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Hide and Seek n most small-quantity weed busts, it’s normal for the defendant to plead guilty, pay a fine and move on. Case closed. However, Patrick M. Luchtefeld, a 32-yearold Trenton, Illinois, resident, believed that Highland police officer Charles Allen improperly arrested him for marijuana possession back in September. Today, because authorities bungled the handling of the arrest video, Luchtefeld is a free man. Allen pulled over the 1992 blue Honda Luchtefeld was riding in for a having a loud muffler and no rear registration light. Luchtefeld claims that Allen berated him for his piercings and tattoos. “This officer, he straight tells me, ‘You’ve been a piece of shit your whole life, why don’t you just take the hit?’” he says. “I do have a lot of tattoos, some facial piercings, and this cop seemed more like a farm boy. In the interrogation he asked me, ‘What are you doing around here?’” The officer allegedly found a small baggy of weed near the car’s passenger seat and charged Luchtefeld, who was not driving, with possessing between 2.5 and 10 grams of marijuana. Luchtefeld didn’t take the charge lying down. He got a lawyer and filed a request under Illinois’ Freedom of Information Act to
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obtain a copy of the dash-cam footage of the arrest. He received four CDs containing the video several days later. During the trial last month, Madison County prosecutors revealed they had no idea that a recording of the arrest even existed. Even stranger, Allen testified that his patrol car’s camera equipment was malfunctioning and there was no tape. According to the Belleville News-Democrat, after Allen gave testimony, Luchtefeld whispered to his lawyer, Thomas Maag, that the officer was wrong and that he actually had the recordings. By law, a defense lawyer in Maag’s position should have had been given the footage. It shows the officer questioning Luchtefeld near the rear of the vehicle, searching near the passenger seat, and then arresting Luchtefeld. After hearing about the missing and then suddenly found tape, associate Judge David Grounds dismissed the charge against Luchtefeld, citing the case’s “disturbing” circumstances. “The very existence of a video appears to have been kept from the State’s Attorney’s Office,” Grounds said in his ruling, according to the BND. “For what reason? Oversight? I don’t know. Because the State’s Attorney’s Office had no knowledge of such video, it was not produced in discovery, as requested by [defense counsel].” Although the acquittal cannot be appealed, Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Gibbons voiced his disagreement with the judge’s ruling, insisting that Luchtefeld and his lawyer had all the evidence they needed. “He did have the videos,” Gibbons told the
newspaper. “He had more of the evidence than we did.” “My lawyer made that cop look like an idiot on the stand,” says Luchtefeld, an airplane mechanic. “It’s embarrassing on them. I guess they forgot that they gave [the recording] to me.” He denies that he ever had drugs in the car. “There’s a reason they didn’t give the video to the State’s Attorney,” says Luchtefeld. At the moment, Luchtefeld is weighing his options. He says he wants to sue but doesn’t have the money to pay legal costs. “[The police] do what they want to keep themselves out of trouble, and it’s bogus if you ask me,” he says. “If they don’t like you or they don’t want you in their town, they’ll do whatever they want.” Gibbons tells Daily RFT that the the dashcam footage was, at least initially, saved in the Highland Police Department computer system. Things went haywire, he says, when a staff member transferred the files from the department’s normal evidentiary system to the separate system that holds files requested under the state’s FOIA law. According to Gibbons, the entire situation was basically a bureaucratic screw-up, and he maintains the the dash-cam recordings were misplaced, not intentionally hidden. He says officers are not responsible for transferring their own dash-cam footage to their departments’ computer systems. “This is really unique, I’ve never seen something like this,” Gibbons says. “The officer wasn’t disguising or hiding anything, it just got taken and put somewhere else.” — DANNY WICENTOWSKI
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The investigation against Davis and Baldwin pulled resources from the FBI, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives, and St. Louis County and city police departments. According to the indictment, during the ďŹ rst week of November both Davis and Baldwin told an undercover agent that they wanted to buy explosives. Several days later, on November 12, Callahan says the agent showed Davis a video of what appeared to be a bomb detonation, a demonstration of what kind of explosives were available for purchase. Baldwin allegedly told the agent, “We need ’em, we need ’em.â€? Baldwin, Davis and the undercover agent made contact again, and the two would-be bombers repeatedly stated they were interested in buying the explosives, court documents say. On November 18, the indictment continues, Davis paid a deposit on the supposed pipe bombs and told the agent, “I need it ASAP, brother. I need that motherfucker ASAP.â€? The timing of the November 21 arrests was significant, says Callahan. It was the same day many ofďŹ cials expected a grand jury to ďŹ nally announce its decision on whether to ďŹ le charges against then-Ferguson police ofďŹ cer Darren Wilson. At the time, Callahan says, the the possibility of violence breaking out in Ferguson made it all the more vital to quickly get Baldwin and Davis into custody. “No matter what happened, we were going to take them off the street just for public safety,â€? he says. Baldwin and Davis have been jailed since their arrest. Messages left with the St. Louis and national chapters of the New Black Panther Party were not returned. After the initial arrest, Chawn Kweli, the NBPP’s national chief of staff, posted to Facebook that the weapons charges were a “BOLD FACED LIE and FRAME UP,â€? though he added that if the allegations against Baldwin and Davis proved true they “would be expelled from our ranks and membership terminated into perpetuity.â€? — DANNY WICENTOWSKI
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ressed head to toe in red, Athena “Tina” Miller pats the plastic rump of a Spuds MacKenzie figure and takes in her collection of Cardinals memorabilia — at least, what she’s currently got in her basement. There are more boxes in the garage, the stuff she’s given away over the years and the items that have already migrated into her college-age grandson’s possession. Eventually, she says, the Stan Musial baseballs, the autographed jerseys, the black-and-white photographs signed “To Tina,” will all go to him. But for now, it’s all neatly assembled in the south-city home she shares with her husband. “Harry Caray’s my favorite guy; there, Bob Costas,” she says in a thick Greek accent. “These are all baseball pictures that, for me, it’s my life, you know?” After more than 50 years as a Cardinals fan and 32 spent behind the bar at the recently shuttered Missouri Bar & Grille downtown, Miller has lots of stories. Many are from the bar’s heyday, when it was the go-to spot for St. Louis’ newspaper reporters, sports commentators, umpires and players. Like how she used to quickly swap out Whitey Herzog’s cocktail for a Bud anytime someone came around with a camera, because of his endorsement deal with Anheuser-Busch. Or the night San Francisco Giants managers Bruce Bochy and Brian Sabean picked up everyone’s tab. Or the time she got in a huge argument with Ted Williams because he wouldn’t sign her baseball. But the 78-year-old is not a name-dropper or the type to get starstruck. The only thing she speaks about with true reverence is the game itself. “I love baseball,” she says. “I was watching three games today.” Miller got hooked not long after she emigrated from Athens, Greece, in 1960. She met her husband in a bowling alley and has spent the last three decades making a marriage out of her love of baseball and her career in the service industry. In addition to slinging suds at MoBar, she’d worked at the stadium, first as a waitress, then as an usher (because she only had to work every other inning and could watch the game as she made her rounds). She recalls the time a girlfriend who worked at the old ballpark had her come to the kitchen continued on page 12
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to peel potatoes and onions in exchange for the chance to sneak into the game around the fourth inning. “There were tears from the onions, I peel onions and peel onions,” she recalls. “It was impossible to complain. I was gonna watch a free game.” According to some of her regulars, her knowledge of the game is expansive and thorough. “We used to have The Baseball Encyclopedia behind the bar — Tina knows most of that stuff,” says Mark Ogier, a MoBar regular for the last 30 years who calls Miller “the godmother of Washington Avenue.” Miller’s style was to hang back, he recalls, listening to two guys ramble on about some stat or how one game went down. “She’ll sit there and let you get out far enough on the tree limb and then say, ‘No, no, no,’” says Ogier. “She just has a huge lexicon of that information.” Her collection of Cardinals memorabilia began to grow as she became more and more well-known from the bar. Her interest, says Post-Dispatch columnist and friend Bill McClellan, wasn’t about money or a desire to rub elbows with celebrities. The collection grew organically thanks to Miller’s popularity among her customers. “Tina just always knew how to handle people and make everybody feel welcome and important. She’s just a terrific person,” McClellan says. “[The owner] might have asked for stuff just to put it on the walls, but Athena wouldn’t — people would just give stuff to Athena...she was the heart and soul of the Grille.” Her talent for making people feel at home is remembered by many sports figures from the ’80s and ’90s who still keep in touch. “A sports writer from Philadelphia wrote me, ‘Athena, we lost Nick,’” Miller says, referring to the recent death of long-time Giants beat reporter Nick Peters. “It’s like a family — they would come from the airport, they wouldn’t even go to the hotel.” Unfortunately, MoBar closed abruptly in February, and Miller lost the job she loved so dearly. The owner, Trifon Panopoulos, died in 2013 without leaving a will, and the bar fell victim to an ongoing family dispute over his estate. Now the “Missouri” from the gigantic “Missouri Bar & Grille” neon sign which once hung above her station has been added to her collection, even though half of the M snapped off and was lost. Miller isn’t interested in retirement; rather, she’s training at three different bars around town, getting used to the newer computer systems. She still goes to bed at 5 or 6 a.m. and rises in the afternoon. And of course, she’s still madly in love with the Cardinals and with baseball. She and her husband have four DVRs in the house so that they don’t miss a single game. She devours any news online or in print about baseball. And she’ll be at Busch Stadium all summer, without having to peel a single potato. “We got a good team,” she says. “One of the best pitchers — I have a good feeling it’s going to be a good year.” Q
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t’s the bottom of the eighth in the first of a four-game series. The Cardinals are losing by four runs to the Philadelphia Phillies, and it’s not looking good. This is precisely the time that the Rally Runner feels he’s needed most. He jogs back and forth on Clark Avenue outside of Busch Stadium, sweat dripping down his face and darkening the chest and armpits of his custom jersey, a No. 12 with “Rally Runner” stenciled on the back. He whips through another lap along the north end of the ballpark, sprinting past vendors and weaving his lanky, six-foot-five-inch frame between fans, juking like a running back to avoid patrons exiting the pubs across the street. The Rally Runner returns a few high-fives, never slowing a step, and a smile flashes briefly across his red-painted face. “There are games when everything is just dead, and you can feel that nothing is going to happen,” he says later. “That’s when I stand up, and I’m like, ‘Fuck no, we’re going to fucking go out here, and we’re going to wake up the Cardinals’ spirit somehow.’” That’s no gameday rah-rah platitude. The Rally Runner, a 35-year-old delivery driver from Soulard, believes in his heart that he can help the Cardinals win. He just has to keep running, creating a kind of spiritual energy he believes the players can utilize on the field. There’s a sudden roar from the stadium crowd — third baseman Matt Carpenter has singled to right field, bringing shortstop Jhonny Peralta home, and the Cards are, finally, on the scoreboard. But they’re still losing 4-1, and so the Rally Runner soldiers on. Joe the Balloon Man, a Busch Stadium staple who makes balloon animals for kids, watches from the sidewalk. He says he started seeing the red-clad figure back in 2012. “When I first saw him, I didn’t know what he was doing. I just saw him running back and forth,” he says, just as the Rally Runner passes again. “I thought he was crazy. In a good way.” Like Joe and the spandex-wearing St. Louis Superman, the Rally Runner is one of the more memorable characters hanging around the stadium on game day. The Runner, who also introduces himself in a deep, halting voice as “Max Power,” has cultivated a singular mystique: He’s there at virtually every home game, seldom speaks and mostly keeps to himself. He doesn’t take time off when the team travels to other cities; during the away games he’s still there, outside an empty Busch Stadium, running. A shy man by nature, Power is cautious when it comes to discussing his reasons for running around outside Busch Stadium in red face paint. Basically, he says, the idea came to him in 2011, shortly after the World Series win. He had already been a Cardinals fan for
The rally runner, Max Power. more than a decade, but something changed in him after the magical postseason, the Game 6 comeback and the life the pennant brought to the city. “I had these visions of running for the Cardinals. I didn’t know what it meant,” he says. “I felt like I had a connection. I kept having visions that I should run at the stadium.” It wasn’t until the 2012 playoffs that he finally followed through on the impulse. After running during the team’s epic, six-run comeback in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series, he was hooked. “I see myself as an unseen player,” he says on the walk back to where he parked his scooter, shortly after three Cardinals batters strike out at the top of the ninth, one after the other. The losses are always painful, he says, but it doesn’t seem to faze him. “First off, I understand that it’s a long season, I know that losing happens. The whole point of me running is to run the whole year, so that I can help them win the World Series. If the Cardinals are losing, I never give up. I keep my faith, keep visualizing them winning and coming back. I’ve had a lot of success,” he insists. Power takes detailed notes on each run, and by his count he “ran for the Cardinals” during
142 games last season, including the postseason. On most game days he arrives around the sixth inning, when the team most needs a spiritual boost, he says. Though he claims not to be much of a statistics guy, at our request Power went through his journal entries and crunched some numbers. According to his calculations, in 2014 he ran during 511 regular-season innings, during which the Cardinals batted in 243 runs. That works out to one score every 2.1 innings. The ratio was even better in 2013, when he ran during 322 innings over 98 games; during that time the Cardinals scored 173 runs, resulting in a run every 1.86 innings. In contrast, over the last two seasons, during the 937 innings when Power was otherwise occupied with delivering Chinese food or sick, the Cardinals only scored one run every 2.49 innings. “As I suspected,” Power says, “when I run, the Cardinals are better.” Amateur Sabermetics aside, it’s not always a picnic. He says he’s suffered sprains, back injuries, bashed toes and countless blisters. But he believes it’s all worth it. “I’m always praying,” he says. “I just have all the faith in the world that we’re going to turn this game around.” Q
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BASEBALL PLAYERS ARE SOME OF THE WORLD’S MOST SUPERSTITIOUS ATHLETES. FROM PLAYOFF BEARDS TO RITUAL DIETS TO UNWASHED JOCKSTRAPS, THESE GUYS BELIEVE JUST ABOUT ANYTHING CAN BE LUCKY (OR UNLUCKY). THE FANS ARE NO DIFFERENT, AND WE SET OUT TO FIND OUT HOW FAR THEY GO TO GIVE THE CARDINALS A SUPERNATURAL EDGE ON THE COMPETITION. WE PUT OUT THE CALL TO REDBIRD BOOSTERS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND COLLECTED SOME CRAZY TALES. HERE WE PRESENT THE WINNERS OF OUR BEST FANATIC IN BASEBALL CONTEST.
