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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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Published: October 24, 2007-
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Minus the Bear: Taking its music to the higher ground.
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Planet of Ice, the latest full-length from mathy Seattle tech-rockers Minus the Bear, still ties the neurological pathways in knots, thanks to its mind-bending rhythmic transitions and unique textures. But these are skills that the band has smoothly mastered since its first release, 2001's This is What I Know About Being Gigantic. Ice, however, finds the band using its studio knowledge and technical know-how to supplement more soulful, groove-oriented song arrangements; "Dr. L'Ling," for instance, drops a heavy funk groove with guitar stabs and bends very reminiscent of John Frusciante's best axe-work with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. And while Minus the Bear's mad bursts of unique synth patchwork and effects-pedals manipulation do still serve a purpose, Ice's guitar lines tend more toward the melodic, calling to mind the prog-rock leanings of recent work by the Mars Volta — or even at times harking back to the '70s-era studio explorations of Pink Floyd.
