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Todd Akin's "Legitimate Rape" on Law & Order: SVU (Recap)

We realize that we're supposed to be impartial journalists who report news and events without bias...but holy frickin' mother of dog, that was one intense hour of television. Last night, we watched the Law & Order: SVU episode that was based around some infamous word vomit from former Representativ ... More >>

Wait List: Tina Fey's great, but Admission doesn't have the marks

Local Authors Take Over Local Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending February 17, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Subterranean Books and The Book House. This week The Book House in Webster Groves begins reporting sa ... More >>

Put Down The Night Cheese -- Ben & Jerry's Announces New 30 Rock Ice Cream

When Gut Check learned that season seven of 30 Rock would be the show's last, we were sad to say the least. This Thursday, January 31, we'll say goodbye to 30 Rock for good when it's season finale airs. Here's an excerpt from a memorial Gut Check penned this past spring when the show's final season ... More >>

[VIDEO] Tina Fey On Akin: "I Can't Even Finish This Sentence Without Getting Dumber."

Dear Liz Lemon Tina Fey:  So we, kind of, are in love you. And we saw this video of you speaking last night at the Center for Reproductive Rights. And we just wanted to let you know that not all of us in this state have weird ideas about abortion. Only the ones we elect to Congress. But it's co ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending August 12, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books and Subterranean Books. It's a good week for St. Louisans on the local bestseller list ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending June 10, 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. Could the book-buyers of St. Louis be in revolt agai ... More >>

Grass Widow on Labels and Touring: "Bring some good pals, drink lots of water. Go swimming when possible."

Here's a show worth a weeknight road trip: acclaimed Bay Area trio Grass Widow is playing in Farmington at The Vault (204 South A Street, Farmington, MO, 573-783-0173) this Tuesday, June 5. Touring on the strength of its strong new album, Internal Logic (the first on the band's own HLR label), this ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 20, 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. Publishers must be eternally grateful for the advent ... More >>

Saying Goodbye to Liz Lemon, Banisher of Food-Shame

NBC announced last week that 30 Rock will in fact return for a seventh -- and final -- season. The finale of a favorite show is always a tearful event, but 30 Rock has become much more than a 30-minute meta sitcom. Liz Lemon is herself a food institution, the likes of which didn't exist on televisi ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 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. Following the ancient St. Louis precept that high sch ... More >>

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Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending April 1, 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. Last week everybody was preparing for Easter, so of ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending March 19, 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. Hunger Games! Hunger Games! Hunger Games! Are yo ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List: March 19, 2012

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending March 11, 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. Back in August, our pages were aflutter ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending March 4, 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. St. Louisans are apparently in a vengeful mood. G ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending February 26, 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. It never really got cold enough this year to ... More >>

Your 2011 St. Louis Bestseller List -- And This Week's, Too

It's been a year since St. Louis's independent booksellers banded together to form the St. Louis Independent Bookstore Alliance in order to fight the threat of Amazon. It worked: The only bookstores that closed in St. Louis this year were part of the Borders chain. The Alliance sponsored bookstore b ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 22, 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. It's election time, which, as you know, m ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending January 8, 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. Bob Reuter's got a band (Alley Ghost), a radio sh ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 11, 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. It's so good to see people planning ahe ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 15, 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. George Vecsey was kind of a jerk when Daily R ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Jennifer SilverbergSick of this guy yet?​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 8, 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. St. L ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending May 1, 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. This week's St. Louis bestseller list is pa ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

image viaAt Eastertide, parents' fancy lightly turns to reading their offspring books about bunny rabbits. ​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending April 24, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Stree ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Jennifer SilverbergEric Greitens, Navy SEAL, humanitarian and now bestselling author.​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending April 17, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Bo ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

​Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending April 10, 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, Sue's News and The Book House. Amazingly, there were some ... More >>

Funny Lady Fey Lumped in With Missouri's Own Mark Twain

An American hero​Last night in Washington, D.C., funny folks from all over came together to honor Tina Fey in the name of Missouri native son Mark Twain. Fey was the 13th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.The prize recognizes Ameri ... More >>

Catch Bieber Fever in November -- Justin's Coming to St. Louis

BIEBER​Justin Bieber makes three-year-olds cry because they love him so much. Justin Bieber's hair is causing a commotion among teenage boys -- although this article warns not to call the style "the Bieber" and that they won't admit to modeling their 'dos after the pop star. Justin Bieber and ... More >>

Chris Kelling of Pi Pizzeria in the Central West End: Featured Bartender of the Week

Welcome to Girl Walks into a Bar, a weekly Gut Check feature that spotlights local bars and bartenders. This week Alissa Nelson profiles Pi Pizzeria bartender Chris Kelling. Alissa Nelson​Chris Kelling doesn't mince words when chatting about the weather. "It was depressing," declares the Bay ... More >>

Half-Truth: Ricky Gervais can only get so far, or so funny, with The Invention of Lying

Big Funny: Founder Bill Chott and his fellow improv tricksters aim to bring back the glory days of St. Louis sketch comedy

Selections from Bill Chott's Bag o' Tricks, #1

Bill Chott has a notoriously hyperactive gag reflex -- a quirk that used to entertain pals like Tina Fey. You can read all about it in today's feature story, "Big Funny," which profiles Chott, founder of the Improv Trick and a comedic actor who calls St. Louis home (half the time). You can also see ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Thaxton Speakeasy Opens, Little Joy and Dead Trees at Blueberry Hill, Vic Chestnut, Elf Power at Off Broadway, Family Affair at Gramophone, Ludacris and Tim McGraw on SNL

Good morning, St. Louis.If you were caught up in the fever for Twilight, watching movies about carnies or pondering the settlement between KWMU and its fiery, fired boss Patty Wente, here's what you may have missed.

Unreal strips down with Sarah Palin, flushes a pumpkin and balloons up for Halloween

Regurgitating Bill Chott’s Sordid Past

Nobody's Baby: Neither Tina Fey nor Amy Poehler seem the least bit invested in Baby Mama

St. Louis Weekend Concert Calendar, February 22 - 24

Seasons in the Sun

The Office: Season Three

They Built This City

Double Feature

The St. Louis International Film Festival enters its second thought-provoking week

Teen Spleen

Talking smack wreaks high school havoc in Mean Girls

Steal This Movie

Studios don't get the Upright Citizens, which isn't funny at all

Fallon Fast

Saturday Night Live's prime player is rapidly outgrowing television's small screen

Rescue 9/11

This year, a handful of shows provided the healing power of laughter