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21. Night & Day

    Beautiful Brain

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: October 24, 2007

    Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin has created his own cinematic language from the discarded aesthetics of the past. His beguiling The Saddest Music in the World had the watery...

22. Night & Day

    Our Bar, Our Dinner

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: October 24, 2007

    In case you’re not up on current lingo, you should know that “pizza” is now “flatbread.” You should also know that “flatbread” tastes better...

23. Night & Day

    Better than Even Stevens

    By Dennis Brown

    Published: October 24, 2007

    Premier cabaret stylist Steve Ross is no stranger to St. Louis. But the truly ´smarvelous thing about the incomparable Ross is that every time you see him, it’s as if you’re...

24. Night & Day

    Stages of Terror

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: October 24, 2007

    The Evil Side of Broadway sounds as if it might be a show about how the machinery of staging a show destroys the very souls of all involved – but it’s actually a...

25. Stage

    Seesaw for Yourself

    St. Louis Actors' Studio debuts ambitiously with A Delicate Balance.

    By Dennis Brown

    Published: October 24, 2007

    If you're going to start a new theater company, one of your most important decisions is also one of the earliest: the choice of your inaugural offering. That selection will...

26. DVDish

    The Boys Are Back

    Directors Series: Stanley Kubrick

    Published: October 24, 2007

    Directors Series: Stanley Kubrick (Warner Bros.) Most of the old Kubrick DVDs were crap: full-screen editions with poor pictures and virtually no special features. This set...

27. News Real

    Food Fight

    Dogtown residents say the noisy Restaurant Depot has ruined their once tranquil neighborhood.

    By Chad Garrison

    Published: October 24, 2007

    As far as junkyards go, residents of Dogtown say the auto salvage lot at 6455 Manchester was a decent-enough neighbor. It occupied the same twelve acres of land for four...

28. B-Sides

    It's Educational!

    Esperanza Spalding helps polish some of this city's bright young stars.

    By Dean C. Minderman

    Published: October 24, 2007

    As a graduate of Boston's Berklee College of Music, Esperanza Spalding had the benefit of attending one of the world's most prestigious schools for jazz musicians. However,...

29. Drink of the Week

    Caramel Apple Halloween Milk Shake

    Steak n Shake, 4640 Chippewa; 314-752-2100.

    By Kristie McClanahan

    Published: October 24, 2007

    If we were heretofore unfamiliar with Steak n Shake, we'd probably write them off entirely because of that awkward "N," the same way we'd shun Kousin Karl's Kountry Bait n...

30. Film

    Dan in Reel Life

    Cobbled together from better movies, Steve Carell’s latest is strike two.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: October 24, 2007

    Dan in Real Lifehas this much going for it: It is not the worst Steve Carell film of 2007. That honor, of course, goes to Evan Almighty, which even the Lord walked out of...

31. Stage

    The Dating Lame

    Off-Ramp's Bad Dates is one.

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: October 24, 2007

    Theresa Rebeck's one-woman show, Bad Dates, requires some suspension of disbelief from the audience. One must be willing to accept that a divorced, 40-year-old single mother...

32. Unreal

    Buck Wild

    Unreal dresses up for Halloween, ponders getting electrocuted and entertains a bizarre fantasy about Joe Buck and Tim McCarver.

    Published: October 24, 2007

    FOX, the network that brought us Trading Spouses and Nanny 911, wants native son Joe Buck to host a late-night talk show starting in 2009. FOX hopes Buck, who followed...

33. Download

    The White Stripes

    Plus. get your on some Illegal Art

    Andy Vihstadt

    Published: October 24, 2007

    The White Stripes have cancelled the rest of this year's Icky Thump tour due to Meg White's bout with acute anxiety. To hear what you would have missed, hit up the band's fan...

34. Keep It Down

    The Original Hooters Wing Breading; The Original Hooters Wing Sauce (Hot); Schnucks Natural Chicken Wings; Crisco All Natural Pure Vegetable Oil

    $2.73; $5.23; $5.60: $3.88
    Schnucks
    3430 S. Grand Boulevard

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: October 24, 2007

    As far as historical dates are concerned, October 25 is pretty dull. There are a few notable births and deaths (Pablo Picasso [born in 1881], Geoffrey Chaucer [died in 1400]),...

35. Stage

    St. Louis Stage Capsules

    Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

    By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold

    Published: October 24, 2007

36. Game On

    Bang Bang For Your Buck

    It's five great games for $60 -- shoot first and ask questions later.

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: October 24, 2007

    Whether its $600 PlayStation 3s, $50 a year for the option to play your Xbox 360 online, or the five bucks Nintendo shamelessly charges for twenty-year-old NES games on the...

37. Letters

    Digging Deep

    An urban spelunker shares his English Cave jones and Steve Patterson's mother sets us straight on where her son went to high school.

    Published: October 24, 2007

    News Real, September 13, 2007 Cave kinship: Like many of my city cave-exploring brethren and the author of "Secret Passage," Aimee Levitt, I'm deeply fascinated by English...

38. Critics' Picks

    Minus the Bear

    7 p.m. Thursday, October 25. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: October 24, 2007

    Planet of Ice, the latest full-length from mathy Seattle tech-rockers Minus the Bear, still ties the neurological pathways in knots, thanks to its mind-bending rhythmic...

39. You Are Here

    You Are Here Enterprises Presents...

    Dad's Halloween Costume

    By Timothy Lane

    Published: October 24, 2007

40. Critics' Picks

    Head of Femur

    9 p.m. Thursday, October 25. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: October 24, 2007

    In the past few years, Head of Femur has limned back its sound from the kitchen-sink freakouts of early tours to a more guitar-centric approach. Gone are the horn sections and...