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THE USUAL SUSPECT IS BILL HARRISON THE VICTIM OF OVERZEALOUS LAW ENFORCEMENT — OR A MAN WHO GOT AWAY WITH MURDER? BY DOYLE MURPHY
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That story you read in the Post-Dispatch about rape in the back seat of an Uber? Definitely not the whole story. | BRIAN A JACKSON
Sex Assault? Not During His Uber Trip Written by
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n September 2015, Uber raised its middle finger to the Metropolitan Taxi Commission and launched its UberX service in St. Louis, defying regulators. Nearly a year later, with court challenges mounting, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch story about an Uber driver who allegedly witnessed a rape in his backseat has given the company’s
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enemies a fresh source of ammunition. The story, by the P-D’s Joe Holleman, has been seized on by critics of the ride-sharing company. It suggested that an Uber driver had witnessed a young woman being assaulted in the back of his car — and that the company had then failed to cooperate quickly with a police investigation. But the driver at the center of the case is now speaking out — and his story is remarkably different than the one reported in the Post-Dispatch. Not only does his account make clear that a sexual assault almost certainly did not happen in his vehicle, but it also suggests that the driver went out of his way to protect the young woman from a predatory male passenger.
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And while anyone could tell a self-serving story after the fact, an important detail gives the driver serious credibility: He told his story of what happened that night in great detail in a private forum weeks before the incident was ever brought to public attention by the Post-Dispatch. The driver would not let us identify him other than the initial “T.” But he shared details with us that make it clear he is, in fact, the driver in question. He also gave us access to the private Facebook forum where he first told his story in striking detail. He refused to describe his subsequent conversations with the police or do anything to interfere with their investigation. But he wanted to get his story out because he was alarmed by how
he’d been painted in the Post-Dispatch. The P-D story “had so much implied statements that the rape happened and the driver (me) was not paying attention to it,” T writes in a Facebook message to RFT. “I made the mistake of reading the comments. People were pointing fingers at the driver. I had to go into hiding.” In the first Post-Dispatch story about the incident, published August 5, Holleman reported a 24-year-old woman’s account of how she was raped in the backseat of an Uber vehicle after a night of drinking in downtown St. Louis. Two men riding with her had sexually assaulted her in the backseat, the woman said, in full view of the driver.
The P-D’s report zeroed in on the metro police’s inability to locate the Uber driver, even though more than four weeks had passed since the incident. eading between the lines in the story, the police didn’t seem all that intent on making the case a priority — but when it came to locating the Uber driver, a police detective attributed the delay to “technical obstacles” on Uber’s end. “The driver seems to be a big piece of the puzzle and it seems to be taking a long time” to find him, the woman was quoted saying. The woman’s mother, who was also quoted in the P-D story, drove the point home. “Clearly, the best witness is the driver,” the mother said. “And the crime scene is his car. How does it take that long to get that basic piece of information ” But far from being a witness to the crime, the driver’s contemporaneous report suggests he may have actually prevented one. After making contact with RFT, T allowed us to gain access to a private Facebook group of Uber drivers. He directed us to a ,2 -word Facebook post timestamped July — the day of the alleged rape. In it, T described being “pinged” on the Uber app by a male customer at a.m., ust around closing time at the downtown club heelhouse. (T gave us permission to quote from his Facebook posts.) The male passenger is with a very intoxicated female. The female passenger sits in the seat behind me while the male passenger sits in the front passenger seat. A little unusual for drunk couples. I’ve seen it before, but it still stands out. When we start the ride, the male passenger directs me to Dorsett and 270. Tells me to just head that direction without an address. I comply and get on 40Hwy. ight off the bat, T’s sober recollection of the ride appears to conict with what the woman told the P-D. There was only one man in the car, maintains T, not two. T’s post continued: The conversation the male passenger had with me was general small chat, but the conversation the male passenger had with the female passenger was suspicious. He was uptalking himself, saying how
he saved her from the guys harassing her outside the bar, and complimenting how cute and sexy she looks. But when he asked her what is her name, that’s when red flags came out. T began to fear the man was going to take advantage of the young woman. As the driver’s mental alerts blared, the male passenger asked him to take the next exit and find a hotel. This is when I’m not feeling comfortable at all. He was being a total ass because he didn’t want to get a hotel in Central West End and wanted to find a cheap hotel. I’m almost sure what’s going on now. The female passenger is highly intoxicated and can’t make her own judgments. She’s just falling for his compliments and uptalking. She mentioned a few times lightly she didn’t know where she was at and she’s feeling unsafe. T exited the highway and arrived at a ed oof Inn on Hampton Avenue. But he felt duty-bound to stop the young woman from leaving with the man. He’s telling he’s going to take care of her and make sure she’s “safe” and fed tonight. She says no but in a very submissive way because she was so drunk. He gets out of his side and walks around to the other side of my vehicle. While he’s doing that, I tell her DO NOT GET OUT OF MY CAR! Thankfully she didn’t as I was ready to dart off if he reached for her arm. Although frustrated, the male passenger re-entered T’s vehicle and provided another address. T dropped off the male passenger near Page Avenue and Interstate 2 . At that point, T wrote, he found himself caring for a very drunk female passenger. She had also managed to lose her phone, keys and wallet. After sobering up a bit, she gave him an address near Maplewood. The address turned out to be a house belonging to a friend, but she didn’t have a key or any way to contact the friend. I tell her, her friend is probably sound asleep up there. She asks me not to leave her alone. She’s in shorts and a t-shirt Continued on pg 10
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and it’s cold outside. We get into my vehicle. Each stage of her sobering up, she searches my vehicle for her stuff. Its not there. She starts to look into my jacket I have laying in the m ddle console. I’m fine w th t as I have nothing in them. As the sun began to rise, T finally lost his patience. “I ask her does she have any other friends or anything,” he writes. “I need to go home. e go round and round about this for an hour.” He wrote that the woman snapped at him after he asked her not to throw his acket as she searched for her misplaced stuff. By then it was 5 a.m., and the sun was rising. He decided she would be . I left her but feeling frustrated I rounded the block, got out of my car, and told [her] if I didn’t have a heart, not only would [I] not have been with her for over an hour to make sure she’s safe but she could have woken up in a strange motel room right now not knowing what the fuck happened to her body. She gave me a lighthearted thank you as she is still a little drunk. I went home after that.
“At the moment, it is always in my head [to] avoid police involvement in a situation with Uber unless it is absolutely necessary.” According the July Facebook post, T then sent an incident report to Uber. “In hindsight, I should have called the police and I will next time,” he writes. “But at the moment it is always in my head to avoid police involvement in a situation with Uber unless it is absolutely necessary” — since, after all, Uber is operating without the city’s permission. But while the night was frustrating, T’s narrative on the private Facebook page makes it clear that he was also frustrated with the ridesharing company’s response. In a series of updates, he uploaded screenshots of their boilerplate
responses to his “incident report” — which he found lacking. In a subsequent response, an Uber rep reassured T that “I will be following up with” the male passenger “about this incident and reviewing whether they are someone who will continue to have access to our app.” That message represents the last communication T received from Uber about the incident. Then came the P-D story, published August 5. T was shocked at the coverage and framing of the story: Not only did the article imply he had allowed a rape to occur in his vehicle, but the story featured Laclede Cab Co. president Adam McNutt remarking that this sort of thing would never happen in a regulated cab. “If it was one of our cabs, and the meter was on during the ride , it would take literally seconds to find out who the driver was,” McNutt was quoted saying. T’s shock turned quickly to anger. McNutt’s father, ave McNutt, owns Laclede and serves as a commissioner on the Metropolitan Taxi Commission. In T’s view, the P-D’s August 5 story served as a public relations gift to the St. Louis taxi establishment. And beyond that, he wasn’t ust willing to talk to the police — he was eager to help. After reading the story, T says he immediately called Uber Missouri general manager Sagar Shah, who in turn connected him with St. Louis detectives over the weekend. Although St. Louis police had served Uber with a subpoena on July 2, the fact that T had deviated from his route on July had confused Uber’s attempts at finding him. (The ride would have been on the credit card of the seemingly predatory male passenger, who has yet to be identified.) To the P-D’s credit, the August 5 story was significantly updated ust hours after publication online. It now reflects some details contained in T’s original Facebook post from July . But the story retains the quotations from McNutt, and T’s description of the incident is buried far below the accounts of the female passenger and her mother. Beyond that, it seems to suggest T only came forward because of the P-D’s
reporting. Su ce to say, T is more than a little miffed at Uber. He says the company could have identified him immediately, if only they had gone back and looked at their incident reports for July . Those reports would show T’s remarkably similar description of a predatory passenger being picked up at heelhouse at a.m. Instead, T’s complaint was seemingly lost in the bureaucratic shu e between various Uber reps in different countries. T is also upset with the P-D’s coverage. Since August 5, the newspaper has run two follow-up stories, one reporting that police had identified the Uber driver and the other featuring St. Louis police chief Sam otson defending his department’s investigation of the incident. Both articles contain this note: “The identity of the Uber driver may have become more obvious to o cials after the PostDispatch story was published on stltoday.com on Friday afternoon.” n some level, the P-D and Holleman are right to boast: Until that August 5 story, T had no idea his July ride-from-hell had transformed into a full-blown rape investigation. It was that realization that motivated T to contact the Uber general manager, leading to a meeting with St. Louis detectives. But the paper has still left the impression that the driver may have been part of the problem. It’s never acknowledged how the lengthy details he published ust hours after the incident, at minimum, complicate its original narrative. And T has yet to forgive Holleman for the assertion in the first story that he was likely a silent witness to a sexual assault. “Mr. Hollemon sic keeps mentioning the original article sparked the discussion to get myself to raise my hand,” T wrote in the private Uber Facebook group on ednesday. “That’s like saying you got my attention by punching me in the face with your sensationalizing piece in the original article that made the public believe Uber drivers, who are normal people, would allow that to happen in their own cars.” n
