Magazines

Conflict Zine Returns: Here Are Five Others We'd Like to See Come Back

I was as surprised as anyone when I clicked online and saw the message: there was a new product from an old favorite, now available for download. Given that this was the first such release since 1991, I wanted to check it out immediately. And indeed, I was not disappointed. There was enough of th ... More >>

Unfit for Print: An angel investor pitches in to salvage the reputation of a St. Louis publisher

Dudes Magazine 10th Anniversary / 20th Issue Release Party this Weekend

Are you a fan of quality punk rock? Is your upcoming weekend looking rather boring? Do you like watching and/or being an unstoppable slam-dancing trainwreck of a party animal? Then there's something afoot - the Dudes Magazine 20th issue release-party-stravaganza-bration-palooza at Lemmon's this Frid ... More >>

RIP The Sporting News -- After 126 Years, Finally Irrelevant

The Sporting News has never had a swimsuit issue. For most of the first century of its existence, it didn't even have color photography. Instead, it had box scores. Lots and lots of box scores. And a special section for participants in fantasy leagues. Yes, TSN, founded in St. Louis in 1886 by the ... More >>

David Clohessy and SNAP: Ten Years After Gaining Celebrity

Ten year's ago this month David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), was named one of the world's "25 Most Intriguing" by People magazine. Included in that 2002 class were actors and performers such as George Clooney and Britney Spears, world leaders the l ... More >>

Sports Illustrated Picks Reds to Win NL Central; And Guess Who's on the Cover?

​Sports Illustrated is out with its annual baseball preview. And surprise, surprise the cover fronts Albert Pujols and fold outs with comparisons ranking him among baseball greats DiMaggio, Williams and Aaron. SI also picks Pujol's new team, the Los Angeles Angels, to win the World Series.As for t ... More >>

Why the SI Swimsuit Issue Doesn't Care if Anyone Goes to its Music Festival [Update]

There is a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Music Festival, sponsored by Lexus, where blog-approved bands like White Denim and the Black Lips will play at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. Wait, what? The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Beauties & Beats Music Fest (didn't spend much time on that name, di ... More >>

Gateway Drug Release Show

2 p.m. Saturday, January 14. Apop Records, 2831 Cherokee Street.

Monsanto Tenth Most Innovative Company in U.S., Forbes Says

​Monsanto is a huge, environment-contaminating, organic-seed-modifying beast, sure, but the company must be doing alright. After all, Forbes loves them. The business magazine recently released its list of the country's most innovative companies, and Monsanto hits the rankings high, at No. 10 ... More >>

Kingshighway Skatepark Gets Nod in Popular Mechanics

courtesy of KHVT (Kingshighway Vigilante Tranny)Build a skate park, change the world!​OK, so they didn't find a cure for cancer or resolve the ongoing crisis in Libya. But the founders of the Kingshighway Skatepark still get a shot-out in the August issue of Popular Mechanics -- they're one of ten ... More >>

Recalling Kayak

Prepare Ye: The Launch of Tea Party Review is Nigh

image via​In case you haven't noticed, the Tea Party isn't particularly pleased with the way it's being portrayed in the mainstream media. Or as Katrina Pierson, a founding member of the Dallas Tea Party, puts it: People are weary of the distorted version of the Tea Party movement that we see ... More >>

A Very Bert Dax Christmas CD Release Shows

Christmas Comes Early for Franzen Fans

image viaThe Franzen family, Thanksgiving, 1975. Jonathan is second from the right.​No, it's not another novel to get you through Freedom withdrawal. If that's what you're after, might we suggest Franzen's first two novels, The Twenty-Seventh City (set in St. Louis!) and Strong Motion (also about ... More >>

Avid, New St. Louis Men's Mag, Launches Tomorrow

Move over, Feast and Sauce. St. Louis is getting another free magazine -- only instead of foodies, Avid will target men.Avid: For men who like golf.​Dan Michel, a St. Louis Magazine alum and Avid's new editor in chief, says the new venture is a glossy men's mag focused on lifestyle and golf -- som ... More >>

A Very Bert Dax Christmas Returns in 2010 With a CD, Holiday Shows

​Although it's still 70 degrees in St. Louis, it's already time to start thinking about the holidays. After a year off, the Matt Harnish-created A Very Bert Dax Christmas compilation is returning for 2010. A co-production with Pancake Productions, Volume 8 in the series is going to feature MIS ... More >>

Lampoon Turns Back The Pages

Sara Marcus' new book about Riot Grrrl is a fascinating account of the movement

Cook's Illustrated's New iPhone App: A Gut Check Test Drive

A free Cook's Illustrated app? Free? America's Test KitchenChristopher Kimball: bow-tied culinary mogul​Cook's Illustrated, the flagship magazine of Christopher Kimball's food-media hydra, isn't known for giving it away. Kimball refuses to sell advertising in any of his magazines and cooki ... More >>

