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Readers mull Monsanto and Mexico
Published: June 17, 2009
DAILY RFT, JUNE 11, 2009 EVIL EMPIRE Monsanto's out to destroy all things organic: Monsanto is an evil company ["Monsanto to Food Inc.: Drop Dead," Aimee Levitt]. They've sued...
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Amazing Facts & Beyond
Carmelized Amazing Facts and Apple-smoked BBQyond!: Department of Hypnomenunosis
By Dan Zettwoch
Published: June 17, 2009
Go the Amazing Facts and Beyond blog to further follow the exploits of our trivial hero.
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Ask a Mexican
Day of the Dead: How do you share your condolences with a grieving Mexican family?
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: June 17, 2009
Dear Mexican: I write to you with a doubt similar to the one that Incensed in Chicago felt a couple of weeks ago, when her friend couldn't believe that Mexicans worked in...
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This Week's Cover
Cover of the June 18 Print Edition
Published: June 17, 2009
Cover art by Tom Huck/www.evilprints.com
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Music
The Rest Is Noise: After having his gear stolen in New York City, Raglani figures out where to go next
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: June 17, 2009
Most musicians start out as unwilling piano students or bedroom guitar shredders. But young Joseph Raglani's passion for sound didn't come through an instrument at all: It came...
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B-Sides
Prince Ea draws the notice of VIBE magazine for his unique take on history and relationships
By Calvin Cox
Published: June 17, 2009
From his humble home in north St. Louis, Prince Ea (born Richard Williams) is quietly preparing to emerge before a national audience. Various books, including Robert Greene's...
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Critics' Picks
The Felice Brothers
9 p.m. Thursday, June 18. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.
By Roy Kasten
Published: June 17, 2009
The Felice Brothers are one brother down — drummer Simone Felice left this year to pursue his new band, the Duke and the King. But siblings Ian and James, along with...
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Critics' Picks
Exile Featuring DJ Day
6 p.m. Thursday, June 18. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
By Keegan Hamilton
Published: June 17, 2009
The Red Bull Music Academy is to electronica and hip-hop what Juilliard is to jazz and classical. It's elite (about 3,000 artists applied least year; only 60 were selected),...
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Critics' Picks
Matthew Sweet
9 p.m. Friday, June 19. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
By Shae Moseley
Published: June 17, 2009
Matthew Sweet's latest album, 2008's Sunshine Lies, is sprinkled with the same psyched-out, jangly pop that fans have come to expect from him. But overall, Lies is Sweet's most...
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Critics' Picks
Joe Dirt & the Dirty Boys Band
8 p.m. Friday, June 19. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
By Shae Moseley
Published: June 17, 2009
With the possible exception of KMOX (1120 AM), KSHE (94.7 FM) is probably the most legendary radio station in St. Louis. After eighteen years of doling out near-lethal daily...
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Critics' Picks
Combichrist
7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 20. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.
By D.X. Ferris
Published: June 17, 2009
Norway's Combichrist represents the perennial electro/dance entry in the ongoing sweepstakes to produce the new KISS or a reasonable facsimile of the old Marilyn Manson —...
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Critics' Picks
Steve Earle
8 p.m. Wednesday, June 24. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
By Roy Kasten
Published: June 17, 2009
Throughout three decades Steve Earle has been many things: a Texas folk vagabond, a Nashville outsider, a dope fiend, a jailbird, a leftist propagandist and a love-struck...
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Critics' Picks
Telekinesis
8 p.m. Sunday, June 21. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Ryan Wasoba
Published: June 17, 2009
Some solo artists seem like reclusive weirdos forced into musical solitude by their social ineptitude, while others simply aren't good enough to justify having a band. But...
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Homespun
Homespun: Spark1duh?
My Life with Dusty Wallets
(self-released)By Christian Schaeffer
Published: June 17, 2009
Spark1duh? is the hip-hop alter ego of Jason Karr, the rare white rapper who doesn't waste time apologizing for or making fun of his skin color. Instead, Karr employs a...
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Cafe
Sea Change: Miso on Meramec's new sushi chef is the best thing since sliced fish
By Ian Froeb
Published: June 17, 2009
Our order of salmon sashimi at Miso on Meramec came with the usual lump of wasabi paste stuck to one corner of its platter. You know it: unnaturally green and toothpaste-like...
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Gut Check
Gut Check: More sushi! Plus the Art of Food and a new home for Five.
By Ian Froeb
Published: June 17, 2009
For this week's review, I returned to one of St. Louis' many established sushi restaurants. Still, we can't seem to get enough nigiri, sashimi and rolls. Yet another new sushi...
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Film
Victim of Circumstance: Once more down the aisle with The Proposal
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: June 17, 2009
Fifteen minutes after seeing The Proposal, I'd forgotten I'd seen The Proposal. Well, that's not entirely true: By then, it had simply merged in my memory with a thousand other...
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Film
Beautiful Losers: Rudo y Cursi is not the kind of sports movie where everyone wins
By J. Hoberman
Published: June 17, 2009
Not quite The Further Adventures of Cain & Abel, the second coming of Beavis & Butt-Head, King Kong vs. Godzilla Redux or Peyton Meets Eli, but energetic fun nonetheless, Rudo...
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Stage
Munyficent!: 42nd Street rates a nearly perfect 10
By Dennis Brown
Published: June 17, 2009
It's the oldest "let's put on a show" plot in the world. At the end of Act One of 42nd Street, which this week opens the Muny season, the temperamental diva of an out-of-town...
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Art
Featured Review: Kit Keith: Present to Past
By Jessica Baran
Published: June 17, 2009
Featured Review: Kit Keith: Present to Past Discarded mattresses, leather-bound books and LP cases, canning jars, a toy steak carved out of wood — this small survey of...
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