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ART OUTSIDE GREEK FEST AFRICAN ARTS FEST IRISH FEST and more ways to spend the long Memorial Day weekend Page 4

BUST A MOVE More than 20 ensembles will leap onstage for this weekend’s

SPRING TO DANCE FESTIVAL

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POISON AIMS FOR A SHOW PACKED WITH HITS Page 6 ‘SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY’ IS A FUN ROMP Page 18

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AfroSexyCool celebrates “all things black and really dope” at the Ready Room. Page 7

Juliette Binoche is a woman looking for love in “Let the Sunshine In.” Page 21

Singer-songwriter Vance Joy wants to transport fans to his “Nation of Two.” Page 8

Recently reviewed movies. Page 22

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Former nightspot Blank Space is now officially RKDE. Page 11

See & Do Datebook Our critics pick the best events in the week ahead, including Art Outside at Schlafly Bottleworks, the Missouri River Irish Fest at Frontier Park, the African Arts Festival in Forest Park and Boyz II Men at Powell Hall. Plus, what to look forward to in the coming weeks. Pages 4-5

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“Book of Mormon” rising star believes in the irreverent musical’s message. Page 12

Ann Dowd follows her own path to success in “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Page 24 “Arrested Development” stars stand by co-star Jeffrey Tambor. Page 25 TV Q&A. Page 25

Arts briefs. Page 13 Recently reviewed theater. Page 13

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“Solo: A Star Wars Story” works as escapist summer fun. Page 18

Knead Bakehouse + Provisions bakes good bread — and knows how to use it. Page 26

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Saoirse Ronan gives another great performance in “On Chesil Beach.” Page 19

Poison bassist Bobby Dall says playing the hits is “better than sex.” Page 6

True crime on an isolated island inspires Michael Pearce’s “Beast.” Page 20

Hatch chiles enliven Taco Buddha’s “international” tacos. Page 28 Off the Menu. Page 28 Recently reviewed restaurants. Page 30

ON THE COVER • Chicago Dance Crash, coming to the Spring to Dance Festival. Photo by Ashley Deran

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WHEN Friday through July 7 • WHERE Duane Reed Gallery, 4729 McPherson Avenue • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO duanereedgallery.com

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Works by self-taught, St. Louis-based photographer Eastman are showcased in this exhibition, which focuses on imagery that reflects the architecture and atmosphere of Buenos Aires. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and by appointment.

FRIDAY Cocoa Brown WHEN 8 and 10:15 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m.

Sunday • WHERE The Laugh Lounge, 11208 West Florissant Road • HOW MUCH $20-$25 • MORE INFO etix.com

You’ve seen actresscomedian Cocoa Brown opposite Connie Britton on Fox’s new hit series “9-1-1” and possibly in “Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse” on OWN. But this weekend you can see her as you probably haven’t in a long time – on the stand-up stage.

BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON

Faizon Love WHEN 7:30 and 10 p.m.

Friday-Saturday, 7:45 p.m.

Sunday • WHERE Helium Comedy Club, St. Louis Galleria, 1151 St. Louis Galleria Street, Richmond Heights • HOW MUCH $25-$33 • MORE INFO heliumcomedy.com

Comedian Faizon Love — who appeared in movies such as “Step Up: High Water,” “Friday,” “Money Talks” and “Elf” — aims to provide what’s lacking in comedy this weekend. “Comedy is where you go for the truth; now it’s so politically correct, if you tell the truth you’re frowned upon,” he told the Post-Dispatch.

BY CALVIN WILSON

SATURDAY Kameron Michaels “There’s no substance there. It’s almost like rap music. My comedy is about the way I view the world.” Love replaces “Black-ish” star Deon Cole. BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON

Ghost WHEN 9 p.m. Friday • WHERE Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market Street • HOW MUCH $25.50-$55.50 • MORE INFO 1-800-7453000; ticketmaster.com

Metal band Ghost hits Peabody Opera House on Friday night in advance of its album, “Prequelle,” to be released June 1.

Tobias Forge recently stepped forward as the frontman for the formerly anonymous band. BY

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Missouri River Irish Fest

WHEN 5-11:30 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-midnight Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sunday • WHERE Westport Conference Center, 600 West Port Plaza • HOW MUCH $10-$40; VIP packages available • MORE INFO crystalfairstl.com

WHEN 5-10 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday • WHERE Schlafly Bottleworks, 7260 Southwest Avenue, Maplewood • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO 314241-2337; schlafly.com

WHEN 5-11 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday • WHERE Frontier Park, 500 South Riverside Drive, St. Charles • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO moriveririshfest.com

If you love “My Little Pony” — or just happen to love dressing up like a rainbow-colored talking cartoon horse — we’ve found your people. The Crystal Fair will include panel discussions, a dance, a gaming room, a preview of the video game “Starswirl Academy” and appearances by pony voice actors Lee Tockar and Andrew Francis. BY VALERIE

Schlafly’s annual Memorial Day weekend festival features artists and artisans displaying their works for sale outside the brewery’s Maplewood facility.

Beer and food will be available for purchase, and look for free samplings of Schlafly’s Coconut Crème Ale and other select styles.

Throughout the festival there will be live music by groups such as the Maness Brothers and Mathias & the Pirates. BY IAN FROEB

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“The largest free Irish festival in the Midwest” is back for its 14th year with a headlining performance

by Barleyjuice and traditional music, food and crafts to celebrate Irish culture. If you’re 21 and older, sign up for a $35 Guinness Experience session with a Guinness Ambassador. BY VALERIE SCHREMP HAHN

St. Louis County Greek Fest WHEN 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

Friday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday • WHERE

Assumption Greek Orthodox Church, 1755 Des Peres Road, Town and Country • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO stlouisgreekfest.com

What better way to greet the summer than to binge on baklava, melt over moussaka and gorge on gyros?

The organizers of the St. Louis County Greek Fest, with the motto “experience a taste of Greece without the airfare,” are ready to send you on a journey. Shop the Greek market, learn a Greek dance, take a tour of the church and watch a movie about the history of the country. Shuttle service is available from the Corporate Hill Campus a few blocks away. BY VALERIE SCHREMP HAHN

WHEN 9 p.m. Saturday • WHERE Attitudes, 4100 Manchester Avenue • HOW MUCH $20-$30 • MORE INFO 314-802-8603; kameronstl.eventbrite.com

Kameron Michaels looks like a shoo-in for the final three on “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” While some of the performers seem to blend together, Michaels stands out for being the one with the muscles and tattoos.

BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON

Opera Theatre of St. Louis: Marc Blitzstein’s ‘Regina’ WHEN 8 p.m. Saturday, 8 p.m. May 31, 1 p.m. June 6, 8 p.m. June 8, 1 p.m. June 16, 8 p.m. June 20, 7 p.m. June 24 • WHERE Loretto-Hilton Center, 130 Edgar Road, Webster Groves • HOW MUCH $25-$139 • MORE INFO 314961-0644; opera-stl.org

with the first-ever production of Marc Blitzstein’s “Regina” at Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Based on Lillian Hellman’s 1939 play “The Little Foxes,” “Regina” focuses on the ruthless and amoral Regina Giddens and her (almost) equally unpleasant brothers in a small town in Alabama in 1900; she may win, but at an awful cost. Blitzstein’s music, which influenced other 20th-century composers, features everything from ragtime to spirituals.

The cast includes mezzo-soprano Susan Graham (celebrating the 30th anniversary of her OTSL debut), bass-baritone James Morris, soprano Susanna Phillips and baritone Ron Raines.

BY SARAH BRYAN MILLER

Cooper-Moore, Joshua Abrams, Hamid Drake WHEN 8 p.m. Saturday • WHERE Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue • HOW MUCH $20, $10 for students • MORE INFO newmusiccircle.org

Jazz doesn’t get more adventurous than the sounds of keyboardist Cooper-Moore and percussionist Hamid Drake, who will team up with bassist Joshua Abrams for a trio performance presented by the New Music Circle. This concert is virtually guaranteed to take listeners to places far beyond the post-bop paradigm.

BY CALVIN WILSON

One of the biggest events of the summer opens Saturday night

FAST FORWARD “Romeo and Juliet,” June 1-24 in Forest Park: The Shakespeare Festival St. Louis stages the Bard’s tragedy about two young lovers and their feuding families • Tony Awards, June 10 on CBS: Our fingers will be crossed for nominees from the St. Louis area, including Taylor Louderman, Norbert Leo Butz and Laurie Metcalf • “Jerome Robbins’ Broadway,” June 11-17 at the Muny: Forest Park’s outdoor theater opens its centennial season with a show that pays tribute to the whole history of Broadway • Shania Twain, June 13 at Enterprise Center: The country star said farewell to touring in 2015, but she’s on the road again Taylor Louderman 4

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St. Louis African Arts Festival WHEN 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Saturday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Monday • WHERE World’s Fair Pavilion, 1904 Concourse Drive, Forest Park • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO 314-325-2291; stlafricanartsfest.com

Enjoy live entertainment, an African marketplace and food from several countries at the festival’s African village. Visitors ages 13 to 19 can explore the Safari Teen Hut. The mission of the festival is to expose the St. Louis community to the richness of African culture and its impact on Western culture. BY VALERIE SCHREMP HAHN

SUNDAY Lit Fest starring Ayo & Teo, DJ Trill

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WHEN 7 p.m. Sunday • WHERE The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard • HOW MUCH $28-$48 • MORE INFO 1-800-7453000; ticketmaster.com

Popular hip-hop dance duo Ayo & Teo will bring their moves to town this weekend for an event dubbed Lit Fest. The duo, who’ve danced in videos for Usher and Chris Brown, have their own hit with “Rolex,” which has more than 400 million views on YouTube.

BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON

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St. Louis Chamber Chorus: ‘Memorial Dances’ WHEN 3 p.m. Sunday • WHERE First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood, 100 East Adams Avenue, Kirkwood • HOW MUCH $30, $10 for students • MORE INFO 636-458-4343; chamberchorus.org

Artistic director Philip Barnes and the St. Louis Chamber Chorus complete their 2017-18 season with “Memorial Dances” on Sunday afternoon. It features “Suite Remembrance,” a new commission from composer-inresidence Melissa Dunphy, along with the sublime Requiem

by Herbert Howells, Benjamin Britten’s Choral Dances from his opera “Gloriana,” Daniel Pinkham’s motet “Thou Hast Turned My Laments Into Dancing” and William Schuman’s “Carols of Death,” settings of three verses from Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass.” BY SARAH BRYAN MILLER

‘The Queens’ screening WHEN 7 p.m. Sunday • WHERE Hamburger Mary’s, 400 Washington Avenue • HOW MUCH $12 • MORE INFO thereporters.org

A new documentary by the Reporters Inc., a nonprofit journalistic production company, will give viewers a peek inside the transgender subculture of competitive female impersonation. “The Queens” goes behind

the scenes of Chicago’s iconic Baton Show Lounge and the annual Miss Continental pageant. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Mark Saxenmeyer and two performers featured in the film, Sunny Dee-Lite and St. Louisan Tiffany T. Hunter. Proceeds benefit the Reporters.

up to participate. If you go, bring fresh flowers: Volunteers from the Flower Guard will collect them and use them to decorate the graves of veterans. BY

BY GABE HARTWIG

WHEN 7:30 p.m. Thursday • WHERE Powell Symphony Hall, 718 North Grand Boulevard • HOW MUCH $75-$130 • MORE INFO 314-534-1700; slso.org

MONDAY Cherokee Caravan Antiques and Art Bazaar WHEN 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday • WHERE Cherokee Street between Jefferson and Lemp avenues • HOW MUCH Free • MORE INFO cherokeeantiquerow.com

Browse art and antiques from more than 100 vendors, peek into the shops along Cherokee Street’s antique row and enjoy live music by Sarah Jane and the Blue Notes and T.J. Müller and Band. BY

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THURSDAY Boyz II Men

Four-time Grammy winners Boyz II Men collaborate with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for what’s bound to be a memorable Thursday evening. The group’s hits include “End of the Road,” “I’ll Make Love to You,” “Motownphilly,” “One Sweet Day” and many more. Kevin McBeth conducts. BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON

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The city of Alton has its Memorial Parade down: Organizers say it’s the oldest in the country, first held in 1868, three years after the end of the Civil War. More than 50 groups are signed

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into touring in 2017 with Def Leppard and Tesla.

