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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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Seeing Red: Partners battle over a Wash. Ave. eatery's ownership
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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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Grand Old Patty: Ian goes on a beefy binge at Burger Bar and Sub Zero New American Burger Restaurant
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Seeing Red: Partners battle over a Wash. Ave. eatery's ownership (15)
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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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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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Fist City: Rockwell Knuckles aims to punch through St. Louis hip-hop's glass ceiling (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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LA punks X celebrate turning 31 in style
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Rooney/Jonas Brothers
7:30 p.m. Monday, February 25. Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard.
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St. Patrick's Day the Unreal Way
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Iron and Wine at the Pageant, Friday, June 13
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Dooley's Last Day
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This Is Hawkwind -- Do Not Panic
06:08PM 11/09/07
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Recent Articles By Shae Moseley
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Dropkick the Robot
9 p.m. Thursday, March 20. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
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Cloud Cult
9 p.m. Monday, March 17. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
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Louder than Bombs: A Place to Bury Strangers brings the noise
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The Whigs
7 p.m. Thursday, February 14. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard
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Leo Kottke
8 p.m. Friday, February 15. Sheldon Concert Hall, 3648 Washington Boulevard
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
The Paper Chase
9 p.m. Tuesday, March 25. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Boulevard.
By Shae Moseley
Published: March 19, 2008
Like Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock, Paper Chase frontman John Congleton relies on rambunctious vocal melodrama as much as he does lyrical content to set a mood. But unlike Brock's outfit — which found mainstream success after moving away from boundary-pushing art-rock in favor of more straightforward, danceable tunes — Congleton's band has chosen to evolve within the confines of its signature brand of creepy avant-punk. Always fond of pushing an audience just outside of its comfort zone, the band nevertheless still gets inside the listeners' heads — and stays there. Ultra-catchy pop hooks craftily shrouded in a cloak of eerie dissonance remain the weapon of choice on 2006's Now You Are One of Us. Congleton's work with bands like Explosions in the Sky and the Mountain Goats has made his value as a producer increase within the indie-rock community; it just might take a little longer for his reputation to catch up to the genius of his band's music.
