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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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Seeing Red: Partners battle over a Wash. Ave. eatery's ownership (9)
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Red Alert: Everything they really don't want you to know about those pesky traffic-light cameras (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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Grant-Lee Phillips has always been known as a sharp singer-songwriter. His '80s version of Bowie's Pin-Ups, however, proves that he's even smarter than you realize. These eleven mostly acoustic versions of Reagan-era alternative classics are a wise acknowledgment of a simple truth: While there's no point in recording an album of sound-alike covers, collections of unrecognizable "reinterpretations" are equally worthless. The alterations Phillips makes are usually slight — quickening the pace of New Order 's "Age of Consent," slowing down the Cure's "Boys Don't Cry" — but effective, revealing plaintive new depths in both songs. The same is true of the Pixies' "Wave of Mutilation," the disc's most noticeable rethink; shorn of Black Francis' aggression, a lovely country waltz emerges. Even the tunes that suffer most without their vocal melodrama fare well in Phillips' gentle hands. A lovely, soft-focus snapshot of an era, nineteeneighties is as good an introduction to a musically underrated decade as it is a tribute.