“It was fun, a fantastic tour that sold out, jampacked,” Dall says.

“We couldn’t have asked for a better package.”

That tour was so successful that Poison is hitting the road again this summer for its “Nothin’ But a Good Time Tour” with Cheap Trick.

“This year we’re headlining,” Dall says. “We’re out longer, and we’re doing more. I don’t care if we’re headlining or opening — when we play a show, we’re there to please the fans.

That’s always the attitude of the band.

“We’re about escapism — about the good time. I always say if you leave a Poison show without a smile on your face, you need therapy.”

Dall doesn’t want to give away too much about what fans can expect, but he says the band will play all its hits, “squeezing as many as we can into the time frame. The problem is we have too many hits. So we just have to play them all.”

Banging out all those hits, he says, “is better than sex. The adrenaline rush of being on a stage and being a rock band is just incredible. I wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

Though he says he loves the whole show, the band’s 1990 song “Ride the Wind” is his favorite to play live.

“The interaction of the crowd makes it so wonderful,” he says. “The day the fans stop coming, that’s the day to cry.

Bret Michaels (left) and Bobby Dall of Poison

Poison aims to deliver as many hits as possible The classic rockers guarantee ‘Nothin’ But a Good Time’ on their new tour with Cheap Trick

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lassic rock acts are soaring this summer, with many coming to Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre: Slayer, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Chicago and REO Speedwagon, Styx and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Poison and Cheap Trick get things started this weekend.

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the top of music charts, their concert legacies speak for themselves.

“Rock ’n’ roll is here to stay. I hate to tell you, but it ain’t ever going away,” says Poison bassist Bobby Dall, interviewed last week as rehearsals came to an end. “Our numbers increase every year. If you have a catalog with enough depth, your career is sustainable and will always be large.”

After several years off the road, the Bret Michaels-led group jumped back

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Having Cheap Trick in the mix is a bit of a throwback for Poison. “We love the guys in Cheap Trick. We go a long way back with them, and we grew up with them as kids. Cheap Trick was on one of our original tours when it was Ratt, Cheap Trick and Poison. Cheap Trick went off and did their own thing, and we stayed on the tour for another year.”

Cheap Trick — though it represents a different era of rock — was available and made for a nice touring package.

Pop Evil is also on the tour “WE’RE ABOUT but will miss the ESCAPISM — St. Louis show; ABOUT THE Cinderella’s Tom GOOD TIME. I ALWAYS SAY IF Keifer will fill in.

YOU LEAVE A Dall says Poison POISON SHOW and Cinderella WITHOUT played many A SMILE ON shows together YOUR FACE, in the past.

YOU NEED Poison reTHERAPY.” corded its 2008 BOBBY DALL OF POISON album “Live, Raw & Uncut” at the former Verizon Wireless Amphitheater (now Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre) in 2007. And Dall has family in St. Louis.

Along with Dall and Michaels, Poison also includes Rikki Rockett and C.C. DeVille.

The band doesn’t have any plans to make new music; the focus is on the tour — and on the classics.

Though Dall says he’d love to record new music, he says not all the members agree. “I don’t want to point any fingers.” Some of the members won’t commit to scheduling time to record an album.

“But it would be fantastic, Dall says.

“I’m absolutely for it. It’s a matter of getting these four members to get three or four months of their lives set aside to record.”

WHAT Poison, Cheap Trick, Cinderella’s Tom Keifer • WHEN 7 p.m. Saturday • WHERE Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights • HOW MUCH $18-$250 • MORE INFO 314-298-7389; livenation.com

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froSexyCool turns 2 years old with a celebration Saturday night at the Ready Room. DJ and event producer James Biko has assembled what’s looking like one of the funkiest nights St. Louis will see this year. The event grew out of two other events started by Biko — Supernatural and JazzyPhatNappy.

Q • What’s AfroSexyCool all about?

hip-hop and Afro-pop and everything related and in between.

A • It’s an Afro-cultural arts, fashion and dance event, a celebration of all things black and really dope. That’s admittedly kind of generic, but the people who hear the name and definition get it.

With most people, it’ll just click. But I wanted a real hodgepodge, nothing too specific.

From the music standpoint, I wanted the type of party that’s all inclusive.

Musically that includes the deepest of Afrohouse, Afro-beat, all the way to trap,

Q • How would you define the event’s name?

A • Individuals can take it and make it mean whatever naturally comes to them.

Q • What can you say about the DJ lineup?

A • DJ Nico is just a dynamo. Her energy is second to none. She’s really interactive. She’ll grab the microphone, talk to the crowd, go out in the crowd and dance, then go back up and put something else on. And she comes with a lot of the St. Louis

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Blvck Spvde does a lot of remixes and exclusive stuff — he’s part of this music collective and knows all these different artists and different channels to get music.

His library is really vast — all rhythmic and danceable.

Makeda Kravitz is allaround dope. She’s new to playing out in front of large crowds, and her library and knowledge of music is vast as well. She’s younger, and I’m always fascinated at younger people DJ’ing who have a natural affinity for the stuff of their generation but also know about things from the past, appreciate it and blend it in a cohesive way.

Hood Bunny is the same way. He’s a younger dude who started DJ’ing not long ago, and when I saw clips of him, it struck me. His selection was dope, and he has a thoughtfulness in his mixing.

Q • How did the first AfroSexyCool go?

A • It was May 28, 2016, when I was still doing Supernatural. I asked Kaveh (Razani) from Blank Space about Memorial Day weekend for an event, if they had anything going on, and they didn’t.

This was four days before the event. When I found Blank Space was available, I wasn’t trying to do a lastminute Supernatural thing, so I said, “Let me do this quick little thing.” I whipped up the artwork and put my name on it. And for some crazy reason that night, everything clicked. I can’t take a whole lot of credit for it. It was Memorial Day weekend. If you can’t rock a party Memorial Day weekend, something is wrong.

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Q • What’s in store for the future of AfroSexyCool?

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WHAT AfroSexyCool with Hood Bunny, Makeda Kravitz, Blvck Spvde, DJ Nico, James Biko, hosted by Aloha • WHEN 8 p.m. Saturday • WHERE The Ready Room • HOW MUCH $7-$10 • MORE INFO ticketfly.com

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BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON POST-DISPATCH POP MUSIC CRITIC

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inger-songwriter Vance Joy considers his debut album “Dream Your Life Away” (2014) an early career milestone because of the challenges it presented.

After touring off an earlier EP release, Joy had to write new songs on the road, and finding the time and space to prep his full debut album was stressful.

Still, he was happy with the finished product, which included songs such as “Mess is Mine,” “Riptide” and “First Time.”

“A year into that, it was in my head I really wanted to make a second album,” he says. “I really wanted to try and follow it up.

But it was a big task of trying to establish myself with another album.”

Joy’s latest album, “Nation of Two,” features “Lay It On Me,” “Like Gold” and “Saturday Sun.” “A lot of artists I admire are prolific and have at least two albums. That was my goal,” says Joy, inspired by artists such as Australian singersongwriter Paul Kelly as well as American classics Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.

He didn’t approach “Nation of Two” thinking kjohnson@post-dispatch.com

about what he wanted to sing. All he knew was he wanted to sing with passion and conviction.

While writing, he says, he gravitated toward songs with emotion and power behind them. He noticed he’d written a lot of songs that were conversations between two people, that were either romantic or about family and friends.

“When it came to the title, ‘Nation of Two’ felt like the right way to connect those songs about two people,” Joy says.

He says he can feel good about playing every song on “Nation of Two.” The songs have more layers, and he brings new colors and flavors to the table. Joy used different producers on the album rather than just one producer, as he did on “Dream Your Life Away.”

“They all brought their special skills and ways of doing things,” he says.

Before, he had all the songs ready to record before going into the studio. This time, he wrote two or three songs and recorded with a producer, then wrote a few more songs and recorded

with another producer.

“I made the album in bits and pieces,” Joy says, “so it made sense to explore and to play with different people.”

There’s also an evolution in the songwriting that’s noticeable. “There’s enough of the same and enough that’s different,” he says. “I’m giving people something new, exploring and discovering. There’s more instruments, and I played new rhythms on my guitar, and my voice is more upfront now. I feel like after a few years of singing live, my voice has gotten stronger, so it’s right up front in the mix.”

The new album includes “Saturday Sun,” which Joy released an acoustic version of. “It’s a way of giving people new stuff to listen to; I’ve always done that,” he says. “When I write them, they’re originally written in a way that’s stripped back. You can tell if a song works if you can sing it with just you and an instrument.”

Joy is taking this music and more on his “Nation of Two World Tour,” coming this weekend to the Fox Theatre. It’s his biggest production to date.

“It’s a real step up for us professionally, and there’s a nice flow between the upbeat songs and the slow songs,” he says. “Hopefully the songs grab people and are really engaging.

People will be able to let their hair down and dance and feel transported.”

WHAT Vance Joy • WHEN 7:30 p.m.

Saturday • WHERE Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard • HOW MUCH $25-$52.50 • MORE INFO 314-534-1111; metrotix.com

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June 28, $20-$22.50.

• “Jimmy Griffin’s 50th Birthday Show” with performances

by Pettycash Junction: A Tribute to Tom Petty & Johnny Cash, the Incurables, Street Fighting Band: A Rolling Stones Tribute, Celebration Day: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin, and members of El Monstero: A Tribute to Pink Floyd, 7:30 p.m. July 7.

• La Santa Cecilia’s “Summer Boogie Tour,” 8 p.m. July 11, $20-$22.50.

• Cody Johnson, 8 p.m. July 19, $20-$25.

• “An Evening With Yo La Tengo,” 8 p.m.

Sept. 17, $25-$28.

Duck Room at Blueberry Hill ticketmaster.com • Iya Terra’s “Higher Ground Tour,” 8 p.m.

July 1, $15-$18.

• Natalie Prass, 8 p.m. Aug. 17, $15-$18.

Enterprise Center (formerly Scottrade Center) livenation.com • Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Nov. 30, originally scheduled for Nov. 12, 2017, tickets for original date will be honored, new tickets available.

Event Center at River City Casino

Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre livenation.com • H.E.R. added to Super Jam with Post Malone, 21 Savage, Remy Ma, 5:30 p.m. June 8.

