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That “Hollywood Actress” and the Real Student Loan Scandal ast week, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a brief story about a “Hollywood actress” who was being sued by the state’s student loan servicer, the Higher Education Loan Authority of Missouri (MOHELA). Diana Emuge, the story reported, owed nearly $77,000 in principal and interest from loans taken out to attend Saint Louis University nearly a decade ago. The story, along with a twelve-year-old photo of Emuge dug up from the newspaper’s archives, went up on stltoday.com and was promoted on the newspaper’s Facebook page. The vitriol it inspired would only surprise someone who was unfamiliar with newspaper comment sections — or who has somehow failed to notice the remarkable race-focused nastiness that’s become commonplace online. One reader called Emuge a “greedy ghetto rat.” Another sent her an anonymous email using the N-word and the C-word, the gist of it that she needed to pay her bills, not just collect welfare. Diana Emuge, for the record, is not on welfare. She is also not a “Hollywood actress,” not really. Yes, she has a few credits on imdb .com, but not in any films you’ve heard of. She self-published a book and acted in a short film she herself directed, but she’s got a much less glamorous day job. Her address is in Reseda — a blue-collar part of the San Fernando Valley that’s about as far from Beverly Hills as you can get, metaphorically speaking. The place hasn’t changed all that much since Tom Petty gave it a shout-out in “Free Fallin’” — or since the hard-scrabble parts of The Karate Kid were filmed there. The Post-Dispatch story shocked her. “I really thought I was dreaming,” she says. After receiving an emailed request for comment, she googled herself and the reporter, and the story was already live, complete with its titillating headline. “This was news to me. What big movie have I been in to be called a ‘Hollywood actress’?” The commenters’ bad assumptions were even more galling. “I was hurt that people were misjudging the situation and making the assumption that I’m dumb,” she says. “They were calling me a deadbeat, saying I needed to pay back the taxpayers’ money — they didn’t realize these loans were from Bank of 8
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Diana Emuge became the focus last week of a Post-Dispatch article — and commenters’ ire.
America, not the federal government.” Emuge grew up in St. Charles, the daughter of two SLU grads. She did everything she was supposed to do. She started at a community college to save money, then got into SLU and worked hard while she was there. She graduated magna cum laude, with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. Her concentration was marketing, and she tried to land a job in her field, but no one was biting, even with the internship she notched. “The only marketing job offers I recorded paid $9 an hour plus commission or were commission-based only,” she tells the RFT. “[It’s] stressful when you know you have loans to repay.” And repayment quickly became a very real problem. In addition to the Bank of America loans serviced by MOHELA, she had other loans from the federal government, on which she says she is current. Her father
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grew ill during her time at SLU — he died six months after graduation — and her mother was distracted. She didn’t fully realize just how much she’d borrowed, and what her responsibilities were, until it was too late. MOHELA alone wanted $550 a month. (Through its attorney, MOHELA has declined comment on the lawsuit.) Making matters worse, some of those loans had interest rates as high as 10 percent — and, the loan paperwork shows, her duty to repay wouldn’t even go away if she died. What was initially $46,000 in principal grew, compounded by interest and late fees. Emuge doesn’t want to name her current employer or get into her financial troubles too deeply. After the P-D story, however, she published a blog post attempting to set the record straight. “I am not refusing to pay my student loans,” she writes. “I experienced a financial hardship that made it difficult for me
to pay the loan temporarily. I have reached a settlement with MOHELA and will resume making payments towards my loan.” The first she heard of the lawsuit, she says, is when she got that email from the Post-Dispatch writer. So how did Emuge end up in the news? You could blame an unfortunate confluence of factors. Only because her alleged debt is greater than $75,000 and because she lives out of state did the matter go to federal court, not state. MOHELA has sued countless people in state court; in federal court, it’s much more rare, and that likely caught the P-D’s attention. A quick Google search would have revealed her page on IMDB. On a slow news day, that’s all it takes. But the problem, I think, is bigger than that. Ten years ago, if an item like this made it in the newspaper, it would be a brief, and one that would run buried somewhere deep in the local pages. The Internet, though, amplifies the flimsiest of stories — once a story is pushed on the P-D’s Facebook page, it has the potential to get as much attention as the paper’s lead A-1 story. That isn’t the reporter’s fault — but the result can be devastating to the real person at the story’s center. Making matters worse, any time anyone googles “Diana Emuge,” the story will live on. A brief buried in a daily newspaper 30 years ago never had that kind of archival power. And so while the P-D’s readers might linger on this story for a minute, write a nasty comment and move on, for Emuge, it’s an open wound that continues to bleed. Beyond that, it’s a missed opportunity. If MOHELA is suing a magna cum laude graduate of one of our better universities because she can’t pay off the sizable debt she accumulated to get a degree, well, maybe the problem isn’t that she’s living in Reseda and hustling to make a living. Maybe the problem is with our system of higher education — the easy federally backed loans that have caused college costs to soar, and the loan paperwork pushed to promising young students so that before they know just how hard it is out there, they’ve signed their life away with $46,000 in loans and 10 percent interest. That’s a story worth telling. But that’s not the one the Post-Dispatch told. And who can blame them? Deadlines are constant in journalism in 2015. A click is a click. A “Hollywood actress” defaulting on loans is every bit as enticing as that old chesnut about welfare queens robbing the taxpayers blind. It’s something we can all tsk-tsk over — and then move on to the next headline. — SARAH FENSKE
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AN ARSONIS ARSONIST TERRORIZED NORTH ST. LOUIS FOR TWO WEEKS. WITH A SUSPECT NOW IN CUSTODY, THE ATTACKS ARE MORE CONFOUNDING THAN EVER. BY D OY L E M U R P H Y
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he arsonist delivered his first message at the side door of a small church on a darkened street. Liquid chemicals splattered across the entranceway. The spark of flame glowed orange and began to grow. The Reverend James Thomas was home on the evening of October 8 when the church’s former pastor, Bea McFall, called him to say something had tripped the alarm at Bethel Non Denominational Church. He started to head out the door but decided to dial police first and let them know. He was surprised to learn they were already there. The church sits across from a row of vacant brick bungalows that flank the whitewashed block building like a shadow. An aging sign marking the boundary of northern St. Louis County cities Jennings and Pine Lawn is nearly unreadable after the sun sets and before a streetlight down the block switches on. Neighbors say it’s peaceful at night. “You hear shooting all around — all around, but not on this street,” 58-year-old Charles Bell says. That night, officers had the corner of Lillian Avenue and Wilborn Drive blocked off when Thomas arrived, but they waved him through. It was a nightmare scene. The strobing lights of fire trucks bounced off Bethel’s walls.
Thomas could make out three or four patrol cars, another three or four fire engines and a police bomb-squad unit. Federal agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives soon joined them. The side door facing the vacant houses across the street was charred and broken where firefighters had forced their way inside. Smoke had stained the wall above a sooty black. Thomas remembered feeling shock, and then relief, when he learned only the door had burned. A cop told the 47-year-old pastor someone had leaned a phone book against the entrance, sprayed the door with a flammable liquid and set it on fire. In the confusion, Thomas kept wondering why anyone would try to burn their church. “We don’t have any enemies,” he said later. “At least, not that I know of.” The fire was on a Thursday night, and Thomas decided to cancel that Sunday’s services to focus on getting the church boarded up and insurance paperwork started. He originally assumed the fire was some sort of terrible teenage prank, but he began to suspect darker forces were at work. “We say ‘the enemy,’” Thomas explained. “Satan has to use a man.” continued on page 12
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he attack on Bethel turned out to be the first in a string of arsons at places of worship in the metro area. Doors burned at seven churches in fourteen days as investigators frantically chased after a phantom. Cops and firefighters routinely arrived minutes after he had gone, discovering his handiwork in the sound of automatic alarms and the flashing light of flames. City and county police detectives worked together with investigators from the St. Louis Fire Department and the ATF. They consulted profilers and prodded the public for tips. “We believe that this fire-setting activity is meant to send a message,” the ATF advised in a joint statement with CrimeStoppers. The arsonist’s signature was simultaneously simple and puzzling. He poured a chemical accelerant — confirmed to be gasoline in at least two of the fires — across the entryway, lit a fire and left as the blaze charred the door from the bottom up. The crudeness of his work was unmistakeable. And the intent of his message was unclear, although it was delivered again and again. The churches were always empty. Nobody was hurt. The first five churches served primarily black congregations near Goodfellow Boulevard. Their proximity to Ferguson, which is just a few miles away, only added to the intrigue — and national media attention. “All the churches are in the areas riiight around Ferguson,” CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin told viewers. “St. Louis’s African American community is still recovering from the fatal shooting of
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Above: Bethel Non Denominational Church in Jennings was the first house of worship hit in a string of arsons. Below: Pastor James Thomas. Mike Kinman addressed the situation directly. “If we ever needed a wake-up call to believe that racism is alive in St. Louis — if this is not it, I don’t know what it could be.” Exactly three weeks after the first fire, a 35-year-old black man with a history of mental illness and law-breaking was charged in two of the attacks and identified as a suspect in the other five. Bethel’s pastor Thomas looked at the mugshot of David Lopez Jackson, his eyes passing over the crown tattooed in the middle of the suspect’s continued on page 14
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forehead and the flames along his collarbone. Jackson’s mother lives less than three blocks from the church. “No, I’ve never seen him,” Thomas said.
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t is human nature to try and find meaning in misfortune and tragedy. Nowhere is this more pronounced than in God’s faithful. The belief in a master plan, in an unerring higher power, demands trust in the idea that bad things happen for a reason. In the weeks before Jackson’s arrest, Christian leaders wrestled with the small bursts of wickedness on their doorsteps. Maybe God wanted to drive them outside into the world. Maybe He wanted them to pay closer attention to people struggling on the fringes of sanity. Maybe the fires were meant to bind congregations together through a common suffering. No one worked harder to bring attention to the fires than the Reverend Rodrick Burton, the head pastor at New Northside Baptist Church. Broad shouldered with an easy charisma, Burton became the public face of the attacks. His had been the second church to be hit. The fire crawled up the church’s beautiful white doors in the early-morning dark of October 10. Associate pastor Steve Williams, who lives a few blocks away in Jennings, was awoken shortly before 3 a.m. by firefighters looking for a key so they wouldn’t have to smash through the stained-glass panels. Williams, 57, hurried outside and sprinted through the dark. “I thought the church was going up in flames,” he said. He was relieved to find firefighters extinguishing the last of a small blaze at the church’s main entrance. The fire had once again failed to spread into the sanctuary, but the attack on Northside was the first indication of a serial arsonist at work. Burton was used to random problems in the neighborhood. One of their buses had been shot up, and bullets had twice struck the church from gun battles down the street. The fire, however, was aimed directly at them. Burton saw it as an affront to all Americans, and in interviews with reporters from across the country, he spoke out against what he saw as the “apathetic” reaction of people outside of the north St. Louis neighborhoods. The fires continued. “Somebody’s got to be intentional about reaching over lines,” he said the week after his church was hit. Burton created the hashtag #stlchurchfire2015 to marshal attention on Twitter. He showed up
“Fires in churches awaken some of the saddest memories in our country’s history.” to take pictures and pray at Bethel and then at the crime scenes that followed his own: St. Augustine Catholic Church, New Testament Church of Christ, New Life Missionary Baptist Church, Ebenezer Lutheran and the Shrine of St. Joseph. His message soon began to take hold. Nearly 200 people on October 21 filled Northside for a prayer vigil. Mayor Francis Slay, metro police chief Sam Dotson, county police chief Jon Belmar and fire chief Dennis Jenkerson all took seats under the sanctuary’s vaulted ceilings. By then, six churches had been hit by arsonists. The fact that five had primarily black congregations was not lost on the assembly. As Dotson walked to the pulpit, a bearded white guy shouted, “Black lives matter, as you know, Chief Dotson. He’s got to know that. He’s got to say that.” His voice began to trail off as heads turned. “You’re right,” Burton responded. “Black lives matter. White lives matter. Latino lives matter. Gay lives matter. Straight lives matter. All lives matter. We’re standing on that in this church today.” Dotson assured the audience he knew exactly what was at stake. “It’s impossible to ignore that this crime aggravates wounds that have not properly healed and that we all remember,” Dotson said. “Fires in churches awaken some of the saddest memories in our country’s history, and anyone who knows that troubled part of American history must regard this as this as the most serious thing we’re facing right now.” Following the service, fire Chief Jenkerson rode to a firehouse on West Florissant Avenue where firefighters were about to drive into the neighborhoods and hand out flyers asking for information about the fires. Each handbill showed the silhouette of a man slinking away from orange flames. “BURN an
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ARSONIST!” was printed in big white letters above a phone number for the Missouri Arson Hotline: 1-800-39-ARSON. Jenkerson was hopeful the campaign would yield some useful information. The arsonist and his motivations remained a mystery, the chief said. “Are they testing us or not?” he said. “We don’t know. At this point we don’t have any leads. We don’t know if they’re male or female, black or white.” T h a t wa s n ’t c o m p l e t e l y c o r re c t . Investigators did have a few leads, but they were keeping them quiet. A surveillance camera near the site of the fifth fire, New Life Missionary Baptist Church, had captured footage of a two-tone, older-model sedan close to the time of the attack. Investigators had also recovered samples of the accelerant used on New Life and Ebenezer. A third clue was the location of the fires. The tight cluster of churches had at least given them a general area to target in the northern neighborhoods of the city and county. Firefighters focused the handouts on wide zones surrounding the hot spots, hoping to flush out tips in the midst of the arsonist’s stomping grounds. Fewer than twelve hours later, the doors of another church burned.
