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High Fashion

on Cherokee Street Bespoke is making beautiful clothing in a surprising place

by Emily Higginbotham

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High Fashion on Cherokee Street

Bespoke is making beautiful clothing in a surprising place Written by

EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM Cover by

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A Message for Peabody

Katelyn Mae Petrin reports on a group that traveled a long way to make its voice heard

Film

Katelyn Mae Petrin finds The Huntsman: Winter’s War middling at best

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License to Kill

You knew that “religious freedom” bill was bad. But would it legalize murder?

Stage

Paul Friswold finds much to like in the Black Rep’s tribute to Donny Hathaway

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Food List

Sara Graham compiles five places to eat morels this spring

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The Women from Korea

Food News

Meet a St. Louis nonprofit that’s helping strangers in a strange land

Cheryl Baehr bids farewell to Mama Josephine’s

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Coming Soon

Senn Bierworks makes it official

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Out of the Furnace, Into a New Fire

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A Message for Peabody Written by

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adine Narindrankura drove more than 1,000 miles to St. Louis last week. With friends and family members, she joined around 100 others marching from City Hall to Peabody Energy’s downtown headquarters April 19. After asking for (and not getting) an audience with former CEO Gregory Boyce, the protesters rolled a safety fence across the street and blocked traffic.

Narindrankura’s protest isn’t just political or environmental; it’s personal. Her home in Big Mountain, Arizona, is at risk. “I grew up out there. I live out there. I plan to have my baby out there,” she says.

But that might not be possible.

Peabody Energy filed for bankruptcy April 13. Here in St. Louis, people ― including the advocacy group Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment, which organized the protest ― say that Peabody’s business practices have harmed the city. They’ve gotten tax breaks to maintain jobs in the city, even though the company has actually decreased employment in the past few years. And representatives from Rocky Branch, Illinois, say that health problems have run rampant since Peabody began blasting for a new mine in 2014.

But Peabody’s reach goes far beyond just Missouri and Illinois.

Narindrankura was one of thirteen representatives from the Diné (Navajo) and Hopi of Black Mesa and Big Mountain to make the trek to St. Louis. They hope to pressure Peabody to make reparations for the consequences of their operations at Kayenta Mine.

The protesters presented a list of demands for a “Just Transition Fund,” which would prioritize reparations to affected communities over shareholders.

“Our main concern is that Peabody will be completely let off the hook,” Narindrankura explains.

“That they’re just going to leave a big hole in the earth, they’re going to leave our water table depleted and

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Nearly 100 protesters from across the nation gathered in downtown St. Louis last week. | KATELYN MAE PETRIN damaged, and these are things that we’re all gonna have to deal with out there.”

Narindrankura and the Diné describe a long history of exploitation that began in the late 1960s, when a lawyer on Peabody’s bankroll encouraged the Native Americans to sign away their land.

This has resulted in the excavation of more 1 million artifacts on sacred ground, in addition to the

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Is that person gay? Missouri’s proposed “religious freedom” bill could be the answer to your prayers, according to a coalition of legal scholars.

The bill, Senate Joint Resolution 39, would prohibit those meddlers in the government from imposing a “penalty” on religious people or organizations who are moved by their “sincere religious belief concerning marriage between two persons of the same sex” to do some otherwise illegal stuff.

The Public Rights/Private Conscience Project at Columbia Law School points out in a newly released opinion that the term “penalty” is a broad one under Missouri law and is routinely interpreted to include prison time and fines for

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government-supported relocation of dozens of families. And that’s on top of the mining.

Today, the Diné and Hopi face an uncertain future because of depleted aquifers, polluted air and a mining-dependent economy. Says Black Mesa farmer Dan Herder, “The contamination of our land, water, and air ― before the mine, we never had health problems.

There’s asthma, cancer.” And as

much as people want reparations, it may be too late.

“Part of me wants to say yes, [the fund] will make everything better,” says Narindrakura. “But once you damage the earth, once you dig it up and mine it, there is no way you can ever get it back to its natural state. I think we can really use any help to remediate the land and the water and introduce the plants and the animals back.” n

criminal offenses.

“Even the murder of a samesex couple could be shielded from municipal and state prosecution if committed by a member of a ‘religious organization’ and motivated by a religious belief about marriage,” writes the coalition, which includes law school professors from Washington University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Now, there would be rules to this.

You couldn’t just whack anyone at will. You’d first need to come up with a “sincere religious belief.”

Smiting godless same-sex couples in the name of the Lord should provide plausible cover.

The scholars concede the killjoys in the U.S. Justice Department could potentially jam you up on federal hate crime statutes but only if it affects interstate commerce. So no crossing state lines and no using weapons not made right here in

Missouri. (Buy local! We’re going to need those jobs when businesses flee to other states.)

Are you getting excited? The scholars are pretty sure Westboro Baptist Church, the group that protest soldiers’ funerals because of the United States’ permissive gay rights laws, is going to be especially stoked. Try convincing a judge that one of those true believers who, say, felt called to storm a samesex couple’s wedding and block the ceremony wasn’t motivated by “sincere religious belief.”

“It could also protect Church members from prosecution if they harassed or even physically assaulted the couple or their guests,” the professors say.

Harassment. Trespassing. Murder. This is a versatile bill, people.

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Haute Couture, on Cherokee Street

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by Emily Higginbotham

hen Victoria Cates moved to St. starting with a basement full of dead pigeons and Louis from New York last year, a hole through the roof, Bespoke now has all the her plan was to launch a fashion charm and character that you might expect from business using her embroidery a niche shop in the city’s artsiest district. skills — her first great adventure.

It only looks like an upscale boutique, though, In the process, Cates, 30, met in the front. Just beyond the display of finished Dorothy Jones, owner of Be- products is Jones’ workshop, where everything is spoke, a made-to-measure cloth- still very much in progress. The space is consumed ing boutique on the corner of by four long tables, all cluttered with scraps of fabOhio and Cherokee. Jones, 60, ric, rulers, sewing machines and spools of thread. was at a different stage in her Long rolls of sample fabric hang along the walls, life’s journey. After 30-plus years of traveling from along with collages made from fashion magazine coast to coast, bouncing around the theatrical cos- clippings. Half-finished garments are pinned onto tume shops on Broadway and running her own the dressmakers sporadically arranged around corset-making business in San Francisco and Rhode the workshop. It’s in this space where Jones and Island, Jones and her husband Mark Nevelow had her two other workers hand-make affordable and moved to St. Louis in 2005. Opening the shop last customizable couture for their customers.

November was, she says, their last great adventure.

When costumers come into the shop, they can peFor Jones, Bespoke represented a chance at real ruse the basic shapes and patterns on offer, which creativity after years of making patterns for other Bespoke can make in sizes up to 20. “There are manufacturers. Each piece of clothing is custom-fit people everywhere who have no ability to walk for each client — something that’s generally only into a store and buy something that fits and looks true of the priciest couture fashion. good. Very few people are fit model size,” says Jones.

“I started doing custom clothing again because No matter the size you wear, she emphasizes, you the corsets were boring. Ultimately it’s the same deserve fashion. thing over and over again,” she says. “To do a samOnce customers see something they like, they can ple, to do a prototype, to do the costing, to do the have it adjusted to their desired fit. But unlike at a pattern that could go to a factory — that service regular tailor, the customer can then take on the isn’t really available here, and I just accidentally role of designer: adding a collar, sleeves, a neckline ended up here with it. I just realized I’d rather do — whatever they’d like. it for myself.”

“We’re not designers. We’re engineers. We make In pursuit of that dream, in 2014, Jones and good shapes and our customers are designers,” says Nevelow acquired the space for a store on Chero- Nevelow. “In a way it’s like the opposite of fashion. kee. The couple spent a year and a half renovating The fashion industry is about people dreaming up the building. (They were, Nevelow say, “completely what you should wear, and we don’t.” and totally deranged” for taking it on.) But despite Continued on pg 12 riverfronttimes.com APRIL 27-MAY 3, 2016 RIVERFRONT TIMES 11

Dorothy Jones opened Bespoke Couture with her husband, Mark Nevelow, in November 2015. | KELLY GLUECK

BESPOKE FASHION Continued from pg 11 It wasn’t long after Jones and Nevelow opened their doors in November 2015 that Cates walked in looking for a job. She was looking for something to support herself while figuring out her place in the fashion industry. In New York, she’d done beadwork for a company doing couture accessories.

“Through the process of working for them I started to love hand embroidering,” Cates says.

“I thought I was going to end up being a designer in a corporate, [computer-aided design] work type of design, and I just couldn’t stand the thought of it.”

After Cates helped her sister and a friend move to St. Louis to start their own boutique, she was inspired to stay. “There is so much creative energy here and it’s not what I expected,” she says.

“The people I met were so encouraging and open-minded to what new things could be brought in here, and so I felt like that’s exactly where I need to be right now.”

When Cates met Jones, the connection was instant. “We sort of just geeked out over everything,” Cates says. “We have the same interests and values about fashion.”

In Cates, Jones saw a talent that reminded her of her work in the costume shops back in New York.

