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Shelley Spiro: “I do actually remember riding a streetcar with my grandmother. We were both born in 1952. I was little, but I remember. Staying down with my grandma a lot in the city off Cherokee Street near Globe Drug.” Ted Spiro: “I remember I used to say to my mom, ‘How does the driver know where we’re going to?’ And I used to ask my mom, ‘Now are we going to be on a bus, or is this a street car?’ Because the streetcars were noisier. You’d hear the clickity-clank and this winding noise of the engine.”
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—SHELLEY SPIRO (LEFT) AND TED SPIRO LOOKING AT THE MISSOURI HISTORY MUSEUM’S EXHIBIT A WALK IN 1875 ST. LOUIS ON JANUARY 24.
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The Doctor Is Out How the plan to put one of the nation’s biggest federal halfway houses one block from Cherokee Street fell apart. Written by
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The Lede
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Your friend or neighbor, captured on camera
Seven days worth of great stuff to see and do
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The Son Also Rises
Rex Sinquefield’s heir is a philanthropist we can get behind
Mardi Gras Countdown
Our guide to this year’s highlights
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Stage
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Georama soars in its world premiere, writes Paul Friswold
Matt the Cat? More Than Just That
Tower Grove South has a cat célèbre
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Film
Robert Hunt examines the missed opportunities of 45 Days
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Galleries
Art on display in St. Louis this week
We, the Pizza Eaters
Cheryl Baehr tries the latest contender vying to be “the Chipotle of Pizza”
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Side Dish Smart Band, Stupid Fans Matthew Koch is mixing things up at Sanctuaria
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Quiet Is the New Loud
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ex Sinquefield’s son Luke appears to be following in his father ’s mighty campaign-financing footsteps — only instead of concerning himself with matters of destroying public education and eliminating taxes for the rich (booooring), he’s putting his money’s votes toward legalized marijuana (oh hell yeah bro). Campaign finance reports released by New Approach Missouri, a committee working to legalize medicinal marijuana in our state, show that Luke donated some $40,000 to the cause in December. The younger Sinquefield, hereafter referred to as “Cool Guy Luke,” listed his address as one in scenic Pacific Palisades, California, and his job as “self-employed,” which we all know is code for “surfing and relaxing, chill vibes man, let’s shred some gnar.” It is easy to see, then, how he developed such an enlightened attitude toward plant-based medicines. That $40,000 was a part of the $394,000 total that New Approach Missouri was able to raise by the end of 2015 in its efforts to get a medical marijuana initiative on the ballot in November. The group describes itself as “a coalition of patients, v e t e ra n s , l a w e n f o r c e m e n t and medical professionals that formed in 2015 to make Missouri the 24th state that allows state-licensed physicians the option to recommend medical marijuana to patients with debilitating illnesses.” It says it will use the money to collect signatures for the petition, starting on February 2 and running through May 8. The campaign needs roughly 160,000 signatures to get its measure to the people for a vote. The finance reports list several other major donors who
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would probably be fun to party with as well. A St. Louis-based farmer named Stephen Phillips plunked down $20,000. Columbia restaurateur Thomas Smith was good for $51,000. Clayton physician Jaeyoung Yoon dropped $30,000 on the cause. Several donations were made in the name of business and political entities as well, including St. Charles’ Health Grow LLC ($49,000), Missouri NORML ($6,975) and Show Me Cannabis ($47,574). “The outpouring of support we’ve received in favor of Missouri doctors and their seriously ill patients having access to medical cannabis has been astounding,” says Lee Winters, president of the New Approach Missouri board. “2016 is the year we begin to put patients and doctors back in charge of their treatment options.” More information on Luke’s Cool Guy Club, including how to donate or sign, can be found at New Approach Missouri’s official website, www.newapproachmissouri.com. – Daniel Hill
How Matt the Cat Became More Than Just That
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his is a story of a community that rallied in unprecedented numbers to support one of its own. This is a story of the way social media can turn strangers into new friends. This is a story about the kindness of neighbors who offer to do what little they can — and collectively make a significant impact. And, this story is also about a cat — the now-famous Matt the Cat, who is once again home after being gone for nine weeks. The tale began November 15 when Maire Murphy lost her furry little friend after he slipped out the door unnoticed. As soon as she realized he was gone, she posted his photo on the Missouri Lost and Found Paws Facebook page and began a relentless leafleting campaign. Eventually, almost every prominent tree trunk, light pole and communi-
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Weed, coming soon to a ballot box near you (maybe). | TROY SNOW/GETTY ty bulletin board in the Tower Grove South neighborhood boasted a full-color photo of Matt on a bright yellow background. They were hard to miss. The calls of orange cat sightings began to roll in. Murphy followed every lead, driving to the location where a Matt lookalike had just been spotted and visiting homes where people had captured roaming cats for her to examine. Murphy quickly learned there were a lot of orange, fluffy cats out there. None of them were Matt. Murphy then posted on the neighborhood’s Facebook page and on Nextdoor. A neighbor created a Matt the Cat Facebook page to focus the effort, and Murphy’s brother-in-law created a Twitter account. That’s when things went off the rails. Hundreds of calls, texts and posts on social media of sightings began pouring in. Neighbors and strangers from afar began posting messages of encouragement. Local businesses also lent their support. Hartford Coffee Company offered its space for strategy
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meetings. A get-together at a local bar was proposed so that neighbor could meet neighbor and build upon the collective effort. Tyler Krings, a bartender at the Night Owl by Tree House, created a Matt the Cat cocktail. Naturally, it featured ginger liqueur. Murphy admits that she did lose hope a few times. But she almost didn’t have a say in the matter. People had fallen in love with Matt the Cat. Stories of joyful pet reunions filled her inbox. She felt buoyed by the community. As she wrote on Facebook a few weeks ago, “It’s cliché, but with all the terrible news stories, we need reminders about the good will human beings have for one another… I hope everyone is very proud of their community — and for those who may be tired of this story, I appreciate your patience and hope that you can see it as a story that is much bigger than a cat.” Then, on January 21, someone posted a photo on the Shaw neighborhood’s Nextdoor page of a cat that looked a lot like Matt.
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ing me!!!” People began posting photos of their cats “waiting” for news of Matt. Finally, almost two hours later, Murphy posted a short message: The cat was Matt. At least one neighbor reported hearing cheers coming from the house next door. The next day, Murphy posted a thank you. “70 days and 70 nights but the good people of Tower Grove/ Shaw didn’t give up!! DON’T GIVE UP ON YOUR LOST PET! He was found a half mile away after weeks of torrential rains (the worst flooding in St. Louis in decades) AND snow storms!” But that wasn’t the end of it. In the days that followed, a children’s book was suggested, there was a call for January 21st to be declared “Matt the Cat Day” and the hashtags #mattitude and #thanksmatt started appearing. A local band traveling in Florida even dedicated a song to Matt. Alderwoman Megan Ellyia-Green even introduced a resolution in celebration of “Matt the Cat.” Days later, Roe of St. Louis Lost and Found Paws reflected, “It was totally amazing how Tower Grove came together. I see it a lot in our organization, because that’s our purpose. But to see so many neighbors come together to help one person, one cat — it was astounding.” For Murphy, it was a learning experience — in the best sense of the phrase. “When you stop strangers and ask them something they will often talk back. I had never done that before. People are hungry for connection. It’s really heartwarming,” she says. “We have a wonderful community. One thing I have learned is that we may not all know one another, but we are not strangers.” — Sara Graham riverfronttimes.com
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Dr. Junaid Syed says he’s abandoned his plans for a giant halfway house after walking into a battle with south St. Louis neighbors and City Hall. | DOYLE MURPHY
The Doctor Is Out How the plan to put one of the nation’s biggest federal halfway houses one block BY DOYLE MURPHY from Cherokee Street fell apart.