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GOT AWAY WIT H MUR DER ? William ‘Bill’ Harrison was arrested twice in 22 years for the same murder. PHOTO BY DOYLE MURPHY
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illiam “Bill” Harrison, grayhaired at 51 with a courtordered electronic tracker on his ankle, looked up from his shed that evening in May to see one of his last remaining friends pull into the driveway. The friend was excited, he could tell. Harrison’s attorney, Carrie Gerischer, had been trying to reach him, but either his prepaid phone was out of minutes or he just wasn’t getting cell phone service in the rural valley west of Rolla. So she called Harrison’s friend, who hopped in his car and drove twenty minutes along highways and backroads to deliver the news in person — prosecutors were dropping charges against Harrison in a 24-year-old murder case. It wasn’t joy Harrison felt, he says. More like resignation. “I knew there was no possible way that they could have any evidence, unless it was manufactured, that I had anything to do with this,” Harrison says now. “I was ready to go to trial and get this cleared up.” Phelps County prosecutors have long suspected the former mobile home repairman killed his drinking buddy, 26-year-old Jerry Wayne King, during a boozy July Fourth weekend in 1992. Proving it, however, was another matter. In the ’90s, a couple of veteran investigators had
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given it their best shot, arresting Harrison the day the body was found, only to have the prosecutor decide two months later that the case wasn’t strong enough to take to trial. Harrison was released from jail, but he was never cleared. In late 2013, a retired sheriff’s detective was commissioned to review the cold case. He worked the file for about a year, eventually arresting Harrison on murder charges for a second time in the summer of 2014. After two mistrials and shifting statements from witnesses, the current Phelps County prosecutor came to the same conclusion as his predecessor. He dismissed the case on May 18, the week before it was to go to trial. Law enforcement officers claim that Harrison is the fish who keeps slipping off the hook. “I’m convinced he killed Jerry Wayne King, and I’m disappointed that we aren’t able to get justice for Jerry Wayne King and his family,” Phelps County Prosecuting Attorney Brendon Fox says now. “Harrison will have to answer to his maker some day.” But Harrison and his attorney, Gerischer, say there’s a simple reason no one has been able to make the case against him: He didn’t do it. They claim investigators combined a few unrelated facts with rumors and statements from unreliable witnesses to pin charges on an innocent man. And they did it two times. “I didn’t think there was no way they would do this twice,” says Harrison, who lost his job after each arrest.
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In 1992, teenage siblings were hiking to Gourd Creek Cave when pools of blood led them to a dead body. Investigators later photographed a shoe print of a Reebok near the corpse. PHOTO BY DOYLE MURPHY/ JERRY KING CASE FILE
“I couldn’t believe they had done it in the first place. The accusations have ruined his life, he says. He takes pills to fight anxiety and high blood pressure. The Walmart Distribution Center where Harrison worked for a decade fired him after the most recent arrest, and Gerischer estimates he’s now more than $100,000 in debt. The worst part, Harrison says, is that because there has never been a trial, the case will just hang over him forever, always there if a new investigator wants to take another shot. “I can’t handle any more of
these,” he says. “Physically, emotionally — I wouldn’t survive.”
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n the morning of July 7, 1992, a teenage brother and sister visiting the Rolla area from O’Fallon followed a gravel road around blind curves and steep declines to where it ends at the edge of a stream. Their grandfather had shown them the way to Gourd Creek Cave the night before, and they returned that Tuesday to explore. The cave is a local secret. our miles off the main highway and hidden away on unguarded private land, generations have sneaked in at night to drink beers along the path leading to the cave mouth. Tall trees hang overhead
like the crest of a tunnel. Even in full daylight, it’s shadowy and still. The teen hikers parked at the trailhead and began to climb the rocky incline. They were less than two minutes into their hike when they stopped in horror. A large amount of blood had pooled midway up the trail. The teens looked left and spotted another, smaller pool, and then one more just ahead. The fifteen-year-old boy’s eyes scanned the ground and froze on a body lying halfway in the creek. The man was face up, tilted onto his left side. Water from the stream trickled past his bloodied head, and flies gathered at his eyes, nose and mouth.
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The teens took it all in, and then they ran — racing up the road to their grandfather’s house to call for help. It was just after 8 a.m. Within an hour, Phelps County sheriff’s deputies and a Missouri State Highway Patrol sergeant were combing the woods. They snapped pictures of anything that looked out of place or that was smeared with blood. A piece of carpet stained red, a cigarette filter left in one of the pools, a plastic laundry basket discarded near the body and an empty beer can sheathed in a black Harley-Davidson koozie were all photographed and packed into evidence bags. The left side of the man’s head
was swollen, he had a large cut on his shoulder and there was a bullet hole behind his left ear. Detectives found his wallet lying next to him. It was still attached to his belt, empty except for a few personal papers with phone numbers for people in the small town of Cuba, about 35 miles northeast of the cave. Investigators took careful note of footprints near the body. The gym shoe pattern came out pretty clear in the mud. The distinctive feature was a circle at the forefoot. The case broke quickly. Using phone numbers from the wallet, investigators identified the dead man as 26-year-old Jerry Wayne King, a sawmill worker
and father of two young boys, and started tracing his movements through the previous 24 hours. Before nightfall, troopers took King’s longtime drinking buddy, Bill Harrison, into custody. He was charged with first-degree murder that same night. Before Harrison was sent off to lockup, the highway patrol sergeant seized Harrison’s Reeboks and added them to the evidence pile.
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ill Harrison and his friends were a work-hard, playhard crowd back in the 1980s and 1990s. They drank. Some used drugs. They raised a little hell in Rolla and nearby small towns such as Cuba and St. James.
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rocky ground. Early settlers considered naming the county seat Hardscrabble, but North Carolina transplants eventually chose Rolla as a phonetic spelling of Raleigh, according to town legend. These days, it’s become something of a hideout for small-time fugitives from St. Louis who are convinced metro cops won’t seek extradition beyond 100 miles for minor crimes. Rolla is 101 miles from the city. In his twenties, Harrison ran with a crew of calloused laborers who spent their paychecks from the timber companies and sawmills on whiskey and secondhand truck engines. Linda Harrison says she told him if he and his friends were going to drink themselves stupid, he should just stay away, and he sometimes took her advice, leaving home on multi-day benders. “He was a drunk,” she says. “He was an idiot.” Harrison says he was a hard worker with a good reputation. In the 1990s, he worked for a rental company, refurbishing and repairing mobile homes. The small crew of friends he hired to help with the work often included at least one of the Faulkner boys, a rough-and-tumble bunch whose transg ressions ranged from drunken driving to violence. Harrison was closest to Henry Faulkner, but he knew Whitey and Pee Wee, too. A younger halfbrother, Marion “Winker” Ray, who is now serving time on assault and weapons charges, sometimes joined the crowd. Jerry Wayne King was right in the middle. He’d dated Henry’s sister Venita Faulkner for about seven years, and they had a little boy, Justin, who was six years old in 1992. (Another son, seven-year-old Stephen, lived with King’s ex-wife.) King worked as a forklift driver at McGinnis Wood Products, a company in Cuba that turned out white ash bourbon barrels. But he lived for the weekend. The drinking eventually drove a wedge between King and Venita Faulkner. He’d be gone for “two or three days at a time,” she says, carousing. Her brothers might have liked to run around and hang out, but that wasn’t the life she wanted. “I just never was a partier,” she says. “I had a baby to take care of.” She didn’t like Harrison. She claims he tried to put the moves on her at a New Year’s party. She eventually told King who, she says,
told Harrison’s then-wife, Linda. When Harrison learned about King’s meddling, he grabbed King by the throat and threw him up against a wall, Venita Faulkner claims. King and Harrison stopped hanging out for a while after that, but eventually made amends. Venita Faulkner says she’s not sure what happened. She took their son and left King in the fall of 1991. Not long after, prosecutors claim, Harrison and King quarreled again in what would ultimately become a motive for murder. In early 1992, King was living with a new girlfriend in Cuba, and they were looking for a new place. They gave Harrison a $100 deposit on a mobile home but ultimately decided not to move in. Harrison held onto the deposit since holding the trailer had cost him a month or two of rent. He says it wasn’t a big issue and King understood. The two continued to hang out and drink together after the deal fell apart. But others claim Harrison was angry about the situation. In prosecutors’ version of the story, things came to a head during a long July Fourth weekend in 1992. Harrison invited his buddies over to his cabin on the Gasconade River in Maries County. Friends owed through from riday on into Tuesday morning. Investigators struggled to pin down all the names and times for the revolving guest list. With all the drinking and partying, Harrison says he can’t quite remember either. “It was a pretty heavy weekend,” he says. Henry Faulkner, the brother of King’s ex-girlfriend, was there — probably Sunday night into Monday, based on what investigators could gather from witnesses and his previous statements. But he’s varied on the timeline over the years. Now dying of alcohol-induced pancreatitis, he tells the Riverfront Times he’s pretty sure it was Friday night. Cloudy though he was on the details, Faulkner’s testimony became one of the critical pieces in the case against Harrison. In an interview with the highway patrol the day after King’s body was found, he suggested that the argument over the trailer had led to real animosity between Harrison and King — that, in fact, Harrison “told me that that he was going to kill Jerry King over it.” Investigators would seize on that claim and make it a focal point of their case.