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says. “She walks in the door with this skill, this miraculous skill that I might not see again, and I’m like, ‘I don’t care what happens, let’s find a way to work together.’”

That sentiment has become a fashion line, which the women plan to release at a show at Bespoke on April 29. The event is called Amare Elementorum, and the theme is a cabinet of curiosities. It will be a casual reception with wine, cookies and a playlist to set the celebratory mood.

The collection is a mixture of different styles for women: It features both upscale evening wear and simple linen dresses embellished with a splash of color from Cates’ embroidery. Dresses, separates, and even a jumpsuit are part of the mix. All of the pieces incorporate an embroidered piece inspired by their theme: vibrant beadings of sea slugs, a coral reef formation and whatever other creatures Jones and Cates imagine crawling around in the ocean’s depths.

At a recent morning at the shop, one of the dresses for the show is draped on a dummy, pinned up in its incomplete state. The dress is made from rich, red silk dupioni, which Jones sources from a mill in India. The neckline of the sleeveless gown cuts diagonally across the chest — almost like a halter, but with straps still intact. That diagonal movement is repeated again in the midriff where it’s been pleated three times. Those pleats

Victoria Cates found creative energy in St. Louis beyond what she’d anticipated. Below, her embroidery. | KELLY GLUECK

are fixed with beaded buttons, each with a colorful sequence and beads made to look like coral reefs.

The buttons hold up portions of the dress, making the embroidery integral to the dress’ design. It’s a beautiful piece.

Cates calls the show their runway collection, without a runway.

At the show, the pieces will be displayed on dummies, reinforcing the idea that this kind of couture is not just for stick-thin models.

The idea is to show the extent of what they could do for customers, and then tone it down and make it wearable. Magnifying glasses will be on hand so that guests can get an even closer look at the intricate beadwork.

The collaboration between Jones and Cates will be ongoing.

They both want to spend the rest of

their respective adventures making something one-of-a-kind for each customer that comes through the door.

“People have forgotten that clothing can be very precious because it has become a commodity. It’s an object that comes out of the box as it is, and it was made by them over there,” Jones says.

“But you put it on your body and it reflects who you are, and people make judgments about you based on what that is. It’s actually a very intimate part of you and a really lovely way to express something, if you can get something that’s yours.

It’s not that hard, it’s just that people have forgotten that they can do it.”

And from an unlikely spot smack-dab in the middle of flyover country, the two designers are making a beautifully embroidered argument that you can do just that.

“I love St. Louis. It is such an easy town to take a chance in. It’s the best thing about it because you’re not hauling all of the overhead of the coasts on your back,” says Jones. “You can financially make it work here and it’s such a welcoming community.

“If you’ve got a weird idea, they’re like, ‘Really? Can we come sit next to you? Can we do it with you?’ We’ve been here eleven years now, but obviously now that we own this beast, this is where we’re staying.” n riverfronttimes.com

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The Women from Korea

They came to the U.S. for marriages that didn’t work out. Now they hope to find peace in rural Missouri.

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BY ERIC BERGER ethodist pastor Minji Stark makes breakfast and prays each morning with five Korean women who live at a home near Lambert St. Louis International Airport.

She works mainly with other women to provide assistance because “women together making peace. Men together making war,” she says, laughing.

She would know.

Stark, who is from Seoul, South Korea, met her husband in 1977 while he was serving in the U.S. Air Force, stationed in her country. She was working on the base, and they started talking while he was waiting to get picked up.

“He was a good Christian man. We would go together to church,” Stark, now 69, says.

They married in Korea, then moved to Augusta, Georgia, in 1979. From there, they went to military bases in San Jose, California, and then Misawa, Japan.

That’s where Stark started attending a Baptist church and Bible study classes and became a born-again Christian.

In 1986, the couple moved to Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. A year later, when her husband left the military, they moved to St. Louis. She and her husband had two children and now enjoy five grandchildren.

But Stark admits that she was nervous about getting involved with an American man. Many marriages be-

tween Korean women and U.S. soldiers ended badly.

According to some estimates, 100,000 marriages between Korean women and American soldiers have taken place since the U.S. started occupying Korea in 1945. The divorce rate? Possibly as high as 80 percent, according to Katharine Moon, a senior fellow at the Brookings Center for East Asian Studies and the author of Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations.

The marriages ended for a variety of reasons: “language and cultural barriers, American racism, unfamiliarity with Korean customs and abuse,” Moon says. Often, the women were then left to navigate life in the United States on their own with limited English proficiency.

And so for the last few decades, Stark has driven across the country to pick up Korean-born women from hospitals and homeless shelters in Colorado, Louisiana and New York, and then drive them back to St. Louis, where her organization provides them with food and a place to stay.

Her ultimate goal for some time now has been to move the women out to a 112-acre property in Robertsville, Missouri, just past Pacific on Highway 44.

There, she envisions a bucolic life: The women can grow and sell organic vegetables and “get closer to nature,” she says.

She wants to help the women find a purpose so they can “serve somebody, not just having someone serve them,” and to build “hope in Christ.”

She calls it Peace Village.

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tark’s organization, the National Association of Intercultural Family Mission, has helped Korean women throughout the United States with housing, jobs, food, translation and even funeral services. In the St. Louis area, Stark has provided housing for more than a dozen women.

The organization achieved nonprofit status in 1999 and maintains a skeleton framework. Records show no paid staffers and no highly paid consultants. The money that comes in — $213,051 in 2014, the most recent year its tax returns are available — goes almost entirely to help house and support Korean-born women who find themselves in the U.S. and in need.

The women who Stark has helped could not or were not able to share their stories, either because of a language barrier or because of past trauma, Stark says.

A majority of the marriages between U.S. soldiers and Korean women from 1950 to 1980 started in the bars and brothels that surrounded the military bases, according to Moon and other scholars.

The United States military and the South Korean government collaborated to regulate prostitution to prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. South Korean officials also encouraged the practice in order to keep soldiers happy because they feared the American military would otherwise leave, abandoning the democratic country to its communist neighbor to the north.

Meanwhile, the women who went to work in camp towns saw marrying soldiers as a way to “live the American dream,” says Moon.

But in Korea, there was a “very puritanical, moralistic and very judgmental society,” Moon says.

The women who had been sex workers and then married outside of their Korean ethnic group were seen as “double-pariahs.”

Many of the women were abused by pimps or bar owners in Korea and then continued to face physical and emotional abuse in their marriages. In one case, an American man did not allow his wife “to eat kimchi in the house. She was not allowed to eat her most important native food,” Moon says.

“I think there is this mindset among the American G.I.s who went to brothels and clubs that these women were disposable, and

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The women pray before enjoying a meal together. | ERIC BERGER some of that mentality may have carried over into the more serious relationships,” says Grace Cho, the author of Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and The Forgotten War, which includes her own family history.

If the marriages broke apart, the women had trouble finding help in the Korean community because of the assumption that they had been prostitutes, or at the very least a “traitor for sleeping with Americans,” says Cho. As such, women in the Korean War generation are often ashamed of their past.

Cho, who has a Korean mother and an American father, knows little about how her parents met.

Her father was in the Merchant Marines; her mother worked at a naval base in Korea. They only discussed their relationship “in the vaguest terms. There was never any concrete narrative.”

“It’s not talked about in America, and it’s not talked about in Korea because it’s considered something shameful,” she says.

Once ostracized by both Americans and Koreans, some of the women ended up homeless, which added another layer of shame and secrecy.

“Koreans still don’t have a concept of homelessness; it’s just, you’re a beggar,” says Moon.

Moon, who is Korean, has never been to Peace Village, but she says that within the Korean Christian community, such a ministry is

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unique.

“Even though you are seeing a church that tends to them, most of them have been shunned by Korean Americans in the United States,” she says.

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n 1991, Kim Young Sup, a homeless Korean woman who had married an American man and then divorced, died after being run over by a salt truck in Chicago. When news reached Stark and other Christian Korean religious leaders, they started their mission to help women like Sup. Stark connected with Korean women who were living in shelters in Chicago, Denver and New York. Stark modeled the organization after the Rainbow Center, a women’s shelter in New York for abused or homeless Asian women who had been married to U.S. serviceman. When it closed briefly because of financial troubles in 2000, Stark drove sixteen hours each way to New York and brought one of the women back to St. Louis.

She initially provided housing for the women at a parsonage associated with Marvin Park United Methodist Church in Breckenridge Hills, but when the congregation moved to another location as part of a merger in 2012, the church sold the property. Stark’s organization then rented a small brick three-bedroom house in the middle of a quiet neighborhood near

the airport for the women.

Over the years, Intercultural Family Mission has helped some women find jobs so they can live independently. Others have gotten married or moved in with relatives.

There have also been some hurdles. The organization bought the acreage in Robertsville in 1999, but six years later, a house on the property burned down after a stove overheated. The accident delayed plans for bringing the Korean women to the site.

The compound features a sanctuary, dining area and meeting space, and the nonprofit plans to start constructing living quarters for the women in the next couple months. Eventually, the organization would like to build more residences for people who want to retire at the property.