Homespun: Popular Mechanics, Time And a Half

In this week's paper, Christian Schaeffer reviews Popular Mechanics' album, Time and a Half. He has this to say: In the annals of American indie rock, the name Hüsker Dü recalls the smart, streamlined rock & roll made by the Minnesota band throughout the '80s. The St. Louis trio Popular Mechanics ... More >>

Homespun: Popular Mechanics

Time and a Half
(Pancake Productions)

Last Collector Standing: Freezerburn's Ben Stegman on Album Reviews, New Bands and How Consuming Music Has Changed

(The number of chain-record stores nationwide has dwindled. However, St. Louis has become an unlikely safe haven for indie record shops -- and for DJs who prefer to spin the black circle instead of scrolling their iPods. In this new weekly column, we'll focus on personal portraits of St. Louis' reco ... More >>

Last Collector Standing: The Role of Zines and Noise in the Life of Freezerburn Creator Ben Stegman

(The number of chain-record stores nationwide has dwindled. However, St. Louis has become an unlikely safe haven for indie record shops -- and for DJs who prefer to spin the black circle instead of scrolling their iPods. In this new weekly column, we'll focus on personal portraits of St. Louis' reco ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 4.15

Hate cilantro? It might not be your unsophisticated palate; it could be genetic, or a part of a long, sordid history. The New York Times reports on the history and science of cilantrophobia. A family of four on food stamps gets about $68 a week for food. Is it possible to feed four people well on ... More >>

What Is This Magazine Cover with Snoop Dogg Trying to Tell Us?

​ The following weekend magazine cover is awesomely subtle. Snoop is scheduled to play the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, this Saturday, and it's clear that this particular publication has an ingenious art director. Look how they cleverly placed Snoop's head just in fr ... More >>

Flashback: The Evening Whirl in Spin Magazine

One of my coolest recent finds on Google books is a searchable archive of Spin magazine's entire collection -- from the magazine's very first issue (Madonna was the cover star, May 1985) through last fall's Pearl Jam interview. I happened to click randomly on the May 1986 issue (R.E.M. on the cover, ... More >>

Co-Founder, Editor Catherine Neville Leaves Sauce Magazine [Updated 2x with Comment from Neville, Allyson Mace]

​The St. Louis Business Journal scores today's big food-media scoop: Sauce Magazine co-founder and editor-in-chief Catherine Neville is leaving the magazine. She sold her share to her fellow co-founder, Sauce publisher Allyson Mace.According to the Business Journal, Mace will edit the publication ... More >>

It's A Fine Zine

Legends of the Fall, Part 2

Tatiana the Anonymous Model at Jezebel, our favorite source for fashion news, reports that St. Louis model Katie Fogarty's fall on the Prada runway in Milan last September has inspired an entire fashion spread in the magazine L'Officiel Singapore. Sadly, Fogarty doesn't get to play herself in the 'z ... More >>

Classical Cult

Are you a veteran of the psychic wars?

Best Magazine Cover of '08 Drawn by Ex-St. Louisan, Picked by Another Ex-St. Louisan

Illustrator and former St. Louis resident Bob Staake has created the top magazine cover of 2008, according to Time magazine, for the post-election Obama moonrise designed for the New Yorker.According to the Time, Staake's work is tops because:Why is the cover great? It doesn't do a victory dance. Ra ... More >>

El Hef

Read it for the articles — really!

Euclid Records Garage Sale, This Saturday and Sunday!

Review Preview: Firefly Grill

Food & Wine finds our Niche!

David Chang Profile in the New Yorker

More on No Depression, By Roy Kasten

River Styx keeps on rolling.

After thirty-plus years, it's still a literary force of nature.

Get Born Again

Lean and 'Zine

Legendary St. Louis 'zine Jet Lag goes digital.

Plus, the winner of the RFT DJ Spin-off.

The New Lou Reeds

Friday, November 18; Frederick's Music Lounge (4454 Chippewa Street)

Have You No Decency?

A Chesterfield media-watch group undertakes a smut-smiting campaign

T & A and You

Talk to a real live Playmate!

Hip to be Square

Tracks offers comfort to Ensure-swilling music fans

Sporting Snooze

A leaner, splashier Sporting News struggles to find its editorial compass

Mag Hags

What's wrong with the state of music journalism -- and how to fix it

Best Place To Get a Regular Haircut

Larry Evilsizor Barber Stylist

The Taking of the Presidency

Supremes' credibility isn't helped by report of O'Connor's craving Arizona

Athletes in the Action: The Tradition Continues

Commentary published the week of June 14-20, 2000