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Issue: May 27, 2009
Page: 2
41 stories found - 21 through 40
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  1. Blowback

    Readers on inmates' last meals, idiot Americans and smoking bans

    Published: May 27, 2009

    GUT CHECK, MAY 20, 2009 CHEESEBURGER IN PARADISE? Food for thought: It must not take too much to please you if you are "honored" to feed a condemned, cold-blooded multiple...

  2. Unreal

    Unreal covets a cool bathtub and encounters a blogger's reluctant case of Wii envy

    Published: May 27, 2009

    Unreal Wants This Bathtub! Unreal has long coveted the Cardinals bathtub that stands in the display window of the Henry Plumbing Supply on Kingshighway. Actually, truth be...

  3. Amazing Facts & Beyond

    Amazing Facts & Beyond: Trivia Twofer

    By Kevin Huizenga
    Published: May 27, 2009

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

  4. This Week's Cover

    The Cover of the May 28 Print Edition

    Published: May 27, 2009

    Photoillustration. Photography by Jennifer Silverberg.

  5. Ask a Mexican

    Ask a Mexican: Why Mexicans hold their ladies' licenses, pack napkins in dispensers and are so damn laid-back

    By Gustavo Arellano
    Published: May 27, 2009

    Dear Mexican: My question is simple: can you please confirm the fact that there are doctors, lawyers and other professionals living in Mexico? I'm a Mexican American woman...

  6. Music

    Deep Cuts: Jason McEntire keeps world-class recording facility Sawhorse Studios humming

    By Annie Zaleski
    Published: May 27, 2009

    It's a late April afternoon at Sawhorse Recording Studios, the home base of studio engineer Jason McEntire. The local rock act Building Rome has been recording a new album,...

  7. Critics' Picks

    Los Straitjackets

    8 p.m. Thursday, May 28. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

    By Roy Kasten
    Published: May 27, 2009

    Fans of Los Straitjackets may have first come for the novelty, but they've stayed for the sound — a furious instrumental assault of twangy surf, hard rockabilly and...

  8. Critics' Picks

    Meat Puppets

    9 p.m. Thursday, May 28. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

    By Ryan Wasoba
    Published: May 27, 2009

    A brief history of the Meat Puppets: two brothers, twelve albums, 29 years, three cameo songs on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged, an indefinite amount of cocaine consumption, two...

  9. Critics' Picks

    Death Vessel

    8 p.m. Friday, May 29. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

    By Christian Schaeffer
    Published: May 27, 2009

    Much about Death Vessel screws with expectations. For starters, one might expect some punishing speed-metal from a band of this name, but the outfit specializes in hand-hewn,...

  10. Critics' Picks

    The Decemberists

    8 p.m. Sunday, May 31. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

    By Christian Schaeffer
    Published: May 27, 2009

    That the Decemberists released a full-fledged concept album came as a surprise to approximately no one. For the highly literate, folk-indebted quintet, the recent release of...

  11. Critics' Picks

    Yeah Yeah Yeahs

    8 p.m. Tuesday, June 2. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

    By Annie Zaleski
    Published: May 27, 2009

    The recorded output of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs — save, perhaps, for its trash-punk debut EP and moments on 2003's Fever to Tell — hasn't been able to compare to the...

  12. Critics' Picks

    Crosby, Stills & Nash

    8 p.m. Wednesday, June 3. The Chaifetz Arena at Saint Louis University, 1 South Compton Avenue.

    By Christian Schaeffer
    Published: May 27, 2009

    The collective pants-wetting that greeted the release of Fleet Foxes' self-titled record last year had less to do with the shock of the new as it did the echo of something warm...

  13. Critics' Picks

    The Constantines

    9 p.m. Wednesday, June 3. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

    By Shae Moseley
    Published: May 27, 2009

    The music of the Constantines has often been described as a rough-edged mix of post-punk fury and Springsteen-esque working-man's rock & roll. But on last year's Kensington...

  14. Homespun

    Homespun: Glass Waves

    One Day We'll All Just Float Away
    www.glasswavesmusic.com

    By Christian Schaeffer
    Published: May 27, 2009

    To call Glass Waves a trio is slightly misleading. While the credits for the download-only One Day We'll All Just Float Away credit singer/guitarist Jordan Heimburger, bassist...

  15. Cafe

    Life Is a Carnaval: Côco Louco Brasil brings churrasco and cachaça to the Central West End

    By Ian Froeb
    Published: May 27, 2009

    If you dine at Côco Louco Brasil, beware the teapot. Your server may bring this to your table at the end of your meal, along with dainty white demitasses and a knowing...

  16. Gut Check

    Gut Check: Raise a toast to departed restaurants — then have a beer or three

    By Ian Froeb
    Published: May 27, 2009

    Last week saw the closing of two restaurants, one a high-profile newcomer, the other a personal favorite. George Mahe of St. Louis Magazine broke the news that Revival was...

  17. Film

    Grounded: Up soars in entirely unexpected ways

    By Robert Wilonsky
    Published: May 27, 2009

    First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner child during a series of magical adventures experienced...

  18. Art

    Featured Review: Craig Norton: Shot and Killed

    By Jessica Baran
    Published: May 27, 2009

    Craig Norton: Shot and Killed A reporter, photo-realistically rendered in Bic pen and collaged wallpaper, instructs us that the United States averages 30,000 deaths by gun...

  19. Stage

    Here Come the Brides: With The Merry Wives of Windsor, the Shakespeare Festival finally has a hit on its hands — almost

    By Dennis Brown
    Published: May 27, 2009

    As she folded her lawn chair after the opening-night performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor, this summer's annual offering from Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, a woman...

  20. Stage

    Bohèmian Rhapsody: Opera Theatre rings in 2009 with a spirited La Bohème

    By Lew Prince
    Published: May 27, 2009

    According to Opera America, based on frequency of performances, La Bohème is the second-most-lovable opera in the U.S. repertoire. (No. 1 is another of Giacomo...

Issue: May 27, 2009
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