Libraries

Hair-O Hero

Pig Party

Breaking the Ice

Tony Perolio Benefit Concert to Drum up Support for Leukemia Research

St. Louis musicians are a pretty generous bunch; it seems like they're always lending their tunes to local productions, sharing how-to tips and staging benefit shows. And so it goes this weekend when three of St. Louis' widely-praised bands come together to honor the memory of one of their own durin ... More >>

An Under Cover Weekend

8:30 p.m. Friday, September 7, and Saturday, September 8. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Live the Mystery

Yay, We Can Read! St. Louis is the Nation's Eighth Most Literate City

It's that time of year again, the only time of year when anybody outside New Britain, Connecticut, pays any attention to Central Connecticut State University. This morning the college released its annual ranking of the Nation's Most Literate Cities, and the results are heartening: St. Louisans may n ... More >>

The Wild Things In the Night Kitchen, and How They Got There

Pledge Allegiance to the Frat

Viva El Skippito!

Google Googled

Publisher Attempts to Limit E-Book Circulation, Libraries Fight Back

image via​It's a brave new electronic world we live in, where blogs like this one that you're reading have replaced daily newspapers, e-mail and Facebook updates have replaced letters and phone calls and the heavy stacks of textbooks that used to weigh down schoolkids may now be replaced with ... More >>

A Well-Loved Tom

Arkady on Fire

A Life in Pictures

Always I Fight On

Ass Clown of the Week, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Edition

​This week was fraught with accusations and threats over the passage of federal health-care reform that could have provided us dozens of potential Ass Clown candidates. Instead, let's tone down the political rhetoric for a moment to concentrate on some non-partisan scoundrels whose acts of stupidi ... More >>

St. Louis Drops Too Spots In National Litteracy Rankings. Unreal Cries Out for New National Contests.

librarianavengers.orgUnreal issues a battle call: All in favor of starting a Hot Librarian ranking, spell Y-E-S!​If you thought the decade would end without some national ranking flipping the bird to our fair city, well, you've had your fill of the Christmas Kool-Aid, now haven't you? Party's ... More >>

Pearson in Person

Tony Horwitz

Make Tonight White

Book a party at the library

Robots in Disguise

Is there a Transformer named "Microfiche?"

It's His America

We're just living in it

There Are 76 Trombones

But how many cornets?

A Novel Idea

Gettin' loud at the library

Nothing Beats Viets

Not even a dead-end job

State of the Union

It'll keep your attention

Continental Divide

Out of Place

Affairs of a Lady Novelist

Seems Like Old Times

Strike a Pose

Patently Important

Invention convention

What Have You Done to That Book?!

Homeslice: Eisenbraun & the Geiger Counter

10 Radio Singles & a Murder Ballad (Nice Noise)

Slip into Darkness

History Lesson

The High Strung

Saturday, November 19; the campus of Saint Louis University (20 North Grand Boulevard)

Best Drinking Fountain

St. Louis Public Library, central branch

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of April 14, 2004

No Ghosts Under the Bed

At the Not-So-Haunted House

Summer School

An unstilted conversation with Richard Wilbur, the poet who made Molière commercial

Second Sight

Losing her eyesight hasn't kept a Shrewsbury mother and housewife from enjoying the people and activities she loves