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“This gives me a lot of hope, seeing all these people out here. I’ve had a lot of people come up and encourage me, things like, ‘You’re so brave’ and ‘I’m glad you’re doing this.’ I think [the next four years] will be an uphill battle, and this is just the beginning. We have elected a monster who does not believe women are really even human beings, so it’s kind of terrifying.” —Brittany MerriMan, photographed at the WoMen’s March in doWntoWn st. Louis on January 21 riverfronttimes.com
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A March on Accident
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n Saturday, while tens of thousands of women marched through Washington, D.C., St. Louis and a host of other cities around the world, a group of 51 women and three men marched through a town called Accident, Maryland. They wore the now familiar pink “pussy hats” and carried the same kind of signs — Black Lives Matter, Love Not Hate. The only difference is that they were marching along the side of a highway in the heart of Trump Country, in a tiny municipality (population 325) that Business Insider recently named the most conservative town in Maryland. They didn’t choose the spot on purpose. No one would. You can’t make up this kind of detail, but the travelers, who were almost entirely from St. Louis, were in Accident by accident. Owing to a series of calamities, mishap after mishap and a broken radiator hose, their chartered bus got stranded two and a half hours outside Washington, D.C. And once it became clear that they weren’t going to make the march they’d each spent $125 to arrive at, they decided, “Why not march anyway?” The entire trip was full of wrong turns — the driver was more than an hour late on Friday evening, and throughout the 30-hour journey, there were many, many (many!) other twists and turns, among them four different drivers and a bus driver so unprepared for tolls, he woke them to take a collection. Even the Burger King they tried to stop at on the way home ran out of meat. Oh, and there was the moment when the same driver accidentally locked the bus, and couldn’t figure out how to reopen it, leaving 51 people trapped in the bus and three women trapped outside it.
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Fifty-two women and three men left St. Louis Friday e Seriously, the women say, the number of things that went wrong was almost unbelievable. All the while, the clock was ticking. They’d factored in plenty of extra time. But they’d been waiting at a gas station in Accident since 6 a.m., and then at a junkyard near an auto repair shop for hours after that, until it was 11 a.m. —and it was all too clear they simply couldn’t get to D.C. in time. And even if they did somehow get there before the end of the march, how would they get home? Their driver was legally mandated
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to get a certain number of hours of rest after his night of driving. If they checked him into the hotel as promised, they’d be stuck for eight hours after that while they waited for their ride home, stranding them in D.C. until midnight Lindsay Toler, a communications director for a local startup (and former RFT staffer), says she couldn’t help but break down at that point. “When people asked me why I was going to Washington, I told them, ‘Because I’m a woman in Trump’s America. That’s enough of a reason,’” she recalls. “Society prohibits
women from taking up too much space, from raising our voices, from making our suffering known. I got on that bus to defy the daily limitations we put on women’s very bodies. So when the march started and I was still more than two hours away, the pain that poured out of me was a physical one.” Still, a consensus was reached almost immediately. There was no choice at that point but to march right there, in Accident. “At first I was kind of numb,” says Teresa Osborne, a registered nurse who made the trip with her
“Here’s what I learned: Yes, we’re trapped, but we’re also not alone. Yes, we’re far from those we love and from anyone who can help us, but we’re also together and capable of creating something beautiful out of whatever scraps we have with us. I learned that being trapped is not the same as being powerless.”
ouis Friday evening, planning to join the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. Only one made it. | MICHELLE THOMAS sister. “But after everybody started getting up and getting signs, there was that burst of adrenaline. We were going to get up and get busy, going to get into this. Everything that went wrong didn’t deter us from what we needed to do.” The bus had been chartered by two St. Louis women, a salon owner named Helen Petty and a PhD student named Beth Prusaczyk. Neither is a professional organizer, but when they heard about the Women’s March on social media, they decided to take matters into
their own hands. “We’ll be strong badass women, and we’ll do this,” Prusaczyk recalls thinking. The duo booked a bus through a company called U.S. Coachways. For roughly $7,000, they were told they’d have a bus that could seat 55 people. They easily found enough women (and those three brave men) to fill it, mostly through word of mouth and Facebook, and began to plan their trips. But the problems began almost from the get-go on Friday evening — the bus that picked them up at the MetroLink station
The others still marched. They just did it in Accident — Accident, Maryland. | MICHELLE THOMAS in St. Louis was more than an hour late and could only fit 54. As they would later learn, so many women across the country all had the same idea, the nation’s buses for hire were apparently at peak capacity. They decided to squish in, and when the bigger bus that was supposed to meet them in Indianapolis turned out to be a fantasy, their 55th member hopped on a different bus of St. Louis women traveling to the march, one that happened to be at the service station where they were refueling. She was the riverfronttimes.com
only one in the group who made it to D.C. Prusaczyk knows the travelers were disappointed. “There was some frustration; people wondered why we weren’t just pushing forward,” she says. But everyone kept their cool, and once the situation was explained, the women banded together rather than turning on each other. Yes, there was some pushback as they marched from the people in Accident (or the people just passing through). Prusaczyk heard a group
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of men shouting, “This is a man’s world!” over and over from the windows of their SUV. Tara Taylor, a registered nurse (and Osborne’s sister), saw someone flip them the bird. But they all felt good about marching. Says Toler, “Here’s what I learned: Yes, we’re trapped, but we’re also not alone. Yes, we’re far from those we love and from anyone who can help us, but we’re also together and capable of creating something beautiful out of whatever scraps we have with us. I learned that being trapped is not the same as being powerless.” Wry humor kicked in on the ride home. “We were joking that we’re like those people who say they almost got to Woodstock,” Prusaczyk says. “We have a separate story now.” And that story, in some ways, is an even more powerful one. Not only did they bond with each other, but they believe they left their mark on Accident. (And that’s not just the graffiti they “may or may not have left” in the ladies room, in Prusaczyk’s words, to balance out the racial slurs and pro-Trump chicken scratch they initially found there.) During those long hours in Accident in the 30-hour bus ride from hell, they talked to the women at the gas station and the restaurant on site. And they felt as if they’d found understanding. The people they encountered, even the bemused men at the gas station, couldn’t have been nicer. Trump’s America met Hillary’s America, and everyone treated each other with respect.
“I was definitely nervous going in,” Prusaczyk says. “But they tried their best to accommodate us. I have no doubt they’d never seen anything like it before.” Taylor wonders if someone in Accident gained a new perspective, or became more aware of the issues they were marching about. “Each one, teach one,” she says. “It was our destiny to be there.” She adds, “So many positives came out of this, even though we didn’t go to Washington.” Some women struggled more than others with the cramped quarters, the frustration of missing out. But they know there’s a bigger narrative here. Says Toler, “I keep telling myself not to lose sight of the reason why this was the trip from hell: On January 21, there was no such thing as an ‘extra’ bus or driver in the entire goddamn country. When we broke down, we were really and truly stuck. We had no contingency plan because there was no contingency, no spare person or transport to help us make it the final two hours. And I have to believe that’s a sign of how successful and powerful the Women’s March was. We were part of a mobilization so massive that there was no backup for bad luck.” Let Trump inflate his numbers all his wants; the Women’s March was indisputably huge. Huge enough to reach Accident, by accident, even as it set records nationwide. As for the bus company, the organizers are demanding a full refund — and they intend to get it. They say they’ll donate the entire $7,000 n fee to Planned Parenthood.
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If breakfast is the straight-A student, the Tracy Flick who gets up at 6 to eat a whole-grain muffin, brunch is her party-hearty sorority sister — the kind of lazy-pants who rolls out of bed at 10:30, head pounding but ready to take down a giant plate of bacon. Breakfast wants to get up and get moving; brunch wants to have a good time. It’s no wonder we chose brunch as the topic of this week’s issue — now more than ever, it feels necessary to let the good times roll. But what came as a surprise as we researched the idea of brunch in St. Louis were the hidden depths beneath brunch’s frivolous reputation, the wealth of interesting options for those who want to turn the first meal of the day into a feast. As Cheryl Baehr learns in “Dim Sum Kind of Wonderful” (page 13), St. Louis’ dim sum palaces have become the “it” brunch option for homesick college kids and adventurous eaters alike. Why not expand your horizons with the carts — and delicious communal offerings — of tapas done à la Hong Kong? Not sure you’re ready to go that far outside your Midwestern comfort zone? We hear you; we’ve got a list of “20 Great Brunch Spots to Cover Every Occasion” you may find inspiring. And if you want to cut straight to the booze, well, we’ve got that covered too, with a roundup of “10 Terrific Bloody Marys” and “15 Places to Enjoy Bottomless Mimosas.” Something for everyone — so long as you’re not looking for a whole-grain muffin or your nourishment pre-sunrise. Continued on pg 14
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Written by CHERYL BAEHR Photos by MABEL SUEN ulia Li understands the intimidation first-timers might feel when they walk through the front doors of her family’s restaurant, Lu Lu Seafood and Dim Sum. The array of food paraded out at a dim sum feast can overwhelm even the most seasoned veterans, the wait staff can seem gruff and the dishes contain flavors and textures that reside outside the comfort zone of the Western palate. Still, she doesn’t think that quite captures the disconnect. “Eating in the West is a very individualistic experience,” observes Li. “In the West, you have your own individual plate, isolated from everyone else’s individual plates. You eat what’s yours, they eat what’s
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theirs, and that’s a fine way to do it. You get to choose what you want and have control over your meal. This is one of the most difficult things for people of Asian cultures when they come to the United States. It’s such a different way of eating.” Dim sum thrusts the diner into a more communal way of doing things — what Li describes as the Asian way. Li pauses to pluck a piece of eggplant, slicked with oyster sauce and wrapped around balls of ground shrimp, from one of the seemingly infinite number of small plates scattered atop our table. It’s late in the morning on a Saturday, but Lu Lu has an atmosphere more akin to a raucous happy hour than a sleepy
weekend brunch. No-nonsense servers clamor around the room with urgency, pushing metal carts and pausing at each table to offer their wares. Whole families crowd large round tables, millennials hungry to try something new pack the sizable room, and international students — many of whom have carpooled to Lu Lu with strangers, Li notes — decompress after a tough week hitting the books. Li places the eggplant squarely on my plate and insists I must try it. “Do you like tendon?” she asks. It’s not really a question. A strip of prosciutto-thin meat, spiked with chilis, appears on my plate before I can give her an answer. Next to it, she places a shrimp dump-
ling and some pea shoot tips and a triangle-shaped slice of scallion pancake. “In Asian culture, eating is a communal experience,” Li continues as she piles food on my plate. “It’s very different than how you eat in the West. There isn’t really that ownership over your plate. You may have given up your power to choose, but there is a communal factor to it that allows you to try a lot of different things. I think the way we order and eat food is reflective of our different cultures. ... It’s a very lonely experience to eat by yourself.” At this point, having not yet touched a single thing besides my teacup and napkin, I am indeed angst-ridden, but it has nothing
to do with loneliness. I’m overwhelmed. No less than six different items compete for real estate on my tiny side plate. Our table is covered in small white dishes, to the point that you can’t see the black tabletop underneath; we’ve resorted to using the windowsill for overflow space. I’m hungry, for sure, but consuming everything before us seems like an impossible feat. But that’s not what’s really distressing me. I’m more worried that I am about to be revealed as an imposter. Yes, I’m a food critic, but like many a lower-middle-class Midwesterner, my experience of Asian food growing up was limited to the chicken fried rice I’d grab on my
way to work at my high school job at K-Mart. International food, in my house, meant “Italian” (read: spaghetti and tomato sauce from a jar) or tacos from an Old El Paso box kit. It wasn’t until college that my culinary horizons expanded. A job in a fine-dining restaurant and a boyfriend who’d emigrated from Korea when he was a kid helped me see the world beyond Western cuisine. Kimchi and kabobs, curries and pho all awakened my palate. Still, if someone suggested weekend brunch, my mind instantly went toward eggs, smoked salmon and a roast beef carving station. That dim sum remains elusive to me has less to do with its accessiriverfronttimes.com
bility and more to do with my fear of being outed for such a lack of experience. As someone who makes a living telling others what to think about food, the fact that there is such a gap in my knowledge is just embarrassing — and, like a not-yet literate kid who suffers through class, terrified of being called upon, it’s something I’ve taken pains to cover up. The critic has no clothes. The urgency to familiarize myself with dim sum — the reason I’ve called upon Li to serve as my interlocutor — is born of both interest and necessity. Since making its way to the U.S. via Hong Kong, this Chinese tradition evolved from a meal for homesick expats to an “exotic” alternative for Continued on pg 16
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DIM SUM Continued from pg 15 adventurous trendsetters to, well, brunch. These days, going out for dim sum isn’t just for those born into the tradition and those daring enough to fake it. It’s the “it” weekend pastime for anyone with even a passing interest in international cuisine — and for any food lover who wants to kick things up a notch. That’s a development that Li has noticed over the years, and not just when it comes to dim sum offerings. Overall, she says, patrons have become more receptive to what is unfamiliar. “When we first started — our first restaurant was called Great Chef Garden — we could only 16
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do buffet because that’s all people would eat,” recalls Li. “We would serve a lot of Americanized stuff, but also authentic food as well.” Sixteen years ago, Li’s family moved their restaurant to its current location on Olive in University City, and they have been doing dim sum ever since, at first for their Chinese clientele, then for curious locals from around the area. Those people still come to Lu Lu, though these days, it’s a younger crowd packing the place. “I think people are just more open to trying things,” says Li. No matter how open they are to the experience, Li still recognizes a common apprehension overcome first-timers. It’s something she wants to address.