The National Association of Intercultural Family Mission still hopes to raise $200,000 for the project. The organization also has branches in other cities, where volunteers help women and also raise funds, holding golf tournaments and selling potstickers and kimchi from their churches periodically throughout the year.

On weekends, Stark drives the women from the house in St. Louis county to Robertsville, where they pray and eat a spread of traditional Korean food, including kimchi, dumplings, noodle dishes and soup.

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Minji Stark shows off plans for Peace Village, which would house Korean-born women in need. | ERIC BERGER mer military brides, who are now all over 60, sat silently eating while Stark, who had just led worship services, helped with the food and talked with her congregants.

Stark avoids taking credit for building the organization, but other stakeholders say she is the driving force.

“She is 100 percent sacrifice,” says Heng Shin Hill, who lives in Springfield, Missouri, and has worked with Stark to help Korean women who live in southern Missouri.

Hill, 70, herself married a U.S. serviceman serving in Korea while she was in school. She describes herself as “private. I’m kind of bashful.” And she says she also does not ask the women she helps about their own stories.

“We don’t ask about the past too much because now is important, not in the past,” says Hill, whose husband died in 2001.

The women help one another because whether or not the marriages ended in divorce, they know the difficulties involved with intercultural marriages, says Kim Crandall, a Korean who married an American and came to the United States in the early ‘80s.

“The mixed marriage is not that easy,” says Crandall, who still lives with her husband in Clarksville, Tennessee. “That’s why we are gathering together now as much as we can.”

There are several hundred women involved with the orga-

nization around the country, and Crandall suggests that most of them want to go back to Korea.

“But that’s impossible,” she says.

The members of the organization gather once annually for three nights in Robertsville. Crandall, 58, says staying at the property, with its vegetables and surrounding forest, is like being in a village in her homeland.

Once her husband dies, she said she plans to move to Robertsville, where she will “stay with my sisters.”

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y the end of this year, Stark hopes to move the women who live near the airport to Peace Village.

At the home in St. Louis County, the women again sit silently one morning in November before breakfast. They hardly move until one of them agrees to have her picture taken, saying, “Make it pretty.” The rest erupt in laughter.

Faith binds them together.

“I am healthy, so I can do something for them. Christian life is caring for another, not only yourself,” Stark says.

“Worship is good for me,” one of the women agrees.

Now 64, the woman first came to New York in 1979 from Seoul.

Years later, Stark drove her from a women’s shelter to St. Louis.

“I like St. Louis better than New York.” she says. “New York is so many people.” n

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THURSDAY 0428 Greater St. Louis Book Fair This is a great week to be alive if you’re a book lover. Independent Bookstore Day is Saturday (see that day’s item for details), and the Greater St. Louis Book Fair is back today with more books than ever. As always, the fair is chock-a-block with great bargains on paperbacks, hardcovers, comic books, graphic novels and related ephemera. This year’s crop of rare and collectible items is deep and fascinating as well. There’s a copy of Andy Warhol’s 25 Cats Named Sam and One Blue Pussy, a 1914 edition of The Book of Friendly Giants and, for the Mr. Show fanatic in your life, a copy of Charles Francis Jenkins’ biography of Button Gwinnett (he signed the Declaration of Independence). The Greater St. Louis Book Fair takes place from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Friday and Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday (April 28 to May 1) at West County Center (I-270 and Manchester Road; www.stlouisbookfair.org). Admission is $10 on opening night and free Friday through Sunday.

FRIDAY 0429 The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie was Tennessee Williams’ first successful play, so it’s fitting that this new production serves as the prelude to the Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis. Upstream Theater has assembled a cast of heavy hitters in Linda Kennedy, J. Samuel Davis, Sydney Frasure and Jason Contini; the company will undoubtedly find something new and fresh in the timeless classic.

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BY PAUL FRISWOLD play at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday (April 29 through May 14), with a 2 p.m. performance on Sunday, May 15. All shows take place at the Kranzberg Arts Center (501 North Grand Boulevard; 314-8634999 or www.upstreamtheater. org). Tickets are $20 to $30. Don’t miss this one — it will surely sell out.

Amare Elementorum The boutique Bespoke (2650 Cherokee Street; 314-665-2665 or www.bespokesaintlouis.com) is manufacturing fashion that is seldom sewn in St. Louis. Owner Dorothy Jones works rigorously in her shop, engineering madeto-measure, customized couture for her customers. In a new collaboration, Jones has teamed up with Victoria Cates, creating a twelve-piece line for their shared

fashion show, Amare Elementorum. For these designs, Jones pairs her hand-made patterns with Cates’ intricate beadwork embroidery in the theme of a cabinet of curiosities. You can see their handiwork at the free premiere party from 6 to 9 p.m.

Friday, April 29. The clothing will remain on display for one month after that.

SATURDAY 0430 Independent Book Store Day Groucho Marx once noted that, outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend (and inside the dog it’s too dark to read). Damned if he wasn’t right. Some of our best friends are in books, because a great story never lets you down.

Today Left Bank Books (399 North Euclid Avenue; www.left-bank. riverfronttimes.com

com) and Subterranean Books (6275 Delmar Boulevard; www. subbooks.com) both celebrate Independent Bookstore Day, which means we get to honor these fantastic bookeries and their contributions to the city’s cultural life. Left Bank gets going at 10 a.m. with limited edition merchandise for sale, teatime for tots, a photobooth and YA author Antony John, who will critique your British accent from 1 to 2 p.m. Over at Subterranean the party starts at 11 a.m. Festivities include poetry written on demand, micro-story writing and the creation of a literary exquisite corpse (many people blindly adding a section to a story-in-progress). You can also get your picture taken with Teddy, Subby’s bookselling dog (check out his recommended books; he knows his stuff ). Admission to both parties is free, but bring money to buy books.

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Jack Deuce thinks so, and he wants that package. But to get it he’ll need a team of ace cons and wily crooks (or crooked willies) capable of doing whatever it takes to beat the Dandy at his own game.

The Boob Job: Pulling It Off stars your favorite Randy Dandy burlesque performers trying to make one last big score before they head off into the sunset. That’s right — this is the final show for the Randy Dandies, so they’re all gonna get stripped or die trying. The show starts at 9 p.m. at the Ready Room (4195 Manchester Avenue; www. thereadyroom.com), and tickets are $15 to $20.

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You’ll get to sample food from Capitalist Pig, Cleveland-Heath, Evangeline’s, Piccione Pastry and a bunch of other local restaurants. You can also quaff Bloody Marys, mimosas, Champagne and beer while mingling with other brunch-loving people. Tickets are pretty much sold out at this point, so check with your friends to see if anyone has a spare.

SUNDAY 0501 Faces like the Enemy There’s been a great deal of talk lately about kicking “foreigners” out of the country and or at least starting a massive registration program to track their movements. Want to know how that will turn out? Look to America’s not-that-distant past, when Japanese-Americans were rounded up and stuck in internment camps (or “prisons,” if you like honesty) after being divested of

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their property and goods. Anti-Japanese sentiment was at an all-time high during World War II, and it resulted in one of the most shameful incidents in American history. Today at 1 p.m. at the Missouri History Museum (Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue; 314-746-4599 or www. mohistory.org), Dr. Chikako Usui of the Japan America Society St. Louis welcomes Dr. Linda Lindsey for Faces Like the Enemy, a presentation on the internments.

How did fear win out over the Constitution? Lindsey explains how it was allowed to happen, and you can hear about life inside the camps from some of the people who were locked up. Admission is free.

MONDAY 0502 WWE Raw It’s been more than two years since WWE Raw was broadcast live from St. Louis. The world has changed. Daniel Bryan is out of wrestling, Chris Jericho is back and Triple H was quite recently the heavyweight champion again.

The WWE, as ever, keeps you guessing what will happen next.

Cheap Trick is America’s greatest exponent of power-pop, no argument. You could argue, but no one would hear you over the sound of the crowd cheering for “Surrender.” Few people outside of Japan recognized the band’s gift for writing songs with big guitars, catchy hooks and sing-along choruses until 1979, when the band’s live album Cheap Trick at Budokan was released domestically.

The disc immortalized the band’s tour of Japan, opening America’s eyes to the raucous power these four Midwestern boys were capable of generating. You have the album. (Don’t you?) Now see a remastered version of the actual concert that was broadcast on Japanese TV (collectors, it’s the same show that was included on DVD in the 30th anniversary, four-disc edition). Cheap Trick: Budokan wants you to want it tonight at 8 p.m. at Schlafly Bottleworks (7260 Southwest Avenue; 314-968-7487 or www.webster. edu/film-series). Admission is $5.

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Lukewarm at Best The fairy tale sequel is actually a prequel. It’s also kinda boring.

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Director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan is primarily a visual effects artist, and it shows.

And it doesn’t hurt that all the pretty people you thought were dead in Snow White and the Huntsman — such as Charlize Theron’s Ravenna, who died a whole movie ago — come back to life (albeit in Ravenna’s case, as a magic mirror).

