Vol. 28, No. 2
Funky Town
Smokestacks, strip joints and a seriously solid tax base: Welcome to Sauget, Illinois
By Mike Seely
Making the List
What does the National Rifle Association have against the St. Louis Cardinals?
By Geri L. Dreiling
Get Crackin'
The New Yorker knows that a dry crack is a happy crack, Dick Gephardt can't wait for a slice of peach pie and Blake Ashby phones it in; plus a Sanford-Brown update, dueling Bosnian beauty queens and banter with comedian/shine man Jules Summerville
What Are Your Predictions for 2004?
Week of January 14, 2004
By Wm. Stage
Letters
Lemon Heads
Modey Lemon serves up nasty rock & roll with a smile
By Jordan Harper
Hip to be Square
Tracks offers comfort to Ensure-swilling music fans
By Rob Harvilla
On Track
Radar Station mixes up local producers, decides to blame them
Guided by Voices and The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Wednesday, January 21; Mississippi Nights
By Christian Schaeffer
The Cantrells
Saturday, January 17; The Focal Point
By Roy Kasten
Patrice Pike
Friday, January 16; Off Broadway
Sounds Around Town
Gateway to the East
Wasabi has everything a sushi-lover could want, from artful presentations to the legendary fugu
By Michael Renner
Michelob Ultra vs. Guinness Draught in a Bottle
Racanelli's Pizza, 12 S. Euclid Avenue, 314-367-7866
By Randall Roberts
American Girl
Patty Jenkins and Charlize Theron give birth to a Monster
By Gregory Weinkauf
Baby Love
The belated holiday anime Tokyo Godfathers is a genre-bending offer you shouldn't refuse
By Luke Y. Thompson
Film Openings
Series/Festivals
Follow Your Nose
Test your pee-yew IQ at the Pow Wow of Pooper Scoopers
By Paul Friswold
Epic Proportions
The Black Rep assays August Wilson
By Dennis Brown
Wilde Night
The Rep presents a winning Oscar
By Deanna Jent
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
Bleed Cardinal Red
See Redbirds in January at the eighth annual St. Louis Cardinals Winter Warm-Up
By Rose Martelli
Sex, Paralysis, the Usual
It's only River Styx at Duff's
By Erik Alan Carlson, Paul Friswold and Byron Kerman
Brawl's Well
That ends well
By Erik Alan Carlson and Ian Froeb
Meat Puppets
No strings attached
By Mark Dischinger and Paul Friswold
Science + Art =
Creepy and beautiful
By Niles Baranowski, Mark Dischinger, Byron Kerman and Alison Sieloff
My Son, Keep It Gay
Just don't go halfway
By Paul Friswold, John Goddard, Byron Kerman and Rose Martelli