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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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R.E.M. Accelerate: An Advance Review and Song-by-Song Analysis of the Band's New Album
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Your Weekly St. Louis Food Blog Digest
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This Is Hawkwind -- Do Not Panic
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Recent Articles By Ian Froeb
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Will Ian flip for the Original Pancake House?
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Eat Food, Not "Food"
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Ian's got the skinny on the new Flaco's
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Mystery Meat
Ian dissects suadero.
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Agave gives Mexican cuisine the white-tablecloth treatment.
It just might be able to find its niche in the Grove.
Recent Articles By Annie Zaleski
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Sleep State
8 p.m. Saturday, February 9. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue.
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Soft
9 p.m. Tuesday, February 12. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
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Lloyd Dobler Effect
9 p.m. Monday, January 14. Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
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Career (Remix)
The trials and tribulations of R. Kelly.
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The Aviation Club
9 p.m. Friday, January 4. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
Recent Articles By Chad Garrison
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Phantom Punch
Milton "Skip" Ohlsen had big plans for mixed martial arts in St. Louis. Now it seems he’s down for the count.
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Smelterville
Crystal City forges one hell of a deal.
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Helter-Smelter
Lawsuits fly as Crystal City residents try to stop construction of a pig iron production plant.
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Field of Screams
UMSL baseball coach Jim Brady's fevered battle with university officials has gone to extra innings.
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Prince Joe's Victory
Recent Articles By Kristie McClanahan
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Chocolate Raspberry Martini
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Feudo Arancio Nero d'Avola
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Bushmills' Black Bush
Our kitchen, South City
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Oak Vineyards Cabernet Sauvignon
Tucker’s Place
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Blackberry Wheat
Wm. D. Alandale Brewing Company
105 E. Jefferson Avenue, Kirkwood
314-966-2739
Recent Articles By Aimee Levitt
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River Styx keeps on rolling.
After thirty-plus years, it's still a literary force of nature.
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You Say You Want A Resolution
RFT asks an eclectic mix of St. Louisans to imagine how we can get our act together in 2008.
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University City Gets the Boot
Time to remember Bob Dylan’s admonition: “Don’t follow leaders, watch the parkin’ meters.”
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Striker's Guilt
Chesterfield's Paul Guyot feels isolated from his fellow picketers in Hollywood.
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Holocaust on Trial
Lewis Greenberg argues his lawn is art in court.
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
True Story: Columbia's True/False Film Fest hits the half-decade mark
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Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
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Very Young Girls
Very Young Girls
One need only Google the term "very young girls" to discover the breadth and scale of the global sex trade. From Boston to Bangkok the Internet is teeming with "horny" high schoolers willing to do anything for a price. But what compels these teens and preteens to exploit their bodies? That's the question this riveting documentary sets out to answer. Set in New York City, Very Young Girls follows the lives of a half-dozen girls — ages 13 to 18 — who all share the same job title: prostitute. Most come from broken families. Several are runaways. On the streets they're discovered by an older male who takes them in as his girlfriend. What follows might be termed "Pimping 101." The man informs the girl that she needs to start earning for the "family" and forces her — often violently — into turning tricks. In GEMS, a nonprofit that provides housing and support to sexually exploited girls, the young women find support and a way out of the prostitution racket. Some make it. Others remain addicted to the empty promises and parasitic lure of their pimp. "There's not detox for this," notes a GEMS counselor after watching a 16-year-old girl return to the streets. "There's no methadone."
— Chad Garrison