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here were signs even before Jackson was apprehended that the motivation driving the fires was more complicated than black and white — which may be why pastors were hesitant to blame racism despite the push from national media. One reason was sheer logistics: A white man lurking in predominantly black neighborhoods
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The Reverend Rodrick Burton says the fire-damaged door at New Northside Baptist Church in Jennings still works: “It’s ugly, but it’s functional.” with a can of gasoline would likely have drawn attention from neighbors. Professional profiler Dian Williams, founder of the Arson Research Center in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, predicted the arsonist would be someone who could fit in. “Whoever this is, it’s someone who can be around a church at four o’clock in the afternoon and not attract undue attention,” Williams said in the days before Jackson’s arrest. “And you have to have someone who can be away from home at four in the morning.” And the fire setter’s message wouldn’t necessarily be easy to understand. A special subtype of arsonist, a revenge seeker, cares little for attention or even clarity. “What’s fascinating about revenge-seeking arsonists is they’re teaching people a lesson, and it never matters to them if anyone ever knows, that anyone ever realizes they’re the ones sending the message,” she says. Which could explain the seemingly patternbreaking addition of the Shrine of St. Joseph. The Catholic church mostly attracts whites, about a third of them out-of-towners attracted to its complex history. Located about six blocks northwest of Edward Jones Dome at the edge of downtown, it’s also outside the cluster of the other fires. The towering brick building was built in 1844 and holds special reverence with Catholics as the site of a Vatican-authenticated miracle. A German immigrant, Ignatius Strecker, is said to have been near death in 1861 when he dragged himself inside to receive a blessing and kiss the foot of the statue of St. Peter Claver. He immediately began to heal and was able to walk out on his own, church officials say. Strecker recovered completely continued on page 16
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The Reverend Dale Wunderlich pauses in front of the Shrine of St. Joseph’s rectory doors the morning of an arson attack.
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and lived another nineteen years in St. Louis. The story of a priest assigned to the parish almost a century later, the Reverend Edward Filipiak, however, ended in brutal violence. At one point in the 1970s, the building had been set for demolition as wrecking crews scraped away most of the surrounding neighborhood. The 79-year-old priest was in the middle of a longrunning preservation effort in 1979 when three teens broke into the church and murdered him. Filipiak’s lifeless body was discovered bound, lying on the floor of a modest bedroom in the church rectory, a separate building attached to the cathedral by a short passageway. The tragedy galvanized the effort to save the shrine and ultimately propelled a meticulous restoration. The Baroque façade with twin bell towers enclose a sanctuary decorated in expertly carved woodwork with space for 2,400 people. The Altar of Answered Prayers rises dramatically toward a dome painted in lavish murals. Through all the changes, the lay board that oversees the shrine has kept Filipiak’s room on the second floor of the rectory exactly as he
left it. His single bed is neatly made. His black cassock hangs nearby, and a twelve-pack of Budweiser bottles still waits in a mini fridge. No one lives there now, so police hustled over when the rectory’s alarm sounded just after 1 a.m. on October 22. The first officers found the doors to Filipiak’s former home bathed in the light of flames. Jenkerson, looking exasperated in the early morning dark, told reporters the fire was in a “similar style” to the previous six at churches to the north. “It’s very disturbing,” the fire chief said. The damage was once again confined to burned doors and the smell of smoke thanks to a quick response. Father Dale Wunderlich climbed the stairs hours later and bent his face close to the black ash. “Oh my Lord, have mercy,” he murmured. The arsonist had spoken again, but Wunderlich was just as confused as all the other pastors about the message. The priest tried instead to reach out to the arsonist, speaking into the television cameras assembled on the sidewalk. “If there is any way we can help you,” he pleaded, “let us help you.” continued on page 18
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y the time he was 35, David Jackson had established himself as a “persistent” criminal, with a list of adult convictions stretching back more than half of his life. He began racking them up in 1998 when he was convicted of two counts of stolen property. His record also includes unlawful use of a weapon in 1999, tampering in 2000, assault in 2008 and a hat trick of selling drugs, assault and resisting arrest in 2009. More recently, Jackson, who stands fivefoot-eight and weighs 200 pounds, was caught throwing rocks through the windows of the RFTjrAd7x8NewAd.pdf 1 Boulevard 10/13/15 Crocodile Lounge on Goodfellow in 2014. He resisted arrest when the cops
came for him, according to court records. A judge ordered him to serve a 120-day “shock” sentence, followed by four years of probation. Woven between the indictments and sentencing reports are signs of a sick mind. Over the years, judges have repeatedly ordered him to submit to psychological examinations. “Defendant to undergo mental health evaluation … and follow any treatment assigned thereafter by his probation officer,” reads a decree from 2009. On October 24, two days after the seventh and final fire, Jackson’s mother became frightened enough of him to call 911. Shortly after 11 p.m. that Saturday, Linda Jackson told a county dispatcher she smelled a “strong odor 10:09 AM at her house on Wilborn Drive. of gas” “Believes it might be related to her 35 yr
old schizophrenic son David Jackson who threatened to harm her, was at the house approx 15 min ago,” the incident report from that night says. She gave police officers a description of what he was driving. It was a silver Lincoln Continental with a black driver’s side door — a two-tone, older-model sedan. Jackson had in recent months lived farther north in the Glasgow Village. His adopted neighborhood in the 200 block of Presley Drive is full of nicely maintained one-story houses with lawns mowed to golf-course lengths. The house where Jackson lived was the exception. Neighbors say it’s hard to tell who lives there, because cars and people come and go all day and night. Jackson was just one face among many.
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Arson suspect David Jackson. “I don’t mess with them,” says 53-year-old neighbor Marlene Holloway. “I wish they were gone.” Residents began to notice a different type of visitor late last week. A number of sedans started to park along their street, staying for hours at a time even though no one got out. The occupants were hard to see behind the deeply tinted windows. Neighbors assumed they were cops but weren’t sure why they were there.
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Then came news of Jackson’s arrest. Three weeks after the first fire at Bethel, law-enforcement officers quietly took their suspect into custody on Thursday, October 29. They found a partially full gas can in his car along with an empty Thermos that still had the whiff of fuel. Jackson stared placidly at the camera in his booking photo, almost disappearing behind his ominous tattoos. A judge set bond at $75,000. Dotson — flanked by city leaders, fire officials, cops, federal agents and even an accelerant-sniffing labrador named Chloe — announced the arrest during a crowded news conference last Friday. Prosecutors had charged Jackson in two of the fires,
alleging footage from near New Life showed his car. Forensic evidence tied him to the sixth fire at Ebenezer, Dotson explained. Lab tests confirmed the accelerant used on both churches was gasoline. The first question a reporter asked was the same question that ran through the mind of Bethel’s Thomas on October 8: Why would someone burn a church? “We’re still trying to understand that,” Dotson said. “We’ve talked to ATF. We’ve talked to their profilers. Is there a federal nexus? Is it a hate crime? Is it not? We’re still trying to understand that.” People inside Jackson’s home on Presley Drive refuse to open the door when reporters arrive. Six miles south, the curtains are drawn tight across the windows of his mother’s house on Wilborn Drive. In the days that follow his arrest, Linda Jackson has little to say about her troubled son. Approached outside for comment, she just waves away a question and walks slowly toward her door. But she stops for a moment when asked if her son’s mental illness is to blame. “That’s it,” she says softly.
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Above: The Reverend David Triggs wants congregants to keep the faith after an arsonist torched New Life Missionary Baptist Church. Left: New Life’s foyer was destroyed in the October 17 fire.