There are so many fake deaths in this movie that I spent most of the big emotional plot twist wondering if Snow White was actually somebody’s long-dead daughter.

It’s as if everything in this movie has been resurrected to make the last movie all over again, only without Kristen Stewart.

Even more confusing, the film is both a prequel and sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman.

Snow White shows up for a quick exploitation film-style freakout in front of the Magic Mirror, then disappears. The real story then picks up a few decades earlier.

Eric (Chris Hemsworth) and Sara (Jessica Chastain) are kid-

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napped as children by Ravenna’s sister, Queen Freya (Emily Blunt). Freya no longer believes in love because her former lover betrayed her and burned their illegitimate daughter alive. Freya has many children now; she slaughters their parents to free the kids from decades of enslavement to love and instead turns them into child soldiers. She’s prone to freezing people with her ice magic and saying things like “love is a lie.”

Despite Freya’s conditioning, Eric and Sara fall in love and try to elope. It doesn’t go well.

And then seven years after their failed escape, Snow White is on the throne, the Magic Mirror mysteriously disappears and Eric gets stuck saving the kingdom with an assist from two mildly funny dwarf sidekicks. What follows is part action film, part love story and all awkward flirtation.

It’s really not a terrible film, even though it never quite succeeds in selling its ham-fisted “love conquers all” message. In

fact, Huntsman only made me believe that line for about 30 seconds, when the dwarves hilariously fall in love over their shared experience of ... getting thirsty.

That moment transcends the rest of the material and somehow feels more genuine than the other 182 minutes put together.

And that’s the problem with Huntsman. The best parts feel fake, but charming (the people, the magic, the creatures). The worst parts just feel fake (the script, the themes, the plot). It’s not boring, but it’s not exhilarating. It occupies an enjoyable middle ground as a kinda-but-not-really dark version of Frozen. It’s unwilling to commit to a truly nasty scary-tale landscape, but it’s equally unwilling to embrace the mush without foot-dragging and sarcasm. The Huntsman: Winter War is cynical about its fairy-tale nature, even as it goes through the fairy-tale motions. I found myself wishing for a more sincere “happily ever after.” n

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PAUL FRISWOLD Twisted Melodies

Written by Kelvin Roston, Jr. Directed by Ron Himes Starring Kelvin Roston, Jr. Presented by the Black Rep through May 1 at Washington University’s Edison Theatre (6445 Forsyth Boulevard; www.theblackrep. org). Tickets are $30.

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one-man show set inside a hotel room on the last day of the protagonist’s life could be grimly claustrophobic, but Kelvin Roston, Jr.’s Twisted Melodies is instead expansive and life-affirming. It owes its warmth in no small part to Roston’s moving performance as soul singer Donny Hathaway, a gifted musician plagued by mental illness.

That performance is enhanced by several fantastic renditions of Hathaway’s biggest hits with Roston accompanying himself on keyboards. Everything that made Donny Hathaway an amazing live performer — the sense of humor, the timbre of his voice, the way his hands danced across the keys, his ability to emotionally connect with a crowd — is present when Roston plays and sings.

But Roston’s play, which closes the Black Rep’s current season, is more than a powerful tribute to Hathaway. Twisted Melodies is a deep dive into Hathaway’s paranoid schizophrenia and how it altered the direction of his life and art. It honestly confronts the effects of mental illness with intelligence and sensitivity without portraying Hathaway’s suicide as the romantic action of a tortured artist. Hathaway may have leaped to his death from a hotel window to escape the auditory and visual hallucinations that plagued him,

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Music is his comfort, but it too becomes infected by his disease. but Roston argues that he ultimately beat his illness — and not by dying, but by living on through his music.

Director Ron Himes and projection designer Mark Wilson have devised a way for those hallucinations to torment the audience as well. While Donny tells us about his childhood in St. Louis and the grandmother who forced him to play piano all day to keep him out of trouble, or discusses seeing his wife Eulaulah for the first time, an angry buzzing sound growls, and the wallpaper projected on the back wall goes all glitchy and drowns him out. A disembodied

voice angrily calls his name and Donny hides behind the chair, as far away from his keyboard as he can be in the small room — and closer to the fateful window.

Donny fights his way out of these fits by singing to himself and focusing on his own voice. Music is his comfort, but it too becomes infected by his disease. Strange chords and jarring noises mar his songs when he doesn’t take his medication, but the medication of the ‘70s comes with a host of side effects that preclude him from singing or playing. They contort his hands and force his tongue to loll out of his mouth, which locks him in his own personal hell. It’s only at his keyboard that he can be himself.

So Donny chose to be unmedicated for the music, which cost him his wife and family. The decision is as damaging to him emotionally as his Thorazine.

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anecdote but stops himself with a grimace before continuing, “— like I meant something.”

This is the moment you first suspect he’s planned the end. He’s lost the woman who inspired him to cover “A Song For You,” and now the song is slipping out of his grasp as well. “All the genius didn’t come from pretty — some of it came from ugly,” he tells us softly. He walks over to his keyboard, bends at the waist to kiss it one last time and takes his place at the window. He leaps into darkness and silence, free at last of the voices.

But Roston gives Hathaway a proper send-off in the encore. He walks back onstage and launches into another song, giving him his immortality. As long as people drop the needle on “Someday We’ll All Be Free,” “The Ghetto” or “We’re Still Friends,” the real Donny Hathaway — the soul singer, the father and husband, the man — still exists. n

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t some point before every one of Gerald Craft’s restaurant openings, the acclaimed St. Louis chef once confided, he has a moment of panic and thinks no one is going to come. On its face, this seems absurd. Craft has received just about every recognition coveted in the culinary world: Food & Wine’s Best New Chef, a James Beard award for Best Chef Midwest, rave reviews from the national media. For Craft to think that his restaurants will go without patrons is the equivalent of the star quarterback thinking he can’t get a date to prom.

Digging deeper into Craft’s career, however, it makes sense. He’s always trying something new — a new city, a new venue, a new concept. It may look easy, but the potential for failure is always there.

At his latest innovation, Porano Pasta, Craft shouldn’t have worried. The three-month-old restaurant, located downtown in the MX Building directly across from the brand new National Blues Museum, truly was a risk: the chef’s first foray into fast-casual dining, as well as a rethinking of what is possible with this style of restaurant. But once again, Craft and his team have nailed it.

The Porano model is not new — think of Chipotle or Garbanzo or the host of quick-serve pizzerias that have popped up around town in recent months. Like the others, Porano holds to the pickyour-base-protein-sauce format.

Far more than the others, though, Craft is pushing the limits of the

Porano’s sleek, modern design transforms the space that used to be Takaya New Asian. | MABEL SUEN fast-food industry. Can a restaurant of this style and price point carry locally sourced food? Perhaps one location is easy, but what if you expand to multiple locations in different cities? Then there is the environmental impact. How low can the carbon footprint be at a restaurant that requires disposable packaging? (It seems like a no-brainer: Just use compostable serving dishes and flatware. It turns out, however, that it’s not that simple — just ask Craft how difficult it was to get a composting company to take Porano’s compostable silverware, and you start to realize how far the industry has to go.)

In this sense, Porano is a testing ground for Craft’s vision of the future of fast food, which is ironic considering the restaurant’s slow food inspiration. While visiting friends in Porano, Italy, seven years ago, Craft and his family were treated to authentic Italian hospitality — the kind romanticized in travel brochures but seldom actually experienced unless you have the good fortune of staying in someone’s home. Craft

was impressed with the food, but what really struck him was the feeling he experienced there — the warmth of being surrounded by family. Eating delicious, real food didn’t have to be a production, he realized.

For Porano, he tapped Michael Petres, his executive chef at Pastaria, to spearhead the kitchen design and menu development.

Not surprisingly, there are a few crossover recipes, but for the most part, the place was created from the ground up.

The restaurant’s design is sleek and modern without being cold.

The lofted two-story space that used to house Takaya New Asian has been transformed with white subway tiles, light-colored wood tables and an impressive mural that transposes a fluid, orange-hued illustration of Italian-style buildings onto a black and white image of downtown St. Louis. A wooden staircase transports diners to an upstairs space with televisions and a foosball table. To soften the space, potted plants, including miniature olive trees, are placed around the room. riverfronttimes.com

Porano’s tagline says, “Deciding is hard. Ordering is Easy.” It’s an apt description considering that the place offers a seemingly infinite number of base, sauce, protein and topping combinations — all made in-house. (An RFT contributor who did the math concluded there are 99,825 possibilities, but who’s counting?)

If you’re overwhelmed, they have a few combinations spelled out, like the “Smoky Sunday Sugo,” Porano’s take on spaghetti and meatballs. Dense, strozzapreti-shaped semolina noodles (each an inch-long twisted s) are smothered in tomato sauce that has been simmered with smoked pork. This is not a meat sauce per se; the hunks of meat are removed before serving, resulting in a smooth tomato sauce infused with pork flavor. Golfball-sized beef meatballs, tender and herbed, sit on top, while a liberal dusting of Grana Padano cheese and piquant house-made giardiniera complete the dish. The smoke from the meat and richness of the pasta, tomato and cheese give this a wonderful hybrid feel, as if nonna Continued on pg 26

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decided to get into barbecue.

