Top All-Around Non-Music Things that Made Me Happy in 2016 | Laura Hamlett
By far, the most exciting moment of 2016 was watching Leicester City players when they realized they had won the Barclay’s Premier League…at 5000:1 odds.
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Best Songs of 2016 | Laura Hamlett
Olly Murs’ “Private” is perhaps my favorite song of the past half-decade, not just this year. Absolute pop perfection.
Top 10 Theatrical Moments of 2016 | Jim Ryan
Claire Manship’s performance made me happy and gay.
Best Songs of 2016 | Jim Ryan
Any song that references The Rocky Horror Picture Show gets high marks from me.
Great Tracks from Albums that Just Missed the Top 10 Cut | Mike Rengel
There are albums in my Top 10 and there are those in my Honorable Mentions; these are songs from neither of those lists.
5 Reasons I’m Grateful To Be Back in St. Louis’s Central West End | Sarah Boslaugh
The Central West End is home to Forest Park: museums, trails, and much more.
Best Film Scores/Soundtracks of 2016 | Bill Loelke
The powerful song lineup from Lin-Manuel Miranda, Opetaia Foa’i, and Mark Mancina carry the Moana soundtrack into the great Disney hall of fame.
Best Films of 2016 | Sarah Boslaugh
Not until I saw Ava DuVernay’s documentary did I relate the disproportionate incarceration of African-Americans to a clause in the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
Best Films of 2016 | Nic Champion
The Lobster is one of the weirdest, funniest, and dazzlingly good-looking movies of the year, and the best for me.
Best Concerts of 2016 | Jim Ryan
Dolly Parton is truly an icon in every sense of the word.