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21. Night & Day

    King Horn

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: February 6, 2008

    When most musicians come to town to perform, they're in and out in a matter of hours, leaving us locals with few opportunities for chance brushes with celebrity at watering...

22. Night & Day

    Oliver!

    By James Weber

    Published: February 6, 2008

    British citizen John Oliver has a passport that states his profession as "comedian," and he's spent several years entertaining the prickly and fickle McSweeney's generation to...

23. Night & Day

    Everybody on the Bus

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Ah, the majesty of the bus. What? You don't think a bus ride is exciting? The Axis Theatre Company relieves you of that misconception with the funny and fast-paced The Number...

24. Night & Day

    Two Nights at the Opera

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Opera lovers, rejoice. New Opera Saint Louis, as the name implies, is a new, locally based opera company dedicated to performing full operas in their original languages —...

25. Night & Day

    Electronic Youth

    By Jeanette Kozlowski

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Parties of the superunderground variety can't compete with what PanOptic Productions has in store for the third installment of the Winter Warpdrive. Top North American DJ...

26. Night & Day

    Faster Than Batman: The Horse

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: February 6, 2008

    If you're old enough to remember the Jim Starlin/Berni Wrightson comic-book series, Batman: The Cult, you'll recall the slightly ridiculous, mostly awesome monster-truck...

27. Night & Day

    Magically Delicious

    By Ms. Day

    Published: February 6, 2008

    When Ms. Day was but a little miss, she had a friend who had the most awesome magic set with secret drawers, trick cards and all kinds of other fun stuff. Unfortunately, Ms....

28. Night & Day

    The King Still Reigns

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: February 6, 2008

    You've gotta think that even though he's playing that great big piano in the sky, the King of Ragtime, Scott Joplin, is pretty happy with the way things are going here on Earth...

29. Night & Day

    Liver Dance!

    By Mark Fischer

    Published: February 6, 2008

    In 1975 Gloria Gaynor set turntables spinning with her rendition of Clifton Davis' "Never Can Say Goodbye," a hit that played a key role in sending disco music to the top of...

30. Night & Day

    Tricks Are for Everyone

    By Anna Teekell Hays

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Did you know that the International Brotherhood of Magicians is headquartered in St. Louis? Seriously. St. Louis is the headquarters of magic. To prove it, you can try this...

31. Night & Day

    Secret Cities

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: February 6, 2008

    The Sheldon Art Galleries present not one but six new shows to usher in the 2008 season. In the Gallery of Photography, photographer John Gossage continues his study into the...

32. Night & Day

    Economies of Scale

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: February 6, 2008

    It's a classic science-fair project: Build a model of the solar system using Styrofoam balls of various sizes to represent the planets. Maybe even mount 'em on wire rings so...

33. Night & Day

    Feel the Love (or Don't)

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Ah, love. Is there no greater feeling than to be in love? The adrenaline, the rosy-colored appearance of the world around you, the make-out sessions — yes, love is quite...

34. Night & Day

    We're with You, Emo

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Will Leitch has given so much joy to the time-wasting, boss-ignoring, drinking-on-the-job American workforce through his juggernaut of a blog, Deadspin, that buying his new...

35. Letters

    Readers sound off on the fragile issue of Crystal City's smelter

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Feature, January 17, 2008 Helter Smelter Yes to smelters: I would like to make a few comments on Chad Garrison's "Smelterville." I grew up during the Depression, and I...

36. News Real

    Air guns legalized this deer season

    By Keegan Hamilton

    Published: February 6, 2008

    If Missouri deer hunters were like Anton Chigurh, the cold-blooded hit man in the film No Country for Old Men, the animals would soon be considered an endangered species....

37. News Real

    North- and south-side rec centers: separate and equal

    By Kathleen McLaughlin

    Published: February 6, 2008

    The City of St. Louis is moving forward with plans to build two new recreation centers: one for the south side in Carondelet Park and the other in O'Fallon Park on the north...

38. Ask a Mexican

    What's with Mexicans and all the PDA?

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Dear Mexican: After working with Mexicans for years, I have noticed that Mexican men have a double standard when it comes to homosexuality. Why is it that the "giver" is not...

39. Music

    Larry Dersch returns to St. Louis as part of A.K.A.C.O.D.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: February 6, 2008

    After cutting his teeth in the St. Louis music scene in the 1980s, Larry Dersch moved to Boston in pursuit of big music industry success. But while he fell short of his...

40. B-Sides

    AA Bondy reinvents himself as an indie-folk artist

    By Jaime Lees

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Though few outside of the indie circuit recognized Verbena, critics and fans hailed the group as the second coming of Nirvana. The comparison was easy to see — and not...