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The Most Overachieving People to Ever Form a Band: Talulah Gosh

When word leaked out this week that Elizabeth Price won the 2012 Turner Prize, an annual honor given to British visual artists - some eagle-eyed readers noticed that she'd previously been involved in the UK indie music scene. In the mid-1980s, Price attended Oxford University, where she met fellow s ... More >>

Panic at Wash. U.! School Fails to Make Top 100 in International Employability Survey

When you're paying more than $50,000 per year for your college education, you expect a return on your investment -- like, say, a job when you graduate. So maybe you can understand the rumblings of panic emerging from Washington University after the International Herald Tribune released the results ... More >>

Odds Stacked Against Black Candidates, According to Some Operatives

If black candidates do not win these elections, where the odds are stacked against them, St. Louis, a city that is roughly 50 percent African American, will have no black representatives in Congress, the Missouri Senate or in the state House.

A Radiohead Preview: Possible Setlists, New Songs and Lessons from Past Shows

When Radiohead comes to town, it's a big deal. And for good reason: The Oxford super-group only plays in St. Louis every four or five years, meaning there's pent-up demand for one of the most popular live acts around. Still, Friday's sold-out show at the Scottrade Center (1401 Clark Avenue, 314-241 ... More >>

Ten Musicians Who Support Occupy Wall Street

Adbusters​"Occupy Wall Street" started out as a 1,000-person mid-September protest in a New York City park against, among other things, financial disparity and corporate influence. Since that time that protest has grown into a nationwide movement, spurring on the creation of "Occupy" spinoffs ... More >>

Brent Roam: From Slasher Films to Sunday Morning Salvation at the Tivoli

Brent Roam, founder of U-City Family Church​On Sunday, September 18, for the first time ever, the Tivoli Theatre in the Loop will begin renting out its space to a religious congregation: the U-City Family Church. Other cinemas across the country have been doing this for years, including the l ... More >>

John Griffiths of Truffles

This is part one of Amanda Woytus' Chef's Choice profile of chef John Griffiths of Truffles. Part two, a Q&A, will be published tomorrow, and part three, a recipe from Griffiths, will be posted on Thursday.Amanda WoytusChef John Griffiths of Truffles in the restaurant's dining room​On a weekda ... More >>

BREAKING: Bishop/Attorney Martin Sigillito Indicted

Bishop/Attorney Marty Sigillito​Updated 4:16 p.m. with press release outlining indictment. We have all but official confirmation that Martin Sigillito -- the Clayton attorney and American Anglican bishop who already stands accused in civil court of running a $45 million ponzi scheme -- has finally ... More >>

Freelance Whales, Jim Gaffigan and Weird Al among new show announcements

Foals: at Vintage Vinyl, April 23. ​Foals and Freelance Whales sold out the Firebird, but you can still see both at Vintage Vinyl. Oxford's Foals will be doing an electric set and New York's Freelance Whales will be adorable. You can also see Nat Baldwin of the Dirty Projectors, who is bringin ... More >>

The story of C.S. Lewis' fling with a younger woman fails to achieve lift-off

War of Words: Refudiate v. Austere, Which One is Word of the Year?

image via​It's that time of year again, the season where you can take two steps without stumbling over a year-end list, a this of the year or a that of the year. Merriam-Webster announced today that "austerity" is the dictionary publishing house's word of the year for 2010. This, a ... More >>

Sarah Palin's 'Lex Appeal': Oxford American Dictionary Chooses Refudiate as Word of the Year

image via​It's not in the dictionary, and it may never be. But there's a certain word on the tip of everyone's tongues this year, including the fine folks at Oxford University Press, the world's go-to authorities on the English language and publisher of the Oxford American Dictionary. Their W ... More >>

Review Setlist Photos: Vampire Weekend, The Very Best and Beach House at Chaifetz Arena

Jason StoffVampire Weekend performing at the at Chaifetz Arena.​Click here for a full set of photos from the show.It's extremely difficult to write about a band that does everything right, as Vampire Weekend did last night at Chaifetz Arena. Even the band's ghastly novelty songs about punctuation ... More >>

Review: Johnnie's Jam, Featuring Dona Oxford and Conan O'Brien's musicians, at the Sheldon, Sunday, September 19