A boring chicken salad, the staple of country club menus, is anything but at Porano. A romaine and kale base is dressed with zesty red wine vinaigrette and topped with pieces of grilled chicken that are surprisingly juicy for sitting out in a fast-casual assembly line. In place of croutons, herbed breadcrumbs mingle with Grana Padano, adding cheesy crunch to every bite. A garnish of farro (an ancient grain that resembles barley) gives a pleasantly popping texture to the salad. On a second visit, I tried this same combination with the creamy anchovy dressing for an excellent riff on a Caesar.

Craft’s suggested Italian rice bowl pairs Arborio rice with sweet red pepper sauce and pork that is so succulent, I found it hard to believe I wasn’t at a pig roast. If you get one protein at Porano, this is it.

The spicy tofu is another excellent protein option for vegetarians and omnivores alike. Heed their warning: This is legitimately, noserunningly spicy. Porano suggests ordering it over the farro, paired with the pumpkin seed and lime pesto. The sauce’s subtly sweet, minty flavor gives a welcoming cooling effect.

If you choose to go it alone, however, you can customize these bowls or concoct your own from scratch, an endeavor that could be overwhelming at a place any less organized than Porano. Here, however, things are spelled out pretty clearly in a four-step ordering process. Each corresponding station

is manned so that you don’t find yourself floundering at the sauces or proteins without guidance.

The workers are efficient but not harried. Still, at lunch rush you’d be doing the person in line behind you a favor if you grabbed one of the paper menus at the entrance and came up with a game plan as you waited. It will prevent you from clamming up and having them throw everything but the kitchen sink on your bowl. That’s the only way you might have a bad meal here — user error.

In the midst of infinite choices for main courses, you might overlook Porano’s other side dishes.

Don’t. The panzos (hand-held fried breads), which on my visit came stuffed with mozzarella and basil as well as smoked chicken, red peppers and mozzarella, hit a sweet spot between a calzone and a savory doughnut. And the risotto balls — traditional arancini meets mozzarella sticks — are like eating a gooey fried cheese ball. Alone they are magnificent; dipped in the tangy pomodoro sauce, they are the best thing in the restaurant.

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yan Sherring has never been to Sixmilebridge, Ireland, the town that inspired the name of his brewery, but he is a world traveler nonetheless.

“My family is spread out all over the world,” says the brewmaster of Six Mile Bridge (11841 Dorsett Road, Maryland Heights; 314-9422211). “I brewed my first beer in Australia in 2004 from a kit my cousin got for Christmas. When I got home, I got into the home brewing scene as a hobby.”

Home for Sherring was Cape Town, South Africa, where he worked in management consulting. It paid the bills, but he could not deny the spark that was lit by his first home brew. He became more and more serious about his hobby over the next several years until an encounter at a dinner party pushed him to think about brewing as a profession.

“A business associate who came to a party happened to own a craft beer distributor,” Sherring recalls.

“He tasted mine and said it was good. Of course, you can’t take people seriously when they are drinking your stuff for free. But then he asked me if I wanted to start brewing commercially.”

Sherring took him up on his offer, setting up shop in another small craft brewery. Every Saturday, he would use their equipment, but eventually was able to build his own small brewery from the ground up. “I lived in an industrial part of town, so I was able to get all of these industrial parts. I built my entire brewery from scratch by reading books and looking online.”

That small brewery would become 021 Brewing Company, named after Cape Town’s area code. It found success, but Sherring and his wife felt the pull

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Ryan Sherring’s first brewery was 021 Brewing Company, after his Cape Town area code. back to her native St. Louis. They moved back with plans to open up a production brewery, settling upon their current Maryland Heights location in 2015.

Sherring admits that he misses Cape Town, but says he is thrilled to be a part of St. Louis’ exploding craft beer scene, especially in unlikely Maryland Heights.

“When we were looking around for a place, Maryland Heights just ticked a lot of boxes,” Sherring says. “We thought we were going to have a captive audience, but now, with all of the other breweries moving in here, it’s becoming a little beer tourism part of town.”

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

Well, I’m South African and I played hockey growing up. That’s pretty rare. Big Blues fan.

What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you?

Morning coffee. I can’t do anything without a cup of coffee in the morning.

If you could have any superpower, what would it be?

I wish I could stop time. I’d even take slowing down time. That would be great.

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

There’s a sour beer trend that’s been happening for the last few years which a few breweries in

St. Louis have picked up on. They are really producing some of the best sour beers in the U.S. Who is your St. Louis food or drink crush?

I don’t typically associate brewers with someone I’d have a crush on, but I definitely have a crush on my assistant brewer — my wife.

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

On the beverage scene I would watch out for Ronnie Fink at Modern Brewery. He’s doing some excellent work over there.

Which ingredient is most representative of your personality?

Possibly yeast. It gives you the sense it has a lot of energy and is full of life. My wife jokes that I have two speeds – 150 mph or sleeping. Also yeast operates behind the scenes, and if you know me at all I don’t like to have attention focused on me.

If someone asked you to describe the current state of St. Louis’ food and beverage climate, what would you say?

I really think St. Louis is quickly becoming one of the most recognized cities in the craft beer world.

There are so many fantastic craft breweries here that produce some of the best beers in the U.S. The growth in craft breweries since 2008 has been phenomenal and the fact that St. Louis was ready to adopt them is a testament unto itself. St. Louis is a craft beer town.

What is your after-work hangout?

Since we opened we haven’t had much time to hang out, as it were. We spend most of our time at the brewery. However when we do get to go out we like supporting other local breweries and restaurants, pubs and bars who support us. Places close to where we live that we can easily hang out at — Bailey’s Range, Three Kings, Basso, Salt + Smoke, to name a few.

What’s your edible or quaffable guilty pleasure?

Wine. Sometimes I just need to break away from the usual drink at hand and have something that reminds me of home.

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Ribs or lasagna. And more ribs.

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pring has sprung in St. Louis and one of the first delicacies to herald its arrival is the morel mushroom. Its woodsy, nutty, steak-like flavor makes it highly coveted among discerning diners and mushroom hunters alike.

The harvesting season is short and St. Louis chefs have already been busy creating off-the-menu specials before they are all gone.

A frequent pairing is with another vernal crop — the ramp, a wild onion with an equally shortlived growing season that imparts an unmistakable brightness and freshness to a dish. We’ve rounded up three restaurants offering morel dishes until the season is over, likely around the end of April or early May. Público (6679 Delmar Boulevard, the Loop) offers a “Spring Beef Cheek Taco” featuring braised Root + Holler beef cheek with morels, charred spring onion salsa and whipped cream.

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Morels play a starring role in pasta (top) and pizza. | PHOTOS COURTESY OF KATIE’S PIZZA & PASTA At Katie’s Pizza & Pasta (9568 Manchester, Rock Hill), chef Katie Collier is serving two morel-inflected dishes. The morel pasta features house-made lasagnotte noodles, morel mushrooms, wild ramps, robiola cheese and brown butter. The morel pizza is a red-sauce pie with morels, wild ramps, fennel sausage and Taleggio cheese.

Five Bistro (5100 Daggett Avenue, the Hill) promises a goose egg omelet with morels. The dish features goose eggs mixed with “Barely Buzzed” cheese from the Beehive Cheese Company — an espresso and lavender handrubbed cow’s milk cheese — topped with ramps and sautéed morels. The acclaimed spot on

the Hill is also promising a gnocchi with morels and ramps: black pepper and baked potato gnocchi with morels and sautéed ramp bottoms in a white wine herbed butter sauce, topped with green ramp tops.

The final two morel options come from genius restaurateur Zoe Robinson. At her Italian spot, I Fratellini (7624 Wydown Boulevard, Clayton), Robinson is serving morels with pappardelle pasta, shallots and garlic. At Bar Les Freres (7637 Wydown Boulevard, Clayton), Robinson’s romantic French boîte, she’s serving a gnocchi with morels, shallots and garlic. Both restaurants are also featuring a special filet mignon with sautéed morels. n

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he not-quite two-month-old partnership between Mama Josephine’s (4000 Shaw Boulevard; 314-771-4001) and Five Aces BBQ has turned into an acquisition.

Mama Josephine’s owner Mary Samuelson confirmed last week that she turned over operations of her beloved Southern-food restaurant to Antonio and Toshia Ellis of Five Aces BBQ effective April 19.

The new eatery is called Five Aces BBQ and Southern Home Cooking.

“Last night, I took down my mom’s picture from the restaurant,” Samuelson says of the portrait of the restaurant’s namesake. “I cried my eyes out. I’ve been crying all week.

This is probably the hardest thing I have ever done. It’s very personal to me.”

There is no dispute at the heart of the decision.

