Upstate New York

Everything Is Not Enough: The Place Beyond the Pines is a stab at a masterpiece

Announcing the Winners of the First Voice Media Group Music Writing Awards

By Ben Westhoff Each week in our print editions and every day on our blogs, the 13 Voice Media Group papers feature some of the best music writing in the country. That's why we're excited to announce the winners of our first VMG music writing awards. The honor goes to the authors of one blog post ... More >>

LMFAO Goes On Hiatus, Is Replaced By Less Insistently Ridiculous Korean Guy

Have you ever watched a K-Drama? I'm not suggesting you should, or anything, it's just that the more Korean Wave stuff you're familiar with, the easier it is to understand why you might find PSY's "Gangnam Style" a little less annoying at wedding receptions in 2018 than LMFAO's own novelty pop, now ... More >>

The Gay Selma: Schools ignore gay bullying at their own peril

The Ambitious, Unpredictable Todd Rundgren Returns to St. Louis

This week, Philly music legend Todd Rundgren announced a show at

Mormons: A Shallow Yet Helpful Guide to See If You Should Hate Them or Not

Ask a Mexican: Do matanzas only happen in New Mexico?

Long-haired dreamer has predictably profound effect on his siblings in Our Idiot Brother

Lev Grossman Talks About The Magician King

​Fans of Lev Grossman's 2009 novel The Magicians, may have wondered what happened after Quentin Coldwater, an ordinary depressive boy from Brooklyn, found his way to the super-fabulous Brakebills Academy, a university for magic hidden away in upstate New York, and then to the magical land of F ... More >>

Summer Treats and Meats Recalled

fda.govDole Italian Blend salad recalled for possible contamination.​It's been a busy few days at the FDA and USDA, recalling lots of potentially contaminated goods. It's salad season! Unless you've got a potentially-tainted bag of salad in your fridge. Some 2,880 cases of Dole Italian Blend ... More >>

Little Houses, Sunbonnets and Pig Bladders: Wendy McClure Talks About Laura Ingalls and The Wilder Life

​If you are a woman who grew up in the '70s and '80s, you probably spent a lot of time in the company of Laura Ingalls and her family as they rolled along in their covered wagon across the American frontier of the 1870s and '80s, either in the form of the series of books that Laura wrote as an ... More >>

Sarah Ruhl's vibrator play produces a decent buzz at the Rep

One guy's self-help project is another guy's outsider art in Marwencol

Agi and Aaron Groff of 4 Seasons Baked Goods & Catering

This is part one of Holly Fann's Chef's Choice profile of Agi and Aaron Groff of 4 Seasons Baked Goods & Catering. Part two, a Q&A with the Groffs, is available here. Part three, a recipe, can be found here. Holly FannAgi Groff takes a torch to a batch of ganache-covered tarts as husband Aaron look ... More >>

The Contradictory Link Between Poverty and Obesity

The Philadelphia Inquirer dedicated its Sunday front page to the link between poverty and obesity. They feature a family living in the second-hungriest congressional district in the country. "'One of our biggest misconceptions is that it's poor people's fault,' said Adam Drewnowski, a University of ... More >>

Polar Bear Club

6 p.m. Friday, October 15. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

Taste By Niche's Ted Kilgore: 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 Taste by Niche bartender Ted Kilgore. Below is a Q&A with Kilgore, followed by a video of him mixing an El Maestro No. 1 cocktail. Alissa Nelson​The "10,000 ... More >>

Twelve Vans Warped Tour Bands You Can Admit in Public You're Going to See

The Vans Warped tour returns to the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in St. Louis on Monday, July 5. Like every year, the tour has its fair share of bands that appeal mostly to "the kids" -- Hey Monday, Never Shout Never, the Cab, etc. But this year's model features plenty of acts with actual musical c ... More >>

A Year in the Life

The Eulogy Tour 2010

7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 24. Fubar, 3108 Locust Street.

What a Bunch of Snow-Wimp Crybabies! KSDK Channel 5's Ryan Dean Calls You Out

Quoth KSDK Channel 5's Ryan Dean this morning: "I don't wanna make people here feel bad of course but...."Whoa stop, Ryan. You're probably about to make people feel bad. On television. His point: three to five inches is nothing. [inches of snow] But Daily RFT understands his point. As a schoolboy gr ... More >>

Meet the Parent: Father does not know best when father is De Niro in Everybody's Fine

Show Review: Elvis Perkins in Dearland and A.A. Bondy at the Gargoyle, Friday, November 20

REVIEW BY KELSEY WHIPPLE From the looks of things last night at the Gargoyle, Dearland seems like a nice place to be. Transformed by the beards and spirits of upstate New York's Elvis Perkins in Dearland, the midsized crowd experienced what that place sounds like, at the very least -- like the O Br ... More >>

The Morning Brew: Thursday, 8.20

​ Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-Time Eater, a memoir by New York Times food critic Frank Bruni, hits bookstores today. The book discusses Bruni's history of eating disorders, which aren't uncommon in the food industry. (Detroit Free Press, San Francisco Chronicle)A new Illinois law ... More >>

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St Louis arts scene

Baseball Card of the Week: How the Cardinals Could Have Drafted Chase Utley of the Phillies

Hard-Knock Life: Frozen River may lay it on a bit thick, but Melissa Leo nails the role of a struggling single mom

Pitchfork: Interview with Elf Power's Andrew Rieger

Mathematicians

8 p.m. Monday, September 24. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

Raise Two Glasses

To two wine events

Semicolon

Unreal culls the juicy bits from a $450 blogging workshop, learns that it's OK (even good) to talk about colorectal cancer and finds a very timely local blog. Plus: Anheuser-Busch is no longer accepting quarters!

Mixed Bouquet

Jim Jarmusch gifts us with another strange, beautiful road film

Mercury Rev

The Secret Migration (V2)

Banana Appeal

The Banana Bike Brigade parties on

From Gonzo to Billy

Gregory Harrison brings a little Chicago to St. Louis

Golden Oldies

We talk with the Old 97's, turn up the freedom rock and marvel at Wilco's PR machine

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of September 10, 2003

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

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Wednesday, February 5; Pageant

Catcher in the Sky

Spielberg, once more, is caught up in the thrill of the chase

Miller Time

Arthur Miller's daughter Rebecca comes into her own with Personal Velocity

Series/Festivals

Week of April 17, 2002

Lo Faber Band

Wednesday, Nov. 7; Cicero's

Country-Blues Confessional

Rory Block has been summoning ghosts of the blues for the past 40 years

Cough It Up

The man who created Josie and the Pussycats can't understand why his girls don't belong to him

Family Values

You Can Count on Me starts small but works its way to bigness

Human Rights Watch International Film Festival

HRWIFF exhibits fiction and nonfiction, short and feature-length, experimental and traditional films