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t was the overalls’ fault. When Jordan Hebrank, a Webster Groves High School graduate and lifelong Cardinals fan, saw them at the store, she was certain they’d be lucky. They were brightly striped red and white, perfect for game days. “My family’s very sports-oriented. We were just born to be Cardinals fans,” she says. “I’ve gone to every game possible.” Her fanaticism for the team was solidified when she went away to college in Florida. Far from the Midwest at a school populated mostly by East Coasters, she often found herself the only Cardinals fan in a sea of Red Sox and Yankee followers. “I get so much hatred,” says the 21-year-old environmental studies major. “I’m like, ‘You guys are just jealous.’” Hebrank was away at school during the 2013 World Series against the Boston Red Sox, and on October 30, the day of Game 6, she knew exactly what she had to do: bust out those lucky overalls. Confidence soaring, she told everyone — including her best friend, a Bostonian — that she was so confident in her beloved Redbirds that she was willing to double down in epic fashion. “Whoever’s team lost would get a tattoo of the winning team,” Hebrank wrote in her original email to Riverfront Times. “I died at the thought of my friend with a STL tattoo.” “You’re going to end up with a Red Sox tattoo,” the friend countered. As historians of that series well know, it turned out the overalls were very, very unlucky. A week later the friends found themselves at a local tattoo parlor. The tattoo artist was delighted — he said he’d just inked a Cardinals logo on another luckless baseball fan. The Boston fan’s mother offered to pay to have the Sox logo lasered off later on, but Hebrank had a better idea — she would get the tattoo, a simple “Sox,” inside her lower lip. “The ‘O’ hit a nerve — that’s the one that made me tear up,” she says.
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Cardinals fan Jordan Hebrank made a bet with her best friend, Boston Red Sox fan Kaitlyn Gilligan. Hebrank lost the bet and gained a tattoo. Hebrank had done her homework. According to some websites, a tattoo on the inside of her mouth would fade naturally. The tattoo artist estimated six to eight months. But now, almost two years later, she’s still branded. “It’s still looking good — brand-new,” she says. “Whenever I see someone with a Red Sox hat, I’m like, ‘Hey, your team sucks, but I have a Sox tattoo, so props to you.’”
The tattoo comes with some perks. Hebrank found it a handy tool for getting free beers in Boston. And she’s shelved those cursed overalls for good — they’re obviously the reason we lost the 2013 World Series. In honor of her title Best Fanatic in Baseball, Hebrank is going to the season opener on Monday, April 13, courtesy of Riverfront Times. Have fun, Jordan! — JESSICA LUSSENHOP
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ompared to our winner, runner-up Matthew Golden of Davenport, Iowa, has paid a considerably lesser price for his fandom. Rather, his new girlfriend will be paying for it. Golden tells us she didn’t know about his special Redbirds ritual until he told her he was entering this contest. It involves, as so many Cardinals superstitions do, some very poor hygiene. “Game 1 of the NLDS, I put on these pajama pants,” he recalls of the 2011 season. “Five games later, it was Chris Carpenter versus Roy Halladay, and I kind of realized: This could be a lucky outfit.” The full outfit is a pair of Cardinals logoprint pajama bottoms, a baby-blue Cardinals T-shirt, a red cap and a silver rope chain. And since that fateful series in 2011, the entire ensemble has gone unwashed. “I must explain that this outfit only gets used for Opening Day, all playoff games and
important regular-season games, so perhaps it’s not as stinky as it could be,” Golden said in his entry. “But my girlfriend is somewhat disgusted by my dedication.” After seeing photos of the outfit — which he estimates has seen 30 to 40 wears — we tend to agree with her. But to Golden, this is not a casual ritual. He truly believes that the sullied uniform holds some special power, as the Cardinals “seem to do something crazy” every time he puts it on. He even hangs it up at the front of his closet so that he sees it every day. He remembers watching one playoff game with a group of buddies. “My friends all know about it, and they were mocking me for the first six innings when we were down. And then we had a comeback, and they all looked at me,” Golden recalls. “One of them said, ‘Well, maybe it is real.’” — JESSICA LUSSENHOP
And a Few More for Good Luck... “Starting on opening day — if we win — I try to stick to doing all of the same things. If I wore my hair straight, I don’t wear it curly on game days. If I took a certain way to work, I’ll continue to go that direction. If I go to a game and it’s a winner, I have to take all those same things with me, down to whether or not I take my glove….. Until they lose. Then it becomes a contrived (OCD fueled) effort of figuring out my own perfect combination of what to do/what not to do in order to make them win or lose.” — AMY JO PLUMMER
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ERIK LARSON
Not only is Erik Larson one of America’s preeminent historians, he’s also a compelling storyteller whose previous books, The Devil in the White City and In the Garden of Beasts, were critically acclaimed bestsellers. Left Bank Books and Maryville University co-sponsor an author event with Larson tonight. His latest book, Dead Wake, chronicles the 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania in the North Atlantic by a German U-boat. The maritime attack killed 1,198 passengers (including 128 Americans) and accelerated the United States’ entry into World War I. 7 p.m. The Ethical Society of St. Louis (9001 Clayton Road, Ladue; 314367-6731 or www.left-bank.com). Admission is $31 to $36 and includes a copy of Dead — ROB LEVY Wake.
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Ceramicist Akio Takamori was raised in Japan but studied with Ken Ferguson at the Kansas City Art Institute. His figurative sculptures explore corporeal duality, such our sense of inner and outer space. Takamori’s boldly painted human forms are physically large (three feet tall or more) and grouped together — but not too closely. A young girl stands apart from an old woman, her enigmatic countenance suggesting a studied indifference to her elder. The woman’s gnomic expression makes it appear that she’s recalling her own childhood. An exhibition of Akio Takamori’s new work opens tonight at Duane Reed Gallery. Opening reception 5-8 p.m. Fri., Apr. 10. Continues 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. through May 16. Duane Reed Gallery (4729 McPherson Avenue; 314-3614100 or www.duanereedgallery.com). Free — PAUL FRISWOLD admission. [LITERARY EVENT]
BARNEY FRANK
Barney Frank will most likely be remembered as one of the most courageous figures in American public service. What was simply and purely a fact of his inner life he bravely chose to quit concealing: He came out as a gay man in the late ’80s, the first member of Congress to do such a thing. Out and pretty damn loud, the representative from Massachusetts remained unabashedly liberal throughout his 32 years in office. The trailblazer with the tousled hair also just published a candid new memoir, Frank, which he discusses tonight.
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Cardinal Rule, part of the dual exhibition at Philip Slein Gallery. 7 p.m. Fri., Apr. 10. St. Louis County Library Headquarters (1640 South Lindbergh Boulevard, Frontenac; 314-994-3300 or www.slcl. — ALEX WEIR org). $27 to $32. [ART EXHIBIT]
THE SUM OF MANY PARTS: QUILTMAKERS IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICA
The famous 1971 show at the Whitney Museum of American Art established quilting as a valid (and vital) contemporary art form, and it sparked a revived interest in the humble folk art. The new exhibition at the Foundry, The Sum of Many Parts: Quiltmakers in Contemporary America, provides an overview of the state of the art. These quilts are not the Log Cabin and Grandmother’s Flower Garden of traditional quilting (not that there’s anything wrong with
that), but works that draw on concepts of abstract and modern art. The show includes pieced, patched and appliquéd quilts by a host of artists. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Tue.-Thu., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Fri. & Sat., noon-4 p.m. Sun. (Apr. 10-Jul. 10). Foundry Art Centre (520 North Main Center, St. Charles; 636-255-0270 or www.foundryartcentre.org). Free admission. — PAUL FRISWOLD [THEATER]
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner offered an ecological message long before the environmental movement arose. In the epic original, an old sailor accosts a stranger heading to a wedding in order to tell him of his days on the open seas. The riverfronttimes.com
sailor shot an albatross that followed the ship, and the ship was becalmed for seven days, at which point the crew made him wear the dead bird around his neck as punishment. Another ship appears on the horizon and approaches, bearing two grim passengers who play dice for the crew. Only the mariner survives this experience, and he learns a new respect for the creatures of the sea. It is a strange, haunting tale of privation and redemption, now adapted for the stage by Patrick Siler and presented by Upstream Theater. St. Louis favorites Sleepy Kitty composed music for the show, which will be played live during each performance. 8 p.m. Thu.-Sat. (Apr. 10-18); 2 and 7 p.m. Sun., Apr. 12; 3 p.m. Sun., Apr. 19. Kranzberg Arts Center (501 North Grand Boulevard; 314-8634999 or www.upstreamtheater.org). $20 to — PAUL FRISWOLD $30.
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DAVID ROW AND ROBERT ZUNGU
The Philip Slein Gallery offers a double helping of contemporary art in its new show. David Row: Deep Focus is the first St. Louis exhibition for the New York artist, and it showcases his mastery of layering oil paint on polygonal canvasses. His dense mark-making is then covered by elliptical bands, but not entirely; the sheer mass of paint Row lays down bleeds through the bands, adding a definite heft to the finished piece. In Measured Painting, St. Louisan Robert Zungu shows his reflective abstract work. First he chromes an aluminum board with silver deposits, which results in a mirrorlike surface. Then he creates a geometric pattern on top using iridescent enamel ink. The viewer sees his own body reflected in the piece, becoming part of the final composition. Opening reception 5-8 p.m. Fri., Apr. 10. Continues 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat. through May 16. Philip Slein Gallery (4735 McPherson Avenue; 314-361-2617 or www.philipsleingallery.com). Free admission. — PAUL FRISWOLD
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Sonny Cantrell is about to turn thirteen, a pivotal birthday in a boy’s life: That bullet train called change feels like it slaloms on at ever higher speeds. Sonny’s father Jake aims to toughen up his son; Jake wants Sonny to learn to be a man, which in his eyes entails navigating and mastering violence. Cockfighting provides the opportunity. Frank Manley’s novel The Cockfighter explores atavistic rites of masculine passage, as codified through certain repellent bloodsports. Manley’s book has been adapted for the stage by Vincent Murphy and receives its St. Louis premiere via the West End Players Guild. 8 p.m. Thu.-Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. (Apr. 10-19). Union Avenue Christian Church (733 Union Boulevard; 314-667-5686 or www.westendplayers.org). $20. — A LEX WEIR [DANCE]
GIORDANO DANCE CHICAGO
Swim, one of the contemporary quilts at the Foundry Art Centre on Friday.
