Entertainment culture

Sam Hunerlach founded St. Louis Against Sexual Assault to offer free harrasment prevention training to local bar and restaurant staffs.

Award-winning novelist and former St. Louisan Jonathan Franzen is a hot topic in the media world — again.Franzen is on a national tour for his new novel,…

As the summer movie season began, the first thing one might have detected was a sense of irrelevancy. That there would be a phalanx of sequels, comic book…

I spent a lot of Friday with headphones on.We hosted the first Beacon and Eggs meeting (put together by co-contributor to this blog, Peter Franzen) at…

The death of Claude Chabrol this weekend provides further proof that the masters of the Nouvelle Vague, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year…

"Breathless," the iconic French New Wave movie from 1960, is being re-released in an impeccable new print, and it opens Friday, Sept. 10, at the Tivoli.…

For time immemorial, theatrical renderings of adolescent angst have revolved around typical themes of boy-meets-girl, or occasionally, boy-meets-boy or…

Debbie Lum will visit her native St. Louis later this month on an interesting errand. Originally, she was set to arrive, purely to celebrate her mother’s…

James Cameron's To-Do List____ 1. December 2009. Release "Avatar" in theaters. Make quadrozillion dollars.(Note: Whine loudly when Tim Burton's "Alice in…

Almost everyone knows of renowned author Samuel Clemens -- especially here in Missouri, where we're proud to call Hannibal his home.But the life of the…