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The Electric Pencil Takes Manhattan

If you plan to be in New York this week, you might want to take a couple of hours and venture to Hirschl & Adler Galleries on Fifth Avenue, near Central Park, and take a look at their new exhibition, "Talisman of the Ward: The Album of Drawings By Edward Deeds." After all, it's winter and too told f ... More >>

Barrel Roll Man Aims to Break World Somersault Record on Art Hill This Saturday

Last November, the Barrel Roll Man -- a group that goes around the world doing somersaults for charity -- attempted to set a world record for somersaulting on Art Hill. They failed. This Saturday at 2 pm, they're trying again. The existing record for group somersaulting was set almost exactly a yea ... More >>

Doom Town brings stories home from Europe

In the Galleries - John Stezaker CLOSES April 23 at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Harry Potter's Over. Cope With Some Themed Eats.

Calm down -- just because the Harry Potter movie franchise comes to an end this weekend with the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the Hogwarts kids will live on in these wizarding-inspired eats. Until they're devoured. Then commence moaning like Myrtle. Of course, for the f ... More >>

Slay Belle: After more than 50 years, The Visit still knocks 'em dead

Ask a Mexican: Swiss Miss: Do immigrants to Sweden have it better or worse than Mexicans here?

The 5 Best Places to Watch the 2010 World Cup Final

The World Cup trophy is pretty darn ugly. But nothing says balls like the Golden Cup!

Tuesday Tussle, Part 2: Supreme Court's Gun Ban Ruling Will Not Lead to More Bloodshed

​The Supreme Court yesterday ruled that state and local laws can not supersede the Constitution when it comes to Americans' right to keep arms.The decision throws out laws in Chicago and its suburban neighbor, Oak Park, that banned residents from keeping handguns in their homes. The ruling also o ... More >>

World Cuppage: Spain 2 - Honduras 1; Sangria and Sangre Español at Guido's Pizzeria & Tapas

photos by Keegan HamiltonThis Spain fanatico says, "¡La sangre de España es bueno!"​Spain is a country of simple pleasures. There are three, in particular, that define the nation: eating, drinking and fútbol -- and not necessarily in that order, either. For the closest thing to the authentic Sp ... More >>

Gut Check's Week in Tweets

​Don't you know? Gut Check has a Twitter account. You can follow us @gutcheckstl.Here's some of what you missed on the Twitter feed this week: Starbucks finally caves, to offer free "one click" Wi-Fi: http://bit.ly/aVUcgK Via Eater, Hooters donating waitresses' used pantyhose to help Gulf oil ... More >>

World Cuppage: Switzerland 1 - Spain 0; Coffee and Cigarettes at the Amsterdam Tavern

photos by Keegan HamiltonIt's soccer 24/7 at the Amsterdam Tavern in Tower Grove​It wasn't a good sign for the Spanish contingent when Rob, the co-owner of the Amsterdam Tavern, started rattling off the final results of the previous winners of the EuroCup in the World Cup. Like some soccer Rain Ma ... More >>

Remembering Dr. Freeze Sr. at Brentwood's Southern Sno

Dr. FreezeSouthern Sno in Brentwood​Greetings! Dr. Freeze here, lately returned on the red-eye bird from the 17th Annual International Conference on the Advancement of the Snow-Cone Arts in Davos, Switzerland -- just in time for the official start of snow-Cone season.Yes, Memorial Day has come and ... More >>

Clarification: Biggest Winners in the BETonSPORTS Case are U.S. Taxpayers, Not Bettors

​Earlier this week Daily RFT reported that bettors could begin laying claim to their piece of the $43.65 million in online gambling proceeds that Gary Kaplan, founder of the now-defunct BETonSPORTS, has forfeited to the U.S. government. Steve Holtshouser, the federal prosecutor handling Kaplan's c ... More >>

The Noble Writ: Pairing Pizza with Wine, via Piedmont

Wait, it's pizza and beer, right? Not in my book. As someone who loves beer, pizza and wine to degrees that would probably embarrass most folks, I'm mystified how this generic "match" has become a ubiquitous populist myth.What kind of beer? What kind of pizza? What kind of wine? These are areas rif ... More >>

Death of British Conductor Raises Further Questions About Assisted Suicide

flickr.com/photos/alexfilesThe news came from England yesterday that orchestra conductor Sir Edward Downes, 85, and his wife Joan, 74, committed suicide together last week in Switzerland with the aid of a right-to-die organization called Dignitas.Lady Downes was terminally ill and in the last stages ... More >>

Not Just Another Pretty Face: Echo Theatre's The Ugly One is a beauty

Matt Garza Throws Pitch Through Catcher, Wall, Time

Paralympian Kerri Morgan Set for 200-Meter Race in Beijing

Bar of the Week: Drinking a Black-and-Red at Foley's Bar in Maplewood

Show Review: KDHX's Midwest Mayhem at the City Museum, Thursday, May 22

The Morning Brew: Monday, 4.28

Mansinthe: Marilyn Manson's Absinthe Wins a Gold Medal

Review Preview: Simply Fondue

Sweetness and Light

The Swedish indie-pop trio Peter Björn and John write tales of sweetness and heartbreak on its breakthrough album.

Out of Africa

Selections from this year's African Film Festival.

Off the Rack

If The Tuxedo Room's food and service don't improve, it'll be curtains.

Small Plates, Friday, 10/20

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

Capsule Reviews

Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

High (Fashion) Tea

Letters Column

Week of January 26, 2006

Beat Happenings

Music news you can use

Gone Phishin'

We gush over Trey Anastasio, get some cowbell advice from Blue Öyster Cult's expert and administer a headphones fidelity test

Lt. Nanny

Vin Diesel moves in, and the laughs move out

Why Can't Those Nuns Stop Singing?

Our theater critic answers the questions that must be asked

A New View

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis comes in like a lion

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of August 20, 2003

Slide Rules

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players make art of your boring vacation pix

Invasion of the Swiss

Proposed cement plant in Ste. Genevieve would be foreign to our lungs

Cementing a Deal

A giant quarry and the world's largest cement kiln are being welcomed by Ste. Genevieve County. But the operation may leave St. Louis gasping for air.

Best Place to Buy Chocolate

Cost Plus World Market

"Turtle" Diary

Help the Nazis turn a profit, or let a great artwork be destroyed?

Deep Space Ten

St. Louis Art Museum visitors are blasted into a Wonderland of space

Plight of the Gypsies

Home is where they have to take you in. But for the Roma refugees who've come to St. Louis, there's no such place.

MASKS: FACES OF CULTURE

St. Louis Art Museum

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

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