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he transition of the northern edge of the Shaw neighborhood from a pocket of drug violence to one of St. Louis’ hottest neighborhoods is nearly complete. After years of piece-by-piece rebuilding, four of the neighborhood’s last remaining undeveloped properties are prepped and ready for new lives. Relentless restaurateur David Bailey (Bailey’s Burger Range, Rooster) plans to convert a dead gas station at Shaw Boulevard and Klemm Street into a burger bar. Meanwhile, design-build firm UIC recently broke ground around the corner on a major housing development planned for a grassy expanse across DeTonty Street from Interstate 44. A few blocks away, two finalists are vying to transform the former Shaw Theatre into either a wedding venue or a year-round market with artisan and food vendors. And two longtime Shaw residents have closed on another former filling station, this one at the corner of Russell Boulevard and Thurman Avenue, where they plan to make their home and build a commercial structure to lease as a cafe. “There’s definitely a sense of finishing the neighborhood,” says Sean Spencer, the executive director of Tower Grove Neighborhoods Commercial Development Corporation. His agency — a nonprofit that works to develop the neighborhoods of Shaw, Southwest Garden and Tower Grove South — is one of a constellation of community organizations that have transformed Shaw. Posters hung throughout the agency’s Shenandoah Avenue office are filled with before-and-after shots of formerly boarded-up houses reborn as single-family homes. Spencer says they started

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An April 2 groundbreaking marks the beginning of construction on DeTonty Street. | DOYLE MURPHY with a list of 60 to 70 vacant buildings about five years ago and are down to just fifteen. “We’ve removed a lot of blight in the neighborhood, and I think that’s a key to stabilizing and revitalizing a neighborhood,” Spencer says. The DeTonty site has been one of the most stubborn. In the 1970s, it was filled with brick houses and bustling with people. Martinous Walls, 45, and his family moved onto the block in 1976 and watched the neighborhood literally crumble around them. “I’ve had several friends murdered,” he says. He blames it on gangs and drugs. Neighbors moved to the suburbs. Houses were abandoned. Former homes became arson-prone crime magnets. When three-quarters of the block was eventually bulldozed and returned to grass, it was almost a relief. At least it was quieter, says Walls, who grew up to be a city cop and one of the department’s homicide supervisors. His family’s home is one of just six on the block that are still standing, but that’s set to change. UIC invited business partners and community members to an April 2 groundbreaking on DeTonty, where the firm plans to build 64 one- and two-bedroom apartments along with eight townhouses by the fall. Walls can’t wait for work to begin. He thinks Shaw, with its mix of races and incomes, could serve as a model for the city.

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Emmett Coleman III, president of Shaw Neighborhood Improvement Association, agrees but says it will take work. As Shaw grows in popularity, house buying has become more competitive and expensive, with some listings topping $400,000. “Progress is always good,” Coleman says. “We just have to be conscious of the effects of it.” Alderman Stephen Conway has worked on most of these projects for more than two decades, through his roles on housing commissions, development agencies and city government. “You can’t just jump up and down and say, ‘Make it happen,’” Conway says. “It takes coordination.” Some sites have remained tough to develop. The former Shaw Theatre, most recently home to Salamah’s Market, is chopped up and rough inside. But two finalists are now hoping to take it on. The owners of a wedding videography business, Burlap, hope to transform the sprawling building as a wedding and special events venue called Wild Carrot. The owners would buy neighboring lots to create outdoor space. They are competing against a local entrepreneur who has submitted a plan to renovate the space as Shaw Public Market. The concept calls for a year-round artists’ bazaar with room for food vendors. Conway has spent about twenty

years trying to make something happen at the old theater. Another of his longtime targets is a former gas station at Russell and Thurman. It’s been closed for nearly all of his life, he says. Cleanup workers had to dig out buried fuel tanks and remove the surrounding soil. “They needed an extension ladder to get to the bottom of the hole,” he says. Architect Bill McCuen, who moved twelve years ago to Shaw, had often thought the old station would make a cool home. His wife, Maureen, has lived almost her entire life in the neighborhood, and they eventually decided to sell their house on Flora Place to renovate the corner station and build a commercial building for a coffee shop. They finally closed on the property two weeks ago. They weren’t able to buy a neighboring building that they had hoped would be the cafe, but they have settled on building a new structure at the corner. The coffee shop will be called Fiddlehead Fern Cafe and already has a tenant, McCuen says. He and his wife will live in the first floor of the gas station with space for another residence or office above. “I’ve had opportunities to live in other countries, but I like this wacky city, and I like this corner,” McCuen says. “I think it’s the confluence of some tremendous energy, and I think we will all benefit. I think it will be fun.” Another gas station, at Klemm and Shaw, has similarly existed as an eyesore for decades. The development corporation run by Spencer bought it at a tax sale in August 2013 and has undertaken a $160,000 grant-funded environmental cleanup. Restaurateur Bailey was one of four applicants who answered the agency’s request for proposals. His concept for a small-scale version of his popular Baileys’ Range restaurant (920 Olive Street) won over the committee. Spencer says Bailey was an “obvious choice.” He’s excited to see years of work in the neighborhood paying off. “I wish I could bring the shovel out and start moving the dirt myself,” he jokes. n

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he mobile home that Lacey Kertz shared with her father Charles Politte and 22-month-old son, Carson, was tucked between oak-covered hills in Jefferson County, miles away from the nearest town. The trio lived in disarray, without working toilets. Cigarette butts littered their floor. On October 27, 2013, Kertz made a trip to Walgreens, where she picked up photo prints of her boys and purchased materials for a potty chart. She spent the afternoon with Carson and his father, Neil Swyres. Together, they shared a twin-size bed in the trailer, eating McDonalds and watching SpongeBob SquarePants: Halloween. Swyres left after sunset; as a registered sex offender, he wasn’t supposed to be around children. That night, Carson had trouble sleeping. “Up and down, up and down, up and down,” Kertz would later recall to detectives. Kertz fed her son Children’s Tylenol for whatever discomfort he may have been feeling and two capsules of Nature’s Bounty Super Strength melatonin to help him sleep. At one point she let Carson put “her nipple in his mouth,” as she describes it to the RFT, for comfort. Police and newspapers called it breastfeeding. Kertz maintains that her son did not nurse. Some time that night, Carson found an open pill bottle. It was labeled Xanax, but actually contained the sedative Trazodone. When Kertz caught her son rummaging through her pills, she panicked. She stuck a finger down his throat in an attempt to induce vomiting. Carson didn’t vomit, but drops of blood did appear on Kertz’s finger. Convinced no pills were missing from the bottle, she decided against calling poison control. Carson stayed up past midnight, wheezing, as he lay by his mother in her bedroom. Kertz feared the paranormal. So when her little boy pointed towards “Santa! Santa!” and all Kertz saw was wallpaper, the two retreated to the master bedroom where the

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boy’s grandfather was sleeping. Mother, grandfather and son shared the bed for a moment before Politte asked them to leave. As Kertz carried Carson away, the boy called out, “I love you, paw paw.” Kertz blew up an air mattress in the living room, where spirits didn’t seem to haunt as heavy. She called a friend and told him about the pill bottle Carson had found. Her friend assured her everything would be all right. After hanging up the phone, Kertz told Carson, “I love ya buddy.” He responded, “I love you too.” They drifted to sleep. When Kertz woke the next day, her son lay next to her, unresponsive. Brown “throw-up stuff” crusted around his lips. Kertz screamed. Running out of his room, Politte implored his daughter to call 911. She did so at 11:02 a.m. Eight minutes later, paramedics rushed Carson to St. Anthony’s Medical Center in south county. He was pronounced dead at noon. Doctors would later give the cause of death as morphine intoxication. A medical examiner would also detect traces of amphetamine, meth and opiates in Carson’s system; Kertz’s urine tested positive for morphine. In May 2014, seven months later, Lacey Kertz would be charged in the death of her son — and headlines would insinuate that the fatal dose of morphine had been transferred through breast milk. Born to a second-generation addict and registered sex offender, raised around drugs and dysfunction, and failed by state agents who were supposed to protect him, Carson’s chances stood low from the beginning. But as the cycle of neglect running through his lineage terminated abruptly with a three-foot casket and seventeen-year prison sentence, experts who’ve taken a closer look at Carson Swyres’ short life have concluded: It didn’t have to end this way. Continued on pg 12

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As Kertz carried her son away, the boy called out, “I love you, paw paw.”

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JAGGED LITTLE PILL Continued from pg 11 Lacey Lynn Kertz was born on September 13, 1987 to parents who were both drug addicts. Together, Charles Politte and Jerri Anderson used pot, pills, crack, meth, and booze, Kertz says. Politte was absent, and Anderson was often high, so Anderson’s mother raised Lacey until she died of cancer in 1996, when Lacey was nine. From that point, Kertz says, “I had to be a parent for myself.” Three years later, social workers removed thirteen-year-old Lacey from her mother’s custody, citing medical neglect. Investigators determined that Anderson had been helping herself to her daughter’s pain medication, which had been prescribed after a car accident two years before. While child protection agencies in most cases aim to reunify children with their birth parents, neither parent ever took the necessary steps to bring Lacey back into their custody. Even though both parents were alive, Kertz would remain a ward of Missouri until she aged out of the system, an experience faced by 26,000 American children a year, according to the child advocacy organization Jim Casey Youth Opportunities. A landmark study found that children who enter adulthood straight out of temporary foster care encounter significantly higher rates of homelessness, unemployment and involvement in the criminal justice system. Kertz never settled into a permanent home. She bounced between families, living with an aunt, some church friends, a Big Brothers Big Sisters mentor and a middle school librarian. Of her many guardians, the only constant through the years was Betty Helms, with whom she was placed by state workers and lived with from 2001 to 2003. Helms was present for every milestone in Kertz’s life: a hospital stay, a birth, a sentencing. She was willing to take in just about any child who needed a home as long as they followed Christ and her chore chart. Many of those children, now grown, still refer to Betty as “Mom” and her husband James as “Dad.” (James Helms died in 2014.) Despite her unsteady home life, Kertz wore a smile at school. She made good grades and plenty of friends, who called her “Lace.” 12

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In her senior year, Lacey Kertz was voted homecoming queen. | COURTESY OF LACEY KERTZ She studied ballet, played tennis and practiced the oboe. But she found her place cheerleading for the Dragons of De Soto High School. “I was good at it, and I could just be myself.” After classes, she worked part-time at a casual seafood joint called Off the Hook. On a summer day between her junior and senior year of high school, Kertz finished a dance rehearsal in Farmington, grabbed lunch at Taco Bell and drove herself home to De Soto. A sedan suddenly swerved over the median and collided into her then-foster dad’s Ranger head-on. The other driver, a man named Bryan Conway, died in the accident. Kertz woke up at St. Louis University Hospital with a broken femur, torn colon, orbital fractures and a missing front tooth. “I missed my recital,” she said upon regaining consciousness. Doctors reconstructed parts of her face and put screws and a rod in her leg to treat the fracture. Helms thought they did a marvelous job, but Kertz felt “so much uglier,” she tells the RFT.

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The physical effects of her accident would also linger for years to come. “Sometimes my face still feels like somebody is taking a needle and stabbing me,” she would explain in a deposition two years later. While she was still at the hospital, a physician prescribed her Percocet and Vicodin. Pills helped ease the pain. She also enjoyed certain side effects. “I remember taking a Vicodin and thinking, ‘This makes me want to hug everyone,’” she says. At eighteen, Kertz won a $100,000 settlement from Conway’s insurance company. That’s more than four times Jefferson County’s annual per capita income. She moved out of foster care and into a townhouse. She bought a Jeep Liberty and a $400 homecoming dress. (Her senior class crowned her queen.) Kertz’s newfound wealth took her popularity to new heights. As Helms tells the RFT, “Suddenly, everybody wanted to be Lacey’s friend.” Those friends enjoyed free dinners at the Macaroni Grill. Servers scored $20 tips.

