Last semester, I took The Art of Poetry with professor Steven Meyer. We read Wordsworth and Coleridge and “The Opening of the Field” by Robert Duncan, but the most impressive thing we read was William Empsons’ “Seven Types of Ambiguity.”

Record of the Year Percy: Alright, let’s start at the top. Record of the Year? Cici: I so want to say Lady Gaga, but “Bad Romance” is clearly her finest […]

In his fourth studio album, RJD2 takes music into his own hands by producing “The Colossus” under his new, self-owned record label. With this expansion in musical freedom, the talented […]

James Cameron’s “Avatar” left the Golden Globes last Sunday as the show’s biggest winner, taking home the Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director awards. These accolades have propelled the sci-fi epic closer to Oscar gold than ever before. From this point on, a Best Picture loss would be seen as a massive upset.

Yes, I know this list is splitting hairs, since every movie ever would be better if it starred Chuck Norris.

“The Men Who Stare at Goats” was released recently. When I first saw the trailer, I thought it would be funny and smart. Plus, it had Boston’s “More Than a […]

It’s not often that St. Louis gets to be called an “international hub,” but every year, our venerable city dons the title for a week and a half in mid-November. That’s right, the 18th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) is upon us!

The album cover of Weezer’s new album, “Raditude,” is awesome. You see, there’s this dog, and being a dog, he doesn’t have wings, yet he’s flying through the air.

The first “Treehouse of Horror” aired Oct. 25, 1990, a little more than 19 years ago. Like every “Simpsons” Halloween special that followed, it started with a warning of terror […]

For the series’s maiden voyage, I’ve decided to review “Pocket Ninjas,” which clocks in at a 1.4 out of 10, horrible enough to be IMDb’s worst movie of all time.