Madonna (Entertainer)

Travis Bickle and Annie Hall Deserve Better: The Big Wedding is vile, racist, and embarrassing

The Big Wedding is Vile, Racist, and Embarrassing

Travis Bickle and Annie Hall deserve better

One-Way Ticket: Priscilla Queen of the Desert is all spectacle and no substance

The Real Decade of the One Hit Wonder

In the last couple of weeks St. Louis has had somewhat of an influx of '90s nostalgia acts coming through town. Sponge played Cicero's, Soul Asylum made an appearance at the Old Rock House and Reel Big Fish just played the Pageant. This got us to thinking.... The '80s are remembered musically for t ... More >>

How Has Streaming Changed the Way Albums are Made?

In this week's feature, Dan Moore talks about the way our music-listening habits have changed over the past century, all the way from live performance to instantaneous streaming of 99% of all recorded music. He asks a number of good questions. Among my favorites is this one: "Why listen to the worst ... More >>

Madonna is Coming to the Scottrade Center: Pre-Sale and Ticket Information [Update]

Madonna, fresh off a Super Bowl appearance and more aware of how to capitalize than possibly anyone in pop music, has just announced a massive 2012 tour. And just days before Madonna 2012 World Tour goes out in (presumably) a blaze of infinite production value in Miami, she'll make a stop here in St ... More >>

St. Louis is Still in Super Bowl XLVI, Even Though the Rams Suck

The Rams may not be taking the field on Sunday at Super Bowl XLVI, but someone from St. Louis will be: Nick Smarrelli, chief operating officer at St. Louis IT firm GadellNet Consulting Services. He'll be helping to escort Madonna on the field for her halftime show, as reported yesterday in an articl ... More >>

The Year Punk Broke Finally Gets Reissued: Where The Featured Bands Are Today

​About twenty years ago, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore asked his friend, filmmaker Dave Markey, to document the band's short European tour, including its performance at the massive Reading Festival. Markey (best known for his underground classic Desperate Teenage Lovedolls) left with his passp ... More >>

Ten Japanese Food Ads Featuring Western Superstars

Advertising products they'd never endorse in the United States, American celebrities have always looked to Japan for extra income. Which is a shame, because Americans would have loved to have seen a post-prison James Brown shilling Cup o' Noodles in 1991.

'Just Like A Pear': The Madonna Baby Food Recipe

​A few weeks ago, we received Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Def Leppard in the mail, along with the recipe for "Pour Some Peaches on Me," a healthy snack idea for your infant regardless of how many arms it has. The newest installment of the series, a lullaby tribute to Madonna, will b ... More >>

Man's House Burns, St. Louis City Cites Him for Melted Siding

Three weeks after a fire destroyed this home (left), the city cited the homeowner for broken windows and "defective" siding.​Okay, so the following story fits the purposes of a blog for a couple of reasons. 1. It's not earth-shattering news, though I suspect it will fire up a few people who've bee ... More >>

RFT Staffer Conquers Pearl Cafe Spice Challenge

Image viaMark Madonna, not sweating after finishing off a Level 25 dish.​Gut Check International HQ sacrificed another RFT employee to the Pearl Cafe (8416 North Lindbergh Boulevard, Florissant; 314-831-3701) spice challenge on Saturday. Mark Madonna, a senior classified account executive, st ... More >>

Is God The New Black?

Terry Richardson/Rolling Stone​A span of three weeks separated their respective Rolling Stone covers--apart from the quality of the writing and the, howyousay, dynamism of each subject, Lady Gaga and Katy Perry's profiles in the formerly legendary mag offered the same startling conclusion--for ... More >>

Five Things Madonna Ruined

Proof of No. 3 on this list​Madonna means many things to pop culture, and many of them are awesome. The problem: Some are life-sucking voids of horror. The list below documents the parts of her legacy -- strange, fleshy and unfathomable -- that involve ruining things with such subtle ferocity ... More >>

