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Vicki’s War

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t. Louis police Lt. Timothy Sachs said he could see protesters meant trouble because they were wearing goggles, masks and backpacks.

It was hours before police corralled and arrested 123 people downtown on the night of September 17, a now infamous incident known as the “kettle.” Protests were in their third night following the acquittal of ex-city cop Jason Stockley on charges he murdered Anthony Lamar Smith.

Sachs, who oversees the department’s Civil Disobedience Team or “riot police,” testified during a federal hearing October 19 there had been vandalism earlier in the evening — broken windows, overturned flower pots, furniture dragged into the street. And he saw a group of people coming onto Tucker from the direction of the destruction. When confronted by police, they donned goggles and pulled masks over their mouths, “indicating to me they were wanting some kind of confrontation,” he said.

Police in an armored vehicle chased after the protesters, lighting them up with pepper balls — which are like paint balls, only they’re filled with pepper-spray chemicals.

Attorney Tony Rothert, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, questioned Sachs about his interpretation of protesters’ intentions during a cross examination.

“Surely, no one could provoke you to use chemicals by wearing something, could they?” Rothert asked.

The lieutenant assured him they could.

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Steve Taylor, an instructor at STLCC, was slammed to the ground after questioning the acting chairman. | COURTESY OF SEIU LOCAL 1

Violent Arrest at STLCC Trustee Meeting Written by

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teve Taylor, a St. Louis Community College adjunct instructor, came to the college district’s board of trustee meeting October 19 with prepared remarks. He planned to highlight the award he’d gotten for excellence in teaching and his stellar reviews — and then talk about the troubling “culture of intimidation” he saw.

Instead, he was given further proof of it.

When Taylor, 53, stood up and began to object to rules that allowed audience members to clap for administrators and other presenters, but not during the public comment portion,

he was grabbed from behind by a police officer and thrown to the floor.

A video of the incident later released by the college shows he was given no chance to submit to handcuffs being before slammed to the ground by the officer.

“He came up behind me, and I saw his left foot take my legs out from under me,” says Taylor, who’s taught math at the Wildwood campus for four years. “Then he full body slams me to the concrete floor and violently put my arm behind my back. I said, ‘Sir, I am complying, I will go with you.’”

A spokeswoman for St. Louis Community College says that Taylor was given several warnings to leave the meeting, but that he instead “charged the table where board members and the chancellor, Dr. Jeff L. Pittman, were seated.”

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read. “St. Louis Community College meetings are business meetings held in a public forum. However, disruptive outbursts undermine the process of conducting business in a transparent and respectful manner. We regret that our students and members of the public had to witness this action.”

But Taylor says (and the video seems to confirm) that what the college describes as “charging” was merely his attempt to regain his balance after the officer violently pulled his jacket back. Instead, he was taken to the ground.

After Taylor was taken from the room, says fellow adjunct Brett Williams, not a single trustee addressed the incident.

“Everybody completely freaked out,” he says of the audience. “There were students who witnessed this.

The board did nothing. They just sat there stone-faced.” When a student audibly objected to Taylor’s treat-

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Taylor suffered a concussion following the takedown, he says. | COURTESY OF SEIU LOCAL 1

ADJUNCT ARREST Continued from pg 9 ment, Williams says, he was told to leave (and did, this time without the assistance of police officers).

For Williams, the situation is proof that something has gone wrong at the community college. An adjunct who teaches art at the Forest Park campus, he says that adjuncts voted to unionize three years ago. But negotiations have dragged on.

“They’re stonewalling us at every pass,” Williams says.

Williams and Taylor both serve on the contract negotiation committee, which led them to start attending board meetings.

In last month’s meeting, Williams acknowledges, the public comment portion got a bit rowdy. Audience members clapped and applauded, and since there was no warning when speakers were close to the two-minute cut-off, some went a bit over.

On October 19, the board implemented a 30-second warning. Board members also warned that anyone speaking out of turn would be asked to leave and that clapping for speakers would not be permitted.

After the first speaker in the public comment portion made her remarks, though, audience members applauded anyway. The board’s vice chairman, Rodney Gee, announced that if anyone clapped, they’d be removed.

That didn’t sit right with Taylor, who says he witnessed plenty of clapping during the previous portion of the meeting. He objected, walking down the aisle toward the board members with the idea of turning to address his fellow audience members.

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Steve Taylor. | COURTESY OF STEVE TAYLOR said. But before he could finish, a police officer came up behind him. The next thing he knew, he says, he was face-first into the ground.

Taylor says he was permitted to go to the emergency room instead of being booked into jail after officers saw he had a mark on his face. He was having difficulty breathing; he says he was later diagnosed with a concussion.

But he was still issued two citations, he says: one for disturbing the peace and one for resisting arrest.

And the next day, he was issued a letter telling him he was barred from setting foot on campus. His college email was turned off, and various mentions of his courses on the college website appear to have been scrubbed, he says.

“I’m a grandfather, I’m 53, I’m a math teacher, I’m bald in the back,” he says. “I don’t run and I don’t lift weights. I wasn’t walking up going, ‘I’m going to get you.’

“There is,” he says, “a problem with the culture at St. Louis Community College.” n

ACLU Continued from pg 9 The admission came as Sachs and other St. Louis police supervisors, including Sgt. Brian “Riot King” Rossomanno, spent the afternoon defending their response to the demonstrations since the Stockley verdict on September 15.

The ACLU is suing the city on behalf of protesters and others, who are also seeking an injunction to reign in police tactics.

The hearing began the day prior, October 18, with sixteen ACLU witnesses who described violent encounters with officers. The majority said police freely used mace, teargas and other chemical deterrents, often without warning. Air Force Lt. Alex Nelson testified he and his wife were just walking on their block when they were caught in the kettle and arrested. Officers ground his head into the pavement and blasted him multiple times in the eyes with mace, even though he complied with all commands, he said.

“A police officer in a laughing tone said, ‘Do you like that, cocksucker? We’ll see you again tomorrow night,’” Nelson testified.

On October 19, police denied any excessive force and claimed all their actions were warranted in response to destructive or potentially destructive protesters. A main point of contention is the police authority to declare assemblies unlawful, order crowds to disperse and then make arrests. Under questioning by Rothert, the police officers struggled to define factors they use to determine when they think it’s time for protesters to leave. Equally vague are parameters for how far people are supposed to go and how long they have to stay away.

“I don’t believe there is any line in the sand, if you will,” Sachs said. “It all depends on the people involved.”

Sgt. Matthew Karnowski of the city’s bike unit said the area of dispersal depends on the situation: “I guess that has to be grounded in common sense.”

Rossomanno said, “I think when police say it’s time to leave the area, a reasonable person would decide to go ahead and leave.”

The ACLU contends that police who are left to their own interpretations make some pretty sketchy judgment calls. One of the incidents discussed at length during the hearing came on the first night of demonstrations.

Following earlier vandalism at Mayor Lyda Krewson’s house, po-

lice in tactical gear marched north on Euclid Avenue firing pepper balls and smoke bombs as they went.

Pi Pizzeria owner Chris Sommers testified last week that protesters had cleared the area, and he couldn’t understand why cops in full riot gear were storming the restaurant district. He shouted at them. Moments later, Rossomanno threw a smoke canister that skipped toward the curb in front of Pi. Sommers said they were aiming at his business, but Rossomanno denies it.

The sergeant testified he was actually trying to throw it farther up the street toward a few rock-throwing stragglers from earlier protests, but the canister came off his hand at a bad angle.

“It wasn’t one of my better throws,” he said.

A guy next to Sommers picked it up and heaved it back, attracting the sergeant’s full attention.

“It made me want to take that person into custody,” Rossomanno said. When Rothert asked him why, the sergeant said, “That’s an assault.”

A SWAT officer responded by firing a round of pepper balls at the man.

“I don’t think he hit him,” Rossomanno said. [Editor’s note: He did.]

Sommers said he, his customers and staff had to take cover inside the restaurant until police eventually retreated south on Euclid. The ACLU attorneys have argued the incident is an example of overly aggressive policing that puts protesters and bystanders in harm’s way.

The night of the kettle, police commanders began ordering people to disperse following a vandalism spree that occurred between 8 and 9 p.m. None of the supervisors who testified on October 19 could specifically point to any of the actual window breakers, but they said they had begun to identify people who they believed were in the vandals’ crowd.

When Sachs saw people coming from the east, he suspected they were with the troublemakers. He became even more certain when they pulled on their goggles and face masks.

“They started reaching into backpacks,” Sachs said. “We didn’t know what they were doing.”

Protesters and journalists have regularly worn goggles and masks to protect themselves from mace and teargas.

Police say they know of no more vandalism that night, but they

Police dropped tear gas canisters in the Central West End on September 15. | DANNY WICENTOWSKI continued to confront crowds of people during the next two hours, occasionally ordering people to disperse. Rossomanno, who was in charge of giving the dispersal orders, says he gave a couple dozen warnings throughout the night.

Rossomanno testified that the final orders were after 10:50 p.m. A line of bike cops formed at the east side of the intersection of Washington Avenue and Tucker Boulevard.

Sachs said that two of three teams of riot police moved into position on the north and south. By his account, about 25 minutes passed between the final warning and when his third team reached the intersection, closing off the west exit and boxing in everyone who was left inside the intersection. Protesters have argued people walked in and out of the area during that time, many of them oblivious of police warnings.

A total of 123 people were arrested. Citing police sources, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported an undercover officer was among those knocked down, bloodied and taken into custody.

Sachs and Rossomanno claimed to know nothing about what happened to the undercover detective.

Sachs said he never looked into it and hasn’t inquired about him.

“The man doesn’t work for me,” he said.

Rossomanno said all he knew was that he had heard the detective was actually taken into custody before the mass arrests.

“I heard that there was some sort of resisting,” he said. “That’s all I know.”

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Washington and Tucker. Panicked people searched for a way out, even trying to get into nearby buildings.

In the background was the sound of cops drumming batons against the ground in unison. Some of the people had already dropped to the pavement by the time police moved in with cans of pepper spray.

Independent journalist Jon Ziegler, who goes by Rebelutionary Z, had his livestream camera running as officers shot him with mace and arrested him. Viewers could hear him screaming in pain before his feed went dark.

Ziegler testified that he was sprayed at least six times by officers. He believes they singled him out for extra abuse because of his video recordings.

“They continued mocking us, calling me names, taking selfies with me while I was just dripping with snot,” he said in court.

Police testified they saw nothing wrong with the arrests and witnessed no acts of excessive force on the part of cops that night. Sachs and Rossomanno said that a couple of people resisted arrest, forcing officers to fog them with mace.

Videos by Ziegler and a videographer named Demetrius Thomas, who was also arrested, show people voluntarily going to the ground.

Multiple people testified they heard no orders of disperse before they were surrounded. They claimed they were assaulted, even though they complied with all orders.

Rossomanno said police used only the force necessary: “People who were 100 percent compliant had no issues at all.”

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After her son was convicted on child porn charges, Vicki Henry says she realized she could be a person “who is willing to fight for what I believe in.” | DANNY WICENTOWSKI

our hours into the armed standoff, the narrow residential street in Arnold is crowded with police cruisers, ambulances and SWAT trucks.

Two TV news crews set up in someone’s front lawn, training their camera lenses on a boxy armored personnel carrier parked outside a one-floor duplex on West Highview Drive.

A TV reporter relays in a breaking news update that federal officials would not release any information about the suspect, only that the man is believed to be armed and that FBI agents arrived at the home around 7 a.m. to serve a search warrant for “a court-authorized law enforcement purpose.”

A neighbor evacuated from her home sits on a lawn chair in

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a patch of shade, smoking a cigarette. Yes, she says, she knows the woman who lives in the duplex.

She doesn’t mention the woman’s name, but it’s Vicki Henry.

“We’d just chitchat at the mailbox,” the neighbor says. “She told me a while back, ‘I have one of my sons staying with me. It’s a shame, a divorce situation.’”

The neighbor adds, “I wouldn’t see hide nor hair of the son.”

She doesn’t know the full story.

Henry’s son, “Joseph,” had indeed moved into his mother’s duplex several months back, but he wasn’t reeling from a divorce. He was a former Marine who’d been convicted of possessing child pornography. After spending four years in a military prison and treatment center, he’d tried to reestablish his life. He got a job, met someone, fell in love, and, even knowing his past, she did too. For a time, Joseph lived with his girlfriend and her children.

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Then one of her relatives discovered his name on the sex offender registry. The law didn’t technically bar him from being near the kids; even so, the kids’ father obtained a restraining order. So Joseph restarted his life, again. He moved in with his mom earlier this year. He worked nights and kept to himself.

And yet, as he finds himself in a standoff with FBI agents, his mother, Henry, is nowhere near the congested street.

