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North Korea (and audiences) Go Home Unhappy in Red Dawn

The Best Tour Route of the West Coast

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Devi Gurung States of Everest Cafe, Part 2

This is part two of Rease Kirchner's Chef's Choice profile of Devi Gurung States of Everest Cafe. Part one can be found here. Part three, a recipe from States, will be published tomorrow. Did your family cook together when you were a child? My mother always cooked. I watched her. I observed her. Nep ... More >>

Devi Gurung States of Everest Cafe

This is part one of Rease Kirchner's Chef's Choice profile of Devi Gurung States of Everest Cafe. Part two, a Q&A, will be published tomorrow, and part three, a recipe from States, will be available on Thursday.Gut Check was very excited to head to the Grove neighborhood to speak with Dr. Devi Gurun ... More >>

The Get Up Kids at the Firebird, 7/15/11

Forrester Michael ​The Get Up Kids The Firebird July 15, 2011 "Remember when we used to play here all the time?" asked Get Up Kids guitarist Jim Suptic before the band moseyed into "Overdue." Its closing line "You're a few years overdue, I spent them waiting here for you" neatly summed up th ... More >>

Ibogaine is a hallucinogen that has helped addicts kick their drug habits. Is it the trip that does the trick?

UPDATE: FOUND! Melanie Harmann: Webster Groves Woman Goes Up In Smoke At Seattle Hempfest

Image viaMelanie Harmann is missing​Update Sunday 8/29 9:45 a.m.: Melanie Harmann's mother, Skyler Wiseman, posted on her Facebook page on Friday that her daughter was located, unharmed.Wiseman was en route to Spokane, Washington, where Melanie had traveled to participate in a regional Rainbow Gat ... More >>

It's Not Too Late to Plan for Bloomsday!

Image source​It's rare that a classic of world literature is set on one particular calendar date. Maybe that's why June 16, the day on which James Joyce's Ulysses is set (1904 edition), also known as "Bloomsday" has achieved such immortality. Well, that and its main character Leopold Bloom spe ... More >>

This Band Could Be Your Life, Part II: So Many Dynamos Tours to SXSW

Letters

Week of September 8, 2004

Cubic Zirconium

Jewel joins Ronnie Milsap, Howie Mandel and Chris Gaines on the dustbin circuit

Spin in the No-Spin Zone

Some folks deserve our congratulations (kisses, Wash. U.!), some our patronage (we love Don Bellon's beautiful, found-object-filled deli) and still others our furrowed brow (hijinx on Bill O'Reilly's Web site: wha'?)

Native Son

Sherman Alexie gets a load off his chest in The Business of Fancydancing

One False Move

Why did Susie Stephens, a pedestrian-traffic expert, get hit by a bus downtown?

Golden Rails

Sure, MetroLink's expensive -- so's your Lincoln Navigator

Killer Campaign

When the Benetton clothing company dared to humanize death-row inmates in a $20 million ad campaign, Attorney General Jay Nixon threw a fit. Then he played right into their hands and sued them.

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