T.S. Eliot

Ginger & Rosa reveals young women and a world on the verge

The Best Part About The Mars Volta Was Their Hair

The Mars Volta was a rock band from California, which a place where rock bands are frequently formed. Other rock bands formed in California include Van Halen, Creedence Clearwater Revival and the band that spawned the Mars Volta, At The Drive-In. At The Drive-In is best known for once having a song ... More >>

2013 RFT Web Awards Winners

It's been said that employees engaging in social media while at work cost the U.S. economy $650 billion a year in lost productivity. That's $4,452 per company, and it doesn't even factor in the economic losses from plain, old Web surfing. Throw that into the mix, and good lordy: No wonder the econom ... More >>

In the Galleries - Pablo Helguera: Negative Archaeology CLOSES December 15 at Webster's Cecille R. Hunt Gallery

Former St. Louisan T.S. Eliot's Non-St. Louisan Wife Dies; Responsible for Existence of Cats

Valerie Fletcher Eliot, who was married to the poet T.S. Eliot, who grew up in St. Louis and then moved permanently to England although he occasionally mustered enough nostalgic feeling to write poems about the Mississippi (which he described as "strong brown god--sullen, untamed and intractable"), ... More >>

Jonathan Franzen's Dramatic Adventures in Webster Groves Real Estate: The Play!

A new play based on Jonathan Franzen's essay "House For Sale" opens this Saturday, October 13, at The Duke on 42nd Street, a theater in New York. Actually, it's just previews; the "post-opening" is October 25. (But where is the actual opening?) The essay concerns Franzen's return to Webster Groves ... More >>

Queer As Film

Still I Rise

Celebrating Chopin

The T.S. Eliot-Approved Ending of the Mizzou-KU Border

​With apologies to T.S. Eliot: This is the way the border war endsThis is the way the border war endsThis is the way the border war endsNot with bang, but with a whimper.Yep, Missouri and Kansas played what looks to be -- for now, at least -- the final edition of their Border War rivalry over ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending November 13, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books, Subterranean Books and Sue's News. Sometimes the bestseller list has a sense of hum ... More >>

RIP Poet and Songwriter Fran Landesman, 1927-2011: "Life is a Bitch"

image viaFran Landesman in 1996.​Fran Landesman, a poet and songwriter who, along with her husband Jay and brother-in-law Fred, ran the Crystal Palace nightclub in Gaslight Square in the late 1950s, died last Saturday, July 23, in London. She was 83. Her website proclaims her "the poet laurea ... More >>

Ken Page and Lee Roy Reams share highlights of their prolific Muny careers

For Sale: Childhood Home of William S. Burroughs

image viaFor sale: One fine-looking house with an impeccable literary pedigree.​If you can imagine it, William S. Burroughs was once a child right here in St. Louis. His grandfather, also named William S. Burroughs, founded the Burroughs Adding Machine Company which presumably did pretty well ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

Featured Review: Thea Djordjadze & George Maciunas

For Sale: The True Truman House

image viaYou want a Truman House? This is a Truman house!​One of the biggest attractions in Independence, Missouri, is the Harry Truman House. The elegant Victorian mansion at 219 North Delaware Street is, indeed, a house fit for a President, and the National Park Service has spruced it up for ... More >>

New Guide to All Things Prep Snubs Ladue and Its Yacht Club

image via"Muffy, we've been snubbed!"​Now we know that most of this country's preppies are concentrated in the northeast. That is, after all, where most prep schools and all the Ivy League colleges are. But according to True Prep, a sequel of sorts to the 1980 classic The Official Preppy Handbook, ... More >>

Great Writers on St. Louis, Part 4

This week's Riverfront Times explores our city's literary history. Check back throughout the week for online-only maps and articles supplementing this week's cover story. Let's not forget the east side. Library of CongressW.E.B. DuBois​After the 1917 race riots in East St. Louis, the NAACP ... More >>

From Mark Twain to Jonathan Franzen, St. Louis has been home to a surprising number of great writers

Tennessee Williams Writes Like ... H.P. Lovecraft? WTF?

We at the Daily RFT will admit to being suckers for the latest Internet craze, whatever it happens to be. Foursquare? We're on it. *%&^! My Dad Says? We read it every day back when it was just a stream on Twitter.We do not write like Stephenie Meyer. We do not write like Stephenie Meyer.​So la ... More >>

Dreamed of Living in T.S. Eliot's Teenage Home? Missed Your Chance!

Kase WickmanThe Love Song of J. Alfred Well-Pruned Hedges​This is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang, but with a mortgage paymentSo read the closing lines of poet T.S. Eliot's famed "The Wasteland." Right? Right? Uh...Anyway, if you're ... More >>

Voices Carry

January is National Breakup Month. Time to Love 'Em and Leave 'Em

"So long, Marianne, it's time that we began To laugh and cry and laugh about it all again." --Leonard Cohen Image Via​Beware the month of January. It is the season of heartbreak. Cold and dreary, even the lovelorn grow restless. The holidays are over and it's a long hard road to the ne ... More >>

Webb gems: Saint Louis University professor Joe Webb's online alter ego is a big hit on campus

Unreal News Challenge 2007

Week of December 27, 2007

The Case of the Shanghai Shamus

A shy St. Louis poet pens subversive detective stories set in his communist homeland.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

What does an old Munchkin have to do to earn a place on the St. Louis Walk of Fame?

Could Be Verse

A love story told in iambic pentameter? Yes, and yes again.

La Fin du Monde

Saleem's, 6501 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-721-7947

Arch Madness

A rough guide to St. Louis

Bloomin' Beautiful

It's an arts-in-the-garden party

Crunch Time

The demolition derby is still a gas in the nooks and crannies of mid-America

High (Wire) Noon

Circus Flora goes West

Mississippi Drifting

Twenty-eight straight days pushing freight up and down the Big Muddy -- and oh-so-slowly

Best of the Verse

Take advantage of everything National Poetry Month has to offer -- and that's a lot

Darin Gray

St. Louis Shuffle (Family Vineyard)

Best Big Fat Hardcover Book About St. Louis Culture

Seeking St. Louis: Voices From a River City, 1670-2000

Loud Family

From Ritual to Romance (125 Records)

Langston Lives

St. Louis marks the 100th birthday of a celebrated Missourian

Shut Up and Watch!

If you didn't like this year's movies, you didn't look hard enough. The RFT's film critics weigh in on their faves of the year.

Best Fiction Writer

Qiu Xiaolong

Best Underrated Italian

Talayna's at the Park

Best Neighborhood

Central West End

Chinese Puzzle

St. Louis author Qiu Xiaolong's new book is as much an examination of social and political upheaval in Chinese society as it is a mystery novel

A Puff of Smoke

Paul Wesolowski knows the secret word: Groucho

Country Club

A Side of Bacon

Publish or Perish

Self-promoting poet and noted Faulkner collector Louis Daniel Brodsky tends to his legacy: shepherding his entire life's work into print