The financial settlement also reopened lines of communication with her biological family. “I had never been the most important person to anybody,” Kertz says. “I figured I could buy their affection.” She took her half-brother shopping for clothes and bailed her uncle out of jail. Kertz’s mother, Anderson, moved into her townhouse, and Kertz gave her $20 to $40 a day to spend “on gas.” When Kertz’s father found out about Anderson’s allowance, he asked his daughter, “Are you stupid? That’s how much a crack rock costs.” The money was gone in a year. Around the same time, Kertz started taking pain pills for more than pain. Opioids activate the reward processing system, the same part of the brain that responds to food and sex. Over time, overuse of drugs like Vicodin and Oxycodone fundamentally alters the brain, causing dependence. Younger patients, whose brains are still developing, are particularly susceptible to opioid addiction. Research shows that about ten percent of chronic pain patients will at some point abuse their medication. Kertz, too, got hooked. When her prescription ran out, she bought Vicodin from friends. Some of these friends, she understood, obtained prescriptions for the sole purpose of turning a profit. Forty-nine American states have implemented drug databases to prevent this practice. Missouri is not one of them. Other times, pills would fall into Kertz’s lap. “There were people in my life that had the drugs, and the ‘right time, right place’ kind of thing happened,” she explains. Kertz’s foray into prescription drug abuse preceded a national epidemic. Data from the Centers for Disease Control show that deaths from prescription pain relievers increased about 340 percent from 2001 to 2014. Missouri, particularly the greater St. Louis region, was one of the hardest-hit areas. For every 100,000 people in Missouri, sixteen will die of a prescription drug overdose, three more than the national average. When Kertz was twenty, she met a man named Travis DeNoyer at a gas station. That night, they went on a date and then slept together. By both accounts, it was a onenight stand. Weeks later, Kertz drove from a

White Castle to a QuikTrip across the street and acted in manner that compelled someone to call 911. The details are fuzzy; Kertz doesn’t remember them. Police took her to Mercy Hospital Jefferson, where a psychiatrist diagnosed her with bipolar disorder. She also found out she was pregnant. Homeless, Kertz stayed at Jefferson Mercy for three months, while Helms worked with social workers to find her a place to stay. They settled on Haven of Grace, a homeless shelter in St. Louis for pregnant women. During her months there, Kertz felt “lonely and scared.” It was the longest she’d ever stayed in the city. The noise, traffic and bus system felt a world away from the rural calm of Jefferson County. As the only white person in a shelter of black women, she felt out of place. “It was almost a different culture,” she says.

Swyres was “nice,” “not bad looking,” and appeared to “have his life together,” Kertz recalls. His middle-class upbringing signaled a chance to live “a different lifestyle than what I led,” she says. Reluctant to shatter this fantasy, Kertz ignored certain red flags: Swyres was hesitant to talk about his past. He lived with his parents, but never introduced them to his girlfriend. He sneaked around to meet her. Despite a master’s degree in teaching, Swyres made a living selling “overpriced newspapers” overthephone, as Kertz describes it. She knew her beau had been married, but was not entirely clear on how it ended. “He is a good liar,” she says now. A couple months into their relationship, Swyres invited Kertz over to a mutual friend’s house. “I have something to tell you,” he said. His story was troubling. In 2009, while Swyres was a gym teacher at Bayless High School, he struck up an online chat with someone who claimed to be a fourteenyear-old girl. He masturbated for her through his webcam. He also arranged to meet up. There, he learned that the “girl” was a 56-year-old detective. (Neil Swyres declined to be interviewed for this article.) Swyres pled guilty to two counts of attempted sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of use of a child in a sexual performance. Facing a maximum 24 years in prison, he instead received five years probation and 120 days of shock time at the St. Charles County Jail. “You have lost your career. You have lost your wife. You’ve lost your dignity,” a judge told Swyres at his sentencing, according to the Suburban Journals. The state also banned the former schoolteacher

Her new boyfriend’s middle-class upbringing signaled a chance to live “a different lifestyle than what I led.”

On February 12, 2009, Kertz gave birth to her older son, Clayton (not his real name). Betty Helms hosted a welcoming party at her church. Clayton was a “very, very good” baby, she recalls. He rarely ever cried. Kertz, who was raising the boy at Haven of Grace, felt that she understood unconditional love for the first time: “There’s nothing in the world more beautiful than your child.” At first, Helms picked Kertz up from the homeless shelter every other weekend, and Kertz and Clayton would hang out in her former foster home. Encouraged by Helms, she eventually landed a job at a telemarketing company in Festus. She disliked sitting all day, but made enough to move into an apartment with her son. One day between calls she offered Skittles to a coworker named Neil Swyres. After a few dates at the pool hall, the movies and the Cheesecake Factory, they became exclusive.

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from the Internet and unsupervised contact with children. Then 23, Kertz was startled by her boyfriend’s secrets, but resolved to stick by his side. “I didn’t understand the seriousness of it,” she explains. Swyres’ parents strongly advised him against dating Kertz, she says. For one, Kertz had a child, and any contact with Clayton could send him to prison. But that wasn’t the only reason. “I guess you could say I’m from a different class from them,” she says. “He always had to lie about me, and it really upset me because I loved him.” In 2010, Swyres proposed, using his ex-wife’s ring. The couple talked about having children, rationalizing that a kid would force Swyres’ parents to accept their relationship. “But it’s not like we didn’t want it. He loved kids, and I loved kids,” Kertz says. “We just didn’t think it through.” They never did marry, though they continued their relationship. And two years later, when Kertz went to urgent care with colon problems, the doctor informed her she was again pregnant. Carson Swyres was born on December 20, 2010. Betty and James Helms were there, just as they had been for Clayton’s birth. Once again, James was the first person to hold the baby, a cherubic newborn weighing seven pounds, six ounces. But while Swyres was there with his mother, he was forbidden from holding his son. Once again, after Carson’s birth, Kertz bounced around. She first moved back in with Helms, working sales at a lawn care company and as an assistant at a nursing home, where she’d sometimes bring her children to play with the senior residents. She moved through apartments and a condo with her two sons. She started taking a class for supervisors of sex offenders so Swyres could be around her son, but never got around to finishing. Throughout the first few months of Carson’s life, Kertz claims that she did not abuse pills, only using her prescribed medication. But Helms tells a different story. A pediatrician allegedly told Kertz she would not provide her with pain medication. “Then she

started throwing a fit because they wouldn’t let her nurse Carson,” Helms says. The doctor said Kertz needed 72 hours without drug use before breastfeeding. One time, Helms says, Kertz crawled through her bedroom window and took a bottle of painkillers. “She didn’t think she was addicted,” Helms says. “Most of them don’t.” For about a year in 2013, Kertz lived with Clayton’s great-grandmother, Judith Stadler, who with her husband owns an expansive plot of land in St. Francois County — three houses, a lake, and about a dozen dogs and cats. Their property is nestled in a wooded, unincorporated community called French Village. Roughly Road, a gravel path nicknamed “Druggly” by locals, winds through the trees. Kertz and her boys lived with Stadler and her husband in a trailer atop a hill. She moved in to get back on her feet after another car accident left her without a vehicle. “We brought Lacey in because she was the mother of my grandchild, and we knew she was a mess,” recalls Stadler’s grown daughter, Sheryl Sullivan, who lived in a two-story home at the bottom of the hill. “She couldn’t stay in a place for more than two months.” Carson spent most of his life on the Stadler property. He won the nickname “Chubbies,” for his adorable cheeks, and developed an affinity for SpongeBob, who he dubbed Bob Bob. His first birthday had a SpongeBob theme. Around that time, Carson walked his first steps and grew out his blonde hair, which furled off the back of his head like a little mullet. While living on the Stadlers’ estate, Kertz became embroiled in a tense custody battle with the couple’s son over Clayton. Travis DeNoyer and his wife Amanda had been hosting Clayton every other weekend, but one day, they failed to return him to Kertz. In the months to come, the legal battle for Clayton would consume Kertz. Sullivan says that DeNoyer might have decided to fight for custody because Kertz’s drug use seemed to be worsening. A number of doctors stopped seeing Kertz after discovering her drug use, Sullivan alleges. She also recalls Kertz staying up all night and sleeping through the day.

Another family member, who prefers not to be named, says that Kertz once nearly overdosed on Trazodone. The family called an ambulance, but Kertz waved it away. “She loved her kids, but not more than her high,” Sullivan says. “The girl did anything for drugs.” Kertz tells a different story. She claims that Stadler and Sullivan became her primary drug providers, selling her pain pills in exchange for money and sometimes food stamps. She claims she tried morphine for the first time after Sullivan ran out of Percocets. (Sullivan strongly denies providing Kertz drugs. Stadler could not be reached for comment.) Kertz also claims that her pill use during this time was “minimal.” As for the Trazodone incident? “I was just tired.” “I don’t blame anyone for what happened, because that was my baby. But that family caused me to go into deep depression,” Kertz says. “They made my life a living hell.” Lori Ross co-chairs the Missouri Task Force on Children’s Justice, established in 1991 to improve the investigation of child abuse and neglect in Missouri. She has served twice as co-chair, a two-year appointment. Similar groups exist in most states and are funded through a provision of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, signed by George H.W. Bush. In 2013, the year Carson died, Missouri recorded 68 cases of fatal child abuse or neglect. The multi-disciplinary task force comprises judges, police officers, child advocates and mental health professionals. Ross, a foster mother to more than 400 children and president of the Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association, serves as a parent group representative. The body meets four times a year to review two or three “critical event reports,” cases in which a child dies or nearly dies. During Carson’s 22 months of life, investigators from Children’s Division visited Kertz four times to follow up on accusations of abuse or neglect. The task force did not see Kertz’s file (typically they’ll only delve deeply into a small number of cases each year). The RFT obtained a copy from the

Lacey Kertz with her second son, Carson. | COURTESY OF LACEY KERTZ

“She loved her kids, but not more than her high. The girl did anything for drugs.” Department of Health and Senior Services and provided it to Ross for an independent review. The Children’s Division abuse hotline fielded its first call raising concerns about Kertz in May 2012, sixteen months before Carson’s death, when she lived in a Festus apartment with both children. The caller described a cluttered living environment, punctuated by the stench of rabbit and cat droppings. The caller alleged Kertz totaled her car, used pills and “will sleep all day and be up all night.” Investigator Leslie Heusted arrived the next day. Kertz denied drug use and drinking, only admit-

ting to smoking marijuana “prior to her children.” The worker’s notes describe a house in disorder. Heusted told Kertz she would return the next day to reassess her living conditions. Hours later, Kertz’s house was spotless. She was “very excited to show me how clean it was now,” Heusted reported. All other claims of abuse or neglect were labeled unsubstantiated, and Children’s Division did not open a case. Reviewing Heusted’s notes, Ross notes that Kertz’s messy home could imply an “internal level of dysfunction,” and should have drawn more attention. “I would have felt more comfortable if they held the case open and did some random drop-ins,” she explains. “Is mom actually keeping the house clean? Has she done anything to address these issues? Because what we sometimes find in these types of cases is a pattern of chronic neglect.” The second call, made by Amanda DeNoyer, came amid the tense custody battle between Kertz and DeNoyer’s husband Travis in September 2012. Amanda told a hotline worker that Kertz abused drugs, attempted suicide, drove under the influence and left drugs out in the open, accessible to her children. riverfronttimes.com

