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John F. Kennedy

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    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 >>

  • News

    July 28, 2011

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

    ​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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    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 >>

  • 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 >>

  • Culture

    May 19, 2011

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

    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

    May 16, 2011

    "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 >>

  • Music

    April 28, 2011

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

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2011

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    April 14, 2011

    What They Saw

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    June 16, 2010

    Ruby, Don't Take Your Gun to Town

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    July 22, 2009

    A Fairy Tale Beginning

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    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 >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2009

    Arch-Eology

    Arch de triumph

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2008

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

    Arch de triumph

  • News

    July 9, 2008

    Earl Mullins has liftoff. Years in the making, his space museum in Bonne Terre has taken flight.

    Arch de triumph

  • News

    April 9, 2008

    Captain America

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

  • Film

    March 12, 2008

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

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

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2007

    Lollapalooza, Day Two: A Review

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

  • News

    July 4, 2007

    PEZheads

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

  • News

    July 26, 2006

    What If . . .

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

  • News

    May 24, 2006

    Get Inside!

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

  • Culture

    March 22, 2006

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    March 15, 2006

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    March 8, 2006

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    March 1, 2006

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    February 22, 2006

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    February 15, 2006

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Culture

    February 8, 2006

    Current Shows

    Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  • Music

    December 14, 2005

    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

  • Culture

    June 22, 2005

    Great Britten

    Opera Theatre doesn't get any better than this

  • News

    March 9, 2005

    Slay Bells Ring

    Are you listening? The RFT goes stumping with Francis.

  • News

    December 22, 2004

    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!

  • News

    September 15, 2004

    Letters

    Week of September 15, 2004

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2004

    Let's Get Busy

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

  • Calendar

    November 12, 2003

    SpongeBob Ballard

    Welcome, undersea friend

  • Calendar

    August 6, 2003

    Extremities

    Boarding, biking & blading confab

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2003

    Story Time

    Oldest performing art strikes again

  • News

    June 19, 2002

    Penalty Kick

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

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 26, 2001

    Best Place to Exercise

    Forest Park

  • Culture

    May 16, 2001

    In Cold Blood

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

  • News

    April 18, 2001

    The Fire Down Below

    For more than three decades, Eric Vickers has been lighting brushfires, crusading against the racism he sees around him. Now, the civil-rights lawyer and activist finds himself burned.

  • Film

    January 10, 2001

    A Glimpse into the Abyss

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

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 27, 2000

    Best Place to Bird-Watch

    John F. Kennedy Forest, Forest Park

  • News

    January 6, 1999

    Historial Present

    John F. Kennedy Forest, Forest Park

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