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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...
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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...
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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.
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This Week's Cover
The Cover of the May 28 Print Edition
Published: May 27, 2009
Photoillustration. Photography by Jennifer Silverberg.
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Homespun
Homespun: Glass Waves
One Day We'll All Just Float Away
www.glasswavesmusic.comBy 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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