Native St. Louisan Gus Giordano is generally acknowledged as the father of jazz dance, which he popularized with Giordano Dance Chicago from its founding in 1963 to his death in 2008. The company continues to bring his kinetic, high-energy dance to audiences around the world, and this weekend it brings it all back home to St. Louis. Giordano Dance Chicago presents six new works at its performances here, including the only way around is through, choreographed by Joshua Blake Carter (from a concept and structure devised by Nan Giordano), and Feelin’ Good Sweet by Ray Leeper (frequent choreographer for Dancing with the Stars). 8 p.m. Fri. & Sat. (Apr. 10 & 11). Edison Theatre on Washington University’s campus (6465 Forsyth Boulevard; 314-935-6543 or edison.wustl.edu). $20 to $36. — PAUL FRISWOLD 22
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The Saint Louis Symphony often travels from its Powell Hall sanctum to spread the joy of music to all corners of the metro area. This afternoon the peripatetic master musicians of the SLSO haul out to Lindenwood University for Live at Lindenwood, a program of stalwarts from the classical canon — Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, selections from Peer Gynt by Grieg, Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5 and Ginastera’s Four Dances from Estancia. 2 p.m. Sun., Apr. 12. J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts on Lindenwood University’s campus (2300 West Clay Street; 636-949-4433 or — ALEX WEIR www.slso.org). $35 to $75.
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ST. LOUIS CARDINALS HOME OPENER
SECOND TUESDAY: YOU HAD ONE JOB
The St. Louis Cardinals home opener is a spectacle filled with all of the tradition, pageantry and regalia normally reserved for royalty. This unofficial holiday celebrates the best baseball town in America as Cardinal Nation descends upon Busch Stadium and Ballpark Village to root for the home team. Pregame rallies, parties and special events include appearances by Fredbird, the Clydesdales, Cardinals greats and hall of famers. The Redbirds host their division rival Milwaukee Brewers, who are looking for some payback after their collapse last season, while the Cards look for a fast start in 2015. 3:15 p.m. Mon., Apr. 13. Busch Stadium (Broadway and Poplar Street; 314-345-9600 or www.stlouiscardinals.com). $55.80 to — ROB LEVY $185.80
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From the Titanic’s maiden voyage to the career of Robin Thicke, history is littered with astonishing epic fails — spectacular, humiliating mistakes that will live in infamy to be derided and ridiculed for generations to come. Everyone experiences an embarrassing moment or two, and with You Had One Job, April’s Second Tuesday storytelling get-together, you have a chance to share your personal tales of the times where you (or someone you know) failed to accomplish the one and only thing that needed doing. 7 p.m. Tue., Apr. 14. Melt (2712 Cherokee Street; 314-771-6358). — MARK FISCHER Admission is free. continued on page 24
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RICHARD III: THE KING UNDER THE CAR PARK
King Richard III has a black reputation because of his alleged child murdering, brother killing and general ruthlessness. That all resulted in his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field, and his eventual burial in a Greyfriars church. The abbey was eventually destroyed, and Richard’s body was lost to history. But in 2012 a team of archaeologists from the University of
Leicester began a search for his corpse in central Leicester — and they found it under a parking lot. Richard Buckley was the team’s lead archaeologist, and today he presents an illustrated lecture on the quest entitled “Richard III: The King Under the Car Park: The True Story of the Search for the Burial Place of England’s Last Plantagenet King.” 7:30 p.m. Tue., Apr. 14. Missouri History Museum (Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue; 314-746-4599 or www.mohistory.org). Free — PAUL FRISWOLD admission. [ SAT U R DAY 4 .11 ]
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Hubert Lanzinger’s Der Bannerträger (The Standard Bearer) is one of almost 10,000 works of German military and Nazi propaganda art the US Army seized after the war as part of the effort to denazify German society. This and 400 other Nazi-era artworks still considered politically charged remain in the US Army’s custody today. Oil on wood, ca. 1934–36. — US Army Center of Military History, Washington, DC.
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f all the weapons Adolf Hitler wielded during the Second World War, none was more powerful than his propaganda machine. The Missouri History Museum’s new exhibit, State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda, examines how Hitler and his cronies used propaganda to seize and maintain power by appealing to the common people, ultimately popularizing total war and mass murder. The traveling exhibition, organized by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, opens this weekend. A number of lectures, panel discussions and screenings will be hosted throughout the year in conjunction with the exhibit. Daily through Sept. 7. Missouri History Museum (Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue; 314-746-4599 or www.mohistory.org). — MARK FISCHER Free admission.
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THE VOYAGE OF THE ST. LOUIS
In 1939 nearly 1,000 Jews sold their belongings in a desperate bid to escape the rise of the Nazis. They needed the money to pay for visas, various bribes and to book passage on the luxury liner St. Louis. Their goal was to seek asylum in Cuba, but they were denied entry. For a month they cruised from country to country, trying to find sanctuary; they were denied by every country in the Americas. Eventually the St. Louis sailed back to Europe and the passengers were accepted by Holland, France, Belgium and England. And then the war started and every country except England fell to the Nazis, dooming most of the original passengers. Maziar Bahari’s documentary The Voyage of the St. Louis recounts this sad tale using the captain’s diary and first-hand accounts from the few survivors. The film screens today at the University City Public Library. 7 p.m. Wed., Apr. 15. University City Public Library (6701 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-727-6005 or www.ucityli— PAUL FRISWOLD brary.org). Free admission. Planning an event, exhibiting your art or putting on a play? Let us know and we’ll include it in the Night & Day section or publish a listing in the online calendar — for free! Send details via e-mail (calendar@riverfronttimes.com), fax (314-754-6416) or mail (6358 Delmar Boulevard, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63130, attn: Calendar). Include the date, time, price, contact information and location (including ZIP code). Please submit information three weeks prior to the date of your event. No telephone submissions will be accepted. Find more events online at www.riverfronttimes.com.
film The Comforts of Disbelief
In An Honest Liar, Swiss marvels at our luck that Randi uses his powers of deception for good; in Merchants, Swiss and a host of journalists and scientists lament how rare that choice is. The film, based on the book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway, lays bare the way that moneyed interests sell doubt to keep us from believing in things that actually are true — and damaging for business. An episodic narrative vaults from the lies of the tobacco companies, which for half a century pretended there was no link between smoking and cancer, to those of the think-tanks that today have convinced about half of the American public that pretty much every scientist in the world has thrown in together to concoct the myth of climate change. (Even if that were possible, at what point do all those presumably paid-off scientists profit from the lie?) This material might be familiar to Frontline viewers and magazine readers, but Kenner’s telling of the stories proves independently dra-
Doubt: Fool me once...and that’s just fine.
matic: It’s heartening to hear Chicago Tribune reporters Patricia Callahan and Sam Roe dish about exposing the lies in the testimony of an expert witness for the manufacturers of flameretardant (and carcinogenic) furniture. The scene would make a great Good Wife. Kenner finds a magnificent antihero in Marc Morano, a cheery, chatty prevaricator who has made a mint by muddying water. His job is to promote skepticism of a truth that even Skeptic magazine believes in, and since Morano’s cocksure and good at yelling on TV, he steamrolls over climate scientists on cable despite his lack of expertise. In interviews, he’s disarmingly guileless, happy to brag about all the times he’s posted online the email addresses of climate scientists, some of whom turn up to read aloud from the death threats they get. The film and Morano agree on one thing: All that the deniers of climate change have to do to succeed
is reduce the country’s certainty. They’ve been wildly successful, as Kenner demonstrates — remember back in 2008, when Mitt Romney, John McCain and Newt Gingrich all stated publicly that carbon emissions are the cause of global warming? Today, what office-seeking Republican would dare? One of the last who did dare is former South Carolina representative Bob Inglis. After visiting Antarctica, and discovering scientists aren’t all in cahoots with Karl Marx and the Masons or whatever, Inglis dared to call for a carbon tax from the floor of the House. Now an apostate without base or seat, he attempts to press the conservative case for not recklessly destroying the world. The film’s most upsetting scene finds Inglis attempting to talk sense to Paul Gallo, a Mississippi talk-radio blowhard. Gallo is as unchangeable as the ice caps used to be, and he blinks at Inglis in confusion while booming nonsense to his listeners with the voice of God: “We’ve got more polar bears than we’ve ever had before!” and “I don’t believe that humans are creating this, and neither do, apparently, a vast majority of climatologists!” Inglis pipes in, wanly, with facts, but he’s like a third-chair flautist competing against a first-rate guitar shredder. Who’s even listening? Later, addressing Kenner’s camera, Inglis tells a truth about the public as despairing as James Randi’s. “Many conservatives see action on climate change as really an attack on a way of life,” Inglis sighs. “The reason we need the science to be wrong is that otherwise we realize that we need to change. That’s a hard pill to swallow.” He’s likely right to despair, but I’d quibble with his metaphor. If there’s one thing Americans love, it’s swallowing pills. That’s why it’s hard to take issue with Kenner’s choice to cut, on occasion, to Swiss’ card tricks, The Twilight Zone, to anything else: Gel-capping is the least that truth-tellers can do. Q
why, the marriage — by all accounts a deeply unhappy one for both parties — was never consummated. And while young Effie was still married to Ruskin, she fell in love with one of the artists he’d championed passionately, the pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. After suffering her husband’s neglect for years, in the marital bed and elsewhere, Effie finally sought and won an annulment. She and Millais eventually married, and remained a couple until the end of their days. Gray’s story is a great subject for a movie. But Effie Gray, directed by Richard Laxton, written by Emma Thompson and starring the enchantingly doe-eyed Dakota Fanning, sells its subject short. You can feel the good intentions vibrating off the screen, but it’s still a listless affair, one that takes forever to go almost nowhere. The picture struggles so valiantly to be a woman’s empowerment fable that it leaves
you wishing for just a little romance. Part of the problem, maybe, is that the damn thing looks so handsome. The cinematography, by Andrew Dunn, spans bristly Scottish hillscapes and the mossy grandeur of Venetian canals, but it’s so alluring that it feels like a bit of a tease — watching Effie suffer amid so much visual splendor is just no fun. Effie Gray fixates mostly on our poor heroine’s gradual erosion under the dual grindstones of her husband (played by Greg Wise, ably channeling the rather dour-looking Ruskin) and her incontrovertibly evil mother-in-law (a foreboding Julie Walters). When Tom Sturridge’s lackadaisically soulful Millais finally steps in, it’s too little, too late. That’s a shame, because Fanning’s performance never falters: She can shift from girlish vulnerability to steely grace in the space of a few lines of dialogue. It doesn’t help that the
filmmakers are a bit too coy about exploring some of the possible reasons Ruskin rejected his wife. Again, no one knows for sure, and maybe it’s admirable that Effie Gray errs on the side of discretion. But a commonly proffered explanation is that Ruskin, his ideals of female beauty formed by looking at classical statuary, wasn’t expecting to see, and couldn’t bear, the sight of pubic hair. Maybe that’s knee-jerk psychology, but we’ve all heard stories about young men raised on Brazilian-bikini-waxera porn who are shocked — shocked! — to discover that hair naturally grows down there. As the movie presents him, Ruskin is just an unpleasant, uptight guy, and not anyone for whom you’d feel compassion, or even pity. Thank God Effie gets away — but the movie’s gears grind down long before she can free herself, and us, from her husband’s malevolently indifferent clutches. —STEPHANIE ZACHAREK
MERCHANTS OF DOUBT REVEALS A COUNTRY EAGER TO BE FOOLED Merchants of Doubt Directed by Robert Kenner. Opens Friday, April 10, at the Tivoli.
Blame the Pubis, Maybe? EFFIE GRAY VAGUELY DAMNS RUSKIN AS A PRUDE Effie Gray Directed by Richard Laxton. Written by Emma Thompson. Starring Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, Tom Sturridge and Robbie Coltrane. Now playing at the Tivoli.
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he Amazing Randi insists that the public wants to be fooled, that it’s easier and more comforting for us not to see unromantic truths — you can see him proclaiming this, a little sadly, in Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom’s doc An Honest Liar, which plays like a companion piece to Robert Kenner’s sly and enraging Merchants of Doubt. Randi, now north of 80, dedicated a lifetime to exposing frauds, BY deceivers and liars, only ALAN to see such scoundrels triumph again not long after S C H E R S T U H L their exposure. Now, Merchants argues, those frauds have co-opted the spirit of Randi — committing their deceptions (and jeopardizing our world) as they themselves adopt the mantle of principled skepticism. The great debunker never appears in Merchants, but his ideological progeny do. Sleightof-hand master and principled skeptic Jamy Ian Swiss serves up jeweled axioms about why we believe, and in Merchants he even gets a couple seconds to dazzle with his card tricks, at one point explaining how he pulled one off. The tape plays back, and we see the hand we weren’t looking at the first time. How could we have missed it? And how can magicians trust in democracy when they know how easily gulled the rest of us are?
