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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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R.E.M. Accelerate: An Advance Review and Song-by-Song Analysis of the Band's New Album
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Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest
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This Is Hawkwind -- Do Not Panic
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Mid-'80s R&B; is the hair metal of funky music — mainly because it extends everything that made the genre good in the 1970s ad nauseam. Hair metal took guitar solos, rock-star debauchery and homoerotic pageantry and made them commonplace (and therefore ridiculous). Similarly, an excess of synthesizers, cocaine and mid-song phone calls (once the shiny forces that forged boogie music out of disco) make it difficult to appreciate mid-'80s R&B; unironically. Still, Chromeo — the duo that creates incredibly faithful mid-'80s R&B; — has managed another enjoyable (and straight-faced) 40 minutes of the stuff. Fancy Footwork has its share of cornball beauty, with "Bonafied Lovin' (Tough Guys)" and the title track standing out. But Footwork would be hard to take without the relatively subdued second half of the album; in particular, the Hall & Oates-inspired "Momma's Boy" adds a different kind of '80s cheese and keeps things interesting.
