2009 is already shaping up to be a busy year in St. Louis.
The Pageant
February 25: Flogging Molly
March 15: Andrew Bird
Blueberry Hill's Duck Room
January 27: Todd Snider/Keith Sykes
March 22: A.C. Newman/The Broken West
MP3: A.C. Newman, "Submarines of Stockholm"
More A.C. Newman at Matador's fall MP3 sampler, found here.
Fall is a suspenseful time for the nation's smartest people. No, we're not referring to the announcements of the winners of the MacArthur Foundation "genius" grants or the Nobel Prizes. Those things are all small potatoes compared to The Daily Beast's ranking of America's Smartest Cities, which came out yesterday.Think about it. Most of us will never get $500,000 from the MacArthur Foundation or an all-expenses-paid trip to Stockholm. But we can all take pride in contributing to the overall i
Sadly, it's become an annual tradition here in St. Louis, it seems: the Blues' Slow Start. Happens every year, right around this time, when we look at the record of our beloved boys in blue and notice they aren't doing so hot. This year, though, this seems a bit different. Oh, sure, they were way worse than this a couple years back, but we didn't expect that team to be any good. I have it on good authority several of the Blues' players during the 2006-07 season didn't have their own skat
