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B-Sides
By Sean Levisman
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
5:30 p.m. Thursday, July 2. GCS Ballpark, 2301 Grizzlie Bear Boulevard, Sauget, Illinois.
By Roy Kasten
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
8 p.m. Friday, July 3. Fair St. Louis, Gateway Arch and Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
By Julie Seabaugh
"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
7 p.m. Friday, July 3. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.
By Christian Schaeffer
"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
9 p.m. Saturday, July 4. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Christian Schaeffer
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
8:30 p.m. Monday, July 6. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Todd McKenzie
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
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 8. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.
By Annie Zaleski
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
Throwing Knives EP (St. Ives)
By Christian Schaeffer
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
By Ian Froeb
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
By Aimee Levitt
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
By Ian Froeb
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
By Scott Foundas
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
By Dennis Brown
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
By Jessica Baran
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
Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene
By Jessica Baran
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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