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Feature
Judging Mariano
The circuit clerk and the city's judges square off on the public's right to know. The clerk and the public are losing.
By Geri L. Dreiling
Published: April 3, 2002
Mariano Favazza isn't the kind of guy who takes no for an answer.Take the time St. Louis University rejected his law school application: The McDonald's manager-turned-butcher...
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Music
Cassandra Complex
The songs on Cassandra Wilson's new album unfold over many listens, revealing some of their secrets and leading to more
By Steve Pick
Published: April 3, 2002
Gentle hand drums set up a simple pattern of beats, and an acoustic bass plucks in tandem with the rhythm. Soon, a delicate melodic pattern issues from the high strings of a...
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Cafe
That's a Winner
Culinary star David Slay teams up with baseball great Ozzie Smith to produce a terrific dining experience
By Melissa Martin
Published: April 3, 2002
Dining at a new David Slay restaurant is like seeing the latest Tom Hanks pic: Your high expectations are usually met. Smith & Slay's combines former baseball Cardinal Ozzie...
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Film
Mexican Pie
Two teens come of age in Mexico, a country doing the same
By Bill Gallo
Published: April 3, 2002
The two slacker antiheroes of Alfonso Cuarón's Y Tu Mamá También (And Your Mother, Too) come furnished with all the usual glitches of late adolescence --...
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Night & Day
Brother's Keeper
David Kaczynski talks about the decision that tore his family apart
By Byron Kerman
Published: April 3, 2002
In 1996, David Kaczynski had to make one of the worst decisions anyone could imagine: whether he should come forward with his suspicions that his brother, Theodore "Ted"...
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Stage
Atom Smash
Wash U. brings to town Michael Frayn's Tony-winning Copenhagen and with it an intellectual cornucopia
By Dennis Brown
Published: April 3, 2002
Because there is no curtain, even before this arduous yet exhilarating evening of theater begins, the viewer already has something to ponder: What is this spare, elliptical set...
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News Real
James' Leg
When barrelhouse-blues pianist James Crutchfield died a few months back, not only did he leave a legacy -- he left a leg
By Wm. Stage
Published: April 3, 2002
Jeff Lockheed can't keep from laughing as he talks about the time James Crutchfield lost his shoe. "We were cleaning up after everyone had left," says the co-owner of Benton...
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Music
Fighting the Power
Rapper Nas steps back into the ring, fists flying
By Michael Roberts
Published: April 3, 2002
To paraphrase LL Cool J, Nas doesn't want people to call his return a comeback, because he's been here for years. But hip-hop addicts don't see things this way and never...
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Film
Reel Guilty
High Crimes, a military thriller, sets a new low for Ashley Judd
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: April 3, 2002
Joseph Finder's 1998 novel High Crimes reads like a movie, and a derivative one at that, borrowing scenes and elements from the likes of Sleeping With the Enemy, Primal Fear...
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Night & Day
Mush!
Pam Flowers traveled 2,500 miles of Arctic wilderness -- doggedly
By Byron Kerman
Published: April 3, 2002
To see the line on the map that traces the 1993 expedition of dogsledder Pam Flowers is to be astounded at the length and location of her journey. The intrepid woman and her...
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Muse
Deathwatch
A documentary on the Ronald L. Jones Funeral Home premieres at Webster University
By Eddie Silva
Published: April 3, 2002
The opening frame contains the gaunt face of the terminally ill Robert O'Neal Fields. He talks about why he worked in the funeral business, why he chose an occupation that kept...
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Hartmann
Devil's Due
For a price, Ashcroft can be a regular guy
By Ray Hartmann
Published: April 3, 2002
I'm feeling better for John Ashcroft.When last visited by the Riverfront Times, our homegrown attorney general seemed unjustly frozen out of the Enron scandal. Ashcroft had...
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Critics' Picks
The Eyeliners, with the Ded Bugs and Picture Book of Saints
Monday, April 8; Rocket Bar
By Matt Harnish
Published: April 3, 2002
Check out the songs listed on Sealed With a Kiss (Panic Button/Lookout Records), the new album by Chicago's Eyeliners, and you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a collection of...
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Film Listings
Film Openings
Week of April 3, 2002
Published: April 3, 2002
Big Trouble. Barry Sonnenfeld. Had this been released on Sept. 21, as originally scheduled before the events of Sept. 11, it would now be out on video, where it belongs. Every...
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Short Cuts
A Cross to Bear
Joyce gets nailed for tall talk and tiny action
By D.J. Wilson
Published: April 3, 2002
Just when it seemed the whole Catholic-clerics-caught-with-their-cassocks-up saga had calmed down, the creepy ex-priest St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce calls one of...
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Critics' Picks
Michael Friedman with Nadine, Bob Reuter and Chris Grabau
Friday, April 5; Frederick's Music Lounge
By René Spencer Saller
Published: April 3, 2002
Singer/songwriter Michael Friedman isn't from St. Louis, but a glance at the liner notes for his debut CD, Cool of the Coming Dark, might fool you into thinking you were...
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Film Listings
Series/Festivals
Week of April 3, 2002
Published: April 3, 2002
Cinema in the City. Webster University sponsors once-a-month Wednesday screenings in Beatnik Bob's Cafe. This month features Arthur Penn's Alice's Restaurant (1969), the film...
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Street Talk
Osama bin Hidin' II
Week of April 3, 2002
By Wm. Stage
Published: April 3, 2002
It galls Dubya and the top brass, and it torques us, too -- enough for a second visit to this question: Does it bother you that we haven't gotten Osama bin Laden? Randy...
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Rotations
Boards of Canada
Geogaddi (Warp Records)
By Randall Roberts
Published: April 3, 2002
As computer-based music composers learn the ins and outs of their instrument, one startling reality shines above all others: Anything is possible. No sound is forbidden or...
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Letters
Bud's Girl
Week of April 3, 2002
Published: April 3, 2002
Bud's GirlTaste some Soviet boot: [28th Ward Ald. Lyda] Krewson is a pompous, arrogant politician. Should her constituents be surprised that she is accepting political goodies...
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