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or candidates running for office, few tools are more essential than the NGP Voter Activation Network, or VAN. Which is one reason that candidates like Bruce Franks Jr. are frustrated that the Missouri Democratic Party won’t give them access. “By not being able to use those tools, it puts us at a disadvantage, especially when we’re running against incumbents who are experienced,” says Franks, a St. Louis-area activist vying to become a state representative in his firstever run for office. Sometimes called “the voter file,” the VAN software offers tools that, most simply, organize campaigns. One feature (of many) lets users filter voters according to constituency. If a campaign wants to compile a list of, say, lawyers age 25 through 35 who consider the environment an important voting issue, the VAN could generate it. The software is important enough that when the Sanders campaign accessed the Clinton campaign’s data during a system glitch in December, it made national headlines. But now the policies surrounding the system in Missouri have become mired in confusion. Some Democrats who are challenging incumbents say they expected to have access, but this year have been denied. While there’s no formal written policy, they’re being told that the VAN is no longer offered to challengers in primaries where the incumbent is seeking reelection. Adding fuel to the fire, in several instances in this election cycle, the challengers are outsider black or female candidates, taking on a more entrenched establishment. They question why they’re being shut out.
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Maria Chappelle-Nadal threatened to give a speech about how the Missouri Democratic Party “aborts the dreams of poor black girls ... who want to run for Congress.” | JENNIFER SILVERBERG Missouri Democratic Party chairman Roy Temple says the policy seeks to encourage Democratic party candidates to make “higher quality data available to the party as a whole.” He’s concerned that incumbent candidates might not contribute their voter data to the VAN if they know a challenger could use it against them. In a post on Medium, Temple writes that this “historic practice” has been in place “during the time that I have been Chair” — that is, since 2013. Before then, though, the VAN was equally accessible to incumbents and challengers on at least a few occasions. The St. Louis Beacon noted one incident in 2012 where access was given to four challengers, even though a Dem-
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ocratic incumbent was running for reelection. Missouri Rep. Tracy McCreery (D-St. Louis) also says that when she ran in 2012, the VAN was available to a challenger. But since it was a redistricting year, she’s not sure that the Democratic Party officially considered her an incumbent. Temple says he can’t speak to decisions made before his chairmanship. However, one challenger, Cara Spencer, confirms that she accessed the VAN as recently as her 2015 election to the St. Louis Board of Aldermen. Temple tells RFT in an email that “a staffer no longer with the party mistakenly granted Spencer access.” Spencer notes that her political consultant acquired the VAN easily, but that she had trouble getting access on her own after
she stopped working with that consultant. “I banged on the door, and I couldn’t get in,” she says. (Even though she eventually gained access, Spencer, who has a master’s in mathematics, notes that she didn’t like the system and built her own — something she says that most candidates wouldn’t have the time or training to do.) Spencer challenged an incumbent Democratic alderman and won. But she’s not sure most Democrats could do that without the VAN. “For the average candidate, the voter activation network can be an immeasurably, incredibly valuable tool,” she says. That’s a concern for Missouri Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D-University City) as well. In an email to the RFT, Chappelle-Nadal
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Bruce Franks Jr.: “By not being able to use those tools, it puts us at a disadvantage.” | STEVE TRUESDELL says that when she requested access to the VAN for her campaign challenging U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-St. Louis), the party at first told her it shouldn’t be a problem. But then she was told to request access from the 1st Congressional District Committee. After two months of back-and-forth, the party told her she could not have access. Temple disputes Chappelle-Nadal’s timeline, saying that, from the beginning, he told his staff to inform her that she would need to contact the district committee. Chappelle-Nadal blasted the party’s decision last Saturday, writing on her public Facebook page, “I think this is grossly undemocratic. On Monday, I will give a speech on the Senate floor of how the Missouri Democratic Party ABORTS the dreams of poor Black girls like myself who want to run for Congress.” Temple says he’s not sure where the confusion comes from, but he acknowledges that the policy needs to be put in writing; the state committee will consider it
at a meeting on February 20. The goal was never to hurt progressive candidates challenging the establishment, he says — and notes that in several situations where this rule would apply, the challenger and incumbent are both African American. The VAN is maintained by a private company that collects voter data from the state and from the politicians who use it, then sells their software and the data to both candidates and non-profit organizations. Purchasing access to VAN or similar systems is always an option for candidates who aren’t granted access through the party. But that can cost thousands of dollars. For candidates like Cori Bush, who is challenging Republican Senator Roy Blunt and has access to the VAN, the idea of one Democratic candidate being favored over another doesn’t seem right. “It should be a level playing field,” she says. But with unequal access to the VAN system, Bush says, it is anything but. – Katelyn Mae Petrin riverfronttimes.com
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Judy Spencer’s grave at North Lawn Cemetery in January 2016. | NICHOLAS PHILLIPS
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rom the thirty-second floor of the Met Square building in downtown St. Louis, attorney Charlie Weiss can watch the Mississippi River’s slow roll. “It’s very frustrating,” he says, reclined at his desk on a recent December afternoon. “You don’t want to see somebody suffer in prison for something they didn’t do, particularly for a murder like this.” Weiss has been striving for years to free inmate Donald “Doc” Nash, a former lead miner from Salem, Missouri. In 2009, Nash was convicted of fatally strangling his girlfriend, Judy Spencer, back in 1982. Nash is now in his seventies,
and serving a life sentence. Weiss believes he is innocent — and running out of time. “Doc’s health is not good,” the lawyer says. “Hopefully we’ll get him out before he passes away.” If anyone can, it’s Weiss. He’s a slight and unassuming man with small-town roots, but his résumé reads like an avalanche of honors, achievements and board seats. He is a partner at Bryan Cave, a firm headquartered in St. Louis with 1,000 attorneys worldwide. His specialty is commercial and complex litigation, though he has done some pro bono work for low-income criminal defendants — most famously, for Josh Kezer. Kezer spent sixteen years in Missouri prisons for a homicide he didn’t commit. Weiss and his
colleague Stephen Snodgrass got Kezer exonerated. Their victory inspired an episode of 48 Hours, resulted in a $4 million settlement and prompted people across the country to contact Kezer about their own innocence campaigns. So in December 2011, Kezer wasn’t surprised to receive an email with the subject line, “Innocent.” It was from a woman named Diane Monnett — Doc Nash’s daughter. She was desperate to free her father. Over several hours, Monnett and Kezer traded six emails, and Kezer came to believe in Nash’s cause. He referred it to his former attorneys the next morning. Weiss and Snodgrass began poring over the original highway patrol reports and the trial tranriverfronttimes.com
scripts. Right away, they saw holes in the case. Some of it was a matter of faulty presumptions. Judy had been strangled and left in a remote Ozarks forest, with some of her clothes strewn about the crime scene. The state reasoned Nash must have been the killer who tossed her clothes in the woods because, when questioned, he could detail the outfit she’d been wearing. Yet, the attorneys noticed, Nash had likewise been able to recall the outfit she’d worn even before that. After all, he’d been at home while she changed clothes, and watched her leave in anger. Later that night, while driving around looking for her, he likely thought about her clothing. Continued on pg 12
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DOC NASH Continued from pg 11 The state also tried to cast suspicion on Nash for moving in with another woman shortly after the murder. “Talk about motive,” prosecutor Ted Bruce had said in his closing statement. “Gee, I wonder why Judy’s not so important now.” But Nash wasn’t trapped in a marriage with Judy, so this “motive” made no sense. Plus, it led the state to make two incompatible claims: that Nash was hell-bent on possessing Judy on one hand, and escaping her on the other. The state further pointed to Nash’s nervousness when he was twice visited by the highway patrol in March 2008. On the second visit, Nash trembled upon learning that his DNA matched material under Judy’s fingernails, muttering, “It’s not possible.” The attorneys thought: Wouldn’t that be the natural reaction of someone about to be wrongfully accused of murder? How did the state expect him to behave? Once Weiss and Snodgrass turned to the state’s physical evidence, they saw a deeper weakness: None of it clearly placed Nash at the scene — and some of it pointed elsewhere. For one thing, investigators in 1982 had noticed fresh tire tracks near Judy’s body, made by a van or truck. The tracks measured 70 inches between the wheels — which didn’t match either Judy’s Oldsmobile or Nash’s Chevy. Secondly, Judy had been shot in the neck, but Nash didn’t own any firearms. His ex-wife’s brother kept a shotgun in his unlocked truck, yet patrolmen had tested that weapon and ruled it out. Thirdly, Nash submitted to a gunshot residue test the day the body was found. The result was negative. While administering this test, officers looked at Nash’s arms, neck and face, and noted no scratches or struggle marks. That fact led the attorneys to a flaw in the state’s showcase exhibit: the fingernails. The prosecution argued that since Judy washed her hair right before her death, the presence of Nash’s DNA under her nails meant she must have scratched at him, fighting for her life. However, the analyst who discovered the DNA couldn’t tell what kind of cell it came from — blood, skin or something else. Her predecessors had viewed the nails through a microscope in 1982 and saw no tissue at all. 12
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if so, how much, and whether it was soap- or detergent-based; and whether the couple touched each other when Judy returned home to change clothes on the last night of her life. Absent this critical data, it’s impossible to say with any scientific certainty whether Judy and Nash had had a mortal struggle, Schanfield wrote. The DNA evidence in this case, he concluded, is “essentially meaningless.”
