Harper Barnes
STL Beacon contributorHarper Barnes' most recent book is Never Been A Time: The 1917 Race Riot That Sparked The Civil Rights Movement
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 22, 2010 - As you may have read by now -- in, among other places, the Sunday New York Times --…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: September 11, 2008 - It's hard to imagine that any atheists were converted to Christianity, or…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Dec. 2, 2013 - "Nebraska" is so well made, so beautifully filmed and, in the main, so well acted, I…
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The truish story told in "Kill Your Darlings" -- a dark miasma of poetry, sex and violence set in the 1940s among the writers who would later be called…
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This article originally appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 25, 2013: ‘The Counselor’For a violent movie about the drug trade along the Mexican border,…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: The opening shot of "Wadjda" is, like the movie as a whole, simple but effective, funny but serious.…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: The scene is riveting: a 500-foot-long ship, stacked high with freight containers, is pursued at 20…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 4, 2013: Early on in the beautifully written, superbly acted romantic comedy "Enough Said,"…
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This article originally appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Sept. 20, 2013: In one of his celebrated letters of advice to his son, Lord Chesterfield…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Aug. 30, 2013: The press notes for most films are pretty standard stuff, heavy on the hype about how…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: The movie officially called "Lee Daniels' The Butler" has its faults, but the only major one is the…
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This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon: "Blue Jasmine" can be funny; at times painfully so. But it would be a mistake to go into the film…