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The Nerd Who Took Off His Clothes It’s not just women performing burlesque. Meet Bryce Bordello — and the fine art of boylesque. Written by

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n the weeks following the September 28 shooting outside Busch Stadium that left a veteran paralyzed, St. Louis residents and officials found themselves grappling with tragically familiar questions about their city’s safety. Many wondered about the factors behind the spike in violent crime. Others pondered strategies to stop the bloodshed. But one proposed solution attracted immediate attention. After learning of the Busch Stadium shooting, Tim Fitch, former police chief of the St. Louis County Police Department, tweeted a suggestion for a “business start-up idea” inspired by food trucks. For Fitch, the business model that brings tacos to outdoor events seems uniquely suited to bringing “gun-check trucks” to stadiums and other gun-free venues. The trucks would allow gun owners to deposit their weapons at the entrance to a stadium. After the game, as Fitch told KMOX’s Charlie Brennan, they could retrieve their guns, allowing them to carry them for protection while walking back and forth to their vehicles. As it turns out, Fitch wasn’t the only person thinking along those lines. Justin Hulsey, a 32-year-old veteran who works at a lighting supply warehouse, had also watched news coverage of the shooting. He too wondered if the spread of violence downtown could be abated by helping lawfully armed citizens store their guns near sporting venues or other businesses. “The idea just came to me. I had no idea who Tim Fitch was,” says Hulsey, who upon completing a sixyear stint with the National Guard settled in Herculaneum last year. “I went about it as a logistics problem: How can we do this?” Hulsey says he bounced the idea off a few of his fellow veterans, Continued on pg 12

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Born on Cherokee, Pikazo Could Take Over the Internet

ow would your dog look if he were painted by Picasso? Pikazo, a new app invented in the basement of a Cherokee Street coworking space, has cracked the code of how to answer that question — and can spit out a charming version of your favorite snapshot as if it were painted by the Spaniard himself in not much longer than it takes to choose a filter on Instagram. If the beta version is any indication, this thing is going to be huge. And that’s because Picasso is only the starting point. Take the same snapshot and pair it with The Kiss, by Gustav Klimt. Pikazo can do that, too. You can even pair your dog’s photo with a photo of a tree, or a fireplace, or bacon. Any two images that go into the app can come out as a fascinating mashup. Some of them even look like art.

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To answer what’s certain to be your next question, no, you can’t download Pikazo, not yet. But you don’t have long to wait. Karl Stiefvater, the app’s St. Louis-based inventor, says he hopes to make it available on iTunes by week’s end. In the meantime, a group of 300 people — most with some connection to Stiefvater or his business partner, Noah Rosenberg — are having a blast exploring the app and all its capabilities. The core of the technology is based on developments that came out of GooContinued on pg 12

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With Weapon Safe Armory, Justin Hulsey wants to give Cardinals fans the ability to retrieve their guns after leaving the stadium. | Danny Wicentowski and he eventually settled on outfitting a truck with heavy armor and side ports. He also decided to staff his business with veterans. “There’s crime down here, so who’s working on that? I just want to address public safety and put veterans to work,” he says. “Is it going to be a long mission? Yeah. Is there going to be some kickback? Absolutely.” Indeed, there are challenges to tackle before Hulsey’s company, Weapon Safe Armory, can get rolling. While his partners work on upgrading the truck, Hulsey says he’s been calling up city, state and federal officials. Their instructions haven’t always been consistent. Nobody seems to know how the law will treat Hulsey’s business. “I want to work with the city, I want to work with the state. But if I keep getting resistance, where they’re tell me that they don’t know if I can do it or I can’t do it, then I’ll just have to keep going,” he says. Hulsey wants to officially launch the Weapon Safe Armory service by January. He’s also planning on splitting the company 12

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into a two sections: one to handle gun storage and one to handle other valuables such as laptops. The young entrepreneur even connected with Fitch by phone. The former police chief says he was impressed with Hulsey’s ambition and the work he’s already put in. “Most of the people I’ve spoken to want me to run the business for them, and I have no interest in that,” Fitch says. “Justin is a little different. Of all the people I’ve talked to about this idea, he’s certainly farther along than anyone else. He seems like he’s headed in the right direction.” The success or failure of Weapon Safe Aronry may come down to pricing and convenience, says Fitch. But if the kinks can be ironed out, he thinks the business could go nationwide. “If this takes off in St. Louis, I could see it expanding to other cities,” Fitch says. “I can’t find anybody else doing something like this, but St. Louis isn’t the only downtown that has a crime issue. I have to think there’s a need out there.” – DANNY WICENTOWSKI

gle in recent months — artificial neural networks that basically mimic the human eye. But it’s Stiefvater’s idea of how to apply them that may prove genius. Who doesn’t want a new toy for transforming their endless series of iPhone photos into something much, well, artsier? Even Pikazo’s inventor is a bit overwhelmed by its capabilities. “We don’t even totally understand how it works,” Stiefvater admits. “A big part of what makes it fun is that we have to experiment with it, and we’re learning as we go.” A St. Louis native who graduated from SLU High and Washington University before moving to California, Stiefvater knows what it’s like to hit the big time. He worked on Myst and Second Life; he got gigs working for the big Hollywood studios, and the code he wrote for Matrix 2 blew up Neo’s spaceship. When that guy got pushed into the pit in 300, well, “I built the pit,” he says. He adds, “My day job really has been to play with projects that I love. I was able to pick the fun jobs.” But this one, he admits, feels like something bigger — something with huge commercial prospects. Even that app that turns your profile pic into a cartoon, after all, starts at $5 an image. And unlike that one, Pikazo’s options are basically limitless. Already, even with that tightly controlled group of users, word is getting out. You can see the excitement build if you watch the #Pikazo hashtag on Twitter and Instagram. And while Stiefvater is not seeking venture capital (“I was in Silicon Valley; I have friends who are well-off”), he admits, “It’s interesting to see them calling.” “I normally get one phone call a week,” he says. “Today I got twenty.” Stiefvater moved back to St. Louis in 2011, and since January, he’s been based at Nebula on Cherokee Street. But while the coworking space is home to some tech startups, it isn’t a tech space by any means (Alderwoman Cara Spencer has her offices there; so does Kakao Chocolate). He likes being surrounded by creativity, not just programmers. “One of the things I really like about St. Louis is the City Museum,” he says. “That wouldn’t be possible in many other cities. In other places, the warehouses are in use — so someone couldn’t just co-opt one and turn it into a wonderland. Here, I’m able to build this fantasy world I wouldn’t have been able to build in the Bay Area.” And a pretty extraordinary app, too. – Sarah Fenske

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The Nerd Who Took Off His Clothes IT’S NOT JUST WOMEN PERFORMING BURLESQUE. MEET BRYCE BORDELLO — AND THE FINE ART OF BOYLESQUE BY C ARLOS RESTREPO

ace Jones remembers the first time he appeared onstage wearing nothing but his underwear. Not only had he never previously been naked in front of a crowd, but he had never performed on a stage. Ever. He was skinny and bald — the latter by choice. At the suggestion of a hairstylist friend, Jones had decided that shaving his receding hairline was better than the bowl cut he sported as a redheaded kid, or the fauxhawk he tried in his twenties. He also stuttered, and he had been picked on in school. It left him with low self-confidence. Yet Jones, a forklift operator for an alcohol distributor, decided to take off his pants in front of an audience for a musical adaptation of the movie Natural Born Killers. “I had never been depended on in my life,” Jones says. “I had an average life. This was the first time in my life people wanted me to be the focus of something, and I didn’t want to let them down.” When his pants came down, a new Jace Jones was born. Today, under the stage name of Bryce Bordello, he seeks to inspire other men to get in to the art of male burlesque dancing — boylesque — in St. Louis.

rowing up in Joliet, Illinois, a city 40 miles southwest of Chicago, Jones was a normal kid who liked the Cubs, playing baseball and collecting cards. His life turned upside-down when he was fourteen and his parents moved to the southern Illinois town of Jerseyville, population 8,000. When he says “Jerseyville,” a sigh follows. “It was your typical high school experience with the kid that gets picked on,” says Jones. “That kid was me. It was very subtle, but annoying. I didn’t really fit into any group. I was this city kid. That was a problem to some kids.” He was into comic books, but he was never an artist. He was into sports, but he was never a star athlete. He got bored. Continued on pg 16

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Jace Jones readies for a performance as Bryce Bordello. | Steve Truesdell

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Jones in high school — “the kid that gets picked on,” he says. | Courtesy of Cookie Jones After high school Jones attempted college, but two years into studying computer science at Lewis and Clark Community College, he realized it was not for him. He wanted more out of life. Jones didn’t know where to find it, but he knew Jerseyville wasn’t the place. With the help of his sister and future brother-in-law who lived in west county, Jones moved to St. Louis. “There wasn’t really a plan,” says Jones, now 34. “I just wanted to get out. I needed to be in the city.”

ones celebrated his thirtieth birthday at Just John Nightclub: “St. Louis’ Premier Gay and Lesbian Bar located in the heart of The Grove.” Jones is not gay. However, he credits St. Louis’ LGBT community for welcoming him and making him feel at home. “I hooked up with an old friend of mine who took me to a bar called Attitudes for the first time,” Jones

