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No Way Home
Even with recent reforms, many Missouri drug offenders are still stuck without a chance of parole. Written by DANNY WICENTOWSKI Cover by MOPIC
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Seven days worth of great stuff to see and do
Cheryl Baehr inhales the culture and the caipirinhas at Brasilia
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Slushies and Strife
Doyle Murphy reports on the fight over a liquor license -- and accusations of racism -- in Soulard
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Pasties in the Loop
Half-naked torsos on a “family-friendly” street? Turns out, they’re already here
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Robert Hunt previews the highlights of the Classic French Film Festival
Josh Koester owes his career to his family’s truck stop
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Bruce Springsteen Is Full of Shit
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Everything You Need to Know About Murmaration
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he owners of a Soulard slushie bar claim neighbors are gunning for their liquor license because they’re freaked out by black patrons. Tropical Liqueurs is facing a potentially fatal blow as the city considers withdrawing the bar’s right to sell booze. Neighbors say Trops became a nightmare of trash, drugs and guns shortly after opening in August, but owners claim they’ve worked through all the problems, leaving just one possible source of the continued complaints. “I believe it’s because we do have a largely diverse crowd,” coowner Connie Vaughan said during a hearing last Friday at City Hall. Her lawyer, Patrick McCarthy, pressed her to clarify. “We have a large African-American crowd,” Vaughan said. The St. Louis outpost of the bar popular with binge-drinking college kids in Columbia and Springfield opened in August in the former home of Gladstone’s, at South Tenth and Soulard streets. The location, while just a block from a string of bars and restaurants on South Ninth, is a little off the beaten path and surrounded by family homes. Vaughan, who lives near Springfield, operates Trops with her two brothers. She admits they were “surprised” by the large crowds they drew but says they’ve worked through early growing pains involving illegally parked cars, noisy customers and garbage. Neighbors say the place is a disaster, and it’s not about race. Matt Bowers, who lives next door, recounted two harrowing incidents tied to the bar. In September, he says, a man pulled a u-turn on Twelth Street, hopped out and steadied a gun on the roof of the car as if preparing for a firefight before he spotted Bowers and drove off. Spooked, Bowers sought out an off-duty cop Continued on pg 9
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A burlesque performance at Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room in 2015. | STEVE TRUESDELL
No Body Paint? What About Burlesque?
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ast Monday, the City Council in University City condemned plans to bring Social House II to the Delmar Loop, passing a resolution making clear their opposition to the bar, which plans to feature servers wearing only body paint. Among those speaking against the project was Joe Edwards, the unofficial “mayor” of the Loop and owner of numerous establishments, including Blueberry Hill. But by Wednesday, Albert Watkins, the attorney for restaurateur John Racanelli, fired back at the city with a sixteen-page letter — and called out Edwards in particular, for one key reason. Blueberry Hill has been hosting burlesque in its Duck Room venue. And those performances, Watkins writes, are far more salacious than the body paint that would be on display at Social House. The letter makes the point in graphic detail, contrasting photos
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from RFT’s coverage of the burlesque performances with images of smiling servers at Social House’s original location in Soulard. Writes Watkins, “As you will note, the Blueberry Hill sponsored burlesque electronic flier above depicts a topless woman with black electric tape crossed over her nipples while sporting a BDSM mask and holding a handgun. The next image depicts male hands encircling female breasts. Hardly the stuff of family friendly. ... Again, this burlesque was advertised and conducted very recently in the Loop at a restaurant owned by the city’s ‘unofficial mayor’ Joe Edwards, which makes his February 22, 2016 comments at the U-City Council meeting in opposition to SHII appear, to many, to be at best disingenuous and, at worst, an effort to quash competition in the Loop.” In the letter, Watkins continues to make the case that the new venture does not need any additional approvals from the city. Racanelli previously owned another business at the same location, Market Pub House, but it closed in February. The new concept will have the same ownership as the Market Pub House, Watkins insists,
and will not need any additional municipal approvals to open its doors. Racanelli’s landlord, Dan Wald, has publicly stated his opposition to the project, and confirmed to RFT late last week that he is considering a lawsuit against his own tenant. But Watkins argues that Racanelli is only planning to open Social House II because the landlord vetoed his other plans. After Racanelli’s business ran into trouble, Watkins writes that the restaurateur “identified and presented to Mr. Wald a national concern prepared to pay off the balance of [his company’s] lease and enter into a long term lease for the space at rates above market. This proposal was rebuffed, despite the replacement tenant candidate sending a representative to St. Louis to further the proposition.” Loop leaders (and Edwards in particular) have been outspoken about wanting to see quirky local businesses instead of national chains on the street. But in light of how nasty the fight over this quirky local business is getting already, we have to imagine they’re wishing it was Applebee’s aiming to set up shop. – Sarah Fenske
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TROPS IN TROUBLE Continued from pg 8 working security for Trops, who he says confirmed the guy had been tossed out of the bar after an altercation and had been circling the neighborhood. “We agreed he was probably hunting his target,” Bowers testified at Friday’s liquor control hearing. In November, he was watching his young son on a Monday afternoon when he looked out the thirdfloor window of his home. “I saw a guy reach into his glove box, pull out a gun, put a couple of rounds in the clip, put the clip back in, put the gun in his pants and went into Trops,” Bowers said. He kept his son on the floor playing games for the next twenty minutes, hoping to avoid any errant bullets, he said. Neighbors want the city to pull the bar’s liquor license. They collected 30 signatures from property owners and occupants within 350 feet of Trops, easily surpassing the neighborhood majority they needed to force a hearing in front of the city’s Excise Division, which handles liquor licensing. Hearings run a little like a loosely controlled court trial, with both sides calling, questioning and cross-examining witnesses. The hearing officer, Tom Yarbrough, guided the proceedings for nearly four hours on Friday as one of the neighbors, Billy Tomber, sparred with McCarthy, objecting to statements and submitting fourteen exhibits that included photos, crime stats and a letter of support from a neighborhood association. Vaughan and McCarthy say the bar has done everything possible to fix problems, even hiring two off-duty cops to augment their security, but they can’t seem to please neighbors. Trops held a community meeting in late October, and Vaughan said the tone of complaints turned ugly, with someone using the n-word at one point. She also accused Tomber of telling owners the bar was getting too “dark.” Tomber, furious, called the allegation a “bold-faced lie.” One of Trops’ allies, who had been there for the conversation, backed up Tomber, saying he never heard Tomber say anything like that. Neighbors claim the bar’s outof-town owners are using race to dodge their responsibilities. When McCarthy, while questioning one
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A sign at Tropical Liqueurs tells customers it won’t serve to-go cups ‘due to our neighbor’s complaints to the state.’ | BILLY TOMBER of his witnesses, mentioned the “racism seen” during interactions, neighbors in the audience began to shout. “Did you just call us racists?” one man yelled. Two police sergeants testified they’d seen a spike in calls since the bar opened. Sgt. David Bonenberger described stopping patrons who peed in the alley or illegally parked their cars. “I’m going to tell you this, whether you call them clients, patrons, people, persons, consumers, buyers, taxpayers, whatever — they’re all people and this is not about race,” said Bonenberger, who successfully sued the city for reverse discrimination in 2012. “This is about a behavior that is being exhibited by the people that patronize this establishment.” Yarbrough, the hearing officer, promised to deliver a decision on Trops’ license within the next two weeks. McCarthy says neighbors had been unable to provide hard evidence to show the bar is doing anything wrong. Their testimony adds up to little more than feelings and anecdotes, devoid of facts, he said. Asked afterward about Bowers, whose testimony did include dates and times, McCarthy dismissed him. “If he was afraid there was going to be some kind of incident,” McCarthy said, “what kind of neighbor doesn’t call your neighbor and say, ‘Hey, there’s a guy walking in your place with a gun?” – Doyle Murphy riverfronttimes.com
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No Way Home Even with recent reforms, many Missouri drug offenders are still stuck without a chance of parole.
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he Missouri State Highway Patrol was closing in on Robert Franklin. It was February 10, 2007, and Franklin was driving blind at 40 miles an hour with no headlights along a rural secondary road in Saline County, about halfway between Kansas City and his home in Columbia. Trailing Franklin’s SUV were two troopers from the highway patrol. The troopers would later testify that the SUV slowed to a near-stop as it rounded a curve by a bridge, only to accelerate and speed off again. While one trooper continued the pursuit, the other pulled over and searched the area. He found a red and white box in the middle of the road. Inside was a plastic bag stuffed with a pound-sized brick of marijuana. A few minutes later, Franklin himself pulled over and was arrested. The evidence against the 26-yearold was damning. Not only was his fingerprint found on the box tossed in the road, but the entire incident had only started because Franklin and the woman who had been at the wheel a few miles before, Kelly Johnson, had fallen for a fake drug checkpoint designed to bait traffickers ferrying merchandise from Kansas City. The tactic involves police setting up signs telling motorists to prepare for a drug checkpoint – with drug-sniffing dogs – a quarter-mile down the road. But there’s not really a checkpoint. The misleading warning signs are intentionally placed along remote stretches of Interstate 70, far removed from gas stations or convenience stores. The thinking goes: Unless you’re a local, there’s no reason to take that exit, and therefore troopers view cars making hurried exists off the highway with suspicion. From there, all it takes is a traffic violation to bring the trap down
BY DANNY WICENTOWSKI and initiate a search on the vehicle. The troopers had pulled over the SUV for rolling a stop sign and sent the driver, Johnson, to a patrol car for interrogation. That’s when Franklin eased from the passenger side of the SUV, jumped in the driver’s seat and attempted his ill-fated escape. Franklin was ultimately charged with felony possession of more than five grams of marijuana with intent to distribute. However, the jury also heard details of his arrest that weren’t included in any formal criminal complaints. Notably, the troopers testified that Franklin’s eight-monthold daughter had been in the SUV during the car chase, and that she was “not properly secured” in the back seat. Franklin was in a bad spot. He was facing a B-level felony for drug distribution, an offense that can yield a five to fifteen-year sentence. But Franklin wouldn’t get five or even fifteen years. As he soon discovered, he was being judged on more than just one distribution charge. Extending back to 1999, Franklin’s rap sheet included two past felony convictions for dealing cocaine and three felony convictions for cocaine possession; although he’d completed a short prison term and probation for those crimes, the county prosecutor deemed him a “prior and persistent drug offender.” The term isn’t simply a wordy description of Franklin’s criminal record. Missouri’s Prior and Persistent
Drug Offender, or PPDO, statute allows prosecutors to charge offenders with two or more felony drug convictions with extraordinarily harsh prison sentences. By law, Franklin’s B-level felony for distribution was bumped up to an A-level felony – and that meant not only a minimum tenyear sentence, but also no possibility for parole. After a jury found Franklin guilty in February 2008, the judge sentenced him to 22 years in prison. He remains there to this day. (His accomplice, Kelly Johnson, appears to have gotten off with probation or a suspended imposition of sentence. A search of Missouri court records reveals no indication that she was ever criminally charged.) “I see people go home all the time,” Franklin says during a brief phone call from prison. He says he’s grown depressed and isolated while observing murderers and rapists pass through parole hearings. A former cellmate received drug treatment and got out on parole, then got sent back to prison on new charges, got paroled again, and now is back in prison for yet another stint. Franklin still has fourteen years to go. By the time he can even think about getting out of prison, that eightmonth-old baby will be 23 years old. “I can’t even tell my story to nobody,” he says. “That I’ve changed, that I’m not the same person I was when I came in here. I’m not even
“I can’t even tell my story to nobody. That I’ve changed, that I’m not the same person I was when I came in here.”
