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41. Critics' Picks

    Pétur Ben

    9 p.m. Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Though already a star in his homeland of Iceland, Pétur Ben is probably not doing anything quite as groundbreaking as some of his otherworldly counterparts (e.g., Sigur...

42. Critics' Picks

    Early Day Miners

    9 p.m. Friday, February 8. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

    By Ryan Wasoba

    Published: February 6, 2008

    American music and American geography have always gone hand in hand. But while many bands can recall Southern attitude or New York cool, very few bands evoke the wistfulness of...

43. Critics' Picks

    Nina Nastasia

    8:30 p.m. Saturday, February 9. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: February 6, 2008

    At times Nina Nastasia comes on like the female Nick Drake; at other times, she resembles an introverted Feist; but most often, the New York singer-songwriter feels like a...

44. Critics' Picks

    Sleep State

    8 p.m. Saturday, February 9. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Sleep State turned heads last year with the release of its Fuckin' Pervert EP, but the group's new full-length, U.S. Mint (which it recorded at Shine Studios with Peter Dycus)...

45. Critics' Picks

    Richard Thompson

    8 p.m. Monday, February 11. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Unless you're a Boeing shareholder or a John McCain strategist, you'll agree that the Iraq War hasn't been good for shit. Still, that five-year nightmare has sired some lyrical...

46. Critics' Picks

    Supersuckers

    7 p.m. Monday, February 11. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Ten years ago, the Supersuckers grilled up a bacon-and-eggs country record on par with anything released by the country and/or alt-country establishment. Like Ween's 12 Golden...

47. Critics' Picks

    Soft

    9 p.m. Tuesday, February 12. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Scouring the Internet reveals very little biographical information about Soft. In fact, what background does exist — the quintet is from Brooklyn, has supposedly been a...

48. Critics' Picks

    B.B. King

    7:30 p.m. Wednesday February 13. Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St. Charles.

    By Dean C. Minderman

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Audiences first encountered blues guitarist and singer B.B. King in the '50s, thanks to relentless touring of the so-called "chitlin circuit" and a series of memorable...

49. Homespun

    Homespun

    Caleb Travers & Big City Lights
    Blue Weathered Dreams
    (self-released)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: February 6, 2008

    With a deep, sonorous voice and a satchel full of minor-key strums, Caleb Travers appeared on the singer-songwriter circuit about a year ago. Blue Weathered Dreams is his first...

50. Cafe

    Ian's got the skinny on the new Flaco's

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: February 6, 2008

    I'm supposed to mention that Flaco's Cocina, which opened late last year in the Soviet Bloc-style strip mall and office complex at the intersection of Delmar Boulevard and...

51. Cafe

    Mystery Meat

    Ian dissects suadero.

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Gut Check, the Riverfront Times food blog, offers food and restaurant news, reviews of restaurants and food-related books — and lots and lots of stuff best classified as...

52. Drink of the Week

    Feudo Arancio Nero d'Avola

    La Gra Italian Tapas
    1227 Tamm Avenue
    314-645-3972.

    By Kristie McClanahan

    Published: February 6, 2008

    We want to nap on the bar. We want to climb up on the black vinyl chairs and slowly, carefully, put one knee up on the bar, then the other, then lie face-down, our cheek...

53. Keep It Down

    Dried Weaver Ants With Eggs

    Weaver ants are a tad dry for Malcolm’s discriminating palate, but the Democratic presidential primary provides plenty to chew on.

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Sure, he lacked a convincing Iraq strategy. Money, too. His policy stands were standard populist, and he didn't have much support in Washington. He couldn't get media exposure...

54. Film

    No treasure at the end of Fool's Gold, a terrible Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson mash-up.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: February 6, 2008

    When a friend recently told me that she'd been confused by the poster for the Matthew McConaughey-Kate Hudson fortune-hunting romp Fool's Gold adorning her local multiplex...

55. Art

    Deborah Aschheim transforms the ephemeral into the physical in Reconsider

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: February 6, 2008

    At 3:21 p.m. on what had been an unseasonably warm day in January, the balmy air was just yielding to a rapidly approaching cold front. The sky darkened as the first snowflakes...

56. Art

    St. Louis Art Capsules

    Malcolm Gay encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene.

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: February 6, 2008

    All Systems Go and Meditations on Limitations/One-Hour Sculptures White Flag Projects exhibits two young artists from out of town. In the main gallery is All Systems Go, a...

57. Stage

    The Polish Egg Man gets its world premiere here

    By Dennis Brown

    Published: February 6, 2008

    The first time he came to the United States in 1973, Wieslaw Gorski was a wide-eyed teenager in a Polish theater troupe that toured to major universities. "American audiences...

58. Stage

    The Kevin Kline Awards turn three — and the local theater landscape matures along with them

    By Dennis Brown

    Published: February 6, 2008

    The nominations for the third annual Kevin Kline Awards were announced two weeks ago. Beyond agreement or disagreement with specific nominees, this list of 118 nominations in...

59. Stage

    St. Louis Stage Capsules

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

    By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Cherry Docs A Jewish legal-aid lawyer must defend a skinhead who has admitted to a brutal murder. As these two repeatedly meet in the visiting room of a Toronto prison, the...

60. Game On

    Car lovers find a new flame in Burnout Paradise

    By Chris Ward

    Published: February 6, 2008

    Long have we waited to be taken down to the Paradise City, where the girls are green and the grass is pretty, or whatever. Now, thanks to Burnout Paradise, we know what all the...