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Tattoo Artist Invents Prosthetic Nipple for Breast-Cancer Survivors
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ive years ago, a small-town tattoo-shop owner named Eric Catalano had an idea. He began offering customers free pink ribbon tattoos to commemorate Breast Cancer Awareness Month. He and his staff ultimately inked more than 400 people, some of them cancer survivors. Then breast-cancer survivors began contacting Catalano on their own, asking him if he could tattoo areolas on the skin where their nipples used to be. He did that for a couple years, he says, before realizing he could be doing more. “I’d been a body piercer for ten years, done hundreds of implants, usually a diamond or a star or whatever cosmetic things girls like,” he says. “But I thought to myself, ‘What if I just made a dermal implant into a nipple, and put the dermal implant into their breast?” That’s exactly what Catalano did. Three weeks ago, he says, he successfully implanted a prosthetic nipple onto the breast of a woman who had lost her own after undergoing a mastectomy. The woman appears in a Indiegogo campaign video posted this week. “I feel complete today,” the woman says after Catalano finishes the procedure. “Being a cancer survivor and having a mastectomy is very challenging and difficult thing. I feel more womanly again.” Fashioning prosthetic nipples for women who lost their breasts to surgery is hardly a new industry. But the current options have their downsides: Some companies offer custom-made adhesive nipples, but they can run into the hundreds of dollars and have to be replaced every few months. There’s also the surgical option, which involves a surgeon taking a skin graft from another part of the body to form the nipple. A dermal implant, on the other hand, is a small piece of metal that goes underneath the top layer of skin. Part of the metal features a small post that rises above the surface of the skin, and other objects can be screwed into this post. Catalano says he worked with an engineer for months before they perfected the silicon nipple’s shape and feel. Catalano, who runs tattoo shops in St. Louis and in Hecker, Illinois, says he hopes to use a 8
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ey, mayor. Sue you! A Southeastern Missouri woman is taking her one-fingered battle against a small-town mayor to court, alleging he and other city officials have made her life a living hell ever since she began flipping him the bird on a regular basis. In the federal complaint filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, Tina Warren claims that Piedmont mayor William “Bill” Kirkpatrick had city workers yank out her water meter, ordered local cops to harass her and even persuaded outside law-enforcement officers to execute a drug raid on her home — all because she has been giving him the middle finger every time they’ve passed each other for more than a year. Warren, who is joined in the suit by her adult son Bryan Jeffers, has been retaliated against for exercising her rights to free expression, the ACLU says. “They have been harassed repeatedly by government officials since Ms. Warren began expressing her disgust with the mayor by flipping him her middle finger,” the ACLU said in a statement. The organization traces the feud back to April 2014 when the water went out for six days at the house Warren and Jeffers share. Warren was fed up. But when she stopped to question a few city workers, Kirkpatrick told her to get back in her car and “go down the fucking road,” according to the lawsuit Warren would later file. “After this unpleasant encounter with Kirkpatrick, Warren decided that, as an act of protest toward Kirkpatrick, the Mayor of Piedmont, she would extend her middle finger and ‘flip off’ the mayor any time that she encountered him,” the complaint said. Piedmont cops have since pulled her over for flipping off the mayor and ordered her off a city sidewalk when she tried to collect signatures in protest of rising water bills, she claims. Three weeks ago, the Wayne County Sheriff, two deputies and a state police narcotics officer searched her house in a fruitless hunt for drugs just hours after she had flipped off Kirkpatrick, her suit also alleges. City workers pulled out her water meter on July 7. When she and Jeffers marched into city hall to ask them why, one of the workers told her point blank “you flipped us off,” a video of the encounter shows. They eventually agreed to put it back in after a police officer crowdfunding campaign to provide his patented prosthetic nipples to women for free. He estimates that the total cost of the procedure — which also includes tattooing an areola around the nipple — runs in the hundreds of dollars. “I don’t want any actual sufferer of breast cancer to have to pay to put nipples on,” he says. “I feel like it’s not their fault that they’re gone, and I hope that through public funding, I can be paid for my services and can turn around and do this for free.” — DANNY WICENTOWSKI
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intervened and Warren assured them she was flipping off the mayor, not them. A woman who answered the phone last Tuesday at Piedmont City Hall said city officials would have no comment on the allegations. The city’s attorney, Robert Ramshur, denied Kirkpatrick directed workers to remove the family’s water meter. “The mayor would never do that,” Ramshur told the Riverfront Times. He attributes the animosity to Warren’s failed protest against increasing water costs. Water bills went up across the board, Ramshur says, and Warren seems to have taken it personally. Service is also spotty in her area due to the shoddy work of a developer, he said. “They may be attributing it to some kind of vendetta, but it’s not,” Ramshur says. The ACLU claims there is a clear pattern of harassment. “Our constitution protects speech, which includes not only spoken words, but also gestures and actions,” says Jeffrey Mittman, executive director of the ACLU of Missouri. “Government officials need to develop thicker skins if a middle finger drives them to violate the constitution.” — DOYLE MURPHY
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ST. LOUIS IS HURTLING TOWARDS ITS HIGHEST NUMBER OF HOMICIDES IN DECADES. IS THERE ANY WAY TO STOP THE BLOODSHED?
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n the night of Friday, September 25, Chris Sanna walked out of Busch Stadium, probably for the last time. He and his brothers had just taken their mother to a Cardinals game. It was her 60th birthday. Sanna, a 43-year-old military veteran from Ho u s e S p r i n g s, was departing early with his girlfriend in the ninth inning because he had to work the next morning. Around 10:30 p.m. the couple headed east down Walnut Street and toward the Old Cathedral parking lot to fetch their car. That’s when a short man with long dreadlocks sprung from an idling vehicle and demanded their valuables. Sanna’s girlfriend handed over her purse. The robber pulled a handgun. The couple tried to flee, but the assailant shot Sanna in the back. As the former soldier lay on the ground, the man rifled through his pockets, reportedly saying, “Bitch, give me all your stuff.” The bullet punctured Sanna’s lungs and liver, and also severed part of his spine, paralyzing him. Doctors now say he may never walk again. A suspect — 31-year-old Kilwa C. Jones of the Gravois Park neighborhood — has already been arrested and charged for the act. Sanna’s mother says she’s relieved Jones can’t victimize anyone else. But Sanna surely won’t be the last victim. Crime in the city of St. Louis is rising. At the end of August, aggravated assaults were up 18 percent over last year. Robberies were up 36 percent. Most alarmingly, homicides were up 60 percent — and this in a metropolis that last year suffered the nation’s highest homicide rate among cities with more than 100,000 people, according to new U.S. Department of Justice statistics. St. Louis is not alone in seeing a spike. In Milwaukee, murders are reportedly up 76 percent. Baltimore, Washington, D.C., New Orleans and Kansas City have all posted double-digit percent increases in this category. Yet the city of St. Louis is on pace to hit 200 murders this year — a grim total not seen here in two decades. And the blame game has begun. Chief of Police Sam Dotson is accusing circuit judges of being too lenient on dangerous criminals. Aldermen criticize Mayor Francis Slay for lacking a coherent strategy
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against crime — and are threatening to block funding for a new football stadium until he gets serious. The mayor, in turn, points out that legislation to hire more officers has been languishing in the board of aldermen for nearly a year now. And the cops we do have are either too aggressive or not aggressive enough, depending on whom you ask. Meanwhile, the body count rises. So what does the hard data say? Myths are many, and they cling stubbornly, but the actual data is important. Only by finding a common base of fact can we take a sober look at the problem — and then address it intelligently. Forget the political posturing for a moment. Here are ten important facts about St. Louis’ murder problem. Not all are politically correct. Not all point to easy solutions. But all are demonstrably true.
1. WE’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE The worst year on record for homicides in St. Louis was 1993, when the city saw 267 victims. That’s more than what’s anticipated for this year. True, the city was also more populous back then, with about 387,000 inhabitants, compared to 317,000 today. So to meaningfully compare then and now, you have to look not at the raw number of victims, but at the ratio of victims per residents. Even by that measure, the early ’90s were worse. In 1993 the city’s homicide rate was 69 victims per 100,000 people, according to the DOJ. Last year, the city’s rate was 50. This year, we may reach a rate of 63. That would be the highest in more than twenty years. It’s a tragic number, but it’s not exactly unprecedented. Nor can we be sure that this year isn’t just a temporary bump. Since 1998 the city’s homicide rate has changed direction ten times, falling a total of 40 points and rising a total of 57. That’s a net rise, and it demands a response. Yet it doesn’t totally clarify where we’re headed — or for how long.
2. CITY HOMICIDES ARE HIGHLY CONCENTRATED For years, researchers have observed how crimes tend to cluster on a map. But even Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis who regularly consults with city police, was surprised when he recently crunched the numbers from 2000 through 2014. He found
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that half of St. Louis’ violent crime was concentrated on just 5 percent of city blocks. “I didn’t expect it to be that extreme,” says Rosenfeld. The professor declined to specify which city blocks suffered the most violence, because these “hot spots” are not necessarily consistent over time. Some flare up as others cool off. “There’s movement at the top of the list,” he says. A Riverfront Times analysis of police data certainly reveals a pattern: Since 2008, about 80 percent of homicides have occurred in just a third of city neighborhoods. The vast majority of those neighborhoods — including the three with the highest numbers, Wells Goodfellow, JeffVanderLou and Baden — lie in north St. Louis, although a few, such as Dutchtown and Gravois Park, are on the south side (see map). And within such neighborhoods, Rosenfeld says, crime can vary sharply from block to block. By contrast, dozens of neighborhoods in the central and southern corridors of the city have seen no more than three homicides since 2008. Some, such as South Hampton and Wydown Skinker, have seen zero. “There’s a perception that, ‘I will be targeted if I go downtown,’” says Chief Dotson. “But the number of cases I see are few and far between.” The stats support Dotson’s claim: Downtown and Downtown West each averaged fewer than three homicides annually from 2008 through 2014. Consider that figure next to the 23.3 million fans who went to a game at Busch Stadium during those years, to say nothing of Rams games, Blues games, festivals, concerts, museums, or even those who live and work downtown. That’s not to suggest that everything’s rosy near the Arch. If you lump together Downtown and Downtown West, aggravated assaults are up 60 percent. Perhaps that’s partly why former county police chief Tim Fitch recently proposed a lockbox for sports fans to check their guns at sporting events — some people feel safer packing a pistol while walking back to the car after a game. And while robberies haven’t increased in those two neighborhoods this year, they do sometimes turn fatal. Recall the case of the three teens parked behind the City Museum just after midnight on January 11. They were held up at gunpoint, and after a struggle ensued over one victim’s purse, another — nineteen-year-old Robert Christman, a recent graduate of DeSmet Jesuit High School — was shot in the head and killed. But when it comes to homicides in general, it’s worth noting where this year’s bump is occurring. Our statistical analysis shows the bulk of it — 72 percent, to be exact — has happened outside the downtown area and north of Highway 40. continued on page 12
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3. MOST MURDERS AREN’T RANDOM As Christman’s tragic death illustrates, random homicides do happen in St. Louis. But statistically, Police Captain Mike Sack says, “More often than not, these are not random. The offenders are acquaintances of the victims.” Sack, who heads the Crimes Against Persons and Property Division, points to a key stat in a recent police data summary: Of the 57 cases his detectives cleared this year up to September 22, 45 cases involved victims and suspects who knew each other. Granted, this may not be a representative sample. Perhaps sleuths were able to clear those homicides precisely because the victim and offenders had a relationship of some sort. After all, a truly random homicide that nobody sees and no surveillance camera captures will be hard to solve. That same police summary cited by Sack also listed a total of 95 cases in 2014 in which the relationship between victim and suspect was “unknown.” But it’s safe to say that the “all hands on deck” response is most often triggered by a case that appears random — consider Sanna’s shooting outside Busch Stadium, when Mayor Slay authorized unlimited overtime and city officials summoned the FBI. A case involving a victim chosen by chance — especially if that victim appears to be an upstanding citizen — is more likely to get significant resources, and more likely to be solved. Still, there’s another sense in which city homicides are not randomly distributed: The same demographic group is statistically much more likely to be both killer and victim. According to data provided by the circuit attorney, 90 percent of murder victims from January 2014 through August 2015 were black. Eighty-five percent were male, and a plurality, 48 percent, were aged 25 and under. As a group, homicide defendants very closely mirror the victim pool: Ninety-five percent of defendants in 2014 were black. Ninety-one percent were male, and 55 percent were 25 and under (see chart). There’s another common thread, Sack says: In 2014, about 91 percent of homicide victims had a prior criminal history. Now, that could mean a simple ordinance violation all the way up to more serious offenses. “That doesn’t mean that somebody deserves it,” Sacks cautions. But clearly, homicide rates are “much, much higher” among people who are criminally involved, Rosenfeld adds — and, as far as he can tell, the surge in murder has mainly affected that group. “There’s no evidence that homicide has spread out to the general population,” he says. It’s not only victims and defendants who are often linked to drugs, gangs and guns. A large proportion of witnesses who take the stand at murder trials either have priors or admit to illegal activity during their testimonies, says Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce. “But that still doesn’t make it right to have a homicide,” she says, “so we go forward with those cases all the time.” R A N DY L U T Z
4. NO LARGE-SCALE DRUG WAR HAS ERUPTED BETWEEN GANGS It’s hardly a secret that heroin is blowing up in the city of St. Louis. A decade ago the local version of the opiate was diluted, and users often injected it via needles, says James Schroba, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s St. Louis Division. But that changed in 2008, when drug traffickers such as the Sinaloa Federation began bringing high-quality Colombian and Mexican heroin into St. Louis. 12
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It was so pure — in some cases 90 percent pure — users could snort it. This made it more appealing to anyone squeamish about syringes. Plus it was cheap and highly addictive. “Heroin has created a whole new market of drug user,” says Schroba. “People flocked to it.” In local open-air markets, you can get a dose called a “button” for less than $15. And as with any illegal narcotics market, disputes often end in violence.