A chef prepares hot food in the middle of the dining room at Mandarin House. “You can tell that people who are here for the first time are intimidated to walk in the front doors,” Li says, relishing the opportunity to welcome newcomers into the dim sum fold. “But I love when people can think forward and walk through that door. It’s not about things being wrong or right; it’s about playing around with what fits.” Li, 28, is the ideal person to serve as a culinary sherpa. The daughter of Lu Lu founders Jenny Lu and Jerry Li (uncle LiMing Lu is also a co-owner), she’s grown up in the business, watching her mom go from an employee in an Americanized Chinese restaurant to an envelope-pushing restaurateur.
Though the food business would have been a natural fit for Li, she opted for the arts when it came time to forge her own career path. She landed an impressive career in event production for Nickelodeon, then in branding and digital activation for Disney-ABC. Eventually, she found herself living in New York working for hip-hop legend Jam Master Jay’s company, Scratch Music Group. Li could not dismiss the feeling that she needed to be home. In 2014, she moved back to St. Louis to help her family expand its brand. She’s been instrumental in elevating the original Lu Lu’s profile, though her more ambitious project is launching several locations of their new, fastcasual concept, Lu Lu’s Fresh Express.
“It’s a push-pull with my family,” Li explains. “I want to serve the most authentic food possible, and they think that people want more familiar, Americanized things — so I sneak in the authentic things.” There is nothing sneaky about the feast Li has assembled at our encounter, as the spread before us represents the mainstays of traditional dim sum — jellyfish, steamed pork buns, shrimp dumplings, sticky rice in lotus leaf. Sensing my apprehension at making the first move, Li offers a friendly observation. “Dim sum is really just like Spanishstyle tapas,” she says. “Just think of that that way. Really, it just means ‘tea time.’” Though several variations exist, riverfronttimes.com
Li’s translation captures both the essence and history of dim sum. The practice originated in southern China, near Guangzhou, as a means of feeding travelers along the Silk Road. Hungry patrons would stop in the area’s numerous teahouses and, needing a bite to eat, would nosh on small snacks before heading on their way. In this sense, the tradition is a hybrid between tapas and British high tea. And tea, it turns out, is to be the day’s first lesson. “One of things you do at dim sum is pour tea for other people,” Li says as she fills my cup. “What do think of this flower tea?” The tea in question, made from a blooming chrysanthemum blossom, is one of several varieties
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of the hot beverage available for purchase at Lu Lu’s dim sum. Li suggests adding a few sugar crystals to the perfumey liquid before continuing her lesson. “There are no rules in dim sum,” she insists. “But in general, the person with the most experience will be the one who orders. This doesn’t have to be for every course. If there are several people there who know about the place, they can take turns ordering at each round. Generally, though, one person takes the lead.” As if on cue, a server stops her cart alongside our table and Li adds to our collection of dishes, pausing to ask for my preferences before
she converses with her in Mandarin about what’s available — that even a seasoned dim sum veteran has to ask what something is on the cart is comforting. There is back and forth, and then Li simply points and nods at her selections. Shrimp dumplings, barbecue pork bun and tofu paper make their way to our table, and the server hurries off. The entire exchange is curt, businesslike and utterly transactional, a big difference from the entertainmentstyle of service so often found in the U.S. and something that Li is quick to address. “That’s another thing to be aware of,” says Li. “Service is not like it is at other restaurants in the U.S. The servers aren’t especially friendly. They’re not being rude, just culturally they
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(8224 Olive Boulevard, University City; 314-997-3108) Authentic yet Western-friendly, this Shanghai-style mainstay does dim sum cart service, with a full bar, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Reservations are accepted.
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Dim sum dishes at Lu Lu include salt-and-pepper calamari, honey-barbecue pork, shrimp dumplings and snow-pea tips. are there to serve and not be a part of the meal. That’s the one thing we get complaints about here — not our food, but that people think the service is bad. When I first came back I tried to retrain everyone to be nicer and they just looked at me and said no.” Li may be able to speak with our servers in perfect Mandarin, but as I look around the room, I notice the various other forms of communication going on. Some people flag down the servers with the pushcarts; others, more brazen, walk across the room to the cart with their dishes of choice. Newbies, who seem to communicate solely by pointing, feel obligated to order something every time it’s offered. That sort of pace, however, would be difficult to sustain, as cart after
cart, each dedicated to a different genre (steamed foods, fried foods, cold foods) passes by one after another on a nearly continual basis. Li’s instructions come nearly as quickly. There’s the point about pouring tea, the ordering etiquette, the service style and the different types of carts. She talks about how everything is priced à la carte and that the server will tally up your bill at the end of the meal. Digging directly into one of the dishes in the center of the table is fine; there’s no need to put it on your plate first, she insists. It’s good form to put food on other people’s plates. It’s fine to point at what you want, and it’s equally fine to leave food, since you’re certain to order way too much. The only thing left in our lesson
is the food, though it’s difficult to narrow down must-try dishes from the literally hundreds of offerings that cruise by our table. Were I not with Li, I probably would have stuck to the familiar: a pork bun, some dumplings, maybe a seaweed salad. And I would have been pleased with these choices. It’s no surprise that the fluffy sticky buns, stuffed with succulent char sui, or barbecue pork, have made their way onto Western menus. Still, the breakout dish for me, something I probably would have passed on had I not been trying to impress Li, is the beef tendon. The strips of paper-thin meat, spiked with chilis and garlic to cut through the pleasantly oily texture, Continued on pg 20
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(9150 Overland Plaza, Overland; 314-427-8070) This massive, nearly four decades-old restaurant is known for its mix of authentic and Western-style Chinese cuisine. Dim sum cart service, with a full bar, is available Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Reservations are accepted.
WEI HONG
(7740 Olive Boulevard, University City; 314-726-0363) Located in a converted Art Deco movie theater, this traditional restaurant does dim sum cart service, with beer and wine, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Reservations are accepted.
WONTON KING
(8116 Olive Boulevard, University City; 314-567-9997) Self-described as the first Hong Kong-style restaurant in St. Louis, this small, authentic Chinese restaurant provides dim sum cart service, with beer and wine, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Reservations are not accepted. — Cheryl Baehr
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seem oddly familiar. And then it hits me: this is the same mouthfeel you get from prosciutto. In that moment, finally liberated from my fear of accidentally eating a chicken foot, I found myself again filled with angst — angst that I couldn’t find room to devour every last morsel. But hey, that’s the kind of problem I can get into solving. Dim sum, after all, really is a feast. “We have five different chefs from five different areas of China,” Li tells me. “And we have one chef who is dedicated exclu-
sively to our dim sum service. It’s his full-time job, all week. That’s why there are only a few other restaurants besides us who do this every weekend. It’s quite a production.” The entire time she is talking, I’m distracted by the soy- and ginger-glazed spare ribs across the table. As she’s finishing up her thought on how much work goes into preparing such a bounty, I interject a question about whether it’s correct to pick them apart with my hand. “You need to get out of that mindset,” Li assures me. “Just go and do it and enjoy.” n Turn to page 22 for a dim sum field guide
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STICKY RICE IN LOTUS LEAF: Sweet rice, Chinese sausage, pork, egg and shiitake mushrooms wrapped in a large tea leaf and steamed
HONEY BARBECUE PORK: Slices of honey-glazed barbecue pork SCALLION PANCAKE: Flour dough, studded with scallions, then pan-fried and cut into triangles
SHRIMP-STUFFED EGGPLANT: Slices of eggplant, stuffed with fresh shrimp paste, rolled up and glazed with a savory sauce
BARBECUE PORK BUN: Spongy round flour bun, also known as bao, filled with sweet and savory barbecue pork.
SNOW PEA TIPS: Snow pea leaves sautéed with garlic and sesame oil
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SALT AND PEPPER CALAMARI: Crispy, flour-coated squid, sautéed with garlic and fresh peppers
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When You Want Brunch to Be the Best Meal of the Day: Egg Plenty of boozy brunches in town serve eggs as an afterthought. Egg (2200 Gravois, 314-2028244) is the place to go if you actually care about the food, too. The cornbread eggs benedict, breakfast hash with carnitas and crunchy sopas with chorizo all are to die for. The spinoff from Spare No Rib (3701 Jefferson, 314-354-8444) will have you thinking about brunch all day. And don’t worry, they still put plenty of care into the morning cocktails.
When You Want Breakfast Tacos: Taco Circus The options for solid, Tex-Mex breakfast tacos are sadly limited in St. Louis, which is what makes Taco Circus (4258 Schiller Place, 314320-8884) such a find. Not in the mood for something hand-held? The king of this Bevo spot’s guilty pleasure offerings is migas — a mixture of egg, onion and peppers topped with crunchy tortilla bits. Finish them off with one of the handmade sauces. The best part? You can order them all day. 26
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When You Want a Side of the Dark Lord With Your Omelet: Crow’s Nest
When You’ve Got Kids in Tow: Chris’ Pancake House
Jazz brunch? So 1950. Try a metal brunch for a darker way to dine. Serving up everything from Decappetizers to Mercyful Plates, Judas Feasts to Geno-sides, the Crow’s Nest (7336 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-781-0989) delivers a heaping helping of Beelzebub with its brunch fare. Each Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the Maplewood eatery’s “Metal Brunch” includes a sprawling menu of delicious food and a soundtrack that would satisfy even the most discerning headbanger. On Saturdays Dr. Dan the Pancake Man is on hand to whip up his culinary creations — ask him to make you a pancake that looks like the devil, then worship it.
It’s every parent’s nightmare: You’re out to breakfast and the kids start melting down. Maybe it’s a screaming infant, a toddler tantrum, a whining tween. Thankfully, at Chris’ Pancake House (5980 Southwest Avenue, 314645-2088), the din of your own young’uns is almost certainly drowned out by the kids at the table next to yours, or the one next to theirs, or the ones in the vestibule. This always-packed mainstay is so bustling that no one will even notice the screams coming from your little one’s seat. And as you glance at the mom or dad next to you, you can raise your cup of joe in solidarity: Misery loves company — and a bacon-stuffed Chris’ sandwich.
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When You Want James Beard-Nominated Food for Breakfast: Half & Half Mike Randolph is one of the city’s most acclaimed chefs, and his restaurants are such hot spots they’re virtually synonymous with the term “date night.” But Randolph doesn’t save all of his treats for the p.m. set. At his Clayton eatery Half & Half (8135 Maryland Avenue, Clayton; 314-725-0719), the talented chef puts together breakfast and brunch-time feasts fit for white tablecloth dining while still maintaining an air of whimsy and comfort. With each selection more tempting than the next (we’re looking at you, “Clara Cakes”), you’ll be tempted to order a three-course breakfast.
