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No Man’s Land
Living rough on Grand means dodging law enforcement — and managing addiction
Written by
RYAN KRULL
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KELLY GLUECK
NEWS
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Seven days worth of great stuff to see and do
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0311 Side Work Banned
The city blocks work for the security firm started by Brian “Riot King” Rossomanno “until further notice”
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Robert Hunt highlights more offerings at St. Louis International Film Festival, now in its second week
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Stats Don’t Lie
Sara Graham visits Fiddlehead Fern Cafe in Shaw, while Cheryl Baehr sees a sexy new side of the Loop at Privado
No, St. Louis did not suffer an “influx” of violent crime in September, Danny Wicentowski reports
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ast week, interim St. Louis Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole appeared on The Allman Report to discuss the November 7 vote on Prop P and, later in the segment, to drop a remarkable accusation: The recent protests against Jason Stockley’s acquittal, said the chief, resulted in an “influx of crime.” The comment came while O’Toole’s discussed his department’s controversial response tactics to protesters: (Bold added for emphasis.) The point is, besides the protests, we have a city to patrol. We have violent crime in the city, and these protests, they took a lot of our manpower away from what we really need to concentrate on, which was the crime in the city. We were unable to do that for several weeks. We’re back now. During that time we saw an influx in crime because officers were not out there doing what we normally do. To be clear, O’Toole wasn’t making a Roordian “War on Cops” argument or claiming that officers are limiting their efforts out of fear that people might catch them on video or criticize them. In fact, he told Allman that he was glad to see protesters get the opportunity to exercise their constitutional rights. The chief even suggested that St. Louisans “really needs to listen to what [protesters’] message is.” But still: “an influx in crime”? The numbers don’t seem to add up. According to the department’s publicly available crime reports, September 2017 — which included the most heavily policed protests following Stockley’s September 15 acquittal — appears to have fewer reports of crime than expected. In fact, violent crime in September appears to be at its lowest reported level in three years. First, for overall crime reports: September 2017 notched 3,668 toContinued on pg 10 tal reported
Acting Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole claimed, without evidence, that protests caused an “influx of crime.” | DANNY WICENTOWSKI
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t. Louis cops are no longer allowed to work side jobs for 0311 Tactical Solutions, a private security and training firm owned by a controversial city police sergeant, according to an alderwoman. Alderwoman Heather Navarro tells the Riverfront Times that she learned from Mayor Lyda Krewson’s spokesman the ban is in place “until further notice.” The spokesman, Koran Addo, declined to comment, telling the RFT it was a “personnel” matter, a line echoed by the police department
when we reached out to them. The security firm is owned by Sgt. Brian Rossomanno, a SWAT supervisor known to protesters as “Riot King.” He was the subject of an RFT cover story last month. Rossomanno founded 0311 Tactical Solutions in 2010. The company, whose name references the Marine code for rifleman, lists gigs with A-B InBev, the Muny and the St. Louis Cardinals, providing a “Quick Reaction Force” for games at Busch Stadium. The company previously also bragged on its site about training St. Louis officers, although it acknowledged it had no contract to do so. In early October, a police spokeswoman told the RFT that 0311 Tactical had no affiliation with the department. It’s not clear how many city officers work for the company. Foundriverfronttimes.com
ing papers filed with the Secretary of State list Rossomanno and Michael Deeba, a police captain who commands the department’s intelligence unit, as one of the organizers. Rossomanno and the city have refused to reveal the number of other officers on the firm’s payroll. The timing of the ban is interesting. It comes as Mayor Krewson tries to gather support for Proposition P, a half-cent sales tax that would raise $19 million — $13 million for police pay raises and benefits. The measure, which was voted on November 7, with ballots still being counted as of press time, has been a prime target of protesters following the September 15 acquittal of a white excop charged with murdering a black man suspected of dealing drugs. Activists have cast Prop P as a referendum on the police department, citing Continued on pg 10
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the heavy-handed tactics of riot cops during demonstrations as an example of an out-of-control department. They recently chanted “fuck Prop P” outside the mayor’s house in the Central West End. The mayor, however, says that better policing can only come from better salaries. Officers have made more than 300 arrests during the ongoing protests, repeatedly using tear gas, mace and pepper ball projectiles on crowds. Demonstrators have reported being beaten during the arrests. The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri and a husband-and-wife documentary film crew have both sued the city for what they have described as an abusive response by police. Rossomanno was called to testify last month during a hearing in the ACLU case. Along with questions about police tactics, an ACLU attorney questioned the sergeant about 0311 Tactical — specifically a Facebook post on the company’s site that showed a livestreamer’s photo of Rossomanno in which the sergeant had included #riotking and #protestseason. “It was just kind of a tongue-in-
crimes. That’s a roughly 14 percent drop from September 2016’s 4,283, which, in turn, was fairly close to 2015’s 4,377 crimes. So. No influx there. Still. Perhaps O’Toole was solely referencing violent crime. Even then, the numbers don’t scream “influx.” If we consider “violent crime” the combined total of homicide, rape, burglary, robbery, aggravated assault, arson and weapon offenses, there’s still no spike. Based on that definition, there were 843 violent crimes reported in September 2017 — 23 fewer than September 2016 and 138 fewer than September 2015. What about just murder? The past three Septembers have ended with similar homicide numbers as well. Last month recorded fifteen. There were fourteen homicides in 2016, and seventeen in 2015. Granted, crime data is notoriously fickle, and it’s not difficult to imagine the various ways simple statistics don’t tell the full story of a 1,100-strong police department trying to maintain regular patrols while tracking protests. Perhaps O’Toole was thinking of crimes that didn’t get solved — or maybe he believes a particular ward or neighborhood was noticeably short-staffed during the protests. We reached out to the department for clarification, but never got a response. Aside than O’Toole’s claim about increased crime, the chief seemed generally pleased about the department’s strategy for confronting protests, which have been regular occurrences in the city and its suburbs for seven weeks now. The department’s strategy “facilitated” peaceful disruptions, he said. He also claimed that officers only used force to stop destruction of property and assaults against officers. (The ACLU, which has sued the city, would certainly beg to differ.) O’Toole also proudly pointed out that, unlike protests in Ferguson and Baltimore several years ago, the recent unrest in St. Louis didn’t include arson or looting. “We had a plan; the city didn’t burn,” O’Toole told Allman. “You can look at Baltimore and other cities when we’ve had these things, and we did quite well. And the complaints that have come, obviously they’re concerning, but I’m not aware of any protester who went to the hospital.” The chief added: “As far as the complaints are concerned, everyone wants the truth, and there’s a process, there’s an investigation that’s being conducted. We’ll look at all that.” n
Sgt. Brian Rossomanno, left, is the founder of private security firm 0311 Tactical Solutions. | THEO WELLING
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Rossomanno was downtown September 17, the night of a controversial “kettle.” | THEO WELLING
cheek reference to the false narrative that I control everything at the protests,” Rossomanno testified. Alderwoman Navarro, who first revealed the ban in a Facebook post about Prop P last week, says she has a number of follow-up questions she plans to ask the mayor about the directive, including when it went into effect and what is meant by “until further notice.”
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The new alderwoman supported Prop P, which she suggested would help the city recruit and better train top officers. “I feel like we need a better police department and competitive pay is part of that,” Navarro says, adding that a recently approved pay raise in the county has forced the city’s hand. Neither 0311 Tactical nor Rossomanno responded to our request for comment. n
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he second time I met Jimmy Wille he looked significantly worse than the first time — when he’d looked pretty good for a guy who’d been homeless and flying signs for the past five months in the spring and summer sun. Now, fresh scabs pockmarked his nose, and instead of walking up and down the highway on-ramp he sat hunched over on a particularly thin stretch of sidewalk along Grand Boulevard in Midtown. There was so little room for him that his bedroll and bag lay on the street. He would get more money, he said, if he walked up and down, back and forth, but he didn’t want to be aggressive. He doesn’t like when people who ask for money are. Plus, he just wasn’t up for the extra effort. He said his injuries were from a fight a few nights ago. He paused, before adding, “Not a fight, really. I got beat up.” His assailant saw him talking to a girl, and one thing led to another. He raised his arm to show an open sore, which he blamed on cheap deodorant given to him as part of a care package. At the time, Wille lived and worked on a stretch of Grand that runs roughly from Saint Louis University Hospital to SLU — an area that both the city and the Jesuit university have big plans for. But Wille moved to the area simply “because that’s where the dope’s at.” During one of our first conversations, when we spoke for an hour not far from the Grand MetroLink station, we witnessed at least a dozen open-air drug deals. “There they go again,” Wille said, pointing. Two young men with backpacks and visibly dirty skin jogged briskly down a small side street perpendicular to Grand, following a car that Wille said everyone knew belonged to a dealer. White buyers, black buyers. Buyers who could have passed for, and maybe were, college students. Buyers who looked pretty far gone. A pair of buyers who, if you met them at a party, you might think were siblings. Another two who
Jimmy Wille has been eking out a life on Grand Avenue, trying to make enough money to get methadone — and get to the methadone clinic by public transit before it closes at 10:45 a.m. Heroin dealers, unlike the clinic, deliver. | RYAN KRULL
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NO MAN’S LAND Continued from pg 13 moved in tandem like only a pair of significant others can. “Every half hour [dealers] pull through,” said Wille. “They look for us. They pull up and if they see you sitting here, they’ll pull down the alley.” To a driver passing by it would have looked innocuous enough: like a car making a slow, uncertain turn down a side road, like people hustling to catch a bus or maybe the MetroLink. The transactions
themselves were done far enough from Grand to be out of sight, and the dealers’ cars were unremarkable. “See that guy over there,” Wille pointed again. “He’s just coming back from getting high in the little getting-high spot.” The part of Midtown immediately around SLU is built-up and bustling. Same goes — to a lesser extent — for the area around the hospital. But the two circles of development are not quite concentric, and the strip in between is populated by empty fields and under-utilized or abandoned buildings. According
to one development document produced by SLU, there are more than 650,000 square feet of vacant industrial and manufacturing buildings in the area between Chouteau and Forest Park avenues. Wille guessed that on Grand from Interstate 44 to roughly Lindell there were at least 50 people like him, scraping together what they could, living as they could in places like the nearby foliage. Some people had habits that might have been as expensive as $100 a day, Wille said. His own habit is more modest, he insisted, maybe $10 a day. He doesn’t
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spend all the money he gets on dope, he said. Some of it goes to food, some to methadone. Those who drive through the area rarely are much more likely to give, Wille said, as opposed to the SLU students who see the same people on the same sidewalks and intersections every day. Two students I talked to said they didn’t particularly mind the people asking for money and that they had never encountered what might be called aggressive begging. Maya Taylor, a first-year student who was on campus for several weeks prior to fall semester, said that having people hanging around on Grand “wasn’t a big deal” and the people who solicit donations “don’t seem hostile and are very with themselves.” A SLU spokeswoman said that some students have reported incidents of “drug use and aggressive panhandling.” But, she said, “there have been no incidents of violent crimes.” On Sunday evening in the first week of August, a tall, slender man was having what seemed to be a loud and sustained psychotic episode. He shouted and flailed his arms. He buried his face in his hands then raised them to the sky. Not far away, two male students carried a futon into Reinhart Hall. The man on the sidewalk was impossible to miss, but the two students gave little indication of noticing. At the time, Wille said, a shift was underway. On the north side of the bridge that runs atop the Grand MetroLink station a fence had recently been erected — Wille suspected it was to make it harder to congregate under the Highway 40 overpass. The night before, Wille had been standing outside Reinert Hall, using the building’s WiFi (something he’d done all summer). Officers from SLU’s Department of Public Safety arrived, saying there had been a call (which Wille doubted) and that he needed to leave. “This last week they’ve really cracked down on this shit here,” Wille said. “They don’t want you on their property. They don’t want you waiting on their property. They don’t want you using their WiFi. They’ve been going out to the woods in their cars, going in and checking it out. And they’ve been taking people to jail for trespassing.” He added, “They got these little bits of property. See that little strip there? That’s SLU property. That whole field and that strip. People are going there to get high.” Wille said that the authorities
don’t hassle him all that often because he looks clean. “But for the hardcore homeless,” he said, “it’s every day.” A spokeswoman for SLU said the fence Wille referred to was actually put up by the owners of the adjacent private property. As for handling trespassers, the spokeswoman said, “As a private university, our campus is private property.” She added that it is its Department of Public Safety’s policy “to give warnings only to those who trespass on university property. For those who continue to trespass after being given a warning, SLU does often involve city police in an effort to stop repeat offenders.” The crime logs that SLU DPS makes public only showed two records of trespassing and aggressive begging in all of August, five in September. However, Wille was correct about a sea change being underway. In November 2016, SLU released an extensive redevelopment plan aimed at better connecting the university to the medical facilities to the south, essentially creating one large contiguous SLU campus. The redevelopment plan, which was approved by the city’s Board of Aldermen at the end of last year, includes a new outpatient medical facility and food hall as well as residential housing. Glance at the artist’s rendering released by SLU, and it’s hard to imagine the discrete places to crash or the “getting-high spots” in the area along Grand remaining undeveloped. A more detailed perusal of SLU’s plans shows that the place where Wille and I watched the open air deals is marked for transit-oriented development and to become part of the Choteau Greenway, which would connect the green spaces of Forest Park to the Arch grounds downtown. In September the Great Rivers Greenway announced a competition soliciting designs for the project, and around that same time another fence was erected separating the vacant lots east of Grand from the fast food restaurants along Chouteau. A hole big enough for a person to squeeze through was soon cut into its chain links. That first summer day I talked to Wille a section of wooded area at Grand and Chouteau that had been a sleeping area had just been partially cleared; trees lay in a large pile, their leaves still green. Later that week, the pile of timber was gone and the cleared area looked like it was larger. SLU, a spokeswoman confirmed, did the clearing with development in mind.