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Above: Judy Spencer | COURTESY OF THE SPENCERS Below: Donald “Doc” Nash | COURTESY OF THE MISSOURI ATTORNEY GENERAL So the attorneys asked: Could there be a simpler — and totally innocent — explanation? Yes, says Moses Schanfield, a forensic science professor at George Washington University hired by Bryan Cave to review the case. Schanfield explained in a 2014 affidavit that skin cells obtained by scratching are flaky, tend to sit loosely under the nails and wash away with ease. “Body fluids,” however, tend to flow, “and can be pushed deep into the crevices under a person’s fingernails.” Scientific research on this topic is “limited,” Schanfield wrote. But three years after Nash’s trial, the Canadian government’s Centre of Forensic Sciences published a survey of studies from which an “overall picture” emerges: Foreign DNA gets transferred easily by body fluids during sexual behavior, and even a hard scrubbing of fingernails with soap and a brush fails to
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remove it all. The most likely source of Nash’s DNA, Schanfield writes, was a bodily fluid such as semen or saliva. And that points to consensual contact, not a strangling. (Asked right after the murder when he and Judy last had sex, Nash guessed two days before her death.) As an expert forensic witness — one boasting a 27-year career filled with published books and articles, a master’s degree from Harvard and a doctorate from the University of Michigan — Schanfield was paid for this opinion. However, he points out, he’s not contradicting the state’s expert. At trial, she only ventured to say she “would expect” that hair-washing would have “a great effect” on Judy’s nails. Under cross-examination, she admitted total ignorance of how much DNA had been under Judy’s nails to begin with; whether Judy actually used shampoo, and
t trial, when prosecutor Ted Bruce assigned sinister meaning to Nash’s words, perhaps nothing rankled more than Nash’s statement to a trooper that “Judy is an alcoholic, and when she started drinking, she usually got really drunk and would get in a car with anybody.” In his closing argument, Bruce called it “a terrible thing to say.” But once Weiss and his team dug into the case files, they learned something the jurors hadn’t: Nash wasn’t the only one to say it. The statement was echoed in 1982 by multiple people who had no reason to lie. Far from damning Nash, the lawyers believe, it might be key to understanding Judy’s fate. Eight of Judy’s peers — friends, colleagues, ex-suitors and acquaintances, all younger than 27 — mentioned her heavy drinking when interviewed by highway patrolmen right after the murder. She would “drink to extremes,” they said, or drink “until she passed out” or get “extremely intoxicated.” This group included her best friend, Janet Edwards, who had spoken to Judy about cutting back. In fact, as a couple, Judy and Nash had made a pact to quit drinking. But on the last night of her life, she lapsed. She drank two Coors Light bottles on the way to a podiatrist appointment in Pulaski County, two Coors Light cans on the way back and one Busch bottle at Edwards’ apartment before Nash caught her fibbing. When Nash then angrily told Judy, “This will be the last time you lie to me, bitch,” he meant it not as a death threat, but rather as a break-up threat. Even Judy herself — the only person to hear the comment — took it this way, because she walked back into Edwards apartment and said, “I guess
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that it’s over this time.” And she didn’t act afraid of him. If anything, she seemed eager to work things out — or at least, to keep arguing. She washed out the hairstyle he didn’t like, then drove home to the house they shared. Upon her arrival, “they began to argue about her drinking,” Nash told investigators, adding that Judy “became mad,” changed clothes and drove back toward Edwards’ apartment. While she was en route, Nash called Edwards to say “how much he loved Judy and was worried about her being arrested for drinking,” according to Edwards’ statement to the patrol. Once Judy returned to Edwards’ place, venting her feelings, she told her friend “it was over for Doc and her, as they hadn’t fought like that since they had quit drinking.” She asked Edwards to accompany her to Houston; Edwards stayed home. Judy took a Busch bottle for the road. Walking to her car, Judy ran into Edwards’ neighbor, Christine Terrill, and invited her to Houston. Terrill declined, she later said, “because she was aware of Judy’s reputation when she was drinking.” By the time Judy drove away for good at 8:30 p.m., she’d consumed roughly five beers over five hours. She wasn’t drunk; the body breaks down one beer per hour. But Judy’s autopsy showed something significant: a blood-alcohol content of 0.18. That’s more than twice Missouri’s legal limit. Clearly, Judy’s drinking continued after she left for Houston. The Busch bottle in her car could have been the same one she’d grabbed from Edwards’ apartment. But what about the Busch can in her car, and the other five Busch cans found at the Bethlehem School? Were they hers, or someone else’s? “Who was she drinking with?” asks Weiss. “Nobody has ever explained that.” The state never nailed down a precise time of death, but the blood alcohol content finding means that, at whatever moment Judy died, she was drunk. And when Judy was drunk, she became unpredictable, according to her peers. Jo Ann Brookshire, a hospital colleague and former roommate, told the patrol that if Judy was drinking, it was not unusual for her
to hook up with a stranger or drive along “seldom-traveled” country roads by herself. Phillip Edwards, who said he dated Judy off and on for four months, recalled that on a recent winter night, Judy had called asking for help. She was intoxicated and lost on Route DD without any gas. Dave Tiefenthaler, who said he dated her for a month, told the patrol, “When she was drinking, one minute she loved you and wanted to get married, and the next minute, she would be hitting you.” Deanna Hubbs, another hospital colleague, said that “when she gets drunk she often leads men on, then makes them stop.” Clay Scott, her high school sweetheart, said, “If Judy was drinking, there was no telling who she might have been with.” None of this, Weiss clarifies, is meant to imply that Judy was a bad person. “The point is not to trash the victim,” he insists. “This is a horrible crime. Obviously, she didn’t deserve it. The point is to show it wasn’t Doc.” Weiss is aware his legal briefs won’t endear him to the Spencers. Yet, he says, “if I were the family, I would want to know for sure who the real killer is. It could’ve been a real random thing: Her car runs into a ditch, somebody picks her up.” Weiss says it’s natural for a family to fixate on one suspect and start filling in holes to make their theory work. “I’m not blaming them,” he says. “I just don’t think Doc did it.”
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n a secluded corner of Dent County, at the end of a gravel driveway lined with bull pines, Tim Bell offers his bloodied hand to greet a reporter. “Sorry about that,” he says. It’s a bright November morning during deer season. Behind him, a small buck has been shot and lashed to the back of a four-wheeler. Bell is now a process server and bounty hunter, which explains the revolver strapped to his husky torso. Clad in blue denim overalls, he sits down by a bonfire in his side yard to tell how, as a Dent County Sheriff’s deputy, he once felt hot on the trail of Judy Spencer’s killer. Bell joined the department in 1991. Even then, ten years after the crime, Judy’s murder was still a hot Continued on pg 14
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DOC NASH Continued from pg 13 topic. “That’s all everybody talked about there,” he recalls. A new sheriff, Bob Wofford, was elected a year later. He asked Bell and Roger Barr, a county juvenile officer, to poke around in their spare time. Little came of it at first. Then, in October 1995, Wofford wrote the highway patrol asking that the Violent Crime Support Unit, an elite panel of investigators from around the state, take a fresh look at the case. For several days in January 1996, four investigators huddled in Jefferson City with the file. The panel realized that the four sets of latent fingerprints lifted from Judy’s abandoned car had never been run through AFIS, the relatively new digital print database. When a state technician ran them, one print from the driver’s side window matched the right index finger of a certain Lambert Anthony “Tony” Feldman. “ We ’ d n e v e r h e a r d o f Fe l d man,” Bell says. “I remember when they printed out his criminal history. I could’ve held it up like this” — he lifts both fists to his bushy beard — “and it would’ve drug on the ground.” Fe l d m a n , a s i x - f o o t - t w o , 230-pound native of Hannibal, had been arrested in St. Louis for indecent exposure, unlawful use of a weapon and second-degree robbery. He’d also been arrested in Rolla for peeping on two women and first-degree assault. Most ominously, he had pleaded guilty to assault with intent to commit sexual abuse in Iowa City. According to the police report, he’d shadowed a female college student across a footbridge on November 1, 1988. Creeping up behind her, he lifted her up with one hand under her crotch “as if to carry her off.” With the
other hand, he groped her breasts, saying “You have nice titties.” The victim twisted around to look at Feldman, who then ran off. When police caught up with him minutes later, he said he was in town on business and merely out for a jog. The victim and some witnesses later identified him. He received a one-year jail sentence. The state panel reviewing the Judy Spencer file concluded that “Mr. Feldman needs to be eliminated as a suspect in this case.” Investigators s t a r t e d t ra c i n g his whereabouts. They learned that, in the month Judy was killed, Feldman had been an attendant at the Dishman Mobil gas station in Rolla — about nineteen miles from her abandoned car. But this triggered another question: Did Feldman, then 23, leave a print on Judy’s window simply by helping her at the gas pump? First, investigators looked at Judy’s checkbook. It showed no checks written to Dishman in the month prior to her death. (She often paid for gas with checks; on her last night alive, for example, she filled up her tank in Salem and wrote a $10 check.) Next, they drove to the Dishman station to see if Feldman worked a shift on the day of the murder. The owner, Don Dishman, checked his records. They didn’t go back that far, he said. Finally, in July 1996, the officers tracked down Feldman in Quincy, Illinois, where he was working at a soybean company. They took him to the police station and interrogated him. Feldman confessed that “he had done some things in the past that he was not particularly proud of, but he had got his life together.” He denied knowing Judy Spencer. He denied ever going to Salem or even Dent County. He denied ever
“We’d never heard of Feldman. I remember when they printed out his criminal history. I could’ve held it up like this and it would’ve drug on the ground.”
owning a shotgun. (He did admit, though, to drilling a peephole in the wall of the women’s restroom at the Dishman station.) He could not explain his fingerprint on Judy’s car. The gas station had been full-service at the time, so one sergeant asked if he might have “shut the door for a good-looking lady.” Feldman said it wasn’t routine, but he could have smudged the glass as he washed her windshield. The sergeants had Feldman fill out a written questionnaire about the murder. They reviewed it and concluded it “did not show deception.” Yet Bell still harbored suspicions. He took all his evidence to Dent County’s prosecutor, who declined to file charges against Feldman. Bell wasn’t pleased, but he now concedes his case was circumstantial. Bell resigned from his post as chief deputy in 1997 in search of better pay. He took up truck driving. For a whole decade, he seldom thought of Feldman. Then, on the evening of October 2, 2008, a Quincy policeman found Feldman dead on his couch. He had shot himself in the chest with his own shotgun. (Police determined it wasn’t the gun that killed Judy; he’d bought it in 2002.) The window of opportunity to charge Tony Feldman had closed forever. But the theory of Feldman’s guilt didn’t die with him. In fact, it gained traction the next year with attorney Frank Carlson. By that time, Carlson was defending Doc Nash against the murder charge, and learned from his private investigator about the Feldman fingerprint. Carlson thought that if he could shift the jury’s suspicion over to Feldman, he could instill reasonable doubt and win a not-guilty verdict. So Carlson set out to build a case against Feldman. To do that, he had to show Feldman interacted with Judy. Carlson located a former Salem police dispatcher named Jenny Boxx. She recalled that, in the weeks before the murder, Judy had made several requests for a police escort to her car in the hospital parking lot because she was afraid of someone. Boxx said she recorded these requests in the dispatch log.