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says. “I started meeting people and making new friends. This whole world had been right there the entire time, and I didn’t know of it.” Although rainbow flags and gayfriendly clubs are fixtures in the Grove, the mile-wide stretch of Manchester Road between Kingshighway and Vandeventer is home to an even broader eclectic community. On any given weekend night, blacks, Hispanics, whites, hipsters, cyclists, punks, burlesque performers, hippies, gays, straights, drag kings and queens, and any other number of others can be found walking (and stumbling) from club to club. The people he met — at Attitudes, and then at other bars in the neighborhood — expanded Jones’ universe. He made new friends. He even had a girlfriend, an old friend he reconnected with. She wanted to try burlesque. Jones paid for her classes. He loved seeing her perform. “She was Continued on pg 18

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Jones in character as his Comic-Kazi alter ego — before the transformation to stud. | Steve Truesdell so confident and happy,” Jones says. The relationship only lasted about a year, but Jones remained friends with her and several burlesque performers. He offered to help backstage, but never thought to get involved as a performer himself. “I never wanted to be looked on like that. I was still coming to terms with who I was, and the confidence wasn’t really there yet.” At one of those shows, Jones met Bam Bam Bambi, a doe-eyed performer who enchanted him with her self-assurance. “Her personality was everything I wanted to be,” Jones recalls. “She was confident yet sweet in the way she interacted with people.” Both his ex and Bambi encouraged Jones to get onstage. At first, it was only for a play; Jones’ ex connected him with his first show, an adaptation of Natural Born Killers, three years ago. It was Bambi who hooked him up for his second performance — a burlesque adaptation of the musical Chicago. “My ex unlocked the doors of burlesque for me,” Jones says. “Bambi kept them open.” In Natural Born Killers, Jones played Mickey Knox, a psycho18

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“It was outside the box — more risqué, more vulgar, and at times, more awkward. I never thought I would do something like that.” pathic killer who, along with his wife Mallory, goes on a murdering spree. During one of the scenes, the killer couple has wild sex after murdering someone — and that meant Jones was “90 percent naked,” he says. The play’s adaptation, produced by Tya King, relied more on comedy than its big-screen counterpart. “Still, it wasn’t for the faint of heart,” Jones says. “It was outside the box — more risqué, more vulgar, and at times, more awkward. I never thought I would do something like that.”

Jones as Bryce Bordello. | Carlos Restrepo About a month after Natural Born Killers, Bambi invited Jones to perform in Chicago. “It was a burlesque show, but I actually did not have to take off my clothes,” Jones recalls. “I had to dance while other performers undressed me during the ‘Cell Block Tango’ scene.” A career of getting naked onstage was born. “Apparently I did it well enough that other people wanted me to do it.”

side from the corsets and makeup, modern burlesque is a far cry from the days of Paris’ Moulin Rouge, or the vaudeville performances of the 1920s. Although sensual dances and skits are still at its center, burlesque in St. Louis is less about seduction and more about being an all-inclusive affair, according to Charlotte Sumtimes, a St. Louis burlesque producer. In modern burlesque, Sumtimes explains, everyone is beautiful. “I have received letters from women thanking me because coming to these shows showed them that people of all sizes and all shapes can be beautiful — with the right attitude,” says Sumtimes.

“They tell me that the shows transformed them, and that is beautiful. My motto has always been: all shapes, all sizes, all sexes, all colors.” And burlesque shows are frequent occurrences in St. Louis. From the R Bar in the Grove to the Way Out Club on Jefferson Avenue and the new burlesque-focused Seven Zero Eight on Laclede’s Landing, business owners increasingly see burlesque as a way to bring in customers. Sumtimes has even developed a partnership with Rumors and Ice, a bar nearly an hour south of St. Louis in Crystal City. “Somehow, she brings all these people together and convinces them to strip,” Jones marvels. It was after meeting Sumtimes that Jones’ career as Bryce Bordello

Jace Jones. | Steve Truesdell exploded. “I was looking for some male talent for my show, The Last Saturday Strip [at R Bar], and I really wanted to see a man on that stage,” Sumtimes says. Sumtimes Continued on pg 20 riverfronttimes.com

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ones only knows of a few other straight men who perform boylesque regularly in St. Louis. “A lot of them will get started, learn the dance, the moves, and then I don’t know what happens,” Jones says. “Maybe they just realize it was not for them.” Dick Nail-Em is one of the few who has stuck to boylesque. An engineering student who declines to give his real name, he is also under the tutelage of Sumtimes. “I’m a heavier guy, and I never thought in a million years I would do this,” Nail-Em says. Prior to finding boylesque, Nail-Em was having a rough time. His mom was battling diabetes, kidney failure and heart disease; his studies were stressful. “Burlesque saved me. It gave me purpose,” Nail-Em explains. “To be on a stage and in front of a crowd makes me happy. I’ve learned a lot about myself and have made so many friends in the last two years that I’ll always be happy for the chance that I got.” Both Jones and Nail-Em say they hope to inspire more men to give boylesque a try.

“In places like New York or Chicago, boylesque is much, much bigger,” Jones says. “In St. Louis, we are a rarity. It’s sad.” Jones still loves his Cubs, and still obsesses over comic books and sci-fi. From time to time, such as when he’s speaking too fast, a mild stutter develops. It all goes away when he is onstage. There, he says, “I am not the goofy nerd anymore. My voice drops a little bit. Bryce Bordello is everything I wanted to be when I was younger. He is that person in high school you kind of envy, because they were confident, suave, smooth.”

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Sea Fog (Haemoo) South Korean director Joon-ho Bong is best known to American audiences for his monster movie The Host and his sci-fi thriller Snowpiercer. He returns to the real world with Sea Fog (Haemoo), a drama he cowrote and produced. Based on an actual incident, the film follows the crew of the commercial fishing boat Junjin as they enter the murky world of human trafficking because of dire financial straits. The Junjin is hired to bring migrant workers from China to Korea, but is stalled on the sea by a storm that eventually engulfs the ship in thick fog. The friction between the crew and the human cargo rises to a breaking point as they all float hopelessly on the sea. Sea Fog screens at 2:20 p.m. today at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema

(1701 South Lindbergh Boulevard, Frontenac; 314-995-6285 or www. cinemastlouis.org) as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival. Admission is $10 to $12.— Rob Levy

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Men’s National Soccer Team The 2018 World Cup is closer than you think; qualifying games are already being played. Today at 5:30 p.m. at Busch Stadium (Broadway and Poplar streets; www.stlcardinals.com), the United States Men’s National Soccer Team challenges St. Vincent and the Grenadines in one of those qualifying games. St. Vincent is an island nation in the eastern Caribbean Sea, if you’re wondering, and the small nation is ranked 129th on the FIFA table. The U.S. currently

sits at 33 on that same table, but with a string of losses against Costa Rica, Mexico and Brazil, the men’s team is in need of a win. The game is preceded by a host of fan-friendly activities including concerts and giveaways starting at 1:30 p.m. There will even be a soccer field set up on Locust Street between Eighth and Ninth streets. Pre-game festivities are free, and tickets for the game are $65 to $195. — Paul Friswold [FILM]

Tod Browning Tribute Film history is riddled with iconic director/actor pairings, but one of the earliest and most extraordinary collaborations was between director Tod Browning and actor Lon Chaney, who made ten films together between 1919 and 1929. Together the duo made the bizarre thriller The Unknown, in which former circus worker Brown-

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ing guided Chaney in the role of Alonzo the Armless, a sideshow performer who would go to any length to woo young Nanon (Joan Crawford), daughter of the circus owner. After Chaney passed away, Browning returned to the circus for another twisted love story in 1932’s Freaks, which starred actual sideshow veterans in the lead roles. Here it’s a beautiful trapeze artist who consents to marry Hans, a little person, for her own dubious reasons. Early test screenings were so horrifying that one woman threatened to sue the studio, claiming the film caused her to suffer a miscarriage. Even after 30 minutes were cut and a happy ending was added, the film was universally reviled, nearly ending Browning’s career. Tonight at 7:30 p.m. both The Unknown and Freaks will screen as part of Cinema St. Louis’ Tribute to Tod Browning at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood Avenue; www.cinemastlouis.org ). Tickets are $15. — Mark Fischer Continued on pg 24

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Rapture, Blister, Burn “Third wave feminism” implies a further honing of ideas refined and reconfigured once already. So, what’s changed, other than some of the language used? That elusive question — “What has changed for women since our grandmothers' day?” — is the core idea at work in Gina Gionfriddo’s play Rapture, Blister, Burn. Catherine is a feminist academic who regularly appears on TV as an expert on the cause. When she returns home to care for her mother, Caroline rekindles her relationship with her college friend, Gwen, a sister-in-arms who married and now has kids with Caroline's college flame, Don. Caroline is soon tormented by the idea that she could have been the one to start a family with Don — what did she miss out on? How would she feel if she knew Gwen has the same envy as she looks at Caroline’s life — could she be the queen of TV feminists? West End Players Guild presents the thought-provoking and funny Rapture, Blister, Burn at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (November 13 through 22) at the Union Avenue Christian Church (733 North Union Boulevard; 314-667-5686 or

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www.westendplayers.org). Tickets are $20 to $25. — Paul Friswold

SATURDAY 11/14 [BURLESQUE]

The Randy Dandies The crew of the Serentitty is at a loss. Their show has been canceled, the ship is in bad shape and even Captain Mal is openly thinking about chucking it all. And then, someone offers the crew the chance they’ve been dreaming of: the sequel. But will the network that kicked them to the curb come back to stomp on their necks if they do it? The Randy Dandies close out their 2015 season with Serentitty 2: The Search for More Money. The burlesque crew that mixes puns with buns and quips with, ah, breasts mounts another scifi thriller inspired by the adventures of the cult TV show Firefly. Special guests include the band Browncoats, Indiana’s Wookie Cellist and Ami Amore, as well as several other surprises. The performance starts at 8:30 p.m. at the Ready Room (4195 Manchester Avenue; www.thereadyroom.com). Tickets are $15 to $20.

