Archive Search Results

21. Night & Day

    No Bed with This Breakfast

    By Jeanette Kozlowski

    Published: December 19, 2007

    The clock has already struck midnight; the new year has already begun. And though your buzz wore off about three hours ago (that is, unless you ventured east), all that Red...

22. Night & Day

    Puck Buddies

    By Jason Toon

    Published: December 19, 2007

    For a while there, it really sucked to be a St. Louis sports fan. The Cardinals won the 2006 World Series and then decided they'd had enough winning for the time being. Mizzou...

23. Night & Day

    Screening with Delight

    By Mark Dischinger

    Published: December 19, 2007

    The ongoing Free Form Film Festival pulls from a diverse pool of work from a wide array of filmmakers. In past years the FFFF has twisted the cinematic tradition by doing such...

24. Night & Day

    In the Beginning

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: December 19, 2007

    During this season folks do a lot of reminiscing with family and friends, but no one really hikes all the way down memory lane to the origins of the new world — your...

25. Night & Day

    All the Whirl's a Stage

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: December 19, 2007

    It seems that the lessons today's kids are learning are things like how to get more out of your iPod and what to do if your friend's cell phone is better than yours....

26. Night & Day

    Party Time, Elephant

    By Brooke Foster

    Published: December 19, 2007

    Most American teens consider themselves too cool for birthday parties. Leave the cupcakes and the brightly colored hats to the children, they scoff. The fifteenth birthday is...

27. Night & Day

    Crate Wealth

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: December 19, 2007

    Frank Breuer photographs banal objects in nondescript locations: three-dimensional logo signs by roadways, warehouse facades, the stacked hulks of overseas shipping containers....

28. Night & Day

    Home for the Holidays

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: December 19, 2007

    We're thinking you'll be spending the next five nights at Home — having a look at the place, partying a bit, meeting up with friends, downing a few drinks. What? You...

29. Night & Day

    Don't Be Quiet on New Year's Eve

    By James Weber

    Published: December 19, 2007

    Concentrate. Think back nearly 360 or so days. How did you welcome the year 2007? Was it inexpensive Champagne in polite, plastic flutes while you watched the neighborhood...

30. Night & Day

    Rhythm's Gonna Get Ya

    By Amy George

    Published: December 19, 2007

    There's always so much hype leading up to New Year's Eve, and the end result is often nowhere close to your initial lofty ambition (yeah, we just played darts in Terrence's...

31. Night & Day

    Rail of Dead

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: December 19, 2007

    The new year is already uncertain, so you might as well make your last night of 2007 full of mystery, too. But how? You've seen all of the Law & Orders showing during today's...

32. Night & Day

    NYE: It's a Gas

    By Ms. Day

    Published: December 19, 2007

    As has been documented in these pages, Ms. Day fancies herself a bit of a partier. She did her fair share of dancing up and down Washington Avenue back in its heyday, and she's...

33. Night & Day

    War Games

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: December 19, 2007

    Are the kids tired of all their new toys already? Maybe you should make a quick family jaunt over to Jefferson Barracks Park (533 Grant Road; 314-544-6224) and show 'em what...

34. Night & Day

    Ghosts of Art Shows Almost Past

    By Anna Teekell Hays

    Published: December 19, 2007

    Thanks to Charles Dickens, we tend to associate late December with ghosts, which makes this Saturday between noon and 4 p.m. a most appropriate time to haunt the Duane Reed...

35. Night & Day

    Loudest. Talkie. Ever.

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: December 19, 2007

    Although Charlie Chaplin's 1936 film Modern Times was conceived as a "talkie," Chaplin changed his mind just before filming began. Modern Times instead features sound effects...

36. News Real

    Hoop Raiders

    Is a Christian academy in Kansas City stealing St. Louis' high school basketball players?

    By Kristen Hinman

    Published: December 19, 2007

    With high school hoops underway, St. Louis' basketball junkies are abuzz about a school that doesn't belong to the Missouri State High School Activities Association,...

37. Unreal

    Claus with Claws

    Unreal chats up a brave Santa, rebels against the holidays and shops for porn.

    Published: December 19, 2007

    The profession of shopping-mall Santa has always been an underappreciated, dirty job. Think about it: a constant barrage of terrified toddlers, kicks to the groin, demanding...

38. Ask a Mexican

    Special Year-End Edición

    The Mexican offers up some FAQs to keep in mind for '08.

    Published: December 19, 2007

    I apologize for the shortened column this week, but there are tamales to make... Dear Readers: Gracias, thank you, gracias for another successful year. The Mexican now appears...

39. Music

    Local Motion

    Homespun's top ten local album releases of 2007.

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: December 19, 2007

    We began running the Homespun column in the music section almost a year ago, with the intent of giving a dedicated space to the records being released by St. Louis acts....

40. B-Sides

    Ghosts of Christmas Past

    The Skeletons reunite, we gift some of St. Louis' best bands and remember Ike Turner.

    By Roy Kasten and Jaime Lees

    Published: December 19, 2007

    Ike Turner: 1931-2007 Ike Wister Turner died on Wednesday, December 12, in San Diego, California. He was 76. Every obit, blog post, and newscast will not fail to mention his...