When investigator Kathryn Hamel got in touch with Kertz the next day, she denied DeNoyer’s claims, noting that she and the DeNoyers were involved in a “big family feud.” At the time, Clayton lived with his father, and Kertz wanted her son back. There were other potential causes for conflict. The investigator repeated a story told by DeNoyer’s uncle, who reported that both Amanda and Travis DeNoyer allegedly “made a trip to the grandmother’s home and they baited Lacey out onto the porch and then Amanda physically attacked Lacey Kertz. Then they barged their way into the house and Amanda beat up Lacey Kertz. He states the children were present when this occurred.” Hamel’s notes also show that Kertz texted her four times after the drop-in. Kertz’s messages suggest that she appeared to regard the social worker as an ally in her custody battle, rather than someone investigating her for child neglect. “Sorry to bother you ms.katherine but i really miss my little boy. Travis has a hostile temper. There are texts.and letters and reports to prove it..his wife used violence right in front of the kids. Punching me in the head…would this help? Maybe anger management….” In her last text, Kertz wrote: “Sorry this message is so late …did you get ahold of my baby? Was he there? Is he okay?” In an email to her supervisor, Hamel wrote: “The parents are going through a terrible custody issue at this time and the natural father has the child and is refusing to return him to the natural mother…I did not find any evidence of drug use by Lacey Kertz.” Ten days later, Children’s Division closed the case. “That is the one that irritated me the most,” Ross says. Kertz’s flat denials of drug use and the suicide allegation should have been scrutinized, she says. Hamel could have asked for a drug test or spoken to neutral “collateral contacts,” thirdparty sources with knowledge of a parent’s history and character. The task force recommends investigators reach three collateral contacts, two non-relatives, if a parent has multiple abuse hotline calls in two years and the child is

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younger than six. Hamel’s records list members of the Stadler family as collateral contacts. The third call came in January 2013. This time, Clayton’s father claimed that Kertz and Swyres had fondled the boy. A forensic interviewer from the Missouri child assessment center spoke with Clayton, but determined the little boy had been coached. The report was labeled unsubstantiated and the case closed. Ross did not point to any red flags in this particular investigation. “I give a lot of credit to the expertise of the child assessment center,” she says. The fourth and final call came on July 12, 2013, three months before Carson’s death. By this time, Kertz had left the Stadlers’ estate and was living with an older foster brother in Fredericktown. The caller repeated allegations that Kertz used drugs around her children and wrecked her car. “Lacey is always tired and sluggish. She is very skinny but eats,” the caller reported. “Carson is up all night.” Investigator Tara McDonald showed up at the address two hours later. McDonald noted that Carson did not have any visible marks or bruises. “I observed a clean home with food, electric and operable plumbing,” she wrote. McDonald later drove to DeNoyer’s home. There, four-year-old Clayton told her he “feels safe at home and is not afraid of anyone.” McDonald called one collateral contact. Betty Helms told her “Lacey is not very mature but ‘tries real hard,’” stating she did not believe her former foster child used drugs or alcohol. Using a point-based checklist called the Family Risk Assessment, McDonald marked a neglect score of “high.” But Children’s Division did not open a case. Of the multiple investigations, Ross says, “It’s sad. These poor kids. There were so many oppor-

tunities for someone to do something and nothing was done.” Ross chalks up the social workers’ mistakes to inexperience. “We’re talking about investigators who are often fresh out of college, in their first year or two of employment,” Ross says. “They haven’t had the time to develop good judgment skills.” It’s not an easy or financially rewarding job. Caseloads are high, hours are long and the work is emotionally draining. Entry-level investigators make less than $40,000 annually. Owing in part to recommendations from the task force, Missouri’s 2015 budget included funds for 23 additional service workers. The state also increased spending on training. Kertz lost custody of Clayton on March 26, 2013, seven months before Carson’s death. The loss sent her into a devastating spiral. “That’s when I went off the fucking deep end,” she says. Drug use increased. Her appearance changed; dark rings formed around her eyes and her jowl thinned out. After she lost custody of Clayton, the Stadlers kicked Kertz out of their property. They allegedly caught her stealing pills from Stadler’s husband. Kertz stopped contacting Helms and moved in with aunts and uncles for a couple of months, where she says she smoked meth when she couldn’t get her hands on pills. She lived for a brief period with a former foster brother, but got kicked out after her drug use became a bad influence on his own teenage daughter. In October 2013, she moved into the House Springs trailer with her biological dad and Carson. Kertz and her dad, Politte, argued every day. “He had never been a dad to me, and now was not the time to start,” she says. Neil Swyres, a frequent visitor, would drop off groceries; Kertz says he would drop off pills, too. Within a month of moving into the trailer, Carson was dead.

Losing custody of her older son, Kertz says, sent her “off the fucking deep end.”

When St. Louis City Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Michael Graham examined Carson’s body, he determined the cause of death to be morphine intoxication. He also detected traces of amphetamine, meth and opiates in Carson’s urine, but could not explain how the drugs entered his system. Carson appeared to be “a well developed, well nourished Caucasian child whose appearance is consistent with the stated age,” he wrote. Kertz’s urine tested positive for morphine, and she admitted to consuming the same drugs found in Carson’s system. In the 72 hours before Carson’s death, according to prosecutors, Kertz had swallowed ten morphine pills, three or four Vicodins and a Xanax. Within 36 hours, she had also smoked “crumbs” of meth while her baby slept in the bedroom next door. While doctors agree morphine can be passed through nursing, only small traces are typically detected in breast milk. Morphine metabolizes rapidly, explains Dr. Evan Schwarz, a toxicologist at Washington University. He tells the RFT, “With some exceptions, it would be unlikely for a baby, especially one older than a few months of age, to have very high levels of morphine only from nursing. In those situations, I’d be worried about another source of exposure.” In the hours after Carson’s death, Children’s Division investigated Kertz one last time, marking a “preponderance of evidence” of child neglect. Carson Swyres’s funeral was held November 4, one week after his death. Kertz made the arrangements. She assembled a photo collage of better times and designed a card that read, “Your footprints here on Earth will forever imprint our hearts.” On a chilly morning, funeral-goers released dozens of balloons into the air; Carson had loved balloons. The undertaker buried Carson in his Bob Bob pajamas. Kertz placed a key in his casket — the key, she says, to her heart. In the months that followed, Kertz moved from home to home. As is often the case when tragedy and addiction meet, she sunk toward rock bottom. Kertz says her pill consumption catapulted, and she started smoking a gram of

Lacey Kertz, photographed in prison, is now 22 months sober — exactly the length of her son’s life. | STEVEN HSIEH meth a day. On December 20, 2012, the day her baby would have turned two, Kertz posted two photos to Facebook. In one, Carson basks in a ray of sunshine pouring through the window behind him. In the other, the little boy cracks a smile, his nose balancing a pair of purple-tinted sunglasses, worn upside down. Her caption reads: “Mommy would give her last breath to wake up to your kisses, watch you terrorize your cake, pop all of your balloons with your teeth…Around this time last year, you were learning to walk. Now, you’re flying.” As Kertz descended deeper into depression, detectives continued to interview witnesses and gather evidence for the Jefferson County prosecutor. Between February and May, sheriff’s deputies questioned members of Kertz’s biological family, including her father, half-brother and mother, as well as Swyres. Their attempts to reach Kertz — a phone call, a home visit — were less successful. But the DeNoyers and the Stadlers grew impatient with what they viewed as a delayed justice. In a segment that aired on KMOV, Travis DeNoyer told a reporter,

“I want to know what happened to my little boy’s brother because that’s something he’s going to have to grow with and he’ll never see him again.” In April, Sheryl Sullivan and Judith Stadler appeared in a Post-Dispatch article headlined, “Women Want Charges in House Spring Toddler’s Death.” Photos of the two women kneeling next to Carson’s grave accompany the text. The article describes Stadler clutching a Precious Moments angel that Carson “loved to cuddle with,” and saying, “It’s all I have left of him.” Kertz was astounded that the women she says “sold me the drugs that killed my baby” would express indignation in the region’s largest newspaper. “What are you? Holier-than-thou?” she felt. The dislike went both ways. “There was a point I wanted her dead,” Sullivan tells the RFT. The next month, Jefferson County Prosecutor Forrest Wegge charged Kertz with three felonies, including second-degree murder, child neglect resulting in death and child endangerment. Sergeant James Kausler found Kertz later that day in the basement of riverfronttimes.com

a friend’s home, hiding in a dryer. Sergeant Kausler let her smoke a cigarette before placing her in handcuffs and driving her back to the Jefferson County Jail. Helms learned of the charges when she saw her former foster child’s mug shot on television. “I couldn’t believe it was her,” Helms says. “She almost looked like the walking dead. I mean, she was so emaciated.” In a jail interview with Jefferson County Detective Hollie Lunsford, Kertz “remained adamant she was not sure how Carson died.” She also told Lunsford that she “illegally buys drugs because she doesn’t have insurance,” naming Judith and Roger Stadler, as well as an aunt and uncle, as sellers. Lunsford asked Kertz whether they were the same people speaking about her in the media. Kertz nodded and said she felt a “hell of a lot better” for getting that information off her chest, according to the police report. In November 2015, prosecutors agreed to downgrade her charges to involuntary manslaughter and two counts of child endangerment — one for the meth, the other for

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Women’s Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center sits on the eastern edge of Vandalia, across from a railroad track and down the street from a Mexican restaurant. The facility’s red siding suggests an oversized barn, albeit one surrounded by a curved security fence and surveillance cameras. The prison’s visiting area is open, lit by fluorescents and enclosed by vending machines. Visitors can play Scrabble or watch Monsters Inc. with their loved ones. A side door opens to what must be the highest-security playground in Missouri. Kertz arrives late to meet with a reporter owing to issues with the daily count. She says she’s agreed to an interview with RFT for the same reason she cooperated with a non-profit called COPE24 (Change Our Parenting Experience) to produce a documentary about drug use and child neglect. “My baby lost his life to my addiction, and it can happen to anybody in a quick second. I made terrible choices,” she says. “If somebody could just learn from that or see things in a different light or perspective, I think it would be worth it. It’s using a tragedy to help others.” Kertz spends her days tutoring other offenders. She attends Sunday services and crochets baby hats for “the little ones” as part of a restorative justice program. She is 22 months sober, exactly the length of Carson’s life. Clear-minded and incarcerated, Kertz has had plenty of time, and she’ll have plenty more, to reflect on the death of her son. “I had every intention of not being a product of my environment, of breaking the cycle. And I fell right into it,” she says. “I feel like a huge failure.” “What are you in for?” goes a prison icebreaker. Kertz doesn’t

hide from her crimes. If time is short, she’ll simply say “three class-C felonies,” common parlance behind these walls. But if prodded, she’ll relay what she thinks happened to Carson in October 2013. Kertz’s theory to this day is that her son swallowed a stray morphine pill during a moment of inattention. Inmates have responded with stories of catching “their baby with something,” perhaps just narrowly avoiding a similar fate. Kertz’s face lights up when she talks about her children. Choking back tears, she recalls a game called alligator, which involved Carson trying to bite her finger. He chased his mother around, saying “hold you, hold you!” Another favorite phrase: “Chubbie shake your body.” They blasted “Jingle Bells” even in the summer and danced around their home. Kertz recited cheerleading chants to her boys: “H-O-T-T-O-G-O! Carson and Clay are hot to go!” Although she has only served two months of her sentence, Kertz speaks animatedly about her plans upon release. “I still have a son. I’m going to do anything and everything I can to be a part of his life,” she says. “And eventually, I want to open a foundation in [Carson’s] name to help other mothers who may be in the middle of addiction and don’t have sober help, so maybe a home or something they can go to and get an education.” To pass the time, Kertz reads V.C. Andrews, the Bible and books about the afterlife. She’s saving up for a CD player, which costs about $30 at the commissary. When she has money for stamps, Kertz writes letters. In one of those letters, written to Betty Helms, she dotted her i’s and exclamation points with hearts. Her message, penned on yellow legal paper and stored in a chest next to Betty’s rocking chair, reads: “Mom, if I do not mind prison — is that weird? I do NOT love it but I needed this opportunity to be able to get myself together. … How are you? What is new? What are the doctors saying? Are you going to church? Well write me back.” On the day Carson would have turned four, Kertz wrote her deceased son a letter, placed it in her bedside locker and cried herself to sleep. n

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MONDAY 0418 Ragtime America was a different place 100 years ago. Immigrants were streaming into the country to make better lives for themselves and their families, a sizable gap separated the haves and havenots and black Americans were held back by systemic racism. So,

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TUESDAY 0419 Shake 38 Despite his popularity, Shakespeare can be a hard sell to the non-theatergoing crowd. It’s hard to understand the problem; the man never met a filthy joke he couldn’t work into a play. He’s the guy who coined the phrase “the beast with two backs,” after all. Shakespeare Festival

St. Louis hopes to introduce the joys of the Bard to a larger crowd through Shake 38, its annual spring festival. The plan is to produce all 38 of Shakespeare’s plays in non-traditional locations across five days so that people who don’t frequent the theater will engage with them. This year’s fest includes a reading of Henry V by a Zumba class instructor, a production of Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Book House and an adults-only take on The Winter’s Tale called “Lost: Pursued by Bear” presented by St. Louis Fringe and Lonely Mountain String Band at the William A. Kerr Foundation. Shake 38 officially kicks off with a party at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, at the Vino Gallery (4701 McPherson Avenue; www.sfstl. org). Admission is free.