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Robert Franklin (right) with his mother Dina and brother Raymond. He’s facing another fourteen years in prison. “I know I’m not going home,” he says. | COURTESY OF DINA FRANKLIN getting a chance to live a normal life. I’ve been punished, but the severity of the punishment don’t fit the crime.” Franklin isn’t alone. According to data from the Missouri Department of Corrections, 69 offenders are serving no-parole sentences for B-level drug distribution charges under the PPDO statute. In total, more than 140 people, most of them black, are currently locked up in Missouri prisons on no-parole sentences that in some cases equal – or even surpass – those for assault, murder or rape. Defense attorneys and drug reform activists have long critiqued the imbalance between the PPDO statute’s treatment of crime and punishment, and their cries have recently translated to legislative action. By 2017, the draconian PPDO statute will be gone, replaced by a far more reasonable policy. But the repeal isn’t retroactive. Franklin and the others will remain in prison until they complete their full sentences, victims of unfortunate timing that could cost them a full decade of their lives. In fact, at present, only one offender sentenced under the PPDO statute has ever faced a parole board and walked free: a cause celebre named Jeffrey Mizanskey.
Passed in 1989, the PPDO statute entered Missouri’s judicial system amid a nationwide wave of harsh sentencing laws. Starting in the mid-1970s and extending through the 1990s, U.S. politicians in every state proved they were “tough on crime” by punishing recidivist drug offenders – especially crack users and dealers – with laws that eliminated parole and instituted three-strike minimum sentencing laws. The voters loved it. Missouri’s PPDO statute was a product of its time, a perfect storm of fear and politics. But as years passed and prisons steadily filled, these laws have been revealed as abject failures. “The public has this illusion that these long sentences are wonderful,” says Jamie Fellner, a former director of Human Rights Watch who has researched and written extensively on America’s love affair with mass incarceration. “But everybody knows that for every drug dealer you lock up, someone takes his or her place. Demand hasn’t changed that much. How much money does it cost to keep someone in prison for ten or twenty years? What does the public get for that?” (For the record, Missouri pays more than $22,000 per year for each of the 32,000 offenders it currently houses. In fiscal year 2016, the state budgeted $290 million to
fund correctional facilities.) By the end of the twentieth century, the nation’s opinion on drugs began shifting. Dozens of states eventually amended their sentencing guidelines for firsttime offenders and softened laws responsible for warehousing thousands of black people for possessing and selling small amounts of crack cocaine. Nowadays, states use threestrike laws to target repeat felons and other violent criminals. Missouri is unique in maintaining a dedicated law for repeat drug felons. For a long time, outside a small circle of judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys, few were aware that such a law even existed. To a degree, that changed in 2013 when Riverfront Times publicized the startling case of Jeff Mizanskey. A relatively smalltime pot dealer from Sedalia, Mizanskey’s third-strike arrest in 1993 dropped the full weight of the PPDO statute on his head: For the crime of being involved in a drug sale of several pounds of marijuana, Mizanskey was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. But Mizanskey had never been convicted of any violent crimes, and each of his three felony strikes were connected to marijuana as opposed to less politically palatable drugs like crack or heroin. (And, it’s fair to say, the facts of his arrest were murky enough to help his cause. Mizanskey was accused of assisting with a drug deal between two other men, allegations he flatly denied at trial; it’s only recently that he admitted to journalist Vince Beiser that he was in fact helping out, in hopes of picking up “an ounce or two” of the stash for himself.) Eventually, Mizanskey’s case drew outrage from cannabis legalization activists and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle. In April 2015, state Representative Shamed Dogan (R-University City) delivered a change.org petition seeking Mizanskey’s release to the office of Missoui Governor Jay Nixon. The petition had garnered nearly 400,000 signatures. Many questioned what benefit the state derived from keeping a non-violent drug offender locked up for the rest of his life. So powerful was the outcry that in August 2015 Nixon took the unprecedented step of commuting Mizanskey’s sentence, permitting
prison. I think Jeff Mizanskey’s case helped to show people why that statute needed to be repealed as well.” But Viets concedes that the repeal had to be finessed to gain a spot in a bill already brimming with politically fraught reforms. Some things were left on the cutting-room floor. One such item was adding a retroactivity clause to the new PPDO statute. “As far as making the repeal retroactive, I’m afraid that would have certainly drawn some heat,” Viets says now. “If I recall correctly, there was some discussion of that possibility, but it was not an idea that prosecutors were going to sign onto.” As it stands, then, the fate of Missouri drug offenders serving no-parole sentences remains essentially unchanged. When asked about the parole status of inmates like Robert Franklin after January 1, 2017, a Department of Corrections spokesperson responds only with a reference to Missouri law stating that repealing or amending penal law does not affect anyone already affected by that law. “I probably do more drug cases than other lawyers in Missouri,” Viets muses. “I have a lot of clients who get into that position, they’ve had a couple prior drug-related felonies, and it doesn’t take much. It’s so easy to get a drug felony, and then people find themselves in serious trouble.”
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Changes to the state’s criminal code will soften the sentences for repeat drug offenders, giving them a chance for parole. | BRITTANI SCHLAGER the 62-year-old grandfather to appear before a parole board. When Mizanskey stepped out of prison on September 1, he became a new kind of Missouri folk hero, a victim of the drug war made whole. But there is an untold epilogue to the campaign for Mizanskey’s freedom, and it’s buried inside Senate Bill 491, a massive piece of legislation passed in 2014. There, amid numerous tweaks to the state’s criminal code, you’ll find the PPDO statute scheduled for deletion and replacement. The bill’s changes are slated to kick in on January 1, 2017. After that date, the PPDO statute will still allow judges to enhance the sentence of repeat drug felons – for example, upping a B-level felony to an A-level. But, crucially, offenders will still have a chance
at parole. And that means a person serving ten years for drug trafficking would be eligible for release after serving just 25 percent of the sentence. “I made it a point of advocating that we repeal that damn prior and persistent drug law, which is just too harsh,” says Dan Viets. A Columbia-based attorney, Viets worked for three years alongside other lawyers, prosecutors, judges and legislators appointed by the Missouri Bar Association. Their mission was to clean up the state’s archaic and oftentimes redundant criminal code, and their collective recommendations were incorporated into Senate Bill 491. Of the PPDO statute, Viets says, “I think even the prosecutors recognized that it was too much. Too much punishment, too much riverfronttimes.com
About nine months before the Highway Patrol nabbed Robert Franklin, they used the same trick to arrest Dimetrious Woods. At a hearing before Woods’ trial, trooper Bret Brooks testified on that May 19, 2006, he was driving along an overpass near signs for a fake drug checkpoint when he spotted a gold Buick Lucerne heading in the opposite direction. The Buick’s driver appeared nervous, staring him down as the two vehicles passed. Brooks figured this could be another drug smuggler attempting a quick retreat back to Kansas City, away from the checkpoint. Brooks pursued the Buick to the next exit and then to a gas station. On the way, the trooper claimed to see the sedan changing lanes without signaling. The trooper flipped on his siren and pulled into the parking lot, just in time to see two men quickly exit the car. Brooks shouted at them to stop.
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Dimetrious Woods with three of his six children, shown here just before his 2007 trial. Woods was sentenced to 25 years without parole. | COURTESY OF AUNDREA RIFFLE The driver, Raymond Brown, a black man in his mid-thirties, fumbled with shaking hands as he presented his wallet and driver’s license. After asking permission to search Brown’s pockets, Brooks pulled out two wads of $100 bills, more than $4,000 total. By the time Brooks turned to Woods, the younger man who’d been sitting in the passenger seat, he had ample reason to be suspicious. In his testimony, Brooks noted that Woods was breathing raggedly and fidgeting with a lollipop. Searching Woods’ pockets revealed another bundle of cash, about $2,000. That was all the evidence Brooks needed. He radioed for a drug-sniffing dog. When troopers popped the Buick’s trunk, they discovered nearly twenty pounds of cocaine. Charged with drug trafficking, Brown and Woods waived their right to a jury trial, opting to let a judge sort out the merits. But when the day of the trial arrived, Brown decided to plead guilty and took a 30-year sentence. Woods and his attorney went forward with the trial, arguing that he had nothing to do with the cocaine in the trunk and that Brooks had initiated an illegal 14
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search on the Buick. But Woods, then the 28-yearold manager of his family’s window-tinting business, didn’t do his defense any favors. An audio recorder in Brooks’ patrol car had picked up his conversation with Brown – and their angst over falling for the fake drug checkpoint. At trial, a bailiff also testified that Woods had incriminated himself while walking to the bathroom, telling her, “Don’t ever do anything stupid or get into trouble. I’m facing life for some drugs. My family is here and it’s very embarrassing. If my partner pleads guilty he can ruin everything for me.” Woods denied making the comments. He maintained his innocence. Judge Larry Harman didn’t buy it. “This is a person who sells drugs, goes on the street and sells those drugs that cause other crimes, burglaries, thefts, forgeries, robberies, homicides. This is a serious thing. Nine thousand grams of cocaine may be the most amount of cocaine that I’ve seen in a particular case, and I’ve had a lot of cocaine cases.” Harman noted that Woods had racked up two felony convictions as a teenager, for assault in 1996 and drug trafficking in 1998. Now
Woods’ status as a prior drug offender meant that he would be handed a prison sentence for a class-A felony and would not be eligible for parole. “The court is mindful,” Harman continued, “that this defendant most likely will serve a longer period of time even if he receives a shorter sentence than his co-defendant.” Harman sentenced Woods to 25 years in prison. And then, since his arrest revoked his probation for a previous conviction, the judge tacked another four years onto the sentence. Woods, a father of six, was told he would spend the next 29 years in prison. By comparison, his alleged accomplice, Brown, was paroled after serving just seven and a half years. Woods fought the conviction in appeal after appeal, losing each one. Years passed. A string of lawyers, including top defense attorney Scott Rosenblum, tried and failed to get him a new trial. Woods watched his children grow up from the visiting room of the Jefferson City Correctional Facility. So it’s understandable that Woods took particular notice of Jeff Mizanskey and the drama that unfolded prior his freedom. Woods wondered: If Missourians could agree that one man didn’t deserve to rot in prison for drug crimes, why would they allow others to suffer the same fate? Woods’ family was skeptical. “I really didn’t see where it would really help us,” says Aundrea Riffle, Woods’ mother, on a recent evening. The chunky bracelets on her wrists clang like wind chimes as she shuffles through a stack of legal documents spread across a living room sofa in her North County home. The room is cozy verging on crowded. Woods’ eldest son, eighteen-year-old Dimetrious Jr., sits perched on the edge of a lounge chair, while Woods’ half-siblings, Clinton and Keely, share a second couch on the other side of the living room. Soft yellow lamp light glints off a wall-to-wall display case holding row after row of bald eagle figurines. At first, Riffle says she didn’t see a connection between Mizanskey and her son. Mizanskey was doing a life sentence for handling a few pounds of marijuana in Sedalia, not running twenty pounds of cocaine out of Kansas City. Also,