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here seemed a particular meanness to the fire at New Life, the fifth church targeted in the attacks. The arsonist splashed the gasoline on the door as usual, but this time he poured some through the mail slot before lighting the blaze. As a result, the flames raced skyward and cut sideways across the ceiling. The fire burned so hot it melted the siding. Firefighters had to rip down the plaster and lath inside as they chased the flames over their heads. Pastor Triggs arrived about 5 a.m. as the building smoldered in front of him. The smell of smoke and chemicals stung his nose. “It’s a scent that’s just unique,” Triggs says. “That smell will always be singed in my memory.” He thinks about Jackson. Someone missed an opportunity with him, he reasons. The eyes tinged red in his mug shot. Tattooed symbols across his face and neck. “When I look at him, my heart hurts for him, because who really knows what drove him to become the person he is?” Triggs says. “What happened to this person that made him so hateful toward the church?” The fire was on a Saturday, and Triggs was forced to move services outside on Sunday. A week later the congregation is still meeting on the lawn. About 60 people gather on borrowed chairs under four blue tents donated by the Red Cross and the United Way. It is the public unveiling of New Life’s new identity as United Believers in Christ Ministries, a relaunch that Triggs hopes will wipe away old divisions of denomination, race and class. “I’m extremely exhausted,” he tells the assembly. “My last few days have been nothing but media, press and fire departments.” The building wasn’t important, he says. The fires have forged new connections with six other churches. God has bigger plans for them, he says. “I don’t want anyone to get discouraged,” Triggs tells the group. “Sometimes the building has to be torn down before it can be rebuilt.” The service ends in hugs and handshakes. Later that afternoon, Triggs announces that United Believers will hold one more service on the lawn of their old church before moving on to a temporary home in Baden. He is already working on a theme for the sermon — a talk that will focus on the idea of wandering in the wilderness, only to find the Promised Land at last. “The Message: The Exodus,” he says. ■
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Batman and the Joker, Captain Ahab and Moby Dick, Sherlock Holmes and Moriarty — popular fiction is filled with protagonists locked in eternal conflict with their archenemies. This dynamic is explored in the ninth installment of the Famous Fictional show at the Mad Art Gallery. Friend and Foe: Portraits of Allies and Adversaries from Comics, Literature, Movies and Television includes work by Bill Keaggy, Sharlene Kindt, Peter Pranschke and more than 30 other local artists. Famous Fictional opens with a free reception from 7 to 11 p.m. Friday, November 6, at Mad Art Gallery (2727 South Twelfth Street; 314-771-8230 or www.madart.com). Admission is free, and there will be a cash bar. — M ARK F ISCHER
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Reality is overrated. It involves alarm clocks, the paying of bills and all sorts of tiresome responsibilities. But virtual reality, illusions, simulacra — these ideas are fascinating in theory and practice. The Saint Louis Science Center celebrates the magic of, er, magic at 6 p.m. tonight with False Reality: Illusions, Oddities and Tesla at the James S. McDonnell Planetarium (Faulkner and Clayton drives; 314-289-4424 or www.slsc.org). You can attempt to make yourself invisible in the cloaking experience, create your own holograph, be dazzled by a science demonstration that takes you inside Tesla’s workshop or wonder at the superhuman cerebral feats of Zi the Mentalist. Even the planetarium itself gets in on the act as Radiant Studio Works uses its 3D projection mapper to alter the surface of the building. Admission to First Friday is free, but some activities require a nominal fee. — PAUL FRISWOLD
The St. Louis International Film Festival celebrates the excellence of former St. Louisan Alex Winter with a screening of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure at 9:45 p.m. tonight at the Landmark Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-727-7271 or www.cinemastlouis.org). Winter (Bill) and Keanu Reeves (Ted) play high school dudes whose band, Wyld Stallyns, will eventually change the world and create a Utopian society. But if they don’t get a passing grade on their history report, Ted’s father will send him to military school, breaking up the band and ruining the future. Helping them on their ultimate Ted Talk is Rufus (George Carlin), a time traveler who takes the duo into the past to enlist Billy The Kid, Socrates and Abe Lincoln. Can they ace the test and and rock San Dimas High School? Winter, the recipient of of this year’s Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Award, will be present to conduct a Q&A. Admission is $10 to $12. — ROB LEVY
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If you’re a big eater, you won’t go hungry at Slovak Fest. The south-city tradition is all about hearty food, music and beer. The menu is packed with old-country favorites such as the filling holubky (a beef-and-rice-stuffed cabbage roll) and chicken paprikash, as well as halusky (egg dumplings and gravy) and traditional Slovak pastries. After you eat, dance it off to the music of Larry Haller’s Two Star Final and Joe Polach and the St. Louis Express Band. Slovak Fest takes place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at St. Lucas Lutheran Church (7100 Morgan Ford Road; www.slovakfest. com). Admission is free. — PAUL FRISWOLD continued on page 22
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As far as plots go, a young bride-to-be attempting to figure out which of her mother’s three old flings is her biological father seems like a long shot for mainstream success. (Does anybody really want to meet the strangers who have seen your mother naked?) But add the supremely catchy songs of Swedish pop legends ABBA to the mix, and the show becomes a delightful musical about love and family. Mamma Mia! returns to the Fox Theatre (527 North Grand Boulevard; 314-534-1111 or www.fabulousfox.com) again this weekend for a quick five-show visit. Performances take place at 8 p.m. Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 1 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday (November 6 through 8), and tickets are $35 to $100. — PAUL FRISWOLD
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As you may have heard, the Gateway Arch is now 50 years old. The Saint Louis Art Museum celebrates the Arch not as monument but as art in the new exhibition St. Louis Modern: The Era of Innovative Design. Viewing Eero Saarinen’s design as a massive sculpture, the show’s curators place the Arch in the context of other artists’ work and use it as a way to discuss the the modernist revolution in art and industrial design between 1935 and 1965. The show features pieces such as an armchair designed by Charles and Ray Eames, Victor Hugo Proetz’s Bull’s Eye Mirror and a 1954 Corvette by Chevrolet. St. Louis Modern is on display every day except Monday through Sunday, January 31, 2016, at the St. Louis Art Museum in Forest Park (314-721-0072 or www.slam. org). Admission is $6 to $14, and free on Friday. — PAUL FRISWOLD
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Among those of the ornithological persuasion, the St. Louis region is of prime interest because of our natural flyways. The Mississippi River underwrites that status; it’s a superhighway for migrating birds. We have another feathered fact to boast about: While the renowned birdman John James Audubon was still alive, the St. Louis Mercantile Library acquired a rare reserved copy of his masterwork, Birds of America, from his family. This is tantamount to owning a Gutenberg Bible. Celebrate it with the exhibit Audubon and Beyond: Collecting Five Centuries of Natural History at the St. Louis Mercantile Library on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus (1 University Drive at Natural Bridge Road; 314-516-7240 or www.umsl.edu/mercantile). The extensive exhibit incorporates sections relating to not only birds but also reptiles, mammals, fish, insects, humans, astronomy,
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Carl Orff’s cantata Carmina Burana is a musical journey into the philosophy of free-thinking students from twelfth-century Bavaria. Orff adapted 24 satirical poems written by these students (topics include man’s baser instincts, religion, the Catholic church and the wheel of fortune) into a song cycle that is both profound and profane. The Nashville Ballet returns to St. Louis to present its massive performance of Carmina Burana. The show calls for 40 dancers, 120 singers and 60 musicians, and it combines the creative forces of the UMSL Orchestra and Singers, the Bach Society of St. Louis and the St. Louis Children’s Chorus in order to pull it off. Dance St. Louis presents the Nashville Ballet in Carmina Burana at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (November 6 through 8) at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus (1 University Boulevard and Natural Bridge Road; 314-516-4949 or www.touhill. org). Tickets are $40 to $65. — PAUL FRISWOLD
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signs copies of Winter Is Coming tonight at 7 p.m. at St. Louis County Library Headquarters (1640 South Lindbergh Boulevard, Frontenac; 314-367-6731 or www.left-bank.com). Admission is free, and Left Bank Books will be selling the book on site. — ROB LEVY
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In 1985, Garry Kasparov became the world’s youngest chess Grandmaster and a figure of national pride in Russia. By the time he retired in 2005, Kasparov was regarded as the greatest player of all time. But rather than enjoy a quiet retirement, Kasparov started working as an activist and vocal critic of the Russian government, particularly President Vladimir Putin. Kasparov’s new book Winter Is Coming argues that the Putin regime is a growing international threat that is as dangerous as ISIS. Kasparov discusses and
Spanish director Samuel Ortí Martí spent more than a decade as an animator for Aardman Films, the studio renowned for the Shaun the Sheep and Wallace and Gromit series. Martí’s first independent full-length feature film is Possessed (Pos eso), a stopmotion-animated film that surreally blends spellbinding claymation characterizations with nightmare-inducing horror. Trini, a depressed flamenco dancer, suspects her son Damian is behind a recent spate of brutal killings. Her only recourse is to ask
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a defrocked priest for help. Featuring overthe-top gore and a wickedly irreverent sense of humor, Possessed screens at 9:20 p.m. Tuesday and at 7 p.m. Wednesday (November 10 and 11) at the Hi-Pointe Backlot (1005 McCausland Avenue; 314-995-6273 or www. cinemastlouis.org) as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival. Tickets are $10 to $12. — MARK FISCHER
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Above: Breathe Right: Ross Ulbricht, subject of Deep Web.
a place where, for a period of slightly more than two years starting in 2011, anything could be purchased as long as the user could come up with enough Bitcoin to buy it. Silk Road’s fortunes changed with the arrest of Ross Ulbricht, who founded the site and ran it using the Princess Bride-derived handle “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Winters looks at Ulbricht’s prosecution from a distance — there are interviews with his parents and a Silk Road dealer, but not with Ulbricht himself — and seems largely sympathetic to the case, but offers little more than mentions of his supporters’ arguments. These include the claim that Ulbricht sold the website and was framed by his successor, and charges that the FBI illegally gained access to the site’s servers. Ulbricht was convicted earlier this year, just weeks before the film premiered, and in subsequent statements appears to have more or less admitted guilt on some of his charges. Narrated by Keanu Reeves, Deep Web makes for an interesting story, but more recent events (including a lengthy and far less sympathetic account of Silk Road in Wired last spring) make it seem incomplete.
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Based on a young-adult novel, Mélanie Laurent’s Breathe is best when it simply documents the unpretentious behavior of young French teenagers mapping out their own social connections, or more often trying to stay out of the way of the adult world. The story — the on-and-off friendship between a bored teenaged girl and a mysterious, rebellious new classmate — offers few surprises.
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Longwave [Les grandes ondes (à l’ouest)] Directed by Lionel Baier 2:45 p.m. Friday and 12:15 p.m. Monday (November 6 and 9) Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema 1701 South Lindbergh Boulevard
Longwave, a slight but appealing Above: Longwave. comedy inspired (if that’s not too Below: Who Am I — No System Is Safe. strong a word) by historical events, is about a team of Swiss radio jourWho Am I — No System Is Safe nalists who are sent to Portugal to prepare a Directed by Baran bo Odar puff piece about good relations between the 9:30 p.m. Saturday and 9:40 p.m. Tuesday two countries. They happen to land in the (November 7 and 10) center of the April 1974 Carnation Revolution, Landmark Tivoli Theatre when a military coup brought a peaceful end 6350 Delmar Boulevard to the regime that had ruled for 40 years. It’s short, simple and fun in a loopy deadpan way, Flashy, fast-paced and mostly ridiculous, Who although occasionally the humor overreaches Am I presents its creators with the increasingly and misfires (as when characters spontane- common problem of finding a visual method ously break into a West Side Story-inspired for a generally stationary behavior — computer dance-off set to Gershwin’s “A Woman Is a hacking. Their solution — staging the uploadSometime Thing”). Despite the largely ir- ing of a file as if it were a physical confrontation relevant political setting, Longwave works between two individuals wearing Guy Fawkesbest when it plays off the friction between like masks — is more silly than satisfying, and an ambitious feminist reporter and an older, the overall ambience of chest-beating hackers egotistic and battle-worn veteran, played sticking it to the (unnamed, unidentified) man respectively by Valérie Donzelli and Michel is tiresome. The film would like to raise its heVuillermoz. The ’70s setting may justify some roes to the level of Occupy-inspired anarchists, of Vuillermoz’s old-school macho, but the ri- but its view of social activism comes off more valry between the two is timeless: Think of it like a boorish frat party. as Anchorman Lite. continued on page 26
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The King and the Mockingbird Directed by Paul Grimault 12:05 p.m. Sunday, November 8 Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema 1701 South Lindbergh Boulevard