WEDNESDAY 0420 The Merry Wives of Tinder The humor in Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor stems from the bloated, aged Falstaff’s slipshod wooing of two married

women. Falstaff sends Mistress Ford and Mistress Page identical form letters that declare his love for each of them; the ladies immediately discern Falstaff’s scheme and decide to string him along. Theatre Nuevo updates the play for the digital age by giving the players cellphones and access to a certain popular hook-up app in its production of The Merry Wives of Tinder. Much of the dialogue for the show comes from actual Tinder messages received by St. Louis singles, donated to the company in the name of art. The Merry Wives of Tinder is performed at 7 p.m. at Milque Toast Bar (2212 South Jefferson Avenue; www. sfstl.org) as part of this year’s Shake 38 Festival. Admission is free. 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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Finally, the Jocks Have Their Day Richard Linklater goes easy on the popular kids in his likable teen sex comedy Written by

ROBERT HUNT Everybody Wants Some!!

Written and directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Blake Jenner, Juston Street, Ryan Guzman and Tyler Hoechlin. Now screening at the Landmark Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar Boulevard, University City).

ichard Linklater runs a tight race with Steven Soderbergh for the title of most-chameleon-like filmmaker. His 25year career has produced neo-hipster musings (Slacker), micro-dramas (Tape), period films (The Newton Boys; Me and Orson Welles), animation (Waking Life), science fiction (A Scanner Darkly), studio-produced hits (School of Rock), neo-arthouse romances (the Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight trilogy) and the post-neorealism brilliance of Boyhood. Linklater’s films seem to emanate from his headquarters in Austin, Texas, with only a passing interest in the commercial trends of the day. His films can be deeply felt statements, or simply ideas that happened to catch his attention for a few weeks. So Linklater stays true to form by following the award-winning Boyhood with the considerably lower-brow Everybody Wants Some!!, a nostalgic comedy that has been described as a “spiritual sequel” to Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused (a film whose spiritual qualities, I must admit, were lost on me when it was first released). Dazed and Confused, which shares a title with a Led Zeppelin song, took place on a single day in 1976, the last day of high school for a miscellaneous bunch of jocks and stoners. The

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Austin Amelio, Tanner Kalina, Forrest Vickery, Tyler Hoechlin and Ryan Guzman in Everybody Wants Some!! | Van Redin © 2015 PARAMOUNT PICTURES new film, which shares its title with a Van Halen song (right down to the double exclamation points), takes place over a few days in the fall of 1980, the last weekend before the first classes of the year for a miscellaneous bunch of stoner jocks. I’ll bet you can already see the difference. Everybody Wants Some!! begins with Jake (Blake Jenner) arriving on campus, settling into his new accommodations — a house reserved solely for the college baseball team — and meeting his teammates. No sooner have introductions been made when Jake and team begin an almost uninterrupted spate of drinking, pointless macho competitions (I had completely forgotten that stupid game in which players whack each other on the knuckles until one of them gives up) and parties, each with its own musical style and wardrobe requirements. Those seeking a dose of ‘80s nostalgia will be pleased to note that Linklater’s characters are culturally diverse party animals, rapping along with the Sugar Hill Gang, stopping by a disco, a country-western dance

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club, a punk concert and an Alice in Wonderland-themed party. Music is the glue which holds the rambling party scenes together — 1980 was the beginning of the end for an era when having a bulky but well-rounded record collection was as culturally important a signifier as a well-curated Facebook page is today. But there’s also, as you might expect from a Linklater film, a great deal of wild and woolly conversation about nothing in particular. The difference between the monologues of these affable jocks and the earnest ramblings in Slacker or Waking Life is that this time you know the guys doing the talking are wasted. There is, in fact, another ‘80s influence just as indispensable to the film as “Whip It” and “My Sharona.” The early 1980s — the dawn of home video and late-night cable — saw the release of dozens of R-rated teen sex comedies such as Spring Break, Hard Bodies, Private School and Screwballs. Everybody Wants Some!! is like an anthology of the party scenes from those films without having to waste time on the dull spots and dopey plots

in between. As I watched the film, I briefly suspected that Linklater had secretly made this as a clandestine art project along the lines of Gus Van Sant’s re-working of Psycho, carefully making sure not to miss a single teen sex comedy trope: Arrogant character gets his comeuppance? Hero meets really nice girl? Mud wrestling? Twister? Everybody gets some!! Everybody Wants Some!! is consistently likable, but — and I have no doubt this is intentional — it’s almost blissfully unreflective of anything close to reality. 1980 was a hazy, transitional year, the waning of the overlong 1970s, but if anything is going on in the world — the Iranian hostage crisis, the boycotted Moscow Olympics, the presidential election (briefly alluded to by background props) — Linklater’s student body doesn’t seem to be paying attention. The soundtrack and facial hair may place the film in 1980, but it’s a very narrow image of that time, as if the only historical documents left behind from that year were a Billboard albums chart and a VHS tape of Hardbodies. n

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Game of Thrones St. Louis Shakespeare stages a sharp, modern Richard III — even if the audience insists on laughing Written by

PAUL FRISWOLD Richard III

Written by William Shakespeare Directed by Suki Peters Presented by St. Louis Shakespeare through April 17 at the Ivory Theatre (7620 Michigan Avenue; 314-361-5664 or www. stlshakespeare.org). Tickets are $15 to $20.

ohn Barrymore, the first great Richard III on the American stage, once endured a lone guffaw from the audience upon his delivery of Richard’s famous line, “A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!” Barrymore responded with the indignant ad-lib, “Make haste, and saddle yonder braying ass.” The old man would have gone hoarse firing off rejoinders to the audience at the Ivory Theatre Saturday night, who laughed in response to even the most heinous of Richard’s many murders. Which is not to blame Charlie Barron, who makes for a wellrounded and thoroughly seductive Richard III in St. Louis Shakespeare’s current production of the play. Nor is it due to any fault of his co-stars or director Suki Peters. This moderately excised version of Shakespeare’s play focuses on Richard III (hobbled by a heavy limp but neither ugly nor disfigured) and the four queens who at various times oppose him. It’s a fast-moving, enthralling show that features a wealth of strong performances, and Barron is flat-out excellent as the grinning monster who would destroy the world in order to rule it. So why did his asides to the audience generate such frequent laughter? Barron gives him a dark charm, sure, but I suspect we’ve seen too many pale imitations of Richard’s brand of charismatic an26

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Richard (Charlie Barron) woos Anne (Jennifer Theby-Quinn) in his peculiar fashion. | JOHN LAMB ti-hero over the years to be stunned into silence by the original’s monstrousness at this point. It’s an election year after all; a murderer’s row of power-hungry li’l Richards parade across our various screens every few minutes. If the actual threat of carpet-bombing several nations’ worth of people can’t hold our interest for more than a day, what hope does a mere child killer like Richard have? Early on he woos Ann Neville (Jennifer Theby-Quinn) in sight of her husband’s bloody corpse — and that’s a corpse Richard made, which Anne knows. Set between looming stone staircases that flank the stage, Richard makes his case that he slew Anne’s husband out of duty (there was a war at the time), and because her beauty haunted him so much that he would “undertake the death of all the world, so I might live one hour in your sweet bosom.” Theby-Quinn and Barron together race through this scene as if in a kind of madness, he from love and she from rage. The pallbearers watch the duo, baffled by their bizarre courtship. Barron lunges forward, pushing her against the stairs, both of them on their knees. It’s one of a dozen scenes Peters has engineered that work as both tab-

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leau and as visual storytelling. (And full marks to costume designer J.C. Krajcik for embellishing these scenes with such rich colors.) A widowed noblewoman whose family was on the losing side of a war is in a very precarious situation — unless she marries someone from the winning family. Richard offers her a lifeline, which she leaves to ponder. And then he turns to the audience with a knowing grin and spreads his hands, as if even he can’t believe his effrontery, and we laugh. The laughter should come less naturally when he hires a pair of assassins to kill his brother George, or arranges for the murder of his nephews, or returns to the stage toying with Anne’s wedding ring and blithely announces she’s dead. It’s harder still not to root for him at this point — this handsome, intelligent viper with the silver tongue makes betrayal an art. All of his schemes are bearing fruit, and his way to the throne is clear. When he and his pal Buckingham (the excellent John Foughty) stage-manage his “reluctant” ascension to the throne, there’s a sense of relief. He’s done it, and now the killing can cease. Can, but doesn’t.

Eager to consolidate his hardwon power, Richard goes about bumping off loyal friends out of paranoia. Barron becomes more frantic, his movements jerky and his voice brittle as Richard’s body count grows. Elizabeth (Michelle Hand), the deposed queen and widow of Richard’s oldest brother, argues him to a standstill in another brilliant scene that demonstrates the human cost evil takes when it’s permitted to flourish. She’s lost everything — power, husband, children, her very future — and there she stands, battling to the last against the face of leering, cocky evil. Her desperate stand is echoed in a later scene by the Earl of Oxford (Maxwell Knocke), when Oxford stands with allies who intend to overthrow Richard: “Every man’s conscience is a thousand swords, to fight against that bloody homicide.” Sound designer Ted Drury has martial drums beating throughout the show-ending Battle of Bosworth Field. When Richard is struck down and calls out for a horse, again the crowd on Saturday bizarrely laughed. But not quite loudly enough to drown out those war drums, which falter and die with Richard. n

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Gigi Scaria’s Woodhenge, now on display at Laumeier Sculpture Park. | GIGI SCARIA

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Gigi Scaria: Time

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Opens 11 a.m. Sat., Apr. 16. Continues through Aug. 14.

The spring exhibition at the Pulitzer is all about engaging your senses. Janet Cardiff’s installation The Forty Part Motet broadcasts the voices of 40 choral singers through 40 separate speakers in the main gallery; what you hear depends on where you are and which way you’re heading. Felix GonzalezTorres’ sculpture Untitled (PlaceboLandscape-for Roni) is a mass of hard candies that are intended to be plucked and eaten by viewers, so that the piece is transformed by human interaction. Roman Ondák’s Clockwork similarly requires your participation for its activation; visitors’ names are written on the wall, along with the time they stop by, so the piece is not completed until the exhibition closes.

