I am too beyond tired to write anything coherent about the show, but rest assured that St. Patrick's Day came early to St. Louis, thanks to Flogging Molly. The always-reliable Irish-punk band didn't disappoint, with a 90-minute set full of equal parts boozy pub pogos and pensive folk ruminations. Annie ZaleskiDave King, vocalist
Taking cues from the Clash, Pogues, Stiff Little Fingers and more, the
LA band is known for incorporating speed-punk banjo and punk-rock pennywhistle, along
with fiddle
Fernando de Sousa, Wikimedia Commons Dara Strickland is a leading expert on sneaking food and drink into the movies. She reports on her exploits for Gut Check (from an undisclosed location) every Monday.Any pocket-jockey can smuggle half a pack of Twizzlers into a movie, but that has no consideration of style or ethics. It has no grace. What I want to share with you in this blog is, by contrast, a delicious and potent cocktail of planning, swagger and intrigue worthy of secreting into a Hitchcoc
It is perhaps the most felicitous opening line ever written:"If music be the food of love, play on."In this very first sentence, Shakespeare sets the elegiac tone that dominates Twelfth Night, which opens this week at St. Louis Shakespeare. Again. Although through the centuries critics have never elevated Twelfth Night to the upper tier of the Bard's major comedies (a lofty perch reserved for A Midsummer Night's Dream and As You Like It), audiences must love it. Here in St. Louis over the past d