(That dispatch log has since been discarded, according to the Salem Police. An RFT analysis of Salem News archives suggests that Boxx, now 75, may be mistaken on her timeline. Four months before Judy’s murder, a hospital worker was shot to death by her estranged husband in the lot. Employees had “security concerns” afterward, so the hospital board voted to hire a security guard starting January 1, 1982. Not a single person close to Judy remembers her expressing any fear about a stalker right before her murder.) Carlson also claimed that three separate witnesses noticed Feldman and Judy drinking together in March 1982 at the popular Tower Inn — one of Judy’s favorite hangouts. (Two of these witnesses have passed away; the third could not be reached for comment.) However, Carlson’s strategy never got a chance. Under Missouri’s “direct-connection rule,” defense lawyers can only point to a different suspect if evidence links that person to the crime. Just before trial, the judge ruled without explanation that the Feldman fingerprint was not directly connected to Judy’s murder — even though it had been discovered on her car. The direct-connection rule has its merits. Without it, the defense could recklessly point the finger at any third party, which might confuse the jury. But that’s not what’s happening here, Nash’s new lawyers insist. Yes, Judy’s car was seventeen miles from where her body was found — but they believe it’s part of the crime scene. Even the prosecutor himself had claimed at trial that Nash ran the vehicle off the road before killing her. The Bryan Cave attorneys argue that the judge’s exclusion of the Feldman fingerprint “gutted” Nash’s defense, and unfairly denied his right to a fair trial. Former deputy Bell agrees. He signed an affidavit in support of Nash’s innocence in September 2012, during an unsuccessful campaign for Dent County Sheriff. “My personal opinion is that this investigation was shoddy from the start,” Bell says. “They looked at Doc, the boyfriend, and they got tunnel vision and turned a blind eye to everyone else.” Continued on pg 16
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n the night Judy’s car was found on Route FF and towed from the scene, a highway patrol corporal noticed a man standing at a house about 100 yards away. The corporal walked over to speak to him. It was Alfred “John” Heyer III, who lived in the house with his wife and son. Heyer acknowledged seeing the car that night, but didn’t say much else. Two and a half weeks later, Heyer, 25, went missing. His wife reported his absence on April 6. Investigators interviewed their neighbor, who noted how Heyer had stopped by several times to ask if she’d heard any chatter on her police scanner about the Judy Spencer case. Heyer, it turned out, had moved to the Chicago area with another woman, without notifying family members or his employer. And for more than two decades, he stayed off the radar. Twenty-five years later, a Dent County Sheriff ’s deputy named Steve Lawhead was working at the jail and looking for a challenge. He’d just spent 23 years in the military, fourteen of those as an undercover narcotics agent. A bald man with glasses and tattooed forearms, Lawhead heard about the Judy Spencer murder and asked Sheriff Wofford for permission to work on it. He got the green light in August 2007 and requested all the highway patrol’s files. He soon learned that Sgt. Jamie Folsom at the highway patrol was already on the case. By coincidence, both men had served in the U.S. Army’s Criminal Investigation Command in Darmstadt, Germany. “I thought, ‘Oh, we’ll work together great,’” says Lawhead. They had several meetings and planned for a joint investigation. But it quickly devolved into two parallel projects — and a virtual race. Each came to suspect his counterpart of withholding info. By March 2008, as Folsom’s unit was zeroing in on Doc Nash, Lawhead and his partner, deputy Mike Nivens, were focusing on Heyer. They had good reason. Heyer’s prints were now available because he’d been arrested for theft in Illinois. The deputies had asked a state
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Pieces of physical evidence preserved by the Missouri State Highway Patrol | COURTESY OF THE MISSOURI ATTORNEY GENERAL lab to compare them to the prints lifted off Judy’s car. On March 10, an analyst reported a match on the passenger side window. Heyer, too, had touched Judy’s car. The deputies called Heyer at his residence in Wheaton, Illinois, on March 28. Lawhead remembers his “gruff Chicago accent.” According to the report, Heyer acknowledged that “if there was an abandoned car somewhere, he may have gone and looked inside of it.” But he refused to meet with the deputies or give a DNA sample unless they had a court order or a warrant. The deputies told Heyer they wished to eliminate him as a suspect. He responded, “If you want to eliminate me, hire a hitman to come up here and kill me, then you will eliminate me.” Then he hung up. Lawhead typed up a probable cause statement to arrest him. He took the print-out to Dent County Prosecutor Jessica Sparks, who was visiting his office, to solicit feedback. Too late, she told him: She’d just
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charged Nash with Judy’s murder. “I was shocked,” Lawhead tells RFT. Yet when the deputies were ordered to cease their probe, Lawhead did not protest. He credits his training. “In the military, when you’re told what to do, you just do it.” Lawhead resigned later that year and took a job with the Fort Leonard Wood police. He ran for Texas County Sheriff, but lost in the August primary. He put the Spencer murder behind him. But prosecutor Sparks kept calling Lawhead to discuss the case, and her calls took on a bizarre tone. The evidence against Nash had been “tampered with,” she said, and she feared Sgt. Folsom of the highway patrol had injected her with mind-altering drugs. The Missouri Attorney General’s office fielded complaints about Sparks, so they sent an investigator to Salem in April 2009. He learned that Sparks had become “obsessed” with the Spencer murder. She had failed to file 253 felonies and misdemeanors, he found,
and her colleagues said she had turned “paranoid,” “forgetful,” “unfocused” and “dangerous” to those around her. As the Nash case headed for trial, Sparks held meetings with Nash’s defense attorney, Frank Carlson, who urged her to dismiss the murder charge — something she had the unilateral authority to do. “I am at a loss what to do about this situation,” Sparks’ co-counsel, assistant attorney general Ted Bruce, wrote in a May 15 email. “You continue to meet with Mr. Carlson without my knowledge. … The State’s ability to get a fair trial has been significantly compromised … I do not believe anyone can ethically assist in prosecuting this case with you, given your decisions and your beliefs about the evidence.” Sparks withdrew from the Nash prosecution on May 19. In a rare move, the state filed a quo warranto petition to remove her from office. She finally resigned that June — and took the Nash case file with her. “This is very disturbing,” Bruce e-mailed Carlson a week later. He felt sympathy for the prosecutor’s emotional health, he wrote, but “she needs to return the file immediately.” Some of Nash’s supporters believe, to this day, that a mentally ill Sparks was manipulated into filing the murder charge. Yet even if true, this would be irrelevant. Once Sparks withdrew, Ted Bruce became the sole prosecutor. He could have dismissed the charge had he considered it baseless. Instead, he pursued it. (Jessica Sparks could not be reached for comment.) As for Lawhead, he got roped into the matter a third time in 2012 when Nash’s attorneys at Bryan Cave asked for his insights into the case. He signed an affidavit for them, describing his findings on John Heyer. “The biggest travesty of this whole investigation was that Mike and I were not allowed to continue,” says Lawhead. “Everyone should’ve said, ‘Let’s put this warrant on hold and see how this other lead pans out.’ Innocent people go to prison because investigations aren’t thorough. Is that this kind of case? I don’t know, but this case wasn’t completed.”
Donald “Doc” Nash, now a 73-year-old inmate at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri. | NICHOLAS PHILLIPS
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ewer than one percent of Missouri’s 32,000 state prisoners are over 70 years old. Doc Nash, 73, is among them. Since June 2010, he has served his life sentence at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre. He sleeps in the wing for prisoners showing good conduct. When friends and family visit, he is allowed to see them in the flesh. With a nervous bounce to his knee and an odor of cigarettes, Nash spoke to RFT for about five hours over three visits. “Setting in here, I have relived my life so many times,” he says, choking up. He insists today, as he did 34 years ago, that he loved Judy and didn’t kill her. Whether Nash has perfected this act, or blocked out the crime from his memory, or is speaking from the heart, he sounds genuine. Tears welling behind his glasses, he says, “What scares me is I’m gonna die in this place.” Nash has high cholesterol, an enlarged prostate, a hiatal hernia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Small pleasures buoy him, such as holding his wife’s hand every other weekend and chocolate
ice cream from the prison store. His main fuel, he says, is the Bible. “The good Lord got me where I couldn’t run and I couldn’t hide,” he says. “He’s watching over me. He’s my savior and he’s taking care of me in here.” Ironically, the Spencers believe that very same God put him there. Judy’s oldest sister Jeanne Paris says that their father Kenneth always felt that when God wanted to reveal the truth, he would send a message. The DNA under Judy’s fingernails, they believe, was that message. But what if a new DNA finding exonerates Nash? “That’s crossed my mind,” Paris says. “I would be the first one to apologize to him. But I think we all have reasons to believe what we believe. I would be very sorry, but that’s not going to happen.” Nash’s lawyers at Bryan Cave think it already has. As part of their habeas corpus petition, they hired a forensic lab in Virginia to test Judy’s suede shoe, the one from which her killer pulled the shoelace. In June 2013, the lab detected a male’s DNA profile. It did not match Doc Nash.
“Innocent people go to prison because investigations aren’t thorough. Is that this kind of case? I don’t know, but this case wasn’t completed.” “This DNA evidence establishes that Nash is actually innocent of Judy Spencer’s murder,” they wrote in a legal brief. But there’s one problem with that finding. Trooper Gary Dunlap remembers crawling through the barbed wire fence on that March afternoon in 1982 at the Bethlehem School. He tells RFT he didn’t wear gloves when bagging the shoe. riverfronttimes.com
“We couldn’t get fingerprints off of them, so what would’ve been the point?” he says. “At that time, we didn’t know anything about DNA. It was really kind of primitive in those days.” The unknown male DNA might belong to a patrolman, not the killer. Still, the Bryan Cave team took their findings to federal court. The judges ultimately decided against Nash, ruling that the new DNA from the shoe was not in fact “new,” because it could have been discovered before trial. But the judges dropped unusual hints of sympathy. “The Court hopes that the State of Missouri may provide a forum, either judicial or executive, in which to consider the evidence that [Nash] may be actually innocent of the crime,” wrote former U.S. District Judge Terry Adelman in March 2014. “The newly discovered DNA evidence suggests his case, at the very least, deserves further serious consideration.” The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that Nash’s claims merited “serious consideration,” but suggested that “the state court would be a more appropriate forum.” Last week, Nash’s attorneys appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. They urged the justices to force the lower courts to acknowledge the new DNA from Judy’s shoe and reconsider the petition. Nash is largely oblivious to these legal wranglings. He gets most emotional on the subject of his schnauzer, Muppy, who died while he was locked up. “I just want to get home,” he says. Almost 34 years have passed since Judy Spencer was strangled and shot, her body dumped off Route 32. The case has consumed almost everyone who’s touched it — police, prosecutors, defense attorneys. But none more so than Doc Nash, who maintains his innocence, and the Spencer family, who fought so hard for a conviction. And so they all fight on, endlessly revisiting March 10, 1982, constantly struggling for justice — as each side defines it. Judy Spencer’s grave, at least, was peaceful on a recent January morning. In a cold cemetery just north of Salem, someone had left purple plastic flowers on her tombstone —so many that they spilled from the bouquets, covering up her name.n
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Frankie Muse Freeman first achieved local fame in 1954 when she served as lead counsel for the NAACP’s suit against the St. Louis Housing Authority and its discriminatory policies, a case she won. Just nine years out of law school, she was already changing St. Louis for the better. In the intervening 62 years Freeman has continued to work as an attorney, a civil rights activist and a fully-engaged member of her adopted hometown. Tonight at 7 p.m. at the St. Louis County Library Headquarters (1640 South Lindbergh Boulevard, Frontenac; www.slcl.org), Freeman discusses the arc of the civil rights
Cirque du Erotica 4 You may think you’ve outgrown the circus, but you’ll change your mind when you see what Cirque du Erotica 4 has cooked up. More than a dozen performers celebrate the sensual capabilities of the human body in an artistic display at 10 p.m. tonight at R-Bar (3960 Chouteau Avenue; www.r-barstl.com) You’ll witness sexy circus acts, sideshow stunners, live music and decadent dancers, including local favorite Ami Amore, bellydancer extraordinaire. Tickets are $12 per person or $20 per couple.
