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21. Ask a Mexican

    Mexican Pride: Mexicans and bottled water.

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Because the Mexican's sister is getting married to a good man from Zacatecas this weekend, I must ignore my research archives to slaughter a pig and hire a banda sinaloense. So...

22. This Week's Cover

    The Cover of the October 10 Print Edition

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Photo of Willie Nelson by Todd Owyoung

23. Music

    Three hard-rock/metal shows in one week means Arma-Friggin'-Geddon for St. Louis

    By D.X. Ferris

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Three major heavy metal/hard-rock tours are coming to town this week, representing three far-flung corners of the rock universe: Invading the city are Christian-hair-metal...

24. B-Sides

    The Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center's Orchestrating Diversity program hits the right notes

    By Bob Mcmahon

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Mark Sarich is used to doing it himself. The founder of the Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center spearheaded the restoration of his inherited building, turning it from a property with...

25. Homespun

    Homespun Syna So Pro make two people happy

    (make two people happy)
    (self-released)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Syna So Pro is the solo project from Syrhea Conaway, a musician best known as the bassist/vocalist for local shoegazers Stella Mora. On her first solo outing, however, she...

26. Critics' Picks

    Maxwell/Common/Chrisette Michele

    7:30 p.m. Friday, October 9. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Avenue.

    By Calvin Cox

    Published: October 7, 2009

    After an eight-year hiatus from the music industry, neo-soul pioneer Maxwell has finally re-emerged with BLACKsummers'night. The album is slated to be the first in a trilogy of...

27. Critics' Picks

    Street Dogs

    7 p.m. Friday, October 9. Pop's, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

    By Scott Heisel

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Street-punk isn't exactly the easiest subgenre of punk rock in which to implant yourself — that three-foot mohawk ain't gonna spike itself, and have you seen the going...

28. Critics' Picks

    They Might Be Giants

    8 p.m. Friday, October 9. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

    By Ryan Wasoba

    Published: October 7, 2009

    In the beginning, John Flansburgh and John Linnell created They Might Be Giants, which begat a self-titled debut and sophomore triumph, Lincoln. And in the eighth year, the duo...

29. Critics' Picks

    Bottle Rockets

    9 p.m. Friday, October 9, and Saturday, October 10. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Lean Forward, the eighth studio album from the Bottle Rockets, isn't a greatest hits collection, though it often seems hell-bent on convincing you otherwise —...

30. Critics' Picks

    Postmarks/Brookville

    8 p.m. Monday, October 12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Although the pop sounds crafted by the Postmarks and Brookville are decidedly different, they still complement each other nicely. Over the course of three albums (including...

31. Critics' Picks

    Dr. Dog

    8 p.m. Tuesday, October 13. The Gargoyle, on the campus of Washington University, One Brookings Drive.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: October 7, 2009

    At the beginning of this decade, Dr. Dog was a bunch of crafty eight-trackists in its hometown of Philadelphia. But in the past few years – thanks to some high-profile...

32. Critics' Picks

    The Shaky Hands

    9 p.m. Wednesday, October 14. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.

    By Jason Harper

    Published: October 7, 2009

    If Mott the Hoople and Dr. Dog had a baby, it would be called Tom the Poodle, and it would sound like the Shaky Hands. The Portland band's no-frills, all-boogie presentation...

33. Critics' Picks

    Dinosaur Jr./Lou Barlow & the MissingMen

    8 p.m. Wednesday, October 14. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

    By Jaime Lees

    Published: October 7, 2009

    With grunge-era staples such as "Freak Scene" and "Out There," Dinosaur Jr. specialized in bittersweet compositions, where even the sad songs were love songs and even the love...

34. Critics' Picks

    Aggrolites

    8:30 p.m. Thursday, October 8. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

    By Scott Heisel

    Published: October 7, 2009

    One look at the four Los Angelinos who comprise the Aggrolites, and you might be surprised that they spend their nights playing sweet, sweet ska/reggae/soul and not, I don't...

35. Cafe

    Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fond

    A long-delayed visit to an Edwardsville culinary gem.

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: October 7, 2009

    I don't eat scallops. Even though I've convinced myself that my allergy is psychosomatic, the collateral damage of a childhood afternoon spent at the swimming pool with a box...

36. Gut Check

    Chez Leon gives way to a new Niche

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Catching up on a couple of weeks' worth of news after taking a break for this year's Best of St. Louis.... Gerard Craft of Niche and Taste by Niche has purchased the venerable...

37. Film

    Truth in Advertising: Somers Town gets at the heart of working-class London.

    And it might sell some train tickets, too.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: October 7, 2009

    The title of Shane Meadows' Somers Town refers to the bleak working-class neighborhood that lies in the shadow of London's St. Pancras train station, where, in the fall of...

38. Stage

    Hue and Cry: The Orange Girls go out with a guffaw

    By Dennis Brown

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Late in David Lindsay-Abaire's exhilarating madcap comedy Wonder of the World, which is being staged to a fare-thee-well by the Orange Girls, after our effervescent heroine...

39. Stage

    Pair of Jokers: Compare notes on late-career plays by Neil Simon and Herb Gardner

    By Dennis Brown

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Neil Simon was born in the Bronx in 1927. Herb Gardner was born in Brooklyn in 1934. In 1962 Simon's first play, Come Blow Your Horn, was in its fourteenth month on Broadway...

40. Stage

    St. Louis Stage Capsules

    Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

    By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold

    Published: October 7, 2009

    Also Reviewed Into the Woods Four years ago James Lapine, who wrote this perennially popular deconstruction of fairy tales with Stephen Sondheim, told Riverfront Times he had...