The future is built on the bones of the past. Cities expand from the remains of villages, but some part of those villages remain in the form of names or memories. New Delhibased artist Gigi Scaria is interested in the way territorial, cultural and environmental elements can survive the passage of time. His new exhibition explores the peculiar growth of St. Louis atop the Mound Builder culture that existed along the Mississippi long before the French arrived. His outdoor sculpture Time combines the form of Cahokia Mounds’ Woodhenge with the modern concrete high-rise building. A further selection of Scaria’s recent photographs and films is on display inside Laumeier’s Adam Aronson Fine Arts Center. —Paul Friswold riverfronttimes.com

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Not All Greek to Me Dados Café combines classics from Greece with American standards Written by

CHERYL BAEHR Dados Café

5425 Hampton Avenue; 314-858-5800. Mon.Sat. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun. 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

f you go to Dados Café’s website and click on the “Greek Cuisine” tab, you won’t find much more than a photo of a Greek salad and a sentence that lists a few menu items. It’s not at all informative, but it doesn’t need to be. All you really need to do to learn about Greek food is head to the Southampton storefront and order the dolmades. You’ve probably already had dolmades, the small, often tasteless rolls of rice-filled grape leaves. They can be an afterthought at any number of Mediterranean restaurants: pulled from a jar and plopped on a Greek salad next to some cucumbers and olives. At Dados, though, this old family recipe deserves main-course billing. The size of a small fist and overfilled with ground beef, herbs and rice, the hand-crafted dolmades here are smothered with your choice of either a creamy lemon sauce that plays off the grape leaves’ tartness or a meaty, oregano-spiked tomato sauce that tastes as if it has been simmering for hours in your yia yia’s kitchen. Who needs words on a webpage when you have such a beautiful representation of Greek food right there on your plate? Dados Café has only been around since last November, but owner Gus Botonis and head chef Nick Avouris have had plenty of time to perfect their dolmades. The cousins, who grew up on the picturesque Greek island of Zakynthos, have roughly 30 years of hospitality experience between them. They’d

Dados’ specialties include the burger, gyro, toasted ravioli and dolmades. | MABEL SUEN often talked about opening a place together, but their lives took them in different directions — Botonis in and out of the restaurant and real estate business; Avouris to different restaurants in various cities. Finally, they found the right building at the right time and were able to realize their dream. As much as the dolmades might lead you to believe otherwise, Dados is not a strictly Greek restaurant. Instead, the menu combines Greek and American classics, similar in theory to a Jersey diner but without the grease and patrons in cheetah prints. For a place that slings pastistio, patty melts and chicken parmesan, the aesthetic is quite tasteful. The deceptively large space is divided into three separate dining areas, the first of which is tiled in gray and white with Mediterranean-blue accents. The open kitchen sits just beyond a carryout counter, and a few high-top tables dot the room. To the right are two additional mauve-painted dining rooms decorated with photos of both St.

Louis and the Greek islands. It has the bland good looks of an upscale hotel lobby. The photos foreshadow the mix of Greek and American food found on the menu. The spanakopita appetizer is exactly what you want in a spinach pie: delicate, flaky crust; hunks of molten feta cheese; and a spinach and herb filling perfumed with pine nuts. Greek meatballs are an equally worthy first course. Coated in breadcrumbs, their crispy exterior yields to moist, oregano-flecked meat that pairs perfectly with zesty marinara sauce. Saganaki presents as triangles of gooey breaded cheese, simply fried without the brandy-fueled flambé and shouts of “opa!” so often associated with the dish (at least stateside). I didn’t miss the spectacle but was glad to have a lemon wedge to squeeze over such a rich and mildly funky kasseri cheese. While we reveled in the delights from the Greek side of the menu, our server arrived with an order riverfronttimes.com

of chicken wings that shows Dados’ prowess with American bar food. The plump drummies and wings come with skin that’s extra crisped, almost like breading. They’re then coated in mild, vinegar-based hot sauce that is diluted with so much butter you won’t need the accompanying blue cheese dressing. But there were slight seasoning missteps on a few of the Americanstyle main courses. The patty melt had all of the makings of a superior sandwich: balsamic caramelized onions, tangy Swiss cheese, perfectly griddled marble rye bread and a large, juicy ground beef patty. Unfortunately, the meat had so little seasoning I wondered if it had even been hit with salt and pepper. Similarly, the corned beef on the Reuben sandwich lacked the characteristic perfumed brine and fat that makes the sandwich pop. It’s a shame — otherwise, the bread, kraut, Swiss and Thousand Island dressing combined for a gloriously oozy treat.

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On the Greek side, Dados’ gyro is respectable — not the best in town, but a worthy effort. The warm pita is so overfilled with slices of crisped gyro meat it’s difficult to eat (a welcome problem). The greens, onions and tomato garnish are tossed in vinaigrette; when mixed with optional feta cheese, the result is a flavorful mixture that brightens the wrap. There is much to love about the moussaka, with its layers of seasoned ground beef and potatoes encased in a semi-hard béchamel sauce that puffs up like custard. The only problem is that the eggplant was so sparse, I’m still not sure it was actually there. Nonetheless, the flavor is superb. Botonis and Avouris envisioned the restaurant as a hybrid of a family-friendly American diner and the traditional Greek tavern you’d find back in Zakynthos. They’ve hit that mark — the place is a 50/50 split.

But even though the American side is respectable, I found myself consistently more dazzled by the Greek side of the menu. Case in point: dessert. Dados serves a good carrot cake — moist, spiked with cinnamon and coated in rich cream cheese icing. However, no trip to a Greek restaurant is complete without an order of baklava, and Dados did not disappoint. Honeyed walnuts layered between crisp, butter phyllo dough doesn’t break the mold, but why should it? Their traditional rendering is an ambrosial treat. Botonis and Avouris should add a photo of this quintessential Greek dessert to their website as additional enticement. Then again, what would be the point? You’ll be better served just heading to Dados Café and tasting the food for yourself. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but one bite is far better. n Dados Spinach pie ................................... $6.49 Gyro sandwich .............................. $7.99 Dolmades ...................................... $9.49

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ri Ellis, the executive sous chef at Southern (3108 Olive Street; 314-531-4668), found her inspiration for cooking in a most unlikely place — a boxed frozen dinner. “Growing up, my family didn’t cook at all. Dinner consisted of puling Marie Callender dinners out of the freezer,” Ellis recalls. “In actuality, that was the reason I started cooking. I knew nothing about it. I was twenty years old and could barely make a grilled cheese.” After graduating high school and taking college classes without much direction, Ellis scoured the internet in search of jobs. Cooking intrigued her, but all the kitchen gigs seemed to require a minimum of two years’ experience. Determined, Ellis got into the business through the front of the house. “I weaseled my way into a job as a waitress and then begged my way into the kitchen,” she explains. “I think once they realized I wasn’t a good waitress they just let me back there.” As Ellis got her feet wet in the kitchen, she learned about an opportunity at Quincy Street Bistro. “I’ll admit I lied to them a little about my experience,” Ellis laughs. “I told them I was much more familiar with kitchens than I actually was.” Not long after she started at Quincy Street, chef Rick Lewis came in and changed the concept from a simple bar and grill where she “just fried stuff” into a place that cooked, in her words, “actual meals.” She and Lewis instantly bonded, and when he was looking to hire someone to help him with Southern, which he opened last

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Chef Ari Ellis preparing the housemade sausage in Southern’s kitchen. | HARLAN MCCARTHY year in Midtown, he asked Ellis to be his right-hand woman. In her role at the acclaimed hot chicken shack, Ellis is responsible for much more than fried chicken. On any given day, you’ll find her preparing the housemade bologna, andouille, bacon and ham, as well as anything else Lewis throws her way. “I’m very lucky to have grown up in the age of the Internet,” Ellis admits. “If I don’t know something or if Rick asks me about something, I’ll look it up. Plus, I learn so much from him. When he describes something, it’s like going to school.” Ellis took a break from the kitchen to share her thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage scene, the importance of alone time and why, no matter how hard she tries, she can’t make an egg sandwich like grandma’s. What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did? I’m really bad at remembering the names of people I’ve just met. Meeting new people is generally uncomfortable for me, so I get all caught up in my head and forget

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to remember. What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you? I need my alone time. I wake up extra early and sit in silence. Usually I’ll eat breakfast, stretch, just generally get ready for the day. I spend all day communicating/ talking to many different people. The silence and alone time are crucial to a sane me. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? My superpower would most definitely be the ability to fly. I have a huge fear of airplanes and being that high in the air with a whole load of people. What is the most positive thing in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year? Mostly the amount of places that are opening up. Qui Tran from Mai Lee is opening a ramen place, Kitchen Kulture is about to put some roots down, Copper Pig, Reeds American Table — and there are many more on the way. It’s exciting for me. I’ve always been a student of the restaurant I work in, so for me it’s like a bunch

of schools have opened up. Who is your St. Louis food crush? Andy Candy at Crown Candy. His last name isn’t candy; it’s something much harder to pronounce and doesn’t rhyme nearly as good [editor’s note: it’s Karandzieff!]. When I was at Quincy Street Bistro, I would go pick up the ice cream order most weeks. Andy was there in the thick of it, hammering out milkshake and ice cream orders for the never-ending line of customers. It’s something I admire. Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene? I think we need to focus on the line cook or the dishwasher or the prep cook. The little-acknowledged person in the restaurant world. The person who relentlessly assembles your meal under the guidance of the ever-knowledgeable chef. (I’m very tempted to say that y’all need to keep your eye on me. I’m just getting started, I feel like.) Which ingredient is most representative of your personality? Salt, noun \’sŏlt\: a natural white substance that is used especially to flavor or preserve food. If you weren’t working in the restaurant business, what would you be doing? I can only hope if I wasn’t cooking I would be working with horses. It’s a passion of mine that I miss very much. Name an ingredient never allowed in your kitchen. That bright orange nacho cheese crap. You find it at the baseball stadium or gas stations. Cheese shouldn’t come in that color or consistency. What is your after-work hangout? My after-work “hangout” is this real low-key spot I like to call my living room. What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure? Miracle Whip. I feel no shame. What would be your last meal on earth? My grandma’s scrambled egg sandwich on wheat bread with Miracle Whip. I love my grandma. It’s less about the sandwich and more about her making the sandwich. It never turns out the same when I try. n

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ike Randolph of Half & Half (8133 Maryland Avenue, Clayton) is making a few menu additions. After enjoying success with a trio of highly-reviewed restaurants (including his first-ever nod from the James Beard Foundation, which named Randolph as a semi-finalist for Best Chef: Midwest and honored his Latin-themed Público as semi-finalist for Best New Restaurant), he’s focused on shaking things up at his Clayton breakfast spot. In the Half & Half kitchen, he’s listening to Bruce Springsteen sing “I don’t want to fade away” while he and chef Dale M. Beauchamp work in tandem to showcase the new fare, which will be available to diners beginning Thursday, April 14. Surprisingly, Springsteen and breakfast food go very well together. “We’ve been hesitant to change things here, but at the same time we want to inject some new life in the restaurant and get some new things on the menu,” Randolph says. One of the first dishes Randolph shares with the assembled group of food writers and curious invitees is a pair of French toast plates. “Tess’s Toast,” named for Randolph’s daughter, arrives stacked high with brioche bread and a lemon curd that oozes down the plate like honey. The blonde curd’s rich tartness is reduced by a handful of blueberries that add color and a simple sweetness. Conversely, the “S’mores French Toast” is a more inventive item and a departure from what we traditionally know — a Randolph signature. Here, the light graham cracker crust is a lovely contrast, and while you may imagine the toasted marshmallow too neutral a texture to go with the brioche, the entire dish is unified by a layer of rich chocolate drizzled on top. But Randolph won’t hang his hat solely on sweet dishes. The first savory item he breaks out might be one you’ll crave every morning — “Breakfast Fried Rice.” While the

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mere phrase “fried rice” conjures the basic side dish, the texture here is reminiscent of a fine risotto, with heat delivered by chopped jalapeno and spicy breakfast sausage. It’s brought out of a side-dish stupor by chunks of sweet, golden pineapple and pickled red onion. It’s a meal you’ll want all the time — best served piping hot, cold, leftover or hungover. I happily took a third serving and dashed some Publico hot sauce on top, which made it even better. A clear winner — until the fried chicken sandwich. When the Randolphs first visited Nashville, they fell in love with the state’s signature dish: Nashville hot chicken. Thanks to chef Rick Lewis, however, who made the dish the cornerstone of his acclaimed new restaurant in Midtown, Southern, the question is less “who loves Nashville-style hot chicken?” and more “who doesn’t?” “I really like what Rick is doing over there with Southern, and I wanted to try and recreate that in my own way,” Randolph says. The chicken is sourced from Buttonwood Farms, with homemade, half-sour pickles speared atop a brioche bun. What’s noteworthy here is that the dish is dressed in chili oil and a pickle-reduced aioli for a combination of flavors that rivals the best chicken in the city. It’s a sandwich you make friends with fast. The crust is darkly sweet and crunchy but not brittle — it cracks apart

with each mouth-watering crunch. And there are plenty of those to enjoy, because this is a big sandwich. “This dish is an effort to ‘beef’ up our salad menu,” Randolph jokes as the steak salad makes its way to the table. The salad features a large plate of arugula, soaked in red wine vinaigrette, blue cheese and oven-dried tomatoes, while thin slices of rare steak are nestled to the side. The entire dish is light, tangy and satisfying, brought together by the nucleus of a poached egg in the center. Then there’s the “Breakfast Sushi.” It’s a food-coma-inducing mashup of your favorite breakfast foods — a bacon weave on the outside, a roll inside filled with potatoes, eggs, avocado and a spicy aioli. Come early to grab this one — the extensive prep work will make this an exclusive, weekend-only item in limited orders. Chatting with Randolph is a revelation. He’s contemplative of the food culture that is growing locally, but also of his own skills and creations. You can tell he’s always thinking about it, turning over old recipes in his head and trying to add an ingredient of creativity, a dash of imagination.

