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PHOTOS: Cardinals Uniform Re-imagined as a Soccer Jersey

Fact: You can purchase an official pair of Cardinals thong underwear at the team store at Busch Stadium. We know this because a friend of ours (with questionable taste) recently bought a pair for a female acquaintance as a wedding gift. All of which begs the question: Given that the Cardinals will ... More >>

Panic at Wash. U.! School Fails to Make Top 100 in International Employability Survey

When you're paying more than $50,000 per year for your college education, you expect a return on your investment -- like, say, a job when you graduate. So maybe you can understand the rumblings of panic emerging from Washington University after the International Herald Tribune released the results ... More >>

The Latin Sound of Missouri's David Wax Museum: Jarana Jarochas, Quijadas y Mas

For as stiff and coy as the band's name may be, the David Wax Museum's hybrid of indie pop, folk and folkloric music flares with smart sonic ideas and timeless and in-the-moment images. Born and raised in Columbia, Missouri, Wax (that is his last name) still has family in University City and still h ... More >>

Rare Glimpse Into Underground Tunnels of River Des Peres

Sunlight pours into the stairs to the River Des Peres.​The entrance to the tunnels of the River Des Peres lie hidden beneath a grate east of the Forest Park visitor's center. Pull up the metal cover and a staircase descends forty feet into the cool darkness. For over 100 years the River Des Peres ... More >>

Smart Girls Invade St. Louis -- Teaching Conservatives to "Fight Like a Girl"

Jennifer DeJournett conducts the VOICES of Conservative Women's Presidential straw poll, won by Michele Bachmann.​Sarah Palin was not present at the third annual Smart Girl Summit, which took place last Friday and Saturday at the Crowne Plaza downtown (not, as was reported by The Daily Beast, ... More >>

Fat Kids Are Neglected! Restaurants Jump to the Rescue!

Wikimedia CommonsOh no! He's chubby! Take him away! ​American children are fat hogs who are all going to develop type II diabetes, and parents are too incompetent to raise the little chubbos of their making! Or so an advocacy piece by Harvard researchers Lindsey Murtagh and David Ludwig in t ... More >>

Recap: Bob Dylan Conference at UMSL, March 19 -- All Along the Ivory Tower

Image via​On Saturday, March 19, about 30 people - a mix of middle-aged-and-older Dylanheads, Hellenic Studies and Classics scholars, and a couple of students - gathered at the University of Missouri-St. Louis for a conference exploring connections between Bob Dylan and ancient Greece. Titled ... More >>

Because There's No News to Report in Kansas City, Royals Blogger Makes Some Up

image viaYou can't tell, but there's a passage from Of Plymouth Plantation under the brim of Crawford's cap.​This is, to put it kindly, not an especially exciting time of year to be a journalist. Especially if you cover baseball. So naturally, it's the perfect time for Kansas City Royals blogg ... More >>

Researcher: InBev Pushes Anti-Booze Program That's Destined to Fail

​ St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch (which is now, of course, part of the InBev conglomerate) has long been a font of carbonated sustenance to college kids across the United States, appealing to thirsty scholars and rabid game-day fans alike. Through i ... More >>

You think the Americans with Disabilities Act has leveled the playing field? Try walking in my shoes.

Wash. U. Students Set Guinness World Record for Biggest Nerf Gun Battle

image viaWash. U. students shoot for a new world record.​Let it not be said that students at Washington University are not overachievers. Over the weekend, recent graduate Priya Sury was named a Rhodes Scholar. Also, 468 current students shot at each other with Nerf guns to set a Guinness worl ... More >>

"Lady Jazz" Mae Wheeler: One of Seven St. Louis Arts Honorees Named Today

Mae Wheeler, a.k.a. "Lady Jazz"​The Arts and Education Council is out with the twentieth edition of its St. Louis Arts Awards honorees. Among those heading up the 2011 class (to be recognized at a January ceremony) are Mae Wheeler, a local singer better known as "Lady Jazz"; Wayne Salomon, directo ... More >>

Interview: Gotta Be Karim on Atlanta vs. St. Louis Hip-Hop, His New Record and Tonight's Homecoming Show at the Gramophone

photo by Jennifer SilverbergGotta Be Karim looks damn good in tweed.​Last time we checked in on Gotta Be Karim, the U-City native had just swapped his Cardinals fitted cap for a Braves lid in his music video for "When You See Me," causing us to joke that it looked like he finally cut ties with his ... More >>

The Don Draper-William S. Burroughs Connection

Mad Men is not coming back till July 25, but there's no reason we can't start talking about it now. So let's discuss this latest theory: Don Draper is actually a St. Louisan. We know his body (well, Jon Hamm, anyway) is from here. But a blog post from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website last wee ... More >>

