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Ask a Mexican
¡Ask a Mexican!: No habla insurance
Published: October 14, 2009
Dear Mexican: An uninsured wetback just hit my car and totaled his. He had no insurance and no license, but did have a nice cell phone. I asked him if he was OK in my limited...
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Music
Light My Way: Old Lights' David Beeman gets by with a little help from his friends
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: October 14, 2009
Most musicians cut their teeth the old-fashioned way: They start a group in high school, play an endless string of "Battle of the Bands"-type showcases, graduate to the city's...
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B-Sides
The Song Remains the Same: Singer-songwriter Tom Russell might have released his finest moment with his new album, Blood and Candle Smoke
By Roy Kasten
Published: October 14, 2009
Tom Russell is at home in El Paso, Texas, getting ready for another tour — to the East Coast and an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman then across the...
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Homespun
Homespun: Abi Robins
Conversations with Myself
(self-released)By Christian Schaeffer
Published: October 14, 2009
Rock & roll fans tend to favor bands that can light up a dark, smoky rock club. But what about those songwriters who can quiet a room with little more than an acoustic guitar...
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Critics' Picks
Mirah
9 p.m. Friday, October 16. The Billiken Club, in the Busch Student Center on the campus of Saint Louis University. 20 North Grand Boulevard.
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: October 14, 2009
To some the idea of a remixed indie-rock record makes as much sense as a twelve-inch dance version of a Bach fugue. However, folk-pop singer Mirah seems to have missed the memo...
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Critics' Picks
Not Waving But Drowning
7 p.m. Saturday, October 17. Fubar, 3108 Locust Street.
By Ryan Wasoba
Published: October 14, 2009
In a small market such as St. Louis, many blame the city itself when its most potent bands don't hit it big. However, the tragedy of Not Waving But Drowning has more to do with...
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Critics' Picks
Weatherbox
9 p.m. Saturday, October 17. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.
By Scott Heisel
Published: October 14, 2009
Brian Warren, the sole permanent member of San Diego art-rock troupe Weatherbox, is a bit on the unusual side. His first full-length, 2007's American Art, largely...
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Critics' Picks
Mike Doughty
p.m. Sunday, October 18. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: October 14, 2009
In the '90s, Mike Doughty led the New York City quartet Soul Coughing with streetwise slang, mutated metaphors and a cocksure voice that made lyrics such as "You get the...
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Critics' Picks
The Wooden Sky
9 p.m. Monday, October 19. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Roy Kasten
Published: October 14, 2009
The song begins simply: A kick drum beats like a heart in a panting chest, one guitar sweats out one note, another plucks a rudimentary figure. "We never walk in the light,"...
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Critics' Picks
Karl Blau/LAKE
9 p.m. Tuesday, October 20. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street.
By Todd McKenzie
Published: October 14, 2009
Karl Blau's latest album, Zebra, is said to be indebted to the textures of traditional African music, but trying to pinpoint the precise origins of the sounds within can be a...
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Critics' Picks
Sunset Rubdown
8:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 21. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Shae Moseley
Published: October 14, 2009
The further we're removed from Arcade Fire's 2004 chamber-pop masterpiece Funeral, the harder it becomes to wax ecstatic about epic Canadian indie rock. The incorporation...
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Critics' Picks
The Safes
9 p.m. Saturday, October 17. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Annie Zaleski
Published: October 14, 2009
The Safes is one of the hardest-working bands in Chicago. In between touring the Midwest on a regular basis – treks that include stops in the Lou every few months —...
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Cafe
Accounting for Taste: Niche gets a new next-door neighbor — think of it as mini-Niche
By Ian Froeb
Published: October 14, 2009
You likely need no introduction to Gerard Ford Craft. Since opening Niche in 2005, Craft has ascended to the summit of the St. Louis dining scene, earning accolades not only...
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Gut Check
Beer! Hooray for Hildegard!
By Ian Froeb
Published: October 14, 2009
Mike Sweeney of local beer blog STL Hops (www.stlhops.com), which was just named the inaugural winner of Riverfront Times' Best Food and Drink Blog category in our annual Best...
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Film
Let the Mild Rumpus Start! Max and the gang's all here, but Spike Jonze can't quite get the spirit of the Wild Things onscreen
By J. Hoberman
Published: October 14, 2009
Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children's picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are may be the toughest adaptation since Tim Burton fashioned...
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Stage
A Full Head of Extreme: Feeling apathetic? Helver's Night will shake you out of your torpor.
By Dennis Brown
Published: October 14, 2009
Event theater has arrived on Grand Boulevard, and I'm not referring to the return of the Phantom at the Fox. Halfway down the block at the more modest Kranzberg Arts Center,...
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Stage
St. Louis Stage Capsules
Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene
By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold
Published: October 14, 2009
Conversations With My Father Set in a Canal Street bar, Herb Gardner's semi-autobiographical memory play (the last of Gardner's plays to be staged on Broadway) primarily...
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Art
Featured Review: For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there
By Jessica Baran
Published: October 14, 2009
Featured Review: For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there Perception is given close study in this elegant exhibit of work by an...
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Art
St. Louis Art Capsules
Jessica Baran encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene
Published: October 14, 2009
Newly Reviewed Chance Aesthetics A seeming paradox — codifying the unpredictable — this selective but comprehensive exhibit focuses primarily on Modernist creative...
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