A third man at the cabin that weekend, John Lister, would also draw their attention. A tall, thin 29-year-old, Lister tended to keep to himself. He was a bit of a mystery to the others. He wasn’t as much of a drinker as the rest of the guys, and Harrison seemed to be his only link to the crew. He brought out his kids to swim and eat at some point during the weekend, but then returned to Rolla. The crowd had thinned by Monday night. Harrison is believed to have driven a drunken Henry Faulkner back to a brother’s house and dropped him off. Harrison, who was plenty drunk himself, then drove over to King’s place in Cuba, where neighbors and coworkers from the barrel company were having a keg party. (Accounts of this sequence of events have varied. At least one investigator has said Harrison still had Faulkner with him when he arrived in Cuba.) Witnesses, including King’s girlfriend, say Harrison promised to repay the $100 if King would ride back to his place with him to get the money. That was about 10:30 p.m. What happened next is a little less clear. Harrison says they drove around and drank beers, eventually making it to his house at 1 a.m. He was able to mark the time because his stepdaughter was up watching television, and she told detectives she remembers him and King arriving as she waited for her next show to start. Harrison’s wife had been asleep but woke when he came in. She told investigators he kissed her goodbye and said something about needing to “take care of business” before he and King headed out the door. Harrison says there’s not much more to it than that. He claims King wanted to keep drinking, so he dropped him at a roughneck Rolla bar called the Top Hat. “He wasn’t done,” Harrison says. “And I was overdone.” Harrison says he then steered his pickup over to Lister’s house and woke him up between 1:30 and 2 a.m., hoping to persuade him to drive him back up to the cabin in Maries County. Lister told investigators Harrison was wasted, and he tried to persuade him to sleep it off there, but Harrison was insistent on returning to the Gasconade. Harrison eventually won out, and Lister took the keys to the Chevy and drove them out to the cabin. They drank a few beers and ate leftover barbecue, according to
Lister. Finally, about 4 or 5 a.m., they returned to town with Harrison passed out in the truck. Lister couldn’t wake him, so he left him in the cab of the Chevy and went to sleep for a few hours before driving him home at 8 a.m. This is Harrison’s account, too. But prosecutors say it doesn’t match what he first told investigators just before his arrest in 1992. After the hiking teens stumbled onto King’s body later that morning, it didn’t take long for detectives to conclude Harrison was the last man to see King alive. Harrison originally claimed he’d dropped King at the Top Hat about 10:30 p.m. and spent the rest of the night away from home, investigators said. When they told him his wife reported seeing him about 1 a.m. with King, he quickly altered his timeline and recalled dropping by his home early that morning, according to notes from the interrogation. Curiously, he also admitted visiting Gourd Creek Cave recently. He claimed he and his crew had worked a job nearby a day or two before the killing, and he drove them over because some had never seen it. An ambitious lawyer named John Beger was the Phelps County prosecuting attorney back in 1992. He looked at the case in front of
him: Henry Faulkner claimed that Harrison said he was going to kill King. King was last seen alive with Harrison about 1 a.m. Hikers discovered ing in a hard to find locale known to Harrison. And then investigators found “inconsistencies” in Harrison’s timeline. They didn’t find the murder weapon — or any guns — despite a search of the cabin and Harrison’s home and pickup. They also didn’t have any witnesses to the killing, and the only physical evidence linking Harrison to the crime scene was a possible match between the muddy shoe prints and the Reeboks seized from Harrison after his arrest. Accent on “possible” — the shoe and prints had the same pattern down to the circle on the forefoot, but Reebok wasn’t exactly an obscure brand and the sizing of the rain-soaked impressions was unclear. But Beger decided they had a strong circumstantial case based on the timeline and statements from witnesses such as Henry Faulkner. On Wednesday, just one day after King’s body was found, Beger formally charged Harrison with first degree murder. The case would quickly crumble. Beger says now they ran into some “evidentiary” problems in the following months. The challenges became so great, he says, he
Justin King is the spitting image of his murdered father, his mother says. PHOTO BY DOYLE MURPHY
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The death of Jerry Wayne King remains unsolved 24 years after he was found murdered in the Ozark Highlands. PHOTO BY DOYLE MURPHY
THE USUAL SUSPECT Continued from pg 17 decided to dismiss the charges “without prejudice,” meaning they could be refiled in the future. eger left office shortly after the case and went into private practice after a failed campaign for judge. The evidence was piled into bo es and filed away. Investigators turned to new cases. Still, the murder nagged at Beger for years. “I never did forget the case,” he says, but I was out of office and didn’t have any authority.” That changed in 2010, when Beger decided to run for his old seat again. He won and reclaimed the prosecutor’s office in 2011. bout two years later, he called up a newly retired sheriff’s detective and asked him if he’d be interested in a project. Would he mind taking a look at an old murder?
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weeks when Beger called to see if he’d take a crack at the Jerrry Wayne King murder. “Honestly, I was chief of detectives for the sheriff’s department, I didn’t even know the case existed,” Davis tells the RFT. But he was interested. He called over to the prosecutor’s investigators in November 2013 and started gathering the old files. With his glasses and sandy hair parted on the side, Davis looks more librarian than lawman. He says he likes to approach cases by imagining them from the perspective of a defense attorney. “If I can defend it, then obviously it may not be the guy I’m going after,” he says. It’s an effective strategy. In roughly 50 murder investigations he’s pushed to an arrest, only one failed to lead to a conviction — and that was a result of factors outside his control, he says. Davis spent the next year driving the backroads of central and southern Missouri, re-examining 21-year-old evidence and probing the hazy memories of aging boozehounds in hopes of finally uncovering what happened all those years ago. He keyed in on three people: Bill Harrison, Henry Faulkner and John Lister. It hadn’t come out publicly in the
’90s, but detectives suspected both Faulkner and Lister were involved in some way in King’s death or at least knew what happened. Lister was asked (and refused) to take a polygraph test. He was even arrested six days after Harrison, on suspicion of first degree murder in the case, and held for twenty hours in jail before he was released without charges. As with Harrison, the evidence against Lister was circumstantial — but, viewed in a certain light, troubling. A neighbor near Gourd Creek had noticed a maroon sedan that matched Lister’s car parked on the road leading to the cave about 10:30 p.m. on the last night of King’s life. The neighbor talked to the driver, who matched Lister’s description. The man said he was supposed to meet someone to look at a Jeep engine. But why would that put him on a dark, rural road late at night? When investigators questioned Lister about it later, he said he’d met the potential seller at a gas station and agreed to meet him that night in the middle of nowhere. He didn’t know the man’s name or where he lived. “He has direct knowledge,” retired Phelps County Detective Mark Williams says today of Lister. “I have no doubt.” Attempts to reach Lister were unsuccessful. He left Rolla after King was killed and eventually moved closer to his family in Douglas County, less than 50 miles north of the Arkansas border. He was arrested in March 2015 for destruction of property and criminal use of a weapon. The Douglas ounty heriff says Lister shot up two vehicles that belonged to the new boyfriend of his ex-wife or girlfriend. Lister’s attorney didn’t respond to a request for comment. Davis obtained search warrants to collect DNA from Lister, Faulkner and Harrison in the spring of 2014. In the warrant application, Davis revisited Lister’s strange encounter with the Gourd Creek neighbor on the night King was killed. “It is believed Lister was waiting for Harrison and Faulkner and possibly acting as a ‘look out’ on a road that has e tremely low traffic volume, few residences, and it dead ends at the cave,” he wrote. Faulkner voluntarily allowed him to swab his cheek. The detective served the warrant on Harrison at the Walmart Distribution Center. As for Lister, Davis drove in March 2014 to the tiny town of Ava in Douglas County to meet
him. Lister has become a federally licensed firearms dealer and a breeder of prized goats in the years since the killing. Davis found him in his workshop. He had ust finished inseminating some of the goats and was now making a thousand custom loads of ammunition,” Davis wrote in a report on the interaction. Lister claimed he didn’t remember anyone named Jerry King, anything about the murder or even what he was doing back then, 22 years earlier. When Davis asked him for a DNA sample, Lister initially refused, saying he knew from working with the goats how easily DNA could be manipulated. He only agreed to a cheek swab when Davis showed him the search warrant. The entire interaction lasted just fifteen minutes, and Davis left feeling Lister knew a lot more than he would ever say. “He doesn’t answer a lot of questions,” Davis says. “He doesn’t volunteer a lot of infor mation. Would I have loved to have questioned him longer and get him to open up? Yeah, absolutely, but I felt I had what I needed.” Davis sent all the DNA samples off to a forensic lab, where scientists tried to match them against the evidence collected in 1992 as well as a profile for ing, created in part from a sample provided by his now-grown son, Justin. The results came back a few months later — no matches. The investigator also sent pictures of Harrison’s old tennis shoes along with the footprints from the crime scene to Reebok in hopes of comparing the two, but the company wrote back there was little it could determine all these years later. Davis found himself facing roughly the same case investigators had in 1992. No physical evidence linked Harrison or the other men directly to the killing. He had no witnesses to the murder. No murder weapon. He still felt strongly that the timeline and connections estab-
lished through dozens of interviews continued to point to the same place. “I just followed what I had in front of me,” Davis says. “I considered Lister, and I considered Henry Faulkner and I considered, obviously, William Harrison, but everything I had turned to William Harrison.”