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However, Schroba hesitates to guess how much the heroin trade has contributed to homicides. “There’s some data we just don’t have,” he says. Furthermore, it’s not as though the city is the only market. Customers need not trek to a rundown block in north St. Louis to get their fix, Schroba says. Distributors abound throughout the metro area. It’s also a mistake to equate drug continued on page 14
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dealers with gang members and vice versa, according to Detective Sergeant Jatonya Clayborn-Muldrow, who heads the city police’s gang unit. St. Louis is home to 132 gangs with 8,600 Back in 2012, with crime relatively low and documented members and associates, she pension costs soaring, the Slay administrasays. They exist all over the city, from north tion actually shrunk the police force through to south, and engage in criminal activity attrition. from assault to robbery to auto theft. Now Slay is calling for 160 more officers. But they’re nothing like the hierarchical According to a police spokeswoman, 77 auBloods and Crips of the ’80s and ’90s, or thorized positions currently remain unfilled. even the gangs today in Los Angeles or Chi- Twenty-two police academy recruits will cago. Here, they are small, loosely knit social graduate later this month. Dotson has renetworks that don’t have the manpower or quested two additional classes of a combined sophistication to move big volumes of drugs. 80 recruits, but the academy lasts six months, Clayborn-Muldrow says the current so those new officers wouldn’t hit the streets surge in homicides is not the result of any until next year. large, coordinated campaign of gang retaliA beefed-up force could make a difference ation. Indeed, the police don’t even track — emphasis on “could.” how many homicides are “gang-related,” “Adding police, generally speaking, does because the circumstances are often murky. tend to reduce crime,” says Rosenfeld, “but a For example, if one gang member kills a rival strong caveat is it depends on what additional gang member over a female, that wouldn’t officers do. If they’re on patrol and they’re be gang-related — even though both belong engaged in hot-spot strategies, that can be to gangs. effective. If they’re behind a desk, less so.” “The lines are so blurred now,” she says. A recent report by the Brennan Center “Sometimes, it’s just personal.” for Justice that analyzed the crime decline Mary Pat Carl, the city’s lead homicide nationwide over the past two decades found prosecutor, agrees that motive is diffi cult that only about a 10 percent drop could be to pin down. attributed to the hiring of more officers. “What could’ve begun as a drug dispute Yet nobody disputes that homicides are later is just a respect dispute,” she says. manpower-intensive. The FBI recommends In any case, she adds, state law does not a workload of just five new homicide cases require prosecutors to prove why a killing per detective per year, says Captain Sack. happened, just that it happened. “What we In 2014, that burden in the city of St. Louis always say to juries is that we don’t have rose to 6.5, so this year, with the cases piling SLaRiverfront Times 10/8/2015 to prove motive. Because lot of times, we —up, the chief moved five detectives over to can’t.” homicide to help out. The issue of respect — or a perceived lack Clearly, a murderer taken off the streets is thereof — is a big one in St. Louis homicides. a threat neutralized. But even so, Slay says the It might be a question of drug turf, girls or city can’t police its way out of the problem. even something as petty as food, says Circuit “Police are just one factor in a big, complex Attorney Joyce. picture,” says Slay, “because you can’t put Captain Sack offers an even bleaker as- a police officer next to everybody or inside sessment. every home throughout the city.” Of criminal defendants, he says, “We’ll talk to these folks and they don’t see any future for themselves. In five years they either see themselves in prison or dead. Your average 22-year-old thinks, ‘I want to go to college, then get a job, get married, have kids.’ These guys aren’t thinking that. They’re thinking, ‘What am I going to do Of all the critics of the Slay administration’s today?’ And that’s about as far as they’re public-safety policies, few are as prominent thinking. and vocal as Alderman Antonio French of the “What other options do they have? They 22nd Ward. may not have a high school education or He believes that Mayor Slay needs to craft GED or job skills, so who’s going to hire a comprehensive plan. (He tweeted the words them? How are they going to get to work if “comprehensive plan” 23 times in Septemthey don’t have a car? If they pop off at the ber alone.) He has also launched a website, drop of a hat, who’s going to want them at a comprehensiveplan.org, in which he argues shop somewhere? So it’s just a whole circle that the mayor should shift police and city that is difficult to get out of. And once they energies to the north-side neighborhoods move into a feeling of despair and hopeless- hardest hit by violence. ness, they’re just living for the moment. So For example, French believes police should their decisions reflect that.” flood those areas not for just days or weeks, as And that has implications for policy. they currently do in the “hot-spot policing” “If I shoot you because you dissed me, model, but for twelve to eighteen months at I have low self-esteem,” says Joyce. “And a time. City workers should use that time as talented as Sam Dotson is, he’s not go- to raze unsafe buildings, clean empty lots, ing to be able to ‘police’ self-esteem into a market and sell city-owned properties, open seventeen-year-old boy.” storefront job-training continued on page 16
6. THE PROBLEM IS TOO BIG FOR CITY HALL ALONE
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centers, provide free one-day health clinics and build speed bumps to calm traffic. In theory, French says, he could pass his own comprehensive plan through the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, but he doesn’t have the votes right now. And even if he did, it’s hard under the city hall structure to force a mayor to act if he doesn’t want to. On October 2, French announced that he and his allies on the board would filibuster any bill funding a new football stadium until Slay met with them about the violent crime problem. And French appears to be getting to the mayor. At press time, Slay was preparing a document, subject to community input and revision, that details his own ideas. He says that’s not in response to French’s prodding. In fact, some pieces are already in place, says Slay’s chief of staff Mary Ellen Ponder, from enhanced mental health services and youth job training to offender re-entry programs and minority recruitment to the police academy. In addition, city hall has signed onto Operation SAVE, a civilian/law-enforcement partnership of local, state and federal agencies inspired by the idea of “focused deterrence” — identifying people with a high risk of crime and applying a vigorous combination of carrot and stick. French sounds underwhelmed by Slay’s vision. “It’s a lot of stuff,” he concedes, “but it’s not coordinated in any way.” The mayor’s efforts, he says, lack clear goals and mechanisms for evaluation. But beyond their differing prescriptions to solve the problem, there’s a reason French keeps hammering at the issue politically. It’s his part of town, and it’s his constituents who are most affected. And Slay may be electorally immune to it. After all, the mayor won the last election thanks to support from the majority-white central and southern corridors, where crime is generally low. The north side has the numbers to oust him, but turnout there stayed below 40 percent in the critical March 2013 Democratic primary. In fact, Slay would have lost that race — and would not be mayor right now — if all the registered voters who stayed home in the neighborhoods of Wells Goodfellow and Baden alone had actually shown up and voted against him. James Clark, vice president of community outreach at the non-profit Better Family Life, is skeptical that politicians can even make a dent in the homicide problem. Clark, who grew up in JeffVanderLou, started out working for Mayor Freeman Bosley Jr. in the ‘90s. He remembers the various initiatives to address it: midnight basketball, turning public schools into rec centers, a youth violence task force. It wasn’t until later, going door-to-door for Better Family Life, that he realized that the problems in north St. Louis go much deeper than a handful of city hall initiatives — and stretch beyond the city’s budget. “I’m out there talking to the single moth16
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ers, I’m on front porches and I’m standing in living rooms, and I see a mentality I’ve never seen before,” says Clark. It’s a pervasive anger, a quick temper and a propensity toward violence even among young children. “It used to be that bad boys killed people,” Clark says. “Now, the boys whose fingers are on the trigger — they’re just as much a victim as the people they shoot, because they were born into an environment where that behavior was accepted, expected, taught and reinforced.” The only solution, he believes, is to saturate the troubled neighborhoods with onthe-ground caseworkers and wrap-around resources — not a police force, but a “compassion force” — on a scale that only private foundations could possibly finance. It has to be direct, relentless and focused on each individual. “This is not a political problem,” he says. “The mayor doesn’t have the reach for this. He can point in the right direction. But this is a family and neighborhood problem. You can’t legislate what happens in a family.”
