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Pay Your Library Fines with Food in July

Wikimedia CommonsDon't fear the stacks. St. Louis Public Library will accept food for fines in July.​Stop hiding from the library cops. There are still a few days for library delinquents to take advantage of the St. Louis Public Library's Food for Fines program. Through the end of July, all ... More >>

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 >>

Carondelet Branch of St. Louis Public Library Closes for 2011

image viaThe Carondelet Branch of the St. Louis Public Library.​The St. Louis Public Library is on a self-improvement tear. Just six months after the Central Library downtown closed its doors for more than a year of renovations, the library's Carondelet Branch at 6800 Michigan Avenue will also ... More >>

Step Into Some Parlors

image viaThe Carondelet Branch of the St. Louis Public Library.​The St. Louis Public Library is on a self-improvement tear. Just six months after the Central Library downtown closed its doors for more than a year of renovations, the library's Carondelet Branch at 6800 Michigan Avenue will also ... More >>

Let's Ban Banning

image viaThe Carondelet Branch of the St. Louis Public Library.​The St. Louis Public Library is on a self-improvement tear. Just six months after the Central Library downtown closed its doors for more than a year of renovations, the library's Carondelet Branch at 6800 Michigan Avenue will also ... More >>

Pay Your St. Louis Public Library Fines With Canned Food

Image sourceBring in your canned goods for fines. Yoga not necessary.​Some people are less, shall we say, diligent than others about returning their library books on time. (One excuse: These fancy newfangled self-checkout receipts make it harder to discern when a book is due, as opposed to the ... More >>

What's for Lunch Downtown? Live Music, Courtesy of the St. Louis Public Library

Not the book to be reading during these concerts.​Usually, there's not much to entertain downtown during the work day, not even buskers serenading the city streets. But for the remainder of June and all of the July, downtown denizens can head to the Old Post Office Plaza (between 8th and 9th o ... More >>

Say Farewell to the Central Library, See You in 2012

Image sourceThe Central Library, awaiting its gut rehab.​Have you ever had a burning desire to visit the stacks in the Central Library downtown? Even if you're not usually an aficionado of libraries, you really should. The stacks are seven levels of clouded glass floors and narrow staircases a ... More >>

There’s Gonna Be a Heartache Tonight

Image sourceThe Central Library, awaiting its gut rehab.​Have you ever had a burning desire to visit the stacks in the Central Library downtown? Even if you're not usually an aficionado of libraries, you really should. The stacks are seven levels of clouded glass floors and narrow staircases a ... More >>

Colin Beaven, the Man Who Lived Without Electricity in Manhattan, Speaks Tonight at Schlafly Branch of St. Louis Public Library

Image: Copyright CyberStern.comColin Beaven will be at the Schlafly Branch of St. Louis Public Library tonight.​Not content with just biking to work or going on a recycling crusade, Colin Beavan, author of No Impact Man lived for a year in the strictest green lifestyle. That meant eating organical ... More >>

Prepare Ye for Reading the Way of Curious George

courtesy Houghton Mifflin​You may be unaware, but today, May 14, is St. Louis Reads Day. (It's also the Independence Days of Paraguay and Israel and the birthday of Danny Wood, the least-celebrated of the New Kids on the Block.) In celebration, you could go outside and sit under a tree with a ... More >>

The Art of the Book: Journals Then and Now

gh May 8 at Gallery 210, TeleCommunity Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Worldly Wonder

gh May 8 at Gallery 210, TeleCommunity Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Ten Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend, August 21-23, 2009

For those of you still in college, this is the last weekend of summer. Time to get out there and make as many mistakes as possible in the next 48 hours before lying to yourself that you're "really going to hit the books" this semester. For the rest of us, there's a variety of cheap choices this week ... More >>

Unreal Investigates Awful Library Books

Awful Library Books​Unreal recently came across an absolutely wonderful blog called Awful Library Books. Founded by two Michigan librarians named Mary and Holly, the site is, in their words, "a collection of public library holdings that we find amusing and maybe questionable for public libraries t ... More >>

Ten Things to Do Under $10 This Weekend, August 14-16, 2009

TGIF! Here are ten things to do this weekend that won't bust your budget. soulardbluesband.com​Soulard Blues Band at Broadway Oyster Bar (Friday)The Soulard Blues Band has been around for more than 25 years, but this current lineup came together about two years ago. They play at 9:30 p.m. Friday. ... More >>

African in our Sights

TGIF! Here are ten things to do this weekend that won't bust your budget. soulardbluesband.com​Soulard Blues Band at Broadway Oyster Bar (Friday)The Soulard Blues Band has been around for more than 25 years, but this current lineup came together about two years ago. They play at 9:30 p.m. Friday. ... More >>

Change Didn't Happen Overnight

TGIF! Here are ten things to do this weekend that won't bust your budget. soulardbluesband.com​Soulard Blues Band at Broadway Oyster Bar (Friday)The Soulard Blues Band has been around for more than 25 years, but this current lineup came together about two years ago. They play at 9:30 p.m. Friday. ... More >>

Endgame Always Comes Early

TGIF! Here are ten things to do this weekend that won't bust your budget. soulardbluesband.com​Soulard Blues Band at Broadway Oyster Bar (Friday)The Soulard Blues Band has been around for more than 25 years, but this current lineup came together about two years ago. They play at 9:30 p.m. Friday. ... More >>

Make Tonight White

Book a party at the library

St. Louis Has Two Haunted Libraries

Book a party at the library

Haunted Library

Read all about it

File Under "Jazz"

Put the "you" in "shush"

Patriotic Paperwork

It began with agreement

Patriotic Paperwork

It began with agreement

A Novel Idea

Gettin' loud at the library

That's How Sushi Rolls

Learn all about it at the library

Get Literati

The library goes cool

Quiet, or You Get the Lash!

Music in the library

Book 'Em

Unreal relishes being among the nation's most literate and and gets close with the NuttyBuddy.

Potter Mania Continues!

Unreal relishes being among the nation's most literate and and gets close with the NuttyBuddy.

Unreal spends time with lovely Swedish...bridge players.

Then, one reader takes the St. Louis Public Library to task, while another brings home a tasty bowl of spicy bull penis.

Shelve Your Other Plans Tonight

The library's where it's at!

The 5 Best & Worst Videocassettes of 2005

Week of December 22, 2005

St. Louis in Verse

Instead of in chorus

Best Reading Series

Left Bank Books

Cajun Haus

In the middle of the state

The Wide-Ruled Stuff

Is the Wright stuff

Lost but Not Forgotten

Indie films bitch-slap complacency

Behold! Wizardry!

Booksellers prepare for Harry Potter-palooza 5

Continent of Class

St. Louis African Arts Festival drums on

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Week of February 27, 2002

Are You Ready For E-Books, E-Periodicals and Recreational E-Reading in General?

Week of February 27, 2002