Dimetrious Woods’ family maintains a website advocating for his freedom, justice4dwoods.com. | DANNY WICENTOWSKI
“Sorry, the cannabis people? They aren’t going to do a damn thing about people like Dimetrious.” she suspected that pot legalization advocates were simply using Mizanskey as a PR boost. “Sorry, the cannabis people?” she remembers thinking. “They aren’t going to do a damn thing about people like Dimetrious. Mizanskey was an opportunity for them to get out and be in the public eye. It was a bandwagon and it was an available bandwagon.” But over several phone calls, Woods pressed the point with his mother. He conceded that Mizanskey’s case didn’t directly help his own, but there was no denying it had sparked scrutiny of the state’s
minimum sentencing laws. And even if politicians wouldn’t act against the PPDO statute, he wondered if Missouri voters would. What they needed, Woods concluded, was an initiative petition to place a referendum on the 2016 ballot. “I had no idea about how to do it,” Riffle says now. Indeed, simply getting a petition approved by the Missouri Secretary of State is a daunting task; applications are routinely rejected over arcane formatting errors and misused legalese. Riffle says she and her son worked like a research team. Slowly, they built a petition that could withstand the rigorous review process. It took Riffle and Woods a full year to get the petition approved, and it is a remarkably comprehensive document in its own right. Had Woods been sentenced under his “Smarter, Non-Violent, Prior and Persistent Drug Offenders Act,” he would eligible for parole after serving 50 percent of his sentence. The act would have also instituted fines to fund job training and substance abuse treatment programs for felons. But to land on the ballot, initiative petitions have to collect signatures equaling five percent of the total votes cast in the last gubernatorial election – and in 2016, that equals roughly 100,000 signatures. Riffle says a consultriverfronttimes.com
ing agency offered to collect the signatures for a cold $750,000. It was like a door slamming in her face. Adding further insult, Riffle says a staffer at the Secretary of State’s office waited until after the petition’s approval to drop the news about Senate Bill 491 and the scheduled repeal of the PPDO statute. In the end, Woods’ painstakingly crafted petition wasn’t just a failure, it was unnecessary. Of course, the legislative repeal of the PPDO statute didn’t include any of the retroactive fixes in Woods’ petition. “We’re still in the same predicament,” says Riffle’s daughter Keely, who works as a probation officer in St. Louis. Murderers regularly come through her office while they’re out on parole, even as drug offenders stay behind bars. She can’t help but feel frustrated by the imbalance. “My brother, he didn’t victimize anybody,” she says, sounding tired, like she’s made this argument a thousand times. “We’re not asking anyone to look at the case and say whether you think that he’s guilty or not guilty. The question is, is our criminal justice system set to where the punishment is supposed to follow the crime that you’ve committed? How can we truly preach rehabilitation for our offenders if we’re
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NO WAY HOME Continued from pg 15 not giving them fair sentences for the crimes they commit?” Her brother Clinton looks up from his phone. “Our system has nothing to do with rehabilitation. It’s just punishment,” he says. “No,” Keely fires back, “it has to do with rehabilitation.” Clinton laughs. “Your aspect of it, yes,” he says. “Please, keep believing that.”
As far as the immediate future is concerned, offenders like Robert Franklin and Dimetrious Woods are left grasping at long-shot solutions. Dan Viets, the attorney who tried and failed to insert a retroactivity clause in the revised PPDO statute, suggests that lawmakers could close the gap with new legislation. But that would require a politician to publicly advocate giving freedom to heroin and crack dealers. Even lawmakers who stood with Mizanskey are unwilling to leap on that rail.
Shamed Dogan, the Republican state representative who went to bat for Mizanskey, says observers shouldn’t be so quick to assume that legislators could meddle in the sentences of Missouri inmates even if they wanted to. Three months before Nixon commuted Mizanskey’s sentence, Dogan had proposed a law that sought the release any offender “who is serving a life sentence without parole for marijuana offenses.” The bill was expressly designed to free Jeff Mizanskey.
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After filing the bill, Dogan says he was warned that such a tactic was likely unconstitutional. “If there’s going to be any relief retroactively, to my understanding it has to be done either through probation and parole or through the governor,” he says. Neither option offers good odds to drug offenders facing additional years in prison. Aside from Mizanskey, Governor Jay Nixon has pardoned only a handful of scofflaws for minor violations, such as a decorated veteran convicted of burglary for stealing a water jug containing loose change. That’s a far cry from pardoning someone busted with a massive quantity of cocaine. (In response to questions about pardoning drug offenders overlooked by the new PPDO statute, a Nixon spokesman would only say that governor’s office “continually reviews clemency applications, and each application is reviewed on its own merit.”) As for the Office of Probation and Parole, the attorney representing Franklin and Woods, Kent Gipson, theorizes that state officials could interpret the language of the new PPDO statute to give parole hearings to offenders already serving no-parole drug sentences. But Gipson isn’t betting on the good will of state officials. “Everybody from their records officers at the individual prisons to the legal counsel, they seem to get their jollies by fucking with these guys and making them do more time if they can find a way to do it,” Gipson says. “To expect them to do something enlightened and progressive like that would be a shock to me.” If the new PPDO standards were suddenly applied to Woods’ and Franklin’s cases, it’s possible that both men would already be free. Like any other person convicted of an A-level felony for drug distribution, Franklin would be eligible for parole after serving 25 percent of his 22-year sentence. That means he could be paroled after four or five years – and he’s already served eight. Woods’ situation is complicated by a previous weapons charge – he was busted in 2005 carrying an unregistered pistol – for which he was sentenced to an additional four years. But considering that his accomplice walked free in under eight years, it’s reasonable to imagine that ten years would be sufficient for Woods to qualify
for parole, meaning he could be looking at freedom in around two years instead of two decades. In both cases, though, that’s all hypothetical. There is little light at the end of the tunnel for either offender, as well as the 140 others in Missouri prisons. And it’s worth noting that even the new PPDO standards won’t block prosecutors from levying significant jail time on repeat felons. For example, Darryl Walton was convicted in 2011 of three drug felonies after St. Louis cops spotted him handing something through the windows of two vehicles in a gas station parking lot. That “something” was later found to be two small baggies of heroin. After searching Walton’s clothing, the cops found more drugs, about two grams of crack. H a d Wa l t o n been sentenced under the new PPDO statute, he could be paroled after two to four years. However, Walton’s extensive criminal record includes felonies for burglary and two convictions for felony assault. By law, prosecutors could charge Walton using a different persistent felony statute, thus forcing him to serve 80 percent of his sentence before getting parole. At the end of the day, drug offenders like Dimetrious Woods, Robert Franklin and Darryl Walton aren’t naturally sympathetic characters. They don’t generate the kind of empathy or outrage that Mizanskey’s case did. But Michael Tonry, a criminologist and law professor at the University of Minnesota, says that these types of cases reflect the breathtaking cost of America’s moral hysteria over drugs and its decades-long obsession with punishment. The damage runs so deep that states like Missouri
are finding it politically difficult to enact even simple solutions, such as giving drug offenders a parole hearing. “After a twenty-year period of passing historically unprecedented and probably cruel laws, public officials have a feeling that something is wrong and that it’s out of control, but there’s an incredible caution about doing anything more than taking small steps,” Tonry says. On a more philosophical level, Tonry believes there is something fundamentally broken about a justice system that treats similar offenders differently based on the kinds drugs they’ve sold or how many prior felony convictions they’ve accumulated in a lifetime. “ I t ’s d e e p l y, profoundly unjust and it results from an unwillingness or inability to think about how these laws would actually affect the lives of individual human beings,” he says. “Everybody makes mistakes in life. Kids act out, and if they do it in front of a policeman they get arrested. I would tell people, ‘There but for the grace of God go you.’” For drug offenders like Woods, the disparity between crime and punishment isn’t a political or academic issue. The PPDO statute forms the bonds of his own personal hell, a dimension unhinged from proportionality and rehabilitation. And unless something drastic changes, Woods and the others will continue to suffer. And for what? “I’m not an angel,” Woods says, his deep voice scratched with static over the prison phone system. “I would never try to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes that I have been perfect in life. I’m not proud of my life or my decisions. I wasn’t mature when I made those decisions. I didn’t realize that I was giving part of my life up.” n
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FRIDAY 0304 First Friday: Steampunk Science Steampunk is not just elaborate top hats and goggles. It’s a school of science fiction that imagines a world in which steam power is the peak technology. The base aesthetic is usually Victorian or vaguely nineteenth century, which is where the hats come in. If you love the idea and want to exult in further explorations, or have never heard of it but are interested, First Friday: Steampunk
Science at the Saint Louis Science Center (5050 Oakland Avenue; 314289-4400 or www.slsc.org) has you covered. Antiquarian Couture, The Countess and AVA Goldworks will be there with steampunk crafts, art and accessories. A dress-up area and screenings of footage from Brass Engine Productions’ Steamworks and Shadows series are also on offer. Author Brad R. Cook discusses “Inventions of Fantasy: The Real Science of Steampunk,” and at 10 p.m., League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, the less-than-successful film based on the amazing Alan Moore/Kevin O’Neill comic book, will be shown for free. First Friday starts at 6 p.m. and admission is free, although some events require a nominal fee.
Schlafly’s Stout & Oyster Festival Are you bivalve curious? Fifty-thousand fresh oysters are going to be shucked at Schlafly’s Stout & Oyster Festival this weekend, if that’s your thing. Seasoned shuckers from both coasts make the trip to show off their skills in a rapid-fire competition, which ensures you get ‘em while they’re still fresh. Wash them down with your stout of choice (Schlafly will have five on tap), while Scandaleros, Boudin Brothers Band and Big Sam’s Funky Nation provide the soundtrack. The event takes place from 5 p.m. to midnight Friday riverfronttimes.com
and 11 a.m. to midnight Saturday (March 4 and 5) at the Schlafly Tap Room (2100 Locust Street; 314-2412337 or www.schlafly.com). Admission is free, but you’ll need money for food and drink.
SATURDAY 0305 Manon Lescaut Giacomo Puccini’s Manon Lescaut is a tale of tragic love and passion bordering on madness. Manon is a country girl who can’t choose between handsome young student des Grieux or the older chevalier Lescaut. Continued on pg 20
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She becomes Lescaut’s courtesan, but longs to escape with her dashing young lover. It is this indecision that dooms her; well, that and her passion. The Metropolitan Opera presents Manon Lescaut via live simulcast at 11:55 a.m. today at the Saint Louis Art Museum in Forest Park (314-721-0072 or www.slam. org). Tickets are $18 to $24.
