“And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper,” Mary Shelley wrote in the foreword to the 1815 reprint of Frankenstein. Shelley had a fraught relationship with motherhood ...

We spoke with 'birth/rebirth' director Laura Moss about their introduction to horror icon Mary Shelley, working with a live pig, and more.

The impressive feature debut of director Laura Moss, Birth/Rebirth (in theaters Aug. 18, and afterwards on Shudder) reimagines Shelley’s classic tale through a modern feminine perspective ...

The fireplace separating the great room and living room in the mid-century modern home of Tom and Shelley B. Smith in Ladue, photographed Wedesday, Feb. 4, 2015.

Shelley and Scott Ririe started vacationing at Table Rock Lake about 16 years ago, when their youngest child was just a toddler. It was a great way for their four children — now ages 31, 27, 26 ...

Tom and Shelley B. Smith in the living room in their mid-century modern home in Ladue, photographed Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. Tom Smith paints, and his artwork is displayed prominently throughout ...