The president of Women Against Registry, or WAR, Henry has spent the last six years pushing to reform the way Missouri and other states maintain sex offender registries, systems that she believes are misguided and undeniably oppressive for both registrants and their suffering families. Living off her retirement savings, she travels across the country, attending conferences, giving speeches and testifying before various state legislatures — and she does so, uniquely, using

her real name. Unlike most parents in her position, she doesn’t hide who she is, what she believes or what the registry has meant for her family.

She hasn’t taken a proper vacation in years. A weekend trip to North Carolina was supposed to change that.

The timing couldn’t have been worse. Hearing about the situation unfolding at her house, she’s turned around and is heading home as fast as she can. Now she’s got more than ten hours of driving before she hits the Missouri border.

Henry can only stare at the road, squeeze the steering wheel and pray.

Two months before the FBI standoff, on a Saturday in July, a father with a son on the sex offender registry taps at the microphone jutting from a podium in a banquet hall at a St. Louis Sheraton

Hotel. He announces the official opening of Women Against Registry’s first-ever national conference.

Behind him, a 10-foot-tall banner displays WAR’s red-and-white logo. The provocative acronym is printed in a font that looks like the letters were drilled full of rivet holes. The room is far too large for the 60 or so people who have dragged themselves out of bed to be here before 9 a.m.

No one appears concerned that a man is delivering the opening remarks for an organization with the word “women” in its title. Although WAR grew out of a now-defunct support group founded by the mothers and spouses of sex offenders, the organization doesn’t turn away allies.

The man reassures the audience that they aren’t being filmed or photographed. There is no registration fee to be here, but the event was barely publicized. An official press release was distributed only

days before. Riverfront Times was permitted to attend and report on the conference on the condition that attendees would not be photographed or named without their consent. No one gives it other than Henry.

We’ll call the man at the podium “Adam.” Like the other volunteers working the conference, he wears a red T-shirt with the conference theme stenciled in white on the back: “our families, our future, our time.” Henry, dressed in a gray and green blazer that matches her top, stands out from the others. She listens to Adam’s speech from the rear of the room.

“I am relatively new to WAR,” Adam begins. “My beautiful, intelligent, creative son was caught in a bait-and-switch sting operation a little more than two years ago. There was never any physical contact with anyone. There was never a victim. We felt as if we were backed into a corner when we accepted a plea bargain.”

He doesn’t have to say the words “child porn.” Everyone knows what he’s talking about. “My son was sentenced to fourteen years in a federal prison,” he continues, and a wave of sympathetic murmurs washes over him. “The disparity between the sex offender sentences and the sentences of other crimes is outrageous.”

“Amen!” shouts a woman from the audience. Adam blasts the imposition of lifetime registration and lifetime probation, a fate his son may face after leaving prison, as “double and triple punishment” and “unconstitutional.” The audience applauds.

“I realize that there are folks right here in this room who have been struggling with this ugly issue for decades,” Adam says. “It is a difficult task, but we need to step out of the shadows and be heard.

We need to fight for the rights of our families and for our prisoners of the registry.”

The nationwide web of state sex offender registries is a relatively new phenomenon. The first federal law was passed back in 1994, enacted in the wake of lobbying efforts by the mother of a murdered eleven-year-old boy.

Known as the Jacob Wetterling Act, the new law required states to create registries to supervise and track people convicted of sex offenses, and it obligated sex offenders themselves to periodically report to law enforcement.

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VICKI’S WAR Continued from pg 13 7-year-old Megan Kanka was raped and murdered by a neighbor in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, spurring the modification of the existing registry requirements. The amendment, known as “Megan’s Law,” made the registry information public.

In 2006, the Adam Walsh Act — again named for a murdered child — set an array of minimum guidelines, but states were free to tighten their restrictions as their respective legislatures saw fit. Some states, following those federal guidelines, divided their registries into tiers based on severity of offense — for example, treating someone who physically rapes a child differently than someone who masturbates in public. Missouri’s registry has no such nuance.

Under Missouri law, once you’re convicted of a sex-related crime — which covers everything from public sex between consenting adults to child molestation — then you land on the registry for life. Along with being listed on the public website comes a lifetime obligation to report your home and work addresses to the police.

For sex offenders, serving lengthy prison sentences is just the beginning. Many are saddled with lifetime parole and residency restrictions. Even those who aren’t must still check in with law enforcement every time they change residences or jobs and contend with the constant threat of public shaming. This is the “double and triple punishment,” Adam referred to in his speech, and it’s a frequent note of frustration among conference attendees.

In some ways, Missouri makes it harder than most. A 50-state survey by the Collateral Consequences Resource Center found that Missouri is among just 18 states that operate one-size-fits-all registries.

The remaining 32 use multi-tiered systems that impose lengthy registry requirements to only the most dangerous offenders. Those convicted of lesser crimes become eligible to leave the registry more quickly — 15 years instead of 25, for example, or 25 instead of life.

Like most states, Missouri does have an escape clause. After ten years, state law allows non-violent sex offenders who have demonstrated that they are “not a current or potential threat to public safety” to petition for removal from the registry. State law also includes

two loopholes for “Romeo and Juliet” situations: If the perpetrator is 19 years old or younger and the victim older than 13, they are permitted to petition for removal after two years. A perpetrator 18 years or younger convicted of certain misdemeanor sex crimes against a victim 13 or older is permitted to petition immediately.

In practice, however, very few registrants leave the registry. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, which is tasked with maintaining it, only 173 people have successfully petitioned for release from registry since 2007. During that decade, the state’s registry nearly doubled in size, adding more than 7,000 names to a roster that’s now swollen to more than 15,000 men. (It also includes about 500 women.)

“The registry is chock full of people who are low risk,” says University of California-Berkeley School of Law Professor Ira Ellman, whose research into sex offender recidivism rates has helped debunk the myth that these men and women are a uniformly predatory group.

And that, he says, makes Missouri’s registry ineffective. Treating 15,000 people as if they’re all child rapists wastes resources that could be used to better track the state’s truly dangerous sex offenders.

“You’ve created a giant haystack in which a few needles can be hidden,” he points out.

Still, despite years of state and federal court challenges, Ellman says that he has yet to see an example of a state successfully instituting rational registry policies.

“I don’t think there are any states that are doing the registry well,” Ellman admits. “There are only states doing it less badly.”

Missouri is not one of the “less badly” states.

The WAR conference’s first breakout session is titled “Registrant Storytelling Time.” In a meeting room arranged with rows of tables covered in white tablecloths, a succession of men delve into their respective histories. A few monopolize the pulpit to proclaim their innocence.

A man from O’Fallon wearing a Cubs cap goes first, speaking for nearly fifteen minutes. He claims he was framed for child molestation. Now he can’t participate in church services. The next man introduces himself as the former “business administrator of the largest Christian school in St. Louis,” and adds, as if a casual aside, that

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REGISTRY OF MISSOURI SEX OFFENDERS he had never even met the 3-yearold child he was accused of raping.

Others, though, are frank about their crimes. One man states, simply, “I molested my daughter.”

“We can’t deny what we’ve done wrong,” the next man says. He’s been on the registry since 1997.

“If we violated the social code, you done it. I think the biggest challenge we have now is, how do we present ourselves in a respectable manner to a community that’s already had years of indoctrination that we’re hateful, dangerous people? How do we get out there

in the public to say, ‘We deserve more than to be treated like sub humans.’”

As the hour-long session inches along, Vicki Henry slips into the room. After her son’s arrest ten years ago for child porn, Henry found comfort and assistance among fellow moms and families going through the same hell, the same anxious powerlessness.

Eventually, though, she wanted to do more than suffer in silence.

She knows, probably better than anyone in this room, that changing sex offender laws poses a steep

political challenge. As recently as 2013, a bill WAR supported would have created new exceptions in the state’s sex offender registry, including a provision that would hide the names of registrants who committed their crimes as juveniles.

The bill passed both the House and Senate, only to reach the desk of then-Governor Jay Nixon. He vetoed it.

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support. Now, four years later, the WAR conference represents the group’s pivot to a different strategy: building and training a grassroots army of advocates who can do the lobbying themselves.

Now 69, Henry grew up in a small town in the Missouri Bootheel, and her voice has that easygoing “Missourah” twang so many state politicians try to mimic on the campaign trail. Addressing the meeting room after the speakers finish, Henry urges her audience to think of their stories as policy

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pitches, not therapy sessions.

“The idea,” she says, “is to develop a storytelling mechanism.

You need an elevator speech. If you’re talking to a legislator, you can lose them real quick, you have to keep them engaged. If we don’t educate the public and the media, then we’re fighting a losing battle.

They won’t buy this stuff.”

At the break for lunch, her older son hoists a box full of McDonald’s burgers — the volunteers’ lunches — onto the meeting room table. Broad and tall, he acts as his mother’s bodyguard during her public trips and appearances.

That’s the way it’s been for years, ever since his youngest brother’s arrest in 2007.

“My mom has gone headfirst into this fight,” he says. The years have been hard on their family, but perhaps hardest on her. She’s spent her retirement years traveling to conferences, testifying in state legislatures and trying to organize the anti-registry groups scattered across the country.

“There’s been times when she comes home for literally five hours, turned around and leaves,” he adds. “But that’s her. I wouldn’t expect anything less.”

responds with affirmations of outrage.

When it’s Henry’s turn to speak, however, there are no breaks for applause or amens.

“There are 861,000 men, women and children across the nation on the registry,” she begins, fumbling with the megaphone. “People say they all belong there, that they’re all rapists. But if you commit a crime, and you pay the penalty for that crime, why are you not allowed to get on with your life?

When does redemption begin?

Never?”

The question hangs silent in the air. After a few moments, it’s met with tepid, polite applause.

The movement to reform the sex offender registry has yet to find major support within the social justice community. Protesters may be changing hearts and minds about immigrants, police brutality and racial inequity in the criminal justice system, but sex offenders remain America’s untouchables. Residency restrictions frequently push sex offenders into homelessness, creating modern-day leper colonies. Famously, the harsh residency restrictions in Florida displaced more than 100 sex offenders, forcing them into a shantytown beneath a Miami highway overpass. For years, the colony functioned as an official dumping ground for sex offenders. It’s not a model Henry wants to see repeated in Missouri.

Yet Henry sees commonalities between her cause and others making headlines. After the gathering by the Arch, she joins a larger protest group that marches through downtown St. Louis to demand the conviction of a city police officer accused of first-degree murder.

“The whole damn system is guilty as hell!” they chant.

Henry positions herself at the front of the march, holding WAR’s banner aloft as young activists around her shout “Black lives matter!” and “Indict! Convict!” No one thinks to chant, “Sex offender lives matter.” Why would they?

WAR’s goal is not the registry’s abolition. In interviews, Henry repeatedly notes that the group supports “reasonable restrictions” and

For Henry, part of being reasonable is understanding that sex offenders can be rehabilitated. It means conceding that the public registry is a policy placebo, offering empty reassurance.

One week after the conference, the midday sun glints off the legs of the Gateway Arch as a handful of protesters assemble on the lawn stretching before the monument.

Vicki Henry and Adam, who’d spoken at the conference about his son’s experience, are here. They hold up a small banner that reads, “End Registrant Family Peonage,” and below that, in bold black letters, a call for the repeal of Megan’s Law and the Adam Walsh Act. A dark baseball cap and sunglasses conceals Adam’s features.

Henry, now wearing a red polo with the WAR logo, listens as a handful of activists gather to mark a national day of protest directed at the American prison system.

Speakers inveigh against long drug sentences and bail schemes that effectively warehouse poor people in “debtor’s prisons.” The audience

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strong supervision for dangerous predators. But for Henry, part of being reasonable is understanding that sex offenders can be rehabilitated. It means conceding that the public registry is a policy placebo, offering empty reassurance at the price of her son’s freedom.

The closest WAR has come to changing Missouri’s registry occurred in 2013, when three separate bills were introduced to the state legislature. One bill would have allowed mental health experts to re-evaluate sex offenders to determine their eligibility for removal from the registry. Another would have created a tiered system to differentiate between severities of sex crimes.

The bill that made it the furthest was sponsored by state Representative Kevin Engler (R-Farmington).

It passed the General Assembly, no small feat, only to run into the veto pen of Governor Jay Nixon.

Engler’s bill would have automatically removed the names of registrants who had committed their crimes while under the age of 18. That didn’t sit well with Nixon, a law-and-order politician who had previously served as the state’s attorney general. Victims’ rights groups blasted the bill as well.

Politically, registry reform carries few upsides. Any legislator willing to sponsor a reform bill must realize it could come back

to bite them in the form of a nasty attack ad.

Engler says he still believes that the registry needs fixing.

“The purpose of the list should be giving a warning to the general public of the potential danger that might be living in the area,” Engler says in an interview. “But the list right now is totally ineffective.”