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Mad Men: What’s Left After Achieving Everything? ad Men has always been, among many other things, about the exit of the old guard and the entrance of the new — and the acceleration of that transition by the mood and the movements of the ’60s. The pilot, set in 1960, finds the Sterling Cooper higher-ups scrambling to locate a Jewish employee within their ranks so that he can sit in on a meeting with a potential Jewish client, Rachel Menken (Maggie Siff ). “Have we ever hired any Jews?” asks Roger Sterling (John Slattery), whose place at the top was guaranteed to him as a birthright. “Not on my watch!” jokes Don Draper (Jon Hamm), oozing the casual anti-Semitism of BY the era. Just seven years later, I N KO O those same men hire a Jewish copywriter, Michael Ginsberg KANG (Ben Feldman) — who in turn becomes psychotically paranoid about being supplanted by the brand-new computer that’s moved into his office. The first half of Mad Men’s farewell season ended last May with two unmistakable harbingers of a new dawn: the moon landing and the death of Bert Cooper (Robert Morse), the series’ eldest character. But those two events were just the most obvious nodes in a constellation of replacements: of Don by his protégé Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) in the Burger Chef pitch, as well as by new men in the lives of his ex-wives Betty and Megan (January Jones and Jessica Paré). Even his rapidly maturing daughter Sally (Kiernan Shipka) found male attention elsewhere, in the form of an astron-
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omy nerd — as far from Don as a rebellious teen can get. Innocently looming over them all is Ginsberg’s old foe, the IBM machine, which threatens to make obsolete not just the agency’s employees — “Cutler’s not going to stop [shedding staff ] until the firm is just Harry and the computer,” complained Roger — but, it would seem, human creativity itself. The first of Mad Men’s final seven episodes, which began airing on April 5, builds on last year’s theme of replacement and substitution. (The terrifically mysterious and melancholy mid-season premiere was the only episode made available to critics.) Written by series creator Matthew Weiner, “Severance” takes as its through-line the question of how to cope after realizing you’ve got little else to do but rest on your laurels. Don pulled a Roger in the fourth season when he rashly wed his much younger secretary, Megan, then took forever to admit to himself that the generational gap between them was too wide for either to make the other happy. But “Severance” finds Don settling in to Roger’s aging-playboy slippers even further, holding repeat auditions at the now McCann-owned Sterling Cooper to mack on as many models as possible. Don’s a fat, lazy wolf who knows he doesn’t need to hunt; the prey will come to him and sit right on his lap. All he’s gotta do is let them. The only difference between Roger and Don — other than the older man’s ’70s-ready David Crosby walrus ’stache — is that the erstwhile Dick Whitman now feels free to recount tales
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about his poverty-stricken childhood while his dates laugh obligingly. But Peggy Lee wondering “Is that all there is?” on the soundtrack foreshadows Don’s existential hangover. Don’s vision of a singingand-dancing Bert Cooper last year after the old man’s passing is echoed in “Severance” by another hallucination. So much of Mad Men’s run has focused on its protagonist’s striving efforts to get to the top while keeping his shameful past hidden. Now that Don’s reached his destination and been liberated from his secrets — he’s advertising royalty once again and has a new young thing to distract him every night of the week — he’s stuck in a hamster-wheel of hedonism. (Rich-people problems, amirite?) Don’s fears of death and the futility of his accomplishments are the natural extensions of the show’s meditations on the mid-century American Dream. And yet this is territory the show has already trod over several times with Roger (though Don has maintained a much less dysfunctional relationship with his daughter). The final seven episodes have a lot of character work ahead if the show wants to distinguish Don’s crisis from the ones Roger has already worked through. Along with mortality, “Severance” introduces another quotidian tragedy: that of being stuck in patterns of dissatisfaction and petty vengeance. Recently made partner Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) is as slappable as ever, whining that the million-dollar payout he got from the McCann deal, when the larger company bought a majority share of
Sterling Cooper last year, just created more tax-avoiding headaches for him. But those patterns also prove compellingly heartbreaking when a long-time character is arbitrarily fired (hence the episode title) — and can’t help retaliating in a way that shoots a bullet at his former colleagues and another one straight into his own heart. And, of course, institutional social change can’t come quickly enough for Peggy and Joan (Christina Hendricks), two professionally ascendant pioneers who are reduced to an ugly duckling and a pair of breasts by neanderthals from McCann. After a meeting goes awry, the two women passive-aggressively snipe at each other just as they did in Season 1, divided and conquered by men once more. Though she’s encountered a few setbacks in getting out from under Don’s shadow, Peggy is, of course, the natural heir of the new era. We learn in “Severance” that she’s been so busy as a trailblazer, which has meant many long and lonely nights at the office, that she’s never had the opportunity to travel abroad. After a blind date goes surprisingly well, she attempts a spur-of-the-moment trip to Paris with her new lover, but can’t find her passport. Whether she’ll be able to make that trip — and thus break out of the rut she’s forced herself into to get so far at the office — will reveal whether she is aspiring to be just another suit in a gray-flannel skirt — or something more. Don may not be able to adapt to a new world as the ’60s come to an end, but Peggy sure can. Q
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OPENING The Longest Ride. (PG-13) It's easy to tease a Nicholas Sparks movie. It's harder to admit that he's good at his niche -- and has a string of ten films, nearly all profitable, to prove it, even if every one has been savaged by critics. Still, a good romance can make us endure an implausible plot as long as the leads have heat. This time, instead of one couple, there's two -- and Sparks has even stretched out of his blonde/ Southern/Christian comfort zone to make the older pair Jewish. His young heartthrob is a blonde, Southern bull rider named Luke Collins and played by Clint Eastwood's son, Scott Eastwood, who pairs his daddy's crinkle-cut eyes with abs you could use as a cattle guard. Luke is a hero on the Professional Bull Riding circuit, a three-time champion forced to take a year-long break after a monster named Rango gored him in Las Vegas. He and art student Sophia (Britt Robertson) have nothing in common except golden good looks and a fondness for looking at each other and grinning. Still, Robertson and Eastwood do that well enough that we buy their chemistry. Robertson has a great giggle, and Tillman cranks up the sexual tension as Luke plonks her on a practice barrel strung up in his barn to teach this city girl how to straddle a wild ride. And, of course, Luke could learn a love lesson from widower Ira Levinson (Alan Alda), who literally crashes into his life with a box of love letters he wrote to his wife Ruth. By the time The Longest Ride runs right off a cliff, we're already strapped in with these two. Give in and enjoy the plunge. (Amy Nicholson) Merchants of Doubt. (PG-13) Reviewed this issue. (Alan Scherstuhl) Seymour: An Introduction. (Not Rated) A magnificently accomplished concert pianist who at one time seemed poised for fame, Seymour Bernstein, now in his eighties, quit performing at age 50. Since then, he has concentrated on composing, teaching, and simply playing. Director Ethan Hawke -- who appears only briefly in Seymour: An Introduction, as an intensely quizzical, vaguely rumpled presence -- explains that he met Bernstein at a dinner party, and was drawn to the elder gentleman's ideas about performing and creativity: Hawke had been struggling with his own questions about what it means to be a performer, and has at times suffered from debilitating stage fright. The film Hawke has made -- which borrows its title, though little else, from J.D. Salinger -- works both as a celebration of Bernstein, whose spirit is at once gentle and boldly generous, and as a way of exploring creativity and the meaning it can have in our lives. Listening to Bernstein speak and play, and watching him connect with his students, you can see why Hawke would gravitate toward him. He's an impishly cheerful-looking man with a roundish face, his thinning hair brushed into a little tuft at the top. His aura of calm is like an enveloping mist when he talks about the nature of merging "the musical self and the personal self," or when he likens a student’s playing to "a dream." He's a reassuring but challenging presence, maybe because he's still asking questions himself. What does it mean to play music, to teach, or to simply create? The answers are in Schubert, in Beethoven, and floating out there in the universe. They're in a chord you can feel in your heart. (Stephanie Zacharek) While We're Young. (R) When you're young, to be old -- even just the 44 kind of old -- is unimaginable. There's no single moment of passing to the other side; the only thing that's real is the bewilderment of realizing that you've somehow squeezed through to it. That bewilderment is the guiding force of Noah Baumbach's fearless half-a-comedy While We're Young, an unsparing consideration of what makes the young different from the not-so-young. Ben Stiller plays a onetime documentary filmmaker who's hit his forties and stalled out on the masterpiece he's been painstakingly crafting for years. He gets a jolt when he meets young aspiring filmmaker Jamie (Adam Driver) and his artisanal-ice-creammaker wife, Darby (Amanda Seyfried), both about twenty years his junior. Josh is inspired by their energy, their casual generosity, their drive to "make stuff," and while his wife, Cornelia (Naomi Watts), isn't sold at first, eventually she, too, falls prey to the couple’s charms. But it turns out that Jamie is a climber of the worst sort and, tragically for Josh, perhaps one with actual talent. Baumbach's eighth feature isn't just sharp, it's serrated — its jokes, and there are lots of them, come at you with rows and rows of tiny teeth. Even if Baumbach betrays annoyance with the sense of entitlement and soufflé-high overconfidence of millennials, in the end he comes down hardest on beleaguered Josh, his semi-hero.