When You’re Craving Something Spicy: Southwest Diner Brunch is fine and all, but where’s the flavor? The zesty, spicy, delicious heat? Southwest Diner (6803 Southwest Avenue, 314-260-7244) has you covered with its New Mexican-style breakfast burrito: Scrambled eggs, green chile and fries are stuffed into a tortilla with your choice of meat — bacon, sausage, chorizo or ham, or calabacitas for the herbivores. Make sure to get it with the ghost pepper jack cheese to really get your brow sweating.
When You Want Lunch Food in Your Breakfast Buffet: Three Monkeys One for all and all for brunch. Everyone has that friend who spills the haterade all over brunch because she doesn’t like eggs, or even bacon. The Sunday brunch buffet at Three Monkeys (3153 Morganford Road, 314-772-9800) will take care of that special snowflake in your group and the rest of you, too. While you stuff your face with breakfast classics, your friend can fill up on stuff like salmon, shrimp, pasta, t-ravs and even pizza. Everyone gets either a mimosa or bloody mary on the house, and the rounds after that are only 99 cents each. Total cheapskates should get there early: From 9 to 10 a.m., buffet access is just $15.99; at 10 a.m., that goes up to $18.99.
When You Want to Impress But Don’t Want to Look Like You’re Trying Too Hard: Winslow’s Home That first (or tenth) brunch with your potential in-laws can be stressful, but not if you take ‘em to Winslow’s Home (7213 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-725-7559). The restaurant/ general store curates a seasonal menu with everything from a meat-free breakfast burrito to a super-basic breakfast (two eggs, potatoes, your choice of bacon or sausage and toast or biscuit). It fills up quickly, especially on the weekends, but that gives you time to admire its non-edible stock. Winslow’s vast array of books, kitchen necessities, stationary and even a massive selection of candy are sure to spark a conversation about something more than the weather. It’s casual, cozy and a feast for your stomach as well as eyes.
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loody mary connoisseurs know that the best ingredient in a perfect version of this cocktail is you. Fresh ingredients and top quality spirits are also key, but it’s putting them all together that is the true art. Then the recipe is limited only by the imagination. These ten brunch destinations have pulled out all the stops to concoct masterful must-try bloody marys in St. Louis. Note: We didn’t include bars that aren’t open in the morning, including Famous Bar; this list is exclusively focused on helping you find that hair of the dog you need to start your day.
BOUNDARY
7036 Clayton Avenue, Hi-Pointe At Boundary, housemade is the secret to this bloody mary haven. All infused vodkas, mixes, pickles and flavored salts are housemade with seasonal, local ingredients. The cocktail starts with a vodka of choice — either original or flavored with garlic, sundried tomatoes, cucumber or chili — and a flavored salt rim (choices include kosher, sriracha, chipotle, lime or Worcestershire). From there, guests can build the bloody mary of their dreams with mixes such as beef broth, shellfish broth and green tomato juice and condiments such as artisanal cheeses, hot sauces, stuffed olives, celery, housemade pickles, mild or habanero barbecue sausage, soused shrimp, regular or candied bacon, caper berries and horseContinued on pg 32 radish.
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BRUNCH FOR EVERY OCCASION Continued from pg 27 When You’re Starving: Uncle Bill’s Pancake & Dinner House It doesn’t matter what time of day or night it is, Uncle Bill’s (3427 South Kingshighway, 314-8321973) is always ready to feed you — and you’re gonna get a lot of food for your money. The famous three-egg omelets are the size of a battleship and also include three pancakes and biscuits or toast, all for less than $10. You won’t need to eat again for the rest of the day if you clean that plate. “The Supreme 2 x 2 x 2 x 2” gets you two each of all the breakfast staples (eggs, pancakes, bacon, sausage and hash browns) and is one of the most fulfilling meals you’ll ever eat, especially paired with a never-empty cup of coffee.
When You Want Your Brunch to Go: Comet Coffee Picking up your food en route to somewhere else? Skip the McMuffin and head to Dogtown’s Comet Coffee & Microbakery (5708 Oakland Avenue, 314-932-7770) for a “Rebel Within” muffin, available on Fridays and Saturdays. Made with asiago, sausage and even a soft-boiled egg inside, it’s totally filling and way more delicious — and of course, the name is much more bad-ass.
When You Want Dessert for Breakfast: Scape Ah, the “Farmers Cheese Pancakes.” This combination of ricotta, lemon curd and fresh blueberries, served atop hotcakes, is a must-try at the Central West End’s Scape American Bistro (48 Maryland Plaza, 314-361-7227). Equally irresistible: the restaurant’s beautiful courtyard, which features ivy-covered brick walls. The “Apple Pie Pancakes,” “Pecan Praline Sourdough French Toast” and a variety of crepes are also sure to satisfy the most insatiable of sweet teeth.
When You Just Need a Slinger to Get Rid of This Damn Hangover: Courtesy Diner Forget Advil and diligent hydration. Man has invented a true cure for the hangover, and St. Louis’ Courtesy Diner (multiple locations, including 3153 S. Kingshighway Boulevard, 314776-9059) serves it up hot for aching patrons on a daily basis. One part chicken-fried steak slathered in white gravy, two parts egg and one side of hash browns, the delicious “Hangover Slinger” will have you in optimal shape to resume smashing Stags and shots before the sun even reaches the center of the sky.
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When You’re Hungry But Also Horny: Shameless Grounds Seeking a tantric brunchtime? There are sex references aplenty to be found at Shameless Grounds (1901 Withnell, 314-449-1240), and not just on the menu. Grab a glass of wine and some “Ample Breast” (calm down, it’s a turkey sandwich) and peruse the eatery’s floor-toceiling smut library. May we suggest an overwrought sex-manual dating from the early 20th century? Pace yourself. You’ll be hitting all 50 shades of brunch satisfaction in no time.
When You Just Want to Eat Pancakes and Stare Down Fake Peacocks: Peacock Diner
Half & Half’s beloved “Clara Cakes” are pancakes topped with raspberry, mascarpone and granola. | JENNIFER SILVERBERG
A mere $5.50 gets you three pancakes at the Loop’s Peacock Diner (6261 Delmar Boulevard, 314-721-5555), which means you can eat nine pancakes for $20 and have room for the tip. That’s reason enough to eat there, but if the deal needs sweetening, you should know the place is thick with peacocks. Statues, paintings, prints, neon, clothing — peacocks are everywhere in this 24-hour diner. And staring down nature’s gaudiest avians while Continued on pg 31
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BRUNCH FOR EVERY OCCASION Continued from pg 29 shoveling delicious pancakes in your gullet satisfies on a primal level. Look at those dandies and then look at your reflection in the spoon. You’re top of the food chain, which makes you both beautiful and lethal. Those bird-brains can’t eat this much; they’d explode. But you, you’re bottomless. Waiter! Another round of ’cakes, but with turkey sausage this time. You’re king of the jungle.
When You Want Brunch But Also Good Coffee: Rise Coffee What’s not to love about brunch at Rise (4180 Manchester Avenue, 314-769-9535)? There is the delectable housemade food, the cozy vibe, the secluded kids’ playroom. While those are reasons enough to stop in this quaint Grove spot for a bite to eat, the real draw is the coffee. Rise is committed to elevating your morning joe well above a cream- and sugar-infused wake-up tool. There are pour-overs, cold brews and offerings from all the city’s top roasters. Even the drip coffee is from the esteemed local shop Sump, a rare offering that shows just how seriously Rise takes its brew.
When You’re Dreaming of Europe: City Coffeehouse & Creperie If the boldly colored wicker chairs don’t convince you that you’re on the Riviera, then the seemingly endless selection of French-inspired breakfast offerings at City Coffeehouse & Creperie (36 N. Brentwood Boulevard, Clayton; 314-862-2489) will do the trick. The large menu of sweet and savory crepes, Belgian waffles and European-style pastries are the perfect way to satisfy your Francophile cravings. Pair them with a steaming hot café au lait, and you can almost hear the accordion music.
When You’ve Got a Big Party to Feed: Rooster Yes, Rooster (3150 S. Grand Blvd. and 1104 Locust Street) is always packed, but that needn’t stop you from visiting. Both Rooster locations are on the invaluable NoWait app, meaning you can reserve your table ahead of time and monitor your progress remotely — a must when you’ve got the kind of large party that resists committing to the sort of head count that could have scored you a rez the night before. The South Grand spot has particularly good options for those with tons of friends: The long communal-style tables are perfect for large parties, as are the picnic tables outside in nice weather. Come join the party!
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When You’re Craving Fresh Air — and a Room with a View: Vin de Set Few brunches in the city are perpetually as packed as the one at Vin de Set (2017 Chouteau, 314-241-8989), and there’s a simple reason for that: The rooftop patio has a view — and a vibe — worth getting up for. Look out over Lafayette Square and the Arch with the beautiful people and feel good about your life again. Oh, and don’t miss that bloody mary bar.
When You’re Looking for Freebies in Clayton: Cantina Laredo Cantina Laredo (7710 Forsyth Boulevard, Clayton; 314-725-2447) isn’t just one of the few places in downtown Clayton that’s open for brunch on Saturdays in addition to Sundays. It’s also one of the few places anywhere in town offering a free drink. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays, diners are offered their choice of a compliriverfronttimes.com
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When You’re a Vegetarian — or Just Have Friends Who Are: Gooseberries So what if McDonald’s has all-day breakfast now? Screw all the preservatives and corporate America. Instead check out Gooseberries (2754 Chippewa Street, 314-577-6363), which offers Saturday brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. (they’re closed Sundays). Nestled into a corner spot in Dutchtown, Gooseberries offers an inexpensive menu loaded with options for your vegan or vegetarian friends, including some of the heartiest meatless brunch items in the city. Chef Kim Bond, a vegetarian for twenty years, has perfected the art of meatless biscuits and gravy. While that favorite has a permanent place on the menu, Bond keeps it interesting by offering a rotation of made-from-scratch hand pies (both meat-filled and meat-free) as well as Saturday specials, which include everything from $2.50 carrot pancakes to the best $7 vegan slinger you can sink your teeth into guilt-free.n JJANUARY 25-31, 2017
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4605 Olive Street, Central West End At Café Osage, the bloody mary is a perfect showcase for housemade seasonal pickles from vegetables grown on the premises at Bowood Farms and herbs from the rooftop garden. A housemade dry mix is composed of eight different spices; all of it comes together with Pickney Bend Vodka, made locally in New Haven, Missouri.
BRASSERIE BY NICHE
4580 Laclede Avenue, Central West End At Brasserie, bar manager Jeffrey Ward has riffed on a recipe from chef Gerard Craft. Extra spices come from freshly ground celery seed and black pepper crushed in a mortar and pestle. Lemon, lime and pickle juices add another layer of zest, which is then balanced with fresh cucumbers and brined cornichons.
BYRD AND BARREL
3422 South Jefferson Avenue, Cherokee District The quirky fried chicken hotspot Byrd and Barrel serves up a fittingly distinctive bloody mary: It’s rimmed with crushed Red Hot Riplets and hot sauce and topped with a fried chicken slider.
HERBIE’S
8100 Maryland Avenue, Clayton Herbie’s new incarnation, which relocated from the Central West End late last year, still includes a killer brunch. Lucky us. The restaurant offers a classic unlimited bloody mary bar every Saturday and Sunday for only $16, with Sobieski vodka or a housemade pepper-infused vodka and all the fixings, such as housemade bloody mary mix or tomato juice, housemade pickled vegetables and an assortment of hot sauces, Worcestershire, horseradish and more.
HALF & HALF
8133 Maryland Avenue, Clayton The fried pickle atop the bloody mary at Half & Half definitely adds a “wow” factor. We’re told that when other guests see one pass through the dining room at this Clayton hotspot, other tables usually follow shortly with orders of their own.
