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21. Blowback

    Readers put out a call for more warrior-like bishops and considerate treatment of little people, Soulard residents

    Published: May 20, 2009

    FEATURE, MAY 14, 2009 MOONFLOWER LOVE Still a great book: Thanks so much for your article about the revival of The Moonflower Vine ["Moonflower Resurrection," Aimee Levitt]. I...

22. Amazing Facts & Beyond

    Dunk-struction! Weapons of Glass

    By Dan Zettwoch

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Go the the Amazing Facts and Beyond blog to follow the further exploits of our trivial hero.

23. Ask a Mexican

    Ahoy, amigos: Did Mexican pirates ever sail the high seas?

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Dear Mexican: My wife and I have an argument going on about pirates. And since you are the source for all things Mexican. I'd thought I'd ask: While I know there were Spanish...

24. This Week's Cover

    The Cover of the May 21 Print Edition

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Photoillustration. Photography by Jennifer Silverberg, www.jsilverberg.com. stock photos from jiunlimited.com.

25. Music

    The Main Man: With a new best-of collection, the influential music of local saxophone legend Oliver Sain lives on

    By Keegan Hamilton

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Ask the average St. Louisan to list the city's most historically influential musicians, and invariably you'll wind up with the same four names: Chuck Berry, Ike and Tina...

26. Summertime St. Louis

    Summertime St. Louis: Sweet Music, Sweet Prices. A summer's worth of concerts that won't put you in the poorhouse.

    By Brooke Foster

    Published: May 20, 2009

    For years we've filled this space with concert suggestions, exhorted you to peel yourself out of the lawn chair and go hear some tunes. But there's something different this...

27. B-Sides

    Atmosphere strikes Gold with his latest release, and Tim Easton gets artsy

    By Chris Parker

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Golden Years Atmosphere emcee Slug has gained some much-needed perspective in the time since 2005's You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having. "The identity that comes with...

28. Critics' Picks

    Dale Watson

    10 p.m. Thursday, May 21. Deluxe Fine Food & Spirits, 2733

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: May 20, 2009

    When it comes to hard-drinking, hard-hurting country music, the kind that rips your heart out and then crushes it beneath eighteen Peterbilt wheels, Dale Watson is the...

29. Critics' Picks

    Paul Burch & WPA Ballclub

    9 p.m. Thursday, May 21. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Paul Burch named his band the WPA Ballclub after the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, but there's nothing Depression-era about his sound. The former Lambchop drummer...

30. Critics' Picks

    Magic Slim and the Teardrops

    10 p.m. Saturday, May 23. Beale on Broadway, 701 South Broadway.

    By Dean C. Minderman

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Like a fine whiskey, blues guitarist and singer Morris "Magic Slim" Holt seems to be getting better with age. The 72-year-old Mississippi native didn't record an album as a...

31. Critics' Picks

    Pointfest

    10 a.m., Saturday, May 23. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Because punk cockroaches the Offspring are headlining Pointfest, it might be tempting to think that the all-day festival is nodding back to the '90s — an era when...

32. Critics' Picks

    The Nevermores/Left Arm/The 75s

    9 p.m. Saturday, May 23. Deluxe Fine Food & Spirits, 2733 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood.

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: May 20, 2009

    For too long Edgar Allan Poe has been the literary specter most associated with the ghostly pallored goth scene. But maybe Poe's dark tales and opium-fueled dreams are better...

33. Critics' Picks

    Goes Cube

    9 p.m. Saturday, May 23. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: May 20, 2009

    After a decade filled with bloated indie rockers and copycat screamo bands, Goes Cube vocalist David Obuchowski's larynx-shredding battle cries are refreshing. They're the...

34. Critics' Picks

    Gliss

    9 p.m. Monday, May 25. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Devotion Implosion commences with an unabashed, Jesus and Mary Chain-via-Phil Spector imitation, the kind that every modern shoegaze-influenced band seems required to play. But...

35. Homespun

    Homespun: Joe Stickley's Blue Print

    Smoke Leaves Town
    (Peola Records)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Joe Stickley's Blue Print is a folk-rock band — in that order. The gentle strums of Stickley's acoustic guitar provide the engine for many songs on Smoke Leaves Town,...

36. Cafe

    Winslow's Home Run: U. City gets a postmodern grocery store with a kickass kitchen, food writer rejoices

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: May 20, 2009

    I wanted the beef brisket, but the kitchen was out of brisket. How about the chicken- bacon club? Nope — the chicken-bacon club had sold out, too. The roasted turkey with...

37. Gut Check

    Gut Check: Comings and goings on the local food scene

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Fans of Five will have to wait a few weeks for their next fix: Chef Anthony Devoti's restaurant is moving from Forest Park Southeast's Grove neighborhood to the former Pizzeria...

38. Summertime St. Louis

    Summertime St. Louis: Food Drive. Our restaurant critic's advice on where to go for some great out-of-town chow.

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: May 20, 2009

    All right: Your dream vacation to try all of the Michelin-starred restaurants in Paris ain't gonna happen this summer. Heck, the economy's so horrible, a trip to Paris, Texas,...

39. Film

    Save Yourself! From McG's Terminator, that is. What a drag.

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: May 20, 2009

    Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's model of killing machine: the classic V8 1984...

40. Summertime St. Louis

    Summertime St. Louis: Summer of Salvation. The Terminator is back. Plus, 39 other movies we can't wait to see this season.

    By Chuck Wilson

    Published: May 20, 2009

    The cinema is not a slice of life but a piece of cake," Alfred Hitchcock once said, and if that's true — and who are we to dispute the master? — then summertime is...