“We really want to maintain the same course we’ve been on here at Half & Half, which is an evolution,” he says. Like Springsteen, he doesn’t want to fade away either. And with dishes like these, he’s not going anywhere. n

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patrons can’t pick and choose from offerings. Instead, the Panchals bring out three courses of four items, each in smaller portion sizes so that guests can try everything. After that, you can ask for more. It’s kind of like dim sum, only with a flat rate (just $12.99). “The menu that you see here is a very unique menu,” explains Sid Panchal. “You will not find these items in any other restaurant. For us to give someone a menu and say, ‘Hey, pick from here,’ it makes it hard because they don’t know what they’re going to get. This way they don’t have to pick and choose. You can eat everything and then whatever is your favorite you can order two times, three times, however many times you want.” Both members of the husbandand-wife ownership team were born and raised in Mumbai and then moved to the U.S. in the early aughts to further their studies. Before they were cooks, Krupa Panchal worked as an optometrist, later earning a master’s in gerontology, while Sid Panchal got a degree in computer engineering followed by an MBA. But once the couple had their daughter, Krupa took a break from optometry and focused on a new goal. “I was always passionate — both of us are — about food,” Krupa says. “All during my pregnancy I craved the food I grew up on, but I had to make it. There was no one selling it here in St. Louis.” The couple took inspiration from the Food Network’s The Great Food Continued on pg 38

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MUMBAI Continued from pg 36 Truck Race. India’s thriving street food scene also suggested exciting possibilities. “I went back to India and did my research. I just stood near the stalls and observed what they were making, what spices they were using and things like that,” Krupa says. Those dishes are now a big part of the draw at their brick-and-mortar restaurant. The first course is made up of four starters inspired by street food, with a second course featuring Indian-Chinese fusion. Along with a fritter, guests are offered street-style stir-fried noodles and a rice of the day. The third course centers around bread items, which the Panchals bake from scratch. “Bombay is a port of entry. A lot of Western people entered Bombay through it and that’s why the street food is very much influenced by the Western people and the Western culture. That’s why we have a lot of bread items,” Krupa explains. On one recent visit, that meant three sandwiches and one stew, a thick, tomato-based soup served with another piece of toasted bread that you can use to sop up the liquid. After trying all of the dishes, diners can ask for more of whatever they want without limit. However, if they’re already stuffed they can go ahead with the dessert: vanilla ice cream topped with strawberry syrup, almonds, basil seeds and crispy noodles. While crafting their menu, the Panchals wanted to cater to all palates and tastes. Instead of using a heavy hand with the spices, they allow the diners to control the level of spice by offering a jalapeno and cilantro chutney as well as a Szechuan sauce. Before serving the guests, servers ask about food allergies so the Panchals can make the dishes to every customer’s need — even vegan or gluten-free. “We try to give something that’s heart-friendly, that’s local, that has a lot of flavors,” Krupa says. “We are trying to get this message across that vegetarian can be good, healthy and filling.” Bombay Food Junkies is currently open just three nights a week: Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, from 5 to 9 p.m. But if you’re looking to try their food and that time doesn’t work, there’s always the food truck. Follow them on Twitter @bombayfoodtruck for more details on both. n

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MUSIC Space and Energy A new Cherokee Street partnership means big things for three established St. Louis venues Written by

THOMAS CRONE

f you were privy to a personal conversation between Joshua Loyal and Kaveh Razani, you’d be forgiven for thinking that they were an old married couple. They finish each other’s sentences, occasionally taking short pauses to make eye contact, in order to best firm up thoughts. They share values and approaches to life — especially life lived after the sun goes down. These days, they’re also tied at the hip to a unique business arrangement that’s going to reshape three existing clubs on the city’s south side, with the addition of at least one more room by this summer. The short version is that the 2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center (seldom known as much more than 2720) has been re-launched, with Loyal, the co-founder and face of the franchise, now in a support position. Incoming have been Razani and nearly two handfuls of partners, all of them affiliated with a room up the block, Blank Space. Loyal, now no longer as tethered to 2720 duties, has returned to his roots at the club that helped launch his booking career, Pop’s Blue Moon, his family’s place on the Hill. Lastly, a new lounge, Barcade, is set to open within the 2720 complex, and it might not be the last satellite bar within that massive, three-story space. In discussing the particulars, Loyal and Razani riff through all manner and variants on the word “energy,” using it more than a pair of yoga instructors in a free-wheeling, hour-long discussion of their ambitious yet amoeba-like plans for 2016. “It would have been a way easier process to shut down and start afresh,” Razani says. “But that

“It would have been a way easier process to shut down and start afresh,” Razani says. | MABEL SUEN would’ve been very difficult with the identity of the club and the momentum of the space.” “It’s so negative to hear of a club closing,” Loyal says. “We had a chance to avoid closing and just evolve into the next phase. It’s a challenge in keeping the business going. Instead of ending it and starting fresh, we’ve opted, so far, to successfully execute … ” “… an uninterrupted service to our community,” finishes Razani. With ten people having an ownership stake in 2720, a cynic might wonder if the soup could actually suffer by the addition too many ingredients. Whether through its booking policy, or in look and feel, 2720 already had the vibe of a place with many influences. The refresh is now well underway, including a cull of the venue’s legendary clutter. Visually, the space is being transformed through the talents of the Screwed Arts Collective — as Razani shoots pool and Loyal steadily taps away at his phone, SAC artists Jacob Berkowitz and Daniel Burnett are painting murals in an area that once housed Davide Weaver’s massive Star Wars collection. Other elements are going away, and Razani figures on the final look being more of a “large black box.” The booking policy will hew to the previous 2720 formula, Loyal assures. Asked for a rough definition of that, he suggests, “underground. Anti-top-40. It’s conscious, usually; psychedelic, often. I call it ‘quality music,’ but people make fun of me

for saying that. I’m always interested in things that I can’t give a title to, in artwork or music. I like things blending. I like how it’s hard to give a definition to those. We’ve done burlesque to bluegrass, electronic to funk and soul, hip-hop to comedy. And a lot of things here have crossed those genres. Like, you might have a hip-hop comedy event.” What’s hampered 2720’s off-night draw, though, is the sheer size of the venue. With a ton of choices along Cherokee, and more coming, a big room like 2720 has had trouble developing a drinking crowd when the stage is dark. Razani’s currently developing, with friends and associates, Barcade, an old-school arcade-themed project that will be held within the building, but with a stripped-back, 200 to 300 person capacity. While bands might play the room on some nights, it’ll aim for more of a day-to-day, hangout feel. With, of course, dozens of games. Blank Space, at 2847 Cherokee Street, will maintain much of the same feel as today, with several notable wrinkles, according to Razani. While the staff will be splitting time with 2720’s, the eight to ten monthly events (such as the linchpin “Bump & Hustle,” the art-and-music mixer “Clothesline” and the new swing staple, “House Shout”) will likely stay put. The club’s dozen or so oneoff events monthly will continue at that pace, “giving us only five or six closed nights a month,” Razani says. “I think it’s been really exciting to expand our scope,” Razani adds. “It’s a testament to our resolve. It’s riverfronttimes.com

taken awhile, but for the last nine months or so we’ve settled into a great groove, with great people.” The primary wrinkle to the room’s programming is far from ordinary for a club. “We are finally going to start daytime hours, co-working-style,” Razani says. “It’ll be membership-based. We’ll start out with nineto-five access for all three floors. We’ll be open consistently for freelancers, creatives — people who enjoy the energy of the space but aren’t in-sync for the party. We already have resources to share: cool corners to sit in, lots of books, lots of records and people from every imaginable cultural background.” Remaining in this reconfigured puzzle is the next phase of Pop’s Blue Moon, at 5249 Pattison Avenue, sitting as it ever has along I-44 on the quirky, disconnected edge of the Hill. Of late, Loyal has joined his Grigaitis family members back behind the bar, including his own pop, Terry. Non-smoking as of the new year, the room has been adding lots of music since January, with a nod toward “hip to tip” booking policies. In effect, customers come to the small room expecting to pitch in for the band, but without a formal cover. As in the past, folk, blues, jazz and variations of bluegrass have been the core of the Moon’s sound. “In stride with the smoking ban,” Loyal says, “I’ve put the Moon back on my list. And we’re figuring out just how big of a rebirth we’re aiming for. I put lots of energy into the Moon from 1999 to 2007 or ‘08; we used to have live music six nights a week. I was there all the time and it was my full-time gig. I grew out of that a little bit; then 2720 opened in 2009. Now that the smoking exception for small taverns has expired, I have more interest in promoting events and just bringing my personal energy back to the Moon and the Hill. I’ve increased the programming with weeklies and monthlies.” This week, after nearly a year of possible twists and many turns, the focus for both Razani and Loyal is squarely-centered on 2720, an effort now ten-men strong. “It’s more of a co-op than it’s ever been,” Loyal says. Infused by — let’s all feel it together now — a whole lot of new energy. n

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he year 2016 has been a tough one for music fans. In only the first quarter we’ve lost some of the most influential musicians from the last century, from Phife Dog to Lemmy Kilmister to David Bowie, and most recently, Merle Haggard. This list won’t be getting any shorter; many musicians who single-handedly changed their respective genres are rapidly approaching the age where catching a cold could mean certain death. Watching these innovators grow old has resulted in a growing trend of “last-chance” concert-going. Some want to see these legends because they genuinely love their music, some are hoping to be there for their last show and some are even hoping to watch them croak on stage. I call it Morbid Musical Tourism. Merle Haggard pulled out of his remaining dates with Willie Nelson & Family for health reasons in late March, including his St. Louis stop. He died April 6, a devastating blow to any fans hoping for one last Morbid Musical Tour. But they still dutifully showed up to a soldout Peabody Opera House April 9 to celebrate his life and see Nelson perform. The mostly middle-aged white crowd was decked out in fringe and boots, with fewer cowboy hats and more metal t-shirts than you might expect. There were several Merle Haggard t-shirts with the slogan “America — Love it or Leave It,” recalling the recent Donald Trump political rally held at the same venue and reminding me that not all Nelson fans are peacenik, weed-soaked hippies — although plenty of bloodshot eyes were in the crowd. Haggard’s slot on the tour was filled by Jamey Johnson and Ryan