7. THE FERGUSON EFFECT MAY EXIST, BUT THE DATA TO SUPPORT IT DOESN’T Chief Dotson is often credited for coining the phrase “the Ferguson Effect” — the idea that crime went up in the aftermath of the officer-involved shooting of Mike Brown in August 2014 for three reasons: Officers felt trepidation about enforcing the law; they diverted their attention to protest actions; and criminals felt emboldened. On August 31 the New York Times published a story titled “Murder Rates Rising Sharply in Many U.S. Cities.” The reporters showed how homicides were up in several major cities, citing the “Ferguson Effect” as a possible reason. The backlash from Black Lives Matter sympathizers was swift. Arguing that there was no Ferguson Effect whatsoever, the Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates blasted “the utterly baseless suggestion that those who protested in Ferguson may well have blood on their hands.” Coates cited a paper published by none other than Rosenfeld, who argued a simple point: Homicides in St. Louis were already climbing before Ferguson, so Ferguson couldn’t have caused the climb. But that argument isn’t ironclad. Homicides in St. Louis are constantly rising and falling on a month-to-month basis, as Rosenfeld’s own graph shows. (It reveals a much more dramatic rise and fall between January and June — months before the Ferguson unrest.) Regardless of any statistical noise right before Brown’s death, the only way to prove the Ferguson Effect would be to compare what happened with what would have happened had Mike Brown never been shot — and that’s impossible to know. “Proving the counterfactual,” Rosenfeld correctly observes, “is challenging, continued on page 18
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to say the least.” In the end, though, the main obstacle to accepting the Ferguson Effect is the current lack of any empirical data on whether officers really do feel hesitant to enforce the law, or have spent a significant amount of time distracted by protests — and whether those factors did indeed boost crime. So far, it’s all anecdotal. “Somebody could prove me wrong,” says Dotson. But at a recent meeting with police chiefs from across the country, he was struck by the uptick in violence across the country, and by how many of his colleagues found his theory plausible. “What else could be happening everywhere?” he says. “This didn’t just fall in everybody’s lap.”
8. GUNS ARE A PROBLEM There is no question that guns loom large in city homicides. Of the 152 victims this year through the end of September, 145 were killed by firearms. Increasingly, police are finding ammunition used in AK-47 and AR-15 rifles on the streets. With high-caliber bullets, shootings become increasingly deadly. “A 30-caliber round will go right through a car,” says Sack. “People get hit by that, and they just don’t survive.” Furthermore, compared to last year, gun seizures by police are up by a quarter from January through August, even though Dotson says he hasn’t ordered his officers to pursue them any differently. Reports of stolen guns are up by 46 percent. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that there’s a new influx of guns into the city. It could mean that criminals are behaving differently with them, or police are getting better at rooting them out. Dotson, in league with the circuit attorney, the mayor and now Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster, is calling for an “armed offender docket” — a special court designed to give greater speed, scrutiny and consistency for gun offenses, and presumably, tougher sentences. On his blog, Dotson recently wrote, “If the penalty for committing crimes like armed robbery and unlawful use of weapon in our society is simply being told, ‘OK now, please don’t do that again,’ what are we going to do about even more serious crimes?”
9. ST. LOUIS HAS A HIGH MURDER RATE, NOT A HIGH UNSOLVED MURDER RATE It’s not easy to pinpoint how many murders go unsolved each year. First, police and prosecutors define “homicide” differently. If a drunk driver crashes into another car and kills someone, the cops 18
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don’t consider that a “homicide” under the data they report to the FBI. The circuit attorney, however, uses the broader Missouri statute and could charge the driver with involuntary manslaughter, which indeed counts as as a homicide in their system. So their victim totals don’t match up. Secondly, the agencies track success differently. City police say that from 2010 through 2014, detectives cleared 56 percent of homicide cases — and that just happens to be the clearance rate for all similarly sized cities in the U.S. in 2014, according to the DOJ. Far from being an outlier, our police department’s clearance rate is utterly normal. The Circuit Attorney’s Office, meanwhile, computes their numbers in terms of defendants. They claim to issue charges against 50 to 70 percent of the homicide defendants brought to their attention by police. The DOJ does not track issue rates among state prosecutors, so there’s no central database through which to make a comparison. When city prosecutors do take on a homicide case, they almost always win: So far this year, they’ve convicted 37 of 38 defendants. But because the number of victims and offenders can vary by the case, and because some investigations drag on for years, and because some convictions get appealed and overturned, it’s impossible to arrive at a reliable percentage of “solved” cases without first obtaining years worth of records from several branches of the criminal-justice system. Regardless, any time a suspected killer goes free it’s a concern — and in St. Louis, a “no-snitching” ethos is often blamed. The term refers both to the reluctance of witnesses to testify for fear of retribution and to a code of silence among criminals. Joyce says retaliation against witnesses does happen, but not as often as commonly believed. She adds that her office can cobble together funds to relocate witnesses for their protection, even if the city lacks the resources of the federal Witness Protection Program. And she emphasizes that prosecutors do rely heavily on witnesses, despite the misperception — fueled by TV shows such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — that forensic evidence is always available and conclusive. “There’s a lot of people that just don’t understand the criminal-justice system,” she says. “People don’t realize that, without their involvement, we’re done.” Alderman French bristles at the “nosnitching” viewpoint that blames regular citizens for enabling a culture of violence. “The idea that they’re cowards is offensive,” says French. Trust is strained because of police shootings and because police aren’t careful with informant identities, he says. It’s no wonder folks won’t talk: “These people are making rational decisions.” Citizens may be rational, but as Sack and Joyce observe, many who commit criminal violence are not. So even if every witness cooperates and every murder gets solved, it’s not clear that murders would cease. Tougher sentences — or even a certainty of getting caught — won’t stop someone who has pulled out a gun because they’re angry, or desperate, or both. And that might be the scariest thing of all.
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10. HOMICIDE AFFECTS ALL OF US The statistics don’t lie: Most murders in St. Louis take place far from the leafy corners and trendy cafés where people are reading the Riverfront Times. And most victims, as well as perpetrators, may not fit the profile of people you know. Statistically, they’re likely poorer, younger and more likely to have criminal records. Why should you care? If they want to kill each other, why is that your concern? First, there’s a practical argument. The murder rate here is giving all of St. Louis a black eye — and it may be keeping your property values down. A 2012 study by the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based progressive think tank, concluded that a 25 percent reduction in a city’s homicides could boost housing prices citywide by 2 percent. But even that slight number could be disputed. A 2010 study in the journal Regional Science and Urban Economics found that only aggravated assault and robbery had a meaningful effect on a neighborhood’s property values. Likewise, Christopher Thiemet, an owner of Circa Properties and himself a real estate broker, says that crime’s effect on the real-estate market in St. Louis is highly localized. While some county residents may lump all of the city together, in general, the desirability of any given municipal enclave is not noticeably affected by what happens all the way across town. “If you’re talking about property values, an increase in crime may have an impact right where it happens. But if there’s a dramatic change in crime four miles away, I don’t see it having an impact.” Still, it’s definitely not good for the city’s image. And beyond that, there is a very real cost to the murders that are piling up in St. Louis.
It’s not just the occasional eruptions into the areas thought to be safe zones — the highprofile shootings like Chris Sanna’s, or the killing of Megan Boken, which jolted the city because it befell a young blonde woman in the Central West End. It’s also cases like the murder of Rashad Farmer, the young nephew of Alderman Jeffrey Boyd, who was gunned down in July near dusk at Lotus and Goodfellow avenues. Farmer was just 23, and by all accounts a good kid in the wrong place at the wrong time. Devastated, Boyd unleashed a tirade to TV cameras, calling for the sort of anger that greets police shootings to also accompany those instances when young men kill each other. “We march every time the police shoot and kill somebody. Whether they deserve it or not, I can’t call it,” he said. “But we’re not marching when we’re killing each other in the streets! Let’s march for that. How about that?” Self-interest aside, we need to care because, simply put, our neighbors are dying. The English poet John Donne may have put it best: Any man’s death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee. We are all diminished by murder. We may never be able to squeeze the number down to zero, but we all need to care. Despite all the caveats and uncertainties laid out above, murder in St. Louis is a huge problem — and we cannot act as though it’s a big mystery who is affected and in what neighborhoods. We’ve known for decades, even if the rate of killing fluctuates. Clearly, the status quo is not a solution. The status quo is not something we can live with. That was true for 159 St. Louisans last year. This year, it may be true for more than 200.■
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With his commanding presence and entrancing voice, St. Louis native Vincent Price made a huge name for himself on the silver screen. But Price’s abundant life wasn’t all horror shows and monster movies; he was also a respected art collector and an acclaimed gourmand. Join Price’s daughter, Victoria, as she celebrates the 50th-anniversary reissue of her parents’ best-selling cookbook, A Treasury of Great Recipes, 6:30 p.m. tonight at the St. Louis Banquet Center (5700 Leona Street; 314-605-3684 or www.tenaciouseats. com). Victoria joins the movies-or-foodies group Tenacious Eats for a screening of her father’s film Theatre of Blood and a fivecourse meal based on recipes from the book. Admission is $75 in advance, and $95 the day of the event. — BROOKE FOSTER
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A woman and a man meet on a country path. He is a standup comic who feels lost in the world; she’s anxious about a recent medical diagnosis and the possibility of death. Both came out here to be alone, to think about their troubles, but instead they found each other. Dutch playwright Ger Thijs’ drama De Kus (The Kiss) is about the strange twists our lives take; in solitude we find each other, and in each other we find solace. Upstream Theater opens its eleventh season with the American premiere of De Kus, translated by Paul Evans. Performances take place at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday (October 9 through 25) and at 7 p.m. Sunday (October 12 and 18) at the Kranzberg Arts Center (501 North Grand Boulevard; 314-863-4999 or www. upstreamtheater.org). There is one 2 p.m. matinee Sunday, October 25. Tickets are $20 to $30. — PAUL FRISWOLD
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The Moolah brings the original, 1981-vintage The Evil Dead back to the big screen for two late nights of drink specials, trivia and gory mayhem. Sam Raimi’s cult flick proves that hanging with your buds in the woods can be a chilling experience, especially if you inadvertently unleash some nasty demons with a taste for the human body. This feast of torn bodies and spurting blood stars Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, the wisecracking, shotgun-toting protagonist who learns the hard way that possession is more than ninetenths of the law. Facing personal demons has never been this much fun. Screenings take place at midnight on Friday and Saturday (October 9 and 10) at the Moolah Theatre & Lounge (3821 Lindell Boulevard; 314446-6806 or www.stlouiscinemas.com). Admission is $5, and you must be at least eighteen years old to enter. — ROB LEVY riverfronttimes.com
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ARTICA 2015
Citizens of the world: Artica returns to this dimension for another weekend-long celebration of art, performance, life and creation under the the banner of REAL ART>civic gibberish. The mutidisciplinary arts festival features site-specific installations, dance, poetry and music in the outdoors, and it only flourishes with your participation. If you have something to say in response to an artist’s project, say it; if you feel inspired to make your own project in an open space, make it. Your voice is as important to the process as anyone’s. Artica 2015 takes place from noon to midnight Saturday and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday (October 10 and 11) on the Artica grounds (Lewis and Dickson streets on the north riverfront; articafest.wordpress. com). Admission is free continued on page 22
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SOULARD OKTOBERFEST
For those among us who own traditional lederhosen, it must be challenging to find appropriate times to wear them. Sure, there’s Halloween and an occasional casual Friday, but undoubtedly you want to wear your German beer-drinking gear more often than that! Enter Soulard Oktoberfest (1798 South Seventh Street; www.soulardoktoberfest. com). At this weekend-long festival, those who don the lederhosen not only earn the admiration of all who get a look-see at those fancy short pants, but they also get free general admission — danke schön! The rest of us will pay $5 to get in, or $45 to $75 per day for VIP tickets, which include parking,
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beer and more. The party runs from 5 p.m. to midnight Friday, 11 a.m. to midnight Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday (October 9 through 11), and in addition to seeing traditional Bavarian dress, there will be plenty of polka music (and other types), stein-carrying and brat-eating contests, and so very many liters of beer. — ALISON SIELOFF [HALLOWEEN]
THE DARKNESS
While those prone to seizures or heart attacks are forbidden entry to The Darkness, attendance has been skyrocketing among those with male pattern baldness, because America’s scariest haunted house is more hair raising than ever! The chills begin right away with classic monster movies projected on the mega-scream movie wall, and to make the visit as uncomfortable as possible, braineating zombies have been imported from Pittsburgh and Haiti to torment attendees
