South Pacific

The Third Voyage of Thor: Kon-Tiki is a grand story, told again

Epic Meal Time Meets Cthulhu with a Meat Cthulhu and Deadmau5

​Canadian DJ and producer Deadmau5 is skipping St. Louis on his current tour, which has included a six-night sell-out at New York City's Roseland Ballroom last week and four sold-out nights at House of Blues in Boston this week.Luckily, the sick bastards at Epic Meal Time are sharing the live ... More >>

Gabriel Dawe's Plexus Installations Lead this Weekend's Art Openings

Gabriel Dawe takes fiber art to new heights with his Plexus series, opening at the Luminary Center for the Arts this weekend. These massive ribbons of color are made from little more than thread, and from a short distance, the inventive installations seem to be floating. More information on this eve ... More >>

MOBot Part of International Plot to Digitize Darwin's Library

image via​How do you come up with a scientific theory that will totally rock the world and continue to be debated 150 years later? If you were Charles Darwin, you'd take a long boat ride to the Galápagos Islands and spend lots of time examining the beaks of the local finches, a process he des ... More >>

The History of Hawaii, Told in Plate Lunches

Hipster historian/author/NPR voice/Violet from The Incredibles Sarah Vowell has a new book, Unfamiliar Fishes, that hits bookstores March 22. The book explores the history of Hawaii, which Vowell previews in a trailer (since when do books have trailers?), filled with slides of Hawaiian plate lunches ... More >>

Have an Enchanted Evening

By the Boards: Dennis Brown on the STL Theater Scene September 3-6

Whitney Curtis | stagesstlouis.orgOh, craps! Guys and dollars!​Had you been a Tony Awards voter in the early 1950s, would you have voted for Guys and Dolls, which debuted on Broadway in November 1950 (and which opens a four-week stint at Stages St. Louis this weekend), or for The King and I, which ... More >>

Java Enabled: Coffee's Big-Ass Red

​In What to Drink with What to Eat, sommelier Steve Beckta writes about the challenge of finding that perfect bottle of wine to meet the different tastes of every diner at the table: "Scientifically, there may be a bottle of wine they 'should' have. But...they're not going to like that at all. Wh ... More >>

Asia, Lumiere Place's Chinese/Thai/Vietnamese/Japanese chow parlor/sushi bar, is all over the map

Final Chapter

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

So Long, Farewell

Dennis Brown bids farewell to the summer season at the Muny.

Song of Songs

The Musical of Musicals is a real hoot.

New Ireland

Nowhere near New England

Song of the South

Foxy Lady

Theater

Living Large

Ken Page throws his homegrown weight behind Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar

Take Me Out to the Muny

How to make money and stultify people

Thunder Rolls

A '60s British TV series gets an extreme makeover

Boring Breakfast

This witless, low-cal production disappoints

Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

Rodgers & Hart and Sondheim get their due; Andrew Lloyd Webber gets doo-doo

Muny Musings

The summer season in Forest Park had some highs, but let's keep them in perspective

A Mixed Big

This movie-based musical sounds best when there's no sound at all

A Comedy With Balls

Party trades skin for scratch

Gravy Train

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

Story Time

Oldest performing art strikes again

Wasted Space

St. Louis University restores a beautiful building to display terrible art

Conduct Unbecoming

Bill Beachum, war hero and Disabled American Veterans honcho, had an out-of-control dream that may soon land him in jail. Question is, was he the only old soldier on a mission of greed?

Dust to Dust

Once more, a man calls upon the troops to save The Alamo, before it's gone forever

Island Beauty

Tom Hanks finally grows up and delivers the adult romance of Cast Away

Porn in the USA

Internet smut peddlers reaped millions from unsuspecting credit-card holders. Their partner in slime was right here in the heartland.

South Pacific

By Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers and Joshua Logan (Summer Showbiz at SIU-E)

Net Losses

Cyberporn's sexual pleasure often comes with accompanying financial pain

BIG-SCREEN EPIC

Comprehensive coverage of the Eighth Annual St. Louis International Film Festival

Still At War

More than 50 years after World War II, Marine Corps veteran Norman Anthonopoulas Sr. keeps fighting for the Medal of Honor he believes he earned

The Art of War

Reel Life

Neal Gabler alerts the masses to the proliferation of entertainment in his book Life the Movie