Public Broadcasting Service

Participatory Budgeting-St. Louis Launches Pilot Project in 6th Ward

Usually when a candidate loses an election, her ideas die with the campaign. Not so in the 6th Ward. In the special election to fill Kacie Starr Triplett's seat, candidate Michelle Witthaus made something called "participatory budgeting" a cornerstone of her campaign. The concept, which has taken o ... More >>

The Abolitionists

Election Night Comedy Debates: Spend One Last Night With Seven Of the Mouthbreathers You Blocked On Facebook Months Ago

Weather permitting, the end to the 2012 election season will arrive tomorrow night when the votes are tallied up and America prepares for the next four years. Not only does this mean we might be able to turn our TV's on without being lambasted with political rhetoric, this should also mean those ann ... More >>

Sexual Poo Worship and the Death of Kuu: Let's Talk About the New Skarekrau Radio Album

No-wave tends to work as an anti-music, a reaction to pop music slathered in classy hooks.The wondrous prog of yore dared not mix with the rough edges of hairy music from the outer crust. Skarekrau Radio is a cult under the pretenses of fantastical rock and experimental sludge. Calling on the shriek ... More >>

PBS Puts the "P" in Party

Half the Sky, All the Hope

Educators Go on TV to Discuss Dropout Crisis

​Not much has changed since Riverfront Times reported on the school dropout crisis back in January of 2009. Since 2004, the high-school graduation rate in the St. Louis public schools has slid from 61 percent to 45 percent, 30 percentage points below the average for the state of Missouri. Nobo ... More >>

Documentary Will Feature Joplin Globe's Tornado Coverage

​OK, so we get that it's annoying when journalists stroke each other within their own little media bubble, but permit us one moment of congratulatory naval-gazing. Today's Post-Dispatch ran a guest editorial written by editors at The (Washington) Missourian, singing the praises of Joplin's l ... More >>

Back from the Undead: Happy 100th to homegrown horror icon Vincent Price

Tea and Sympathy: Some readers say Kevin Jackson's got black Democrats all wrong, and Tyler Perry's movie is just right

Brad Clement: High-Altitude Cameraman from St. Louis Has Documentary Tonight on PBS

Brad Clement​Growing up in St. Louis (elevation 466 feet above sea level), Brad Clement never dreamed that he'd go on to become the cameraman for some of the most daring mountain climbs ever caught on film. But then, that was before the Webster Groves High grad (class of '89) spent a summer workin ... More >>

ask a mexican

Kevin Jackson wrote the book on how to win (white) friends and influence (black) people

Cook's Illustrated's New iPhone App: A Gut Check Test Drive

A free Cook's Illustrated app? Free? America's Test KitchenChristopher Kimball: bow-tied culinary mogul​Cook's Illustrated, the flagship magazine of Christopher Kimball's food-media hydra, isn't known for giving it away. Kimball refuses to sell advertising in any of his magazines and cooki ... More >>

KETC/Channel 9 Trying to Create a "Safe Place" for Immigration Debate. Good Luck with That.

KETC/Channel 9, the local PBS affiliate in St. Louis, is surveying members for their views on immigration -- part of a new project called "Homeland," which the station hopes will create a "safe place where the community can come together to determine how to best deal with immigration."​Our first ... More >>

Street Smart

PBS Tells You How to Host a Food, Inc. Potluck

Image sourceParty over Food, Inc. PBS-style!​Tomorrow night, April 21, PBS (locally, KETC-TV, Channel 9) will be broadcasting the documentary Food, Inc. for the first time as part of its POV documentary series. The network suggests you celebrate this wondrous event by hosting a viewer potluck with ... More >>

Viva Clemente

Tomorrow is D-Day (Digital Television Conversion)

Tomorrow broadcast TV is going all digital on your ass, when analog television signals are switched off and replaced with digital signals. Hopefully you've heard about this already and have purchased a converter box if you aren't already using cable or a satellite service. Just in case you've b ... More >>

Anyone Else Unable to Get Local Channels Through Digital Broadcasts?

flickr.com/photos/89978611@N00Your TV got snow? I'd like to know. Comment below.I realize I'm in the minority here being among the 10 percent of the U.S. population who do not subscribe to satellite or cable television.But I've got to kvetch to the small fragment of folks out there like me. Can you ... More >>

Wagner Mateo and His Awesome Soundtrack

There's been a bit of talk here lately about a kid in the Dominican Republic that the Cardinals may be interested in, by the name of Wagner Mateo. Just turned 16, plays center field (though he's probably more of a right fielder down the line), has all the tools, probable Hall of Famer, you know the ... More >>

A Sneak at the Opera

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. This week, she snuck into Gut Check International Headquarters on a Wednesday with this missive ... More >>

PBS "NewsHour" Visits Chuck Berry, Black Rep and Other St. Louis Artists This Week

As I mentioned last week, the PBS show NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is in town this week for a "City Spotlight" feature on St. Louis.Tonight correspondent Gwen Ifill hosts a forum discussing downtown St. Louis gentrification. Tomorrow she leads a "town hall" meeting on President Barack Obama's first 100 ... More >>

FoodWire: Rick Bayless in St. Louis March 14

Just learned that noted chef Rick Bayless (Chicago restaurants Topolobampo and Frontera Grill, the PBS show Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless and numerous cookbooks) will be haivng a book signing Saturday, March 14, at 3 p.m. at the center court of Plaza Frontenac. You can purchase cop ... More >>

Ask a Mexican: Is being in this country illegally a non-moving violation?

Wash. U. Students: "I Was Joe Biden!" "I Was Gwen Ifill!"

The Morning Brew: Monday, 9.22

Art in the Now

Final Chapter

KETC-TV is collecting stories from St. Louis’ veterans of World War II – while there’s still time left.

Let's Get Physical

B-Sides talks physical fitness with treadmill gurus OK Go and blows out some smart-ass birthday candles with the Conformists.

Hot Numbers

Time for that tuneful question: What are the best Broadway musicals of all time?

Middlesex

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of April 6, 2005

Papal Bull

We introduce the highly scientific Marsalis Apostasy Index, teach you how to make your own Irish songs and discover the soundtrack to a vasectomy

Ethnicity

Is back! Back in the city!

Meat Puppets

No strings attached

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Science, Weird and Rough

Kirkwood High grad puts her science background to work on PBS program

Make a Date

The Tivoli offers more decoration for the refrigerator with the resurrection of the film calendar series

Film Openings

Week of February 6, 2002

Fake Mustache

Groucho Marx returns from the grave in Frank Ferrante's one-man show

Paperback Writers

The latest music books struggle to demystify pop culture's greatest enigmas

The Ballad of Willie Akins

A jazzman who went looking for his dream in New York and found it in St. Louis

Letters

Week of June 6, 2001

Webster University Traditional Jazz Ensemble

Tuesday, Feb. 20; Eliot Unitarian Chapel (216 E. Argonne Dr.).

Backstage Pass

Gene Bradford brings all that jazz to St. Louis by way of the Backstage Bistro

A Puff of Smoke

Paul Wesolowski knows the secret word: Groucho

Border Patrol

Short Cuts

Point-Less