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7-Up vs. Coke Part 2
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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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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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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Have two Nirvana producers helped create the next Metallica?
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"The Sex Song": Not TASTiSKANK's homage to Matthew McConaughey
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Bret Michaels (sort of) talks dirty to RFT
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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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This Is Hawkwind -- Do Not Panic
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"The Death of Us," the opening cut on the New Amsterdams' notable new release, Story Like a Scar, is music so open and lonely that it almost had to come out of the Midwest. Kansas native Matt Pryor's frail tenor graces the rootsy accompaniment like a cool breeze across a barren plain, as his lyrics relate a tale of lovers in a secluded locale. Whereas Calexico uses desert motifs to give their songs a distinctly Western eeriness, the New Amsterdams embrace a decidedly more optimistic and lucid bent. When Pryor sings, "I've been wrong, but it's all right!" on the lovely "Turn Out the Lights," he's having as much fun with his wordplay as he is figuring out the strength of a partner's affections. The clarity and unabashed romanticism of Pryor's songs, whose subdued rock sounds are imbued with elements of folk and bluegrass, make even his clichés forgivable for their pleasant naïveté.