The Dead It’s the Feast of the Epiphany in Dublin, which means the Morkan sisters will throw their annual dinner party, and beloved nephew Gabriel Connor will be the guest of honor. The evening is normally a delight for Gabriel, but this year feels different. Aunt Julia suffers more from her spells of weakness and Gabriel’s wife Gretta is lost in thought, to say nothing of Molly Ivors’ hectoring lectures on his lack of patriotism. Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey’s intimate musical The Dead is adapted from James Joyce’s novella of the same title, and strives to get at the same quiet realization as the story: that we’re all joined in death, no matter how far away it feels. The Saint Louis University Theatre Department riverfronttimes.com
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The Man Who Fell to Earth David Bowie was a man in the process of total collapse when he starred in Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth. Bowie’s growing alienation from the real world (fueled by his then-prodigious cocaine habit) informed his performance as an extraterrestrial who came to Earth so he could ship some of our abundant water back home to his desiccated planet. Disguised as an inventor of innovative technology, this alien amasses a fortune so he can afford to build the spaceship he needs to get the water home in time to save his family. But in the process he’s seduced by drink, sex and television. It’s a hyper-stylized film that feels not just ahead of its time, but outside of time. The Webster Film Series screens The Man Who Fell to Earth at 7:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday (February 19 through 21) at Webster University’s Loretto-Hilton Center (470 East Lockwood Avenue; 314968-7487 or www.webster.edu/ film-series). Tickets are $4 to $6.
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MONDAY 2/22 National Margarita Day February 22 is burned in our brains as National Margarita Day, and has been since time immemorial. Even the stoutest hombre’s heart melts
A scene from The Battle of Island Mound. | COURTESY OF BRANT HADFIELD when the carolers arrive at the door and sing the opening notes of “Mas Tequila.” And who doesn’t have fond memories of those tiny margaritas that were served with school lunches? If your long-standing NMD plans have fallen through, the Hacienda (9748 Manchester Road; www. hacienda-stl.com) has you covered. The Rock Hill restaurant has seven different types of margaritas on the menu, and on a normal Monday, one dollar from the price of each (or $5 from the price of a pitcher) is donated to charity under the restaurant’s “Margs for a Mission” program. For NMD, those donations are doubled — so you can perform the required obeisance to the holiday and do twice the good. And isn’t doing good what this holiday is all about?
TUESDAY 2/23 Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Carol Klein was a nice Jewish girl from Brooklyn who dated Neil Sedaka and had a short-lived band with friend Paul Simon before she became Carole King, co-writer of a staggering 118 songs that hit the top 100. If you only know King for her seminal album Tapestry (which was released 45 years ago this month), you’ll be surprised by Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Douglas McGrath wrote the book for the show, which uses King’s oeuvre but is not a jukebox musical. Instead, it tells the true story of a songwriter who cranked out hit after hit for other singers before finding her own voice. Beautiful is performed at 8
p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday (February 23 to March 6) at the Fox Theatre (527 North Grand Boulevard; 314-534-1111 or www.fabulousfox. com). Tickets are $36 to $95.
WEDNESDAY 2/24 Fat Tire Camp Fire If’n you need a little help getting fired up for the coming spring, you should cozy up to the Fat Tire Camp Fire. This celebration of mountain biking at Ballpark Village’s Fox Sports Midwest (601 Clark Avenue; www. stlballparkvillage.com) takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. tonight, and admission is free. You can try out a virtual simulation of the mountain biking experience, mingle with the pro skills instructors from Roots Mountain Biking and the people from Terrain magazine, enter the Fat Bike Log Ride Challenge and check out the Gateway Off-Road Cyclists. Red Bull’s On Track: Season 2 featuring Curtis Keene is screened during the evening, as is the short film “The Fat Is Back,” which documents the 2015 Southern Illinois Fat Tire Festival. If all of this doesn’t get you amped up to ride, you’re hopeless. Planning an event, exhibiting your art or putting on a play? Let us know and we’ll include it in the Night & Day section or publish a listing in the online calendar — for free! Send details via e-mail (calendar@ riverfronttimes.com), fax (314-754-6416) or mail (6358 Delmar Boulevard, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63130, attn: Calendar). Include the date, time, price, contact information and location (including ZIP code). Please submit information three weeks prior to the date of your event. No telephone submissions will be accepted. Find more events online at www.riverfronttimes.com.
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he opening credits of Deadpool are pretty darn brilliant. I won’t spoil them; suffice to say, my hopes were momentarily piqued. It seemed to be a hint that the people involved were interested in deconstructing the comic-book movie, that Deadpool was going to hold up the tropes of the genre for, if not outright ridicule, at least a good-natured ribbing. But then Deadpool dives right into the clichés and splashes around in them for an hour and 45 minutes, showing no interest in being anything other than an utterly conventional origin story. Former special-forces soldier Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) gets his mutant genes activated (this is happening in the X-Men universe). He becomes virtually indestructible and hunts down a bad guy. So? Deadpool supposes it is being edgy because its protagonist swears a lot, because it tosses out jokes about anal sex and because it grubs its way through a completely gratuitous scene in a strip club that gets some naked breasts onscreen. It’s like a child saying bad words just to be naughty. Or like someone emotionally stunted, who doesn’t want to confront the horror of what’s in front of him, and instead makes a joke about it. This is one of the supposed new breed of “adult” comic-book movies — like last year’s Kingsman: The Secret Service — but it’s the same old crap, with any genuine emotion and subtlety ripped out and replaced by whatever callous and crass flotsam will garner it
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would serve for the bad guys, we have no idea. Deadpool could have been brutal like, say, Robocop, but instead it’s more like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, except it gets meta in a way that fails to substitute for the ferocity that is missing. The unfunny “comic relief ” character (T.J. Miller) suggests that Wade do something he wouldn’t normally do because it “might further the plot,” while Wade breaks the fourth wall to offer snarky asides to the audience. He doesn’t have anything terribly sharp to say; it’s just meant to be clever that he knows he’s a character in a movie. In the comic books, he knows he’s a character in a comic book, but in this film he doesn’t merely know that he’s a character in a movie — he knows he’s in the specific X-Men movies we’ve been watching since 2000. The joke that is intended to be the most incisive meta-reference might garner a laugh at first, but then, as you think about it, it brings this flimsy ex-
cuse for a movie collapsing in on itself. Wade isn’t just breaking the fourth wall, and he’s not just breaking those X-Men movies, he’s breaking his own movie. And he’s really unpleasantly smug while he’s doing it. Deadpool is so intent on making fun of superhero movies that it forgets we need to care about this one. Wade is a psychopath — he was even before he got mutated — who enjoys killing. He keeps telling us he’s “not a hero,” but he’s the hero here, and we are meant to cheer for him without reservation. We’re supposed to like that he’s a psychopath. Perhaps it’s meant to be OK for us to cheer for him because, as we are constantly reminded, this is only movie fakery. But that’s not how that works. (The most self-referential joke here reminds us that Reynolds is hardly a great actor. This also may have been ill-advised.) It all adds up to absolutely nothing. This is the end of comic-book movies if this is the only place they have left to go. n
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Rules for Radicals A new company launches in St. Louis with a French farce — complete with singing, dancing and audience interactivity Written by
PAUL FRISWOLD The Dispute
Presented by YoungLiars through February 26 at the Centene Center for the Arts and Education (3547 Olive Street; youngliarsdispute.brownpapertickets.com). Tickets are $10 to $20.