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1415 South 18th Street, Lafayette Square Bloody marys at SqWires are bottle-aged with triple-distilled vodka and a housemade mix. Each $13 bottle has enough for two bloody marys and includes a trip to the bloody mary bar, which boasts more than 50 ingredients. Virgin bloodys, which also include a trip to the bar, are only $9. And, for those who simply want to stave off hunger until their entree comes, access to the bar’s offerings sans the cocktail is just $7.
HIRO ASIAN KITCHEN
1405 Washington Avenue, Downtown The bar at Hiro Asian Kitchen takes the classic bloody mary to the next level with Asian fusion flair. The cocktail is at once spicy, savory and salty, with house-infused dill pickle vodka mingling with Korean kimchi, Korean spices, garlic and fish sauce. It’s served in a glass rimmed with Korean-spiced salt with a garnish of kimchi, olives and a lemon wedge.
VIN DE SET
2017 Chouteau Avenue, Lafayette Square A choice of rotating house-infused vodkas come in flavors such as spicy garlic lime or cucumber dill. Those are paired with a housemade mix, such as a garlic-spiked “vampire mix” or a subtly smooth “smoky mix.” Garnishes include pickled vegetables from the restaurant’s urban garden, bacon, shrimp, beef sticks, a variety of cheeses, stuffed olives and ten different kinds of hot sauce.
ROOSTER
3150 South Grand Boulevard, Tower Grove East and 1104 Locust Street, Downtown The masterminds behind the bar at Rooster believe a good bloody mary is all about the mix. Theirs is made in-house with seventeen different ingredients — a recipe that was tested over and over (and over and over again; someone’s got to do it) until they found perfection. Their second tenet holds that rail vodkas can sometimes hasten a hangover, so their bloody marys are made with Tito’s, an American vodka that also has the benefit of being gluten-free. n
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aybe you’re not into spicy and salty — maybe you like Champagne with orange juice. Like, say, in a mimosa, or with grapefruit juice in a megmosa. The simple combination of bubbles and citrus can be a perfect, refreshing way to celebrate “Sunday funday.” But why go for one when you could drink ‘til you’re sated? These sixteen St. Louis restaurants will give you a limitless number of mimosas — and, in many cases, incredible bang for your buck.
CRAFTED
3200 Shenandoah Avenue, Tower Grove East See what all the fuss was about on Bar Rescue at Crafted and enjoy $10 bottomless mimosas during Sunday brunch service.
REEDS AMERICAN TABLE
7322 Manchester Road, Maplewood Experience Reeds’ finely curated wine list with bottomless bubbles and wines from France — NV Michele Capdepon “Fruité” FRA, Limoux Method Ancestrale and Semi-Sweet Mauzac — topped with fresh-squeezed orange juice for just $17.
SQWIRES
1415 South 18th Street, Lafayette Square Mimosas at SqWires take their cue from the bloody mary bar experience, with a build-yourown bottomless mimosa. Choose from eight juices and garnishes such as fresh fruit and lollipops, all for just $11. Adding to the fun is the surprisingly delicious Sofia Coppola sparkling wine in its signature pink can.
MOLLY’S IN SOULARD
816 Geyer Avenue, Soulard Spend a couple hours in New Orleans at this popular Mardi Gras hangout and enjoy bottomless mimosas for $20.
THE WHEELHOUSE
1000 Spruce Street, Downtown Join the block party on Sundays — get a bottomless mimosa wristband for $15. It lets you have brunch at the Wheelhouse and then wander over to Start Bar to get your game on ... and keep the mimosas coming until 3 p.m.
EVANGELINE’S BISTRO AND MUSIC HOUSE
512 N. Euclid Avenue, Central West End Mix and match bottomless mimosas and bloody marys for $30 for brunch on Saturday and Sunday — as many as you want while you enjoy New Orleans-inspired cuisine and performances from local swing jazz artists, such as Miss Jubilee.
LOUIE’S WINE DIVE & CLAYTON KITCHEN
16 South Bemiston Avenue, Clayton Bubbles come with three options for bottomless mimosas here — the classic with orange juice, a ruby red with grapefruit juice and hibiscus with cranberry juice — all for $16.
BAR LOUIE
Central West End, Kirkwood, Chesterfield and St. Charles All four locations at this casual bar chain favorite offer bottomless mimosas Saturdays and Sundays for just $10 — a cost-effective way to hair-of-the-dog your way through the weekend.
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740 De Mun Avenue, Clayton If you prefer to celebrate the weekend with some of the city’s freshest seafood and a fantastic raw bar, bottomless mimosas are yours for just $15 on both Saturday and Sunday.
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308 North Euclid Avenue, Central West End Traditional brunch fare is offered alongside sushi and burgers for brunch on Saturday and Sunday. For $25, choose a traditional bottomless mimosa or one with a float of pomegranate juice or grapefruit juice with Midori.
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8 South Sarah Street, Central West End “Endless” mimosas are just $15 with the Scottish/European weekend brunch at this popular St. Louis pub.
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5700 Lindell Boulevard, Skinker-DeBaliviere This deal is only good in the summer, but why not give yourself something to look forward to? At this stunning restaurant inside the Missouri History Museum, enjoy bottomless cocktails with the purchase of “Sunday Champagne Brunch” buffet access ($26.75 for adults, Sundays only) or just $7 with the purchase of a lunch entree. n
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Jacqueline Thompson stars in New Jewish Theatre’s Intimate Apparel. | ERIC WOOLSEY
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THURSDAY 01/26 Intimate Apparel A seamstress who specializes in undergarments, Esther has a clientele that includes both prostitutes and society matrons. Her life is fairly constrained because of her race; as a black woman in 1905, she doesn’t have many options. Still, Esther dreams of one day opening her own shop — and perhaps also of a relationship with Mr. Marks, the Jewish shopkeeper who sells her fabric. The pair definitely feel something for each other, but neither can safely pursue it. When she begins receiving letters from George, a friend of a friend, Esther considers altering her dreams to include marriage. The New Jewish
Theatre continues its season with Lynn Nottage’s drama Intimate Apparel. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (January 26 to February 12) at the Jewish Community Center’s Wool Studio Theatre (2 Millstone Campus Drive, Creve Coeur; www.newjewishtheatre. org). Tickets are $39.50 to $43.50.
FRIDAY 01/27 Little Thing, Big Thing Larry is an ex-con who’s been sent to steal a statue of the Virgin Mary from an abandoned convent. It ought to be an easy job,
but he arrives at the scene of the crime just as Sister Martha shows up. She was sent from Nigeria to manage the sale of the property, and she’s on guard for anything out of the ordinary. Before she left Africa a child shoved a roll of film in her hands and told her to get it to Henry Barr in Dublin, and to “trust no one.” Before she and Larry can figure each other out, a small gang of thugs crashes the party, sending Larry and the nun on the run. Donal O’Kelly’s play Little Thing, Big Thing is a suspenseful, comic romp with a touch of tenderness. Midnight Company stages the show at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday (January 27 to February 11) at Avatar Studios (2675 Scott Avenue; www.midnightcompany.com). Tickets are $15.
The Year of the Bicycle Amelia and Andile met when he kicked a ball into her backyard. Amelia lives in a tony suburb of post-apartheid South Africa, while Andile lives in one of the crowded and rundown townships on the outskirts of the city. Despite their cultural differences they strike up a friendship, the way eight-yearolds do, and it grows stronger over time. But South Africa has a way of separating white girls and black boys, even when they’re friends. When the two unexpectedly meet again years later, how much of their shared past can they recreate? Joanna Evans’ drama The Year of the Bicycle is about the things that divide white and black, Continued on pg 36
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Parvuna Sulaiman and Amro Salama in Yasmina’s Necklace. | TRACI CLAPPER friend and foe, and the past and the present. Upstream Theater presents the American premiere of The Year of the Bicycle at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday (January 27 to February 11), with Sunday shows at 7 p.m. (January 29 and February 5) and 2 p.m. (February 12). Performances take place at the Kranzberg Arts Center (501 North Grand Boulevard; www. upstreamtheater.org). Tickets are $20 to $30.
SATURDAY 01/28 Duo Noire Not only are Thomas Flippin and Christopher Mallett gifted classical guitarists, they’re also self-appointed role models for aspiring musicians in at-risk communities. Flippin and Mallett toured nine St. Louis schools as Saint Louis Classical Guitar Society artists-in-residence in 2014, performing classical music for students and inspiring new classical guitar programs in three of those schools. Now more than a dozen schools in the St. Louis, Jennings, Ferguson-Florissant and Normandy districts are participating. The pair stage their triumphant return to St. Louis at 8 36
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Yasmina’s Necklace Fresh off his divorce from his non-Muslim wife, Abdul Samee Lopez Hassan has a new disappointment for his Iraqi immigrant father and Puerto Rican mother: He’s going to drop his given name and go by “Sam” to better assimilate. Whey his parents try to take the sting out of this news by suggesting he go with them to meet his potential new bride — an Iraqi woman named Yasmina — he reluctantly agrees. Yasmina is new to America and refuses to forget her homeland, as her necklace (the outline of Iraq) shows. But when she divulges snippets of her recent past, Abdul Samee thinks maybe she should forget more. Or should he remember more of his distant homeland?
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Rohina Malik’s new play Yasmina’s Necklace is about the immigrant experience and the struggle to keep the weight of your past from holding you back from your future. Mustard Seed Theatre presents Yasmina’s Necklace at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (January 27 to February 12) at the Fontbonne Fine Arts Theatre (6800 Wydown Boulevard; www. mustardseedtheatre.com). Tickets are $30 to $35.
North Euclid Avenue; www.leftbank.org), Coleman reads from and signs copies of his poetry collection St. Trigger. Admission is free, but you need to buy a copy of the book to get in the signing line.
SUNDAY 01/29 La Cenerentola
The third installment of the St. Louis Symphony and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (3716 Washington Boulevard; www.pulitzerarts.org) Concert Series features works by a pair of modern composers. David Robertson will lead the group through Dutch pianist/composer Louis Andriessen’s Nietzsche Redet (for speaker, flute, English horn, two clarinets, two violins, two celli, two pianos and a double bass) and American composer Frederic Rzewski’s North American Ballads. The two works are a study in contrasts. Andriessen’s piece incorporates the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche recited aloud against pervasive dissonance, while Rzewski’s composition reinterprets labor movement protest songs (“Dreadful Memories,” “Which Side Are You On?,” “Harlan County, U.S.A.” and “Down by the Riverside”) as dynamic, challenging and overwhelmingly gorgeous piano pieces. It’s tempting to think of this concert as a commentary on America’s inner dialogue, but that contrast also applies to the sculptures of Medardo Rosso, whose work comprises the current show in the galleries. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Pulitzer. Tickets are $20.
Giochino Rossini’s dramedy opera La Cenerentola is a twist on the Cinderella story. Angelina is still a lovely young woman forced to toil for her nasty stepsisters, but now she must also deal with a stern and demanding stepfather, the audaciously named Don Magnifico. The rest of the plot remains essentially unchanged, although instead of a fairy godmother Cenerentola is aided by the handsome prince’s disguised tutor. Winter Opera Saint Louis presents La Cenerentola in the original Italian with English supertitles at 7:30 p.m. Friday and at 3 p.m. Sunday (January 27 and 29) at the Skip Viragh Center for the Arts (425 Lindbergh Boulevard; www.winteroperstl.org). Tickets are $35 to $55.
MONDAY 01/30 Aaron Coleman Detroit native Aaron Coleman is a Fulbright scholar and a graduate of Wash U’s MFA program, but those facts seem thin and far away when you read his poems. Coleman composes dense thickets of words that scan clearly and sharply, flowing through the reader like clear water. “Through,” written as an homage to A. Van Jordan’s fondness for formatting his poems like dictionary definitions, charts the course of a relationship in nine definitions of the word “through,” each with examples. Tonight at 7 p.m. at Left Bank Books (399
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The Surreal Life Vitaly Mansky’s new movie is both North Korean propaganda and North Korean exposé Written by
ROBERT HUNT Under the Sun
Directed and written by Vitaly Mansky. Starring Lee Zin-Mi. Plays Friday through Sunday (January 27 to 29) at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium as part of the Webster Film Series.
