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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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Go! 3/7-3/9
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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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The Morning Brew: Monday, 3.10
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This Is Hawkwind -- Do Not Panic
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Recent Articles By Jonah Bayer
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Armor for Sleep
7 p.m. Saturday, January 26. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.
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Commit This to Memory
The Minneapolis-based pop-punk act Motion City Soundtrack proves that its success is no novelty.
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Punk's Not Dead
Against Me! Plays anarchist punk rock for the masses.
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We Versus the Shark
9 p.m. Thursday, October 11. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
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Portugal. The Man.
8:30 p.m. Monday, October 15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
National Features
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Houston Press
"It Was Like an Armageddon Movie"
For days after Hurricane Rita, a Texas prison was hell on earth.
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SF Weekly
The Candidate
Our columnist knows Ralph Nader's running mate all too well.
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How Not To Be a Rap Star
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Village Voice
Project Runaway
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The Makes Nice
8 p.m. Thursday, October 4. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
By Jonah Bayer
Published: October 3, 2007San Francisco, California's The Makes Nice features Josh Smith, a founding member and ex-guitarist of instrumental metal act the Fucking Champs. But Smith's power-pop trio has far more in common with the Yardbirds than, say, Yakuza. A throwback to '60s acts such as the Shragri-Las, the band's upcoming album This Time Tomorrow evokes the past without sounding overly nostalgic or forced — despite the fact that tracks such as "Do It Again" and "Her Personal Vendetta" sound authentic enough to be included on the next Nuggets compilation. However, don't let the close-cropped hair and matching suits fool you: Beneath its pop sheen, The Makes Nice is crafting rock music that's so soulful, it's downright dirty — in an Elvis-on-Ed-Sullivan kind of way. Not bad for a dude who also plays in a band called Drunk Horse, huh?