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he Dispute opens with a seemingly interminable cocktail party for the audience. The fourth-floor ballroom of the Centene Center is softly lit, there are no chairs and the cast members meander through the crowd offering drinks and engaging in conversation with the willing, while a man in a powdered wig and brocade coat mutters angrily into a live microphone. It was torture for at least one of us (I’m at my best in solitude, not gatherings of strangers) but it certainly set the tone for an evening that the vast majority found enjoyable. That man on the mic is Jeff Skoblow, who plays the role of Mssr. Monsieur, an enlightened French writer who feels betrayed by his poetic muse and is now incapable of further prose. After the cast assembles two semi-circular rows of chairs and invites us to sit (on opening night, it resulted in a bit of a log-jam), Monsieur takes the floor. He explains his plan to determine whether man or woman invented infidelity and looses four teenagers who were raised in isolation. Through their interaction, he promises, we’ll discover the answer. Then a Dandy Warhols or Francois Couperin (I’m unfamiliar with both) song kicks off at an incredible volume, and a dance number breaks out. The Dispute is the inaugural
Paul Cereghino and Marcy Wiegert discover first love ain’t always lasting love. | VALERIE GOLDSTON
The frequent outbursts of music and dance interrupt the flow of what is a very funny and wellacted story. production of YoungLiars, which comprises several former members of the defunct HotCity Theatre. The play is an interpretation of La Dispute, written by Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux in the 18th century and adapted by Maggie Conroy and director Chuck Harper using a “semi-literal Google translation” and several texts on etiquette from various centuries. This new company is “committed to creating unique inter-disciplinary theatre performances,” according to the program, but I
found the regular theater portion of the evening to be more compelling than the bells and whistles. The frequent outbursts of music and dance are repetitive and go on for too long. They also interrupt the flow of what is a very funny and well-acted story, detracting more than they add. Mitch Eagles and Paul Cereghino play the male teenagers Azor and Mesrin, while Maggie Conroy and Marcy Wiegert are the young ladies Egle and Adine. When Azor and Egle meet it’s love at first sight — but when Egle sees her own reflection for the first time, it’s also love at first sight. Mesrin and Adine’s relationship follows a similar course. Once the couples are mixed, infidelity is not far behind. Both sets of couples are excellent, singly and as a whole. Conroy and Wiegert posture and spar like exotic fighting fish when they first meet — each believes herself to be the most beautiful creature in the world, and evidence to the contrary is quite unappreciated. When Eagles and Cereghino bump into each other, though, they embark on a beautiful friendship, riverfronttimes.com
delighted by the discovery of an emotion like romantic love but somehow different. Julie Layton and Ben Watts are Carise and Mesrou, the long-married couple who raised the children and observe them fumbling through love. Both roles appear non-essential, but the couple takes control of the action near the end with a floor show that left several audience members in tears. Anna Skidis Vargas and Jonah Walker play a pair of lab-coated assistants who fight a rolling battle through the center of the play. Only when a spotlight shines on them do they break it up, and like a pair of third-graders, they stand stock-still to recite passages on dating, social dancing and the proper roles for women and men. These passages underline how foolish carefully-orchestrated social interaction between the sexes looks to succeeding generations. The expectations society placed on young women in 1933 sound just as ridiculous today as raising four teenagers in isolation to figure out which sex is more prone to infidelity. n
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Bad to Its Bones Now open on South Grand, Brickyard Tavern fails on almost every metric Written by
CHERYL BAEHR Brickyard Tavern
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y friend and I sipped our beers at Brickyard Tavern, quietly eyeing the barely touched bowl of spinach dip that sat in front of us. Finally, she broke the silence. “I didn’t think I’d see the day where I turned down spinach dip,” she sighed. “I mean, it’s spinach dip, for God’s sake. You have to try to make it bad.” I’d concur with her statement. Forget the leafy green that gives spinach dip its name — the gooey concoction is really just an excuse to shovel copious amounts of cream and cheese into your mouth. Making it takes about as much culinary skill as plugging in a Crock Pot and watching a twenty-second Facebook how-to video. Brickyard Tavern’s attempt was certainly instructional; it served as a demonstration of what not to do. Freezer-burned spinach, sparse cream, crusty cheese browning on the top, no seasoning — it was a sad approximation of the appetizer classic, and one that unfortunately served as a precursor for the rest of the meal. Even though the execution failed on nearly every dish at this two-month-old South Grand bar, the folks behind Brickyard Tavern deserve credit for their attempt at reinvention. Until three months ago, owners Robin Schubert, Staci Stift and Joe Thele operated the space as Absolutli Goosed, a martini bar that had been serving cosmopolitans since Carrie Bradshaw
A selection of dishes from Brickyard Tavern: cheeseburger, lettuce wraps and wings. | MABEL SUEN made them a thing. Back when they opened in 2002, you could order flavored raspberry vodkas and “Flirtinis” without shame. By 2015, a year in which housemade shrubs dominated craft cocktail menus, the concept was more than dated. Schubert, Stift and Thele understood this but did not want to close up shop. Instead, they reimagined the space as a low-key neighborhood bar where locals could grab a beer and a bite to eat. They named the new concept Brickyard Tavern as an homage to the city’s brick-making industry in the 1800s. Unfortunately, that obscure reference left them with a name that sounds all too similar to the national chain of “breastaurants” called Brick House Tavern. And the bar’s new look isn’t much better. Gone are Absolutli Goosed’s red walls and modern artwork, replaced by a black paint job, a brick mural, some dart boards and several televisions. It’s a cold, generic-looking set-up that was made worse thanks to snafus with the background music. On both of my visits, awkwardly long pauses
(several minutes long) fell in between nearly every song, sucking all of the energy out of the room. The food on my two visits did little to revive the scene. The menu is the brainchild of Pittsburgh native John Homer who, to be fair, is placed in the unenviable position of trying to create bar food without the aid of a grill or a deep-fryer. As such, the menu tends toward the kind of heat-and-serve fare you’d cook in your dorm room. “Buffalo Balls,” an attempt at boneless Buffalo wings, were (allegedly) chicken meatballs, but they were so pasty I couldn’t tell if they’d been overly breadcrumbed or just overworked. The generous glaze of hot sauce and a few blue cheese crumbles did little to mask the meatballs’ inadequacy. Whole chicken wings are available dressed with Buffalo, barbecue or “steakhouse” sauces. Our server highly recommended the steakhouse, insisting it was as if the Buffalo and barbecue sauces had a baby. It was more like the result of a drunken one-night stand between cocktail sauce and Heinz 57. To make matters worse, the wings were cold upon arrival, riverfronttimes.com
though I doubt even a searing hot platter would have made them palatable. If you’ve never smoked pot but want to know what sort of food would result from having the munchies with nothing in your fridge, order Brickyard Tavern’s pretzel grilled cheese sliders. In theory, they sound fine enough: Gouda, cheddar and Swiss cheeses melted on a pretzel bun. But then the kitchen had to get unnecessarily creative and slather brown mustard on top, along with French’s fried onions. Not that the add-ons obscured a good sandwich — the cheese was sparse, and the bun was stale and dry — but they did nothing to help, either. Brickyard Tavern has a small selection of ingredient pairings that can be served as either a sandwich, a wrap, a flatbread or “naked.” I ordered the “Forest Park Favorite” as a flatbread and was shocked to see a vestige of my youth served atop the crust. A chicken patty, the kind they served in my Catholic grade school cafeteria, was sliced into strips and dressed up with some gooey mint dressing, feta cheese, uncooked Continued on pg 26
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spinach and red peppers. At least the soft flatbread crust was decent. I can’t say the same for the other vehicle that incorporated a chicken patty. The chicken-and-waffle sliders were wrong on just about every level. Cloying cinnamon roll waffles were topped with slices of the chickenstuff; the entire enterprise was then covered in a Jim Beam maple syrup icing that was so sweet it made my teeth hurt. Nothing about this was good. All was not a total loss: There were actually two bright spots on the menu. The “Tower Grove Greek” was a solid wrap sandwich stuffed with red onions, red peppers, feta, avocado, Kalamata olives and balsamic dressing. The pita wrap was toasted and pressed, allowing the cheese to melt and form a satisfyingly gooey dish. And I must give credit where it is due: Brickyard Tavern’s burger is damn good. Two juicy patties, perched atop a buttery, soft bun, can be dressed with a variety of toppings. I opted for cheddar, avocado and the tangy mayo, and enjoyed every last bite. It was such a respectable sandwich that I found myself wonder-
ing whether the owners should just cut to the chase and reinvent themselves as a burger bar. As it turns out, the situation is in flux. I last ate at Brickyard Tavern on February 6. But after completing my review, I learned that big changes were coming to the menu. In a phone conversation this past weekend, Schubert all but admitted that their first attempt at food missed the mark. “We listened to feedback from our customers and realized we needed to make some changes,” she explained. The result is a nearly complete overhaul. Gone are the chicken-and-waffles sliders, the whole wings and the confusing “select a format” style (flatbread, sandwich, naked or salad) that made up the majority of the menu. Schubert hopes this will streamline things, admitting that the way it had been previously designed was difficult to execute. Clearly, the owners are capable of recognizing that Brickyard Tavern has some major problems. I’m hoping they’ll find a solution before it’s too late. n Brickyard Tavern
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For Bixby’s Chef, a Restaurant Lives and Breathes Written by
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t wasn’t food or cooking that first attracted Chef William Volny of Bixby’s (5700 Lindell Boulevard; 314-361-7313) to the restaurant business. “One of my first jobs was working in the restaurant industry as a busser and dishwasher,” he recalls. “I just fell in love with the atmosphere. There was just such a family aspect to it that I was immediately attracted to.” Volny was just fifteen years old when he had this revelation, and the restaurant in question was a Mexican spot in his native Michigan. He worked only a few hours during the school year, but begged for extra shifts when summer came around. “I just caught the bug and asked for as many shifts as possible,” Volny says. “That’s when I started working the line.” After graduating high school, Volny enrolled in culinary school in Chicago, where he dove into the Windy City’s thriving dining scene. There, he met Nick Luedde, and the two instantly clicked. When Luedde moved to St. Louis to open the Libertine, he recruited Volny to come with him. “He needed someone to help out, so I just up and moved,” explains Volny. The move would have a profound impact on Volny’s culinary philosophy. At the Libertine, he worked under acclaimed chef Josh Galliano, who helped Volny refine his skills and increase his
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new gig as executive chef at Bixby’s, the well-respected restaurant at the Missouri History Museum, to share his thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage community and explain why, for his last meal, the food will be irrelevant. What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did? That’s a tough one. I’m pretty open and honest with everyone I meet. What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you? Tasting the mise en place on each station. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Super speed — think of all of the tasks that I could accomplish in one day!
