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No Bounce: Boeing-Boeing is an outdated French farce that never translated well

Ask a Mexican: Special Best Of Best Of Edition

Ask a Mexican: Why do chicanos love the Aztecs?

The Walkmen

9 p.m. Thursday, June 28. Plush, 3224 Locust Street.

Out Every Night: The Best Shows From June 25 to July 1

Little-known fact: According to our style guide (the big book of grammatical do's and don'ts that provide the RFT with its immutable styyyyyyle), all band names are to be treated as singular, not plural nouns. For example, when referencing a band such as "The Beatles," we'd write "The Beatles is com ... More >>

Silent Protest Against NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Mimics 1917 East St. Louis Riot March

Yesterday,  thousands marched down Fifth Avenue in New York City to quietly protest perceived racial profiling in the NYPD's stop-and-frisk policy. Organizers say they made a conscious effort to mimic something that happened there a century ago: The silent march that took place in the wake of t ... More >>

"It's the Bondage Version of Harry Potter": How is 50 Shades of Grey Affecting Your Sex Life? (Updated)

Now that 50 Shades of Grey has (apparently) become the only work of erotica produced in the entire world since D.H. Lawrence banged out Lady Chatterley's Lover, it's only fitting that it's become the Lady Chatterley of the twenty-first century. Well, OK, it and its two sequels made their way into b ... More >>

Hologram Musicians: The Legal Implications

There's no denying that the "hologram" of Tupac Shakur that debuted at Coachella this year is provocative. Some see the visual effect as a celebration of a well-regarded rapper's legacy. Others see the spectacle as a disturbing example of the uncanny valley theory on a particularly grand scale. No ... More >>

In the Galleries: I'll Be Your Mirror at Sheldon Art Galleries, closes February 11

Wrong-man thriller Man on a Ledge goes thud

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

St. Louis Art Caps

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

From The Beatles To Arctic Monkeys: How The Five Waves Of British Invasion Stack Up

This and that Union Jack dress that Ginger Spice wore are just part of a list of uncomfortable moments in British invasion history.​Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner looked dapper and distinctively British on the cover of SPIN's recent Success Issue. The slight singer sports a skinny suit th ... More >>

Boy Trouble: Citilites offers theatergoers a gay old time and (unfortunately) then some

Midwest Exports Steak 'n Shake to New York City

Screenshot: www.steaknshake.com​News broke this week that Normal, Illinois-founded Steak 'n Shake plans to open its first New York City location. The when is unknown, but the where is significant: right next-door to the Ed Sullivan Theater, where Late Show with David Letterman is filmed. Now, this ... More >>

Midnight in Paris Brasserie by Niche

Champagne and pommes frites at Brasserie: a meal we'll surely be nostalgic about in 2020.​Most Woody Allen fans, it's safe to say, are incurable nostalgists. Even in the '70s, an Allen film was an escape to another time -- his characters were modern New Yorkers with their "analysts" and adultery, ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending June 5, 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. This is why we have a St. Louis bestseller li ... More >>

Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing! does precisely that

New Release Highlights for March 22: The Strokes, Panic! at the Disco, Jennifer Hudson and More

(New albums are typically released on Tuesdays, i.e., today. What can you spend your hard-earned pennies on this week? Find out below.) Acid House Kings' Music Sounds Better With You​*Acid House Kings, Music Sounds Better With You TheLineofBestFit reviewed Music Sounds Better With You: "This ... More >>

St. Louis' Very Own Oscar Winner

image viaSt. Louisan and Oscar winner Colin Firth in one of his most celebrated roles: Mr. Darcy in the BBC's Pride and Prejudice.​Unreal has learned the hard way that we should read our New Yorkers as soon as we get them, because if we had, OMG, we would have learned that Colin Firth, Oscar w ... More >>

Hedwig creator John Cameron Mitchell switches gears, channeling his own grief into his latest project

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

Stray Dog tears into Terrence McNally's captivating portrait of opera luminary Maria Callas

Review: The Felice Brothers and Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three Break Through the Blues at the Old Rock House, Monday, September 20

Roy Kasten​The Felice Brothers are a sound man's worst nightmare, and they don't even perform with banjos. At the Old Rock House on Monday night, the upstate New Yorkers pushed the limits of cacophony through the 50-foot-high ceiling and somehow still made music - raging, touching, bouncing, b ... 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 >>

Frigga-What-the-Phobia Anyone?