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n August 1, 2014, Bill Harrison was in the second half of his shift at Walmart when his boss came to find him. here were some detectives here to see him. “You need to get your lunch bucket, because I don’t think you’re coming back,” the supervisor said. Walking across the parking lot toward the office, Harrison felt that everyone already knew what was happening. He spotted employees from other sections of the plant as he strode forward, the humiliation and fright building with each step. Davis met him halfway, put on the handcuffs and walked him out. The next day’s headline in the Rolla Daily News read, “Rolla man charged in 22-yearold homicide.” Harrison spent the next two months in jail. hen he was finally able to bail out, he had to wear an ankle monitor, hiking up the hill from his house each morning where it got a signal so he could verify his location. He looked a decade older than his age. After a wild youth and three failed marriages, he had wed his fourth wife, Peggy “Chiquita” Harrison, in 1994 and settled into a routine of work and home life. They raised twin boys, and Harrison has become a grandfather. He was stunned when the murder charges were refiled. He blamed Beger. The two-time Phelps County prosecutor had decided to run again for judge, and Harrison couldn’t help wondering if charging him with murder had become a routine part of his campaign strategy. ho’s going to benefit from this kind of thing?” Harrison asks. “John Beger. Coincidence? I don’t think so.” Continued on pg 20
“I CONSIDERED LISTER AND I CONSIDERED HENRY FAULKNER AND I CONSIDERED, OBVIOUSLY, WILLIAM HARRISON, BUT EVERYTHING I HAD TURNED TO WILLIAM HARRISON.”
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THE USUAL SUSPECT Continued from pg 19 Beger, though, was unopposed when he ran for judge in 2014. He notes he didn’t need any publicity to win. He says he’d promised King’s relatives back in 1992 he’d do everything he could to put the man who killed him in prison. That was his motivation then, and again when the case was revived, he says, though he’s not surprised to hear Harrison feels aggrieved. “Thinks he’s a victim of injustice, I’m sure,” Beger says. Beger was elected in November 2014 to the state’s 25th Judicial Circuit. Fox, who had worked with Beger in private practice, followed him to the prosecutor’s office and was elected to succeed him as prosecuting attorney. With an assistant prosecutor, Fox spent eighteen months working the Harrison case. They persisted through one mistrial in the fall of 2015 when they learned some of the investigation’s lab reports hadn’t been turned over to the defense, and a second in January when jurors were discovered to have been discussing the case against the judge’s orders. Over time, the case began to break down. Witnesses, including a Walmart coworker who had claimed Harrison had told her
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about killing someone, changed their testimony. Others were hard to locate. heriff’s deputies went to subpoena one of King’s former neighbors and found him hanging by his neck, apparently a victim of suicide. And then there was Faulkner. Fox says a recent shift in his story was the “final nail in the coffin” that doomed any chance of prosecuting Harrison. But records reviewed by the RFT show Faulkner has always been a awed narrator. ranscripts show, in fact, that Faulkner completely reversed his description of key details during the course of an early interview with investigators, even as they seemed to be zeroing in on him as a potential suspect. In an interrogation conducted by Missouri State Highway Patrol Sergeant Ralph Roark the day after King’s body was found, Faulkner claimed Harrison was pissed at King about money for “a house trailer or something that Jerry was going to rent or something.” When Roark asked if Harrison threatened to do anything about it, Faulkner said he did not. Roark returned to this point again later. Faulkner repeated that Harrison was angry with King about the money, but Faulkner didn’t tell the sergeant that Harrison was planning any violence.
Throughout the interview, Roark grilled Faulkner about where he was and what he was doing the night King was last seen alive. “You didn’t have anything to do with this, did you?” Roark asked at one point. “No, I didn’t,” Faulkner told him. “No, sir, I didn’t. No.” Roark asked to see the soles of Faulkner’s shoes. He asked to see his hands. He told him he might need him to take a polygraph test. “What are you so nervous for?” Roark asked after about fifteen minutes of questions. “It, I’m just the nervous type,” Faulkner replied. The sergeant stopped the interview there and turned off the tape. Eight minutes later, he clicked on the recorder again. This time, Faulkner remembered things much differently. Roark: “Henry and I have talked for a couple of minutes off tape. I haven’t threatened you or promised you anything, have I, Henry?” Faulkner: “No, sir.” Roark: “You did make some statements concerning Monday night when you were with Bill Harrison and you said Bill did make some statements concerning Jerry and this hundred dollars that he was supposed to refund him. Would you go back over what you told me?” Faulkner: “Well, just that he told me that that he was going to kill Jerry King over it.” The idea that Harrison told someone he planned to kill King over $100 became a crucial part of the prosecutors’ case. With little to no physical evidence to link Harrison to the crime scene and no known witnesses to the killing, they needed to build a case on circumstantial evidence — facts jurors could use to reasonably infer things had happened as prosecutors described. There is a classic example judges use to explain the concept to jurors. If a man walks in from outside, shaking water off an umbrella, an observer might reasonably conclude it’s raining outside, even without seeing drops fall from the sky. Without Faulkner’s claim that Harrison talked about killing King, prosecutors are left with a puddle of water and not much to say how it got there. But while Faulkner’s allegation might have sounded good in isolation, a good defense lawyer would surely raise the question of what happened in those “couple of minutes off tape.
Gerischer says she questioned Faulkner about those unrecorded minutes during one of the aborted trials, but he claimed he didn’t remember what happened. She’s never had the opportunity to ask Roark. “It’s a big deal,” she says. “Any defense attorney is going to seize on that.” To the RFT, aulkner atly denies any involvement in the murder. “I could hardly believe that something like that would happen to Jerry,” Faulkner tells the RFT. “Jerry was a pretty good guy. Jerry never did bother anybody that I knew of.” In May 2016, a week before the trial was to begin for a third time, Fox decided the state wasn’t likely to win the case against Harrison. He dismissed the charges — again without prejudice, allowing the prosecutors to refile the case in the future if they find new evidence. For now, Harrison is a free man again. He calls attorney Gerischer his “guardian angel” after watching her battle prosecutors through three rounds of pretrial motions before the case was dismissed. But they both say it’s an unsatisfactory victory, if it’s a victory at all. The deep debt and massive amount of stress of the accusations cost Harrison a lot. ersonal losses, financial losses, emotional, health — all that,” he says. Harrison says he was looking forward to the trial. After nearly a quarter-century of sideways looks and whispers in the grocery store, he wanted the opportunity to fight the allegations head on and hear a jury say he’s not guilty. “Yeah, I’m happy in a way,” he says. “But what’s going to stop them from doing it again? Where’s my vindication?”