The area near Grand and Chouteau has been targeted by both the city and Saint Louis University for development. | KELLY GLUECK “I sat and watched as they bulldozed all that,” Wille said. “There were so many needles and lighters, crack pipes and shit. It wasn’t safe. Someone might have stepped on something. I had some clothes back there that they bulldozed.” A group of people hung out in the shade of one of the brick pillars supporting the large Saint Louis University sign that arches over Grand just north of Chouteau. A few of them were the same folks previously darting onto side roads to do quick buys. They responded to the tree-clearing across the street with a collective shrug. “That’s SLU property,” said the only member of the group who looked older than twentysomething. “I guess they’re going to build something.” Later, when I asked Wille what he thought about SLU connecting its hospital and its university, he said it sounded like a good idea. There is a template for a story about development in cities displacing the people already occupying the spaces to be developed. In the 1930s and ’40s, for instance, the construction of the Gateway Arch pushed blocks and blocks of people out of their homes. This template accurately describes an age-old displacement, but to apply it too rigidly here would risk doing a disservice to someone like Wille. Wille, after all, never really wanted to be on Grand in the first place.
Clearly visible on Wille’s knee is the scar from the motorcycle wreck that set him on the path to where he is today. Fifteen years ago, he was, in his words, “the prodigy child.” He raced motocross, making steep jumps with his bike on a dirt track. As a teenager he was good enough to get his gear for free. He got a custom helmet, a custom paint job on his bike. He even traveled the junior circuit, racing at the Hoosier Dome (now the RCA Dome) in Indianapolis. Then another rider accidentally landed on him. He was put on Vicodin, he said, to manage the pain. He really enjoyed taking pills on the weekends — “it was a Friday-night thing” — and didn’t think of them much differently than marijuana or booze. He didn’t realize that when he stopped taking them he was going to get sick. “It got to be that when I woke up I had to take some Vicodin just to get on with my day,” he said. Vicodin led to Oxycontin which led to Fentanyl which led to Dilaudid. He snorted pills. He injected them. Like 4 million other Americans, he started using heroin. He’d been struggling with opioids for several years when he began growing pot in the house he rented in Illinois, unbeknownst to his landlord. “I did good,” he said. “I read all Ed Rosenthal’s books. I went to Worm’s Way for dirt. I bought seeds from Vancouver Seed Bank, which were $10 apiece. Feminized riverfronttimes.com
seeds. I had White Widow, OG Kush when it was brand new and Northern Lights Haze Mist, which were the best old-school strains.” Growing pot was a profitable enterprise, and in 2009 he met the woman who would become his wife. Together they spent the money he made, coming into St. Louis to party on long weekends, staying at some of the nicest hotels in the city. But he said his neighbors could smell his product and his house was burglarized. Even though not much was taken, he eventually stopped the whole operation, increasingly worried about the potential for arrest. Two years ago, Wille and his wife had a daughter. He said all he’d ever wanted was to have a family. But then, he said, “it got rough. I couldn’t catch up. You need to have money for the next day. Well, I got behind.” In early 2017, after signing over temporary custody of their child to Wille’s father in Illinois, Wille and his wife first came to this stretch of Grand. On Grand, they worked as a team. He panhandled and flew signs, worked small side jobs and scored dope. She worked, too, kept their clothes clean, scratched his back. A recent survey by the U.S. Conference of Mayors showed that in 68 percent of cities, substance abuse was the most prevalent cause of homelessness among single adults. A 2013 study in Boston found that
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NO MAN’S LAND Continued from pg 15 overdoses had surpassed HIV as the leading cause of death among its homeless population. Yet even though addiction is a leading cause of homelessness, it’s certainly not the only cause, nor is it the cause of the majority of homelessness. A recent study in New Haven, Connecticut, for instance, showed addiction to be that city’s greatest cause of homelessness, yet only one in four homeless individuals named it as the primary reason for their living on the streets. This summer Wille was arrested on a “failure to appear” for a retail theft charge and ended up spending 25 days in city jail. While he was locked up his wife sold his Doc Martens and his phone; she now lives in a community of the homeless downtown. Wille suspected she was using crack. “She’s lost her mind,” he said. “She went off the deep end.” She doesn’t know how to take care of herself, he said, and she must have panicked. He once contemplated buying a large crack rock and offering it to her just to get her to talk to him. Wille sees his daughter as often as he can, when he is well enough and can transport himself across the river. He tries to go at least every Sunday morning. One time when we talked he was angry at himself because he’d intended to see her the day prior but failed to do so. Every morning he wakes up crying, thinking about his wife and about their daughter. He’s tried several times to get clean, and at one point a judge put him on a “fee-tox,” which meant Wille could receive methadone but he would have to pay for it. The methadone allowed him to function and kept the effects of withdrawal at bay, but it also cost $17 a dose. He required a dose every day, and the methadone clinic itself was an hour away by public transit. The clinic’s hours, 5:15 to 10:45 a.m., were hardly convenient, and if he arrived too late he was left facing withdrawal until the next day. If being on methadone wasn’t a fulltime job, it was at least a part-time one, and the morning methadone routine made it difficult to earn steady income, which in turn made it difficult to scrape together his daily $17. The dealers, unlike the clinic, came to Wille. They delivered. He’s attempted several times to quit without methadone, and he
can generally get past the first four days of severe withdrawals. Then, he said, “about the fifth day comes around it’s like the flu times ten. You get diarrhea real bad, anxiety, insomnia. You’re hot and cold. You’re sneezing. Achoo, achoo, achoo. Then after that physical part goes away the mental is hardcore on you. I’ll start thinking about my wife, and the drugs have been putting all this off and hiding it in my brain. I get all depressed, and that’s usually when you get started using again just to block it away.” Regular opioid use causes enduring changes in the brain, which, over time, make people physically dependent on the substance. Christine Pace, an assistant professor of medicine at Boston University, said, “With regular heroin use, we see many chronic changes in the brain. An example is that your body expresses fewer dopamine receptors over time because it is so used to heroin massively increasing the amount of available dopamine. Dopamine is one of the neurotransmitters involved in a sense of pleasure and reward, so you actually end up as an addict with less capacity for these sensations than if the same person weren’t addicted. You actually end up needing the drug not to feel high but to feel normal.” Wille told me about a plan to procure six wooden shipping pallets in order to build a makeshift shelter that could be disassembled easily and moved from place to place. He could attach an air conditioner and a power box. “I shouldn’t even say I’m planning on this,” he said, “because that means I’m not planning on getting right.” It’s hard to say exactly what happened on Grand. Around the start of SLU’s fall semester, the intersections where all summer people had reliably flown signs and asked for spare change — at 40 and Grand, at Forest Park Avenue and Grand — were suddenly bereft of both. Groups of students walked up and down Grand, as did uniformed St. Louis police officers. Even Wille, who more often than not could be found in one of the same handful of places, was nowhere to be seen for several days, maybe even longer. Calvin Pittman, who works at the Circle K at Grand and Forest Park Avenue, said, “The police have been out here. [The homeless] don’t come around here so much.
They’re not outside because the police are stopping their flow. If they can panhandle at the end of the highway, they can make money. But if they can’t, then there’s no need for them to come around.” Darrion Latcher, of Bellefontaine Neighbors, catches the bus on Grand atop the MetroLink station on his way home from his temp service job. “There were a lot of people here on the corner holding signs,” he said. “Now they’re gone. Lot of police patrolling, that’s why.” When I reconnected with Wille, he told me he’d started sleeping downtown near the Lumiere casino, though he still comes back to Grand occasionally during the day. He said the police patrol on foot, and he knew a few people who had been taken to jail. He said it’s easier for the police to just run a person’s name rather than actually search them for drugs or arrest them for panhandling. “Most of these people have warrants,” he said. Because he didn’t have any warrants he wasn’t afraid of police running his name. He “can afford to take a warning.” From time to time he still flew signs on that stretch of Grand, but, he said, “you won’t see anyone else out.” “They actually moved away from the area because they can’t [panhandle]. They don’t want to live here,” he said. “I’m not sure where they go, where they’re at. The homeless have moved out.” It’s not clear whether SLU explicitly asked the police to start patrolling the area on foot. When I asked SLU what actions, if any, had been taken by DPS or by the police in coordination with the school, its spokeswoman said, simply, “I don’t have any additional information.” Their motives for taking action would not be difficult to imagine. What parents see while dropping college students off in August could potentially have an outsized influence on how they feel about their child returning next fall. SLU would hardly be the first institution to take efforts to move the homeless population in its midst elsewhere. (Loft developers in Downtown West played a large role in the New Life Evangelistic Center ceasing shelter operations earlier this year, for instance.) But clearing out a community of the homeless only solves the problem for its neighbors — not the people who had been living in it. “Unless you solve the problem, you’re really just shifting it from one place to another,” said Faye Abram, a retired professor of social work
“People don’t understand that yeah, I’m homeless, but I’m not a drug addict,” says Casey. | RYAN KRULL at SLU. “It’s just a matter of where it’s going to crop up next. There’s no word other than criminalizing homelessness. I’m a firm believer that if you don’t have low-income housing to accommodate the population, then the prisons become your low income housing.” On a chilly October night downtown, Wille’s bedroll lay tucked beside a utility box beneath I-44, across the street from Morgan Street Brewery and Nelly’s Extreme Institute. For a while he’d slept down by the river until one night the water rose and washed some of belongings away. Now he’s been spending his nights here on this concrete island. He smirked, saying that he’s had some success flying a sign that read “Too Ugly to Prostitute.” “I get people taking pictures all the time,” he said. Even some police officers, he says, “took a picture with me and said it was the best sign they ever saw.” A woman who has known Wille for decades, whose younger brothers were friends with him in high school, sat smoking near the Lumiere’s rear entrance. Kim (who didn’t want to give her last name) said she reconnected with Wille four or five years ago and now bumps into him downtown — he’s usually panhandling — almost daily. Kim said her husband, like Wille, struggles with opiate addiction. “It’s the devil,” she said. “It’s down here. It’s out on Grand. In Maplewood. In Brentwood. Everywhere. If you’re looking for it you’ll find it wherever you are.” I asked her how many people she’d guess were out on the streets because of opiates.
