Vol. 25, No. 25
What Lies Beneath
Laclede Gas and state regulators knew about corroding underground service lines for years and did little to fix the problem. Tom and Mary Hessel are among St. Louisans whove been burned as a result.
By Geri L. Dreiling
Stiffed by TIF
City schools are being asked to give back tax dollars to developers
By D.J. Wilson
Speaking Out of Class
Stephen Morrisette has left Beaumont High, but he's not done teaching
By Najeeb Hasan
Letters
Week of June 20, 2001
"Street Talk" Polls the Academics: What Do You Make of Timothy McVeigh's 'Last Words'?
By Wm. Stage
The Health (Club) Menace
Competition is healthy for the marketplace -- except when the government tips the scales
By Ray Hartmann
Swooping Toward Home
St. Louis folk-rockers One Fell Swoop celebrate the domestic release of their latest CD, previously available only in Europe
By Steve Pick
Jett Fighter
How not to interview Joan Jett
By René Spencer Saller
Sweet Nelly
Local-rapper-made-good is really just a nice guy
Cat Scratch Fever Benefit
Thursday, June 21; Way Out Club
River City Rebels with Darkbuster
Monday, June 25; Creepy Crawl
By Jason Toon
The Doves with the Webb Brothers
Thursday, June 21; Galaxy
By Andrew Broder
Firstar St. Louis Jazz Festival
6-10 p.m. Friday, June 22, and noon-10 p.m. Saturday, June 23
By Terry Perkins
Radiohead
Amnesiac (Capitol)
Tool
Lateralus (Tool Dissectional/Volcano Entertainment)
By Paul Friswold
Goody Works
Though it bites off a bit more than it can chew, the Goody Goody Diner serves up a mean breakfast
By Melissa Martin
Side Dish
Just what makes a diner a diner?
The Big Swill
Jennifer Jason Leigh and Alan Cumming stir it up
By Gregory Weinkauf
Mayhem All the Way
In Time and Tide, Tsui Hark delivers a plotless wonder
By Andy Klein
More Is Less
Alma Mahler may have been a harpy, but the witless adventuress portrayed in Bride of the Wind? Not likely.
By Bill Gallo
Extolling Stone
An exhibition of contemporary African sculpture at the Missouri Botanical Gardens goes far to adjust preconceived notions of the continent's art
By Ivy Schroeder
Inside the Soup Can
A new exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum reveals the serious side of pop art
By Byron Kerman
God Complex
With its fireworks and fanfare, Opera Theatre's Hippolytus and Aricia is a worthy and wonderful season finale
By Lew Prince
Swing on a Star
The St. Louis Science center unveils the freshly refurbished McDonnell Planetarium
Shrill Whistle
New Line's Sondheim revival fails to hit a high note
By Cliff Froehlich
Cumming Up
Is he a writer, director, actor or...sex symbol? Um, yes -- and more.
By Robert Wilonsky