John F. Kennedy

Jackie Robinson Day: From the KMOX Radio Archives

Most U.S. residents are aware that today, April 15, is the day we all must file our income tax return (if we haven't already). Probably not as many of us are cognizant of the fact that it's also the anniversary of the day in 1947 when Jackie Robinson integrated Major League Baseball. On this occasi ... More >>

"Stan Span" Plan Nearly Law: Musial Bridge Tribute Gets Unanimous Support in U.S. Senate

U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, and Roy Blunt, a Republican, don't usually agree on much of anything -- but they can come together for Stan the Man. And thus the rare press release yesterday quoting both Missouri senators, who are championing the unanimous passage this week in the U.S. ... More >>

Happy Presidents' Day to the Top Five Foodie Presidents

Washington has been focusing more and more on food and eating healthy lately, thanks to Mama Obama's presence in the white house. Michelle planted a garden on the White House grounds, which regularly provides produce to the prez and his family. She's working to make school lunches healthier, but she ... More >>

Royale's Cuban Missile Crisis Party Draws Ire of Right-Wing Blogger

This weekend marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, wherein the U.S. discovered Soviet missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from Key West. This led to a 13-day showdown with the USSR, during which Americans were sure the world was about to end. As we know, the world did not end beca ... More >>

Gut Check's Ten Snacks to Pair With Democratic Convention Coverage

Last week, Gut Check offered up a list of ten snacks to pair with Republican National Convention coverage. Of course, the fun doesn't stop there. On Tuesday, September 4, the Democratic National Convention kicked off in Charlotte, North Carolina, prompting Gut Check to brainstorm another set of them ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending December 4, 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. The number one book on this week's bestsel ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 25, 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. Go the Fuck to Sleep is back on the bestsel ... More >>

Here's To You, Mr. Robinson: KMOX finds Jackie Robinson's 1960 interview with Jack Buck

Jack Buck, "the Negro," and Jackie Robinson

Jack Buck interviews Jackie Robinson​On July 7, 2011, when rain halted the Cardinals' assault on the Diamondbacks in the sixth inning, local sportscasters found themselves with an hour to kill. Kevin Wheeler, host of Sports Open Line at KMOX (1120 AM), decided to do something that hadn't been done ... More >>

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 >>

Max & Louie Productions gives us a saccharine take on Ann Landers

"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 >>

Magical Mystery Store: Robert Smith has spent 44 years building Reunion Revolution's remarkable inventory

The Black Angels at the Old Rock House, 4/22/11: Review

Black Angels. Photo by Jon Gitchoff.​ Black Angels/Tone Rodent/Suuns Old Rock House April 22, 2011 Better Than: Timothy Leary's best acid trip. Pity the folks turned away at the door of the Old Rock House last night. It's been four long years since the Black Angels played here, and the band ... More >>

What They Saw

Ruby, Don't Take Your Gun to Town

By the Boards: Dennis Brown on the STL Theater Scene July 23-26

We have some long titles opening this weekend. You Know I Can't Eat Buffalo Meat When There's a Terrorist on the Loose from First Run Theatre is the unknown quantity, but then that's the point of productions at First Run. They're all, like this play by Mario Farwell, world premieres. First Run is a ... More >>

A Fairy Tale Beginning

President Obama to Throw Out First Pitch at All-Star Game

strictlyfitteds.comWe know who President Obama will be pulling for -- the American League. This just in from Major League Baseball: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA TO THROW OUT FIRST PITCH AT MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ALL-STAR GAMEObama to Become the Fourth U.S. President to Throw Out First Pitch at MLB All-Star ... More >>

The Big Bloody: Body Found In Forest Park Identified; Police Say He Was Murdered

Police have identified the body found Monday morning in Forest Park as that of Willard Bryant Payne, 26, of St. Louis. Payne's body was lying face down near the entrance of the John F. Kennedy Forest off Wells Drive in the south side of the park (near the zoo). www.bing.com/maps Police didn't label ... More >>

Happy 92nd Birthday, JFK

Wikimedia CommonsIt seems it will always be John F. Kennedy's deathday in Dallas -- not his birthday -- that we will observe, and that which, even now, almost 46 years later, still fills a dark, anguished corner in the national psyche. JFK, the most famous initials of our lifetime. Stran ... More >>

Presidents & Food: John F. Kennedy

Wikimedia Commons In honor of Presidents' Day, Gut Check celebrates great moments in presidential food history.John F. Kennedy was not a jelly doughnut.That seems to be the consensus about Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech (pictured right). Countless high-school German students like you ... More >>

Arch-Eology

Arch de triumph

About the Cover: Lipstick on a Pit Bull Meets Tricky Dick Nixon

Captain America

Navy SEAL Eric Greitens has come home to St. Louis to help fellow Iraq vets.

After the unspeakable Grinch, Horton is a surprisingly strong Seuss adaptation

Lollapalooza, Day Two: A Review

PEZheads

These guys don’t a give a rip about the candy. It’s all about the plastic dispensers.

What If . . .

A cadre of Missourians stand at the vanguard of the 9/11 "truth movement." Just don't call them conspiracy theorists.

Get Inside!

A round-up of summer's surefire hits (and definite duds)

Current Shows

Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Current Shows

Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Current Shows

Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Current Shows

Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Current Shows

Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Current Shows

Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Current Shows

Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Turn It Up, Mr. Prez!

B-Sides unearths some tight presidential tunes, finds the softer side of the Simpsons' notorious bully and knows way too much about the Spin Doctors

Great Britten

Opera Theatre doesn't get any better than this

Hot Air

Unreal sees what all the inflatable fuss is about, learns why kitties are bad presents and talks to a man who loves hotties-but-smarties; plus, the second installment of Local Blog o' the Week!

Let's Get Busy

Richard Scarry's books come to life at the Magic House

SpongeBob Ballard

Welcome, undersea friend

Extremities

Boarding, biking & blading confab

Story Time

Oldest performing art strikes again

Penalty Kick

Faded soccer glory seen in a U.S. World Cup team without St. Louis talent

Best Place to Exercise

Forest Park

In Cold Blood

Novelist James Ellroy reshapes America's ugly history in his own image

A Glimpse into the Abyss

Thirteen Days takes viewers on a ride through a particularly bumpy period of world history

Best Place to Bird-Watch

John F. Kennedy Forest, Forest Park

Historial Present