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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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Seeing Red: Partners battle over a Wash. Ave. eatery's ownership (12)
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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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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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Is a Wash. U. dean destroying alumni records and making unjust department cuts? (3)
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Can Taqueria los Tarascos' tacos make you feel homesick for a place you've never lived? Si! (2)
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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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Post-Dispatch and STLtoday.com Drop "Mamalogues" Columnist Dana Loesch
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Dead Confederate at Stubb's, SXSW, Wednesday, March 12
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Gut Check's Hibernation Almost Over
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This Is Hawkwind -- Do Not Panic
06:08PM 11/09/07
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Recent Articles By Roy Kasten
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The Campbell Brothers
8 p.m. Friday, February 15 and 11 a.m. Saturday, February 16. Edison Theatre, 6445 Forsyth Boulevard
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Nina Nastasia
8:30 p.m. Saturday, February 9. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
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Richard Thompson
8 p.m. Monday, February 11. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard
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Parachute Musical
9 p.m. Friday, February 1. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
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Giant Bear
9 p.m. Wednesday, February 6. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
National Features
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Phoenix New Times
Canine Crusaders
That drug-sniffing dog up ahead? He may not be your best friend.
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
The Muscle Men
Thanks to a string of Florida "anti-aging clinics," baseball's steroid scandal isn't limited to superstars.
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Miami New Times
Picked On
Farm workers earn nada in America's green-bean capital.
By Janine Zeitlin -
Village Voice
"Why I'm No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal"
An election-season essay from one of America's greatest playwrights.
By David Mamet
Delta Spirit
8 p.m. Wednesday, March 19. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive
By Roy Kasten
Published: March 12, 2008
Out of indie rock's trends, the stylized reemergence of the sounds one's parents and grandparents once owned is the most perplexing — and inevitable. Southern California's Delta Spirit strips that inclination of irony. Between Mott the Hoople, Blood, Sweat and Tears and the Zombies, Matt Vasquez and company have never met a semi-psychedelic, piano-and-fuzz-guitar-based folk-rock album they didn't like — or couldn't revive with blue-eyed soul or bracing, optimistic protest. In other words, they have vision. "Songs we never wrote, seeds they wouldn't sow," Vasquez sings on the rhapsodic manifesto "Strange Vine." "We're planting our own garden." Whether lacerating a distinctively American culture of violence or calling "soul-searching people" to arms, Delta Spirit makes the adjective "anthemic" meaningful and beautiful again.
