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Get Born Again

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am
It's difficult enough to hew out a life as a poet, but the process becomes even more arduous when you fall off a four-story building. Mathieu Paul Allsup survived just such an accident, and not surprisingly will be unable to work while recuperating. Who supports the artist when the artist is laid up...

No Time Like Wine Time

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am
With our wine, we like to snack on a few slices of cheese, but we love to gain a bit of knowledge. But do we attend a wine class every time we indulge ourselves with a few sips? Of course not. We do, however, look for learning opportunities when we can. The downtown branch of Left Bank Books (321 No...

Love and Marriage and Scandal

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am
Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband, all about corruption and blackmail and marital shenanigans, was written in 1895, long before our current political scandals and dramas that make the news daily. So did the playwright have a crystal ball with which to predict the future? Nah. This nonsens...

Know When to Fold 'Em

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am
Gherman is your typical Russian soldier; young and not unattractive, poor, and pining for a beautiful woman whose name he doesn't know and who is above his station. He also has more than a passing interest in gambling, and why not? If he's not prepared to risk something, he'll never amount to anythi...

Race Around the Lou

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am
If ever there were a time to get back your bicycle legs, the ones you had in your youth that allowed you to pedal all day and all night, the Moonlight Ramble might be the perfect opportunity. Sure, thousands of folks turn out for this annual fundraiser for the Gateway Council of Hostelling In...

Abstraction in Action

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am
People hear the term "abstract art" and they think of freeform painting, but that's just one style of abstraction. The regimented color bands of Gene Davis' Equinox, the minimalism of Anne Truitt's freestanding column, Prima, and John McCracken's bull's-eye painting Mandala VI a...

Fishin' for Goodies

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am
If you're having trouble keeping your creativity from, shall we say, bubbling over — out of that plastic tub, out of the closet, out of your spare room — Cranky Yellow's Catch & Release Swap Meet is for you. At this crafters' delight, folks bring along their unwanted crafting item...

Twins, You Say?

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am
Listen, human beings are crazy old animals. We've decoded genomes, we've explored the ocean floor, and we've sent tough little robots rolling across Mars — and yet throw a pair of twins in lingerie onstage and we can't even remember our phone numbers. Experience this mysterious power for yours...

Riffer Madness

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am
Mystery Science Theater 3000 went off the air more than ten years ago, but its key commentators are busier than ever, having splintered into two competing riffing outfits: MST3K founder Joel Hodgson's Cinematic Titanic, and the RiffTrax crew led by long-time MST3K head writer Mi...

Look Up!

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am
The Gateway Arch (707 North First Street; 314-655-1700 or www.gatewayarch.com) has been a part of St. Louis' skyline for decades, offering us great views of our city and some lovely Fourth of July shots. However, the stars that shine above the Arch have been...

Nervous 'bout Nieves: Readers are wary about aspiring pol's alleged temper

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am
FEATURE, AUGUST 12, 2010
TECH GEEKS TO THE RESCUE
She knows it works: My son is five years old and has Pervasive Development Disorder/Not Otherwise Specified ["iHelp for Autism," Ashley Harrell]. He has been using an iPod Touch for about two years. We ordered the iPad fo...

Amazing Facts & Beyond: Beards of Beasts

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am

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Did You Know!?!? Go the Amazing Facts and Beyond blog to further follow the exploits of our trivial hero.

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Belligerent Piano: Episode Twenty-Five

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am

St. Louis Art Capsules

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am
Brandon Anschultz: Stick Around for Joy Compulsive exercises in the deconstruction of painting yield new forms of painterly pleasure in this year's Kranzberg exhibition, which features St. Louis-based painter, sculptor and printmaker Brandon Anschultz. Canvas is removed from the stretcher fra...

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

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 12:00am

"The first time I ever saw St. Louis, I would have bought it for six million dollars, and it was the mistake of my life that I did not do it."
– Mark Twain, 1883.

Imagine what the world would be like if the seventeen-year-old then known as Sam Clemens, freshly arriv...

Seized: Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

Wed, 08/11/2010 - 12:00am
Maria was drifting off to sleep on the bedroom floor. She could hear women getting raped in the next room. Only she didn't hear screams — she heard the laughter of male guards.

The women had been drugged by their rapists, who had done the same to Maria as soon as she walked into the ho...

Art Holliday's documentary on Johnnie Johnson comes together

Wed, 08/11/2010 - 12:00am

Art Holliday is known for his work as a news anchor on KSDK-TV (Channel 5), but he's also an independent filmmaker in his free time. In his latest project, Johnnie Be Good, he documents the life and career of Johnnie Johnson, Chuck Berry's long-time piano player. While Holliday's received ...

Wang Gang Asian Eats brings fast-casual Chinese and Thai to St. Charles

Wed, 08/11/2010 - 12:00am

Let's dispense with the obvious first: Wang Gang Asian Eats has the most ridiculous name of any restaurant I've ever reviewed. The original location in Edwardsville, Illinois, was called Wang Gang Asian Eats n Beats, which is even more ridiculous. However, I'm visiting the new second location, tu...

Edgar Wright's Pilgrim creates a lovable, fast-paced pop-culture explosion

Wed, 08/11/2010 - 12:00am

Not long after the release of Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life, the first manga-formatted comic in the now complete six-volume series, the movie rights were purchased from its series creator, Bryan Lee O'Malley, and preproduction began on what was to become one of the most interesting,...

Sly and the family Stallone get nostalgic for their legacy of brutality in The Expendables

Wed, 08/11/2010 - 12:00am

"If the money's right, we don't care where the job is." So explains the leader of hired-gun task force The Expendables, Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone). This credo lands Ross and his team in the Gulf of Aden as our story begins. Somali pirate kidnappers staging a videotaped decapitation are pinn...

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