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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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Stone Temple Pilots
2 p.m. Sunday, June 8. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights.
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Bet the Ranch: What were the odds? Lumière Place has a steak house!
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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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Magnum Pi: Can Ian make peace with Provel? Solve for Π. (4)
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OldestProfession2.0: A new generation of local "providers" and "hobbyists" create a virtual red-light district (4)
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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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Rare On Air: St. Louis' own RiverfrontRadio.com is changing the way Web radio is done
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Forever Changes: Chick Corea's Return To Forever reunites and shows neo-jazz fusion groups how it's done
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St. Louis' Dolce’ Nightclub is Dead
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Hump Day Slow Jam of the Week: The Pointer Sisters, "Slow Hand"
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Rushing Molina into Line Up Could Be Huge Mistake
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Hell's Kitchen: Episode 12
04:03PM 06/18/08
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Recent Articles By Christian Schaeffer
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Chicago/Doobie Brothers
7 p.m. Sunday, June 22. Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, 14141 Riverfront Drive, Maryland Heights
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Via Dove
Twilight (Might Be Time)
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Wye Oak
9 p.m. Monday, June 16. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue
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Jumbling Towers
Classy Entertainment EP
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Turn It Up
New Line rocks out
Recent Articles By Annie Zaleski
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B-Sides makes sense of Iron & Wine while Lemuria continues to Get Better
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Ladytron/Datarock
8 p.m. Monday, June 16. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard
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Mates of State/Headlights
9 p.m. Sunday, June 8. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.
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Twangfest: Charles Walker and the Dynamites
9 p.m. Thursday, June 5. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City.
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Twangfest: Ha Ha Tonka
Opening for Waco Brothers. 9 p.m. Saturday, June 7. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.
National Features
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Broward-Palm Beach New Times
Ganja of the Seas
The aging hippie who was the first target of the War on Drugs is out of jail and talking up a storm.
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Dallas Observer
The Man Who Would Be King
Freddy Haynes seemed a shoo-in to lead the NAACP. Then Obama's pastor came to town.
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Phoenix New Times
Visions of Allison DuBois
There's no proof the real-life Medium has ever cracked a case, but her fans don't care.
By Megan Irwin -
Westword
Don Becker's Last Stand-Up
Denver mourns the loss of its favorite one-armed, bipolar comic/poet/playwright.
By Adam Cayton-Holland
B-Sides gets historical with Theodore and finds power-pop heaven with Tight Pants Syndrome
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Published: June 18, 2008A big part of that is Tom Stephens. Basically, the band is Tom Stephens. He has recycled the entire lineup since he did "Your Buzz Is Safe With Me" — everyone's new except for Tom. He just lends a very distinct slant to his pop songs. Tom is such a great songwriter.
Tights Pants Syndrome did some out-of-town stuff recently, right?
We did some Champaign and Chicago stuff over the last month or two. It was a blast; I never had that much fun being out of town with a band before. They're just the goofiest people I've ever known in my life — and that's in the best way, they're really fun. I'm on the midnight shift, [and] we left early in the morning, I tried to sleep the entire way up to Chicago — we had a day show [there] and a night show that same night in Champaign — and these guys were so goofy, yelling and screaming the whole time. I was exhausted, but they were having so much fun, I couldn't tell 'em, "Guys, can you keep it down?" Because that enthusiasm was so, I don't know...It makes everything so much more exciting and fun. — Annie Zaleski
9 p.m. Saturday, June 21. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust. Free. 314-241-2337.
