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Ivy League

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Madonna, the Spits Lead This Week's Show Annoucements

    Madonna is taking time out of her taxing virgin-blood-drinking schedule long enough to fit in a lil' world tour. She'll bring all the hits and her terrifying biceps to the Scottrade Center on November 1. Teflon Don, The Boss Rick Ross is at the Ambassador on February 19. Rob Ruzicka is throwing hims ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    Six Worst Musical Thefts by White People

    Keith Richards early in his career. ​February is Black History Month, the mere existence of which is a reminder that white people have spent a majority of America's existence being total dicks. When it comes to popular music, Caucasians are like a race comprising Winona Ryders who have no prob ... More >>

  • Film

    September 22, 2011

    The formulas work in Moneyball

    Keith Richards early in his career. ​February is Black History Month, the mere existence of which is a reminder that white people have spent a majority of America's existence being total dicks. When it comes to popular music, Caucasians are like a race comprising Winona Ryders who have no prob ... More >>

  • News

    May 19, 2011

    Back from the Undead: Happy 100th to homegrown horror icon Vincent Price

    Keith Richards early in his career. ​February is Black History Month, the mere existence of which is a reminder that white people have spent a majority of America's existence being total dicks. When it comes to popular music, Caucasians are like a race comprising Winona Ryders who have no prob ... More >>

  • Film

    May 12, 2011

    Playing mad and loving it in The Beaver

    Keith Richards early in his career. ​February is Black History Month, the mere existence of which is a reminder that white people have spent a majority of America's existence being total dicks. When it comes to popular music, Caucasians are like a race comprising Winona Ryders who have no prob ... More >>

  • News

    November 11, 2010

    The 2010 St. Louis International Film Festival was to have been a triumphant homecoming for George Hickenlooper. Instead, it'll be a wake.

    Keith Richards early in his career. ​February is Black History Month, the mere existence of which is a reminder that white people have spent a majority of America's existence being total dicks. When it comes to popular music, Caucasians are like a race comprising Winona Ryders who have no prob ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Interview: Vampire Weekend's Rostam Batmanglij on His Checkered Ska Past, Confounding Critics -- and Why Vampire Weekend is a Punk Band

    Annie ZaleskiVampire Weekend's Ezra Koenig, taken at the Pageant in 2008​If you're reading this, you've probably already made up your mind about Vampire Weekend. Most find the New York quartet's music either delicious or disgusting, with very few people in the "just okay" camp. Speaking to A t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2010

    New Guide to All Things Prep Snubs Ladue and Its Yacht Club

    image via"Muffy, we've been snubbed!"​Now we know that most of this country's preppies are concentrated in the northeast. That is, after all, where most prep schools and all the Ivy League colleges are. But according to True Prep, a sequel of sorts to the 1980 classic The Official Preppy Handbook, ... More >>

  • News

    June 9, 2010

    Cowboy Down

    Rob Krentz's family talks about the life and death of the murdered Arizona rancher

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Previewing the Padres

    commons.wikimedia.orgAdmit it. That's a creepy effing mascot. ​​The Cardinals travel to San Diego tonight to begin a series against the surprising Padres, who sit atop the NL West. Looking over at the other dugout, the Cards just may see a mirror image of themselves, a team succeeding mostly on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    R.I.P. Theodore Sizer, Education Reform Pioneer, 1932-2009

    The New York Times just posted an obituary of Theodore R. Sizer, founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools, who reportedly died yesterday at his home in Massachusetts.Writes Times reporter Margalit Fox:Sizer was best known as the father of the Essential Schools movement, which he founded in 1984 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    A Waitress-cum-Senator do a Supreme Court Justice Make?

    Wikimedia CommonsA woman's place is not in the kitchen. It's at the front of the house, like on the bench at the U.S. Supreme Court.A former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush has floated the name of -- nay, endorsed -- Missouri's freshman senator for the soon-to-be-open seat on the U.S. Supreme Cour ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2008

    Erstwhile Unreal Columnist Wants Back on School Board

    Filing begins tomorrow for the Elected School Board of the St. Louis Public Schools, and guess who plans to be first in line? St. Louis' evergreen political candidate, Mr. William "Bill" Haas. Although he's got degrees from Yale and Harvard, Haas has yet to join his Ivy League breth ... More >>

  • Music

    September 3, 2008

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

    Filing begins tomorrow for the Elected School Board of the St. Louis Public Schools, and guess who plans to be first in line? St. Louis' evergreen political candidate, Mr. William "Bill" Haas. Although he's got degrees from Yale and Harvard, Haas has yet to join his Ivy League breth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 19, 2008

    Pitchfork: Vampire Weekend Recap, Photos

    Filing begins tomorrow for the Elected School Board of the St. Louis Public Schools, and guess who plans to be first in line? St. Louis' evergreen political candidate, Mr. William "Bill" Haas. Although he's got degrees from Yale and Harvard, Haas has yet to join his Ivy League breth ... More >>