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waiting in line. Those who make it inside will pass through ancient ruins filled with demons and giant man-eating worms, and the few who survive to reach the second story will want to check out the books of the dead in the all-new haunted library. The Darkness (1525 South Eighth Street; www.scarefest.com) is open 7 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday and Sunday and 7 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday through Sunday, October 18. It’s open nightly at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 22, through Sunday, November 1. Tickets are $23 to $25. — MARK FISCHER
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are married to each other, so he’s a singleton floating in a sea of couples. This year he turns 35, and his gift to himself is a great deal of introspection. Is he happy with his life? Is marriage as bad as it looks from the outside? Stephen Sondheim’s musical Company explores these questions through a series of incisive songs about love, life and human frailty. The Washington University Performing Arts Department presents Company at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday (October 9 through 18) at Washington University’s Edison Theatre (6445 Forsyth Boulevard; 314-935-6543 or www.edison.wustl.edu). Tickets are $10 to $15. — PAUL FRISWOLD
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an unfailing ear for human foibles, the state of unease that defines the classic frenemy relationship — years before the term had even been coined. Al Lewis and Willie Clark were Lewis and Clark on Vaudeville stages for decades, but the two comedians haven’t spoken to one another in over ten years. They were dependably funny onstage, just as dependably rancorous with each other offstage. Then an offer comes in from CBS that’s too good to refuse and the fire is lit under these two warring partners again. New Jewish Theatre presents The Sunshine Boys at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, at 8 p.m. Saturday, and at 2 p.m. Sunday (October 3 through November 1) at the Wool Studio Theatre at the Jewish Community Center (2 Millstone Campus Drive, Creve Coeur; 314-442-3283 or www.newjewishtheatre.org). Tickets are $39.50 to $43.50. — A LEX WEIR
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RIPLEY’S BELIEVE IT OR NOT
HAMLET
The St. Louis Science Center (5050 Oakland Avenue; 314-289-4400 or www.slsc.org) hosts The Science of Ripley’s Believe It or Not, a discovery-based exhibition that uses the hard sciences — such as genetics and biology — to explain some of the most mysterious wonders of our world. Learn why reptiles grew to enormous size 60 million years ago, and why they don’t today. Experience optical illusions and then discover how your brain can be into believing false information. See Willard Wigan’s tiny sculptures that fit in the eye of a needle, and then learn how he makes them. You’ll be amazed, both by what’s on display and what you learn. The Science of Ripley’s Believe It or Not is open daily through Sunday, January 3, 2016. Admission is $5.25 to $12.50. — ROB LEVY
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The role of Hamlet provides a formidable challenge for any actor, and only the greats can capture the Danish prince in all of his keening sorrow and white-hot rage. Tonight at 7 p.m., see one of the world’s very best stage and screen actors, Benedict Cumberbatch, take up the challenge. National Theatre Live: Hamlet broadcasts this evening’s performance from the Barbican Centre in London into American cinemas. Hamlet remains one of William Shakespeare’s most beloved and studied works. The excellent Ciarán Hinds (Game of Thrones, Harry Potter) portrays the murderous Claudius. National Theatre Live: Hamlet is shown at multiple St. Louis locations, including Wehrenberg Des Peres 14 Cinema (12701 Manchester Road, Des Peres; 855-473-4612
From the left: Upstream Theater’s De Kus, Soulard Oktoberfest stalwarts, The Sunshine Boys and Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet. or www.fathomevents.com). Tickets are $15. — BROOKE FOSTER Planning an event, exhibiting your art or putting on a play? Let us know and we’ll include it in the Night & Day section or publish a listing in the online calendar — for free! Send details via e-mail (calendar@riverfronttimes.com), fax (314-754-6416) or mail (6358 Delmar Boulevard, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63130, attn: Calendar). Include the date, time, price, contact information and location (including ZIP code). Please submit information three weeks prior to the date of your event. No telephone submissions will be accepted. Find more events online at www.riverfronttimes.com.
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Lonely Planet MATT DAMON’S EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE MAKES THE MARTIAN A WINNER The Martian Directed by Ridley Scott. Written by Drew Goddard, original novel by Andy Weir. Starring Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Jeff Daniels and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Now playing at multiple theaters.
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Damon) is part of a NASA mission exploring Mars. Left behind and believed dead when his crewmates are forced to make an emergency exit, Watney develops a potato garden to provide food and begins keeping a video journal of his progress while waiting for the next manned mission to arrive. (Watney appears to have been partly based on Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, who made a series of charmingly self-effacing videos from the International Space Station in 2013.) After various setbacks threaten Watney’s survival, the film becomes a three-sided story, divided unevenly between the stranded astronaut, the crew at NASA who eventually realize that he has survived, and his former teammates, now on a space ship returning to Earth. Adapted by Drew Goddard (who directed the rather silly horror pastiche The Cabin in the Woods), the script effectively combines the kind of soporific space opera Scott has made before and a more casual, human drama. The Martian balances the spectacular and the intimate, as well as the techno-babble of the NASA crew and the almost too casual levity of Watney (who, when his projects are going well, likes to point out that he’s the very best on the planet as what he does). The best parts of The Martian are those devoted to Watney’s solitary struggle,
determinedly moving equipment or going through the repetitive procedures and drudgery of outer-space living. Even when the folks at NASA realize that their lost astronaut is still alive, Scott wisely limits showing much of their communication with him, understanding that it would lessen our sense of Watney’s isolation and persistence. Meanwhile, the earthbound scientists and technicians — Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean and Kristen Wiig, among them — are by comparison sometimes absurd and almost stereotypical (and in one case, you can remove the qualifying “almost”), running around doing nothing in particular with great urgency. At best, their endless discussions of protocols and budgets and deadlines function as an ironic reflection of Watney’s self sufficiency. While Scott seems to feel more of an affinity for the earthlings, he’s also careful to keep the dialogue between the astronauts — and between Watney and the Mars landscape — from turning into TV-cute banter. (It may just be to the presence of Daniels, but it sometimes feels like the folks at NASA are waiting for Aaron Sorkin dialogue to kick in). For all of its virtues, The Martian is weirdly uneven. As one might expect from a film balancing so many disparate elements, there are things that misfire, sometimes drastically. riverfronttimes.com
Many characters are barely sketched out, defined and identified only by whatever task they have to perform in each scene. Most of the scenes involving the rest of Watney’s crew exist solely to add the strained here-we-are-stuckin-space verbal sparring that Scott used in Alien and Prometheus, while scenes of Jessica Chastain and other astronauts rushing about the ship in zero gravity appear to have little purpose other than showing off the largely unnecessary 3-D. A running joke about Watney listening to disco music — the only thing left behind by his team — falls flat, while two extended sequences edited to (predictably) “Space Oddity” and “Waterloo Sunset” are equally uninspired. Worst of all is the late appearance of a comic-relief math geek (Donald Glover) so embarrassing that I was reminded of the only other time I could recall Scott intentionally trying for humor: the dreadful stereotyped Rastafarian in Thelma & Louise. But despite these missteps, The Martian succeeds on most levels. The scenes on Mars (actually filmed in Jordan) have a majestic simplicity to them. Combined with Damon’s carefully understated performance and a story structured around hard science and practical problem-solving, The Martian turns its modest elements into cinematic strengths. ■
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he “war on drugs” may be a bullshit term invented by our overlords to justify both overly aggressive policing on local and national levels, and indiscriminate and excessive imprisonment for minor infractions. It may be a self-perpetuating excuse for a neverending rain of cash for institutions and individuals. But the war on drugs has never felt more like an actual war than in Sicario. Yet this is no bit of propaganda designed to sell us that war; it is a scathing condemnation of the lawlessness that the war on drugs has fostered in those fighting it, even — especially — the supposed good guys. Director Denis Villeneuve raises the bar he himself set after his intense and harrowing Prisoners with a movie that might best be described as “on a warpath”; though not willingly on the part of the protagonist, FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt). She serves as the lead on a drug squad’s hostage-finding and -rescuing team — and as the film begins, we see just how brutal this work can be. Sicario’s opening sequence, a joint FBI and Arizona SWAT raid on one of the properties owned by a known drug lord, is nail-biting and bonechilling: When one seasoned FBI agent has to step outside to vomit, you almost want to join him. What the cops find inside the house isn’t visually very graphic, but that almost makes it worse, because your imagination fills in the gruesome details. The scene sets the tone for the rest of the film. And yet, Kate’s experience here is nothing compared to what she will encounter when she joins an inter-agency task force with a much larger purview than her current mission. She’s not sure why the task force needs her, and she’s not even sure she’s gotten a clear answer as to who these guys are: Is flip-flop- and Hawaiian-shirt-wearing badass
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Matt (Josh Brolin) DEA? CIA? Who does the civilian-appearing Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) represent? It’s someone or somewhere south of the border, obviously, because he calmly, pityingly informs the new girl that “nothing” she witnesses in their work together “will make sense to [her] American ears.” Kate is no innocent, no shrinking violet: she was not the one who had to step outside to throw up. But now she is through a looking glass and down a rabbit hole, and getting deeper at every turn into a world in which the rules she knows don’t apply — and this infuriates her. Her idealism comes smack up against the “realities” of the war on drugs; not that the horrifically messy situations the players find themselves in aren’t real, but that they are artificially manufactured by everyone on both sides. Matt, at one point, justifies the supremely awful things they’re doing by saying that as long as people are willing to shove white powder up their noses, this won’t end. Unspoken — yet hovering over the entirety of Sicario in a silent criticism — is this: A legal and regulated drug trade would also bring the war we witness here to an end. Sicario is one of the best movies of the year, for numerous reasons. For the incredible performances; Villeneuve had to battle for Blunt to take on a part that the Hollywood powers-that-be wanted rewritten for a man, but she is a huge part of what makes the movie work. Blunt makes Kate tough and smart and capable, but as a woman in what has traditionally been a man’s role — law enforcement, that is, not starring in action dramas. Her Kate also brings the subtle criticism that new perspectives in law enforcement are needed, though not always welcome. (Del Toro is also amazing here.) For the savage atmosphere, which at times feels more like dystopian science fiction than ripped-from-the-headlines actuality. For the pulse-pounding score, by Jóhann Jóhannsson, which thrums like war drums, or a heartbeat. And for how, like Kate, Sicario rages with frustration against the realpolitik — realpolicing? — that has colonized and taken over the ideals of fairness and justice that we pretend rule us. — MARYANN JOHANSON
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who recently got in good with the popular clique — the titular Heathers — thanks to her gift for forging hall passes and other sundry documents. He’s the leather-jacket-and-combat-boot-clad new kid who punches the taste out of the mouths of school bullies Ram and Kurt (played by the very funny Omega Jones and Clayton Humburg) on his first day. It’s a whirlwind romance nurtured over Slurpees and Rimbaud. Both Skidis and Fornachon possess preternaturally powerful voices, and they channel them together to illuminate the all-consuming rush of first love in “Our Love Is God.” For-
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nachon sings with a rawness that makes the words sound as if he just thought of them, giving those beautiful lyrics a menacing tone. As good as that song is, the duo surpass it in the soaring “Seventeen,” which gives voice to Veronica’s yearning for normalcy; J.D. and Veronica have a body count of three at that point, so “normal” is relative. Heather Chandler — the boss Heather — is first among the dead, as she was first among the living. Sicily Mathenia plays her as a beautiful and cruel despot who destroys anyone and anything that affronts her. That includes her sister Heathers, the ambitious and mean Heather
Duke (Cameisha Cotton) and the dim but enthusiastic Heather McNamara (Larissa White). The trio formally introduce themselves in the slinky “Candy Store,” which explains their worldview — everything exists for their amusement — and features Duke stealing a brief solo before Chandler violently spins her out of the spotlight to take her rightful place. Duke finally gets her spotlight after she takes over the now two-Heather clique; fittingly, she torpedoes McNamara’s own song to do so. McNamara’s “Lifeboat” is a tender plea for help that comes so close to opening the hearts of her fellow students but for Duke’s power move. Such is the girl-quash-girl world of high school. J.D. is busy planting a bomb in the school’s boiler room at this point. Veronica has foiled his attempted murder of her, and so he plans to go out with a bang. He has lost his first love. He’s a motherless child of a brutal and distant father. He’s outside everything and against everything, a nihilist who feels only hatred for this world. When Veronica confronts him in one last bid to stop the killing, he’s stunned by her willingness to keep living, to keep going to high school. “It never actually occurred to me to build something,” J.D. says after Veronica outlines her nascent plan to change things for the better. This is the first and only answer that has rung true since 1983. ■
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cafe Like a Good Neighbor THE FOOD AT HOWARDS IN SOULARD ISN’T GREAT. BUT THAT’S NOT THE WHOLE STORY. Howards in Soulard 2732 S. 13th Street; 314-349-2850. Tues.Thurs. 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Fri. 11-1 a.m.; Sat. 9-1 a.m.; Sun. 9 a.m.-8 p.m. (Closed Mondays).