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I had never heard of Paul Grimault’s The King and the Mockingbird until about eighteen months ago, even though the film has a production history going back more than 60 years. Given the international market for animation and the home-video explosion of the 1980s, it seems unthinkable that some version of Grimault’s film wouldn’t have reached America. And given the quality of the film itself, it’s even more remarkable that the French film industry hasn’t been touting it as proof that a European animator could produce an animated feature every bit as inventive and attractive as a Disney film. And yet, that’s exactly what happened: A film made under difficult circumstances, taken from its director and released in an incomplete form, restored and re-assembled (or more accurately, remade) years later, but almost completely unknown outside of France. Grimault, France’s most prominent animator, began his film in 1948, only to have the unfinished work taken out of his control; a hastily edited version falling far short of Grimault’s original conception was released in 1953 as The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep (the title of the Hans Christian Andersen story that inspired only a small section of the film). An English-dubbed version was released as The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird and featured a vocal performance by Peter Ustinov. That unofficial and truncated version — you can watch it on YouTube — is not without interest, but it falls short of the ambitious design Grimault had in mind. Twenty-five years after it was released, Grimault acquired the rights to the film, restored sections and prepared new sequences to create The King and the Mockingbird as he had originally planned it. His version opened in France in 1980 but evidently remained unreleased the rest of the world. It’s a strange and beautiful film, reminiscent of the earliest Disney features — if Uncle Walt had dropped his homespun Midwestern
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values and let surrealist art and political satire filter into his films. I won’t spoil the story except to note that it includes a talking bird, a Metropolis-like kingdom, paintings coming to life, underground cities, a giant robot, and an ineffectual king whose thoughts are as wicked as his eyes are crossed. The design ranges from understated modernism to storybook simplicity, and the screenplay by Jacques Prévért is at times poetic and fanciful, just as you might expect from the author of Children of Paradise. There’s hardly a moment which doesn’t reach fairy-tale perfection, which perhaps makes its troubled production history all the more appropriate: It’s like a buried treasure suddenly popping up after a six-decade sleep. Hitchcock/Truffaut Directed by Kent Jones 7 p.m. Tuesday, November 10 Webster University’s Moore Auditorium 470 East Lockwood Avenue
Andrew Sarris once said that the very first review he published was also the one that generated the most hate mail: The sophisticated Village Voice readers of 1960 couldn’t believe that such an uber-hip publication would waste ink on, let alone actually praise, shameless trash like Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Sarris’ review was the first American shot in an international cultural war that had been started in France by the critics of Cahiers du Cinema (many of whom — Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol — were starting to make names for themselves as leaders of the Nouvelle Vague) and would soon change how movies — especially American ones — were understood. Though it may not have seemed obvious at the time, the 1966 (1967 in the U.S.) publication of Francois Truffaut’s Hitchcock, an in-depth and meticulously illustrated interview with the director, was concrete proof that the critical war was over and that the auteur theory — the idea that filmmakers expressed themselves as much through the style and composition of their work as through the subject or theme — had won the day. The product of a week of conversation between two major film artists, Truffaut’s Hitchcock was a rarity, a book about movies that contained instead in-depth dis-
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cussions of technique rather than anecdotes and gossip. Kent Jones’ Hitchcock/Truffaut is both an appreciation and a recreation of the book and the critical method it championed. Jones, a leading critic in his own right, working with Truffaut biographer Serge Toubiana as cowriter, lets filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich and Olivier Assayas describe the influence that both directors had on their work, while scenes from films such as Notorious and The Birds duplicate the shot-by-shot analysis that made Truffaut’s book so unique. Most effectively, Jones gives Hitchcock and Truffaut their own voices, using excerpts from the original interview recordings and adding a new level of intimacy to the print material. Five decades later, the idea that Hitchcock deserves to be taken seriously is no longer a radical one, and the young turks of the Nouvelle Vague have become Old Masters. Hitchcock/ Truffaut offers a refresher course in a nowestablished critical approach and a tribute to what became one of its key artifacts. Eisenstein in Guanajuato Directed by Peter Greenaway 2:35 p.m. Wednesday and 9:20 p.m. Friday (November 13 and 15) Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema 1701 South Lindbergh Boulevard
Sergei Eisenstein, one of the most celebrated artists in the world thanks to the international acclaim for his film Battleship Potemkin, went to Mexico in 1931 to make a loosely planned film called Que Viva Mexico, to be produced by novelist/activist Upton Sinclair. After shooting
nearly 50 hours of film Eisenstein had alienated his producer, come under suspicion by the Mexican authorities, and provoked rumors of ideological impurity in his home country. He returned to Russia and was never allowed to edit the Mexican project, nor would he ever quite return to the good graces of the Stalinist regime. For director Peter Greenaway (still best known for The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover), Eisenstein’s year of freedom is the subject of a homo-erotic slapstick fantasy, with the fright-wigged Russian director driven into a frenzy by the freedom of the decadent West. Like most of Greenaway’s work, it’s visually luxurious, but atypically playful. Greenaway experiments with split screens, multiple images and digital effects, but even the most impressive of these are overshadowed by Finnish actor Elmer Back’s relentlessly kinetic performance as Eisenstein, a heavily accented, manic tour de force. Greenaway has a lot of fun at the expense of Eisenstein’s leftist American supporters and plays fast and loose with history — we hardly ever see Eisenstein working on his film, yet somehow those fifty unedited hours were produced. But Greenaway balances his inventions with lots of name-dropping and one lengthy scene cleverly drawn from actual letters and telegrams exchanged between Sinclair and Stalin. As a biography of the great Soviet director, Eisenstein in Guanajuato is unreliable, but as a fanciful account of a major cultural clash between the spirit of high modernism and the heavy hand of totalitarianism, it’s an unexpected treat. ■ The 24th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival runs from November 5 through 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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The World Made Fresh JEAN-LUC GODARD HARNESSES 3D TO FORGE A NEW VISUAL METHOD OF STORYTELLING Goodbye to Language Directed and written by Jean-Luc Godard. Starring Héloise Godet, Kamal Abdeli, Richard Chevallier and Zoé Bruneau. Presented as part of the St. Louis International Film Festival at 7 p.m. Monday, November 9, at the Hi-Pointe Theatre, 1005 McCausland Avenue; www. cinemastlouis.org.
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iven the chance to make a 3D film, aging enfant terrible Jean-Luc Godard must have thought, “Why stop at just 3D images? Why not make a film in which everything — even the characters and the narrative — exists in multiple dimensions?” The resulting Goodbye to Language is a film without precedent, a groundbreaking, BY tradition-shattering work that ROBERT doesn’t so much say goodbye to language (an old GodardHUNT ian theme reaching all the way back to the “return to zero” of 1967’s Two or Three Things I Know About Her), so much as try out a new way of looking at the world. As with any late Godard film (and it’s been pointed out that Godard’s late period has lasted about four times as long as his early and middle periods combined), it’s difficult, dense and seemingly impenetrable. It’s also hypnotically beautiful and daringly innovative. Here’s our attempt to prepare you for what you’ll see. 30
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So What Is It About? There’s not really a plot, but there are stories. The film follows (and contrasts and alternates) two different love affairs, two couples whose actions duplicate or complement each other. The repetition and doubling, while confusing at times, stretch and expand the content of the film just as the digital manipulation of the image does likewise to the physical space. Quotation Marks Are Key Like most recent Godard films, the soundtrack is rich with quotations, usually spoken in the director’s own gravelly voice: History, philosophy, literature, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Freud, Shelley, Proust, Cocteau, Darwin...Godard even quotes himself (a line from a 1958 review). It’s not necessarily important that the viewer recognize the source of a quotation — many of which are inaccurate or have been slightly re-phrased — only that you recognize that it is one. Godard’s point may be that we have achieved saturation: Everything has already been said. You Become the Editor (Choose Your Own Adventure) For years, Godard has railed against the tradition of the shot/counter-shot, the editorial convention that allows filmmakers to create an artificial space by combining two different images. For example, we see Richard Gere, then we see Julia Roberts, and we assume that there is a shared location in which the two of them are talking. It may not be immediately apparent, but there’s not a single instance in Goodbye to Language of that kind of traditional editing. But there is a brilliant, audacious moment in which Godard uses 3D to completely disrupt the way you’re watching the film, allowing (or forcing) viewers to create their own shot/counter-shot rhythm just by blinking their eyes.
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grandma. TEARS. ● If you’ve ever fallen down the rabbit hole that is the TV Tropes website, you’ve become a pro at spotting them: Tropes are plot devices used by writers that crop up over
Jean-Luc Godard plays with dimension in Goodbye to Language.
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In the End, These Are Just Images And as always with Godard, it all comes down to the use and production of images, the question of how a filmmaker can or should shape the world. But in this film, the images are given depth and space. Godard defies the conventions of the usual 3D spectacle by concentrating on distance and texture, contrasting flat images (television screens and old newsreel footage) with those in highdefinition video. More than that, Godard meditates at length on the texture and depth of surfaces that first appear to be flat, from the rain-covered ground to the wet fur of his dog, Roxy (who plays a prominent role in much of the film). Though watching the film in 2D still gives some sense of the film’s physicality, the 3D version startles with its innovation, sometimes simply by allowing the ordinary clutter and space of the real world into the frame. No, Really. What’s It About? OK, I’ll admit it’s not easy. Like most late Godard, it doesn’t reveal itself in a single viewing. There is both a sense of distance and one of intimacy in Godard’s recent films, the byproduct of modern digital technology that has made his recent work more visually stunning even as it becomes more intellectually challenging. He produces images as quickly as we can consume them. Don’t let that overwhelm you. Absorb them. Marvel at the sheer physical beauty of the three-dimensional space, without a single superhero or Minion in sight. The most ambitious and innovative filmmaker of the last 60 years isn’t interested in simply making us see new things; he lets us see old things though new eyes. ■
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The Intern, starring Robert De Niro in the title role and Anne Hathaway as the girl boss, stretches this particular trope out for 121 minutes — four Seinfelds worth! — to teach us the valuable lesson that “Experience never gets old.” Consequently, that’s also the film’s tagline, which you could just read for free in three seconds. ● It takes a lot of guts to call a movie Pan. Film critics and their editors cross their fingers that it kind of sucks — it’s a headline that writes itself, for God’s sake! So newspaper types everywhere are overjoyed with Warner Bros. latest, but they’re the only ones. Prequels are so often superfluous, and this is a particularly wretched example: Peter Pan’s most defining quality is that he’s ageless. We’ve never wondered about his origin story, because who cares about a younger version of a character who doesn’t grow old? A prequel about Richard Gere will never be made for precisely this reason. Early estimates have the film — which stars Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara — losing some $150 mil. — Kristie McClanahan
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saw you looking around for a knife,” our server mocked as she breezed by our table. Her gentle ribbing was the only thing that broke the spell. Ever since pitmaster David Sandusky had personally delivered our pork steak and my husband and I took that first, mind-blowing bite, we’d been sitting in complete and BY utter silence, so enraptured by a piece of meat you would C H E RY L have thought we’d taken moBAEHR nastic vows. I think we were in shock. After growing up in St. Louis we’d both had our fair share of pork steaks. Those thin, fatty Maull’s-covered beauties — maybe sprinkled with a little Busch beer for good measure — are a staple of backyard barbecues. If St. Louis summers have a taste, it’s pork steaks and baseball victories. Yet there we were, all the way across the river on the far side of Belleville, digging into Beast Craft BBQ Co.’s char-coated pork shoulder as if it was our first. And really, it was the first time we’d experienced one like this. Beast’s version is three times the thickness of a traditional pork steak, giving it the feel of a double-cut Delmonico rib eye. Gone, too, is the tangy tomato sauce. The only condiment on this behemoth is the glaze of fat, spice rub and char. It falls apart with barely a prod, almost like a composite of pulled pork rather than a singular cut. Beast Craft BBQ Co. opened last December in the former Hy-Ho restaurant in Belleville, Illinois. Normally, I would have visited it sooner, but the metro area’s oversaturated barbecue scene left me feeling blasé about a lengthy trek across the bridge. Then came the whispers about Beast being a contender for the best barbecue in the bistate region, as respected local chefs Instagrammed their meals from its dining room. When it placed on Eater’s “St. Louis Heatmap,” I realized I could no longer ignore avoid the drive. And it is indeed a drive. From midtown, it takes roughly 40 minutes to get to Beast Craft BBQ Co. I’d curse Sandusky’s choice
of location, except that he lives in Belleville and intended to open a simple, neighborhood barbecue joint. It’s not his fault this place has become a destination. An eighteen-year veteran of the restaurant industry (his résumé includes Bully’s and Doc’s smokehouses), Sandusky and his wife
Meggan converted what had been a Belleville institution into a casual smokehouse — multicolored reclaimed wooden walls, corrugated chair rails and red-paint accents. The handwritten menu, which hangs over the counter where you order, looks like it was scrawled on the back of a brown paper grocery bag.
