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Cock and Awe
St. Louis pickup artists rule the roost.
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John Ray used to own a tavern in Benton Park. Now he lives in Quincy and dabbles in conspiracy theory.
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The strange and violent world of St. Louis' bail bondsmen
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A Village Runs Through It: The RFT unveils its big bold plans for that big damn hole
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All In A Name
Did the Post-Dispatch deliberately give its new blog the same title as the competition?
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Was it Colonel Mustard or Professor Plum who killed MLK? (4)
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John Ray used to own a tavern in Benton Park. Now he lives in Quincy and dabbles in conspiracy theory. (3)
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Heat Rises: Pappy's Smokehouse elevates humble barbecue to ethereal heights (3)
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The strange and violent world of St. Louis' bail bondsmen (2)
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A to Z (2)
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Tegan and Sara find their sister act soaring with The Con
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Feeling Gravity's Pull: R.E.M. hurtles toward the future on Accelerate
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B-Sides gets personal with Alicia Keys, as she is, and examines the parallels between Metallica-worshippers Apocalyptica and Harptallica
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Using Their Illusion: Ferocious — and funny — locals the Livers hope video builds the radio star
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Slice of Life
John Vanderslice celebrates warmer weather with an exclusive mix of tunes.
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Mission Accomplished!
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George Lois: The Apotheosis of Cover Design
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Voting is Now Open for the 2008 RFT Music Awards!
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Tegan and Sara: Story Outtakes from This Week's Music Feature
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The Shaved Duck Opens Tonight
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The Morning Brew: Thursday, 5.1
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Recent Articles By Roy Kasten
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Fifteen things you might not know about the Bottle Rockets, on their fifteenth birthday
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The Shackeltons
8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street
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Martin Sexton
8 p.m. Saturday, April 26. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard
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Blue Mountain explores the Southern-rock roads less traveled while the Mars Volta tries to shed its bad voodoo on the way to releasing The Bedlam in Goliath.
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Anders Parker
9 p.m. Monday, April 21. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street
National Features
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
Last Step to Redemption
Drug counselor Richard Entrekin swam a little too easily in a sea of sharks.
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Village Voice
The Cro-Mag Diaries
Remembering the brutal life and times of John "Bloodclot" Joseph, New York hardcore icon.
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Miami New Times
Class Warfare
At a Florida school, kids threaten teachers, whose bosses look the other way.
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SF Weekly
Party Crashers
If you think Ralph Nader won't screw the Democrats again, you're not paying attention.
By John Geluardi
Allison Moorer/Steve Earle
8 p.m. Monday, May 5. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard
By Roy Kasten
Published: April 30, 2008
Allison Moorer has become so identified with the outsider country scene and the singer-songwriter militancy of hubby Steve Earle that one tends to forget her flirtation with mega-stardom in the '90s. But MCA Nashville gave the Alabama native (and sister to country-soul goddess Shelby Lynne) two strikes — the tentative debut Alabama Song and the sublime The Hardest Part — before calling her out and dropping her from the roster. Since then she's stuck to her songwriting guns, even when they fired commercial blanks. But 2008's Songbird is her best effort in years, mostly because Che Earle stays out of the way (he doesn't even get a cut) and because her song selection — including tunes by Julie Miller, Gillian Welch, Nina Simone and Jessi Colter — is unalloyed, solid gold. Her full, open alto is gold, too, only hot and molten.
