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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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Seeing Red: Partners battle over a Wash. Ave. eatery's ownership
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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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Ludacris Does So Have Hoes in St. Louis!
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End of the Century
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Kevin Bowers
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Finest Worksong
Jon Hardy and the Public finds beauty in love's vagaries.
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"It Was Like an Armageddon Movie"
For days after Hurricane Rita, a Texas prison was hell on earth.
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What becomes a gossip columnist most?
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A Very Bert Dax Christmas shows
9 p.m. Friday, December 15. Lemmons (5800 Gravois Avenue)
9 p.m. Saturday, December 16. Way Out Club (2525 South Jefferson Avenue).
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: December 13, 2006Seasonal affective disorder or holiday humbuggery got you down? Pop in A Very Bert Dax Christmas, Volume 5 and watch your blues melt away. Curated by Bunnygrunt leader Matt Harnish, this year's compilation, like those before it, offers sincere and sacrilegious holiday tunes from this city's finest punks, string-pickers and noisemakers. Acoustic warriors the Monads will headline Friday's album-release show at Lemmons. The guitar/banjo/upright-bass three piece make their mark with the old-timey string music of "C'mon Santa," which exhorts St. Nick for cash, booze and smokes. Also making a rare public appearance is the duo Mustardfish, who do a banjo-and-Casiotone version of Bunnygrunt's "Season's Freaklings." Saturday's show at the Way Out Club gets noisier as Rats & People, SkareKrau Radio, The Manillas and Learn, Artist take the stage. Rats & People's "Bethlehem Says the Bible" is the disc's most traditionally beautiful song, a quiet, violin-led reflection on the holiday's origins. On the other end of the spectrum is SkareKrau Radio's "Christmas is Love," a song full of cheap beats and basement raps that decorum doesn't allow us to print in this paper.
