Subject:

Jack Kerouac

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    RIP Poet and Songwriter Fran Landesman, 1927-2011: "Life is a Bitch"

    image viaFran Landesman in 1996.​Fran Landesman, a poet and songwriter who, along with her husband Jay and brother-in-law Fred, ran the Crystal Palace nightclub in Gaslight Square in the late 1950s, died last Saturday, July 23, in London. She was 83. Her website proclaims her "the poet laurea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2011

    Sarah Palin's Paul Revere And Three Mostly Accurate History Songs

    by Bob Weinstein; Wikipedia. ​Note to self, as a future historical-figure-ghost: If Sarah Palin and Paul Revere are any indication, the best way to trend on Twitter 200 years after your death is to have someone controversial give a particularly strange recounting of your life's work, as inform ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2011

    Philip Gounis on Poetry, Youtube and Bob Dylan

    Photo by Jon Scorfina​Though records are most commonly thought of as a way to listen to music, they were also the first medium to document the majesty and mystery of the spoken human voice. Local poet and former Streetside Records employee Philip Gounis is a lifelong collector of spoken-word r ... More >>

  • Film

    December 16, 2010

    The Micky Ward story falls through the ropes in a too-familiar The Fighter

    Photo by Jon Scorfina​Though records are most commonly thought of as a way to listen to music, they were also the first medium to document the majesty and mystery of the spoken human voice. Local poet and former Streetside Records employee Philip Gounis is a lifelong collector of spoken-word r ... More >>

  • News

    August 18, 2010

    From Mark Twain to Jonathan Franzen, St. Louis has been home to a surprising number of great writers

    Photo by Jon Scorfina​Though records are most commonly thought of as a way to listen to music, they were also the first medium to document the majesty and mystery of the spoken human voice. Local poet and former Streetside Records employee Philip Gounis is a lifelong collector of spoken-word r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Show Review Photos: Jay Farrar Heats Up the Old Rock House, Thursday, June 17

    Photo: Jason StoffJay Farrar last night at the Old Rock House. See a full slideshow from last night's Jay Farrar solo gig at the Old Rock House.​Clad in a kitschy, long-sleeved black cowboy shirt, Jay Farrar barely flinched from the heat as he plowed through a 100-minute set loaded with Son Vo ... More >>

  • Music

    June 16, 2010

    Jay Farrar

    9 p.m. Thursday, June 17. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2010

    Road Kill

    9 p.m. Thursday, June 17. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street.

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2009

    Show Review: Son Volt at the Pageant, Friday, November 6

    No matter how many people he knows at a St. Louis Son Volt show, Jay Farrar will always be the guy who played a big part in creating the "alt. country" genre. Twenty years after Uncle Tupelo's heyday, Farrar and the current Son Volt line-up stay true to their roots without being strangled by them, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard Set Tour Dates

    Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard are playing four shows in October, to celebrate the release of their Jack Kerouac-inspired collaboration, One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur. The closest tour date is October 26 in Chicago at Lincoln Hall -- and judging by the band backing the pair, a road trip m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard's Jack Kerouac-Inspired CD Out This Fall

    When I spoke with Jay Farrar a few months ago, he mentioned that the Jack Kerouac-inspired project he recorded with Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard was "in the works, and it could possibly come out in the fall, like around October." Good estimate: A press release just landed in my inbox stating t ... More >>

  • Music

    July 8, 2009

    Little America: Son Volt's new LP, American Central Dust, has deep reverence for — and curiosity about — history

    When I spoke with Jay Farrar a few months ago, he mentioned that the Jack Kerouac-inspired project he recorded with Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard was "in the works, and it could possibly come out in the fall, like around October." Good estimate: A press release just landed in my inbox stating t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2008

    Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

    Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic F ... More >>

  • News

    September 5, 2007

    Gay Guns

    Despite feeling snubbed by Kerouac, Unreal's wide awake, hammered, packing pink heat and looking for a sign from God.

  • Music

    May 30, 2007

    2007 RFT Music Showcase

    Week of May 31, 2007

  • Calendar

    November 1, 2006

    Keep the Beats Alive

    Week of May 31, 2007

  • Dining

    June 7, 2006

    Handi-Snacks Oreo Cookie Sticks 'n Creme

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  • News

    April 12, 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.

  • Music

    July 27, 2005

    Find the River

    Bill Callahan discovers new sounds and voices -- and cleans up with Chloe Sevigny -- on Smog's latest album

  • News

    July 6, 2005

    War Is Heck

    Unreal works up a sweat over B-list celebs' military records and plays with anthrax in Forest Park. Plus, a local blogger does his gay part on a hallowed gay day.

  • Culture

    September 1, 2004

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    August 25, 2004

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    August 18, 2004

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    August 11, 2004

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    August 4, 2004

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    July 28, 2004

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    July 21, 2004

    Boring Breakfast

    This witless, low-cal production disappoints

  • Culture

    July 21, 2004

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    July 14, 2004

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    July 7, 2004

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Music

    April 21, 2004

    Back on the Chain Gang

    The Raveonettes are androgynous-Nordic-black-leather sexy -- oh, yes

  • News

    March 3, 2004

    Beat Regeneration

    When audiences dug the dexedrine-fueled, pot-stoked Nervous Set at the Crystal Palace back in 1959, St. Louis was like cool, man, cool

  • Culture

    April 2, 2003

    A Grand Guy

    How Steven Soderbergh kept the Terry Southern tale from turning tragic

  • Calendar

    October 30, 2002

    Hearse Verse

    "Day of the Dead Beats" has become autumn tradition for local poetry aficionados

  • Culture

    August 7, 2002

    Stunt Double

    Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel's gimmick-laden The Mineola Twins falls short

  • Culture

    March 13, 2002

    Confess, Greg

    For years, Fletch was out of print. Now, his father explains why.

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 27, 2000

    Best Folk-Music Venue

    Focal Point

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 27, 2000

    Best Underground/Under-the-Ground Writer

    William S. Burroughs

  • News

    May 24, 2000

    Net Losses

    Cyberporn's sexual pleasure often comes with accompanying financial pain

  • Calendar

    October 27, 1999

    TRICK-OR-BEAT

    River Styx raises the spirits of Burroughs, Kerouac and Ginsberg with "Day of the Dead Beats"

  • Film

    September 22, 1999

    THE SOURCE

    Written and directed by Chuck Workman

  • News

    March 3, 1999

    Publish or Perish

    Self-promoting poet and noted Faulkner collector Louis Daniel Brodsky tends to his legacy: shepherding his entire life's work into print

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