It’s the same problem pointed out by Ellman — creating a haystack when you’ve already found the needles. And Natalie Hull, a Missouri public defender who represents sex offenders in post-conviction appeals, points out that a false sense of security poses its own danger.

“The issue is, what does the sex offender registry really protect kids from?” Hull says. “This thought of ‘once a sex offender, always a sex offender’ — it’s false.

And we’re still punishing them.

The real threat is the guy who’s not on the registry.”

Indeed, studies show that sexual assaults are more commonly carried out by relatives or friends, not strangers who are already under the government’s microscope and aware, fully, that their addresses and faces can be pulled up with a few keystrokes on a website.

Hull believes that judges should be empowered to make decisions about who should be placed on the registry, and for how long. At

present, the registry is automatically triggered with conviction of a sex-related crime.

“Judges need discretion,” she says, and not just at trial. Currently, judges can’t initiate reviews of registrant cases on their own. “There should be a review process after a certain number of years, and judges need to be able to say, ‘Let’s get this person off the registry.’”

Henry has lost count of how many parents she’s met trying to support children on the sex offender registry.

In Missouri, the long list of offenses that can lead to the registry include crimes that, while stomach-churning, don’t involve a physical act of violence, such as exposing one’s genitals in public, exhibitionism or, as in Joseph’s case, possession of child porn. In many cases, their loved ones are left reeling. It’s common to lose jobs and apartments once others find you on the list. Among the WAR conference attendees are families who were forced to uproot themselves because their house was too close to a school.

During a weekday in August, Henry settles into an office chair inside her tidy duplex in Arnold. The home serves as both her home and the unofficial WAR headquarters.

“I think I’ve heard all of the stories,” she says. riverfronttimes.com

In the corner of the living room, a card table is strewn with pamphlets and mailers. Henry’s public persona makes her an outlier among parents of registrants, but she sees her mission clearly. She works to represent registrants silenced by fear. She tries to build support networks with other criminal justice reform groups. She tries to teach activists how to talk to legislators.

Still, WAR largely flies beneath the radar of the general public.

For sex offenders, though, WAR is one of few organizations willing to listen. A support hotline funnels phone calls from all over the country to Henry’s desk. On the line are mostly men, some homeless, jobless and desperate. She’s had to talk more than one caller down from a suicide attempt.

“When does redemption begin?” she says, repeating one her favorite talking points. “I talk to people that sleep in their trucks because they’re not allowed to stay overnight with their family. These people have paid their debt to society, and they want to live their life in peace.”

By conventional standards, Henry is a spokeswoman for a cause. She runs WAR’s Facebook page, maintains the group’s website and writes press releases. But her son’s plight changes that equation.

Henry’s campaign to change the registry is deeply personal. How could it not be?

Joseph — who agreed to be interviewed around two months before he found himself in a standoff with FBI agents, and on the condition that his real name not be printed — sits on one of the thick red couches in the living room. He looks like a more slender version of his big brother, with the same thick beard, dark hair and hazel eyes.

“You can’t live in fear,” Joseph says, describing his journey from Marine to the brig to sleeping in a bedroom in his mom’s duplex.

And yet to some extent, fear is the reality of the registry, he says.

At any moment, his life could come crashing down. His job and housing situation could still be ripped away if one nosy neighbor or co-worker raises an alarm.

“I’ve learned that people are going to either like me or not going to like me,” he says. “So, I put it out there, tell them the story. If they like me they like me. If they don’t they don’t.”

Of course, he doesn’t tell everyone. He recognizes that a certain level of dishonesty is necessary for survival when it comes to interact-

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VICKI’S WAR Continued from pg 17 ing with strangers, neighbors and co-workers.

“A couple months ago,” he adds, “I was at work and they were having a talk about child molesters.

Stuff like, ‘If one was in my neighborhood I’d beat the shit out of ’em.’ I work at a place where if someone did find out, I could easily have an ‘accident’ that would maim or kill me.”

It was a fellow Marine who reported Joseph’s child porn use in Iraq. In Joseph’s telling, though, the military brass seemed uninterested. When a gunnery sergeant confronted Joseph, the Marine admitted that he was struggling with a porn addiction. The sergeant’s response, according to Joseph: “Shut the fuck up.”

But after Joseph returned to the U.S. in the spring of 2007, he was promptly arrested by military police and shipped to the brig at San Diego’s Camp Pendleton.

Asked about it now, Joseph pauses, taking several seconds to compose his answer. “It was addiction,” he finally says. “I didn’t get the right help for it.”

Joseph’s mother and family were completely blindsided. As a mom, Henry had to balance the shock of discovering her son was watching child porn — “It was confusing and overwhelming,” she says — with the immediate anxiety of confronting his criminal case.

At first, just finding Joseph was a challenge. He’d seemingly disappeared, and no one at his base could tell the family where he was. It took more than a week of frantic calls to find out why he’d been jailed.

“I thought I was going to lose my mind,” Henry recalls. “I not only got baptized by the fire of this issue, I got baptized by the military way of doing things.”

In some ways, however, Joseph says he was fortunate. After a year in the brig, he was offered a plea deal: 48 months in a military prison, with twelve months of that spent in the Navy’s Sex Offender Treatment Program in San Diego.

Joseph was released on parole in April 2010. But the nightmare wasn’t over: Three months later, U.S. Marshals raided the house Henry and her then-husband shared in De Soto. Joseph was dragged away in handcuffs and returned to California. Henry’s computer was confiscated, and she claims a parole officer cited the detection of child pornography on the 18

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But, six months later, she says the military investigators reported finding no such files. The raid resulted in no new charges against Joseph.

Still, Joseph was told while in the Navy’s custody that returning to life on parole would slap him with additional restrictions, including a mandatory GPS tracker. He opted to serve out the rest of his sentence in the brig. By the time Joseph was released in March 2011, his mother was already an active member of existing registrant support groups, and a burgeoning organizer in her own right.

That was the same year Henry helped found WAR. At the behest of the other co-founders, she agreed to become the public face of its advocacy operations.

Behind the name, explains Henry, is a message of empowerment for women like herself, mothers who want to push back the tide crushing their kids’ futures. Henry knows what parents are going through, what it’s like to be thrown into a registry system that exists without bars and robs its inmates of any chance for absolution.

“If there’s anything that can be done to bring about change, women will do it,” Henry says confidently.

She has no idea that in a matter of months, Joseph would sit in this same living room, alone, afraid, holding her pistol and texting his brother to say goodbye to nieces and nephews for him.

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The morning of September 25, Henry’s son, Joseph, woke to unexpected knocking at the door.

Peering outside, he was greeted with the sight of FBI agents bristling with rifles and tactical gear.

The 32-year-old former Marine retreated into the house. Inside a closet, on the top shelf, he closed his fingers around the handle of his mother’s revolver. He counted the bullets. He texted his older brother with instructions for his funeral.

But he didn’t kill himself. After twelve hours, his standoff ends not with suicide, but surrender.

By the time Henry arrived back in St. Louis at 2 a.m. the next day, he was already in custody.

In a federal courtroom on October 16, he pleads not guilty to a single charge of felon-in-possession of a firearm, a charge that resulted from the standoff but wasn’t the cause of it. It appears likely that another shoe is about to drop.

Agents confiscated two computers, an external hard drive, a camera, an old cellphone and two videogame consoles. A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney declines to say whether the search warrant was connected to child porn.

Henry worries that a new indictment is only a matter days or weeks away.

“There’s a lot of things weighing on my mind,” she says outside the courtroom that Monday. Joseph’s beard has grown out since August, and seeing him in a prison uni-

form breaks her heart, just like it did ten years ago.

The gun charge alone is serious enough. If this raid actually uncovered something this time? He could be facing years of prison.

Still, even if convicted, it’s likely that Joseph will one day again be released back into society, into the arms of Missouri’s lifetime registry. If current trends persist, he will join Adam’s son among the thousands of new faces and names listed on a public database that could get him fired, evicted or killed by a vigilante. Once again, he will have to find a place in a society that, generally, would rather he rot or at least stay far, far away.

Henry concedes that the news of her son’s arrest could push people away from WAR, but she’s not considering stepping down or out of her public role. She has too much to do. There’s an international hate studies conference at Gonzaga University in Washington to prepare for. She has activists and parents in every state who still need help, advice and comfort. There are legislators to call. There are men ringing the WAR support line who need to hear that there’s a reason to live.

And there’s Joseph, too.

“He would be disappointed, I think,” she says. “He doesn’t want me to give up anything because of him. Whatever comes out, whatever happens, then we’ll deal with it.

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FRIDAY 10/27 Spirits in the Garden The kids may think Halloween is all about the candy, but adults know that you can’t call it a party without distilled beverages and pulled pork sandwiches. Spirits in the Garden, the Missouri Botanical Garden’s annual Halloween party, has both of those necessities, plus warm churros. Your $30 ticket ($20 for members) gets you access to a haunted tram tour, murder mystery scavenger hunt and dancing, plus tastings from local breweries, distilleries and wineries. Food is available for purchase as well. Spirits in the Garden takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. tonight at the Missouri Botanical Garden (4344 Shaw Boulevard; www.mobot.org).

Titus Androgynous Hyakumonogatari William Shakespeare’s tragedy Kaidankai Titus Andronicus is by far his bloodiest play, full of mutilations, rape, revenge killing, casual murder and cannibalism.

Yet the YoungLiars theater company is certain it could be a comedy if only viewed through the proper lens. That lens is Italian commedia, which the company combines with vaudeville’s slapstick violence to create a Titus that has a smattering of perversion and a splattering of fake gore. YoungLiars presents its Titus Androgynous at 8 p.m.

Thursday through Saturday (October 27 to November 11) at the Centene Center for the Arts (3547 Olive Street; www.yltitus. brownpapertickets.com). Tickets are $20.

Before films, TV and the monster mash, if people wanted to be frightened they needed to find a good storyteller. An accomplished teller of tales amplifies the horror of a story through intimacy; eye contact and inflection personalize the experience: It’s just you and the storyteller. At the Book House’s annual Halloween event Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai (“A Gathering of One Hundred Supernatural Tales”), another old weapon is added to the storyteller’s quiver: darkness. Volunteers recite creepy stories one by one in a room filled with candles; at the end of each recitation, a candle is extinguished. The deeper you go into the night, the darker it gets — and what happens when the last candle

dies is a mystery that can only be uncovered by surviving the experience. Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai takes place at 7 p.m. tonight at the Book House (7352 Manchester Road, Maplewood; www.bookhousestl. com). Admission is free.

SATURDAY 10/28 CWE Halloween There are Halloween parties, and then there is the Central West End Halloween Party. The all-day, outdoor celebration starts at 11 a.m. today with the kids’ costume party and parade, then becomes a costume parade for dogs and their people at 1 p.m. before evolving into its final form, the adults-only party at 6 p.m. The big event is the Continued on pg 22

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CALENDAR Continued from pg 21 costume contest, which always features the most creative and inspired costumes in the city. Of course, first place comes with a $2,500 prize, hence all the creativity. Competing in the adult contest costs $25 for individuals and $50 for groups (cash only), but entry is otherwise free. The CWE Halloween Party is centered on the intersection of Maryland and Euclid avenues (www.cwescene.com).

Pretty much all the neighborhood restaurants and businesses participate in one way or another, so bring your party money to ensure a good time.

The Halloween Party That Shall Not Be Named

American: The more she talks and pursues him, the more he retreats.

But as their relationship progresses, the two find something vital and necessary in the other person. Is it simply that opposites attract, or is it that their loneliness binds them together in a way they recognize? Simon Stephens’ drama Heisenberg is about the uncertainty of life, about people and about new, unsought beginnings. The Repertory Theatre St. Louis opens its Studio Series with Heisenberg. Performances take place Tuesday through Sunday (October 25 to November 12) at the Loretto-Hilton Center (130 Edgar Road, Webster Groves; www.repstl.org). Tickets are $45 to $69.50.

SUNDAY 10/29 Beethoven’s Fifth

Halloween is on a Tuesday this year, so most parties will take place on Saturday, October 28, to guarantee the required recovery day before the workweek begins.

Ballpark Village has teamed up with Johnnie Brock’s Dungeon to throw a doozie, the Halloween Party That Shall Not Be Named.

True fans of the nerdiest boy wizard in fiction know what that phrase means and are already deciding on their wizarding costume. But don’t limit yourself — this year’s costume contest has a $5,000 cash prize, so dream big, little muggles. The celebration takes place throughout four different venues within Ballpark Village (601 Clark Avenue; www. stlballparkvillage.com) and includes DJs, roaming characters and a specialty drink menu. The party gets going at 7 p.m. tonight, and general admission is $10 to $20 (there are VIP options available). This is a 21 and older event.

