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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
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Recent Articles By Keegan Hamilton
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Air guns legalized this deer season
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Libertarians shun Chief Wana Dubie.
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Sacred Garbage?
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Lock 'Em Down, Lock 'Em Up
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More Than Meets the Eye
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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.
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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
Islands
8 p.m. Wednesday, March 19 . Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue
By Keegan Hamilton
Published: March 12, 2008
Although Montreal's turn-of-the-century indie-rock renaissance produced a host of now-iconic bands (The Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, etc.), the short-lived, ill-fated trio the Unicorns were responsible for what is arguably the movement's best album, 2003's Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? When the Unicorns broke up in 2004, singer/guitarist Nick Thorburn and drummer Jaime Thompson went on to form Islands. On its 2006 gem Return to the Sea, Islands retains two of its predecessor's best traits: Thorburn's nasally, understated voice and his uncanny ability to craft sprawling, catchy pop songs. On tracks like "Jogging Gorgeous Summer" and "Rough Gem," their songs are as sunny and carefree as the band's tropical name implies, blending the sounds of dancehall, calypso and bubblegum pop. At other times, Thorburn falls back on his signature Unicorns style: deeply dark lyrics disguised with hum-along hooks and melodies. Reportedly, on this tour the duo — which expands to a sextet live —has been testing out tracks from Sea's May 20 follow-up Arm's Way.
