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This Week's Cover
The Cover of the June 11 Print Edition
Published: June 10, 2009
The great Don Knotts as Mayberry Deputy Barney Fife. Scripps Howard News Service file photo.
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Music
Jam On It: Phish and DMB fans sound off — about each other
By Annie Zaleski
Published: June 10, 2009
Never ask Phish fans the following question: "After Phish went on hiatus, how well do you feel that the Dave Matthews Band carried on and preserved Phish's musical traditions...
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B-Sides
X Marks the Spot: Indie nomad Emperor X tells us about his travels and tunes
By Shae Moseley
Published: June 10, 2009
Emperor X is the alter ego of Chad Matheny, musical migrant, songwriter and electronic musician. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, Matheny has toured incessantly and moved...
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B-Sides
Blast Off: German free-jazz legend Peter Brötzmann makes his first trip to St. Louis
By Paul Friswold
Published: June 10, 2009
German saxophonist Peter Brötzmann is free. Free as in "free jazz"; free as in "freely played"; free as in "liberated from convention." Brötzmann's 40-year-plus...
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Critics' Picks
The Dream
7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11. The Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard.
By Dan LeRoy
Published: June 10, 2009
As his 2007 solo debut suggested, some love him and some hate him — but Terius Youngdell Nash certainly owns one dream of a pen. The singer-songwriter better known as the...
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Critics' Picks
Sugarland
7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 11. The Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.
By Shae Moseley
Published: June 10, 2009
Sugarland took Nashville by storm with the release of its 2004 debut album, Twice the Speed of Life, and has been a constant presence on the country-music charts ever since....
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Critics' Picks
Yowie
9 p.m. Friday, June 12. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.
By Paul Friswold
Published: June 10, 2009
After more than four years in the wilderness, Yowie has returned. Various personal problems that are really none of our business broke up the group, but it seems the rift has...
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Critics' Picks
Starlight Mints
8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 13. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.
By Ryan Wasoba
Published: June 10, 2009
Since the late '90s, Oklahoma's the Starlight Mints has suffered through endless comparisons to legendary psych-pop connoisseurs the Flaming Lips. The similarities are...
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Critics' Picks
Rancid/Rise Against
5 p.m. Saturday, June 13. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.
By Scott Heisel
Published: June 10, 2009
Now that George W. Bush has been ousted from office, what's left for punk bands to gripe about? Well, there's still the war in Iraq, the failing economy and the world's...
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Critics' Picks
Santigold/MSTRKRFT/Trouble Andrew/Amanda Blank
9 p.m. Saturday, June 13. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
By Annie Zaleski
Published: June 10, 2009
Santigold — née Santogold, née Santi White — first found fame with the Philly band, Stiffed, whose punkish new-wave was light-years ahead of its time....
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Critics' Picks
Twangfest
8 p.m. Thursday, June 11, Friday, June 12, Saturday, June 13. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: June 10, 2009
To quote Willie Nelson, ain't it funny how time slips away? Twangfest, the city's annual celebration of rock, country and soul music, turns thirteen this year. And while the...
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Critics' Picks
Jenny Lewis
8 p.m. Sunday, June 14. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
By Roy Kasten
Published: June 10, 2009
Jenny Lewis is smarter, sexier and twice as evil as any femme fatale in indie rock. Other than that, there's nothing to worry about. "I'm a carpet bagger, baby," she wails on...
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Homespun
Homespun: Target Market
Up On The Moon
(Afternoon Records)By Christian Schaeffer
Published: June 10, 2009
Every city needs one band to embody the zeitgeist of indie rock. This is not a role to be taken lightly: Said band needs to have its collective finger on the pulse of modern...
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Cafe
Patties Take the Cake: Five Guys brings burger glory to Town & Country
By Ian Froeb
Published: June 10, 2009
Friday evening I cooked steak. That should have sated my carnivorous desires for at least 24 hours, but I woke Saturday morning craving a burger. Not just any burger, either. I...
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Gut Check
Bobo now delivers, Delmar gets a Syrian joint and Pi expands westward
By Ian Froeb
Published: June 10, 2009
Bobo Noodle House (278 North Skinker Boulevard) now offers delivery for lunch and dinner. Lunch delivery is available Monday through Friday, dinner Monday through Saturday. In...
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Film
Have screenplay, will travel: Dave Eggers makes his film-writing debut with Away We Go
By Scott Foundas
Published: June 10, 2009
Midway through A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers' solipsistic, terminally-apologetic-for-being-solipsistic...
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Stage
Come a Cropper: Stray Dog unearths Albee's Everything in the Garden
By Dennis Brown
Published: June 10, 2009
"There is no rest for the wicked in the suburbs." In Edward Albee's rarely staged Everything in the Garden, that quip is tossed off as a genial bon mot, but its underlying...
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Art
Featured Review: Christopher Orr & J. Parker Valentine & Rezi van Lankveld
By Jessica Baran
Published: June 10, 2009
Featured Review: Christopher Orr & J. Parker Valentine & Rezi van Lankveld This trio (from London, New York and Amsterdam, respectively) propose their solutions to the problems...
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Stage
Featured Review: Circus Flora Medrano
By Dennis Brown
Published: June 10, 2009
Featured Review: Circus Flora Medrano Circus Flora is back for its 23rd annual visit. Some elements never change: the intimacy, for instance, and the foolish plot that after...
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Art
St. Louis Art Capsules
Jessica Baran encapsulates the St Louis arts scene
By Jessica Baran
Published: June 10, 2009
Newly Reviewed Christopher Orr & J. Parker Valentine & Rezi Van Lankveld Reviewed in this issue. Taking a Ride There's nothing wrong with straightforward simplicity. Verdant...
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