The New York Times Magazine

The Master's Master: Paul Thomas Anderson talks 70mm, Joaquin Phoenix and researching Scientology for his sixth and most anticipated film

Deep in the heart of Texas with Richard Linklater's Bernie

Vera Farmiga tries to create a better role in Higher Ground

Attention, working moms: Author (and Schlafly niece) Suzanne Venker thinks you are destroying America

Are Sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup Toxic?

Image via​The New York Times Magazine to be published this weekend -- and available now online, though behind the Times' new paywall -- features a long article whose title asks a troubling question: "Is Sugar Toxic?"The impetus for the article is the work a lecture by Robert Lustig, a University o ... More >>

NYT Mag Features St. Louis-Style Pizza (Well, Sorta)

New breakfast of champions?​Our cardboard-and-paste indigestion-inducing flatbread beloved, delectable hometown pizza was served up on a national platform over the weekend, via The New York Times Magazine. In an image shot by Ron Haviv and splashed across the mag's brand new photography sectio ... More >>

Mills Apple Farm vs. Blue Springs Cafe: The Great Illinois Pie Fight

​You'd think this fight would be a slam-dunk KO, given that Riverfront Times just declared that Mills Apple Farm produces the Best Pie in St. Louis. But, well, we at Gut Check really love to eat pie. Plus we were inspired by this article in the New York Times Magazine about PieLab, a community ... More >>

Sonic Drive-In Makes Cameo in New York Times Magazine Rex Ryan Profile

​Y'know how sometimes you're just minding your own business, doing your editing thing with one eye and trolling the internets with the other (myopic) one, and out of nofreakingwhere, a veritable bolt from the blue jumps up and socks you one in such a way that for an instant, or maybe even for ... More >>

Are Preschoolers in St. Louis Depressed?

flickr.com/photos/zaxl4Fingerpainting? What's the point. ​They definitely can be, according to a 5,000-word story that just came out yesterday in The New York Times Magazine. The main subject of the piece is a kid nicknamed "Kiran," who lives in "suburban St. Louis." Here's an excerpt:Today a numb ... More >>

Something Fishier This Way Comes

​Bad week for tuna lovers. On Sunday the New York Times Magazine ran a feature warning of the dwindling numbers of bluefin tuna, those big and tasty cash cows of the deep. Now the paper's Green blog brings word that saltwater fish are more apt than their freshwater cousins to cause mercury poi ... More >>

The Humane Society and big agriculture slug it out over animal rights

Moon Lady: The long, wondrous life of Lucia Pamela

The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 12.16

​ Study officially links fructose syrup to obesity and diabetes. (Times Online)Companies don't keep promise to push healthy food to kids, but Campbell's is reducing the sodium in SpaghettiOs. (Los Angeles Times, Associated Press)A look at the Le Fooding festival in Paris. (New York Times Mag ... More >>

2007: The Year in Movies and Music

A year-end wrap-up of what we adored, what was ignored and what the new year will bring.

Golden Showers

Unreal dreams of our ideal mate: He'll arrive on a horse and pee in the shower.

Why is that Mexican kid kicking the back of my seat?

Week of August 3, 2006

Raggedy Dandies

The fashion-forward minds behind Rock Star Rags, St. Louis' invite-only vintage clothing warehouse

Master of Puppets

Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle blends the absurd with the sublime (and is nothing short of astonishing)

Chasing the Young

WB11 and its girl-power anchor team are diving after a younger demographic. Will they belly-flop or win?

That Mike Jones Is Good, But He's No Caesar

Is the deputy mayor's wife beyond reproach, and who started these rumors, anyway?

The Dogs Bark, The Caravan Moves On

St. Louis comings and goings in anno Domini 1999

It's All in the Game