​Last night at the Sheldon, musicians gathered to pay tribute to the late Johnnie Johnson and his many accomplishments. KSDK's Art Holliday served as the night's master of ceremonies. (The concert served as a fundraiser for his Johnson documentary, Johnnie Be Good.) Holliday began night with a ... More >>

White Collar Crime: Anglican bishop Martin Sigillito is accused of fleecing regular Joes and Racquet Club jet setters alike out of $45 million

We Had Sneakers, They Had Guns: Remembering Freedom Summer, Mississippi, 1964

In the summer of 1964, hundreds of young northerners descended upon Mississippi to register black voters and teach in "Freedom Schools." Among them were Charles McLaurin, Chris Hexter and Tracy Sugarman, who were all based in the town of Ruleville in Sunflower County. McLaurin was the project direct ... More >>

Cards vs. Astros

Azar Nafisi to Speak Thursday at Left Bank Books

courtesy Random House​Azar Nafisi, author of the best-selling Reading Lolita in Tehran, will be at Left Bank Books in the Central West End on Thursday, March 18, at 7 p.m. to talk about her latest book Things I've Been Silent About: Memories of a Prodigal Daughter, which just came out in paperback ... More >>

Word of the Year: Unfriend

​The New Oxford American Dictionary is out with its "Word of the Year" for 2009. That term? Unfriend, meaning to remove someone from a social media site, such as Facebook. The New York Times quotes Oxford lexicographer Christine Lindberg as saying unfriend has ''real lex appeal'' for best reflecti ... More >>

Higher Learning: An Education and its star, Carey Mulligan, get good marks

Oxford University Press Conducts Academic Survey of Twitter-Speak

It was only a matter of time before the academic world got its grimy paws on Twitter. (The academic world would also repudiate that last sentence because worlds don't have hands.)The good folks of Oxford University Press, under the guise of "work", have spent the past six months monitoring 1.5 milli ... More >>

Butt Heads: At the State Capitol, a Different Set of Smoking Rules Applies

And All We Have Is Blow Street

Heh, heh, heh. The New York Times story that accompanies the image above celebrates Britain's many wonderful street and place names, from the village of Crapstone to Crotch Crescent (Oxford), Titty Ho (Northamptonshire), Wetwang (East Yorkshire) and Slutshole Lane (Norfolk).Here in St. Louis, all U ... More >>

Review Photos Setlist: Vampire Weekend at the Pageant, Wednesday, September 10

Captain America

Navy SEAL Eric Greitens has come home to St. Louis to help fellow Iraq vets.

Ghosts of Christmas Past

The Skeletons reunite, we gift some of St. Louis' best bands and remember Ike Turner.

Oxford University Press Dubs Locavore "Word of the Year"

Trent Reznor/Saul Williams Collaboration, Paste magazine: Taking the Radiohead Model to Heart

The Boys Are Back

The good East German (a.k.a.: when your hero is a Stasi spy).

The Lives of Others

Foul Frequency

PR flops. Staff upheaval. Shrill talk-show hosts. The Cardinals' flagship station can't seem to find the strike zone.

So Co lime

The Upstairs Lounge, 3131 South Grand Boulevard, 314-773-3388.

Learning Curve

Jonathan Kozol isn't giving up on America's public schools

Opening Nights

City Limits

If you're young and female, New York Minute is your movie

Suth'n Comfort

Tom Hanks steals the Coens' latest by playing -- get this -- funny

Purple Power

In less than four years, Grant Williams has turned a weak union local into one of Missouri's most potent political forces. So why's he placing all his bets on One-Term Bob?

Who's Afraid of Anthony Shahid?

He's a hero to some, a pain to others. Either way, he makes people very nervous.

Best Member of the Loyal Opposition

Jeanette Mott Oxford

Judgment at Hookyville

The volunteer jurists running a truancy court for St. Louis get an up-close view of wayward kids, don't-care parents and war-zone schools. It's worse than they thought.

A Closing Iris

A writer's long descent into Alzheimer's makes for gripping storytelling

Talkin' Tolkien

Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

We Deserve Better

Letters from the week of October 31, 2001

Motley Crew

The nascent effort to derail plans for a new stadium runs the length of the political spectrum

Held Hostage

Proof of Life kidnaps the audience, then tortures it to a slow death

The Last September

Directed by Deborah Warner

Boy Wonder

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