What is the most positive thing in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year? I’m very passionate about locally sourced ingredients. It’s been great to see young farmers work with restaurants to grow product that we are interested in cooking. When there’s passion on both sides of the table, it creates a great relationship. Who is your St. Louis food crush? Luke Cockson (of the Libertine). Outside of Galliano, Luke is one of the most knowledgeable chefs in St. Louis. Every time we see one another, it’s like listening to a podcast about food history and menus around the world. It’s incredible. Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene? I’m really looking forward to what Tommy Andrew is going to do at Randolfi’s. He’s a great chef and is very passionate about the food he delivers. Which ingredient is most representative of your personality? Pork. Working under (Galliano), I learned a lot about charcuterie and found that I really loved the versatility of pork. If you weren’t working in the restaurant business, what would you be doing? Baseball scout, for sure. Name an ingredient never allowed in your kitchen. Stock bases. House-made stock is always best. What is your after-work hangout? Stella Blues. It’s one of the best bars in the city. Shots of soju, great food and a great staff. What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure? I’m a big fan of bar food. A great beer with a plate of wings and sports on TV is an ideal meal for me. What would be your last meal on earth? To me, a great meal is an experience — it isn’t only about the food; it’s also about the people you’re dining with. My last meal would be with people I care about — people that I can have a great conversation with. n
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BOUNDARY COMES TO THE CHESHIRE HOTEL
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oundary, the brand-new restaurant that opened last week in the space that previously held the Restaurant at the Cheshire, is a big change from its predecessor. We decided to extend the bar and make this space more casual than it was before,” says executive chef Rex Hale. “That’s what the concept is really about — to make it not a special occasion place anymore, to make it an everyday place. That’s why the menu is designed the way it is... So the great part is, you can come in and have a big dinner or just have a couple of bites and go home.” While still under the same management, Boundary (7036 Clayton Ave., 314-932-7818) features a significant physical remodel as well as a menu overhaul. Hale is a native St. Louisan who worked in kitchens around the world before returning home. Similar to his work at downtown’s Three Sixty, the menu at Boundary is impossible to pin down geographically. Many dishes mix Hale’s professional experience across the globe with local products. The butternut squash and leek curry with toasted quinoa, for example, features flavors he worked with in the Caribbean. And just as Hale’s dishes in Antigua were made with local ingredients, the curry here is made with fresh turmeric
root and ginger root grown in St. Louis by Gateway Garlic Urban Farm. St. Louis loves ribs. The ones Hale is serving are a mix of Berkshire, Duroc and Red Wattle heritage breeds from Rain Crow Ranch in Doniphan, Missouri. They are glazed with a Korean red chili paste barbecue sauce with pickled radishes and pears, both of which are grown locally. The Missouri trout, meanwhile, comes with roasted local cauliflower and leeks over a cauliflower puree. It’s an absolute treat. The menu is divided into six sections, which means diners can put together their meal in a number of different ways. The ensuing checks can range from “that’s it?!” to “well, that escalated quickly.” It’s more casual, but it’s still a far cry from cheap. The “To Share” plates, such as the ribs, range from $8 to $16. Raw bar options, including ceviche and oysters, start at $12 and go up to $21. Dinner entrees, including the Rainbow Trout, are priced from $18 to $22, while the big “For the Table” options go all the way up to a $75 Porterhouse steak, which weighs in at 32 ounces. The new space seats roughly 120, but the low-hung lights, long bar and smaller seating sections make it feel more intimate. The kitchen is open and bright, but the dining space itself is much darker, with deep, dark tones accented by a surprising pop of bright color. Boundary had its soft opening February 8. Lunch service begins in a few weeks with a weekend brunch to follow. – Johnny Fugitt
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wenty years ago, Sleiman Bathani gathered his wife and six kids to contemplate the biggest decision of their lives. They’d settled in Chicago five years earlier after fleeing the war in Lebanon. But crime was overtaking their neighborhood, recalls daughter Joeanne. They needed to start over in a new city. The three finalists for the Bathanis’ new home couldn’t be more different: Boston, Phoenix and St. Louis. Sleiman, though, had done his homework. All three cities had good Maronite churches — and that meant a strong community of Lebanese Christians. He put the three names in a hat and had his young daughters draw one blindly. St. Louis was the winner. In June 1996, the family moved to their new home, and by the following February, they’d bought the business they’ve now been running for nineteen years and counting — Al-Tarboush Market (602 Westgate Ave., 314-725-1944), a low-key deli and casual cafe just a few feet from the Delmar Loop. In Chicago, Joeanne says, they owned a huge restaurant — 350 seats, along with a nightclub. Sleiman, who’d been a well-known pop singer in Lebanon, performed, while his wife, a culinary instructor in their homeland, did the cooking. St. Louis meant a humbler setting: a counter, a few tables. At first, they didn’t even offer Middle Eastern food. “We started with pizza and French fries in case people didn’t want to go straight to Lebanese food,” Joeanne says. She adds, laughing, “You don’t see pizza and French fries in here anymore.” And indeed, why should you? The shop has a steady stream of regulars who delight in the Bathanis’ wonderfully creamy hummus, their much-acclaimed falafel and the garlicky lamb-andrice sandwich, served warm and folded into a pita. The shop is as no-frills as they come, but the food is delicious — and Al-Tarboush’s following is absolutely devoted.
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Sleiman “Sam” Bathani, right, with his daughter Joeanne. | SARAH FENSKE A big part of that is the family atmosphere. Joeanne, now 25 and applying to nursing school, greets everyone by name, while Sleiman, who everyone calls “Sam,” has a wonderful twinkle in his eye that many a customer has been fooled into thinking is just for her. He’s not confident in his English — asked for an interview, he instead arranges to have Joeanne do the talking — but he’s a charming presence, singing as he assembles the orders. Sleiman is quick to credit his wife for the market’s following (“This was not my job,” he makes a point of explaining, gesturing to the food). And indeed, for years, it was his wife who did all the cooking. “My mom wouldn’t let him touch the food,” Joeanne says. But after she had back surgery in 2000, she took a step back from the business; today, she bakes the delicious house-made baklava and works on catering, which is a huge part of the Bathanis’ business. It’s Sleiman and the kids who kept the market running. “We all grew up working here,” Joeanne says. “In high school, we were all here. These were our chores.” The lessons they learned have led to a second family business. Two of Joeanne’s sisters have opened a salon in Brentwood — “and everything they learned about business
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honestly feel more overwhelmed than I did before I started this project, because now I have some degree of understanding of the depth of music in this town. I just can’t believe the quantity and the quality happening. Whereas before I was like, ‘Oh, there’s probably some people doing some mu-
sic,’ now it’s…” Louis Wall pauses for a moment, searching for the right words. “People are operating on really, really high levels in tons of different subcultures — and it’s really amazing to explore.” This Friday at Blank Space, Wall will mark the culmination of two years of work by himself and a cast of more than 50 musicians hailing from fifteen different nations with the collaborative compilation album Non-Fiction. The release is the first tangible artifact of Wall’s project, dubbed “The Texas Room,” wherein the producer sought to pair immigrant and refugee musicians in the St. Louis area with other local musicians of both the native and transplant variety. The project initially grew out of Wall’s increasing awareness of his limited exposure to cultures other than his own. “I became really familiar with my own white-male narrative in music and I was ready to experience — not necessarily someone else’s narrative — but just expand
my own direction or voice,” he says. “And then I realized I didn’t know my own scene. I didn’t know who in St. Louis was doing music.” Around the same time, Wall — a longtime percussionist with a background in the worlds of marching bands and drum corps — began to see his musical interests shift away from live performance and toward producing recordings. That interest in production landed him a spot as an engineer at David Beeman’s Cherokee Street recording studio Native Sound, which led to an epiphany. “There were a couple artists that I saw at the Festival of Nations that were pretty interesting, and I wanted to work with them and produce some songs with them,” he says. “I realized I had the opportunity to offer free recording time to help people hone their own songs, and in exchange ask them to be part of the compilation album and help me with the productions I had in mind.” But before Wall could put his plan into action, he needed the riverfronttimes.com
musicians. “It was difficult,” he confides. “A lot of it was word of mouth. I remember David sent me a few people. The International Institute helped a little bit on their message boards.” With a small handful of prospective contributors established, Wall spent the majority of 2014 raising funds for the project. Despite a largely unsuccessful Indiegogo promotion, Wall and Co. pressed on with their plan to drop one song per month throughout the course of 2015 on the project’s Soundcloud page, thanks largely to a grant from the Regional Arts Council. On February 2, 2015, Wall released the first of the Texas Room’s collaborations, “Unde Dragoste (Where Love),” which he describes as “a Romanian pop song done in a dirge-pop style.” Wall followed through on his monthly commitment throughout the remainder of the year, and on December 20, “Old Hat,” an original track by Brian Landzaant and Louis Wall featuring
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Bosnian accordion master Mensur Hatic (right) in the studio with U.S.-born collaborators. | JARRED GASTREICH
TEXAS ROOM Continued from pg 35 harmonium by Nepali-American musician Ajit Logun, became the final entry in the series. Throughout the course of the project, Wall felt a responsibility to maintain a delicate balance between his own vision and those of the other musical contributors. “I wanted to make sure I wasn’t watering down anybody else’s voice so it would be more digestible for Westerners,” he explains. “Most of the source material’s already pretty digestible — it’s all pop music, even if it’s native to somebody else.” And now, with both the recording process and monthly releases of the individual tracks complete, Wall’s attention turns to the album’s official release. In keeping with the ethos of the Texas Room, the show will be a thoroughly collaborative affair, featuring installations by the Clothesline and additional visual art by Basil Kincaid, who provided artwork for Non-Fiction, as well as live performances by some project contributors. When asked which tracks from the album will be performed at the release, Wall replies with a grin. “Actually none. We’re going to have DJ Agile One spin the album in pieces. Khaled Hussein is singing some material that one of his neighbors wrote in Iraq twenty years ago. Voice of the Holy Spirit Choir is singing a bunch of secular devotional tunes — they’re super
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“Most of the source material’s already pretty digestible — it’s all pop music, even if it’s native to somebody else.” rad — and then this Bosnian trio is going to play,” Wall says. “They’re just beasts of musicians; I mean, they just crush.” As for what’s next for the Texas Room, Wall says that after the release, “We look into 2016, apply for grants and decide specifically which projects we want to pursue.” Careful not to give too many specifics, he adds, “I’ve got plenty of ideas with different artists who would really shine in an EP or album form, just having the same artist and the same narrative throughout the album. Non-Fiction is super diverse, super all over the place. Hopefully there’s some cohesion, but it’s very much a compilation and a collaboration album. “It’d be nice to just have five to ten songs — just one narrative tying together. To have them collaborate for a few days in the studio, writing, arranging, and producing — that would be ideal.” n
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ld Souls Revival is throwing a party, and you’re invited. The rock quartet’s sophomore LP, I Will Let You In, is even crafted in the image of an invitation to a kid’s birthday celebration — all primary colors, bubble lettering and Lisa Frank-style imagery. The album’s winsome exterior belies some of the heaviness, both in performance and lyrics, which attends many of these songs. It’s not a concept album, exactly, but singer, guitarist and lyricist Neil C. Luke spends much of the record examining relationships — with ex-lovers, with bandmates and with the music scene at large — and alternating between the scrappy outsider and the cautious introvert. But on a snowy Tuesday in early February, Luke is every bit the gregarious extrovert as he holds court at the Blue Pearl, an intimate new bar and venue on the western edge of Cherokee Street’s entertainment district. He’s tall, lean and voluble, comfortable quoting both Voltaire and Father John Misty in the course of conversation. Luke hosts a weekly session at the Blue Pearl with the Wilderness’ Bobby Stevens — less an open mic night and more of a songwriter’s circle. Before the music starts, Luke talks about the inspiration for the new album, and how the title of I Will Let You In sets the tone. The title track comes first on the album, and the song operates as both a come-hither and a protective defense. “I like the idea that, on a base level, it seems really inviting,” says Luke, “but you have to do your homework and finish the lyric to get the sentiment.” On the track, he finishes the couplet with a caveat: “I will let you in / But that’s all I’m offering.” “I like things to be vague,” he continues. “I want to keep it broad but personal.” That conceit guides many of these songs, many of which take the form of an exhortative dialectic. As a vocalist, he performs with a little guile but a fair amount of blunt force; his words hit square
on, somewhere in the Midwestern truthteller’s tradition of the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn and the Bottle Rockets’ Brian Henneman. Luke shapes the characters in his music as “me” and “you,” keeping the storyline shifting from song to song. Though when asked about an overarching thread that might tie the tracks together, Luke cops to a narrative that, in large part, centers on a small-stakes touring band — and the most striking songs on I Will Let You In center on navigating the local music community.