“Thousands,” she said. “In St. Louis,” I clarified. “It’s thousands. I mean I know of hundreds, so I got to imagine it doesn’t stop there.” A few blocks toward the river, Casey (who also didn’t want to give his last name) sat on a bench beside his dog, Lovely. Casey, who has been living without a home for the past six years, arrived in St. Louis a little over a month ago, after being pulled off of a freight train he’d ridden from Louisville. Since arriving in town he’s taken part in the recent protests over the Stockley verdict, has spent a night in jail and was kettled at Washington and Tucker, pepper sprayed and chased down an alley by police. “People don’t understand that yeah, I’m homeless, but I’m not a drug addict,” said Casey, who’s originally from San Francisco. “I never touched drugs. It’s sad because so many people think that the homeless are criminals or drug users, but if you’ve never sat down to talk to one you don’t know where they came from, who they are.” When Casey asks for food, many people say no, that they don’t want to be an enabler. “No drug dealer is going to take food as payment for anything,” Casey said. Casey’s friend Darren added: “Yes, a lot of homeless people use drugs, but there’s a percentage who don’t.” In addition to a meal, Darren said he needed money to buy a coat and gloves. “Here we are going on to winter,” he said. “And a lot of us don’t have warm clothes.” A few weeks prior, in Midtown, around midnight, the Candyman riverfronttimes.com
was open for business near Chouteau and Grand. Written on a sign affixed to the open tailgate of his minivan were the words SNOW CONES in big block letters. Wille was on the Candyman’s cellphone, trying to reach the person he thought was going to pick him up and give him a ride downtown. He was leaving a voice mail — from the sound of it not the first message he’d left for this person that night. He gave the Candyman back his phone. “I’ll be right back,” Wille said. “Watch my bag.” A steady stream of people, more than you might think at such an hour, came by and purchased the Candyman’s gummy bears, Snickers and sodas. The radio played lightly from the front of the van. “You got to have your own concept,” the Candyman said, nodding toward his van, his operation. “Forget corporate America.” The Candyman grew up in the ’70s and ’80s on Vista and Theresa, which is one of the few blocks in the western third of the Gate District neighborhood where residential houses still stand. The rest has been developed by SLU. If the redevelopment plan comes to fruition, though, the entire stretch of the neighborhood from Grand to Compton will be formally blighted, a preliminary step preceding development. “This was the best place to grow up,” the Candyman said. “In the city. South St. Louis. It was. It was. Saint Louis University has monopolized my entire neighborhood.” The Candyman guessed there might be eight families from his youth still living in his old stomping grounds. “I guess all of us will eventually be in jars in this building right here,” he added, laughing as he pointed to the futuristic-looking Edward A. Doisy Research Center, which houses the university’s departments of biochemistry and molecular biology. We’d been talking for about twenty minutes, through a slow but steady stream of customers, when Wille returned. “I was just telling this guy how we met,” the Candyman said. “Do you remember?” “I was probably laying right here.” “You were right there, coming off the highway, and you asked me for some money.” “I asked you for some food, I think.” “No, before that. You asked me for some money.”
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NO MAN’S LAND Continued from pg 17 That first meeting the Candyman looked Wille in the eyes. “Don’t play with me,” he told him. The Candyman would feed a man who looked hungry, but he knew what Wille was liable to do with money, so he wouldn’t give him any. “Please stop for a minute,” the Candyman said now, the three of us in a circle. “Come on.” Wille held open a tiny capsule beneath his nose. “I know you got to be doing what you’re doing, but we’re men, let’s have a for-real conversation, just for a minute.” “I got a $10 a day habit.” “Fuck that. You know there’s something else you could do with that $10. I need you to come back.” “I am,” Wille said. “For my little baby’s sake. Not for me, I’ll tell you that.” “I hate this shit,” the Candyman said. “Hate it.” His voice caught. Wille stepped away, back toward where he’d stashed his belongings. He apologized, said he hadn’t meant to be disrespectful. In the glow of the medical building across the street, tears glimmered in the Candyman’s eyes. “I lost so many friends off that shit,” he said. “People OD-ing. I can count ten people, ten people I was close to. It hurts. Thirty years ago it was crack, HIV. Right now what we’re going through is the aftermath of all that. Now it’s all opiates. If you got one relative who is not addicted to something, man, you’re lucky.” Later, Wille and I had been talking for a while, off to the side, when the Candyman closed up shop. “Hey! Listen!” he yelled. “We’re going to get this guy straight.” He
pointed to Wille. “It takes a whole village, a whole village, to raise just one.” His voice was both booming and solemn. He held his pointer finger in the air — “a whole village, to raise just one,” he repeated — as he walked back to his van. He started the engine and pulled the candy store out onto Chouteau, into the night. It was after midnight and, other than the nearby Rally’s drivethrough, commerce in the area seemed done for the day. Wille tried calling his ride again. Again, his ride didn’t answer. Later on a Saturday night downtown, Jimmy huffed his tote bag and backpack down Fourth Street toward where his bedroll lay. He’d misplaced some money and, arriving at where he’d had it last, searched frantically among mulch and shrubs. The weather was unseasonably warm for October. Wille, wearing shorts and a sleeveless shirt, wiped his brow. “I never misplace money,” he said. “I always double and triple check to make sure that don’t happen.” He added: “I was ahead, too. I had money so I could go see her.” He’d intended to use the money to pay for the MetroLink and bus rides for his weekly Sunday morning visit with his daughter. He’d thought that tonight he could lay down relatively early and get some rest. Now, he faced the prospect of having to panhandle late into the night to pay for the trip in the morning. A look of frustration overtook his features. He sighed. He went back to his belongings and his sign and restarted the process that would allow him to see his daughter the next day. n
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THURSDAY 11/09 Gregory Maguire The author of Wicked and several other bestsellers, Gregory Maguire is back with a new book, Hiddensee. The cover proclaims it “A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker,” giving you a broad idea of the story. But it’s not so much an origin story for the brave Nutcracker soldier from the popular ballet as it is the tale of a young German boy named Dirk who grows up unloved in the 20
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FRIDAY 11/10 Global Moves The Chess Olympiad is a biennial competition in which national teams compete for the title. America is the current holder, triumphing against 180 other nations to achieve the victory. It was our first win since 1976, and so the World Chess Hall of Fame takes this golden opportunity to honor the reigning champions. The exhibition Global Moves: Americans in Chess Olympiads is a celebration of
America’s current and past glories, with numerous historic chess artifacts being displayed — among them, a gold medal from the 2016 team. Grandmasters Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Wesley So, Ray Robson and Sam Shankland, who all played for the 2016 American team, will attend the opening reception, which takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at the World Chess Hall of Fame (4652 Maryland Avenue; www.worldchesshof.org). Also on display is the Hamilton-Russell Cup, the trophy granted to the Olympiad’s winning team. Global Moves continues through April 1.
SAINT LOUIS ORCHESTRA The Student Prince Winter Opera Saint Louis opens its eleventh season with Sigmund Romberg’s charming operetta The Student Prince. Karl Franz is the heir to the German kingdom Karlsberg, and as such, his future has been plotted out for him, including his eventual marriage to a woman he’s never met. He’s socially awkward, surrounded by older people and bereft of companions his own age. Karl is sent to university to remedy these flaws, and soon finds himself caught up in a whirl of social drinking, real friends and first love. Unfortunately, the object of his affections is Kathie, a biergarten waitress; as a royal, he can’t marry a commoner. But college life has a way of swamping a person’s priorities. Winter Opera Saint Louis presents this atypical love story at 7:30 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Sunday (November 10 and 12) at the Skip Viragh Center for the Arts (425 South Lindbergh Boulevard; www.winteroperastl.org). Tickets are $35 to $55.
SATURDAY 11/11 Tchaikovsky 4 Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 was written while the composer was somewhat in the weeds. He wanted to craft a symphony that did not sound particularly Russian (that ponderous, monumental sound) while also avoiding a strictly “technical” piece of music. He solved this problem by juxtaposing different musical ideas in close succession, creating a sense of movement and excitement. Erich Korngold was also at a crossroads when he composed Tänzchen im alten Stil. Only 21 when he wrote it, he was long past the days of being a child prodigy and was yet to establish his voice as a mature, serious composer. (Korngold would go on to score numerous films during Hollywood’s golden age.) Tänzchen begins almost as a waltz, and then drops a major hint toward his future work with a cello solo that hints at his Romantic tendencies. It’s a piece Finnish conductor John Storgårds has conducted and recorded in the past, and this weekend he leads the
St. Louis Symphony through both works, plus Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G. Tchaikovsky’s No. 4 is performed at 10:30 a.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday (November 10 to 12) at Powell Hall (718 North Grand Boulevard; www.slso.org). Tickets are $25 to $112.
St. Louis Blues The St. Louis Blues started this season like a house afire, racking up wins with secondary scoring and solid work from goalie Jake Allen. The New York Islanders have scrapped for everything, relying on John Tavares to score regularly, while anybody who can chips in a goal here and there. Our old friend and former “Blues goalie of the future” Jaroslav Halak is with the Islanders now, playing effectively if not brilliantly so far this year. When these two teams meet at 7 p.m. tonight at Scottrade Center (1401 Clark Avenue; www.stlblues.com), it will be an interesting test for both sides. Tickets are $39 to $164.
Stones in His Pockets The high life has come to County Kerry, and Jake and Charlie are livin’ it up. Hollywood is making a big-budget flick, and many of the locals are now making good money as film extras — well, better money than anybody normally makes in rural Ireland. But as the production drags on, movies, movie stars and Hollywood all lose their luster. The Americans have some strange ideas about what comprises the “real Ireland,” the star can’t master an Irish accent and being an extra ain’t that great. Before long Jake and Charlie both feel like the film production may be the worst thing ever to happen to their home. Marie Jones’ tragicomic play Stones in His Pockets requires two actors to make a village and its chipper invaders come to life. West End Players Guild presents Stones in His Pockets at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday (November 10 to 19) at the Union Avenue Christian Church (733 North Union Boulevard; www.westendplayers.org). Tickets are $20 to $25.
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Nothing ages as poorly as an educational film. The hairstyles, the clothing and, above all, the cornball advice doled out by earnest narrators (“don’t be a Mr. Bungle”) get stale so quickly that you suspect the generation it was produced for found it just as ridiculous as we do today. Ironically, the passage of a decade or two makes almost all of these films highly entertaining in retrospect. And so the Washington University Libraries presents a selection of vintage educational films for Rawstock at 6 p.m. tonight at the Stage at KDHX (3524 Washington Avenue; www.cinemastlouis. org). The 90-minute program will be screened the old-fashioned way: on 16mm film, a.k.a. “the classroom special.” Admission is free.
