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21. News Real

    Floyd Irons' trial is delayed.

    He may be facing additional charges.

    By Kristen Hinman

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Sentencing of Floyd Irons, the former coach of the Vashon High School boys' basketball team, was delayed for a fourth time earlier this month. Irons, a Vashon graduate and for...

22. Unreal

    Rick Majerus lips off? That's a spankin'.

    Unreal talks to a dominatrix and gets schooled in sherlocking.

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Last week St. Louis Archbishop Raymond Burke generated headlines when he demanded that Rick Majerus be "disciplined" for comments the Saint Louis University Billikens...

23. Ask a Mexican

    Yo quiero Chihuahuas!

    A tale of the toughest dog in North America.

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Dear Readers: Mucho feedback from ustedes regarding recent questions about archetypical Mexican dogs and the propensity of wabs to D.U.I. Let's empezar with the doggies: Dear...

24. You Are Here

    Notes From a Second Class Citizen, Part 14

    Week of January 31, 2008

    By Timothy Lane

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Notes from a second class citizen, part 14

25. Music

    Band of Horses finds its rhythm from evolution.

    Ben Bridwell points out there's no "me" in "band."

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Ben Bridwell is inspired. Not from overcoming his checkered past and migratory youth, or by anything particularly grandiose, hip or politically charged. But when reached by...

26. B-Sides

    The Go-Go's make a St. Louis stop-stop.

    And B-Sides catches up with Richard Marx.

    Published: January 30, 2008

    In the early '80s, the Go-Go's were considered the quintessential California girls, mainly thanks to sunny new-wave songs such as "Vacation" and "We Got the Beat." But times...

27. Critics' Picks

    Chris Brown

    7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 31. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

    Dan Leroy

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Chris Brown's story is the sort that keeps aspiring stars dreaming and scheming. A chance meeting with a local music producer — who had stopped at the gas station where...

28. Critics' Picks

    Cobra Starship

    7 p.m. Friday, February 1. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.

    Ryan Wasoba

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Initial impulses suggest that pop-punk supergroup Cobra Starship started as a joke. The first indicator is the NYC band's name; second is its music video appearance under the...

29. Critics' Picks

    Parachute Musical

    9 p.m. Friday, February 1. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

    Roy Kasten

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Parachute Musical could be from anywhere — anywhere, that is, but Nashville, the town the quartet calls home. With the delirious pretentiousness of high school musicals...

30. Critics' Picks

    Patrick Sweany

    8 p.m. Saturday, February 2. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

    D.X. Ferris

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Patrick Sweany is an Ohio roots-blues revivalist with an old soul and a deep voice to match. He compares his eponymous band's sound to "Lightnin' Hopkins mixed with Solomon...

31. Critics' Picks

    Sound Tribe Sector 9

    7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 2. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

    Ryan Wasoba

    Published: January 30, 2008

    As Sound Tribe Sector 9 performs one of its packed shows, it's easy to imagine the jam band kids staying on one side of the club and the rave kids standing on the other. The...

32. Critics' Picks

    Giant Bear

    9 p.m. Wednesday, February 6. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

    Roy Kasten

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Just when you think Americana might get sucked dry by anemic Nashville and Austin rejects and coffee-house politesse, the vast synthesizing power of roots music — and the...

33. Critics' Picks

    Flogging Molly

    7 p.m. Wednesday, February 6. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

    Andrea Noble

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Flogging Molly is in its eleventh year of setting feet ablaze by effortlessly blending traditional Irish fare with rabid punk rock. Whether the audience is a throng of...

34. Homespun

    Kevin Bowers

    Nine Story Building
    (self-released)

    Christian Schaeffer

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Kevin Bowers is perhaps best known as the drummer for local trio the Feed, but his solo outings prove he's a singer-songwriter with a skill for arrangements and a penchant for...

35. Cafe

    Agave gives Mexican cuisine the white-tablecloth treatment.

    It just might be able to find its niche in the Grove.

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: January 30, 2008

    For the second week in a row, this column finds me in Forest Park Southeast's Grove neighborhood, a once rundown area trying to rebuild itself with new restaurants and bars....

36. Drink of the Week

    Bushmills' Black Bush

    Our kitchen, South City

    By Kristie McClanahan

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Nary a week after we'd boasted how we'd skated through fall and winter without so much as a sniffle, we woke up and found our face holes plugged with gunk. Our ears feel as...

37. Keep It Down

    Bartles & James Fuzzy Navel Flavored Malt Cooler

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: January 30, 2008

    For those of you unable to measure the hours by the Cinnabon at the multiplex last weekend, I'm here to tell you (spoiler alert!): John Rambo has Burma's back. Now, as anyone...

38. Film

    The Islamic revolution, and puberty, through the 2-D eyes of Marjane Satrapi.

    Persepolis

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: January 30, 2008

    Persepolis is a small landmark in feature animation. Not because of technical innovation — though it moves flu­­idly enough, and its drawings have a handcrafted...

39. Art

    The Great Rivers Biennial is back. And bigger.

    Three diverse artists make for one tremendous show.

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: January 30, 2008

    One created an international relief agency modeled in no small part on the United Nations. Another produced a mnemonic landscape of expanding and receding subjects, inviting...

40. Art

    The Contemporary places experimentation front and center.

    The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis debuts "The Front Room."

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: January 30, 2008

    February 1 also marks the debut of "The Front Room," a permanent series of smaller exhibitions presented by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis that will run alongside the...