f restaurants were judged by food alone, I should be writing a less than stellar review of Howards in Soulard. Freezer-to-fryer mozzarella sticks, mediocre sandwiches, toasted ravioli that seems too bored to crisp up to golden brown — I’d expect more from a complimentary buffet at a motel off the interstate. Which is why I am having a difficult time understanding why I actually enjoyed myself at Howards. Really, I’m utterly perplexed. And yet…the night I first visited was a lovely pre-fall evening. The patio provided a bubbling fountain, a view of some Soulard row houses BY and the rich aroma of malt C H E RY L from the nearby AnheuserBusch brewery. Perhaps I was BAEHR charmed. Or maybe it was the shockingly stiff dark and stormy I was served. Surely that had something to do with my easygoing attitude. Our server should have been in a foul mood as well. Between her job at Howards and her other job at Cardinal-Glennon, she confided, she was on her 25th consecutive day of work. Yet no one would have guessed. “I do it because I really like working here,” she said with a cheer usually reserved for those who haven’t worked a month without a day off. “I just love Judith.” Judith is Judith Howard, the restaurant’s owner and, as some of her employees call her, the unofficial mayor of Soulard. Last November, she bought the building on the corner of Lynch and 13th streets that used to house the Hi-Way Bar and began a full-gut rehab of the space. Though no stranger to historic restorations, Howard admits this one was especially difficult, requiring a new sewer system, new gas and electrical lines, and a new roof in addition to extensive cosmetic work on the interiors. Relying on her sizable network of friends and family, she supervised all the work herself (she even obtained her general contractor license in the process), transforming an old dive into a warm space with exposed brick, a soaring tin ceiling and a large bar made from the building’s original staircase. And she did it in less than six months. It says something about Howard that she
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could gather 86 people to take time out of their lives to help her renovate a building. That she has a server who actually enjoys coming to work on her days off. That she can get a restaurant critic to (almost) give her a pass on lackluster food. Howard really seems to know how to treat people, and it filters down into the hospitality she and her staff provide. If that is any indication of her prospects for success, her restaurant will do just fine. But while Howards may get a pass in spite of its oft-mediocre food, it doesn’t get a free one. Howard reached out to Cassady Caldwell and Jackie Seal, formerly of Luvy Duvy’s Café in Benton Park, to help with the food and beverage program for Howards. Instead of creating a new menu, Seal wholly revived her Luvy Duvy creations for the new digs. The original intent was for the Luvy Duvy items to be featured as part of a lunch menu, then switch over to a small selection of petite, dollar-roll-style offerings in the evenings. However, at the neighbors’ request, the concept evolved so that the lunch menu is now available during dinner hours as well. Oddly, it retains the name “lunch menu,” so what is truly available, and when, is a bit confusing. Here’s a cheat sheet, courtesy of our server:
Howards’ one attempt at homemade finger You can get anything at any time. Not that you’d actually want just “anything,” food is its deep-fried pickles. The tangy, dill but that seems to be the approach to a large discs are coated in seasoned cornmeal for a portion of the menu. Howards’ mission fine enough taste. Unfortunately, the breading statement is “by the neighbors, for the crumbled off of the pickles, leaving the naked neighbors.” It’s setting out to be a casual cucumbers in a pile of crumbs at the bottom neighborhood spot, and there’s nothing of the basket. wrong with that. Yet I highly doubt that The “Petite and Savory” bistro menu is the neighborhood is itching for a bunch of more inspired than the appetizers, though in uninspired appetizers that were nothing execution it has mixed results. The “Roxy” more than a selection of chicken salad, tossed with frozen fare straight off a Sysco grapes, pecans and apples Howards in Soulard truck. Throw anything into a and tucked into a chewy Mozzarella sticks ....... $4 deep fryer and it’s passable croissant, was bland and Pulled-pork — toasted ravioli with bland under-seasoned, while the sandwich ............$8.95 spinach and artichoke filling, promising “Sassy” delivered Prime rib ..............$15.50 mozzarella sticks that will an overcooked chicken breast take you back to the rollerwith scant bacon, mere traces rink snack bars of junior high, yawn-inducing of avocado and Havarti cheese. Unlike the breaded button mushrooms. larger version, which comes with chipotle In an attempt to liven things up, Howards mayonnaise, the petite sandwich was sauceoffers several dipping sauces to mix and match less and dry. with your fried-food-palooza, but they cost The bistro menu’s highlight is the “Gene extra. The price is nominal (a mere 50 cents Autry” miniature steak sandwich. Slices for a ramekin), but the idea is antithetical to of garlic and Worcestershire-marinated the place’s otherwise neighborly spirit — I felt tenderloin are piled into a miniature brioche nickel and dimed having to pay for a side of roll and finished with grilled mushrooms and marinara with my cheese sticks. onions. I ordered it with continued on page 32 riverfronttimes.com riverfronttimes.com
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a side of blue cheese bernaise, and though I quibble with the name (using the name of the classic French sauce for a concoction without a trace of tarragon would make Escoffier roll over in his grave), I was surprisingly impressed. I found myself unable to resist dipping my steak into it like a mildly funky blue-cheese fondue. The “lunch” menu has its share of bright spots, including a well-executed BLT on Texas toast. It’s nothing I couldn’t make at home, but it was overstuffed with bacon, crisp lettuce, thick slices tomatoes and a generous spread of mayonnaise. The “Rockin’ Burger,” though, tasted like the bread and dehydrated onion studded patties my mom used to make — and oddly a little like White Castle. Sadly, the burger bun was not sturdy enough to hold up to the burger and crumbled apart in my hands. The roasted pork on the pulled-pork sandwich was moist with little pockets of caramelization. The flavorful meat is simmered in a molasses-style barbecue sauce, heaped onto griddled Texas toast and topped with blue cheese coleslaw. I could have done with about half of the slaw portion (it was about a oneto-one meat-to-slaw ratio), but I otherwise thoroughly enjoyed the sandwich. If you close your eyes and think of what prime rib night at a family-style restaurant looks like, no doubt it’s exactly what is served at Howards. For a mere $15.50 I was treated to an enormous inch-and-a-half thick slab of seasoned medium rare roasted beef. Accompanying it on the plate was a bisected baked potato, topped with mounds of butter and sour cream. It’s served still in its foil, along with a plastic ramekin of horseradish cream. If the words “all-American” have a flavor to them, this is it. In keeping with her family-oriented spirit, Howard invited all of her employees to submit their personal recipes for the dessert menu. Those who made the cut personally prepare the item from scratch — so you could say she has an entire staff of amateur pastry chefs. Grilled cinnamon rolls sounded heavenly, but were not as gooey as I had hoped. However, I enjoyed the way the open flames toasted the 32
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The bistro menu’s highlight is the “Gene Autry” miniature steak sandwich. Slices of garlic and marinated tenderloin are piled into a miniature brioche roll and finished with grilled mushrooms and onions. warm spice. Freshly baked chocolate cookies, though crumbly, had a deep, brown-sugary taste. As a special touch, they came garnished with whipped cream in the shape of a smiley face for my little girl. And it’s that happy touch that makes me seriously consider going back to Howards, in spite of everything. Sure, the kitchen shows that it is capable of producing good food — on roughly half of its dishes. But in a fairly deep restaurant market this shouldn’t be good enough. But it is, and the answer why comes down to Judith Howard herself. She’s put the work into the building and is invested in the neighborhood. She’s created a culture that shows she cares for her staff, and she understands that her restaurant’s purpose is to serve her guests. If you read the comments on her Facebook page — every single one of them giving Howards five stars — you understand that she’s doing more than slinging so-so food. She’s making people feel welcome as if they are guests in her home. If she’s figured out how to provide that sort of impeccable hospitality, the food can’t be long behind. ■
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Loud music on my morning commutes. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Algorithm Man. I see the whole universe in a seamless flow of mathematical terms. I save the day — or “solve the day,” is it were — with equations, my headquarters is a big Rubik’s Cube-shaped castle, my archnemesis is the Creationist, my kryptonite is — wait for it — pi. What is the most positive thing in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year? The increased amount of canning and bottling in the local craft-beer industry. Who is your St. Louis food crush? The owner of Global Foods Market in Kirkwood. Man, it’s just a great store. Plus he looks like he is 30 years old, but I am gonna bet is 130 years old. It’s as if he found Shangri-La. But yeah, they have the best price on packaged smoked fish. Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene? I used to watch KT Ayers [the Purple Martin, Lücha] cooking when I was a dishwasher ten years ago. I would like to see her run a big show of her own. Which ingredient is most representative of your personality? Pomegranate — everybody in my ear telling
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me a better way to get the seeds. If you weren’t working in the restaurant business, what would you be doing? Something as equally low-paying, thankless and noble. Social worker? Elementary school teacher? Hand-stuffing teddy bears in a large, nondescript warehouse? Name an ingredient never allowed in your kitchen. Canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. Also, give the feta cheese a rest, people. What is your after-work hangout? Catch me at your local karaoke butchering Hank Williams Sr. or “99 Red Balloons” — the German version. What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure? Liquid codeine mixed with Sprite, stirred over ice in a double stacked styrofoam cup. Garnish with a Jolly Rancher. What would be your last meal on earth? Chicken-fried venison, smoked dove breast, pan gravy, mashed potatoes, corn off the cob, broccoli steamed al dente, leaf lettuce salad with shaved carrots, tomato, black olive, raw mushroom. Matter of fact, since we are on the topic, have them serve this at my funeral, too. —CHERYL BAEHR
