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41. Night & Day

    Art's Alive!

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: May 14, 2008

    If your social calendar has been a bit blank, you obviously haven't been paying attention to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard; 314-535-4660 or...

42. Night & Day

    Zinners and Zaints

    All are welcome

    By Brooke Foster

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Why do Fridays get to have all the fun? While worker bees anticipate Fridays with the fervor of kids awaiting the final school bell, the other days of the week languish,...

43. Night & Day

    A Shot of the Hard Stuff

    Palahniuk on porn

    By Mark Dischinger

    Published: May 14, 2008

    So much of what Chuck Palahniuk writes is unprintable in family newsweeklies such as this one that writers have to use abstract terms like "transgressive" to describe the suck...

44. Night & Day

    Gettin' Fresh

    The market is open!

    By Jeanette Kozlowski

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Your inner locavore remained tightlipped during the winter months every time you set out to forage for good stuff but somehow wound up back at home with your head lowered in...

45. Night & Day

    Soused Songs of Sorrow

    Love has no closing time

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Jacques Offenbach's one grand opera, The Tales of Hoffmann, proves that great writers are made — or at least found — in the bar. The titular Hoffmann is the German...

46. Night & Day

    Dogs Refrain from Running Away

    Instead, they walk the runway

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: May 14, 2008

    With all the fashion in the air — St. Louis' fashion week was just held in March and America's Next Top Model finished up Cycle Ten less than two weeks ago — it's...

47. Night & Day

    Arting Around

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Art doesn't just live in sterile galleries and pristine theaters. In fact, you can find artistic expression everywhere you look and in every county, especially in south county...

48. Art

    St. Louis Art Capsules

    Malcolm Gay encapsulates the St. Louis art scene

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Opening FastX2 Take your time here, bro: If a baboon and a crocodile were to meet in a death match on the beach, which would win? Need more information? Well, you won't find...

49. Stage

    Remains to Be Seen: Enough already with staging new stuff because it's new

    By Dennis Brown

    Published: May 14, 2008

    There is no more demanding job in the theater than running a company. And among an artistic director's many daunting chores, none is more challenging than selecting a season:...

50. Game On

    Niko Bellic and Grand Theft Auto IV are great, but is that enough anymore?

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: May 14, 2008

    If you read reviews the way I do, you've already started by checking out the score, and now you're back here to see what the hell my problem is. Peace, brother. Grand Theft...

51. News Real

    Mow Your Lawn, Mister?: A squadron of youth is set to cut the grass for north-side land magnate Paul McKee. On your dime!

    By Kathleen McLaughlin

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Some folks are lucky in love. Paul McKee Jr. is lucky in lawn care. With summer approaching, a local nonprofit group has plans to muster 84 young people to mow lawns in north...

52. Critics' Picks

    The Boss Martians

    9 p.m. Friday, May 16. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue

    By Jason Toon

    Published: May 14, 2008

    What do you call a pretty good surf band who suddenly drops the hodad act and discovers a gift for raw, catchy rock & roll tunes? The Boss Martians, that's who. Like any good...

53. Stage

    St. Louis Stage Capsules

    Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

    By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Harlem Duet A prequel to Shakespeare's Othello, Djanet Sears' Harlem Duet imagines the dissolution of Othello's (Kingsley Leggs) marriage to African-American grad student...

54. Critics' Picks

    The Iguanas

    8 p.m. Saturday, May 17. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: May 14, 2008

    When the Iguanas made its major-label debut in 1993, the New Orleans quartet paid respect to the city's musical heritage while injecting a double-shot of Chicano rock into the...

55. Critics' Picks

    Chicago Afrobeat Project

    9 p.m. Saturday, May 17. Lucas School House, 1220 Allen Avenue

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Studious, meticulous, reconstructive genre projects aren't normally well-springs of funk, but most projects don't have unkillable juju driving them forward. With horns,...

56. Critics' Picks

    65daysofstatic

    p.m. Sunday, May 18. 2 Cents Plain, 1114 Olive Street.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: May 14, 2008

    65daysofstatic's epic, sample-driven instrumental spaz-outs soundtrack a not-so-far-fetched post-apocalyptic future — and the frustrations of a generation wound tight by...

57. Critics' Picks

    Dark Meat

    8:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 21. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

    By Ryan Wasoba

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Dark Meat (short for Dark Meat Vomit Lasers Family Galaxy) epitomizes two trademarks of the Athens, Georgia, music scene: a family-like community between musicians and the love...

58. This Week's Cover

    The Cover of the May 15 Print Edition

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Photoillustration, source photography by Jennifer Silverberg

59. Critics' Picks

    Family Affair

    7 p.m. Friday, May 16. Vintage Vinyl, 6610 Delmar Boulevard, University City

    By Kristy Wendt

    Published: May 14, 2008

    Family Affair's mixtape Daily Situations features the locally flavored lyrics of real-life identical twin brothers Jarrett ("Mr. R.E.P.") and Jason ("QB") Jones,...