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B-Sides
Minimal techno wizard Richie Hawtin celebrates Independence Day with a St. Louis appearance and a new Twitter application
By Sean Levisman
Published: July 1, 2009
It seems like the world can't shut up about Twitter lately. The micro-blogging network has exploded to more than 25 million users, what with celebrities like Oprah joining...
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Critics' Picks
Bob Dylan/Willie Nelson/John Mellencamp
5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 2. GCS Ballpark, 2301 Grizzlie Bear Boulevard, Sauget, Illinois.
By Roy Kasten
Published: July 1, 2009
The irony of Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp touring minor-league ballparks is as rich as their combined estates. It's not like these Hall of Famers are headed for...
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Critics' Picks
Counting Crows
8 p.m. Friday, July 3. Fair St. Louis, Gateway Arch and Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
By Julie Seabaugh
Published: July 1, 2009
"When everybody loves me, I'm gonna be just about as happy as I can be," daydreamed Adam Duritz in "Mr. Jones," the 1993 hit that brought overnight acclaim to Bay Area roots...
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Critics' Picks
Richard Swift/The Fray/Jack's Mannequin
7 p.m. Friday, July 3. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: July 1, 2009
"Sorry, Mr. Swift, but you're much too fat/and could I convince you to wear a cap?" So begins Richard Swift's "Artist & Repertoire," a song in which the pudgy, Brillo-headed...
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Critics' Picks
The Red-Headed Strangers
9 p.m. Saturday, July 4. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: July 1, 2009
Named after Willie Nelson's best album, local group the Red-Headed Strangers knows something about classic country songwriting and even more about simple rootsy melodies. The...
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Critics' Picks
Man Man
8:30 p.m. Monday, July 6. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Todd McKenzie
Published: July 1, 2009
There are few bands as grotesquely madcap as Philadelphia's Man Man. On record, the experimental five-piece band dabbles in jittery jazz dirges and boorish honky-tonk romps....
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Critics' Picks
No Doubt/Paramore/Bedouin Soundclash
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 8. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.
By Annie Zaleski
Published: July 1, 2009
The announcement of No Doubt's first tour since 2004 was met with the kind of warmth reserved for reconnecting with long-lost family members. But unlike other '90s alt-rock...
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Homespun
Homespun: The Radical Sons
Throwing Knives EP
(St. Ives)By Christian Schaeffer
Published: July 1, 2009
The boys in the Radical Sons are pretty smart. Before you can harp on the just-post-teenaged quartet for being a shameless throwback to nervy, NYC-centric proto-punk (and its...
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Cafe
Blessed Brisket: Smoking Joe's Bar-Be-Que is making downtown a little more savory
By Ian Froeb
Published: July 1, 2009
The only good thing about being from a place without an ironclad barbecue tradition to call its own — two places, in my case: St. Louis is my home now, and I was born and...
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Cafe
Where's the Beef?: Has Allison Burgess created faux food, fad food — or a groundbreaking meat substitute?
By Aimee Levitt
Published: July 1, 2009
Nearly ten years ago, during a business lunch at the Ritz-Carlton in Clayton, Allison Burgess realized her reverence for animals made it nearly impossible to enjoy dining out....
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Gut Check
Gut Check: Ian dines with kings, but keeps the common touch
By Ian Froeb
Published: July 1, 2009
A who's who of St. Louis food types descended upon 33 Wine Shop & Tasting Bar in Lafayette Square on Monday, June 22, for the inaugural Dorm Room dinner. Spotted in the crowd...
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Film
Mann on the Run: The life and crimes of John Dillinger in the fast and furious Public Enemies
By Scott Foundas
Published: July 1, 2009
They're all about where people come from. Nobody seems to wonder where somebody's going." So says the Depression-era bank-robber-cum-folk-hero John Dillinger upon surveying the...
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Stage
Double Pleasures: Two theatrical treats beckon at Fontbonne's Waiting in the Wings and Heroes
By Dennis Brown
Published: July 1, 2009
It's not unusual for a theater company to build a season around a unifying theme. Leave it to Act Inc., a group with a fondness for older scripts that other companies have long...
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Art
Featured Review: Splinter of the Mind's Eye
By Jessica Baran
Published: July 1, 2009
Featured Review: Splinter of the Mind's Eye Curator Joseph R. Wolin suggests that artists' youthful obsessions outweigh adult, book-learned influences in this group show of...
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Art
St. Louis Art Capsules
Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene
By Jessica Baran
Published: July 1, 2009
Newly Reviewed later rather than sooner This small survey of obsessive narratives — salient memories, compulsive actions — written in repetitive, immemorial objects...
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