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by-seven-foot-platform — that’s how minimal we're talking. The actors create the sights and sounds of Metropolis in the year 2050, where Superman fights his old foe Lex Luthor. Superman 2050 is performed at 2 and 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 and 4 p.m. Sunday (November 14 and 15) at the Center of Creative Arts (524 Trinity Avenue, University City; 314-725-6555 or www.cocastl.org). The show is suitable for all ages, and tickets are $14 to $18.

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Old School Tattoo Expo With more than a decade of success behind it, the Saint Louis Old School Tattoo Expo is renowned for its friendly and intimate nature. Organizer and host Lyle Tuttle has kept the focus on the artists, which is only right. These are the men and women who run the shops and create the tattoos, and if they’re happy, the show will be that much more fun. You can get new work done at the convention — take your pick of the more than 80 tattoo artists who are scheduled to attend — or admire other people’s body art at the daily tattoo contests. This year’s expo takes place from 1 to 10 p.m. Friday, noon to 10 p.m. Saturday, and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday (November 13 through 15) at the Holiday Inn St. Louis Downtown hotel (811 North Ninth Street; www. old-school.com). Admission is $20 for a day pass or $50 for all three days.

the romantic fancy of the sun. The two are wed, but Surya soon suffers from the sun’s blazing heat and runs away. She attempts to change for her husband’s benefit, but it’s not enough, and the relationship seems doomed. Despondent, the sun approaches Surya’s father for advice and receives some tough love: Maybe the sun has to make some changes to himself before their love can fully blossom? Nartana Premachandra adapted the story into a dance piece called Incandescent, which Dances of India performs at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday (November 13 through 15) at the Skip Viragh Center for the Arts (425 South Lindbergh Boulevard; 314997-0911 or www.dancesofindiastlouis.org). The show is is in honor of Dr. Premachandra, Dances of India’s founder and Nartana’s father, who passed away last year. It is a loving tribute to the good advice fathers have shared for generations, even if we don’t always listen. Tickets are $15 to $20. — Paul Friswold

White Christmas The musical Irving Berlin’s White Christmas is based on the 1954 film White Christmas, which was itself loosely adapted from the 1942 movie Holiday Inn. While its origin is convoluted, the plot is fairly straightforward. Bob and Phil are army buddies who team up to become a successful song-and-dance team. The duo is currently working on expanding the act to a quartet by putting the moves on the beautiful Haynes Sisters, another set of singers. Those plans are only slightly altered when Bob and Phil learn that their former C.O., General Waverly, owns a failing Vermont inn. The boys convince the girls that together they can put on a show that will again drum up public interest in the inn. Will it work? Well, it is a Christmas story. Irving Berlin’s White Christmas is performed at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday (November 17 to 22) at the Fox Theatre (527 North Grand Boulevard; 314-534-1111 or www.fabulousfox.com). Tickets are $25 to $100. — Rob Levy

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Dances of India: Incandescent Everybody wants to be loved, but not everybody can keep a relationship together. In the Indian myth of Surya, even a celestial being must learn to adapt to hold on to his partner. Surya is the daughter of the cosmic architect, and she catches

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The Search Directed by Michel Hazanavicius 8 p.m. Wed., Nov. 11, and 8:30 p.m. Sun., Nov. 15 Landmark Tivoli Theatre 6350 Delmar Boulevard

lthough Michel Hazanavicius’ The Search is based on Fred Zinnemann’s 1948 film of the same name, the sheer historical distance between between the two makes any comparison unnecessary. The earlier film took place in Berlin after World War II and concerned a young boy who survived Auschwitz and is looking for his mother. Hazanavicius’ film retains the story of a lost child as

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one of its narrative threads, but takes place 1999 in Chechnya, as Russian troops invade in retaliation for a terrorist attack. The boy, Hadji, watches as his parents are killed by soldiers, then struggles to carry his baby brother to safety. Traumatized and speechless, he leaves his brother on a doorstep and moves on. Carole (Bérénice Bejo), a young woman working for the EU Human Rights Commission, takes Hadji in but is soon frustrated by her inability to communicate with him. Meanwhile, in a parallel but seemingly unrelated story, we see Kolia, a young Russian forced into the army by a fake drug charge and subjected to a brutal training program. Hazanavicius, whose previous films have been comedies (this is his first feature since winning an Academy Award for The Artist), has created an ambitious film with multiple story lines and a circular structure, showing the Second Chechen War from many positions: through the eyes of the refugees, the humanitarian aid teams and even the invading troops.

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The Search might seem like an example of a comedy director feeling the pressure to do something serious, and it is overlong and messy. Some of the stylistic mannerisms that worked for The Artist — The Search has desaturated cinematography that is almost black-and-white — occasionally create a mood of misplaced nostalgia. Some of the plot threads go nowhere: Annette Bening, as a Red Cross worker, shows up every 30 minutes or so complaining about how tired and busy she is, but we never really see her do anything. In spite of its many flaws, though, The Search is an admirable piece of work. Though it has been criticized for not simplifying the Chechen conflict, the film shows much of the horror of war and even questions the indifference with which most of the rest of the world responded. The scenes with Kolia and the Russian army (clearly inspired by Full Metal Jacket, but bleaker) are disturbing in their simplicity. The big emotional climaxes are predictable, but moving nonetheless. The Search shows

that Hazanavicius is a significant and promising filmmaker: He may overreach, but he does so without embarrassment. —Robert Hunt

Orion: The Man Who Would Be King Directed by Jeanie Finlay 7:30 p.m. Thu., Nov. 12 Webster University’s Moore Auditorium 470 East Lockwood Avenue, balh

ook below the glamour and excess of the entertainment industry and you will find, if you scrape down far enough, a world of no-class bookings in rural American Legion halls and school auditoriums, a world of stale beer, seedy motels and broken-down tour buses. Jeanie Finlay’s fascinating documentary Orion: the Man Who Would Be King stares into that world, telling the not-much-success story of an entertainer who dreamed of the big time but never quite made it through the looking glass. Jimmy Ellis was an ambitious country boy whose greatest talent was

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n The Assassin, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien finally turns to wuxia, the complex genre that is part fairy-tale and part history, and is too often dismissed in the West with the generic label “kung-fu movies.” Fans of wire-work and martial arts will be disappointed; the fight scenes are few and often kept offscreen. The Assassin is more historical drama than action film, and more about a broken family than about flying daggers. Based on a short story written during the Tang dynasty (twelve centuries ago), the film deals with ancient political intrigue that even audiences well-versed in Asian history reportedly find confusing. The heroine, Nie Yinniang (played by Qi Shu), is abducted as a child by Jiaxin, a princess/nun who trains her to be an assassin. After failing to finish an assignment, Yinniang is accused of being too soft-hearted. As punishment she is sent to her hometown in the province of Weibo to execute the

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Get in the Way: The Journey of John Lewis 1:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 14 Missouri History Museum Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue (free admission)

lenty of people knew that segregation was wrong, but very, very few people went as far as John Lewis in fighting it. Now a congressman, forever

a civil-rights icon, Lewis was arrested more than 40 times, beginning with a sit-in at a Nashville lunch counter in 1960, and beaten repeatedly, most famously during the march to Selma in 1965, when state troopers shattered his skull. If Lewis was ever afraid, he didn’t show it. When others pulled back, he charged ahead — inviting the violence of bigots and enduring it without fighting back. He also never shows it in Get in the Way, Kathleen Dowdey’s documentary about his life. It’s both a strength of the film and its biggest weakness. The Lewis we meet is more saintly than Gandhi, a true heir of Martin Luther King Jr. But he’s also not particularly introspective, leaving a film that is more inspiring than thoughtprovoking. It will be excellent viewing for school students in need of a hero. People looking for answers to the more complicated racial politics in St. Louis today, though, will be out of luck. — Sarah Fenske

The 24th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival continues through Sunday, November 15. Tickets for individual films are $12 to $15 and can be purchased through each theater’s box office in advance or the day of show. Festival passes good for six tickets ($65) or ten tickets ($100) are available through the Hi-Pointe, Landmark Plaza Frontenac and Landmark Tivoli Theatre box offices in advance. An all-access pass good for two tickets to every film in the festival is available through Cinema St. Louis at 314-289-4153. For more information and the complete schedule, visit www. cinemastlouis.org.