Weird Al Yankovic In Town, Time Warped By Lady Gaga Parody

​"Weird Al" Yankovic, America's favorite Michael Jackson parodist this side of Chris Brown and the star of UHF, thirteen-year-old Male America's favorite movie this side of any movie where a woman is about to step into a shower, is coming to Effingham, Illinois on June 1 and St. Charles, Misso ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: Helen Petty on Rock & Roll Hair and Dance Parties With Her Son

Jon Scorfina​The cultural importance of records extends beyond the music within their grooves. Generation after generation has defined itself by its vinyl aesthetic. From Elvis Presley to The Beatles, The Sex Pistols to Madonna, the album cover has become a cultural landmark that encapsulates ... More >>

Top Ten 90s Fashion WTFs

What in the name of Ian Ziering's mullet were we smoking?​When a wise man concluded that there's nothing new under the sun, he had to have been mulling American fashion. We've been recycling the same trends, give or take an accessory or two, for nearly 70 years. Hence the all-too-predictable 1980s ... More >>

Lady Gaga

8 p.m. Saturday, July 17. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

Re-Gift Your Old Music Tomorrow Night at the Old Rock House

​ Time to grab that third copy of Thriller out of your stacks, find that VHS of Madonna's worst music videos and dispose of that emotionally destructive mixtape from your cheatin' ex. The busy boys at MOTH debuted their new monthly concert series at the Soulard venue in June, and they've got ... More >>

Jose Canseco Sleeps With the Fishes

You know, I had never really thought about the steroid issue from this angle before, but Ron Kittle thinks that Jose Canseco may want to watch his back. Canseco and Rafael Palmeiro engage in a deadly game of cat and mouse. After the former Oakland slugger broke baseball's code of silence, ... More >>

A-Rod's $30 Million Blues

Let me tell you something, folks: it ain't easy being Alex Rodriguez these days. Sure, he's got all the money and talent that most of us only dream of ever possessing, but what kind of life has it gotten him? First, it was the whole Madonna thing. Really, Alex? I mean, come on, man. Dude's got like ... More >>

New Year's Eve at Off Broadway

8 p.m. December 31. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

Baseball Card of the Week: Dustin Pedroia

Today, we finish up our cardboard tour of the 2008 Award Winners with the American League Most Valuable Player. We had a Pujols card a while back, so rather than duplicate Albert, I thought we'd go with the mouse that roars, Dustin Pedroia.

Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: Whitney Houston, “Saving All My Love for You”

Movin' 101 Switching to Sports Talk Radio in 2009

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 4.15

Mika and Beth Ditto, Kylie Minogue, Kaiser Chiefs, Rihanna with Klaxons at the Brit Awards

Live Review: The Police in St. Louis, July 2, 2007

Love Machine

B-Sides compares the biographies of Courtney Love and Sharon Osbourne, and reports on Brandt's reorganization.

Movin' On

Korn's guitarist moves to holier pastures, words fall into oblivion and B-Sides encourages Gwen and Madonna to grow up.

Madonna

Confessions on a Dance Floor (Maverick)

Fightin' Femmes

We duel with Gretchen Wilson and Kelly Clarkson, get home-cooking tips from the stars and delve into Omarion's psyche

Critical Fatwa

Lindsay Lohan

Super Cities: London (1994)

The Great Gray Grinch gets its own infomercial

Back to the Future

We tell the Bravery's fortune, decode a rock opera and groan over Sting's intoxicated verbosity

Letters

Week of September 15, 2004

Finding Your Religion

Pick your personal Jesus, plus three questions for a pop princess and the poetry of heavy metal

David Is Goliath

The former Ziggy Stardust proves giants still walk the music scene

Remembrances of Things Pop

Radar Station looks back at Bryan Adams and lesbian chic

Fine Tuning

Men croon, men swoon

Feel the Love

Life was no Picnic, even in Kansas in the '50s

Hunger Strike

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

Björk

Vespertine (Elektra)

The More the Merrier

From Brazil, a lovely bossa nova fantasy -- with roots in feminist reality

Music: Response

He produced Madonna's Music, but Mirwais has been around for 20 years and has influenced a legion of French DJs

Deep Dish

Saturday, Dec. 9; Velvet

Madonna

Music (Maverick)

Reel Life

Neal Gabler alerts the masses to the proliferation of entertainment in his book Life the Movie