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ark Twain knew that one of the sharpest and most efficient ways of letting the wind out of a self-inflated opponent was to simply use their own words against them. When he wanted to debunk the “science” of Mary Baker Eddy, he did it by playing the role of a naive observer working his way through her ideas and writings. When he wanted to skewer the inflated idealism of a European tour in his first full-length work The Innocents Abroad, he simply devoted four pages to reprinting in full the prospectus for the voyage. More than a century later, Twain’s kung-fu criticism remains an effective approach, expanding into new media as demonstrated by the anti-corporate pranks of the Yes Men, the rediscovery of Scientology’s gaudy self-produced videos in Alex Gibney’s Going Clear and by the many political commentators who can question authority merely by reprinting the early-morning dispatches of a certain orange-skinned Twitterhappy demagogue. When faced with the outrageous, sometimes the best approach is to lie low and let the outrager set his own trap. That’s the method the Russian documentary filmmaker Vitaly Mansky puts to use in Under the Sun, a revelatory — and at times, almost surreal — portrait of life in North Korea. Mansky
Lee Zin-Mi shades her eyes from the bright future. | © ICARUS FILMS wanted to show the ordinary social activities of Pyongyang, but when he arrived there, he was met by government-assigned handlers who provided constant supervision, a list of approved locations and even a written script. It told the story of an eight-year-old girl, Zin-Mi, as she prepares to join the Children’s Union on the Day of the Shining Star, a national holiday (the birthday of Kim Jong-Il, of course). Mansky’s response was to follow their instructions to the letter — and then go a step further. Carefully saving his footage on two separate memory cards, he kept the camera rolling at all times, recording not just the stage-managed glimpses of Zin-Mi’s family life, but also showing the government supervisors in the wings, feeding lines and demanding retakes. They get their sanctioned view of the loyal, patriotic family beaming under portraits of Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jon-Il — but not without effort. Their real jobs lacking in nationalist significance, the parents’ daily lives are re-written
to present the country’s industry in a better light; they improvise discussions of productivity and equipment quality, prompted by their obliging co-workers. They sit at an oversized feast that is supposed to represent a typical dinner for a family of three, speaking lovingly of kimchi (“our national food!”). They sing the praises of a locally grown flower — the Kimjongilia. Throughout Under the Sun, you keep waiting for a moment when the masks fall, when the players miss a step or speak out of turn, but it never happens (the closest it comes is when Zin-Mi struggles to stay awake while attending a lecture by a long-winded old general). That’s one of the more disturbing things about it. Though the story of Zin-Mi makes up about half of the film, long segments examine other aspects of Pyongyang, a weirdly postmodern landscape of banal, pseudo-futurist design, where the citizens join in radio-led exercise sessions and elaborate musical spectacles, always under the riverfronttimes.com
shadow of reverent/kitschy portraits and sculptures of the two Kims. In some ways, it’s a stranger film for what it doesn’t tell us. What could be going through the minds of the hundreds of people dancing in the streets and singing of their devotion to their leader? (How do they learn the songs and the synchronized movements?) Or through that of the young schoolteacher whose students naturally roll off expressions like Respected Leader and Generalissimo Kim Il-Sung and express their distaste for “landholders and Japanese aggressors”? Mansky has created — or perhaps simply facilitated — a disturbing and intimate look at life under totalitarianism, given an unusual twist by the leadership’s strange predilection for fantasy and artifice. It’s a complex dual portrait of North Korea, drawing back the curtain behind the official society of image-building and illusion to reveal the cold and ultimately horrifying mechanism n behind it.
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Blurred Lines The Black Rep’s new production, Lines in the Dust, confronts the shameful disparity in our public education system Written by
SARAH FENSKE Lines in the Dust
Written by Nikkole Salter. Directed by Ron Himes. Presented by the Black Rep through January 29 at Washington University’s Edison Theatre (6445 Forsyth Boulevard; www.theblackrep.org). Tickets $15 to $40.
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r. Beverly Long, the school administrator who serves as the protagonist in Lines in the Dust, tried to fool herself into thinking the Newark Public Schools weren’t so bad. Attempting to live by her principles, the Ivy League grad enrolled her son there after taking a job as the district’s director of curriculum. Then one morning she observed the students in her boy’s class being patted down — spread-eagled up against the wall, unfazed by what was clearly a routine security measure. It’s a story she relays with mounting horror, explaining that she yanked her son out of the district and quit her job on the spot. She saw her boy being inexorably primed for the prison complex that awaits so many promising young black men, and she couldn’t abide that. She had to do what was best for her child. Dr. Long’s flight from Newark isn’t the central conflict in Lines in the Dust, Nikkole Salter’s all-toocurrent public education drama. First performed in New Jersey in 2014, the play had its St. Louis premiere last weekend in a gripping new production at the Black Rep directed by company founder Ron Himes. When we meet Dr. Long, the horrors of Newark are firmly in her rearview mirror. She’s landed a job as principal at high-achieving
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Mike DiMaggio (John Contini) warns Denitra Morgan (Evann De-Bose) about the dangers facing Millburn High. | STEWART GOLDSTEIN Millburn High School; her son is one of the few black students in the suburban district, but he appears to be thriving. Then tragedy hits: A student is murdered, and the district ascertains that the victim is a “border jumper,” a kid who faked his residence to get out of Newark. A crackdown on other jumpers — many of them African-American students — is inevitable. But does Dr. Long have the stomach to refer for prosecution parents whose only crime is making a choice she understands all too well? Salter’s script casts its clear-eyed gaze on a world where America has recently elected a black president, but still condemns tens of thousands of black kids to a thirdrate education. Salter even alludes to the $100 million that Mark Zuckerberg donated to the Newark schools; the problem, she knows, isn’t just a lack of funds. It’s all of us — we, the well-meaning progressives who throw out our egalitarian ideals the minute we have a child of our own. We, who abandon the city for suburban districts, and then prosecute poor people if they dare to attempt the same flight.
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The stage design, by Dunsi Dai, does a great job of rooting the action in several wildly different places with just a few smartly placed props. And all three actors are superb, though the action drags a bit when Dr. Long is on stage with Mike DiMaggio, the detective hired to investigate the border jumpers. That’s no fault of the actor — stage veteran John Contini is excellent in the role. But as written by Salter, the detective is immediately revealed as the kind of blowhard who pontificates at city council meetings, an ex-cop who insists “the law is the law” and, later, slurs Dr. Long by suggesting she was on “C.P. time.” We’ve all known guys like DiMaggio — certain of their righteousness, devoted to the rules rather than any sense of truly fair play. Still, it’s hard to take all his bloviating, much less hear the presentation he makes to the school board, twice. Yes, there are some small changes between the two versions, and perhaps Salter meant for these alterations to feel like a sign of progress. But since they do nothing to change the trajectory of the plot, it’s hard to applaud
DiMaggio’s softened rhetoric. A bigot is still a bigot, even if he feels vaguely sorry for the people he’s persecuting. And when he’s not around, it leaves Dr. Long to interact with Denitra Morgan, the parent of a gifted student who just may be hiding something. Both Cherita Armstrong as Dr. Long and Evann De-Bose as Denitra are marvelous, and when they’re alone on stage together, every complicated truth at the heart of the play seems to crash and collide like balls in a pinball machine gone mad. There’s barely a moment Dr. Long isn’t on stage, and yet Armstrong’s energy never once flags. She’s completely believable in every moment. But Denitra’s part is juicier, and De-Bose makes the most of it. Once she gets her big reveal, she’s both fiery and funny, and enormously sympathetic. “I wasn’t thinking of you,” she tells Dr. Long at the moment of truth, the moment when we realize Denitra’s selfish actions may cost Dr. Long her job. “I was thinking of her.” She’s speaking, naturally, of her daughter, and there’s not a parent who couldn’t identify. n
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Sam (Rahamses Galvan) with his co-devil Lily (Elizabeth Van Pelt). | MIKE SNODDERLEY
ALMOST HEAVEN Theatre Nuevo tackles the dark side of the afterlife Hell
Presented by Theatre Nuevo at the Chapel (6238 Alexander Drive; artful.ly/theatrenuevo) through January 29. Tickets are $15 to $20.
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t is a bold choice to name your show Hell, if only because of the headline possibilities it gives critics. But Theatre Nuevo is not in the business of playing it safe. All of the company’s productions so far have been devised theatrical pieces, which means the cast collectively creates the show during the rehearsal process, and Hell is no exception. Each show is something of an experiment, and not all experiments prove successful. Hell is less successful an experiment than one would hope, but it’s not a hopeless endeavor. The four storylines feature Spencer (Kevin Corpuz), a popular man who committed suicide to escape his crippling depression; Ayesha (La’Brie Jones), a terminally ill Muslim woman who shared a forbidden same-sex attraction; Kate (Amanda Wales), the adult daughter of an alcoholic who grew into her father’s disease; and then Sam and Lily (Rahamses Galvan and Elizabeth Van Pelt), two minions of hell who torment and observe these new inhabitants of the underworld. That underworld is filled with chalked statements of the cast and crew’s own personal hells — “wet socks” and “buffering,” for example. The show opens with a full-cast dance number, which abruptly breaks down to listless wandering and fearful looks. (This is set to the first of at least seven variations of the Squirrel Nut Zippers song “Hell,” each sung by Marshall Jennings, backed by a small band.) The timeline slews back and forth between the principles’ lives on earth and
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f you ran the numbers, VietNam Style owner Thao Truong seemed to have it all figured out: Seven years of learning English as a new arrival to this country, one bachelor’s degree from Maryville University and one semester of MBA studies. Still, something didn’t add up for the aspiring actuary scientist. “After high school, I knew exactly who I was. After I graduated from college, though, I had no idea,” Truong confesses. “I’ve never been more unsure of anything in my life.” Truong couldn’t explain why she felt the way she did; she just knew that she wasn’t feeling her chosen career. She found her happiest moments working with people, not math. At Maryville, she thrived as one of the leaders of her international club, arranging extracurricular activities for her peers. And as an advisor
for international students, she was especially happy helping them navigate the transition to their newly adopted country — something she’d done herself when she immigrated to the U.S. just years before, at eighteen. But really, Truong felt most alive at her part-time job, managing a Vietnamese restaurant in west county. Truong’s comfort in the food business went back to her days as a young girl growing up in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). Her mother owned her own restaurant and would send Truong to the market to gather the day’s wares — freshly picked vegetables, fish that were still alive. If something wasn’t up to her mother’s high standards, she would send her daughter back to the market until she got it right. Truong learned everything she could about food under these circumstances, watching as her riverfronttimes.com
mother perfected recipes and eventually making them herself. She didn’t plan on being a professional cook, though. That she left to her husband, Yun Vu, a trained pastry chef who had his own business in Vietnam. After Vu and Truong married two years ago, he moved to the U.S. so that the newlyweds could begin their life together. He would find a job doing whatever he could and Truong would get her MBA. VietNam Style changed those plans. After lamenting the food they’d left behind in Ho Chi Minh City, Truong and Lu decided to do something about it. Armed with her mother’s old family recipes and Vu’s pastry background, they opened the fiercely authentic Vietnamese restaurant on the eastern end of the Loop three months ago, converting the short-lived Cabana in the Loop space into a bastion of southeast Continued on pg 42
