Pittsburgh

Foxing Returns From Tour, Signs Deal With Count Your Lucky Stars

The five doe-eyed boys of Foxing lock interweaving rhythms and personal lyrics to impart heartfelt tunes throughout the Midwest. Foxing's recent self-booked tour brought the band up and down the Central Time Zone, garnering much fanfare for its careful but fearless take on melodic post-rock.

Amateur Hours: Tedious Piano Lesson exposes a Black Rep that's out of tune

The Ram Defense By the Numbers

The final game of the 2012 NFL regular season is upon us, as the Rams will travel to Seattle this week, into the maw of that nightmare the Seahawks call a homefield advantage. It's been a good season for the Rams, to be honest. Better than I personally expected. I wasn't particularly sanguine a ... More >>

Think Tank Ranks St. Louis High in "Creative Class" Output...Not!

The other day a colleague forwarded along a link citing a study in which St. Louis was ranked no. 4 in the nation for our Creative Class* contributions to the nation's greater good. Or so it first appeared. In a short paper titled "Is your Region ... Creative, Innovative, Productive, ... or Just P ... More >>

Cards Shut Out Houston; Adam Wainwright Does a Thing (Again)

What the Cardinals did last night was exactly what they needed to do. Now, if they can just remember that feeling and do that same thing a couple dozen more times, we might be in business. The Cards were playing the Houston Astros, the worst team in baseball. Unfortunately, the Astros being the ... More >>

St. Louis is Nation's Seventh Manliest City

What constitutes manliness? Is it merely the presence of certain genitalia and a Y chromosome and the ability to manufacture large quantities of testosterone? Or is it something more complex and metaphysical like, say, knowing how to knot a necktie or possessing an understanding of certain complexit ... More >>

Show Your St. Louis Love With a Group Hug

Got civic pride? You have one more week to prove it. This coming Wednesday (May 23) is the last day to submit your picture to GroupHug St. Louis, a photo competition in appreciation of the people and places of the 314, 636 and 618 area codes."It's all about reminding ourselves of the everyday things ... More >>

MoKaBe's to be Featured in Documentary by Liza Birkenmeier

Laura Ann MillerMoKaBe's is ready for its close-up.​Even though she's currently earning a Masters in Dramatic Writing at Carnagie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, St. Louisan Liza Birkenmeier has returned home for her current project - a documentary on MoKaBe's Coffeehouse (3606 Arsenal Street ... More >>

Home to conduct for Opera Theatre, Kirkwood High alum John McDaniel keeps Company with RFT

The Double Play Blues, Part 2

A twin killing! Get it? Okay, fine, they're just brothers, not twins. Man, tough room. ​You all may remember (or you may not; I don't honestly know how much attention anyone pays to me), that just a few weeks back I wrote about the astonishingly high number of double plays the Cardinals have hit i ... More >>

New Owners Resurrect Spudmaster Potato Chips

​Spudmaster Colossal Chips -- self-proclaimed as "the world's largest chip" -- disappeared from store shelves not long after the October 2009 bust of founder Edward Pilla for running a marijuana-growing operation out of his house. (Pilla was sentenced to probation, plus shock jail time, in Decembe ... More >>

Young Smarties "Choosing" Rust Belt Over Sun Belt

St. Louis: Losing fewer young people since 2007!​It's been the conventional wisdom for years, if not decades: College-educated young people are fleeing old "rust-belt" cities like St. Louis for warmer, sunnier and more stylish metropolises. Politicians have filled newspaper op-ed pages with essays ... More >>

Gregg Gillis talks about the continuing popularity of his mashup project, Girl Talk

The Central Library: Behind the Scenes of a Transformation

Kholood Eid​On January 6, 1912, 99 years and one day ago, the Central Library downtown opened its doors for the very first time. Designed by the architect Cass Gilbert to look like an Italian Renaissance palace and costing $1.5 million, part of which was a gift from the Pittsburgh steel baron Andr ... More >>

Interview: Max Weinberg on His New Big Band and Feeling "1000 Percent" After Heart-Repair Surgery

courtesy of ​The percussive power of legendary E. Street Band drummer Max Weinberg provides the backbone for an endless soundtrack of Bruce Springsteen classics, the results of a creative partnership that's spanned nearly 40 years. In the early '90s, Weinberg was introduced to a whole new gene ... More >>

