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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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Red Alert: Everything they really don't want you to know about those pesky traffic-light cameras (10)
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Seeing Red: Partners battle over a Wash. Ave. eatery's ownership (9)
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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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Will Ian flip for the Original Pancake House? (4)
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Is a Wash. U. dean destroying alumni records and making unjust department cuts? (3)
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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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Boeing vs. Airbus: The Winning Bird Might Be Too Big
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R.E.M. at Stubb's, SXSW, Wednesday, March 12: Review
03:17AM 03/13/08 -
Is Red Kaput?
05:55PM 03/12/08 -
This Is Hawkwind -- Do Not Panic
06:08PM 11/09/07
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Recent Articles By Jonathan Zwickel
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Flaming Lips
At War with the Mystics (Warner Brothers)
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Various Artists
Idol Tryouts Two: Ghostly International Vol. Two (Ghostly International)
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Soul Sisters
Floetry keeps it honest
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Domenico+2
Sincerely Hot (Luka Bop)
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The Zutons
Who Killed...the Zutons (Deltasonic)
National Features
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Houston Press
"It Was Like an Armageddon Movie"
For days after Hurricane Rita, a Texas prison was hell on earth.
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SF Weekly
The Candidate
Our columnist knows Ralph Nader's running mate all too well.
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The Pitch
How Not To Be a Rap Star
First of all, lay off the Ecstasy.
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Village Voice
Project Runaway
What becomes a gossip columnist most?
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Sound Tribe Sector 9
Friday, February 3; the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard)
By Jonathan Zwickel
Published: February 1, 2006Sound Tribe Sector 9's live shows seamlessly dissolve instrumental musings into fine-tuned sonic sculpture, veering from lengthy, jazz-driven improvisations to laptop-enhanced downtempo suites. The Santa Cruz-via-Atlanta quintet's 2005 album, Artifact, combines the best of both sides of the band, charging warm-and-fuzzy acoustic guitar and elegant piano with sinister breakbeats and deep-space atmospherics. Occasional appearances from drum 'n' bass diva Audio Angel add instant soul to an album of chilled-out head food, smearing hip-hop and late-night jazz onto STS9's diverse palette. Seventy-some minutes alternate between dense and spacious, bubbly and sharp, vintage and cutting-edge, sometimes in the same song (check "Tokyo," the monumental single). Bringing to mind the masters of moody electronica (LTJ Bukem, Wagon Christ, K&D), the self-produced Artifact is aptly titled, providing a brilliant snapshot of a band in constant evolution.