If you know nothing about classical music, there’s a good chance you’re familiar with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, which begins with the most famous four notes in music history. That “da-da-da— duh” is only the beginning of a spiritual journey that begins in a sorrowful minor key and ends in a joyous major key, all built upon the bedrock of that quartet of opening notes. The mighty, majestic Fifth is the main course of this weekend’s St. Louis Symphony performances. Richard Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 2 and Alban Berg’s Seven Early Songs (largely influenced by Strauss) are also on the program. David Robertson and the symphony embark on the great journey at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday (October 27 to 29) at Powell Hall (718 North Grand Boulevard; www.slso.org). Tickets are $25 to $91.

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TUESDAY 10/31 Little Shop of Horrors

Alex is sitting quietly by himself as he waits for his train when he is unexpectedly kissed from behind. His gentle assailant is 30 years younger than him, and much louder and brasher than her soft kiss suggested. From the initial moments of their strange encounter a dynamic is established between Alex, a reserved retiree, and Georgie, an impulsive 22

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When Seymour finds a new type of plant, he names it Audrey II after his co-worker Audrey (Greene), who also happens to be his secret crush. Audrey II has a strange appetite for blood and an even stranger origin, and her rapid growth leads to short-term success for Seymour — professionally and romantically. But as Audrey II grows, its appetite grows as well. The director’s cut of Little Shop of Horrors (with its original not-so-happy ending) will be shown locally at 2 p.m. Sunday and 2 and 7 p.m. Tuesday (October 29 and 31) at the Marcus Wehrenberg Ronnies Cine (5320 South Lindbergh Boulevard; www.fathomevents.com). Tickets are $12.50.

WEDNESDAY 11/01 Creepshow Stephen King and George Romero decided to combine their talents in a film that would serve as a tribute to their shared love for the EC horror comics of their childhoods. The stories they loved

were dark, always had a twist, and most importantly, always exhibited a gruesome sense of black humor. The resulting film, Creepshow, is an anthology that mimics the look of four-color comics through its stylized lighting and Tom Savini’s carefully rendered comic book-style effects. The Strange Brew division of the Webster Film Series presents the film at 8 p.m. tonight at the Schlafly Bottleworks (2760 Southwest Avenue, Maplewood; www.webster. edu/film-series) as a slightly late Halloween tribute. Be on the lookout for a pre-Cheers Ted Danson as the other man in a nasty love triangle — and for writer King as a hapless Maine yokel who has a very unfortunate run-in with a meteor. Tickets are $5.

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Halloween 2017 Our guide to this year’s spooky fun

Classic Horror Movie Marathon Time to get cracking on those Swing by the Collinsville Library on Halloween for a marHalloween plans. Whether you’re athon of classic horror movies. Whether you want to looking for a scary movie or planning drop by for one or catch the complete lineup, there will to win a big costume prize, our list be free candy to get you through the frights. 9 a.m.: The includes all of this year’s highlights. Old Dark House (1932), 10:30 a.m.: House on Haunted Hill (1959), noon: The Wolf-Man (1941), 1:30 p.m.:

American Murder Song Presents: The Donner Party

The Mummy (1932), 3 p.m.: Dracula (1931), 4:30 p.m.: Frankenstein (1932), 6:30 p.m.: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948). Tue., Oct. 31, 9 a.m.-8 p.m.,

During American Murder Song’s debut year, Terrance

free, 618-344-1112, mvlibdist.org/collinsville_calendar.

Zdunich and Saar Hendelman led audiences back in

Collinsville Memorial Public Library, 408 W. Main St.,

time to 1816, to the infamous inn that served as the

Collinsville, Illinois.

hunting ground for America’s first female serial killer,

$5 Smirnoff Bombs $4 Jumbo Domestic Drafts $5 Fireball Shots

Costume Contest!

$500 Cash Prize Awarded at Midnight

pretty Lavinia Fisher. Now, inspired by 1960s television

The Darkness

spook shows, they have imagined the one and only true

St. Louis’ most terrifying haunted house returns for an-

retelling of the Donner Party experience via the lens of

other Halloween season. All scanners, props, animations

their own, fictional Twilight Zone-style show: The Black

and FX are new this year, as is the interactive Horror

Wagon. Come check out a historical, musical reenact-

Escape Room and Zombie Laser Tag (every Thursday).

ment of cannibalistic proportions at The Donner Party

Hours vary leading up to Halloween: Oct. 27-28, 6:30

Reunion Tour. Mon., Oct. 30, $30. The Crack Fox, 1114

p.m.-12:15 a.m.; Oct. 26 and 29-30, 7:30-10 p.m.; and

Olive St., St. Louis, 314-621-6900.

Oct. 31, 7-11:30 p.m. $25, www.scarefest.com. The

Soulard: 1017 Russell Boulevard

Chesterfield: 136 Hilltown Village Center

Darkness, 1525 S. Eighth St., St. Louis, 314-631-8000.

Arika Parr’s Costumes & Cocktails Halloween Parrty

Fright Fest

Arika Parr’s fifth annual Costumes & Cocktails Hallow-

Saturdays, noon-midnight; Sundays, 12-9 p.m.; Tue.,

een Parrty is at the Jewel Event Center (formerly Yak-

Oct. 31, 6-10 p.m. Continues through Oct. 31, $63.99-

ovelli’s in Florissant). Enjoy complimentary Remy Martin

$78.99. Six Flags St Louis, 4900 Six Flags Rd., Pacific,

cocktails the first hour, not to mention prizes, surpris-

636-938-4800.

es and a chance for you to create who you want to be.

Celebrate the season at Six Flags. Fridays, 6-11 p.m.;

Proceeds help benefit the nonprofit Notes for Life Art &

Halloween Spooktacular on Ice

Technology. Sat., Oct. 28, 8 p.m.-1 a.m., $20, www.Cos-

This fun-filled event, presented by the St. Peters Figure

tumesAndCocktails.com. The Jewel Event Center, 407

Skating Association, offers ice skating, games, prizes,

Dunn Rd., Florissant, 314-395-3500.

candy and a costume contest. Some costume restric-

Boo Bash

tions apply, including no masks or facial coverings that may restrict your vision, no costumes or accessories that

Boo Bash is a Halloween extravaganza. Join in the party

drag below your feet, no inappropriate or controversial

in Strauss Park with the Cardinals Nation food truck, a

costumes that may offend other guests, and no cos-

bounce house, kid-friendly activities and, most impor-

tumes that may prohibit the movement of your arms or

tantly, trick-or-treating. Festivities begin at 4 p.m. and

legs. All participants must wear skates on the ice. Fri.,

end at 8 p.m. Wear your scariest costume and get ready

Oct. 27, 7-9 p.m., $10 (includes skate rental), 636-939-

to say “boo!” Tue., Oct. 31, 4-8 p.m., free, 314-289-

2386, ext. 1400, www.stpetersmo.net/rec-plex. St. Pe-

15223, intern@grandcenter.org, www.grandcenter.org.

ters Rec-Plex, 5200 Mexico Rd., St. Peters.

Strauss Park, Washington and North Grand boulevards, St. Louis.

Central West End Halloween Party

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eat • drink • listen

Halloween Costume Party

Halloween/Anniversary Party

Live DJ & Drink Specials

Planet Score Records is celebrating its second anniversary in Maplewood Oct 30. Since it coincides with Hallow-

Set in the vibrant and cosmopolitan Central West End, the

een, the store makes a spooky fun time of it, with free

annual Halloween in the CWE is the can’t-miss celebration

Schlafly beer and treats for kids and adults plus an array

of the season. Festivities kick off with fun daytime activi-

of discounts and prizes on its wheel of deals. Sat., Oct. 28,

ties for the whole family. Then, as the sun sets, the party

10 a.m.-9 p.m., free, 314-282-0777, jastulce@gmail.com.

continues with an adults-only bash and costume contest,

Planet Score Records, 7421 Manchester Rd., Maplewood.

Friday, 10/27 @ 7pm

featuring $6,000 in cash and prizes. Attendees must be at least eighteen to participate in the costume contest. Sat., Oct. 28, 11 a.m.-midnight, free, 314-305-4012, info@ cwenorthcid.com, cwescene.com. Central West End, Euclid and Maryland avenues, St. Louis.

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5-9 p.m., $6 in advance, $8 at the door, 636-394-1880, ed-

You are the detective in two live adventures at St. Jordan

html. Wildlife Rescue Center, 1128 New Ballwin Rd., Ballwin.

Creek Winery after dark. The first adventure is a haunted

ucation@mowildlife.org, www.mowildlife.org/tailsofthenight.

mystery maze. You look for clues in the corn maze to dis-

Terror on the Rooftop at 360

cover which pirate kidnapped the lovely maiden Buttercup,

Three Sixty’s Halloween party will include digital decorating

with what weapon and on what island in a sea of corn. The

and production, roaming performers, and other tricks and

second adventure is a short escape game. Enter the Pirate’s

surprises. Providing the music will be DJ Steve Meier and

Lair to find the evidence to bring the kidnapper to justice. A

DJ Jwin, with a $500 costume contest. VIP table packages

stout heart, sturdy shoes, keen observation and a flashlight

are available. Sat., Oct. 28, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., $10-20, 314-241-

are required. Free parking. Fridays and Saturdays, 6:30-9

8439, 360halloween.eventbrite.com. Three Sixty St. Louis,

p.m. through Oct. 28; Tue., Oct. 31, 6:30-9 p.m. $11 for

1 S. Broadway, St. Louis.

one adventure, $20 for both, 314-609-5488, st.jordan.pj@ gmail.com, www.stjordancreek.com. St. Jordan Creek Win-

Halloween Dusk 5k/10k Run Walk Crawl

ery, 2829 US-50, Beaufort.

Run/walk for your favorite charity the Friday night before

Lilliputian Film and Photography Festival

Halloween. Dress up with the family, zombie walk or run and enjoy the night time Halloween Dusk Run. Creep your

This is a short film screening of films perfect for Halloween

way through the route with your Halloween attire or run with

as well as creepy photographic work., with costumes/cos-

your comfy fitness clothes. Either way, be prepared for the

play encouraged. Screenings will be held in the Mini Moolah

Halloween after-party at Big Daddy’s Soulard or the Land-

Lounge where there is comfy couch seating and bar access.

ing. Check-in and registration at Big Daddy’s Soulard 4:30-6

Sat., Oct. 28, 7-9 p.m., free, Hoogamedia@gmail.com,

p.m. Fri., Oct. 27, 6-8 p.m., $20 - $32, 312-600-9035. Big

www.facebook.com/lilliputianFilmFest. Moolah Theatre &

Daddy’s Soulard, 1000 Sidney St., St. Louis.

Lounge, 3821 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, 314-446-6868.

Mollyween

Boolesque! A Halloween Revue Every weekend in October, come to the Boom Boom Room

Are you ready for one of the spookiest nights of the year?

for a show hosted by LuLu LaToosh. Feel free to dress in cos-

Mollyween is coming. Freaky drink specials, dance parties,

tume; there will shimmying, booty shaking and high kicks

shot girls, decorations of monstrous manifestations and

too. Now all they need is you. Oct. 27-28, 7-9 p.m., from

a $1,000 cash costume contest., What goes bump in the

$21.99. Boom Boom Room, 500 N. 14th St., St. Louis.

night? Awesome people dancing in great costumes. No cover charge. Sat., Oct. 28, 7 p.m.-1:15 a.m., free, 314-241-

Clowns on Clark

6200, www.facebook.com/events/133809077251364/.

Special Halloween costume contest with live music from The

Molly’s in Soulard, 816 Geyer Ave., St. Louis.

Groove and DJ Ace in the Green Room. First prize is a VIP

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

pass to the Tin Roof good for 20 people and an overnight stay for two at the Westin downtown. Second prize is two

The Tivoli Theatre’s annual Halloween screening of The

free St. Louis Blues tickets and a $50 post-game tab at the

Rocky Horror Picture Show features a live shadow cast (the

Tin Roof. Sat., Oct. 28, 10 p.m., $10. 21+. Tin Roof St. Louis,

Samurai Electricians). Fridays, Saturdays at 11:55 p.m.

1000 Clark Ave., St. Louis, 314-240-5400.

through Oct. 28, $10. Landmark Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-7271.

Slashed

Creepshow The Webster Film series screens George Romero and Stephen King’s 1982 film Creepshow, which was their tribute

3 Girls in the Dark Presents Slashed!, its third annual Hallow-

to the EC horror comics of the 1950s. Presented by Planet

een party. $10 gets you door prizes, one house drink ticket,

Score Records and Schlafly Bottleworks. Wed., Nov. 1, 8

costume contest, appetizers, drink specials and more. Tarot

p.m., $5. Schlafly Bottleworks, 7260 Southwest Ave., Ma-

card readings are available by Eva Gehlert. Come as your

plewood, 314-241-2337.

favorite horror icon or dress to impress for the costume contest and dance your life away at Mad Art Gallery in Soulard.