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o, how much of an Alfred Hitchcock fan are you? The answer might determine your ability to enjoy The 39 Steps, Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble’s season-ending comedy. It’s a spy spoof adapted by Patrick Barlow from Alfred Hitchcock’s film The 39 Steps, which was itself adapted from John Buchan’s 1915 novel. But the driving force of the play is Hitchcock and his body of work. If you recognize the Bates Motel or know why Jimmy Stewart is holding binoculars, you’ll have no problems keeping up. Even if you’re unfamiliar with Hitchcock’s oeuvre, though, you’ll probably be fine. I’ve never sat through an entire Hitchcock film, and somehow I caught these references; Hitch is as much a part of popular culture as he is film history at this point. Besides, there’s so much happening onstage that, even if you don’t pick up on the Hitchcock references, you’ll be laughing at something else. Director Kirsten Wylder maintains the speedy pace a comedy requires, but allows room to laugh at the jokes, which range from Hitchcockian sight gags, wordplay, rapid-fire costume changes and even the show’s extremely tiny budget. There are boxes doubling as cars and trains, a pair of chairs that serve as every interior scene, a wall pierced by three doors and a magnificent plane crash depicted by — you know, words won’t do it justice. You really have to see it to believe it.

Pete Winfrey and Annabelle Schmidt in The 39 Steps. | Joey Rumpell Pete Winfrey plays Richard Hannay, a 37-year-old man-about-London who is bored with life. His ennui is dispelled by his chance meeting with the mysterious Annabelle Schmidt (Rachel Tibbetts), a German national who disrupts a stage performance by discharging her revolver. In short order they’re back at Hannay’s flat where an unseen intruder fatally stabs Schmidt, but not before she tells Hannay about a vast conspiracy to smuggle state secrets out of the country in the next few days. Schmidt pins the blame on a shadowy organization called “The 39 Steps” and warns Hannay that his life is now in danger. From here on out, he’s on the run. Winfrey has an excellent English accent and a gift for physical comedy, whether he’s wriggling out from underneath a fresh corpse or striking a series of catalog-model poses every time a radio announcer describes him as “handsome.” And while Annabel Schmidt dies in the first ten minutes, actress Tibbetts lives on as two more characters: the prim and proper Englishwoman Pamela and the Glaswegian farmer’s wife Margaret. She, too, has excellent accent discipline and does a bang-up job slithering out from

under a sleeping Hannay later in the play. Ellie Schwetye and Carl Overly, Jr. play a couple dozen supporting roles each, often in the same scene. Schwetye continues the fine accent work on display in this show with her train conductors, police officers and hired thugs, but she really shines as the menacing but charming Professor Jordan, head of the 39 Steps. Overly hams it up (in a good way) as Mr. Memory, a theatrical performer who claims to know all, but he destroyed me as a farmer with the single worst Scottish brogue I’ve ever heard in my life. Every time it got away from him Overly shouted his lines with increasing fervor, which only made it funnier. It’s that running-along-the-edge sensibility that makes The 39 Steps so entertaining. There are moments when the production seems to be falling apart — a phone rings after it’s picked up, or an actor continues to open and shut a door to see if the sound board operator can keep up with the appropriate sound effect — but it never collapses. It drives forward in a pell-mell fury, and if something’s not working, it just gets n louder. riverfronttimes.com

hat if humans could interact with the world and communicate with each other just by thinking about it? The question is far more than a hypothetical one for journalist Malcolm Gay, whose interest in the frontiers of brain science originated inside a St. Louis hospital in 2011. In the years since, he has traced the competing efforts to turn such science fiction into real life, closely observing several astounding breakthroughs. “It was fascinating,” Gay says, recalling the research process for his new book The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015). Early on in his investigation, he watched a handful of complex epilepsy surgeries conducted by a young, determined neuroscientist named Eric Leuthardt at Barnes-Jewish Hospital — a memorable experience, to say the least. “While brain surgery is in some respects quite sophisticated technologically, it remains a fairly gruesome affair, sawing and drilling through bone before cutting into the brain,” notes Gay, a former Riverfront Times staff

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Head Games Continued from pg 29 writer who now covers art for The Boston Globe. That’s especially palpable in one of The Brain Electric’s earliest scenes, where electrodes, computer algorithms and cutting-edge science coexist with the pins, clamps and screws required to penetrate a fellow human’s skull. Gay’s densely crafted narrative — which he initially envisioned as a magazine feature — starts with a focus on Leuthardt’s novel way of digitally accessing the brain. Confident that he’ll eventually see his patented neuroprostheses become as commonplace as today’s cell phones, the entrepreneurial surgeon envisions a commercially viable implant that would augment human ability. But he’s not alone in his ambitions, and Gay’s interconnected tale puts the reader inside a scattering of leading labs, operating rooms and startups over the course of twelve riveting chapters. From the University of Pittsburgh to a company called Cyberkinetics to a multimillion-dollar U.S. Department of Defense-funded project, The Brain Electric follows a brilliant cast of real-life characters as they seek to solve the elusive mystery of movement. “These guys are always the smartest guy in the room, and they’re all competing for the same thing,” Gay says. “You have these incredibly ambitious, incredibly intelligent, driven researchers who in a lot of ways are doing what humans have been trying to do for the past 200,000 years: harness technology to make us better.” Alongside these top scientists, and serving as indispensable partners in their efforts to decode brain signals, are the monkeys that develop control over cursors sans use of limbs, the rats temporarily endowed with infrared vision and the courageous human subjects who choose to put their minds and bodies to the test in the name of discovery. The willing participation of individuals who suffer from paralysis, epilepsy and other debilitating conditions looms especially large throughout the book. One such patient-volunteer is quadriplegic Jan Scheuermann, who learns to move a highly advanced, military-funded prosthetic limb gracefully enough to pick up objects and even feed herself chocolate — all while maintaining a striking sense of humor. “Jan is, I think, one of the highlights of the book,” the author says. “She was beating me at rock, paper, scissors — it was quite something.” Perhaps even more compelling is Scheuermann’s ability throughout many months of intense lab work to look beyond what she herself stands to gain from the experiments. “Brain-computer interface research is in its infancy, and while it’s unlikely that Jan will ever derive any direct physical benefit

Author Malcolm Gay. | Durb Curlee from the technology, her participation in the research has really restored meaning to her life,” Gay says. “She’s a pioneer, and she believes her contribution will help future generations. Personally, I find Jan’s story magnificently inspiring.” With much of the funding for projects like that $70 million robotic arm coming from the federal government, a major thrust of the work is attempting to make wounded veterans whole. But Gay adds that are there are other projects too, such as efforts to link soldiers’ bodies to weapons. Peppered with fierce rivalries, fascinating devices and inspiring people, The Brain Electric gives insights into past and present understandings of the brain and asks big and sobering questions along the way. “It’s really the beginning of this field, but eventually it’s going to make the jump into the consumer market,” says Gay. And that’s where some of the deepest challenges will surely crop up for braincomputer interface, or BCI. “It brings up a whole host of ethical questions: If BCI implants can enhance cognition, does that give implantees an unfair advantage? What’s more, BCI is a two-way mode of communication: not only can it enable a user to telegraph her intentions, but those same electrodes can also deliver information to the brain.... Could you be hacked? Can your neural predilections be tracked and anticipated online much the way our browsing history is today? And if two or three brains are connected into a neural network, what sort of consciousness might arise?” Gay returns to a region that shaped his early interest in these topics, not to mention his writing career as a whole, to give a reading at Left Bank Books at 7 p.m. on Thursday, November 19. “I’m thrilled to return to St. Louis,” he says. “Some of my best friends are there, and I’m excited to visit some of the old n haunts.”

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In folklore and mythology, trickster figures are both admired and feared because of their intelligence. It’s a double-edged sword that allows them to cut through the obstacles that hold them back, but it’s also a weapon that makes them dangerous. In African American folklore, Br’er Rabbit is the prime example of the hero who you respect but keep at arms length — too much trouble follows that guy around. Artist Christopher Burch celebrates this dichotomy in his ongoing graphic narrative, The Missed Adventures of Br’er Rabbit and Br’er Death in the Land of Shadows. For the new installment of the project, One Who Sings With No Tongue Is Either Damned or Divine, Burch combines fine-art illustration techniques and the looser style of comic-book art with his own “afro-surreal” aesthetics to recast Br’er Rabbit and his own creation Br’er Death as active fighters in a war of resistance against the hostile lands they find themselves in.

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Sir Winston Churchill famously held England together during the Battle of Britain, and he was also a successful historian, an old soldier and perhaps the world’s first motivational speaker. But his greatest love was painting, because he was able to do it without the weight of a nation on his back. Churchill’s oil paintings were his solace in peacetime and in war, but he always downplayed his talent. In fact he was a creditable draftsman, turning out landscapes that reveal a keen understanding of light and composition. The Paintings of Sir Winston Churchill, a joint exhibition presented by Fulton’s National Churchill Museum at Westminster College and Washington University, showcase 47 of the British Bulldog’s paintings to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his death. It’s a show that will please historians and inspire amateur artists, and vice versa.

