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Night & Day
Tempest in Space
By Paul Friswold
Published: April 29, 2009
It's half fake Shakespeare — what the cast is calling "Fakespeare" — and half science-fiction paranoia, a double blind remove on The Tempest, complete with a mad...
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Night & Day
Storied Future
By Alison Sieloff
Published: April 29, 2009
When we leave this world behind, we definitely can't take our worldly possessions with us. Though they remain, these material things we accumulate throughout a lifetime aren't...
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Night & Day
Hope Floats
By Alison Sieloff
Published: April 29, 2009
Paul Cook is a father, a husband and, most visibly, the morning traffic reporter on KMOV-TV (Channel 4). He is also a recovering drug addict. In his autobiography, Cooked in...
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News Real
Musical Chairs: At last, the mystery of the missing Chippendales is solved
By Kristen Hinman
Published: April 29, 2009
When Frederick "Fritz" Lehmann IV discovered several years ago that his family's prized Chippendale chairs were missing from a downtown office building, he was called a liar...
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Blowback
Write or wrong: Readers debate the firing of reporter Todd Smith, who was shot at Kirkwood City Hall
Published: April 29, 2009
FEATURE, APRIL 23, 2009 HYBRID HORROR Pruis fears: I feel that Toyota needs to examine the car's electronic feedback and computer systems to find the problem before it kills...
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Ask a Mexican
¡Ask A Mexican!: Special drinko por Cinco mariachi cheat sheet edition
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: April 29, 2009
Dear Readers: As you drinko por Cinco this May 5th, please take this column around listing songs that mariachis will actually, gladly play instead of having to glumly strum...
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This Week's Cover
The Cover of the April 30 Print Edition
Published: April 29, 2009
Photo of Paul Kinsella by Jennifer Silverberg
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Music
The Glory of Love: Punk-pop lifers New Found Glory confound critics by continuing to stay relevant – and produce solid tunes
By Arielle Castillo
Published: April 29, 2009
Unlike so many so-called independent acts of late, the South Florida-birthed quintet New Found Glory never wanted to be the next big thing. The musicians didn't worry about...
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B-Sides
Alvin Jett and the Phat noiZ sweetens the pot with a CD release show for Honey Bowl
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: April 29, 2009
For all its charms, Webster Groves isn't exactly known as a cradle of blues music. But several nights a week, the Highway 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen serves up live, local blues...
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Critics' Picks
Antennas Up
9 p.m. Saturday, May 2. Lemmons, 5800 Gravois Avenue.
By Richard Gintowt
Published: April 29, 2009
For a traveling band, a vodka sponsorship can be both a blessing and a curse. The men of Antennas Up lived that dream — barely. Bombora Vodka gave the Kansas City band...
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Critics' Picks
Lamb of God/As I Lay Dying/Children of Bodom/God Forbid/Municipal Waste
6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 2. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
By Phil Freeman
Published: April 29, 2009
The two biggest up-and-comers in American metal are tracking each other across the country right now. The difference is, Mastodon's playing its brilliant new album in its...
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Critics' Picks
Trigger 5
10 p.m. Saturday, May 2. Deluxe, 2733 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood.
By Roy Kasten
Published: April 29, 2009
Country music seems so simple to some: three chords, a cheatin' or beer-drinkin' rhyme or two, and vocals squeezed up into the inferior turbinates. If you think that's a...
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Critics' Picks
Richard Buckner
8 p.m. Sunday, May 3. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Roy Kasten
Published: April 29, 2009
Richard Buckner never stood a chance at becoming a star, but once he seemed destined for more than cultish obscurity. His first three albums, Bloomed, Devotion and Doubt and...
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Critics' Picks
Target Market
9 p.m. Monday, May 4. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Annie Zaleski
Published: April 29, 2009
Consider the preconceived notions and past memories you might have about Target Market, and then forget them all. In the past year or so, the Edwardsville quartet has evolved...
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Critics' Picks
Fleetwood Mac
7 p.m. Tuesday, May 5. The Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: April 29, 2009
First things first: The incarnation of Fleetwood Mac that will play at the Scottrade Center this week isn't the real Fleetwood Mac. Singer and keyboardist Christine McVie went...
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Critics' Picks
Ha Ha Tonka
8 p.m. Wednesday, May 6. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Shae Moseley
Published: April 29, 2009
Ha Ha Tonka's 2007 album, Buckle in the Bible Belt, bounced among gritty Southern-rock fervor, gospel-influenced piano balladry and even soulful four-part a cappella...
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Homespun
Homespun: The Pragmatic
Circles EP
(self-released)By Christian Schaeffer
Published: April 29, 2009
André Anjos has come to some acclaim as the founder of the Remix Artist Collective, a network of remixers who have chopped and screwed songs by indie heavyweights such...
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Cafe
Still Dressel's After All These Beers: For three decades and counting, this Central West End stalwart is good for what ales you
By Ian Froeb
Published: April 29, 2009
How did I end up at Dressel's, chowing down on housemade potato chips and rarebit for the who-knows-how-manyth time? Blame the headless babe. A couple of weeks ago, I was...
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Film
The Haunting in Rhode Island: Matthew McConaughey is scary bad in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
By Melissa Anderson
Published: April 29, 2009
Two weeks after jowly Matthew Perry transformed into pretty Zac Efron to relive his adolescence in 17 Again, Warner Bros. releases Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, another backward...
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Stage
The Jury's Out Cold: This adaptation of Kafka's The Trial really is one
By Dennis Brown
Published: April 29, 2009
As you enter the sanctuary at the Tower Grove Abbey, where Stray Dog Theatre is mounting its current adaptation of Franz Kafka's The Trial, there's a sense of being at the...
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