JASON ALDEAN • MAY 17 • HOLLYWOOD CASINO AMPHITHEATRE 1 From left: John and Missy Cafazza with Jaimie and Mike Linton, all of Bethalto 2 Jay and Jen Haire of St. Louis 3 From left: Amber Habsieger of Festus, Brandy Wilson of Crystal City and Jordan Freese of Crystal City 4 Abby Winkler (left) and Bailee Vierling, both of St. Louis 5 From left: Heath Stegall of Ballwin, Alex Wegmann of Fenton, Julianne Wegmann of Oakville and Korey Stewart-Glaze of St. Louis 6 Boston and Jason Diemer of Springfield, Mo. ‘AN EVENING WITH THE STARS’ • MAY 19 • THE MUNY 7 From left: Hannah Geurkink, Peyton Boyd, Christie Leslie and Callandra Hudak, all of Wildwood 8 From left: Makenna Penberthy of Festus, and Dennis and Joanne Spiro of Arnold 9 Jennifer and Charles Caltagirone of St. Louis 10 Joyce Kelly and Jack Lavin, both of Chesterfield 11 Gary and Brenda Franke of St. Louis 12 From left: Kathie McCann, ZZ Kambal and MJ Probst, all of Olivette

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• Murder By Death, 8 p.m.

Oct. 3, $20-$25.

The Pageant ticketmaster.com • K. Michelle, 8 p.m. July 3, $45$60, moved from Ballpark Village.

• Prophets of Rage, 8 p.m. Aug. 13, $40-$50.

• Parkway Drive, August Burns Red, the Devil Wears Prada, Polaris, 8 p.m. Sept. 4, $28.50-$30.

• Blue October, 8 p.m. Oct. 12, $30-$35.

• Rainbow Kitten Surprise’s “The Friend, Love, Freefall Tour,” 8 p.m. Oct. 19, $25-$27.50.

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• Roger Hodgson, 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12-13, $59.50-$79.50.

• Joe Rogan’s “Strange Times 2018 Tour,” 7:30 p.m. Aug. 11, $36.50-$72.

• Neil Young Solo Tour, 8 p.m. June 28, $65-$275.

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• “4U: A Symphonic Celebration of Prince,” 7 p.m.

Oct. 14, $35-$125.

• Big Boi added to Christina Aguilera concert, 8 p.m. Nov. 6, $46.50-$156.50.

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RKDE takes over Cherokee Street staple Owner says the vibe remains at multiuse building that was Blank Space

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BY KEVIN C. JOHNSON | POST-DISPATCH POP MUSIC CRITIC

Cherokee Street staple Blank Space may not be what it used to be, but 2847 Cherokee Street remains a destination address.

The multiuse space was known for its DJ spins, dance parties, artsy vibe and more for years. Now, after renovations and updates, Blank Space is officially RKDE, pronounced arcade.

Lining the walls at RKDE is a mixture of mostly classic games such as Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, “The Simpsons,” NBA Jam, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Galaga, Mortal Kombat II and more. There are also race-car games, shooting games and pool tables.

Reaction was strong among the underground music community as talk swirled that the well-liked nightspot had transformed.

“The chatter is that Blank Space is gone, that Blank Space is dead. That’s a fallacy. I don’t see Blank Space as having gone anywhere,” says Kaveh Razani, co-owner of RKDE and 2720 Cherokee, the concert venue a few blocks away. RKDE originated as a part of 2720 Cherokee before it inhabited the former Blank Space as a partnership between Razani and Rob Fulstone, who is also known as DJ Crucial.

“Adding arcade games and pool tables doesn’t change the bones of this place,” Razani says. “I feel strongly about this. I don’t want people to stop

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coming and experiencing the place.

Blank Space isn’t the building, it isn’t the business. What made Blank Space Blank Space was the interactions, the experiences, the values people came in contact with, our approach to things. Those are all things we still want to do.”

Music events that fit the space will continue to take place in the basement.

RKDE originated on the second floor mezzanine of 2720 Cherokee as a weekly event in 2016.

“I like video games, and I have friends who like video games, he says. “I went to DJ Crucial (whose 10-year-old son came up with the name RKDE) and asked do you wanna start RKDE. I wanted to do this before the Start Bar, before Parlor,” he says, referring to a couple of arcade bars in St. Louis. “I said, ‘Let’s do the damn thing.’ I thought it would be really cool.”

He says everyone who went to RKDE at 2720 Cherokee loved it, but the logistics were tricky.

“It was hard to get people to the second floor. There’s not a dedicated entrance. We had to open the whole venue, and people would shuffle across the floor kjohnson@post-dispatch.com

and go upstairs. Our goal was to get a staircase in the front, but we never got to that,” Razani says.

Meanwhile, the costs of running Blank Space were rising and returns were diminishing. He scaled back his attention on Blank Space, putting it into hibernation in late summer 2017.

At the start of 2018, the decision was made to take RKDE from 2720 Cherokee — expand it and give it a proper home at Blank Space.

Among the new things patrons will notice on RKDE’s main level are blowtorched hardwood floors, lighting and a bar menu created by general manager Luc Michalski. The stuffed bookshelves that lined the rear wall are now empty.

One idea under consideration is allowing different artists to paint the insides of the bookshelves.

The upper level has been dressed up as well with new floors, an additional pool table and bathrooms and imported Japanese games, Sega Blast City.

A food vendor is being sought to cater the back patio.

The basement, with a small stage area, has been spruced up, and Razani says they’re considering a speakeasy feel with a custom cocktail membership there.

In what looks like a bit of a 360 move, what was RKDE at 2720 Cherokee will remain, for now, a blank space. “We’re not dictating what the concept will be.

We’re looking for people to create the space.”

WHAT RKDE • WHEN 5 p.m.-1 a.m. daily • WHERE 2847 Cherokee Street • MORE INFO instagram.com/2847rkde; 314-282-8017

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Rising star believes in musical’s message The irreverent hit ‘The Book of Mormon,’ by the creators of ‘South Park,’ returns next week to the Fox Theatre

BY DAVE OSBORN | NAPLES (FLA.) DAILY NEWS

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evin Clay grew up watching a brand of humor that’s now part of his job.

He plays Elder Price, one of the main characters in the musical comedy “The Book of Mormon.”

The successful Broadway show is the

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creation of Trey Parker and Matt Stone (along with songwriter Robert Lopez), who gave the world the animated TV show “South Park.”

“The Book of Mormon” visits the Fox Theatre next week.

“It’s pretty unreal that they’re, in a sense, my boss,” said Clay, 25, of Parker and Stone.

His interest in the arts began at a young age. As a kid, he says, Disney was an especially big influence, and he enjoyed animated films such as “Aladdin” and “Beauty and the Beast.”

“My mom said, even before I could talk and think, I could watch an entire movie like that.”

He said he also appreciated the comedic style of actor and comedian Jim Carrey. His mom had the biggest influence, though, as she would often play cast recordings of musicals and took him to see his first Broadway shows when he was in the sixth grade.

Clay recalls seeing “Hairspray” and “The Producers” in New York.

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“I thought it was the greatest thing ever, especially ‘The Producers,’” he says.

He continued his road to theater in his native Chantilly, Va. He performed in plays beginning at age 8, and that continued into high school.

Clay says he had a couple of teachers who encouraged him to pursue acting in college and recommended some of the more well-known theater schools.

That led him to the prestigious School of Theatre at Pennsylvania State University, where he thrived.

“Penn State is one of those schools that fit everything I wanted,” he says.

Theater agents and casting directors spotted his talent while Clay was a student and asked him to audition for a spot in “The Book of Mormon.” He graduated in 2015 and gave it a shot. By the third audition later that fall, he won a part.

Clay was part of the production’s ensemble cast.

“It was the perfect excuse for me

to virtually put my life on hold for a while,” he says. “I don’t have to get an apartment and worry about that sort of stuff.”

Then he was promoted to one of the top roles.

“I love that the show is really high energy for us as performers,” Clay says.

“Especially for my character, I get to sing a lot and get a lot of moments to command the stage and be free to have a good time.”

And he says, above all, he believes in “The Book of Mormon” and the creative genius behind it.

“I trust the material so much, and that, as an actor, is so refreshing,” he says. “I fully believe the message of the show. I trust the comedy of the show.”

The production does more than just poke fun at religion, Clay says.

“I love to be able to walk away from a show like that, and hopefully the audience had a lot of laughs and they learned something, that they took a message away from the show,” he says.

“It’s not a fluff piece. The message that I get out of the show is the practice of faith can be certainly positive for yourself and your community in whatever form you take. And, by using Mormonism, you’ll be able to examine your own religion or your lack of religion and say maybe some of my own thoughts might be a little ridiculous or completely unfounded, but the most important thing is to make sure your actions are to better the people around you.”

And, Clay says, even those who have seen the show before should see it more than once, like they would a favorite film.

“The great thing about these shows that have been going for a long time (is that) the casts are constantly changing,” he says. “So, within the time they would have seen it last time, maybe only four or five cast members are the same out of about 24. The show can feel very, very different.”

WHAT “The Book of Mormon” • WHEN Tuesday through June 3 • WHERE Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard • HOW MUCH $39-$150 • MORE INFO 314-534-1111; metrotix.com

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Violinist Gil Shaham (right)

The Washington University Department of Music has announced its 2019 “Great Artists” series.

There are three new performers — a pianist, a violinist, a mezzosoprano — along with a piano duo originally scheduled for 2018 and a free bonus concert thrown in for subscribers.

The recitals will all take place in the E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall at Washington University’s 560 Music Center, 560 Trinity Avenue in University City.

Virtuoso pianist Nikolai Lugansky will open the series Feb. 10 with a French and Russian program of works

by Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin and Sergei Rachmaninoff; he’ll be followed by mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford on March 21. On April 7, the great violinist Gil Shaham and his frequent collaborator, pianist Akira Eguchi, will perform music by Fritz Kreisler, Johann Sebastian Bach, Scott Wheeler, Avner Dorman and César Franck.

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Duo pianists (and sisters) Katia and Marielle Labèque, close the series May 5 with works by Debussy, Igor Stravinsky and Philip Glass. For subscribers, there’s also a complimentary recital March 2 by Chicagobased Grammy-winners Third Coast Percussion.

Subscriptions for the four recitals are $120 and come with reserved seating and post-concert receptions with the artists (when available). Subscribers will also receive tickets for Third Coast.

Single tickets are $35-$40 ($32-$37 for seniors and

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Washington U. faculty and staff; $15 for students and children).

rounded out by a rarity, Monteverdi’s “The Coronation of Poppea.”

For tickets, call the Edison Theatre Box Office at 314-9356543, or visit edison. wustl.edu. BY SARAH

“Figaro” opens the season. Directed by two-time Tony nominee Mark Lamos and conducted by Christopher Allen (“The Grapes of Wrath,” “La traviata”), it’s to star two former Gergine Young Artists, baritone Aubrey Allicock (“Champion”) and soprano Monica Dewey (“Titus,” “Regina”) as Figaro and Susanna, along with soprano Susanna Biller (“Richard the Lionheart,” “The Trial”) and baritone Theo Hoffman (“The Trial”).

