BARBARA BALLINGER AND MARGARET CRANE
• Published February 1, 2022
From the first frequent query of “How are you?” to the more intimate, “Do you have good chemistry, hint, hint, are you sleeping together?” we’ve found in our single status after 50, nothing seems off-limits. Whether it’s illness—“Was he...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published February 1, 2022
St. Louis is a town of passions. Sports, the arts, culture, beer, our history, and of course, our restaurants. For a city our size, to have as many media entities covering the food scene as we have shows how interconnected we are when it comes to where...
Ellen Futterman, Editor-in-Chief
• Published February 1, 2022
If you need some cheer and color to brighten up a dreary winter day, look no further than the Gallery at the District in Chesterfield. The 6,000-square-foot space, which used to house a J. Crew outlet store, has been transformed into a wonderland of whimsy...
Hesta Prynn, The Forward
• Published January 31, 2022
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How did a song written by a West Coast hip-hop group, a Catholic pop star and a French DJ become...
Dan Buffa, Special For The Jewish Light
• Published January 31, 2022
The trash truck that Adrien Brody drives in his new movie "Clean," may read "bliss," but the garbage man inside of it is anything but swell. When he's not taking out the trash in the morning or caring for his nearby neighbor's niece, Clean is a walking...
Sima Borkovski, Hey Alma
• Published January 31, 2022
“What if I told you that your family was murdered for no reason at all? Now, ask yourself, what would you do?”
This heart-piercing question opens the Holocaust revenge drama “Plan A,” based on a true story. This film, set in 1945 in recently-defeated...
Sharon Rosen Leib, The Forward
• Published January 30, 2022
This story was originally published on January 28 by the Forward. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning.
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures’ recent decision to create a permanent exhibition...
Dan Buffa, Jordan Palmer
• Published January 28, 2022
Let's talk about a few of the shows, television shows and other forms of entertainment news you should seek out this weekend.
Sundance film picks up distributor and release window
When you play well at the most popular film festival in town, a distributor...
Jordana Horn, Kveller
• Published January 28, 2022
Two weeks ago, a school board met in Tennessee and unanimously decided that Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning graphic novel “Maus” should be banned from the eighth grade curriculum due to “profanity” and “nudity.” Spiegelman, a cartoonist,...
Paul Newman directed a pioneering, independent film shot at a Yiddish theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and you’ve probably never heard of it, much less had a chance to see it.
It was never released beyond a short run, in 1962, for an Oscar...
Jordan Palmer, Chief Digital Content Officer
• Published January 28, 2022
How often do you think about the water you're drinking in St. Louis? How often do you think about that same water from a Jewish perspective? The truth is probably not that much, considering St. Louis has always rated very high in various clean water...
