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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 (15)
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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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A Place to Bury Strangers at the Pitchfork Party, SXSW
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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 Roy Kasten
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The Campbell Brothers
8 p.m. Friday, February 15 and 11 a.m. Saturday, February 16. Edison Theatre, 6445 Forsyth Boulevard
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Nina Nastasia
8:30 p.m. Saturday, February 9. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
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Richard Thompson
8 p.m. Monday, February 11. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard
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Parachute Musical
9 p.m. Friday, February 1. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
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Giant Bear
9 p.m. Wednesday, February 6. 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.
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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
Blue Mountain
11 p.m. Thursday, June 7. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
By Roy Kasten
Published: June 6, 2007If you had to pick only one album to sum up the very best of alt-country's best decade — that's the '90s — you'd probably pick the Jayhawks' Hollywood Town Hall or the Bottle Rockets' 24 Hours a Day or maybe Son Volt's Trace. But you'd be remiss to overlook Blue Mountain's best album, Dog Days. Cary Hudson, Laurie Stirratt (sister of Wilco bassist John) and Frank Coutch drew a straight line between three kinds of rock (Southern, alternative and folk) and then torched the whole rural-rock map. Blue Mountain's songs celebrated blue canoes, classic rock radio, a dope-smoking band called Bud and folk heroes Elvis and Jimmy Carter, but its Southern vision wasn't a myth or cliché — it was fresh, irreducible soul. Three albums after Dog Days, the trio called it quits; its appearance at Twangfest will be the group's first show in six years and is not to be missed.