Samuelson, who works a fulltime job as a data scientist in addition to her responsibilities at Mama Josephine’s, had been weighing the idea of selling the business for some time, going so far as to post a Craigslist ad for that purpose. Not long after posting it, she was approached by the Ellises, who suggested a partnership rather than an outright sale. The idea seemed like a winwin for both parties: Samuelson could maintain her connection to the restaurant she opened to honor her mother, and the Ellises could get the brick-and-mortar location they needed for the burgeoning barbecue business.

However, not two month later, Samuelson says she realized she had to step away from the arrangement.

“We talked about being partners, and that really was the plan, but it just got to be too much,” explains Samuelson. “One day, Antonio just turned to me and said, ‘Why don’t I just buy you out?’ As much as I hate to do it, I just had to.”

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Mary Samuelson (left, shown with daughter Amy Keller). The portrait of her mother, Mama Josephine’s namesake, is coming down. | JENNIFER SILVERBERG of Mama Josephine’s specialties — chicken and dumplings, meatloaf, fried chicken — Samuelson will no longer be doing any of the cooking.

“All of the favorites will still be there,” Samuelson says. “The chicken and dumplings, fried chicken, fish, meatloaf, chicken-fried steak — Antonio has a passion for cooking so that’s what makes this OK.” In separate statements released on Facebook and the neighborhood app Next Door, respectively, both Samuelson and the Ellises insist that the new arrangement is more a name change than an outright rebranding, with the Ellises noting that Samuelson “has worked with us to ensure her recipes would remain the same.” Still, it’s hard to imagine that Mama Josephine’s will be the same without Samuelson, much less its very name.

But Samuelson insists the changes will benefit Five Aces BBQ, citing her inability to give more to the restaurant as a hindrance to the Ellises’ aspirations. “Antonio has great

ideas, but my goal was never to be in this business to make money and be a huge restaurant,” says Samuelson. “I didn’t want to be open seven days a week, ten hours a day. He does. And really, the neighborhood deserves a kind of place that can be open more.”

As for her plans, Samuelson wants to visit her out-of-town family and enjoy spending time with her husband, who she admits hasn’t seen much of her in the last six years. She is also writing a Mama Josephine’s cookbook, featuring all of her mother’s recipes as well as the stories behind them. All profits from the sales of her book will be donated to the Shaw Community Center in her mom’s name.

As evidence of the Ellises’ commitment to honoring her mother’s legacy, Samuelson says that they came up with an idea for replacing the portrait of the restaurant’s former matriarch. “They are going to have a silhouette of my mom’s portrait on the wall,” Samuelson says.

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enn Bierwerks has finally made it official: Their brewery, tasting room and restaurant will be at 7793 Olive Boulevard, in the heart of University City’s Olive Link district.

University City mayor Shelley Welsch made the announcement from the site of Senn Brewery’s new home last week, confirming months of speculation as to the project’s location. The brewery is slated to open in the spring of 2017.

Founders James Hellmuth, Kristen Chalfant and Dustin Chalfant said they’re thrilled to be at this point.

“James, Kristen and I are incredibly excited to do what has always been a dream of ours — a brewery — here in University City,” said Dustin Chalfant, the brewery’s president. “We look forward to building a community here.”

Chalfant, formerly the head brewer at Morgan Street Brewery, named the brewery after his great-great-great-great uncle Frank Senn, Sr., a prominent brewer in

Louisville, Kentucky. He will continue his family’s legacy with the University City complex, which will include a 2,500-square-foot production facility, a 2,500-squarefoot tasting room and an attached restaurant and biergarten.

“James and I know what it is like to brew only one type of beer over and over again,” Chalfant explains.

“It gets boring. We’ve created a program for our brewers where they can be creative and play around.

Their only restriction is that they can’t go over budget.”

The proposed restaurant and biergarten will be operated independently, Chalfant says. Three business are in the running to take on that role, though Chalfant will not confirm who they are.

“What’s great is that all three people in the conversation will work cooperatively with us,” he says. “As we shift our menus seasonally, they will do the same so that the beer and the food are always complimentary.”

The brewery is the first of its kind for this corner of University City, better known for its ethnic restaurants and markets than for beer. Councilman Rod Jennings Sr. sees Senn Bierwerks as a boon for an up-and-coming part of town.

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Confidence isn’t an easy thing.

Nor is comfort with a musical path, especially when you’ve made a name as part of a beloved and influential indie-rock band like the Fiery Furnaces. For the first decade of her musical career, she worked side-by-side with her brother Matthew Friedberger making eccentric, rhythmically and melodically abstract pop and rock that challenged and provoked any listener.

Now as a solo artist for some five years, she’s searching for a new sound, one that is as timeless as a Neil Young or Van Morrison album, but with her own distinctively smart pop sensibility, a sound that needs real confidence to take flight.

On stage and on her latest record, New View, she’s found it.

Though the songs are deeply personal, even private at times, they glide on sure melodies, buoyed by the tight, spare playing of a live band that knows its role, and, of course, Friedberger’s gently incandescent voice.

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“It’s tricky,” she continues. “I’m in this middle situation, being at a certain level, but we’re still touring in a van, playing relatively small venues. Finding guys in their forties who are willing to do that — most are not willing to do the kind of stuff that I’m into doing. Playing with a younger group that hasn’t toured as much — they’re totally enthusiastic. I may have been to St. Louis five times, but they haven’t played there before.”

Recorded in New York after Friedberger left Brooklyn for more pastoral (and more affordable) settings, New View begins with glistening acoustic guitars and a

steady, lightly skipping rhythm. “I feel just as crazy as I did last night,” she sings. “I feel I’ll get up and go.”

Song after song, she does just that, carrying all of her experiences with her, but knowing that, with songs so well-shaped and a band that knows where she’s coming from, she doesn’t have to impress anyone but herself.

“I’m just trying to make a record I want to listen to,” she says. “You can just put it on and let it play.

You don’t have to skip to different tracks to keep the mood going. I wanted it to be a consistent mood more than anything else. I’ve made a lot of records, but I haven’t made one like this. I’m playing with this group of four guys, and they have their sound and I just tweak it in different directions. I wanted it to sound like a real band playing.

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overdub upon overdub. I wanted it to be the way we can play live.”

Some of the songs on New View took years to come together; some emerged in a burst of inspiration.

“Sometimes a song will come quickly, but other times I’ll have just one verse and I’ll slowly work on it,” she says. “Unless you can do that you’ll be waiting around for a song for a long time. I almost always start with lyrics, though I might not know quite how they’re going to be placed.”

The stories Friedberger tells are suffused with a peculiar kind of longing. On a ballad like “Never Is a Long Time,” with its echoes of Bob Dylan’s “Tomorrow Is a Long Time,” she cuts the melody with a shape-shifting, improvised rhythm and lyrics that surge out of the personal and into bigger, richer, even thornier visions. “I’ve had a glimpse of the infernal, I’ve witnessed the sublime,” she whispers low as she can. “But nighttime is eternal, and that’s a long, long time.”

“I feel like all the songs on the album are my way of immortalizing one little moment you have with somebody,” she confides. “A lot of the songs are about a specific person and a time and place. They’re very personal for me, and to that other person, to different people, but hopefully it’s not so personal or exclusive so that someone else can’t relate to it and put themselves into the story.”

With the Fiery Furnaces now five years in the rear-view mirror, Friedberger has found her own footing, her own way of connecting with listeners. She really is a natural: a songwriter who channels her influences into fresh and indelible images, a band leader who puts her trust in a young, gifted band — but she knows just how to call the signals.

“I was always the catcher on the softball team when I was a kid, so leading a group comes pretty naturally to me,” she reflects. “I kind of attribute all that to playing team sports as a kid. I was a pretty good hitter. I was No. 3 at bat. My varsity coach came to our show in Chicago.

He said I still hold the record for most consecutive hits. I was a pretty steady, consistent player. I feel like I’m just kind of consistent in my output. I hope that remains.” n

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8 p.m. Saturday, April 30. The Stage at KDHX, 3524 Washington Avenue. $12. 314-925-7556.

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hen Cave States released its debut The Great Divide in late 2013, it presented a few familiar voices in a newer, more Spartan setting. Danny Kathriner and Chris Grabau had drifted in and out of each other’s projects over the years — most recently with Kathriner’s Half Knots and Grabau’s Magnolia Summer — but Cave States provided a setting for quieter, more collaborative music from two singers and songwriters more accustomed to leading their own groups.

With its sophomore LP, the band has kept the electric guitars in their cases but used some quasi-orchestral flourishes in their place. The songs on True Life retain a reflective quality and a wood-grain warmth, but at nearly every turn Cave States has layered nuance and texture to round out the edges of these compositions.

Around a patio table at Grabau’s Kirkwood homestead (I mean that literally; his family maintains a chicken coop), the two chief songwriters and multi-instrumentalist/recording engineer Todd Schnitzer talk about how the band has grown into a fuller, fleshed-out group while retaining its commitment to space.

“Danny invited me to come play guitar at a Half Knots show, and then from there, we thought, ‘This is kind of exciting,’” says Grabau of the band’s genesis. “We started trading ideas and that led into recording, and as we were finishing up that recording we went straight into the second one. So I feel like because it feeds into itself — the collaborative process of working together — I feel like we will keep going as long as it is exciting and interesting, and as long as it stretches you in certain ways.”