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Opera Theatre of St. Louis announces 2019 season The 2018 season opened Saturday; now Opera Theatre of St. Louis has announced the lineup for 2019. Running May 25 through June 30, it will be the first season for general director-designate Andrew Jorgensen.

As always, the season will include four productions, sung in English with projected English titles, and the Center Stage concert featuring members of OTSL’s young artists program. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will accompany.

2019 will include the company’s 28th world premiere (and second co-commission with Jazz St. Louis), Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” along with two operas from the core repertoire, Mozart’s sublime “The Marriage of Figaro” and Verdi’s “Rigoletto.” It’s

Next up is “Rigoletto,” starring baritone Roland Wood (“Macbeth”) in the title role. His daughter, Gilda, will be sung by soprano So Young Park (“Ariadne on Naxos”); in the role of the licentious Duke is tenor Joshua Wheeker. Bruno Ravello directs; OTSL resident conductor Roberto Kalb conducts.

“Poppea,” a tale of Roman Empire ambition and intrigue, premiered in 1643.

This time, it will be conducted by Nicholas Kok and directed by Tim Albery, using Albery’s 2014 performing edition.

Mezzo-soprano Emily Fons takes the title role; tenor Brenton Ryan is Nero. Soprano Patricia Schuman sings the role of Amalia, with bass-baritone David Pittsinger as Seneca.

“Fire” is based on New York Times columnist Charles Blow’s memoir of growing up in little Gibsland, La., adapted by screenwriter-librettist Kesi Lemmons. Bassbaritone Davóne Tines and internationally acclaimed soprano Julia Bullock (a former member of OTSL’s Artists-in-Training program for high school students) star; OTSL artistic director James Robinson directs, while William Long makes his company debut on the podium.

Center Stage, on June 25, completes the season. Music director emeritus Stephen Lord will lead the Gerdine Young Artists and Richard Gaddes Festival Artists, accompanied by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

For more information, visit opera-stl.org. BY SARAH BRYAN MILLER

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Verdi’s tuneful tale of Violetta, the courtesan who finds happiness and love with Alfredo and then surrenders to him, is one of opera’s greatest hits. Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ new production is directed by Patricia Racette, a soprano

Agpalo who’s sung the leading role about 100 times; her knowledge and understanding of the score shines through. Two freshvoiced young singers, soprano Sydney Mancasola and tenor Geoffrey Agpalo, who started out in the company’s young artists program, are the well-cast leads.

The production is a winner. BY SARAH BRYAN MILLER

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Christine Rocas from Joffrey Ballet (Chicago)

K R O W T O O F Y C N A F Spring to Dance Festival has become a Memorial Day weekend tradition

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n just a decade, the Spring to Dance Festival has become such an essential St. Louis cultural institution that it’s hard to imagine Memorial Day weekend without it. • Presented by Dance St. Louis on two stages at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center, the festival is a showcase for some of the top dance companies in the country, with an emphasis on the Midwest.

More than 20 ensembles — including Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the Seldoms, DanceWorks Chicago, the Big Muddy Dance Company and MADCO — are scheduled to appear. The festival also will feature performances by principal dancers from the Joffrey Ballet, Houston Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada and National Ballet of Cuba. ➙

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This year’s event will be held on two evenings instead of the usual three, in response to belt-tightening at Dance St. Louis. But maintaining the level of quality that audiences have come to expect was a priority, says Terence Marling, artistic consultant to the organization.

“The challenge involved was to get as much good dance onstage as possible,” he says. “But I understood, coming in, how high the bar was set for this festival. And I also understood that this is all the dance that some people see in a year.”

Eighty applications were among the factors considered in putting together this weekend’s program, Marling says.

But the possibility of moving the event to another location was not explored, he says.

“The Touhill has the benefit of having two venues” — the compact Lee Theater and the huge Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall — “being under one roof, which allows us to (have) an early program, with enough time that people can then go and catch the later program in the larger house.

“And it also allows us to present things the way they deserve to presented,” he says.

“Some dance looks a lot better in a smaller, more intimate space. And some stuff really requires a proscenium in order to be seen well.”

Plus, the festival was launched at the Touhill in 2008, and people have become accustomed to going there to see it, Marling says.

With ticket prices ranging from $10 to $20, the festival hopes to maintain its momentum — and continue to attract new dance fans.

“This is all about exposure,” he says. “We want to get as many people in as possible.

Anytime you can get somebody into the theater to watch dance, it’s a win.”

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ance has been known to take its cues from the most unexpected sources. Still, a multimedia piece inspired by former President Lyndon B. Johnson and his political style sounds particularly intriguing.

In these politically

charged times, “Power Goes” — to be performed Saturday by the Chicago-based Seldoms dance company — couldn’t be more relevant.

Johnson, aka LBJ, is largely remembered for escalating the Vietnam War, pushing through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and turning to strong-arm tactics to get what he wanted.

Recently, Carrie Hanson, artistic director of the Seldoms, spoke with

Go! Magazine about “Power Goes.”

Q • What was involved in bringing “Power Goes” to life?

A • We spent a lot of time in Johnson’s archives and presidential library.

And we’re using historical recordings and photographs and costuming to try to get at the topic as well.

Q • To what does the title refer?

A • It’s pulled from a quote. Johnson used to

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A • I think that’s because it’s the 50year mark. And LBJ is such a compelling and complex figure.

Q • What would you say is the focus of the Seldoms?

A • The work often has a dance theater form, rather than abstract dance. We’ve taken on everything from environmental issues to the 2008 recession.

But the Seldoms always have a very strong visual component.

Q • What role do you

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think the Spring to Dance Festival plays on the American dance scene?

A • It’s fantastic to have a festival in the heart of the country that is so recognized and reputable. And it’s crucial for dance companies to be seen in a live format by presenters, who may be introduced to artists and companies that they didn’t know.

A-B Performance Hall

Flying Foot Forum (Minneapolis)

Performances are at 6 p.m. in the Lee Theater and at 7:30 p.m. in the Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall.

Owen/Cox Dance Group (Kansas City) MADCO (St. Louis)

Kambré Contemporary Dance Company (St. Louis)

The Big Muddy Dance Company (St. Louis)

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Wewolf (Los Angeles)

DanceWorks Chicago (Chicago)

FRIDAY Lee Theater Clinard Dance (Chicago) MOMENTA (Oak Park, Ill.) TODD ROSENBERG (HUBBARD STREET); DANCEWORKS CHICAGO

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Festival schedule

LaneCoArts (New York) DAMAGEDANCE (Denver) Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (Dayton, Ohio) Chicago Dance Crash (Chicago)

Joffrey Ballet (Chicago) Chicago Human Rhythm Project (Chicago) Ballet Memphis (Memphis, Tenn.)

SATURDAY Lee Theater Kristi Faulkner Dance (Detroit) DanceWorks Chicago (Chicago) Pas de Monkéy Dance Project (Akron, Ohio)

DanceWorks Chicago

The Seldoms (Chicago) Houston Ballet (Houston), the National Ballet of Canada (Toronto) Project 44 (New York) Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Chicago) San Francisco Ballet (San Francisco), National Ballet of Cuba (Havana) Ensemble Espanol Spanish Dance Theater (Chicago)

WHAT 11th Annual Spring to Dance Festival • WHEN 6 and 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; festival begins at 5:30 p.m. each night in the Touhill’s Terrace Lobby with a free program featuring St. Louis-area dance groups • WHERE Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road • How much $10 per night (Lee Theater); $15 per night (Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall); $20 per night (package for both theaters) • MORE INFO 314-516-4949; touhill.org

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Alden Ehrenreich as Han Solo and Joonas Suotamo as Chewbacca in “Solo: A Star Wars Story”

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and out of trouble, and fortunately his luck never seems to run out.

Bent of embracing his own myth, Solo insists that he’s not a good guy and that his motives are purely mercenary. In that spirit, he hangs out with true criminals such as Tobias Beckett (Woody Harrelson), whose latest scheme involves hijacking a shipment of precious fuel on behalf of highly

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dangerous mobster Dryden Vos (Paul Bettany).

Solo and Beckett don’t entirely trust each other, but they both believe that there’s nothing more important than being one step ahead of everyone else.

That makes for the kind of partnership that works — but it doesn’t guarantee that something won’t go wrong. And when something goes wrong, Vos is not happy.

Fortunately, Solo has allies other than Beckett to whom he can turn in a clinch: Qi’ra (Emilia Clarke), the woman he left behind on a planet that held no future, and Lando Calrissian (Donald Glover), who’s always ready to make a deal.

“Solo: A Star Wars Story” is neither as bad as it was rumored to be nor as good as it might have been. But it’s a lot

of fun.

Working from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan (“Raiders of the Lost Ark”) and son Jonathan Kasdan, director Ron Howard delivers an adventure that lacks poetry but succeeds as popcorn entertainment. After a rough start, the film achieves escape velocity to generate escapist thrills.

Faced with the challenge of filling the space boots of Harrison Ford, Ehrenreich (“Hail, Caesar!”) turns in a surprisingly effective performance.

Wisely, he avoids merely imitating his predecessor, instead bringing his own brand of charisma to the proceedings.

And that goes a long way toward making “Solo: A Star Wars Story” fly.

WHAT “Solo: A Star Wars Story” • RUN TIME 2:15 • RATING PG-13 • CONTENT Action and violence

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Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle in “On Chesil Beach”

Newlyweds find heartache ‘On Chesil Beach’ British film that delves into sex and social norms is raw, painfully honest HHH½

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lorence Ponting (Saoirse Ronan) and Edward Mayhew (Billy Howle) are newlyweds honeymooning by a beach in 1962. Their hotel room is pleasant and clean, and an appropriate setting for the consummation of their marriage. calvinwilson@post-dispatch.com

Unfortunately, the room appears to be much better prepared for that outcome than Florence and Edward.

And the presence of the bed clearly makes them uncomfortable.

Sexual anxiety hangs in the air as they banter about everything but the matter at hand. And as much as they profess their love for each other, it’s not unreasonable to call their sincerity into

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question. Have they chosen to spend their lives together because that’s what they really want, or because they’ve reached the age at which getting married is what one is expected to do?

Florence is wary of being trapped in a conventional marriage. In a way, so is Edward. But he’s willing to pursue the life that society has mapped out for them. She isn’t.

It all comes down to two confrontations — on the bed, and on the beach.

Florence can’t seem to find the words that would bring Edward around to her point of view. Not that it matters — he’s not listening.

Based on the novel by Ian McEwan, “On Chesil Beach” initially comes across as a typical British period drama: tasteful, fastidiously detailed and somewhat repressed. But that

proves to be the beginning of a slow burn. By its conclusion, the film has revealed itself to be raw, painfully honest and emotionally devastating.

Working from a screenplay by McEwan, director Dominic Cooke delivers a drama that addresses the ways in which the pressure to yield to social norms can undo relationships and derail lives.

In another Oscar-worthy performance, Ronan (“Lady Bird”) is nothing short of brilliant. And Howle is impressive as a man at odds with himself.

If you think this is just another exercise in arthouse cinema, you’re in for a surprise.