Washington University Among the Most Stressful Colleges in America

Be nice to Wash. U. students. They're really stressed out.​Another day, another ranking. This one involves rating which of the nation's top 50 campuses are the biggest pressure cookers, of which Washington University placed No. 13 -- in between Yale and Dartmouth. Stanford is the leading ... More >>

Hallowed Be Thy Name: A member of the Schlafly clan figures to do the Lord's work by cleansing the Bible of its "liberal bias"

The Price is Right: Bob Barker Donates $1 Million to Establish Animal Rights Professorship at Drury University

flickr.com/photos/34443508@N08​C'mon down! Bob Barker, the erstwhile host of The Price is Right and longtime animal rights activist, has just donated $1 million to his alma mater, Drury University in Springfield, MO, to establish a professorship in animal rights. Barker hopes it will be the beginn ... More >>

The Awful Truth: Attn: Wall Street. Michael Moore is a Marxist (but he's still selling the same old shtick).

Show Review Photos: Fall Out Boy, Chester French and Brendon Urie at the Pageant, Wednesday, August 19

Photo: Nick SchnelleView more photos from the show last night.​ REVIEW BY MATTHEW JACKSON (View photos from the show last night.) Fall Out Boy's concert Wednesday night at the Pageant afforded many opportunities, but primary among them was the chance to answer, in one continuous sitting, that ... More >>

Drinking the Cobra Venom

Maybe it's because it's Good Friday, or maybe it's because of this week's cover story, or a rerun of Married...With Children we caught the other day (the one where Al sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for taking the Chicago Bears to the Super Bowl) but Unreal has been a bit preoccupied with de ... More >>

Emily Pulitzer's $45 Million Gift to St. Louis Art Museum Remains Talk -- For Now

Emily Pulitzer in the '80sOnline magazine Slate is out with its annual ranking of the nation's 60 biggest philanthropists. Art connoisseur and former newspaper magnate Emily Rauh Pulitzer is the only St. Louisan to make this year's list. Pulitzer earned her spot last October when she gave $45 millio ... More >>

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

On a Horse and a Prayer

Unreal prays, then bets it all on our namesake equine. Then, we get schooled in vocab by a fifteen-year-old.

Who you calling "racist"?

Joe doesn't take too kindly to a reader's taunts.

Finkelstein Doesn't Disappoint

2006: The Year in Movies

Week of December 28, 2006

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.

Film Openings

Week of October 26, 2005

Pulitzer's Pain

Banished from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch a decade ago, Joseph Pulitzer IV lives in self-imposed exile in Wyoming. What went wrong?

Beethoven's Second

Camper Van Beethoven is back -- just in time

Popcorgasm

Unreal witnesses debate history (well, from a tent outside), learns guerrilla postering tactics and asks the tough questions about adult diapers; plus, this is the month to celebrate two of our most favorite things!

Methmaker, Methmaker, Make Me Some Meth

Unreal finds good meth-lab locations and talks to a young lady making her way in the world (with the help of semi-nude photos); Bill Haas gets honest; and we (and Denny's) find several ways to play with our food

Family Portrait

Andrew Jarecki captured the Friedmans, perhaps to free them

Is This a Stagger I See Before Me?

The shot heard round the world

Catcher in the Sky

Spielberg, once more, is caught up in the thrill of the chase

Hi, Jinx!

Berry helps Brosnan get his Irish up in Die Another Day

Chris Cross

Behind the Greenlight is a producer proud to be an ass

Film Openings

Week of December 19, 2001

The Masochism Musical

K's Theatrical Korps resurrects the tunes of Dr. Demento fave Tom Lehrer

Tom Rush

Friday, Feb. 2; Sheldon Concert Hall.

Pieces of the Puzzle

"The New Breed" is the great first single from St. Louis hip-hoppers Bits n' Pieces

Perpetual Movement

American BT builds a new house, to rave reviews from both sides of the pond

Deep Space Ten

St. Louis Art Museum visitors are blasted into a Wonderland of space

And You Thought the Presidential Race Was Going to Be Dry

As Senate rivals Ashcroft and Carnahan sling mud, gubernatorial contestants Talent and Holden gather dust

PLAYING TAPS

A tribute to the great trumpeter Lester Bowie

GUINEVERE

Written and directed by Audrey Wells

Out of Order

When the case of a woman who claimed she was fired after refusing sex with her boss came before Circuit Judge Robert H. Dierker Jr., he didn't just issue an order. He let the world know a little too much about his politics and what he thinks about the "de

This Week

Time Zone

Boulevard editor Richard Burgin recalls meeting Jorge Luis Borges, the great Argentine writer who found expression for the infinite

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