SATURDAY 0305 St. Louis FestivAle St. Louis is a beer city, but when is the last time you really celebrated that? Don’t worry, you can atone for your sins of omission and do good at the same time at 8 p.m. tonight at the St. Louis FestivAle. More than 25 breweries serve up their best at this benefit for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, which takes place at the Casa Loma Ballroom (3354 Iowa Avenue; www.stlouisfestivale.eventscff.org). Old Bakery Beer, Urban Chestnut, 2nd Shift Brewing and 4 Hands Brewing are all participating, and the food is provided by Mathew’s Kitchen, Pi and the Handle Bar. Tickets are $50 to $65, but before you go, visit the website and read the infection control policy. Crowds can be risky for people with cystic fibrosis if everyone doesn’t take care when they cough and sneeze.
American Idiot We’re gearing up for another presidential election, which is always a good time to revisit the sins of the past. New Line Theatre goes on a deep dive to yesteryear with
its production of American Idiot, which is indeed based on the 2004 Green Day album. Set in the aftermath of 9/11 and the growing war on terror, the show follows friends Johnny, Tunny and Will as they try to fit into a society that’s growing increasingly paranoid and hostile. One enters the Army, one starts a family and the third sinks deeper and deeper into drugs and disconnection. The show uses the original Green Day music with orchestrations by Tom Kitt, and the book is by Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer. Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday (March 3 to 26) at the Marcelle Theater (3310 Samuel Shepard Drive; 314-534-1111 or www.newlinetheatre.com). Tickets are $15 to $25.
SUNDAY 0306 Il Trovatore Spain is at war, and Count di Luna is in love. The beautiful Leonora is the object of his unwanted affections; she loves a mysterious troubadour who nightly serenades her from the streets. This drives di Luna mad — but it’s a short drive for him, because years ago a gypsy woman bewitched his younger brother. When she was burned at the stake, the gypsy’s daughter Azucena abducted the boy and threw him in a fire. Azucena now has her own son, the handsome Manrico, who also happens to be the mysterious troubadour. Giuseppe Verdi’s Il Trovatore is tale of lies, sudden death and sad secrets that are revealed too late to save anyone. Winter Opera
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TUESDAY 0308 Radio Arts Foundation Gala The Radio Arts Foundation has enriched St. Louis with its commitment to the arts via RAF-STL (107.3-FM) since 2013. The radio station brought classical music back to the airwaves after Classic 99 was shut down, also expanding its mandate to include jazz, blues and the general cultural health of the metro area. But to do so, it needs donors — hence the Radio Arts Foundation Gala. This year’s fundraiser is a concert called “Leonard Slatkin and Friends,” plus dinner and cocktails. Slatkin is joined by classical guitarist Sharon Isbin, pianist Olga Kern, violinist Cho-Liang Lin and on cello, Frederick Zlotkin (who, despite a slightly different last name, is in fact the brother of Leonard). The performance takes place at 8 p.m. at the Sheldon (3648 Washington Boulevard; www.rafstl.org). Tickets for the concert only are $50 to $60. Tickets for the gala and reception start at $500.
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Star Trek celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, which is ten times longer than the “five year mission” featured in the TV series. And while every fan has a favorite iteration (even though anything other than the original is clearly the wrong choice), most will agree that the music makes the show work. Think of the Kirk/Spock fight scene from “Amok Time” without that insistent score — it would lose so much tension. And music is what Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage is all about. Justin Freer conducts a symphony orchestra key musical moments while scenes from all of the TV series and five of the films are shown on a 40-foot screen. Star Trek: The Ultimate Voyage starts at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Fox Theatre (527 North Grand Boulevard; 314-534-1111 or www.fabulousfox. com). Tickets are $25 to $100. 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.
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France is under siege in Army of Shadows.
C’est Bon Three weeks of French films are like a crash course in cinema history Written by
ROBERT HUNT Classic French Film Festival
Presented by Cinema St. Louis March 4 to 20 at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood Avenue; 314-289-4150 or www.cinemastlouis.org).
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series is almost alone in giving audiences a chance to see older films in a bigger setting than a TV screen. There’s no set theme or dominant pattern to the annual picks, just a diverse selection of films worth reviving from various points in France’s 120-year history of film production (though it should be noted that nearly half of this year’s films were made by non-French directors). The festival’s first-weekend programming is typically wide in scope, including an obscure romance, an early New Wave classic and a gripping war drama that took 40 years to earn an American release. From Mayerling to Sarajevo (De Mayerling á Sarajevo)
Love ain’t easy in From Mayerling to Sarajevo.
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Made on the eve of the Second World War, From Mayerling to Sarajevo must have seemed even stranger to audiences in 1940 than it does to viewers 75 years
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later. Max Ophüls’ last film in France before fleeing to safety in the U.S. (he would return after the war to make classics such as
Lola Montes), this is an unofficial sequel to Anatole Litvak’s Mayerling (1936), which was based on the doomed romance between
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The elevator is his prison in Elevator to the Gallows. the crown prince of Austria and a commoner. Ophüls’ film also borrows from a piece of history that would have been familiar to audiences — the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, one of the direct causes of World War I — and turns it into a lightweight love story. In Ophüls’ version, the archduke is torn between the responsibilities of his title and his love for a Polish countess. Facing opposition from the royal court, the lovers meet in secrecy for years, but duty and history finally lead to the inevitable climax in Sarajevo. Undeterred by the historical record, Ophüls treats the whole thing with his usual lush style, but the clash of the directorial style and real-life content make this a bitter fairy tale — as if Cinderella ended with Prince Charming gunned down in the street. Elevator to the Gallows (Ascenseur pour l’échafaud) 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 5
The films of Louis Malle are hard to categorize, and his 1958 debut feature Elevator to the Gallows is so unlike his later films that its brisk pace and off-the-cuff realism can come as a shock to those who only know his later work (which included American productions such as Atlantic City and My Dinner With Andre). Set in a single night, it’s the story of a murder plot that goes awry: Julien (Maurice Ronet) kills his lover’s husband, but his escape plan takes a wrong turn when he gets stuck in the elevator of the dead man’s building. Meanwhile, his car is stolen by a con man, he is accused of
that man’s murder and his lover Florence (Jeanne Moreau) tries to clear his name. It’s a little confusing, but with the intensity typical of the early New Wave and a wonderful performance from Moreau (who would follow this with Malle’s scandalous The Lovers). Perhaps most notable, however, is the jazz score, written and played by Miles Davis at the peak of his career. Army of Shadows (L’armée des ombres) 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 4
The highlight of the weekend is the opening film, Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1969 Army of Shadows. Melville was one of the few French filmmakers of the pre-New Wave 1950s to win admiration from the Cahiers du Cinema critics, but by 1969 he had gone defiantly Old Wave with this classically paced story of the French Resistance. It’s an episodic tale concentrating on a small group of movement leaders over the course of roughly one year. It’s dominated by strong performances from Lino Ventura, Jean-Pierre Cassel and Simone Signoret and tense, brilliantly constructed set-pieces: the murder of an informer, an elaborate attempt to rescue a prisoner and a captured Ventura facing execution. Melville’s view of the Resistance is not too far removed from the way he depicted criminals in neoNoir films such as Bob the Gambler and Le Samourai. Here are people threatened by violence and betrayal, defining themselves by the way they confront the Nazi occupation, and ultimately forced to create a unique moral code. n
Julian Rosefeldt, American Night (2009). Five-channel film installation, 40:42 min. (looped). Photo Pullquote courtesy of Barbara Gross Galerie Munich, Arndt Berlin/Singapore, and the artist.
Linda Skrainka: Reflections Saint Louis University Museum of Art 3663 Lindell Boulevard | sluma.slu.edu
Opening 5 p.m. Fri., Mar. 4. Continues through May 15. This critical survey of Linda Skrainka’s work features more than 50 paintings and drawings created by the native St. Louisan. Her interest in the small details that make each person’s life unique informs her work, which is in turn supported by excerpts from her journals. These written passages reveal her concerns about both her process and her technical skills. They also serve to place each piece in the larger context of her life.
Winter/Spring Exhibition Sheldon Art Galleries 3648 Washington Boulevard | www.thesheldon.org
Opening 5-7 p.m. Fri., Mar. 4. Continues through May 7. The Sheldon welcomes spring (it’s almost here) with three new exhibitions. The main galleries house Printmaking in St. Louis Now, a deep slice of the work being done by local fine art print presses and printmakers. Evil Prints, Firecracker Press and Pele Prints are all represented in the show, as are 27 individual artists, including Bunny Burson, Lisa Bulawsky, Alicia LaChance and Leslie Laskey. Meanwhile, Frank Trankina: Superheroes and Night Stories takes over the Nancy Spirtas Kranzberg riverfronttimes.com
Gallery. The Chicago painter crafts still-life portraits of vintage figurines and toys that often have a subtle narrative element. The Ann Lee and Wilfred Konneker Gallery is reserved for Susan Hacker Stang: reAPPEARANCES. These eight images were made using a toy digital camera with a plastic lens, and capture iconic locations and symbols that reveal a continuing series of human connections across different cultures.
Julian Rosefeldt: American Night Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum 1 Brookings Drive | www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu
Opening 6:30-9 p.m. Fri., Mar. 4. Continues through Aug. 7. You’ll swear that a certain squinteyed, mustachioed man in Julian Rosefeldt’s five-channel film installation American Night is Charles Bronson — but you’ll be wrong. Instead, the man is another actor, one of several in the film who resembles an archetypal cowboy film star. American Night is shot in widescreen, 16mm CinemaScope — a popular format for the Western — and uses actual dialogue from classic films, George W. Bush’s speeches and footage of modern combat troops to show how the mythology of the Hollywood Western has infiltrated American culture and politics. It’s a long hard look at the fictions that drive our reality, as seen by an outsider (Rosefeldt is German).
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Flying Down to Rio Brasilia brings a sultry Latin vibe to south St. Louis Written by
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3212 South Grand Boulevard; 314-9321034. Tues.-Thurs. 5-9 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 5-10 p.m.; Sun. 5-9 p.m. (Closed Mondays).