The Halloween Party That Shall Not Be Named

Sat., Oct. 28, 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m., $10, www.facebook.com/

Johnnie Brock’s Dungeon and Ballpark Village co-host this

events/1618407504899993/. Mad Art Gallery, 2727 S.

massive, magic-themed Halloween party that includes ac-

12th St., St. Louis, 314-771-8230.

cess to four restaurants and bars, video DJ entertainment,

Spooky Poochies Yappy Hour

wizarding characters, specialty drinks and a costume contest with a $7,500 prize package. Sat., Oct. 28, 7 p.m., $10-

The last (and our favorite) Yappy Hour of the year is coming

$20, VIP options available. Ballpark Village, 601 Clark Ave.,

up. Get out your best costume for Spooky Pooches. There

St. Louis, 314-345-9481.

will be prizes for best dog costumes, tastings of dog treats, drink specials and more. Help raise funds for Soulard’s

Paddy O’s Halloween Bash

Frenchtown Dog Park Association; 20 percent of every Yap-

Halloween dance party/costume contest ($1,000 in prize

py Hour goes to them. Thu., Oct. 26, 4-7 p.m., free, 314 241

money), music by DJ Mahf & DJ VTHOM, drink specials and

6200, www.facebook.com/events/180545782506177/.

photo booth. Fri., Oct. 27, 10 p.m.-3 a.m., $10 in advance,

Molly’s in Soulard, 816 Geyer Ave., St. Louis.

$20 at the door. Paddy O’s, 618 S. Seventh St., St. Louis,

Tails of the Night

314-588-7313.

This family-friendly celebration of Missouri’s nocturnal ani-

RiffTrax: Night of the Living Dead

mals lets you behind the scenes at a professional wildlife re-

The RiffTrax team — Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kev-

habilitation facility, visit with wild costumed characters on the

in Murphy — rebroadcast their 2013 takedown of George

nature trail, have an up-close critter encounter with a reptile

Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the Living Dead. Wed., Oct.

ambassador, and relax and chat at the campfire with the vol-

25, 7:30 p.m., $15. Wehrenberg Ronnies 20 Cine, 5320 S.

unteers and staff of the Wildlife Rescue Center. Sat., Oct. 28,

Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, 314-843-4336.

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The Meyerowitz kids (Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler and Elizabeth Marvel) attempt to talk about their issues with one another. | ATSUSHI NISHIJIMA - © NETFLIX [REVIEW]

Family Meeting Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories is about the way we get by Written by

ROBERT HUNT The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Written and directed by Noah Baumbach.

Starring Adam Sandler, Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Marvel and Emma Thompson.

Currently available on Netflix.

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s the title suggests, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), is built around a literary device, its tale of the tensions and conflicts within a family split into individual sections, each starting with a title card and a fragment of an introductory sentence. This literary conceit seems

an odd choice for a movie about a family that contains a sculptor, a musician and a filmmaker, but not a single writer, yet it serves its purpose. It’s a film told in sketches and fragments, and the structure covers up gaps in the sometimes thin narrative.

Noah Baumbach gives this multi-angled look at a family that’s more disassembled than dysfunctional. The only reason the Meyerowitzes aren’t in conflict is because they’ve spent decades avoiding each other. Harold Meyerowitz (Dustin Hoffman) is a veteran of the New York art scene, an almost-celebrated sculptor. His oldest son Danny (Adam Sandler) is a newly divorced musician (it’s mentioned in several scenes that he’s never held a job) relocating to New York to be close to his college-age daughter. Danny’s sister Jean (Elizabeth Marvel, in a remarkably repressed performance) struggles to find a creative outlet as a project manager at Xerox. Their half-brother Matthew (Ben Stiller) is the black sheep of the family, a successful financial adviser in Los Angeles who comes back to help his father sell his New

York apartment and art collection.

(The women mostly get short shrift: Emma Thompson is wasted as Harold’s alcoholic wife, and Candice Bergen appears far too briefly as one of Thompson’s predecessors.)

There’s not really much of a story here; it’s more of a collection of misunderstandings and mixed emotions trying to work themselves out. The Meyerowitz patriarch is slightly pretentious and of delicate ego; when he speaks, it sounds more like a recitation of carefully composed capsule reviews and well-rehearsed opinions. He’s not alone. The characters often seem like they’re not listening to each other because they’re too busy warming up their own prepared pieces. Behind the miscommunication, the film slowly reveals a complex set of family dynamics, with Sandler and Stiller working their way around grievances real and imagined.

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Baumbach doesn’t have much of a gift for verbal humor, unless you think yelling profanities in traffic is the height of wit, but the film plays like a comedy mostly by virtue of Sandler and Stiller’s welcome underplaying. There are also a few genuinely clever instances of visual humor, which are surprising for such a talk-heavy filmmaker.

The film is understated to a fault yet somehow also self-indulgent.

(Baumbach throws in a few nods to his colleague in father-issue filmmaking Wes Anderson — there’s a scene of someone in a Fantastic Mr. Fox mask, and Judd Hirsch appears as a rival artist wearing Bill Murray’s wool hat from The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou).

But here’s the strange thing: For all of its unmotivated emotions, narrative gaps and general sense of self-absorption, The Meyerowitz Stories works. It makes a few wrong turns and some of its comic efforts fall flat, but Baumbach and his cast are persistent, working their way through the missteps to create an honest account of a mixed (and mixed-up) family getting through the messy business of life. n

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Putting the Ham in Hamlet The Rep’s first-ever Hamlet aims high, but ultimately is not to be Written by

PAUL FRISWOLD Hamlet

Written by William Shakespeare. Directed

by Paul Mason Barnes. Presented by the Repertory Theatre St. Louis through November 5 at the Loretto-Hilton Center (130 Edgar Road; www.repst.org). Tickets are $18.50 to $89.

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amlet begins in darkness with the appearance of a dead man’s ghost and ends with the floor knee-deep in corpses, and in between these two moments in time the title character muses constantly upon the nature of death. Right out of the gate, the Repertory Theatre St. Louis’ first-ever production of the play is steeped in sepulchral colors, sights and sounds, from Michael Gaino’s set of skeletal scaffolds and castle walls frozen mid-collapse to the gloomy black uniforms of Denmark’s soldiers.

The last sound you’d expect to hear in Castle Elsinore is laughter, and yet there is much of it in the Rep’s current production, mostly coming from the audience. It is a tonally jarring show that works to establish the funereal mood one expects from Hamlet, only to break that spell with a bit of physical comedy. Even more jarring, most of those laughs come courtesy of that noted bringer of jollity Hamlet.

The plot is one of revenge much chewed over and delayed. Hamlet’s twin struggles — to find both the proof that his uncle has murdered his father and then the courage to kill his uncle — comprise the bulk of the play. Hamlet’s monologues about the difficulties of life and the

Rosencrantz (left, Ross Cowan) and Guildenstern (right, Stephen Hu) try to figure out how crazy Hamlet (center, Jim Poulos) really is. | PETER WOCHNIAK nature of death have gained the drama the reputation of “the greatest play in the English language.”

That reputation is also an anchor, making the hype far outstrip any possible production. You invariably compare what you’re watching to every other play you’ve seen, and Hamlet often suffers for the comparison. (The actual greatest play? Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman. Fight me.) Matters are not helped by the maudlin title character, who can make for a mopey and whiny hero.

That is not the problem with this production, which is solid and sometimes even rises to greatness.

But overall it still left me cold, and I worry the problem is twofold: both the weight of the expectations carried by the play’s reputation and the shortcomings of this particular Hamlet.

Indeed, the Rep’s Hamlet (Jim Poulos) is a cheery fellow. Feigning madness to mask his true intentions from intimates and the extended court alike, Poulos’ Danish

prince veers into zaniness when trying to baffle his observers. He rides an imaginary bicycle, and at one point leaps into his uncle/ stepfather Claudius’ arms to plant an unexpected kiss. It’s a heavyhanded approach to insanity that rings false throughout the show, whether faux (Hamlet) or actual (Ophelia). Kim Wong’s portrayal of Ophelia’s descent into lunacy feels like something from another era, all splayed limbs and sing-song delivery. Both of these exaggerated performances feel artificial and smack of “acting.”

Poulos is much more effective as the driven Hamlet, who occasionally lowers his manic defenses to reveal his inner turmoil, staring daggers at friends-turned-royalspies Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (Ross Cowan and Stephen Hu) while lecturing the court, “After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.” The “their” refers to his favorite troupe of actors, but the “death” is intended riverfronttimes.com

solely for the hapless spies.

Michael James Reed delivers an excellent performance as Claudius, a man driven by devouring ambition for absolute power and also scourged by grief at what he’s done to win a kingdom. You get the impression that Claudius might be a better king if not for his inherited councilor Polonius (a very good Larry Paulsen), who takes the lead on solving Denmark’s Hamlet problem. Most of Polonius’ advice is aimed at maintaining the status quo, which inadvertently makes things worse — particularly for himself.

But then things go badly for everyone across the board. A grasping king, shoddy advisers, dim hatchetmen and an indecisive prince all find death by the end.

One can only hope that the new ruler — Fortinbras of Norway (Jeffrey Cummings) — does better. Undeterred by the mound of bodies, he casts a calculating eye around Elsinore; surely this pragmatist will succeed. n

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Café Culture Bissinger’s ups the ante with savory, chef-driven food as good as its sweets Written by

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hen the Bissinger’s team says that Handcrafted by Bissinger’s is a chef-inspired restaurant, they mean it literally: They built the concept around him.

That chef, Nick Miller, came to Bissinger’s in 2014 to run the company’s then-new event space, the Caramel Room, at its production facility on North Broadway.

Miller was fresh off the closure of his beloved restaurant, Harvest, and the move was at first seen as a head-scratcher: Why would a renowned chef, one who had helped to pioneer seasonal, farmto-table cooking in St. Louis, move to a chocolatier? Sure, Harvest’s bread pudding was legendary, but Miller was, first and foremost, a savory chef. How could the full range of his talents be used by a candy company?

As it turned out, though, Bissinger’s had plans for the warehouse that were much bigger than chocolate. Though the company needed much of the building’s square footage, it didn’t need it all, especially the space on the top floor. The owners decided to convert that into a

luxury events space, complete with a full-service catering facility, and tapped Miller to head the concept as soon as he announced he was closing Harvest.

With Miller on board, Bissinger’s ambitions grew to include an off-site catering company called 23 City Blocks and the events space Lumen. The feedback from catering clients was overwhelmingly positive, with one exception: Everyone lamented how disappointing it was that Miller’s cooking could only be enjoyed at special events.

The complaint gave Bissinger’s the idea to convert its chocolate shop and wine bar in the Central West End, Bissinger’s Handcrafted Chocolatier, into a concept that could showcase Miller’s talents.

This past June, the company rebranded the space into Handcrafted by Bissinger’s, converting it into a neighborhood café by day riverfronttimes.com

and wine bar offering small plates at night.

Handcrafted by Bissinger’s embraces the European feel of its Maryland Plaza environs. White marble tables and French wicker bistro chairs provide seating on the half of the restaurant featuring the coffee bar and chocolate counter. The other half has a more lounge-like feel, with a French blue sectional and grey velvet chairs and a handful of high-top bar tables. The most striking feature is the accompanying 24-bottle “wine wall,” a self-pour system that lets guests help themselves to a comprehensive by-the-glass selection.

Though Miller’s food is available at Handcrafted, he does not prepare it on site. Instead, he and his 23 City Blocks Catering team do most of the work at their commissary in the Bissinger’s headquarters on North

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BISSINGER’S Continued from pg 33 Broadway and deliver it daily to the Central West End café. For the most part, this works, as in the case of Handcrafted’s impeccable quiche.

Both versions — the mushroom, spinach and leek layered with molten gruyere and the bacon, tomato and cheddar — are made with an egg custard so luxurious it lies somewhere between solid and liquid. The eggs and fillings are baked into a buttery crust that could double as a shortbread cookie. It’s a dazzling, best-in-class example of the wonderful dish.

Handcrafted’s avocado toast shows why the trendy dish is deserving of the hype. A baguette is soaked in olive oil and dusted with sea salt before being crowned with a melange of diced avocados, tomatoes and feta. Arugula dressed in lemon and olive oil tops this with each layer building on the last — the peppery arugula seasons the salty avocado mixture; the juices from both sop into the bread. It’s a delight.

The restaurant’s signature breakfast item is its “BELT,” a shirred egg sandwich layered with local mozzarella, arugula, tomatoes and herb mayo on a brioche-like bun that has a Hawaiian breadstyle sweetness. The sandwich’s genius feature is the bacon lattice, a roughly four-by-four-inch square of interwoven bacon that looks like a butcher’s arts and crafts project.