He's the one we most frequently laugh at, but also the one we feel the most for. Youth may be wasted on the young, but midlife ennui is unbecoming, and While We're Young refuses to give in to middle-aged self-pity. (Zacharek) Woman in Gold. (PG-13) The story of Gustav Klimt's painting The Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (confiscated by Nazis, displayed as Austria's Mona Lisa in a Vienna museum, test case in the law granting reparations to Jewish descendants) has already been detailed in articles, a book, and several documentaries. What Woman in Gold has over nonfiction portrayals is emotion, and director Simon Curtis (My Week With Marilyn) milks every scene for its heart-tugging potential. Alexi Kaye Campbell's script makes it easy for Curtis: The relationship between Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), whose aunt is depicted in Klimt's famous golden portrait, and attorney Randol Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds) is constructed as a platonic romance. From their awkward first meeting through trials that test their union to a life-altering conclusion, the legal case is always recounted through the filter of their relationship. Mirren and Reynolds have great chemistry, and their odd couple -- she's regal and sharp-witted, he's rumpled and steely-eyed -- banter with easy humor and deep affection. Curtis also flashes back to a lost Vienna where the wealthy Bloch-Bauers were major art patrons (and friends of Randol's grandfather, composer Arnold Schoenberg), scenes enlivened by Tatiana Maslany. Mirren's Maria is a careful construction, but Maslany's Maria is intense and quick-witted, saying goodbye to her parents with profound tenderness and fleeing Nazis with heart-pounding determination. Woman in Gold suffers from biopic oversights (Maria's children aren't mentioned, nor is her husband's brief internment at Dachau), but Curtis's greatest oversimplification is viewing this fraught process as primarily a form of family reunification. (Serena Donadoni)
ONGOING Cinderella. (PG) There's no empowerment message embedded in Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella, no "Girls can do anything!" cheerleader vibe. That's why it's wonderful. This is a straight, no-chaser fairy story, a picture to be downed with pleasure. It worries little about sending the wrong message and instead trusts us to decode its politics, sexual and otherwise, on our own. And face it — kids have been left on their own to decode the politics of fairy tales for centuries. Like all of Branagh's films, even some of the bad ones, his bold, rococo Cinderella is practically Wagnerian in its ambitions — it's so swaggering in its confidence that at times it almost commands us to like it. But it's also unexpectedly delicate in all the right ways, and uncompromisingly beautiful to look at. But what you'll miss if you do! As the primrose-radiant Lily James (of Downton Abbey) plays her, this Cinderella never comes off as a simp, maybe thanks, in part, to James's sturdy, storm-cloud eyebrows: She's a princess with presence. No wonder the mice of the household adore her — they chatter their thanks as she upends a teacup to make a dinner table for them. This is the first Cinderella I can think of where the prince is a thoughtful young man confounded by sorrows and challenges of his own. And say what you will about Branagh's notorious ego: When he makes a movie, he makes a movie, a grand marvel of visual details and gestures that laughs haughtily at the idea of being watched at home on a TV screen. (Zacharek) Danny Collins. (R) Superstars aren't allowed to change. Even the fans who love them insist they be dipped in wax: no new songs, no new attitude, and certainly no new look. Such is the "kind of based on a true story a little bit" premise of Danny Collins, a charmer with Al Pacino as a megawatt singer who sells out stadiums but has calcified into a caricature. Pacino plays him as delusionally vain. Danny's accepted
selling out — who wouldn't? — until his manager (Christopher Plummer) presents him with a letter John Lennon wrote decades ago urging Danny to "stay true to yourself." Talk about a from-the-grave guilt trip. Danny Collins is a redemption movie in the skeptical key of Jerry Maguire. Our decadent hero decides to fix himself in the first act. The rest of the film is him realizing how hard it'll be to keep living right -- and that maybe he doesn't have the moral clout to manage it. Danny jets off to Jersey in his private plane, checks into a modest hotel, and stuffs a grand piano into a room so cramped he has no choice but to sit down at the stool and compose. In a way, Danny Collins is allowing Al Pacino to do the same thing. The great Seventies talent has "hoo-ah!"–ed through recent decades, cranking out variations on his greatest hits. This movie is a narrow character piece that shows Pacino wrestling to reveal layers in a man who's worried he might actually be hollow. He and Fogelman string together dozens of small, perfect moments. Meanwhile, Bobby Cannavale, playing Danny's estranged son, comes close to out-acting Pacino, who proves willing to share the mic. (Nicholson) Get Hard. (R) Get Hard, Etan Cohen's comedy about a white stockbroker who hires a black man to prepare him for a ten-year stretch in San Quentin, is like a spoon that's almostbut-not-yet sharpened into a shiv. With just a little more effort, it could kill. The comedy isn't hunting Will Ferrell's ultra-rich James King, but another target: the privilege he represents. Like the tight-fisted conservatives in Congress, Ferrell's Harvard-educated silver-spooner is so blind to his own privilege that when his boss and father-in-law (Craig T. Nelson) brags about founding their agency with only "me, my computer, and an $8 million loan from my father," he applauds. Ferrell's idiocy doesn't work. But his decency does. Instead of playing King like a callous corporate villain, he's a well-meaning sap who sincerely believes he's a good person -- or, at least, certainly not a bigot. Mistaking car-washer Darnell (Kevin Hart) for a carjacker, he can't admit that it was because he's black, swearing that he'd have reacted the same if he were "rich or poor or white or... miscellaneous." Still, King is willing to pay Darnell $30,000 to teach him to act tough. The extra twist is that King can't tell that Darnell is a straight-arrow nerd. Darnell's wife (Edwina Findley Dickerson) is sure King will see through his thug act. But Darnell simply puts on a black skullcap and lets cultural assumptions take care of the rest. As befits their characters, Hart acts like a normal human, and Ferrell a cartoon. (Nicholson) It Follows. (R) Forget Dracula and Freddie Kruger. In writer/ director David Robert Mitchell's It Follows, the killer is as generic as death, the universal murderer. The monster can look like anyone: an old woman, a child, your mom. And instead of cackling quips or toying with blades, it simply paces toward you, as silent and slow as a lion, until it's close enough to pounce. Flee to Kansas and it will pad behind in pursuit. A child fears the boogeyman under the bed. Grownups wake up terrified of nightmares like this—they know that in some form, an assassin will slay us all and there's no escape. Mitchell has made a teen slasher for adults. The sacrificial flesh is young, but the horrors are for the barely legal and above, as the stalker is transmitted by sex. Sleep with the wrong partner, as 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe, the square-shouldered blonde of last summer's excellent The Guest) discovers, and death passes from her date to her. Jay's choices are dire: die, or kill her own conscience by seducing the next victim. It Follows crams big ideas into a thin, but stylish thriller that shares the visual tics of this new breed of low budget, high ambition horror. There's a way-cool synth soundtrack, curiously dated set design (our heroine still watches a TV with rabbit ears), several gorgeous tracking shots, and pounds of atmospheric pressure. At times, the film moves so slow it feels drugged. But just when boredom sets in, a figure moves in the distance and alarm bells sound all over again. The most fun will be in dissecting it afterwards. Film school professors, look forward to a decade of term papers. (Nicholson) The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. (PG) At the bottom of the ocean, inside a giant pineapple, lives a yellow, oblong sponge who likes to blow bubbles, eat more ice cream than is good for him, and work as a fry cook. The "Krabby Patty" sandwiches he makes are so popular that a one-eyed plankton, who runs a failed restaurant across the way, regularly comes up with evil schemes to steal the recipe and thereby, he imagines, rule the world. And they say there's no creativity left in Hollywood. In his big-screen debut, SpongeBob (Tom Kenny) must recover the stolen crown of King Neptune
(Jeffrey Tambor), even as evil Plankton (Doug Lawrence) steals the secret recipe and perfects a mind-control plan. The central theme of the movie is the pure joy the cartoon takes in childishness, a message that will resonate with kids in the audience, but possibly less so with the girlfriends of older males. Also, wait till you see how David Hasselhoff figures into the climax -- it's his best role ever. (Luke Y. Thompson) Still Alice. (PG-13) Most of us can't imagine having a disease that tugs and tears at the very threads of who we are. When we wake up in the middle of the night with outlandish fears, we strike reassuring bargains with ourselves: If I lose my sight, I'll still have music. If I lose my hearing, I'll still have color and light. But what if the person you've spent years becoming were to be locked away permanently in a body -- your body -- that's still thriving? In Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer's Still Alice, that's exactly what happens to 50-year-old Alice, an Ivy League linguistics professor -- played by Julianne Moore -- who is diagnosed with earlyonset Alzheimer's. She makes those reassuring bargains. By the time the inevitable happens, she won't even remember what they were. Who is Alice, once she's no longer able to speak or recognize family members, let alone teach or read or, essentially, do any of the things that used to define her? The answer is embedded in the title of the film, and it's an indication of the movie's melancholy hopefulness: While Still Alice isn't exactly the sort of cheerful pick-me-up you'd seek out on a dreary January day, it's so fine-grained, so attuned to everyday life even under extraordinary circumstances, that it doesn't register as depressing. Glatzer and Westmoreland shape Alice's story with such delicate matter-of-factness that it never tips into Lifetime-movie territory, but the key, maybe, is Moore's performance. She maps Alice's gradual debilitation -- or, rather, her awareness of it -- like a pioneer in a strange new land, watching the ship that carried her there slip away into the distance, a dot of meaning that will soon mean nothing. (Zacharek) What We Do in the Shadows. (Not Rated) Vampires, vampires everywhere, and not a drop to drink. One of the tragedies of the modern world is there's nowhere left to find regular old vampires with solid, old-fashioned values -- except, maybe, New Zealand. That's the setting for Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi's buoyant little bloodsucker comedy What We Do in the Shadows. Four vampire dudes ranging in age from 183 to 8,000 share a house, dividing chores in a way that seems fair, though there are always going to be bloody dishes in the sink. You might call this Real World: Transylvania, except in Wellington. The affably neurotic Viago (Waititi) is the hopeless romantic of the group, having followed a young woman to New Zealand in the early part of the 20th century only to be jilted. (In fairness to the lady, Viago's servant delayed his master's arrival by putting the wrong postage on the coffin, and she got sick of waiting.) Vladislav (played by Clement, of Flight of the Conchords fame) is the rake, fond of orgies and boasting a long history of skewering people with sharp implements. "They used to call me Vladislav the Poker," he says with cheerful modesty. When the four guys get ready to go out on the prowl -- a typical evening consists of some desultory dancing in a rundown old bar -- they turn to one another for fashion advice. No mirrors for them, so they rely on each other to discern what pants go with which jacket. What We Do in the Shadows is never as self-conscious as you fear it might be, and it has some of the loose, wiggy energy of early Jim Jarmusch, only with more bite. It makes getting poked a pleasure. (Zacharek)
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verything comes in twos in Rupert Holmes’ jolly musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood. All the actors play two parts, all of the characters have hidden second natures, there are two acts. Even the stage itself is split down the middle, with one half of the house orchestra sitting on each side. The play also has two speeds — funny and funnier. Holmes credits Charles Dickens with the original plot, which comes from his unfinished murder mystery. (So there are two writers, if you’re keeping score.) Holmes sets the action in BY Dickens’ time, and uses the PA U L play-within-a-play technique to establish the main theme, F R I S W O L D which is the duality of man. Each actor portrays a Victorian actor who plays a character in the play, which allows the cast to follow the theatrical standards of the time. These standards require leading players to receive introductions and a list of recent successes when they enter a scene, and allow them to “step out” of their main role for superfluous bows and to harangue the audience for more applause than is decent. Director Justin Been and cast take this set-up and run with it, wringing every possible laugh out of the needy (and highly competitive) Victorian players. Zachary Stefaniak stars as Clive Paget, who plays the villainous John Jasper, a choirmaster with a bad opium habit and an unseemly desire for his nephew’s betrothed, Rosa Bud (played by “Miss Deirdre Peregrine,” who is played in real life by Eileen Engel). Said nephew is the titular Edwin Drood, assayed by the great male impersonator Miss Alice Nutting, who is really Heather Matthews. Any confusion is quickly dispelled by the aforementioned habit of in-character introductions and applause breaks, which allow the audience to catch up. Sit on your program to avoid the temptation to look up names, because you’re likely to miss something onstage, as the ensemble has a habit of engaging in silent spats with the lead actors. The costumes, which are designed by Engel as well, are sumptuous and colorful. You get a
good look at ’em, too, as Rob Lippert’s clever stage set includes a catwalk into the audience. Matthews and Engel both have beautiful, clear voices, which they put to good use in their duet “Perfect Strangers.” Engel also delivers a spine-tingling performance of the play’s love/ madness theme, “Moonfall,” with the mad-
ness coming from Jasper/Stefaniak’s lustful pantomime capture of Rosa/Engel as she sings in front of him. This love triangle is knocked out of balance by the arrival of the mysterious Landless siblings, Helena and Neville (Kimberly Still and Kelvin Urday). Neville, who is as cocky as Drood and quicker to anger, takes a fancy to Rosa and the men soon become rivals, making him a key suspect when Drood disappears. But then everybody in the play is a suspect. Holmes leaves it up to the audience to determine who killed Drood, and also lets us decide who will end up as happy lovers. The play has 400 potential endings, and in my performance, after the quick and painless voting process, we soon discovered that Rosa Bud did the deed, thinking she was killing John Jasper. The Landless siblings ended up as the lovers, which resulted in Kimberly Still singing through a faux-disgust leer at the audience, and rightly so. In the interest of full disclosure, I was really pulling for Bazzard (Michael A. Wells) and the Princess Puffer (Lavonne Byers) to get together. Bazzard is a life-time bit player who dreams of stardom, and he gives the most abashed little nods of acknowledgment for the applause after he stops the show to sing his own composition, “Never the Luck.” Puffer runs the opium den, and Byers plays her as a Cheapside version of Marianne Faithfull as she growls her way through the chorus of “The Wages of Sin,” insulting the audience and berating the band at the same time. Ah, well. There’s always next week. Q
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simplest thing on the menu and, because of that, by far and away the best. The restaurant uses little filler — just a generous portion of jumbo lump meat, a little onion and a very few breadcrumbs for binding. Creamy dijonnaise sauce brightened the plate. Things quickly went back to overwrought once we came to dessert. I was underwhelmed by the “Caramelized Walnut Ball” dessert. I anticipated a fried, walnut-coated ball of ice cream, but instead received a rock of vanilla coated in pulverized walnuts and topped with chocolate and caramel sauces. (I guess that’s what they meant by “caramelized”?) It was a first — I’ve never had to eat ice cream with a knife and fork before. For a nightcap, I tried the “Smoked Old Fashion” — Walnut Grill smokes the liquor over wood chips. It’s aggressive on the nose but surprisingly subdued on the palate. Maple syrup eliminated the bite. Purists may scoff, but it was pleasantly quaffable. Here’s the thing — the “Thai Pork Mac n Cheese” turned out to be pretty good. Would I have preferred the pork served as a simple sandwich? Absolutely. Walnut Grill may have the capability to please everyone, but it fares best when it leaves the kitchen sink where it is. Q For more about food and St. Louis restaurants, visit Gut Check: blogs.riverfronttimes.com/gutcheck.
