The Factory buzzed with energy as a crowd of millennials in their skinny jeans and Old Skool Vans eagerly anticipated All Time Low’s performance last week. For almost two hours, the 2000s pop-punk boy band made me forget that I was in the end unit of a Chesterfield, Missouri, strip mall on a random Tuesday.

Need to clear your head between classes or escape the buzz of campus for a few hours? You don’t have to wander far — St. Louis is surrounded by trails that offer everything from peaceful forest walks to breathtaking hilltop views of the Mississippi.

On Oct. 26, Albom was invited to the Clark Family Branch of the St. Louis County Library (SLCL) to discuss that very question. The SLCL Favorite Author Series, which co-sponsored the event with local bookstore The Novel Neighbor, is hosting a total of 150 authors this year, with over 35,000 readers in attendance, according to event coordinator Meredith Hopping. 

After 2 1/2 years of development, the Saint Louis Art Museum  (SLAM) unveiled German artist Anselm Kiefer’s “Becoming the Sea” exhibit on Oct. 18, 2025. The exhibit, which encompasses nearly 30,000 square feet, has proven to be one of SLAM’s most ambitious undertakings in recent years.

Romance. Humor. Man-eating vegetation. This musical has it all, and it’s gracing the stage of Edison Theater until Nov. 2. “Little Shop of Horrors,” a musical based on Howard Ashman’s book of the same title, revolves around a flower shop on Skid Row and its three employees, Seymour, Audrey, and Mr. Mushnik.

For the first time since the movie’s release in 2016, you can experience that powerful love story in a dark theater again, but this time with its music at the forefront. On Nov. 1 at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, Grammy-nominated Turkish musician Esin Aydingoz will conduct a highly anticipated staging of “La La Land in Concert.”

Thyrsus is WashU’s experimental theater group, guided by the five pillars of neofuturism: chance, honesty, risk, brevity, and transformation. Each semester, the group organizes a 24-hour playwriting festival, called Day of Shame, that embodies all five of these pillars.

Cookie dough, brownie bites, Frosted Flakes, strawberries, bananas, Cocoa Puffs, and more —  with 24,379 possible ice cream orders, it would take more than a semester of free scoops to try them all. Luckily, Campus Creamery’s giveaway winners are giving it their best shot.

On Oct. 22, All Student Theatre (AST) debuted its original production, “Whispers in the Walls,” an interactive murder mystery. This immersive theatre experience allowed audience members to interact with both the set and characters.

Your date says they know a good movie. The Rotten Tomatoes score agrees with them. It seems like a good pick, so sure, why not put that one on? What’s the worst that could happen? Well, you could ruin the date, for one. There are tons of acclaimed movies out there, but not all of them translate well to a first date. This list is a compilation of 10 such movies, each excellent and well worth your time, but awful to watch with someone you just met. Without further ado, here’s to your awful first date, and here’s hoping your date never puts one of these on.