But while my hunger-induced road rage dissipated as soon as I bit into that pork chop, it was only the tip of the snoot. Though barbecue purists may argue over the need for chew and pull on a rib, Beast Craft BBQ Co. shows the virtues of a fall-off-the-bone style. The pork spare ribs are rubbed with a warm, almost sweet, spice blend that marries fruit wood smoke to infuse the meat. A thick layer of char coats the pork, providing a bittersweet crunchy coating for the succulent meat underneath. I wouldn’t have dreamed of defiling such beautiful meat with a condiment, but the squeeze bottle labeled “cherry chipotle” made me reconsider. I squirted a dash on one of the ribs’ corners for a taste but found myself unable to resist dousing the meat. The rich, baked fruit flavors in the sauce glazed over the smoky pork, evoking the heavenly scent of my grandpa’s pipe. I can’t imagine a more perfect sauce for these ribs. Pulled pork came out continued on page 34
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The “Pig Daddy” sandwich with pork steak, spare ribs, pulled pork, candied bacon, pickles and slaw on a brioche bun.
in a fist-sized hunk with one side offering a layer of char. The tender meat was so spec- fied with large enough hunks of pork to be tacular it made me embrace the primal urge considered a main course. Potato salad — so to eat it with my hands (so did my toddler, often a throwaway accompaniment — is made who shoved handfuls in her mouth and kept from large cubes of potatoes that go beyond demanding more). Beef brisket also hit the being cubed without quite being smashed. mark. The thinly sliced meat had a small layer A creamy, dill-heavy dressing clings to the of smoke-kissed seasoned salt, reminiscent of spuds. The sweet-potato pie, served as an individual tartlet, is topped prime rib. I tucked it into one with crumbled pecans and of the accompanying tortillas encircled in flaky crust. And and added a dash of the tradiBeast Craft BBQ Co. Brisket (full) .............. $12 Brussels sprouts eschew tional sweet and smoky sauce ork steak .................. $14 their health-food status with for a Texas-style taco. Spare ribs cubes of salted pork belly. I In addition to the smoke(full slab) ................. $22 didn’t mind one bit. house mainstays, Beast Craft World-class barbecue is BBQ Co. serves excellent kielonly part of the Beast Craft basa. The plump sausages have a snappy casing and mild sweet taste BBQ Co. story. Sandusky has curated a dethat intensifies in the smoker. Our server sug- cent craft-beer list that includes mostly local gested pairing them with the house mustard, favorites with a few out-of-state labels, and a pungent accoutrement made from whole he lists a suggested pairing with each entrée on the menu. seeds that gave a perfumed pop. But really, this place is all about the meat With meat this good, they could have given me a bag of stale potato chips on the side and — “All Killer No Filler,” as its motto boasts. I wouldn’t have cared. Instead, Sandusky ap- And Beast Craft BBQ most certainly is a killer. proaches his side dishes with the same care he Indeed, it’s killed my desire ever to eat a pork shows the main courses. Pit beans, simmered steak other than the one that comes out of in a molasses-thick, cola-like sauce, are forti- Sandusky’s smoker — no fork required. ■
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ooking back, Patrick Devine realizes he was tricked into working in the kitchen. “I had some cousins who worked in restaurants when I was growing up,” the La Patisserie Chouquette (1626 Tower Grove Avenue; 314-932-7935) assistant pastry chef recalls. “They would take me back into the kitchen and let me ‘play dishwasher’ because I thought the machine was so neat. I think they were just getting me to wash the dishes for them.” Growing up with both a mother and father who loved to cook, Devine caught the kitchen bug at an early age. He carried this passion with him to high school, taking a few culinary classes to fill requirements. Though he enjoyed the coursework, he didn’t think of it as a viable career path until a person came to speak to one of his classes about culinary school. “That’s when I realized that I didn’t want a job where I had to sit at a desk all day,” Devine explains. “Plus, it seemed like job security. People are always going to go out to eat.” Immediately after his high school graduation, Devine enrolled in the culinary-arts program at the Art Institute in Houston. He planned on completing the standard degree, but the school added a pastry program just as he was about to graduate. He decided to give it a shot and was instantly hooked. “At first, I thought it would be good because it was a way to get a second associate’s degree in just six months,” Devine explains. “But then I realized how much more I loved it than the savory side of cooking.” Pastry’s aesthetic and technical aspects appeal to Devine. “There’s a challenge to it,” he notes. “If you don’t do something exactly the way you are supposed to, it doesn’t turn out. Plus, I think it is more visually appealing than savory.” However, the real reason behind his love affair with pastry boils down to something more personal: his sweet tooth. “I just think it tastes better,” he admits. “People get excited about desserts. Generally speaking, more people light up about a really welldone, tasty dessert. This field is all about trying to please people, and I think dessert is the best way to do that.” Devine took a break from making his signature “Darkness” croissant (a chocolate croissant made with dark chocolate dough, 72 percent chocolate butter and pink Hi-
malayan sea salt) to share his thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage scene, his growing photography portfolio and why it’s hard working across the street from his food crush. What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did? I love photography. I’m currently focused on food right now, especially for the Chouquette social media, but like most things I’m continually learning and trying to improve. What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you? Coffee! I’m not much of a morning person without it, and working in a pastry shop, it’s pretty important to be firing on all cylinders as soon as the day begins. What is the most positive thing in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year? Probably the focus on specific crafts or specialties. We have gotten past the phase of everyone trying to do everything on a mediocre level and are pushing into doing “a thing” or a few things well. Bread, pastries, coffee, butcher shops, ramen, fried chicken, barbecue — you catch my drift. Who is your St. Louis food crush? Currently it has to go to Union Loafers. They just opened right across the street, and I have probably eaten most everything on
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the menu already. Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene? I’m having a really hard time choosing just one person. I have my eye on Qui Tran and Chef Marie-Anne Velasco and this ramen shop they’re working on. Which ingredient is most representative of your personality? Butter — versatile, flavorful and delicious. If you weren’t working in the restaurant business, what would you be doing? The whole coffee industry is really fascinating to me, so I think I’d be interested in pursuing something there. Name an ingredient never allowed in your kitchen. Shortening! What is your after-work hangout? Usually at home with my wife and our three-month-old daughter, Sutton. She’s pretty awesome. What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure? Doughnuts! I’m so glad to have Vincent Van Doughnut in town, but if I have to, I’ll gladly go for Krispy Kreme or even Schnucks. What would be your last meal on earth? Beef Bourguignon. I’ll take a braised meat over a filet any day of the week. —CHERYL BAEHR
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f you’ve ever driven down Kirkwood Road, you almost certainly know Spencer’s Grill (223 South Kirkwood Road; 314-821-2601). It’s one of Kirkwood’s busiest meeting spots and a must-visit for anyone returning for a Kirkwood High School reunion. But for the rest of you, though, it may be the best diner you haven’t visited. Spencer’s Grill doesn’t fit into the same category as other iconic St. Louis diners. Because it closes at 2 p.m. each day, you can’t order a sobering-up slinger in the wee hours as you might at Courtesy. This isn’t a place to go for an after-work burger and root beer like Carl’s, nor does it boast the excellent people-watching found at Eat-Rite. Instead, Spencer’s Grill may remind you of the diner in The Andy Griffith Show. Spencer’s Grill first opened in 1947, and its sign along Kirkwood Road features the oldest working clock on a neon sign west of the Mississippi. It seats 49 but feels much smaller. Spencer’s has had seven owners in its 68 years of business. Mary Sly and Lisa Campbell are the first women. “I think a diner is a place where people feel homey and comfortable,” Sly tells Riverfront Times. “This diner has been timeless.” About half of the restaurant’s business comes from regulars, who typically visit every day or on certain days each week. “We kind of get to live their lives with them,” Sly says. She’s been to some of their funerals; the diner has even been a backdrop for wedding and senior photos. But it’s not just about the company. “People come in fi rst for our delicious food,” says Sly. The offerings are fairly traditional, but everything is done well. Regulars swear by the crispy pancakes or the incredible hash browns, which might just be the pinnacle of potato perfection. There’s also scrapple, a patty of grits and sausage dipped in pancake batter and fried before being topped with sausage gravy. Lunch favorites include quarter-pound burgers, a cheesesteak and seasoned fries, but this is the kind of place where breakfast also makes sense for lunch. One thing not to be missed is the pie. The flavors rotate with the seasons — this summer we sampled a perfect white peach and blackberry pie, while current offerings include an apple crumble, strawberry rhubarb and coconut cream. One regular we know orders a slice of pie before his breakfast: the breakfast of champions. There may be a wait during the weekends or prime meal hours, but it’s worth it. Spencer’s Grill is not just another St. Louis area diner — it may very well be its best. — JOHNNY FUGITT
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rank Sinatra greets you at the front door. He tips his hat at you and suggestively smiles but doesn’t say anything. Jerk. Well, maybe you shouldn’t be surprised considering his burger recipe (preserved online for posterity, like all recent cultural detritus) was ordering Dean Martin to make him a burger and then drinking Martin’s two-ounce bourbon shot. Like all great chefs, Sinatra leaves his recipe open to interpretation. At Frederick’s Steakhouse and Pizzeria (12490 St. Charles Rock Road, Bridgeton; 314733-5500), which opened in late September, the inspiration is clearly the Rat Pack, as evidenced by the lifesize cardboard cutout of Sinatra in the vestibule. Other famous actors from that period — Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn — also make appearances in the décor. For the owners of Frederick’s, Frederick Waelter and Randy Waldman, the theme feels like home. “That’s my era. I grew up in that era. I had a friend of mine that said, ‘Hey, you’re not really going to put pictures of dead people on the walls, are you?’ But everybody we talked to loved the idea,” Waldman says. The renovation process involved much more than hanging up a few pretty pictures. What started out as a simple updating of a few elements in the space — previously an Italian restaurant called Meglio’s — quickly turned into a complete overhaul. They gutted the interior and installed new lighting, walls, ceilings, among other things. Even though Frederick’s has only been open for about a month, the restaurant has gone through some growing pains. Waldman admits that they weren’t prepared for the immediate and heavy volume of customers, despite a quiet, low-key opening. “We know we’ve got hiccups to solve, but we’re hands-on. We’re in here daily trying to correct any issues,” says Waldman. They’ve already made several changes in response to customer demand and feedback,
switching meat vendors and going from handtossed thick crust to a classic St. Louis-style thin-crust pizza. And that’s the most striking thing about Frederick’s: the dedication to the customers’ experience. Service is friendly and efficient, and the owners are very involved. On a recent visit, we ordered a steak medium rare and instead received one that was well done. On the second try, the steak was rare. When we mentioned the discrepancy, the steak was swiftly removed from the bill. The owner also personally apologized, saying that the staff is new and still learning. It was refreshingly different than the blame game that usually accompanies such mistakes. “It’s about the food, but it’s also about friends. We try and go to every single table, and we try and make friends out of customers,” says Waldman. The owners are also dedicated to the past — beyond having old pictures on the wall. The house dressing is Mayfair, which was famously created at the old Mayfair Hotel downtown. It was home to the Mayfair Room — St. Louis’ first five-star restaurant — and the dressing was its signature. Waldman proudly boasts that he obtained the original recipe from its creator. The menu mostly sticks to basics, such as steaks, pizza, salads, sandwiches, fish and fried chicken. Lunch items range from about $7 to $12, while dinner options mostly hover in the mid-teens. Breakfast and desserts are currently in development. The atmosphere of Frederick’s varies with the time. During the day, it feels more like a diner or sports bar. Several large televisions are always turned on with no sound. During the evening, the house lights dim and the main lighting comes from the TVs (which can get a little distracting), and there’s red recessed lighting that wraps all the way around the room. The crowd is more mature in the evenings, too. There is plenty of chatter, but never so loud that it’s hard carry on a conversation with your own table. At night, there’s live entertainment on Wednesday through Saturday. A recent weekend featured an older man singing from the Sinatra songbook. Ol’ Blue Eyes may not have been a great cook, but he definitely had a way with a tune. — SAMANTHA DEVER
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Gooseberries 2754 Chippewa Street; 314-577-6363. Gooseberries is a Dutchtown South-Cherokee Street gathering place where locals and passersby can go to grab a meal, a snack or just a cup of coffee. Out of a cozy, rehabbed storefront, owners Kim Bond and Ross Lessor serve an eclectic mix of breakfast and lunchtime items, including several vegan and vegetarian dishes. Bond is a pastry chef, so Gooseberries’ baked goods are highly recommended — especially the hand pies, filled with everything from gyro meat to chicken and waffles to broccoli cheddar. Sandwiches include a vegan beet Reuben, pulled pork, and a Gouda and cheddar grilled cheese that can be made with waffles instead of bread. The restaurant’s signature dish is “KFT”: “Krispy Fried Tofu” made with a savory blend of thirteen herbs and spices that is so tasty, it’s easy to forget the Colonel. $ Revel Kitchen 2837 Cherokee Street; 314-932-5566. Tucked amid the bodegas and indie record stores of Cherokee Street sits Revel Kitchen, formerly Athlete Eats, a polished little café that is all about healthy eating. Owner Simon Lusky started the business as a nutrition service, providing meal plans and prepared foods to health-conscious clients, including some of the St. Louis Cardinals players, and expanded to include a breakfast and lunch counter. The restaurant offers a variety of juices, smoothies and guilt-free fare, including Carolina-style barbecue; a juicy, locally raised grass-fed beef burger; and hearty salads. One of the more creative offerings, the bibimbap bowl, replaces the traditional sticky rice with caulirice — grated pieces of roasted cauliflower that resemble small rice grains. Tossed with edamame, shiitakes and thinly sliced spiced beef, it’s as good, if not better, than the traditional, rice-based Korean staple. Revel only serves breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays — a shame because it’s where some of the restaurant’s best items are showcased. The gluten-free pancakes, laden with cinnamon and topped with coconut cream and maple orange syrup, are so tasty that one doesn’t miss the flour. And do not leave without trying Revel Kitchen’s breakfast take on the Gerber sandwich: a garlic-studded waffle is topped with shaved ham, Provel cheese, béchamel sauce and a sunny-side egg. It’s one of the best uses of waffles in town. $ Tarahumara 2818 Cherokee Street; 314-804-7398. In the twenty years that they’ve lived in St. Louis, Teresa Armendirez and Luis Navarro were unable to find food that is typical of their native Chihuahua. The husband and wife decided to take matters into their own hands, opening Tarahumara in the heart of the vibrant Cherokee Street dining district. Do not go in expecting tacos and Tex-Mex; instead, you’ll find delicious northwestern Mexican cuisine such as chilaquiles, a traditional dish of fried corn tortilla chips topped with pulled chicken, crema, and a fiery hot tomatillo salsa. Gorditas are also a house specialty. The hollowed-out tortilla pockets come in two varieties: harina, made of flour or roja, made from corn and crushed red bell peppers. Both types are stuffed with a choice of toppings, the best being the poblano pepper and Chihuahua cheese. Tarahumara’s best dish is its torta especial -- an excellent sandwich made with Mexican bread that is like a cross between a soft, buttery brioche and crusty Vietnamese banh-mi bread. It’s stuffed with shredded beef, ham, cheese and avocado, and though it looks big enough to share, you won’t want to.