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That Spectator Sound ST. LOUIS’ SPECTATOR DEFIES GENRE TRAPPINGS TO CREATE MUSIC THAT IS TRULY UNIQUE Spectator Record Release Show 9 p.m. Saturday, April 11. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Avenue. Free. 314-772-2100.
ven in the sketchy borders of rock music, a “St. Louis sound” should not, could not exist. And even if such a descriptor did present itself, the band Spectator would sound nothing like it. Though Megan Rooney and Jeffrey Albert, the core of Spectator, are native St. Louisians, the music they make together and in collaboration with a host of musicians — some local to the city, some from Columbia — arises less from a region and more from personal experiments in an BY intimate laboratory. Songs are written, conceived, maybe R OY even recorded; then they’re KASTEN deconstructed, revised, replayed, resung and rethought until they’re distilled to a mysterious but irresistible essence. And for Spectator, it doesn’t matter how long that process takes. Released this month and recorded over a three-year period, The Last Exchange is Spectator’s sequel to 2012’s In the Brick EP and its first full-length album. Beginning with sparkling notes from a classical harp and ending — after a climax of cascading voices, electric guitars and drums — in a spectral whir: The ten songs, some old and some very new, sound sui generis. The music of Spectator is simply as beautiful, adventurous and enigmatic as rock music gets — in St. Louis or anywhere. Rooney and Albert became involved, musically and romantically, nine years ago. They were introduced by a mutual friend. The two almost immediately began making music together. “In the beginning, it was a lot of casual playing guitar together in our houses,” Rooney says. “And we played some open mics together.” Rooney had experience working with a band in town, the neo-flamenco group Ginkgo Biloba (a mainstay on Saturdays at the restaurant BARcelona), but she was eager to begin recording with Albert. She quickly booked a few sessions with friend and producer Wil Reeves, who runs Centro Cellar Studio in Columbia,
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and who has recorded dozens of regional acts including Bockman, Joe Stickley, the Hooten Hallers and the Thin Dimes. Those early experiments in Columbia and St. Louis resulted in the six songs found on In the Brick, a dreamy folk-rock record that captures the nascent Spectator sound, with jazzy rhythms and call-and-response vocals from Albert’s foggy-bottom baritone and Rooney’s soaring, plaintive phrasing. It’s a lovely EP, well worth seeking out, but it barely presages the haunting, experimental sounds and darkly ruminative and exploratory themes of The Last Exchange. In conversation about the new album, Rooney brings up her love of psychedelic music — Pink Floyd and Damon — and her connection to Latin music. Both genres fuse in Spectator’s new vision — with rich percussive grooves and silvery, elliptical guitars — while still leaving ample space for the improvisational work of the musicians and keeping the crystalline melodies and timeless feel of the songs intact. “My first love of music was Latin,” Rooney says. “All sorts of different Latin styles. That’s where I fell for music. And I really developed my singing voice with that flamenco band. Latin music was always in the back of my mind
when we recorded. I was probably a pain in the ass: ‘Give me more syncopation!’ I was really picky about the rhythms, and we’ve found drummers who just sort of naturally do that.” For The Last Exchange, Rooney and Albert drew on the drums and percussion of Danny Carroll and Phylshawn Johnson, the harp playing of Ruth Acuff, the piano of Andrew Weir, the guitar of Dominic Puleo and the bass of producer Reeves. Rooney and Albert also turned again to the rhythm section of Luke Berry and Laren Loveless — both helped form the most cohesive version of the band and continue to perform onstage with Spectator. But the nature of the group and the recordings that eventually became The Last Exchange remain fluid. Rooney and Albert have been living in Oakland, California, since August 2014, as Rooney is completing a degree in social work at the University of California in Berkeley. (The two plan to return to St. Louis when her studies are complete.) Though the new album is grounded in live tracks, those recordings were mostly redone, often at a distance, via Skype and email. “We tried to rush and finish before we left for California,” Albert says. “But we had to redo a lot of things. All the drums were recorded before we left, but we had to re-track them all riverfronttimes.com
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remotely. We recorded everything live back at home and then redid much of it because the sound quality wasn’t good or the parts weren’t quite right.” “But I do feel like this record has more live takes,” Rooney adds. “We sat and listened to a full take of a guitar, a full vocal take, a full drum take. That was different from the first record.” Spectator, then, is principally the vision of Rooney and Albert. The two truly write together; a song may start with one or the other musician, but it’s never close to complete until it passes through their personal feedback loop. But the band, like the music it makes, will likely remain a changeable, elusive thing. “We just started to think about it more flexibly and creatively,” Rooney says. “We didn’t want to push against that and try to wrangle in this group that was going in different directions. Maybe we needed to redefine what a band means to us. But everyone is still super dedicated to the project.” “We were maybe trying to hold onto this vision of a band as one thing,” Albert adds, “but it doesn’t have to be that way. We can play as a duo, or with a drummer or with six people onstage if we want to. It’s been freeing.” Q
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b-sides Recklessly Everything A TRACK-BY-TRACK BREAKDOWN OF BRYAN ADAMS’ 1984 MASTERPIECE Bryan Adams 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 15. The Fox Theatre. 527 North Grand Boulevard. $35 to $125. 314534-1111.
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for their number. Much like many relationships, Reckless begins with what was intended to be a one-night stand. But where Carole King wondered if the night in question was a fleeting moment on “Will You Love Me Tomorrow,” Adams goes into the night accepting the situation for what it is. During the course of the fling, however, Ad-
ams begins developing feelings for his partner and worries that he’s letting on that he wants more than a fun evening with no strings attached. A tale as old as time. 2. “She’s Only Happy When She’s Dancin’” Recommended Usage: Relationship? Who needs a relationship? There’s an old adage that the best way to find a relationship is to stop looking. While
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actualization. That song ends with snippets of newscasts that describe the scene from last summer’s unrest in Ferguson, which collectively serve as a segue to “Ground Zero.” Cue and Clair take a personal, street-level approach to the Ferguson situation and its continuing fallout, slowly morphing into both a condemnation and a rumination. Coming in the middle of this twelve-song album, “Ground Zero” serves as the catalyst for the Domino Effect’s more political material. The substance of “Problemz” is pretty surface-level — the intro recites a list of modern worries, from disease to famine to police brutality — but the track’s popping rhythm and the overall message — “stay woke” — resonates. Oddly, it’s the song with the most provocative title, “Black Genocide,” that plays it coolest. With a spare and spacey backing track, the members of the Domino Effect discuss unjust systems and the fear of oblivion — to “remain forever unknown.” That’s but one example of how Unknown smartly subverts its title; sometimes it serves as an underdog’s boast, sometimes it defines the fear of eradication. —CHRISTIAN SCHAEFFER Want your CD to be considered for a review in this space? Send music c/o Riverfront Times, Attn: Homespun, 6358 Delmar Boulevard, Suite 200, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130. Email music@riverfronttimes.com for more information.
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this may run contrary to the belief of Match. com founder Neil Clark Warren, sometimes the best way to fight the fear of spending your life alone is to embrace the single lifestyle and set the town on fire. With Reckless’ second track, Adams tells the tale of a girl hunting through town for one thing — her own happiness. “She ain’t got much, but she’s got independence. Yeah, she’s doing alright,” he sings during the bridge — an anthemic call for anyone comfortable on their own in a paired-off world. 3. “Run to You” Recommended Usage: Deleting illicit text messages. Hey everyone, Bryan Adams is a dick! Well, maybe not Adams himself, but certainly the person from whose perspective he is singing this track. For all the songs written about being cheated on, Adams turns the table by providing a tune for those perpetuating the infidelity. As the narrator of the illicit affair, Adams seems conflicted — describing his partner in the steady relationship as having both a “cold” love and, conversely, a “true” love. For anyone leaving a forbidden romance on the way back to the one you’re promised, “Run to You” is the perfect soundtrack for getting your story straight. 4. “Heaven” Recommended Usage: Being committed and happy in a way that makes your friends sick. Though it’s not an official question on their census, one would have to imagine “Heaven” would rank No. 1 on a list of “songs to which Canadians in their early thirties were conceived.” In what is the most interesting piece of sequencing on Reckless, Adams follows up his ode to infidelity with the album’s most honest love song. If you find yourself in that magic place in a relationship — the point where all defenses have been broken down, but before a “Run to You” situation reminds you why those defenses existed in the first place — enjoy the bliss provided by the unofficial Canadian national anthem of love. 5. “Somebody” Recommended Usage: Looking for Mr. or Mrs. Tonight. When just off a bad breakup or looking to quench a relationship dry spell, most people have had those evenings where who you go home with is less important than the act of going home with someone itself. With “Somebody,” Adams explores the time between the single, carefree evening that was planned in “She’s Only Happy When She’s Dancin’” and before the awkward morning set forth in “One Night Love Affair” — that period in between the third and fourth whiskey and soda, where the conversation with a stranger is flowing, the neon highlights their hair in just the right manner and the possibility of future unwelcome text messages remains unfactored.
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6. “Summer of ’69’” Recommended Usage: Wistfully Facebook stalking an ex. For all the negativity that seems to surround past relationships — the painful memories of broken promises and possible “Run to You” type situations — there are some we flash back to with fondness. Sure, it didn’t work out, but the reasons had more to do with age and circumstance rather than two people wearing each other down to the point of bitterness. With “Summer of 69’,” possibly Reckless’ best-known track, Adams provides a song for anyone looking back at a relationship and remembering the excitement and exploration of young love. And, yes, although co-writer Jim Vallance disputes it, Adams admitted in 2008 that the number represents exactly what you think it represents. 7. “Kids Wanna Rock” Recommended Usage: Fixing yourself another drink while listening to this album. Much like the hook in a Swiss Army knife, “Kids Wanna Rock” is big, shiny and doesn’t have a whole lot of usage compared to the other tools in the package. An exception that proves the rule, this song — while full of pop and energy — strays from the relationship narrative of the rest of the album. 8. “It’s Only Love” Recommended Usage: Searching Craigslist for a post-breakup apartment. Much like the stomachache that indicates psychedelic mushrooms are about to kick in, every doomed affair has a moment when the pain of heartache begins to seep in, just before the relationship has come to its conclusion — an indicator that finality is around the corner, though not yet present. Accompanied by Tina Turner, a woman who knows a thing or two about relationships gone
sour, Adams explores the period wherein love has gone past its breaking point. But don’t worry, the lyrics reassure, “it’s only love, and that’s all.” 9. “Long Gone” Recommended Usage: Shopping for new towels after losing the old ones in a breakup. It follows that if you are to give yourself to person, be it in a marriage or a long-term relationship, your material possessions will soon coalesce. With a divorce rate of 50 percent, however, it also follows that half of the time a person will find themselves replacing a lot of their stuff along with the divot in their heart. In “Long Gone,” Adams writes from the perspective of a person left with little but the clothes on his back. Sure, she took the house and the car, he sings, but she also took herself — leaving the possessionless Adams a “happy boy.” 10. “Ain’t Gonna Cry” Recommended Usage: Delighting in an ex crawling back once you’re over them. Placed in a different order, the songs on Reckless could be the story of a single relationship — from the accidental meeting of a guy looking for “Somebody” and a girl out “Dancin’.” They overcome the awkward nature of their “One Night Love Affair” and find the bliss within each other described in “Heaven.” Things turn sour, however, when one begins to cheat on the other in “Run to You,” which begins the breakup process encompassed within the album’s last three tracks. If the end of a relationship is a “war to win,” as Adams sings in “It’s Only Love,” then “Ain’t Gonna Cry” shows the singer victorious. He’s made peace with the breakup and now his ex has come crawling back, allowing Adams to both gloat and tell her exactly what she did wrong. He, uh, also threatens to “rearrange [her] face.” Don’t do that. —JEREMY ESSIG riverfronttimes.com