the original investigation, still recalls the scene clearly in his mind. He’s long believed King was shot somewhere else and dumped in the stream. The killer probably rolled him up in the rug and then loaded his corpse into the laundry basket so he and an accomplice could carry him to the creek and roll him into the water, he says. But it’s just a theory, and he’s skeptical anyone will ever be able to prove it. “The evidence just isn’t there,” he says. “It wasn’t there then. It isn’t there now. It’s not going to be there unless Mr. Harrison would just suddenly have a change of heart and wake up one day and say, ‘I did it.’ And that’s not going to happen.” Williams runs into Harrison every once in a while around Rolla. They last crossed paths a few weeks ago at a gas station outside of town. “We chatted just a little bit, you know, ust real brie y, illiams says. “I mean, what do you say?” Rolla is a small town, and the tiny burgs scattered through the rest of Phelps County are even smaller. A milk run can bring old adversaries face to face on any given night. King’s ex-girlfriend, now Venita Robinson and married for two decades, says she has no doubt Harrison is guilty, and it terrifies her every time she runs into him. If she sees him in the grocery aisle, he’ll just stare at her and smile, she says. “I’m scared,” Robinson says. “I’m scared of him.” Preparing for the new trial was hard on King’s family. They wanted Harrison to go to prison, but they also had to confront old pain they’d tried to bury. King’s youngest son, Justin, was six years old when his father was killed. He’s now 30 with a sixyear-old son of his own. He was furious to learn the case wouldn’t go forward after all the heartache it had caused his family. “They upset my mom,” he says. “They upset my brother, upset everyone.” Harrison says he only wants to find some way to return to normal life. He talked to his old bosses at Walmart, he says. They wanted to hire him back, but they needed permission from corporate. That was weeks ago. He’s not optimistic. He knows how this goes. n
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ourd Creek Cave hasn’t changed much in the 24 years since Jerry King’s body was found in the stream. A couple of stray beer cans and some graffiti on the cave walls are the only signs of visitors. igeons burst out of fissures in the cave mouth, their wings pounding like thunder in the quiet. Mark Williams, a retired Phelps County detective who helped lead
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BY PAUL FRISWOLD in rand Center throughout the next two weeks (August to 2 ). Opening day features thirteen different shows spanning a wide range of performance styles. You could see Rusalka’s show The Selkie ( : p.m. at ranzberg Arts Center), which features an acoustic folk group from Asheville, North Carolina, that plays mountain music meant to rekindle an interest in the old ways you could en oy St. Louis’ own eith Jozsef ( p.m. at ranzberg), an illusionist with dramatic air (his show includes a variant of Russian roulette, with the audience calling the literal shots) or you could be dazzled by An Accidental Organist ( : p.m at uet allery), which is avid Boyle’s one-man confessional about how filling in as church organist
for his deceased father turned into a 25-year mission. Tickets for all shows are available at the Fringe box o ce ( 52 ashington Avenue www.stlfringe.com) and online. No show costs more than 5 to see, and your best value is one of the super-affordable ticket packages — how does five shows for sound reat, right
Kindertransport England’s kindertransport program was a moment of humanity in the run-up to orld ar II. Close to , Jewish children were ushered safely to England after ristallnacht, but what felt like a miracle for the parents must have felt more like re ection to the riverfronttimes.com
youngsters who didn’t understand why they were being sent away. va is one of the transported. At least she gets a soft landing with Lil, a good-natured woman treats her kindly. But Lil is not Jewish, and makes no effort to maintain any of Judaism’s laws or tenets. iane Samuels’ drama Kindertransport is a play about identity and the past — mainly the forgetting of them. Mustard Seed Theatre marks its first decade with the show. Kindertransport is performed at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday (August to September 4) at the Fontbonne University Fine Arts Theatre ( ydown Boulevard www. mustardseedtheatre.com). Tickets are to 5.
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CALENDAR Continued from pg 23 the new show Japanese Painting & Calligraphy: Highlights from the Collection is noteworthy. A pair of folding screens painted by aih sh in the sixteenth century are the main draw, having not been on display for seven years. sh painted an ethereal landscape using ink and gold that represents the illusory nature of the material world. Japanese Painting and Calligraphy is on display Tuesday through Sunday (August to February 2) in gallery 225. Admission is free.
TUESDAY 0823 How to Be Fashionable
Christine Brewer (right) stars in Union Avenue Opera’s Doubt. | © 2016 UNION AVENUE OPERA AND JOHN LAMB
FRIDAY 0819 Doubt
SATURDAY 0820 Moonlight Ramble
Nature abhors a vacuum, and Sister Aloysius abhors uncertainty. As the principal of St. Nicholas School, she demands constant vigilance against any doubt creeping into the lives of her students. That belief leads her into con ict with Father Flynn, whom she suspects of having an improper relationship with a student. Commandeering Sister James, the boy’s teacher, to be her witness, Sister Aloysius ambushes Father Flynn with her theory. Can absolute certainty shine a light on the truth, or is Sister Aloysius’ rigid thinking blinding her Union Avenue pera closes its season with a production of ouglas J. Cuomo’s Doubt, with local heroine Christine Brewer playing the role of Aloysius. The libretto is by John Patrick Shanley, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning play on which the opera is based. Doubt is performed at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday (August to 2 ) at Union Avenue Christian Church ( North Union Boulevard www.unionavenueopera.org). Tickets are to 55.
Styles change, new fads come and go, but the Moonlight Ramble continues unabated. For 5 years the midnight ride through St. Louis has remained the same thrill — the only thing that changes is the route. This year’s ramble once again starts at Ballpark illage ( Clark Avenue www.monlightramble.com), with last-minute registration ( to 25) available between and :45 p.m. tonight. The bike ride o cially starts at 2: a.m., but since this isn’t a race, you can wait ‘til the horde thins out and start anytime before : a.m. As always, you have a choice of either the short course ( .5 miles) or long course ( .5 miles), so pick the one that’s right for you, wear light-colored clothing and have a good time. Ballpark Village is also the finish line, and when you return from your peregrinations an after-party will be waiting.
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Brew Fest by Budweiser St. Louis, beer and pork have been in a torrid love triangle since the city was founded. As the years pass,
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the love only deepens and grows more meaningful. (I’m not crying, you’re crying.) ive face-first into the delicious three-way today from to 5 p.m. during Brew Fest by Budweiser at Ballpark illage ( Clark Avenue www.stlballparkvillage.com). Local home brewers compete to determine who made the best Oktoberfest, which is a very pig-friendly beer thanks to its full-bodied, roasty flavor. (Many other beer styles will be available if you’re not a M rzen maniac). And it ust so happens that a pig roast is part of the festivities. our ticket includes beer samples and a commemorative tasting glass, while a 5 IP ticket includes everything in the ticket plus early admission, a BBQ plate and voting privileges on the stout competition.
SUNDAY 0821 Japanese Painting & Calligraphy espite its recent expansion, the Saint Louis Art Museum (www.slam. org) does not have enough space to display all the art in its various collections. This is why exhibitions are rotated periodically, and it’s also why
Let’s be honest, there’s no way the writer of this piece knows anything about being fashionable. Journalists tend to dress like tourists whose luggage was lost. (Interesting aside: the sales people at any American newspaper dress beautifully — they’re awless, and they shame the press scrubs daily.) Be that as it may, the Missouri History Museum (Lindell Boulevard and eBaliviere Avenue www.mohistory.org) has a fun tie-in to its Little Black Dress exhibition in How to Be Fashionable, a free screening of vintage educational films. These films, which are all from the era when men wore hats (and not baseball hats, either), are full of tips for looking your best. From understanding how to find the proper cut and color for your body type (pale, blocky) to making your own clothes (ha ), these films might be the last chance for a certain schlubby calendar writer to learn how to dress like an adult. How to Be Fashionable takes place at : p.m. tonight.
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Song of Herself Stephen Frears gets Meryl Streep to sing horribly for laughs Written by
ROBERT HUNT Florence Foster Jenkins
Directed by Stephen Frears. Written by Nicholas Martin. Starring Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant and Simon Helberg. Now playing at multiple theaters.
