J.R.R. Tolkien

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 30, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books and Subterranean Books. This week's bestseller list displays the effects of final-de ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 9, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books and Subterranean Books. According to the Mayan calendar, the world's about to end thi ... More >>

The Hobbit gets neither there nor back again

Welcome Back, King

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Ten Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend in St. Louis, November 6-8, 2009

You could go out this weekend and spend a wad of cash drinking like a sailor. Or, you might find yourself online or at the mall, and end up charging a ridiculous-looking thermal coat to your Visa. But why put yourself in the poorhouse (or the poky) when all the following events are just $10 or less? ... More >>

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Interview: Paul Hahn, Elven Language Scholar Bonus MP3

Musical Chronicle

Puddle of Fun

LocoRoco is the perfect one-night stand.

Brave New Town

Some call it a well-ordered paradise. Others say it's just plain sprawl.

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Opening Nights

Gerbergate

Jennifer Joyce contest results, a psychic porn star and perhaps the only Provel-related legal battle in history: Who could ask for anything more? (We've got dirt on Gephardt and the Cards, too, just in case you're greedy.)

Orc Chops

The action's much meatier in Jackson's second Rings film

Talkin' Tolkien

Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

Force of Hobbit

Frodo lives, amid outlandish spectacle, in The Lord of the Rings

Termagant of Endearment

Liv Tyler makes the boys go crazy in One Night at McCool's

Dream Weaver

Sandman author Neil Gaiman finds magic in the damnedest place