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VIETNAM STYLE Continued from pg 41 Asian cuisine. At first, Truong thought it would be a part-time gig — something she could do while remaining in school. However, this past semester, she decided to take a break from her studies and focus on the restaurant full time. In some ways, her decision to do so is reflective of her approach to food. In Truong’s opinion, the other Vietnamese restaurants around town serve good food, but they get bogged down in trying to take on too much. They have Vietnamese food, sure, but it’s mixed in with Chinese food and Thai dishes. The lack of focus, she believes, waters down the authenticity. In this sense, VietNam Style operates outside of the typical Vietnamese restaurant template. The menu is fairly small, consisting of a few appetizers, sandwiches, soups and entrees, and you’ll find what you expect: bánh mì, pho, spring rolls. However, it’s the lesser-known offerings that make the restaurant such a gem. These dishes may not be as familiar to American diners, but they’re the ones being served in the Vietnamese restaurants in her home country, Truong says. My, what we have been missing. Take the “Viet Style Cheese Wraps.” The golden wontons masquerade as generic crab Rangoon — until they are pierced open to reveal a half-cooked quail egg yolk. The yolk mixes with cream cheese to form a rich, earthy center. VietNam Style’s other deep-fried appetizer, the egg rolls, are more familiar, but they’re also expertly prepared. Paper-thin rice-paper wrappers are stuffed with ground shrimp and pork, accented with shredded cabbage and carrots. The
Co-owners Yun Vu and Thao Truong got married two years ago. | MABEL SUEN texture is so delicate that the rolls flake apart like the crispy top of a classic French croissant. Combination spring rolls — so large they could be mistaken for a small burrito — are overstuffed with shrimp, slices of beef and julienne vegetables. The sticky ricepaper wrapper can barely contain the generous portion of fresh herbs that anchor the filling with cilantro perfume and bright mint. The restaurant’s well-executed bánh mì is typical of what you look for in a Vietnamese sandwich. The pork version came with thin slices of succulent roasted meat and sunny-side eggs that mingled with the pork’s glaze to form a mouthwatering sauce. Radishes, cilantro and sliced jalapeños cut through the richness. I enjoyed VietNam Style’s pho more than other versions in town, largely because of the broth. The clarified beef liquid is so delicate, it dances on the tongue, and the heavy perfume of licorice from star anise adds a stronger punch than what is commonly found in pho
broth. Slices of tender filet, tendon, vermicelli and vegetables bob in this wonderful nectar — though really, I could have been served a side of that broth in a cup and considered this dish a success. A grilled pork chop, served over broken rice, sounds simple based on the menu description, but what arrives is anything but. Lemongrass, ginger and soy glaze the thin strips of meat; paired with the bitter char from the grill, the taste touches every part of the palate. Ribbons of crunchy pork skin, served as a condiment on the side, add fatty depth, while a simple slaw of daikon and carrots brings a refreshing note. The dish is also served with a triangle of wonderfully fluffy egg soufflé that evoked a slice of cornbread served alongside barbecue pork ribs. VietNam Style’s signature dish is its sizzling steak, a dish that has grown in popularity in Vietnam over the last ten or so years. If your thoughts of surf and turf are limited to a filet and a lobster tail, please go straight to this wonderful
restaurant and order the house special version of this magnificent entrée. A slice of filet mignon, brushed with a hint of garlicky soy glaze, is served on a searing hot skillet (think fajitas) with a side of pâté and a large, grilled sardine. Truong and Vu make the pâté inhouse, and it’s by far the best I’ve had in town — the liver is juicy, tender and crumbles apart with the slightest prodding. The taste is delicate — the metallic liver notes are there, but they’re mild, especially when mixed with the beef and the cooking jus. And the sardine — let’s just say this plump, fresh fish makes it seem criminal to call those oily things served in cans by the same name. VietNam Style serves all these offerings with a side of crusty bread. I think the point is to make sandwiches, though I just found myself using the bread to soak up every last morsel of this symphonic flavor bomb. Instead of dessert, we opted for Truong’s avocado smoothie, something she says reminds her of ones her mother used to make back home. Sweetened condensed milk adds richness to the ripe avocado, and just a hint of vanilla infuses the drink. I could have closed my eyes and sworn I was at a table in a bustling Saigon cafe. Truong often walks around the room, handing out samples of her delicious smoothies just for the fun of it. She beams when she does so, as if she’s finally in her element. And if you watch her tally up the bill from behind the counter, she maintains her smile the whole time. This, it’s clear, is the kind of numbers work she was meant to n do. VietNam Style
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ummer Wright doesn’t hesitate when she thinks of the advice she’d give to her younger self. “I’d say you’re crazy!” she laughs. “I was so naive back then. Here I was, nineteen years old with no money. I’d just moved to New Jersey and was calling up DB Bistro Moderne asking to speak to the chef for a job. Who does that?” Wright, who was recently tapped to head the pastry program for the hotly anticipated Vicia (4260 Forest Park Avenue), doesn’t regret her decision to pack up and move to New York City with the dream of working for the acclaimed chef Daniel Boulud. She just wishes she’d done it sooner. After graduating from high school in Kansas City, she opted to follow in her older sister’s footsteps and study business at Rockhurst University. However, Wright immediately knew it was the wrong fit. “I had this moment during a final exam,” Wright recalls. “My teacher picked up on it and asked me what was wrong, and I told her that I just didn’t want to be at this school, that I didn’t feel like it was what I was supposed to be doing.” Wright found herself confiding that she wanted to go to culinary school, a fact that delighted her teacher — her professor loved food and had friends in the restaurant business. She told Wright about the culinary school just across the border in Kansas, at Johnson County Community
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Pastry chef Summer Wright moved to the East Coast with a dream of working for Daniel Boulud. It came true, and now she’s at Vicia. | KELLY GLUECK College. Wright soon enrolled in the school’s hospitality and culinary program and secured an apprenticeship (and later job) with chef Michael Turner at the Classic Cup Cafe right on Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza. She dedicated herself to her craft, spending what little spare time she had at the bookstore around the corner. Poring over culinary books, she became obsessed with working for Boulud in New York City. Without much of a plan, she packed up her car and set off for the Manhattan restaurant scene. It took three months and innumerable phone calls to secure a stage at Boulud’s DB Bistro Moderne, but her persistence paid off when the garde manger spot became available. To her surprise, she got the position and simultaneously enrolled in a culinary certificate program. The schedule proved unsustainable. “My commute was
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two hours each way,” explains Wright. “I’d get up at 4 a.m. to drive to a bus stop to catch a bus to catch a train into the city. Then I’d walk to school, get to work by noon and work until around midnight. I’d often miss the last train and would find myself standing outside of a Wendy’s thinking that I had no idea how I was going to get home. Once, I even had to hitch a ride with total strangers back to New Jersey.” She quit the culinary program, but continued to work at DB Bistro Moderne for two years before getting completely burnt out. Unsure of her next move, she moved to St. Louis. While working at Five Bistro, she saw an ad seeking help at Gerard Craft’s new restaurant, Niche. She decided to apply, despite her best efforts at talking herself out of it. “I didn’t think I was good enough to work there,” Wright confesses. “I think a lot of chefs feel that way. I hear it all of the time.”
Craft gave her a foot in the door as his garde manger cook, but when the position of pastry chef at Craft’s Brasserie opened, she jumped at the opportunity. After a few years there, she returned to Niche as its pastry chef. More moves followed; Wright went to California and cultivated her culinary identity before returning to St. Louis to join her former Niche colleague Matthew Daughaday at Reeds American Table. There, she ran the pastry program, creating sweet treats that reflected her penchant for simple flavors and processes. When the opportunity came to work with Michael and Tara Gallina at their forthcoming Vicia, Wright knew she could not pass it up. “They are get-shit-done sort of people,” Wright laughs. “They’re so professional and skilled. We’re going to be milling our own flour and will maybe even have a bakery there someday. It’s amazing to see what this
is going to become.” Wright took a break from developing Vicia’s pastries to share her thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage community, the peculiar shape of slivered almonds and why she’s her own biggest critic. What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did? Several things come to mind. First, I always take the risk. Also, I am my own biggest critic, and finally, I’m the best dining partner you’ll ever find! What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you? The first thing I do before getting out of bed is check my email, messages and my bank account. The last thing I do before going to bed is guided meditation. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Teleportation. There are so many places I’d love to travel and friends I’d love to visit from across the miles that I rarely or never get to see. It would also be beneficial to have the ability to speak any language. Imagine the possibilities and the connection you could make with any person without a language barrier. What is the most positive thing in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year? Watching the growth and achievements as my industry friends and cooks that I used to work with on the line, or who were part of my extended restaurant network, become owners, executives and industry leaders. I’m proud of their relentless work, and it’s exciting to see their own artistic style and personality come out through their work. What is something missing in the local food, wine or cocktail scene that you’d like to see? For food, it’s late-night dining options across the board, low to high-brow — anything from ramen shops and izakayas to taco street vendors and more food truck freedom, to full-service dining. Also, more from-scratch bakeries (one on every corner, please!). More wood oven/hearth cooking, too. For wine and cocktails, I’d like to see people embrace offering natural wines. Industry-wide, enacting no tipping policies to close the financial gap between the front and back of house, affordable employer-sponsored health care,
more farmer appreciation, charity-driven food events designed by the restaurant to benefit organizations they believe in. Who is your St. Louis food crush? Patrick Devine, Chris Bork, Michael Gallina, Ted Wilson, Brad Bardon, and Ted and Jamie Kilgore. They are all wonderful people doing great things. Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene? Tara and Michael Gallina. Their skill and experience is top-notch. They are great people, have incredible taste, and are super fun to hang out with to boot. I’m also curious to see what the very charismatic Matt McGuire creates in the coming year at Louie. I imagine we’ll all see a lot of familiar faces in the crowd of what will probably be one of the most soulful restaurants in St. Louis. Which ingredient is most representative of your personality? Eggs. They’re indispensable, applicable for many savory and sweet preparations, and a workhorse in the kitchen. If you weren’t working in the restaurant business, what would you be doing? I’ve thought about this a lot, many times, and the outcome is usually artistically driven — photographer, ceramicist, editorial layout and graphic design, interior design, food historian or cookbook writer. Name an ingredient never allowed in your kitchen. Skim milk. What’s the point? And slivered almonds. I dislike the shape. What is your after-work hangout? Home. But if I’m going to hit up a spot, you’ll find me at Lona’s Lil Eats, the Royale, Union Loafers, Taste, Vista Ramen, Planter’s House or El Bronco. What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure? My food guilty pleasure is cheese; beverage, it’s Champagne. Enjoy them together for a win-win. What would be your last meal on earth? This is ridiculously hard to answer but I’d probably host a giant party with all my friends and family and we would all cook, dance, drink and laugh together from evening to sunrise. n Cheers!