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hen you step through Brasilia’s creaky front door, you cross more than just a threshold; it’s as if you’ve crossed into a new hemisphere. Behind you, exhaust-spewing busses roar down South Grand, splashing pedestrians with the grey post-snow sludge that seems ever-present in St. Louis from November through March. Before you, however, Brasilia’s lounge is a bossa nova-inflected dream world. Street sounds give way to “The Girl from Ipanema” (yeah, they have that on a loop), while reed-fashioned hammocks hang from the ceiling and a giant mural of Christ the Redeemer takes up an entire wall. After two of Brasilia’s stiff caipirinhas, you might be convinced you’re viewing the famed statue from a spot on Copacabana Beach. You can’t help but breathe a deep, happy sigh just sitting here, which is exactly the reaction that owners Rachel and Jorge Carvalho are going for. Located in the space that used to house Urban, Brasilia is the husband-and-wife team’s third attempt at a Brazilian restaurant in the Gateway City, and they took pains to perfect the scene this time around. Their first venture, Café Brasil in Rock Hill, felt sterile to the pair; the Central West End storefront that held their second, Coco Louco Brasil, was too large to capture the intimate atmosphere they were going for. For Brasilia, Jorge channeled his homesickness for his native country into the design, creating the feel of a rural
Brasilia’s caldeirada do mar (top), served with a plate of veggies and rice, along with a pastel or two and plantains. | MABEL SUEN beachside shack. The cozy bar and larger dining room are painted the green and yellow of the Brazilian flag and dimly lit by candles — a soothing contrast to the bustling street just outside. When a restaurant makes you feel as if you’ve just walked out of a 90-minute massage, does it really matter what the food tastes like? I’d argue not as much as at a place with lesser atmospherics. It has to be good enough, though, and that is exactly what Brasilia offers. Remove the cuisine from the scene, and I wouldn’t necessarily go back. Give me some decent dishes to snack on while lounging at that bar, and I’m inclined to be a regular. Of those snacks, Brasilia leads strongly with its appetizers. Coxinha, sort of a traditional chicken fritter, tastes like a savory chicken doughnut hole. Minced poultry and herbs are encased in a thick, chicken-accented dough, formed into a ball, battered and deep-fried. It’s the ultimate chicken nugget. A friend tipped me off that Brasilia’s wings are worth trying, and she was correct. The miniature drummies present as the kind of
Coxinhas are something like savory chicken doughnut holes. | MABEL SUEN unimpressive generic hot wings you’d find at a sports bar. That would be the end of the story save for the mouth-watering dipping sauce served as an accompaniment. In place of the standard ranch or blue cheese, this condiment is a cross between remoulade and smoky Italian vinaigrette. In combination with the wings’ cayenne-fueled hot sauce, it’s a marvelous blend of flavors. I just riverfronttimes.com
wished for larger, better quality wings so I could soak up even more of this savory nectar. The only thing I wished for from the pastel, however, was a second order. By far, this empanada-like appetizer is my favorite dish at the restaurant. The flaky hand pies come filled with your choice of beef, cheese or chicken. I opted for one each of the first two and
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BRASILIA Continued from pg 25 was enamored. The beef pastel is overfilled with a mixture of meat and green olives simmered with a touch of tomato sauce, like a South American take on classic Bolognese ragout, while the vegetarian version oozes a blend of provolone and mozzarella, punctuated with oregano. If the coxinha is a haute chicken nugget, this is a luxury version of a Hot Pocket. For the most part, entrees at Brasilia are good, but I would hesitate to say great. Vatapa de frango pairs a boneless, skinless chicken breast with traditional cashew nut gravy. The interplay between the thyme-heavy sauce and char flavor of the grilled chicken is enjoyable, a taste that’s somewhere between a gumbo and the brown gravy your grandma serves over mashed potatoes. Various seafoods — mussels, shrimp, chunks of whitefish — comprise the caldeirada do mar. A delicate coconut milk and palm oil broth that’s laden with herbs serves as the base of this delectable fish stew. Unfortunately, the chewiness of the mussels and shrimp kept this from being a standout. I’ve had better versions of feijoada, the black bean and meat stew considered Brazil’s national dish, but Brasilia’s was still decent. As in the caldeirada do mar, the black beans and hearty broth here were rich with the flavor of slow-cooked meat. Some of the cuts, however, undermined the quality of the dish. Mild pork sausage was enjoyable, but the hunks of steak were gristly and overlooked, and the cubes of pork belly were nothing but fat.
Beef acebolado, Brazil’s version of skillet steak, is flecked with coarse black peppercorns and served sliced with onions and peppers on a searing hot cast iron skillet. Were you at a restaurant a few thousand miles north of Rio, you’d see this on a menu with different accompaniments under the name “fajitas.” The kitchen hit a perfect medium-rare temperature, proving that we’re in for a treat should the restaurant move forward with plans for a weekly churrascaria (something Rachel Carvalho insists is coming). I have a slight quibble with plate presentation. Every entree I tried came with the exact same preparation: rice, collard greens and mixed vegetables. It’s not bad, per se (the collard greens are tender and well-seasoned), but it gives the dishes the feel of dated banquet fare (think zucchini and squash half moons). And the kitchen’s inclination to smother everything other than dessert in an herb garden’s worth of cilantro is rageinducing for the sizable percentage of people, including myself, who detest the stuff. Parsley is fairly neutral. Cilantro is not, and for those of us who are cursed with the gene that makes it unpalatable, it taints everything with the taste of Irish Spring. But there’s a solution to any anger at this herbal encroachment. At Brasilia, if anything bothers you, you can just take a deep breath and a sip of your caipirinha and soak in the surroundings. Whether it’s food or a dreary Midwestern winter day, a little cacaçha and Sérgio Mendes make everything better. n Brasilia Pastel ............................................ $2.95 Caldeirada do mar ...................... $17.95 Beef acebolado...........................$18.95
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hef Josh Koester got his culinary inspiration from an unlikely place — the 76 truck stop at the intersection of interstates 57 and 70 in Effingham, Illinois. “My parents owned the truck stop where the interstates cross, and I grew up hanging around the kitchen there,” says Koester, a chef at Colleen’s (7337 Forsyth Boulevard, University City; 314-727-8427). “If you close your eyes and imagine a 1980s classic truck stop, this was it: the maple syrup pours that you’ve seen a million times, booths with phones in them so the truckers could make calls while they were on the road, a salad bar in the back seating area. We even had those dream catchers and T-shirts with wolves on them for sale by the cash register.” Koester loved cooking, but when his parents sold the truck stop and bought a truck dealership, he felt compelled to go into the family business. For ten years, he worked what he calls a “button-down desk job,” though he spent his evenings doing odd cooking jobs. Finally, he realized he’d had enough. “The decision to leave my family’s business was necessary,” Koester explains. “I mean, for ten years my mom was two offices down doing my payroll. It had definitely run its course.” Surprisingly, his family was supportive of his decision to pursue cooking full-time. “Everyone was very supportive, and I had them all behind me,” recalls Koester. “I think they all saw it coming. The response I got was, ‘Well, it’s about time.’” Koester moved to St. Louis and began working for Bon Appetit Management Company, which runs food service at Washington Univer-
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Chef Josh Koester found Colleen’s to be the ideal blank canvas. | HARLAN MCCARTHY sity. One day, he went down the street to Colleen’s Cookies to pick up some baked goods for an event he was doing. (The cafe has since begun calling itself just “Colleen’s” to reflect that it serves more than just cookies.) A casual chat with owner Colleen Thompson that day evolved into an ongoing conversation about her vision for the cafe side of her operations. She wanted to tweak and expand the menu, and she wanted Koester to lead the charge. “We just clicked,” Koester says. “What attracted me to the place was that it was a blank canvas. She had a really good foundation with her baked goods, but she wanted to do more on the cafe side of things, with entrees, blue plate specials, brunch and pop-up dinners.” His menu additions are more refined than what he used to sling in his truck-stop days, but he sees a strong connection to his cooking roots. “We had to take what we had and make it nice,” Koester explains. “We had to take the classic American breakfast and elevate it so that it was nicer, but still recognizable. That’s what I am trying to do at Colleen’s — a combination of the upscale rooted in what I used to do growing up.” Good food, though, is only part of what Koester aims for. “There is
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nothing better than hearing a lively front of house,” he says. “Ultimately, I want to put out food that doesn’t mess up the vibe, that keeps it going.” What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did? Besides being a chef, I co-host a nerdy comedy podcast called Freshly Baked Crackers. What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you? Phish at high volume on the way to the restaurant and a giant sweet tea to get me moving. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? I feel like this is a cop-out, but I’ve gotta go with flight. I’m 6’8” so I obviously don’t have a fear of heights. I think flying would be the best. What is the most positive thing in food, wine, or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year? The St. Louis public is giving local chefs a chance to do a lot of cool things. I’m a huge fan of things like pop-up restaurant concepts, and we will be starting one in April. You can’t take chances like that without a receptive community, and I think we have one here. Who is your St. Louis food crush? I am currently obsessed with Byrd & Barrel. Love the food, staff
and ambiance/music over there. Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene? I can’t name just one. Eric Heath, Mike Randolph, obviously Gerard Craft, Kevin Willmann ... We have some incredible chefs here in St. Louis. Which ingredient is most representative of your personality? “Ogres are like onions. Ogres have layers.” -- Shrek If you weren’t working in the restaurant business, what would you be doing? I’ve been playing music for most of my life, so hopefully that. Name an ingredient never allowed in your kitchen. I have no good explanation for this, but I’ve always found chocolate milk to be revolting. What is your after-work hangout? I’m a live music junkie so you’d find me at the Pageant, Old Rock House, Firebird, Ready Room, etc. What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure? Cherry Kool-Aid, cheap ramen and bomb pops. What would be your last meal on earth? Thanksgiving dinner, with all the trimmings. n
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The secret sauce is, well, the sauce. It is thick and dark red, with a perfect hint of spice not normally seen on a pizza. Generous amounts of cheese never hurt, and a layered bite of golden crust, melted cheese, savory sauce and toppings of your choice is a thing of beauty. And while the toppings are good, they don’t make this pizza what it is. They simply play one role in a balanced quartet of flavors. Toppings are not needed to cover a subpar crust or bland sauce, but serve to enhance each element. Pepperoni, sausage and mushrooms are the three most popular toppings, but the 14” Chicago-style supreme is the Black Thorn’s signature pie. They weighed it once, says Difani, and it tipped the scales at more than eight pounds. Although it has been smoke-free for five years, Black Thorn still feels like a place where a smoky haze should surround the bar. The walls are covered with graffiti, the shuffleboard table is well-used and seats at the bar are often claimed before those in the dining room. “I haven’t decorated the place since we opened,” says Difani. “To be honest, the writing on the walls and ambiance has more to do with the patrons than me.” Black Thorn is the kind of place with a handful of regulars at the bar, a few young adults sharing a pitcher with their pizza, and a neighbor who pops in for carry-out. St. Louis is a city with a lot of great pizza, but if you’ve ever daydreamed of running a neighborhood corner bar, Difani has been living your dream for three decades — and with a magical pizza oven producing some of the best pies in town. —Johnny Fugitt
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his year, the St. Louis Brewers Guild boasts that St. Louis will have more local breweries than ever before — and that’s going back to the city’s inception. Local videographer Bill Streeter wants to examine this boom. His new project, St. Louis Brews, will be a feature-length documentary that both examines the scene today and places it in the context of the city’s rich brewing history. The film will tell the story of St. Louis’ eight-year shift from a one-brewery, Anheuser-Busch-dominated town to a robust craft culture, while examining the city’s previous “Golden Age” of brewing in the 1880s. Streeter’s first feature documentary, Brick by Chance and Fortune: A St. Louis Story, earned critical raves and aired on KETC (Channel 9). He’s probably best-known for his music and culture-focused web series, Lo-Fi Cherokee. In researching this new film, Streeter again took a crash course in St. Louis history. St. Louis Brews is inspired in part by Reedy Press’ book of the same name. But while he follows similar historical trails and interviews the book’s authors, he also plans to provide new content and an updated look at mod-
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“It’s not so much about getting drunk and party atmosphere; it’s more of family and community.” ern breweries. Streeter says he encountered many similarities at the core of St. Louis’ craft brewing scene yesterday and today. “Both the brewers in the 1800s and the modern craft brewers have this strong sense of community and a very wholesome approach to beer as a beverage that can help community along,” he says. He invokes Schlafly’s art
shows and the numerous local events where families bring their strollers and their dogs to enjoy beer in the outdoors — which he thinks are very true to the spirit of German beer halls. “It’s not so much about getting drunk and party atmosphere; it’s more of family and community.” The filmmaker also thinks he’s discovered a parallel character in the creativity and daring of local brewers. Streeter says that the old-school German brewers “had respect for traditional brewing, but they weren’t afraid to try new things and really expand the market and expand the business. That’s almost identical to what modern craft brewers are doing today.” And from 4 Hands Brewing’s unique fruit-flavored saisons to Urban Chestnut’s Wolpertinger 2016, the options are many.