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8 p.m. Wednesday, April 15. The Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard. $35 to $125. 314-534-1111. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s get this out of the way right now: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a large percentage of St. Louis women whose idea of the perfect musician boyfriend was solidiďŹ ed right around the time Bryan Adams released Reckless in 1984. Sure, Cuts Like a Knife earned him plenty of fans, but when young ladies heard the Canadian singerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recording of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heavenâ&#x20AC;? during their ďŹ rst middle-school dance, or came across â&#x20AC;&#x153;Summer of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;69â&#x20AC;? on MTV a year later, their hormones went into overdrive. And why wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t they? Adams was â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and still is â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a kind-eyed, spiky-haired guitarist who sings about romance and fun times. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Mom-approved Peter Pan of rock, and when he punctuates nearly every verse with an enthusiastic â&#x20AC;&#x153;YEEEEEAH!â&#x20AC;? we know it comes straight from the heart. Photo Finish: Adams is no one-trick pony. In addition to being an album workhorse and soundtrack king, he is a well-regarded professional photographer who has shot for Esquire, British Vogue and Guess? Jeans.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;ALLISON BABKA
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concerts CONCERTS 18 Stories: W/ Moon Glampers, Fri., May 8, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226. Agent Orange: W/ In The Whale, Thu., May 21, 8 p.m., $12$15. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Backpack Blues: W/ NGK Band, Smokin’ Section, CEEJazzSoul, Church on Wheels, Sun., April 26, 1 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Benefit Concert For Collinsville's Historic Miner's Theatre: W/ Doc Holiday, Quarter Draw Band, Sweet n Sour, Jammin' Ringtonz, Sat., May 2, 6:30 p.m., $5-$10. American Legion Post 365, 1022 Vandalia St., Collinsville, 618-345-2508. Betty Who: W/ Coin, Thu., July 2, 8 p.m., $16-$18. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. Big Mike Aguirre & the Blu City All-Stars: Sun., April 26, 4 p.m., free. Schmitty's Bar & Grill, 102 N. Main Street, Smithton, 618-416-8145. Big Rain: Sat., April 18, 9:30 p.m., free. Sky Music Lounge, 930 Kehrs Mill Road, Ballwin, 636-527-6909. Blend: Fri., Oct. 9, 7 p.m., free. Plaza 501, 501 S Ferguson Rd, Ferguson. Bottoms Up Blues Gang: Sat., April 25, 1 p.m., free. Blues City Deli, 2438 McNair Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-8225. Brasstravaganza: Mon., April 20, 7:30 p.m., $36. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900. Brian Curran: Sat., April 18, 1 p.m., free. Blues City Deli, 2438 McNair Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-8225. Brother Jefferson Band: Thu., April 30, 7 p.m., free. Schmitty's Bar & Grill, 102 N. Main Street, Smithton, 618416-8145. Bum and Possum Combination: W/ The Jaded Millennials, Fri., May 22, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, T H IS C O D E 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE 314-352-5226. RIVERFRONT TIMES Candlebox: Tue., May 19, IPHONE/ANDROID APP 8 p.m., $15-$25. Old Rock FOR MORE CONCERTS OR VISIT House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. riverfronttimes.com Louis, 314-588-0505. Carrie and the Catapults: Fri., April 17, 10:30 p.m., $7. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880. Case: W/ Chico DeBarge, Sat., April 25, 8 p.m., $20-$25. Ambassador, 9800 Halls Ferry Road, North St. Louis County, 314-869-9090. Casey Reeves: Sat., May 30, noon; Sun., May 31, noon, free. Eckert's Country Store & Farms-Belleville, 951 S. Green Mount Road, Belleville, 618-233-0513. CB and the Cadillac Daddies: Sun., April 12, 4 p.m., free. Schmitty's Bar & Grill, 102 N. Main Street, Smithton, 618-416-8145. Clockwork: W/ Goodbye June, Fri., April 17, 8 p.m., $8. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505. Corey Smith: Fri., July 10, 8 p.m., $17.50/$20. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. The Crane Wives: W/ Under The Willow, Sleeping Cranes, Tue., April 21, 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Dan Sproat: Fri., May 8, 4 p.m., free. Blumenhof Vineyards, Highway 94, P.O. Box 30, Dutzow, 800-419-2245. Dave Black Group: Fri., Sept. 11, 7 p.m., free. Plaza 501, 501 S Ferguson Rd, Ferguson. Dave Stone Jazz Trio: Fri., April 10, 11 p.m.; Fri., April 17, 11 p.m.; Fri., April 24, 11 p.m., free. Mangia Italiano, 3145 S. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-664-8585. Dennis Stroughmatt & Swing N Country Band: Sun., April 12, 2 p.m., $10. Espenschied Chapel, 317 County Road, Mascoutah, 618-566-7425. E-40: W/ Stevie Stone, Mon., May 25, 7 p.m., $20-$23. Pop's Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis, 618-2746720. Ellen The Felon: Fri., April 10, 9 p.m., $10. Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 N Grand Blvd, St. Louis, 314-533-0367. Eric McSpadden: W/ Mojo Syndrome, Sat., May 9, 2 p.m., free. Blumenhof Vineyards, Highway 94, P.O. Box 30, Dutzow, 800-419-2245. Euclid Records - Record Store Day Weekend 2015 Day 1: W/ Hands And Feet, CaveofswordS, Brother Lee & the Leather Jackals, Fumer, Fri., April 17, 5 p.m., free. Euclid
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Records, 19 N. Gore Ave., St. Louis, 314-961-8978. Euclid Records - Record Store Day Weekend 2015 Day 2: W/ Neil C. Luke, Drew Sheafor, Beth Bombara, The Wilderness, Hilary Scott, *repeat repeat, Yankee Racers, Sleepy Kitty, The Feed, Middle Class Fashion, Foster and Lloyd, Bible Belt Sinners, Kristeen Young, Jans Project, Jon Hardy and The Public, The Bottle Rockets, Sat., April 18, 10 a.m., free. Euclid Records, 19 N. Gore Ave., St. Louis, 314-961-8978. Euclid Records - Record Store Day Weekend 2015 Day 3: W/ The Tennis Lesson, Hell Night, Black Fast, Indian Blanket, Sun., April 19, 1 p.m., free. Euclid Records, 19 N. Gore Ave., St. Louis, 314-961-8978. FanFare: Fri., July 10, 7 p.m., free. Plaza 501, 501 S Ferguson Rd, Ferguson. Fruition: W/ Clusterpluck, Wed., May 27, 8 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Garden Party Trio: Sun., May 10, 2 p.m., free. Blumenhof Vineyards, Highway 94, P.O. Box 30, Dutzow, 800-419-2245. Gateway Jazz Project: Fri., May 1, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226. Granger Smith: W/ Earl Dibbles Jr., Sat., May 9, 8 p.m., $15$20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Harry Connick, Jr: Tue., July 28, 7:30 p.m., TBA. Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888. Hero Jr.: Fri., April 17, 9 p.m., $8. The Crack Fox, 1114 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-621-6900. Hilary Scott: Sun., May 24, noon, free. Eckert's Country Store & Farms-Belleville, 951 S. Green Mount Road, Belleville, 618-233-0513. Hudson & the Hoo Doo Cats: Thu., April 23, 7 p.m., free. Schmitty's Bar & Grill, 102 N. Main Street, Smithton, 618416-8145. The Humanoids: W/ Hellachopper, Better Days, Ox Braker, Spirits and the Melchizedek Children, Sat., May 30, 8:30 p.m., $8. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. IAMSU!: W/ Rome Fortune, Dave Steezy, Davo Fly, Mon., April 13, 8 p.m., $17-$50. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. Jake's Leg: Fri., April 17, 9:30 p.m., free. Sky Music Lounge, 930 Kehrs Mill Road, Ballwin, 636-527-6909. Jeff Beck: Tue., May 19, 8 p.m., $49-$129. The Fox Theatre, 527 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-534-1111. Jeff Zagers: W/ Larva Lu, Hylidae, Zak M., free. Los Punk, 2709 Cherokee St, St. Louis, 314-932-5411. Jeremiah Johnson: Sat., April 25, 10:30 p.m., $7. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880. Jesse W. Johnson: W/ Matthew Kennedy, Fri., May 15, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226. Johnny Mathis: Sat., Sept. 19, 8 p.m., $50-$125. The Fox Theatre, 527 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-534-1111. JW Jones: Thu., April 16, 6 p.m., free. Blues City Deli, 2438 McNair Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-8225. Kevin Blichik Band: Fri., Aug. 14, 7 p.m., free. Plaza 501, 501 S Ferguson Rd, Ferguson. Kilborn Alley Blues Band: Thu., April 23, 6 p.m., free. Blues City Deli, 2438 McNair Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-8225. Killer Moon: W/ Got Villains, Sat., May 2, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226. Kingdom Brothers: Fri., June 26, 7 p.m., free. Plaza 501, 501 S Ferguson Rd, Ferguson. KMFDM: W/ Chant, Wed., Aug. 12, 8 p.m., $25-$28. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Lemen and Moon: Sat., May 23, noon, free. Eckert's Country Store & Farms-Belleville, 951 S. Green Mount Road, Belleville, 618-233-0513. Lo-Fi Cherokee 2015: W/ Grace Basement, Whoa Thunder, Trauma Harness, 18andCounting, Adria Nicole, Pat Sajak Assassins, Irene Allen, Last To Show First To Go, David and Sara Surkamp, Blank Generation, River Kittens, Lizzie Weber, iLLPHONICS, Brother Lee & the Leather Jackals, Crazy XXX Girlfriend, The Maness Brothers, Yowie, So Many Dynamos, Sat., April 11, 9 a.m., free. Cherokee Street, Cherokee St., St. Louis. Lunar Levitation: Fri., April 17, 5:30 p.m., free. Syberg's on Dorsett, 2430 Old Dorsett Road, Maryland Heights, 314785-0481. The Magic Beans: W/ Consider The Source, Wed., April 15, 9 p.m., $3. 2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center, 2720 Cherokee St, St. Louis, 314-276-2700. Magic City: W/ Red Mouth, Zak M., Sat., May 9, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-3525226. Marquise Knox: Sat., April 11, 1:30 p.m., $7. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880. Mates of State: Sat., June 27, 8 p.m., $18-$20. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. Matt Stansberry and the Romance: Fri., April 24, 10:30 p.m., $10. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880. Mick Byrd & the Backroad Band: Fri., April 17, 7:30 p.m., $10. The Focal Point, 2720 Sutton Blvd, St. Louis, 314-560-2778. Mike Gordon: Tue., June 9, 8 p.m., $25/$27.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. Miss Jubilee & the Humdingers: Sat., April 11, 1 p.m., free. Blues City Deli, 2438 McNair Ave., St. Louis, 314-7738225. Sun., April 19, 4 p.m., free. Schmitty's Bar & Grill, 102 N. Main Street, Smithton, 618-416-8145. Murphy and the Death Rays: W/ The Churchlands, Stingy, Thu., April 23, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.
Nitro Latin: Fri., Aug. 28, 7 p.m., free. Plaza 501, 501 S Ferguson Rd, Ferguson. One Take Band: Fri., April 24, 10 p.m., $5. Venice Café, 1903 Pestalozzi St., St. Louis, 314-772-5994. Optimus Rex: W/ Miss Rodgers, Many Voices, Sat., April 11, 11 p.m., free. Mangia Italiano, 3145 S. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-664-8585. Ori Naftaly: Sat., April 18, 10:30 p.m., $7. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880. Pat Sajak Assassins: W/ The Tennis Lesson, Ashes and Iron, Sat., May 23, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226. Paydirt: Sun., May 17, 2 p.m., free. Blumenhof Vineyards, Highway 94, P.O. Box 30, Dutzow, 800-419-2245. Pete Ayres Band: Thu., June 11, 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Pokey LaFarge: Sat., April 25, 3 p.m., free. Vintage Vinyl, 6610 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-721-4096. Potluck: W/ Wrekonize, Prevail, Notorious Prime, K1, SixOneNate, Sawblade, Thu., June 18, 7:30 p.m., $14-$17. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. P.R.E.A.C.H.: W/ Zues, Damiou Williams, Sat., June 6, 7 p.m., $6-$10. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Quiet Company: W/ The Rocketboys, Thu., May 14, 7:30 p.m., $12. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Quitting Amy: Sat., May 2, 9 p.m., $5. Blueberry Hill - Elvis Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444. Ragged Company: Fri., April 17, 6:30 p.m., free. Sky Music Lounge, 930 Kehrs Mill Road, Ballwin, 636-527-6909. Ralph Butler Band: Fri., May 22, 7 p.m., free. Plaza 501, 501 S Ferguson Rd, Ferguson. Rich McDonough & Rough Grooves: Thu., April 16, 7 p.m., free. Schmitty's Bar & Grill, 102 N. Main Street, Smithton, 618-416-8145. Rick Curtright: Fri., May 15, 4 p.m., free. Blumenhof Vineyards, Highway 94, P.O. Box 30, Dutzow, 800-419-2245. Righteous Mind Project: Fri., July 24, 7 p.m., free. Plaza 501, 501 S Ferguson Rd, Ferguson. River Despair EP Release Show: W/ The Griddle Kids, Drew Sheafor, Sat., April 18, 11 p.m., free. Mangia Italiano, 3145 S. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-664-8585. RJ Mischo: W/ Igor Prado, Tue., May 5, 1 p.m., free. Blues City Deli, 2438 McNair Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-8225. Roland Johnson: Thu., April 30, 6 p.m., free. Blues City Deli, 2438 McNair Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-8225. Saddle Up! BandTogether Pops Concert 2015: Sat., May 16, 8 p.m., free. The 560 Music Center, 560 Trinity Ave., University City, 314-421-3600. Scale Model: W/ Whoa Thunder!, Thu., May 28, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-3525226. Scarlet Tanager: W/ Typhoon Jackson, Major Cities, Thu., May 14, 9 p.m., free. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226. Seoul: Thu., April 23, 8 p.m., $5. Billiken Club at Saint Louis University - Busch Student Center, 20 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-977-2020. The Shadowboxers: Sun., June 14, 8 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Songbird Cafe: W/ Marshall Chapman, Tommy Womack, Wed., April 22, 7:30 p.m., $25. The Focal Point, 2720 Sutton Blvd, St. Louis, 314-560-2778. Sons of Sweden: W/ Earl Burrows, Thu., May 21, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-3525226. Steve Leslie: Sat., May 16, 2 p.m., free. Blumenhof Vineyards, Highway 94, P.O. Box 30, Dutzow, 800-419-2245. Tanlines: Wed., July 1, 8 p.m., $12-$15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. The Yawpers: Sat., May 9, 9 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Timbre: Mon., May 11, 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Tish Key Haynes: Fri., June 12, 7 p.m., free. Plaza 501, 501 S Ferguson Rd, Ferguson. T.O.S.: Sat., April 18, 6:30 p.m., free. Sky Music Lounge, 930 Kehrs Mill Road, Ballwin, 636-527-6909. Twangfest Day 1: W/ Cracker, Marah, Grace Basement, Wed., June 10, 8 p.m., $22/$25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. Twangfest Day 2: W/ Matthew Sweet, Lilly Hiatt, Spectator, Thu., June 11, 8 p.m., $22/$25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. Twangfest Day 3: W/ Lydia Loveless, Nadine, The Trio Project, Fri., June 12, 8 p.m., $17/$20. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. Twangfest Day 4: W/ The Bottle Rockets, Eric Ambel, Jimbo Mathus, Sat., June 13, 8 p.m., $19-$22. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. Vandalion: W/ Green Harper, Omoo Omoo, Sat., April 25, 11 p.m., free. Mangia Italiano, 3145 S. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-664-8585. Von Strantz: W/ Town Cars, Cassie Morgan And The Lonely Pine, Ryan M Brewer, Wed., April 29, 8 p.m., $8. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. The Whiffenpoofs of Yale: Mon., April 27, 7:30 p.m., $10$20. The 560 Music Center, 560 Trinity Ave., University City, 314-421-3600. White Lung: Wed., June 10, 8 p.m., $10-$12. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. You Had Me At Posters: W/ Jeske Park, Grace Brummel, Fri., May 8, 7:30 p.m., $10. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009.
