Vol. 29, No. 3
Lost Downtown
Amid the lofty renaissance, the hardcore of the urban core
By Mike Seely
Dead Reckoning
It's been six months since John Mullen was served up an arsenic cocktail. So whodunit?
By Ellis E. Conklin
This Gland Is Your Gland
Unreal snags the rare prostate interview, drops in on a lawyer's blog and cracks open a can of Dinty Moore beef stew (the linchpin of the Pontoon Beach Diet); plus, how many Post reporters does it take to tell us it's really frickin' cold?
The Finger Puppet Brigade
(2 a.m. Saturday, Geyer Avenue between Ninth and Tenth streets)
By Timothy Lane
Letters
Week of January 19, 2005
Higher Education
Two local music heads are forming a Finishing School of Rock
By Jess Minnen
Back to the Future
We tell the Bravery's fortune, decode a rock opera and groan over Sting's intoxicated verbosity
By Michael Alan Goldberg, Jess Minnen and Mike Seely
Head South, Young DJ
Got skills? Then welcome to Miami.
By Jordan Harper
H2O
Thursday, January 20; Creepy Crawl (412 North Tucker Boulevard)
Flee the Seen with Next Best Thing, Loser's Luck, Novella and Centerpointe
Saturday, January 22; Mississippi Nights (914 North First Street)
By Andrew Miller
Tsunami Benefit Concert
Saturday, January 22; Schlafly Tap Room (2100 Locust Street)
By Roy Kasten
Quick Picks
M83
Before the Dawn Heals Us (Mute)
By Jason Heller
Paul Westerberg
Folker (Vagrant)
By Jon Wilkins
Archer Prewitt
Wilderness (Thrill Jockey)
By Alan Scherstuhl
Esthero
We R In Need of a Musical Revolution (Reprise)
By Mosi Reeves
Lofty Aspirations
Lucas Park Grille might be downtown's hottest new spot -- but not because of the food
By Rose Martelli
Romana Black Sambuca
Trattoria Strada Nova, 21 North Ninth Street, Columbia, 573-442-8992
By Randall Roberts
Extended Sentence
A convicted pedophile earns his release but can't escape from himself
By Bill Gallo
Unlucky 13
This Assault attacks the original and does no damage
By Robert Wilonsky
All the President's Men (1976)
In which porn and journalism become forever intertwined
Film Openings
Distaff Meeting
Where does women's health intersect with contemporary art? All over St. Louis.
By Ivy Cooper
Gyno-mite!
Inside Out Loud puts art and women's health issues in dialogue with one another -- and achieves amazing results
This Week's Day-by-Day Picks
By Paul Friswold and Alison Sieloff
Current Shows
Ivy Cooper encapsulates the St. Louis art scene
Bury Caesar
St. Louis Shakespeare inters a classic
By Deanna Jent
Brownsville
Celeb chef Alton Brown is just here for more food (and he'd like to see you, too)
By Paul Friswold
Long Days Journey
With The Last Days of Café Café, First Run Theatre doesn't know when to stop
By Dennis Brown
Aye, Burns-ing for You
Good for what ales you
By Paul Friswold, Rose Martelli, R.L. Nave and Alison Sieloff
Extreme Reading
It's elemental
By Alison Sieloff and Kristie McClanahan
Capsule Reviews
Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater
Banana Appeal
The Banana Bike Brigade parties on
By Paul Friswold, John Goddard and Alison Sieloff
Nice Genes
Upstream Theater's Soul of a Clone
By Paul Friswold, Julie Seabaugh and Mia York