WEDNESDAY 11/15 Casablanca The Humphrey Bogart/Ingrid Bergman film Casablanca has long been lauded as the most romantic film to ever come out of Hollywood. Bogart’s Rick, the American who runs a nightclub in Morocco, set the standard for guarded leading men, while Bergman’s Ilsa is the prototypical former lover who returns to complicate the life of the emotionally unavailable hero. Her complication is two-fold: She’s married, and her husband is a notorious anti-fascist. Morocco is controlled by the Vichy regime, which makes Ilsa’s husband a wanted man. Maybe Rick could help them get to America and safety? And so begins a beautiful love story, with Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre all playing a part in these lovers’ bittersweet reunion. Turner Classic Movies marks the 75th anniversary of Casablanca with a series of nationwide screenings. You can see it on the big screen locally at 2 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Wednesday (November 12 and 15) at the Marcus Wehrenberg Ronnies 20 (5320 South Lindbergh; www.fathomevents.com). Tickets are $12.50. n riverfronttimes.com
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he second week of the St. Louis International Film Festival features more foreign films, rarely-seen gems and surprising documentaries. We’ve seen most of them by this point, and the following capsules give our assessment. The festival continues through Sunday, November 12. Tickets are $10 to $13; visit www. cinemastlouis.org to view the entire schedule. Lost in Paris
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but frustratingly sketchy; the wraparound of Rothe at work seems more like self-indulgent filler. Voices Beyond the Wall: Twelve Love Poems from the Murder Capital of the World 1 p.m. Sun., Nov. 12 Washington University’s Brown Hall If San Pedro Sula, Honduras, is indeed the “murder capital of the world,” you’d never know it from this optimistic, deeply felt film. Voices Beyond the Wall was filmed almost entirely within the confines of Our Little Roses, an orphanage for young girls. Filmed in 2012 while American priest and poet Spencer Reece taught a class on poetry that encouraged the girls to write and collect their work, Voices is as simple as a nonfiction film can be. There’s no crisis, no attempt to create a narrative or argue any particular view; it’s just a straightforward observation of the teachers and students as they go about their everyday lives. Director Bradley Coley has the sense and the patience to present his subjects respectfully and honestly, and his film is as unforced and natural as it is optimistic. Ask the Sexpert 5:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 11 Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema The title of Vaishali Sinha’s lively film comes from a newspaper
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account of a footloose woman who falls in with a two-bit crook, but her film is too original and harshly honest to be dismissed as imitation New Wave. She creates a flawless study of a small-town girl with no future. Wanda may sometimes recall Tuesday Weld in the cult film Pretty Poison, but really she’s more like a directionless woman who has lost her adolescent dreams of being like Tuesday Weld. It’s a searing film about hopelessness, a bleak but powerful female equivalent to end-of-the-road classics like Five Easy Pieces. Let Yourself Go 6:30 p.m. Sat. and 5:30 p.m. Sun. (Nov. 11 & 12) Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema In what could just as easily have been titled Frena il tuo entusiasmo, Toni Servillo (star of the 2013 arthouse hit The Great Beauty) plays a curmudgeonly psychiatrist who grumbles his way through life. Separated from his wife and bored by his practice, he’s encouraged to take up exercise with a dizzyingly high-spirited personal trainer (Verónica Echegui). After a slow start, the first half of the film is a typical opposites-attract romantic comedy, while the second half runs loose with a frantic plot involving hypnosis and dangerous criminals. The situations are contrived at times, the musical score tries a little too hard to force a sense of levity and Director Francesco Amato’s idea of humor (a slight hint of racism and a few cheap lines about gay men) occasionally falls flat. Still, Servillo and Echegui rush through everything so energetically that you might be willing to let them pass. n
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how Chinese food is changing in St. Louis. At the south end is Wong’s Wok, a hole-in-the-wall takeout spot that entices diners with the Americanized dishes that have long defined Midwestern perception of Chinese cuisine. The menu promises General Tso’s chicken and Mongolian beef; if you want something more authentic, you have to be in the know. A couple of doors down is Bing Bing, the Chinese creperie that opened this past July in the old Moya Grill. Bing Bing offers the kind of street food that modern Chinese are eating in 2017 — and it does so unapologetically. There is no beef with broccoli or crab Rangoon on offer here, not that you’d want them even if they were. You’d be too busy filling up on the real deal. Bing Bing is the latest in a string
of like-minded restaurants that have popped up around town, and University City in particular, owned by young, Chinese-American restaurateurs determined to cook their food on their terms. Tai Ke, Cate Zone, Corner 17 — as the list of these bold, talented chefs and business owners grows, so do our options for enjoying the wonderful dishes we didn’t know we wanted. This is not to begrudge the countless American-style Chinese restaurants that came before them (and doesn’t take into account the more formal places that have been catering to a mostly Chinese clientele for decades). Opening a restaurant involves great risk, especially for immigrant small business owners looking to support a family. Giving the people what they want often works, and playing by a proven formula minimizes risk. riverfronttimes.com
But if the Wong’s Woks of the world cracked open the door in Missouri to Chinese cuisine, the new kids kicked it wide open. Add American diners’ increasing sense of adventure and a robust international student population hungry for home and you’ve got a recipe for the marvelous Bing Bing. Yong Liu and Yijun Chen, Bing Bing’s owners, don’t put it quite that way, of course. The way they tell it, they just saw an opportunity and seized it. Though Chen had been eating jianbing all his life, Liu was only introduced to them on a recent trip to Shanghai, and he was instantly enamored. Musing that a jianbing concept would do well in St. Louis, they decided to give it a shot. Their timing could not have been better. Over the last few years, jianbing restaurants have
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The duck soup is a masterpiece, with marinated duck giving the broth a subtle, yet powerful, flavor. | MABEL SUEN are kissed with a thin layer of sauce that is both salty and floral. It’s a special treat when you get an end piece, which has extra marinade and char. Taiwanese sausage has a savory pork flavor with just a whisper of sweetness and spice. However, my favorite filling was the pork floss, or rousing, which is basically pork cotton candy. Do the gods really love us this much? Jianbing are only part of the story at Bing Bing, however. The restaurant serves several other small-plate-style dishes, includ-
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food in the U.S. has been bastardized. Perhaps they were just drunk one night and playing around. Either way, it’s decadent fun. As much as jianbing is Bing Bing’s calling card, it would be a shame to leave the restaurant without trying the duck soup, a masterpiece of the form. Chen and Liu marinate the duck for ten days, then make the soup from the intensely flavorful meat. It’s subtle, like a consommé, but powerful. Clear glass noodles, hunks of meat and bok choy bob in the broth for a soup that can stand toe to toe with the best dishes at the town’s numerous noodle spots. I’d drink that broth like tea, but Chen and Liu have other ideas for beverages. The restaurant serves what they call Aurora, a striking, blue-colored medicinal tea made from the butterfly pea flower. Though relatively tasteless on its own, Chen and Liu combine the tea with an assortment of fruit flavors, such as strawberry or pineapple. The drink is served iced, with a sticker covering the lid, which allows guests to turn the cup upside down and mix the layers of flavors. The result is something akin to a less sweet (and natural) Kool-Aid. For a hot tea option, Bing Bing also serves excellent milk tea, sweetened with honey, out of a container
The soup can stand toe to toe with the best dishes at the town’s numerous noodle spots. that looks like an inverted light bulb. Because the Aurora tea is new and unfamiliar to most St. Louis diners, Chen and Liu have a large sign on the front window that describes it. They also have one for jianbing, assuming that once prospective diners see what’s on offer inside their restaurant, they’ll be inclined to stop in. What they don’t have on the window is anything touting sweet and sour chicken. And they don’t need it. Their authentic Chinese cuisine is good enough to speak for itself. n Bing Bing
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rowing up as the daughter of small business owners, Elisa Lewis always felt that she would have one of her own one day. She didn’t know it would be a restaurant, but after her first gig in the business, she certainly felt that pull. “My first job was in my neighborhood at the Pitted Olive,” Lewis recalls. “I just fell in love with how the owner, Mike Holmes, ran. He just enjoyed getting to know his customers and he enjoyed feeding them good food. I learned so much from him.” Lewis, who now co-owns Grace Meat + Three (4270 Manchester Avenue; 314-533-2700) with her husband, chef Rick Lewis, didn’t know it at the time, but her decision to work at Monarch after the Pitted Olive closed would seal her fate as a future restaurateur. She met Rick there, and the two of them became friends and started dating. But it wasn’t just romantic love that developed at the now-shuttered Maplewood landmark. She was also falling in love with the restaurant industry, particularly the level of hospitality being offered. “I had not been around that type of food or service before. It was just a different level of creativity than anything I’d ever experienced,” Lewis explains. “Everything from using all the different parts of a pig to having the artwork be a part of the dining experience — I’d never gone to a lot of fine dining restaurants, so it was a real eye-opening experience for me.” Around the time that Monarch was winding down, Lewis’ father had bought a building on Gravois
With her husband Rick, Elisa Lewis owns Grace Meat + Three. He’s the chef, but she’s the one who keeps things running. | SARA BANNOURA that he initially planned on flipping. He was approached by some people who were interested in putting a restaurant in the building, so he began building it out accordingly. The relationship turned into a silent partnership, and before he knew it, Lewis’ father was heavily involved in what would become Quincy Street Bistro — a restaurant that would become a turning point for Elisa and Rick Lewis. “I began picking up shifts at Quincy Street, and when Monarch closed, I transitioned there full time,” Elisa explains. “Then Rick came on board and he revamped the place, doing the kind of food that he does. Looking back on it, I guess it should have been a little scary, but we weren’t worried about whether what we were doing fit into a particular category. We were just trying to feed the people in the neighborhood.” Quincy Street Bistro would thrust Rick Lewis into the spotlight and solidified his role as a rising star in
the St. Louis culinary scene. Elisa was there every step of the way, leaving behind the family business to accompany her husband when he got the opportunity to be a partner in the wildly popular hot chicken restaurant Southern. There, she worked the front of the house and helped out around the restaurant while going to school for special education. After she graduated, however, Lewis decided that she wanted to dedicate herself fully to the restaurant. She took over Southern’s social media, catering and bookkeeping, serving as the sounding board, confidante and general yin to her husband’s yang. The pair branched out on their own this September, opening the country-cooking-influenced Grace Meat + Three in the Grove, where Lewis continues to run the ship and keep her husband on track. “I call myself the ‘Rick Whisperer,’” Lewis laughs. “I have to keep him organized. He says I am his therapist.” riverfronttimes.com
But while working with her spouse isn’t always easy, she wouldn’t trade it for anything. “We’ve worked together for a long time, and our roles have really changed,” she says. “It’s not always bliss, but it’s allowed our relationship to grow. We have a really good understanding of how the other works and can read each other. We complement each other. I think it’s awesome to be part of the experience and to share all of this with him.” Lewis took a break from Grace Meat + Three to share her thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage scene, her food crush (shh, don’t tell Rick) and why two Elisas would be better than one. What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did? I head up the catering for Grace Meat + Three — so holla at your girl (elisa@stlgrace.com). What daily Continued on pg 34
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iddlehead Fern Café (4066 Russell Boulevard, 314-972-2637) opened in the Shaw neighborhood earlier this month. The counter-service café offers breakfast, lunch, coffee and sweets in a space designed to welcome neighbors, family and friends. Proprietors Darcy Heine and her family have lived in Shaw since the 1940s. In fact, Heine attended the same neighborhood school as her mother before her. The family has witnessed plenty of ups and downs over the years and decided the community needed a gathering space. “What better place to do that than over a cup of coffee,” says Heine. The café serves traditional coffee, as well as espresso, macchiato, cortado, cappuccino, latte, Americano and flavored lattes, such as mint, lavender rose and Aztec chocolate. The beans are sourced from Perc Coffee, a roaster in Savannah, Georgia. Heine briefly worked there and recalls her first cup as the moment she realized what coffee should taste like. Fiddlehead Fern Café is the first café in St. Louis to use Modbar, a new modular coffee brewing system that houses much of the hardware underneath the counter with only the taps above. With the equipment gone, “the system creates a more intimate interaction between the customer and the barista, which further supports our mission of interacting with our community,” explains Heine.
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Fiddlehead Fern Café has a rustic modern look that suits its neighborhood. | SARA GRAHAM The health-conscious, flavor-packed breakfast and lunch menus are simple and largely vegetarian. Loaded toasts are the focus and showcase fresh bread from St. Louis-based traditional bread baker Joey Vitale. Hearty breakfast bowls and soup and salad specials change daily and seasonally. Fiddlehead’s modular brewing system. | SUZY GORMAN The food menu is paired with a short list of wine and cocktails, some of which fea- style. The café’s bright interior is ture fruit-forward shrubs and syr- rustic modern with a few antiques, ups from St. Louis-based Heirloom such as a bronze mirror from the Bottling Company. home of Heine’s grandparents. The café is housed in a newly Why the name? It along with boconstructed building on the park- tanical artwork and local table bouing lot of a former gas station that quets reflect an homage to Henry had sat abandoned for 30 years. The Shaw, the neighborhood’s namegas station has been converted into sake and founder of the Missouri a two-family residence next door. Botanical Garden. The buildings’ modern archiFiddlehead Fern Café is open tecture complements the historic seven days a week, from 7 a.m. to n neighborhood’s evolving urban life- 3 p.m.