“Broadway Connection” gets at this most directly, as the track’s narrator makes his way through the haze of a local gig and butts up against the various lines of demarcation within the scene. The song’s quick-hit guitar licks and tightly wound drums give it nervy pep, but for Luke, a native of Pinckneyville, Illinois, it was born of a gigging band’s frustration at gaining a foothold in town. “I remember trying to land gigs at Off Broadway for so long,” says Luke, “and guess what it was? Cree Rider asked us to do it — it was somebody else who knew who they needed to know. “It only sucks when you’re not a part of it, I feel like,” he adds with a laugh. “That’s really me being childish — I get that.” Those roadblocks, either real or imagined, pop
up both in song and in conversation with Luke. On “Broadway Connection,” the narrator walks away from the local show realizing “how the game got played.” Whether he comes away wiser or more disillusioned is open to interpretation, but Luke himself saw promotion and gigging as a challenge inherent in the system: “Quit being a crybaby and start figuring out how to do it,” he says in a moment of self-admonishment. Later in the album, “Move” seems to point a finger back at artists satisfied with stagnation, outlining the risks and rewards of taking an artistic gamble. For Old Souls Revival, part of that gamble has meant a continual revision of their approach to Luke’s songs. While the band’s first release leaned more on acoustic folk tropes, Old Souls Revival has become increasingly comfortable working with louder volumes and harder-hitting dynamics. For drummer Jeremy Reidy, that progression came from the group’s evolution from dive-bar cover band to an original outfit. The recording process — executed mostly as a full band at Sawhorse Studio — aided the album’s up-front sonics. “For the second record, we wanted the rowdiness to be part of the sound,” says Reidy. “We were trying to cut as much live as we could.” That approach — with close-mic’d drums that pop and forceful, sometimes growling vocals — puts Old Souls Revival somewhere on the lighter side of the hard-rock genre, a style that the band members admittedly have little interest in. “One of the things we’ve struggled with is being a genre-less band. Most rock bands I hear have zero interesting or redeeming qualities. I would expect someone to have that reaction to us — I’m not high on my horse here,” Luke says, laughing. But if Luke feels like an outsider or a band without a country, it’s hard to see it during his weekly gig at the Blue Pearl, or at his other regular appearances at bars in the Central West End and Soulard. If, as Luke says in our conversation, St. Louis is made up of cliques, maybe the smartest thing to do is create your own. –Christian Schaeffer
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p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust
Chaifetz Arena, 1 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis,
FUTURE LEADERS OF THE WORLD: 7 p.m.,
AC/DC: 7 p.m., $75-$139.50. Scottrade Center,
St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.
314-977-5000.
$12-$14. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
1401 Clark Ave., St. Louis, 314-241-1888.
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TOWN CARS: w/ Joan of Dark, Milk Vetch 8
314-289-9050.
BARELY FREE: w/ Royal Rogue 9 p.m., free.
Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis,
p.m., $5. CBGB, 3163 S. Grand Blvd., St. Louis.
HUMMING HOUSE: 7 p.m., $13-$15. Blueberry
Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St.
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Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-
Louis, 314-772-2100.
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MONDAY 22
727-4444.
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS AND FRIENDS: 7 p.m.,
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ADAM LEE: w/ the Loot Rock Gang 8 p.m., free.
I THE MIGHTY: w/ Silver Snakes 7 p.m., $13.
$8-$10. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., Universi-
2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,
The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-
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SUNDAY 21
LOTUS: w/ Michal Menert and the Pretty
8 p.m., $8. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
BEING AS AN OCEAN: w/ Alice Alive 7 p.m.,
w/ Slightly Less Infected, KOFF 8 p.m.,
Fantastics 8 p.m., $20-$24. The Pageant, 6161
314-289-9050.
$15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,
$10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
FAR FROM FICTION: w/ Sunwyrm, Tracing
314-535-0353.
314-289-9050.
MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO: 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; Feb.
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BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE: w/ Asking Alex-
THE KARAOKE UNDERGROUND: w/ Math Patrol
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andria, While She Sleeps 7 p.m., $30-$32.50.
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Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis,
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JOHN D HALE BAND: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Off
way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
314-772-2100.
St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.
Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-
GALLOWS BOUND: 8 p.m., $12-$14. Fubar, 3108
SMOOTH HOUND SMITH: 7 p.m., $10-$12.
RANDY ROGERS BAND: 8 p.m., $22-$25. The
773-3363.
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University
Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,
KARATE BIKINI: w/ Dog Brain, Jon Valley 9
LIL WAYNE: w/ Yo Gotti 7 p.m., $39-$159.
City, 314-727-4444.
314-773-3363. ARGYLE GOOLSBY AND THE ROVING MIDNIGHT:
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THE GODDAMN GALLOWS: w/ the Devil’s Cut 8
ter Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-8811.
p.m., $10-$12. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532. WEIRD SCIENCE: w/ Brenda, Big Blonde 9 p.m.,
TUESDAY 23
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$5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave.,
SHOW: w/ Tiger Army, Darkbuster 8 p.m.,
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$32.50-$35. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
FRIDAY 19
JACK & JACK: w/ Daya 6 p.m., $25. The Ready
DIRTY DISHES: 8 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191
Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-
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HARD EVIDENCE: w/ 1918, the Humanoids,
JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots,
Kenshiro’s 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor,
DJ Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828
5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.
Olive Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.
HEY MARSEILLES: 9 p.m., $12-$15. Off Broad-
JOHN MAXFIELD BAND: 7 p.m., $10. The
way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis,
JESSY CAROLINA AND THE HOT MESS: 9 p.m.,
314-533-9900.
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THE LANGALEERS: w/ Blackwell, Apex Shrine
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St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. MOON TAXI: 8 p.m., $15-$20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929. RUTHIE FOSTER: w/ Bottoms Up Blues Gang 8 p.m., $35-$40. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900. SEARCH PARTIES: w/ Traveling Sound Machine, Dropkick the Robot, Cracked Ceilings 8 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. THE TEXAS ROOM ALBUM RELEASE SHOW: w/ DJ Agile 1 8 p.m., $7. Blank Space, 2847 Cherokee St., St. Louis. THE VIGILETTES: w/ Bella and Lily, Flying House 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337. WIDESPREAD PANIC: 7 p.m., $39-$55. Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314241-1888.
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Humming House 8 p.m. Thursday, February 18. The Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd. $15. 314-727-4444.
Justin Wade Tam leads the Nashville folk-rock outfit Humming House with a big, wiry, effusive passion that fits his tall, scruffy frame. Tam initially fleshed out his songs with players in the city’s Celtic folk scene, but as Humming House grew into a formidable band, more emphasis was placed on driving rhythms and joyful group vocals. Last year’s Revelries added booming drums
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CANNIBAL CORPSE: w/ Obituary, Cryptopsy, Abysmal Dawn 7 p.m., $25. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-
to the generally all-acoustic act, while mandolin, upright bass and fiddle fill in the contours left by Tam’s voice and guitar. This week’s show at the Duck Room marks a return for Humming House, which has made fans through appearances at house shows, barroom gigs and outdoor stages on previous tours through St. Louis. House Warming: Our city’s own Beth Bombara will warm the stage with her growing catalog of songs, including last year’s career-best self-titled LP. –Christian Schaeffer
3929. HOODIE ALLEN: w/ SuperDuperKyle, BlackBear 7 p.m., $27.50-$30. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. KOFFIN KATS: w/ Opposites Attack, the Winks, Creature Illicit 8 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. OPTIMUS REX: w/ Ramona Deflowered, Oakwood Estate, Struck Down By Sound 7 p.m., $7. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532. PETER HENDERSON AND MEMBERS OF THE ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: 8 p.m., $25-$30. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900. SARA SCHAEFER: 8 p.m., $15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
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Lil Wayne 7 p.m. Sunday, February 21. Chaifetz Arena, 1 South Compton Ave. $39-$159. 314-977-5000.
If his own statements are to be believed, Lil Wayne is just two years and one album away from hanging it up forever. “I have four kids,” the rapper told Hot 97’s Angie Martinez in a 2011 interview. “I would feel selfish still going to the studio when it’s such a vital point in their lives.” Wayne has doubled down on this statement repeatedly since, stating his intent to retire from rap at the age of 35. His much-delayed album
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ACHTUNG BABY: W/ Rusty Nail, Fri., March 11,
Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-
7 p.m., $10-$12. Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar
6161.
Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.
FOREVER CAME CALLING: W/ The Former Me,
ARES KINGDOM: W/ Shards of Humanity,
Old State, Inner Outlines, Mon., April 4, 6 p.m.,
ThorHammer, Melursus, Sat., March 26, 9
$13. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,
p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
314-535-0353.
314-289-9050.
HARD EVIDENCE: W/ 1918, the Humanoids,
BAKERSFIELD SATURDAY NIGHT!: W/ The Dock
Kenshiro’s, Fri., Feb. 19, 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy
Ellis Band, The Loot Rock Gang, Salisbury,
Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-
Trigger 5, Ryne Watts, Cowpuncher Jenny,
5226.
Irene Allen, Sat., March 19, 8 p.m., $10-$12.
HEROES VS VILLIANS: Thu., March 17, 8 p.m., $5.
Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-
Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City,
773-3363.
314-862-0009.
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INDIGO GIRLS: Wed., March 23, 8 p.m., $45-$50.