Kathriner calls Cave States the “sole vehicle” for both him and Grabau, noting that he has worked with both Schnitzer and pedal steel

player John Higgins for years. “I guess I really thought that our songwriting and our tastes and our sensitivities to music gelled,” says Kathriner.

For Grabau, who first made local waves in the late ’90s with his nervy, college-rock-oriented trio Stillwater.

He solidified his status as leader of the impressionistic but still guitar-centric Magnolia Summer. Working with Kathriner and company afforded him the opportunity to peel back songs that might be otherwise arranged with the sonic density of rock & roll.

“I think the difference between the things I’ve done in the past and this is that what we’ve done here is pay more attention to space,” says Grabau.

“I think in previous recordings with Magnolia Summer, there were a lot of layers I was trying to put in. Here, it seems like space is on equal footing.

What you don’t do is almost more important that what you do in a song.”

“It’s a conscious effort to be a little more spacious,” echoes Kathriner. “You have any instrument at your disposal with technology, and it’s so easy to go over the top. It’s an exercise in restraint.”

The band pushes against that idea of folksy minimalism throughout True Life, with Schnitzer’s compositional know-how lending smart color and dynamics to these songs.

Kathriner’s loping waltz “Lazy Susan” could have just as likely retained its initial shape as a front-porch strummer, but the studio flourishes give it a chamber-pop sheen. The wheezing of Mellotron flutes and the rattle of distant drums lend a haunting quality, and a string section gives glimpses of grandiosity.

“I spent a lot of time on the string arrangement for ‘Lazy Susan,’” says Schnitzer, whose day job involves writing, arranging and recording commercial music. “I was going for the Randy Newman / Good Old Boys strings sound, like ‘Louisiana 1927.’ That whole vibe.

I don’t think I got that, but that was my aim,” he says with a laugh.

The band’s gentle approach to instrumentation is clearest on Kathriner’s songs, which stand against some of the starkness of Grabau’s contributions, like the sweetly rootsy “Changing on Me” or the reflective opener “Commuter.”

“No Words” comes in early with a lockstep rhythm section and a violin drop-in that goes from sawing to soothing and back again. The song’s mix of tight, simple pop construction and an ebullient chorus recalls the best moments of the Go-Betweens, another collaboration between two distinct songwriters who nonetheless were able to ably prop up the other’s work.

“We didn’t want to make the same kind of record, but you serve the song,” says Grabau of the new material. “It felt like we could take it in a certain direction, and as you begin to figure out your approach, it will inform whether you add to it or not. Knowing that we didn’t feel like we had to repeat the sparseness of the first record — we could do whatever we wanted.”

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man Pollution, Twisted Lixx 7 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

BROTHER JEFFERSON: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222.

DEAD SOLDIERS: w/ Les Gruff and the Billy Goat 9 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER: 7 p.m., $12-$14. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

HONKY: w/ Valley, Voidgazer 8 p.m., $15-$17.

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

JENNIFER NETTLES: w/ Brandy Clark, Lindsay Ell, Tara Thompson 7 p.m., $29.95-$69.95. Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888.

JOE METZKA BAND: 9:30 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222.

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III: 8 p.m., $32.50. Wildey

$20/$25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

APOTHICA: w/ Enslaved By Fear, I Apollo, Hu-

OX BRAKER: w/ Giants in the Sky, Spark Thugs 9

Twista 8 p.m. Thursday, April 28.

Fubar, 3108 Locust Street. $15 to $20. 314-2899050.

You can likely credit Twista’s relative proximity to St. Louis — the motor-mouthed rapper hails from Chicago — for the relative frequency with which he comes to town nowadays. Bestknown for a rapid-fire chopper style that earned him a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records when he was just a teenager — 598 syllables in less than a minute — Twista rose to major radio prominence with 2004’s Kamikaze. “Overnight Celebrity” and “Slow Jamz” were ubiquitous that

year, with the latter also appearing on Kanye West’s breakout release College Dropout. Twista’s career hasn’t seen those lofty heights since, which explains why you can catch him at a relatively small venue like Fubar. Count your blessings.

A Friend Indeed: Twista was charged with misdemeanor possession of marijuana last month while traveling through Indiana for a show. If he’s smart he’s probably not riding dirty on the bus anymore. Perhaps you are a sympathetic local fan who could help him out when he arrives in St. Louis?

–Daniel Hill

p.m., free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.

R. KELLY: 8 p.m., $68-$108. Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St Charles, 636-896-4200.

SMOKE BREAK: 8 p.m., $10. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009.

VAUDEVILEINS: w/ Heroes of the Kingdom, Echo Bravo 9 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

SATURDAY 30 7 SHOT SCREAMERS: 9 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

BIG GEORGE & THE HOUSE ROCKERS: 10 p.m., $5.

BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

COASTS: w/ Knox Hamilton 8 p.m., $15-$18. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

EXPIRE: w/ Out Of Time, Lowered A.D., Perfect People, Modern Man 7 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108

Theatre, 254 N. Main St., Edwardsville, 618-

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

692-7538.

FOSTER MCGINTY: 8 p.m., $8. The Demo, 4191

MELISSA ALDANA: 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; April 29, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; April 30, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $25.

Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

[CRITIC’S PICK]

MERCYME: w/ Citizen Way, Zealand Worship

Ferring Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave, St.

7 p.m., $20-$55. Family Arena, 2002 Arena

Louis, 314-571-6000.

Parkway, St Charles, 636-896-4200.

MOBLEY: 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manches-

ODD PAPI: w/ JVCKKS, Steve N. Clair 9 p.m.,

ter Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

free. Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St.

TWISTA: 8 p.m., $15-$20. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,

Louis, 314-241-2337.

St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

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

WALTER TROUT: 8 p.m., $20-$22. Old Rock

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

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

VOICE OF ADDICTION: w/ Rock Solid, Riot for Violet 8 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St.

FRIDAY 29

Louis, 314-289-9050.

AL HOLLIDAY AND THE EAST SIDE RHYTHM BAND VINYL RELEASE: w/ Sophisticated Babies, Cooter

SUNDAY 1

and Hoss 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp

CASEY PRESTWOOD & THE BURNING ANGELS: w/

Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

Oak Steel & Lightning, Cree Rider Family Band

B.O.B.: w/ Scotty ATL, London Jae 8 p.m., $20-

7 p.m., free. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.

$99. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave,

Louis, 314-773-3363.

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THE CONTORTIONIST: w/ Monuments, Entheos, sleepmakeswaves 7 p.m., $16-$18. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

IVAS JOHN BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222.

LEROY JODIE PIERSON: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222.

LITTLE RIVER BAND: 8 p.m., $45-$55. River City Casino & Hotel, 777 River City Casino Blvd., St. Louis, 314-388-7777.

MARK BRAINARD EP RELEASE SHOW: w/ the Wilderness, Carriage House, Sweettalker 8 p.m., $8. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

MOM’S KITCHEN 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW: w/ Naked Groove 9 p.m., $10. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE: 8 p.m.,

Casey James Prestwood & the Burning Angels 7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 1.

Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. Free. 314-7733363.

Country music has always sown the seeds of its own satire. Johnny Cash and George Jones were great artists because they took their music and their audience seriously, but they also loved to mess with the conventions — they laughed with, never at, audiences who knew the absurdity of country clichés when they heard them. Enter Casey James Prestwood & the Burning

JUBU SMITH BLUES BAND: 7 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222.

Angels, a young band of traditionalists who tweak and twist all the tropes you can name — murder, betrayal, work and drinking, lots of drinking. Think you’ve heard enough from the Nudiesuited alt-country set? Think again.

Prestwood can sing rings around most of his peers, and his band deals ace after honky-tonk ace. Fans of Dale Watson and Robbie Fulks take note.

Outlaw Openers: Oak Steel & Lightning and Cree Rider Family Band, both hailing from St. Louis, rev up the rougher and rowdier side of Americana in the starter slots.

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LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: 9:30 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

TRUE WIDOW: w/ Drab Majesty 8 p.m., $12. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

MONDAY 2 BLIND WILLIE & THE BROADWAY COLLECTIVE: 9 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

BRASS BED: 9 p.m., free. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

HALF MOON RUN: 8 p.m., $16-$18. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

SOULARD BLUES BAND: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314621-8811.

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Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $15. 314-7733363.

Don’t think too much about the sounds emanating from White Denim’s latest, Stiff. (Think even less about the tightywhiteys-and-cactus cover art.) Don’t ask why it takes the current incarnation of the band three guitarists to hammer out its sludgy, Southern-kissed tunes and its jammier excursions. Just enjoy the grooves, which tread the line between beach-party bro-down

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and sweat-soaked soul revivals. James Petralli, lead singer and guitarist for the band, is able to sell that soul with goofy earnestness, which helps give strut and shimmy to singles like “Ha, Ha, Ha, Ha (Yeah).”