Willie Nelson at the Pageant. | TODD OWYOUNG Bingham, who respectfully peppered their sets with Haggard covers. Johnson and his band, which included Lukas Nelson, Willie’s son, played with expertise and grace. To the delight and surprise of the audience, Lee Ann Womack came onstage to sing with Johnson. Womack absolutely killed it — her harmonies with her first collaboration, “You Take Me for Granted,” showed the audience just how lovely the Peabody Opera House can sound. She prefaced the next song by apologizing: “I’ve never sung this song before, but I’ll try.” She paused, beaming, before adding, “I think I can,” to cheers of encouragement (“Get it, girl!”), before performing a gorgeous version of the Willie Nelson classic “Yesterday’s Wine.” The tributes to Haggard and Nelson were heartwarming and well-executed, a moving way to celebrate both the life of the recently deceased legend and the still-rocking Nelson. Unfortunately, not everyone in the crowd was feeling the love. The gentleman directly in front of me

loudly chastised a drunk a few seats away for talking during the performance — their combined efforts effectively distracting everyone in a twenty-seat radius. Later in the show, when Drunk Guy was sufficiently drunker, he loudly chastised Uptight Guy for using his cellphone during the set (the latter was updating a setlist — I peeked), resulting in a brief yelling match. “I’ll have you thrown out,” said Uptight Guy. “Why don’t you get off your phone? It’s distracting,” mocked Drunk Guy. The feud fizzled, then festered, as confrontations often do between pear-shaped, middle-aged men in public settings. Both men stole glowering glances at each other for the duration of the set. I couldn’t help but think of the Trump rally again. Nelson’s set began with “Whiskey River” — Nelson played occasionally, as he would for the duration of the night, with varying degrees of lucidity, in and out of the distinct style that made him famous. A friend compared his occasionally erratic riverfronttimes.com

playing to “a shaggy old dog on a leash, having a bit of a hard time keeping up, but just happy to be out on a run.” Although the guitar work was occasionally disappointing, his voice and his smile were winsome and his band was excellent, playing through rocky territory with unflappable skill. Nelson seemed to know when his game was off, and would double back and play with intense focus, occasionally soloing with machine-gun speed. Willie Nelson & the Family band alternated between ballads and rockers, and, while his playing was considerably better on the faster-paced songs, Nelson’s voice and invitations to sing along during the slower songs seemed personal, spiritual and important. During “Funny How Time Slips Away,” Nelson sang, “Gotta go now/I guess I’ll see you around.” It felt like both a eulogy for the friend he’d recently lost and a prophecy for himself. Nelson played “Oakie from Muskogee” in tribute to Haggard, joined by Lee Ann Womack, Jamey Johnson and Ryan Bingham. They stayed onstage and sang along while Nelson played some favorites, including “On the Road Again” and “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die,” during which smoke of a different sort wafted up from somewhere in the center of the audience -– the first and only time I smelled it all night. They closed with a rousing rendition of “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” and the crowd stood — clapping, stomping and singing along, turning the Peabody into a revival house. The only stationary person in the crowd was Uptight Guy, who stood with his arms firmly crossed, casting hateful glances at Drunk Guy (but presumably still enjoying himself in his own uptight way). Willie Nelson stayed onstage for several minutes after the show, signing autographs on bandanas and other merch -– he held up a tin sign with a pot leaf that said “Willie Nelson First Aid” to cheers from the remaining audience — while the Family played an instrumental version of “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” There was no encore, and the crowd filed out obediently, if drunkenly, when the houselights came on. They’d seen Willie Nelson, and could mark it off their list. n

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8 p.m. Friday, April 15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $10. 314-773-3363.

ery few artists still make records like Charlie Brumley does, and not just here in St. Louis. His records as writer, composer, singer and pianist of the Educated Guess often swell with more than 40 musicians — strings, brass, harmony vocalists — and harken to the big-budget recordings of grandiose 1960s pop songs. He rebooted the Educated Guess from what he calls “an Americana/Ennio Morricone hybrid” with last year’s self-titled LP, and exactly one year later the band has yet another LP out. Even the title of Another Educated Guess is reminiscent of the strong streak of pop classicism that runs through Brumley’s work, and the new album doubles down on the well-orchestrated sound of pre-Beatles pop and rock. The complexity of an Educated Guess album belies the simple premise behind the tracks. “These are meant to be fun pop songs that make you feel good,” explains Brumley. But as he outlines the amount of effort that went into crafting the tunes, it’s clear that they aren’t simply spun out of sugar and daydreams. “I knew I wanted to do this kind of grand chamber-pop,” says Brumley. “We spent a lot of time rehearsing these songs, which was very different for the band.” Brumley often rehearses sectionally, focusing solely on the three female backing vocalists to tighten harmonies or with the brass section to isolate soloists. On a song like “In My Mind (I Said it So Much Better),” the moving parts of the Educated Guess are on display. Brumley’s piano hammers out an insistent, if polite, rhythm as guitarist Grant Alexander slashes out sharp counterpoints. The Honeys, that backing-vocals trio, offer doo-wop harmonies alongside the dulcet plucks of pizzicato strings. The brass section slides in and out with punchy verve while making room for a middle-eight saxophone

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Charlie Brumley, center, with the core of the Educated Guess. | ANGELA VINCENT solo. It’s a compositional marvel that the song doesn’t lose much of its fleet-footed feel with the sheer number of players on the track. Brumley describes his writing style as “top-down,” meaning that the songs are composed and orchestrated before bringing them to the band. But since the Educated Guess began as an almost rootsy, near-cinematic four-piece, Brumley still begins with the relative minimalism of the rock & roll quartet. “It all works without the orchestration,” says Brumley. “You want it to work on its own merit.” Still, his current vision for the band is very much an exercise in well-managed excess. “For the new one, what I learned was to start to reign those elements in and be more disciplined in how I use space,” says Brumley. “I wanted the self-titled to be the beginning, to kind of start over.” If there is a through-line between the new Educated Guess LP and last year’s release, it’s Brumley’s lyrical fascination with the concept of the love song. It’s also where the album droops most regularly, as if Brum-

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ley views the love song as a genre to be dissected instead of a feeling to be expressed. Given that Brumley ended 2015 with the release of the debut by Palaver, which pairs his words and piano compositions with Steve Carosello’s voice, some of the triteness of these Educated Guess songs stands in contrast to a lyricist who has proven himself capable of writing searching, occasionally profound lyrics. “Certainly for the self-titled LP, the lyrics were not the focus. I was thinking about the big sonic picture,” says Brumley. “The lyrics needed to fit that, and the love lyrics — songs about relationships — is built into the vernacular of these songs. “I couldn’t help but write songs about love,” he continues. “I really have so little to say about love; I’m not someone who dates a lot. I’m not a tumultuous romantic person, but I’m really interested in this idea of the expectation of finding that one, special, magic person.” Later, Brumley clarifies that the lyrics are “exploring the expectation that love/romance will solve

all of our problems, and I think that expectation leads (or can lead) to a real emptiness and unhappiness.” You won’t necessarily detect that unhappiness on Another Educated Guess; the brightness and fullness of the production doesn’t leave a lot of room for rain clouds. But when Brumley flexes his compositional muscles, his quietest moments are as affecting as his most bombastic. The a cappella “Nocturne,” delivered by the Honeys, acts not solely as a luminous palate cleanser but as a breath-drawing set-up to the rumbling album closer “My Kind of Perfect.” Brumley’s allegiance to Phil Spector was never in doubt, and his production here references the Wall of Sound scope (Tympanis! Tubular bells!) while underlining that struggle between unreachable idealism and earthbound realism. Want your CD to be considered for a review in this space? Send music c/o Riverfront Times, Attn: Homespun, 6358 Delmar Boulevard, Suite 300, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130. Email music@riverfronttimes. com for more information.

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THURSDAY 14

EVERYTHING WENT BLACK / FISTER RECORD

949-4433.

WOLVES AT THE GATE: w/ Dayseeker, Household

DAVID SANBORN: 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; April 15, 7:30

RELEASE SHOW: w/ Hell Night, Alan Smithee 9

SCALE THE SUMMIT: 6 p.m., $15-$17. The Fire-

6:30 p.m., $13-$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St.

& 9:30 p.m.; April 16, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $50.

p.m., $8. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St.

bird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

Louis, 314-289-9050.

Ferring Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave, St.

Louis, 314-833-5532.

THY ART IS MURDER: w/ Rings of Saturn, Fit

Louis, 314-571-6000.

THE HOOTEN HALLERS: w/ the Tillers 9 p.m., $10-

For An Autopsy, Dark Sermon 6 p.m., $16-$18.

MONDAY 18

ENDORA: w/ Bagheera, Accelerando 9 p.m., free.

$12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,

Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

CED VICIOUS: 9 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,

Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis,

314-773-3363.

TURBO SUIT: 9 p.m., $10-$12. The Bootleg, 4140

St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

314-241-2337.

JIM NORTON: 8 p.m., $30. The Pageant, 6161

Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-775-0775.

CHRISTWORM: w/ Grand Inquisitor, Van Buren

LUCERO: w/ John Moreland 8 p.m., $25-$35. Off

Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-

MIKE EPPS: w/ Rickey Smiley, Earthquake, Tony

SUNDAY 17

3363.

Rock, Cocoa Brown 7 p.m., $52-$125. Chaifetz

ABSU: w/ Bastard, Melursus, Angelust, Xaemora

DAVE RAWLINGS MACHINE: 8 p.m., $38-$40. The

LUH STANK: w/ Skezzy, RED, Boog, Kells, Bud G,

Arena, 1 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis, 314-977-

7 p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,

Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis,

E Mulah 9 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St.

5000.

314-289-9050.

314-533-9900.

Louis, 314-289-9050.

MUMFORD AND SONS: noon, free. Vintage Vinyl,

CONSTANT COCOON BOOKING BIRTHDAY SHOW-

SOULARD BLUES BAND: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway

NORA JANE STRUTHERS: 7 p.m., $13-$15. The

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CASE: w/ Ursa Major, Lavender, Skin Tags,

Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-

Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar

4096.

Bike Path, Sleeping Cranes 6 p.m., $7-$10. The

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Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

ORGONE: 9 p.m., $12-$15. The Ready Room,

Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

RIO STAR: w/ Nicole Bonura, Beaven Waller 7

4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

FLOETRY: 7 p.m., $49.50. The Pageant, 6161

TUESDAY 19

p.m., $7. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St.

ROOTS & BOOTS: Featuring Sammy Kershaw,

Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

THE BAD PLUS AND JOSHUA REDMAN: 7:30 & 9:30

Louis, 314-833-5532.

Aaron Tippin, Pam Tillis 8 p.m., $39.50-$69.50.

PENTATONIX: w/ Us the Duo 8 p.m., $29.50-$75.

p.m.; April 20, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $40. Ferring

Lindenwood University’s J. Scheidegger Center

Chaifetz Arena, 1 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis,

Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave, St. Louis,

for the Arts, 2300 W. Clay St., St. Charles, 636-

314-977-5000.

314-571-6000.

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8 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

CHARLES KELLEY: 7 p.m., TBA. The Pageant,

BATTLECROSS: w/ Outcome of Betrayal, Lyluth

6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

6 p.m., $15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St.

DAVID SANBORN: April 14, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; 7:30

Louis, 314-535-0353.

& 9:30 p.m.; April 16, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $50.

JUSTIN BIEBER: 7 p.m., $47.50-$113. Scottrade

Ferring Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-571-6000.

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FREDDIE GIBBS: 8 p.m., $18-$20. Fubar, 3108

LARRY CAMPBELL & TERESA WILLIAMS: 8 p.m.,

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$17-$20. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.

GABRIEL IGLESIAS: 8 p.m., $33-$98. Family

Louis, 314-773-3363.

Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St Charles, 636-

LUPE FIASCO: 8 p.m., $35-$37.50. The Pageant,

896-4200.

6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

JAVIER MENDOZA CD RELEASE SHOW: 8 p.m., $15-$20. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St.

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Louis, 314-588-0505.

ACID DAD: 8 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191 Man-

JOHN WAITE: 8 p.m., TBA. Wildey Theatre, 254

chester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

N. Main St., Edwardsville, 618-692-7538.

THE BAD PLUS AND JOSHUA REDMAN: April 19,

A LEAF IN THE STREET: w/ Concentrator, Tedd

7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $40. Ferring

Connexion 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room,

Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave, St. Louis,

2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.

314-571-6000.

