<![CDATA[Riverfront Times | Complete Issue]]> http://riverfronttimes.com en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 20:29:16 -0500 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:29:16 -0500 http://riverfronttimes.com/about/syndication Village Voice Media XML Feed Generator <![CDATA[In the Galleries - Jordan Eagles: Blood/Spirit at MOCRA]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/jordan-eagles-blood-spirit/ These scarlet-hued stained glass-like works by New York-based artist Jordan Eagles possess a peculiarly visceral texture that's no accident: They're painted with bovine blood collected from slaughterhouses. Encasing this macabre material in layers of UV resin and Plexiglas, the pieces, which alte...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/jordan-eagles-blood-spirit/ <![CDATA[In the Galleries - Bill Smith: Beyond the Humanities at the World Chess Hall of Fame]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/bill-smith-beyond-the-humanities/ The usual description of Southern Illinois-based artist Bill Smith goes something like this: He holds an MFA in sculpture as well as degrees in diesel mechanics, biology and chemistry. But as his current exhibition at the World Chess Hall of Fame attests, his work begs a subtler read, as it provo...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/bill-smith-beyond-the-humanities/ <![CDATA[In the Galleries - The River Between Us]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/the-river-between-us-laumeier-sculpture-park/ As recent flooding attests, the Mississippi River still has the ability to define those along its shores. This group exhibition, organized with the Longue Vue House and Gardens in New Orleans, explores the layered historical connections shared by St. Louis and the Big Easy, sister cities that are...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/the-river-between-us-laumeier-sculpture-park/ <![CDATA[In the Galleries - Contemporary German Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/www-riverfronttimes-com-2013-05-09-culture-contemporary-german-art-selections-from-the-permanent-collection/ This exhibition of sixteen artworks from post-unified Germany does not overtly speak to the political tumult of their cultural origins — and that may precisely be the point. Ranging in media from painting and sculptural installation to photography and fabric-based works, the artwork on view...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/www-riverfronttimes-com-2013-05-09-culture-contemporary-german-art-selections-from-the-permanent-collection/ <![CDATA[In the Galleries - Hiraki Sawa: Migration]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/hiraki-sawa-migration-review/ The lives of humans and other earthly animals are small and ephemeral in London-based Japanese artist Hiraki Sawa's brief black-and-white video "Migration." Using Eadweard Muybridge's 19th-century photographic studies of locomotion, Sawa digitally populates his spare, modest apartment with miniat...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/hiraki-sawa-migration-review/ <![CDATA[Ask a Mexican: Do Mexicans own more guns than Americans?]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/news/ask-a-mexican-do-mexicans-own-more-guns-than-americans/ Dear Mexican: Like many Americans, I've heard about the "Fast and Furious" scandal in which our own ATF was shown to be guilty and corrupt of supplying guns that ended up in the hands of the drug cartels. Now, if I say any more, I might be talking about facts that I don't know, a...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/news/ask-a-mexican-do-mexicans-own-more-guns-than-americans/ <![CDATA[The New New Girl: Here's to Frances Ha, not quite a real person yet]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/film/frances-ha-film-review/ New York is a cruel and beautiful place, just as 27 is a cruel and beautiful age. In Frances Ha, Greta Gerwig plays a woman who's feeling the weight of both. Frances is an aspiring dancer who has reached the age when "aspiring" really means not cutting it. Life with her best friend and roo...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/film/frances-ha-film-review/ <![CDATA[Heart of Fartness: The latest Hangover punches down]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/film/heart-of-fartness-hangover-3-review/ The unlikeliest of all the Hangover trilogy's comic implausibilities might be its four pampered, rich-boy leads unironically calling themselves the "Wolf Pack" without anybody ever making fun of them.