L A FAY E T T E S Q UA R E 33 Wine Shop & Tasting Bar 1913 Park Avenue; 314-2319463. Though unassuming and simple from the outside, 33 Wine Shop & Tasting Bar provides outstanding hospitality, more than 700 wines and one of the best beer lists in the city. The result is a relaxing yet engaging opportunity
to sip, contemplate or just plain drink your vino. Though lacking a full menu, there’s a nice array of cheese, cured meats and crackers to hold you over. Pricing is great, with bottles marked up just $9 over 33’s very competitive “take home” prices (it is a wine shop, too), which makes it a great place to go big on a specialty bottle. The oft-rotating draft selection, along with the list of bottled brew, highlights great beers both American and imported, many of which are rarely available on tap locally. $$-$$$ Element 1419 Carroll Street; 314-241-1674. Element serves up hearty rustic American food in a beautifully restored historic brick building. The two-story, warmly rich space is filled with glass and wood and features an open kitchen in the lower level restaurant area so that every table feels like a chef’s table. The top floor offers small plates and a gorgeous full bar in an urban-chic lounge area. Both levels offer outdoor seating with stunning views of downtown St. Louis. Notable dishes include a pork-belly small plate — so creamy it is almost spreadable — served with tangy bluecheese mousse, plums, French prunes and walnuts. The short-rib large plate is equally decadent, the meat falling apart with the slightest prodding of a fork. Served with a rich sweet potato ale, rutabaga and Swiss chard, the short ribs are tailor-made for a chilly day. The wine list is small but thoughtful, the beer list features local craft selections and the bartenders are up to the challenge of customizing a craft cocktail based on a mood. $$$ Planter’s House 1000 Mississippi Avenue; 314-696-2603. Finally, master mixologist Ted Kilgore gets a house of his own with Planter’s House. This Lafayette Square temple to mixology is a showroom for Kilgore and company’s (his wife, Jamie, and business partner, Ted Charak) inspired cocktail artistry. Drinks run the gamut from the approachable “Planter’s House Punch” to the esoteric wormwood-laden “Unusual Suspect.” The joint is, first and foremost, a cocktail room, but it features an inspired food menu. The poutine is magnificent — thick, red-wine pork gravy covers a platter of fried and smashed fingerling potatoes. Or try the duck burger, a mammoth mix of ground duck, pork and bacon served open-face on a pumpernickel bun with Gouda and a fried duck egg. It’s quite possibly the perfect way to soak up all of that booze. $$-$$$
MIDTOWN The Dark Room 615 N Grand Boulevard; 314-531-3416. Shutterbugs and winos alike will delight in Grand Center’s Dark Room. Part art gallery and part bar, the Dark Room features monthly photography exhibits curated by the International Photography Hall of Fame alongside an artisan wine program highlighting a substantial selection by the glass or bottle. The minimal space features decorative vintage film equipment and clean, contemporary design. Small Batch Whiskey & Fare 3001 Locust Street; 314380-2040. Restaurateur David Bailey takes the whiskey-bar trend in an unexpected direction with his vegetarian eatery, Small Batch. Bailey doesn’t bill the place as a crunchy vegetarian spot; instead, he hopes that diners will enjoy the vegetable-focused concept so much that they fail to miss the meat. The carbonara pasta, made with housemade linguine, replaces the richness of bacon with smoked mushrooms. Even the most die-hard carnivore will be satisfied by the “burger,” a greasy-spoon-style corn and black bean patty topped with creamy guacamole, Chihuahua cheese, and Bailey’s signature “Rooster” sauce (tangy mayonnaise). Small Batch’s bourbon selection and creative cocktails are also impressive. The “Smokeysweet,” a blend of smoked cherries, rye and rhubarb, tastes like drinking punch by a campfire. For a taste of summer in a glass, the “Rickey” is a bright concoction of elderflower liquor, grapefruit, lime and white corn whiskey. The gorgeous, vintage setting provides an ideal spot to indulge in some Prohibition-era-style drinking. $-$$ Southern 3108 Olive Street; 314-531-4668. What do you get when Pappy’s pitmaster Mike Emerson and king of comfort food Rick Lewis team up? Only the best thing that’s happened to Southern cuisine in St. Louis since, well, ever. Their joint venture, Southern, is one part Nashville-style hot chicken shack and one part deep-south influenced butcher shop. Southern serves hearty sandwiches, like its fried green tomato BLT called “The Dirty South,” made with bacon so thick it could be confused with a ham steak. The hot chicken is this fast-casual restaurant’s specialty, though, and they do it up just like the legends in Nashville -- juicy meat, crispy skin and a generous saucing of hot chili oil after it comes out of the fryer. Heat levels range from mild to melt-your-face-off “Clucking Hot,” though for those who shy away from spice, un-sauced original or an Asian-style General Tso version are available. Wear your stretchy pants: The only way to cool down your mouth is with the housemade vanilla pudding. $$ Triumph Grill 3419 Olive Street; 314-446-1801. Another addition to midtown’s suddenly teeming restaurant scene, the Triumph Grill is attached to the Moto Museum and named for the classic motorcycle. (Brando and Dean each owned one. So did Dylan.) The lengthy menu includes many of the dishes that spring to mind when you call a restaurant a “grill” — wings, calamari and onion rings; nine different salads and more than a dozen sandwiches; steaks, pork chops, chicken breasts and salmon — but with occasional, unexpected touches from the cuisines of Japan, India and the American southwest. The décor is contemporary-art gallery. When the place is crowded, though, the hubbub will make you think of a passing fleet of Harleys. $$-$$$
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First-time visitors to University City’s Olive Green almost always make room on their plates for the buffet’s goat stew: Made with potatoes and vegetables, it is by turns familiar yet exotic — a standout on the two-month-old Ugandan restaurant’s menu. Like many of the dishes there, the stew is succulent and earthy, infused as it is with Indian, Arabic and Ugandan spices and seasonings. Those same spices add new depth to all-American favorites including the chicken wings (along with two sides for $8.99) and the cooked-to-order T-bone steak ($12.99 with sides). In fact, every dish at Olive Green reveals something about the people who’ve prepared it for you: Owner and chef Christine Sseremba is from Kampala and has traveled extensively; her son, George Knudsen, claims Danish and Ugandan ancestry. The resultant menu celebrates their African and European roots as well as their American home: Beef tripe stew, samosas and tilapia with plantain appear as often as french fries, vegetable rice and chicken lollipops. The Belgian waffles, which come topped with fruit, ice cream and syrup, are a decadent treat available until 5 p.m., and we’re told that chicken and waffles will soon be served all day long. Olive Green’s fare has been shaped by many cultures and many miles — how fortunate we are to enjoy this extraordinary mix of cuisines in our own back yard.
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“He did the thing at the ranch and found a great guitar player along with an engineer,” Friedman says. “They were from Jersey. I called them the Jersey Boys. They’re the only sound you hear on the record. There are three original songs and nine interpretative renderings. Elvis never wrote a song and Sinatra never wrote a song. The interpretation is what’s happening here. “I’m not doing this to educate millennials,” he continues. “It’s a record of songs that I love. The more I play the record, the more it seems like a mirror. ‘Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis’ might be known by two percent of the audience. It’s halfway between Bob [Dylan] and Kinky. It’s right in the middle, I think. Of course, ‘My Shit’s Fucked Up’ isn’t so much about Warren Zevon dying of cancer as it is a visionary song. It’s a perfect description of our country and our world today. Our shit’s fucked up. It might not be fixable this time.” That notion — that the world is broken and
can’t be fixed — inspired the sentiments found on many of the album’s tunes. When Friedman ran for governor in 2004, he used a variety of slogans, including “My Governor Is a Jewish Cowboy” and “He Ain’t Kinky, He’s My Governor.” Those didn’t win him the election, though they did get him some attention in the media. He continues to follow politics, though he says he’s done “picking on Obama.” “Rick Perry, who is my favorite nemesis, is out,” he says. “I can’t do jokes about him anymore. The crowd always picks Barabbas. You can bet if there’s anyone good there, they don’t pick them. They’ll kill him. There’s only one thing I don’t like about [Donald] Trump. I prefer Mr. Anonymous. If you give money to a children’s hospital, you shouldn’t put your name up there in big letters. He’s not corrupt. Neither is Bernie Sanders. Those two are not. I don’t know, though. We need to limit everyone to two terms — one in office and one in prison. That would go a long way to help.” riverfronttimes.com
For the current tour, Friedman says, he’ll play material from the new album and delve into his notorious past. “There will be old favorites,” he says. “I can’t get around to not doing ‘They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore’ and ‘I’m Proud to be an Asshole from El Paso.’ I will have Joe Cirotti with me, who did some beautiful guitar work on the record. We have a lot of merch. We have T-shirts and sweatshirts. I will sign anything but bad legislation.” Friedman admits the current tour, a month of nearly back-to-back shows that takes him away from his beloved ranch, will be a haul. “I’m sad about leaving my four dogs,” he says. “I explained to them what I have to do. This is a tour on the Hank Williams level. When you’re doing back-to-back shows with no nights off, you are going to be running on pure adrenaline. You’ll be raw and pure and hearing voices, and all your good angels will hopefully be there with you. It’s really a test.” ■
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b-sides Sore Spot FOLLOWING SUMMER VISA PROBLEMS, TORONTO’S DILLY DALLY FINALLY MAKES ITS WAY TO THE UNITED STATES Dilly Dally 8 p.m. Monday, November 9. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Avenue. $8 to $10. 314-833-5532.
