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Patrick Swayze

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    KSDK Knows When You're Going to Die, Based on ZIP Code

    To hype last night's "I-Team Investigation," KSDK-TV (Channel 5) had been running a promo piece that featured two cartoon guys. Cartoon Guy No. 1 is Joe, who, the voiceover says, lives in St. Charles. He's got glasses and kind of looks like George Costanza. Cartoon Guy No. 2, Doug, favors a young Pa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Glee's Matthew Morrison: An Onstage Study Of His Musical Contradictions

    Jon Gitchoff​Monday night's show at the Scottrade Center was a spectacle to behold on many different levels, but let's focus specifically on Matthew Morrison. The 32-year-old came out onstage with vengeance, a bowtie and two back-up seductresses who were not afraid of a little grinding. The au ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Get To Know R6 Implant: (Maybe) "The Most Intense Rock and Roll Experience of Your Life"

    Photo courtesy of R6 Implant.​ The good thing about a band calling it quits in St. Louis is that its never really done. R6 Implant is playing a farewell-of-sorts show on Saturday at Cicero's, but this isn't goodbye forever. The bill is shared with the Lion's Daughter, Galaxicon and Iron Hills. ... More >>

  • Film

    September 22, 2010

    Charming Romain Duris gets a bum costar in Heartbreaker

    Photo courtesy of R6 Implant.​ The good thing about a band calling it quits in St. Louis is that its never really done. R6 Implant is playing a farewell-of-sorts show on Saturday at Cicero's, but this isn't goodbye forever. The bill is shared with the Lion's Daughter, Galaxicon and Iron Hills. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 11, 2010

    Get Down on the Corner

    Photo courtesy of R6 Implant.​ The good thing about a band calling it quits in St. Louis is that its never really done. R6 Implant is playing a farewell-of-sorts show on Saturday at Cicero's, but this isn't goodbye forever. The bill is shared with the Lion's Daughter, Galaxicon and Iron Hills. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2010

    Five Hollywood Heist Movies That Resemble Yesterday's ATM Solutions Robbery In St. Louis

    Image source​Several local news outlets have already donned their deerstalker hats and done their best Sherlock Holmes impressions by connecting the robbery of ATM Solutions Inc. in Midtown yesterday with two other similar burglaries of armored cars in 1999 and 1992.In the heist yesterday, four ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2009

    This Week in Gut Check, Regurgitated

    Adrienne Jones​Yet another new column joined Gut Check's ranks this week: Sweet Scout. And here I thought things couldn't get more hectic around here, what with Robin Wheeler paying a visit to Wapango pastry chef Mary Harden, Stefani Pollack (with new son Myles in tow) returning with a new A Table ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2009

    The Dive Bomber: Keeping the Double Deuce Spirit Alive at Killion's Irish Inn

    While all the women my age are mourning the Patrick Swayze of Dirty Dancing and Ghost, that's not the Dive Bomber Way. No, in light of Mr. Swayze's passing, I'm thinking about Road House, and the lessons it had for a young Missouri girl in the late 1980s, curious about the best friend a good time e ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    Aaron's Thing of the Week -- 16th September, 2009: A Farewell to a Chippendale

    Patrick Swayze passed away just a couple days ago, and I'm actually really, really sad about it. The man delivered perhaps the greatest line in cinematic history, after all. 

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    St. Louis and Patrick Swayze (R.I.P.)

    A solid fifteen minutes of Googling turned up approximately zero tangible links between the late, great Patrick Swayze and the city in which we live. (Except, of course for a few snarky RFT references to Roadhouse and an Unreal interview with the local author of an actual book called Nobody Puts Swa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2009

    Stuck to My Ribs: Reynolds Roadhouse

    ​Introducing Stuck To My Ribs, one (slightly overweight) man's journey through one of the unhealthiest cities in the good ol' USA. Because who says calories have to count all the time?It's taken several rounds of intense negotiations through the years, but my body and I have hammered out a little ... More >>

  • News

    September 3, 2008

    Unreal plumbs the flavor of French vodka, consults our advice-giving pastor and ponders the Tao of Patrick Swayze

    ​Introducing Stuck To My Ribs, one (slightly overweight) man's journey through one of the unhealthiest cities in the good ol' USA. Because who says calories have to count all the time?It's taken several rounds of intense negotiations through the years, but my body and I have hammered out a little ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2008

    Go! The St. Louis Weekend Calendar, May 23-25, 2008:

    ​Introducing Stuck To My Ribs, one (slightly overweight) man's journey through one of the unhealthiest cities in the good ol' USA. Because who says calories have to count all the time?It's taken several rounds of intense negotiations through the years, but my body and I have hammered out a little ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    July 18, 2007

    Cold War Reheated

    Red Dawn: Collector's Edition

  • Film

    October 18, 2006

    Film Openings

    Week of October 19, 2006

  • Home Entertainment

    June 28, 2006

    The Citizen Kane of Crap

    Week of October 19, 2006

  • Film

    February 22, 2006

    Scared Stiff

    Wayne Kramer's latest casts a Paul over the proceedings

  • Music

    February 22, 2006

    A Star Is Born

    B-Sides explores whether actors can really sing, downloads some Pixies goodness and has some devilish words for Bleeding Through

  • Film

    January 25, 2006

    The Outsiders (1983)

    Week of January 26, 2006

  • Film

    June 22, 2005

    1987 World Series: There's No Place Like Home (1987)

    Phyllis remembers a kinder, gentler Series

  • Music

    November 3, 2004

    Krypton Rock

    We sing to Superman, remember Road House and talk cock rock with Tesla

  • Music

    September 1, 2004
  • Culture

    June 30, 2004

    Go West

    A theater field trip to bucolic Arrow Rock is well worth the drive

  • Calendar

    June 2, 2004

    Go, Dog, Go

    Jack Hanna calls it puppy love

  • Film

    February 25, 2004

    Sizzle? Fizzle.

    For Dirty Dancing, the second verse is even worse than the first

  • Music

    July 2, 2003

    Train

    Tuesday, July 8; Pageant

  • News

    May 28, 2003

    Gravy Train

    The latest St. Louisan to hop aboard the reality-TV juggernaut sees nothing but green

  • News

    May 7, 2003

    The Star-Spangled Bender

    Hold on to your liver! An RFT salute to the coolest local watering holes you've never heard of.

  • Film

    October 23, 2002

    Film Openings

    Week of October 23, 2002

  • Film

    October 20, 1999

    BRINGING OUT THE DEAD

    Directed by Martin Scorsese

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