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he game is over, but only a few people know. Dr. Junaid Syed, just back to south St. Louis after a psychiatry conference in Miami, is in no hurry to inform his critics they have won. He hasn’t even told his staff yet. For now, it’s only the ghost of his plans to open the third-largest federal halfway house in the nation near Cherokee Street keeping his enemies awake at night – the bid is dead. “It is hard,” Syed says. “It is very hard, but life goes on.” The 46-year-old psychiatrist immigrated to St. Louis from Pakistan nearly two decades ago to study at Washington University. After graduating in 2002, he took a job as chief psychiatrist for the St. Louis County Jail but left three months later amid what he says were budget concerns. He hopped to St. Alexius Hospital in south city and has been there ever since. His office is on the Jefferson Street campus, just across the parking lot from an empty wing where he had hoped to house 161 newly released federal inmates. Syed had imagined a clean, industrious operation with a computer lab, fitness center
and the benefits of proximity to a hive of medical services at St. Alexius. The Bureau of Prisons counts on a network of halfway houses across the country to help ex-cons ease back into the world. The idea is to teach the ex-offenders how to get and keep a job, manage their new freedom and avoid the behavior that landed them in prison. One of the main selling points in Syed’s pitch would be access to psychiatric care. After years of treating serious psychosis among the poor, Syed has come to see mental health problems as the root of much of the poverty and crime swirling through the city. Take away the pain of a troubled mind, he reasons, and you can pull a person out of chaos. Crime would theoretically fall as a result. “We can do it scientifically,” he says. Somewhat naively, Syed had suspected his most difficult task would be convincing the federal Bureau of Prisons he could do a better job than Dismas House of St. Louis, which pioneered the halfway house model in the United States and currently has the contract to hold ex-cons in north city. He hadn’t counted on the battle he’d face from worried neighbors, local politicians and a city building department that refused to even consider his application. The opposition cut him off at the knees before the competition even began. riverfronttimes.com
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yed was a phantom to most people along Cherokee Street. He didn’t drink his coffee at Foam or the Mud House. He wasn’t part of any of the business associations or community groups whose members prize a we’re-in-this-together attitude as they remake the once-frightening corridor into a home base for the city’s creative class. Alderwoman Cara Spencer, who harnessed the growing power of the neighborhood’s change-hungry new guard last year to take out a twenty-year incumbent on the city council, says she begged Syed for months to bring his plan to a community meeting. Any meeting. He eventually agreed but didn’t show, standing up a crowd of more than 100. Syed says he had to leave town unexpectedly when a loved one suffered a heart attack, but that kind of no-show doesn’t play along Cherokee anymore. Split between city wards and neighborhoods, people who live and work along the once-fractured thoroughfare have marshaled new political, economic and cultural muscle, turning their stretch of south St. Louis into a destination despite little help from the city’s traditional power brokers. “We don’t have an apathetic community down here at all,” Spencer says. Syed finally met privately with a small number of business owners this fall in hopes of winning over a few influential stakeholders. They were unimpressed and worried Continued on pg 12
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HALFWAY HOUSE Continued from pg 11 his project could potentially flood the fledgling district with ex-cons, undoing years of hard-won progress. Developer Jason Deem was one of five people at the meeting. An early investor in Cherokee’s transformation and thirteen-year resident, he says he came away from the sit-down more suspicious than ever. That Syed had worked for more than a decade just a block away at St. Alexius and didn’t seem to have any community ties outside his practice was particularly damning. “He’s not vested in this neighborhood,” Deem says. “He hasn’t taken the time to get to know anyone in this neighborhood.” The problem isn’t a halfway house, and this isn’t a case of “not in my backyard” whining, Deem insists. He believes the problem is Syed’s proposal for what critics had begun to call a “halfway warehouse.” Only two facilities in the country – one in Illinois, the other in Georgia – have more than the 161-bed maximum that Syed’s project would include, according to Bureau of Prison numbers. The neighborhood’s progressive residents would and do support small-scale treatment centers run by nonprofits, Deem says, but they’ve seen no details to reassure them that such a large new facility would be managed safely. “Let’s be honest,” Deem says, “if this project is not well run, it does have the potential to increase crime significantly, and that’s the No. 1 concern people have around here.” When Syed scheduled a community meeting of his own for January 5 in a St. Alexius auditorium, Deem spread the word on Facebook, comparing the psychiatrist’s proposal to the for-profit “private prison racket” in the United States. Spencer – who had spent time as a community networker for Deem’s co-working space, Nebula – also reached out to her contacts. They noted Syed had enlisted the help of the Board of Aldermen’s former
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attorney, David Sweeney, seen as a political insider, to help push the proposal. He was also suing the city, supposedly to avoid a permitting requirement to give the public a say. More than 150 people packed the auditorium on the night of the meeting, crowding three and four deep along the walls once the seats were filled. Syed says he also put the word out, mailing 7,000 notices. Yet that action didn’t endear him to the locals; people were angry that they’d only received the mailers that morning. “I think that had this been handled a little differently and you asked from the community what they want and how to move forward for support, we may have – and I only can speak for myself – I may have felt a little more comfortable in seeing how we can make this work for our community,” LaTasha Jones, the principal of Carnahan High School of the Future, told Syed. “But because that did not happen, I think this is why you’re received with so much opposition.” Syed stammered and occasionally looked lost throughout the evening, often deferring to Sweeney as crowd members demanded specifics about his business plan and how he’d keep ex-cons from going off the rails near their houses and children. When he tried to assure them fast-acting federal authorities were just a phone call away if trouble arose, laughter erupted. “We can’t get a goddamn stolen car moved off the block that’s been sitting there two months after we call the city 50 times,” Francis Rodriguez, owner of the popular Yaqui’s on Cherokee restaurant, shouted at Syed. “So you’re telling me somehow magically the Bureau of Prisons is going to respond to us in this broke-ass neighborhood? I don’t think so.” Deem, who stood in the back, called for a show of hands and pointedly counted out loud all the way past 80, the total number of people in attendance who opposed the plan. Just sixteen raised their hands in support.
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Dismas House of St. Louis, located off Kingshighway in north St. Louis, was the first halfway house in the nation. | DOYLE MURPHY Syed, who has come to see Deem as one of his main adversaries, stared blankly out at the crowd. He would later describe the meeting as an ambush and suggested some in attendance simply wanted him out of the way so they could try to buy the empty St. Alexius wing. Syed tried once again at the night’s end to persuade audience members that he only wished to help. “I am here with good intentions,” he said. “I want to make a difference.”
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hen Syed first began assembling his bid for the halfway house, he reached out to U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill – one of the only politicians he knows – and asked her to write a letter of recommendation. She refused, informing the occasional political donor that the federal process must play out without the meddling of lawmakers, Syed says. “I thought it was a good thing,” he says. After all, he saw his home country of Pakistan as corrupt and took McCaskill’s reluctance to get involved as confirmation the system was different in the United States. “Do you know why this country is a superpower?” he asks. “Because it gives people a chance.” Most days, Syed rises early at his Chesterfield home and packs his kids off to school before heading into the city for work. His operation at St. Alexius is just one of his responsibilities. His company, Longterm Psychiatric Manage-
“Do you know why this country is a superpower? Because it gives people a chance.” ment, works with more than 100 nursing homes throughout the region to provide mental health care, he says. When the day is over, he returns home to his wife and kids. Syed has considered different ways to work with inmates in recent years. In 2014, he licensed a new company, Xcell Prison Health, with the Missouri Secretary of State. He initially expected to focus on telerobotics to provide lower-cost psychiatric care to prisoners. The idea was to send high-tech robots equipped with powerful cameras and video monitors into correctional facilities to treat inmates. Syed says he can control one of the robots from his iPad and speak to a prisoner, who can hear the doctor’s voice and see his face on the monitor, eliminating the expense of transporting inmates to off-site hospitals or clinics. It was while he was researching potential opportunities that he learned of the five-year federal Bureau of Prisons contract to operate a Continued on pg 14 riverfronttimes.com
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HALFWAY HOUSE Continued from pg 13 halfway house in St. Louis. Syed didn’t know much about running a halfway house, but he was intrigued by the possibilities. Dismas House’s current contract – a ten-year agreement – is set to expire at the end of May. That meant the clock was ticking. The new contract would be awarded sometime in the first quarter of 2016, according to a Bureau of Prisons spokesman. The winner would have to be ready to start housing ex-cons within 120 days of the award, according to the feds’ request for proposals. Syed was convinced he could be ready, but knew the competition wouldn’t be easy. Not only has Dismas worked with the feds for nearly half of a century, it was the first halfway house in the nation, possibly the world. Its founder, a Catholic priest named Father Charles Dismas Clark, was immortalized in the 1961 movie The Hoodlum Priest as a tough-talking man of the cloth who spent more time in pool halls than he did at the pulpit. (In one scene, Dismas schools a clueless lawyer on the reasons a young hood won’t snitch on a couple of roughneck gamblers: “He’ll take the rap himself before he’ll blow in the gambling bit. He’s hip to what happens to a fink.”) Still, Syed believed a medical-based proposal and the promise of nicer facilities had the potential to edge out Dismas, which resides in the nearly 90-year-old former faculty dorm of what was once McBride High School, located just off Kingshighway in north St. Louis. He put in a bid, asking $26.5 million to open and run a halfway house at St. Alexius. The operation would be forprofit. It was a distinction his critics quickly seized on as a sign he was motivated by greed over the good of the inmates and neighborhood. Syed claims he wanted to give back to the city by paying taxes while also paying rent to the hospital – money that could help finance a needed cardiac lab. He points out nonprofits often have high-paid executives and he could have gone that route if money was his motivation. “Money has never had value in my life, because it comes and goes,” he says. “But the value you get when you take care of someone in pain...” 14
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n a recent afternoon, an ambulance pulls up next to Dismas House. An older resident had slipped on the newly fallen snow outside, and program director Anthony Arington and a staffer had to help carry the man inside and call for medical help. “There’s always something,” Arington says when he finally sits down at a desk littered with a halfdozen confiscated camera phones. He’s worked at Dismas for fifteen years and runs the operation’s nuts and bolts. About 500 men receive services every year in the three-story block building. Former state Senator Jeff Smith bunked here for about three weeks at the end of a federal prison sentence for lying to investigators about campaign fliers. St. Louis musician and concert promoter Jimmy Tebeau, whose drug-fueled music festivals earned him a year in the federal pen, lived at Dismas and was granted nighttime work passes to play shows. “It was unusual, but we worked with him,” Arington says. Most of the guys are unknowns, trying to return to life outside after serving time for drugs or violent crime. Their needs vary, from in-
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mates who were in and out in a year to longtime cons stepping back into the world for the first time in two decades. It’s important to match the right inmate to the right services if you want to set them up to leave their past behind. “Even if you’re a fiscal conservative, there’s no sense to sending guys out without any skills – out into the wild, in a sense,” Arington says. “You’ll see them again in two weeks.” Federal performance reviews are sealed, but people who deal with Dismas have generally favorable things to say. Mary Stillman, the daughter of former U.S. Senator John Danforth, opened a charter school, Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls, next door in the old McBride building. She concedes she had concerns when first considering the location, but says they’ve had no real trouble. “We really have an easy relationship with them,” she says. Doug Burris, chief U.S. probation officer for Missouri’s Eastern District, would like to see Dismas work harder at placing the ex-cons in long-term jobs, but says halfway houses are a crucial bridge for guys who are coming back into
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“In my neighborhood, I’d rather have a halfway house than a bar or liquor store.” society one way or another. Under the watch of a well-run program, they’re far less likely to get in more trouble. “In my neighborhood, I’d rather have a halfway house than a bar or liquor store,” Burris says. The federal contract is Dismas’ lifeblood. The operation would almost certainly collapse without it. That’s a worrisome thought, Arington admits, but he’s confident the organization’s track record and plans for the future will win over the Bureau of Prisons. “We put out a good product,” Arington says. “We’re the incumbent.”
