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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: February 13, 2008
In 1986, a Sacramento group named City Kidd changed its moniker after its manager suggested that it pay tribute to inventor Nikola Tesla. But while Tesla the man pioneered radio technology, Tesla the band blazed the trail for unplugged hard-rock albums with 1990's Five Man Acoustical Jam. An earnest, blues-based act, Tesla sold millions of records in the late '80s/early '90s without looking nearly as flamboyant as that era's real longhaired freaky people. On VH1's largely debauched list of the "100 Most Metal Moments," Tesla contributed feel-good, blue-collar entry #59: "Septic truck driver becomes singer." Musically, the group's early output holds up well. Grittier tracks could gun down most modern-day rock-radio cowboys, and its power ballad "Love Song" should comfort Valentine's hangover sufferers with its "keep an open heart" optimism.
