Vol. 30, No. 34
Circuit Breakers
Sparks fly as So Many Dynamos generates indie buzz.
By Annie Zaleski
Holocaust Revisited
A Ballwin neighborhood continues to boil over Lewis Greenberg's art project: a remembrance of Nazi atrocities.
By Aimee Levitt
Valley Park: Still In Limbo
By Tom Finkel
Taxing Conversation
By Ian Froeb
It's So Many Dynamos Week on A to Z
Cold Comfort, Part 2
Won More Time!
Cape Girardeau Artist Took Michael Vick to the Dogs
This Week in Gut Check
What's Cooking in This Week's Issue
Cold Comfort
By Unreal
Thrill Ride
Unreal has a good hair day.
Shattered Truths
Readers offer praise for Ian, help for vets and criticism for the Richardses.
Notes From a Second Class Citizen, Part 8
Week of August 2, 2007
By Timothy Lane
Calling all Leprecanos, Korexicans and Beaner-weiners!
The Mexican wants your hybrid names.
Read It In Books
Rats and People hide in a basement, can't take a compliment, secretly dig proper literature.
By Jaime Lees
So Many Dynamos Cover Feature -- With Bonus MP3 Enhancement!
Chris Walla of Death Cab for Cutie talks So Many Dynamos
Introducing the Band, Part Two: So Many Dynamos guitarist Griffin Kay talks music, Billiken Club
Last-Minute Soulive show in St. Louis -- Monday, August 27 @ Broadway Oyster Bar
Hope Springs Eternal
Mark Olson finds salvation in being one of the vocal and lyrical laureates of American music.
By Roy Kasten
Thor Axe: Behold the Sweet Riffs of So Many Dynamos' Triumphant Metal Side Project
Terra Diablo: Last-Minute St. Louis show on Wednesday, August 29
St. Louis Concert Calendar: Tuesday, August 21
Rats and People, The City of Passersby: Outtakes and MP3s
Nelly -- Taking Over!!!!
Travis Morrison Hellfighters: Review of All Y'All and Bonus Dynamos interview
St. Louis Weekend Round-up: August 24-26
The Ditty Bops
7 p.m. (all-ages) and 10 p.m. (21+) Thursday, August 23. Mad Art Gallery, 2727 South 12th Street.
By Brooke Foster
Rush
8 p.m. Friday, August 24. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.
By Shae Moseley
Rise Against
Tuesday, August 28 at Pops (1403 Mississippi Ave., Sauget, IL).
By Jonah Bayer
The Detroit Cobras
8 p.m. Monday, August 27. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.
Ben Kweller
9 p.m. Tuesday, August 28. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
7 p.m. Tuesday, August 28. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.
By Grayson Currin
The Lot
4 p.m. Saturday, August 25. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust Street.
By Christian Schaeffer
Prince
Planet Earth (Sony)
By Miles Marshall Lewis
Shellac
Excellent Italian Greyhound (Touch and Go)
By Matt Stroud
Justice
(Ed Banger/Vice)
By Michael Roberts
Sleep State
...Fuckin' Pervert EP (self-released)
Crowded Waters
Is Oceano Bistro just another fish in the sea?
The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 8/22
Mmmm...Doughnuts...
Coming Soon: Newstead Tower Public House
Mike Mills' Ribs Named the Best
Free Beer! (Lecture, That Is)
Review Preview: Oceano Bistro
Gekkeikan Sake (Hot)
Drunken Fish, #1 Maryland Plaza Drive314-367-4222.
By Kristie McClanahan
Red Moon Closes: Update
Festival of Nations
The Morning Brew: Friday, 8/24
Red Still Not Open
Restaurant Construction Updates
Your Weekly Best of St. Louis 2007 Reminder
Home Brew
A Tale of Two Curries
The Morning Brew: Thursday, 8/23
The Morning Brew: Monday, 8/27
Destination Dining Update
Red Moon Closes
R.I.P. "Wild" Bill Hagy
Reminder: Bayou Bash
The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 8/21
Reminder: Festival of Nations
Andy White Leaves Balaban's
In This Week's Issue
Smoked Catfish
$7.95 Per Pound Jay International Foods Company3172 S. Grand Blvd.
By Malcolm Gay
Maybe Another Teen Movie
Is high school coming-of-ager Rocket Science quirky for good or evil? The answers . . . debatable.
By Jim Ridley
The Sympathetic Spy
The Lives of Others
By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
Bugaboo Confidential
Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag
By Scott Foundas
Bend It Like Bowser
Soccer gets a surreal twist in Mario Strikers Charged.
By Chris Ward
Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:
The Green of Arts
By Alison Sieloff
The Simple Side of Life
Got Water?
Electro-triskaidekaphobic
By Jeanette Kozlowski
Prints of Cats
By Paul Friswold
First Among Worst
By Mark Fischer
What Wine Goes with Zoo?
See World
Ramble On
By Mark Dischinger
Tech-yes
Beyond Cheerleading
Talking Loudly, Saying Nothing
Get into Labor
Forlorn on the Bayou
Gotta Get Back in Time
Have a Cigar
Indians and Pilgrims
One in the same
Deacons of Light
Dennis has an enlightening conversation with three of the city's best designers.
By Dennis Brown
St. Louis Stage Capsules
Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.
By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold
The Geddy Lee Chronicles: Episode Now
The Geddy Lee Chronicles II: Electric Jambaroo
If Mama Ain't Happy, Ain't Nobody Happy