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yed concedes there’s a reasonable chance Dismas would have won the contract regardless of his application, but he can’t hide his bitterness in the way it played out. He was criticized for just about everything – although, one-onone, he offers ready explanations. Sweeney, the former City Hall insider, was painted as evidence of a proposal based more on who you know than merit. Syed claims the lawyer was referred to him by a St. Alexius marketer and bristles at the suggestion he hired him to game the system. “If he has so many connections, why hasn’t he been able to solve this?” And then there was Syed’s lawsuit against the city, which was construed as an attempt to dodge the public. In reality, the city had barred Syed from even applying for a permit. A Division of Building and Inspection employee refused to accept his paperwork, arguing that it would be automatically rejected because it was too close to at least one school and a church. But that decision wasn’t just seemingly arbitrary – it didn’t seem to track with the city’s code. In denying Syed, the staffer claimed the project fell into the same category as homeless shelters and facilities for battered women, which require petition signatures from 51 percent of neighbors – not the far less onerous category in the International Building Code that specifically refers to halfway houses. That category doesn’t have the same prohibitions against setting up near schools and churches, and it doesn’t require the neighbor signatures. Syed’s team claimed that Dismas House had been granted a permit under that simpler classification (and, yes, sits right next door to a school). But when the staffer announced he wasn’t taking the application, Syed’s advisors claimed their only option was suing the city. So, on November 2, 2015, Syed and his lawyers asked the judge for a declaratory judgment to force the city to at least consider the project – a move that could help them avoid a time-consuming trial as the clock on their Bureau of Prisons application continued to tick away. In response, the city’s lawyers claimed Syed didn’t provide enough detail about the project and the would-be residents “or even what they are ‘halfway’ between.” To Syed and his lawyers, it was nonsense. They accused the city of
trying to run out the clock. “Defendants are merely trying to muddy the facts to avoid a swift ruling on Plaintiff’s pleadings,” they wrote. On December 30, Circuit Judge David Dowd ruled he didn’t have enough information about the building code or Syed’s plans to tell the city how to handle the permit. Syed could try to beat the city at trial, but the setback left no telling how long that would take. The expiration of Dismas’ contract was just five months away. Syed made one last attempt to
file for the permit on New Year’s Eve. This time, an employee took the documents, but the result was the same. Syed received a letter on January 11 from the Division of Building and Inspection, informing him of the commissioner’s recommendation to reject his permit. He could appeal, the letter told him. He could also pursue a case in court. Syed saw the clock ticking away and knew it was over. He told St. Alexius CEO Michael Motte he was abandoning the project – and then volunteered the information to an RFT reporter on January 21. He has
taken himself out of the game – a loss by forfeit. As he mulls the events of the past months, Syed says he’ll do something else. He’ll come up with some other kind of project. “All my life, I survived as a hardworking person,” he says. “So I’ll keep on working hard. That’s what this country is about.” Still, he can’t stop replaying the failed halfway house bid in his head. “It was like we were racing, and they stopped me before I could start.” n
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THURSDAY 1/28 Underneath the Lintel A somewhat fussy and determined librarian explains to you her obsessive quest to uncover the secret behind an overdue library book in Glen Berger’s Underneath the Lintel. The book in question is 113 years overdue, with an unclaimed dry-cleaning ticket as a bookmark. The librarian doggedly pursues a trail of love letters, receipts and tickets, connecting each one to the mysterious person who returned the book. But the deeper she gets in the mystery the more metaphysical she becomes, and you slowly realize she may be chasing a phantom of her own imagina-
tion. New Jewish Theatre presents Underneath the Lintel at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday (January 28 through February 12) at the Jewish Community Center’s Wool Studio Theatre (2 Millstone Campus Drive, Creve Coeur; 314-442-3283 or www. newjewishtheatre.org). Tickets are $39.50 to $43.50.
FRIDAY 1/29 Momix in Alchemia The dance company Momix dazzled audiences with its 2011 production Botanica, which told the story of life on earth. Now the company returns with Alchemia,
a physical exploration of the metaphysical sciences. The harnessing of the four elements in pursuit of the fabled philosopher’s stone is the inspiration for this new piece, which again involves outrageous costumes, projected images, the imaginative use of physical props and puppets and, of course, Moses Pendelton’s fantastic and inventive choreography. Medieval alchemists believed they would heal mankind with their findings — Momix’s Alchemia proves that the old boys should have left the laboratory and looked to the arts for spiritual perfection. Alchemia is performed at 8 p.m. Friday and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday (January 29 and 30) at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus (1 University Drive at Natural Bridge Road; 314-516-4949 or www. touhill.org). Tickets are $30 to $50.
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Shining City John is a middle-aged man whose wife has recently died. Yet he keeps bumping into her at home, which is unsettling. In his fragile state he goes to see a therapist, Ian. As the two men talk they both reveal perhaps more than they intended about their lives. Conor McPherson’s Shining City is a play about Irish men, guilt and mortality. Upstream Theater presents the St. Louis premiere of Shining City at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday (January 29 through February 13), with a final performance at 2 p.m. Sunday, February 14. Performances take place at the Kranzberg Arts Center (501 North Grand Boulevard; 314-8634999 or www.upstreamtheater. org), and tickets are $20 to $30.
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Mihai Comãnoiu (Ionitã) and Alberto Dinache (Tintiric) in Aferim! | COURTESY OF BIG WORLD PICTURES
SATURDAY 1/30 Above and Beyond We’re 111 years into the history of powered flight, and in that time we’ve landed on the moon, established a long-term space station and have sent a man-made craft out past the boundaries of our galaxy. For 100 of those years, Boeing has been at work innovating and developing new technologies related to the aerospace industry. The company’s achievements are celebrated in the new exhibition Above and Beyond, currently on display at the Saint Louis Science Center (5050 Oakland Avenue; 314-289-4400 or www.slsc.org). This interactive journey into the science of flight includes a space elevator simulator that carries you to the edge of space, as well as a simulation that uses motion-sensing image capture, allowing you to experience the sensations of being part of a flock of birds in flight. Above and Beyond is open daily, and tickets are $8 to $10.
Million Dollar Quartet So, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley walk into the studio ... and a musical breaks out. Million Dollar Quartet is based on an actual session that took place at Sun Studios on December 5, 1956. In reality, Sam Phillips’ 18
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biggest hitters gathered to play their favorite songs, but in the musical version the group sticks to their best-known hits, as well as the hits of their then-contemporaries, including Chuck Berry’s “Brown Eyed Handsome Man” and Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love?” Million Dollar Quartet is performed at 2 and 8 p.m. today at the Peabody Opera House (1400 Market Street; 314-241-1888 or www.peabodyoperahouse.com). Tickets are $30 to $82.
Aferim! Police work is serious business in 19th-century Wallachia. Costandin is a peace officer in pursuit of Carfin, a Roma slave who fled after perhaps enjoying a fling with his master’s wife. With Costandin is his young son, Ionita. Together the two cross the wide land on horseback, encountering opposed factions of Turks and Russians, Christians and Jews, and Romanians and Hungarians. Radu Jude’s film Aferim! is a comic-adventure (and perhaps a history lesson for Westerners) that nevertheless deals seriously with the little-known enslavement of the Roma people. (It’s also Romania’s official entry for “best foreign language film” at this year’s Academy Awards.) The Webster Film Series screens Aferim! at 7:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday (January 29 to 31) at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood Avenue; 314-968-7487 or www. webster.edu/film-series). Tickets are $4 to $6.
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The Shakespeare-in-the-Ozarks version of As You Like It. | JOEY RUMPELL information on both events, visit SUNDAY 1/31 www.mardigrasinc.com. Pet Parade & Wiener Dog Derby WEDNESDAY 2/03 If you love pageantry, spectacle and the romance of a grand pro- As You Like It cession, you owe it to yourself to be at the Beggin’ Pet Parade. The area’s finest dogs don their most stylish robes and costumes to march through Soulard with their human friends. The parade starts at 1 p.m. at Twelfth Street and Allen Avenue, and it’s free for spectators ($10 to march). You’ll see dogs of all sizes and shapes in the parade, but there’s only one breed allowed to compete in the Wiener Dog Derby. Dachshunds -- the most tubular dogs in the world -- race each other on a 30-foot-long track at 2 p.m. at Wiener Stadium (the brick plaza in front of Soulard Market). They’re not the fastest dogs in the world, but they do all right for themselves. If you have a speedy wiener and wish to enter, it’s $10 per dog. Admission is free for non-competitors. For more 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.
In 1929 Union Electric was buying up property in the Missouri Ozarks. The company planned to dam the river and create a lake where there had once been hardscrabble farms. Duke Senior is one of those displaced farmers; she now lives in the woods with her former farmhands. Rosalind, Duke’s daughter, goes into the forest to find her mother, but wisely disguises herself as a boy for safety. As the young man Ganymede, she falls in with Orlando, another farmer bought out in the name of progress. If this sounds a lot like the plot of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, that’s because it is As You Like It. Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble has adapted the story of bad government and disguised lovers into an early-Americana musical. The cast will perform original, pre-bluegrass music during the show, with help from Jason Scroggins of the Foggy Memory Boys. As You Like It is performed at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday (February 3 to 13) at the Chapel (6238 Alexander Drive; 314-827-5760 or www.slightlyoff.org). Tickets are $15 to $20. FOR MORE MARDI GRAS-RELATED FESTIVITIES, SEE OUR GUIDE BEGINNING ON PAGE 20.
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Mardi Gras specials all day. $9.95 allyou-can eat Cajun food, plus Tom Hall live from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tue., Feb. 9. 1860 Saloon, 1860 S. Ninth St., St. Louis, 314-231-1860.
1860’s Taste of Soulard:
1860 Saloon is an official Taste of Soulard stop this year. Try the famous crab cake and jambalaya and stay for Soul Reunion on Saturday. Sunday brunch includes specials on Bloody Marys, mimosas and food. The Beggin’ Pet Parade passes right by thefront door on Sunday, too. Sat., Jan. 30; Sun., Jan. 31. 1860 Saloon, 1860 S. Ninth St., St. Louis, 314-231-1860.
Big Saturday at Big Daddy’s:
Doors open at 6 a.m. on parade Saturday for all your pre-party needs. We’ll have hurricanes, beats, booze and live music in hour heated tent and covered patio all day long, and free shuttles to Soulard until midnight. Sat., Feb. 6, 8-3 a.m. Big Daddy’s-The Landing, 118 Morgan St., St. Louis, 314-621-6700.
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Celebrate Mardi Gras at Boogaloo with hurricanes, sazeracs, vieux carres, jambalaya, gumbo and etouffee. Feb. 5-9. Boogaloo, 7344 Manchester Road, Maplewood, 314-645-4803.
Bud Light Block Party:
Party at designated locations in Soulard for more beer and live music after the Grand Parade. Visit www.mardigrasinc.com for more information. Sat., Feb. 6, 1:30 p.m., free admission. Seventh St. and Geyer Ave., 7th St. and Geyer Ave., St. Louis.
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Bud Light Grand Parade:
One hundred floats representing local krewes and more than 10 million beads make the journey from Busch Stadium to the Anheuser-Busch Brewery. Once in Soulard, revelers disperse to enjoy live music, the Bud Light Block Party, and the festive ambiance of the neighborhood until well after dark. Admission to the parade and to Soulard is free; for more information and to see the parade route, visit www.mardigrasinc.com. Sat., Feb. 6, 11 a.m., free admission. Busch Stadium, Broadway & Poplar St., St. Louis, 314-345-9600.
Bud Light Party Tent:
Enjoy Mardi Gras in Bud Light’s three massive, heated tents. There’s a full bar with signature cocktails, a buffet provided by Joanie’s Pizzeria, a dance floor with music by Rockstar DJs and private restrooms. Tickets are only available in advance, and you must be 21 or older to enter. Visit www.mardigrasinc.com before tickets sell out. Sat., Feb. 6, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., $99. Soulard Market Park, Lafayette Ave. & S. 9th St., St. Louis.
Fat Bluesday:
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Keeton’s Mardi Gras Shuttle:
Sample signature dishes at Soulard’s best restaurants on this self-guided tasting and pub crawl. You receive six food vouchers and one Southern Comfort drink voucher, which you can use at participating restaurants. Tickets are also good at the Bud Light Party Centre on Saturday only. Full list of restaurants and menu available at www.mardigrasinc.com. Sat., Jan. 30, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 31, 11 a.m.5 p.m., $25. Soulard Neighborhood, RFT_AD_BLPT_GRD_PARD_2016_CRA.pdf Allen Ave. and Menard St., St. Louis.