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ctober was a month of firsts for Katie Monks and her bandmates in Dilly Dally. On the ninth, the Toronto-based rock band released its debut LP, Sore, to a flurry of national praise. Then, just four days later, the musicians kicked off their first American tour with a string of dates in New York City for the CMJ Music Marathon. “We have infinite energy for this,” Monks told RFT Music on the second to last afternoon of October. In the past seventeen days, she had played eleven shows in seven cities across the United States — but she wasn’t complaining. “We might be a bit tired from being on the road, but we still have that energy. That adrenaline keeps you going.” On November 9, exactly one month after the release of Sore, Monks and her bandmates will take the stage at the Demo, sharing a bill with the Stars Go Out and Vandalion. This will be Dilly Dally’s first time playing in St. Louis, though not for a lack of trying. The group was booked to play the Demo in August, but was
forced to cancel that show — as well as the rest of its summer American tour — due to visa complications. Though Dilly Dally hadn’t brought its unique blend of poppy grunge to the United States until recently, the band has long been staple of its hometown Toronto scene. Monks started the group about six years ago with her childhood friend Liz Ball, and the band has been playing shows about once a month ever since. About a year and a half ago, Jimmy Tony and Benjamin Reinhartz joined on bass and
drums, respectively, and Dilly Dally started to gain momentum. Its live shows were being received better than ever, and it even caught the eye of American label Partisan Records. The band started releasing singles, and in March, it was finally ready to hit the studio and start working on an LP. “From the start, Liz and I had really high ambitions with this band. We just did,” Monks says. “We actually believe in it, and we believe in ourselves. And it’s not just that we believe in ourselves, but we believe in this world, and that
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harlie Brumley has always been a young man imbued with an old soul. As a pianist, songwriter and composer, he’s touched on everything from Spector-esque pop music to a time-traveling rock opera to choral arrangements inspired by Missouri’s involvement in the Civil War. His role as leader and vocalist of the Educated Guess hit a milestone this year with the release of an excellent self-titled record, and that LP streamlined Brumley’s compositional gifts and pointed them toward harmonic, melodic pleasure centers. Steve Carosello came by his old soul a bit more naturally, but middle age hasn’t dulled his dogged, fervent appreciation for the structural purity and eternal truth of a three-minute pop song. Carosello has the somewhat dubious distinction of leading one of St. Louis’ longest-running and least-productive rock bands, the Love Experts. But where that band has a production cycle that rivals most long-hibernating cicada colonies, Carosello remains a treasured guest-vocalist with acts including Finn’s Motel and Rough Shop. Together, the two musicians make their recorded debut as Palaver, a piano-and-voice combo that pairs Brumley’s insight-seeking lyrics and romantic piano with Carosello’s slightly craggy but expressive voice. The word “palaver” means to prattle aimlessly at length; it’s no small irony here that few words 44
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are wasted in these pointed, concise songs. Brumley is no stranger to the grandiose — the last Educated Guess record featured more than 40 musicians, and its rare live shows are known to crowd local stages with strings, horns and harmony vocalists — so this project is as spare and spartan as we’ve heard his compositions. Recorded in an empty church with natural reverb that plug-ins can only dream of, the album’s rich, spacious tone almost serves as a third member of the band. Suitably, these tracks (written specifically with Carosello in mind) channel a kind of spiritual solitude in search of communion. “The Road,” a song about the gap between dogma and belief, flirts with religious aphorisms but moves in the direction of a humanist and Earth-bound grace. “Lay Me Down” is more forthright with its religious overtones, both in lyrics and in Brumley’s gospel piano progressions. It’s one of several songs where you can hear his inner composer filling in the blanks despite its bare production. Here, though, the song is a study in restraint and release. The beautifully fatalistic set-closer “To the End of an Age” sounds more fitting coming from someone at Carosello’s station in life than Brumley’s, but the young songwriter lights the spark of truth with his lyrics, which the older singer simply ignites with a stirring performance. And that’s the little slice of magic that Palaver has lit upon: a quiet cabaret shared between two like-minded musical souls. —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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it is possible to truly be yourself in this world and connect with people on a real level. We’re trying to be a part of it. We want that — we don’t want to stay in Toronto forever.” Although Sore was recorded just this year, many of its tracks have been in the works for close to a decade. “Green,” for example, was written eight years ago when Monks was still a teenager. The track, like the rest of the album, has a forceful simplicity that resonates on an instinctual level. “There aren’t any tricks to any of our songs; it’s just very bare and honest, and it is what it is,” Monks says. “We’re just trying to connect with people in a deep way, and I don’t think that there needs to be any schooling or pretension behind that.” On the album, Dilly Dally combines elements of pop, grunge, rock and punk into a whirlwind of tones and styles that keep the listener constantly on their toes. Throughout the record, Monks’ vocals ricochet back and forth between sweet, sing-songy hooks and full-on screams, often without a moment’s notice. “I personally have all kinds of emotions,” Monks explains. “I’m coming from a really sweet home, and then every time someone fucks me over or I meet somebody who’s just really mean, it really infuriates me. It really ticks me off people aren’t just nice to each other. So that’s why there’s the sweet and the tough on the record and in our art. “When you’re gay and you’re lower class and you’re hanging around with punks all the time — and you work as a dishwasher — sometimes people don’t respect you. They don’t take you serious,” she continues. “But all of our songs have conclusions to them. All the melodies have conclusions. All the lyrics have conclusions. They’re all about hope. It’s supposed to be empowering.” — DEREK SCHWARTZ
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8 p.m. Thursday, November 5. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard. $35 to $55. 314-726-6161. Twenty years ago the Mavericks took over the country charts, if not the world. Led by a Cuban-American Pavarotti named Raul Malo, the band swept up awards and swept away country (and pop) fans hungry for hooks and heart. No country-music force since Johnny Rodriguez had fully tapped into an exploding Latino market, though the band’s initial success wouldn’t see it through the ’90s. Malo and company’s recent return to performing and recording brings plenty of nostalgia but also new sounds, notably the driving, border-breaking material from Mono, its highest-charting release since its mid-’90s apogeo. If the band ever had a secret weapon, it wasn’t Malo’s wheeling voice — it was how damn fun this music was, and is, to dance to. Downer News: Last year, original bassist Robert Reynolds was dismissed for troubles with opiates. The Mavericks are back on track; here’s hoping the same for the ex-bassist.
8 p.m. Saturday, November 7. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Avenue $22 to $100. 314-833-3929. Big K.R.I.T. is officially taking over. In the past year he has released the well-received mixtape See Me On Top IV, followed closely by his second album with Def Jam, last November’s Cadillactica, which peaked at No. 1 on both the Billboard U.S. Rap and R&B charts. His song “Saturdays = Celebration” found its way into the trailer for the hit movie Sicario, and the rapper even made his way down under for his first Australian tour. What’s interesting is that he accomplished all this by relinquishing some creative control. Whereas in the past he handled everything about his music, from lyrics to production to mixing and mastering, Cadillactica saw him collaborating with a host of big-name producers, including DJ Khalil, Raphael Saadiq, Alex da Kid and Terrace Martin. The near-universal critical acclaim the album received just goes to show that sometimes it is a good idea to play with others. Sharing Is Caring: Cadillactica contains a slew of guest verses from fellow rappers as well. Though that is nothing new for Big K.R.I.T.’s work, the list is still impressive, including spots from E-40, Wiz Khalifa, Bun B and Lupe Fiasco.
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From the left: Mavericks, Vanessa Carlton and Negative Approach.
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8 p.m. Saturday, November 7. The Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Boulevard. $25. 314-727-4444. Given the busy few years she’s had, you’d forgive Vanessa Carlton for taking some time away from the studio and the stage. She wed Deer Tick leader John McCauley at the end of 2013 (in a service officiated by no less a priestess than Stevie Nicks) and gave birth to a daughter not long after. It’s another family member, though — her grandfather — who inspired the title of this year’s Liberman, her first LP in four years. It’s a dreamy and ruminative album that uses Carlton’s signature grand piano sparingly and relies on a sturdy undertow of hazy, unmoored elements (synth pads, errant percussion, drum machine patterns) to make its cumulative impact. But when she steps forward, as on lead single “Operator,” Carlton displays her control over the beat and sway of these songs, her voice showing its gilt edge at just the right moments. How Deep Is Your Blue? Joshua Hyslop will open the show with songs from his 2015 album, In Deepest Blue.
8 p.m. Wednesday, November 11. Fubar, 3108 Locust Street. $12 to $15. 314-289-9050. Alongside the Necros, Detroit’s Negative Approach reigned supreme over all that was Midwestern hardcore in the early ’80s, helping coastal contemporaries such as Black Flag and Bad Brains to pioneer the hard-edged sound that would define the genre’s formula. Thirty-second, no-frills songs espousing hatred and nihilistic rage tear through its ten-song self-titled EP and subsequent full-length, both of which are now considered hardcore classics. Vocalist John Brannon’s gruff delivery and intense onstage persona coupled with the aggressively fast blink-and-you-missed-it music have since gone on to influence countless punk and hardcore bands from all parts of the globe. Fubar serves as a perfect venue for this show — bring your stage-diving shoes. Ready to Fight? Even with the 2011 release of unearthed archival recordings, NA’s catalog is not expansive. Fans should expect to hear all of the band’s classics.
