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21. You Are Here

    On the Fence

    (Metcalfe Park, University City)

    By Timothy Lane

    Published: January 2, 2008

    I had turned away for only a second. Suddenly an unintelligible bellow. A man is running across the park toward a fence, looking back occasionally to yell at my dog. Or at...

22. Music

    Bare Is My Mind?

    Bobby Bare Jr. covers up with his ace Pixies and Breeders tribute act.

    By Jaime Lees

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Call him what you will — Charles Thompson, Black Francis or Frank Black. But as the frontman of the Pixies, ol' what's-his-name deserves a little praise. From 1985 to...

23. B-Sides

    Career (Remix)

    The trials and tribulations of R. Kelly.

    By Tamara Palmer and Annie Zaleski

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Six Flags execs should be envious of all the twists, turns, surges and plunges that have taken place in the five years since R. Kelly faced multiple child-pornography charges:...

24. Critics' Picks

    The Bad Plus

    8:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, January 2 through Saturday, January 5. Jazz at the Bistro, 3536 Washington Boulevard.

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Nearly every jazz performer has a list of standards to turn to, classic tunes which offer a common ground to musicians and listeners alike. For the New...

25. Critics' Picks

    The Aviation Club

    9 p.m. Friday, January 4. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Legendary local punk/new-wave 'zine Jet Lag launched its online archive early last year at www.jetlagmag.net — and during the subsequent months, the amount of scanned-in...

26. Critics' Picks

    Gonn

    9 p.m. Saturday, January 5. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

    By Jason Toon

    Published: January 2, 2008

    "The universe is permeated with the odor of kerosene." With that awesomely absurd declaration, Gonn launched one of the great lysergic spumes in garage-rock history, the lost...

27. Critics' Picks

    Dresden Dolls

    8 p.m. Sunday, January 6. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: January 2, 2008

    The Dresden Dolls' highly stylized aesthetic and penchant for theatrics could make them an easy target for criticism — if the Boston duo's music didn't live up to the...

28. Critics' Picks

    Jamie Foehner Benefit

    12 p.m. Saturday, January 6. Lemmons, 5800 Gravois.

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Those who frequent Lemmons — for its popular trivia nights, its weekend shows and, of course, the delicious pizza — know Jamie Foehner, the power-pop-lovin'...

29. Critics' Picks

    Oh, Sleeper

    6 p.m., Monday, January 7. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Possibly the least groupie-friendly metal band in history, Oh, Sleeper packs its latest album When I Am God with preemptive strikes against foul temptresses. During opening...

30. Critics' Picks

    Grand Buffet

    7 p.m. Monday, January 7. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

    By Kristyn Pomranz

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Grand Buffet, the dork-rap duo from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been spitting satirical rhymes for over a decade, waxing and wailing on everything from candy bars to bears...

31. Critics' Picks

    Black Diamond Heavies

    9 p.m. Wednesday, January 9. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: January 2, 2008

    With the departure of guitarist, singer and songwriter Mark "Porkchop" Holder, the Black Diamond Heavies lost some musical heft. But judging from the recent album Every Damn...

32. Rotations

    David Byrne

    The Knee Plays
    (Nonesuch Records)

    By Nicholas Hall

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Better to burn out or fade away? The current musical tendency to fetishize the past, creating new markets through nostalgia, has come up with a new answer to this timeless rock...

33. Rotations

    Robert Plant and Alison Krauss

    Raising Sand
    (Rounder)

    By William Michael Smith

    Published: January 2, 2008

    On the surface, the imagination boggles when confronted with a musical collaboration between two such seemingly polar opposite talents as Americana/bluegrass goddess Alison...

34. Rotations

    Blake Lewis

    Audio Day Dream 
    (Arista/J)

    By Kristyn Pomranz

    Published: January 2, 2008

    American Idol winners (Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood) have it easy, as do American Idol early exiters (Jennifer Hudson, Chris Daughtry). But the penultimate position is a...

35. Homespun

    The Ghost of the Forest

    My Time to Die
    (Critter)

    Published: January 2, 2008

    My Time to Die opens with two tracks of rough-hewn, basement-recorded nonsense: a recitation of the Christian prayer "Our Father," followed by "The Hymnal," an ode to the Holy...

36. Cafe

    Eh ~scape

    The Central West End's newest upscale eatery has Ian looking for the exit door.

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: January 2, 2008

    A restaurant critic's resolutions for 2008: 1) I won't always clean my plate, even when I dislike something, just because that's the way I was raised. 2) I will stop...

37. Keep It Down

    Primal Spirit Foods Primal Strips Soy Texas BBQ Meatless Jerky

    Provenance Unknown

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: January 2, 2008

    Wheatloaf. The very name conjures visions of anemic 1970s-era vegetarians choking down dry chunks of gluten as they contemplated the ascetic virtues of the complete protein....

38. Film

    Eye of the Beholder

    Julian Schnabel sees only treacle in the story that inspired his Diving Bell.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: January 2, 2008

    At this year's Cannes Film Festival, the American painter-turned-filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) won the jury's Best Director award for The Diving Bell...