*REPEAT REPEAT: 8 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo,

THE BAD PLUS AND JOSHUA REDMAN: April 19,

4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $40. Ferring

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9 p.m., $12/$15. 2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center, 2720 Cherokee St, St. Louis, 314276-2700. THE EDUCATED GUESS CD RELEASE SHOW: w/ Rough Shop 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. TROY: 8 p.m., $10. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009.

SATURDAY 16 THE CARA LOUISE BAND: w/ Adartis, Edgefield C. Johnston Duo 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337. DAVID SANBORN: April 14, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; April 15, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $50. Ferring Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-571-6000. DINNER WITH THE STARS 2016: w/ Lionel Richie 8 p.m., $68. Peabody Opera House, 1400 Mar-

Dwight Yoakam 8 p.m. Friday, April 15. River City Casino and Hotel, 777 River City Casino Boulevard. $57.50. 314-388-7777.

Dwight Yoakam isn’t one of country music’s greatest of traditionalists just for his sound. In the ‘80s, the boom-twang reverberation of his Bakersfield-meets-rockabilly-meetspower-pop didn’t just leap out of speakers tired of the likes of Anne Murray and the Oak Ridge Boys. In the tradition of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, he created an iconic look: a sexy urban

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cowboy with a mean streak and jeans not even Juice Newton would dare to wear. These days, just shy of 60, he still dares to don the outfit and rock the twang with his own version of the wall of sound. Last year’s album Second Hand Heart struts and croons with classic Yoakam bravado and bittersweetness. The Hall Needs to Call: Any short list of artists yet to make the Country Music Hall of Fame must include Yoakam. He’s as influential as any country singer and songwriter of his generation. –Roy Kasten

p.m., $12-$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. BASEMENT: w/ Turnstile, Defeater 8 p.m., $16$19. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-2899050. BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-6217880. DREW HOLCOMB AND THE NEIGHBORS: 8 p.m., $16-$18. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929. GLENN KOTCHE AND THE ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY: 7 p.m., $20. Pulitzer Arts Foundation, 3716 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-754-1850. LUKAS GRAHAM: 8 p.m., $15-$17. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. NOAH GUNDERSEN: 8 p.m., $15-$17. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

ket St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888.

Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave, St. Louis,

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Everything Went Black / Fister Record Release Show 9 p.m. Saturday, April 16. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Avenue. $8. 314-8335532.

The new split release between Everything Went Black and Fister is, in a word, unsettling. As two of St. Louis’ finest metal bands (in an increasingly cluttered field), each group is more than capable of creating a sense of impending doom with its music — a feeling of unstoppable dread. That ability is par for the course for a truly great metal band, but this particular release highlights these groups’ absolute mastery of the form by allowing each to cover the other’s music. Everything Went Black’s rendition of Fister’s “Suicide

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Hessian” displays the former’s scorched-everything approach, its sound as always slightly damaged by hardcore punk and even incorporating some black metal-style scissor beats into Fister’s normally slowed-down approach. Fister, in turn, brutalizes Everything Went Black’s “Card of Giants,” stretching the formerly twoand-a-half minute track into seven minutes of gut-wrenching, anxietyinducing suspense. The end result is heavier than Acme’s entire line of anvils, and twice as destructive. But Wait There’s More: Rounding out the bill are more of St. Louis’ best metal acts: Hell Night brings a rockheavy, lead-laden approach while Alan Smithee dazzles with its jazz-inspired tech-metal wizardry. –Daniel Hill

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phitheatre, I-70 & Earth City Expwy., Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944.

7 SHOT SCREAMERS: Sat., April 30, 9 p.m., $10.

THE GLORIOUS SONS: W/ Jaye Jayle, Sat., May

Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-

28, 8 p.m., $7-$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester

773-3363.

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ABIGAIL WILLIAMS: W/ Xaemora, Absala,

HED PE: W/ Veer Union, Fri., May 6, 8 p.m., $15.

Voidgazer, Thu., May 26, 7 p.m., $15. Fubar,

Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St.

3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

Louis, 618-274-6720.

APOTHICA: W/ Enslaved By Fear, I Apollo,

HOWARD JONES: Wed., June 1, 8 p.m., $30. Old

Human Pollution, Twisted Lixx, Thu., April

Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-

28, 7 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St.

0505.

Louis, 314-535-0353.

J*DAVEY: Sat., May 14, 9 p.m., $10. Blank Space,

BLACK PISTOL FIRE: Fri., June 17, 7 p.m., $15.

2847 Cherokee St., St. Louis.

The Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar

JAMES MCCARTNEY: Fri., June 3, 8 p.m., $15-$20.

Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis,

BRYAN ADAMS: Sat., Sept. 17, 8 p.m., $29.95-

314-775-0775.

$$95.95. Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre,

THE JAYHAWKS: Sun., June 26, 7 p.m., $25-$30.

I-70 & Earth City Expwy., Maryland Heights,

The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,

314-298-9944.

314-726-6161.

BUTCHER BABIES: Tue., May 17, 7 p.m., $15-$17.

JORDIN SPARKS: Sat., June 25, 6 p.m., free.

Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

Soldiers Memorial Plaza, 14th St. and Chestnut

COLDPLAY: W/ Alessia Cara, Foxes, Thu., July 21,

St., St. Louis.

7 p.m., TBA. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Ave.,

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III: Thu., April 28, 8 p.m.,

St. Louis, 314-241-1888.

$32.50. Wildey Theatre, 254 N. Main St., Ed-

COUNTING CROWS: W/ Rob Thomas, Wed., Sept.

wardsville, 618-692-7538.

28, 6 p.m., TBA. Hollywood Casino Amphi-

MATTHEW LOGAN VASQUEZ: Sun., July 17, 7 p.m.,

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$13. The Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, 6504

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CULTURE CLUB: Wed., July 20, 6 p.m., $49-$97.

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Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University

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City, 314-727-4444.

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6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-

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St. Louis jazz fans are blessed with yearly appearances by the avant-jazz trio the Bad Plus; Ethan Iverson, Dave King and Reid Anderson hunker down at Jazz at the Bistro every January and usher in the season with inventive, improvisational music. The trio has spent the last five years working off

and on with Joshua Redman, the saxophonist who has spent more than two decades moving in and out of traditional jazz, soul and funk scenes. Their collaboration culminated with last year’s The Bad Plus Joshua Redman, and this two-night stand will show how this partnership between two restless entities evolves. Woodshedding: Warm up for the gigs with drummer Dave King’s unbeatable “Rational Funk” YouTube series, a loving and biting satire of instructional drumming videos. –Christian Schaeffer

NATE MOORE: W/ Yun Jinx, DJ Blaze1, DJ

THE STRUMBRELLAS: Thu., June 16, 7 p.m.,

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$10-$12. The Duck Room at Blueberry Hill,

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6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-

PAUL MCCARTNEY: Sat., Aug. 13, 8 p.m.,

4444.

$19.50-$252.50. Busch Stadium, Broadway &

SUMMERLAND TOUR: W/ Sugar Ray. Everclear,

Poplar St., St. Louis, 314-345-9600.

Sponge, Lit, Sun., July 31, 6 p.m., $15-$30.

PURE BATHING CULTURE: Sun., June 5, 7 p.m.,

Ballpark Village, 601 Clark Ave, St. Louis,

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314-345-9481.

Louis, 314-833-5532.

SUSTO: W/ Goodnight, Texas, Fri., May 6, 8

RAY WYLIE HUBBARD: Sat., Oct. 15, 8 p.m., $20-

p.m., $10-$12. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St.

$35. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,

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314-773-3363.

TANK TOPS & FLIP FLOPS: W/ Zeus Rebel

RILEY SHANE: W/ Suck to Be Pluto, Fri.,

Waters, Rinna Phoenix, Tono, Dat Deal, Tree-

May 27, 7 p.m., $10-$12. The Duck Room at

house Ent., Fri., May 6, 9 p.m., $10. Fubar,

Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University

3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

City, 314-727-4444.

THE THINGS THEY CARRIED: W/ Megosh, Wed.,

SAMANTHA FISH: Fri., June 17, 8 p.m., $12-$15.

June 1, 6 p.m., $12-$14. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,

Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis,

St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

314-588-0505.

TINY MOVING PARTS: W/ Prawn, Free Throw,

SARAH SILVERMAN: W/ Liza Winstead, Mon.,

Sun., June 26, 7 p.m., $12-$14. The Firebird,

June 6, 8 p.m., $45. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar

2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

WHY NOT: Thu., May 5, 8 p.m., free. The Demo,

SCRU: Tue., May 10, 7 p.m., $15-$20. Fubar,

4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-

3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

5532.

SON LITTLE: Tue., May 10, 8 p.m., $12-$14. The

YOUTH CODE: Mon., May 16, 8 p.m., $10-$12.

Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar

The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,

Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

314-833-5532.

7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19 and Wednesday, April 20. Jazz at the Bistro, 3536 Washington Avenue. $40. 314-571-6000.

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SAVAGE LOVE SWEAT BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: I’m a 49-year-old gay man. I’ve become friends with a 21-year-old straight guy. He’s really hot. He’s had to drop out of college and return home. I know he needs money, as he hasn’t found a job yet and has resorted to selling off old music equipment. I would love to have some sweaty clothes of his, namely his underwear, but I’d settle for a sweaty tank top. Is it legal to buy someone’s underwear? He’s a sweet guy, and I don’t want to freak him out by asking something so personal. How do I broach the subject? Lustfully Obsessed Stink Seeker It’s perfectly legal to buy and sell used underwear, LOSS, so there’s no legal risk. But you risk losing this guy as a friend if you broach the subject. You can approach it indirectly by saying something like “So sorry to hear you’re selling off your music equipment. You’re young and hot—you could probably make more money selling used underwear or sweaty tanks.” Then follow his lead: If he’s disgusted by the suggestion, drop it. If he’s into the idea, offer to be his first customer. Hey, Dan: Before I got married, I asked husband repeatedly about fan-

tasies and kinks, so that we had full disclosure going in. It led to some fun stuff in the bedroom, but we’re both pretty low-grade kinksters. Now I realize that I do something that I have never told him about: It’s the way that I masturbate. I started when I was five or six, because it felt good. Got chided by parents and teachers for doing it in public and learned to keep it hidden. And so ever since, it’s been my secret thing. I think it has helped me orgasm in that I knew how early on, but it has also made it more difficult to come in positions that don’t mimic the masturbating position. Husband likes the idea of me coming in different positions, and I’ve managed now and again, but he doesn’t know why I’m set in my ways. I have never shared this. Should I tell him? Part of me is afraid that he will think I’m weird. But more than likely, he’ll just want to watch me do it. Still, it’s kind of nice having this one thing that belongs only to me. Secret Masturbator Obligated Over Spanking Hotness? You could hold this back, SMOOSH, and keep it all for yourself. But I don’t see why you would want to. As sexy secrets go, “There’s one particular position I like to masturbate in” is pretty boring. Unless you need to be positioned on top of a cadaver or under your dad or beside a life-size Ted Cruz sex

doll to get off when you masturbate, there’s really no reason to keep this secret. Hey, Dan: I am totally with your German friend, who wouldn’t do Nazi role-play “in six million years.” I’ve been in a similar position—not quite Holocaust level, but not far off. I’m a white British guy. A while back, while living in the U.K., I was dating a woman from Bangalore. She revealed—after her face lit up when I dressed in a way that made me “look like a colonialist” (her words)—that her deepest fantasy was to be an Indian slave girl raped by an English imperialist. And then, living in the U.S. a few years later, I was dating a black woman. We got to talking about the kinks of exes. I told her about this one, and she revealed that her own fantasy was to be the slave on a 19th-century plantation, raped by her white owner. How about some advice for the human fetish objects in these scenarios, Dan? I didn’t want to stigmatize these women for their sexual desires, and I wanted to be GGG, but it was, frankly, hard (or not, as it were). Being asked to act out roles I feel guilty about, and to use the kind of racial epithets I make every effort to avoid… the guilt is a boner-killer. Any tips on how a GGG partner can get past this kind of mental block and at least act the role enthusiastically enough to fulfill the fantasy? Or was a subsequent

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