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concerts THIS JUST IN Aaron Griffin Band: Sat., Nov. 21, 7 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Andy Exum: Sun., Nov. 22, 6 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Big Rich & the Rhythm Renegades: Thu., Nov. 26, 9 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Baby Blues Showcase: Sun., Nov. 29, 6 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Basia Bulat: Sat., March 12, 8 p.m., $12-$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com. The Bel Airs: Fri., Nov. 20, 10 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Bereft: W/ Railhazer, Wed., Dec. 9, 8 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050, fubarstl. com. Bill Kirchen: Sun., Nov. 29, 6 p.m., $20-$25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com. Blind Willie & the Broadway Collective: Mon., Nov. 30, 8 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Bonnie Raitt: W/ California Honeydrops, Fri., March 18, 7 p.m., $31-$91. Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888, peabodyoperahouse.com. Bullet For My Valentine: W/ Asking Alexandria, While She Sleeps, Sun., Feb. 21, 7 p.m., $30-$32.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161, thepageant.com. Charly Bliss: Thu., Jan. 14, 8 p.m., $10-$12. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532, thedemostl.com. Chris Cornell: Fri., Dec. 18, 7 p.m., $76. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900, thesheldon.org. The Dive Poets: W/ Union Rags, Sat., Dec. 5, 8 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532, thedemostl.com. DJ Carnage: W/ Valentino Khan, Jauz, Thu., Jan. 28, 8 p.m., $25-$30. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161, thepageant.com. Eilen Jewell: W/ Kevin Gordon, Fri., Nov. 13, 8 p.m., $12-$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com. Ellie Goulding: W/ Years & Years, Mon., May 16, 7 p.m., TBA. Chaifetz Arena, 1 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis, 314-977-5000, thechaifetzarena.com. Ethan Leinwand & Mat Wilson: Tue., Nov. 24, 7 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Final Drive: W/ Compelled to Destroy, Faceless Commandos, Hallow Point, Absence of Despair, Fri., Dec. 4, 6 p.m., $8-$10. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929, thereadyroom.com. Finish Ticket: W/ Vinyl Theatre, Tue., March 8, 8 p.m., $15-$18. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505, oldrockhouse.com. Fivefold: W/ Isaiah James & the Chains, Ashland, New Lingo, Sat., Dec. 12, 7 p.m., $8. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929, thereadyroom.com. Freakwater: Mon., March 14, 8 p.m., $12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com. The Fred Eaglesmith Travelling Steam Show: Wed., April 6, 8 p.m., $20-$25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com. Funky Butt Brass Band Holiday Brasstravaganza: Fri., Dec. 18, 9 p.m.; Sat., Dec. 19, 9 p.m., $15-$28. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-7733363, offbroadwaystl.com. Greensky Bluegrass: Wed., Jan. 13, 8 p.m.; Thu., Jan. 14, 8 p.m., $18-$20. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505, oldrockhouse.com. The Incurables: W/ Shooting With Annie, the Feed, Sat., Nov. 7, 9 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com. The Infamous Stringdusters: W/ Nicki Bluhm & the
Gramblers, Wed., March 16, 8 p.m., $18-$20. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-5880505, oldrockhouse.com. Jim Stevens Group: Fri., Nov. 27, 7 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. John King: Sat., Nov. 28, 8 p.m., $15. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Kaki King: Wed., Jan. 20, 8 p.m., $17-$25. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505, oldrockhouse.com. Keith Moyer Group: Mon., Nov. 23, 9 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Laura Green Blues Band: Fri., Nov. 20, 7 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Lil Wayne: Sun., Feb. 21, 7 p.m., $39-$159. Chaifetz Arena, 1 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis, 314-977-5000, thechaifetzarena.com. The Lonely Biscuits: Fri., Jan. 29, 9 p.m., $12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com. Love Jones "The Band": Sun., Nov. 22, 9 p.m., $5. Fri., Nov. 27, 10 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Lovedrug: W/ the Langaleers, Mon., Dec. 7, 8 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353, firebirdstl.com. Masked Intruder: W/ the Fuck Off And Dies, the Haddonfields, the Humanoids, Thu., Dec. 31, 9 p.m., $18-$20. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314535-0353, firebirdstl.com. Mike Zito: Sun., Nov. 29, 3 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Mushroomhead: W/ 9 Electric, Unsaid Fate, Article III, Our Transfixion, Tue., Dec. 1, 6 p.m., $20. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050, fubarstl.com. Never Shout Never: W/ Metro Station, Fri., Feb. 26, 8 p.m., $20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929, thereadyroom.com. Oak, Steel & Lightning: W/ Cooter & Hoss, Woodshine, Mountain Sprout, Thu., Nov. 12, 8 p.m., $10. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314775-0775. The Resounding: W/ the Langaleers, Gavin McNutt, Mon., Dec. 14, 8 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532, thedemostl. com. Rocky & the Wranglers: Tue., Nov. 24, 9:30 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Savages: Fri., April 8, 8 p.m., $22-$25. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929, thereadyroom.com. Smokey Robinson: W/ Mario Frangoulis, Sun., Dec. 6, 7 p.m., $45-$250. Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888, peabodyoperahouse.com. Soulard Blues Band: Sat., Nov. 21, 10 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Space Ship Jazz Fusion: Mon., Nov. 23, 7 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Split Lip Rayfield: Sat., Jan. 16, 9 p.m., $20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314833-3929, thereadyroom.com. The Brave Combo Holiday Show: Thu., Dec. 17, 7 p.m., $15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com. The Toasters: W/ Snooty and the Ratfinks, Captain Dee and the Long Johns, Fri., Nov. 6, 8 p.m., $13-$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com. Tom Hall: Sat., Nov. 28, 6 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. Trapt: W/ Bridge To Grace, First Decree, Meka Nism, Sun., Dec. 6, 6 p.m., $15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353, firebirdstl.com. Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker: Mon., Dec. 14, 8 p.m., $10-$13. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com.
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T H U R S DAY 1 1 / 5 Choir Vandals: w/ I'm Glad It's You, Just Friends, Casual Friday 10 p.m., $8. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314289-9050. Kinky Friedman: 8 p.m., $30. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. Macrobliss: w/ Lumis, Diamond Back Kings, Father Phigures, Conquer As They Come 6 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Marshall Crenshaw: 8 p.m., $18-$25. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505. The Mavericks: 8 p.m., $35-$55. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. Slushwave: w/ Meghan Rose and the Bones, Ramona Deflowered 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337. Switchback: 8 p.m., $30-$30. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900. Town Cars: w/ the Fervor, Ellen the Felon 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-7722100.
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F R I DAY 1 1 / 6 8Ball & MJG: w/ P Nyce 9 p.m., TBA. The Marquee Restaurant & Lounge, 1911 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-436-8889. Big George Brock & the New Houserockers: 10 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. The Heard: 8 p.m., $8. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-775-0775. Leroy Jodie Pierson: 7 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. The Moonmen: w/ Nate Moore, Metropolotix, Reapa, Key Lo Da Don 8 p.m., $8. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Quiet Company: w/ Crushed Out 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532. Rhonda Vincent & the Rage: 8 p.m., $35-$40. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900. The Saturday Brothers: w/ the Homewreckers, the Hot Liquors 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337. Straight Line Stitch: w/ Signals From Saturn, Murder Machine, Outcome of Betrayal 7 p.m., $12-$14. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Timeflies: w/ Kalin and Myles 8 p.m., $30.50-$33. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. The Toasters: w/ Snooty and the Ratfinks, Captain Dee and the Long Johns 8 p.m., $13-$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
S AT U R DAY 1 1 / 7 Better in Theory EP Release: 9 p.m., $10. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-775-0775. Big K.R.I.T.: w/ Allen Gates 8 p.m., $22-$100. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929. Cherokee Street Jazz Crawl 2015: noon, Free. Cherokee Street, Cherokee St., St. Louis. The Incurables: w/ Shooting With Annie, the Feed 9 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-7733363. Johnny Rivers: w/ Butch Wax & the Hollywoods 8 p.m., $35-$75. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314726-6161. Otto's Revenge: w/ Echo Bravo, Paperkite 8 p.m., $8-$10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
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Paula Boggs Band: 8 p.m., $10. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009. Ravenhill: w/ Blackwater '64, Shiny Penny, TradeWinds, Jailbox 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532. Straight White Teeth: w/ No Man’s Law, Manray, Prune 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226. Vanessa Carlton: 8 p.m., $25. Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.
S U N DAY 1 1 / 8 Angel Vivaldi: w/ Scarred Atlas, the Cambion, Outcome of Betrayal 6 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Benefit Concert for Tom Ballman: w/ Rikers Mailbox, Javier Mendoza 4 p.m., $15. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-775-0775. Jill Andrews: 7 p.m., $12-$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. Necronomicon: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. New Found Glory: w/ Yellowcard, Tigers Jaw 8 p.m., $25-$28. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314726-6161. Shitstorm: w/ Mouth Reader, Outside World, Maximum Effort 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. The Sudden Passion: w/ Tortuga 7:30 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.
M O N DAY 1 1 / 9 Dilly Dally: 8 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532. Lindi Ortega: 8 p.m., $12.50. Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444. Silky Sol "The Red Afro Queen": 8 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Soulard Blues Band: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-8811.
T U E S DAY 1 1 / 1 0 Amy LaVere: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. Biters: w/ Macrobliss, jusTed, Hard Evidence, Black Tar Heroines 7 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Bob "The Bumblebee" Kamoske: 9 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Dylan Holland: w/ Rise of the Broken 8 p.m., $12-$15. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009. Eidola: 6 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Leslie Sanazaro & Sharon Bear: 7 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Stardeath and White Dwarfs: 7 p.m., $8-$10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. Turbo Suit: 9 p.m., $10-$12. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-775-0775.
W E D N E S DAY 1 1 / 1 1 All Time Low: w/ Sleeping with Sirens, One OK Rock 6 p.m., $26.50. Chaifetz Arena, 1 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis, 314-977-5000. Big Rich & the Rhythm Renegades: 7 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Bob "Bumble Bee" Kamoske: 8 p.m. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880. Gatherers: 7 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532. Ghost Town: w/ Dangerkids, Palaye Royale, Bad Seed Rising, Sounds Like Harmony 7 p.m., $15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. Holly Golightly: 7 p.m., $10-$12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. John Lisi & Delta Funk: 10 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein: 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; Nov. 12, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $35. Ferring Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-571-6000. Negative Approach: w/ Child Bite 8 p.m., $12-$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Take the Fall: w/ Eyes Eat Suns, Struck Down By Sound 6 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
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Sexless Marriages: The Last Word Dear Readers: Two weeks ago I announced I would be taking a nice long break from questions about miserable sexless marriages. (I don’t get questions about happily sexless marriages.) I tossed out my standard line of advice to those who’ve exhausted medical, psychological and situational BY fixes (“Do what you need to do to stay married and stay DAN sane”), and I moved on to other relationship problems. S AVA G E Readers impacted by sexless marriages — men and women on “both sides of the bed” — wrote in to share their experiences and insights. I’ve decided to let them have the last word on the subject.
Your advice to people whose partners have checked out of their sex lives is on target. But would you be willing to share a voice from the other side of the bed? Until a year ago, I was always appalled when I would read letters like these. Who would stop having sex?! Who would stay with someone who didn’t want to have sex?! Then I got sick. My illness came on slowly, but the first noticeable symptom was my sex drive vanishing. My lady parts were drier than a desert. No amount of lube helped. Sex hurt, and I didn’t want it. My journey through the medical system was a battle. Trained medical professionals poo-poo’d me. They told me this is what all perimenopausal women experience, and I should just deal with it. I was told to “get started” and then maybe I would enjoy it. I was given lists of supplements to try. Finally, in response to other health problems, my doctor diagnosed me with diabetes. Within weeks of taking medication and changing my diet, my engine started running again. It’s not what it was, but I don’t feel dead below the belly button anymore. During this time, my husband was supportive. I did my best to make him happy. I’d like to think that if I had continued to suffer a loss of libido for years, I would be brave enough to give him permission to find satisfaction elsewhere, but it would break my heart. My points, briefly: Legitimate things happen to people that make them lose their sex drive. Medical support for people brave enough to say, “I’ve lost my mojo and need help to get it back,” is not always there, and the solutions aren’t always easy or fast. Too often, people (especially women) are told that losing their sex drive is normal and they should just get used to it. No one should be forced to accept a sexless relationship if that’s not what they want. And if you’ve lost interest in sex and don’t really care to get it back,
you don’t have the right to impose celibacy on another person. But in a long relationship, each partner is going to face challenges — and one of those challenges might be helping your partner fight to regain their libido. Bed Death Survivor
I’m the “other man” to a woman whose husband won’t fuck her. The guy must be gay or asexual, because his wife is beautiful, smart and great in bed. I’ve never wanted marriage or kids, so this arrangement works well for me. The only time it got awkward was when my girlfriend — this other guy’s wife — broached the subject of monogamy. Asking for a monogamous commitment when you’re married to someone else? Seemed nuts. But I hadn’t slept with anyone else for three years, or even wanted to, so I was already monogamous in practice. Monogamous In Theory Now Too
If my ex-husband wrote to you, he’d say I didn’t want to have sex with him anymore and he was going crazy. The truth is, I wanted to have sex — but I didn’t want it to be in one of the same three positions we’d been doing it for seven years. I was bored and asked for some variety, and he refused to do it. My boredom turned into frustration, and frustration turned into anger. At a certain point, the idea of having sex with him made me want to beat the living shit out of something. Was I supposed to continue satisfying him when my needs weren’t being met? Our mistake was waiting until I hit the angry point to get into therapy. We should have gone when I was bored. He wound up having an affair and blamed me because I didn’t want to have sex with him. But there was a good reason why I didn’t want to have sex with him. Maybe before you advise people in “sexless” marriages to have affairs, you could tell them to do some self-examination first?
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You wrote that you’re sick of telling people trapped in sexless marriages to do what they need to do “to stay married and stay sane.” I want to thank you for all that repetition. I needed it. But leaving my sexless marriage was what I needed to do to stay sane. My husband of ten years berated me publicly, telling anyone who would listen that I was a whore. Had I not had your corpus of work on the matter of marital partners who have zero interest in sex but still demand enthusiastic monogamy, the journey through this would have been longer. Four years later, I still get excited that I actually get to have sex — awesome, giving, experimental, fun sex. Gleeful Escapee
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