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n the winter of 2014, Patterson Hood, co-founder of the alt-country/Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers, found himself in St. Louis during a solo tour and a show booked at the Sheldon Concert Hall. The venue is justly celebrated — for both its exceptional acoustics and rare appearances by legends of jazz, folk, gospel and country — but it doesn’t often host searing reflections on the state of our American union. At the time of his appearance, the Ferguson tragedy was still reverberating around the nation. When a St. Louis grand jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson, who had killed the unarmed Michael Brown that August, the city exploded and protests once again took over the American streets. Hood was in the process of moving from his home in Athens, Georgia, to Portland, Oregon. He was not watching the events with equanimity. The songwriter set down to write “What It Means,” perhaps his finest work in a twenty-year career of extraordinary songs about this brutal and beautiful country. At the Sheldon Concert Hall, he closed his main set with his new composition. Here’s how it begins: He was running down the street When they shot him in his tracks About the only thing agreed upon Is he ain’t coming back There won’t be any trial So the air it won’t be cleared There’s just two sides calling
Patterson Hood, center, has moved to Oregon, but his band hasn’t forsaken its Southern roots. | PRESS PHOTO VIA HIGH ROAD TOURING names Out of anger out of fear Hood recalls that time and what it meant to perform the song — a furious and deeply felt rush of images and doubts — in a city where it more than hit close to home. “People asked me, ‘Are you going to play that song?’ I thought, I’ve got to,” he says during a call to his home in Portland. “If I’m not willing to play it here, then fuck me — I don’t deserve to play it anywhere. But it was one of the warmest responses from an audience I’ve ever received. It was really moving and beautiful. It gave me hope. We’ve got to get past this shit as a society. Our issues with race have been a stain on our very existence.” “What It Means” was inspired by the events of Ferguson and the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, but like the greatest topical art, it resonates with questions and the meanings that circle around them, all so different for so many different communities. For Hood, one question led to another and another and to more questions still. “I thought about putting a ques-
tion mark on the title,” he says. “Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On’ is a much greater song, but he also left the question mark off so it could go either way. Musically, mine is such a simple song. It almost has more of a parallel in hip-hop writing, rather than a rock song format. I can’t rap. I wish I could. The other touchstone was a Tom T. Hall protest song about Nixon called ‘The Watergate Blues.’ Today, most of the music addressing these issues is in hip-hop and pop music. There aren’t that many rock & roll songs talking about this stuff. I’m a white, middle-aged, Southern college drop-out, which is a big Trump demographic. But people who look like me should say, ‘Black lives matter.’” The title of Drive-By Truckers’ latest album, American Band, isn’t a question, but it implies one: Can rock & roll still shake, rattle and roar through our divided national zeitgeist? Though Hood now makes his home in the Northwest, it’s not as if the band has left behind its Southern roots. One of Hood’s most poignant songs reframes the “duality of the Southern thing,” as riverfronttimes.com
he once put it: “No matter where we are we’re ever South.” But the album’s radically stated themes — violence, hypocrisy, justice, race and our seemingly eternal obsession with guns — are no longer regional for this American band. They are the truths that demand a reckoning of us all. The songs on American Band were mostly written quickly and recorded in less than a week. Hood and his foil Mike Cooley, the band’s co-founder, wrote separately but synchronously. “When we started playing each other a little of what we had, it became clear we were on the same trajectory,” he says. “I wrote ‘What It Means’ first. I wasn’t sure it would be a Truckers song. It was something I wrote to get off my chest. I was also remembering something that happened in my hometown of Athens. It’s a nice town, seems untroubled. But it happened there too. It happens everywhere.” While the songs penned by Cooley are as scathing as blackflag-flying punk — images like “low-hanging, headline-grabbing Continued on pg 48 ring masters
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and imaginary elephants” need no explication — Hood’s recent songs are some of his most reflective, whether imagining the terror of the mass shooting in Umpqua, Oregon, or the burdens of our political, racial and class divisions. “There’s a lot of turmoil in these songs,” he says, “but as far as my head space was, it was pretty clear and peaceful when I was writing them. I’ve written my share of stuff under troubled times in my head. I’ve got a divorce album in my past. But when I’m still in the dark time, I’m too in the fog to express what I’m thinking. I tend to write more when I’m coming out of the dark rather than in the midst of it.” Hood wrote the song “Baggage,” which closes American Band, after the suicide of Robin Williams. Over pulsing, tripled electric guitars and a rhythmic drive that once might have been compared to Crazy Horse, but which is now the Truckers’ own signature, Hood reveals his own struggle with depression. He knows he’s fortunate to be “blessed with the means to repair.” “I had just come out of a dark period in my own head,” he says of the song. “It wasn’t the only time in my life that happened, but it was more troubling this time. The darker periods usually corre-
sponded to outside events. I was depressed during my divorce or a death in the family. But I went through a pretty dark period around 2012 to 2013. There wasn’t a corresponding event. It was just a deep melancholy. When I heard about Robin Williams’ suicide, it just really hit me. Maybe because he made people laugh and forget their problems. He was very candid about his depression, but he seemed to have come out the other side. I wrote it at a bar the night he died. I literally wrote it on a bar napkin.” Taken as a whole, the turmoil that fuels Drive-By Truckers’ latest album derives from a pre-election season of extraordinary discontent. That maddening season is over. This American band plans to greet the new one with the resistance of rock & roll. “Initially, there was a lot of pushback to the album on the internet, but I haven’t seen very much in person,” says Hood. “Post-election, it’s been strange. We were in Philadelphia the day after the election and thought, ‘What the fuck?’ It ended up being one of the best shows we’ve ever played. People needed the catharsis. Then we headed into the deep South for two weeks, and those were some of the most defiant, punk-rock shows we’ve played. That’s where we’ll pick it up. We’re the opposition, n the loyal opposition.”
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ou have to hand it to the FarFetched collective: Alongside its ambitious release schedule of genre-blurring music and its adherence to a tightly defined visual aesthetic, the crew knows how stick to a schedule. For years now, FarFetched has used the month of January — a time usually bereft of big concerts — as a launching pad for its upcoming year, and for six years running the label has used its Prologue compilation as its opening salvo. On the evening of January 6, inside a half-full Firebird, FarFetched celebrated the release of Prologue VI with a half-dozen of its affiliated acts taking the stage. It was an evening of collaboration and intersections: Beatmaker Centipede sat in with Blank Generation and manipulated the group’s muscular rhythms, Kansas City-based instrumentalist Rick Maun performed a set of syrupy jams, and Mathias & the Pirates gave a spirited, pulsating performance that touched on themes of defiance, love and hometown pride. For much of the collective’s lifespan, the label has been content to release the bulk of its music digitally — its Bandcamp site acts as a hub for the myriad hip-hop, ambient-electro and beat-driven music released under the FarFetched aegis. For the release of this year’s Prologue, the collective opted for a more modern form of distribution: a USB-ready download card with the comp’s dozen tracks already loaded. But it was another item at the merch booth that suggested a push toward permanence for FarFetched’s media offerings: a chapbook of black-and-white photos of the collective’s members, taken by local photographer Nate Burrell. Darian Wigfall, the director of artist management and development for FarFetched, says that he, Burrell and label founder Damon Davis had been kicking around the idea for a few years but only committed to making it a reality in 2016. The title, Book I, hints at more such projects to come. “I wanted to give something physical,” says Wigfall. “One of the things we’re focused on is the user experience. The music is good, but I want to focus on how it looks and feels for people getting introduced to FarFetched. Seeing the faces of the people when they are not on stage — I thought that was a good combination of things.” Wigfall refers to many of the people affiliated with FarFetched as “multi-disciplinary artists” and that’s true, but music remains the primary focus of the outfit. For this iteration of Prologue the label heads have brought together some well-known contributors —
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CaveofswordS, Abnormal, Hands and Feet — while introducing some relatively new faces. Superhero Killer, the R&B/rock quartet, makes its FarFetched debut with “And Then You Came Along,” and Eric “Prospect” White shows his chops as a rapper on “At the Crib.” Likewise, Baqbeet, a producer who has worked behind the scenes with the collective, mixes neo-soul vibes and menacing production on the greyscale “Second Day of the Year.” Other acts on the compilation echo that eery ambience. Centipede’s “extragemstones” takes its bones from a washed-out trombone sample and laces it with an insistent kick drum and skittery snare. Mathias & the Pirates’ track “Altered Beast” closes this year’s Prologue with its customary blend of hip-hop noir, this time using a Vincent Price impression and Castlevania organ chords alongside contributions from Myka 9 and Abstract Rude. Wigfall says that 2017 looks to be another busy year for the collective; early February sees the release of Reclamation II, a follow-up to the 2014 collaboration between Davis, Prospect and Basil Kincaid. Other releases include forthcoming efforts from Hands and Feet, Golden Curls, Superhero Killer and Owen Ragland, another new member of the collective. While the collective gets plenty of submissions, Wigall says the label’s brain trust is careful about who it brings onto the team. “There are a lot of people that say, ‘Hey, we’ve got the dopest beats’ — but you sound like everyone else!” Wigfall says with a laugh. The process of shepherding new artists into the fold is an organic one. Wigfall says, “We listen to the music and if it’s good and innovative, we go see your live show. If it’s a good vibe, we put out your music through FarFetched.” —Christian Schaeffer
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THURSDAY 26
CLOZEE: w/ Psymbionic, Lusid 8 p.m., $15-$20.
700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
BILLY BARNETT BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center, 2720
TOM JOAD & THE GHOSTS: w/ Conman Economy,
436-5222.
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
Cherokee St, St. Louis, 314-276-2700.
Parker and the Cannons 7 p.m., $10. Fubar,
314-436-5222.
JOE BOZZI BAND: 6 p.m., free. Howard’s in Sou-
3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
MONDAY 30
BONNIE BISHOP: 8 p.m., $12-$15. Off Broad-
lard, 2732 S 13th St, St. Louis, 314-349-2850.
TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS: w/ Dalton Domino
ANGEL PRESENTS SOUL SEARCHING: 8 p.m., $10.
way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
POLTERGUTS: w/ Arcane Haven, Cohen 6 p.m.,
8 p.m., $22.50-$25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar
BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.
JOE METZKA BAND: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues
$10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-
Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
Louis, 314-436-5222.
& Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-
9050.
5222.
ROCK THE SPECTRUM: A BENEFIT FOR GIANT
SUNDAY 29
KIM MASSIE: 10:30 p.m., $10. Beale on
STEPS OF ST. LOUIS: w/ The Bottoms Up Blues
ALL THEM WITCHES: 8 p.m., $12-$15. The Fire-
289-9050.
Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
Gang, Grass Fed Mule, The Dust Covers 8 p.m.,
bird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
SOULARD BLUES BAND: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway
621-7880.
$20. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,
KATE FRANCIS: 2 p.m., free. Howard’s in Sou-
Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
MINESWEEPA: 8 p.m., $15-$20. The Ready
314-773-3363.
lard, 2732 S 13th St, St. Louis, 314-349-2850.
621-8811.
Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-
SARA WATKINS: 8 p.m., $20-$22. Old Rock
LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: 9 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,
833-3929.
House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
TUESDAY 31
NEAL MORSE BAND: 8 p.m., $30-$50. Delmar
SOULARD BLUES BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
436-5222.
BLIND WILLIE & THE BROADWAY COLLECTIVE:
Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
MARBIN JAZZ ROCK: 6:30 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,
9:30 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S.
6161.
436-5222.
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
STEVE AOKI: 9 p.m., $30-$75. Ameristar Casino,
436-5222.
JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ
1 Ameristar Blvd., St. Charles, 636-949-7777.
SOUL REUNION: 10:30 p.m., $7. Beale on Broad-
Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828 Olive
BADFISH: A TRIBUTE TO SUBLIME: 7 p.m., $15.
SUPERJOINT: w/ Battlecross, Childbite 7 p.m.,
way, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880.
Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.
Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St.
$20. Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East
THAT 1 GUY: 8 p.m., $13-$15. Old Rock House,
KEYBOY: w/ Wheels, Swayz Hunna 8 p.m., $10.
Louis, 618-274-6720.
St. Louis, 618-274-6720.
1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
BOTTOMS UP BLUES GANG: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s
TOM HALL: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups,
TOM HALL & DAN BLISS: 4 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,
FRIDAY 27
FREETHINKER: w/ Macbook Demarco, AZN 8 p.m., $8. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-
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Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: 8 p.m., $25-$28. The
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Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314726-6161. FALLING FENCES: 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. FLEA BITTEN DAWGS: 6 p.m., free. Howard’s in Soulard, 2732 S 13th St, St. Louis, 314-3492850. THE GREEN MCDONOUGH BAND: 7 p.m., free. Hwy 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen, 34 S Old Orchard Ave, Webster Groves, 314-968-0061. THE GREEN MCDONOUGH BAND: 7 p.m., free. Hwy 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen, 34 S Old Orchard Ave, Webster Groves, 314-968-0061. GROUND FLOOR BAND: 8 p.m., $7. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314621-7880. ONLY SOUND: w/ Slush Wave, Vya, Ramona Deflowered 8 p.m., $8. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. RAW EARTH: w/ Final Veil 9 p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.
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RIO STAR: 8 p.m., free. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009. SKEET RODGERS & INNER CITY BLUES BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. STARKILL: w/ Spellcaster 7 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. STORY OF THE YEAR: 8 p.m., $40. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314833-3929.
SATURDAY 28 ALCEST: w/ The Body, Creepers 8 p.m., $17-$20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
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Sara Watkins 8 p.m. Saturday, January 28. The Old Rock House, 1200 South 7th Street. All ages: $20 advance, $22 day of show. 314-588-0505.
