Subject: Mark Twain

• Last Night: Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain at Lindenwood University, 9/20/08

  September 21, 2008

• Post Food Critic Still Eating Heartily

  September 29, 2008

• Night & Day

  June 2, 1999

• R.I.P. Jamie Foehner, Lemmons Booker and Trivia Host Extraordinaire

  Sad news to report: Jamie Foehner, who was a familiar figure at Lemmons as their booker/door man and trivia co-host, passed away late yesterday. He was 38. His Facebook page alluded to some recent health problems and hospital stays, but no further details are available at the moment. [Update, March 26: A memorial service is scheduled for Sunday, April 5. Details taking shape here.] Courtesy of Jamie Foehner's Facebook page Foehner co-hosted/wrote Lemmons' popular trivia

  March 24, 2009

• Jamie Foehner Tribute Article Memorial Service Information

  In this week's paper, I wrote a longer tribute to Jamie Foehner, who passed away last week. There will be a memorial tribute to him on Sunday, April 5, at Lemmons starting at 4 p.m. Details are still being worked out, but I expect information to come to light soonish, once people chime in. Meanwhile, Brand X co-founder/pal Doug Golden was kind enough to send me an MP3 to post here, from the comedy/musical CD Soloman Carver: The Misogynist Mark Twain. He says: "This track features me (Soloman Car

  April 2, 2009

• Take Three: This week brings a tempting trio of limited runs

  November 5, 2008

• Malcolm asks the eternal question: Why's my pork fat so mushy?

  February 20, 2008

• Crank Tap, Indian-Style

  October 31, 2007

• Need-to-Be Inspired Minds

  Want to go (to Hannibal)

  May 25, 2005

• Cameron Crowing

  October 26, 2005

• Make It a Weekend Adventure

  May 24, 2006

• Dim Meats 1/2 Turducken

  November 22, 2006

• Trial by Fryer

  September 13, 2006

• Battle Lines

  August 23, 2006

• Freeze Dry

  The Iceman Cometh. And cometh. And cometh.

  March 22, 2006

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  Week of September 21, 2005

  September 21, 2005

• Smells Like Clean Spirit

  Short Cut to Nirvana espouses enlightenment, but it's sketchy on how to get there

  May 25, 2005

• Capsule Reviews

  Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

  April 27, 2005

• This Old Man

  A musical in ASL? Sign us up!

  April 20, 2005

• Love and Theft

  Or love, Oregon-style

  April 6, 2005

• Lost Downtown

  An insider's guide to downtown St. Louis

  March 30, 2005

• Lost Downtown

  Amid the lofty renaissance, the hardcore of the urban core

  January 19, 2005

• The Friction Tape

  Especially when it casts Fred Friction as Susan B. Anthony

  December 22, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  Week of December 8, 2004

  December 8, 2004

• Current Shows

  Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  September 1, 2004

• Current Shows

  Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  August 25, 2004

• Current Shows

  Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  August 18, 2004

• Current Shows

  Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  August 11, 2004

• Current Shows

  Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  August 4, 2004

• Current Shows

  Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  July 28, 2004

• Current Shows

  Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  July 21, 2004

• Current Shows

  Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  July 14, 2004

• Current Shows

  Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

  July 7, 2004

• Capsule Reviews

  Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

  May 19, 2004

• Never the Twain Shall Meet

  Resurrecting Solomon Carver

  April 21, 2004

• The Three Wives' Tale

  Mrs. Kimble, cubed

  January 21, 2004

• Hot and Bothered

  Fight off the November chill with this extra-sizzlin' edition of Unreal (once we put our clothes back on, we'll check in with the Sanford-Brown Indians, pick up a few local papers and have our groceries bagged by inmates)

  November 19, 2003

• Rock the Boat

  Yackey's on the River brings hope and hush puppies to the banks of the Mississippi

  November 5, 2003

• Playground Renaissance

  Kickball comes back

  August 20, 2003

• Look but Don't Huff

  Spider Sniff is not what you think

  June 25, 2003

• Film Openings

  November 21, 2001

• Film Feast

  November 7, 2001

• ANIMATED WORLDS: TWO DECADES OF PORTLAND ANIMATION

  December 1, 1999

• THE MINUS MAN

  October 6, 1999

• Cultural Festivals Receives NEA Big Read Grant for St. Louis to Meet Today's Tom Sawyer

  flickr.com/photos/crackdogThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, which Mark Twain published in 1876, recounts the adventures of a young boy growing up in the 1840s in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, on the banks of the mighty Mississippi.These adventures include: tricking his pals into whitewashing a fence, releasing a bug in church, wooing the beauteous Becky Thatcher, getting lost in a cave, searching for buried treasure, running away from home to play pirates, attending his own funeral

  June 23, 2009

• The Felice Brothers

  June 17, 2009

• Pudd'nhead Books is Gett'n Some Love

  Pudd'nhead Books​For years, Left Bank Books and Subterranean Books have duked it out for St. Louis' independent book-selling supremacy. But last fall, a third rival entered the mix, Webster Groves' Pudd'nhead Books.Last Friday, the online booksellers' newsletter Shelf Awareness ran a nice profile of the store and its owner, Nikki Furrer.Like the Mark Twain character for whom the store is named, Furrer is a non-practicing lawyer who previously worked for a literary agency in New York before dec

  August 18, 2009

• Mizzou? Illinois? Which Team Will Kick Some Aft This Year?

  ​Once again the universities of Missouri and Illinois will start their football season with a game September 5 at the Edward Jones Dome. But besides the gridiron showdown and all the pre- and post-game tailgating downtown, this year's competition features something better. What really matters in 2009 is which team wins the riverboat race down the Mississippi. Yeah, that's right. On Saturday morning before the game, fans can hop aboard two riverboats (one for Mizzou, the other for the Illini) f

  August 20, 2009

• Satisfaction with St. Louis Police Depends on Where You Live

  topteedesigns.com​The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department yesterday released findings from a satisfaction survey it conducted recently. The poll of St. Louis residents found that three in four people were "satisfied" with the operation of the department and even more (86 percent) found police officers to be "pleasant and courteous." The survey (viewable here) polled some 900 city residents. In general, residents of south St. Louis gave the cops higher marks than residents of north city. F

  September 17, 2009

• By the Boards: Dennis Brown on the STL Theater Scene October 15-18

  ​Unity Theatre Ensemble is this area's stealth company -- except when they're performing. Then it's everything they can do to keep the roof nailed down. But publicity is not their strong suit. Music is. Until their Cotton Club Revue got nominated for four Kevin Kline awards earlier this year, many people had not even heard of them. But we sure heard them at the Kevins; their Cotton Club excerpt rocked the Loretto Hilton. This week and next they're back doing what they do best, playing the Ivor

  October 15, 2009