New Ranking Shows that St. Louisans are Uncharitable

Dan Zettwoch​Will it ever stop??? How long will St. Louis have to endure being a perpetual bottom-feeder on all those national rankings of good things like health and beauty and traffic? For Christ's sake, people, will you quit confusing us with the marine life that populates our beloved Missi ... More >>

Five Questions: Jordan Hicks, Co-Founder of the Art/Music Space Open Lot

Josh LeviJordan Hicks of Open Lot​Open Lot might be one of the city's most exciting hidden gems. Tucked away in an old yeast factory in Lafayette Square, the space stands unassumingly behind Square One Brewery, next to residential housing and...an open lot. Since opening in October 2007, Open ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Can the Negro Leagues Museum Survive the Recession?

Wikimedia CommonsBuck O'Neil, Kansas City Monarchs manager, first black coach in Major League Baseball and founder of the Negro Leagues Museum.​The count is rising against the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City.Strike one: The recession, which is hurting museums all over the country, but ... More >>

Readers rave about Leonard Cohen's magical concert and rant about Andrew Schlafly's re-edit of the Bible

Stuffed Up: Readers consider a life without Sudafed and ponder St. Louis' dismal rankings in national polls

By All That is Holy, Todd Wellemeyer Must Be Stopped

At this point, I honestly don't know who to beg, plead with, or pray to who might have some legitimate chance of ridding us of the curse of Todd Wellemeyer. I tried praying to God after Welley's start in Pittsburgh on the 12th of May, when he gave up seven runs in 4.1, but God seemed uninterested in ... More >>

St. Louis Response to Spanish Influenza of 1918 Saved Thousands of Lives

Kansas patients infected during the 1918 pandemic.Amid all the hysteria in the media this week about swine flu (i.e. Did anyone catch Larry Connors last night gravely reporting "live" outside a medical company that builds respirators!?), at least one story out today provides some historical context ... More >>

Great America: The summer of our '80s youth in Adventureland

Chris Carpenter is Only Going to Break Our Hearts

edwinknip.comYou're a heartbreaker. Dream maker, love-taker.I've been trying really, really hard this spring not to get too very excited about Chris Carpenter. All along, I've tried to take the same stance toward him that I eventually had to take regarding Mark Mulder; i.e. I don't expect him to pit ... More >>

The Chesterfield Mall is Watching You

Tojosan, Flickr Creative CommonsSomewhere, something is watching you...It is a fact of life that people go to the mall to look at things. Especially thirteen-year-old people who have no other place to go. But now, at least at Chesterfield Mall, the things are looking back.AdSpace, the New York compa ... More >>

Blogger Roundtable: Who Will Take the Cardinals Fifth Starting Spot, What's John Mozeliak's Mission This Off-Season?

Off with His Furry Little Head! The Rep's Lieutenant of Inishmore defies description. Just go see it.

Off with His Furry Little Head! The Rep's Lieutenant of Inishmore defies description. Just go see it.

Oxford Collapse joins Love as Laughter at the Bluebird, on tour in support of its Sub Pop LP, Bits

Landshark Lager

Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights
314-298-9944

Green Teams: The Cardnials scramble to join the ranks of the environmentally conscious

End Zone

Battered by the pounding they took on the gridiron, former players say the National Football League has abandoned them.

2006: The Year in Music

Week of December 28, 2006

Al Gore sends Joe an inconvenient letter.

Week of July 13, 2006

His Majesty

The Black Rep gives August Wilson’s King Hedley II the royal treatment

Show and Attell

Comedian Dave Attell rolls into town

Idiot Savants

Green Day's politicking is simple but effective

Major League

The Alton Little Theater swings for the Fences

Please Plea Me

A primer on the punk-rock tour of the season

Bloodwork

Eric Stanze is the most successful filmmaker in St. Louis. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Homer Town

When it comes to a new stadium, not even opening day is immune from a sales pitch

Best New-Building Blueprint

Forum for Contemporary Art

Almost Famous

Written and directed by Cameron Crowe

Symphony Overtures

A great orchestra at great risk, the SLSO seeks major donors to close the endowment gap between their $28 million and the $100 million of their competitors

FENCES

By August Wilson (St. Louis Black Repertory Co.)

THROB, THROB

Herewith, a guide to the latest crop of musical heartthrobs

A Boondoggle for the Ages

Convention-hotel plan makes past fiascos look like genius

Sound Checks

News of the Weird