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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 (14)
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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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The 75s make an extra-fancy splash with its debut record
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Producer nonpareil Pharrell Williams is happy to be just one of the band again
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Texas Tornado: St. Louis musicians invade SXSW
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Rooney/Jonas Brothers
7:30 p.m. Monday, February 25. Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard.
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The legendary Mavis Staples looks ahead with a Turn Back
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Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com Drop "Mamalogues" Columnist Dana Loesch
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Gentleman Auction House, "Breakin' Dishes" (Rihanna cover) plus "Scissor Arms"
02:37AM 03/15/08 -
Gut Check's Hibernation Almost Over
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This Is Hawkwind -- Do Not Panic
06:08PM 11/09/07
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Recent Articles By Annie Zaleski
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Sleep State
8 p.m. Saturday, February 9. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.
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Soft
9 p.m. Tuesday, February 12. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
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Lloyd Dobler Effect
9 p.m. Monday, January 14. Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
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Career (Remix)
The trials and tribulations of R. Kelly.
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The Aviation Club
9 p.m. Friday, January 4. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
National Features
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Phoenix New Times
Canine Crusaders
That drug-sniffing dog up ahead? He may not be your best friend.
By Ray Stern -
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.
By Janine Zeitlin -
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
Stace England
Friday, December 16; Frederick’s Music Lounge (4454 Chippewa Street)
By Annie Zaleski
Published: December 14, 2005Perhaps Stace England should thank Sufjan Stevens and his three-cheers-for-Illinois album for making geography a hip endeavor once again. Then again, England's Greetings from Cairo, Illinois has little in common with Stevens' gentle folk beyond its references to the Prairie State. For starters, England actually hails from southern Illinois (unlike Stevens and his Michigan origins). Furthermore, Greetings exposes the gritty reality of a city the liner notes describe as "the most fascinating town in America," starting with the a cappella nineteenth-century folk chestnut "Goin' Down to Cairo" and the 1920s-era finger-picked "Cairo Blues." Other songs focus on dark moments in the city's history (a 1909 lynching, 1960s racial tension, vote-buying) or glimmers of hope (visits from Jesse Jackson and Ulysses S. Grant), all driven by a rootsy soundtrack bristling with hymnal harmonies, dusty honky-tonk and the occasional twinge of funk.
