William S. Burroughs

In the Galleries - Providential Journey: The Art of Brother Mel CLOSES May 27 at SLUMA

Murphy Lee, 2011 STL Twitter Champ: His Twenty Best Tweets

​ It used to be something that I just did while trapped in my car. Waiting to pick up a friend at the airport? Check Murphy Lee's Twitter account. Sitting in stopped traffic on the highway? Check Murphy Lee's Twitter account. Pull up to the crib and see a creeper hanging outside and need to wa ... More >>

Pujols Wasn't the First to Say Goodbye: Other Farewell Letters to St. Louis

Albert Pujols's farewell letter to St. Louis that ran as a full-page ad in the Post-Dispatch last week inspired anger and tears in equal measure. But, as some readers pointed out, farewell letters to the city are nothing new, though of course few who have left the city have been able to afford full- ... More >>

CBGB's Final Show With Patti Smith (A.K.A. The Day I Got Covered in Brian Eno's Sweat)

​Legendary punk club CBGB closed five years ago tomorrow. In its final week, the venue hosted a string of shows paying tribute its storied thirty year run, and it all culminated with a headlining set from Patti Smith. There were only a couple hundred people lucky enough to get tickets to that ... 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

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

St. Louis Art Capsules

Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

This Weekend's Art Openings: September 9 - 11

Courtesy of the artist and Tanya Bonakdar GalleryTomás Saraceno, Hydrogen Cloud Explosion, 2008.​Art Outside: Schlafly's three-day celebration of local artists features works in all media, affordable prices, live music, art activities for the kids plus beer. Sept. 9-11, free admission. Schlaf ... More >>

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 >>

William S. Burroughs, Scientologist

image viaWilliam S. Burroughs: even weirder than we thought.​Picture it: Tangiers, 1959. William S. Burroughs, author of the newly published Naked Lunch (and, incidentally, scion of a wealthy St. Louis family), is visiting his friend Brion Gysin's restaurant when he meets John and Mary Cooke, ... More >>

Artist Tom Friedman goes back to where it all began: high school

image viaWilliam S. Burroughs: even weirder than we thought.​Picture it: Tangiers, 1959. William S. Burroughs, author of the newly published Naked Lunch (and, incidentally, scion of a wealthy St. Louis family), is visiting his friend Brion Gysin's restaurant when he meets John and Mary Cooke, ... More >>

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

Wild Boy

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

Don't Let It Bug You

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

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

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

The Don Draper-William S. Burroughs Connection

Mad Men is not coming back till July 25, but there's no reason we can't start talking about it now. So let's discuss this latest theory: Don Draper is actually a St. Louisan. We know his body (well, Jon Hamm, anyway) is from here. But a blog post from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer website last wee ... More >>

Chicago Sun-Times Gushes All Over the Delmar Loop

www.ucityloop.com​A Chicago Sun-Times travel writer recently received the royal treatment in St. Louis: scoring a rare interview with rock icon Chuck Berry and getting upgraded to a plush suite at the new Moonrise Hotel. And no doubt Delmar Loop impresario Joe Edwards (owner of the Moonrise and on ... More >>

A Thanksgiving Prayer Your In-Laws Will Never Forget

So you're sitting around a cornucopia of Thanksgiving delight: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sides, salads, and three pies your mother-in-law bought at Sam's Club and put in metal dishes so they look homemade. It's a smorgasbord and your arteries are hardening just thinking about it.Everyone is ... More >>

Calendar Pimp Emergency Broadcast System

William Gass invites you to visit the Front Room.If you're already watching the clock and thumbing through the paltry excuses you've yet to use for ditching work early on a Friday afternoon, set your thumbs at ease. You suddenly need to go to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis before it closes ... More >>

Beyond the Grave

A city's history

Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic F ... More >>

Breaking: Hundreds Fall Victim to Fatal Boredom After Linehan Speech

Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category.Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen Trapper's fantastic F ... More >>

Over and Out There

How much art can you take?

Cards Blog: Nats Go Down, Cubs Fans Are Primed

How much art can you take?

Cards Blog: Nats Go Down, Cubs Fans Are Primed

How much art can you take?

Cannibal Corpse

How much art can you take?

Burning the Yule Log

How much art can you take?

Keep the Beats Alive

How much art can you take?

Second City in the River City

Still funny after 45 years

Up Beat

Linear narratives are for chumps. Expand your horizons with William S. Burroughs' Towers Open Fire.

Up From the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

Literary Heroes

And the syntactical strike force

Big Machers

The scribes of the Jewish Book Fest

Meet Our Match

This just in: St. Louisans are sexy, literate and breathing in way too many toxins; Unreal is invited to take part in uprisings -- legally sanctioned and otherwise; and the P-D editorial staff takes God to task

Fry Guys

Plus: charter control; the opera comes to town; and so does the wrecking ball

A Horrible Mind

Unlike John Nash, Spider sees little triumph over schizophrenia

Hearse Verse

"Day of the Dead Beats" has become autumn tradition for local poetry aficionados

Best Proof of Our Brilliant Genetic Ancestry

Bellefontaine and Calvary Cemeteries

Best Big Fat Hardcover Book About St. Louis Culture

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

Radio Active

The Beat and Q95.5 boast ambitious on-air talent

Subculture Club

Globe-trotting food writer/TV host Anthony Bourdain is hungry for more than just what's on his plate

Best St. Louisan of 2001

Joe Edwards

Listing Heavily

Before handing over Radar Station to a new regime, the old boss wants to get a few things straight

Best Neighborhood

Central West End

Best Underground/Under-the-Ground Writer

William S. Burroughs

SEVERAL DEADLY SINS

A return visit to Lynch Street Bistro finds faster service but only occasionally rewarding culinary experimentation

TRICK-OR-BEAT

River Styx raises the spirits of Burroughs, Kerouac and Ginsberg with "Day of the Dead Beats"

THE SOURCE

Written and directed by Chuck Workman

By the Numbers

Japanese composer/remix master Nobukazu Takemura transforms the binary babble of skitterish CDs into pure beauty