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n Tuesday, October 31, Joe Bonwich passed away while on a decades-delayed second honeymoon with his wife Jennie Shipman Bonwich. Yet even in the darkest hours following his death, something amazing happened to Jennie, as she began to hear from people who knew her late husband. Some of those calls, emails, texts and Facebook messages might have been expected, but others were unusual, in that she didn’t know the names of these people and yet many of them considered him a good, trusted friend. In some respects, clues about this bounty of goodwill were always there. The dean of St. Louis food journalism was known to be maniacal about his old-school approach of being anonymous when visiting area restaurants, almost to the point of comedy. When the couple dined together, it was Jennie who would ask endless questions of the restaurant’s staff, while Joe wrote notes under the table, often without being able to see pen hit paper. Even if the situation resulted in an amusing mess of scribbles in his ringed notebook, the actual work was Continued on pg 30 taking place
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JOE BONWICH Continued from pg 32 in Joe’s head. “He was always ready to focus,” Jennie recalls, in order to get facts and impressions correct. Together, “we were a real team.” What she didn’t know until this week was that his “undercover career” as a dining critic was neatly mimicked by a lifelong habit of reaching out to people on the sly. Friends, former colleagues, other journalists who’d never even met him, folks who didn’t neatly fit into his many orbits — all were treated to occasional messages from Bonwich: helpful or encouraging notes from a friendly voice. “I knew he was a great man,” Jennie Bonwich says, “but I’ve heard from every kind of person under the sun. All of these different people have messaged me about him and all of them have been so loving. I just didn’t know how many people got a kick out of him.” Amanda Doyle, an author who’s written a series of books extolling the virtues (and, yes, quirks) of St. Louis, developed a largely digital kinship with Bonwich. “He was a new kind of modern friend, but he was a real one, very much,” she says. In her case, that meant him stepping up for live appearances, making networking introductions, initiating a variety of small niceties. “Here’s what even a casual friend can say about Joe: He was a generous and gentle guy, apt to send you a private note helping out with some request or need you had,” she writes. “Even one that might have gone unexpressed.” Brendan Kirby, who literally grew up at Duff’s and now co-helms the lovely cafe Seed Sprout Spoon, was long a Bonwich fan from afar. Kirby, like many others, poured out some thoughts on Facebook yesterday, writing, “His reviews were laced with wit and positivity. His love of food, St. Louis, and Billiken basketball are something we shared and I always took his opinion of anything as something to be revered. We only spoke in the digital realm and I never knew what he looked like until now. I wish we had met in person.” His love of Billiken basketball was so profound, Jennie Bonwich jokes, “that he began to look a little bit like the Billiken as he got older. He loved them so much. He knew everything about basketball and what they should do, so he was always shouting like crazy at the coaches.” Despite all this knowledge, she says, “I’m not sure that he ever bounced a basketball is his life.” While his hoops wisdom was real, it’s Bonwich’s take on the area restaurant scene that made him a name. He had two stints as a writer with the Riverfront Times, including a lengthy freelance run in the ’90s. He worked for the St. Louis
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ELISA LEWIS Continued from pg 31 ritual is non-negotiable for you? Coffee. I am a seriously heavy sleeper. I need to set about seven alarms to get up in the morning, and I sleep through the majority of them. Our coffee pot is on auto every night — it helps motivate me to get moving in the morning. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? I think cloning myself would be a beneficial superpower for my personal and professional life. Between Grace Meat + Three and the twelve ongoing projects I have at my house, two of me would not only be helpful, but hey, there would be more to love! What is the most positive thing in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year? Casual, chef-driven restaurants opening up in other areas surrounding St. Louis. I now live in St. Louis County, and I have been really excited to see great restaurants opening up in areas like Creve Coeur, Crestwood, O’Fallon and more — these are go-to places that make it so you don’t have to always travel down to the city. What is something missing in the local food, wine or cocktail scene that you’d like to see? The St. Louis food scene is in a great place right now — I am continually excited and impressed by what our friends are doing. One thing I’d like to see more of is communal-style seating. I think this style of dining is an excellent way to enjoy a meal and the company of others. I am surprised at how often this style of seating makes diners uncomfortable. Sharing the meal is part of the beauty of the dining experience — and you never know who you’re going to meet. Who is your St. Louis food crush? Other than Rick Lewis? Christy Augustin is my forever lady food crush. A fabulous baker, business woman and friend, Christy is a great person to bounce ideas off of, vent and laugh about everyday restaurant woes with. And have you tried her hand pies? I mean come on — they’re amazing and served on Saturdays. Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene? Loryn Nalic of Balkan Treat Box. She’s everywhere and I love it! I think I learn something new about Bosnian cuisine and culture every time I eat with Loryn and her husband Edo. Loryn has a creative Post-Dispatch for a longer, eleven-year stretch, starting in 2002; he also served on the staff of its competitor, the shortlived daily the St. Louis Sun. He was on his second round of dining coverage for St. Louis Magazine at the time of his passing, while working a day job in public relations at the Vandiver Group. Just 58, Bonwich leaves behind a large family, including his five daughters (Lucie Beatrix Bonwich, Lily Josephine Bonwich, Grace Bonwich Thompson, Celeste Carolyn Kuczewski and Susannah Therese Bonwich) and three grandsons.
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Elisa Lewis also has a degree in special education. | SARA BANNOURA way of sharing the Balkan cuisine and it is delicious. Which ingredient is most representative of your personality? A few years ago a regular told me I was like a glass of Champagne — sweet, bubbly and always classy. He also followed up with how I reminded him of his third wife, which I was unsure if that was a compliment. If you weren’t working in the restaurant business, what would you be doing? Teaching. My degree is in special education. Owning a restaurant is a lot like teaching. You’re just teaching a different subject. Name an ingredient never allowed in your restaurant. That’s not really my department. I leave that up to the hubs. What is your after-work hangout? I read this question out loud to Rick and we cracked up. If I’m being honest, my favorite place is in my jammies, on the couch with our dogs, Zoey and Cowboy. I am an old lady. What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure? The soft-serve ice cream with a magic shell at Peacemaker. Don’t get me wrong — the food is delicious — but I will stop eating my meal to save room for that ice cream. What would be your last meal on earth? Salt and pepper calamari and egg crepes from n Mai Lee. I get crazy cravings for these dishes.
There’s no exact count, of course, of how many friends he leaves behind, or how many lives intersected with his in ways great, small and unique. Folks like Joe Thebeau, for example, who worked with Bonwich in the mid-late ’90s at Data Research Associates. Back then, Bonwich introduced him to several of his favorite restaurants, which were as varied as Cafe Provencal and the U. City Grill. Of late, Thebeau writes, “Most of my interactions over the last several years have been online/FB, but the few times we did hang out, it was like no time had passed.”
Many years, around this time, Bonwich would gift Thebeau and his wife Gina some cherries he’d grown at his home. These visits from “the Cherry Fairy” became something of a tradition and “with Thanksgiving coming, we’ll be making a pie with the cherries he hand-delivered,” Thebeau writes. As “Joe was a very positive person,” Jennie Bonwich fully expects to hear many more such stories, from quarters near and far — more stories than she would ever have guessed. Joe Bonwich may be gone, but his many kindnesses live on. —Thomas Crone
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At Privado, a Sexy Spin on Tasting Menus Written by
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ike Randolph is alone in his kitchen. It’s 10:30 a.m. on Friday, and Randolph is already two and a half hours into the day, working through his prep list in preparation for dinner service at Privado (6665 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314899-9221). His cooks, the few that will work with him that evening, will not arrive until much later that day — not because anyone called off, but because it’s exactly the way he wants it. “‘Deliberate’ is the word to sum up all aspects of this,” Randolph says of Privado, the new tasting-menu restaurant that replaced his homage to Italian-American dining, Randolfi’s, just a month prior. “This is not a ‘rah rah’ kitchen. I really want to slow things down.” For Randolph, slowing down means beginning his day at 8 a.m. on the days Privado is open for service. He unlocks the door that bears the restaurant’s name on a piece of paper, pulls himself a shot of espresso, turns on Miles Davis and stands in his kitchen in silence. For a chef who has been in a near-constant, and at times frenetic, evolution since his first days on the line at the famed Moto in Chicago, the solitude is not only welcome, but it is emblematic of what he hopes to communicate with his guests at Privado. Barely a month after announcing the closure of Randolfi’s, the James Beard-award-nominated chef broke the news that he was planning to open a tasting-menu concept as a way to “get back into fine dining, but in my own terms.” Those terms are a Friday and Saturday only, single-seating ticketed event limited to sixteen people, akin to being invited to a dinner party in Randolph’s home. Guests may arrive as early as 6 p.m. for
Privado fills the space formerly occupied by Randolfi’s, with chef Mike Randolph cooking whatever he feels inspired to serve each night. | CHERYL BAEHR cocktail hour, with the twelve-tofifteen-course dinner beginning at 7 p.m. There are no special requests and no modifications. Instead, diners are in the hands of Randolph, embarking on an exploratory meal in what he describes as a culinary “idea house,” but, as he is quick to point out, is meant to be unpretentious. “I don’t think it’s fair to say that fine dining is dead. I know the tasting menu is passé,” Randolph admits. “But we are dressing it up in a sexier light and taking away the pretentiousness.” Unlike the cavalcade of dishes and wine pairings that define tasting menus of dining past, Randolph’s modernized version is an all-encompassing experience. It begins the moment his guests enter the restaurant, which is still outfitted with Randolfi’s signage outside, evoking a clandestine mood. This carries through upon entry, as the front of the restaurant remains darkened, the old Randolph’s chairs stacked on top of tables as if you are walking into an after-hours party. Diners are ushered to the back of the restaurant and seated directly in front of the minimalist, open kitchen. Music, something Randolph regularly invokes when discussing the restaurant, is a subtle but thoughtful component of
the experience, changing from course to course to evoke a mood that complements each dish while cueing the kitchen to where it’s at in the night’s service. The experience, start to finish, is meant to be as intentional as a traditional Japanese tea ceremony. “There is no overarching philosophy — an ethos maybe — but it’s not thematic,” Randolph says of his courses. “We are trying to push and pull guests throughout the meal, but it’s still coherent. It’s not craziness. This is not about us showing fourteen different things we can do with food.” For those who experienced the Diversion dinner series Randolph recently put on at Randolfi’s, the setup and experimental feel to the evening may seem familiar. However, Randolph explains that the concept dates all the way back to 2012 and his tasting-menu restaurant Little Country Gentleman and its precursor, the pop-up Fixe. “This has been a dream of mine forever, and the timing just made sense,” Randolph explains. “At Little Country Gentleman, the space was hard. Because it was in Half & Half (Randolph’s daytime restaurant), we couldn’t get into the kitchen until 3 p.m. That just didn’t work. Plus, back then, I just wasn’t as mature as a chef.” In the years that followed Litriverfronttimes.com
tle Country Gentleman, Randolph has definitely matured, or rather evolved, into one of the city’s most exciting chefs. After previously garnering acclaim for his Neapolitan pizzeria, the Good Pie, and his breakfast and lunch spot, Half & Half, he introduced the sexy Pùblico (a semifinalist for last year’s James Beard Best New Restaurant award) and Randolfi’s. Each one felt right — and uniquely representative of him as a chef. And every last one of them has led to Privado. “A restaurant will not be as good the day it opens as it is a month after it opens. And it won’t be as good a month in as it is a year later,” Randolph muses while gazing out at the dining room from his chef table. “But if you can’t learn from the past and reconnect it to everything you have ever done, then why are you doing it?” Privado is open Fridays and Saturdays via the ticket system Tock at the cost of $100 per person, not including tax and gratuity. Because this is a ticketed event, reservations are paid for in advance. The restaurant also serves a limited a la carte menu on those days to walk-in guests at the bar, beginning at 8 p.m. Randolph will also be using the space for weekday popups, including an upcoming curry night, and other special events. n
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nthony Weiner walks into a bar, long before exhibiting the sort of behavior that would land him in prison. The bar’s in D.C.’s Logan Circle, back before it gentrified. Weiner’s wet; it’s raining outside. He tosses his tie over his left shoulder and orders a bourbon on the rocks. He doesn’t check his Twitter feed, because Twitter hasn’t been invented yet. He scratches his nuts, but refrains from fondling them. What would be the point? The point is, Dierks Bentley walks into the same bar: the New Vegas Lounge, which is thousands of miles from Vegas. He orders a Bud, because to order anything other than a Bud wouldn’t be in keeping with Bentley’s denim-jacket-and-stubble image. (Never mind that he’s from Arizona.) He catches Weiner’s eye. Weiner’s wiener catches his eye. They make small talk until the talk turns long. Bentley’s got a hotel room. Weiner checks in. In the newly invented realm of Americana erotica, this would be how Evan Felker, the lead singer of the Turnpike Troubadours, came into being. After all, he looks like what would result if the aforementioned mismatched pair got to gettin’ down. But men have no means of giving birth, and Oklahoma probably wouldn’t let them anyhow. Some 3,000 people live in Okemah, Oklahoma, where Felker
Evan Felker, Turnpike Troubadours’ lead singer, is that handsome gentleman second from the left. | JUSTIN VOIGHT resides. It’s also the birthplace of Woody Guthrie. Felker’s one-time bandmate and still-frequent collaborator, singer-songwriter John Fullbright, surmises that Felker was likely one of the last babies to be born at Okemah’s hospital. Fullbright had to settle for sprouting forth from his mother’s loins in Shawnee. “One of the biggest misnomers about eastern Oklahoma is that it’s flat,” says Troubadours bassist and co-writer R.C. Edwards. “We live on the edge of the Ozarks — creeks and hills and trees.” Aesthetically, Edwards is sort of the anti-Felker. He’s round where Evan is slim, hirsute where Evan is shorn. If Edwards wears a hunting cap on stage, well, shit, that’s probably ’cause he just went hunting. Food roams the fields, y’know — everywhere, anytime. The Troubadours hails from the Sooner State, but rarely leaves the road. The group is revered as one of America’s great live bands and following its current run of shows has been tapped as an opening act on the 2018 tour for no less than Miranda Lambert.