WHAT “On Chesil Beach” • RUN TIME 1:50 • RATING R • CONTENT Sexual content and nudity

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An inspired look at the dark sides of life British director Michael Pearce turns to true crime as inspiration for his debut feature, ‘Beast’ HHH

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or his debut feature, the chilling psychological thriller “Beast,” British director Michael Pearce turned to the true crime lore of his hometown — the island of Jersey, a self-governing dependency of the United Kingdom located off the coast of France. In the 1960s, a serial rapist known as the Beast of Jersey sneaked into homes, wearing

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a mask, and attacked women and children. Using the tale as a source of inspiration, Pearce’s film isn’t a direct retelling but an exploration of a relationship dynamic between two people who tread to the edge of the darker side of life.

Pearce’s point of view brings the ease of a local to “Beast.” There’s naturalism in depicting this place, a far-flung, small community nestled between two cultures, French and English. Our heroine, Moll (Jessie Buckley), strains against the limits of her life there.

With ruthlessly efficient exposition, Pearce illustrates just how unhappy she is with the people around her: her controlling mother (Geraldine James), her constantly upstaging sister, Polly (Shannon Tarbet), the desperate young police cadet, Clifford (Trystan Gravelle), who pathetically pursues her. At her birthday party, Moll mulls the nature of killer whales in captivity before she dashes off to the pub for a night of anonymous, drunken oblivion.

When Moll’s pub companion presses himself on her in the early hours of the morning, he’s scared off by a hunter,

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Pascal (Johnny Flynn), poaching rabbits in the field. Soon Moll has fallen for this quiet, feral man, who brings her books about wild animals and sweeps her off her feet, despite the protestations of her proper mum.

But Moll, she’s a wild one. Her sister even warns Pascal about Moll’s dark past, having been expelled from school for a violent attack on a bully. But love rarely heeds warnings, and Moll and Pascal fall headlong into each other, making love in the fields and romping in the waves, even while young girls are going missing and turning up dead at the hands of a murderer.

The film is a showcase for Buckley’s astonishing performance. She grows from a repressed young woman, cowed by the enforced proprieties of her home, into a free, liberated creature.

But how much freedom is too much for Moll? She’s tormented by violent nightmares, exacerbated by the ongoing investigation into the murdered girls, in which Pascal has become a prime suspect. Is there anything to the case, or is it simply prejudice and jealousy that drives the spurned Clifford to

zero in on him? Regardless of the truth, Moll lies to protect her lover, easily and instinctually.

The internal and external pressures prove too much, but as Moll breaks down, we’re never quite sure of what’s real. With the assured script and deft direction from Pearce, along with Buckley’s complex and nuanced performance, we never know what’s actually going on in her head. Flynn is also skillfully opaque as the mysterious Pascal, a man seemingly borne of the sea and earth of Jersey, the island as steeped in him as he is in it.

Using the real crimes of the Beast of Jersey as a thematic landscape upon which to explore the ways in which madness does or does not reveal itself in a romantic relationship isn’t just an inspired premise for Pearce’s film. It seems almost like catharsis for the native son, who grew up with warnings of the boogeyman on this isolated island.

But what we discover is sometimes the boogeyman’s inside us too.

WHAT “Beast” • RUN TIME 1:47 • RATING R • CONTENT Disturbing violent content, language and some sexuality

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Juliette Binoche in “Let the Sunshine In”

Looking for love — and a little sex In ‘Let the Sunshine In,’ a woman demands the kind of companionship reserved only for younger women ★★★

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wistful grown-up romantic comedy by Claire Denis, “Let the Sunshine In,” made its premiere almost precisely one year ago at Cannes — not in the prestigious main competition, where it deserved to be, but in one of the festival’s wellregarded but still marginal sidebars.

That slight only underscores the dis-

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missive biases that plague the programming at Cannes, which favors male auteurs and angsty naturalism. It’s easy to see why the festival’s curatorial team overlooked a story of a middle-aged woman looking for love and sexual fulfillment as being not serious enough for Cannes’ most sought-after imprimatur. But that doesn’t make it right.

Juliette Binoche plays Isabelle, a divorced painter living in Paris who, as the movie opens, is in the throes of notquite-wonderful-looking sex with her lover, Vincent (Xavier Beauvois). For reasons that become evident in that and subsequent scenes, Vincent is not ideal for Isabelle, even though he admires her bohemian ways and commitment to art.

Holding the couple in a steady, squared-off frame, Denis observes Vincent’s condescension, pedantry and desire, along with Isabelle’s ambivalence, self-loathing — for allowing him to patronize her — and need. All this, in the space of one cocktail at a quiet corner of a bar.

Denis obeys that same sense of decorum throughout “Let the Sunshine In,” which she adapted with Christine Angot from a 1977 book by Roland Barthes. Meeting a series of men and trying them on for size, Isabelle emerges as a fascinating bundle of contradictions: fiercely independent, but painfully susceptible to male approval; robustly and gloriously middle-aged (Binoche is 54), but still hanging on to the clothes and behavior of her youth; prone to temperamental outbursts, but smart and supremely self-aware.

It’s Binoche, here delivering one of her finest and most subtly calibrated performances, who imbues Isabelle with the heart and earthy eroticism that makes her far more appealing, even heroic, than the pathetic figure she might have been. This is a funny, candid, sexy and kind of sad chronicle of a woman who dares to demand the kind of companionship and spark-fueled physical intimacy that, by too many lights, is reserved only for far younger women.

“Let the Sunshine In” is also a star-

tlingly subversive portrait of a mother who’s far more interested in her own identity and pleasure than in responding to the needs of her 10-year-old daughter.

In that regard, “Let the Sunshine In” doesn’t offer a consistently pretty picture. Where some viewers might view Isabelle as a hopelessly stunted victim of self-deception, others will see an avatar of empowerment and autonomy. In her own carefully controlled but fragmentary and discursive style, Denis provides the space for both kinds of judgment, never showing her own hand. At least, that is, until the film’s audacious final scene, another bold example of flouting expectations, when the title of the film becomes rapturously, even ecstatically clear.

It’s a strange, surreal moment, full of hope and optimism. And, true to the film’s themes, Binoche illuminates it as though lit from within.

WHAT “Let the Sunshine In”• RUN TIME 1:34 • RATING Unrated • CONTENT Brief nudity, obscenity and sexuality • LANGUAGE In French with subtitles

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Josh Brolin in “Deadpool 2.”

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‘A Bag of Marbles’

‘Black Panther’

‘Breaking In’ ★★

NR • 1:53 • A Jewish boy and his brother escape Nazi persecution in occupied France.

With Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial and Patrick Bruel. Directed

by Christian Duguay.

Not reviewed.

★★★★

PG-13 • 1:28 • A young mother played by Gabrielle Union battles a quartet of burglars to save her children in this taut thriller.

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‘Acrimony’ R • 2:00 • Taraji P. Henson stars as a woman wronged by her husband. With Lyriq Bent, Crystle Stewart, Ajiona Alexus, Antonio Madison. Written and directed by Tyler Perry.

Not available for review.

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‘Avengers: Infinity War’ ★★★ PG-13 • 2:29 • The superheroes must cope with a global existential threat in what’s said to be the penultimate film in the

PG-13 • 2:15 • Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong’o star in this thrilling tale of an African king, his adventures and his adversaries. A huge step forward for black cinema and a terrific time at the movies.

Directed by Ryan Coogler (“Creed”). CW

‘Blockers’ ★★½ R • 1:42 • Leslie Mann and John Cena star as parents determined to interfere with their daughters’ prom.

Directed by Kay Cannon.

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‘Book Club’ ★½ PG-13 • 1:44 • Jane Fonda and Diane Keaton deserve better than this anemic feature-length sitcom

about a group of women who regularly gather to discuss a popular erotic novel. CW

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‘Deadpool 2’ ★★★ R • 1:59 • Ryan Reynolds is back as the super-antihero. Not as good as the original, but that’s to be expected.

With Josh Brolin and Zazie Beetz. CW

‘Disobedience’ ★★ R • 1:54 • Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams star in this tale of a forbidden love affair.

Directed by Sebastian Lelio (“A Fantastic Woman”). STAR TRIBUNE

‘Isle of Dogs’ ★★★★ PG-13 • 1:41 • Bryan Cranston, Greta Gerwig and Bill Murray are

among the actors lending their voices to this brilliant animated comedy about exiled canines.

Directed by Wes Anderson (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”). CW

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‘Life of the Party’ ★★

by Greenberg.

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PG-13 • 1:45 • Melissa McCarthy is the only reason to see this lackluster comedy about a mom who returns to college.

Directed by Ben Falcone (“Tammy”). CW

ANGELES TIMES

‘Overboard’ PG-13 • 1:52 • A debauched Mexican billionaire falls off his yacht, wakes with amnesia and is convinced by the woman who cleans his boat that he’s her working-class husband in this reboot of the 1987 Goldie Hawn-Kurt Russell comedy. With Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris, Eva Longoria, John Hannah. Directed

‘Pope Francis: A Man of His Word’ ★★★ PG • 1:36 • Director Wim Wenders, who is best known for narrative films (“Wings of Desire”), offers an unconventional documentary of the pontiff as he travels the world, bringing with him a message of peace and hope. CW

‘A Quiet Place’ ★★★½

PG-13 • 1:30 • Emily Blunt and John Krasinski star in this tale of a family stalked by terrifying creatures. Horror of the first order. Directed

by Krasinski. CW

‘RBG’ ★★★ PG • 1:37 • Betsy West and Julie Cohen directed this engrossing, entertaining and unabashedly adoring documentary about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

‘The Rider’ ★★★½ R • 1:44 • Chloé Zhao (“Songs My Brothers Taught Me”) directed this drama about a severely injured cowboy who had dreams of being a rodeo star.

With Brady Jandreau as a character based on himself. CW

‘Sherlock Gnomes’

‘Tully’ ★★★½

PG • 1:26 • Garden gnomes Gnomeo and Juliet and their family and friends return, aided by the famous detective in this animated sequel.

Voiced by James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Johnny Depp. Directed

by John Stevenson.

Not reviewed. LOS

R • 1:36 • Charlize Theron is terrific in this comedy-drama about a frazzled mom who gets much-needed help from a night nanny (Mackenzie Davis). Directed by Jason Reitman (“Up In the Air”). CW

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‘Show Dogs’ ★★½ PG • 1:30 • Will Arnett stars in this comedy about a cop and a Rottweiler who go undercover at a dog show. WASHINGTON POST

‘Truth or Dare’ ★½ PG-13 • 1:40 • A humorless horror flick about college kids trapped in a deadly game. With Lucy Hale. Directed

by Jeff Wadlow.

‘A Wrinkle in Time’ ★★ PG • 1:49 • Oprah Winfrey, Mindy Kaling and Reese Witherspoon appear as otherworldly beings in this mediocre adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved novel. Directed by Ava DuVernay (“Selma”). CW Use our new calendar to find theaters and showtimes near you. stltoday.com/events

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1. ‘Deadpool 2’ 20th Century Fox, $125,507,153, 4,349 locations, $28,859 average, $125,507,153, 1 week.

2. ‘Avengers: Infinity War’

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Paramount, $13,582,231, 2,781 locations, $4,884 average, $13,582,231, 1 week.

5. ‘Breaking In’ Universal, $6,826,385, 2,537 locations, $2,691 average, $29,106,095, 2 weeks.

6. ‘Show Dogs’ Open Road, $6,023,972, 3,212 locations, $1,875 average, $6,023,972, 1 week.

