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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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Legendarily Ornery STL Bartender Mark Pollman ICU Update
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Van Halen's March 30 St. Louis Concert Postponed
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Iron Chef America -- The Game!
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This Is Hawkwind -- Do Not Panic
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Recent Articles By Ryan Wasoba
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HEALTH
9 p.m. Monday, February 18. The Billiken Club, 20 North Grand Boulevard
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Cobra Starship
7 p.m. Friday, February 1. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.
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Sound Tribe Sector 9
7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 2. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
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The Dillinger Escape Plan
7:30 p.m. Saturday, January 26. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
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Muppet Gone to Heaven
Veteran bluesman Bobby Rush charms China, while B-Sides makes a mixtape for Elmo the Muppet’s life.
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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The Pitch
How Not To Be a Rap Star
First of all, lay off the Ecstasy.
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Village Voice
Project Runaway
What becomes a gossip columnist most?
By Michael Musto
Early Day Miners
9 p.m. Friday, February 8. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
By Ryan Wasoba
Published: February 6, 2008
American music and American geography have always gone hand in hand. But while many bands can recall Southern attitude or New York cool, very few bands evoke the wistfulness of Midwest living the way Bloomington, Indiana's Early Day Miners do. Offshore, the band's fifth full-length, showcases the quintet's patient approach to post-rock, where chiming guitars, drawn-out vocals, and distant-freight-train drumming blend in a way that's ambient but still powerful. The result is "cinematic," although the members of Early Day Miners never pander to the drama-by-numbers clichés found on movie soundtracks or in Nissan commercials. Instead, Offshore is the perfect score to a long drive through desolate, cornfield-packed stretches of I-70.