It’s not just for aesthetics, however.

Being woven together like this prevents the slide you so often get with bacon sandwiches, so each bite contains the same equal portion of meat. It’s brilliant.

The croques monsieur is a respectable version of the classic French sandwich. Country ham and béchamel sauce make up the

Handcrafted by Bissinger’s offers a lounge area with a self-pour wine bar, in addition to a second room with counter service. | MABEL SUEN interior; the outside is griddled with funky comté cheese. Squint your eyes, glance out the window at the Maryland Plaza fountain, and you’ll think you are in Paris.

Miller is equally comfortable with good ol’ American fare, as evidenced by the brisket sandwich.

Slices of woodsmoke-infused tender beef are blanketed in gooey Brie and served on ciabatta. My one complaint is that the brisket was so enjoyable I wished for more; as it came, the portion was a bit sparse. The silver lining was that I had more room to enjoy the

restaurant’s paper-thin housemade potato chips.

There were a few misses at Handcrafted that I chalk up to poor execution. On one day, the French onion soup — what the restaurant bills as a Miller signature — was unpleasantly thick and so salty as to be unpalatable.

The next day, it was thin and under-seasoned. I question whether the inconsistency is the result of it being overreduced at night and then thinned out with water to reconstitute it the next morning, a measure to make up for not having

the chef on site. Either way, it was disappointing.

Another disappointment was the tomato flatbread, a dish that looks positively enticing in its star turn as the lead image on the restaurant’s website. When it arrived, however, I wondered if it was even the same thing. The menu lists it as containing a sun-dried tomato tapenade and feta cheese; instead, ours was topped with sliced tomatoes and covered in so much mozzarella it looked like your car after a blizzard blows through town.

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A few missteps were oversights. A quinoa salad was tasty; it just contained no quinoa. This sort of thing can happen from time to time, but sadly, it happened twice that night when our chicken flatbread also arrived without chicken.

Our server and the manager on duty were mortified at these back-to-back mistakes and, to their credit, brought us a proper salad and took the flatbread off the bill. Their earnest hospitality made what could have been an unpleasant experience into something positive.

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t. Louis Hop Shop (2600 Cherokee Street, 314-261-4011) co-owners Justin Harris and Ryan Griffin opened their shop out of necessity.

“We were at our house playing a game and were out of beer,” Harris explains. “We wanted to go out and get something, but the only places that were open at the time had very limited selections. St. Louis has this history of craft beer, yet there were no craft beer retail shops in the city.

It was mind-boggling to us.”

Before setting out to fill the void, the two were on decidedly different career tracks. For Griffin, 30, degrees in both industrial organizational psychology and management from Northwest Missouri State led him to Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s management training program. As for Harris, 28, a small-engine mechanic by trade, he found himself in the retail business, working everywhere from lighting and clothing stores to Whole Foods.

Though both were doing well in their chosen fields, Griffin and Harris, who are brothers, wanted to go into business together. When they developed a shared passion for craft beer — and noticed the lack of a proper bottle shop in the city of St. Louis — an idea began to take shape.

“We’d been going over the idea for some time and really wanted to have the opportunity to connect people through beer and just do something different,” Griffin says. “We’re both creative and risk-takers, and we finally decided that we couldn’t wait to do it. We felt like if we could work this hard for others, why not do it for ourselves and see where it could take us?”

Before opening the doors of St. Louis Hop Shop, they met with lo-

Justin Harris (at left) and Ryan Griffin took a leap of faith to open St. Louis Hop Shop. Two years later, they’ve expanded. | SARA BANNOURA cal craft and home brewers to see what they thought of the bottle shop concept. Unequivocally, they found validation.

“I think people were really excited not just about the beer, but that it was one more place that was celebrating what’s local,” Griffin explains. “Our shop was a way to promote shopping in the city. People gravitated toward that.”

Any doubts about their concept were erased when they opened their doors in 2015. Instantly, St. Louis Hop Shop became a go-to destination for anyone interested in craft beer, as well as a community gathering place. The shop has become so popular, in fact, that Harris and Griffin have had to expand, moving to a larger space just down the street earlier this month.

Harris and Griffin credit their success to their approachable, service-oriented style. It also doesn’t hurt that the shop is a family affair — something that could be tricky to navigate if the two weren’t such close friends.

“I think the reason we work well together is because we are so different. Also, for better or for worse, we know what to expect from each

other,” Harris says.

Griffin agrees. “I think that’s accurate. With us growing up together, we’re used to one another. We have a strong bond that allows us to trust one another. We hold each other accountable and push each other to be better people.”

Griffin and Harris took time away from the shop to share their thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage community, their daily rituals and why Cherokee Street is the place to watch in the city.

What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did?

Ryan: I’m a very positive individual; no matter the situation I keep a cool demeanor and think on the bright side.

Justin: I’m a pretty big deal. Also, I have a pretty good sense of humor.

What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you?

Ryan: I go through my sock drawer and pick out the most comfortable pair I can find.

Justin: I have to have my tea in the morning.

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Ryan: That’s a tough question to answer. I’d love to predict the future.

Justin: Teleportation. It’d be pretty cool to be able to be anywhere at any time.

What is the most positive trend in food, beer, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year?

Ryan: I’ve noticed a positive trend in local taps across St. Louis. It shows that our city has a lot to offer within the beer market and people are interested to try them all.

Justin: I don’t know the last time I have went out to eat at a restaurant that wasn’t locally owned. As far as beer goes, it seems like there is a brewery for every neighborhood in the city, and that’s pretty awesome.

What is one thing missing or that you’d like to see in the St. Louis food and beverage scene?

Ryan: I’d love to see more and more diverse styles of food.

Justin: Honestly, I don’t know. I really like what we have going. If I had to make one suggestion it’d be more late-night fare.

Who is your St. Louis food or drink crush?

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or a combined total of 25 years, Damon Daher and Tony Simmons have been working in the pretzel wholesale business while quietly developing a proprietary technique to make the best pretzel this city has even seen. On October 1, those dreams were realized when the partners opened Pretzel Pretzel (9614 Gravois Road, Affton; 314-6318000), a small pretzel shop in Affton that pushes the idea of what is possible with twisted bread.

“We’ve been perfecting the recipe and technique for years, and now seemed like the right time to go for it,” Daher says. “We’ve traveled all over the place, worked with experienced bakers and had to search the country for the right equipment.

After some trial and error, we think we’ve gotten it right.”

Daher and Simmons met in the pretzel wholesale and distribution business and became instant friends after they discovered their shared passion for the malty twists. They often talked about opening their own

shop but did not want to do so until they were certain they had the best product they could create.

“Being in the business, we understand the importance of a product that stays fresh,” Simmons explains.

“Our proprietary techniques not only make our pretzels softer, but also allows them to stay fresh longer.”

As soon as you feast your eyes on the glass display case that contains Pretzel Pretzel’s mouthwatering wares, you realize that their efforts have paid off. As Daher and Simmons explain, their pretzels are New York-style, meaning pillow-soft and golden, and dressed with a generous amount of coarse salt. Traditional twisted pretzels have a squat look to them, while the pretzel nuggets are so fluffy and glistening, they look like beignets.

“We wanted to call them ‘fresh hot pillows of lusciousness,’ but that wouldn’t fit on the menu,” Daher says. “So we had to settle on the term ‘nugget’ out of linguistic convenience.”

The pretzels and nuggets are alone worth a trip, but Pretzel Pretzel aims to set itself apart from its competitors by introducing St. Louis to the stuffed pretzel. And while south city mainstay Gus’s has long offered sausages and hot dogs wrapped in soft pretzels, these creations are far more elaborate. Daher and Simmons fill their stuffed pretzels with everything from salsiccia to hot dogs to their signature house-roasted beef, onion, bell pepper and cream cheesefilled Philly cheesesteak.

“This is the best Philly cheesesteak sandwich in town, period,” says Daher. “Pretzel or not. It’s just the best.”

They also offer breakfast pretzels and are in the midst of launching a line of dessert pretzels, including a peanut butter, banana and Nutella version called the “Elvis Pretzel-y.”

In that spirit, Daher and Simmons look at Pretzel Pretzel not as a pretzel shop but as a restaurant that happens to specialize in pretzels. The operation is mainly takeout focused, but a window counter allows diners to enjoy their goodies on site.

On weekends, lines have been wrapped around the building, though no one has complained.

Perhaps it’s because Daher and Simmons provide their guests with entertainment when they wait — an impromptu show occurred when they got super busy on opening weekend and needed a festive way to greet all of their well-wishers.

“We think of it sort of like the Fudgery, where they sing and make it a really festive atmosphere,” says Simmons. “Tony lost his voice singing so much. I told him he has to stop talking and save it for the weekend.”

Daher has a theory on why the place feels like a party. “Pretzels are happy food,” he explains. “You eat them at picnics or state fairs or parties or sports events or carnivals.

When you’re eating a pretzel, you’re having a good time.”

Pretzel Pretzel keeps those good times rolling Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sundays from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.n riverfronttimes.com

n October 9, Feraro’s Jersey Style Pizza closed its location in the city’s Patch neighborhood, which had been located at 7700 Ivory Street.

Jon Feraro, who started the Jersey Shore-themed pizza company with his mother Nancy in 2005, announced the news on his public Facebook page.

“The County operation is thriving so we will stay focused on growing that,” Feraro wrote of the restaurant’s other location at 11726 Baptist Church Road. “Thank you for your years of patronage in Saint Louis City! It’s been our honor to serve you, and it’s been fun!”

Ben Abel, Feraro’s majority owner, says that not only is its south county sister thriving — but that the company is looking to expand.

“We’re looking at a minimum of one new location next year, and then looking to see about opening more,” he says. “We plan to move rapidly.”

In a way, Abel says, the closure of the Ivory Street location is a blessing in disguise. Before, the company had two vastly different models using the same name. The Feraro’s in Patch was a dine-in setup, complete with a full bar. The Feraro’s in Sappington is mostly a carryout operation, with pizza by the slice or for delivery. There are a few tables, but it’s not a place you’d linger.

The difference between the two concepts led to some confusion, Abel says. “Now we’ll be standardizing the model we’re using in south county so we can recreate it,” he says.

Unfortunately for city-dwelling lovers of New Jersey-style pizza, that recreation will be happening in the county, Abel says. He’s eyeing an expansion that moves westward from Sappington, not into the city.

Still, if you have a dream for a turnkey restaurant in deep south city, Abel notes that Red Brick Management will soon be putting a lovely storefront in the heart of Patch on the rental market. The 2,885-square-foot space that previously held Feraro’s is close to the Ivory Theatre and Stacked Burger Bar, and includes office space upstairs.

“It’s a really neat space for somebody who has an idea, but not the funds to do a buildout,” he says of Feraro’s former home. “It’s a good opportunity for someone who has a dream.”

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traditional with Imo’s, though. They have stayed pretty consistent over the years, in my opinion.

Justin: That changes as often as the weather. Honestly, take your pick of any restaurant on Cherokee Street.

Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis food and beverage scene?

Ryan: I’d say Earthbound Brewery right here in south city! They’ve opened a new location right up the street from us that’s pretty awesome.

Very excited to see how they utilize their recent expansion.

Justin: There are a few new restaurants that I have to try, but I’m particularly looking forward to Good Fortune opening up, as well as Rockwell Brewing Co. Which ingredient is most representative of your personality?

Ryan: I’d say water. I’m pretty free-flowing and can adapt to any setting.

Justin: I’d have to say brettanomyces; it brings the funk to the party.

Name an ingredient never allowed in your beer.

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Justin: Extra bitter dark chocolate.

What is your after-work hangout?

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Justin: My living room, dominating on FIFA. What’s your edible or quaffable guilty pleasure?

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ans of chef Rick Lewis’ country-style cooking have reason to celebrate: Grace Meat + Three (4270 Manchester Avenue; 314-533-2700) is expanding to offer dinner service beginning today.

Though it’s only been open for a little over a month, Grace Meat + Three has already garnered national acclaim, including a nod in Food & Wine, which called it “a bold, joyful celebration of all things Southern.” It has been continuously packed with diners eager to get a taste of Lewis’ hearty food — so much, in fact, that it regularly sells out of signature dishes early into service.

That’s even though the counter-service spot has been open only from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. The expanded hours — until 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and until 4 p.m. on Sunday — represent an attempt

by Rick Lewis and co-owner Elisa Lewis to give their guests a chance to enjoy more of what they’ve already come to love.

Though they weren’t averse to the idea of dinner service, the Lewises wanted to establish the restaurant as a lunch spot before

Grace Meat + Three offers two sides with each protein, or a third for an extra $3. | CHERYL BAEHR taking on anything extra. “We originally decided to do lunches only because we had a solid team, and we wanted to put our best foot forward,” Rick Lewis explains. “I think if you open as a lunch spot first it puts it in people’s heads that you’re not a dinner-only restaurant. Most places do the opposite, and then it’s hard to build a lunch crowd.”