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hroughout the history of music, there have been performers whose abilities fell way beyond (or below) accepted values of talent or musicianship but who nonetheless persisted in their art. Most, like Tiny Tim or Mrs. Miller, were treated as novelty acts. Others, like the Portsmouth Sinfonia, an orchestral ensemble said to have dismissed members who were caught practicing, have presented their lack of technique as an aesthetic principle. Whether taking to the microphone by force of will (Wild Man Fischer) or at the prodding of others (the Shaggs), outsider artists have made their voices heard, even when met by laughter, derision or, most often, total neglect. And then there’s the strange case of Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy patroness of the arts whose love of music drove her to cast herself as a gifted coloratura singer, despite an apparent indifference to the niceties of rhythm and pitch. (Listening to her recordings, you can almost feel the struggle of her accompanist as he energetically tries to counter-punch her off-notes). Despite her glaring shortcomings, Ms. Jenkins’ enthusiasm and persistence won her a small fan base and even led to her 1944 Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 74, a few months before her death. Director Stephen Frears, whose films have often followed characters well-versed in defining their own
Florence (Meryl Streep) and St. Clair (Hugh Grant) laugh at the music critics. | © 2016 PARAMOUNT PICTURES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Imagine a Marx Brothers film in which Margaret Dumont takes center stage and the boys are her flunkies. realities, whether they are criminals (The Grifters) or royalty (The Queen), uses the last year of Jenkins’ life as the center of a raucous comedy, reshaping her tale from a nineday wonder to an elaborate farcical story of identity and illusion. It’s a screwball comedy in which Jenkins, her husband/manager St. Clair (Hugh Grant) and her befuddled pianist Cosme (Simon Helberg) walk a delicate line between the real world and the elaborate fantasy the aging dowager has constructed for them. Imagine,
if you will, a Marx Brothers film in which Margaret Dumont takes center stage and the brothers are simply her supporting unkies. As brilliantly embodied by a mugging Meryl Streep, Jenkins is a force of nature and her companions rebound in turn, careening through Manhattan to satisfy her whims and keep would-be hostile critics in line. With screenwriter Nicholas Martin, Frears has recreated mid-century New York on a theatrical scale ordinary folks fill the street and the residents of luxury penthouses reluctantly share the city with them. There’s an unexpected beauty to the production, an old Hollywood version of Manhattan (but actually filmed on locations in Scotland and Liverpool) that adds a touch of fantasy to a (mostly) true fairy tale. Like the Hollywood comedies from the era it depicts, it’s a relentlessly congenial film, where problems are resolved and even minor nuisances (a brassy showgirl whose laughter threatens to disrupt a Jenkins’ recital) fall in line by the end. The closest riverfronttimes.com
thing the film can offer to a villain is columnist Earl Wilson, who gives Jenkins a bad review — but seems about as relevant as the old music critics and busybodies who frown at the dancing teenagers in 1950s rock & roll movies. Most of Florence Foster Jenkins is unashamedly played for laughs (Helberg, well-known from the TV series The Big Bang Theory, proves to be a particularly versatile clown, gradually and with great resistance catching on to Jenkins’ vast capacity for delusion). But it’s also a profound and even tragic love story about ambition, self-identity and loyalty. Streep — no surprise here — is simply wonderful , capturing the absurdity of her character but also preserving her dignity. Like Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, this is a film about a dreamer; it lets us see (or hear) the limits of Jenkins’ talents, but never degrades her dream. With Florence Foster Jenkins, Frears and his collaborators have created something wonderful and unique: a screwball comedy with a heart. n
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Light a Single Candle Stray Dog’s season-ending Bat Boy: The Musical is beautiful — and therapeutic Written by
PAUL FRISWOLD Bat Boy: The Musical
Story and book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming. Music and lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe. Directed by Justin Been Presented by Stray Dog Theatre through August 20 at the Tower Grove Abbey (2336 Tennessee Avenue; www.straydogtheatre. org). Tickets are $20 to $25.
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at Boy: The Musical is a sad, beautiful show. Justin Been’s current staging of the play at Stray Dog Theatre is in fact much sadder and more beautiful than I recalled from previous productions. The musical is based on a long-running series of wildly fictitious stories that ran in the Weekly World News tabloid about a half-bat, halfhuman child who was discovered in rural America. Its essential tabloid elements — horror, fear and a primal being — are the same ingredients that would make a great myth. And so Bat Boy transcends the supermarket check-out to become the star of Keythe Farley, Brian Flemming and Laurence O’Keefe’s off-beat musical. This modern legend could be used as a framework for a parable about fears of miscegenation, or immigrants, or racism, or a hundred other social issues. But Been and the extended Stray Dog family suffered a great loss recently with the death of longtime production manager Jay V. Hall, who took his life in early July. His absence informs the show, or at least seems to inform the show, with a strain of melancholy that colors the production with a gentle reverence for the value of life. Even if you didn’t know Hall, you’ll find
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Edgar (nÉe Bat Boy) serves tea for his adopted family, the Parkers. | JOHN LAMB this Bat Boy overwhelmingly sad and yet somehow life-a rming. Corey Fraine is our Bat Boy, who is discovered in a West Virginia cave by the teenage Taylor kids. Startled by their intrusion, Bat Boy bites Ruthie (Lindsay Taylor) and is then clobbered and captured by her brother Rick (Michael A. Wells). The creature ends up in the custody of the Parker family, whose patriarch is the town veterinarian, Dr. Thomas Parker (Patrick Kelly). While the town argues that Bat Boy needs to be killed for the public’s safety and that of their cattle (which are being mysteriously killed by exsanguination), Mrs. Meredith Parker (Dawn Schmid) wants to keep and civilize him. Her motive may be just to escape her empty marriage, but his care eventually becomes a bonding activity with her teenage daughter, Shelley (Angela Bubash). Fraine is simply astonishing as the Bat Boy, his slender physique and pointed ears accentuated by the crushed velvet jacket and short pants Meredith dresses him in. His eyes dewy with fear, he recoils when anyone looks at him too closely. Fraine contorts himself,
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craning his neck in an unnatural fashion while listening to Meredith speak, and bounds around the Parker living room on all fours while learning to read during the excellent patter song “Show You a Thing or Two.” Meredith’s teaching takes hold, and before long Bat Boy is going by the name Edgar and speaking with a British accent. He and Shelley also find themselves drawn to each other. Edgar is polite and eager to learn, while Shelley’s boyfriend Rick is eager to hate and destroy — and his anger is aimed at Bat Boy in particular. But Rick’s sister Ruthie still languishes in the hospital, unable to heal from Edgar’s bite; the longer she suffers, the angrier and more bloodthirsty Rick and the town grow. Compound that rage with Dr. Parker’s increasing desperation to fix his relationship with the Mrs., and bad things feel inevitable. Tyler Duenow’s moody lighting compounds the audience’s sense of dread. Dark blues and shadows dominate the stage in Act One, as our little outsider encounters the horrors of the real world. The first half ends with the ensemble
entering the darkened stage singing the refrain “Comfort and Joy” while wearing masks on the front and back of their heads. Dr. Parker joins in, melding his thoughts of killing Bat Boy with their song. It’s a grim portrait of the duplicitous nature of people, but it’s not the show’s lasting image. Instead, I find myself recalling the moment when Schmid and Bubash come together to sing the soaring “Three Bedroom House” in the second act, a hopeful song about better days. The stage is lit up as Meredith and Shelley sing themselves the perfect future — one where they escape the murderous Dr. Parker and this wretched town together with Edgar, and they live happily ever after. Schmid and Bubash’s voices lift each other up and out of the darkness that has dominated the show, offering hope in a world that has known only sorrow. That’s what the theater can do, and it’s what this production celebrates. A group of people come together in the darkness and create life from dreams, and for a little while their optimism shines and holds off the grim ending. n
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THE SPANISH CONNECTION Before he teamed up with Meriwether Lewis, did William Clark conspire with Spain? Written by
EVIE HEMPHILL
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tched into U.S. history as Meriwether Lewis’ trusty sidekick, William Clark has long been a symbol of national pride and perseverance. His bronze likeness stands especially tall along the St. Louis riverfront, where the storied traveler lifts his hat high in triumphant greeting. Missouri native Jo Ann Trogdon wouldn’t have it otherwise. But there’s a lot more to Clark than that 28-month journey and the fame that followed it. As Trogdon shows in her book The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark (University of Missouri Press, 2015), Clark was making his mark on the continent well before then. The portrait revealed by Trogdon’s narrative raises questions about Clark’s status as a national hero — not something she anticipated. In fact, Trogdon didn’t expect to write the book at all. An attorney and the mother of young children in the early 1990s, she’d just recently researched and written St. Charles Borromeo: 200 Years of Faith when a late-eighteenth-century signature appearing in the parish’s records — that of a William Clark — drew her attention. “I thought, ‘I’ve got to find out what William Clark was doing before the expedition,’” Trogdon recalls. She began exploring Clark’s largely unexamined 1798-1801 journal — in the care of the State Historical Society of Missouri since 1928 — which documented his life just preceding the westward adventure. While handwriting samples quickly revealed that the John Hancock in the parish records must be that of a different William Clark, the content of the explorer’s entries further sparked Trogdon’s curiosity. Of the journal’s 88 pages, 77 outline Clark’s 1798 travels deep into what was then Spanish territory, with New Orleans as his main destination. Involving the strenuous navigation of hundreds of Mississippi River miles,
Jo Ann Trogdon contextualizes William Clark’s pre-fame years in her new book. | EDGAR AILOR III the journey initially struck Trogdon as fodder for an article shedding light on the practical reasons he was later selected by Lewis to be his co-lead. “I thought my theme would be how William Clark developed the skills that Meriwether Lewis didn’t master,” Trogdon says. But as she pored over Clark’s notes in this especially concise journal, more questions arose. For example, if Clark was merely on a business trip, wouldn’t he record his transactions and dealings with his usual precision? “If making money was his sole motivation, he’d have kept careful details of his revenues,” Trogdon explains. “Nowhere in the journal, however, is any mention of amounts he earned. At that point I thought to check the Spanish archives.” Her language skills and previous work with those very archives helped direct her research, and what she discovered led to many years of investigation and the resulting volume — a hefty but engrossing read. Not only did Trogdon find that the Spanish treasury department records make mention of a Kentucky-based
“Guillermo” Clark arriving in Spanish New Orleans that spring with many barrels full of goods — the records also place Clark in close association with several of the treasonous masterminds behind what became known as the Spanish Conspiracy. Centered on Kentucky, the plot was an ongoing attempt by Spain in the 1780s and ‘90s to sunder the fledgling United States and its then-western territory. Several European powers vied for vast swaths of North America, and the fresh independence of a young nation didn’t mean an end to conflict beyond the Appalachians. Trogdon’s book thoughtfully raises the question: Might Clark have been working for Spain in some capacity? While never offering proof beyond reasonable doubt, the evidence uncovered is compelling. As just one example, Clark’s 1798 journal makes cursory mention of smuggling money in connection with a “Mr. Sebastian” and “Mr. Brown,” and Trogdon’s discoveries in the Spanish archives shed alarming light on just who these individuals were. riverfronttimes.com
“Those men were Kentuckians secretly conniving with Spain in order to receive thousands of Spanish dollars,” Trogdon says. “Then I found in Clark’s family papers proof that his father was a close friend of Sebastian.” Sebastian’s legacy of corruption pales in comparison to that of James Wilkinson, by far the most infamous character in the book. The man who was Spanish Agent 13 (a fact not known to the American government until long after his death in 1825), Wilkinson’s duplicity and unending greed were extensive — as were his personal connections to Clark. Clark served under Wilkinson in the U.S. Army in the 1790s, and his writings from that period express high praise for the general. The two often worked together closely. But like so many others serving the young nation at a tumultuous time — including its first few presidents — Clark may well have been unaware of his superior’s venal nature. Still, the dots that Trogdon connects suggest Clark was involved to some degree in 1798, however unaware he may have been of Wilkinson’s intentions. The ascending list of strategic latitudes and longitudes that Clark compiled along the Mississippi would have been especially useful to someone scheming to cause a war, Trogdon points out. And Clark appears to have been smuggling a very specific and secret payment of $670 in Spanish silver dollars. “The Spanish correspondence with Wilkinson shows that he was still trying to collect an old debt of $640,” Trogdon says. “With interest, this amount by 1798 would approximate the $670 Clark sent up river, hidden in a barrel of sugar, care of a ‘Mr. Riddle.’ It was the right amount and the right time for that debt to be paid.” But Trogdon isn’t out to tarnish Clark’s celebrated legacy as an explorer and public servant. “My goal through this whole process was to show Clark as a three-dimensional person,” she says. “He was definitely not the cardboard character he’s come to seem. I hope readers gain an appreciation for what a complicated person he truly was — and an appreciation for carefully examining accepted notions in light of contradictory evidence.” n Jo Ann Trogdon discusses and signs copies of The Unknown Travels and Dubious Pursuits of William Clark at St. Louis County Library Headquarters (1640 South Lindbergh Boulevard, Frontenac; www.slcl. org) at 7 p.m. on Thursday, August 25.
