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“Eat ‘Em, Eat ‘Em! Crunch! Crunch!”: Cult Classic Q: The Winged Serpent at the Schlafly Bottleworks

"Q," combines Aztec mythology, crime drama tropes, authentic New York City trashiness, and plenty of R-rated drive-in monster mayhem.

by Andrew Wyatt

Quick Take: MC Evidence, "Cats and Dogs"

Evidence, of the L.A- based Dilated Peoples, releases his highly anticipated sophomore album.

by Alicia Lee

Video: Bob Cassilly v. Pablo Weiss, Hoosierweight Boxing Bout, City Museum, March 22, 2003

This is a story about The Night That Bob Cassilly Punched a Man at the City Museum, Often and to Hardy Applause.

by Thomas Crone

Review: "Rabbit Hole" at Insight Theatre Company

A powerful drama about grief gets the staging it deserves at Insight Theatre Company

By Rosalind Early

What to Do With All This Nice Weather? Go Visit Kenzi the Elephant Calf

by Mary Poppell

What it’s like: To be in the Addams Family

Blake Hammond, who plays Uncle Fester in the national touring production of The Addam's Family tells us what it's like...

By Rosalind Early

Catch it Before it Goes: "Expansions and Stratifications," at Good Citizen Gallery

by Stefene Russell

Review: Wilco, "The Whole Love"

by Jordan Oakes

Candlelight Vigil at City Museum Tonight for Bob Cassilly

by Stefene Russell

Review: "Dirty Blonde," at Dramatic License Productions

by Devin C. Baker

Toy Stories: The ToyMan Toy Show Brings Back Memories... with a Price Tag Attached

by Thomas Crone

Review: "The Man Who Fell to Earth," at the Tivoli Theatre

Based on a 1963 Walter Tevis novel, The Man Who Fell to Earth is touring the country in a new 35-mm print and full running time (original distribution in the US suffered from a 20-minute excision). Playing to full theaters in New York and Los Angeles, the film bears re-visiting; it’s entertaining and thought-provoking as well as just plain easy on the eyes.

by Patricia Brooke

Autumn at the Arboretum

By Jeannette Cooperman

Enough of Calvin Trillin? Impossible

He writes as vividly about boudin in N'Orleans as murder in NYC

By Jeannette Cooperman

STL Improv Anywhere Seeks to...well, Faciliate Improv Everywhere

"It’s the New York group of Improv Everywhere that gave me the idea of doing crazy things in public spaces," says founder Mallory Nezam. "My favorite thing they’d done is a musical in a mall’s food court."

by Thomas Crone

A Perfect Ten: An Interview with Ten out of Tenn

10 out of Tenn isn't a super group

By Rosalind Early

For the Birds, and Also, the Cicadas: HEARding Cats Harmonizes on "In C"

HEARding Cats new music collective welcomes more than 40 local musicians to the postmodern cradle of the Old Post Office Plaza tonight at 6 p.m., as they perform Terry Riley's Minimalist masterpiece.

by Byron Kerman

Review: "Ross McDonnell: Mine," Lemp Brewery Space/Isolation Room

Half the adventure seems to be in simply finding the place. Once you’re there, a gallery assistant armed with a flashlight, leads you like some latter-day Virgil down, down, down.

by Jason Best

Of Moonshine, Temperance and Scofflaws: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Talk about Prohibition

Prohibition, the new documentary from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick sympathetically deals with the warring sides of the American self.

By Rosalind Early

Hey, Look What I Found!: Maureen Stanton’s "Killer Stuff and Tons of Money," a Captivating Tale of the Antiques Trade

Maureen Stanton’s "Killer Stuff and Tons of Money" is a Captivating Tale of the Antiques Trade

By Byron Kerman

Remembering Fran Landesman

As a young reporter, Joe Pollack hung out with Fran and Jay Landesman in Gaslight Square. This summer, he and his wife Ann happened to be in London when Fran died; they were the only people from St. Louis at the funeral. And what a funeral it was.

by Joe Pollack

Bouchercon: The Scene of the Crimes

Snippets and interviews from the world's largest mystery con

By Jeannette Cooperman

Review: Gitana Productions, "Inalienable Rights"

by Devin C. Baker

Review: "Griff the Invisible," at Plaza Frontenac Cinema

"Griff the Invisible" typifies the low-budget indie superhero flick to quirk-laden, wheezing perfection.

by Andrew Wyatt

Preview: Bonnie Jo Campbell and Danielle Dutton at River Styx

Bonnie Jo Campbell and Danielle Dutton share excerpts from their novels before their reading on September 19th.