“She’s kind of rotating a lot of pretty neat bands that you wouldn’t think to open for Miranda Lambert,” says Edwards. “If you had to pick a mainstream artist, she’s one who’d be pretty cool in our book. There’s definitely been lots of gravitation toward more roots and traditional Americana stuff from the big-time country folks out of Nashville.” Remember when Jason Isbell left the Drive-By Truckers? There was acrimony at the time of the split, although it’s since been smoothed over. Well, Fullbright was once a Troubadour, back around the time he was getting fitted for a prom tux. Fullbright was never fully committed to the Troubadours, signaling from the get-go that he wanted to do his own singer-songwriter thing. Yet the pianist still shows up on every one of the group’s albums, including its shimmering newbie, October’s A Long Way From Your Heart. That’s even though, as Fullbright quips, Felker has “strangely anti-keyboard” tendencies. The Troubadours’ prior albums have been a blast, mirroring the riverfronttimes.com
group’s live shows. But the new LP is a whole lot slicker, a dynamic that can really screw with a killer live band (see: the Grateful Dead or Phish). Thankfully, the enhanced production works on A Long Way From Your Heart. “I think a lot of that is this was our first time using a producer instead of us just winging it,” says Edwards. “He [Ryan Hewitt] really pushed us to get the best out of all our writing and arranging and playing. The arrangements are the big difference — they’re just better than we’ve typically had before.” But for real, nothing beats the Troubadours’ live vibe. One time, when they played in Mizzou’s backyard, they were just some of the guys. “Columbia’s always been a fun town,” says Edwards. “We were trying to watch the Sooners game and ended up going to a party-pad apartment with a bunch of fans before the show. It was kind of like reliving our college days.” Who knows what future Americana superstars might have been conceived that night? n
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n a lot of ways, Brandon McCadney’s story is not that different from many post-collegiate twenty-somethings. After graduating college with a degree in public relations, the 24-year-old St. Louis native floated in and out of communications jobs and freelance gigs while his true passion — making music — withered. “When I tried to do music last year I could not create — it wasn’t quality because my focus wasn’t solely on it,” he says. “It wasn’t until February of this year that I dropped everything I was doing on the side to go all-in for music.” While McCadney still has a day job as a communications specialist for the Ferguson-Florissant School District (“That’s something else I’m passionate about — telling stories about students and their achievements,” he says), he’s been able to pour more of his time and energy into his musical alter-ego Mad Keys. His debut LoveWaves sees its release this week; the five-song EP is a mix of vibey instrumentals and syrupy soul tracks with a few guest vocalists. Even this brief collection introduces a producer and songwriter capable of using and mutilating familiar R&B textures. The moniker “Mad Keys” stems from a high school nickname — a young McCadney went to town on a piano during music class at Hazelwood Central and the name stuck. It’s only a slight misnomer, given these tracks’ smoothness; he’s more apt to stretch out on a creamy Fender Rhodes lick or punctuate a track with a slightly buzzy synth pad. But on the instrumental “Milk & Honey,” as he pushes a stuttering electric piano line against an erratic, slapping beat, the listener gets the sense of the nickname’s origin. And though keys and beats fill in most of the space on LoveWaves, the first sound you hear is that of McCadney’s primary instrument — the violin. On opening track “Blossom,” a dramatic violin filigree gets mangled by distortion and taken into hyper-speed overdrive before dissolving into a soft bed of electric piano. The introduction serves as a warning that typical lounge grooves and Soulquarian vibes are subject to interpretation. He began playing the violin in fourth grade. McCadney took inspiration from jazz legends like Jean-Luc Ponty and Regina Carter, who used the traditional instrument in atypical ways. “I wanted to find a way to merge that element,” McCadney says of the violin. “When you think of violin you think of symphonies — I was in the symphony back in undergrad. It’s a great experience of playing with other professionals; I learned a lot from that. But when it comes to implementing that with my own music, I wanted to create melodies that I hear in my head. I’m able to find ways to interject the violin into it.” McCadney avoids direct vocalization on this EP (“I can’t sing!” he says with a laugh) but instead uses a
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vocoder to process and other-ize his voice on few tracks, most notably on “Beta.” It’s his take on OutKast’s “Prototype” with a few sly lyrical changes — though those lyrics get so modulated through the vocoder’s machinery that the tone pierces the cloudy chords of the backing track. “Being able to do what I do with the vocoder makes me happy, knowing that I can do that and that I have the freedom to create and be that versatile,” McCadney says. Since he’s more comfortable as a producer than lead singer, McCadney populates the rest of LoveWaves with guest vocalists Orlando Vaughn and Teresajenee. On the Vaughn-led “Goliath,” McCadney says that the final track is the result of a back-and-forth collaboration; Vaughn took the demo version and offered his own arrangements as well as his vocals. When McCadney approached Teresajenee, he admits to having some nerves in sending that initial email. “I’ve always wanted to work with her ever since she released Electric Yellow,” he says. “She’s one of my inspirations when it comes to creating music. I love the combination of her boom-bap sound with electronics — I’ve always wanted to get there.” Her performance on “Love Ultra” ends the EP on a high note, with Teresajenee’s always-controlled vocals holding the center against booming kick drums and undulating, percolating synth. If McCadney’s mid-twenties journey began in the usual mix of confusion and ambition, he’s been quicker than most at righting his ship. “I was missing out on my purpose,” he says. “The way I overcame it was understanding the passion I’ve had from the jump — it was music. “My message with this project is to show people that you don’t have to have it all together,” McCadney continues. “It’s OK to take your time. I’m 24 — I’m just beginning to figure it out. I don’t have everything figured out, but I know what’s important to me.” –Christian Schaeffer
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THURSDAY 9
KSHE STORIES FROM THE WINDOW 2: 8 p.m.,
THE POTOMAC ACCORD: 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole,
BRUJERIA: w/ Powerflo, Piñata Protest 2 p.m.,
COLD SPECKS: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Old Rock House,
$20. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,
7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.
$22.50-$25. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
314-726-6161.
RUM DRUM RAMBLERS 10TH ANNIVERSARY PAR-
314-289-9050.
FARFETCHED PRESENTS: THE LINK-UP: 8 p.m., $7.
LEROY JODIE PIERSON: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
TY: w/ the Bottlesnakes 8 p.m., $10. Off Broad-
CHASE GARRETT’S 8TH ANNUAL BLUES & BOOGIE
Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St.
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.
WOOGIE PIANO STOMP FESTIVAL: 7 p.m., $20-$25.
Louis, 314-772-2100.
436-5222.
STATIC SIGNAL: w/ Shock The Junkie, A Shogun
National Blues Museum, 615 Washington Ave.,
FIT FOR A KING: w/ In Hearts Wake, Like Moths
LUCKY OLD SONS: 9 p.m., $3. Hammerstone’s,
Named Marcus 8 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust
St. Louis.
To Flames, Phinehas, In My Silence 6 p.m.,
2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-773-5565.
St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
FERRY CORSTEN: 9 p.m., TBA. Ameristar Casino,
$16-$18. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-
MANNEQUIN PUSSY: 8 p.m., $12-$14. Fubar, 3108
THE O’JAYS: w/ the Spinners 7 p.m., $50-$90.
1 Ameristar Blvd., St. Charles, 636-949-7777.
289-9050.
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St Charles,
THE GREAT CRUSADES ALBUM RELEASE: w/ The
FLYOVER: A COMEDY FESTIVAL: noon, $25. The
MATT FREEMAN: 6 p.m., free. Meshuggah Coffee
636-896-4200.
Maness Brothers, Cara Louise 8 p.m., $10. The
Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,
House, 6269 Delmar Blvd., University City,
THE WEEKEND CLASSIC: 7 p.m., $10-$12. The
Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-
314-833-3929.
314-726-5662.
Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
775-0775.
GLASS MANSIONS: w/ The Skagbyrds, We
MAYHEM: 8 p.m., $25-$30. The Ready Room,
TYLER CHILDERS: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Blueberry
HUSH LITE: 3 p.m.; Dec. 9, 3 p.m., free. Hammer-
Should Leave This Tree, The Monolithic, An
4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd.,
stone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-773-5565.
Unfortunate Trend, Cody Robbins 7 p.m.,
OTTO’S REVENGE: w/ King Gambrinus, Landon
University City, 314-727-4444.
JUST FRIENDS: w/ Graduating Life (CA), Lobby
$7-$10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,
Britton, the Guide to Fast Living 8 p.m., $7.
314-535-0353.
Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St.
SATURDAY 11
THE GREEN MCDONOUGH BAND: 8:30 p.m., $3.
Louis, 314-772-2100.
BIG GEORGE BROCK & THE HOUSEROCKERS:
2100.
Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-
PAPERKITE: w/ Vela Uniform 9 p.m., $7. The
10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S.
KARAN CASEY AND MAURA O’CONNELL: 8 p.m.,
773-5565.
Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis,
Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
$25. Blanche M Touhill Performing Arts
HOLLY BOWLING: 8 p.m., $15. Kranzberg Arts
314-352-5226.
BILLY PEEK: 8 p.m., $5. Hwy 61 Roadhouse
Center, 1 University Dr at Natural Bridge Road,
Center, 501 N Grand Blvd, St. Louis, 314-533-
PASSAFIRE: 7 p.m., $12-$15. The Bootleg, 4140
and Kitchen, 34 S Old Orchard Ave, Webster
Normandy, 314-516-4949.
0367.
Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-775-0775.
Groves, 314-968-0061.
Boxer, Mother Meat 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-
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HOOPS: 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989. IVAS JOHN & BRIAN CURRAN: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s
[CRITIC’S PICK]
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. JEREMIAH JOHNSON ACOUSTIC DUO: 4 p.m., free. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314773-5565. JOE METZKA BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222. KIM MASSIE: 10:30 p.m., $10. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880. OKEY DOKEY: w/ Dan Luke And The Raid 8 p.m., $8-$10. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444. RAILHAZER: w/ Raviner 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-3525226. SPACE4LEASE: w/ Magnolia Remedy, Daytime Television 9 p.m., $5. Way Out Club, 2525 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-664-7638. UNKNOWN HINSON: 8 p.m., $18-$20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314833-3929.
Rum Drum Ramblers. | NATE BURRELL
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FRIDAY 10
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CAROLYN MASON: 5 p.m., $10-$15. National
Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $10. 314-498-6989.
Blues Museum, 615 Washington Ave., St. Louis.
In being obstinately behind the times, the Rum Drum Ramblers have always been ahead of them. Ten years after forming in St. Louis, the band remains at the forefront of a back-to-the-barrel-houses revival that shows no signs of fading. Led by the stinging guitar and tremulous growl of Mat Wilson, and featuring the slapping bass of Joey Glynn and the freewheeling harmonica, washboard and mandolin
DAYS OF WINE AND PIAF: 8 p.m., $15. Jacoby Arts Center, 627 E. Broadway, Alton, 618-462-5222. JOSH HOYER & SOUL COLOSSAL: 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. KINGOFTHEHILL: w/ Dirty King 8 p.m., $17-$20. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314726-6161.