He's coming to get you!​Today is supposedly the allegedly least-auspicious day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday the 13th. Boo! You scared? If so, you're suffering from friggatriskaidekaphobia, which kind of sounds like you're cursing out the yoga pose that just caused you to bite mat in front of ... More >>

New York Times and Google: Your New Synthetic Marijuana Dealers?

newyorktimes.comThe New York Times deigns to notice St. Louis!​As you may have heard, K2 -- synthetic marijuana -- is all the rage lately. The substance, sometimes marketed as incense, was recently banned in Missouri, and is well on its way to illegality in other states, including New York. T ... More >>

Keith Hernandez Asleep in the Broadcast Booth During Mets Game (Video)

Hernandez as a bright-eyed, bushy-'stached Cardinal.​Check this video of former Cardinals great Keith Hernandez (1979-1983), now a broadcaster for the New York Mets, caught sleeping on camera during an extra-inning affair in New York when the San Francisco Giants were in town on Saturday night ... More >>

The Morning Brew: 3.11

​Missouri state representative Jim Viebrock wants to circumvent federal bans and allow horse slaughter for food in Missouri. Viebrock argues that unwanted and abandoned horses can be slaughtered and sold to European and Japanese markets. (USA Today) New York State legislator introduces bill t ... More >>

OMG! New Yorkers Discover Gooey Butter Cake!

There was a time when gooey butter cake was a delicacy unknown outside the St. Louis metropolitan area, sort of like Provel or toasted ravioli. But now it has been exposed in The New York Times. Will our lives ever be the same???flickr.com/photos/playfullibrarian​In this week's "A Good Appetite" c ... More >>

The Novice Foodie's First (!) Cheesesteak

Kelli Best-Oliver​I don't really care about the World Series. Unless the Redbirds are playing, I see it as nothing more than an excuse for my husband to monopolize the television and Fox to preempt Glee. Blasphemous. This year is no exception as, to me, neither team has a compelling narrative. T ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 9.1

​ Sheila Lukins, co-author of "The Silver Palate" cookbooks, has died. (Epicurious.com)Velveeta thief charged with DWI. (Buffalo News)New York's Major League Baseball stadiums add fresh fruit to their concession stands. (New York Times)Brain sandwich wins Indiana bar "Manliest Restaurant in ... More >>

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Partini

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1001 McCausland Avenue
314-646-1300.

The New Pornographers

Challengers (Matador)

The River of Dreams

B-Sides gives you a guided tour of St. Louis through the eyes of Billy Joel, and provides three nifty downloads for the price of one.

St. Louie Chop Suey

You are what you eat: The story of a culture, told through its cuisine.

Dance, Piano Man!

Twyla Tharp plays a stunning game of Twister with the Billy Joel songbook

Manhattan

Monarch, 7401 Manchester Avenue, 314-644-3995

Cowboy Him

A hometown boy's skills on the open range could win him $25K, Mariano Favazza offers a money-back guarantee, and Unreal gets to the seat of the issue at the new ballpark; plus, won't someone from the STL break the marathon-bowling record?

Drink to This, Drink to That

Sasha's Wine Bar beckons diners to spend a lazy afternoon

Fighting the Power

Rapper Nas steps back into the ring, fists flying

Letters

Week of January 31, 2001

Trash Talk

From the top of Mount Milam to the depths of the Pit with the people who take out St. Louis' garbage

In the Beginning ...

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