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don’t have a problem with a ranch-dressing-themed restaurant. In fact, I actually kind of like the idea — not from some deep-rooted love of the condiment (I’m a blue cheese kind of gal), but because it speaks to the current zeitgeist of hyper-specialization. We can visit toast shops and cafes

serving only Belgian fries. There’s even a place in New York dedicated exclusively to rice pudding. In this sense, Twisted Ranch is an anti-hipster mirror: We can peer at our penchant for the particular even as we get a glimpse of just how far this trend could go. Which is why Twisted Ranch, as it stands, is a missed opportunity. Instead of embracing its punchline status, the folks behind the threemonth-old Soulard restaurant, Chad Allen and Jim Hayden, insist it isn’t a joke. Inundated with media attention and mockery, the first-time restaurateurs laughed, but insisted that they were a “real” restaurant. There would be no bubbling pots of ranch-dressing fondue, they assured us — just a creative use of the seasoning blend on real-deal dishes, crafted by a legitimate chef. But that’s the thing: If you’re going to open a ranch-dressing restaurant, open a Ranch Dressing Restaurant, goddammit. Give us the

theater of the absurd and drench us in ranch-covered irony. Greet us with ranch-filled Champagne flutes and let us refill them in a ranch fountain. Dress your staff as cowboys and cowgirls, and have them shoot ranch-filled Super Soakers all over our ranch-seasoned fries. Allen and Hayden could have really gone for it, but they refrained — and that is Twisted Ranch’s downfall. It’s not bad. It’s just boring — a gimmick that refuses to be gimmicky. The restaurant sits on the corner of Eighth and Lafayette in the spot that formerly housed Sassy Jac’s. Aside from the dark-green walls (evocative of dill or parsley, perhaps), there is little obvious thematic décor. Tables, a mix of half-banquettes and high-tops, are stainless steel, and an old-fashioned wooden bar takes up a large portion of the restaurant’s real estate. Behind the bar, letters spell out the word “Ranch” against a wooden wall. So does a maze-like 3-D mural made from PVC pipes that looks like riverfronttimes.com

it might transport dressing from some Hidden Valley mothership into the kitchen. Allen and Hayden enlisted chef Johnathan Tinker to help execute Twisted Ranch’s menu. Every single item on offer involves the condiment in some form, though the dishes coming out of the kitchen are no longer Tinker’s handiwork. The chef walked out twenty minutes into the restaurant’s soft opening. He later claimed the owners had no idea what they were doing. (Apparently, one fryer at a ranchthemed restaurant was not enough. Go figure.) A chef’s touch remains in the form of thoughtful condiment and seasoning use, though dishes rarely rise above average bar food. It’s hard to see how it could be otherwise, considering that the concept is dedicated to an unremarkable spice blend that barely rises above seasoned salt in mayonnaise (which, let’s be honest, is why we guiltlessly smother it Continued on pg 34

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on our fries). And so the ranch bloody mary was nothing more than a salty bloody mary. To the disappointment of my colleague, the drink did not contain a lava-lamp-style dollop of ranch dressing suspended in tomato juice. Instead, Twisted Ranch infuses its spice blend into vodka much like the garlic- or pepper-infused versions. It makes a fine enough base for the hangover drink, but the novelty element exists only in theory. Some dishes worked. Fried green beans impressed. The vegetables are dusted with ranch-seasoned cornmeal and fried so that they retain a snappy texture. The recommended dipping sauce — the “Kemowasabi” ranch — may have a ridiculous name, but it makes an excellent, piquant accompaniment. Buffalo chicken dip is exactly what you’d want in the midst of a booze-fueled night. The creamy, Louisiana hot-sauce-spiked dip is flecked with pulled chicken and topped with molten cheddar-jack cheese. No, it’s not haute cuisine, but there is something satisfying about dipping a jumbo corn chip into this bubbling crock of coronary-inducing comfort. Similarly, the “Loaded Tots” could have been concocted by Cheech and Chong. The deep-fried potato nuggets are smothered in bacon bits, cheddar-jack cheese and scallions — the quintessential trashy bar food. And I must admit that I liked them even more covered in zesty, housemade buttermilk ranch. I give Twisted Ranch credit for making its own flatbread dough rather than simply buying frozen

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To the disappointment of my colleague, the ranch bloody mary did not contain a lava lamp-style dollop of ranch dressing suspended in tomato juice. shells. The result is a thick, pillowy crust that serves as a sturdy base for a variety of toppings. The “Veggie Pesto,” smothered with sun-dried tomatoes, broccoli, fresh spinach and feta cheese, is a delightful Mediterranean-style pie, though the basil from the pesto sauce and pesto ranch drowns out the other flavors. The “BBQ Pork” is equally respectable. Granted, the sweet and barely smoky “smoked” pork is reminiscent of at-home Crock-Pot pulled pork, but it’s adequate for a bar pizza topping. Unfortunately, the kitchen was heavy-handed with the ranch coleslaw topping, leaving the flatbread soggy. “Cheesy Bacon Ranch” sauce spikes an otherwise traditional béchamel on the “Big Kid Mac and Cheese.” It would have been good on its own, but the kitchen decided to line the bottom of the dish with flavorless beef brisket. It added nothing. And the St. Louis classic Gerber sandwich is a misfire. The mayonnaise-based condiment

that’s used instead of butter fails to soak into the bread. The result is a sandwich that lacks the original’s all-important goo factor. These issues are minor compared to the “Twisted Ranch Burger.” My expectations sank when I asked for a temperature and the server informed me it would be served “somewhere around medium or medium well.” What arrived was a leaden, well-done puck that was like eating a fast-food burger rewarmed in the microwave. Ranch seasoning on the patty and the paprika-spiked dressing did little to salvage this disaster. I’d say the reason it took over an hour to get my food was because they were basically tanning my burger into shoe leather, but alas, it was equally slow on a second visit. Apparently, Tinker was right — one fryer isn’t enough at a ranch-dressing restaurant, though from what I could see of the kitchen a second one wouldn’t fit. My glimpse through an open window revealed a space that is no larger than a galley kitchen you’d find in a 400-square-foot Manhattan apartment. It’s difficult to see how Allen and Hayden can do anything more than add some ranch enhancements to ready-made fare that comes out of a Sysco truck. For their sake, I hope the restaurateurs can figure out a way to execute their menu in a manner that doesn’t cause patrons to anxiously watch the clock. But do I really see myself going back to find out? Perhaps if Twisted Ranch were more of a joke I’d be inclined to take outof-towners or ranch-loving friends for the novelty factor the same way I’d ironically go to, say, Medieval Times dinner theater. When the pair announced they were opening the place last March, it seemed like it might be just that. They had a sense of humor about the place, after all — acknowledging, and even laughing, at the fact that they were being ridiculed by national media for their concept. However, in its effort to prove that it’s not a laughingstock, Twisted Ranch has lost its sense of humor. In its place is a subpar Soulard bar that’s trying to be serious. Instead of a ranch-dressing restaurant, Twisted Ranch is a restaurant that uses ranch dressing — and there is nothing novel about that. n Twisted Ranch Fried green beans ......... ............. $9 Rotisserie chicken salad ............ $8 “Big Kid Mac and Cheese” ....... $13

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icole Mccormack sees her coffeehouse Restituo (4100 Shenandoah Avenue) as an extension of herself. “It’s like I’ve combined all of my skills into one thing,” she says. “I make all of the food from scratch and serve it on plates that I’ve made on my kiln. You get to drink the coffee out of mugs I’ve fired and sit on furniture I’ve refinished.” It’s clear that Mccormack loves working with her hands — in fact, that’s what attracted her to cooking in the first place. At the age of fourteen, the south St. Louis native was taken under the wings of Doc and Micci Parmley, the original owners of Mangia Italiano. She started as a dishwasher but was quickly given prep duties. Before she knew it, she was making pasta from scratch and cooking the restaurant’s Italian specialties. “It was like I was doing an apprenticeship without actually knowing it,” Mccormack recalls. Mccormack worked in and out of the restaurant industry but didn’t think of it as a career path until an unfortunate event gave her pause. While living in New York City, she fell gravely ill and looked to nutrition as a way of healing. “I was anemic and had to restore myself, so I began looking into herbs, spices and healthy eating,” Mccormack explains. “It took my cooking to a 36

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Restituo’s Nicole Mccormack. | Lynn Terry Photography different level. I began looking into ways to turn the fatty food I made into non-fatty versions while still making it taste good.” After returning to St. Louis from a stint in London, Mccormack found herself testing recipes on her family while trying to figure out her next step. Though she appreciated the coffee shops the city had to offer, she found herself pining for the places she would frequent in New York and London — cozy cafes where she could sip coffee all day and grab healthy sandwiches. When the corner storefront at Thurman and Shenandoah in Shaw came up for rent, she signed a lease and began developing recipes for Restituo. “I started out slowly,” says Mccormack. “I just did breakfast at first, then added a small sandwich menu. I kept it small so I could play around with specials. It’s just simple, healthy food.” Mccormack has been busy salvaging Restituo after a devastating water-main break to the building, but she took a few minutes to share her thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage scene and her morning coffee ritual that doesn’t involved drinking it.

