Vol. 30, No. 15
Foul Frequency
PR flops. Staff upheaval. Shrill talk-show hosts. The Cardinals' flagship station can't seem to find the strike zone.
By Chad Garrison
Last Call
The ax falls on one really grouchy bartender
Down in Front!
Want a wheelchair seat at the new Busch? Step right up.
Talk Pretty
David Sedaris' publicist asks Unreal to bend the space-time continuum. Plus: the blog of a former Cards hurler, and an obituary for Jim Igoe, the Delmar Poet.
Letters Column
Week of April 13, 2006
Ask a Negro Leaguer Column
By Prince Joe Henry
Full Court Press
DJ Crucial ropes in an all-star cast of collaborators for his latest album
By Ben Westhoff
Do the Bunny Hop
Bunnygrunt returns on a tribute to UK cult figures the June Brides
By Annie Zaleski
Hungry, So (Not) Angry
A local music fan starts Broke & Hungry Records, Matador Records gets its videogame on and the debut of "Yo! RFT Raps"
By Dean C. Minderman and Ben Westhoff
Beat Happenings
Music news you can use
By Kristyn Pomranz
Keller Williams
Thursday, April 13 at 8 p.m. The Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard).
Toots and the Maytals
Friday, April 14, at 8 p.m. The Gargoyle on the campus of Washington University (Forsyth and Skinker boulevards)
By Roy Kasten
Taking Back Sunday
Friday, April 14, at 8 p.m. Pop's (1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois)
Flee the Seen
Saturday, April 15, at 7 p.m. The Hi-Pointe (1001 McCausland Avenue)
By Andrew Miller
Drums and Tuba
Saturday, April 15, at 9 p.m. Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue)
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Garrison Starr/Rhett Miller
Tuesday, April 18, at 8 p.m. The Gargoyle on the campus of Washington University (Forsyth and Skinker boulevards)
By Brooke Foster
Eef Barzelay
Tuesday, April 18, at 9 p.m. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room (6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wednesday, April 19, at 8 p.m. The Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard)
By Andrea Noble and Annie Zaleski
Local Motion: Penelope
Saturday, April 15 at 8 p.m. The Pageant, (6161 Delmar Boulevard)
Calexico
Garden Ruin (Quarterstick Records)
David Gilmour
On an Island (Columbia)
By Alex Weir
Flaming Lips
At War with the Mystics (Warner Brothers)
By Jonathan Zwickel
Some Girls
Heaven's Pregnant Teens (Epitaph)
By Kami Arnold
From First to Last
Heroine (Epitaph)
By Phil Freeman
Band of Horses
Everything All the Time (Sub Pop)
By Noah W. Bailey
The Boy Least Likely To
The Best Party Ever (Too Young to Die)
By Jenny Tatone
Git Up, Baby!
Mike Shannon’s redone his namesake steak house -- and it’s a real humdinger
By Ian Froeb
Elyse Petite Sirah Port
Sidney Street Café, 2000 Sidney Street, 314-771-5777.
By Randall Roberts
Naomi Then and Now
Ellie Parker
By Melissa Levine, Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
Biblical Contortions
Adam & Steve's original sin puts the brakes on a blooming romance
By Melissa Levine
Cowboy Up
We just can't quit this countrified Karaoke.
By Chris Ward
Film Openings
Our top DVD picks for the week of April 11.
Kung Fu You
By Alison Sieloff
Some Strings Attached
By Jedidiah Ayres
All the Rage
David Is Goliath
Middlesex
Social Studies
Rotate!
By Paul Friswold
Bollywood Botch
A Fox production puts the Bomb in Bombay Dreams
By Dennis Brown
Why Are Cadbury Eggs Laid by a Bunny?
And other Easter questions
By Anna Teekell Hays
Wave the Green, White and Red
But not in front of the screen
Fred Sanford He's Not
Bill Keaggy's Junk Science
Eat It, St. Louis
By Kristie McClanahan
Inside the Actor's World
By Amy Helms
Entertainment, Indeed
By Guy Gray
Stretching Mertz Till It Hurts
Pavel Steidl's timeless playing
Putting the Female in NFL
By Jason Toon
MILF
Man, I love Florence
By Mr. Night
Not from Venus
They are Venus
Bling-a-Ding-Ding!
Prediction:
This concert will be great!
A Crouton of Thanks
By Ms. Day
Capsule Reviews
Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater
Current Shows
Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene
By Ivy Cooper