In the slobs-versus-snobs comedies of the 1970s and '80s, the snooty rich kids we...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/film/heart-of-fartness-hangover-3-review/ <![CDATA[Oh, This Is Why We Have Car Chases: The sublime dumb play of Fast & Furious 6]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/film/fast-and-furious-6-review/ There's one key truth that separates the tank-topped gearheads of the Fast and Furious movies from the rest of us. Every problem these lugnuts face can be solved by doing the one thing these lugnuts love most: driving really fast. It's like if you could deal with your taxes by hunkering do...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/film/fast-and-furious-6-review/ <![CDATA[DIYnamic Duo: Meet Steven Houldsworth and Graham Matthews, St. Louis best music fans]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/music/steven-houldsworth-graham-matthews-best-fans-st-louis-photos-video/ What if St. Louis music fans never missed a live concert? Imagine if every single sold-out Saturday at the Pageant, every DIY basement mosh pit or soundtracked park picnic was available online the next day for those who missed out. If St. Louis superfans Steve Houldsworth and Graham Matthews coul...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/music/steven-houldsworth-graham-matthews-best-fans-st-louis-photos-video/ <![CDATA[Gooey Louie's: King Louie's Empire aims to convert St. Louisans to pizza by the slice]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/restaurants/king-louies-empire-deli-pizza-slice-review/ You cut a pizza into wedges (everywhere outside of St. Louis, that is) and you call the result "slices of pizza," but this is not the same thing as "pizza by the slice."

The former is geometry. The latter is art.

For pizza by the slice, you first must engineer a single slice large...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/restaurants/king-louies-empire-deli-pizza-slice-review/ <![CDATA[This Week's Cover: The Cover of the May 23 Print Edition]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/news/this-week-s-cover-the-cover-of-the-may-23-print-edition/
Read the cover story: "How Undercover Animal Rights Activists are Winning the Ag-Gag War."...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/news/this-week-s-cover-the-cover-of-the-may-23-print-edition/ <![CDATA[The Ag-Gag War: How undercover animal-rights activists are winning it]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/restaurants/ag-gag-bill-animal-rights-activists/ Cody Carlson had no way of preparing for this moment. He was a Manhattan kid, days removed from working as an analyst for a business-intelligence firm, where he scrutinized corporations and their executives.

Now he was standing in a bleak barn at New York's largest dairy farm.

The...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/restaurants/ag-gag-bill-animal-rights-activists/ <![CDATA[Homespun: Al Holliday, Made It Through the Mill, Again alhollidaymusic.com]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/music/al-holliday-made-it-through-the-mill-review/ Al Holliday is a 25-year-old, white, Collinsville, Illinois-bred pianist and singer who makes his debut with twelve original songs on Made It Through the Mill, Again. We might as well get the biographical information out of the way upfront, because very few of those details are readily app...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/music/al-holliday-made-it-through-the-mill-review/ <![CDATA[The Blintz and the Pauper: Shlemiel the First, a klezmer musical, rocks the shtetl]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/shlemiel-the-first-review-new-jewish-theatre-klezmer-musical-isaac-bashevis-singer/ There's something wrong in the little village of Chelm: Shlemiel and Tryna Ritza's marriage has become a habit instead of a relationship. A sour-cream shortage has led the town's "Sage of Sages" to declare that water is now sour cream and vice versa, so all the blintzes are soggy. And three of th...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/shlemiel-the-first-review-new-jewish-theatre-klezmer-musical-isaac-bashevis-singer/ <![CDATA[True Stories: Actors' Studio articulates Alan Bennett's Talking Heads]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/talking-heads-play-review-st-louis-actors-studio-alan-bennett/ The deft British playwright Alan Bennett has succeeded in transforming sadness into a kind of cottage industry. Originally, his dozen monologues, which fall under the umbrella title Talking Heads, were cultivated in two crops. The first six appeared on BBC Television in 1988. The re...]]> Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/culture/talking-heads-play-review-st-louis-actors-studio-alan-bennett/ <![CDATA[Belligerent Piano: Episode One-Hundred-Twenty-Five]]> http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2013-05-23/news/belligerent-piano-episode-one-hundred-twenty-five/