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What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did? That I don’t use recipes for anything I do. It’s all off the top of my head, and flavor profiles are based on what I think might taste good together. I’m not formally trained; everything I know is from working around and with master chefs and watching way too many cooking shows. I just guess and take chances and often come up with things that have had my foodie friends asking where i got the recipe. What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you? Smelling fresh ground coffee beans before I put them in the filter. On the rare days I don’t drink a morning coffee, I still have to take a few deep breaths of the beans. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? The ability to flash freeze. I do so many soups and having to ice bath them after cooking in order to get them to proper temperature and food-safety standards of time and temperature in order to store them. With that ability I would surely gain enough time per week Continued on pg 38 to actually

The presidential election may be a year away, but Doughocracy (6394 Delmar Boulevard, University City) is encouraging St. Louisans to participate in the democratic process early, at least when it comes to their pizza. Life, liberty and the pursuit of pizza — that’s the slogan of Doughocracy, the area’s latest fast-casual pizzeria. The St. Louis location is located in the Delmar Loop in what was formerly the Ziezo clothing boutique. Operated by Christa McGraw, Mimi Hurwitz and Josh Vehovic, the restaurant aims to be the Chipotle of pizza, allowing patrons to customize their pies from a variety of sauces and ingredients. When they found out about the Chicago-based Doughocracy concept, they knew they had found pizza gold. “We were just blown away by the energy and the product,” says McGraw. “As soon as we tasted it we loved it, and knew we had to open one in St. Louis.” The concept is simple: Begin with a twelve-inch housemade shell that is hand-stretched and tossed to order, then make your way down a line of ingredients. The entire process takes less than five minutes, three of which are devoted to cook time. McGraw emphasizes that all of Doughocracy’s ingredients are made in house daily. “We make the pizza dough from scratch every day. All of the sauces are homemade, and the vegetables are freshly cut daily,” she explains. “We are especially proud of a large selection of unusual toppings, like red and yellow peppadew peppers.” In addition to pizzas, Doughocracy offers customizable salads, craft beers and wine. And McGraw insists that you save room for what is sure to be the restaurant’s signature dessert: “We have a Nutella bomb, which is basically like a calzone filled with Nutella,” she tempts. Doughocracy will be open from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. seven days a week. — Cheryl Baehr

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Brickyard Tavern Brings a Low-Key Neighborhood Spot to South Grand

ost wild penguins reside in the Southern Hemisphere, but some miniature varieties can be found in St. Louis, more specifically at the newly opened Brickyard Tavern (3196 South Grand Boulevard; 314-771-9300). Granted, the penguins at Brickyard are made of olives, carrots and goat cheese, but it’s such touches of whimsy that set Brickyard Tavern apart from your average neighborhood sports bar. John Homer, the chef of Brickyard, solemnly expressed his regret that the penguin perched on our plate was missing its pickled-onion scarf. We worried for a minute, but apparently, penguins don’t actually need scarves — though they look adorable. Brickyard Tavern is the new restaurant concept from Robin Schubert, Staci Stift and Joe Thele. The trio previously owned Absolutli Goosed, which was located in the same South Grand storefront that now holds Brickyard Tavern. But even fans of the martini bar might not recognize it today, as the interior has been completely updated to reflect the new theme. Like a penguin molting in order to grow new, pristine plumage, Schubert says it was time to turn over a new feather. “We felt that the Goose had a good run. Back in 2002, when it originally opened, it was the only place of its kind, but the cocktail culture has boomed so much and we felt like we just got a little bit stagnant,”

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Schubert says. “After doing this for thirteen years, we felt like doing something a little more laidback and a little more neighborhood as opposed to destination.” And in that endeavor, they have certainly succeeded. Brickyard is the sort of place where the owners prop open the door when the weather is nice, pass out candy on Halloween and banter good-naturedly with customers. Despite a complete turnabout in their direction, plenty of their former clientele remain. “We have seen a lot of old faces. Some people are curious who were regulars of Absolutli Goosed, curious to see what we did, what we’ve improved on, what we’ve changed,” Schubert says. One of the most drastic changes has been evolving from a martini bar with only a few small items on the menu to a bar with a full — if compact — menu. The kitchen is small; there is no deep fryer or grill, but Homer hasn’t let that stop his creativity. “I think we’ve hit all our bases as far as the menu goes,” Homer says. “It’s a small menu, but it’s very large.” Brickyard’s menu has several groupings of ingredients that work in different contexts. Take the “Brickyard BLT,” for example, with its thick-cut bacon, lettuce, tomatoes and sweet tahini dressing. It’s a sandwich, but those componets are also present in the “Brickyard BLT”

flatbread, wrap or salad. The menu also offers sliders, including a chicken & waffles one that might just be the perfect brunch item, and wings. “We’ve been open for about two weeks now and we’ve sold out of wings almost every day,” Homer says. Brickyard Tavern’s tender wings come in a variety of sauces with one monthly special sauce. Right now it’s pumpkin spice, which seems both weird and basic, but proves to be just plain delicious. To create his pumpkin-spice wings, Homer reduces an Irish ale to a syrup and then adds a few spices. The resulting flavor has just a hint of pumpkin and a hint of sweet. Don’t worry: It does not taste anything like a chicken-wing version of a pumpkin-spice latte, which is what we’d fearfully imagined. If that doesn’t intrigue you, get a load of next month’s offering: chocolate-covered-cherry balsamic wings. As for Brickyard’s name, it’s not an nod to NASCAR, Schubert explains, but rather it pays homage to St. Louis’ brick-making industry in the 1800s (note the trowel in the logo). “We have so much in this area that represents different nationalities and ethnicities. We wanted to bring something that was very St. Louis to the area,” Schubert says. —Samantha Dever

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4900 Laclede Avenue; 314-833-6666 The BBQ Saloon’s Phil and Tracy Czarnec may seem like the new kids on the block when it comes to St. Louis’ barbecue scene, but they’ve actually been doing it for decades. Every Fourth of July, the Czarnecs would fire up the grill on the patio of their Wild Flower Restaurant, and turn it into a holiday barbecue. Now they’ve opened a smokehouse directly across the street from where it all began -- on the Central West End Corner that used to house The Majestic. The Czarnecs gutted the old diner and turned it into a restaurant that sets itself apart from the crowd in two ways. First, it offers the largest whiskey selection -- 520 bottles -- in the region. Second, The BBQ Saloon grills up exotic game in addition to the traditional offerings. Alligator, emu, kangaroo and ostrich are served alongside the more traditional pork and beef ribs. The restaurant’s signature item is the pulled pork. It’s the best you’ll find in town.

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Evangeline’s Bistro & Music House comes from the mind of a musician. Don Bailey, who got his start in the food business while running a concert venue named Three1-Three in Belleville, Illinois, brings his latest venture to the Central West End. There, he presents Southern-style dishes alongside live blues, jazz and singer-songwriters. Eats include appetizers like the “Crawfish Carolyn” made with Louisiana crawfish tails, Brandy cream sauce and Parmesan cheese. For a more filling meal, supplement that with entrée options including gumbo, red beans and rice, chicken and sausage jambalaya, Louisiana shrimp creole and etouffée. A drink menu features wine by the glass or bottle, several beer options, classic cocktails and Champagne cocktails to drink the night away New Orleans style. $$

Gamlin Whiskey House 236 North Euclid Avenue; 314-875-9500

Gamlin is unapologetically masculine with rustic décor, a hearty menu and what seems like every brown liquor under the sun. The spirits list includes selections from every major whiskey producer as part of a flight or in a craft cocktail. Signature drinks like the “Bees Knees,” a delicious blend of Knob Creek Rye and ginger ale over honey-laced ice cubes, showcase Gamlin’s cocktail creativity.

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Ask one of the expert bartenders for a quick lesson on the nuances between Kentucky Bourbon, Tennessee whiskey, and Irish and Scotish whiskey, single-barrel bourbon, 12-year single malt Scotch, 20-year old bourbon, smallbatch whiskey and rye, or just dive in solo. Whiskey may be the theme, but Gamlin does not skimp on the food. The menu is unfussy, with items like rib eye, pork steak and bourbon-brined chicken providing hearty comfort. The “Moon Dance Farm Pot Pie” is especially noteworthy, its beef-laden tomato broth made rich with tender meat, vegetables and creamy mashed potatoes. Sure, Gamlin is a little indulgent, but after a few Manhattans, we don’t really care. $$$

Juniper

360 North Boyle Avenue; 314-329-7696 Pop-up and underground-dining star John Perkins puts down some roots at Juniper: A Southern Table and Bar. Juniper’s menu draws its down-home, Americana dishes from Appalachia to Louisiana, with such dishes as Zapp’s potato-chip-crusted fried catfish, “pork-n-beans” and Southern fried chicken. Juniper’s signature is its fried chicken and waffles, with each season bringing a different iteration. Appetizers, or “Snackies,” include standouts such as pimento grilled cheese with bacon and Brussels sprouts jam and a Mason jar of smoked trout and country ham rillettes. The cocktail menu keeps with the Southern theme and leans heavily on rum and bourbon, and the thoughtfully crafted highballs, such as the hibiscus liquor with Mexican Coke, should not be overlooked. The cozy, refurbished-barn-like interior makes this an ideal spot to eat some unapologetically fried food and sip a stiff drink. $$$

Mary Ann’s Tea Room

4732 McPherson Avenue; 314-361-5303 Located in the large greenhouse in the back of the boutique Enchanting Embellishments, Mary Ann’s Tea Room is an ostentatious scene — think Scarlett O’Hara meets Marie Antoinette. The Central West End lunchtime eatery is named after Mary Ann Allison, the late socialite and building’s former owner who tragically passed away in 2009 while trying to save her pets from a house fire. Mary Ann’s Tea Room serves classic “ladies who lunch” fare, such as chicken salad with grapes on a croissant, quiche and smoked salmon. The restaurant excels at soups, including the must-try crab bisque that is loaded with lump crabmeat and garnished with caviar. The savory chicken pie and smoked-salmon duo are also noteworthy options, as are the boozy tea infusions. Take your mom and grandmother on a lunch date, and they will be impressed. $$