Keeton’s opens at 8 a.m. for breakfast buffet. Ride in style to Mardi Gras on the bar’s shuttle bus. The first bus leaves at 8:45 a.m. Sat., Feb. 6, 8 a.m., $10 for breakfast and bus. Keeton’s Double Play, 4944 Christy Blvd., St. Louis, 314-351-6000.
Mayor’s Mardi Gras Ball:
Celebrate Mardi Gras with five flavors of our popular frozen cocktails: Hurricane, Redbird, the Louie, Silver Bullet and Tiger Paw. Sat., Feb. 6. Tropical Liqueurs, 1800 S. 10th St, St. Louis, 314-328-1730.
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make sense of it all? Where do you begin and what manner of technical and conceptual approaches should you use? In this lecture Strembicki hopes to answer some of those questions and speak to the biggest question of all: When are you ever done? Sat., Jan. 30, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Non-Members $5/Members Free, 314-535-1999, info@iphf.org, www. iphf.org/event/twenty-five-years-ofmardi-gras-in-new-orleans-or-photographing-the-ultimate-event/. International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, 3415 Olive St, St. Loun is.
This black-tie gala is held in the rotunda of City Hall. Your ticket gets you valet parking, open bar, dinner, dessert and dancing to the music of the Funky Butt Brass Band and Dirty Mugs. Proceeds benefit the Mardi Gras Foundation, which distributes community grants to improve Soulard and doowntown. Fri., Feb. 5, 7 p.m., $150-$3,000, www. mardigrasinc.org. St. Louis City Hall, 1200 Market St., St. Louis, 314-6223000.
Missouri Lottery 5K Run for Your Beads:
Get some exercise and enjoy yourself at the same time at the Run for Your Beads 5K. The race starts at Eigth Street and Lafayette Avenue, and then winds through the Soulard Neighborhood. You can enjoy complimentary beer and hurricanes at pit stops along the route (runners 21 and older only). Prizes are handed out for first place overall, first place in age division, and best costume. All registered runners receive a limited edition T-shirt. Sat., Jan. 30, 9 a.m., $30-$35, www.mardigrasinc.org. Soulard Neighborhood, Allen Ave. and Menard St., St. Louis.
Naughti Gras IX:
Regional artists display their more risque art, while the Red Light Revue, Peepshow Hour and Midnight Burlesque Revue perform live shows. There’s also a Naughti Market, full bars and live music by the Darrels. This is an 18 and older event. Fri., Jan. 29, 7 p.m.-1 a.m.; Sat., Jan. 30, 7 p.m.1 a.m., $30-$75. Koken Art Factory, 2500 Ohio Ave., St. Louis, 314-7767600.
Riley’s Mardi Gras Saturday:
Drink specials are on offer all day, with a Mardi Gras shuttle bus every hour from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sat., Feb. 6, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Riley’s Pub, 3458 Arsenal St., St. Louis, 314-664-7474.
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Scenes from a Marriage 45 Years stars Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay, but gives them very little to do. 45 Years Written and directed by Andrew Haigh. Starring Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay and Geraldine James. Opens Friday, January 29, at Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema (1701 South Lindbergh Boulevard; 314-9956285 or www.landmarktheatres.com).
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he first thing you have to consider in 45 Years — at least to viewers of a certain age, or those with a decent knowledge of British films of the 1960s and ‘70s — is the casting. Just as 2012’s Amour resonated with the presence of early Nouvelle Vague figures Emmanuelle Riva and Jean-Louis Trintignant, 45 Years presents us with an aging couple played by Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling, knowing that behind their well-earned wrinkles we’ll recognize the faces of the once-boyish Billy Liar and the (almost) ageless beauty who began her career in the background of essential “swinging London” comedies such as The Knack. There’s more to 45 Years than simply playing to the art-house nostalgia of older filmgoers — but not much. The film takes place over roughly a single week in the lives of a married couple, Geoff and Kate Mercer, as they plan a party for their 45th anniversary. For large portions of the film we simply follow the quiet pace of their rural life: Kate walks the dog and gives her more fragile husband a ride into the nearby village to visit his former co-workers. It’s calm and aesthetically pleasing, a bucolic slice-of-life in which nothing much happens. Indeed, it appears that the Mercers are living a stable, settled life with very little drama, until
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It’s calm and aesthetically pleasing, a bucolic slice-of-life in which nothing much happens. they receive a piece of news so unusual that it can only be described in detail (readers who don’t want to be exposed to a significant element of the plot should skip to the next paragraph now). Fifty years earlier, before their marriage — before even meeting Kate — Geoff had been on vacation in the Alps with his girlfriend, Katya. It ended badly when the young lady fell into a crevasse, never to be seen again. Now, just as he’s preparing for his anniversary with Kate, he receives news that the girl’s body has been found, perfectly preserved in ice, and he’s the only
living person who can officially identify her for the authorities. The discovery of Katya creates a small, barely noticeable fissure in the day-to-day lives of the couple. Geoff surreptitiously resumes smoking and loses interest in a planned dinner. Kate continues to plan the anniversary party but becomes increasing irritable as she tries to select music for the event. (Gary Puckett is definitely out, and it’s rather strange to hear the Turtles’ “Happy Together,” the go-to feel-good song in dozens of films, as a source of melancholy.) 45 Years poses questions about love and memory and connections between the present and the past — is Geoff still in love with Katya? Should Kate feel jealous of someone who has been dead for half a century? — but rather than resolve them, the film lets them fade away as if they were insignificant distractions from the mundane details of village life. 45 Years is ultimately little more than a collection of scenes whose effect rests solely on the viewer’s fondness for Rampling and
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Courtenay, and their willingness to see the actors as surrogates for the increasingly diminished boomer generation. Nonetheless, there is one brief scene which hints at the themes of memory and aging and nostalgia that director Andrew Haigh otherwise lets slip away: Kate goes up to the attic and finds old films of Geoff and Katya on vacation. For a brief moment, as the flickering images reveal the lost youth of her husband and the innocent beauty of his former love, I was reminded of the films of Michelangelo Antonioni (a hero using images to uncover a mystery in Blow-Up, and a missing person on vacation in L’Avventura). Is it a stretch, or is Haigh aiming for a kind of post-retirement version of the unresolved lives and unsatisfying cities of arthouse films from when Courtenay and Rampling were young and not so innocent? 45 Years hints at ideas about life but remains silent: The Angry Young Men and Swinging Young Things have stopped their fighting and moved to the countryside. n
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eorama is a musical biography about the mostly-forgotten American artist John Banvard. It’s also a biographical musical about pretty much everyone who makes art in a capitalist society, and a love letter to the joy that comes from making something that is true. Somehow, Georama manages to be both of those things without coming across as heavy-handed or dull — far from it. The creative team of West Hyler, Matt Schatz and Jack Herrick has written a musical about an uncommon man for the common man, and it is spectacular. Under Hyler’s direction, the world premiere of Georama is a funny, insightful and ultimately inspiring musical about why art matters. Even if you’re fool enough to think it doesn’t, Georama will win you over. P.J. Griffith is John Banvard, a charismatic and handsome young man who hangs around the St. Louis riverfront in the mid-1800s, drawing what he sees. We meet him when he attempts to help Taylor (Randy Blair) reclaim his job aboard one of William Chapman’s showboats. Blair plays Taylor as a sly carnival barker looking for a mark, all nudges and winks to the audience. Their plan is for John to paint the scenery for Taylor’s dramatic recitations of riverboat calamities and other thrilling yarns. A near-strangling on a piece of machinery gives John the idea of painting all of his scenery on one massive piece of canvas that can be continuously unrolled on a pair of crank-oper-
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Elizabeth (Jillian Louis) and John (P.J. Griffith) salute art and life. | PETER WOCHNIAK ated spindles, an invention Taylor dubs the “georama.” When Taylor takes all the credit for the device, John dissolves their partnership and takes a keel boat down the Mississippi, painting as he goes. Griffith’s John is an earnest and easygoing man, content to drift downriver and practice his craft with no thoughts or concerns for what comes next. His world opens up with he meets Elizabeth (Jillian Louis), a pastor’s daughter who also composes music. She thinks his stories about the river would be better received with a score, while he thinks his boat will be cozier with a pretty girl aboard. Liz and John leave the small town with Dad’s warning — “Art is a thing for people who have money and time to burn!” — ringing in their ears. That warning is quickly forgotten when the pair sing “Your Dad Was Wrong,” a song about taking the leap to follow your artistic dreams, starvation be damned. Louis possesses one of those rare voices that fills you up with its beauty, and she and Griffith sound marvelous together against the musical backdrop of Jacob Yates’ plucked and strummed cello. (Yates and fellow musician Emily Mikesell perform all of the early-American music on cello and piano, and Yates in particular impresses with his ability to conjure unusual sounds out of his instrument.) Eventually Banvard has created a 3,000-foot-long painting of the Mississippi River. In an era before photography and rapid transit,
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his georama is a crowd-pleasing wonder. You get a taste of how entertaining it can be thanks to the 600-foot-long scrolling backdrop created by the artists of the Paint Space, who worked from scenic designer Scott C. Neale’s original concept paintings. (They did an excellent job with it; I lost myself in the painting more than once.) John and Liz become wealthy and famous for their public exhibitions, get married and live happily ever after. Except they don’t. While the georama was created as a piece of pure art that represents John and Liz’s love for the river, multiple copycats pop up with the same idea and glut the market thanks to John’s old “friend,” Taylor. Pride keeps John from just retiring, and there comes a time when John Banvard is a defeated man, in every sense of the word. The canvas goes blank behind John as he shouts “Art Is a Lie,” alone and lost in the ruin of his former triumphs. It is a terrifying depiction of life without hope or inspiration — of life without art. Despite being a pioneering American artist, Banvard ends up forgotten, his georama broken into pieces and disappeared into the past. But because Georama is a work of art, John and Liz get a last chance at happiness that they didn’t get in real life. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” as the poem goes. A show celebrating John Banvard’s life is on stage, and a painting inspired by his life’s work is right there with him. Art really will best crass comn mercialism in the long run.
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The Saint Louis Art Museum is constantly acquiring new pieces for its collection. In the past decade, more than 700 artworks have been added — this exhibition features just 62 of them, but the quality can’t be beat. The worried woman in Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother is a familiar face thanks to its frequent use in publications, but now you can stand eye-to-eye with her. If you gaze on the technical perfection of Martin Schongauer’s fifteenth-century engraving The Nativity and find yourself craving more, you should make an appointment to visit the museum’s Study Room for Prints, Drawings and Photographs. More than 14,000 works are available for closer examination, and it costs nothing to view them.