Streeter thought about making a film about beer for several years, but he’s glad he only recently made the move to film and edit it. “It’s a lot more interesting story now than it was,” he says, thanks to the ways the local beer industry has changed since InBev’s 2008 acquisition of Anheuser-Busch. And Streeter considers it “a little ironic” that even though he’s making a documentary about beer, he’s been cutting back on his own consumption. He recalls lunching with his friend Pokey LaFarge, who told him, “It seems like with this project you’re keeping beer in your life somehow.” In some sense, this film is his ode to beer. Last week, Streeter launched a Kickstarter to fund the film. Although he’s already filmed parts of it, he’ll need help paying for post-production and festival dues; he also contracted two local musicians to compose the music, and the Kickstarter will help pay them. He plans for St. Louis Brews to premiere publicly in November at the St. Louis International Film Festival. Dying to get a peek? He’ll hold preview screenings for some people who donate to the Kickstarter. He debuted the trailer for the St. Louis Brewers Guild last week — and won a standing ovation. But he hopes that the film will reach a broad audience, not just beer fanatics or local brewers. “Whether you’re into beer or not, it’s a history documentary, it’s a business documentary. It should be inspirational to anybody even if they’re not into beer. If you’re into history, or you’re into St. Louis, or into beer, or if you’re into all three, you should be able to enjoy this film,” Streeter promises. —Katelyn Mae Petrin
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ruce Springsteen is one of America’s finest exports. He’s the embodiment of the blue-collar dream: a man who worked hard and didn’t give up until he built something massively successful out of nothing. He is talented. He is attractive. He is charisma personified. He is also, however, full of shit. Springsteen is the most impressive actor that you’ve ever seen. His whole persona is based off of being a rock & roll everyman. The story is simple: He came from meager beginnings in Nowheresville, New Jersey. His parents sacrificed and saved to buy his first electric guitar. Young Bruce learned to play, stayed invisible in school, narrowly escaped a stint in the army and then took every shitty gig possible until he was finally saved by musical superstardom. That’s some fine myth-making right there. Because while the whole story might be true, it leaves out some important parts. Springsteen, after all, was fairly successful pretty early into his career. He built a cult following in his region just a few years after he started playing under his own name — and talent scouts and managers took notice. In fact, one of the few hardships he’s faced professionally came about because he found management almost immediately. That management wasn’t the best, and for a while Springsteen didn’t own the rights to his own music. But this was remedied with a legal battle almost 40 years ago.
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When he stands behind a microphone, Springsteen will own you. You will believe him and his stories. You’ll think that his concert only ended so that he could get to work on time for the graveyard shift at his factory job. He still sings many of the songs that he wrote back in the beginning. And he still sings about union cards and hungry hearts and glory days and the demise of the Chicken Man. He still sings
about being lonesome and driving in cars late at night and the feeling of suffocating small-town doom. His heartbreak still sounds fresh and real — not contrived or inauthentic at all. But he hasn’t been a scruffy little underdog for decades; that is just a pose. Consider this: He’s touring now to promote a box set version of The River, an album that he released in 1980. Many of the songs from The River were leftovers from a previous album. Meaning this: The man is so successful that his re-released leftovers still get fanfare almost three and a half decades later. Springsteen is not a tramp like us and he hasn’t been for a long, long time. He might remember what it feels like to be a working-class bumpkin, but he couldn’t possibly relate to it anymore. It’s difficult to reconcile Springsteen’s finely crafted downon-their-luck characters with his undisputed international success. He used to sing longingly about the unattainable mansion on the hill, but now he can buy many riverfronttimes.com
mansions on many hills. He might have gotten his start playing gritty seaside hellholes, but now he buys houses in Beverly Hills and earns $100 million record deals and $10 million book advances. You’d have to be shockingly uninformed to believe that Springsteen still lives the life that he sings about or that he’s anything like the personalities in his classic songs. But does any of this weird dissonance matter when you watch him on stage? Nope. Not one bit. It doesn’t matter if you know his history. It doesn’t matter if you don’t know all of his songs. It doesn’t even matter if you like his music. When he stands behind a microphone, Springsteen will own you. You will believe him and his stories. You’ll think that his concert only ended so that he could get to work on time for the graveyard shift at his factory job. At this point, Springsteen could totally phone it in. He’s been at it for so long that he could just set his stage to cruise control and still
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sell out every show. At age 66, with nearly 50 years of performing publicly under his belt, he wouldn’t even be faulted for not producing a multi-hour extravaganza. He could just show up in a pair of khaki shorts and still get paid royally — but that slacker blood, it never burned in his veins. When Springsteen commits to playing a concert, he commits to bringing his all while dropping both sweat and panties. He has a reputation to uphold. His shows are athletic, energetic and appear to be exhausting. Some of his records may be earnest and restrained, but in a live setting his focus and energy can’t be beat. No single man has worked so hard onstage since James Brown. Others in his age group still do stadium shows and do them well, but it takes four whole Rolling Stones to pull off the prowess of just one Bruce Springsteen. With Springsteen, you know what you’re going to get. He’ll take the stage in painted-on jeans. He’ll be all rippling tendons, like a panther on the hunt. He’ll tell stories between songs that sound like he’s reading poetry. His leathery face will fluctuate between beaming and grimace. He’ll grunt and growl and howl and then whisper like he’s telling you a secret. He’ll take charge of your emotions and crush you, but then he’ll lift you up so high that you’ll feel like you’re flying. He’ll skip taking an encore break and just continue to breeze across the stage like it ain’t no thing. He will finally exit in a graceful blaze of glory. His marathon show will clock in at around three and a half hours. You will leave completely spent and feeling extra tired for him. More importantly, you will leave thinking that somehow, some way, he still fully believes every damn word that he sang. So when you’re having a debate over who is the best actor ever, forget Marlon Brando or Meryl Streep or Daniel Day-Lewis. The only real answer is also the greatest living performer of our time: Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen. Catch his live show if you can; it’s unbeatable. He’s a man with nothing to prove who still goes out and proves it every night of his tour. Springsteen will take you and make you his bitch. They don’t call him “The Boss” for nothing. n
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Everything You Need to Know About Murmaration Written by
DANIEL HILL
W
hat happens when the force behind a large music festival meets the force behind a large innovation district — what’s the result of that mashup?” That is the question LouFest founder Brian Cohen says he and Cortex President/CEO Dennis Lower sought to answer when they decided to join forces for a new event, announced last week. Murmuration Festival, by its founders’ vision, will be a mufti-faceted three-day affair combining science, technology, art and music across multiple stages at the Cortex Innovation Community campus in Midtown St. Louis. The fest will feature presentations from speakers in the science and tech fields and a juried art competition, in addition to musical performances. The Cortex district is home to more than 160 bioscience and tech companies in St. Louis, serving as a hub for innovation and networking for both ambitious startups and more established firms. A festival showcasing the complex’s finest work is just the next logical step. Cohen spent seven years teaching media literacy and documentary film production at Washington University before breaking into the festival game. He recently sold his share of Listen Live Entertainment, the company he founded in 2010 to handle LouFest, in order to focus his full attention on the new event. “Cortex was thinking about some kind of festival that could highlight all of the great stuff happening within their district and the region in general,” Cohen says. “I was thinking about what my next move would be beyond LouFest, which was a mix of art and technology and music, and those two ideas
Brian Cohen, LouFest founder and Murmuration co-founder, says the two events will be nothing alike. | JAMES BYARD seemed on track with each other. So we thought, ‘Let’s partner and take advantage of what each one of us brings to the table.’ And the result was Murmuration.” Murmuration will take place on the Cortex campus, with stages outside on the grounds as well as in the Cortex and @4240 buildings. A park area known as the commons will host the event’s food court and other activities, Cohen says. There will be a range of ticket options and price points, including some areas of the event that will be completely free to the public. LouFest isn’t going away. The festival finally announced its 2016 dates last week, following an uncharacteristically protracted period of silence. Now helmed by Listen Live’s Mike Van Hee and Rich Toma, LouFest 2016 will take place on September 10 and 11, while Murmuration will run from September 23 to 25. But Cohen has no fear of festival fatigue, and says the events will not be in competition. “We don’t see any part of this event competing with LouFest,” he says. “We see them as complementary, and I think having two robust events is just good for the city. We’re looking forward to both being successful. On the music side, we’re looking at bands who integrate art
and technology in new and interesting ways — either with their sound, their live show or their approach to music in general. That’s a different criteria than LouFest used, at least when I was a part of it. So I think the lineups will be very different.” Cohen is cagey about the specifics of Murmuration’s lineup, or even the hypotheticals, saying that it is considered bad practice to draw any association to an act who has not signed on for the festival, even in an illustrative fashion — managers and agents don’t like it. He hopes that people will understand what kind of acts they will be seeking simply by considering the nature of the fest. That nature will be unlike anything that has come before it, especially in St. Louis, according to Cohen. “We’re not modeling this specifically off of any other event,” he insists. “But as with LouFest, you know, when I started that event I looked at all the music festivals I had been to and I thought, ‘I really like this piece of this festival; I really like this piece of that festival.’ And LouFest became a mix of the best that I saw in other people’s events. Murmuration is following that pattern as well — we’re looking at different elements from different riverfronttimes.com
events, but putting them together in a unique way to create a truly unique event for St. Louis.” More than anything, though, Cohen says Murmuration will not resemble LouFest in any substantial way. Aside from the fact that both will have food courts and stages with music, he says they are not comparable. “I don’t think there will be much similarity at all,” he says. “They’re two completely different concepts, so they’ll be two completely different events. The people who want multiple days of music, bouncing from stage to stage, experiencing music throughout the whole day — that’s the crowd that’s gonna gravitate toward LouFest. Those people who are curious about other things, other than music — who are interested in the thought components of Murmuration and the art components, and the experience of being in a more urban setting — I think those are the people that we will resonate with. “We’re certainly gonna do everything that we can to support LouFest, and hopefully they’ll feel the same way,” he adds. “I think September is going to be an incredible month to be in St. Louis, and we’re just happy to be a part of that.” n
