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21. Letters

    Black Christmas

    One reader wants to flush the RFT, another is flushed with pride.

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Cover, December 6, 2007 Christmas Killers RFT really crossed the line: I have been a fan of the RFT for many years. The paper has been a voice for the disenfranchised and...

22. Ask a Mexican

    Meet us in St. Louis, Mexicans

    The Mexican takes a look at the biggest cities in the U.S. with the smallest Mexican communities.

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Dear Mexican: I'm sad that there aren't more Mexicans here in the Detroit area. We're one of the few areas in the country that is predominately Catholic. We've welcomed wave...

23. You Are Here

    Thwomp! Part 2

    (South Broadway Athletic Club, October 6)

    By Timothy Lane

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Now the two wrestlers appear to be dancing, caught in an arm-lock, or something. The spinning makes it hard to tell. But just when you think you've got it figured out, a new...

24. News Real

    Holocaust on Trial

    Lewis Greenberg argues his lawn is art in court.

    By Aimee Levitt

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Lewis Greenberg's long battle to preserve The Holocaust Revisited, a collection of metal and wooden sculptures that sprawls across his front and back yard, continues this week...

25. Music

    Kick Out the (Holiday) Jams

    Here are ten holiday releases to deck your halls.

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Forget boy bands and Barry Manilow: Christmas music may be the ultimate guilty pleasure. It's inherently corny, unrepentantly joyful and the tiniest bit reverent — all...

26. B-Sides

    Light Up the Night

    B-Sides finds its relgion with gospel legends Blind Boys of Alabama, and eases the burden on its wallet by snagging some free music via the Download.

    By Roy Kasten and Andy Vihstadt

    Published: December 12, 2007

    The new album from the Blind Boys of Alabama, Down In New Orleans, opens with a quick flourish on a Hammond B-3 organ and a stuttering second-line groove. The rest of the album...

27. Critics' Picks

    The Lemonheads

    8 p.m. Thursday, December 13. VooDoo Lounge at Harrah's Casino, 777 Casino Center Drive, Maryland Heights.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: December 12, 2007

    After the frustrated manner in which Evan Dando left the stage at the end of the Lemonheads' set at the VooDoo Lounge last February — the poster boy of '90s slackerdom...

28. Critics' Picks

    Robin and Linda Williams

    8 p.m. Friday, December 14. The Sheldon Concert Hall, 3648 Washington Boulevard.

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Launched by A Prairie Home Companion just a few months after the program first aired in 1974, Robin and Linda Williams are to contemporary folk what Garrison Keillor is to...

29. Critics' Picks

    Silversun Pickups

    6 p.m. Saturday, December 15. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: December 12, 2007

    The steadily climbing career trajectory of the Silversun Pickups is almost unheard of in the music business these days. After releasing its first full-length, Carnavas, in the...

30. Critics' Picks

    Tony Danza TapDance Extravaganza

    6 p.m. Tuesday, December 18. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.

    By Ryan Wasoba

    Published: December 12, 2007

    The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza is pissed off about something — but thanks to their difficult-to-decipher lyrics, it's hard to tell exactly what. Perhaps it's the...

31. Critics' Picks

    The Shondes/The Helium Tapes/That's My Daughter

    9 p.m. Wednesday, December 19. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

    By Jaime Lees

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Some are quick to call the Shondes a "queer-core" band based on the presumed transgendered identities of a few members — and because its sound easily attracts a...

32. Critics' Picks

    Behold the Arctopus

    7 p.m. Friday, December 14. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

    By Chris Glenn

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Danger and destruction are imminent, and an ominous presence dwells in the outskirts of our psyches: Behold the Arctopus is coming. Believe it or not, you really don't need to...

33. Critics' Picks

    Rough Shop

    8:30 p.m. Friday, December 14. The Focal Point, 2720 Sutton Boulevard.

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Rough Shop's annual holiday music show (or "extravaganza") is becoming as much a seasonal tradition as eggnog, gingerbread lattes and gaudy Christmas sweaters. But while the...

34. Rotations

    Wu-Tang Clan

    8 Diagrams
    (Motown/Universal)

    By Keegan Hamilton

    Published: December 12, 2007

    The title 8 Diagrams is an homage to a Shaw brothers kung fu flick called The Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter. A standard tale of revenge, Pole Fighter should have been just another...

35. Rotations

    Sigur Rós

    Hvarf/Heim, Heima
    (XL Recordings)

    By Dave Wallen

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Iceland's Sigur Rós are no less majestic in 2007 than when they first broke worldwide a few years ago. Case in point: The two-EP set Hvarf/Heim and the...

36. Rotations

    Babyshambles

    Shotter's Nation
    (Astralwerks)

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: December 12, 2007

    In his spare time, when he's not dodging jail sentences or fighting with his supermodel girlfriends, habitual drug abuser Pete Doherty makes music. But he really hasn't...

37. Homespun

    Elsie Parker & the Poor People of Paris

    Je T'aime Encore
    (self-released)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: December 12, 2007

    In "Give Paris One More Chance," Jonathan Richman claims that "the home of Piaf and Chevalier/Must have done something right to get passion that way." Vocalist and woodwinds...

38. Cafe

    Center Cut

    Jim Edmonds' days with the Cardinals might be numbered, but F15teen's a keeper.

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: December 12, 2007

    "Joe Buck just walked by." My wife turned, but she was too late. The fair-haired broadcaster and scion of St. Louis royalty was gone. Had I hallucinated him? (Again?) I did...

39. Drink of the Week

    Jakes Fault Shiraz

    Sage
    1031 Lynch Street
    314-256-1203

    By Kristie McClanahan

    Published: December 12, 2007

    Crack. Crack. Pop-pop-pop. A playful tap on the back of our hand and a mock stern warning: "Hey!" he says. We snap out of it. "Oh, right," we say. "Sorry. That's gross." It is....

40. Keep It Down

    Fizzix Fizzy Yogurt Snack

    $2.50 (eight fizzin' tubes)
    Schnucks
    60 Hampton Village Plaza

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: December 12, 2007

    The jury is in: Yogurt is the new black. Sure, the current craze may be traced to the crude "fruit-on-the-bottom" 1970s when yogurt positioned itself in the emergent field of...