Brooklyn’s Minus Space gallery concentrates on reductive, abstract art. This show highlights the work of Gabriele Evertz, Robert Swain and Sanford Wurmfeld, three Minus Space painters whose work demonstrates color’s power as an energy and a force for drawing out emotions. All three painters also utilize a strong sense of geometry and precision, harnessing color’s power in lines and grids that veer off toward infinity.
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We the Pizza Eaters Everyone wants to be “the Chipotle of Pizza.” Doughocracy may actually do it Written by
CHERYL BAEHR Doughocracy
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wo things are utterly shocking about Doughocracy, the Delmar Loop’s two-month-old build-your-own pizza spot. First is the fact that it’s 2016 and we are just now starting to seriously talk about fast-casual pizza. That Doughocracy aspires to be “the Chipotle of Pizza” and not the other way around has less to do with the tortilla’s superiority to a pie shell and more to do with Steve Ells’ business acumen. Flour, sauce, toppings — had the burrito chain’s founder been inspired by the East Coast rather than the West one, we could just as easily be saying that Chipotle wants to be “the Doughocracy of Burritos.” However, the most shocking thing about Doughocracy — and this is coming from an avowed pizza snob — is that it’s good, really good, and much more authentic than what you’d expect from a corporate restaurant. Let’s be clear: If you’re looking for legitimate Neapolitan pizza, you’re not going to find it at Doughocracy any more than you are going to find traditional Mexican fare at an American burrito chain. But it comes pretty darn close. Consider the Margherita pizza. Doughocracy’s oven doesn’t burn wood and isn’t hot enough to produce the characteristic leopard-spotted crust that purists crave, but the from-scratch shell — hand-tossed to order — puffs up around the edges with just the right amount of pull to give it an
A selection of pies from Doughocracy: the“Gorgonzilla,” the “Sweet Bae-B-Q,” a classic Margherita and a “Nutella Bomb.” | MABEL SUEN
The Margherita is fresh, wholesome and convenient, the trifecta of fast-casual dining in our postMcDonald’s world. air of authenticity. The sauce is nothing more than crushed DOP San Marzano tomatoes, salt and olive oil — no different than if you were dining in the shadow of Mt. Vesuvius. Fist-sized balls of fresh mozzarella are cut up before your eyes and placed atop the sauce, as are a few just-plucked basil leaves. It’s fresh, wholesome and convenient, the trifecta of fast-casual dining in our post-McDonald’s world. Doughocracy isn’t the restaurant industry’s first attempt at the fast-casual pizza concept. In fact, the past couple of years have seen a flurry of activity on this front. Even Chipotle itself has gotten in
on the game, backing a concept called Pizzeria Locale. However, the genre has yet to enjoy its real breakout moment. Having eaten at a few of the places attempting to do assembly line pies, I’d argue that’s because they aren’t all that good. Being the Chipotle of Pizza, it turns out, requires more than a great idea — you have to deliver a product that people want to eat. Christa McGraw, Mimi Hurwitz and Josh Vehovic think they’ve found the secret sauce. The three business partners recognized Doughocracy’s potential to dominate the fast-casual pizza market when they were shopping around for franchise opportunities. They came across the pizzeria in Chicago Franchise Systems’ portfolio and were dazzled by the details, so they decided to be the brand’s test case (the St. Louis location is the first Doughocracy to open, though a second is in the works in the Chicago suburbs). The franchisees settled on the former Ziezo storefront on the corner of Delmar and Westgate and got to work converting the boutique into a sleek and trendy restaurant. The result of their efforts is a modern, industrial space
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with exposed ductwork, light wood paneling and white subway tiles. Doughocracy goes all-in with the politics theme suggested by its name. The restaurant’s tagline, “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Pizza,” is emblazoned in white on the black walls, as are several other sayings meant to evoke pizza empowerment. About half the space is seating and the other half is dedicated to the large silver oven and counter where patrons line up to customize their pies. If you’re more inclined toward an autocratic form of eating, Doughocracy has thirteen “Signature Pies” that are already dressed for you, then cooked before your eyes. The “Green Mile” uses a bright, basil pesto base for roasted zucchini, eggplant, garlic and red onion. Fresh mozzarella and Pecorino cheeses form a molten topper for this flavorful vegetarian pizza. The “Gorgonzilla” is Doughocracy’s version of a quattro formaggi pizza. In place of sauce, the crust is brushed with olive oil, allowing the mozzarella, Pecorino Romano, provolone and funky gorgonzola to give the pie its flavor. It’s like a complex cheese garlic bread, Continued on pg 36
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topped with a salad of olive-oil dressed arugula. As difficult as it is to beat a good Margherita, the “Gorgonzilla” was my favorite of Doughocracy’s offerings. The “Vegetarian Nightmare” reads like it would be too much of a good thing — pepperoni, Italian sausage, soppressata and bacon all vie for the pizza shell’s limited real estate. However, the makers place just enough of each meat on the pie without overwhelming it. The result is a dish that picks up the flavors of each individual component: tang from the pepperoni, fennel from the sausage, smoke from the bacon and fiery spice from the soppressata. Doughocracy’s “Sweet Bae-B-Q” (its name perhaps the only unfortunate thing about this place) is a textbook example of what you want in a barbecue pizza. Molasses-sweet barbecue sauce and hunks of smoky bacon evoke the flavor of backyard ribs, while the chicken remains moist — a difficult feat when firing already-cooked chicken in an oven. However,
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this pie delivered the only flub of my visits, albeit a minor one. The pizza must have slid sideways before it was placed in the oven, because the toppings and sauce pooled toward one side. The “Nutella Bomb” made up for this minor mistake in the same way a winning Powerball ticket would make up for a bit of overspending. Doughocracy’s signature dessert is a pizza shell, generously slathered with Nutella, topped with marshmallows and folded in half like a calzone. It’s the dessert equivalent of shock and awe. Doughocracy doesn’t need such an overwhelming display to bring in people, though. What’s so striking about the place is just how well it succeeds at the pizza fundamentals. It’s not going to replace a trip to Naples, but it comes about as close to authentic as a fast-casual franchise can. Have we finally found the Chipotle of Pizza? If so, that’s a compliment to the former. n Doughocracy
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atthew Koch, the bar manager at Sanctuaria (4198 Manchester Avenue; 314535-9700), clearly remembers the drink that got him hooked. “I was 22 and still drinking dumb sweet drinks — you know, amaretto sours and that kind of stuff,” Koch recalls. “I went to visit [Layla’s] Tony Saputo at his work — we were in a band together — and just told him, ‘You know your stuff. Just make me something.’ He made me some bourbon-based drink with coffee elements and nutmeg. It was really cold outside, and it was perfect. I was like, ‘Wow, this really speaks to me much more than just doing shots of Fireball.’” Koch had been doing freelance work at a technical audio station and needed something steady, so he began “bugging” Saputo about his job. “I need to do this,” Koch recalls thinking after that fateful drink. And he didn’t let the thought remain a thought: “I began studying and learning everything that I could.” His quest for cocktail knowledge led him from Flamingo Bowl to Eclipse to Planter’s House before landing him behind the bar at the Good Pie with Jeffrey Moll. “Jeffrey approaches making drinks like he’s using the scientific method,” Koch explains. “He’s precise and calculating. He’d have us do blind tastings and send us home with homework assignments to make a drink over and over again
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Matthew Koch mans the bar at Sanctuaria. | KELLY GLUECK with different measurements. We called him ‘the Professor.’” Koch credits Moll not only with expanding his knowledge of mixology, but also the service aspect of the gig. “I learned the hospitality side of things from him,” Koch says. “I learned the basics of fine-dining service — how to explain things to people without sounding condescending. No one wants to feel stupid when they go out to dinner.” Sanctuaria was always Koch’s dream job — so much so that he applied three times before finally getting the offer to run the bar. At the cocktail-focused tapas spot in the Grove, he’s so busy educating his staff and creating seasonal drink menus that he doesn’t have time for his audio career anymore. Still, he brings a little bit of his musical side to his current job. “It’s a cliche, but doing cocktails
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correctly is like doing free jazz,” Koch explains. “The reason it is cool is because you learn the rules first, then play around with it and make it weird. If you try to do it without knowing the fundamentals, it’s just noise.” Koch took a break from the bar to share his thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage scene, the ingredient that is never allowed behind his bar and his notso-guilty quaffable pleasure. What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did? I’m actually interested in what people are saying to me! What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you? Black coffee, or sometimes coffee with butter, and at least a solid 30 minutes of studying time. It can be cocktail books or research articles.
