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John Hughes

  • Music

    March 1, 2012

    Eddie Money

    7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Friday, March 2. Lumière Place Casino, 999 North Second Street.

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2012

    Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

    Read it and weep. Like, a lot.​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 15, 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 children ... More >>

  • Film

    October 13, 2011

    Footloose 2011 has the moves to bridge generations

    Read it and weep. Like, a lot.​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 15, 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 children ... More >>

  • Film

    July 28, 2011

    Not Crazy Enough: I Love You Phillip Morris directors fall short with the less-than-groundbreaking Crazy, Stupid, Love

    Read it and weep. Like, a lot.​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 15, 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 children ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    If Harry Potter Characters Had Bands: Twelve We'd Like To See

    ​If Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton's promise (which turned out to be a joke/hoax) to become a white rapper was just one more sad reminder of a series you used to love, we don't blame you -- but we would like to discourage you. Harry Potter, as I'm sure you will remember, is after all a little m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Bloody Hell: Local Film The Bloodfest Club Rolls Out Trailer

    After their first film, Hooch & Daddy-O, racked up an armful of awards on the film-festival circuit, co-writers and coproducers Jim Ousley and Oscar Madrid went on to take home an RFT MasterMinds Award back in 2009. They've since moved forward with The Bloodfest Club, directed by Madrid, which they ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    In Defense of Spaghetti Tacos

    image via​Really, there's no defense for spaghetti tacos, a creation that outraged the food blogosphere recently with rants from the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Atlantic and yes, even Gut Check. Spaghetti tacos were introduced on the Nickelodeon show iCarly, where they even got th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 19, 2010

    Prom Do-Over

    image via​Really, there's no defense for spaghetti tacos, a creation that outraged the food blogosphere recently with rants from the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Atlantic and yes, even Gut Check. Spaghetti tacos were introduced on the Nickelodeon show iCarly, where they even got th ... More >>

  • Film

    March 24, 2010

    The DeLorean's a Jacuzzi and the '80s are back in Hot Tub Time Machine

    image via​Really, there's no defense for spaghetti tacos, a creation that outraged the food blogosphere recently with rants from the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Atlantic and yes, even Gut Check. Spaghetti tacos were introduced on the Nickelodeon show iCarly, where they even got th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 3, 2009

    Fast Times at Granite City High

    Image Via​Sex, booze, sexting, private dicks, extra-special special education, and a girls volleyball coach gone bad: It's not even winter break and already it's been a banner year for Granite City High SchoolThe Belleville News-Democrat did a nice bit of muckraking for this morning's edition, run ... More >>

  • Culture

    August 26, 2009

    2009 Film/Video MasterMinds: Jim Ousley & Oscar Madrid

    Image Via​Sex, booze, sexting, private dicks, extra-special special education, and a girls volleyball coach gone bad: It's not even winter break and already it's been a banner year for Granite City High SchoolThe Belleville News-Democrat did a nice bit of muckraking for this morning's edition, run ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    What's Your Favorite Sixteen Candles Line?

    Legendary movie director John Hughes died yesterday. Hughes directed and/or wrote such classic films as Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink and Planes, Trains and Automobiles.But my favorite remains Hughes' first bit hit, Sixteen Candles, in which the foreign-exchange studen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2009

    R.I.P. John Hughes, Director of Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club Movie Music Innovator

    Talk about shocking news: John Hughes -- the movie director and screenwriter famous for his '80s teen movies -- died this morning of a heart attack. He was 59. Hughes' films -- especially the holy trinity of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink -- were innovative in the way they us ... More >>

  • Music

    June 24, 2009

    Plushgun/Nightmare of You

    8:30 p.m. Sunday, June 28. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2009

    Show Review Photos: MSTRKRFT, Santigold, Trouble Andrew and Amanda Blank at the Pageant, Saturday, June 13

    Around 1:10 a.m. or so, MSTRKRFT dropped bits of Daft Punk's "Da Funk" into its DJ set. The crowd - or what was left of it - at the Pageant naturally went apeshit, fueled as much by free Bacardi drinks as it was by the French techno-funk. And sure, at that hour, nothing is better than hearing an awe ... More >>