The inspiration for Grace’s lunch concept was more than just logistics, however. As Rick Lewis explains, it is rooted in the food that has come to define his cooking style. “This is blue-collar cooking — the original farm-to-table, where cooking was about serving meals based on what was available directly from the field to the workers.”

Though Lewis got his start in some of the city’s most upscale kitchens — An American Place, Monarch — he admits that this country style of cooking appealed to him at an early age. His mother was an avid home cook, and his paternal grandmother, a cotton field worker from Missouri’s bootheel,

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The menu will not change from lunch to dinner, and Lewis plans on keeping the main protein items the same for the autumn and winter. However, side dishes like cabbage, lima beans and squashes will replace the current late-summer offerings. He also plans to introduce a daily blue plate special that will reoccur the same day every week: “We’ll be doing barbecue porchetta Fridays, smoked prime rib Saturdays and chicken pot pie Sundays.”

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t’s been said that hardly anyone bought the first Velvet Underground album, but that everyone who did started a band. In the case of Dean Wareham, he

started three.

Founder of Galaxie 500, Luna, and Dean & Britta, as well as myriad solo projects, Wareham is the most prolific and inspired acolyte of the pure melodicism and impure dreaminess of the Velvet Underground. When Lou Reed took his band back on the road in 1993, Wareham joined the tour with the newly formed Luna and then recorded with the Velvets’ guitarist Sterling Morrison in the year before his passing. Out of Wareham’s love for the Velvet Underground, a unique identity for Luna emerged.

Beginning with the debut Lunapark in 1992, through its masterpiece Penthouse in 1995 and on through the early 2000s, Wareham and the band created a lush yet laconic sound, a glinting resonance of guitars and droning strings, with rhythms that could shift from windswept pop to sweaty punk. Through it all, Luna’s melodies shimmer through the fuzz and haze, and that luminous intimacy is fully on

display in its newest recordings, the covers collection A Sentimental Education and the purely instrumental EP A Place Of Greater Safety.

Neither record was meant to be.

In 2004, the band released Rendezvous, billed as its final album. Wareham had disbanded Galaxie 500 in 1991 to form Luna, and then after ten years he wearied of “the endless cycle” of touring and recording and began to focus on his collaboration with Luna bassist and singer (and eventual wife) Britta Phillips, as well as solo projects and film work.

In 2015, Wareham reformed Luna, tried full-band touring again and eventually decided that working on a covers set would be a “fun and easy” way to bring new material to the restarted group.

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are from the margins, rendered with elliptical, off-hand grace and affection.

“I think mostly we have decided that Luna sounds like Luna when it’s the four of us in a studio playing live, no matter what songs we tackle,” Wareham says via email while on tour in Spain. “These songs come from the ’60s, ’70s’, ’80s and ’90s (which sounds like the tag for a classic rock station). Some I have wanted to do for a long time, some are songs from records that I loved as a teenager (like the Cure’s first album), others are by artists that I’ve only recently gotten into.”

When it came to acknowledging the Velvet Underground, Wareham made an end run, choosing “Friends,” a song by Doug Yule (bassist and sometimes songwriter and singer for the Velvets) that appeared on a 1973 album called Squeeze, generally considered an embarrassment if not a crime against humanity.

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“Perhaps the crime is that the album is listed as the Velvet Underground,” says Wareham, “but yet contained no founding members of the band. So it’s really a Doug Yule album and does not sound like the Velvets at all. But there are certain VU songs that bear the stamp of Doug Yule; you can tell them from the more complex chord structure — I’m thinking ‘Lonesome Cowboy Bill’ and ‘Who Loves the Sun’. And this song ‘Friends’ feels like one of those. It’s got some lovely chord changes and vocal harmonies.”

As a snapshot of influences and inspirations, A Sentimental Education is most illuminating in the choices that seem light years away from its style. Wareham turns in an especially sweet take on “One Together,” a Fleetwood Mac song, but one that was written by Jeremy Spencer, an early member of the band who is completely forgotten, save by the hardest of hardcore British folk and blues fans.

“When I was a teenager I was into punk rock,” says Wareham. “There was no room for Stevie Nicks. But when I started listening to early records like Kiln House, I heard a band that doesn’t sound so different from Luna at times (except they are bluesier). It’s interesting to look at some of those bands and the trajectories they took, starting out as one thing and only really breaking through after six or seven albums when they had changed into something completely different.”

You can hear Luna’s paradoxical approach, its ambitious understatements, its noise-traced lyricism, in so much of the current indie landscape that it’s strange its name

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isn’t shouted from every rooftop in Brooklyn. The band’s experiments have always had so much warmth and subtlety, the way guitar figures intertwine so naturally and then cry like muted trumpets, the way songs could build and build even as the dynamics, the emotions, seemed to be found rather than orchestrated.

Every Luna record, including the latest, seems like a soundtrack to a film that could never really be directed.

“There is music for all kinds of moods and situations, some for driving or dancing, some for rainy days or winter hours,” Wareham says.

“At least once a month I try to spend an evening doing nothing but listening to music into the small hours.

Even if it’s just for a few minutes or half an hour, music has the ability to make us feel better (or better and worse at the same time even).

And that escape can come from all kinds of music, whether it’s Brahms’ German Requiem or Scott Walker or Brian Eno or Young Marble Giants.”

Looking back on the arc of Luna’s career, Wareham is most proud of simply making albums that still “sound great from start to end.” For him and his band, the current tour offers a chance to rediscover the simple pleasures of sharing that music again.

“Of course there are ups and downs, good Luna and not-so-good,” Wareham says. “But right now I think we made two really cool new Luna records. There are no plans to go back into the studio, but there are no plans either way. I figure, it’s like athletes who have just won a game, and someone asks, ‘What are you gonna do next year?’ And the answer is I just want to enjoy this moment and then we’ll think about the future soon.” n

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eached by phone one Tuesday evening, Brian McClelland is in between the two poles of his existence: fresh off a twelve-hour shift from his day job as a 911 dispatcher for St. Louis County and en route to practice with one of several bands he plays in. As we speak (on a handsfree device, of course — his main gig has instilled a safety-first attitude), McClelland pontificates about the cost/benefit analysis of his several side hustles. While he has spent the better part of two decades playing bass and singing with pop-centric bands, McClelland also keeps busy as a karaoke host and director of videos for local bands through his Blip Blap! enterprise.

“We don’t do it for money, but because it makes us and our friends happy,” he says of the two efforts, which have made him a go-to for well-made visuals as well as bighearted, full-throated sing-alongs in local bars. “I hope that it pays for itself. What’s funny is the thing with karaoke started as a joke, but I’m getting karaoke gigs that pay more than band gigs.”

Still, it is clear that McClelland’s heart lies squarely within the confines of the three-minute pop song.

He’s shown this over and over again, as the leader of the power-pop quartet the Maxtone 4 and then as a supporting player in the hook-heavy Tight Pants Syndrome and the earliest incarnation of Middle Class Fashion. In the past few years, though, he’s focused more on his own project Whoa Thunder, a band that began on a lark but has evolved to support his full-bodied and emotionally potent rock songs.

With the release of the Depths of the Deep End EP, McClelland plumbs his own personal trenches and comes back with six bruised, battered but unbeaten pop songs.

“I went through a really rough year emotionally, so a lot of these songs are cathartic to perform,” says McClelland, whose recent divorce provided more than enough grist for this batch. “That’s new for me. It’s more of a direct emotional experience.”

Whoa Thunder originally began as a songwriting project for McClelland and a few bandmates who were musically untutored but well intentioned. “The goal was for them to play those songs live and we never did,” he says with a laugh. “The first record I made began in 2008 — it was several years in the making,” he says of the album You’re Under Attack, which came out in 2013. “There was some darker stuff in there too, but it was a fun, goofy record.”

Depths of the Deep End shows many flashes of pop savvy, but even on an initial listen you’d be hardpressed to call it “fun” or “goofy.” Opening with “Uncomplicated,” the six-song EP begins with a whisper but leans heavily into slashing synths and whip-smart dynamics, with McClelland’s strong and emotive vocals charging through the arrangements.

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the EP’s centerpiece, and not solely because its fiveand-a-half-minute run time is a comparatively epic length for a quick-hit pop songwriter. On the track, Joe Taylor’s swoopy synths fill in the majority of the mid-range, leaving room for McClelland’s most studied and performative singing to date.

Taylor’s contributions underline the fact that Whoa Thunder has the benefit of being a real, live band this time around. What began as a recording project has, in the past few years, sprung onto stages across St. Louis, as McClelland has recruited some of the city’s sharpest rock and pop musicians to help realize his vision. A few recent lineup swaps keep the roster in a healthy state of flux, and McClelland’s longtime harmonic foil Jenn Malzone has recently been contributing vocals.

The pair began singing together in Tight Pants Syndrome and split off to form Middle Class Fashion a few years ago. That band quickly became Malzone’s own provenance and a platform for increasingly electronic and beat-oriented music, but their partnership continues to pay dividends in concert and on this EP, which ends with their duet “Saints.”

“We just have a really symbiotic relationship,” says McClelland. “It gives me a feeling I’ve never had with anyone else.”

McClelland and Malzone’s musical relationship offers a juxtaposition on an album inspired by the dissolution of a different kind of partnership, but it’s a compliment to Whoa Thunder and its leader that these songs remain largely impressionistic and less interested in the blow-by-blow of heartbreak.

“I always thought I was the most optimistic person in the world because I got married three times,” says McClelland. “This last one knocked the wind out of me in a really big way.”

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ROCKY & THE WRANGLERS: 4 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

314-727-4444.

p.m., $20-$25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd.,

Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-

SOUL REUNION: 10:30 p.m., $7. Beale on Broad-

THE FLAMIN’ GROOVIES: w/ Polyshades 8 p.m.,

St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

436-5222.

way, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880.

$20-$25. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester

EMPIRE: w/ Gish, Proud Larry 8 p.m., $5. The

TOM HALL: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups,

THE PO’ RAMBLIN’ BOYS: 7 p.m., $15-$20. The

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

Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,

700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

Focal Point, 2720 Sutton Blvd, St. Louis, 314-

TORREY CASEY & SOUTHSIDE HUSTLE: 8 p.m., $5.

314-833-3929.

WOLF SKIN: w/ Cavil, Summits 7 p.m., $12-$15.

560-2778.

BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.

I THE MIGHTY: w/ Good Tiger 7 p.m., $15-$17.

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

THE STONE FOXES: 8 p.m., $12-$15. Old Rock

Louis, 314-436-5222.

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

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JAKE’S LEG: 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues &

BLACK & WHITE BAND: 5 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,

p.m., $10-$15. National Blues Museum, 615

Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-

Washington Ave., St. Louis.

TOREY CASEY AND THE SOUTHSIDE HUSTLE: 4

SARY SHOW: 9 p.m., $15. Grandel Theatre, 3610 Grandel Square, St. Louis, 314-533-0367.

BIG GEORGE BROCK & THE HOUSEROCKERS: 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

THE GREEN MCDONOUGH BAND: 7 p.m., free.

Hwy 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen, 34 S Old Orchard Ave, Webster Groves, 314-968-0061.

HOMIE HALLOWEEN BASH II: w/ Discrepancies, Sky Burnt White, For The City, OATM, Common jones, My Legacy My Ghost 6 p.m., $8-$10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

JOE METZKA: 5 p.m., $10-$15. National Blues Museum, 615 Washington Ave., St. Louis.

JOE METZKA BAND: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222.

LEADWOLF: w/ Nick Bifano & The Innocents, Trey 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.

MEWITHOUTYOU [A—> B] LIFE 15 YEAR TOUR: w/ Pianos Become The Teeth, Strawberry Girls 7 p.m., $18-$20. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd.,

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OLD SALT UNION: w/ Old Shoe 9 p.m., $12-$15.

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

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OPENTABBAND & THE PEACELORDS: 9 p.m., $5.

Way Out Club, 2525 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis,

The Yawpers

314-664-7638.

9 p.m. Thursday, October 26.

RHINESTONE EVENING: TRIBUTE TO GLEN CAMP-

Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. Free. 314-498-6989.

BELL: w/ Melody Den, Jon Bonham, Elliott Pearson, Dave Anderson 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.

SAHBABII: w/ T3, 4orever 8 p.m., $20-$60.

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

SEX SNOBS: 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

TERRAPIN FLYER: 8 p.m., $12-$15. Atomic Cowboy Pavilion, 4140 Manchester Avenue, St.

