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1. Feature

   7-Up vs. Coke, Part 2: From dot-com darling to disaster, the spectacular flameout of Andrew Gladney. Heir to a fortune, Andrew Gladney went from John Burroughs to Yale and came home to found Savvis Inc. Then he squandered it all.

   By Kristen Hinman

   Published: February 13, 2008

   Editor's note: This is the second part of a two-part story. Part 1 is accessible online at www.riverfronttimes.com. On December 14 of last year, FBI agents arrested...

2. News Real

   With Anthony Bonner at the helm, it's a whole new ballgame for Vashon basketball

   By Kristen Hinman

   Published: February 13, 2008

   On Tuesday afternoons you'll likely find Vashon High School basketball coach Anthony Bonner at the library. While his Wolverines work on an after-school class in...

3. Unreal

   Unreal scopes out MMs, hangs with a Broad and takes a bite out of nature's Viagra

   Published: February 13, 2008

   Unreal's grandmother claims the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and whenever we mention a man in conversation (even our grad-school thesis advisor), she advises us...

4. Ask a Mexican

   Blood Letting: The Mexican explains why Hispanics love to rent Blood In, Blood Out

   Published: February 13, 2008

   Dear Mexican: My parents were Greeks who legally immigrated to the United States in 1920. When it became harder for Greeks to immigrate, they began to jump ship in New...

5. Music

   Bret Michaels (sort of) talks dirty to RFT

   By Jaime Lees

   Published: February 13, 2008

   Bret Michaels is a horny beast. Throughout his time as the lead singer and frontman of the classic hair-metal band Poison, this was a well-documented fact. He initially wooed...

6. Music

   Have two Nirvana producers helped create the next Metallica?

   By D.X. Ferris

   Published: February 13, 2008

   You couldn't make up a guy like Matt Pike, the singer-guitarist of High on Fire, who is possibly the gnarliest dude on the planet — with a hellacious band to match. Only...

7. B-Sides

   "The Sex Song": Not TASTiSKANK's homage to Matthew McConaughey

   By Kristyn Pomranz

   Published: February 13, 2008

   Satirical pop-rockers TASTiSKANK won the Jury Award for Breakout Performance at the 2007 HBO Aspen Comedy Festival and are YouTube stars with "The Sex Song," a harmony-laden...

8. Download

   Point your browser toward What Made Milwaukee Famous and Supergrass

   By Andy Vihstadt

   Published: February 13, 2008

   What Made Milwaukee Famous doesn't hail from Wisconsin, nor does it include any of the cast from Laverne & Shirley: The Austin indie rockers (who originally called themselves...

9. Critics' Picks

   The Whigs

   7 p.m. Thursday, February 14. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard

   By Shae Moseley

   Published: February 13, 2008

   Mission Control, the second album by the Whigs — Athens, Georgia's latest purveyors of authentic, blues-tinged garage rock — proves that having the right person...

10. Critics' Picks

    The Campbell Brothers

    8 p.m. Friday, February 15 and 11 a.m. Saturday, February 16. Edison Theatre, 6445 Forsyth Boulevard

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: February 13, 2008

    In the late '90s, the blues label Arhoolie began its seminal Sacred Steel series, which introduced the heathen masses of jam kids and blues heads to the obscure sound of...

11. Critics' Picks

    Leo Kottke

    8 p.m. Friday, February 15. Sheldon Concert Hall, 3648 Washington Boulevard

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Though Leo Kottke once experienced partial hearing loss, the Athens, Georgia, native has always found a way to overcome setbacks and create country-blues-inspired folk...

12. Critics' Picks

    Tesla

    7 p.m. Saturday, February 16. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: February 13, 2008

    In 1986, a Sacramento group named City Kidd changed its moniker after its manager suggested that it pay tribute to inventor Nikola Tesla. But while Tesla the man pioneered...

13. Critics' Picks

    Ohmega Watts

    7 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

    By Dan Leroy

    Published: February 13, 2008

    If you're old enough to be wistful for a hip-hop era when "Jam Master Jay was more than a memory/and the culture had harmony" — or if you're just fed up with the current...

14. Critics' Picks

    HEALTH

    9 p.m. Monday, February 18. The Billiken Club, 20 North Grand Boulevard

    By Ryan Wasoba

    Published: February 13, 2008

    There's a move that noise kids make at noise shows: With their heads down, feet shoulder-width apart and unmoving, they uncross their arms and lunge both fists in the air. It's...

15. Critics' Picks

    OneRepublic

    7 p.m. Monday, February 18. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois

    By Tamara Palmer

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has catapulted tons of bands onto folks' iPods and into record stores over the past couple years for one simple reason: He owns MySpace. Alt-poppers...

16. Homespun

    Kentucky Knife Fight

    Live at Stagger Inn, December 14, 2006
    (self-released)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: February 13, 2008

    The five fellows in Kentucky Knife Fight are proud to call Edwardsville, Illinois, home, so it makes sense that the band recorded this five-song live document at the city's...

17. Cafe

    Will Ian flip for the Original Pancake House?

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: February 13, 2008

    I don't doubt there is a circle of Hell reserved for restaurant critics, and I'm reasonably certain it looks like the long stretch of Chesterfield Airport Road at the Boone's...

18. Cafe

    Eat Food, Not "Food"

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: February 13, 2008

    Michael Pollan's new book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, answers the question posed by his revelatory 2006 tome, The Omnivore's Dilemma: What do I eat? The opening...

19. Drink of the Week

    Chocolate Raspberry Martini

    Tumo's Ristorante
    6419 Hampton Avenue
    314-351-4400

    By Kristie McClanahan

    Published: February 13, 2008

    We were in high school the first time we came to Tumo's. It was as far into St. Louis city as we had ever ventured from south county, save for the time we drove Gravois Road...

20. Keep It Down

    Malcolm never saw a frog’s leg he couldn’t keep down, until...

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: February 13, 2008

    These are dark days for the frogs. Chytridiomycosis, an often fatal disease caused by the chytrid fungus, which affects amphibians' pores, causing them to die of dehydration,...