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Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.
KATHLEEN MADIGAN: 7 p.m., $35. Peabody
NAKED MIKE: 7 p.m.; Nov. 21, 7 p.m.; Nov. 28, 7
Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-
p.m., free. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St.
499-7600.
Louis, 314-773-5565.
KOFFIN KATS: w/ Gallows Bound 8 p.m., $12-$14.
RIVAL CHOIR: 7 p.m., $13-$15. Fubar, 3108
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
LARRY GRIFFIN & ERIC MCSPADDEN: 7 p.m., $5.
ROBYN HITCHCOCK: 8 p.m., $20-$23. Blueberry
BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.
Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd.,
Louis, 314-436-5222.
University City, 314-727-4444.
MASON JENNINGS: 8 p.m., $20-$22.50. Blueber-
RYAN MONTBLEAU: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Old Rock
ry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd.,
House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
KIM MASSIE: 10:30 p.m., $10. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880.
University City, 314-727-4444. MYSPACE EMO PROM: 6 p.m., $7-$10. Fubar,
WEDNESDAY 15
3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
ANARBOR: w/ Sundressed 6 p.m., $12-$14.
PATH OF MIGHT RECORD RELEASE: w/ Fister,
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
Dracla 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole, 7423 South
BIG RICH MCDONOUGH & RHYTHM RENEGADES: 7
Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.
[CRITIC’S PICK]
PAUL BONN & THE BLUESMEN: 9 p.m.; Dec. 2, 9 p.m., $3. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St.
p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale on
Louis, 314-773-5565.
Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-
Tyler, the Creator. | PETRA COLLINS
PRETTY LITTLE EMPIRE: w/ Two Cars, Jenny Roques, Matt Pace 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.
Tyler, the Creator
7880. HABIB KOITÉ: 8 p.m., $25-$30. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
Tyler, the Creator, the founder of LAbased hip-hop collective Odd Future, has long been a polarizing figure, peddling shock and outrage even more prolifically (and prodigiously) than he does music and tall socks. He infamously destroyed the soundboard at a Sunset Boulevard venue when the sound guy cut his mic off early in 2011; he was arrested for inciting a riot at his sold-out performance at SXSW in 2014 after encouraging the crowd outside to rush past the gate; he was banned outright from visiting the U.K. in 2015 thanks to his outrageous lyrical content. And that’s just a smattering.
But something funny happened with the July release of Flower Boy: People have begun describing the rapper as “mature.” It seems crazy, but his new album dials back the shock-rap tropes (for the most part, at least) in favor of a more introspective approach. Some have even interpreted the lyrics as the rapper coming out as gay. Whether that’s a put-on is yet to be determined, but regardless, Tyler proves he’s still capable of surprises. Creator Indeed: Tyler’s nickname is earned. In addition to launching his own career and that of several of friends through his own label, the multi-hyphenate has his own clothing line, an annual festival and a streaming service, as well as helming three television shows. —Daniel Hill
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MONDAY 13
TUESDAY 14
JENNIFER HOLLIDAY: 8 p.m., $40-$50. The
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314-533-9900.
BANDITS: 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359
ARCADIA DANCE ORCHESTRA: Sun., Nov. 19, 7:30
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
THE HOTELIER: w/ Oso Oso, Alex Napping 8
Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
p.m., $10. The Stage at KDHX, 3524 Washington
314-436-5222.
p.m., $13-$16. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St.
BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s
Ave, St. Louis, 314-925-7543, ext. 815.
REBETIKI ISTORIA: 3 p.m., $25. Blanche M
Louis, 314-535-0353.
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
BANDITS: Tue., Nov. 14, 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee
Touhill Performing Arts Center, 1 University
MUSIC UNLIMITED BAND: 8 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,
314-436-5222.
& Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-
Dr at Natural Bridge Road, Normandy, 314-
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
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516-4949.
314-436-5222.
en 6 p.m., $15-$20. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St.,
BIANCA DEL RIO: Sun., Feb. 25, 8 p.m., $39.95-
SOUL REUNION: 10:30 p.m., $7. Beale on
SOULARD BLUES BAND: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway
St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
$199. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St.
Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
EINAV YARDEN: 7 p.m., $25. Ethical Society of
Louis, 314-726-6161.
621-7880.
621-8811.
St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Rd, Richmond Heights,
CAVE STATES: Fri., Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m., $12-$15.
SOULS: w/ Dissention, Chalked Up 8 p.m., $5.
TIM ALBERT & STOVEHANDLE DAN: w/ Randy
314-991-0955.
The Stage at KDHX, 3524 Washington Ave, St.
The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St.
7 p.m.; Nov. 20, 7 p.m.; Nov. 27, 7 p.m., free.
ETHAN LEINWAND & FRIENDS: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s
Louis, 314-925-7543, ext. 815.
Louis, 314-833-3929.
Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
CHUCK FLOWERS: UP CLOSE & PERSONAL: Sun.,
STREET FIGHTING BAND: 8 p.m., $15-$20. Off
773-5565.
314-436-5222.
Nov. 12, 5 p.m., $15. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups,
Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-
WILCO: 7 p.m., $40-$60. The Pageant, 6161
JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ
700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
498-6989.
Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828 Olive
CUCO: W/ Helado Negro, Lido Pimienta, Thu.,
SONIC MISCHIEF: 9 p.m., free. Nightshift Bar & Grill, 3979 Mexico Road, St. Peters, 636-4418300. SWEET ASCENT: w/ Never Let This Go, The Autumn After 7 p.m., $12-$15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. TODD BARRY: 8 p.m., $20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929. TYLER, THE CREATOR: w/ Taco 8 p.m., $25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-7266161.
SUNDAY 12 AND THE KIDS: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444. CHUCK FLOWERS: UP CLOSE & PERSONAL: 5 p.m., $15. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. DEAD REGISTER: w/ Separer 8 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. ERIK BROOKS: 8 p.m.; Nov. 19, 8 p.m.; Nov. 26, 8 p.m., free. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-773-5565. HY-C: 4 p.m., $10-$15. National Blues Muse-
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HAZING: w/ High Hopes 7 p.m., $10-$12. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. JOHN MCVEY BAND: 8 p.m.; Nov. 22, 8 p.m.; Nov. 29, 8 p.m., free. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-773-5565. LEARNING TO FLY: A TRIBUTE TO TOM PETTY: w/ The Sleepy Rubies, Shooting With Annie, Brothers Lazaroff, Jimmy Griffin, Town Cars, Karate Bikini, Whoa Thunder 8 p.m., $12-$25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314498-6989. MARGARET & ERIC: 4 p.m.; Nov. 22, 4 p.m.; Nov. 29, 4 p.m., free. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-773-5565. MARTY SPIKENER & ON CALL BLUES BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. THAMES: 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS: w/ Charley Crockett 8 p.m., $22.50-$25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. WEDNESDAY NIGHT JAZZ CRAWL: 5 p.m. continues through Dec. 27, free. The Stage at KDHX, 3524 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-925-7543, ext. 815.
[CRITIC’S PICK]
Pretty Little Empire 8 p.m. Saturday, November 11. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $10. 314-4986989.
Long seen as one of the bright lights in St. Louis’ indie and Americana scenes, Pretty Little Empire has kept its stage lights dim the past few years. The band released a trio of increasingly accomplished albums that married Justin Johnson’s heart-on-a-raggedy-sleeve lyrics and his bandmates’ driving and atmospheric compositions, and each
release sharpened the group’s ability to weaponize romantic tension in ways that can either elevate or devastate. The quartet is once again ready to take the stage — with new drummer Corey Woodruff behind the kit — and hopes are high that a new album won’t be far behind. Drivin’ Desire: Town Cars and Desire Lines (the new-ish project by Tortuga’s Jenny Roques and Rats & People’s Matt Pace) open the show. —Christian Schaeffer
FIT FOR A KING: W/ In Hearts Wake, Like Moths To Flames, Phinehas, In My Silence, Thu., Nov.
THIS WEEK
9, 6 p.m., $16-$18. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St.
ANARBOR: W/ Sundressed, Wed., Nov. 15, 6
Louis, 314-289-9050.
p.m., $12-$14. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
FLYOVER: A COMEDY FESTIVAL: Thu., Nov. 9,
314-289-9050.
noon, $25. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester
AND THE KIDS: Sun., Nov. 12, 8 p.m., $10-$12.
Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar
GLASS MANSIONS: W/ The Skagbyrds, We
Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.
Should Leave This Tree, The Monolithic, An
‘GREAT’FUL DEAD HITS… COMPOSERS, THAT IS:
Unfortunate Trend, Cody Robbins, Thu., Nov. 9,
Mon., Nov. 13, 7:30 p.m.; Tue., Nov. 14, 7:30
7 p.m., $7-$10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St.
p.m., $38. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd.,
Louis, 314-535-0353.
St. Louis, 314-533-9900.
THE GREAT CRUSADES ALBUM RELEASE: W/ The
BANDITS: Tue., Nov. 14, 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee
Maness Brothers, Cara Louise, Sat., Nov. 11, 8
& Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-
p.m., $10. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave.,
2100.
St. Louis, 314-775-0775.
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BIG GEORGE BROCK & THE HOUSEROCKERS: Sat.,
THE GREEN MCDONOUGH BAND: Thu., Nov. 9, 6
Nov. 11, 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups,
p.m., free. Blues City Deli, 2438 McNair Ave.,
700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
St. Louis, 314-773-8225. Thu., Nov. 9, 8:30 p.m.,
BIG RICH MCDONOUGH & RHYTHM RENEGADES:
$3. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis,
Wed., Nov. 15, 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues &
314-773-5565.
Th
Jan. 18, 8 p.m., $15. The Ready Room, 4195
NOAH GUNDERSON: W/ Lizzy Gunderson, Fri.,
Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-
HABIB KOITÉ: Wed., Nov. 15, 8 p.m., $25-$30.
Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
Jan. 26, 8 p.m., $17-$20. Off Broadway, 3509
5222.
The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St.
DANA MICHAEL ANDERSON RELEASE SHOW: W/
Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.
BILLY PEEK: Sat., Nov. 11, 8 p.m., $5. Hwy 61
Emily Wallace, the Funky Butt Brass Band, Fri.,
OUGHT: Sat., March 10, 8 p.m., $13-$15. Off
Roadhouse and Kitchen, 34 S Old Orchard Ave,
HAZING: W/ High Hopes, Wed., Nov. 15, 7 p.m.,
Feb. 2, 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp
Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-
Webster Groves, 314-968-0061.
$10-$12. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,
Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.
6989.
BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: Tue., Nov. 14,
314-535-0353.
DAR WILLIAMS: Sun., Feb. 18, 7 p.m., $30-$35.
POKEY LAFARGE: Fri., Dec. 29, 8 p.m., $20. Off
HOLLY BOWLING: Thu., Nov. 9, 8 p.m., $15.
Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-
Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-
726-6161.
6989.
2017 OF & Soups, 700 S. 10 p.m., $5. BB’s BEST Jazz, Blues ST. LOUIS Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Readers Poll BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: Wednesdays, 8
DENNIS DEYOUNG: Fri., Feb. 16, 8 p.m., $45-$65.
RAYLAND BAXTER: Thu., Jan. 18, 8 p.m., $12-$15.
p.m. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St.
HOOPS: Thu., Nov. 9, 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway,
River City Casino & Hotel, 777 River City Casino
Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-
Louis, 314-621-7880.
Blvd., St. Louis, 314-388-7777.
498-6989.
BRUJERIA: W/ Powerflo, Piñata Protest, Sat.,
THE HOTELIER: W/ Oso Oso, Alex Napping, Mon.,
DIANE COFFEE: W/ Ratboys, The Potomac
RETRO VINYL NIGHT: Sat., Nov. 18, 7 p.m., free.
Nov. 11, 2 p.m., $22.50-$25. Fubar, 3108 Locust
Nov. 13, 8 p.m., $13-$16. The Firebird, 2706
Accord, Sat., Jan. 20, 8 p.m., $10-$12. The Ready
Hwy 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen, 34 S Old Or-
St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-
chard Ave, Webster Groves, 314-968-0061.