Don’t Mess With ‘Em: Another Texas-bred musician will open for the Austin-based band: Sam Cohen, former lead singer of Apollo Sunshine, will warm the stage with sweetly psychedelic strains from his new LP Cool Out. –Christian Schaeffer

TUESDAY 3

THIS JUST IN

7HORSE: w/ Liz Brennan 8 p.m., $10. The Demo,

7HORSE: W/ Liz Brennan, Tue., May 3, 8 p.m.,

4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE: w/ Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

314-833-5532.

8 p.m., $25-$27.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar

ALARM WILL SOUND: Thu., Dec. 1, 8 p.m.; Thu.,

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

June 1, 8 p.m., $10-$20. The Sheldon, 3648

BLACK IRISH TEXAS: 7 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar,

Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900.

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

ANAT COHEN QUARTET: Sat., Jan. 14, 8 p.m., $25-

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

$40. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St.

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

Louis, 314-533-9900.

Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.

ANDY FRASCO: Fri., June 10, 9 p.m., $17. Blue-

JOHNNYSWIM: w/ Jonny P 8 p.m., $18-$66. The

berry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd.,

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

University City, 314-727-4444.

NOTHING BUT THIEVES: w/ the Wrecks 7 p.m.,

ANTHONY D’AMATO: Sat., June 25, 8 p.m., $10.

$10-$12. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504

The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,

Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

314-833-5532.

WEDNESDAY 4

ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE: Mon., Oct. 17, 8 p.m., $35-$60. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd.,

$5 SELECT WINES $3 SELECT DRAFTS $3 HUMMUS $4 RED PEPPER HUMMUS $3 CRISPY KALE $4 WINGS $4 NACHOS

AMON AMARTH: w/ Entombed A.D., Exmortus

St. Louis, 314-533-9900.

7 p.m., $27.50-$30. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar

“WINTER WONDERLAND”: Featuring Zoe Vonder

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

Haar, John Flack, Peter Merideth, Emily Peter-

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

son and Steve Neale, Sat., Dec. 3, 11 a.m., $12.

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

The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis,

7880.

314-533-9900.

CASH’D OUT: 8 p.m., $15. The Ready Room, 4195

BAYSIDE: W/ The Menzingers, Sorority Noise,

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

Sat., Sept. 17, 8 p.m., $19-$23. The Ready Room,

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TOKYO POLICE CLUB: 8 p.m., $15-$18. Old Rock

4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

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9050.

Mon., May 2, 9 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues &

JACKSON HOWARD: W/ The Good Deeds, Nate

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

Currin, Sun., May 22, 8 p.m., $7. Old Rock

5222.

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

THE BUNNY THE BEAR: W/ Roots Like Mountains,

JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD: Fri., June 24, 9 p.m.,

Colonist, Fri., Aug. 5, 6 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108

$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,

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

314-773-3363.

CIVIL TWILIGHT: W/ KOA, Tue., July 19, 8 p.m.,

JOE FLETCHER: W/ Beth Bombara, Thu., May 26,

$12. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis,

9 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.

314-588-0505.

Louis, 314-773-3363.

CORNET CHOP SUEY: Tue., Sept. 27, 10 a.m.;

JOECEPHUS AND THE GEORGE JONESTOWN MAS-

Wed., Sept. 28, 10 a.m., $15-$18. The Sheldon,

SACRE: Sat., June 11, 8 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108

3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900.

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

DOMO GENESIS: Sun., June 26, 8 p.m., $15-$18.

JOHN HARTFORD TRIBUTE: W/ Dugout Canoe,

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

Lonesome Pines, Root Diggers, Sat., June 4, 8

DRAKE VS. KANYE TRIBUTE PARTY: Thu., June 30,

p.m., $10-$12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave.,

9 p.m., $15-$20. The Ready Room, 4195 Man-

St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

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

LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III: Fri., April 21, 8 p.m.,

ELIOT SUMNER: Mon., June 13, 7 p.m., $10-$12.

$35-$40. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd.,

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

St. Louis, 314-533-9900.

0353.

MAVIS STAPLES: Sat., Nov. 5, 8 p.m., $35-$50.

FAIR ST. LOUIS DAY 1: W/ Lee Brice, Bobby Bones

The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis,

and the Raging Idiots, LoCash, Mo Pitney, Sat.,

314-533-9900.

July 2, 2 p.m., free. Forest Park, Highway 40

MIDDLE CLASS FASHION ALBUM RELEASE PARTY:

(I-64) & Hampton Ave., St. Louis.

W/ Super Fun Yeah Yeah Rocketship, DJ Dance

FAIR ST. LOUIS DAY 2: W/ Sammy Hagar and the

Party, Fri., May 20, 9 p.m., free. Off Broadway,

Circle, Eddie Money, Cowboy Mouth, Fire for

3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

Effect, Sun., July 3, 3 p.m., free. Forest Park,

POLYENSO: W/ Animals in Hindsight, The Mon-

Highway 40 (I-64) & Hampton Ave., St. Louis.

ocles, Wed., June 1, 7 p.m., $12-$15. The Demo,

FAIR ST. LOUIS DAY 3: W/ Flo Rida, George

4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

Clinton and the Parliament-Funkadelic, Here

PROTOMARTYR: Sat., Aug. 13, 8 p.m., $12-$14.

Come the Mummies, Dirty Muggs, Mon., July 4,

Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-

3 p.m., free. Forest Park, Highway 40 (I-64) &

773-3363.

Hampton Ave., St. Louis.

ROGER CREAGER: Thu., June 2, 8 p.m., $15. Off

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE: W/ Cole Swindell, the

Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-

Cadillac Three, Kane Brown, Fri., Sept. 16, 7

3363.

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SAVAGE LOVE CHEATING HEARTS

BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: I have a friend who is getting married. She’s cheated on every guy she’s been with, including her last three husbands. This will be her fourth marriage. I’m sure she’s fed the new guy a million reasons why her first three marriages didn’t work out. She’s obviously a sex fiend, but she’s not kinky. And here’s the punch line: I found her fiancé’s profile on Fetlife, and he has some hardcore fetishes — even by my standards!

I’m sure his kinks are going unexplored within their relationship/ engagement and that they will go unexplored once they’re married, as my friend has been horrified during discussions of my attendance at BDSM events. I know your rule is generally to “stay the fuck out of it,” but I have a rule that goes like this: “I would like to know that the person I’m dating is a serial cheater who’s probably after me for my money.” So do I warn the guy?

Fucked Regarding Imperiling Ensuing Nuptials, Dan Mind your own business, FRIEND, and do so with a clear conscience — because these two sound perfect for each other. He’s on

Fetlife looking for someone to diaper him, and she’s probably cheating on him already. If your friend is still a dishonest, lying, heartbreaking cheat — if she’s still making monogamous commitments she cannot keep — why stop her from marrying a man who is already cheating on her or is likely to cheat on her shortly after the wedding? To gently paraphrase William Shakespeare: “Let thee not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

Watching these two walk down the aisle will be like watching two drunk drivers speed around a closed racetrack. Maybe they’ll crash, maybe they won’t; maybe they’ll die in a fire, maybe they’ll get out alive. But so long as no one else is gonna get hurt, why risk your own neck trying to pull these fuckers over?

Hey, Dan: My father is a friendly, kind, all-around good guy. We get along well and always have. But I now have to avoid all political discussions with him. He was always a bit socially conservative, but now he gets a lot of batshit crazy and simply dumb ideas from the scourge of our nation today: Fox News. How can we stop the dumbing down of our society by Fox News, Dan? We have to do something about this malady!

Anonymous

“Anonymous is right—Fox News is a malady, one that I’ve often joked is worse than Ebola,” said the documentary filmmaker Jen Senko.

“It destroys families and has torn apart the country. That’s pretty powerful.”

H e r e ’s w h a t Senko did about it: She made The Brainwashing of My Dad, a terrific documentary exploring how Fox News and other right-wing media turned her mild-mannered, nonpolitical father into a ranting, raving, right-wing fanatic. “ We n e e d t o stigmatize ‘Faux News,’” said Senko.

“I make it a point when I walk into a restaurant or some other public place and they have on Faux News of politely asking them to turn it off. I write to news outlets when they try to emulate Fox and complain.”

But how do you get your own dad to turn off Fox News?

“Speaking to loved ones is important but it’s difficult,” said Senko. “You have to approach them in a calm way, starting the

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conversation on neutral ground.

Sometimes just getting them out of the house and away from the TV helps. There is a group called Hear Yourself Think (hearyourselfthink. org) that focuses on deprogramming Fox News viewers. You will find plenty of advice there.

But if you can sit down with your loved one and tell them you are concerned about their anger and their worry and you feel that Fox News is helping to generate that, it can be a conversation opener. You can also get them to try to watch our movie!”

Go to thebrainwashingofmydad. com and watch the trailer to learn more about Senko’s terrific film.

And you can — and you should — follow Senko on Twitter @ Jen_Senko.

Watching these two walk down the aisle will be like watching two drunk drivers speed around a closed racetrack.

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