  • Music

    June 25, 2008

    Warped Tour darlings Cobra Starship discusses side projects and fanny packs, while the hidden history of Green Jellÿ is revealed

    Filing begins tomorrow for the Elected School Board of the St. Louis Public Schools, and guess who plans to be first in line? St. Louis' evergreen political candidate, Mr. William "Bill" Haas. Although he's got degrees from Yale and Harvard, Haas has yet to join his Ivy League breth ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    March 5, 2008

    Oscar-Starved

    Into the Wild released on DVD

  • Film

    August 22, 2007

    Bugaboo Confidential

    Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag

  • News

    July 4, 2007

    Here She Is, Miss Neurobiology

    Joe takes a swing at the pageant industry

  • News

    April 4, 2007

    Did George W.'s grandpa steal Pancho Villa's head?

    The truth behind a decades-old skull theft.

  • News

    March 21, 2007

    Unreal spends time with lovely Swedish...bridge players.

    Then, one reader takes the St. Louis Public Library to task, while another brings home a tasty bowl of spicy bull penis.

  • Music

    September 13, 2006

    Beat Happenings

    Music news you can use

  • Dining

    August 16, 2006

    Peach cosmopolitan

    Busch's Grove, 9160 Clayton Road, Ladue;
    314-993-0011.

  • Culture

    June 7, 2006

    Clothes by Any Other Name

    She designs the duds that make the OSTL sing

  • Music

    November 30, 2005

    Matchmaker, Matchmaker

    B-Sides finds other Franken-guitars to match Junior Brown's creation, earns some holiday cash on eBay and discovers that Milemarker and My Chemical Romance have more in common than you'd think

  • Film

    November 9, 2005

    Films Without Borders

    The fourteenth annual St. Louis International Film Festival gets off to a great start

  • News

    March 30, 2005

    Bank Shot

    Internet hoops junkies fuel Shawn Siegel's Jerry Maguire-like dreams

  • Film

    March 2, 2005

    Get Lost

    It'd Be Cool if this sequel were any good. Too bad it ain't.

  • News

    August 4, 2004

    Jerry Baby!

    We try to track down Jerry Berger, investigate what Carnahan is doing on the Flipside and learn about a Cosmological Flight Machine; plus, Bill Haas dishes the dirt and Unreal gets schooled at a "Rock, Paper, Scissors" tourney

  • News

    October 29, 2003

    Underdogs

    Hoop dreams die hard for coach John Campbell and his Sanford-Brown Indians

  • Film

    January 1, 2003

    Fear Factor

    2002 proved that TV has no shame at any hour

  • Culture

    December 25, 2002

    Fear Factor

    But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

  • Music

    December 4, 2002

    White Riot

    Jewish pottymouth MC Paul Barman makes a brilliant hip-hop oddity

  • Film

    September 18, 2002

    Burr, Not Chilly

    With the rich, says Igby, always a little pity

  • News

    March 27, 2002

    Judgment at Hookyville

    The volunteer jurists running a truancy court for St. Louis get an up-close view of wayward kids, don't-care parents and war-zone schools. It's worse than they thought.

  • Film

    December 26, 2001

    Visions of Grandeur

    Inside the Beautiful Mind of John Nash lies madness and magic

  • News

    December 5, 2001

    Emmy Award

    Emily Pulitzer's gift to St. Louis has arrived in a concrete box. Hidden inside: the portrait of a woman who changed the city.

  • Film

    July 11, 2001

    Legally Bland

    Reese Witherspoon's talents are wasted in the muddy, unoriginal Legally Blonde

  • News

    February 7, 2001

    The Midas Touch

    Cardinals owner Bill DeWitt Jr. has a knack for making money without risking his own. Meet the guy who wants you to cough up $250 million for a new stadium.

  • Music

    December 20, 2000

    Freight Elevator Quartet

    Becoming Transparent (Caipirinha)

  • News

    September 6, 2000

    The Talented Mr. Spellmann

    Lindenwood University's president may be a genius, a savior and a visionary. He may also be higher ed's worst nightmare.

  • Music

    March 15, 2000

    Mike Seeger

    Sunday, March 19; Monday Club

  • Film

    December 22, 1999

    THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY

    Written and directed by Anthony Minghella

  • Calendar

    December 8, 1999

    SPACE EXPLORER

    Photographer Gary Simmons leads a tour of the (empty) halls of academe in a new exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum

  • Culture

    July 14, 1999

    True West

    By Sam Shepard (Actors Renaissance Theatre)

  • Culture

    June 30, 1999

    Slick

    By Sam Shepard (Actors Renaissance Theatre)

  • News

    February 3, 1999

    Meet the Beat

    Hip-hop's here. Deal with it. Check the local MCs and DJs moving up from the underground.

  • Film

    January 27, 1999

    The Mild Bunch

    Hip-hop's here. Deal with it. Check the local MCs and DJs moving up from the underground.

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