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If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Never being tired. What is the most positive thing in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year? I’ve noticed most of the newer concepts that have launched have really given the proper care and attention to their beverage programs — places like Reeds American Table, Retreat Gastropub, and Publico. St. Louis residents are smarter and more turned on than they were even a few years ago, which allows new places to thrive. Who is your St. Louis food crush? Mike Randolph, Matthew Daughaday, and Matt Bessler for food. Jeffrey Moll, Matt Osmoe, Ben Bauer and Tony Saputo for drinks. Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene? I’m excited for Chris Bork’s new ramen spot, Vista, to open. I’ll be there probably too often. Which ingredient is most representative of your personality? I’m a pretty huge Jamaican rum fan. It’s weird and complex and good on its own, as well as an ingredient. If you weren’t working in the restaurant business, what would you be doing? Probably playing loud abrasive technical music on a stage in front of like six people. Name an ingredient never allowed behind your bar. Really anything grossly out of season. Also, sour mix. What is your after-work hangout? The Gramophone or Retreat Gastropub. I’m usually only good for one beer though. What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure? It’s not that guilty, but a solid half Stag/half orange juice beermosa usually sets me right. What would be your last meal on earth? A negroni, fried chicken livers, a really good sipping rum, macaroni and cheese, a Margherita pizza, prosciutto, sauteed mushrooms and pork belly hash, finished off with a shot of Fernet. n
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hen we first caught up with Justin Bruegenhemke in September, he was 100 sandwiches into his goal of eating through the sandwich menus at all nine delicatessens and sandwich shops on the Hill. On Saturday, January 16, at approximately 11:22 a.m. Central Standard Time, Bruegenhemke officially completed his Hill Topper project with the consumption of the Hogfather sandwich (hot salami, bacon and hot coppa on garlic cheese bread) at Gioia’s Deli. Joined by family and friends for the momentous occasion, Bruegenhemke saved the Hogfather for No. 158 because it wasn’t on the restaurant’s menu, or even its Secret Menu, when the project began. By ordering a secret sandwich that still isn’t listed on Gioia’s “secret” menu, Bruegenhemke is reaching Inception-like depths of sandwich subconsciousness. So, with 158 sandwiches down the hatch, what did he learn? “To try new things,” says Bruegenhemke. “Some of the vegetarian sandwiches I never would have ordered in a million years were very good.” After eating through the entire sandwich menus at Adriana’s, Amighetti’s, Gioia’s, Mama Toscano’s, Joe Fassi Sausage & Sandwich Factory, Southwest Market, Eovaldi’s, J Viviano’s, and Urzi’s, Bruegenhemke considers Gioia’s, Adriana’s and Eovaldi’s his
three go-to spots on the Hill. And which sandwich does the King of the (Sandwich) Hill think is the best? Bruegenhemke crowned the hot salami and roast beef sandwich at Gioia’s as No. 1. The sandwich was Brugenhemke’s favorite before the project began and, 158 sandwiches later, it still is. Gioia’s owner Alex Donley was surprised to hear this, however, because Brugenhemke has his own sandwich on the secret menu. The “Hill Topper” is made of capicola, hot salami, hot beef, spicy giardiniera and your choice of cheese on toasted garlic bread. Perhaps it seemed pretentious to name his own sandwich the best? Nevertheless, Donley was happy to have one of his creations named Best Sandwich in Show. “That is an honor,” she says, “just to be the favorite on the Hill.” Bruegenhemke says he has no plans to take a break from sandwiches. He’s looking forward to soon having a sandwich at Union Loafers, the popular, newish sandwich shop in Botanical Heights. And there may be other eating challenges ahead. It’s only an idea at this point, but, says Bruegenhemke, “There’s talk of Mai Lee’s entire menu, but that’ll take a decade.” Our advice? Enjoy this accomplishment, take the family to Disney World and enjoy the off-season before tackling Mai Lee. Maybe kick back with a nice Gioia’s hot salami and roast beef. — Johnny Fugitt
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The Notorious P.I.G. sandwich and dry-rubbed wings . | JOHNNY FUGITT
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nother day, another barbecue restaurant in St. Louis. The newest, however, is a bit different. “We wanted to take a step back and take our time with everything,” says pitmaster and co-owner C.J. Baerman. Hence, Ol School Smokehouse (7565 South Lindbergh Blvd., 314-845-8585) was born. Ol School’s space, a corner storefront that sat empty for seven years after being vacated by Steak-Out, is just off South Lindbergh near I-255. Although the current spot has a large kitchen, seating is somewhat limited. This will soon change, however, as Baerman and co-owner Shawn Orloski are busy renovating the space next door into a dining room. When finished, the restaurant will seat around 50 to 60 people and host a full bar. Baerman describes their style as “homestyle barbecue and comfort food.” Expect the menu to evolve, but current offerings include pulled pork nachos and a house-made beer salami. A pit beef sandwich may either be “covered” in au jus or the whole sandwich “dunked” in au jus. As if that isn’t enough, both sandwiches come with a side of beef gravy. Baby-back ribs, which Orloski recommends to a first-time visitor, and “Whiskey Chicken” complete the proteins. Sides include the “Spicy Garlic Biscuit” and “BBQ Spaghetti,” a dish most commonly seen in Memphis.
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One of the main themes that Baerman and Orloski return to repeatedly is how there are no cans in the kitchen, the freezer isn’t even turned on and everything is made fresh daily. “Ol School is a set of ideals,” says Baerman. “It’s getting back to the way we used to do it.” The restaurant is cutting its own fries, making its own sauces and pickling its own pickles — three items where you sometimes catch barbecue restaurants cutting corners. Even the sausages are fresh, says Baerman, and do not use the chemicals, phosphates and nitrates found in most sausages. “We want to source as many things as we can locally,” adds Orloski, “and keep things really fresh, current.” While Ol School is a new name and new venture, both Baerman and Orloski have resumes splattered with barbecue sauce. Much of Baerman’s seventeen years in the kitchen have been around barbecue; he’s a regular on the St. Louis competition barbecue circuit. Orloski was actually the first non-family member hired by Bandana’s Bar-B-Q and has been involved in various barbecue ventures over the years. Ol School uses apple wood for the chicken and cherry wood for the sausages. A combination of hickory and cherry woods are burned
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for the pork and beef. Although Ole Hickory Pits is often considered the best commercial smoker brand on the market, and most commonly seen in St. Louis-area restaurants, it could be argued that Ol School’s use of a sophisticated smoker like this one doesn’t quite fit with the way-things-used-to-be mantra. Still, it’s hard to quibble with progress when it benefits the diner. For our lunch at Ol School, we started with the Notorious P.I.G. sandwich — one of the more commonly used barbecue names around the country. (St. Louisan Burke Holmes, formerly with Pappy’s and Bogart’s, even opened a restaurant in Montana that bears the name.) We also had to sample the dry-rubbed wings and fries, both of which Baerman and Orloski bragged on. The 36-hour process that goes into these dry-rubbed wings is time well spent. The wings are so good, in fact, they should instantly jump into the conversation about the best wings in town. We were less enthused about the sandwich, but the wings and the lure of a handful of unique menu items will be enough to bring us back for a second look. Ol School Smokehouse is currently open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. or until they run out of food. — Johnny Fugitt
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Quiet Is the New Loud Yo La Tengo explores going gently into that rock night Written by
ROY KASTEN Yo La Tengo
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hree days after the death of David Bowie, Ira Kaplan has some time off at his home in New York. He doesn’t have any personal Bowie stories to share, but his band Yo La Tengo, known for its surprising covers, did in fact try their hands at a song or two. “The only times we came up with a cover — leaving aside the WFMU broadcasts, which are a blur — we did do a show in San Francisco one year, a benefit for KUSF for their anniversary,” he recalls. “They went on the air the year Heroes came out, so we did play ‘Heroes’ that night. When we went on tour with Jad Fair of Half Japanese we added a couple of covers, including ‘Rebel Rebel.’ You couldn’t help but admire Bowie. He wasn’t someone I listened to initially, but it was probably with Low and Heroes when I got interested, and then I went back to the records I’d passed over.” You could imagine that’s the case with so many of the artists Yo La Tengo has covered over the years. The band is omnivorous; in the annals of indie rock it’s hard to think of another act that has so dedicated itself to the art of the homage, or found such a sense of who they are in the music they love and why they love it. Fakebook, the band’s pivotal album of cover songs from 1990, was a modest and beautiful flare-up of folk and country, so twangy and fun and tender that it made the anti-avant-garde heroes they’d become seem like something else entirely. Yo La Tengo was clearly
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“We played so quietly at the first shows, and played amps barely larger than an LP cover. Some of the infinite possibilities get thrown out and you approach the material differently. deeper and trickier than even its growing fan base had guessed. “Fakebook does stand out in the over 30 years of our being together,” Kaplan says. “I don’t know what would happen if we decided to make another record like Electr-O-Pura. I don’t even
know what that would mean. We were resistant to the idea. People asked about [us doing a sequel to Fakebook]. Why would we ever want to do that? And then we did.” That album, Stuff Like That There, is a deliberate sequel to Fakebook, down to re-enlisting musician Dave Schramm, whose electric guitar helped give Fakebook its distinctively rockabilly and psychedelic-folk sound, and who even toured with the core trio of Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew during the band’s 2014 road trips. He won’t be joining Yo La Tengo on its current outing, but the reunion with Schramm helped reinforce the virtues of getting quiet — really quiet — on stage. “We played so quietly at the first shows, and played amps barely larger than an LP cover,” recalls Kaplan. “Some of the infinite possibilities get thrown out and you approach the material differently. It’s one of the
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things that makes it appealing to do things differently — you don’t know what effect it’s going to have on the songs. Playing cover songs or playing our old songs again, they will change over time. Even in the course of a tour we’ll play the same song with three different arrangements.” The songs that Yo La Tengo decided to cover for its latest album are as delightfully capricious as those found on Fakebook. There’s a Lovin’ Spoonful song, a classic Cure number, an obscure track by indie-rock contemporaries Antietam, and a radically reworked version of the chaotic doo-wop tune “Somebody’s in Love” by the Cosmic Rays with Le Sun Ra and Arkestra. The band even covers three of its own songs, and adds two new previously unknown originals. Stuff Like That There (the title namechecks a Betty Hutton pop ballad from 1945, though the band didn’t include that song on the album) may not be the revelation that Continued on pg 44
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Fakebook was, but it beautifully reasserts the fully contemplative, delicate, melodic side of a band that remains best known for its droning, dense and frequently tempestuous excursions. “It’s not just the covers,” stresses Kaplan. “It’s the volume, the gentleness. Touring the way we did on the Fade record [in 2013], where we did a quiet set and then a loud set, we found that we were enjoying playing quietly for 45 minutes straight. It contributed to making this new record. We’ve got a show in New York where we are performing with composer Alvin Lucier, and a lot of his work is built around sounds that change imperceptibly and slowly. When you play that way you listen differently. Little changes sound huge. You are listening that hard and with such focus. That’s part of the appeal of this record, playing in that same style. I don’t know if the listener can tell, but the differences seem huge to us.” Improvisation and close listening, whether in the hushed restraint of its newest recordings or the blistering charge of its electric sets, define Yo La Tengo. Though performing as a mere trio, the possibilities go on and on, from the delicately funky rhythms to the strangely soothing fuzz of keyboard tones that lace inspiration together. And then there’s what Kaplan does with his guitar. That kind of noise could never sound the same twice, though he readily admits he didn’t invent the art of improvisational destruction. “For me, Neil Young was someone whose notes are just a facet of what’s awe-inspiring about the performance,” he says. “At the same time there’s a moment I cherish — actually a show I promoted — when Half Japanese were playing and Jad Fair ripped all six strings off his guitar and threw it to the ground. Then Dave Fair picked up a guitar that had no strings and started playing it. It’s not hard to look around and see that expression can take a lot of forms … giving yourself the freedom to express yourself in the moment as you see fit. That’s part of why I enjoy the quiet set. The two complement each other. But I do look forward to the explosions of the loud sets.” n riverfronttimes.com
