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Lucinda Williams at the Pageant, 10/12/11: Review and Setlist

Lucinda Williams' 2009 show at the Pageant. Photo by Jon Gitchoff.​Lucinda Williams | Over the Rhine The Pageant October 12, 2011 Note: If you shot good photos at the show and want to share 'em with our readers, please e-mail versions at least 550p wide, along with your name so we can credit ... More >>

Terrifying Tuna Mascots Give a Little Insight Into Fish Industry Problems

Remember back in the 1980s, when people got worked up because tuna fishing was killing dolphins? The industry eventually changed, and consumers could return to their Starkist and Chicken of the Sea assured that the only thing that died for their tuna salad was the tuna. Ah, but apparently all is n ... More >>

Ten Other Despots Who Need to Go

Image via​Now that Egypt's Hosni Mubarak has finally given in to the masses of brave demonstrators (and military leaders) demanding his resignation, we couldn't help but fantasize about who should follow his example.There are, after all, a ton of terrible dictators out there -- and the world would ... More >>

Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

Photos Setlist Review: Joan Baez at the Pageant, Sunday, July 19

REVIEW AND PHOTOS BY KATIE MOULTON "You're telling me you're not nostalgic," Joan Baez sings on "Diamonds and Rust," "Then give me another word for it." The 1975 piece is Baez at her most personal, a look back on her relationship with Bob Dylan, and was the appropriate close to her set last night a ... More >>

Unreal strips down with Sarah Palin, flushes a pumpkin and balloons up for Halloween

Spend an Afternoon in a Gitmo Detention Cell ... at the Airport Hilton

Second Spin: Jackson Browne, Hold Out

Dave Matthews' "Eh Hee": What the World Really, Really Doesn't Need

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Angry Young Joe

Talented St. Louis band wages a rockin' war on the Missouri State Budget

Hunger Strike

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

The Calm Before the Storm

For anti-war protesters, the enemies are indifference and irrelevance

They've Got the Wrong Martyr

Tragic as his story might be, convicted killer isn't living in a perfect world

The Benetton Four

Meet the men who sparked a lawsuit

The Official Story

U.S. policy boosted the Taliban into power, and reluctance to anger Afghan ally Pakistan helps keep them there

The Torture Place

He was a godless communist journalist in Afghanistan -- so they took his eye, cut his ear and splashed acid all over his body. Now he is safe in St. Louis. But still burning.

Devoured by Hate

"Around the world, gypsies have historically been victims of rejection and abuse"

EYE OF THE NEEDLE

Kellwood's taking fashion forward by making virtually all our clothes in the Third World. But the St. Louis giant carefully cloaks its operations, its plant locations and its monitoring of labor conditions.

Inhumane Society

St. Louis scores failing grades on a report card of compliance with the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights

A Post-Poster World

It's the power of the music, not cartoonish surface appearances, that makes for a music hero, say the local young folk we polled