olleen Clawson, Rachel Moeller and Amanda Geimer are three women with a love of food and their city, and an exciting new concept for the up-and-coming McKinley Heights neighborhood in south St. Louis — Milque Toast Bar (2212 South Jefferson Avenue, 314-833-0085). Clawson lives in the neighborhood behind the building that is now the Milque Toast Bar, and she had been eyeing the space for some time. The small corner lot had potential; the large yard full of eight-foot weeds, however, left something to be desired. But it was in that jungle of a yard that the idea of a toast and milk bar came to her. “What we need is a goat!” she’d exclaimed to her future business partners. And then, “Hey, we should serve goat’s milk!” From that in-the-moment, stream-of-consciousness thought came the idea of a milk bar. And what goes great with milk? Toast! The toast served at Milque Toast Bar is not for the carb-averse. These are thick slabs of toasted bread slathered with butters, jams, jellies and cheeses, and they often require a fork and knife — or at least a generous supply of napkins. In particular, the “Toast Jezebel,” a substantial slice of English muffin bread, is covered in a layer of rich cream cheese, followed by chunky, orange-ginger marmalade and sprinkled with fresh chives. The dish is served with several thin slices of crisp apple sprinkled with black sea salt. But even if sweet isn’t your thing, you won’t run out of toasty options. Savory toast selections include the “Apple Cheddar Melt,” which couples Marcoot Jersey Creamery white cheddar with Amish apple butter & Fuji apples, as well as the classic “Pizza Toast.” The Milque Toast Bar creators are especially proud of the “Salad Days” toast, a special item on the menu that incorporates fresh vegetables from the McKinley Heights community garden, and will eventually include produce from Milque Toast Bar’s own garden. The “Salad Days” vegetable selection changes regularly, and it’s priced as a “pay-it-forward” system, where customers are asked to pay what they can (or a little more) to enable a future customer to eat his or her “Salad Days” meal for free. Nearly every item on the menu involves bread or toast in some way. It’s a key ingredient in the “Fancy Stuffin’” as well as the signature “MilqueToast,” a warm, crockpot bread pudding. And while the crockpot soup of the day is toastfree, you can still add croutons. Of course, the “milk” part of the Milque Toast concept is just as intriguing. While whole cow’s milk is the first option on the menu, Milque Toast Bar also offers cashew, coconut, oat and rice milk. True to Clawson’s original vision, the owners hope to occasionally offer goat’s milk. For non-milk drinkers, Mississippi Mud coffee, the hibiscus-flavored agua de jamaica and an assortment of teas are also available. continued on page 36
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he wait is over: Bob Brazell’s hotly anticipated Byrd & Barrel (3422 South Jefferson Avenue) opened Friday to throngs of patrons eager to get a taste of his soon-to-be-famous fried chicken. Officially, the restaurant has been more than a year in the making, though Brazell has been tossing around the idea for the fastcasual and drive-through chicken and bourbon shack even longer than that. A veteran St. Louis chef (his resume includes Monarch and Prime 1000), Brazell announced his plans for Byrd & Barrel shortly after his departure from the health conscious Athlete Eats. Located just down the street and around the corner from that Cherokee Street restaurant, which has since been christened Revel, Byrd & Barrel resides in a repurposed Popeyes Fried Chicken. Brazell and company completely gutted the space — aside from the roof and the four walls, everything was completely redone. A reclaimed wooden bar stands where a fast-food counter once did, and rustic banquettes replace the laminate Popeyes booths. Though billed as a fast-food restaurant, Byrd & Barrel offers full service either inside
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at one of its handful of tables or out front on the large patio. Drive-through service is expected to begin soon, and the restaurant expects a robust take-out business. Aside from their shared Cherokee Street business district addresses, Byrd & Barrel has little in common with Brazell’s former nutrition-oriented employer. His new fried-chicken joint is a study in edible guilty pleasures. The poutine appetizer sees fluffy, housemade tater tots topped with cheese curds, pulled pork, scallions and a choice of chicken or mushroom gravy. Brazell’s taste for whimsy is on display with items such as KoolAid pickles (yes, those are pickles rubbed with Kool-Aid mix) and the “Tickled Pickle,” a hot dog stuffed inside of a hollowed-out dill pickle, then coated in batter and deep-fried. Byrd & Barrel’s fried chicken is brined, coated in a peppery breading and cooked in a pressure fryer. The result is succulent meat with a delicately crisp coating. It can be ordered by the piece or as a two-, six- or twelve-piece combination. Sides, such as mac & cheese and mashed potatoes are served à la carte. Byrd & Barrel is currently open from 11 to 1:30 a.m., seven days a week. The restaurant has applied for its 3 a.m. license, so expect a place to sate those late-night fried food cravings when the bars on Cherokee Street close. — CHERYL BAEHR could have come from a grandmother’s kitchen. When a patron comments on the dècor and the atmosphere, Clawson says, “It’s a reflection of our intent.” The women of the Milque Toast Bar are looking forward to their first full growing season so that they can use their garden to its fullest and incorporate their own homegrown vegetables into their dishes, co-owner Rachel Moeller says. Eventually, they are also hoping to host special events and fundraisers, and engage with the surrounding community even more. Moeller says they’ve been overjoyed by the “positive reaction from our customers, and everyone really liking everything.” Clawson adds, “People are already coming back for more because they liked something so much they have to try it again!” —KATIE INEICH
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dining guide The Dining Guide lists only restaurants recommended by RFT food critics. The print listings below rotate regularly, as space allows. Our complete Dining Guide is available online; view menus and search local restaurants by name or neighborhood. Price Guide (based on a three-course meal for one, excluding tax, tip and beverages): $ up to $15 per person $$ $15 - $25 $$$ $25 - $40 $$$$ more than $40
BRENTWOOD/ RICHMOND HEIGHTS Fort Taco 8106 Manchester Road, Brentwood, 314-6472391. Owner Gabriel Patino and company transformed the former Brentwood Rally’s into Fort Taco, a homage to the food they grew up on. The restaurant calls itself traditional, but it’s not exactly Mexican. Patino uses the recipes of his great-grandparents, who brought their native cuisine with them when they emigrated to Fort Madison, Iowa. Fort Taco’s menu consists of just three main items. Traditional soft-shell tacos are its signature; the large, puffy, deep fried flour shells are stuffed with either beef or chicken and simply dressed are a feast in themselves. Enchiladas — vegetarian, beef or chicken — covered in a rich, ancho-chile-based sauce are equally delicious, and the handmade tamales are as authentic as anything you’d find on Cherokee Street. Fort Taco is drive-through only, and thankfully the line moves quickly. $ Fozzie’s Sandwich Emporium 1170 S. Big Bend Boulevard, Richmond Heights; 314-932-5414. Though a small restaurant, Fozzie’s follows the “more is more” principle. There are twenty sandwiches, almost all of them overstuffed, as well as burgers, hot dogs and gyros (and salads, appetizer dips and milkshakes, too). There is the B.A.B.T.L. (bacon and bacon, lettuce and tomato) with a half-pound of bacon, and the awesome “Big Bend Mafia,” with Italian-seasoned beef and salsiccia. The signature dish might be the Juicy Lucy, a Minneapolis-St. Paul specialty that consists of a cheeseburger with the cheese stuffed inside the patty. The salads, featuring with vegetables from the restaurant’s own garden, are very good. $
FERGUSON/ FLORISSANT Ferguson Brewing Company 418 S. Florissant Road, Ferguson; 314-521-2220. The former Hill Brewing Company tries to appease both craft-beer aficionados and the casual beer fan: While the India pale ale doesn’t hold back on the brew’s trademark puckering wallop of hops, the pilsner is made with corn in the mash so that it more closely resembles a standard American lager rather than a true pilsner. Standouts include the Munich dunkel and the pecan brown ale. The food is beer-friendly: pizza, barbecue, burgers. $-$$ Ferguson Burger Bar & More 9120 West Florissant Avenue, Ferguson; 314-388-0424. Charles and Kizzie Davis’ Ferguson Burger Bar & More started out as a humble burger joint. Then the tragic shooting of Mike Brown by then-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson happened, and the pair was thrust into the spotlight as figureheads for a city in crisis. The husband-and-wife team have risen to the occasion, refusing to shutter as their city was stricken with chaos and grief. The house specialty is the “Garbage Burger” — a ground-beef patty, laden with a secret seasoning blend and smashed thin on a flattop so it develops a crispy edge. The burger is topped with lettuce, thick-sliced white onions, crispy bacon, a slice of American cheese, mayonnaise and a fried egg. Ferguson Burger Bar & More serves eight different varieties of chicken wingettes, including peach, “Sweetnspicy,” and lemon pepper, as well as fried-fish dinners, shrimp and Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. For hungry diners, the “Hearty Man’s Breakfast” provides a sampling of nearly the entire a.m. side of the menu: breakfast meat, three eggs, French toast and hash browns smothered in cheese, peppers and onions. Wash it all down with the house’s “Muddy Water,” a refreshing blend of sweet tea and citrusy juice. $ Pearl Cafe 8416 N. Lindbergh Boulevard; Florissant, 314-8313701. From the owners of nearby Simply Thai comes another winning restaurant. The menu is lengthy but not overwhelmingly so, a greatest hits of Thai cuisine: soups, curries, stir fries, noodles and a catchall category of house specialties. Aficionados of Thai cuisine can choose their favorite dishes with confidence. Each dish is continued on page 40
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continued from page 38 prepared with care, paying close attention to the customary Thai balance of sweet, sour, hot and savory. The overall ambiance works equally well for either a quick lunch or a casual dinner date. $-$$ Simply Thai 2470 N. Highway 67, Florissant, 314-921-2179. A small, no-frills restaurant — one room, paper napkins, no liquor license — Simply Thai happens to turn out fantastic Thai dishes both familiar and exotic. Curries are fantastic, especially the rich, complexly spiced massaman curry and the fiery green curry. (Be warned: The kitchen might very well deliver the latter spiced as hot as you think you want it.) Tom yum and tom kha soups are great, too, as is the less-familiar gang jued tofu, a clear broth with tofu, ground meat, cilantro and scallions. Specials include numerous seafood dishes, and do not miss the fried sweet-potato appetizer. $-$$
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KIRKWOOD/ WEBSTER GROVES 612 Kitchen & Cocktails 612 West Woodbine Avenue, Kirkwood; 314-965-2003. When Dan and Pat Graham decided to shutter Graham’s Grill & Bayou Bar after a seventeen-year run, the next generation decided to take over the reins — but put their own stamp on things. Brother and sister business partners Devin and Alison converted their parents’ Cajunthemed bar and grill into 612 Kitchen & Cocktails, a 1920sinspired cocktail lounge and gastropub. The restaurant is at its best when it sticks to classic bar fare: Sausage-andcheese-stuffed mushrooms, breaded and fried, make for an excellent snack; beer-battered fish and chips pair nicely with a cold one; and the smoked chicken is juicy and glazed with caramelized barbecue sauce. Craft cocktails are on the approachable end of the spectrum. Signature drinks such include the “Great Gatsby,” made with cucumber and basilinfused rum, lemonade and blueberry purée. A bridal shower in barware, the “Coco Chanel,” is a blend of strawberry vodka, lemon juice, pink champagne, strawberries and mint. The most austere offering is the “Scarface.” Tequila, tomato water, triple sec and lavender-infused sour combine to make an interesting twist on the margarita. Regardless of how the younger Grahams brand it, 612 Kitchen & Cocktails is still a simple neighborhood watering hole. $$ Winfield’s Gathering Place 10312 Manchester Road, Kirkwood; 314-394-2200. Winfield’s Gathering Place is an upscale sports bar, smokehouse and American fare restaurant brought to life by business partners Mark Winfield and former Cardinals outfielder Jim Edmonds. Located in the strip-mall space that formerly housed the first St. Louis Bread Company, Winfield’s serves up some serious barbecue. The ribs are classic dry-rubbed style, and the beef brisket holds its own in this ’cue-crowded town. Sandwiches include the must-try “BBQ Burnt Ends Sourdough Melt,” a pastrami Reuben, and a brisket riff on a French dip. Winfield’s is more than a smokehouse, though. Flatbreads and Italian specialties round out the menu, and entrées such as a “Wined and Brined” smoked chicken prove it. Don’t pass up the jalapeño cheddar au gratin potatoes — whether ordered as a side or served on their own with a cold beer, they are alone worth a visit. $$-$$$
