Spring Break
Kevin Smith is trying to play rough without a safe word, and his new movie, "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" doesn't seem to know what it wants to be. In the world of movies, Smith's is a distinct voice. He is one of a few screenwriters so recognizable that you would know that they wrote a movie even if you stumbled into the theater halfway through the screening, blindfolded.
Prom. When you read that, what happened? Did you twitch? Did you cringe? Mildly salivate? The range of responses to such an innocuous little word would surprise you. As the American rite of passage, this formal event represents more than the keystone in the slap-dash architecture of youth, more than some date on a calendar page which has long since turned.
Any aspiring hip-hop or rap act from St. Louis making their live performance debut is well familiar with the name Scott Rivers, aka Ser Lesson. He is the logistical mind behind the long running and steadily successful music showcase held bi-monthly at The Pageant.
Director Clint Eastwood sets his sights on Oscar again, but this ambitious, two-and-a-half hour drama based on a strange but true story of a child who goes missing and a mother's relentless search may reach farther than its grasp. Not that there are not good points about "Changeling.
Hailing from Stockholm, Sweden, where they have been a mainstay of the metal scene for nearly two decades, Opeth peddled their doom-laden musical wears at the Pageant last Monday, Oct. 13. Their music is an acquired taste; too thoughtful and eerily romantic (think Edgar Allen Poe, not Nicholas Sparks) for the more volume nihilistic metal-heads, and (with the exception of one record) far too deafening for those whose tastes do not run harder than Aerosmith.
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