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f you ask the young men in the peppy, dexterous emo trio Lobby Boxer to list their influences, you get a mish-mash of styles and bands that wouldn’t seem to sit easily together. In conversation, Zach Fendelman (guitar, lead vocals), Andrew Gurney (bass) and Max Sandza (drums) toss out nouns including Sunny Day Real Estate, death-core, “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Whitesnake. There might not be a clear line connecting those musical dots, but the band makes a compelling Venn diagram. Emo demands soul-baring histrionics, and while hair-metal may be emo’s machismo-soaked evil twin, Lobby Boxer borrows liberally from that genre’s gear-locker of dramatic vocals and high-necked guitar solos. On Big Bucks, the band’s new album, the commonality is a lack of restraint, in both the band’s kitchen-sink approach and in the emotional weight of its performance. The members of Lobby Boxer are all juniors at Webster University — our conversation was scheduled as to not overlap with class schedules — and each is pursuing some facet of music as a major; Fendelman is studying music composition while his bandmates focus on audio production. That’s a worthwhile footnote, as it underlines much of the precision and craft within these songs. The simplest ones, like the lovestruck “Lover’s Lane” or the lovesick “Leslie,” are neatly contained
pop songs that hew pretty close to convention — that is to say, they are simply arranged and smartly performed. The songs wouldn’t be out of place alongside catchy, campy pop-radio hits. But in corralling what Fendelman calls “a big smorgasbord of stuff” that inspires each musician, the band sought to contain its multitudes, however scattershot, on the new LP. Sandza notes that in making its first full-length (following a pair of EPs released in 2013 and 2014), Lobby Boxer took pains to stretch out. “This album is a lot less streamlined,” he says. “Every song took a life of its own. It only further complicates the questions of ‘what’s your genre? What do we sound like?’” “I Was Afraid of Tornadoes” blurs the edges between genres most aggressively, with its near-rockabilly opening riff that transmutes into a passable glam-metal tribute before settling into an uneasy swell of thrash-pop and high-drama emo. Like other songs on this album, the track feels like a piece of theater, a mid-album overture that almost serves as a five-minute C.V. of the band’s stylistic shifts. Burney’s bass guitar can elevate itself out of the low end with a well-placed pop or pluck, and when combined with Fendelman’s high-flying vocals, comparisons to Rush aren’t totally misplaced. Lobby Boxer worked once again with producer Patrick Crecelius, who helmed its 2014 EP Teddy. But this time the recording took place at David Beeman’s Native Sound studio, and the relatively luxurious recording process (done across seven
non-consecutive days) was a creative boon compared with the previously rushed production schedule of earlier releases. Fendelman in particular took delight in the studio’s collection of vintage organs and pianos, rounding out the band’s power-trio sound with proggy lushness. That freedom in the studio culminates in the eleven-minute “Christopher and Julius,” the clearest distillation of the band’s emo-pop revisions and its classic rock heritage. “The intent was to write an epic song,” says Fendelman. “I rediscovered my love of classic rock over the summer. I was listening to a lot of ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ ‘Bohemian Rhapsody,’ ‘Blinded by the Light.’ I knew I wanted one epic song in it.” And yet for all its excess — each instrumentalist gets a solo in the song — “Christopher and Julius” is too dependent on pop dynamics and verse-chorus-verse conventions to rise to Fendelman’s epic goal. Other songs on the album do more with less. But it’s hard to knock a band this young and talented for its ambition, especially as it takes a few long-maligned genres and makes something brash, earnest and musically adroit. That ambition jumps off of the album after
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a cursory listen, and Lobby Boxer is taking its music on an early-spring tour — the trio will hit Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Brooklyn and Chicago in the first half of March. Sandza credits local phenoms Foxing for not just reclaiming emo as a viable art form but for lifting all boats with its rising tide. “The attention that they have gained has inspired a new wave of bands to not keep to themselves,” says Sandza. “In general the music scene in St. Louis, you see a lot more bands coming out and embracing what they do now that St. Louis has a quote-unquote spotlight on it since Foxing has been touring the nation and the world.” “I feel cooped up in St. Louis right now, for one reason or another, and I’m really excited to go travel and play music,” says Fendelman. “It’s a surreal thing for people across the country to want you to come see you play.” –Christian Schaeffer
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OUT EVERY NIGHT
THURSDAY 3
SATURDAY 5
The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-
314-977-5000.
AARON CARTER: 8 p.m., $17.50-$20. Blueberry
THE ALAN PARSONS LIVE PROJECT: 8 p.m.,
0353.
BUMMERS EVE: w/ Lil’ Toughies, Chives, Shit-
Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-
$37.50-$67.50. River City Casino & Hotel, 777
SOCIAL REPOSE: w/ It Lives It Breathes, Steven
storm, Soda Boys 8 p.m., $6. Foam Coffee &
727-4444.
River City Casino Blvd., St. Louis, 314-388-7777.
Joseph, Will F.M., This Is Our Dance, Divided
Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-
JAMES CARTER ORGAN TRIO: 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.;
ANDERS OSBORNE: w/ Amy Helm & the Hand-
We Stand, AliveAtLast 6 p.m., $12-$15. Fubar,
2100.
March 4, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; March 5, 7:30 & 9:30
some Strangers 8 p.m., $17.50-$20. Old Rock
3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
GEORGE THOROGOOD AND THE DESTROYERS: w/
p.m., $35. Ferring Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington
House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
Ave, St. Louis, 314-571-6000.
DOWSING: w/ Anna Cadaver, Yonsei, Witchy 8
SUNDAY 6
MR. CLIT & THE PINK CIGARETTES: w/ Boreal
p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson
BENEFIT FOR JOHN BROWN’S ON THE SQUARE:
SCARFACE: 7 p.m., $20. Pop’s Nightclub, 401
Hills, Babe Lords 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee &
Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
w/ Tok, Brotherfather, Jesse Irwin, Riverbend,
Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis, 618-274-6720.
Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-
DRESSY BESSY: w/ Whoa Thunder 9 p.m., $10-
David Brown 7 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509
2100.
$12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,
Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
MONDAY 7
THE PROVELS: w/ Jesse Gannon and the Truth,
314-773-3363.
THE BIG PINK: w/ the Heirs 7 p.m., $14-$16.
ELECTRIC SIX: w/ Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocket-
the Maytags 7 p.m., $7. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar
PETER BRADLEY ADAMS: 7 p.m., $15-$17. Blue-
Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University
ship 8 p.m., $15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St.,
Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009.
berry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City,
City, 314-727-4444.
St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
SKIN TAGS: w/ Hess/Cunningham Duo, Fragile
314-727-4444.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: 7:30 p.m., $58-$153.
FUCKING INVINCIBLE: w/ Torch Runner, Strangers
Farm 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100
ROB CROW’S GLOOMY PLACE: 8 p.m., $12-$14.
Chaifetz Arena, 1 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis,
Now, Chalked Up 7 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer,
Damon Fowler 8 p.m., $41. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.
3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
TROGLODYTE: 8 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,
SOULARD BLUES BAND: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway
St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
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11TH ANNUAL ST. LOUIS BLUES FESTIVAL: w/ Sir
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Charles Jones, Bobby Rush, T.K. Soul, Shirley
Louis, 314-367-7549.
Brown, Latimore, Calvin Richardson, Nellie “Tiger” Travis 8 p.m., $52-$78. Chaifetz Arena,
TUESDAY 8
1 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis, 314-977-5000.
BRYSON TILLER: w/ They 8 p.m., $27.50-$32. The
BRIAN REGAN: 8 p.m., $42.50-$65. Peabody
Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-
Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-
6161.
241-1888.
EXPERIENCE HENDRIX TOUR: w/ Buddy Guy,
COCO MONTOYA: 7 p.m., $10. Ameristar Casi-
Zakk Wylde, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shep-
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herd, Eric Johnson, Dweezil Zappa, Billy Cox 8
Charles, 636-940-4966.
p.m., $30-$100. The Fox Theatre, 527 N. Grand
DOM CHRONICLES: w/ Scotty Wu, Looprat, 4
Blvd., St. Louis, 314-534-1111.
Deep, Apollo Stunt 8 p.m., $7-$10. Cicero’s,
FINISH TICKET: w/ Vinyl Theatre 8 p.m., $15-$18.
6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-
Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-
0009.
588-0505.
EL TEN ELEVEN: 8 p.m., $12. The Firebird, 2706
JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ
Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828 Olive
HAWTHORNE HEIGHTS: w/ Mest, the Ataris,
Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.
Handguns, London Falling 6 p.m., $20. The
QUAERE VERUM: w/ the Gorge, Ashes and Iron,
Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,
Autumn Tint 7 p.m., $8. The Demo, 4191 Man-
314-833-3929.
chester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.
HERSCHEL LAMONT: w/ GGM, Team Clutch, Riv-
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er City Collective 9 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532. I SEE STARS: w/ Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, Get Scared, Palaye Royale, The White Noise, A Promise To Burn 6:15 p.m., $18-$21. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. LAB: THE BRAINSTEMS: w/ Demonlover, Soda Boys 9 p.m., $5. The Luminary, 2701 Cherokee St, St. Louis. LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS: w/ Tom “Papa” Ray, Hal Greens 7 p.m., $20-$25. 2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center, 2720 Cherokee St, St. Louis, 314-276-2700. TEMULENT: w/ Jeff Wood, Dustin E, Carbide, Doombox 9 p.m., $5. The Crack Fox, 1114 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-621-6900. THEE FINE LINES: w/ What Tyrants, Popular Mechanics, Heel Turn, Paddlefish 9 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
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The last time Metric played the Pageant, the quartet was basking in neon glow of 2012’s Synthetica, an album whose title only hinted at the musical and human elements at play. Emily Haines has never been shy about wielding brashy synths and patriarchy-challenging invective in equal measures, and her go-to topics — the commodification of youth, the value of female expression, the role of the artist — were backed by
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electro-pop muscle. This time the band is performing songs from its latest, Pagans in Vegas, which settles a bit more easily into its pattern of chirping synths and gridlike rhythms, but when the parts combine on lead single “The Shade,” Metric proves to be every bit the anthemic rabble-rousers that modern pop radio deserves. Oh Joy: Openers Joywave take the buzziness and beats of Metric and sprinkle them with a baptism of cheap beer and dude sweat, as heard on last year’s debut How Do You Feel Now. –Christian Schaeffer
RICKY AND TREVOR: 7 p.m., $29.50. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314833-3929.
WEDNESDAY 9 BELL WITCH: w/ Wreckmeister Harmonies 8 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-6217880. MY BROTHERS AND I: 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532. THE OCEAN: 6 p.m., $12-$14. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. OLIVER HELDENS: 8 p.m., $25-$30. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. ROGER CLYNE: 7 p.m., $25. Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444. SILENT PLANET: w/ Code Talker 7 p.m., $5. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
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The Pitchfork-addled masses who mistook the no-fucks and no-soul-togive band Foxygen for the next Neutral Milk Hotel didn’t do so because of the drumming. Shaun Fleming, the band’s percussionist, slinked out of that lo-fi morass with the alter ego Diane Coffee and an iPhone-recorded debut called My Friend Fish in 2013 that actually had grooves and dreamy spirit, despite the hipster nonsense of songs like “The
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Stupid Girl That Runs A Lot.” Fleming got more studio-serious on last year’s Everybody’s a Good Dog, a weirdly fetching noise-damaged fusion of girl-group pop, blue-eyed soul and sonic poetry along the lines of Pet Sounds. Diane Coffee is nothing if not a heady brew. Jewel Thief: “Crown,” one of the eeriest and most irresistible cuts on Run the Jewels’ breakout second album, features Fleming’s falsetto layered all around Killer Mike’s confessions.
