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Feature
When Girls Go Wild
They're angry. They're violent. And they have juvenile-justice folks stumped.
By Geri L. Dreiling
Published: April 9, 2003
It's Alisa's* big day. A white-shirted policeman escorts her down a narrow aisle. An older man with a careworn face and black-turned-ash hair sits hunched in the front row, his...
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Music
Family Affair
Gigging cousins Big Smith keep traditional tunes from going extinct
By Roy Kasten
Published: April 9, 2003
Big Smith is a band of cousins -- first cousins, to be precise. They sound like your grandfather's grandfather's parlor band, high on a jug of blackberry wine, playing every...
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Cafe
Go Hungry
Cafe Layla ups the ante on South Grand
By Michael Renner
Published: April 9, 2003
Driving down South Grand one day, en route to that other Ted Drewes, I noticed a new sign on the building at Grand and Gasconade that formerly housed Linda's Lounge and...
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Film
Sexual Healing
In Laurel Canyon, a little erotic temptation proves good for the soul
By Luke Y. Thompson
Published: April 9, 2003
When you see a glamorous movie star such as Kate Beckinsale tying her hair back and wearing glasses, it's surefire shorthand that she's an uptight soul. But just in case you...
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Night & Day
40 Years of Wandering
Retrospective charts local painter's creative travels
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 9, 2003
After living here for 30 years, artist Mary Sprague has come to a remarkable conclusion: "There's nothing wrong with St. Louis that a good high tide wouldn't fix." It's clear...
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Stage
Truth Obscured
Play about Woolf skirts complex issues
By Deanna Jent
Published: April 9, 2003
In her company's newsletter, Lee Patton Chiles, producer, playwright and director of All a Woman Needs: Virginia Woolf, admits that she's not a big Virginia Woolf fan. This...
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News Real
Answering the Call
IRS employees bring Jesus to the office -- and manage to raise Cain
By Geri L. Dreiling
Published: April 9, 2003
A certain Jewish carpenter, as the story goes, had a soft spot for tax collectors and other sinners. When confronted about his choice of associates, Jesus stood his ground:...
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Music
Bump and Grind
Strip-club disc jockeys spin to the beats of different drummers
By Thomas Crone
Published: April 9, 2003
At Roxy's, anytime before midnight is early.Caught a few minutes before the start of a nine-hour Saturday-night-into-Sunday-morning shift, Don Barnett eyes the room, taking in...
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Drink of the Week
Ouzo
Olympia Kebob House and Taverna, 1543 McCausland, 314-781-1299
By Randall Roberts
Published: April 9, 2003
Few phrases are as loaded with danger as: "Last night I was drinking ouzo ..." You'll never hear the continuation: "... and suddenly I had a strong desire to pick some tulips!"...
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Film
Underneath the Bunker
Blind Spot offers a long close-up with one of Hitler's intimates
By Gregory Weinkauf
Published: April 9, 2003
Adolf Hitler killed his own dog. Most of his other evil is well documented now, and words alone are inadequate anyway, so let's begin by considering this comparatively...
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Night & Day
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
Published: April 9, 2003
Wednesday, April 9 The appeal of the Japanese animated series Cowboy Bebop is its kitchen-sink approach to storytelling. Protagonist and antihero Spike Spiegel is a sort of...
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Stage
Party Person
Artichoke of a play unfolds layer by layer
By Dennis Brown
Published: April 9, 2003
A.R. Gurney is not a celebrity. Mention his name, and a face doesn't promptly come to mind. Although he is one of America's most produced playwrights, and one of its most...
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News Real
He Can't Blight City Hall
Bridgeton Mayor Conrad Bowers fails to persuade Lambert Airport officials to buy him out
By D.J. Wilson
Published: April 9, 2003
For sale: Two-story office building. 30,000 square feet. Prime property with large conference room, plenty of parking. Location convenient to airport. Seller highly motivated....
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Radar Station
Radioactive Waste
Washington University student radio station wants to make a change -- but is KWMU-FM standing in the way?
By René Spencer Saller
Published: April 9, 2003
If there were a prize for St. Louis' best unheard radio station, that honor would go to KWUR (90.3 FM), which for 25 years has been broadcasting underground sounds to those...
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Film Listings
Film Openings
Week of April 9, 2003
Published: April 9, 2003
Anger Management. Peter Segal. Adam Sandler's Dave Buznik, a designer of catalogs for overweight-cat clothing, isn't really angry at all; he's just a self-loathing, introverted...
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Night & Day
Playa Nader
Fresh from rubbing shoulders with Ali G, the famed consumer advocate/presidential candidate talks up Earth Day
By Rose Martelli
Published: April 9, 2003
Who'da thunk it -- Ralph Nader harking back to simpler political times. Before military conflict in Iraq, before Enron and Tyco and WorldCom, before controversial Supreme Court...
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Stuff
Made With Love
Rosanne Cash is the friend who will say, or sing, what you can't
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 9, 2003
Maybe all you want out of your pop music is a few minutes of escape, a radio-friendly respite from the heavy humdrum of your workaday existence. Maybe you likes to hang with 50...
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Unreal
Overdone Berger
Gossip-team launch turns into Jerry-rigged show
By D.J. Wilson
Published: April 9, 2003
The schmoozefest held last week at the Starlight Roof, atop the Chase, for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's new tag team of gossipmeisters turned out to be more of a...
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Critics' Picks
Bob Log III with Bebe and Serge
Saturday, April 12; Rocket Bar
By Thomas Crone
Published: April 9, 2003
When Bob Log III burst onto the touring circuit a decade ago, he was part of a demented two-piece blues outfit known as Doo Rag. Beyond the act's weird, wonderful take on the...
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Film Listings
Series/Festivals
Week of April 9, 2003
Published: April 9, 2003
Fidel. Estela Bravo. Behind-the-scenes look at Cuba's socialist leader, featuring footage from state archives and extended interviews with Castro and other key figures. Screens...
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