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between ethereal ballads, paranoid noise, gutbucket blues and psychobilly freakouts. Lead screamer Nate Cook delivers every line like he’s lived the surreal tale, and the band rattles and roars like this is its last chance out of the bottomless well of steampunk obscurity. The Yawpers finally sound like they’ll make it.

Starting Guns: Local band Sisser, fronted by tough and plaintive singer Melissa Powers, opens with a blast of fuzzy alt-rock.

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and McVie’s pop-forward, piano-heavy hits — and their unexpected reunion this year yielded a new album and an extended run of tour dates. So while it may not be a long-promised reunion LP by the golden-era Mac, this pairing shows that it was the band’s creative partnerships, not just its much-ballyhooed romantic entanglements, that made its songs endure.

Songbirds: Fans can look forward to a healthy swath of cuts from the duo’s new album as well as hits and deeper cuts from Fleetwood Mac’s catalog. If you get lucky, you might even hear McVie do “Hold Me.” —Christian Schaeffer

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Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.

COOL SCHMOOL: w/ Babe Lords 8 p.m., $7.

JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots,

The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St.

DJ Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828

Louis, 314-328-2309.

Olive Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.

COREY FELDMAN AND THE ANGELS: 8 p.m.,

KIM MASSIE: 10:30 p.m., $10. Beale on

$20-$95. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester

Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-

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

621-7880.

SAX COLOSSUS: 8 p.m., $20. BB’s Jazz, Blues

LEWIS WATSON: 8 p.m., $18-$20. The Fire-

& Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-

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

436-5222.

THE MAINE: w/ Dreamers, Night Riots 7 p.m.,

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

$25-$28. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St.

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

Louis, 314-726-6161.

621-8811.

NAHKO: w/ 1,000 Fuegos, Christina Holmes

ZUSHA: 8 p.m., $10-$12. The Firebird, 2706

8 p.m., $30-$35. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar

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

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

8 p.m. Saturday, October 27.

The Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard. $55 to $125. 314-534-1111.

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SIMO: 8 p.m., $10. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

ASHLEY RAINES BAND: 8 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

TRICK-OR-TRONIC HALLOWEEN: w/ G-Nome

Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,

Project, Kullus, DJShr3deh 9 p.m., free.

314-436-5222.

Atomic Cowboy, 4140 Manchester Ave, St.

HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR: w/ Dracla, Bug

Louis, 314-775-0775.

Chaser 9 p.m., free. Off Broadway, 3509

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Corey Feldman and the Angels

Those who saw former child star Corey Feldman’s legendarily odd 2016 performance on The Today Show already know what to expect from this performance, but for the uninitiated, there are a few things you should know. First off, Feldman is going to dance. It will be a series of herky-jerky movements; it is possible he will even briefly twerk.

If you squint your eyes so tightly that they close entirely, Feldman’s moves might remind you of his old pal Michael Jackson a little bit. Secondly, Feldman is going to sing. He’s deadly serious about his music, too — Spin once described his performance as akin to “Tommy Wiseau filming a part for

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping.”

Finally, Feldman will be surrounded by women wearing angel costumes, including wings and halos. This is his backing band; hopefully they are well-compensated. In short, it will likely be difficult to find a single human being in the house who has chosen to attend this show without irony — but you’re still guaranteed to see a room full of people having a really good time.

Free Corey: Feldman was busted with marijuana on his tour bus in Louisiana over the weekend and charged with a misdemeanor. He claims it was not his, and that a member of his crew had medicinal marijuana. But he would have to claim something like that, wouldn’t he? What we’re saying is: Bring weed to this show and smoke it with Corey Feldman, obviously. —Daniel Hill

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ABOVE & BEYOND: Wed., Feb. 21, 8 p.m., $32-

$20-$40. Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto

$38.75. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St.

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BEN DIESEL / THE STARS GO OUT SPLIT RELEASE PARTY: Sat., Nov. 25, 8 p.m., $10. Blueberry Hill

BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale

- The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., Universi-

on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis,

ty City, 314-727-4444.

314-621-7880.

EMANCIPATOR: Tue., Feb. 20, 9 p.m., $18-$20. Old

GLASSJAW: 8 p.m., $19.93-$30. The Ready

Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-

JON WAYNE AND THE PAIN: W/ Backup Planet,

833-3929.

Fri., Dec. 15, 9 p.m., $12-$15. Old Rock House,

GOGOL BORDELLO: w/ Lucky Chops 8 p.m.,

1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

$25-$27.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd.,

KENNY CHESNEY: W/ Thomas Rhett, Old Domin-

St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

ion, Brandon Lay, Sat., July 21, 6 p.m., $33.50-

THE GREEN MCDONOUGH BAND: 7 p.m., $5.

$159.50. Busch Stadium, Broadway & Poplar

BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.

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

Louis, 314-436-5222.

LALAH HATHAWAY: Tue., Jan. 16, 7 p.m., $47.75.

HEMBREE: 8 p.m., $8. Blueberry Hill - The

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

Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University

314-726-6161.

City, 314-727-4444.

PAT BENATAR AND NEIL GIRALDO: Mon., March

JASON COOPER BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

26, 7 p.m., $39-$99. Blanche M Touhill Perform-

Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,

ing Arts Center, 1 University Dr at Natural

314-436-5222.

Bridge Road, Normandy, 314-516-4949.

LEDISI AND KIRK FRANKLIN: w/ Major 7:30

PATH OF MIGHT RECORD RELEASE: W/ Fister,

p.m., $22-$82. Peabody Opera House, 1400

Dracla, Sat., Nov. 11, 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole,

Market St, St. Louis, 314-499-7600.

7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

TWO COW GARAGE: 8 p.m., free. Off Broad-

SILVERSTEIN: W/ Tonight Alive, Broadside,

way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-

Picturesque, Tue., Jan. 23, 7 p.m., $20-$22. The

6989.

Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,

WEDNESDAY NIGHT JAZZ CRAWL: 5 p.m.

314-833-3929.

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WHY NOT EP RELEASE: W/ Polterguts, Welcome

KDHX, 3524 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-

Home, Sat., Dec. 16, 8 p.m., $10. The Firebird,

925-7543, ext. 815.

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SAVAGE LOVE NECKING

BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: In a frank exchange early in our courtship, I told my girlfriend that I have no kinks. As a faithful reader of Savage Love, I’m obviously not opposed to kinks — but I’ve never had any inclinations in that direction and am probably a typical hetero vanilla. As a result, I’m damn near clueless in that area. Last night, my girlfriend placed my hands around her neck and asked me to choke her. My instant reaction was to say no, not out of any objection in principle but because I thought it might be dangerous in my inexperienced hands. Later I did comply, but I was definitely holding back. I dearly love my main squeeze — clever pun there, huh?

— and I want to be GGG, but… well, you see my misgivings. I know about safe words, but can we count on them when the recipient’s larynx is being compromised and she may be close to passing out? For the record, I had no difficulty in acceding to her request to be bitten, as I know where and how hard I can do that without causing damage, but choking is an area of darkness for me. And let me note that my girlfriend has no grounding in medicine, physiology or anything that would lead me to be comfortable trusting her judgment about choking.

Choke Holds Obligate Kink Education I have friends who are professional Dominants — women who will stick needles through the head of their client’s cock and post the bloody pics to Twitter — who refuse to do breath play and/or choking scenes.

“It’s impossible to control for all the

variables,” said Mistress Matisse, a professional dominatrix. “People think choking isn’t kinky, but it is. People think it’s a low-risk activity, but it’s not.

Choking isn’t just about the lungs. It can affect the brain and the heart — it can affect the whole body —and if the bottom has underlying health issues, things can go disastrously wrong. I feel strongly about this.”

Wrapping something around someone’s neck — your hands, a belt, a rope — is the most dangerous form of breath control/play, Matisse emphasized, and simply cannot be done safely. Fragile bones (like the hyoid bone), nerves, arteries, veins — the neck is a crowded place, it’s vulnerable and putting sustained pressure on someone’s neck is extremely risky.

Matisse also noted: “The person doing the choking needs to be aware that they’re on the hook legally — for at least manslaughter charges — if the person who asked to be choked should die. People have gone to jail for this kind of ‘play.’”

Jay Wiseman, author of SM 101, not only takes a similarly dim view of choking, CHOKE, he’s served as an expert witness at the trials of people who choked someone to death during sex.

“It’s always inherently life-threatening, and it’s always inherently unpredictable,” said Wiseman. “It’s more dangerous than suffocation, as you can get into deeper trouble more quickly.

People have died from a few seconds of being choked. There simply are no landmarks — meaning, you can’t say to a reasonable degree of medical certainty that if you ‘only’ choke someone for 30 seconds, they’ll be okay. People have died after being choked for less than 30 seconds.”

I’m tempted to leave it there, CHOKE, because I worry that anything else I might say could result in one idiot choking another to death. But the fact of the matter is that choking, despite the risks, is a relatively common kink, and almost all deaths related to breath play occur during solo scenes. So I’m going to give you a little advice about meeting your girlfriend’s particular needs safely, i.e., without wrapping your hands around her neck.

So your partner wants to be choked?

“What most people who are into choking want is to feel controlled,” said Matisse. “So put your hand over her mouth. Grab her hair, wrap an arm around her shoulder — not her neck — and put your other hand over her mouth. That should satisfy the urge.”

Another option, CHOKE, is a gas mask. If it’s not too disturbing a look, you can put a gas mask on someone, cover the breathing hole with the flat of your hand, and cut off your partner’s air. All they have to do when they need a breath is shake their head, which will break the seal created by your palm and allow them to breathe.

And finally, CHOKE, you could — if you really like this woman — take a stage combat class or book a session with a fight choreographer. There are safe choke holds used on stage, where the person being choked is in control and no actual pressure is placed on the neck.

Hey, Dan: My boyfriend of four months is great, we’re in love, and the sex is amazing. Now for the but: A strange man takes my boyfriend out once or twice a year for a fancy lunch and gives him a lot of expensive new underwear.

At these lunch “dates,” my boyfriend

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returns the underwear the man gave him last time, now used and worn. It seems obvious to me that Underpants Pervert is masturbating with these old pairs of underwear. This has been going on for SEVEN YEARS, and I asked my boyfriend to stop. He agreed, but he went back on the agreement the next time Underpants Pervert snapped his fingers. My boyfriend says he likes this guy, doesn’t feel objectified in a bad way, enjoys their lunches and thinks of him as an old friend. When I see my boyfriend in his underwear, all I can think is, “That pervert is going to be masturbating into those soon,” when I should be thinking, “My boyfriend is so sexy.” You’ll probably take Underpants Pervert’s side — since you’re pro-kink and an older gay man yourself — and tell me to get over it. But what if I can’t?

Having Issues Stopping Boyfriend’s Underpants Man Get over it.

P.S. And if you can’t get over it? Well, I guess you could issue an ultimatum, HISBUM: “It’s me or Underpants Pervert.” You would essentially be asking your boyfriend to end a successful long-term relationship (seven years) — a relationship of a different sort, yes, but a relationship nonetheless — in favor of a short-term relationship (four months). You’ve already asked your boyfriend to stop seeing this man, and he chose the perverted fag over the controlling girlfriend. If you can’t get over it and you decide to issue that ultimatum, HISBUM, don’t be surprised if he chooses the pervert over you a second time mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter ITMFA.org

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(Nestlé Regional Globe Office North America, Inc. St. Louis, MO) Plan, initiate & mng info tech projs, incl data intgrtn & convrsn srvcs projs w/in set timelines, bdgts & bus prfrmnce stndrds. Srve as liaisn for regnl team in supprt’g data intgratn process imprvmnts. Fulfll data convrsn/ intgratn reqsts & mntn data convrsn tools.

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You are being sued by Jaeckle Distributors, in the Small Claims Court of Dane County, 215 South Hamilton St., Madison, WI 53703. A hearing will be held at 9:00 am on November 13th, 2017. If you do not file an answer or appear, a judgment may be given to the person suing you. (A copy of this claim has been mailed to you at the address above).

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The City of St. Louis, Department of Health (DOH), Bureau of Communicable Disease Grants Administration is requesting proposals from local organizations, community agencies, universities, local governmental entities and other interested parties eligible to receive federal funds to provide the following service(s): Referral for Health Care and Support Services, Planning Council Support Services.

Interested parties are encouraged to respond to the solicitation for proposal beginning Friday, October 27, 2017.

An RFP packet may be obtained from Phillip Johnson, Secretary I, DOH, 1520 Market Avenue, Room 40027, by either calling 314-657-1556 or via email JohnsonP@stlouis-mo.gov. Interested parties may also download the RFP from the City of St. Louis website at http://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/procurement.cfm.

If interested parties have downloaded the proposal from the website, they must register with Mr. Johnson; in order to be notified of any changes or amendments to the RFPs. The deadline for submitting proposals is 4:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 12, 2017 at the address referenced above.

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