Kick Ass Awards 2010: A Call to the Spirit, 11/7/10
The Kick Ass Awards will return for a seventh edition, on Sunday, November 7, with a 7 p.m. shotgun start. As true for the past couple years, the event will take place at Joe’s Cafe, a funky little outpost on the City/U. City border, so secluded and secretive and remote that we can’t tell you [...]
The Whirl Brings People Together
For years, I’ve been an occasional purchaser of the Evening Whirl. If it’s at a gas station and right in front of me, I’ll buy it. If it’s laying around a restaurant, I’ll pick it up. If it’s not in my immediate eyesight, though, I won’t exactly jones for it. Now, the Whirl seems to [...]
Broken Toyz, 1989, Stages, Oh My…
Occasionally, the great giver, YouTube, offers a true, forgotten treat. The popular video-sharing service has recently been populated with a group of cuts from the band Broken Toyz, caught live at Stages in 1989. Not much need to set things up too much today, but: if you didn’t live in Saint Louis in 1989, or [...]
Life’s Rich Pageant: Jasper the Beatboxer
At a certain point in time, before this site’s current existence, there were rumors of something called Meshuggash Sessions, a video talk series devoted to conversations with noted visual thinker David Gray. Then he got busy (in a big way) and Meshuggah Cafe owner Patrick Liberto professed less than full love for the notion and… [...]
Farewell to Globe Drug, by Toby Weiss
Toby Weiss has published an excellent tribute to the now deceased Globe Drug Store on her blog BELT with lots of great photos. Globe Drug has been a fixture on Cherokee street since the 1930′s. It was also one of the last remaining independent pharmacy’s in the city. It quietly closed this past week. Go [...]
70′s Local News interview with Michael Stipe about Rocky Horror Picture Show
Several locals in this one, does anyone recognize them all? Vladimir Noskov (aka The Mad Russian) is supposedly there but I don’t recognize his younger version. Recorded at the Varsity Theater whose building is now the home of Vintage Vinyl.
Steve Scariano: The Singapores, The ’70s, First Loves, STL Rock Lore
By Steve Scariano (Editor’s Note: This piece caught my attention a few months back, a good three years since publication. But Steve’s piece, originally published on his delightful rollawaythestone blog does such an amazing job of documenting the late ’70s rock underground in Saint Louis that it deserves a wider reading. The energy expressed in [...]
Bunnygrunt On the Web!: A Q/A with Karen Ried
Let’s just go ahead and say it: on a night when Bunnygrunt is playing a stage in Saint Louis, you’re unlikely to find a better band in town that night. All after a decade-and-a-half of life together, incorporating various lineup bust-ups, multiple vinyl releases, a limited edition line of plush dolls and 514 live gigs. [...]
Change’a'Comin’!
A quick word about our programming. Over the past few, there’ve been no weekdays in which the content of this site was missing, outright. But not every day’s content was awesome beyond comprehension. For the next few weeks, the working effort will be towards pushing all posts towards that excellent end. Then, the thought is [...]
Friends of San Luis Plan Ball
The good folks affiliated with the Friends of the San Luis are having a fundraiser soon. We feel that on a day of historical focus, there’s no better thing to recognize than this group, dedicated to changing the process by which historic buildings in the City are allowed to be demolished. We’ll throw things over [...]
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