  • Film

    April 1, 2009

    Great America: The summer of our '80s youth in Adventureland

    Around 1:10 a.m. or so, MSTRKRFT dropped bits of Daft Punk's "Da Funk" into its DJ set. The crowd - or what was left of it - at the Pageant naturally went apeshit, fueled as much by free Bacardi drinks as it was by the French techno-funk. And sure, at that hour, nothing is better than hearing an awe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2009

    Area Men In the Vicinity of Success

    Hooch & Daddy-O in their glory days.Oscar Madrid and Jim Ousley, the writers of fake-documentary-real-funny-film Hooch & Daddy-O, are not content to rest on their laurels. Because those laurels aren't for sitting on -- they're for building on. Madrid and Ousley now have plans for a com ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    The Year 2008 in Band Names, by the Onion's A.V. Club

    This is probably my favorite round-up of the year: The A.V. Club's list of funny, asinine, ridiculous, awesome or just plain terrible band names. The entire list is well worth perusing, but my favorites include the following sections: REWORKING PROPER NAMES & TRADEMARKSSega GenocideWeird Al Qaed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2008

    Second Spin: Cock Robin, Cock Robin

    This is probably my favorite round-up of the year: The A.V. Club's list of funny, asinine, ridiculous, awesome or just plain terrible band names. The entire list is well worth perusing, but my favorites include the following sections: REWORKING PROPER NAMES & TRADEMARKSSega GenocideWeird Al Qaed ... More >>

  • Music

    August 6, 2008

    '80s Prom featuring the Mandonnas

    10 p.m. Saturday, August 9. The Gramophone, 4243 Manchester Avenue

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2008

    Second Spin: DeBarge, "Dance All Night" (Special 12" Mix)

    10 p.m. Saturday, August 9. The Gramophone, 4243 Manchester Avenue

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2008

    Are You Going to Prom

    10 p.m. Saturday, August 9. The Gramophone, 4243 Manchester Avenue

  • Calendar

    April 2, 2008

    Demented and Sad

    But social

  • Film

    February 27, 2008

    True Story: Columbia's True/False Film Fest hits the half-decade mark

    But social

  • Home Entertainment

    July 18, 2007

    Cold War Reheated

    Red Dawn: Collector's Edition

  • News

    December 27, 2006

    2006: The Year in Movies

    Week of December 28, 2006

  • Music

    December 13, 2006

    Black Tie Dynasty / Berry / Hibernauts

    9 p.m. Thursday, December 14. Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue).

  • News

    November 8, 2006

    Long Live Rock School

    Hey kids! Dave Simon's music academy can transform you from a painfully shy teen to a guitar-slinging badass! Even your parents will approve!

  • Home Entertainment

    November 2, 2005

    The Force Runs Its Course

    Hey kids! Dave Simon's music academy can transform you from a painfully shy teen to a guitar-slinging badass! Even your parents will approve!

  • Music

    October 26, 2005

    The Ghost in You

    Get your spook on at Halloween shows around town

  • Calendar

    June 9, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Week of June 9, 2004

  • Film

    April 28, 2004

    Teen Spleen

    Talking smack wreaks high school havoc in Mean Girls

  • Culture

    March 31, 2004

    Jersey Gurgle

    Kevin Smith is Silent Bob? Dude, my butt he is.

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2003

    The March to Middlesex

    Jeffrey Eugenides closes the gender gap

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2003

    Plastic Woman

    Soo Sunny Park at Laumeier

  • Film

    April 23, 2003

    Film Openings

    Week of April 23, 2003

  • Music

    January 22, 2003

    Triple Play

    Lightning strikes three times in one place, on one night

  • Music

    March 6, 2002

    Dismemberment Plan and Death Cab for Cutie

    Friday, March 8; Creepy Crawl

  • Film

    February 6, 2002

    Asking for It

    Storytelling continues Solondz's bluster of sex, rage and insanity

  • Film

    March 1, 2000

    Drowning Mona

    Directed by Nick Gomez

  • Film

    November 10, 1999

    DOGMA

    Written and directed by Kevin Smith

  • Music

    July 14, 1999

    Slicker, Chisel Drill Hammer, Illium, and Ghosts and Vodka

    Friday, July 16; Rocket Bar

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