Vol. 27, No. 43
Offside!
The Public High League once dominated the local gridiron scene, and suburban districts were perennial doormats. Now it's the other way around. Ever wonder why?
By Matthew Everett
Strike Three
Managers park semis, regulars get crabby and allegations fly
By Shelley Smithson
Hollywood Homies
Three recent video releases have local ties
By Ben Westhoff
Genome Whiz!
Learn fun things about the humble mole rat, getting busted in East St. Louis and why our city wants to have the blues
In Light of the Pending Concealed-Carry Law: Are You Carrying?
Week of October 22, 2003
By Wm. Stage
Letters
Punk-Folking-Rock!
Iron & Wine and Fruit Bats are leading the new folk revolution
By Christian Schaeffer
Just One Toke?
They may have been hippies, but Brewer & Shipley always bathed
By Jess Minnen
Demo Derby
Commerce and art shake hands at the City Museum
By Jordan Harper
Anson Funderburgh and the Rockets
Wednesday, October 22 through Sunday, October 26; Bottleneck Blues Bar, Ameristar Casino
By J. Konkel
Lyle Lovett
Thursday, October 23; Fox Theatre
By Patricia Brooke
Shelby Lynne
Saturday, October 25; Off Broadway
By Roy Kasten
Sounds Around Town
Shackle Up
Stir Crazy Café and SanSai Japanese Grill make it OK to embrace a corporate trend
By Rose Martelli
Creek and Creek
Café Balaban, 405 North Euclid Avenue, 314-361-8085
By Randall Roberts
Love and Death
Christine Jeffs and Gwyneth Paltrow imbue Sylvia Plath with new life...uh, and death
By Gregory Weinkauf
Too Much of a Gooding
Cuba goes over the top in the mawkish Radio
By Bill Gallo
Film Openings
Series/Festivals
Much More Than Fair
The Rep brings a refreshingly less-is-more approach to Lerner and Loewe
By Dennis Brown
Igoe for It
A photo exhibit chronicling life in the iconic (and doomed) Pruitt-Igoe housing complex opens at the Sheldon Art Galleries
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
The Boss
In David Brent's The Office, it's better to be popular than competent
By Robert Wilonsky
Alloy Me Low
Buster Keaton's The General gets a new soundtrack from the brilliant Alloy Orchestra at Webster University
By John Goddard
Lost but Not Forgotten
Indie films bitch-slap complacency
By Niles Baranowski, Paul Friswold, Guy Gray and Byron Kerman
Fierce Scrums, Dirty Bums
The sounds & smells of rugby
By Paul Friswold, Jason Toon and Ben Westhoff
No Ghosts Under the Bed
At the Not-So-Haunted House
By Byron Kerman and Rob Levy
Michigan Rag
Everybody loves the Ann Arbor Film Fest
By Paul Friswold, Guy Gray, Byron Kerman and Rose Martelli
What No Man Has Eaten Before
Martha Stewart meets Indiana Jones
By Mark Dischinger, Paul Friswold, Byron Kerman and Mallarie Zimmer
