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News Real
Iowa or Bust: Fourteen gay couples from St. Louis will soon head to the Hawkeye State to get hitched. Well, sort of.
By Keegan Hamilton
Published: April 22, 2009
On April 3 the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously ruled that gay men and women have the right to be legally married under the state's constitution. Minutes after the judges'...
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Blowback
RFT readers are worked up over Sylvester Brown's ouster as Post-Dispatch columnist and the Final Exit Network
Published: April 22, 2009
DAILY RFT, APRIL 13, 2009 BROWN OUT His act grew old and stale: Mr. Brown embodies everything that is wrong with the soon-to-be defunct Post-Dispatch ["Post-Dispatch Put...
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Ask a Mexican
Ask a Mexican!: Loco for Lebanon: Do Mexicans have genetic ties to the Middle East?
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: April 22, 2009
Dear Mexican: First of all, please don't think that I'm a self-loathing Mexican; I was born in the U.S. to northern Mexican parents. As far as I know, my ancestry is just...
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This Week's Cover
The Cover of the April 23 Print Edition
Published: April 22, 2009
Photoillustration by Michael Shavalier
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Music
The Future's So Bright: Despite a criminally ignored body of work, Tommy Keene remains optimistic
By Dan LeRoy
Published: April 22, 2009
"He's never made a bad album." It's a judgment more than one critic has offered on the occasion of Tommy Keene's eighth full-length, In the Late Bright. But what about Keene...
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B-Sides
Future Perfect: Max Tundra's world goes pop
By Todd McKenzie
Published: April 22, 2009
Parallax Error Beheads You, the third album by London's Max Tundra, is a dizzying example of pop excess. Sophisticated chamber-pop morphs into acid house raves; paranoid...
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Critics' Picks
Robin Thicke/ Jennifer Hudson
8 p.m. Thursday, April 23. Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard.
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: April 22, 2009
That Robin Thicke could become a top name in R&B is proof anything's possible in the magical world of pop music. A clean-cut white boy with a pop-culture family tree (he's the...
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Critics' Picks
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears
8 p.m. Friday, April 24. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
By Shae Moseley
Published: April 22, 2009
After playing South by Southwest in 2008, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears spent the rest of the year being courted by countless record labels, touring constantly, and being...
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Critics' Picks
The Cool Kids/Black Spade
10 p.m. Friday, April 24. Black Label Gallery Lounge, 758 South Fourth Street.
By Keegan Hamilton
Published: April 22, 2009
Where do the Cool Kids go after a bitchin' party? To an afterparty, of course. The Chicago hipster hip-hop duo of Chuck Inglish and Mikey Rocks will perform at Wash. U.'s...
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Critics' Picks
Cursive
8 p.m. Friday, April 24. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.
By Jonah Bayer
Published: April 22, 2009
Cursive's unique brand of fractured indie rock has helped put its hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, on the musical map. While the band polarized some fans with 2006's demented-pop...
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Critics' Picks
DragonForce
10 p.m. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.
By Ryan Wasoba
Published: April 22, 2009
The thought that often pops into a listener's head upon experiencing DragonForce for the first time is, "Are these guys for real?" The premise of the group is semi-ridiculous:...
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Critics' Picks
Beep Beep
9 p.m. Saturday, April 25. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.
By Roy Kasten
Published: April 22, 2009
The unbearable cuteness of being in a band called Beep Beep is hardly mitigated by the conceptual dalliances of the 2009 release, Enchanted Islands, an interlocking suite of...
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Critics' Picks
Taylor Swift
7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 25. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.
By Shae Moseley
Published: April 22, 2009
Crossover appeal is nothing new in the world of mainstream country music — just ask Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks — but Taylor Swift has managed to capitalize...
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Homespun
Homespun: Heroes of the Kingdom
HOTK
(self-released)By Christian Schaeffer
Published: April 22, 2009
For Heroes of the Kingdom, patience is a virtue: The quartet is in no hurry to blaze through these songs and instead chooses to let the full-bore guitar chords clash together...
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Cafe
Power Steering: Long a fixture across the river, Andria's Steakhouse opts for westward expansion
By Ian Froeb
Published: April 22, 2009
For the obsessive collector of restaurant menus, these are boom times. In larger cities — New York, Chicago, LA — independent websites collate menus from dozens or...
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Film
Behind the Metal: Revealed: Everything you wanted to know — or didn't — about Canuck headbangers Anvil
By Camille Dodero
Published: April 22, 2009
And now for the story of Lips and the dildo. Back in the late '70s, before Guitar Hero III or Rock of Love 2 or even VH1, a jolly Canadian guitarist named Steve "Lips" Kudlow...
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Stage
Büchner Unbound: Upstream Theater makes the most of the unfinished Woyzeck
By Dennis Brown
Published: April 22, 2009
You couldn't ask for a better murder. Or so we're told at the end of Woyzeck, as all the inhabitants of a provincial military town creep across the stage, headed toward the...
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Art
Featured Review: yield
By Jessica Baran
Published: April 22, 2009
yield Curator Dana Turkovic sees the craft of weaving as an extended metaphor for formalist abstraction in this group show of paintings and painting-related work. In the thin...
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Stage
St. Louis Stage Capsules
Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene
By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold
Published: April 22, 2009
Also Reviewed The Good Times Are Killing Me It's a curious play that requires seventeen actors to present what is essentially a monologue. The success of Lynda Barry's...
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Art
St. Louis Art Capsules
Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene
By Jessica Baran
Published: April 22, 2009
Newly Reviewed yield Reviewed in this issue. Ongoing American Interiors: Photographs by David R. Hanlon These oblique photographs of unpopulated interiors capture the peculiar...
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