Since the formal if not permanent dissolution of Nickel Creek, Sara Watkins has released three solo albums, including last year’s Young in All the Wrong Ways, a breakup album that’s as plainspoken and unaffected as it is musically wide-roaming. While the album has few traces of Nickel Creek’s bluegrass-meets-pop experiments, Watkins’
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sometimes bitter, often resilient songs shine with crunching rock, eerie folk, jumping honky-tonk and convincing country soul. Her voice, once a tangy and trilling instrument, has become more adroit, tougher even as she lays out truths that she knows alone won’t set her free. Watkins may still be feeling burned, but her talent is far from flaming out. Long view: The sultry-voiced Liz Longley opens this evening with a dark, indie-rock spin on Americana. —Roy Kasten
KIM MASSIE: 10:30 p.m., $10. Beale on Broad-
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050,
way, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880.
fubarstl.com.
SWEETIE & THE TOOTHACHES: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s
CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS: W/ Fly Method, New
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
American Classic, Tyler Samuel’s and the Bad
314-436-5222.
Hair Cuts, Bleach, A Scarlet Summer, Sat., Feb.
WEDNESDAY 1
25, 6 p.m., $10-$12. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009, ciceros-stl.com.
BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale on
CARPE DIEM: W/ Peerless, The New Romans,
Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-
OTG, Fri., Feb. 10, 8 p.m., $10. Cicero’s, 6691
7880.
Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009,
THE CADILLAC THREE: 8 p.m., $20-$25. Delmar
ciceros-stl.com.
Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-
CAVEOFSWORDS: W/ Sunset SNST, Hope and
6161.
Therapy, Mon., March 13, 7 p.m., $8-$10. The
DAWES: 8 p.m., $25-$27.50. The Pageant, 6161
Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353,
Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
firebirdstl.com.
EAST SIDERS REVIEW: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
CHELSEA GRIN: W/ Ice Nine Kills, Gideon, Enter-
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
prise Earth, Sun., April 2, 6 p.m., $20-$22. The
436-5222.
Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353,
JOE METZKA BAND: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues
firebirdstl.com.
& Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-
COHEED AND CAMBRIA: W/ The Dear Hunter,
5222.
Mon., May 15, 8 p.m., $30-$35. The Pageant,
LUKE WADE: w/ Matt McAndrew 8 p.m., $12-
6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161,
$15. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504
thepageant.com.
Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.
CONOR OBERST: W/ The Felice Brothers, Sat.,
THIS JUST IN
March 25, 8 p.m., $27.50-$30. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161,
AARON WATSON: Thu., April 13, 8 p.m., $20.
thepageant.com.
Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-
DEPTHS OF HATRED: W/ So This Is Suffering, Out
726-6161, delmarhall.com.
Of Orbit, Sukubass, Thu., March 9, 6 p.m., $12.
ACOUSTIC FEST 2017: W/ Cary Morin, Ivas John,
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050,
Brian Curran,, Leroy Pierson, Tom Hall, Mat
fubarstl.com.
Wilson, Wed., Feb. 8, 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,
DEVIN THE DUDE: Fri., April 14, 8 p.m., $20-$23.
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St.
436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com.
Louis, 314-833-3929, thereadyroom.com.
AMERICAN GRIM: W/ Heartbreak Heroes, Fri.,
DRUG CHURCH: W/ Polterguts, Mon., May 22, 7
March 3, 6 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,
p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-
St. Louis, 314-289-9050, fubarstl.com.
289-9050, fubarstl.com.
AN EVENING WITH DAVY KNOWLES: Thu., Feb. 9,
EAST SIDERS REVIEW: Wed., Feb. 1, 10 p.m., $5.
8 p.m., $15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.
Wed., Feb. 8, 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues &
Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com.
Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222,
ANGELICA GARCIA: Wed., Feb. 15, 8 p.m., $10. Off
bbsjazzbluessoups.com.
Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-
ELEPHANT REVIVAL: Sat., April 15, 8 p.m., $15-
3363, offbroadwaystl.com.
$17. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis,
ANOTHER LOST YEAR: W/ Never Say Die, Lullwa-
314-588-0505, oldrockhouse.com.
ter, Trustfall, Sat., March 18, 7 p.m., $12-$15.
EMPIRE GROOVE: W/ Unifyah, Sat., Feb. 25, 8
The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-
p.m., $12. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St.
0353, firebirdstl.com.
Louis, 314-726-6161, delmarhall.com.
ASHES TO STARDUST: THE MUSIC OF DAVID BOWIE:
FIREBIRD 8-YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY: W/ Hell
W/ Superjam, Jimmy Griffin, Dave Glover,
Night, Everything Went Black, The Gorge,
Tory Starbuck, Ronni Gee, Sat., April 8, 8 p.m.,
Sweat Shoppe, Fri., Feb. 24, 7 p.m., $10-$12. The
$15-$17.50. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St.
Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353,
Louis, 314-726-6161, delmarhall.com.
firebirdstl.com.
B-SIDES: Thu., Feb. 23, 8 p.m., $10. Cicero’s,
FITZGERALD FAMILY BENEFIT: Sun., Feb. 5, 5 p.m.,
6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-
$10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway,
0009, ciceros-stl.com.
St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.
BIG RICH MCDONOUGH & RHYTHM RENEGADES:
com.
Wed., Feb. 8, 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues &
FRANCES & THE FOUNDATION: W/ The Static Vibe,
Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222,
Sun., Feb. 19, 8 p.m., $8-$10. Fubar, 3108 Locust
bbsjazzbluessoups.com.
St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050, fubarstl.com.
BILLY BARNETT BAND: Thu., Feb. 2, 7 p.m., $5.
GATEWAY PET GUARDIAN’S 4TH ANNUAL LES
BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.
BOONDOGGLE BALL 2017: W/ Stone in Love, The
Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com.
VCRs, Fri., Feb. 17, 7 p.m., $35-$40. Delmar Hall,
BOO BOO DAVIS & THE BUMBLE BEE TRIO: Sat.,
6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161,
Feb. 4, 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups,
delmarhall.com.
700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222,
GORD’S GOLD: A TRIBUTE TO GORDON LIGHTFOOT:
bbsjazzbluessoups.com.
Fri., Feb. 17, 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509
BUSH: Sat., July 22, 6 p.m., $15. Ballpark Village,
Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroad-
601 Clark Ave, St. Louis, 314-345-9481, stlball-
waystl.com.
parkvillage.com.
HACKENSAW BOYS: W/ The Tillers, Thu., April
CALL OF THE VOID: Wed., March 15, 8 p.m., $8.
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OUT EVERY NIGHT Continued from pg 53 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com. ROCK KO FOL: Sat., March 11, 9 p.m., $35. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929, thereadyroom.com. SHAPES: W/ Tre Serpenti, The Right Hooks, Fri., Feb. 17, 8 p.m., $10. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009, ciceros-stl. com. SIDNEY STREET SHAKERS MARDI GRAS PARTY: Thu., Feb. 23, 8 p.m., $6. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com. SLAM ALLEN BLUES BAND: Fri., Feb. 3, 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. SLEEP SIGNALS: W/ Guns Out At Sundown, Tue., Feb. 21, 6 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050, fubarstl.com. SPLIT LIP RAYFIELD: W/ Muddy River Ramblers,
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Sat., Feb. 4, 9 p.m., $20. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505, oldrockhouse. com. SYMBOL SIX: W/ Captain Dee and The Long
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9 p.m. Thursday, February 2. Foam, 3359 South Jefferson Avenue. $5. 314-772-2100.
St. Louis doesn’t exactly need to import honky-tonk bands; we’ve got plenty to work with right here in the 314. The Dock Ellis Band will make you dance and laugh in equal measure, and Jack Grelle recently got a nice nod from Rolling Stone’s website as a country artist to watch in 2017. But our barrooms, saloons and — in the case of Foam — coffee shops, are always welcoming to twang-purveyors, and this week the venue hosts Columbia, Missouri-based Paul Weber and the Scrappers.
Last year’s self-titled set was a no-frills, straight-shooting portrait of the quartet. On “Song About the Midwest,” Weber and company take an uninspired song title and cut out a little slice of flyover country feedback with no shortage of bitterness. “Up go the houses / down go the farms,” Weber sings over a loping minor-key rag. Weber keeps that keen eye on the bulk of these songs and will happily share his songs with his Missouri neighbors this week. Hobo’s Code: St. Louis’ own twang-bangers the Hobosexuals will open the show. —Christian Schaeffer
TAS CRU & THE TORTURED SOULS: Tue., Feb. 7, 8 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. TAYLOR SCOTT BAND: Fri., Feb. 10, 10:30 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com. THIRD EYE BLIND: W/ Silversun Pickups, Tue., July 11, 6 p.m., TBA. Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth City Expwy., Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944, livenation.com/ Verizon-Wireless-Amphitheater-St-Louis-tickets-Maryland-Heights/venue/49672. THIRD SIGHT BAND: Mon., Feb. 6, 8 p.m., $5. BB’s
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TRACY NELSON & THE BEL AIRS: Fri., Feb. 10,
p.m., $26-$33. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd.,
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$10-$15. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University
7 p.m., $15. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S.
St. Louis, 314-726-6161, thepageant.com.
Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009,
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$10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway,
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OUR LAST WORDS FAREWELL SHOW: Sun., April
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IRON MAIDEN: W/ Ghost, Wed., July 12, 7 p.m.,
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16, 6 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St.
land Heights, 314-298-9944, livenation.com/
$29.50-$99.50. Hollywood Casino Amphi-
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Louis, 314-289-9050, fubarstl.com.
Verizon-Wireless-Amphitheater-St-Louis-tick-
theatre, I-70 & Earth City Expwy., Maryland
tions, My Heart To Fear, Sun., Feb. 19, 6 p.m.,
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ets-Maryland-Heights/venue/49672.
Heights, 314-298-9944, livenation.com/
$10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-
$38.50-$41.50. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington
VESPERTEEN: W/ Devin & The Atmospheres,
Verizon-Wireless-Amphitheater-St-Louis-tick-
289-9050, fubarstl.com.
Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900, thesheldon.org.
Fri., March 31, 7 p.m., $10-$12. Cicero’s, 6691
ets-Maryland-Heights/venue/49672.
MITCHELL FERGUSON: Fri., Feb. 3, 6 p.m., free.
A PROMISE TO BURN: W/ We Are Descendants,
Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009,
JAKE’S LEG: Fri., March 3, 8 p.m., $8. Cicero’s,
Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City,
Torn At The Seams, Marked by Honor, Mock-
ciceros-stl.com.
6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-
314-862-0009, ciceros-stl.com.
love, Behold My Enemy, Sat., April 22, 6 p.m.,
THE WEEKS: Sat., May 20, 8 p.m., $15. Off Broad-
0009, ciceros-stl.com.
NEGURA BUNGET: W/ Tyranny Enthroned, Mon.,
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way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363,
JOE METZKA BAND: Wed., Feb. 1, 7 p.m., $5.
May 22, 8 p.m., $15-$16. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,
9050, fubarstl.com.
offbroadwaystl.com.
Thu., Feb. 2, 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues &
St. Louis, 314-289-9050, fubarstl.com.
THE RASKINS: W/ Mad Libby, The Brink, Fri.,
YOUNG MA: Thu., Feb. 16, 8 p.m., $25-$50. The
Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222,
NEURO-LOGIC: W/ 9 Rabbits Laughing, EMG,
Feb. 24, 7 p.m., $10. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar
Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-
bbsjazzbluessoups.com.
Thu., Feb. 2, 7 p.m., $5. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar
Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009, ciceros-stl.
6161, thepageant.com.
LEROY PIERSON: Sat., Feb. 4, 7 p.m., $5. BB’s
Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009, ciceros-stl.
com.
ZO! + CARMEN RODGERS: Sat., March 18, 7 p.m.,
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
com.
REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND: Thu.,
$15-$20. .Zack, 3224 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-
314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com.
NF: Tue., April 25, 8 p.m., $25-$30. The Pageant,
March 30, 8 p.m., $12-$15. Off Broadway, 3509
304-3602, zack.events.
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