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B-SIDES A Bunch of Tools Is Tool really a band for stupid white trash? Written by
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he music we like is often seen as a shortcut to express who we are or what we’re all about, so the world will prejudge you based on the bands that you listen to and the musical cultures with which you affiliate. For the most part these assumptions sit in nice little established boxes: Grateful Dead fans are hippies, politically aware dudes love Rage Against the Machine and any man in an Eagles t-shirt is automatically assumed to be a dad with a cover band. (Too soon?) But I somehow went more than half of my life without knowing that Tool fans were nearly universally thought of as annoying, stupid white trash. As a teenager in the ‘90s, my favorite albums were by Nirvana, Elastica, Otis Redding, Echo & the Bunnymen and, weirdly, Tool. My group of dude friends (now grown men who I still affectionately refer to as “The Basement Boys” because we always seemed to be hanging out in someone’s unfinished suburban basement) introduced me to Tool right before the release of Ænima in 1996. I thought that some parts of the Undertow album were alright, but that all of Ænima was awesome. The Basement Boys fancied themselves quite the teenage intellectuals and they’d sit for hours and debate the merits of an album, a song or a drum solo. I thought the other ‘90s “boy music” that they liked was mostly okay (Deftones were cool but I had no love for Korn), but we didn’t talk about those bands nearly as much. It was always Tool, Tool, Tool. There’s a bunch to talk about when it comes to Tool, really. The lyrics are dense and you could spend hours unraveling and at-
A three-ring circus sideshow of freaks? | JAIME LEES tempting to decode the possible meanings behind some phrasings. Even in 1996 there were already rumors that the members of Tool were into exploring psychedelic realms and sacred geometry. (Ideas basically proven by using Alex Grey’s art on their album covers and drummer Danny Carey’s admitted occultist leanings.) Also, this was a time when we barely had the internet (!) so most of these revelations were passed on from person-to-person, which just served to heighten the band’s mystique. Because of all of this, I’d always thought that Tool was for smart, thoughtful people. (And possibly even pretentious people.) But the more Tool fans I met the more wrong I felt about that assumption. I’d go to Tool shows and feel overwhelmed by the audience. Nearly all of the people in attendance were Busch-chugging, thick-ball-chain-necklace wearing, violent-at-any-moment aggro young men who were super pumped on adrenaline. For the most part, these were not people who appeared to be thinking deep thoughts about the universe
and synchronicity and fractal vegetables. These were people who were out to rage and then possibly smoke some meth. I expressed this thought to a friend and he said, “Duh, everybody knows that Tool fans are stupid white trash.” But I didn’t know that everybody thought that at all. I’d only ever thought of Tool fans on the whole as being nearly obsessive or religious in their love for the band. The reason Tool is so successful now, twenty years later, is because the people who became fans back then somehow managed to stay fans. This is truly an against-allodds success story for the band. Being a Tool fan is a unique experience. As some genius put it nearly a decade ago: “Tool can do no wrong in the eyes of its fans. In fact, the band inspires so much respect from its audience that it’s nearly creepy. Tool gets away with things that would cause lesser bands to be written off or completely forgotten: There have been huge gaps between album releases (up to five years), infrequent tours, high
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ticket prices and band members who have been known to play in the dark and barely address the audience. But all of this somehow works in Tool’s favor. Far from feeling slighted or ignored, fans are supremely excited when an album comes out and are willing to pay as much as necessary for the rare live show. And instead of regarding band members as egotistical jerks, fans view them as mysterious and humble. This kind of blind worship is part of what makes the Tool experience so amazing.” Add to all of that the fact that Tool singer Maynard James Keenan recently called fans of his band “insufferable people” in an interview. Do you know what most fans thought? They thought it was funny. There is absolutely no way that this band should have such a devoted following in the year 2016. There is positively no way that each Tool show should sell out immediately. There is certainly no way that anyone should pay around $90 for a ticket. But they do. And I recently did, too. And the show was amazing. About a month ago I wound up in a conversation with a couple of young construction workers at a bar. They weren’t the brightest bulbs in the box (one of them actually believed that the Earth was flat) but they were friendly and chatty in that amusing potential-alcoholic kind of way. They switched topics from conspiracy theories to music and they were shocked that I could talk about Tool with them. Many high-fives were exchanged. I was pleased with myself for being able to impress them and started delving into some deep thoughts on Tool’s last album, 10,000 Days. They smiled but stared at me blankly and then the more boisterous of the two cleared his throat and said, “Well, I don’t know about all of that, but that guitarist rips!” Yeah, that’s true, too. Maybe these dudes didn’t care about Carl Jung or Bill Hicks, couldn’t give a crap about abstract definitions of prog and wouldn’t know the Fibonacci sequence if it kicked them in the face, but they did know that Adam Jones rips. And I guess that’s enough: As Tool fans, we’re all equals. Morons, but equals. n
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hen the Alton, Illinois-based trio Hope & Therapy began in 2008, singer and keyboardist Hope Gaines had spent a short lifetime as a music fan — poring over her stepfather’s record collection, going to shows, penning her own tunes. But putting herself and her music front and center was a new journey, one that drummer Drew Mader and bassist Dan Deck assisted her in undertaking. “I’ve been writing songs for as long as I can remember, and singing before that,” says Gaines. “When I met Drew and Dan I had a really large catalog of songs and I struggled with stage fright. They just pushed me and pushed me to get out there. In 2008, Dan and Drew, one late night, heard me playing some songs. And it sounds so corny, but they just sat down and started playing with me.” Those informal jams led to open mic nights and, eventually, gigs in and out of town, as well as the fulllength album Heavy Dose. Six years have passed between that release and this year’s Webs, an EP that serves as a reintroduction to the band, as well as a clear indicator of its fidelity to rhythmically entrancing, darkly burnished music. Gaines certainly earns top billing in Hope & Therapy. Her vocals ring out with a clear-eyed purity, and while she flirts with abandoning her composure throughout the seven songs, she never cedes control. When she opens up and goes full diva, as on “Easier Said,” the effect elevates the songs into high drama.
On that song, she works against a mellow electric piano and a gradually intensifying rhythm section; Mader starts with nothing but a fourcount bass drum to set the pace, but as he and Deck dig into the track, its stops and starts give room to twists, turns and fills. According to Mader, who formerly played bass in more mathrock oriented bands such as Ring, Cicada and Camp Climax for Girls, the band’s musical middle ground comes together from different ends of the spectrum. “Dan’s background is in punk rock, mine is in heavy rock & roll,” he says. “It was something different for people in Alton for sure, who were more used to seeing me playing a full stack and screaming as opposed to seeing this jazzier, piano-based stuff. “I think that I definitely try to bring a little more angst and aggressive tendencies, and try to pepper in elements of math-rock and stuff like that,” Mader continues. “In Hope & Therapy, Hope’s a great songwriter, where the other bands were about hammering out riffs. It’s interesting to bring those elements into something that’s songwriter-based.” Gaines’ keyboard work, which favors simple patterns played on retro-synth patches, also gives crucial harmonic levity against a busy and buzzy rhythm section. On a track like “The Vine,” Gaines is able to push her voice to its upper reaches while circular, bell-like figures ring out in celestial accord. Again, the grounding forces of Mader and Beck keep the rhythms shifting from steady, dubby pulses to hairpin changes. “We’re big on dynamics,” says Mader. “We play it harder, then we play a little mellow, and then we hit
it hard again.” That process bears fruit on “Dear Darling,” perhaps the most conventional composition on the EP, and one that sinks its teeth in during a magnetic chorus. The gradual effect of repetition and the shifting rhythmic tides give a rich, dense palette for Gaines to sing against. Sessions for Webs began in May 2014 at Jacob Detering’s Red Pill studio; Mader says that “regular life events” contributed to the gap between the two releases, as well as the delay between starting and completing this latest EP. “When we released the first album we recorded everything we had,” says Mader. “We toured that material and eventually began writing new stuff.” Mader and Gaines, who are married, also welcomed a new addition into their family in the midst of tracking the album. “From the time we got to start recording Webs to the time it was finished, we actually became parents. So that was a speed bump in the timeline too,” says Mader. Mader had worked with engineer Jacob Detering during his time in Ring, Cicada, so Hope & Therapy’s time at Red Pill studios took advantage of that familiarity. “In the tracking sessions with Jacob, we took some suggestions for sure,” says Mader. “He’s a great producer and knows what works well.” Matthew Sawicki helmed the board for lead-off track “Former Future,” the newest song of the batch, and
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he handled the final mixing and mastering as well. “We decided to mix with Matt because he takes more of an aggressive approach. We wanted these to hit a little harder,” says Mader. Hope & Therapy plans to continue gigging around the Metro East and St. Louis in support of the album, though Gaines says it’s been “somewhat challenging” to make headway in the St. Louis scene. Mader concurs. “Since we’re not in St. Louis proper, we don’t get the chance to mingle as much,” he says “It takes due diligence to make connections.” Both Gaines and Mader cop to hometown pride, though, and mention Alton heavyweights Back of Dave and Judge Nothing in our interview. And while Hope & Therapy’s more ethereal approach to songwriting and production may suggest otherwise, Gaines sees a kinship between her band and her town’s rock heritage: “Alton has deep roots in punk rock and heavy riff rock that has influenced us in some ways.” –Christian Schaffer
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$10. Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., Univer-
cre, Bastard, Melursus 7 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108
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RAILROAD EARTH: w/ Cornmeal 7 p.m., $22.50-
TIMBALAND: w/ Takeova 10 p.m., $15-$20. The
YO LA TENGO: 8 p.m., $22-$25. The Ready Room,
free. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave.,
$27. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,
Marquee Restaurant & Lounge, 1911 Locust St,
4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
314-726-6161.
St. Louis, 314-436-8889.
BRUXISM 13: w/ Stone Lobster, Albert Kuo, Lou-
SINBAD: 8 p.m., $24.50-$49.50. Lindenwood’s J.
is Wall 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100
Scheidegger Center for the Arts, 2300 W. Clay
SUNDAY 31
Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.
St., St. Charles, 636-949-4433.
BEN MILLER BAND: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Off Broad-
Skinner 8 p.m., $10. St. Louis Undergound Gal-
DJ CARNAGE: w/ Valentino Khan, Jauz 8 p.m.,
SOMA JET SET: w/ Faults and Wonder, Mariner
way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
lery, 5464 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 618-619-3179.
$25-$30. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St.
5 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust
MINSK: w/ Two from the Eye, Path of Might 8
SODA: w/ Shitstorm, Bubbleheads, Fumer 9
Louis, 314-726-6161.
St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.
p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St.
p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson
SWEETTALKER: w/ Various Hands, Other People,
THOUGHTS DETECTING MACHINES: w/ Stomato-
Louis, 314-833-5532.
Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
the Great Expectations 7 p.m., $8-$10. The
pod 9 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359
RICH THE KID: w/ T-Wayne, TK-N-Cash, Tate Ko-
SOULARD BLUES BAND: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway
Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-
Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
bang, Rejjie Snow 8 p.m., $18-$20. Fubar, 3108
Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
833-5532.
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621-8811.
