Vol. 24, No. 20
A Guest of Honor
Scott Joplin receives a celebratory homecoming with Opera Theatre of St. Louis' revival of Treemonisha
By Eddie Silva
Stalking the Hungry Ghosts
Sick of chaos and insatiable craving, more and more St. Louisans are seeking out the quiet subversions of Buddhism
By Jeannette Batz
Did You Support a Bill That Recently Failed in The Missouri Legislature That Would Have Lowered the Blood-Alcohol Levels for DWI from .10 to .08 ?
By Wm. Stage
The Devil's Playground
The Rev. Pigg takes a poke at the satanic influences of kid favorites Pokémon and the Teletubbies
Party Favored
Kindred Groove and Boogie Knights double the pleasure at Vibalicious 2
By Randall Roberts
Five Style with Five Block Shot and Box-O-Car
Thursday, May 18; Side Door
deathray
Thursday, May 18; Firehouse
By Daniel Durchholz
Mr. Quintron
Saturday, May 20; Side Door
Various Artists
Caipiríssima: Batucada Electrônica (Caipirinha Records)
Leona Naess
Comatised (MCA)
By Steve Pick
Mixed Impressionism
The European Caffé falls short of masterpiece status
By Joe Bonwich
Marty Merryin'
Marty's Baking is on the rise
Small Time Crooks
Written and directed by Woody Allen
By Andy Klein
Road Trip
Co-written and directed by Todd Phillips
By Robert Wilonsky
Dinosaur
Directed by Ralph Zondag and Eric Leighton
By M.V. Moorhead
East-West
Co-written and directed by Régis Wargnier
The Big Kahuna
Directed by John Swanbeck
Fatal Femmes
Why do women in comics become Women in Refrigerators?
To Mock the Schlock
Taking aim at the NRA's Charlton Heston in Magic Smoking Monkey Theater's Planet of the Apes: Live!
By Byron Kerman
People Who Need People
St. Louis ain't no cow town but it still produces its share of BS
5 Stars Are Born
The U. City Loop's Walk of Fame glows larger
Swiss Mystery
Wash. U. grad Susan Bernofsky brings the mysterious Swiss writer Robert Walser into English
By Chris King
The Robber
By Robert Walser; translated and with an introduction by Susan Bernofsky University of Nebraska Press, 141 pages, $15
