Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “White Girl Twitch a Lot,” on the case of Kaylee Gain, a white high school student who got in a fight with a black female student from her school in suburban St. Louis recently and was beaten to the point of sustaining severe brain damage. (more…)
Tag: St. Louis
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Have you ever wondered what it sounds like when someone repeatedly slams a white girl’s head into the pavement with all their might? Thanks to smartphone voyeurism and social-media bloodlust, you need wonder no more.
Last Friday around 2:30 PM Central Time, two 15-year-old girls — one white, one black — squared off in the middle of a suburban St. Louis street. (more…)
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A Haunting in Venice is a Halloween movie and also sees the return of the detective Hercule Poirot to the screen, as most recently played by Kenneth Branagh, who directed this film. The story is lifted from Hallowe’en Party, a 1969 Christie novel set in Britain, although here it is moved to 1949 Venice. Little of the original story remains, although bobbing for apples is retained as the staging of an attempted murder. Since this is Venice, floods rage outside, and a past drowning adds to the haunted setting. It all fits. (more…)
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November 7, 2022 Steven Clark
Johnny Whistletrigger
Music of the Civil War in Missouri“I’ve just got a new record of Civil War music,” my brother recently bragged over the telephone.
He wanted some snappy tunes to listen to, and mentioned that the Nazi marches he is so fond of have been banned from YouTube. “I’ve discovered Italian Fascist marches,” he said. “They’re very melodic and . . . so operatic.” He referred to a long-ago record cover. “They’re so warm.” (more…)