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Smash Potater, Texas Toast Chainsaw Massa-
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TOM BYRNE & ERIKA JOHNSON: 8 p.m., $5. BB’s
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3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
FRIDAY 29 CAVO: 8 p.m., TBA. The Ready Room, 4195 Man-
TUESDAY 2
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KIM MASSIE AND THE SOLID SENDERS: 9 p.m.,
FUNKY BUTT BRASS BAND: 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; Jan.
$10. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St.
30, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $20. Ferring Jazz Bistro,
Louis, 314-621-7880.
3536 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-571-6000.
ROYAL HOLLAND: w/ Bruiser Queen, the Wil-
KOWABUNGA! KID: w/ Trauma Harness, Soda
derness 9 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359
Boys, Sunday Candy 9 p.m. Livery Company,
Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
3211 Cherokee St., St. Louis, 314-643-8758.
ST. LOUIS SOCIAL CLUB: 8 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
THE LONELY BISCUITS: 9 p.m., $12. Off Broad-
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
436-5222.
PALOMINO SHAKEDOWN: w/ Jack Grelle, Weird Vibers, Baby Baby Come Dance with Me 9 p.m.,
WEDNESDAY 3
$5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St.
BIG RICH & THE RHYTHM RENEGADES: 7 p.m., $5.
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BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.
REDHEADED STRANGERS: w/ the Sadie Hawkins
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TWISTA: w/DJ Wally Sparks, Sidewalk Chalk,
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DJ Needles, DJ Reminise, Sango, Joe Kay, Werc
THIRD SIGHT BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues
American Aquarium.
Crew, DJ 100K 7 p.m., TBA. NEO on Locust, 2801 Locust Ave., St. Louis, 314-570-9218.
AMERICAN AQUARIUM: 8 p.m., $15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. BILLY CHILDS: REIMAGINING LAURA NYRO: 8 p.m., $35-$40. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900. A DARK ORBIT: w/ Alaya, Quaere Verum, Nolia 7 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532. EPICA: w/ Moonspell, Starkill 8 p.m., $24. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929. FUNKY BUTT BRASS BAND: Jan. 29, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $20. Ferring Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-571-6000. THE MADISON LETTER: w/ Aaron Krause 8 p.m.,
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9 p.m. Saturday, January 30. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp. All ages: $15. 314-7733363.
Over a marching rhythm and piano chords that toll like old bells, American Aquarium’s BJ Barham sets the opening scene for last year’s excellent album Wolves: “Every day’s an uphill battle, staring down the barrel of the choices that I’ve made.” And then everything collapses into some kind of twangy free-jazz chaos, with horns and fuzz and guitars wiping the clichés away. This
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Raleigh, North Carolina, band doesn’t THIS JUST IN take its Wilco and Lucero records lightly, ADAM CAROLLA: Sat., March 26, 8 p.m., $42.50. yet it is saved from alt-country slavish- The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, ness by the resilience of Barham’s 314-726-6161. imagery and the tough honesty of his AMON AMARTH: W/ Entombed A.D., Exmortus, Wed., May 4, 7 p.m., $27.50-$30. The Pageant, bar-stool jottings. And this group can 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. play, really play, with the lushness of THE ARCS: W/ Mariachi Flor de Toloache, Wed., pedal steel, the soulfulness of organ April 27, 8 p.m., $30-$32.50. The Pageant, 6161 and harmonies, and the tight blast of Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. BAD COVER BAND SAM: W/ Kenshiro’s, the crunching guitars. Ruthless, Fri., Feb. 5, 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap What’s In a Name? A lot, as the fish tank Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337. in question comes from the indelible BALD EAGLE MOUNTAIN: W/ the Wilderness, opening lines of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Old Capital, Sat., Feb. 27, 9 p.m., free. Schlafly
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Cavo.
DANIEL ROTH & THE MOTHS: W/ Casey Bazell Band, Edgefield C. Johnson Duo, Sat., Feb. 13, 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St.,
CAVO 8 p.m., Friday, January 29.
St. Louis’ Cavo, who flirted with major label success after signing a deal with Warner/Reprise in 2008, is independently releasing Bridges, its first new album since 2012’s Thick As Thieves, at this show. The group seems to relish its newfound freedom: “For once, it wasn’t about what someone else wanted. It was only about the four
of them and what they wanted. No label, no producer, no agent, no manager, no one but them. And it felt right. So, they decided to try again, but this time, their way,” reads the band’s Facebook bio. This show will only cost a scant $1.05, but fans should arrive early if they want to get in — tickets will only be available at the door, with no advance sales. Shhhhhhh: Fellow St. Louis rockers the Hush List will open the show. –Daniel Hill
24, 8 p.m., $13-$15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th
Band, Al Holliday and the East Side Rhythm
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ISSUES: W/ Crown the Empire, One OK Rock,
House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
Night Verses, Fri., April 1, 7 p.m., $22-$25. The
MICROWAVES: W/ the R6 Implant, Double God,
SHITSTORM: W/ Conductor, Dracla, Little Big
Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,
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Bangs, Fri., Feb. 26, 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap
314-833-3929.
2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.
Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.
JOEY MUHA: W/ Elijah Stavely, Tue., March 29, 7
MOM’S KITCHEN: W/ Aaron Kamm & the One
THE SOUTH CITY TROUBADOURS: W/ Miss Molly
p.m., $13-$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
Drops, Fri., Feb. 19, 10 p.m., $10. Old Rock House,
Simms Band, the Riverside Wanderers, Fri.,
314-289-9050.
1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
Feb. 12, 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100
KARATE BIKINI: W/ Dog Brain, Jon Valley, Sat.,
MY BROTHERS AND I: Wed., March 9, 8 p.m., $10.
Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.
Feb. 20, 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100
The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-
THIRD SIGHT BAND: Wed., Feb. 3, 10 p.m., $5.
Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.
833-5532.
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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE: W/ Memphis May Fire,
NIGHT BEATS: Fri., March 11, 8 p.m., $10. Off
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36 Crazyfists, Tue., April 12, 6 p.m., $25. Pop’s
Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-
TIMBALAND: W/ Takeova, Sat., Jan. 30, 10 p.m.,
Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis,
3363.
$15-$20. The Marquee Restaurant & Lounge,
618-274-6720.
OWEL: W/ Swimming with Bears, Tue., March
1911 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-436-8889.
LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS: W/ Tom “Papa”
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PUSCIFER: W/ Luchafer, Fri., April 22, 7:30
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p.m., $32-$52. Peabody Opera House, 1400
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Candy Coated Evil, Sat., Feb. 20, 9 p.m., $8. The
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RADKEY: Sat., March 12, 9 p.m., $10. The Demo,
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p.m., $5. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St.
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SAVAGE LOVE SOUND MIND AND BODY BY DAN SAVAGE Hey Dan: Christmas came and went, and every present I bought for my extraordinary husband could be opened in front of our children. He deserves better, and I have a particular gift in mind for Valentine’s Day. My husband has expressed an interest in sounding, something we’ve attempted only with my little finger. He seemed to enjoy it! But the last thing I want to do is damage his big beautiful dick. So is sounding a fun thing? Is sounding a safe thing? Or should I scrap the idea and just get him another butt plug? Safety Of Sounding Sounding, for those of you who didn’t go to the same Sunday school I did, involves the insertion of smooth metal or plastic rods into the urethra. Sounding is sometimes done for legitimate medical purposes (to open up a constricted urethra, to locate a blockage), and it’s sometimes done for legitimate erotic purposes (some find the sensation pleasurable, and others are turned on by the transgression, particularly when a man is being sounded, i.e., the penetrator’s penetrator penetrated). So, yeah, some people definitely think sounding is a fun thing, SOS. “But whether or not something is
a safe thing depends on knowledge of the risks/pitfalls and an observance of proper technique,” said Dr. Keith D. Newman, a urologist and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. “The urethral lining has the consistency of wet paper towels and can be damaged easily, producing scarring. And the male urethra takes a bend just before the prostate. Negotiating that bend takes talent, and that’s where most sounding injuries occur.” Recreational cock sounders — particularly newbies — shouldn’t attempt to push past that bend. But how do you know when you’ve arrived at that bend? “SOS’s partner should do the inserting initially,” said Dr. Newman, “as the bend in the urethra is easily recognized by the soundee. Once he is clear on his cues — once he understands the sensations, what works, and when the danger areas are reached — SOS can participate safely with insertion.” And cleanliness matters, SOS. “Infection is always an issue,” said Dr. Newman. “Clean is good, but the closer to sterile the better. And be careful about fingers. They can be more dangerous than sounds because of the nails and difficulty in sterilizing.” So for the record, SOS: Your previous attempts at sounding — those times you jammed your little finger into your husband’s piss slit — were
more dangerous than the sounding you’ll be doing with the lovely set of stainless-steel sounding rods you’ll be giving your hubby on Valentine’s Day.
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Hey Dan: My wife and I have an amazing relationship. Our sex life is as hot as it can be given a child and two careers. A couple of years ago, I bought her one of those partial-body sex dolls. We took videos and pictures while using it. Very hot for both of us. We later got a black version of the same toy. (We are white.) Even hotter videos. Over the past year, I have created Photoshop porn of my wife with black men using screenshots from commercial porn. I haven’t shared this with my wife. We never discussed what to do with the videos and pics we made. I assumed she trusted me not to share these images with anyone. (I haven’t and won’t!) Is it okay that I have a porn stash that features my wife? Is it okay that I have a stash of Photoshop porn of my wife fucking black men? Should I share this info — and my fantasies — with her? I’ve always fantasized about her being with a black man, but I’m not sure either of us would truly want that to happen. Secretly Keeping Encrypted Porn That Isn’t Clearly Allowed Lately
and about your fantasies — but that’s a lot to lay on her at once, SKEPTICAL, so take it in stages. Find a time to ask her about those old pics and videos and whether she wants them discarded or if you can continue to hang on to them. At a different time, bring up your racially charged fantasies and let her know what those partial-body sex dolls were doing for you. And finally, SKEPTICAL, if she reacts positively to your having held on to the photos and to your fantasies, ask her how she feels about you creating a few images using Photoshop of her hooking up with a black man for fantasy purposes only. It’s a little dishonest — you’re asking for permission to do what you’ve already done — but you’ll know what you need to do if her answer to the Photoshop question is “No, absolutely not!” (To be clear: You’ll need to delete those Photoshopped pics.) All that said, SKEPTICAL, if the images you’re holding on to — the originals and/or the manipulated ones — could destroy your marriage and/or your wife’s life and/or your wife’s career if they got out (computers can be hacked or stolen, clouds may not be as secure as advertised), don’t wait: Delete all of the images now.
You need to speak to your wife about those pics and videos, about the way you’ve manipulated them,
LISTEN TO DAN’S PODCAST EVERY WEEK AT SAVAGELOVECAST.COM. MAIL@SAVAGELOVE.NET
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