Vol. 23, No. 48
SNAP CALL
City Hall makes a quick pick in an ugly battle over Internet and phone service. Prepare to pay the price.
By Bruce Rushton
BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?
Paula Gianella says her brother betrayed her -- and the courts let him
By Jeannette Batz
DRAG NET
The county changes its online real-estate service after cops complain that the public is getting too much information
AT CITY HALL, THE TIME IS RIGHT TWICE A DAY
One citizen's crusade to fix what's wrong at Tucker and Market
By D.J. Wilson
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, PROUD TO BE PART OF THE HOME TEAM
The Post-Dispatch gives us all the news that's fit to print twice
GRANDPA'S A GONER
Now that the venerable discount store's going out of business, who's looking after its employees?
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM
Will the Cardinals get what they're paying for from two new pitchers?
What Is "Cool"?
(Inspired by the Martell Cognac Billboard Slogan "Beaucoup de Cool")
By Wm. Stage
INSTRUMENTAL ASYLUM
A-pickin' and a-grinnin' over a new musical discovery
By Serene Dominic
SPARRING PARTNERS
Jazz musicians Dave Stone and Eric Markowitz are cookin' at their weekly Cafe Mangia gigs
By Roy Kasten
TOY STORY
Classical pianist Margaret Leng Tan downsizes her ambitions -- with big results
By Randall Roberts
Meshell Ndegéocello
Saturday, Dec. 4; Mississippi Nights
By Steve Pick
The Anti-Fest, featuring Blanks 77, L.E.S. Stitches, Total Chaos, the Ducky Boys, For the Last Time, the Gunga Dins and the Ded Bugs
Sunday, Dec. 5; Galaxy
By Jason Toon
TOP HAYAT AND TALES
A new Somali restaurant shines against its industrial-wasteland backdrop
By Jill Posey-Smith
RISING BREAD
Putting a new spin on an old space at a South St. Louis bakery
FLAWLESS
Written and directed by Joel Schumacher
By Luke Y. Thompson
ANIMATED WORLDS: TWO DECADES OF PORTLAND ANIMATION
By Robert Hunt
WAITING FOR HA JIN
The renowned Chinese author visits Washington University
By Byron Kerman
THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR KILLIN'
An intense study of the mechanics of hate gets a staged reading by the New Jewish Theatre