By Rosalind Early

Jazz Legend Joe McPhee Appears at the Kranzberg Theater This Saturday

This weekend, St. Louis’ long-running New Music Circle returns for another fall-into-spring season of adventurous, ambitious and oft-alternative sounds, with the appearance of Joe McPhee’s Survival Unit III.

by Thomas Crone

Danger! High Voltage!: Interview with Dick Valentine of Electric Six

Go see Electric Six. Dick Valentine needs to pay his mortgage.

By Rosalind Early

Seeing Red: A Review of "Red" at The Rep

Playwright John Logan was working on Sweeney Todd in London when he fell into an obsession with Mark Rothko. The resulting script is as intense, grim, energetic, and luminous as the giant canvases that glow onstage.

By Jeannette Cooperman

Aleksandar Hemon Reads From "Love and Obstacles" Tonight at Wash U

He'll also be giving a craft lecture based on his story, "The Noble Truths of Suffering," on September 22.

by Stefene Russell

Review: "Reflections of the Buddha" at Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts

The genius here is in the exhibition’s selectivity, and the fact that it never attempts to be encyclopedic.

by Jason Best

A Conversation with Nate Mendel of The Foo Fighters

We talked to Mendel earlier this summer about the band's upcoming show at Scottrade, Legoland, and recording “Wasting Light,” in Dave Grohl’s garage.

by Darren Orf

Gravois Bars: They Are (and Aren't) What You Would Expect

Gravois is truest example of an honest, no-nonsense St. Louis street, especially between the Meramec viaduct and the Affton/City limits. You've got a voodoo shop, a barber supply store, engine rebuilders, metal works, Bosnian bakeries, Albanian butchers and head shops. The bars, long stuck in the amber of Reagan-era America, are starting to change with the blocks around them. Here's a look at three new ones: Nellie Glenns, Quincy Street Bistro, and The Heavy Anchor.

By Thomas Crone

Now for Something Completely Different: An Interview with Black Moth Super Rainbow

Tom Fec, a.k.a Tobacco, has resurrected his psych-pop project, Black Moth Super Rainbow. He talked to us this summer about recording analog, the differences between his two musical projects, and this fall's tour, which makes a stop at Off Broadway on September 12.

By Darren Orf

Masterpieces in Miniature: The Museum of Pocket Art

Is the Museum of Pocket Art just a gimmick or something more?

By Byron Kerman

Review: "Brighton Rock" at Plaza Frontenac Cinemas

If you enter the theater with memories of Graham Greene’s novel, or its earlier cinematic adaptation, you may leave the theater put off; but if you’re looking for entertainment over art, you’ll find the time in the theater well spent.

by Patricia Brooke

Best Chess in the West: Rex Sinquefield’s World Chess Hall of Fame Opens in CWE

Rex Sinquefield’s World Chess Hall of Fame Opens in CWE

By Byron Kerman

St. Louis Symphony 2011-2012 Season Preview

SLSO's season kicks of September 10 with a symphonic tribute to Bugs Bunny, and continues with lots of dance and film collaboration. But there's much to satisfy the classical purist, too, including all-Stravinsky program and the world premiere of Stephen Mackey’s Piano Concerto.

By Gary Scott

First Look: Dances of India “The Magic Grove”

Dances of India makes the tradition of India intelligible to the masses

By Rosalind Early

Review: "Falling," Mustard Seed Theatre

Deanna Jent's play, based on her own experiences as a parent of a child with autism, is pitch-perfect.

by Devin C. Baker

Preview: MOMIX in Botanica

Dance St. Louis brings the show-stopping pageantry of MOMIX to the Touhill Performing Arts Center

By Rosalind Early

Locally Grown: An Interview with Union Tree Review

St. Louis sextet talks about their upcoming show with An Undercover Weekend, Mississippi Nights, and their new album.

By Rosalind Early

Folk Sisters: An Interview with Larkin Poe

Megan and Rebecca Lovell talk about their new sound, their old band, and Elvis Costello.

By Rosalind Early

Artist Amy Granat on Punk Shows, Scratch Films and the Artistic Process

By Stefene Russell

Review: "The Tree" at Plaza Frontenac Cinemas

by Andrew Wyatt

Preview: Debra Allbery and Stephanie Schlaifer's Poetry Reading at Schlafly Bottle Works

The two poets show us what we can expect at their reading at Schlafly Bottle Works September 6.

By Rosalind Early

One Man’s Trash: Elizabeth Conn makes sculptural treasures out of junk Mail

Paper mache artist shows us the benefit of upcycling.

By Rosalind Early