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Reich Rewrites Radiohead: A twenty-piece Chamber Ensemble Plays Steve Reich’s Radiohead-inspired opus at the Sheldon

"I Bitched About It a Lot on Twitter" and Other NHL Lockout Coping Strategies of Blues Fans

The most recent NHL lockout became a memory on Saturday as the Blues blanked the Detroit Red Wings 6-0 at the Scottrade Center. While covering the first of this 48-game season, photographer Jon Gitchoff asked these fans how they spent the lockout. Here are their responses, which include crying, curs ... More >>

Is Lockout History Repeating for the St. Louis Blues?

So the NHL has apparently failed to learn its lesson. In a big, big way. See, the National Hockey League has this problem, wherein all the owners say they're not making any money, while the players all go, "Nuh-uh!" and everybody just keeps yelling at the other to quit being such a bunch of gre ... More >>

Brian Elliott Injured; Panic Ensues Just in Time for the Playoffs

The Blues have been hit hard by the injury bug this year. Not that that's exactly anything new, of course; we've seen too many times the last few season this team derailed by players hitting the training table. But this year, it's been rough. The usual assortment of bumps and bruises, both uppe ... More >>

Cassy Vires of Home Wine Kitchen

This is part one of Stephen Fairbanks' Chef's Choice profile of Cassy Vires of Home Wine Kitchen. Part two, a Q&A, will be posted tomorrow, and part three, a recipe from Vires, will be posted on Thursday. Jennifer SilverbergHusband-and-wife owners of Home Wine Kitchen, Josh Renbarger and Chef Cassy ... More >>

While You Were Eating Left Over Turkey, Teenage Boys Were Living Out Gridiron Dreams

Jennifer SilverbergProud American Traditions: Jazz... Ford... Capitalism... Thanksgiving weekend high school football state championship games.​Not even a man wearing a cowboy hat while eating a Big Mac, listening to Bruce Springsteen and trading derivatives on his iPad is more American than high ... More >>

[UPDATE] Jenifer Goertzen: Body of Peoria Woman Found Bound in St. Louis Hotel

Update 11:45 a.m.Police have identified the suspect who killed himself early this morning as 34-year-old Robert Fuller. Fuller and Goertzen were in a relationship, according to police. Update 9:40 a.m. The suspect in Goertzen's death, a 34-year-old man, reportedly killed himself around 2 a.m. today ... More >>

Headed Down the Illinois River Soon: The Nina and Pinta

thenina.comGet your Columbus Day started early.​For ten days this fall, Grafton will be home to replicas of two of Christopher Columbus' three exploring ships. The Nina and Pinta are currently making their way across Lake Michigan before heading down the Illinois River this month. After a stop in ... More >>

Seether's Dale Stewart Rocks the Wings at the Silver Ballroom

MTV.comSeether bassist Dale Stewart dreams of hot wings at work.​Yeah, he's come to snuff the rooster. Wait...wrong band, right poultry. Although Alice in Chains sang about snuffing roosters, Seether bassist Dale Stewart is going to be doing it for real on Thursday at the Silver Ballroom. So ... More >>

The Painted Ad: Postcard Book Pays Homage to Billboards of Yesteryear

A sign in Collinsville snapped back in 1983. (Images courtesy of The Painted Ad).​St. Louis author and photographer William Stage is out with a new book on one of his favorite subjects: the vanishing, brick-wall advertisements that once decorated buildings across America. Today these signs serve a ... More >>

Central Illinois Congressman is DC's Hottest Male Eye-Candy

It's official: Representative Aaron Schock of Illinois's 18th Congressional district has been anointed the hottest member of not just the House but also the Senate, eclipsing former Cosmo centerfold and current Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown. You can tell because a photo of him in a bathing suit ... More >>

Salmonella Outbreak at Illinois Subways

Image viaNot the Subway Diet that Jared meant.​Sometimes the true cost of that $5 Foot Long can't be measured in money.According to the Illinois Department of Health, via the delightfully named Food Poison Journal, there have been 68 confirmed cases of salmonella traced back to Subway sandwich sho ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the St. Louis theater scene

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the St. Louis theater scene

The Forecast

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 11. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Honor Thy Father: A Muslim man in Phoenix "honor killed" his Americanized daughter

Tweakers 'N Diggers: Looters are pillaging Native American burial grounds to finance their meth habits

Extremist Groups Rise 244% Nationwide; Missouri Now Has 10 "Patriot" Brigades

​The Southern Poverty Law Center has released a report suggesting that the number of extremist groups operating in the U.S. grew by 244 percent last year. According to the report, the number of these anti-government movements went from 149 in 2008 to 512 in 2009 -- an addition of 363 new groups in ... More >>

St. Patrick's Day Massacre: The Best Blues Hockey Fight of All-Time?