MAPLEWOOD Bolyard’s Meat & Provisions 2810 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood, 314-647-2567. On a typical day at Bolyard’s Meat & Provisions, chef Chris Bolyard wields a sharp boning knife from a trusty chain-link utility belt armed with additional tools of the trade. He skillfully breaks down a cut of grass-fed beef from Double B Ranch out of Perryville, one of the many local farms he sources for pasture-raised animals. Elsewhere in his new full-service butcher shop, his staff preps sausage, braunschweiger and stocks from scratch. $$-$$$ Piccadilly at Manhattan 7201 Piccadilly Avenue, Maplewood; 314-646-0016. The Collida family opened the original Piccadilly at Manhattan in the 1920s. Nick and Maggie Collida undertook a major renovation and reopened it in late 2007. The neighborhood spirit remains, friendly and familial, and the food is fun. The fried chicken is very good, and the burger might steal the show: a fat patty (or two), beautifully charred, thicker at the center than around the edges. If barbecue is available, splurge on a half or even a whole slab of meaty baby-back ribs. $-$$ A Pizza Story 7278 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-8990011. Huhammad Alwagheri, Sherif Nasser and Nael Saad didn’t set out to open a restaurant. The three Washington University academics just loved food. But at dinner parties, the conversation would quickly turn to: “What if we opened a restaurant?” The three finally took the leap and opened A Pizza Story in downtown Maplewood. The Neapolitan-style pizzeria serves classic wood-fired pies, like the Margherita, which simply consists of perfectly charred crust, fresh tomato sauce, basil and mozzarella cheese. Heat-seeking meat eaters should try the “Thriller”: Its fiery capicola, spicy tomato sauce and caramelized onions make for a satisfying meal. Though the restaurant is called A Pizza Story, other menu offerings take a starring role: A salad of arugula and beets pairs perfectly with goat cheese and lemon vinaigrette. The two pastas, shells ragu and fettuccine all’amatriciana are lightly sauced and full of meat: The ragu is like beef stew over shell-shaped pasta, and the fettuccine is simply heaped with pancetta. Save room for the creamy tiramisu — one of the best versions in town — and housemade gelato. It’s a sweet end to a Neapolitan feast. $$
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Four Corners GANG OF FOUR GUITARIST ANDY GILL SPEAKS OF HIS BAND’S WIDE-REACHING INFLUENCE Gang of Four 8 p.m. Thursday, October 8. Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street. $20 to $25. 314588-0505.
ang of Four is the post-punk band by which all other post-punk bands are measured. A label applied to a host of acts from the late ’70s and early ’80s, post-punk groups are thought of as those that took the DIY ethics of punk, dropped the safetypinned fashion statements and added an element of lyrical intelligence. It’s punk without self-imposed, clichéd boundaries and sonic limitations. Leeds-born Gang of Four excelled at embodying that spirit. And though its contemporaries are seen as bands such as the Mekons, BY Wire or Mission of Burma, JAIME Gang of Four ’s classic a l b u m s En t e r t a i n m e n t ! LEES and Solid Gold have quietly molded a whole generation of musicians. Those who claim to have been influenced by Gang of Four include St. Vincent, Michael Stipe, Adam Jones, Carrie Brownstein, Tom Morello and James Murphy. “It’s funny. It does seem to kind of resonate,” says Gang of Four guitarist Andy Gill. Speaking from his home studio in the center of London, Gill is polite, whip-smart and full of the charmingly poetic idioms of his countrymen.“It seems to get around. I think so many people have gotten things from Gang of Four or caught a vibe from it. They got a stylistic or a certain lyrical approach. “A lot of people think it’s their own little secret,” he adds. “But there’s lots of them out there.” In addition to his cutting (yet danceable) guitar work, Gill has long been in demand for his producing skills. His list of album credits is varied — from the Jesus Lizard to Michael Hutchence to the Red Hot Chili Peppers — and, 36 years into his career, he’s still frequently called upon by unexpected fans. “Gwen Stefani,” he says. “She’s a big fan, you know. And she’s been asking about me, Gang of Four — she wants to write with me and stuff. Which I’ll be very happy to do. I think she’s a great pop artist.” So why do these very different acts seek
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have to say no because I’m on tour. So, you know, the people who get in touch with me and want me to do stuff tend to have some level of association.... You can kind of hear this connection in between our music.” His production work has afforded Gill and Gang of Four some unique opportunities as well. “I produced a band in China, which is the first time I’d been in China,” he says. “In December 2012. It was really interesting. They got in touch with me — they really wanted me to do it because they knew my band’s work — so they asked me to come over there. And I just wanted to do it; I thought it was really interesting. It was a great opportunity for me to go there and suss out a few things. “And then I met a lot of people there, and then went back and did some gigs there,” he continues. “And made friends with a few people that I probably wouldn’t have done riverfronttimes.com
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otherwise. It’s incredible that things like that can happen.” Despite his obligations to other artists, Gill says he always makes sure to put his own music first. Gang of Four’s newest album, What Happens Next, was released earlier this year; the band kicked off a 25-date American tour in support of it late last month. “I think the last few years the new music is what’s been getting my loving care and attention,” he says. “I don’t really want to put it off to the side. I want to go full steam ahead. “It’s very tough to get everything done,” he adds. “Sometimes I feel like I don’t really have a chance to stand still and reflect on where I’m going or what I’m doing with it. But I’ve already got half of the next album demoed, so if I could just get some time in the studio for a bit I could get some things done.” ■
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b-sides Don’t Sleep CHICAGO’S ZERO FATIGUE COLLECTIVE COMES TO ST. LOUIS FOR THE BIGGEST VIBES SHOWCASE YET Vibes 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 10. 2720 Cherokee, 2720 Cherokee Street. $15. 314276-2700.
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ucked away on Chicago Avenue in the city’s Humboldt Park neighborhood is Classick Studios, run by Chicago native and audio engineer Christopher Inumerable. Inside the studio’s smallest room sit rappers Chris Smith Jr. and Jeff Smith (no relation to each other), and producer Monte Booker — all three members of the creative collective Zero Fatigue. Jeff raps under the name Jay2AintShit; he and Booker are both also from Chicago. Chris — also known as Smino — was born and raised in St. Louis. Following high school, Smino moved to attend Chicago’s Columbia College. There, he met and befriended Inumberable, who soon became his manager. Smino dropped out after a year and moved back to St. Louis to make music with rapper Bari Allen, and from 2011 to 2014 he bounced around between St. Louis, Milwaukee and Chicago, making beats for others when all he wanted to do was rap for himself. Now he stays in Chicago, mainly because of Classick Studios. Though the trio likes to joke around, they take their group seriously. Zero Fatigue was birthed in this same studio, the byproduct of
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a song that Booker and Smino were working on together. That day, after Booker finished a beat and left to go to school, Smino hopped into the booth, asking Jay2 if he wanted to get on the track. Smino arbitrarily rapped the phrase “zero fatigue” while laying down his verse. “We named the song ‘Zero Fatigue’ and that’s what it was — just a song at first,” Smino recalls.
But it has tuned into much more. “Zero Fatigue is a lifestyle; it’s how we all live up here,” Smino says. “It’s never a moment where we feel like we’re running out of energy for this — we always got the energy to do this. Always self-motivated, motivated by our friends. Always pushing the envelope. That’s what it is: innovation without enervation. “I’m gonna name my son Zero Fatigue,” he
HOMESPUN C R E E R I D E R FA M I LY B A N D Let the River Rise crfb.bandcamp.com
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hen the Cree Rider Family Band released its first LP, One Night Stand, in late 2013, the band’s name felt a little like wishful thinking. Singer and guitarist Cree Rider and his singing partner Cheryl Wilson helmed the songs with little more than an acoustic guitar and their harmonies; the charm and love was audible, but the songs didn’t quite fill up a room. Fast-forward two years and Rider and Wilson are married, with child, and have assembled an intuitive backing band to give country twang and rhythmic grounding to the folk and Americana songs on the new Let the River Rise. So it’s hard not to well up with a little goodwill at the opening track, “Family Band,” as the duo pair up to share their vision of artistic and matrimonial success. Cree Rider now has a family and a band, and he puts both to great use right out of the gate. That initial dose of sweetness gets undercut by the next few songs, which take grist from the stuff of lovers’ quarrels. “Tell Me Is That Right” (written by “Misisipi” Mike Wolf ) finds Rider cataloging his hard-partying, hard-drinking mate’s transgressions, and Jordan Heimburger’s charging guitar gives a good approximation of a honky44
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tonk. Suitably, Rider’s voice rises to Haggard-like levels. Wilson wrote “Knock Down These Walls” as a duet for lovers in the midst of a communication breakdown, and its clever, overlapping final moments show her deft hand as a lyricist and arranger. (Later, her song “Two Foxes” gives the album both its title and its most expansive, mystical moments.) Pedal steel and Hammond organ fill in the corners of “County Line,” one of several songs that shows Rider is an apt student of how local color and scene-setting can add emotional ballast in a song (even one that could have been titled by the Alt-Country Song Name Generator). That thread follows through on the compelling “Miss Cooper,” a tender ballad to an old neighbor and a fading pocket of south St. Louis. Rider, like most local songwriters, has studied at the knee of the likes of Jay Farrar and Brian Henneman, and he can dial in minute specifics and manage big-picture sweeps. It’s one of several moments where the new album benefits from his developing songwriting chops and the Family Band’s expansion to a tight and twangy core. –CHRISTIAN SCHAEFFER Want your CD to be considered for a review in this space? Send music c/o Riverfront Times, Attn: Homespun, 6358 Delmar Boulevard, Suite 200, St. Louis, Missouri, 63130. Email music@riverfronttimes.com for more information.
