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21. Urban Experience

    Like Sands Through the Hourglass

    So are the days of our lives

    By Brooke Foster, Paul Friswold, Alison Sieloff and Alex Weir

    Published: April 20, 2005

    So for years there was this guy in South Beach who built an absolutely amazing sandcastle. The thing was practically life-size, and it included an almost uncountable number of...

22. Stage

    Capsule Reviews

    Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater

    Published: April 20, 2005

    Adult Entertainment Reviewed in this issue. Bent When it was first staged in the '70s, Martin Sherman's unlikely love story was one of those rare dramas that forced viewers...

23. You Are Here

    Fear and Loathing

    (The Grind, Central West End)

    By Timothy Lane

    Published: April 20, 2005

    His theory went like this: Hunter S. Thompson was, in fact, not dead. No suicide had occurred, no bullets had been discharged into his head, nothing like that had happened....

24. Critics' Picks

    Nomeansno with Corbeta Corbata

    Thursday, April 21; Creepy Crawl (612 North Tucker Boulevard)

    By Jason Toon

    Published: April 20, 2005

    "HOW FUCKEN OLD ARE NOMEANSNO? GIVE IT UP GRAND DADS," reads the graffiti on the cover of last year's Nomeansno retrospective, The People's Choice. Yeah, they're pretty "fucken...

25. Film

    Mind Gamey

    Dot the I wants to mess with your head. Yep, it's a mess all right.

    By Bill Gallo

    Published: April 20, 2005

    Matthew Parkhill's Dot the I is the kind of tricked-up mental exercise that may intrigue the most impressionable film school students and a philosophy major here and there. But...

26. Sports/Outdoors

    Warring for the Weekend

    World War II, relived

    By Paul Friswold, Alison Sieloff and Jason Toon

    Published: April 20, 2005

    For the life of us, we simply cannot figure out why on earth war re-enactors exist. War is hell, right? Why relive it then? Well, the U.S. Second Ranger Infantry Battalion,...

27. Blowback

    Letters

    Week of April 20, 2005

    Published: April 20, 2005

    Planet Granite Come blow your mind with east-side metal: Regarding James Kuntz's letter in the April 6 issue: No repressed farm boys here! Planet Granite is as much a part of...

28. Critics' Picks

    Karrin Allyson

    Thursday through Saturday, April 21 through 23; Finale (8025 Bonhomme Avenue, Clayton)

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: April 20, 2005

    In 2001 Kansas City jazz singer Karrin Allyson set a gold standard for her generation of vocalists. Ballads: Remembering John Coltrane is the kind of record you'd expect from a...

29. Film

    Lost in Translation

    All talk and little action, The Interpreter doesn't even make sense

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: April 20, 2005

    Among the many mysteries surrounding The Interpreter is the one that finds Sydney Pollack heralded as a major American director, a maker of Serious and Important Movies. His...

30. See/Be Seen

    Classy!

    The Airstream trailer gets its due

    By Paul Friswold, Jess Minnen, Mark Dischinger and Alison Sieloff

    Published: April 20, 2005

    The trailer is a punch line, a joke used to signal "low class." Tell people you spent many a happy summer traveling the country in the family's trailer, and they'll shoot you...

31. Critics' Picks

    Fishbone with Slightly Stoopid

    Tuesday, April 26; Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois)

    By Travis Petersen

    Published: April 20, 2005

    You might remember Fishbone from their appearance in Back to the Beach, backing Annette Funicello as she sang a strange version of "Jamaica Ska." You might also remember them...

32. Film

    Dullsville

    The town of Madison deserves more than this sports-movie cliché

    By Luke Y. Thompson

    Published: April 20, 2005

    Jake "Li'l Anakin" Lloyd and James "Passionate Christ" Caviezel are most famous for portraying screen heroes created by virgin birth, so it makes a strange kind of sense that...

33. Performance

    Life in Your Hands

    Puppets come alive

    By Paul Friswold, R.L. Nave, Jedidiah Ayres and Kristie McClanahan

    Published: April 20, 2005

    Puppets are the normal-person equivalent of the superhero mask; give your average, everyday office worker a hand puppet and watch the silliness commence, especially if there...

34. Critics' Picks

    The Gourds

    Tuesday, April 26; VooDoo Lounge in Harrah's Casino (777 Casino Center Drive, Maryland Heights)

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: April 20, 2005

    You can tell a lot about the Gourds by the artists they cover: Hank Williams, Minutemen, Doc Pomus, Velvet Underground, Ted Hawkins, Fleetwood Mac, Snoop Dogg. Having cleared...

35. Film

    A Lot Like Good

    A romantic fantasy made by people with brains -- go figure

    By Melissa Levine

    Published: April 20, 2005

    Amanda Peet. Ashton Kutcher. Romantic comedy. Who'd have thought it could work? And yet A Lot Like Love is an entertainment success, a triple threat of fresh writing, inspired...

36. Critics' Picks

    Dillinger Escape Plan

    Wednesday, April 27; Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street)

    By Guy Gray

    Published: April 20, 2005

    When the Dillinger Escape Plan dropped its debut full-length Calculating Infinity in 1999, it was a shot heard round the metal world. Head-scratchingly puzzling with all its...

37. Blind Phyllis

    Independent's Day (1998)

    Is Steven Soderbergh getting the total package?

    By Mike Seely

    Published: April 20, 2005

    In the horribly formulaic 1986 Ivan Reitman comedy Legal Eagles, Robert Redford's character, a cocksure district attorney, nails Daryl Hannah early in the film but ends up...

38. Rotations

    Dinosaur Jr.

    Dinosaur Jr.
    You're Living All Over Me
    Bug (Merge)

    By Guy Gray

    Published: April 20, 2005

    If you listened to independent music before Nirvana stepped into the spotlight -- or if you spent your teenage years skateboarding in the late '80s/early '90s -- then odds are...

39. Film Listings

    Film Openings

    Week of April 20, 2005

    Published: April 20, 2005

    Dot the I. (R) If accomplished mind-gamers like Charlie Kaufman and Todd Solondz feel like fooling with our perceptual apparatus and shuffling multiple decks of reality, let...

40. Rotations

    Corrosion of Conformity

    In the Arms of God (Sanctuary)

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: April 20, 2005

    When Corrosion of Conformity's Pepper Keenan sings, "I once was blind/But now I see," it's an allusion-packed phrase. The line echoes Black Sabbath's "Snowblind" and...