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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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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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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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Mark Pollman: R.I.P. You Ornery Ol' Cuss
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The RAC MP3 Collection: A Sonic Companion to this Week's Cover Story
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The Morning Brew: Thursday, 3.13
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This Is Hawkwind -- Do Not Panic
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Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
9 p.m. Saturday, January 26. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
Brooke Foster
Published: January 23, 2008
The boys of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin present a bit of a conundrum. They create such foot-stomping, genuinely fun rock music that one feels inclined to yell "Woo!" and buy them all beers. Yet they're so earnest and so gosh-darn adorable that one also kinda wants to invite them over for cake. What to do? Who cares, as long as we all get to hear cuts from SSLYBY's excellent debut LP, Broom? Although many in the music-o-sphere have a hard time moving past the easy Elliott Smith comparison — and it is evident, particularly on the eerily beautiful "House Fire" — SSLYBY is not simply the latest clone of the greatly missed Mr. Smith. The Springfield band's sound recalls Weezer and early Wilco, and its turns of phrase are completely charming. Broom's opening track, "Pangea," takes its name from the second-coolest thing discussed in elementary school (numero uno is flying dinosaurs) and laments the sadness of "drifting apart." Hee! This is rock music that refuses to take itself too seriously — and as a result, it's seriously great.
