Vol. 30, No. 45
Long Live Rock School
Hey kids! Dave Simon's music academy can transform you from a painfully shy teen to a guitar-slinging badass! Even your parents will approve!
By Annie Zaleski
What, a Dump?
Environmentalists decry the expansion of a gigantic Illinois landfill.
By Molly Langmuir
Clock the Vote
By Tom Finkel
To the Victor Go the Spoils
Putting One Over on Ol' Unreal
Democratz in da Streetz
By Unreal
There Goes Bill!
And Oh, Yeah...
What's a World Series MVP Worth These Days?
School Board President: Open the Books
This Is Not an Advertisement. (Or Is It?)
By Brooke Foster
TEACHER PASSES OUT AFTER TORRID SEX WITH ANOTHER TEACHER IN MOTEL; SHE DRESSES AND LEAVES HIM; HIS WIFE COMES, GETS IN BED WITH HIM; HE AWAKES MAKING LOVE TO WIFE AND HAS HEART ATTACK
Scenes From a Voting Booth
Year of our Lord
Unreal checks back in with our favorite Filipino beauty queen, fiddles around with a $10,000 custom violin and encounters a blogger who's moved back in with Mom. Plus: One very pissed off Cardinals fan.
The Story of Stagger Lee
Part Three (St. Louis, MO. 1895)
By Timothy Lane
"If you attack Vashon, it will look like 'the system' is coming down on poor black kids once again."
Week of November 9, 2006
Everyone loves a mexcelente Mexi-mullet!
The village of Brooklyn, Illinois, gets some respect. Finally.
By Prince Joe Henry
Piano Appeal
Regina Spektor sells out — in the good way.
By Kristyn Pomranz
Eat to the Beat
Head Automatica turns the beat around, while we convene at the altar of Reverend Glasseye and fill up yer iPod with some classy tunes.
By Peter Chakerian, Andrea Noble and Andy Vihstadt
Slapped Upside the Fed
Beat Happenings
Music news you can use
Robert Randolph & the Family Band
8 p.m. Thursday, November 9. Pageant (6161 Delmar Blvd).
By Roy Kasten
The Divorce
8 p.m. Saturday, November 11. Saint Louis University's Billiken Club (Busch Student Center, 20 North Grand Boulevard).
Pam Tillis
8 p.m. Saturday, November 11. Rickman Auditorium (745 Jeffco Boulevard, Arnold).
Pistolita
7 p.m. Sunday, November 12. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).
By Andrea Noble
The Chariot
7 p.m. Monday, November 13. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).
By Jonah Bayer
The Silent Years / Troubadour Dali / Brandy Johnson
9 p.m. Tuesday, November 14. Cicero's (6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City).
By Christian Schaeffer
A Static Lullaby / The Classic Crime
7 p.m. Wednesday, November 15, Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).
By Julie Seabaugh
Local Motion: The Art School Boys / Instrumental Quarter
8 p.m. Tuesday, November 14. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center (3301 Lemp Avenue).
Two Kind
Trattoria Two gives Two Nice Guys something to look up to.
By Ian Froeb
Cheerwine
Blues City Deli, 2438 McNair Avenue; 314-773-8225.
By Randall Roberts
Morton House Mushroom Gravy & Salisbury Steak
$1.77 Grand Supermarket 2700 South Grand Boulevard
By Malcolm Gay
Burning the Yule Log
By Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
Around the World in Eleven Days
Think globally, watch locally at the fifteenth annual St. Louis International Film Festival.
By Brooke Foster, Kristie McClanahan, Kristyn Pomranz and Randall Roberts
Coke Dreams
In Scarface, slinging yayo is the name of the game.
By Luke O'Brien
Communication Breakdown
Storytelling gimmicks can't save vapid, globally-conscious puzzle-film
By Jim Ridley
Our top DVD picks for the week of November 7:
Anchor Man?
Playing against type, Will Ferrell can't quite ground this artificially whimsical romantic comedy.
Film Openings
Holiday in Style
By Alison Sieloff
Potter Heads Unite!
The International Language Is Dance
(Not Esperanto)
By Mark Dischinger
Go Ask Alice
By Nicole Beckert
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Spamalot roars into town.
By Dennis Brown
That's Amore
By Alex Weir
Star Charts and Wine Lists
By Mark Fischer
Video Killed the Renaissance Star
Geisha Girl
Bach to the Garden
You Know That I Love 'Cakes
By Paul Friswold
A Slew of Blue
Tempting Faith
You don't tug on Superman's cape, and you can't stage Pinter without reading between the lines.
By Deanna Jent
Shorts Stuff
Capsule Reviews
Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent suss out local theater
By Dennis Brown and Deanna Jent
Current Shows
Robert Duffy encapsulates the St. Louis art scene
By Robert Duffy