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Patrick Ahearn opened Bottle Cellars in Oakville back in 2010 with the idea of bringing worldly yet accessible wine to those who might otherwise be wary of the whole wine-buying process – one he concedes can be complicated and confusing. “My hope is that people can learn a little something. An educated customer is a good customer,” he says. With a laid-back approach and thoughtful touches – such as organizing the nearly 300 wines from light to full-bodied, complete with food pairings and detailed tasting notes for each – Ahearn and his friendly staff have succeeded mightily. He particularly enjoys carrying lesser-known wines that are hidden gems in their own right; he estimates that 75 percent of the wines he sells are under $25. In May, he opened the adjacent Cellar House, a sleek yet inviting wine bar. For a $10 corkage fee, patrons can enjoy their just-purchased bottle, as well as small plates (think cheese and charcuterie boards, flatbreads and sliders) from head chef Scott Monteith. But the best way to explore the constantly rotating selection is through wine flights: Build your own by choosing from among several three-ounce pours, and you’ll find a new favorite in no time. If wine’s not your thing, delve into Cellar House’s classic and house cocktails (sixteen in total) developed by bar manager Shawn Sullivan: The “Leo’s Lair,” with Lion’s Tooth dandelion liqueur and Rally Point rye that’s been infused with dried apricot and vanilla bean, is a popular one. There’s also a full spirits list, five beers on tap and another couple dozen in cans and bottles. Ahearn is fond of quoting vintner Charles Smith — “It’s just booze. Drink it!” — and Bottle Cellars and Cellar House are charming places to do just that. And, yes, maybe even learn a little something.

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MUSIC Bound and Determined Kevin Gordon’s uniquely restless creativity knows no limits Written by

ROY KASTEN Kevin Gordon 8 p.m. Friday, November 13. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $12 to $15. 314-773-3363.

he town of Monroe, Louisiana, sits in the northwestern part of the state on Interstate 20, halfway between Vicksburg and Shreveport, not far from the Arkansas and Mississippi borders. The Ouachita River flows through the western edge of the town — population around 49,000 — and though it’s not strictly Cajun country, it’s a rich melting pot of Southern cultures all the same. Northern Louisiana is the world that suffuses Long Gone Time, the new album by Kevin Gordon, an East Nashville, Tennessee-based songwriter who for three decades has been wrestling with the forms of rockabilly, blues and country-folk — and making them his own. Gordon has left a personal and poetic mark on those genres, somehow infusing them with fresh imagery, characters and insights that are as tough as they are tender. Anyone who has heard his duet with Lucinda Williams on “Down to the Well,” his classic rocker “Deuce and a Quarter” (which Keith Richards, Scotty Moore and members of the Band covered) and his ten-minute-long American epic “Colfax/Step in Time” know just how wide-ranging and wide-open rock & roll songwriting can be. It was in Monroe where he first learned to play Buddy Holly songs on the guitar and fronted a proto-punk band that covered the Ramones and the Sex Pistols to the shock and awe of high school gatherings. He studied in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop under Marvin Bell and Jorie Graham, but eventually learned that it wasn’t exactly poetry he was after, but songs and music that could connect with an

Kevin Gordon has been making rockabilly and blues all his own for three decades. | Heather LeRoy audience and still capture something only he could express. “Marvin Bell told me, ‘Always write from a young person’s perspective,’” Gordon says on the phone from his East Nashville home. “‘Try to retain that outlook.’ Just because you’re older, you’re not banking on your experience. You’re still curious about the world. I always took that to heart.” As much as Gordon learned as a student of poetry, it was becoming a student of blues and rock & roll that left the deepest impression. In Iowa he met one of the godfathers of Midwestern blues, Bo Ramsey, who remains best known as producer and sideman to folk hero Greg Brown. “He encouraged me to write more,” Gordon says of Ramsey. “He was the first guy that I had a lot of respect for that said, ‘Yeah, that’s good. Let’s work this up with a band.’ That gave me a lot of needed self-confidence. At the

time I was in grad school, which is a wacky zone to be in, especially poetry school. It can be a pretty precious environment. Ramsey was great because I got to escape from all that and jump in a van and play music God knows where. We never traveled more than a couple hundred miles, but it was a great reconnection with something that resembled reality.” Gordon recorded his new album Long Gone Time in the East Nashville studio of friend and collaborator Joe McMahan. Two years prior to the sessions, a fire wrecked the home-based studio; McMahan rebuilt and redesigned what was left of it. The tracking was live, with Gordon going for keeper vocal takes every time, as his mentor Ramsey and steady-on bass player Lex Price guided the rhythms and feel. The songs on Long Gone Time, Gordon’s sixth full-length, move from an opening blues march about the mys-

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tery of music and the honky-tonk life to a spare, shotgun-backed prayer, from an encounter with legendary Native American cowboy singer Brownie Ford to an embittered (but still loving) letter to the whole of his native land. “I’m on the outside now, can’t get a line back through,” Gordon sings on “Letter to Shreveport.” But in every song he makes a connection to the music, the stories and the people who yet remain inside him. “Living in Nashville gives me some distance to write about Louisiana,” he explains. “I’ve been going back more in the last few years, maybe just to figure it out, I don’t know. I have places where I can stay, gigs where I can survive. And I can just listen to people talk, and I get to eat well. I wanted to reconnect. I’ve seen some of my family pass away; my favorite great aunt died a few years ago of cancer. You feel that generation going, and then you also feel yourself getting closer to that place.” When Gordon is not consumed by songwriting and making music, he pursues his passion for visual art, specifically “contemporary self-taught/ folk/outsider/vernacular” art, as he describes it on the Gordon Gallery website. It’s a cumbersome expression, but Gordon is careful when talking about that work, especially when it comes to making connections between his life as a musician and the life of an outsider artist. The men and women who have made this “outsider art” have lived lives far different from and far more demanding than his own. The work he collects and curates by artists such as Howard Finster, Mose Tolliver, Joe Light, Jim Sudduth and Sarah Mary Taylor is astonishingly beautiful, and it is so because it arises from their utterly unique and singular experiences. “When I started out, artists like Mose Tolliver and Jimmy Sudduth were still alive, and a half day’s drive from here,” he says. “For me that’s where the fun was. Just visiting with those people, but not because they were eccentric. Seeing and being there helped me understand the art that they made. In the case of Joe Light and the song [Gordon wrote about him], it was meeting him and his family that cast a harsh light on what it means to be an artist or a creative person in this time. I don’t compare myself to those people. But to live a creative life requires some determination.” n

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Perpetual Motion Austin’s Mike and the Moonpies keep pushing Written by

AARON DAVIDOFF Mike and the Moonpies 8 p.m. Wednesday, November 18. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $18 to $30. 314-773-3363.

ike Harmeier doesn’t stop. Except that one time when he got married and those other times when he needed to record an album. Matrimony and records aside, the Austin-based singer-songwriter has been on the road with his band, Mike and the Moonpies, since 2007. “We’ve been perpetually touring for over five years,” Harmeier says. “We haven’t taken a Thursday

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through Sunday off in three or four years. Whether we’re working in Texas or Oklahoma, or headed out on longer runs, this is all we do. We just stay on the road. And there’s no end in sight for this tour we’re on now.” For most people, a never-ending stretch of work is a tall price to pay for a career. For Harmeier, it’s a gift. “I enjoy every aspect of it,” he says. “I’ve always wanted to be in the music business. There’s nothing about it I don’t like. I enjoy being on the road, I enjoy playing shows, I enjoy the bar scene. I can’t get enough.” Lucky for Harmeier, 2015 is shaping up to be the biggest year yet for his group, and an abundance of shows hang in the horizon. Part of the reason for the Moonpies’ growing success is their close ties with larger groups such as Jason Boland & the Stragglers — both bands will perform together in St. Louis at Off Broadway on November 18. “It’s nice to be able to go on the road with acts that are doing the same kind of thing that we are and already drawing crowds,” Harmeier says. “We’ve been doing the dive-bar thing for years now, so it’s nice to actually feel like we’re accomplishing

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something new.” Another recent notch in the Moonpies’ collective belt this year was the release of a new album, Mockingbird, in early October. Harmeier speaks with excitement when describing his artistic vision for the new music. “Every time I make a record, I learn something new,” he says. “With this one, I think I figured out how I wanted to push it to the public. Mockingbird is the first time I’ve really had an idea, front to back, and knew exactly how I wanted everything to sound. “I’m a very nostalgic dude, and I grew up a lot with my grandfather,” he continues. “I remember that’s kind of how I got started: hanging out with him at the bars and listening to music. When I was six or seven years old, I would sit at the bar and drink soda while he would talk with his friends. The jukebox in those bars is really what molded my musical tastes. So I wanted to make Mockingbird sound like something that would come out of that jukebox. The album is strongly influenced by what I was listening to at that time: ’90s country, Allman Brothers and some Bob Seger kind of stuff too.” Harmeier describes the group of

people who created Mockingbird as a tight collective of close friends. His co-producer was the best man at his wedding. His drummer has been a friend since high school. “I’m from the Tomball, north Houston area,” he says. “The drummer’s been in every band that I’ve ever played in. He’s the oldest friend I have in the band. The bass player, Preston, was the next addition after him. The steel player and the guitar player came as a package deal. They were in another band in 2008, and we were playing a lot of shows together. The steel player wasn’t even playing steel at the time, but he really wanted to be in the band, so he picked up steel just to be in the Moonpies. It’s pretty impressive. I couldn’t believe he actually accomplished it. And now he’s actually a pretty good steel player.” With no end in sight for the tour, Harmeier buckles up for an exciting new year on the road. During his exceedingly rare moments of rest, though, he’ll be with his family and some good Southern cooking. “I have to hang out with the wife,” he says. “I have to eat some chicken-fried steak.” n