7. ‘Overboard’ Lionsgate, $4,625,858, 1,820 locations, $2,542 average, $36,874,428, 3 weeks.

8. ‘A Quiet Place’ Paramount, $3,944,442, 2,327 locations, $1,695 average, $176,080,755, 7 weeks.

9. ‘Rampage’ Warner Bros., $1,577,260, 1,466 locations, $1,076 average, $92,500,589, 6 weeks.

STX Entertainment, $1,265,813, 1,505 locations, $841 average, $46,604,270, 5 weeks.

11. ‘RBG’ Magnolia Pictures, $1,252,920, 378 locations, $3,315 average, $3,853,686, 3 weeks.

12. ‘Super Troopers 2’ 20th Century Fox, $1,216,470, 478 locations, $2,545 average, $29,028,826, 5 weeks.

13. ‘Black Panther’ Disney, $860,442, 935 locations, $920 average, $697,822,227, 14 weeks.

14. ‘Tully’ Focus Features, $560,020, 670 locations, $836 average, $8,430,545, 3 weeks.

15. ‘Raazi’ Zee Studios International, $551,201, 123 locations,

$4,481 average, $1,846,376, 2 weeks.

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Ann Dowd is drawn to TV’s dark ladies Emmy-winning actress plays cruel Aunt Lydia in ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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hen Ann Dowd is walking toward you, the impulse is not to make eye contact.

The veteran actress has played, with chilling effect, some of television’s most recent fearsome, scene-stealing archvillains: cult leader Patti Levin in HBO’s “The Leftovers” and, currently, the domineering oppressor Aunt Lydia in Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” for which she won

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an Emmy last year.

But Dowd is far more friendly than intimidating.

Unlike her alter egos, she’s not stingy with a laugh.

And there’s much to be happy about. In addition to Season 2 of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” streaming now, Dowd has a string of films opening next month, including horror film “Hereditary” and “A Kid Like Jake.”

Q • Aunt Lydia is a complicated character.

What has it been like getting to know her?

A • It’s like a friendship or a relationship: She tells me about her, I tell her about me. I think that whatever happened to her, whoever hurt her, did it very successfully. And I think it was early and consistent.

So at some point, the doors closed, and what remains is this. She has managed to, from her perspective, live a redeemed and meaningful life.

Q • You’re coming into this role after playing Patti in “The Leftovers.”

Where do you go, what do you channel, when bringing them to life?

A • I must be a twisted soul deep down, but I loved Patti from minute one.

And I never looked at her as the enemy, ever. Here’s another woman trashed all her life, never had a minute of anything. And then she’s validated, and for the first time in her life, comes into

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her strength. She makes so much sense to me.

And Lydia — I get it. I was educated by Catholic nuns.

They were not cruel. I never went through any of that.

My two aunts were Catholic sisters. I know that world and what I got from it. So that sense of commitment, discipline, work ethic, respect for your elders, deferring to authority. That was all firmly implanted.

Q • You won my heart when you revealed that you didn’t understand “The Leftovers” when you first read the script.

A • Not only did I not understand, I said on the phone to my manager and agent, “What is with this departure business?” (They) were quiet, like, “We have an idiot client.” But they didn’t go there. They said, “Well, it’s an HBO show shooting in New York. Why don’t you give it another

read?” I thought, “Eh.” Then, I went in the room, and something happened.

I said, “Oh, wait. She’s interesting.” But she doesn’t say anything. And I thought, “Oh, great. She’s not gonna talk?” Oh, how I was wrong. Not talking is the most powerful position you can have in a room.

The things I learned on that show — I can’t even tell you.

Q • What has it been like to receive this kind of acclaim at this stage in your career? How are you able to process it or enjoy it in ways you couldn’t had it come sooner?

A • It would have been a very hard thing. I would say the first two-thirds of my career were about letting go of fear and letting go of control. I hope this doesn’t sound like bragging — I don’t mean it that way — but I played a character that I loved deeply, and it was one of the first things I did out of school. Her name was Sarah in a play called “A Different Moon,”

by Ara Watson. I didn’t read reviews; I don’t read them now. But I was told about one that said, “Who is Ann Dowd, and where will she go from here?”

And I almost collapsed with pressure. And so that this would happen now, when I could focus on the work — these women that made sense to me, to be able to play loners who just follow a different path — it has been a blessing.

Q • Were you able to be present in that moment when you were onstage accepting your Emmy?

A • I’ll never get over it for as long as I live. It makes me cry to think about it, because as much as you think,

“I’m not going to attach my worth to it,” it does mean something. When this moment happens in your life, when someone says, “You did good; here you go” — it’s unbelievable. You wish that for everybody — (whether) they’re doing something that matters to them, or even (if) they’re not doing something that matters to them, but they’re doing it because they don’t have an option.

Q • Before becoming an actress, you were premed. What happened?

A • I had decided I wanted to be a doctor. It was a decision I sort of made for my dad. And then he died, which was catastrophic to my life. But yes, he had wanted me to go to (the College of the) Holy Cross, his alma mater. I didn’t want to go. I wanted to go to summer theater, because plays were heaven to me. And I had gotten the part of Adelaide in “Guys and Dolls.” And I was thrilled and was about to tell them when life happened. I got home and my mother was sitting next to my sister, and they were crying. They said my dad had two to five years to live. I had a good cry … then I went into his office and I said: “I have three things to tell you: I’m going to Holy Cross, I’m not going to summer theater, and I’m sorry for all the grief I caused you, and I love you.”

I went off to Holy Cross in the fall. He died in March.

I was really committed to that decision. And it’s a rough, rough college experience. But relief came in acting classes and doing plays at the same time. And it’s led me here.

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he creator and executive producer of “Arrested Development” acknowledges that some people will not like his decision to keep Jeffrey Tambor on the show after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced in October.

“Good people will find this offensive,” explained Mitchell Hurwitz. “I, too, get worked up when I hear about Harvey Weinstein and other people who have taken advantage of people. But I also believe very strongly that we don’t want to live in a world where accusations ruin people’s lives. We have

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Q • What song has been played the most on TV shows or movies? Not “Happy Birthday” or seasonal songs, but like ones

by AC/DC, Patsy Cline — that type.

A • “That’s impossible to say,” says Jon Burlingame, the awardwinning writer about music in TV and movies.

“It changes with every decade, as older songs are forgotten and newer ones take their place based on the demographics of the producers (who are

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tried that as a human race, and it doesn’t always work out great, you know? So accusations are very different than proof and, you know, we obviously are going to support people that haven’t done, that haven’t been proved guilty.”

Hurwitz said production was nearly wrapped on Season 5 when news broke of the allegations made by Tambor’s former assistant and an actress on his other show, “Transparent.”

“Not only do I support him as a friend, but I’ve known him for 20 years.

the ones who usually insist on certain songs showing up).” He notes that the use of songs onscreen became especially popular after 1984, when “Miami Vice” not only used music but made it part of episodes’ narrative.

Still, the use of music is so pervasive, you can find many online lists of songs that get overused in movies and TV shows — and commercials add to the headache.

(I’ve got a serious “Feel It Still” earworm right now because of that.) Some of the songs listed include “Hallelujah,” the

I’ve worked with him for 20 years, and I’ve never seen any behavior like that described. I’ve never, even in private, he’s never been in any way inappropriate about — we don’t talk about women or objectify.

It’s just not who he is, and he’s got a lot of things that I’d like to list, a lot of really bad qualities I’d like to list for you now, but nowhere in there, in my experience, is any kind of creep,” said Hurwitz.

The “Arrested Development” cast unanimously supported the 73-year-old actor at the

much-covered Leonard Cohen song; “Over the Rainbow” (whether by Judy Garland or Israel Kamakawiwo’ole), the Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter,” George Thorogood’s “Bad to the Bone,” the Bee Gees’ “Stayin’ Alive” and Steppenwolf’s “Born to Be Wild.”

By the way, since you mentioned “Happy Birthday,” Burlingame pointed out that it was long unused because it was copyrighted, and producers had to pay to include it. They often substituted the public-domain “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”

until “Happy Birthday” finally became free.

Q • I have watched the serial “Greenleaf” on OWN since the beginning. My family and I really enjoyed the show. We have been looking forward to seeing new episodes, but I haven’t seen anything about a new season start date. Will our favorite church family be returning?

A • The drama about a family and its Memphis, Tenn., megachurch has a third season in the works, currently set

Los Angeles premiere last week for the cult comedy’s new season. The event also marked one of the first public appearances for Tambor in recent months.

Tambor posed for photos with his wife, Kasia Ostlun, but didn’t do interviews.

“We are a family, and it’s great to have everybody in the family here,” said co-star Will Arnett.

Tambor denies the misconduct claims that led to his firing on Amazon’s “Transparent” this year. His “Arrested Development” co-stars said they could only speak to their own

for August. And there will be some changes in the show, including the addition of Patti LaBelle in a recurring role as “a famous Christian motivational speaker and the CEO of a global Christian self-help empire.”

You can find out more about the series and the coming season at oprah.com/greenleaf.

Q • I would like to know when BBC America is going to start the new season of “Doctor Who” that has a woman as the Doctor.

experiences with the Emmy-winning actor.

“All I know about is ‘Arrested Development,’ and he’s always just been incredible with us, and I’m really looking forward to seeing him tonight,” Jason Bateman said on his way into the screening.

“My experience with Jeffrey has been nothing but respectful,” echoed Tony Hale. “And he is such a funny man.

He’s so talented, and he’s an integral part of the show, and just my experience has been nothing but respectful.”

Actor-comedian David Cross was one of the first “Arrested Development” stars to speak out publicly in support of Tambor.

“I’ll say what I’ve said before; I’ve said my piece.

I stand by it. I support him as a friend and a person. I don’t condone any of those, that kind of behavior, but I support my friend,” Cross said on the red carpet.

“Love Jeffrey!” said Portia de Rossi. “I’ve always loved Jeffrey, and we support him and adore him

A • As you know, actress Jodie Whittaker made her debut as the 13th Doctor — the first woman in the role — in December 2017. Her first full season begins sometime this fall. The series also will boast a new head writer and executive producer, Chris Chibnall, along with new cast members Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole, Mandip Gill and Sharon D. Clarke.

Q • When is “Shameless” coming back? I am wondering as one daughter is now on “Roseanne.”

and, yeah, he’s terrific.”

When asked about Tambor remaining in Season 5, Jessica Walter, who plays his wife, simply said, “The family is the family. You can’t cut anybody out nor would we ever want to. It is what it is.”

For Alia Shawkat, who has known Tambor for many years and supports the women of the #MeToo movement, the situation is not cut and dry.

“Well, it’s a very complicated issue, obviously. I’m very close to Jeffrey, and I care about him a lot. I just don’t think it has to completely be so one way or the other. It’s a complicated time, but I’m hoping that as this revolution progresses that we get more involved in the specifics of things and, you know, I support him being on the show, but I also support the voices of the victims at the same time,” she said.

WHAT “Arrested Development” • WHEN Season 5 streams Tuesday • WHERE Netflix • MORE INFO netflix. com/arresteddevelopment

A • So far, Showtime says only that the ninth season of “Shameless” will arrive later this year.

