Vol. 29, No. 24
Buffet of Champions
You came, you saw, you voted: the winners of the 2005 Riverfront Times Music Awards
That Old Black Magic
Did Patricia McIntosh's neighbors cast an evil spell on her twelve-year-old daughter?
By Kristen Hinman
Blackened Carp
The Midwest Chub Club teaches Unreal that more really is merrier, a local blogger gets deep into penguins' psyches, and we seek out some chicken soup for the sassy journalist's soul. Plus: The Yankees suck, but don't wear that opinion to Busch.
Letters
Week of June 15, 2005
Rock Steady
The Hold Steady bring bombast back to rock & roll
By Roy Kasten
Time Warped
Gauge your youthfulness at the Warped Tour
By Jordan Harper
Just Say "Yo" to Drugs
We get trippy with hippies, watch musicians melt and dig a heavy fatwa
By John Nova Lomax, Jess Minnen and Ayatollah of Rock
The Doxies with the Wormwood Scrubs
Saturday, June 18; the Gearbox (1551 South Seventh Street)
By Christian Schaeffer
Todd Snider
Saturday, June 18; Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street)
By Steve Pick
Meat Beat Manifesto
Sunday, June 19; Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois)
By Tamara Palmer
Nile
Annihilation of the Wicked (Relapse)
By Guy Gray
Various Artists
The Very Best of Death Row (The Row)
By Eric K. Arnold
Stephen Malkmus
Face the Truth (Matador)
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Slow Dazzle
The View from the Floor (Misra)
A Farewell to Fabarre's?
There's a place in your heart for Papa Fabarre's -- even if you've never been there
By Rose Martelli
Horchata
La Vallesana, 2801 Cherokee Street, 314-776-4223.
By Randall Roberts
Bat Cave-In
The Dark Knight's origin story can't overcome its Baleful side
By Robert Wilonsky
The Wiz
Miyazaki returns with a beautiful but confounding fairy tale
Home Fires Burning
A soldier returns a changed man in the gripping Danish drama Brothers
By Bill Gallo
Beautiful Girls (1996)
Three letters: U-M-A
By Mike Seely
Film Openings
The United Colors of America
Contribute to William Pope.L's Black Factory this Saturday at the Contemporary
By Mark Dischinger
Current Shows
Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
By Paul Friswold and Alison Sieloff
The Unrightable Wrong
Has Man of La Mancha's day passed?
By Dennis Brown
A Wild Hair
The town of Augusta is lookin' mighty foxy at 150 years old -- and you're invited to the celebration
By Paul Friswold
Prospero's Wheelie
Take a ride with The Tempest's wizard
You Can't Spell Style
Without STL
Capsule Reviews
Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater
Daddy Dearest
Water you doing for Father's Day?
City of Sisterly Love
Family art
By Alison Sieloff, Brooke Foster and Rose Martelli
Sedaris in Concert
Broadcast live in the CWE
By Paul Friswold, Amy Helms and Alison Sieloff