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iven his relative ubiquity on stages around St. Louis, it’s surprisingly hard to put a label on guitarist Kevin Koehler. He initially made his mark as a member of the live hip-hop ensemble Illphonics and, more recently, as an apt purveyor of twang and roots music as part of the Defeated County. In his spare time, though, the 31-year-old has been tinkering with his own set of songs, recently compiled in Sound Sketches (2010-2015). As the title suggests, this is less of an album and more of a clip reel for Koehler’s talents as a songwriter, instrumentalist and recording engineer. In conversation, Koehler says that “there’s no actual underlying concept of an album at all. I even hesitate to call it an album for that reason; it’s more of a recording of my experiments over the past five years.” The concept may be loosely defined, but we learn a few things about Koehler on this recording: He’s an optimist, a believer in the power of song, and a respectable singer/songwriter in his own right. His genre-fluidity is still an important aspect of Koehler’s make-up — you’ll hear traces of reggae, hip-hop and soul across these sixteen tracks. But guitar-based rock, especially a rich vein of ’90s-derived grunge/ metal/shoegaze amalgam, comes through most prominently. Koehler credits his older brother for hipping him to bands like Nine Inch Nails, Metallica and Nirvana at an impressionable age. “He had a license and a car with a badass sound system and he took his little eight-year old brother around,” Koehler explains. “I sat there in some sort of euphoria – that style of music is what ignited my love for music.” Those influences have been filtered through a short lifetime of absorbing various strands of musical tradition, but the guitar’s prominence in these tracks, from the Wilco-esque opener “Heaven Ain’t All That Far” to the power-pop pomp of the next track “Are We Home?” show fluency with the sweeter side of rock and pop forms. As a guitarist, Koehler is as comfortable laying down sharp rhythmic patterns as he is turning out a nuanced, raucous solo. These tracks have their roots in sessions dating from 2010, when Koehler, bassist Simon Chervitz (also of Illphonics and the Defeated County) and drummer Mike Schurk (Jon Hardy & the Public) laid down basic tracks at Schurk’s parents’ house in Webster Groves. In the intervening few years, Koehler has added layers of overdubs, stripping out everything but the rhythm section. To his credit, Koehler chose not to overstuff the songs but used a relatively modest home recording set-up to embellish

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and burnish them until their true character shone through. That meant ramping up the chunky riffs in set-closer “We All Go Thru the Same Thing” and effecting his vocals to match, creating a song that wouldn’t sound out of place on late-’90s alternative radio. He’s a fair singer and a searching, big-hearted songwriter — songs like “Their Song” seek shared humanity through shared art and music. The album’s few instrumental passages perhaps bear the strongest sense of the “sketches” indicated in the title, but they show Koehler’s dexterity and experimental strains. “Argentina” rides on a gentle, loping acoustic guitar pattern, but it’s the encroaching, almost discordant ambient noise behind it that offers depth — or at least the threat of malice. Earlier in the album, “Tierra de la Nada” comes off as more of a genre exercise in both desert-noir scene setting and sand-blasted riff rock. Koehler is unsure where Obviously Offbeat will go from here; whether it becomes a working concern with Chervitz and Schurk (who played last week’s release show) or evolves with other players is an open question. For now, though, it’s enough to have these songs out in the world after such a long gestation period. “To me it’s more or less been about everything outside of the other projects I’ve been doing, and jobs and family,” says Koehler. “It’s the truest depiction of who I am and what my beliefs are.” –Christian Schaeffer Want your CD to be considered for a review in this space? Send music c/o Riverfront Times, Attn: Homespun, 6358 Delmar Boulevard, Suite 200, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130. Email music@riverfronttimes.com for more information.

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HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD: 8 p.m., $25-$27.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-7266161. JASON BOLAND & THE STRAGGLERS: W/ MIKE AND THE MOONPIES 8 p.m., $18-$30. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314773-3363. OMAHA DINER: W/ CHARLIE HUNTER, BOBBY PREVITE, SKERIK, ERIC BROWN 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; Nov. 19, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; Nov. 20, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; Nov. 21, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $35. Ferring Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-571-6000. OMAHA DINER: W/ CHARLIE HUNTER, BOBBY PREVITE, SKERIK, ERIC BROWN 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; Nov. 19, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; Nov. 20, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; Nov. 21, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $35. Ferring Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-571-6000. SKINBOUND: W/ MURDER MACHINE, ACID ERA 7 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. SPIRIT CARAVAN: W/ ELDER, PATH OF MIGHT, VAN BUREN 8 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. SYDNEY STREET SHAKERS: 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. TEXAS BLVD: W/ SKYLINE IN RUINS, SHAFT, THE GREAT EXPECTATIONS, KEVIN KOEHLER 6 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-2899050. THE NIGHTMARE POLICE: GET AT ME, STRUCK DOWN BY SOUND 7 p.m., $8. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

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Tommy Halloran’s Guerrilla Swing 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday, November 13, and Saturday, November 14. Jazz at the Bistro, 3536 Washington Avenue. $20. 314-571-6000.

Like many local artists, Tommy Halloran wants to hear his latest album on the warmth and sonic richness of vinyl. In fact, it might be closer to the spirit of his music were he to go truly old school and issue his songs on 78 RPM discs. For years Halloran has been this city’s most charming practitioner of guitar-led jazz and swing music, and his songs are rooted in tradition while sounding ethereally timeless. With his group Guerilla

THIS JUST IN AMERICAN WRESTLERS: W/ Bo and the Locomotive, Fri., Jan. 15, 8 p.m., $8-$10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com. ZACH & THE HEART ATTACKS: W/ Bottoms Up Blues Gang, Wed., Dec. 9, 9:30 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. BIG RICH & THE RHYTHM RENEGADES: Wed., Dec. 2, 7 p.m., $5. Wed., Dec. 9, 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. BILLY BARNETT BAND: Thu., Dec. 3, 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. EXPERIENCE HENDRIX TOUR: W/ Buddy Guy, Zakk Wylde, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, Dweezil Zappa, Billy Cox, Tue., March 8, 8 p.m., $30-$100. The Fox Theatre, 527 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-5341111, fabulousfox.com. THE FEW: W/ Inner Outlines, the Winks, Little

Swing, Halloran will be releasing State Streets on vinyl early in 2016, but for this weekend’s gig at Jazz at the Bistro, attendees will receive a free download code to hear the tracks. As a preview, Halloran has leaked a version of the title track, and it shows he and his band in a grittier, blues-derived vein, with rusty strings and bari sax leading the rumble through those titular south-city streets. Brunch is a Competitive Sport: Alongside his more traditional evening gigs at the Bistro, Halloran and company will provide the musical mimosas alongside your Sunday brunch at the midtown venue. Brunch service runs from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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were subjected to singer Mark Adkins’ disdain), and even found itself banned from Canada for a full year in the late ‘90s after Adkins performed onstage in the nude. Couple this behavior with lyrics about donkey shows, slaughtering household pets and how “everyone’s an asshole,” and it becomes clear that the band’s moniker is not just a clever name. Round Two: Guttermouth performed at Fubar in April 2014 as well, and put on an absolutely killer set featuring songs from throughout its career. Fans should expect more of the same this time around. –Daniel Hill

MACABRE MESSENGER: W/ Love Kingsford, Banks and Cathedrals, Davis Wilton, Fri., Dec. 11, 8 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353, firebirdstl.com. MAROON 5: W/ Tove Lo, R. City, Mon., Oct. 3, 7 p.m., $27.50-$123. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Ave., St. Louis, 314-241-1888, scottradecenter. com. MONTANA OF 300: W/ Crook Costello, Dijon Lavell, JSkillz, Cosmiic, Adeum, Sun., Dec. 13, 8 p.m., $20-$25. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050, fubarstl.com. MUMFORD & SONS: Sat., April 16, 7 p.m., $59.50. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Ave., St. Louis, 314-241-1888, scottradecenter.com. NEKROGOBLIKON: Wed., Dec. 9, 7 p.m., $15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353, firebirdstl.com. NEW YEARS EVE METAL BASH: W/ Article III, Awaiting the Gallows, Nethersphere, Thu., Dec. 31, 8 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050, fubarstl.com. NIGHT RIOTS: W/ Sugar Rags, Sun., Dec. 6, 7 p.m., $10-$12. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532, thedemostl.com. PASADENA: W/ Bumpin Uglies, Your New Favorite T-Shirt, Mon., Nov. 23, 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-

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