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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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R.E.M. Accelerate: An Advance Review and Song-by-Song Analysis of the Band's New Album
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Buffalo Brewing Co.
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This Is Hawkwind -- Do Not Panic
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Recent Articles By Jason Harper
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Face the Nation
We find out what rocked across the country in 2007.
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Boo and Boo Too
8 p.m. Friday, August 31. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.
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Super Black Market
7 p.m. Friday, May 18. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).
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The Hard Lessons
7 p.m. Wednesday, April 4. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).
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The Gaslights / Casey Reid / Dirty 30s
9 p.m. Thursday, February 15. Off Broadway (3509 Lemp Avenue).
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The Veils
6 p.m. Friday, August 31. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
By Jason Harper
Published: August 29, 2007Finn Andrews, the charming frontman for New Zealand-via-London band the Veils, recently reinvented the encore. After a poorly attended Kansas City show in June during which the PA malfunctioned, the dauntless kiwi took his acoustic guitar into the women's bathroom for an almost awkwardly intimate finale. Anyone who stumbles into the band's last-minute St. Louis show is bound to be just as impressed by its dark, intense, preacherman take on doleful, Americana-themed rock. Its songs evoke the country gothic of Tom Waits and Nick Cave but are higher-tuned, as if Rufus Wainwright had a hand in the writing. Andrews even led the band in a kickass rendition of "Mr. State Trooper" from Springsteen's Nebraska in K.C.
