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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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Recent Articles By Jaime Lees
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Von Bondies
7 p.m. Friday, March 7. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard
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Bret Michaels (sort of) talks dirty to RFT
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AA Bondy reinvents himself as an indie-folk artist
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Vince Neil
7:30 p.m. Thursday, January 17. Bottleneck Blues Bar at the Ameristar Casino, 1260 South Main Street, St. Charles.
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Bare Is My Mind?
Bobby Bare Jr. covers up with his ace Pixies and Breeders tribute act.
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
The Safes
9 p.m. Saturday, March 5. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street
By Jaime Lees
Published: April 2, 2008
The Safes groove a familiar sound that is wholly unoriginal but entirely excellent, by nodding to Brit-garage, Mod and all kinds of power pop. (Think early Kinks spliced with any bubbly Superchunk tune.) The Chicago trio's 2007 release Well, Well, Well earned the brothers O'Malley — and they're real brothers, not "band brothers" à la the Ramones — plenty of positive attention from tastemakers like Pitchfork. Some of the Safes' studio detail is lost in translation live; the blasting rock elements overpower the music's pop intricacies. But its show always brings a welcome punch of rock & roll fun — and a chance to shake your tail feather.