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T H U R S DAY Kind of Like Spitting: w/ Lee Corey Oswald, Thu., April 9, 8 p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050, www.fubarstl.com. Dr. Dog: w/ mewithoutyou, Thu., April 9, 8 p.m., $22.50-$25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161, www.thepageant.com. Thee Fine Lines: w/ Babe Lords, Thu., April 9, 9 p.m., free. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314772-2100, www.facebook.com/FoamCoffeeandBeer?ref=ts. The Hooten Hallers: w/ The Bottlesnakes, Thu., April 9, 9 p.m., $8/$10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, www.offbroadwaystl.com. Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship: w/ Har-Di-Har, CaveofswordS, Thu., April 9, 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337, www.schlafly.com. Brother Lee and The Leather Jackals: Thu., April 9, 11 p.m., free. Halo Bar, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-7261414, www.thepageant.com/halobar/.
F R I DAY Bosman Twins CD Release Show: Fri., April 10, 7:30 p.m., $10-$25. Jazz at the Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-289-4030, www.jazzstl.org/jazz-at-the-bistro/. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: w/ Sleepy Kitty, Fri., April 10, 8 p.m.; Sat., April 11, 8 p.m.; Sun., April 12, 2 & 7 p.m.; Thu., April 16, 8 p.m.; Fri., April 17, 8 p.m.; Sat., April 18, 8 p.m.; Sun., April 19, 3 p.m., $20-$30. Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 N Grand Blvd, St. Louis, 314-533-0367, www. kranzbergartscenter.org/. Here Come the Mummies: Fri., April 10, 8 p.m., $20/$22.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161, www.thepageant.com. Travis Tritt: Fri., April 10, 8 p.m., $27.50-$77.50. River City Casino & Hotel, 777 River City Casino Blvd., St. Louis, 314388-7777, www.rivercity.com. mr. Gnome: Fri., April 10, 8:30 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, www.thedemostl.com. Ginuwine: Fri., April 10, 9 p.m., TBA. The Coliseum Music Lounge, 2619 Washington Ave., St. Louis, 314-531-2920, www.thecoliseumstl.com. Ellen The Felon: Fri., April 10, 9 p.m., $10. Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 N Grand Blvd, St. Louis, 314-533-0367, www. kranzbergartscenter.org/. High Scores: w/ We Party Portugal, Banks and Cathedrals, Fri., April 10, 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337, www.schlafly.com. Shattered Edge: Fri., April 10, 9 p.m., $5. Way Out Club, 2525 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-664-7638, https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Way-OutClub/248380771801. The Buckley Manifesto - The Music Of Jeff Buckley: w/ Andrew John, Fri., April 10, 9:30 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, www.offbroadwaystl.com.
S AT U R DAY Lo-Fi Cherokee 2015: w/ Grace Basement, Whoa Thunder, Trauma Harness, 18andCounting, Adria Nicole, Pat Sajak Assassins, Irene Allen, Last To Show First To Go, David and Sara Surkamp, Blank Generation, River Kittens, Lizzie Weber, iLLPHONICS, Brother Lee & the Leather Jackals, Crazy XXX Girlfriend, The Maness Brothers, Yowie, So Many Dynamos, Sat., April 11, 9 a.m., free. Cherokee Street, Cherokee St., St. Louis. Marquise Knox: Sat., April 11, 1:30 p.m., $7. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880, www.
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bealeonbroadway.com. The James Hunter Six: Sat., April 11, 8 p.m., $25. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505, www. oldrockhouse.com. Thunderhead: The Rush Experience: Sat., April 11, 8 p.m., $9.95/$12.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161, www.thepageant.com. Spectator Album Release Show: Sat., April 11, 9 p.m., free. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100, www.facebook.com/ FoamCoffeeandBeer?ref=ts. .e: w/ Van Buren, Hands and Feet, Sat., April 11, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-3525226, www.theheavyanchor.com. Magic City: w/ This City Of Takers, Peck Of Dirt, Sat., April 11, 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337, www.schlafly.com.
S U N DAY John McCutcheon: Sun., April 12, 7 p.m., $30/$35. The Focal Point, 2720 Sutton Blvd, St. Louis, 314-560-2778, www.thefocalpoint.org. Shawn Mendes: Sun., April 12, 8 p.m., $32.50/$35. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161, www. thepageant.com. David Lindley: Sun., April 12, 8:30 p.m., $17-$25. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505, www. oldrockhouse.com. Papadosio: w/ Tauk, Sun., April 12, 9 p.m., $15-$20. 2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center, 2720 Cherokee St, St. Louis, 314-276-2700, www.2720cherokee.com. Jeff the Brotherhood: w/ Bully, Sun., April 12, 9 p.m., $15$18. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-7733363, www.offbroadwaystl.com.
M O N DAY IAMSU!: w/ Rome Fortune, Dave Steezy, Davo Fly, Mon., April 13, 8 p.m., $17-$50. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353, www.firebirdstl.com. Animal Children: Mon., April 13, 8 p.m.; Mon., April 27, 8 p.m., free. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100, www.facebook.com/ FoamCoffeeandBeer?ref=ts. Mother Meat: w/ I Am the Albatross, Inside Voices, 32pc Vintage Party Set, Mon., April 13, 8 p.m., $8. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050, www.fubarstl.com. Cobalt Cranes: w/ Babe Lords, Mon., April 13, 10 p.m., free. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314772-2100, www.facebook.com/FoamCoffeeandBeer?ref=ts.
T U E S DAY Jamaica Live Tuesdays: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ Witz, Tuesdays, $5/$10. Elmo's Love Lounge, 7828 Olive Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561. Allegeaon: w/ Product of Hate, Tue., April 14, 6:30 p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050, www. fubarstl.com. The Delta Saints: w/ Lionize, Meghann Wright, The Green Gallows, Tue., April 14, 7:30 p.m., $12.50-$17. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353, www.firebirdstl. com. Between The Buried And Me: w/ Atlas Moth, Tue., April 14, 8:30 p.m., $16-$18. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, www.thereadyroom.com. Art Alexakis: Tue., April 14, 9 p.m., $25. Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444, www. blueberryhill.com.
W E D N E S DAY Lunch Beat #22: Wed., April 15, noon, free. The Stage at KDHX, 3524 Washington Ave, St. Louis. Taylor Caniff: w/ Michael Wood, Zac Mann, Wed., April 15, 7:30 p.m., $20. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314535-0353, www.firebirdstl.com. Bryan Adams: Wed., April 15, 8 p.m., $35-$125. The Fox Theatre, 527 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-534-1111, www. fabulousfox.com. Cody Canada & the Departed: w/ The O's, Wed., April 15, 8 p.m., $15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314773-3363, www.offbroadwaystl.com. Twin Shadow: Wed., April 15, 8:30 p.m., $15/$20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, www. thereadyroom.com.
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Specialist RF Engineer (Chesterfield, MO) Analyze key performance metrics of LTE/UMTS networks & dvlp service solutions to improve end-user experience, cost efficiency, & savings. Provide network planning/dsign solutions using tuned radio propagation models to achieve cell edge RSRP & CINR thresholds. Reqs: MS electrical/electron engâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;g + 2 yrs of RF network planning & optimization exp or BS electrical/electron engâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;g + 5 yrs RF network engâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;g rltd exp. Exp w/ LTE(4G), UMTS(3G), GSM(2G), & VOLTE wireless technologies & propagation; proficiency w/ self-optimizing networks, knwlg of 3GPP, & E2E analysis competence; exp w/ COPS, Ericsson OSS, NSN OSS, Actix, Atoll, Nemo drive test analyzer, Ericsson Business Objects, ALPT, NPO, SAM, & Tektrnoix Analyzer. Possible future relocation to unanticipated, nationwide client worksites. Resumes: Amdocs Inc., careersta@amdocs.com; Ref: HR-0358.
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Now Hiring Line Cooks. Apply in person at 101 W. Lockwood Ave. in Webster or 200 S. Central in Clayton Cooks & Housekeepers Needed for large hotel chain. Background check/drug test req. Call 314-863-7400
185 Miscellaneous Music Director (St. Louis, MO) needed for a church Req. BA in Church Music or relat'd & 1yr exp. Resume to The Holy Mountain Assembly of God, 12939 Conway Rd. St. Louis,MO 63141
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Furniture for every room available to rent or purchase at McGuire Furniture Rental & Sales. Showroom located at 650 Fee Fee Road, Maryland Heights, MO 63043. Call (314) 997-4500 or visit mcguirefurniturerental.com
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Full Body Massage FOR MEN Tailored to YOUR needs. IN/OUT CALLS. Paul @ 314-608-4296. M-F 12pm-9pm. #2004009095
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MUSICIANS AVAILABLE Do you need musicians? A Band? A String Quartet? Call the Musicians Association of St. Louis (314)781-6612, M-F, 10:00-4:30
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190 Business Opportunities Avon Full Time/Part Time, $15 Fee. Call Carla: 314-665-4585 For Appointment or Details Independent Avon Rep.
193 Employment Information COMPANY DRIVERS, owner/ operators. Now Hiring CDL School Grads. Home daily/ weekly. Midwest runs. Great benefits. 1-888-300- 9935
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Commercial Loans...Easier...Faster...Better!!!! Loans from as little as $100k to $1.5 million...can be used to purchase or refinance Multi-family, Mix Use, Warehouse/Industrial, Self Storage, Retail, Office, and Automotive. uFast Pre-Approvals and Closings uUnlimited Cash Out Refinance Bobby Eskridge @ Alpha Resources 314-727-2993
Business Solutions Specialist TP AMM (Nestle Regional Globe Office North America - St. Louis, MO) Participate in customization of coâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s existing processes and sys. F/T. Reqs Bachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degr (or forgn equiv) in Engnrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;g, Comp Sci or rel fld & 5 yrs exp in job offered or in SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) & Proj Systs (PS). All stated exp must incl: End-to-End SAP Process across full life cycle of factory assets, incldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;g equipmt & machinery; coord. of capital acquisition, master data setup, preventive maintenance prgrm, inventory mgmt & reprtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;g; SAP FICO (FI), Procurement (P2P), Demand & Supply Planâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;g, & Material Handlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;g; Complimentary apps in Engnrâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;g, Safety, Health & Environ Area (SH&E) & Credit 360 Sustainability Solutions Sftwre; & resolvâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;g bus app rel incidents & conduct root cause analysis to improve mrkt performance. Resumes: M. Simo, NestlĂŠ USA, Inc., 800 N. Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA 91203. Job: CA-JSG.
Hospitalist: Treat Patients, Med degree/foreign equiv, Int Med Residency. FT. Mail to JH, 645 Maryville Ctr Dr.#100, St Louis MO 63141-5846.
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Looking to sell or trade your metal, punk, rap or rock LP collection. Call us. 4191-A Manchester. musicrecordshop.com , 314-732-0164 DATING MADE EASY... LOCAL SINGLES! Listen & Reply FREE! 314-739-7777 FREE PROMO CODE: 9512 Telemates CAMPS, WINERIES, SPORTING EVENTS, WEDDINGS, PARTIES, GROUP OUTINGS
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