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Deadbeats Ho!: Did you pay your tax bills last year? Of course you did — unless you’re called out in this story.
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OldestProfession2.0: A new generation of local "providers" and "hobbyists" create a virtual red-light district
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Cheesesteak Quest: Can Ian find a decent Philly cheesesteak in St. Louis? Yes, he can!
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Bad Buzz: King Bee building residents have turned on downtown St. Louis developers Sam Glasser and Dave Jump
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Rant Radio: RFT readers weigh in on the meltdown at KWMU
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Radio Active: What has Patty Wente done to create such a meltdown at KWMU? (41)
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Paintless in St. Louis? St. Louis Alderwoman Donna Baringer wants to treat cans of spray paint like they're handguns. (11)
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Rare On Air: St. Louis' own RiverfrontRadio.com is changing the way Web radio is done (8)
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Cheesesteak Quest: Can Ian find a decent Philly cheesesteak in St. Louis? Yes, he can! (6)
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Bad Buzz: King Bee building residents have turned on downtown St. Louis developers Sam Glasser and Dave Jump (5)
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Stone Temple Pilots
2 p.m. Sunday, June 8. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.
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Midwest Mayhem
7 p.m. Thursday, May 22. City Museum, 701 North 15th Street
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RFT Music Awards Nominees: St. Louis' Best and Brightest
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B-Sides takes a Jazz Journey and says hello to Ne-Yo
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Rare On Air: St. Louis' own RiverfrontRadio.com is changing the way Web radio is done
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Study: St. Louis Among Most Polluted in the Country
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Hear the RAC Stereogum Mix here!
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This Week's Poll: Tacos!
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Recent Articles By Roy Kasten
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B-Sides makes sense of Iron & Wine while Lemuria continues to Get Better
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Pieta Brown
8 p.m. Thursday, May 29. Lucas School House, 1220 Allen Avenue
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Poi Dog Pondering
9 p.m. Wednesday, June 4. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City
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B-Sides grooves to the global sounds of DeVotchKa and Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
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The Dirtbombs
8 p.m. Saturday, May 24. The Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.
National Features
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City Pages
Harassing the Harassers
Avenging attorney Pete Barry turns the tables on aggressive debt collectors.
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Houston Press
Bootlegging Dr. Pepper
Eight bucks a six-pack? A small price to pay for authentic, cane-sugar soda.
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Phoenix New Times
The Wrath of Wal-Mart
The giant retailer screws over an elderly greeter who made the mistake of drinking a Coke at work.
By Paul Rubin -
Cleveland Scene
Another Thing Comin'
Rock Star painted him as a wannabe, but Ripper Owens is doing better than ever.
By Denise Grollmus
Matthew Ryan Vs. the Silver State
9 p.m. Wednesday, June 18. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue
By Roy Kasten
Published: June 11, 2008
When last we heard from Matthew Ryan, he was getting in touch with his inner Eno, electro-soundscaping the peripatetic songs he writes in his own blood and sings like he's half-choking on same. If From a Late Night High Rise is his most difficult record, a middle finger to his Nashville outsider reputation, his latest album, Matthew Ryan vs. the Silver State, is the live-sounding, collaborative work of a band. It's a hell of a band, one that swings like the Waterboys and churns like the Blue Nile while bringing it all back to a foreclosed and fuzzed-out Dylanesque home. And only a writer of Ryan's vision would, in a season of permanent war, turn "Dulce Et Decorum Est" into a song of purely personal, purely brilliant ravages. He remains an essential American voice.
