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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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Thousand Dollar Baby: By day Jamie O'Hare studies for a master's in social work. Her night job is anything but.
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Hot Contender: If looks count, Sarah Steelman may be your next governor
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Seeing Red: Partners battle over a Wash. Ave. eatery's ownership
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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 (17)
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Unreal puts "Jorts & Mandals Day" initiative on the back burner, weighs in on Saint Louis Fashion Week (13)
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Red Alert: Everything they really don't want you to know about those pesky traffic-light cameras (12)
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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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Hot Contender: If looks count, Sarah Steelman may be your next governor (2)
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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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The Monads turn tradition on its tail with a stomping live show and new CD
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LA punks X celebrate turning 31 in style
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Tough Times Ahead for Cardinals Pitching
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Cardinals Opening Day v2.0: The Brightest Spot
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Radiohead, "Nude (RAC Remix)"
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New Radiohead, "Bodysnatchers" and Wilco, "Impossible Germany" Videos
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The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 4.2
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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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Miami New Times
Perez Hilton: Exposed!
Can a "crazy, flamboyant dork" from Miami find happiness as a Hollywood mudslinger?
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SF Weekly
Pitching "Woo-Woo"
He'll find you a parking space and even watch your car--if the meter maids let him.
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SF Weekly
Out of the Woodwork
Union carpenters describe a little slice of Jim Crow smack dab in the middle of America's most PC city.
By Lauren Smiley
Cursive
8 p.m. Sunday, April 6. The Gargoyle, on the campus of Washington University at Forsyth and Skinker boulevards
By Christian Schaeffer
Published: April 2, 2008
Tim Kasher rivals his Saddle Creek Records homeboy Conor Oberst for the title of the hardest-working man in indie rock. When he's not busy writing concept albums about drunken nights in lonely bars with the Good Life, he leads Cursive, a quartet that combines the bare-bones honesty of emo with the brutal riffs of hard rock. Most Cursive albums operate on a story line or theme: 2000's Domestica catalogued the bitterness of a young couple's divorce, 2003's The Ugly Organ followed a thread of sexual self-loathing and 2006's Happy Hollow explores a small town's hypocrisy and close-mindedness. Don't worry — you don't need a copy of Cliff's Notes to appreciate Kasher's storytelling, just an ear for solid, challenging rock & roll.
