did not reveal its firmly-muscled chest.)Amazon's "glitch" or "purge", depending on who you talk to, removed sales rankings from hundr ... More >>

Prince (Less) Charming: Facing Indy at the box office, Narnia sequel ups the action and loses some magic

RFT DJ Spin-Off: Setting the Scene

So Long, Farewell

Dennis Brown bids farewell to the summer season at the Muny.

Kick out the jammies.

A toddler and her dad road-test alt-lullabies for B-Sides, while the Downtown Trio adds jazz and pizzazz to local TV staple the Fan Show.

Model Children

Despite a nonexistent marketing campaign, Cuarón's latest is not to be missed.

Film Openings

Week of December 14, 2006

Unreal Estate

Cartoon kids poke around Spielberg's Monster House

Cruella de Vogue

The Devil Wears Prada slaps the latest duds on an infamous fashion editor

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown, Deanna Jent and Lew Prince suss out local theater

Here's Your Insight, Pal

James Redfield's Prophecy is one divine mess

Vacation, Had to Get Away

Riddle of Steel checks in from Europe, Ghostface Killah gets all James Joyce on us, while the Download directs us to MP3 nirvana

Heavenly Hag

Emma Thompson's Nanny McPhee becomes a thing of beauty

Origin of Innocence

The New World boldly reclaims the Pocahontas tale from Disney

Petrosexuals

The truth about fancy pets' cuddly liaisons, Grandmaster Y.K. Kim's top (tweaked) tips for the new year and a woman who's into the erotic side of Harry Potter.

Lion in Winter

C.S. Lewis' world comes to life in The Chronicles of Narnia.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of November 16, 2005

Riverfront Times' top DVD picks for the week of September 6

Dance of Life

Kristina Martinez celebrates flamenco

Mr. Wizard

The Central West End conjures up a giant amount of Harry Potter fun

Gender Pretender

Billy Crudup goes girly in the witty Shakespearean world of Stage Beauty

Film Openings

Week of November 5, 2003

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Boo Who?

Monsters, Inc. opens the door to a world so good it's scary

Pure Energy

Everything's hotter under the water in Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Spies Unlike Us

Boorman and Le Carré bombard Panama with lies and lust but only a modicum of laughter

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

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