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09.19.2008 12:48 am

A free John Waters double feature, Friday, Sept. 19, at Laumeier

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

According to my sundial, it’s still outdoor-movie season, and tonight there’s a dandy of a double feature at Laumeier Park. And it’s free.

To stoke anticipation for an exhibit of John Waters’ photos next month, the sculpture park is screening two…

06.23.2008 11:33 pm

The call of the drive-in never gets old

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

skyview.jpgLast weekend, my colleague Charles Williams took his family to the Skyview Drive-In in Belleville. It was his first visit to an ozoner in two decades. Now he says he understands why I won’t shut up about outdoor movie screenings.

I…

06.06.2008 2:07 pm

Happy Drive-In Theatre Day

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

June 6 is the anniversary of the first drive-in theater, in 1933 in Camden, N.J. Drive-ins were invented by a fellow named Richard Hollingshead (whose patent was not simply for outdoor movies but for the little hillocks, or “ramps ”…

04.04.2008 12:30 am

Old Orchard Movie Series

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Did I mention I really love outdoor movies? One of the cutest of the outdoor series is the one in the little vest-pocket park at Big Bend and Old Orchard in Webster Groves. Not only do you get a free…

04.01.2008 9:25 pm

“It Happens Every Spring”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Warm weather means baseball–and outdoor movies. Both traditions come together Friday 4/4 at Union Station for the first pitch of the free Twilight Under the Train Shed movie series. That night’s screening is “It Happens Every Spring,” the 1949 comedy…