2006 |
Spring |
Scene and Heard |
Lectures, live performances, bands and dining from the beginning of 2006 |
Summer |
How We Spend Our Summer Vacations |
Chicken wrangling, belly dancing, beer swilling and more! |
Fall |
Fall-ing for It |
Ride that shiny train with us to a new downtown eatery, a play where girls are famous boys and a memoir of being gay in the Ozarks |
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2005 |
Jan |
The Night Santa Saved the Schnitzel |
December found us headed from the North Pole to Neuschwanstein and back |
Mar |
Winter Wonders |
Dinner and a show? BYO and a speakeasy? We review what you might want to do next |
May |
St. Louis Through New Eyes |
Getting to know our city, through its good writers and not-so-good social problems. Oh, and its sushi. |
Sep |
Those Hot Summer Nights |
Sex talk with Mayor Slay and a constitutional crisis for Dinner Club yikes! |
Dec |
Sock It To Me, September |
Kick-ass local bands and jambalaya, me-oh-my-a |
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2004 |
Feb |
Seen/Scene |
We were everywhere in the past month, from Iraq to Soulard Market to the most sublime bathroom in the world |
May |
Beer Here! |
Both are in the business of beer, but the brewery tours at A-B and Schlafly are worlds apart |
Jun |
Outnabout |
May's readin', rockin' and regrettin' ... that big tub of popcorn |
Nov |
Eat Me in St. Louis |
The Dinner Club dishes, for your dining pleasure |
Dec |
Rock the Vote, Swing that Thing, Get on the Good Foot...and Chow Down |
Noted in November |
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2003 |
Jan |
The Circle of Life |
New traditions were born "White Christmas," anyone?; old favorites had a last gasp Shenandoah Bar & Grill, we hardly knew ye; and Bert Dax, KFNS and Radio Rio soldier on |
Feb |
Sweets, Meats and Soybean Treats |
How we spent the first month of the year, from shows we loved to tasty stuff consumed |
Mar |
Frogs, Food and Fun |
Damn the snow, February was full speed ahead |
Apr |
Rock! Read! Really! |
The Mooney Suzuki, coffeehouses and bookstores of note, and the newest addition burning up the airwaves of KDHX |
May |
Cattin' Around in April |
We've been out, about, here, there...and even home drinking Shiner Bock and watching t.v. at 2 a.m. |
Jun |
Monkeyin' Around in May |
In St. Louis' loveliest month, fun things were found both inside and out |
Jul |
Hither and Yon |
Keeping an eye on St. Louis, from the basement of Blueberry Hill to bear with us, here the streets of Vancouver |
Aug |
The Lou in June: The Greatest Show on Earth! |
We rock your ascots off and the mayor hesitates to send in the clowns |
Sep |
This and That |
Entertainment and diversions, from the home front and beyond |
Oct |
I Went to the Comic Show and All I Got Was This Lousy Column |
Our reporter goes to STL ComiCon 03 and finds good work and utter confusion |
Nov |
SLIFF Pick-O-Matic |
A great run of movies is on tap during the 12th annual St. Louis International Film Festival. May we suggest a few for your consideration? |
Dec |
Scenes from a Short Month |
Around town, on screen and in our minds in November |
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2002 |
Jan |
Sounds of the Season |
As always, December proves the best month for music; plus some other scattered fun things from the last month of 2001 |
Feb |
A Little Light (Okay, Heavy) Reading |
Two books one old, "Catfish and Crystal," one new, "The City in Mind" work together in reflecting some unique light on the St. Louis "urban condition" |
Mar |
Quiet Storms |
St. Louis' Cobalt Blue steps forward from the periphery, with the release of a debut CD; also, marking time on the porch with a new poetry collection, "Lick of Sense" |
Apr |
Spinning the Wheel O' Links |
We catch up on some local ephemera, criticism and culture by turning to the crazy fad known as the Information Superhighway |
May |
Miscellaneous Delights |
News and notes and recent releases, from zines to sites to discs, with a heavy emphasis on fun pop culture for the summery days of May |
Jun |
Gods of All Media |
We weed through the good, the bad and the ugly to recommend stuff from CDs to web sites you should hear, read and buy |
Jul |
Delmar: a Dividing Line or a Literary Coming-Together? |
Delmar Magazine, the literary sort-of annual, keeps its feet in St. Louis but its sights set high |
Aug |
August's Dog Days |
This month we look at a book about stray dogs, CDs from Dave Landreth and the Dead Celebrities and punk rock on KDHX. Oh, and soap. |
Sep |
Art in the Urban Wilderness |
We look back at the Artica 2002 event, a decidedly different way to spend a summer weekend in St. Louis |
Oct |
Cities from Sin to Suffragette |
The seamy side of Vegas, the splendid side of improv radio, a log cabin for your next drinky, and one of the last good things about STLtoday.com |
Nov |
Best-Kept Secrets |
Spooks, tales from our local no-tell motel and some stuff that people just FOUND |
Dec |
Ain't This a City? |
In the last month alone: lesbian folk-singer Tupperware ladies, fantastic bands that may or may not be a thing of the past, and St. Louis' moment in the "Get Your War On" movement |
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2001 |
Jan |
After the Fall: Srebrenica Survivors in St. Louis |
A new book documents the Bosnian experience in St. Louis |
Feb |
Listen and Read |
CDs from The Urge and The Nukes and a St. Louis history anthology from Lee Ann Sandweiss |
Mar |
Give a Look and Listen Up |
Victory Without Violence, Wanderings in the Night, and Sexicolor |
Apr |
Music, Food and Live Shows Does It Get Any Better? |
Listen to The Potomac Accord, Cloister and insideOUT; chow down at The Hungry Buddha; don't go to work for Ulcer, Inc. |
May |
Reviews, Previews and Views You Can Use |
Hop in the Getaway Car, catch Kate Schrock next time around, ponder art in a geodesic dome, and ride the Rocket (88) |
Jun |
Been There, Done That |
A compendium of readings, events and other assorted stuff of recent vintage |
Jul |
Rockin' Out, Tunin' In and Bellyin' Up |
All the stuff you'll want to listen to, eat and wish you'd been there for... |
Aug |
Do You Hear What We Hear? |
What is the sound of one band playing, the image of one neighborhood changing and the impact of one idea being heard in cyberspace? |
Sep |
The Best of What We've Heard, Read and Seen Lately |
Including local band Climber, a wacky film short and something about heads in a bottle |
Oct |
The Wacky (and Wildly Varied) Sights and Sounds of September |
Were you there for the heavy petting, the first anniversary or the birth of a new local political zine? We were... |
Nov |
With Apologies to Jerry Berger... |
The best sightems, heardems and didems in town, in our humble opinion |
Dec |
Many Tunes a-Twangin' |
This month's bag is plenty mixed, with lots of local music to plug into, plus looks back on SLIFF and Frances Moore Lappe |