Nineteen years ago today, the St. Louis Blues and Chicago Blackhawks beat the living crap out of each other. They also played a hockey game. The Hawks won 6-4 but the outcome was overshadowed by melees in the first and second period resulted in 278 penalty minutes, including 24 minor, 12 major and 1 ... More >>

The Blues' Next Big Thing Debuts Tonight

Tonight is an exciting night if you're a St. Louis Blues fan. The team's top prospect, Lars Eller, will make his NHL debut at the Scottrade Center against the Calgary Flames. Eller will also become only the sixth player in NHL history of Danish descent. Personally, I'm hoping Eller can com ... More >>

Armadillo Plays Well in Peoria, So Why Not St. Louis?

www.ci.peoria.il.us/nuisancepropertyThe Peoria "Armadillo"​The Wall Street Journal had an interesting article yesterday about the way the Peoria, Illinois, police deal with nuisance properties. Their solution? An unmanned armored truck that the police park outside the homes of drug dealers and oth ... More >>

Blues Update: The Light at the End of the Tunnel

Over the weekend, we may have finally seen some real reason to be optimistic for the Blues' future. In the NHL's YoungStars Game, the Blues had two players participating, and both showed well for themselves. Don't get me wrong; there have been plenty of reasons to be optimistic before now, but ... More >>

Local College Hoops: A Rundown on The Rundown

So what if March is still two months away? It certainly hasn't stopped ESPN's Joe Lunardi from updating his highly addictive Bracketology feature and projecting the entire 65 team NCAA tournament field despite the fact that most teams have only played one or two conference games and perhaps a pushov ... More >>

An Arrow Runs Through It: Bowfishers take aim at Asian carp

Exclusive: Interview With Eyewitness to Gym Class Heroes Altercation

St. Louis Art Capsules

Malcolm Gay encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Malcolm Gay encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Caps

Malcolm Gay encapsulates the local art scene.

St. Louis Art Caps

Malcolm Gay encapsulates the local art scene.

St. Louis Art Capsules

Malcom Gay encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Malcom Gay encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

OK Computer: Ten Years After

B-Sides reboots Radiohead and takes a roadtrip with Ani.

Coachella, Ho!

Twist of Fate

This former St. Louis Blues star has skated on some thin ice since leaving the rink

The Format

Wednesday, April 5 at 8 p.m. The Hi-Pointe (1001 McCausland Avenue)

Pimping All Over the World

B-Sides gets gangsta with Burt Bacharach, imagines a rainbow of worldly bands and dissects the nuances of two trumpets

Buffet of Champions

You came, you saw, you voted: the winners of the 2005 Riverfront Times Music Awards

Letters

Week of July 28, 2004

Queer Eye for the Country Guy

Cowboy crooners are putting some metro-sex into their rural images

Shooting Stars

Tommie Liddell plays tortoise to Darius Miles’ hare in the annals of East Side High basketball lore

Shootout Freak-Out

Ho ho hoops at Savvis

What a Difference a Gay Makes

Jade Esteban Estrada tells the tales you won't find in textbooks

Sex and the City

Hot lesbian sex and other gems are uncovered by a UM-St. Louis historian

Joia to the World

It's all fun and games for St. Louis' favorite Brazilian percussion ensemble

House of Cards

So the Cardinals are taking bids. Good luck.

This Czechvar's for You

Sporting a disguise, the original Bud readies for battle in the realm of the King of Beers

Letters to the Editor

Published the week of June 28-July 4, 2000

ON SHAKY GROUND

The earthquake hazard here may be greater than you think. And planning for it is less than you'd expect.

Revelations on Tragedy and the Young

News of the Weird