Emma Kenney, who plays Debbie Gallagher on “Shameless,” has indeed appeared on “Roseanne” as Harris Connor-Healy, Darlene’s daughter. It’s not unusual these days for actors to appear in more than one show, since production schedules and numbers of episodes can vary. According to Entertainment Weekly, she made her “Roseanne” appearances while on

a “Shameless” hiatus.

But she has had a tough time off-camera.

In April, Kenney sought treatment for unspecified problems.

In a statement to news outlets, she said, “I was being naive and very immature, and I was doing things I should not be doing because it was illegal and I’m not 21.”

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Pershing and Jackson avenues in University City, to take one prime local example, is so notoriously doomed its current occupant calls itself Cursed Bikes & Coffee. (The restaurant that preceded it closed after two months.)

Far rarer is the reverse curse, an unassuming space that inexplicably generates more than one quality, suc-

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cessful restaurant. Far rarer? That’s too generous. The reverse curse is more mythological than hypothetical, like the existence of Bigfoot or the Blues winning the Stanley Cup. But keep an eye on 3467 Hampton Avenue. For most of the decade, this Lindenwood Park storefront was a restaurant and retail shop for Mark Sanfilippo’s exceptional Salume Beddu.

Then, last April, Sanfilippo decided to focus his salumi business on its Olivette production facility and moved its restaurant operation inside the Richmond Heights specialty grocery Parker’s Table.

Enter AJ and Kirsten Brown. The married couple had been selling their sourdough and brioche bread at farm-

ers markets in the Lake Saint Louis area for a few years when they decided to open a bakery and cafe. They raised $30,000 toward their goal on Kickstarter, and in November they opened Knead Bakehouse + Provisions in the former Salume Beddu. The Browns have brightened the space with whitetile walls, but the layout remains the same, with a display counter between the kitchen and the narrow dining area.

Knead sells loaves of its sourdough Rustic Loaf and its brioche to go. It also serves a menu of breakfast and lunch fare both savory and sweet. Bread is the heart of this cafe menu, too. It’s the base for toast topped with chocolate ganache, jam or honey; it sandwiches sausage, egg and cheese; it can be or-

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dered by the slice with nothing more than sea-salt butter.

AJ Brown studied nutrition and food science in college and became fascinated by the process of fermentation. After graduating, he applied this knowledge to the beverage industry, but his passion for breadmaking grew, and he attended culinary school in Lyon, France.

Despite that French culinary education, Brown told me in a phone interview that he wants Knead’s signature Rustic Loaf to be distinctly Midwestern — a gateway bread for those raised on Wonder- and Bunny-brand white bread. He uses a 5-year-old sourdough starter, a blend of flours (einkorn, organic and whole-wheat flour from Missouri and Illinois) and sea salt and then lets the dough ferment for about 72 hours.

The result is a crusty loaf with a finely balanced crumb, neither too

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dense nor too airy. The sourdough tang is clear and lingering, but not at the expense of the bread’s more subtle, autumnal-sweet wheat flavor.

The bread stands out even among the strong flavors of the porchetta ($13) or smoked-brisket ($12) sandwiches, which in addition to their respective meats both feature smoked cheese, a garlic-herb aioli and mustard.

Bread aside, Knead’s kitchen distinguishes itself with that porchetta (luscious meat with a light fresh-herb counterpoint) and brisket (if not barbecue-godhead level, tender and smoky). The lentil and white-bean chili ($9) needs neither bread nor meat thanks to its sharp green-chile heat and a brilliant, puckering accent of pickled green tomato.

Lighter, sweeter brioche is the sensible choice for Knead’s breakfastsandwich bread, somehow retaining its integrity while sopping up egg yolk,

sausage grease and melted cheese ($8.50) as well as the juice of a ripe tomato. Brioche is also the bread for the grilled cheese ($12), an unusual, but — if you keep an open mind — win-

ning variation with Parmesan on the outside and a molten combination of cheese, a roux and a slice of tomato inside.

Next to the loaves of bread in the display case are a few baked goods, including the best cinnamon roll ($4.50) I’ve eaten. I won’t try to convince you it’s as light as funnel cake, but that’s what crossed my mind, and there’s just enough icing for the roll to be pleasantly gooey without tipping over into treacly sweetness.

On the savory side is the Everything Bagel Kolache ($4.50), which is neither a true bagel nor a true kolache, but like the grilled cheese, enjoyable on its own terms, chewy, garlicky, herby dough with ricotta at the center. The only disappointment was the doublechocolate doughnut ($3.50) — not a bad doughnut, but in a town with so many great yeast doughnuts, it didn’t rise to those ethereal heights. (Doughnut flavors change weekly.)

Knead doesn’t need to perfect those doughnuts to bring me back. It has already joined the small but thriving membership of the St. Louis baking renaissance. Selfishly, I hope the Browns are bound for even bigger things in the future. I want to see what other wonders this Hampton Avenue storefront can produce.

WHERE Knead Bakehouse + Provisions, 3467 Hampton Avenue • MORE INFO 314-376-4361; kneadbakehouse.com • MENU Breakfast and lunch fare • HOURS 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. TuesdayFriday, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday- Sunday (closed Monday)

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t’s unusual, I admit, to recommend a restaurant for an ingredient rather than a dish or the overall experience. In the case of Taco Buddha, it’s necessary.

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Michael Gallina of Vicia named a Food & Wine ‘best new chef’ Food & Wine magazine has named Michael Gallina of Vicia one of its best new chefs of 2018. The annual honor, which this year celebrates its 30th anniversary, has highlighted chefs who have gone on to win worldwide fame, including Thomas Keller, Grant Achatz and David Chang.

“There’s a heartfelt quality to the experience here,” Food & Wine restaurant editor Jordana Rothman writes of dining at Vicia, “and it peaks with bread service taken outside, in front of the wood-burning oven.”

Gallina is the third St. Louis chef to receive the honor, following Gerard Craft of Niche in 2008 and Kevin Willmann of Farmhaus in 2011.

“I would definitely say this has been a lifelong dream of his,” Gallina’s wife and

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summer in a tiny storefront near the corner of Pershing and Jackson avenues in University City. As its name suggests, the restaurant

serves tacos. (However, the restaurant does not, as its name might also suggest, require any knowledge of the Buddha or Buddhism.)

business partner, Tara Gallina, said Monday from New York City, where the couple were participating in events celebrating the announcement.

Tara Gallina said Food & Wine informed Michael in February that he would receive the honor. In fact, she said, they learned the news on the same day Vicia was named a semifinalist for best new restaurant in this year’s James Beard Awards.

“It was the hardest secret in the world (to keep),” she said.

Michael Gallina grew up in Brentwood and made his culinary bones in San Francisco and New York City.

He then became the chef de cuisine at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, chef Dan Barber’s world-renowned farmto-table restaurant in Tarrytown, N.Y., about 30 miles north of Manhattan.

The Gallinas met at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, where Tara worked in the front of

A double cheeseburger at the Hi-Pointe Drive-In

the house as a captain.

In 2015, the couple moved to Michael’s native St. Louis to open a restaurant.

Vicia debuted in March 2017. Its acclaim has included a four-star review from this restaurant critic. I also named it the best new restaurant of 2017 and ranked it No. 3 in the 2018 edition of my STL 100.

Vicia has also made best-new-restaurant lists from the dining website Eater and Esquire magazine.

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Hi-Pointe Drive-In to open in O’Fallon, Ill. Hi-Pointe Drive-In, the burger-andsandwich spinoff of barbecue juggernaut Sugarfire Smoke House, is expanding with a second location in O’Fallon, Ill. “We’ve been working on it for a year,” owner Mike Johnson said.

The new Hi-Pointe will be about a quartermile from the recently opened O’Fallon location of Sugarfire and will be a franchisee operation, though Johnson declined to name the franchisee.

Owner Kurt Eller and chef Ben McArthur, who was the chef of the excellent J McArthur’s for most of its too-short run, oversee a brief and oftchanging menu of tacos that act, to quote from the restaurant’s website, as “humble vessel(s)” for “international flavors.”

These tacos are, generally speaking, good. But there are numerous places in St. Louis right now serving good tacos — great ones, even. Can Taco Buddha’s international flavors set it apart?

I’m not yet convinced.

Tacos like the Cajun-spiced shrimp ($4.75) or the Thai Street Beef ($4.50), with

The new Hi-Pointe will feature the menu and style of the original restaurant, which opened in 2017 at 1033 McCausland Avenue.

There will be one major design difference, Johnson said: The O’Fallon location could not gain approval to use a shipping container, as the original does.

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Juniper will open breakfast spinoff Little Bird John Perkins, the chefowner of acclaimed Southern restaurant Juniper, has announced plans for a new concept: Little Bird, featuring Southerninspired breakfast fare.

The new restaurant will be the second part of Perkins’ Central West End location shuffle.

Little Bird will take over Juniper’s current location at 360 North Boyle Avenue after Juniper relocates to the new 4101 Laclede development at the

meat marinated in a blend of soy sauce, lime juice, lemongrass and ginger, are interesting ideas, but Taco Buddha mutes those distinctive flavors with familiar garnishes: Jack cheese, a jalapeño sauce and cilantro for the shrimp; Cotija cheese, a red-chile cream and cilantro for the beef.

What will compel me to return to Taco Buddha is its devotion to authentic hatch chiles from New Mexico.

The chile’s distinctive smoky flavor and prickly heat imbue every bite of the green chile pork ($4) taco. I’d eat a bowl of pork in this sauce over rice. I’d eat the sauce

straight with a spoon.

Hatch chiles also enliven Taco Buddha’s queso. At $6.50, it’s a buck more than the straightforward queso but worth it for the dash of flavor and heat, not to mention the counterweight to the rich cheese. Just make sure to stir the queso before you dip a chip into it. The hatch chiles like to lurk beneath its surface.

WHERE Taco Buddha, 7405 Pershing Avenue, University City • MORE INFO 314-502-9951; tacobuddha. com • MENU Tacos with international flavors • HOURS Lunch and dinner Tuesday-Saturday, breakfast Saturday, brunch Sunday (closed Monday)

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corner of Laclede Avenue and North Sarah Street.

Tropical Liqueurs is open in the Grove

Juniper currently remains open at its original location.

Tropical Liqueurs is back. The frozen cocktail bar, nicknamed Trops, opened a new location in the Grove last week.

“Little Bird was thought up years ago but now is finally coming to fruition as the natural breakfast/ brunch complement to Juniper’s lunch and dinner,” Perkins said in a statement. “Our guests have often asked, ‘When are you going to do brunch, when are you going to do breakfast?’ and it’s a perfectly reasonable question as both are often the most immediate expression of Southern food that folks are familiar with.”

The restaurant is slated to open by the end of this year, the announcement said. Juniper will preview Little Bird with a pop-up event from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Tropical Liqueurs’ space at 4104 Manchester Avenue is three times larger than its old location, with 14 drink machines, a large outdoor patio and 10 TVs. The space had been under renovation for nearly two years.

Tropical Liqueurs originated in Columbia, Mo., and was popular among college students.

Billy Thompson and his co-owners, his siblings Bradlee Thompson and Connie Vaughan, opened a location in Soulard in 2015.

In March 2016, the city revoked Trops’ liquor license after receiving complaints from neighbors.

Though a reprieve was granted, Tropical Liqueurs announced plans to relocate a couple of months later.

community where I live,” Billy Thompson said. “I’ve been part of it for years.