BOWIE: W/ 7 Shot Screamers, Karate Bikini,
The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis,
Tory Z Starbuck, Giant Monsters on The Hori-
314-533-9900.
zon, Lonely Mountain String Band, Aquitaine,
J.R.: Wed., Nov. 16, 8 p.m., $10-$15. Fubar, 3108
Eric Hall, Dave Grelle, CaveofswordS, Fri.,
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
March 25, 8 p.m., $10. The Ready Room, 4195
JOHN MAXFIELD BAND: Tue., Feb. 23, 7 p.m., $10.
Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis,
COCO MONTOYA: Fri., March 4, 7 p.m., $10.
314-533-9900.
Ameristar Casino-Bottleneck Blues Bar, 1
JORDAN BAUMSTARK: Sat., March 19, 9 p.m.,
Ameristar Blvd., St. Charles, 636-940-4966.
$10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-
THE COPYRIGHTS: W/ Ray Rocket, the Lippies,
9050.
Sat., May 14, 8 p.m., $10. Blueberry Hill, 6504
THE KARAOKE UNDERGROUND: W/ Math Patrol,
Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.
Mon., Feb. 22, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor,
CURREN$Y: Fri., March 18, 10 p.m., $27.37-
5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.
$37.92. The Marquee Restaurant & Lounge,
THE LANGALEERS: W/ Blackwell, Apex Shrine,
1911 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-436-8889.
Fri., Feb. 19, 7 p.m., $6. Blueberry Hill, 6504
DJ SNO: W/ Ackurate, Attitude, Veo Chillz, Nick
Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.
Menn, Thu., Feb. 25, 9 p.m., $5. Cicero’s, 6691
MAURY AVE: W/ Le’ Ponds, Prairie Rehab, Grass
Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009.
& Stone, Sat., Feb. 27, 7 p.m., $5. Blueberry Hill,
DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT: W/ Primitive Man,
6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-
Cult Leader, Thu., July 7, 8 p.m., $10-$12.
4444.
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
MU330: W/ the Haddonfields, Fri., April 22,
DRUMMERS ONLY PART DEUX: W/ Adam Rugo/
8 p.m., $10-$12. Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar
Philip Zahnd, Melanie Meyer/Jason Potter,
Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.
Cameron Rogers/Amber Kogut, Nick Durty/
MYSTERIOUS SKIN: W/ Ruz, Mon., Feb. 22, 9
Matthew Reyland, Jessie Vendegna/Joe Rogers,
p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson
Dre Ballard/Louis Wall, Kaleb Kirby/John
Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
Hams, Mike Herr/Patrick Boland, Hannah
OPTIMUS REX: W/ Ramona Deflowered, Oak-
Costillo/Gabe Vines, Drew Gowran/Alberto Pa-
wood Estate, Struck Down By Sound, Wed.,
tino, Shelly Koesterer/Scott Alexander, Henry
Feb. 24, 7 p.m., $7. The Demo, 4191 Manchester
Claude/Joseph Hess, Sat., Feb. 20, 8 p.m., $7.
Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.
The Luminary, 2701 Cherokee St, St. Louis.
P.O.D.: W/ HED PE, War Of Ages, Sun., March
EMBLEM3: Wed., May 18, 8 p.m., $25-$27.50.
13, 6 p.m., $20.
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THIS JUST IN Continued from pg 43 The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St.
SUNN 0))): W/ Big Brave, Hissing, Mon., June 6,
Louis, 314-833-3929.
8 p.m., $25-$28. The Ready Room, 4195 Man-
PENTATONIX: W/ Us the Duo, Sun., April 17, 8
chester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
p.m., $29.50-$75. Chaifetz Arena, 1 S. Compton
TACOCAT: W/ Boyfriends, Fri., April 22, 8 p.m.,
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Rayland Baxter. | COURTESY OF THE BAND
Rayland Baxter 8 p.m. Wednesday, February 24. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh St. $10 to $12. 314-588-0505
Hardcore Dylanologists know Bucky Baxter as a major player for the Never Ending Tour; the steel guitarist defined the sound of Dylan’s mid-’90s dream team, which is still regarded as among the post-gospel bard’s very best bands. Rayland Baxter had no opinion on the matter. He was still in grade school when his father was touring the world. The son’s turn came a decade later, with a debut album that set course for
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Townes Van Zandt-esque folk-blues and last year’s stormier, moodier Imaginary Man. Baxter has a pungent but warm tenor, a healthy obsession with Beatles-inspired harmonies, and a witty, sui generis way with emotional truths that more than recalls the songwriting of his father’s paymaster. Rich Resume: Baxter’s career has just begun, but he’s already scored tours with everyone from Kacey Musgraves and Boz Scaggs to the Head and the Heart and Shakey Graves. –Roy Kasten
Ave., St. Louis, 314-977-5000.
$10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,
PIRATE SIGNAL: W/ Dog Of Panic, Blackwell,
314-773-3363.
Calloway Circus, Thu., March 10, 7 p.m., $7.
TOMMY CASTRO & THE PAINKILLERS: Thu., April
Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City,
21, 8 p.m., $18-$20. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th
314-862-0009.
St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
PROF: Sat., April 23, 8 p.m., $15-$18. The Fire-
TOWN CARS: W/ Joan of Dark, Milk Vetch, Sun.,
bird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
Feb. 21, 8 p.m., $5. CBGB, 3163 S. Grand Blvd.,
RIDDLE OF STEEL: W/ Dirtnap, Traindodge,
St. Louis.
Blight Future, Fri., May 20, 7 p.m., $15. The
TROY: Fri., April 15, 8 p.m., $10. Cicero’s, 6691
Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009.
ROGER CLYNE: Wed., March 9, 7 p.m., $25.
VAUDEVILEINS: W/ Heroes of the Kingdom, Echo
Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University
Bravo, Fri., April 29, 9 p.m., $10. The Firebird,
City, 314-727-4444.
2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
RUSTY NAIL CD RELEASE PARTY: Fri., Feb. 26,
WALTER TROUT: Thu., April 28, 8 p.m., $20-$22.
9 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St.
Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-
Louis, 314-535-0353.
588-0505.
SCORPIONS: W/ Queensryche, Tue., May 10,
THE WOMBATS: Mon., July 18, 8 p.m., $20. The
7 p.m., $49.50-$150. The Fox Theatre, 527 N.
Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,
Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-534-1111.
314-833-3929.
THE SKULX: W/ Overtake, Brainwaves, Wed.,
THE WOOD BROTHERS: Fri., April 1, 8 p.m., $20-
March 23, 6 p.m., $10-$12. The Demo, 4191
$30. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,
Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.
314-726-6161.
SAVAGE LOVE THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: My new girlfriend blurted out that she had a cuckolding past with her ex-husband. She says her ex badgered her into arranging “dates” with strangers and that he picked the guys. Her ex would then watch her having sex with a guy in a hotel room. The ex only watched and didn’t take part. I am really bothered by her past. She says she did it only because her ex pressured her into it and she wanted to save her marriage, so she agreed. But I suspect she may have enjoyed it and may have been testing me to see if I wanted to be a cuck. What should I do? I am really torn by my feelings toward her. Confused In NOVA You suspect she may have enjoyed fucking those other men? I hope she enjoyed fucking those other men — and you should too, CINOVA. Because even if cuckolding wasn’t her fantasy, even if she fucked those other men only to delight her shitty ex-husband, anyone who cares about this woman — and you do care about her, right? — should hope the experiences she had with those other men weren’t overwhelmingly negative, completely traumatizing or utterly joyless.
And, yes, people will sometimes broach the subject of their own sexual interests/fantasies using the passive voice or a negative frame because they’re afraid of rejection or they want an easy out or both. (“My ex was into this kinda extreme thing, and I did it because I felt I had to.” “That’s gross.” “Yeah, I totally hated it.”) But cuckolding is almost always the husband’s fantasy — it’s rare for the wife to initiate cuckolding scenes/relationships — so odds are good that your girlfriend is telling you the truth. As for whether she’s testing you: That’s a pretty easy test to fail, CINOVA. Open your mouth and say, “Cuckolding isn’t something I would ever want to do. The thought of you with another man isn’t a turn-on for me. Not at all.” It’s an easy F. What should you do? If you can’t let this go, if you can’t get over the sex your girlfriend had with her ex-husband and those other men, if you can’t hope she had a good time regardless of whose idea it was, if you can’t take “I’m not interested in cuckolding you!” for an answer — if you can’t do all of that — then do your girlfriend a favor and break up with her. She just got out from under a shitty husband who pressured her into “cheating.” The last thing she needs now is a shitty boyfriend who shames her for “cheating.”
Hey, Dan: Why would you call blumkins “sexist”? Are you excluding the idea that gay, bi and trans people might participate? There are many sexual practices that are degrading. If the partner consents, how is it “sexist”? Lastly, have you considered that a heterosexual female may want a blumkin of her own? I’m a heterosexual male, and I have no idea how you could defecate and remain erect—but to each his own! Your answer was irrational and sexist! The Problem Isn’t Always Sexism Go to Urban Dictionary and read every definition for “blumkin,” TPIAS. There are nine of them. We’ll wait. While almost all of the proposed definitions are gendered (“Taking a nice shit while your woman is sucking your cock”), even definitions that aren’t gendered (“Getting a blowjob while taking a stinky shit”) include examples of usage that are gendered (“Anthony really enjoyed it when Christy gave him a blumkin last night”). While a gay dude could suck his man’s cock while he was taking a stinky shit, and while a trans man could go eat his cis girlfriend’s pussy while she was dropping a deuce, the whole conversation about blumkins — and since blumkins are mythical, TPIAS, the convo is all we’ve got — isn’t about consensual degrading sex play. It’s about the symbolic degra-
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dation of women. And that’s sexist. It’s like gerbiling: Everyone has a butthole, anyone can walk into a pet store and buy a gerbil and paper-towel tubes are everywhere. But gerbiling is always described as a gay sex act. The fact that straight, bi, asexual or even deceased people could theoretically have their asses gerbiled doesn’t make joking about gerbiling not homophobic. The anatomical technicality doesn’t exonerate gerbiling. Same goes for blumkins. So my ruling is final: Joking about gerbiling is homophobic (but funny if done right), just as joking about blumkins is sexist (ditto). Hey, Dan: It’s always a little frustrating to read columns where we hear only one side of the story. Maybe you could solicit letters from both partners? A couple would agree in advance what the problem was and both send in a letter, but they should not read each other’s letters. Keep up the great work! Just An Idea I love this idea, JAI. Any game couples out there? Throuples welcome, too! Listen to Dan’s podcast every week at savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter
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