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Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
0353.
FATHER: Tue., April 5, 8 p.m., $17-$20. Fubar,
ANDERSON PONTY BAND: Fri., May 13, 8 p.m.,
3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
$45-$50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St.
FIGHT FOR MIDNIGHT: W/ Tree One Four, Arto-
Louis, 314-726-6161.
rius, Sat., April 9, 8 p.m., $8-$10. Fubar, 3108
THE ARCHITECTS: W/ The Haddonfields, Fri.,
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
April 1, 9 p.m., $8-$10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive
FREE PARKING: Fri., May 6, 7 p.m., $8-$10.
St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
CARNIFEX: W/ Phinehas, Enterprise Earth, Mid-
HIT THE LIGHTS: W/ Seaway, Boston Manor,
night Hour, Thu., April 7, 6 p.m., $15. Fubar,
Can’t Swim, The Weekend Routine, Sun., April
3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
24, 6 p.m., $15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St.
DAVID SHAW: Wed., April 6, 8 p.m., $20-$25. The
Louis, 314-535-0353.
Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,
HOO HA COMEDY: W/ Ali Clayton, Reena Calm,
314-833-3929.
Deanna Ortiz, Meredith Kachel, Kelsey Mc-
DEF LEPPARD: W/ REO Speedwagon, Tesla, Sat.,
Clure, Fri., March 18, 8 p.m., $10. Cicero’s, 6691
Aug. 27, 6 p.m., $25-$125. Hollywood Casino
Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009.
Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth City Expwy., Mary-
JMSN: Fri., June 10, 8 p.m., $10-$12. The Demo,
land Heights, 314-298-9944.
4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.
DEVIL YOU KNOW: W/ Oni, Our Transfixion, Hal-
KEVIN NEALON: Sat., May 21, 7 & 9:30 p.m.,
low Point, Wed., April 27, 6 p.m., $15. Fubar,
$25-$35. Lumiere Place Casino & Hotel, 999 N.
3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
Second St., St. Louis, 314-881-7777.
DEVILDRIVER: W/ Holy Grail, Incite, Hemlock,
LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS: W/ Tom “Papa”
Tue., June 14, 7 p.m., $20-$23. Fubar, 3108
Ray, Hal Greens, Fri., March 4, 7 p.m., $20-$25.
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center, 2720
DINNER WITH THE STARS 2016: W/ Lionel Richie,
Cherokee St, St. Louis, 314-276-2700.
Sat., April 16, 8 p.m., $68. Peabody Opera
LIDA UNA: W/ Money for Guns, Gemini Hustler,
House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888.
Sat., April 23, 9 p.m., $5. The Demo, 4191 Man-
DJ QUIK: Fri., April 1, 7 p.m., TBA. The Marquee
chester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.
Restaurant & Lounge, 1911 Locust St, St. Louis,
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Your favorite rapper’s favorite rapper, Scarface, has been thrilling crowds with his dextrous lyricism and Dirty South style for more than 25 years. The rapper came from a musical family, learning to play bass from his uncle at a young age before finding hip-hop and joining the esteemed Rap-A-Lot Records in 1989 as a member of the legendary Geto Boys. ‘Face’s success soon overshadowed that of his crew, and a series of solo records throughout
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THE LOVE JUNKIES: W/ Pseudo Skylight, Jeske
SKIN TAGS: W/ Hess/Cunningham Duo, Fragile
THE BIG PIN
Park, Mon., April 11, 7 p.m., $7-$10. Cicero’s,
Farm, Thu., March 3, 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap
p.m., $14-$
6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-
Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.
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SLIPKNOT: W/ Marilyn Manson, Of Mice and
MAN EATING TIGER: W/ Made in Waves, Hidden
Men, Mon., Aug. 8, 6 p.m., $25-$79.95. Holly-
Hospitals, Ashland, Sat., March 26, 8 p.m., $10.
wood Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth City
The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-
Expwy., Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944.
0353.
SMOKE BREAK: Fri., April 29, 8 p.m., $10.
MONICA: W/ Chante Moore, Fri., April 8, 8 p.m.,
Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City,
$35-$55. Ambassador, 9800 Halls Ferry Road,
314-862-0009.
North St. Louis County, 314-869-9090.
TEMULENT: W/ Jeff Wood, Dustin E, Carbide,
MR. CLIT & THE PINK CIGARETTES: W/ Boreal
Doombox, Fri., March 4, 9 p.m., $5. The Crack
Hills, Babe Lords, Thu., March 3, 8 p.m., $5.
Fox, 1114 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-621-6900.
Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St.
TEXAS HIPPIE COALITION: W/ Sons of Texas, Tue.,
Louis, 314-772-2100.
May 24, 7 p.m., $15-$18. The Firebird, 2706
NEURO-LOGIC: Sat., March 19, 8 p.m., $7.
Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City,
THE ERIC RICH ENSEMBLE: W/ Zak Marmalefsky,
314-862-0009.
Mon., March 7, 8 p.m., $5. Tavern of Fine Arts,
OH WONDER: Tue., June 7, 8 p.m., $16-$18. The
313 Belt Ave, St. Louis, 314-367-7549.
Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,
THEE FINE LINES: W/ What Tyrants, Popular Me-
314-833-3929.
chanics, Heel Turn, Paddlefish, Fri., March 4,
ORGONE: Sat., April 16, 9 p.m., $12-$15. The
9 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson
Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,
Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
314-833-3929.
THY ART IS MURDER: W/ Rings of Saturn, Fit
PEPPERLAND: THE BEATLES REVUE: Sat., May
For An Autopsy, Dark Sermon, Sat., April 16, 6
14, 9 p.m., $10. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd.,
p.m., $16-$18. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
University City, 314-862-0009.
314-289-9050.
RIVER KITTENS: W/ 4th City Rag, The Cara Lou-
TODD MASTERSON: Fri., May 13, 7:30 & 10 p.m.,
ise Band, Sat., April 23, 9 p.m., $10. Off Broad-
$15-$20. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., Universi-
way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
ty City, 314-862-0009.
SEAN YOUNG’S MIXTAPE SHOWCASE: W/ LMYF
TWIN PEAKS: Tue., June 7, 8 p.m., $12-$14. The
& 3G, LOusane, Et Alex, Lottie Denise, Sat.,
Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
March 12, 7 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive
VETIVER: Sat., May 14, 8 p.m., $15. Off Broad-
St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
SERATONES: $10. Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar
WALE: W/ Hoodie Allen, Fri., April 1, 8 p.m.,
Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.
$33-$38. Chaifetz Arena, 1 S. Compton Ave., St.
SHAPIST: W/ Seeker, WRVTH, A Dark Orbit,
Louis, 314-977-5000.
Scarred Atlas, Wed., April 27, 6 p.m., $10-$12.
WE THE VICTIM: W/ Signals From Saturn,
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-
Scarred Atlas, Sun., April 3, 8 p.m., $10. The
9050.
Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
SILENT PLANET: W/ Code Talker, Wed., March
WILLIAM CLARK GREEN: Thu., May 19, 8 p.m.,
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314-289-9050.
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SAVAGE LOVE FOUR WORD LIMIT BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: Are you incapable of concision? Your answers are too long! You blather on, often rehashing the problem (unnecessary!) before giving four words (at most!) of (rarely!) useful advice. I’ve heard you say you have to edit letters down for space. Try this instead: Edit yourself! I want more of the letters—more from the people asking questions—and less of YOU. Keep It Short, Savage, Expressed Sincerely Feedback is always appreciated, KISSES. Hey, Dan: I am a kinkster. I have been since I can remember (I am now 21 years old), and I’ve never told anyone about my deep dark desires until the last year. During my time at university, I made good friends with a guy who I was able to open up to about my preferences, as he had similar desires. We created a beneficial arrangement. I suddenly no longer felt like I needed to suppress my “fucked up” masochistic needs and became extremely happy and more comfortable with them. I keep a
journal, and naturally I wrote about this arrangement and a lot of the explicit details. Last summer, my mother read my entire journal and was horrified. After she read it, I received a very nasty text message from her about how our relationship was over, she couldn’t believe what I had done, and she was no longer going to help pay for my postgraduate courses, etc. She was deeply disturbed to learn that some money she had given me for my 21st birthday was spent on a hotel room where I met up with my kinky friend. (It wasn’t like we could meet in my family home!) I never wanted my mother to know about any of this, and I feel bad for how it upset her, but this was also a huge violation of my privacy. The only way to resolve the situation was for me to pretend that I deeply regretted everything, tell her I can see now how messed up those “weird” sex practices are, and say that I’m cured and will never engage in them again. Months have passed and I’m still angry with her for having read my diary. I feel sad about the lies I told and having to pretend— still—that I regret what I did. Because the truth is I’ve never felt more like myself than when I am doing BDSM. It’s not my entire world, but it is an important
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finds out I knew? Do I tell him that I know? Most of all, I worry about the strain this would place on my daughter’s friendship. Her heart would be broken. Has Evidence Louse Parent Making Arrangements Mind your own business, HELPMA. * Shit, I really can’t do this one in four words. Confront your fucking mother, MUDDLE, once you’re out of grad school (priorities!), about the awful, shitty things she did to you: reading your journal; shaming you for your sexual interests and your private, consensual, respectful and healthy sexual explorations; and her unforgivable acts of emotional and financial blackmail. And you should wave the results of this study under her nose when you confront her: livescience.com/34832bdsm-healthy-psychology.html. It’s just one of several studies showing that people who practice BDSM—not just fantasize about it, but actually practice it—are psychologically healthier than vanilla people. Listen to Dan’s podcast every week at savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter
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TO: MICHAEL BRADFORD Child’s Name: ALIJAH BRADFORD Case No.: 16-50404-NA-103848202 Hearing: APRIL 4, 2016 AT 2:00 P.M. Judge FEENEY, 10TH FLOOR, COURTROOM 10-A An initial and/or supplemental child protective petition has been filed in the above matter. A hearing on the petition, including a permanency planning hearing, will be conducted by the Court on the date and time stated above in the 17th Judicial Circuit Court, Family Division, Kent County Courthouse, 180 Ottawa NW, Grand Rapids, Michigan. The permanency planning hearing will result in the child(ren) being returned home, continued in foster care, or the court may order proceedings to terminate parental rights. IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED that you personally appear before the court at the time and place stated above and exercise your right to participate in the proceedings. This hearing may result in a temporary or permanent loss of your right to the child(ren).
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Dated: 2/26/2016 PATRICIA D. GARDNER JUDGE OF PROBATE
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