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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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Grand Old Patty: Ian goes on a beefy binge at Burger Bar and Sub Zero New American Burger Restaurant
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Feel a Draught?: Tigín opens an outpost in a Hampton Inn downtown? O'Really!
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Thousand Dollar Baby: By day Jamie O'Hare studies for a master's in social work. Her night job is anything but. (1)
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Dora Magrath was blessed with a beautiful voice. She's gone, but you can still hear it.
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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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The legendary Mavis Staples looks ahead with a Turn Back
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It's Always (Vintage) Fashion Week in St. Louis
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Recent Articles By Christian Schaeffer
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O'Death/Langhorne Slim
9 p.m. Thursday, March 20. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Boulevard.
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The Showbiz Kids/Shining Star
8 p.m. Friday, March 21. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.
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DJ Trackstar Presents
Boogie Bang Vol. 12
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All the King's Horsemen
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Matt Pond PA
9 p.m. Thursday, March 13. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
National Features
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Village Voice
A Long Way Wrong?
Another celebrated memoir threatens to blow into a million little pieces.
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LA Weekly
Hoop Dawg
Billionaire Donald T. Sterling owns the L.A. Clippers and loves the ladies. And those are just two of his problems.
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Elvin Boone's sex-shop empire crumbles as his offspring feud.
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Westword
The Good Soldier
When the Army tried to take down Andrew Pogany, they messed with the wrong coward.
By Joel Warner
Mike Doughty
8 p.m. Thursday, March 27. The Gargoyle, on the campus of Washington University at Forsyth and Skinker boulevards
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: March 26, 2008
It tells us something about the mid-'90s alt-rock boom that a left-field band like Soul Coughing landed a major-label deal. The New York quartet blended bizarro samples, avant-rock licks and jazz grooves, all under the sway of M. Doughty's half-spoke/half-sung spurts of street poetry. These days M. Doughty performs as Mike Doughty, having embraced the singer-songwriter tag that he willfully eluded with his old band. Dan Wilson (of Semisonic) produced the just-released Golden Delicious, cloaking the songs in the warm glow of American rock & roll without diluting Doughty's stream-of-consciousness lyrics. He still throws some expert curve balls: "Fort Hood" ruminates on the loss of life and the loss of innocence that U.S. soldiers have experienced in Iraq while lifting the Fifth Dimension's "Let the Sunshine In" for the chorus. The seeming non sequitur embodies the singer's musical vision, where all styles and thoughts synthesize into something meaningful and danceable at the same time.
