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4 weeks ago | 
stlmag.com | Max Havey
June is Pride Month, and the many repertory theaters around St. Louis are programming a number of great queer films, including reclaimed queer cult classics new and old. In addition to the robust Pride Month programming, there are also several retrospectives and restorations—alongside a resurrection—to catch as well. With that in mind, here’s a showcase of films to catch this June in St. Louis. Mountains May Depart | June 3, 7:30 p.m.Winifred Moore Auditorium, 470 E.
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1 month ago | 
stlmag.com | Max Havey
The band Pavement has always straddled the line between sincerity and irony, whether in interviews, music videos, or their own songs. So it’s only fitting that director Alex Ross Perry’s new film, Pavements, which will play at the Hi-Pointe Theatre from June 2-5, offers a prismatic portrait of the band that walks that line in an enjoyable and amusing way.
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1 month ago | 
stlmag.com | Max Havey
The 18th Annual QFest St. Louis is back at the Hi-Pointe Theatre from May 27 to June 1. The festival highlights some of the best in contemporary gay cinema, and in a time that is increasingly uncertain for LGBTQ+ people, it offers a safe space for representation, conversation, and community across a program of eight features (three narrative and five documentaries) and two shorts programs.
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2 months ago | 
stlmag.com | Tobeya Ibitayo |Max Havey |Ashlynn Perez |Sarah Fenske
OTSL wants to build a new performing arts center on the 6.67 acres of the Clayton site it now has under contract. The ninth of playwright August Wilson’s 10-play American Century Cycle, the production examines Black life across the decades of the 20th century.
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2 months ago | 
stlmag.com | Max Havey |Christine Jackson |Carrie Zukoski |Melissa Meinzer
The tenets of punk rock and pinball have always been part of the core ethos of The Silver Ballroom—the Bevo bar where the punk soundtrack is punctuated by the sounds of a dozen or so pinball machines pinging, whirring, and spouting out signature lines from featured characters. When the bar opened in April 2010, Silver Ballroom was one of the few bars in the greater St. Louis area where people could come together, drink, and play pinball.
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2 months ago | 
stlmag.com | Christine Jackson |Max Havey |Melissa Meinzer |George Mahe
With 4/20 falling on Easter Sunday this year, St. Louis is hosting cannabis-friendly events all weekend, from a chef showdown at Handlebar on Saturday to a party with rap legend Devin the Dude at Atomic on Sunday. However you celebrate, there’s plenty to enjoy. 4/19 Wake & Bake Stoners Breakfast | April 19Start the day with a stoner’s breakfast of champions at St. Andrews Cinema & Event Center (2025 Golfway St., St. Charles).
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Mar 24, 2025 | 
stlmag.com | Sarah Fenske |Max Havey |George Mahe |Cheryl Baehr
Aspiring director Ava Farrar only has three films under her belt so far—but considering one of them was tapped for the St. Louis International Film Festival, it seems wise to pay attention to what she’s up to. A St. Louis native who graduated from Washington University last spring, Farrar is currently raising funds for her third film, Sweet Young Thing, which she plans to film in St. Louis this summer.
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Mar 19, 2025 | 
stlmag.com | Sarah Fenske |Max Havey |Cheryl Baehr |Melissa Meinzer
When video killed the radio star, few people were thinking about what would happen 40 years later. But VHS tapes have a life span of just 35 to 65 years—which means tapes from the medium’s 1980s and 1990s heyday are now in jeopardy. Joshua Lawrence isn’t content to stand by. A librarian by day, the 31-year-old spends time off the clock digitizing rare St. Louis videos that might otherwise be lost forever.
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Mar 11, 2025 | 
stlmag.com | Max Havey |George Mahe |Cheryl Baehr |Melissa Meinzer
Open Space STL will kick off the monthly Mound City Film Series, in conjunction with the Mountainfilm Festival, on April 23 to celebrate 60 years of conservation and stewardship work in the St. Louis region. The film series will run from April to September 2025 and is being put on in partnership with River City Outdoors, Swade Cannabis, and 4 Hands Brewing Company, whose downtown location will serve as the home for the series.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
stlmag.com | Melissa Meinzer |Max Havey |Anne McCarthy |Cheryl Baehr
It’s the third edition of Shakespeare Speedrun at Greenfinch Theatre and Dive (2525 S. Jefferson), and YoungLiars is ready for the challenge. The theater company will have just 12 hours to cast, rehearse, and produce a 90-minute production of a play this Saturday, March 8, at 8 p.m. Which play? All that the participants know until the big reveal during the morning of the show is that it’s Shakespeare—no title, no genre, no hints.