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adds, laughing. Besides Smino, Booker and Jay2, there are a host of other artists and creatives — a majority of them Chicagoans — who belong to the Zero Fatigue family. But St. Louis visual artist Jarrel Lawrence is included in the mix as well. Lawrence is the founder of the St. Louis art and music showcase Vibes. As a digital illustrator whose work revolves around movies, TV, cartoons and hip-hop, Lawrence found that the city lacked a platform for him to exhibit his work, so he took it upon himself to fill that artistic void. With a mission to exhibit St. Louis talent that might otherwise never get the proper chance to shine, he has created a positive, safe space for the city’s young artists to thrive. It’s a cause the other members of Zero Fatigue fully support — Vibes’ fourth installment is set to take place on Saturday, October 10, and the collective will be performing. “I started Vibes because I know, in my case as a young black artist, it’s hard as hell to showcase work in St. Louis if you don’t have a good-ass connection or a good-ass venue,” Lawrence says. “That’s one of our main problems with Vibes: finding venues. We never had anything bad happen at Vibes, but it’s just off the fact that [the event has] a lot of black people in one spot. I’ve had eight galleries turn us down, just off the strength of me being black and we’re having black people in the spot.” The first Vibes event was held at Blank Space in 2013, but since its inception, the series has steadily grown. This year’s show takes place at the considerably larger 2720 Cherokee Street. continued on page 46
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According to Lawrence, the 2015 edition of Vibes is going to be the most diverse yet. In addition to the music — Arshad Goods, Bryant Stewart, TheePharaoh, Brock Seals, Lottie Denise, Father Phigures, 4Deep and Eddie are also performing — the show will present artwork of all mediums by over a dozen artists from inside and outside of St. Louis. There will also be food from J. Samone, Ricos Empanada House and Miss Rita’s Kitchen, and clothing showcased by Mars Mansion, Koji and Knight, and Vanguard. “Vibes is our stage. It’s like the Apollo in St. Louis,” Smino says. “[It’s] just opening up the doors. Nobody looks into the city.” Smino says he wants to bring some of the momentum of Chicago’s music scene to his hometown. And because they’re Midwesterners themselves, Booker and Jay2 just want to help St. Louis progress. “We just both giving to each other. It’s the Midwest — we about to take over,” Booker says. “It’s really cool to see what [Lawrence] 46
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is doing with the city, because he’s bringing all these talented creatives from St. Louis that really don’t have no outlet to Vibes, and bringing Chicago to Vibes,” Jay2 says. “That’s bridging the gap to where it’s opportunity. That’s the most important thing about Vibes and about St. Louis — getting their creatives a voice. That’s a big deal for Zero, just bridging that gap to giving [St. Louis] people and culture a say-so.” At this point, Vibes is on its way to outgrowing its city. Lawrence’s ultimate objective is to take Vibes on the road. He’d like his next stop to be Chicago: Connecting the two cities and allowing them to feed off each other has become paramount to the event’s success. Smino is fully on board. “I’m hella proud of [St. Louis] at the moment,” he says. It’s been so much bad energy with all of the fucking cop shit that’s been going on. Anything positive is such a good look. Something that gets on the level of Vibes is like damn near church. We need that. Just to see that black people are doing other things outside of getting killed by the police. It’s just cool to hear some good energy coming out the crib.” — TARA MAHADEVAN
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7:30 p.m. Thursday, October 8. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $20 to $23. 314-773-3363. Sometimes they’ve done it from the streets, sometimes from a mansion on the hill, but class-conscious songwriters, from Ochs to Springsteen to Slaid Cleaves, have made art out of the lives and language of the workers, farmers and, sometimes, the bosses who make up this American life. Cleaves has done it from the edge of indigence to the banks of the flooded Blanco River at his home in Wimberley, Texas. His latest album, Still Fighting the War, makes clear what side he’s on. That matters less than his stories, searing and supple, and his warm music and wise voice, often funnier than you’d expect, which can make a believer of the coldest songwriter critic. Check Your Idealism at the Door: Cleaves is many things, but a naïve romantic he’ll never be: “No one gets a bonus for bloody knuckles and scars,” he sings. “No one remembers your name just for working hard.” —ROY KASTEN
8 p.m. Sunday, October 11. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Avenue. $18. 314-833-3929. Has it really been four years since Destroyer’s Kaputt came out? That was the album that managed to solidify Dan Bejar’s peculiar genius for lyrical obfuscation amid sensuous, seemingly zeitgeist-tweaking instrumentation. In 2011 that meant Roxy Music synths and Spandeau Ballet saxophones, and this year’s excellent Poison Season doesn’t so much abandon that palette as it burrows deep inside it. Bejar and his Destroyer cohort array these songs with strings, unmoored synths and horns both brassy and muted, but Bejar’s sometimes-laconic, sometimes-stalking delivery remains the undisputed centerpiece. He’s a cagey performer — don’t look for much banter or fan interaction at this week’s show — but it will be fascinating to see the band translate these tapestries in a live setting. And the Nominees Are: Toronto-based musician Jennifer Castle will open the show. Her 2014 album Pink Music was recently nominated for the prestigious Polaris Prize (though the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie walked away with the award). —CHRISTIAN SCHAEFFER
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8 p.m. Saturday, October 10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street. $18 to $20. 314-535-0353. We are officially living in the era of the Twentieth Anniversary Tour. Though the concept is certainly not a new one, it seems like we are approaching critical mass — ’90s artists from across all genres are doing it as their time arises. Earlier this year Raekwon brought Ghostface Killah to the Ready Room for the Only Built for Cuban Linx tour. Garbage started its tour celebrating the release of its debut album (twenty years ago) this week. Even the Spice Girls are getting in on the action, teasing a potential outing next year for the twentieth birthday of “Wannabe.” Add alt-metal darling Helmet to the list — Page Hamilton and Co. will be performing the band’s 1994 album Betty in its entirety at the Firebird this weekend. Math buffs will note that this is technically 21 years, but will have neglected to realize this is the second year in which the band has embarked on the tour. Sometimes laurels are pretty comfortable, eh? All About the Benjamins? The more cynical among us might call this a cash grab. Frankly, it probably is. But that doesn’t make the music any less enjoyable, and Betty is a damn fine album that has stood the test of time.
8 p.m. Tueday, October 13. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard. $35 to $37.50. 314-726-6161. At only 22 years old, Chancelor Bennett (better known as Chance the Rapper) already seems to have this “life” thing figured out. Since his breakthrough mixtape Acid Rap dropped in 2013, the Chicago wordsmith has been on a consistent upward trajectory, collaborating with the likes of Madonna, Skrillex, Lil Wayne, Wale and scores more. In November he was honored with Chicago’s “Outstanding Youth of the Year” award by Mayor Rahm Emanuel. In January, Forbes Magazine listed him on its annual “30 Under 30” music list. April saw the rapper giving a lecture on hip-hop at Harvard University. To top it all off, in July he dropped a critically acclaimed mixtape with none other than Lil B, a well-known Internet meme that has taken human form. Oh yeah, and he announced that he is expecting his first child with his girlfriend of the last two years. We can only assume he has appropriately thanked the BasedGod for that one. Extended Family Too: Chance has named this outing the “Family Matters Tour,” possibly as a nod to the pregnancy news. D.R.A.M., Metro Boomin and Towkio will join him onstage. —DANIEL HILL
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Patti LaBelle: 7 p.m., $42.50-$82.50. Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888. Satellite Theory: w/ ELEMENT A440, Midnight Hour, PDA, Signals From Saturn, Off the Witness 7 p.m., $10. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
S U N DAY 1 0 / 1 1 Alex & the XO’s: w/ Cara Louise Band 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. Harvey Lockhart & Friends: 5 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Blackfoot Gypsies: w/ Brother Lee and the Leather Jackals 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532. Destroyer: w/ Jennifer Castle 8 p.m., $18-$20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929. Sanctuary: 7:30 p.m., $20-$25. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Saul Band: w/ Nervous Pudding, Nothing Set in Stone, As Each Second Fades, One Day 5 p.m., $10-$12. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009.
M O N DAY 1 0 / 1 2 Bring Me the Horizon: 7 p.m., $27.50-$30. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. The Cult of Lip: w/ Brilliant Beast, the Brainstems, Bridled Spells 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. Javier Matos: 8 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Pure Bathing Culture: w/ Wild Ones 8 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.
T U E S DAY 1 0 / 1 3 Caskey: 7 p.m., $15. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009. Chance the Rapper: w/ D.R.A.M., Towkio, Metro Boomin 8 p.m., $35-$37.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. Lera Lynn: 8 p.m., $15. Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444. Leslie Sanazaro & Sharon Bear: 7 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Lydia: w/ Seahaven, Turnover, the Technicolors 7 p.m., $15$18. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. Nobunny: 8 p.m., $12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. Roots of a Rebellion: w/ the Driftaways, Sun Dried Vibes 8 p.m., $8. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532. Skizzy Mars: w/ Kool John & P-Lo 7 p.m., $15-$18. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-8333929. The Van Allen Belt: w/ Kid Scientist, Little Falcon, Hands & Feet 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
W E D N E S DAY 1 0 / 1 4 Adam Larson: 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; Oct. 15, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $15. Ferring Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-571-6000. The Alley Tones: 10 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Brian Posehn: 8:30 p.m., $20. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. Broncho: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505. Coheed and Cambria: w/ Cursive, Thank You Scientist 8 p.m., $30-$35. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. Crizzly: 7 p.m., $10-$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Gangstagrass: 8 p.m., $10-$12. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532. Genevieve (formerly of Company of Thieves): 8 p.m., $12-$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314773-3363. Hello Ocho: w/ Teddy Bomber 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. Raheem DeVaughn: w/ Leela James 8 p.m., $26-$30. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-8333929. Trout Steak Revival: 8 p.m., $7-$10. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis.
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The speech you’re planning to give after you get caught is lovely, CHEAT, but you should give it before you get caught. Tell your boyfriend you love him — you would have to, considering what you’ve put up with for years — and that you have no desire to leave him. But while your relationship is wonderful in many ways, it’s not sexual in any way. And while you’re willing to settle for a companionate relationship, you’re not willing to settle for a sexless existence. Rather than being threatened by your occasional, discreet, and safe sexual adventures, CHEAT, your boyfriend should be grateful for them. Because those sexual adventures, and your boyfriend’s acceptance of them, will make it possible for you to stay together. Hopefully he’ll see that the men you’ll be fucking on the side aren’t a threat to your relationship but its salvation. If your boyfriend can’t see that, if he insists that your relationship remain monogamous and sexless (wouldn’t that technically mean he’s the only person you don’t have sex with?), give breaking up another try. The third time might be the charm.
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“Anxiety and fear can definitely make those muscles tighten up. And unfortunately, worrying about pain during sex makes it worse,” says Charlie Glickman, sexuality educator and author of The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure (charlieglickman.com). “His hemorrhoids are probably caused by the anus squeezing really hard and trapping blood in the arteries inside the anus.” So what can you do to alleviate your anxiety? “The first thing for him to do is use a salve on the skin around and inside the anus,” said Glickman. “Apply it after washing, and it doesn’t take much. It’s like putting lip balm on dry lips. Cocoa butter or coconut oil work well. I also like the golden seal and myrrh formula by Country Comfort. Apply it twice a day.” Give those balms some time to work before you start exploring again. And once you start: Breathe deeply, take it slow and play with your cock too. “Arousal helps,” says Glickman, “so he should be sure to include cock pleasure before going near his anus. It’ll also help if he explores external anal massage without going inside. That can help his body unwind the tension and let go of the flinch response. There are lots of great external massage moves that can feel amazing on their own or as part of foreplay. Look for the anal massage how-to videos on www.makesexeasy.com.” Enjoying a few dozen — or a few hundred — orgasms with your ass in play but not the focus, i.e., your ass is being stimulated but not penetrated, DEFEAT, and you’ll begin to associate anal stimulation with pleasure and victory, not pain and hemorrhoids. Then you can give penetration another go: taking time to warm up, using lots of lube, pivoting to something else if it’s too painful.
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