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The Ten Best Shows in St. Louis This Weekend: April 12 to 14

It's spring! It's sunny! It's raining! There's a tornado! It's cold! Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. Whatever the weather may be this weekend during this typical questionable Midwestern season, the show must go on. Our "Out Every Night" post at the start of the week previewed some shows ... More >>

Muslim Hunting: David Horowitz has made taunting college students a spectator sport. Sometimes he's actually right.

The Six Best Non-Metal Songs About Heavy Metal

Songwriters love riffing on folklore, be it nursery rhymes or Biblical parables. Over the years, heavy metal has developed its own brand of legend, so much so that stylistically disparate musicians have used it as a springboard for creatively disparate songs. Here are the six best non-metal songs ab ... More >>

Beach House's Alex Scally Doesn't Want to Be Like Katy Perry, the Arcade Fire or Whatever the Media Calls Him

While reflecting on the difference between what he thinks his latest album is about and what his audience thinks it's about -- namely, all the surprisingly wrong perceptions -- Alex Scally references the Bible. "It's the tower of Babel and all that," he says. "Humans can't understand each other." B ... More >>

Missouri's Askinosie Chocolate Wins National Award For Its Licorice Chocolate

Askinosie Chocolate based in Springfield, Missouri, was recently awarded its fifth silver Sofi Award in the category of "Outstanding Chocolate" by the National Association of Specialty Food Trade (NASFT) for its new dark milk chocolate and black licorice bar. It's also a finalist for the organizati ... More >>

The Columbine Effect: Thirteen years and a hundred school shootings later, why is Hollywood obsessed with this one?

Jeff Konkel helps document the dying juke joints

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 >>

Ralph Linder: St. Louis Christmas Tree Farmer

Julia GabbertRalph Lindner puts it in park at his O'Fallon Christmas tree farm.​Ralph Lindner passes the small lake on his property as the sun starts to descend behind the hills lined with conifers. Lindner, 73, has trouble walking far. Instead, he's utilizing his "wheelchair" -- a red Snapper ... More >>

Captain America ignores its roots for easy money

If Harry Potter Characters Had Bands: Twelve We'd Like To See

​If Draco Malfoy actor Tom Felton's promise (which turned out to be a joke/hoax) to become a white rapper was just one more sad reminder of a series you used to love, we don't blame you -- but we would like to discourage you. Harry Potter, as I'm sure you will remember, is after all a little m ... More >>

Interview: The Deadliest Catch Cast on Pesky Cameramen and Putting Fishing First

Image viaCaptains Johnathan and Andy Hillstrand with Sig Hansen​The Deadliest Catch has quickly become one of television's most watched shows. Known for the drama, action and, of course, the rick of injury or death, millions of followers have gotten hooked [ahem] to Discovery Channel's hit fis ... More >>

Antarctic Sled Dogs (and Ponies) Finally Have Their Day

courtesy 109th Airlift WingSmith (right) in flight.​When Riverfront Times last checked in with Ronnie Smith, the Air Force colonel and poet was working on several projects relating to Antarctica, where he had served for twelve years. (See "Poetry in a Cold Climate", January 20.) Among them was ... More >>

Obama's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (Graphic)

President Barack Obama was briefly in Oslo, Norway today to accept his Nobel Peace Prize. He gave a speech (transcript here). Below is an infographic that gives prominence to the words he used the most during his remarks.​After the jump is the same graphic, only comprised of the president's Decemb ... More >>

Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

​Socialist. Nazi. Fascist. President Barack Obama has another title to add to his resume: Nobel Peace Prize winner. Yes, this morning the Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway, announced the selection of Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between p ... More >>

Unreal ponders the eighth wonder of the world — a goat tower — and checks in with a bloggin' mom

Ahem! It comes from Back of the Throat, but the message is clear.

Garage, Inc.: Little Steven brings his garage-rock radio show back to the St. Louis airwaves

Top Ten NSFW Doug Stanhope Bits

Stand-up comic Doug Stanhope tends to forgo television for the credits that really count, from self-booking, promoting and selling out underground venues across the states, to leaving his own special stain on comedy festivals around the world. Photo from Stanhope's MySpace photo album, labeled "drun ... More >>

Xmas Jams: A roundup of 2008's best Christmas albums

Unreal washes our hands of kindergarten and bids on a website

Digging Your Scene

B-Sides takes a pull of Earthworms' Burbon and rocks out to...Tetris?

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

Pistol-Packin' Mama

Echo Theatre breaks out the heavy artillery with Hedda Gabler.

"I only remember a stuck-up doctor's kid who, when he got with his football player buddies, was one of the bullies."

Week of February 1, 2007

Spanorama

A new installation does justice to the functional beauty of the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge

Get Happy!!

It's the tears of a clown for the Minus 5's Scott McCaughey.

The Split from Hell

Vinson v. Vinson: It'll be a cold day in Hades before you see another divorce trial this bizarre

The Best Movies of the Year

We've picked our favorites -- let the debates begin

They Lost It at the Movies

Classroom films have come a long way from those cheesy old duck-and-cover flicks. Or have they?

The Terroirist

Jay Farrar calls Terroir Blues a "back to basics" album. It's not.

Family Matters

The St. Louis Art Museum's Gentileschi exhibition captures the artistic relationship between a father and his daughter

Memental

A sleep-deprived Al Pacino tangles with a psycho Robin Williams in Christopher Nolan's Insomnia

Film Openings

Week of April 10, 2002

Twang Time

The fifth annual Twangfest offers the best in alt-country (whatever that means)

Hack Mentality

At 28, Spuds has become a cybersage for the young and the reckless. Now he's gone straight.

A Sewer Runs Through It

The River des Peres tells the history of St. Louis -- our relationship to nature, to this place, to our own waste. Now there's talk of "beautifying" the river we never got around to cleaning.