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View from the Top Far from a humble ramen shop, Vista Ramen is one of the city’s most complex — and exciting — new restaurants Written by
CHERYL BAEHR Vista Ramen
2609 Cherokee Street; 314-797-8250. Mon.Thurs. 5-10 p.m.; Fri.-Sat. 5-11 p.m. (Closed Sundays)
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f you didn’t know the story behind the bright green neon sign that hangs above Vista Ramen’s open kitchen, bearing the restaurant’s name, you’d probably assume it
goes something like this: Owners come up with restaurant idea; owners come up with restaurant name; owners commission sign. How it actually happened, however, is the exact opposite. Jeremy and Casey Miller and chef Chris Bork needed a name for their soon-to-open Cherokee Street restaurant. After they asked a friend to look for a one-word neon sign, the pal found one from an old drive-in movie theater reading simply “Vista.” The trio loved the word and christened the spot Vista Ramen. In many ways, chef Bork’s foray into the world of ramen follows a similarly backward motion. Just as the three co-owners didn’t have a pre-ordained plan to name their restaurant “Vista,” Bork never planned on opening a ramen shop. Though the idea brie y crossed his mind when he left his executive chef position at Blood and Sand two years ago, he quickly tabled it to pursue his dream of a restaurant
that would encapsulate him as a chef. What that meant, he wasn’t quite sure, though it certainly wasn’t noodles. His plans fell apart after about six months, though, and he found himself propositioned by the Millers to consult on an upcoming ramen shop they were opening. He hemmed and hawed about it, then came back with an offer to go full in, not just as a consultant but as the chef and co-owner. The Millers, who’d worked with Bork at their other restaurant on Cherokee, the Mud House, happily agreed. Bork’s story helps to explain the most striking, almost inexplicable, thing about Vista Ramen: It’s not a ramen shop. Yes, three out of three of the main courses are soups that contain ramen noodles. And there’s a noodle bar, and sake on offer and, well, that name. But dip below the brothy surface and you’ll find a menu that has more in common with a chef’s tasting menu at a high-end contemporary riverfronttimes.com
restaurant than a humble Japanese noodle bar. Bork says he fell into the ramen thing, but that’s not quite right — a ramen shop fell into his dream. And what a dream it is. The moment you step through the front doors, you feel transported to a culinary world that seems miles away from Cherokee’s gritty bohemian streetscape. There’s an air of reverence — the kind you get at an authentic sushi restaurant — perhaps because barely a sound comes from the bright, wide-open kitchen that takes up the entire back length of the space. It’s in dramatic contrast to the dimly lit dining room. The walls are exposed brick, and succulents potted in pendant vases hang from wooden ceiling beams. One wall has an old mural from Mercantile Bank; another is wallpapered in a pattern that looks like a circuit board. The area underneath the kitchen’s pass is tiled in a Moroccan-
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VISTA RAMEN Continued from pg 29 meets-geometric pattern of black, white and green. As beautiful as the room may be, it’s secondary to the splendor that comes from Vista’s kitchen. The menu is divided between three ramen main courses and several small plates, including three slider-sized Korean fried chicken sandwiches. The crisp, deep-fried meat is coated in piquant chili sauce and placed on a mildly sweet Hawaiian roll. Thinly sliced fish sauce pickles give both brightness and umami funk to these outstanding sandwiches. Plum, housemade Thai style sausages, scented with perfumeheavy herbs and chiles, arrive with a simple trimming of lime, cilantro and Bibb lettuce. The aromatics in the sausage cut through the rich meat; when wrapped in fresh herbs and lettuce, the dish is shockingly multi-layered. How something savory can be so rich, and yet so fresh, is a paradox I’ve not yet wrapped my head around. Pork ribs are yet another example of Bork’s mastery of complex avors. The ribs, cooked to the point they fall off the bone, are gilded in crab caramel. The thought of butter, sugar, fish sauce and crab paste may sound wrong on just about every level, but it’s as gloriously sweet and funky as a George Clinton love song. The sugar underscores the crab’s natural sweetness; the butter compliments its richness, while fish sauce gives an intense, salty depth. It’s as decadent as foie gras, but Bork offsets its density with a crushed peanut garnish and fresh herbs. It’s exceptional. Juicy, peak-of-the-summer tomatoes are made exotic with peanuts, crispy garlic and chipotle lime vinaigrette, while a simple corn pudding is anything but: The corn is smoked, formed into a cake and steeped in corn dashi (a broth made with fish akes). Both are examples of simple pleasures elevated by Bork’s cerebral approach. The smoked scallop plate is the sort of dish chefs win culinary awards for. Smoking the mollusk firms its texture and gives it a deep, semi-sweet flavor that’s reminiscent of smoked trout. Bork pairs them with pickled golden beets to mimic the scallop’s texture and compliment the earthiness of the smoke. It would be a
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Warm corn pudding with tomato, corn dashi and smoked corn. | MABEL SUEN woody bomb, but tart buttermilk vinaigrette, blackberries and pomegranate arils give a sweet and sharp pop. This dish belongs in a museum, not a ramen shop (or even a faux-ramen shop). While Bork’s small plates show the chef ’s prowess beyond the ramen concept, his noodle bowls should not be discounted. His approach is fiercely non-literal, so hardcore ramen nerds should not expect the traditional Japanese styles. Instead, Bork uses ramen as a jumping off point to play around with his own avor profiles. The “Vista” ramen, for example, is based with a pork, chicken and ham hock broth and uses slightly thicker ramen noodles from Midwest Pasta. Hunks of succulent pork, a sous vide egg, ginger and nori bob in the delicate liquid. If his broth choice for the “Vista” is non-traditional, Bork’s pozole goes much further down that path, shattering the idea of what ramen should be with excellent results. The mouth-watering, chili-spiked broth has a subtle heat that infuses the hominy and ramen noodles with warm flavor. Fork-tender pieces of dark meat chicken break apart with just the slightest prod. It’s an absolutely perfect dish — and it made me wonder if the Mexican classic should always come with this slight Japanese in ection. I had the same thoughts after eating Bork’s ramen version of the northern Thai noodle soup khao soi. Rich, coconut curry provides the backdrop for noodles, dark meat chicken and fresh herbs that is at once richly satisfying yet delicate. Offered as a special, the waltz of spice, cream, perfume,
sweet and salt was so addictive I hope it makes a regular appearance on the menu. Desserts are no less thoughtful. Juicy peaches, poached in ambrosial nectar, would be beautiful enough plated over Bork’s simple shortbread. His addition of Champagne sorbet and fresh basil, however, balances the fruit’s sticky sweetness with fresh, herbal avor. hereas the peaches are a bright palate refresher, the tres leches coconut cake is an indulgent sendoff. The milk cake is dense, yet airy (yet another example of Bork’s comfort with contradictions), and smothered in lemon curd and tart blueberries. In Vista Ramen, Bork has created not only one of the best restaurants I’ve had the pleasure of reviewing, but also one of the more intellectually stimulating culinary experiences St. Louis has been granted in recent years. Biting into every last one of his dishes, you think you have an initial impression. But it changes … and changes again until you are left scratching your head as to how he can reveal so many avors in one dish. Things you’d never pair together, like fish sauce and caramel, push so far beyond conventional conceptions of taste, you wonder if you’ve been seeing food in black and white this whole time, and Bork has only now finally turned on the color. This place may not have been his dream, but it’s become his masterpiece. n Vista Ramen
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hen Chelsea Little of Olive + Oak (102 W. Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves; 314-7361370) says she landed behind the bar by accident, she means it literally. “After culinary school, I worked the lines at a few country clubs,” Little explains. “But I got in a really bad car accident and messed up my knee. I had to take a few years off because being on my knee just wasn’t an option. I was able to eventually do physical therapy and it worked out, but at that point, I realized I wanted to get into St. Louis’ craft industry in some way.” Following grueling rehab on that knee, Little found herself at the Libertine bussing tables as a way to break into the front of the house. She was intrigued by the restaurant’s cocktail program and jumped at the opportunity when a bartending position came open. “I looked at what they were doing and thought ‘Whoa, this looks crafty, creative and really tied to the kitchen,’” Little recalls. “I started out with Ben Bauer and he showed me the ropes. I just fell in love with the creative aspect of what you can do behind the bar.” The transition from the kitchen to the bar was an easy one, she says, thanks to the similarities in ingredients and avors, but it was a key difference that spoke to her most clearly. “It’s the faceto-face interactions,” she says. “In the kitchen you get to make