833-3929.
ROGERS AND NIENHAUS: Wed., Nov. 22, 7 p.m.,
en, Tue., Nov. 14, 6 p.m., $15-$20. The Firebird,
p.m., free. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St.
DIGITOUR: ARCTIC LIGHTS: Sun., Jan. 14, 4 p.m.,
free. Hwy 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen, 34 S Old
2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
Louis, 314-773-5565.
$25-$30. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,
Orchard Ave, Webster Groves, 314-968-0061.
CAROLYN MASON: Fri., Nov. 10, 5 p.m., $10-$15.
HY-C: Sun., Nov. 12, 4 p.m., $10-$15. National
314-535-0353.
SOULS: W/ Dissention, Chalked Up, Sun., Nov.
National Blues Museum, 615 Washington Ave.,
EINAV YARDEN: Tue., Nov. 14, 7 p.m., $25.
12, 8 p.m., $5. The Ready Room, 4195 Manches-
St. Louis.
Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Rd,
ter Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
CHASE GARRETT’S 8TH ANNUAL BLUES & BOOGIE
p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broad-
Richmond Heights, 314-991-0955.
SPACE4LEASE: W/ Magnolia Remedy, Daytime
way, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
ERIC GALES: Tue., Jan. 23, 8 p.m., $15. Old Rock
Television, Thu., Nov. 9, 9 p.m., $5. Way Out
House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
Club, 2525 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-664-
WOOGIE PIANO STOMP FESTIVAL: Sat., Nov. 11, 2017 National BEST OF 7 p.m., $20-$25. Blues Museum, 615 ST. LOUIS Washington Ave., St. Louis. Readers Poll
HUM: W/ Spotlights, Sat., Feb. 24, 8 p.m., $25-
7638.
CHUCK FLOWERS: UP CLOSE & PERSONAL: Sun.,
7828 Olive Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.
$28. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,
STATIC SIGNAL: W/ Shock The Junkie, A Shogun
Nov. 12, 5 p.m., $15. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups,
JENNIFER HOLLIDAY: Sun., Nov. 12, 8 p.m., $40-
314-726-6161.
Named Marcus, Fri., Nov. 10, 8 p.m., $10.
700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
$50. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St.
JASON BOLAND AND THE STRAGGLERS: Sat., Jan.
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
COLD SPECKS: Thu., Nov. 9, 8 p.m., $10-$12. Old
Louis, 314-533-9900.
20, 8 p.m., $17-$30. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp
STEEP CANYON RANGERS: Wed., March 14, 8
Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-
JEREMIAH JOHNSON ACOUSTIC DUO: Thu., Nov. 9,
Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.
p.m., $30-$40. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington
0505.
4 p.m., free. Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St.
KID GOALSS: Sun., Nov. 26, 6 p.m., $20-$60. The Pag-
Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900.
DAYS OF WINE AND PIAF: Fri., Nov. 10, 8 p.m.,
Louis, 314-773-5565.
eant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
THAMES: Wed., Nov. 15, 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee
$15. Jacoby Arts Center, 627 E. Broadway,
JOE METZKA BAND: Thu., Nov. 9, 10 p.m., $5.
LIGHTS: Wed., March 14, 8 p.m., $21-$23.50.
& Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-
Alton, 618-462-5222.
BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.
Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-
2100.
DEAD REGISTER: W/ Separer, Sun., Nov. 12,
Louis, 314-436-5222.
726-6161.
THE FARMER & ADELE: Thu., Nov. 16, 10 a.m.,
8 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
JOHN MCVEY BAND: Wed., Nov. 15, 8 p.m.; Wed.,
MICKY AND THE MOTORCARS: Thu., Jan. 25, 8
$12. The Stage at KDHX, 3524 Washington Ave,
314-289-9050.
Nov. 22, 8 p.m.; Wed., Nov. 29, 8 p.m., free.
p.m., $13. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.
St. Louis, 314-925-7543, ext. 815.
EINAV YARDEN: Tue., Nov. 14, 7 p.m., $25.
Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-
Louis, 314-498-6989.
TIFFANY HADDISH: Fri., Jan. 26, 7 p.m., $45-$55.
Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Rd,
773-5565.
THE MIGHTY PINES: W/ Falling Fences, Sat., Jan.
The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,
Richmond Heights, 314-991-0955.
JOSH HOYER & SOUL COLOSSAL: Fri., Nov. 10,
13, 8 p.m., $12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave.,
314-726-6161.
ERIK BROOKS: Sun., Nov. 12, 8 p.m.; Sun., Nov.
10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S.
St. Louis, 314-498-6989.
WALK THE MOON: W/ Company of Thieves, Thu.,
19, 8 p.m.; Sun., Nov. 26, 8 p.m., free. Hammer-
Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
MUSIC UNLIMITED BAND: Mon., Nov. 13, 8 p.m.,
Feb. 22, 8 p.m., $35-$40. The Pageant, 6161
stone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-773-5565.
JUST FRIENDS: W/ Graduating Life (CA), Lobby
$10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway,
Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
ETHAN LEINWAND & FRIENDS: Tue., Nov. 14, 7
Boxer, Mother Meat, Sat., Nov. 11, 8 p.m., $7.
St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
A WINTER WONDERLAND CONCERT: Sat., Dec. 23,
p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broad-
Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St.
MUTTS: W/ Backwash, Emily Wallace, Mon.,
8 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
way, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
Louis, 314-772-2100.
Dec. 11, 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp
314-289-9050.
FARFETCHED PRESENTS: THE LINK-UP: Thu., Nov.
KARAN CASEY AND MAURA O’CONNELL: Sat., Nov.
Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.
YESTERDAY IS HERE: A LIVE MUSIC CIRCUS
9, 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jeffer-
11, 8 p.m., $25. Blanche M Touhill Performing
NATE LOWERY: Thu., Nov. 30, 4 p.m., free.
TRIBUTE TO TOM WAITS: Sun., Dec. 3, 8 p.m.,
son Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
Arts Center, 1 University Dr at Natural Bridge
Hammerstone’s, 2028 S. 9th St., St. Louis, 314-
$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,
FERRY CORSTEN: Sat., Nov. 11, 9 p.m., TBA.
773-5565.
314-498-6989.
Ameristar Casino, 1 Ameristar Blvd., St.
LIKE & FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK Road, Normandy, 314-516-4949. @GOODTIMES.PATIO.BAR KATHLEEN MADIGAN: Sat., Nov. 11, 7 p.m., $35.
Charles, 636-949-7777.
Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St, St.
Louis, 314-833-3929. VOTED ST. LOUIS’
BEST PLACE TO SING KARAOKE
Kranzberg Arts Center, 501 N Grand Blvd, St. Louis, 314-533-0367.
3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989. Karaoke Thursdays
with KJ Ray Ortega
Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. KJ Kelly’s Saturday Night HUSH LITE: Sat., Nov. 11, 3 p.m.; Sat., Dec. 9, 3 CALL ME KARIZMA: W/ A Summer High, SkyhavKaraoke Dance Parties
Blues Museum, 615 Washington Ave., St. Louis. RUNNER-UP
ST. LOUIS’ BEST WINGS
IVAS JOHN & BRIAN CURRAN: Thu., Nov. 9, 7
200 N. MAIN, DUPO, IL
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SAVAGE LOVE THE DADDY FILES BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: I’m a 40-year-old bi man. I’ve been with my 33-year-old bi wife for three years and married for one. When we first met, she made it clear that she was in a long-term (more than three years) “Daddy” relationship with an older man. I figured out six months later that her “Daddy” was her boss and business partner. He is married, and his wife does not know. I struggled with their relationship, since I identify as open but not poly. Eight months later, she ended things with him because it was “logically right” for us (her words). But she cheated with him four times over the course of two years. In all other aspects, our relationship is the greatest one I’ve ever had. My wife has met her biological father only a couple of times and her stepfather died when she was sixteen — the same year she went to work for her “Daddy.” Their non-work relationship started ten years later, when she was 26. It’s a complex relationship, and he is not going anywhere, as they now own a business together. While I don’t think cheating has to be a relationship-ender, dishonesty always has been for me. The final complication: I have a cuckold fetish. I believe it might be possible to meet everyone’s needs, so long as everyone is honest. I will admit that, in the heat of passion, my wife and I have talked about her having “two daddies.” Do I consider allowing this, so long as everyone is honest? Do I ignore the part of my brain that wants this guy’s wife to know? Distressed About Deceitful Dynamics Involving Entangled Spouse
You don’t need my permission to consider this arrangement — allowing the wife to have two daddies — because you’re clearly already considering it. (You’ve moved on to the bargaining and/or writing-letters-to-sex-advice-columnists stage of consideration, the final stage before acceptance.) What you want, DADDIES, is my permission to do this, not just to think about it. Permission granted. Could it all come to shit? Anything and everything could come to shit. But your wife has been fucking this guy the entire time you’ve been together, and you nevertheless regard this relationship as the greatest one you’ve ever had. It stands to reason that if things were great when she was honest with you about fucking her boss (at the start) and remained great despite being dishonest with you about fucking her boss (the last two years), you three are in a good position to make this work now that everything is out in the open. As for your other concerns: Most of the poly people I know started out as either monogamous or “open but not poly” (people evolve), we find out about secret workplace romances only when they blow up (skewed samples make for skewed perceptions), and you need more info about the other man’s wife before you issue an ultimatum or pick up the phone yourself (their marriage could be companionate, he could be staying in the marriage for her sake, they could have agreed to a DADT arrangement regarding affairs). But again, DADDIES, what you’re basically asking is if something that seems to be working in practice might actually work in practice. And I’m thinking it could.
Hey, Dan: I’m a 31-year-old gay man who looks 45. Most men interested in me are surprisingly up front about expressing their desire to include a father-son element. Even men older than me call me “daddy” unprompted. I try not to be judgmental, but this repulses me. People who are into other forms of out-of-the-mainstream sex approach their kinks respectfully and establish mutual interest and obtain consent in advance. Why aren’t I given the same consideration when it comes to incest role-play? And where does this come from? Were all these men molested by their fathers? Desperately Avoiding Discussing Disgusting Incest Whoa, DADDI. Just as gay men who call themselves or their partners “boy” don’t mean “minor” and aren’t fantasizing about child rape, gay men who call themselves or their partners “daddy” don’t mean “biological father” and aren’t fantasizing about father-son incest. Daddy is an honorific that eroticizes a perceived age and/or experience gap; it’s about authority and sexual dominance, not paternity and incestuous deviance. If being called “daddy” turns you off, you should say so, and your partners should immediately knock that “daddy” shit off. But you shouldn’t assume every gay guy who calls you “daddy” is into incest and/or was molested by his bio dad, because 99.999 percent of the time that’s just not going to be true. Think about it this way, DADDI: When a straight woman calls her man “baby,” no one thinks, “OMG! She’s into raping babies!” When a straight guy says he picked up a “hot girl,” no one thinks he’s talking about a sexy fourth grader.
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When Vice President Mike Pence calls his wife “mommy,” no one thinks… well, Pence might be a bad example. (That man is clearly a freak.) But my point still stands: Pet names — used casually or during sex — aren’t to be taken literally. Hey, Dan: I’m a 30-year-old woman who has always been more attracted to older men. I was with a guy last year who liked to be called “Daddy,” which was hard because he was six years younger. But now I’m secretly sleeping with someone who’s 34 years older than me. It’s not just sex — we have so much in common and we’re falling in love. I don’t know how long I can handle being a secret, but I don’t know if I can come out of hiding because of the age difference. He’s not as ashamed and would be more open if I wanted to be. Thoughts? Ashamed Sex Has All My Emotional Damage You haven’t been with This Old Dad long enough to determine if you have a future together, ASHAMED, so you can kick the coming-out can down the road another six months. If it turns out you two are emotionally compatible as well as sexually compatible, and you decide to make a life together, then you’ll have to go public. And if you find yourself worrying about being judged due to the age difference, just think of all the homos out there who went public despite their partners’ genital similarities. If we could stare down disapproving family members and small-town prudes, ASHAMED, so can you. Listen to Dan’s podcast at savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter ITMFA.org
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