Short reviews of new books, restaurants, bands, art shows and other fresh topics

2006
Spring	Scene and Heard	Lectures, live performances, bands and dining from the beginning of 2006
Summer	How We Spend Our Summer Vacations	Chicken wrangling, belly dancing, beer swilling and more!
Fall	Fall-ing for It	Ride that shiny train with us to a new downtown eatery, a play where girls are famous boys and a memoir of being gay in the Ozarks
2005
Jan	The Night Santa Saved the Schnitzel	December found us headed from the North Pole to Neuschwanstein and back
Mar	Winter Wonders	Dinner and a show? BYO and a speakeasy? We review what you might want to do next
May	St. Louis Through New Eyes	Getting to know our city, through its good writers and not-so-good social problems. Oh, and its sushi.
Sep	Those Hot Summer Nights	Sex talk with Mayor Slay and a constitutional crisis for Dinner Club — yikes!
Dec	Sock It To Me, September	Kick-ass local bands and jambalaya, me-oh-my-a
2004
Feb	Seen/Scene	We were everywhere in the past month, from Iraq to Soulard Market to the most sublime bathroom in the world
May	Beer Here!	Both are in the business of beer, but the brewery tours at A-B and Schlafly are worlds apart
Jun	Outnabout	May's readin', rockin' and regrettin' ... that big tub of popcorn
Nov	Eat Me in St. Louis	The Dinner Club dishes, for your dining pleasure
Dec	Rock the Vote, Swing that Thing, Get on the Good Foot...and Chow Down	Noted in November
2003
Jan	The Circle of Life	New traditions were born — "White Christmas," anyone?; old favorites had a last gasp — Shenandoah Bar & Grill, we hardly knew ye; and Bert Dax, KFNS and Radio Rio soldier on
Feb	Sweets, Meats and Soybean Treats	How we spent the first month of the year, from shows we loved to tasty stuff consumed
Mar	Frogs, Food and Fun	Damn the snow, February was full speed ahead
Apr	Rock! Read! Really!	The Mooney Suzuki, coffeehouses and bookstores of note, and the newest addition burning up the airwaves of KDHX
May	Cattin' Around in April	We've been out, about, here, there...and even home drinking Shiner Bock and watching t.v. at 2 a.m.
Jun	Monkeyin' Around in May	In St. Louis' loveliest month, fun things were found both inside and out
Jul	Hither and Yon	Keeping an eye on St. Louis, from the basement of Blueberry Hill to — bear with us, here — the streets of Vancouver
Aug	The Lou in June: The Greatest Show on Earth!	We rock your ascots off and the mayor hesitates to send in the clowns
Sep	This and That	Entertainment and diversions, from the home front and beyond
Oct	I Went to the Comic Show and All I Got Was This Lousy Column	Our reporter goes to STL ComiCon 03 and finds good work and utter confusion
Nov	SLIFF Pick-O-Matic	A great run of movies is on tap during the 12th annual St. Louis International Film Festival. May we suggest a few for your consideration?
Dec	Scenes from a Short Month	Around town, on screen and in our minds in November
2002
Jan	Sounds of the Season	As always, December proves the best month for music; plus some other scattered fun things from the last month of 2001
Feb	A Little Light (Okay, Heavy) Reading	Two books — one old, "Catfish and Crystal," one new, "The City in Mind" — work together in reflecting some unique light on the St. Louis "urban condition"
Mar	Quiet Storms	St. Louis' Cobalt Blue steps forward from the periphery, with the release of a debut CD; also, marking time on the porch with a new poetry collection, "Lick of Sense"
Apr	Spinning the Wheel O' Links	We catch up on some local ephemera, criticism and culture by turning to the crazy fad known as the Information Superhighway
May	Miscellaneous Delights	News and notes and recent releases, from zines to sites to discs, with a heavy emphasis on fun pop culture for the summery days of May
Jun	Gods of All Media	We weed through the good, the bad and the ugly to recommend stuff — from CDs to web sites — you should hear, read and buy
Jul	Delmar: a Dividing Line or a Literary Coming-Together?	Delmar Magazine, the literary sort-of annual, keeps its feet in St. Louis but its sights set high
Aug	August's Dog Days	This month we look at a book about stray dogs, CDs from Dave Landreth and the Dead Celebrities and punk rock on KDHX. Oh, and soap.
Sep	Art in the Urban Wilderness	We look back at the Artica 2002 event, a decidedly different way to spend a summer weekend in St. Louis
Oct	Cities from Sin to Suffragette	The seamy side of Vegas, the splendid side of improv radio, a log cabin for your next drinky, and one of the last good things about STLtoday.com
Nov	Best-Kept Secrets	Spooks, tales from our local no-tell motel and some stuff that people just FOUND
Dec	Ain't This a City?	In the last month alone: lesbian folk-singer Tupperware ladies, fantastic bands that may — or may not — be a thing of the past, and St. Louis' moment in the "Get Your War On" movement
2001
Jan	After the Fall: Srebrenica Survivors in St. Louis	A new book documents the Bosnian experience in St. Louis
Feb	Listen and Read	CDs from The Urge and The Nukes and a St. Louis history anthology from Lee Ann Sandweiss
Mar	Give a Look and Listen Up	Victory Without Violence, Wanderings in the Night, and Sexicolor
Apr	Music, Food and Live Shows — Does It Get Any Better?	Listen to The Potomac Accord, Cloister and insideOUT; chow down at The Hungry Buddha; don't go to work for Ulcer, Inc.
May	Reviews, Previews and Views You Can Use	Hop in the Getaway Car, catch Kate Schrock next time around, ponder art in a geodesic dome, and ride the Rocket (88)
Jun	Been There, Done That	A compendium of readings, events and other assorted stuff of recent vintage
Jul	Rockin' Out, Tunin' In and Bellyin' Up	All the stuff you'll want to listen to, eat and wish you'd been there for...
Aug	Do You Hear What We Hear?	What is the sound of one band playing, the image of one neighborhood changing and the impact of one idea being heard in cyberspace?
Sep	The Best of What We've Heard, Read and Seen Lately	Including local band Climber, a wacky film short and something about heads in a bottle
Oct	The Wacky (and Wildly Varied) Sights and Sounds of September	Were you there for the heavy petting, the first anniversary or the birth of a new local political zine? We were...
Nov	With Apologies to Jerry Berger...	The best sightems, heardems and didems in town, in our humble opinion
Dec	Many Tunes a-Twangin'	This month's bag is plenty mixed, with lots of local music to plug into, plus looks back on SLIFF and Frances Moore Lappe

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