Sometimes an idea seems so simple on the surface. Yet if you follow the whorls and eddies, it leads to unexpected connections and benefits beyond what anyone could have predicted.

Sloup is the six-month-old brainchild of Maggie Ginestra and Amelia Colette Jones, 27-year-old artists...

When David Schuman was a twelve-year-old trapped in the New Jersey suburbs, he hit on the perfect formula for writing a best-selling novel — or so he thought.

"You would combine an animal on a rampage, a journalist or private investigator character and a beautiful scientist,"...

Stan Chisholm is covered in paint. The opening of NewPopII, his solo exhibition at Hoffman LaChance Contemporary in Maplewood, is more than two weeks away, but he's already under the bright gallery lights, using a razor blade to carve hunks of pink Styrofoam into planks, painting t...

Some 30,000 feet in the air, Autumn Wiggins entered into a debate with a stranger about, of all things, crafting. She had just been complimented on a red bag she had screen-printed to look like the very first square of the periodic table of the elements: hydrogen. "'You could sell a millio...

Here at Riverfront Times, I like to think we look at St. Louis from a slightly skewed angle. We relish the unpredictable — the counterintuitive story, the exception that questions, rather than proves, the rule. Still, I can't say that when we introduced the MasterMind Awards back in ...

The high-energy, high-gloss rock & roll of Last Night's Vice's second album is a fitting soundtrack for a Saturday night spent on the sticky floors of a dance club. It's also good fodder for a Sunday morning comedown. As the band's name suggests, Last Night's Vice delights in detailing our Dionys...

The local music community shed a little tear when Mario Viele moved from St. Louis to New York City. As the leader of the Sex Robots, guitarist for the Pubes and regular deputy in Bunnygrunt, he had his hand in some of the city's best quick-and-dirty rock & roll. Viele's working as a studio engin...

As might be expected, fans of every age, shape and color came out on Saturday, August 14, to witness a performance from one of the biggest musical acts of the era. For anyone who's familiar with Black Eyed Peas' music, the show at the Scottrade Center didn't disappoint: It was a spectacle of mass...