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21. Night & Day

    A Banner Night

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Baseball season has only just begun and St. Louis is hoisting another championship banner. All right, it’s for basketball, but still – the champs are the champs....

22. Night & Day

    Dirty Politics, Worse Weather

    By Anna Teekell Hays

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Given the weather in this city, it’s almost reasonable to assume that sorcery could be involved. Snow, floods, thunderstorms, and that’s just the past month. If...

23. Night & Day

    Notes from Home

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Americans, being justly proud of their country, tend to think of immigrants and refugees as people who come to America for a better life. It’s supposed to be a permanent...

24. Night & Day

    Audio Visuals

    By Mark Fischer

    Published: April 2, 2008

    While music industry bigwigs fret over declining sales and illegal downloads, deep underground exists an alternate universe where junior label managers deal with more important...

25. Night & Day

    Varietal Show

    By Jeanette Kozlowski

    Published: April 2, 2008

    With wine it's especially easy to get stuck in a rut. Each mealtime you uncork the same old shiraz or chardonnay. It's comforting yet exceedingly mundane. Free yourself from...

26. Night & Day

    Doonan's Law

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Simon Doonan has made a career out of being right. As the Creative Director of Barneys New York, Doonan has combined a razor-sharp aesthetic sense with an acidic wit to create...

27. Night & Day

    Shine On

    By Amy George

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Whenever the words "free" and "stars" are paired together, it's time to pay attention. However on Friday, April 11, at the Saint Louis Science Center's James S. McDonnell...

28. Night & Day

    Turkish Delight

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Like many a young man, all Belmonte wants to do is get with his lady-love, Konstanze. The major obstacle blocking their love? Konstanze's been captured by pirates and then sold...

29. Night & Day

    Two by Two

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: April 2, 2008

    The NonProphet Theater Company does double duty for the next few weeks with its Evening of One-Act Plays. The two shows — David Mamet's "A Life in the Theater" and "Lip...

30. Night & Day

    Celebrations and Revelations

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: April 2, 2008

    In the past 50 years, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (www.alvinailey.org) has performed all over the world, at the White House, on Sesame Street, at Studio 54 and at the...

31. Night & Day

    House Party

    By Jeanette Kozlowski

    Published: April 2, 2008

    It's been six years since Sasha and Digweed, the beloved British DJ duo, have toured North America. These innovative beat masters first paired up in the mid-'90s and went on to...

32. Night & Day

    Eat for the Cause

    By Brooke Foster

    Published: April 2, 2008

    On the morning of August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm. Those are the simple numbers, the straightforward facts. But the...

33. Night & Day

    They've Got Rhythm

    You've got Sol

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Sunday nights are dreadful. You haven't accomplished everything you wanted to over the weekend, yet you've lost all motivation to rally and get even the slightest amount of...

34. Night & Day

    The Last Likable Republican

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: April 2, 2008

    The Lincoln-Douglas debates captivated the nation 150 years ago, as Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas addressed the key issue of slavery in America in a series of seven...

35. Night & Day

    No Tiptoeing Necessary

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Oh, spring is in the air! You can smell it in the raindrops (the days and days of raindrops), and you can see it along any emerald-green grassy patch sprinkled with flowers. We...

36. Night & Day

    The Other Clinton

    By Ms. Day

    Published: April 2, 2008

    You all may think that the entirety of Ms. Day's life is fabulous, but she's going to let you in on a little secret: Within the confines of her abode, she often spends entire...

37. Night & Day

    Moving Movement

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Dancers aren't mysterious creatures; they are parents, neighbors, teachers, volunteers and students. Become acquainted with some of our community's most talented dancers...

38. News Real

    The 75-year anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition is upon us. Let us toast.

    By Aimee Levitt

    Published: April 2, 2008

    In the annals of American history, there have been few days as momentous as April 7, 1933. As August A. Busch Jr. (better known as Gussie) of Anheuser-Busch informed his fellow...

39. Unreal

    Unreal drunk-dials a PR flack, checks in on a depressed local blogger and gets schooled at sexy semiotics

    By Unreal

    Published: April 2, 2008

    Recently minted a Mensa member and patiently awaiting our Jeopardy! callback, Unreal was feeling quite scholarly when we received a press release announcing that an academic...

40. Letters

    Rick Majerus: Have You No Decency?

    Published: April 2, 2008

    STLOG, MARCH 25, 2008 blogs.riverfronttimes.com unloads over Rick Majerus' take on Mormons — especially their underwear. Rick Majerus: Have You No Decency? I lived in...