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Red Alert: Everything they really don't want you to know about those pesky traffic-light cameras
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Ludo is fired up and ready to play on the national stage
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Seeing Red: Partners battle over a Wash. Ave. eatery's ownership
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Curious Gorge: Ian tests the animal magnetism of Three Monkeys
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Feel a Draught?: Tigín opens an outpost in a Hampton Inn downtown? O'Really!
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Seeing Red: Partners battle over a Wash. Ave. eatery's ownership (15)
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Red Alert: Everything they really don't want you to know about those pesky traffic-light cameras (10)
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7-Up vs. Coke Part 2 (6)
Heir to a fortune, Andrew Gladney went from John Burroughs to Yale and came home to found the dot-com darling Savvis Inc. Then he squandered it all. The spectacular flameout of a St. Louis soft-drink scion.
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Is a Wash. U. dean destroying alumni records and making unjust department cuts? (3)
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Can Taqueria los Tarascos' tacos make you feel homesick for a place you've never lived? Si! (2)
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Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com Drop "Mamalogues" Columnist Dana Loesch
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Liam Finn, The Golden Dogs, Joseph Arthur, Heloise & the Savoir Faire at SXSW
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Gut Check's Hibernation Almost Over
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This Is Hawkwind -- Do Not Panic
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Recent Articles By Thomas Crone
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Mad haPPy with Rob Getzschman and Jonathan Toth From Hoth
Wednesday, April 23; Frederick's Music Lounge
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Bump and Grind
Strip-club disc jockeys spin to the beats of different drummers
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Bob Log III with Bebe and Serge
Saturday, April 12; Rocket Bar
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Picastro with Blueberry McGregor
Friday, February 21; Radio Cherokee
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Thwak-ed Out
The Umbilical Brothers come to St. Louis. Wackiness ensues.
National Features
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Phoenix New Times
Canine Crusaders
That drug-sniffing dog up ahead? He may not be your best friend.
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
The Muscle Men
Thanks to a string of Florida "anti-aging clinics," baseball's steroid scandal isn't limited to superstars.
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Miami New Times
Picked On
Farm workers earn nada in America's green-bean capital.
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Village Voice
"Why I'm No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal"
An election-season essay from one of America's greatest playwrights.
By David Mamet
The Urge enjoy a rarefied position in our music community; only a few other St. Louis acts -- the Son Volt/Wilco axis, Gravity Kills, maybe Stir -- own the same type of national reputation and local drawing potential.
Nowadays the band members spend the better part of their lives in tour buses, dropping into St. Louis for only the occasional gig: a Pointfest, or the lively annual Christmas shows.
This year the Urge is booked for four straight nights at Mississippi Nights starting Dec. 27, with "Old Skool Night" slated for the last show, Wednesday, Dec. 30. The band's latest release, the Epic/Immortal Master of Styles, bounces through several kid-pleasing genres, with hints of ska, metal and hip-hop reflected in the radio-ready pop sheen.
There's no doubt that the veterans of this band have paid their dues in full. Their near-week of Laclede's Landing glory stands as testimony not only to their instrumental skill and songwriting smarts but to their all-too-rare ability to embrace good, old-fashioned work.
-- Thomas Crone