The neighborhood celebrates diversity and inclusion, and it really encapsulates who we are and what we want to be.”

Thompson expects the new Grove location to better suit the business.

“In Soulard we were surrounded by very small houses,” he says.

“But the Grove is a commercial district, and we’re surrounded by bars. The neighboring businesses have been nothing but supportive, helpful and welcoming.”

The new location will serve food from Guerrilla Street Food, beginning June 1.

Tropical Liqueurs is open 11 a.m.-1:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m.midnight Sunday.

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Like Home French Cafe & Pastry ★★½ WHERE 3855 Lindell Boulevard • MORE INFO 314319-0099; likehomecommeal amaison.com • MENU French cafe fare and pastries • HOURS 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday (closed Monday-Tuesday)

Louie ★★★ WHERE 706 DeMun Avenue, Clayton • MORE INFO 314300-8188; louiedemun.com • MENU Rustic Italian fare • HOURS Dinner MondaySaturday (closed Sunday)

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1764 Public House ★½

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WHERE 39 North Euclid Avenue • MORE INFO 314-405-8221; 1764pub. com • MENU Upscale St. Louis- and New Orleansinfluenced fare • HOURS Dinner daily, breakfast and lunch Monday-Friday, brunch Saturday-Sunday

Billie-Jean ★★★½ WHERE 7610 Wydown Boulevard, Clayton • MORE INFO 314-7978484; billiejeanstl.com • MENU Contemporary American and Southeast Asian cuisine • HOURS Dinner Tuesday-Saturday

Bing Bing ★★ WHERE 567A Melville Avenue, University City • MORE INFO 314-669-9229; facebook.com/bingbingstl • MENU Jianbing and other Chinese fare • HOURS 11 a.m.-9 p.m. daily

The Blue Duck ★ WHERE 2661 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood • MORE INFO 314-769-9940; blueduckstl.com • MENU Contemporary American food • HOURS Lunch and dinner Tuesday-Sunday (closed Monday)

Cafe Piazza ★★ WHERE 1900 Arsenal Street • MORE INFO 314343-0294; cafepiazza. com • MENU Pizza as well as panini and breakfast

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WHERE 2101 Chouteau Avenue • More info 314241-4677; charlevillebeer. com • MENU Hearty pub fare • HOURS Dinner daily, lunch Monday-Friday, brunch Saturday-Sunday

Cibare Italian Kitchen ★½ WHERE 777 River City Casino Boulevard • MORE INFO 314-388-3777; www. rivercity.com/dining/cibareitalian-kitchen • MENU Pasta, pizza and more Italian fare • HOURS Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily

The Clover and the Bee ★★ WHERE 100 West Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves • MORE INFO 314-9421216; thecloverandthebee. com • MENU Casual bistro fare • HOURS Breakfast and lunch daily, dinner Wednesday-Sunday

Club Taco ★½ WHERE 200 North Kirkwood Road, Kirkwood • MORE INFO 314-858-1488; clubtacostl. com • MENU Tacos with a variety of fillings drawn from various cuisines • HOURS Lunch and dinner daily

Cork & Barrel Chophouse ★½

WHERE 4749 Gravois Avenue • MORE INFO 314832-2251; dasbevo.com • MENU German fare with contemporary flair HOURS Dinner Monday-Saturday, lunch Monday-Friday, brunch Saturday-Sunday

Del Pietro’s ★★½ WHERE 1059 South Big Bend Boulevard, Richmond Heights • MORE INFO 314-224-5225; mikedelpietros.com • MENU Traditional Italian fare • HOURS Dinner MondaySaturday (closed Sunday)

El Toluco Taqueria & Grocery ★★ WHERE 14234 Manchester Road, Manchester • MORE INFO 636-6865444; facebook.com/ eltolucotaqueria • MENU Tacos, tortas and more taqueria fare • HOURS 9 a.m.-9 p.m. MondaySaturday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Sunday (no restaurant service on Tuesday)

Grace Meat + Three ★★★ WHERE 4270 Manchester Avenue • MORE INFO 314-533-2700; stlgrace. com • MENU Traditional Southern main dishes and sides • HOURS 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

Wednesday-Sunday (closed Monday and Tuesday)

WHERE 7337 Mexico Road, St. Peters • MORE INFO 636387-7030; corkandbarrel.

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WHERE 32 Maryland Plaza • MORE INFO 314-367-7750; handcraftedbybissingers. com • MENU Light breakfast, lunch and dinner fare, plus chocolate • HOURS Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily

WHERE 9783 Clayton Road, Ladue • MORE INFO 314997-7070; eatthehumblepie. com • MENU Thin-crust and Sicilian-style pan pizzas • HOURS 4-9 p.m. daily

Herbie’s ★★½

J. Smugs GastroPit ★★½

WHERE 8100 Maryland Avenue, Clayton • MORE INFO 314-769-9595; herbies.com • MENU Classic American and French bistro fare • HOURS Dinner daily, lunch Monday-Friday, brunch Saturday-Sunday

WHERE 2130 Macklind Avenue • MORE INFO 314499-7488; jsmugsgastropit. com • MENU Barbecue, including pork ribs and beef brisket • HOURS 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, noon-7 p.m. Sunday

Hi-Pointe Drive-In ★★

Kalbi Taco Shack ★★

WHERE 1033 McCausland Avenue • MORE INFO 314349-2720; hipointedrivein. com • MENU Fast-casual burgers, sandwiches and milkshakes • HOURS 10 a.m.-10 p.m. daily

WHERE 2301 Cherokee Street • MORE INFO 314240-5544; kalbitacoshack. com • MENU Korean-Mexican fusion • HOURS 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday

Himalayan Yeti ★★ WHERE 3515 South Kingshighway • MORE INFO 314-354-8338; himalayanyetistlouis.com • MENU Indian and Nepalese cuisine • HOURS Lunch buffet and dinner daily

Hugo’s Pizzeria ★★½ WHERE 3135 Olive Street • MORE INFO 314-896-4846; hugospizzeria.com • MENU Pizzas both conventional and creative • HOURS Lunch and dinner daily

L’Acadiane ★½ WHERE 1915 Park Avenue • MORE INFO 314-8750108; lacadiane.com • MENU Creole- and Cajuninspired fare • HOURS Lunch Wednesday-Friday, dinner Wednesday-Sunday (closed Monday-Tuesday)

Lemmons by Grbic ★★½ WHERE 5800 Gravois Avenue • MORE INFO 314-899-9898; lemmonsrestaurant.com • MENU American fare with a Balkan accent • HOURS Dinner Tuesday-Sunday, lunch Saturday-Sunday (closed Monday)

Pizza Head ★★ WHERE 3196 South Grand Boulevard • MORE INFO 314-266-5400; pizzaheadstl. com • MENU New York-style pizza by the slice or whole pie • HOURS Lunch TuesdaySaturday, dinner TuesdaySunday (closed Monday)

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WHERE 8025 Bonhomme Avenue, Clayton • MORE INFO 314-899-9767; parigistl. com • MENU Elegant versions of classic Italian dishes • HOURS Breakfast, lunch and dinner MondaySaturday, brunch Sunday

WHERE Inside Tamm Avenue Bar, 1225 Tamm Avenue • MORE INFO 314-479-8155; macslocalbuys.com • MENU Burgers and fries • HOURS 3-9 p.m. WednesdayThursday, 3-10 p.m. Friday, noon-10 p.m. Saturday, noon-9 p.m. Sunday (Tamm Avenue Bar open 3 p.m.-1 a.m. Monday-Friday, 11 a.m.-1 a.m. Saturday, 11 a.m.-midnight Sunday)

The Mad Crab ★★ WHERE 8080 Olive Boulevard, University City • MORE INFO 314-801-8698; facebook.com/madcrabstl • MENU Seafood boils featuring shrimp, crab and crawfish • HOURS 3-10 p.m.

Monday-Friday, noon-10 p.m. Saturday-Sunday

Nudo House ★★★ WHERE 11423 Olive Boulevard, Creve Coeur • MORE INFO 314-2748046; facebook.com/ nudohousestl • MENU Ramen and pho • HOURS 11 a.m.-9 p.m. MondaySaturday (closed Sunday)

One Way Mexican Restaurant ★★ WHERE 5912 Hampton Avenue • MORE INFO 314-833-5550; onewaycafeandbar.business. site • MENU Traditional Mexican fare • HOURS 10 a.m.-10 p.m. daily

WHERE 1923 Park Avenue • MORE INFO 314-3252553; politesocietystl.com • MENU Contemporary and classic bistro fare • HOURS Dinner daily, brunch Saturday-Sunday

Privado ★★★★ WHERE 6665 Delmar Boulevard, University City • MORE INFO 314-899-9221; privadostl.com • MENU A ticketed tasting menu of progressive American cuisine • HOURS Dinner Friday and Saturday

Sardella ★★★½ WHERE 7734 Forsyth Boulevard, Clayton • MORE INFO 314-773-7755; sardellastl.com • MENU Contemporary fare with Italian and Californian influences • HOURS Dinner daily, breakfast and lunch Monday-Friday

Sister Cities Cajun ★★½ WHERE 3550 South Broadway • MORE INFO 314-405-0447; sistercitiescajun.com • MENU Gumbo, po’boys and more • HOURS Lunch and dinner Tuesday-Saturday, brunch Sunday (closed Monday)

Snax Gastrobar ★★ WHERE 3500 Watson Road • MORE INFO 314353-9463 • MENU Casual American fare • HOURS Dinner Tuesday-Saturday

Squatter’s Cafe ★★½ WHERE 3524 Washington Boulevard • MORE INFO 314-925-7556; squatterscafe. com • MENU Creative modern breakfast and lunch fare • HOURS 7 a.m.-2 p.m.

Monday-Friday (limited menu available 2-4 p.m.)

The Stellar Hog ★★ WHERE 5623 Leona Street • MORE INFO 314-4818448; thestellarhog.com • MENU Barbecue featuring beef brisket and pork ribs • HOURS 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

Thursday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday (closed Monday-Wednesday)

The Taco & Ice Cream Joint ★★½ WHERE 2738 Cherokee Street • MORE INFO 314224-5799; facebook.com/ tacoandicecreamjoint • MENU Tacos and other taqueria fare, ice cream and popsicles • HOURS 11 a.m.10 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday

Turn ★★½ WHERE 3224 Locust Street • MORE INFO 314-240-5157; davidkirklandcatering.com/ turn • MENU Casual breakfast and lunch fare • HOURS Breakfast and lunch TuesdaySunday (closed Monday)

Vicia ★★★★ WHERE 4260 Forest Park Avenue • MORE INFO 314-553-9239; viciarestaurant.com • MENU Modern, progressive cuisine with an emphasis on vegetables • HOURS Lunch Monday-Friday, dinner Tuesday-Saturday

The Wood Shack ★★½ WHERE 1862 South 10th Street • MORE INFO 314-8334770; thewoodshacksoulard. com • MENU Sandwiches featuring smoked meats • HOURS 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday, 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday (closed Sunday-Monday)

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Pangea ★★½ WHERE 3245 Rue Royale, St. Charles • MORE INFO 636-757-3579; pangeaworldfusion.com • MENU Contemporary bistro fare with global accents • HOURS Dinner daily, brunch Sunday (closed Tuesday)

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