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This “Cheesehead for life,” shown behind the bar at Olive + Oak, also has a thing for fennel. | HOLLY RAVAZZOLO awesome food and curse when grease pops on your hand, and I love it. But out front, you get to see people’s immediate reactions to something you’ve made and have that personal connection. I love people and I love to jibberjabber, so that’s been fantastic.” After leaving the Libertine, Little worked at Brasserie until she was approached by Olive + Oak’s Mark Hinkle about an opportunity to run her own p r o g ra m a t h i s s o o n - t o - b e restaurant. She admits she’s still surprised that she’s not cooking on a line somewhere, but she wouldn’t trade her current gig for anything — scars and all. “I look down at my knee and it looks like a tiger attacked me,” Little says. “But I can still walk in heels so that’s what matters.” Little took a break from the bar
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to share her thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage scene, the virtues of invisibility and the one thing you’ll never find behind her bar. What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did? I want to remain a mystery. I guess if people had to know, I’m a die-hard Packers fan. Cheesehead for life! What daily ritual is nonnegotiable for you? Well, I do enjoy a good brush of the teeth every morning. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Invisibility. So many wet willies. What is the most positive thing in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year?
It seems like the general public is becoming more open to the more adventurous items and ingredients rather than just going to what’s familiar. Which is really cool. Broaden your horizons, folks! Who is your St. Louis food crush? Easy. Tommy Andrew over at andolfi’s. illin’ it. Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene? Ted [Wilson] the bread man. Union Loafers surprises me day after day. Which ingredient is most representative of your personality? It has to be fennel. I don’t have reason for my rhyme. It just calls to me. If you weren’t working in the Continued on pg 34
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YORI BRINGS AUTHENTIC KOREAN FOOD TO CHESTERFIELD Written by
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ay Moon has a saying about his food: If you try it once, you’ll come back for more. Moon’s restaurant Yori (1637 Clarkson Road, Chesterfield; 636-536-7778), co-owned by Sae Yeob Kim, aims to do just that: make even white-bread Americans love Korean cuisine. “We try to introduce the traditional Korean cuisine to the white people who are not familiar with Korean food,” Moon says. Yori’s menu features more than 30 traditional Korean dishes, ranging from the beef bulgogi stone bowl (barbecue beef ribeye and seasonal vegetables with salad) to the yellow corvina grilled fish and the soon tofu soup. “Korean-style cuisine is very unique; it has some sweet tastes, a little bit salty, and a smoky flavor as well,” Moon explains. “The meat melts in your mouth. The meat is very soft when you marinate with Korean sauce.” The decision to locate in Chesterfield was no accident. Before opening Yori, Moon researched the different areas in St. Louis and found that 90 percent of Chesterfield’s population is Caucasian. With only three other purely Korean restaurants in St. Louis, Moon and Kim saw an opening for their cuisine. “I have a strong belief that people in the world, even if they don’t grow up in the same culture or same situation, if one person likes the
Yori’s yellow corvina grilled fish. | EMILY McCARTER food, then they will be more open,” Moon says. “Food is the introduction to a culture.” To increase St. Louisans’ familiarity with Korean culture, Moon adds other elements beyond the cuisine, such as playing Korean music in the restaurant and featuring the Korean translation alongside the English words on the menu. The owners position it as a family restaurant, with beer and wine available for the adults. Yori’s executive chef is Moon’s mother, Manja Shin, who the staff affectionately calls “mom.” She prepares all of the sauces, side dishes and broths, Moon explained. Shin is also the executive chef at Yori’s first location in West Lafayette, Indiana, where the restaurant caters to onthe-go Purdue University students. Although Moon, Shin and Kim are restaurant veterans, Moon express-
es frustration about finding workers for his restaurant. “Hiring people is difficult. It’s hard to find people trained in Korean food,” Moon says. In fact, sous chef John Lee John-
CHELSEA LITTLE Continued from pg 32 restaurant business, what would you be doing? I’d be elbows-deep in dirt somewhere. I guess that’s technically still the same industry .... whoops. Name an ingredient never allowed behind your bar. A bad attitude. Not invited. What is your after-work hangout?
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son Jr. left P.F. Changs for Yori. But he still had some learning to do from Shin. “I knew how to cook Asian [food],” Johnson says. “I had to relearn how to cook Korean, because Korean deals with a lot of smoke in flavor and texture.” Moon has received great feedback from Koreans and non-Koreans alike. “[Koreans] tell me ‘Thank you for being here,’” Moon says with a smile. Moon moved from Seoul, South Korea, to California fourteen years ago before coming to St. Louis two months ago to open Yori. Moon has many years of restaurant experience in California, including both cooking and managing/owning. He graduated in 2009 from University of California - Irvine after majoring in economics. His dream guest? The Cardinals’ Seung-hwan Oh. Moon says he’d like to have him by his restaurant for some “fine Korean food.” Yori opened on June 26 and has had consistent lunch and dinner crowds ever since. The restaurant is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. On Sunday hours are from 5 to 9:30 p.m. n
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ome of the best pancakes in the city are coming to downtown St. Louis: Chris’ Pancake & Dining will be opening a second location on the campus of Saint Louis University School of Law this fall. That’s according to SLU Law and Chris’, which jointly announced their plans last week for Chris @ the Docket, a new restaurant to be located on the ground oor of N. Tucker Boulevard. That space previously held the Docket, a restaurant run by catering company Bon Appetit, which closed this spring. The new concept should be open by late September, following renovations to the property, and will bring Chris’ classic breakfast and lunch items to diners, along with a new addi-
tion: pizza. As it turns out, pizza is not so far afield for Chris’ — its owners are also the family behind Bartolino’s Osteria (with locations in both the Drury Inn and Suites at Forest Park) and Bartolino’s South in south county. “We are excited about this additional location that will give us the opportunity to not only reach the downtown community but also expand our menu,” Chris Saracino, owner of Chris’ Pancake and Dining, said in a press release. “The new location is home to a beautiful pizza oven that we can utilize to bring in some of the recipes from our Bartolino’s brand.” Chris @ the Docket will be open to the public, with hours from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Grab and go items will be available Monday through Thursday until 6 p.m. Tim Jansen, formerly executive chef at the Marriott St. Louis Grand Hotel, has signed on to manage the new location. Chris’ has been open at the corner of Southwest Avenue and Watson Road since 1987 and has earned numerous awards from the RFT, including Best Breakfast with a Hangover and Best Breakfast.
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Sink or Swim The Sinkhole hopes to be a new clubhouse for St. Louis’ DIY music community Written by
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illed with dust, rubble and scrap from a recent build-out, the building at 7423 South Broadway still leaves much to the imagination. Yet by October, the 1,200-square-foot space in Carondelet will come to life as the Sinkhole, a bar-meetsrecording studio, with live music as its point of focus. “I always wanted to open a venue eventually, but I didn’t think it would happen this early in life,” says Matt Stuttler. One of the main bookers at Foam on Cherokee Street, Stuttler moonlights as the rambling bandleader for Shitstorm, a garagerock outfit that spends roughly a quarter of the year on the road. While on tour last September, he and Mitch Kirkwood of Big Blonde had many drunken talks about a pie-in-the-sky venue idea. “We wanted to open a spot that was pretty much only focused on doing shows and music, as opposed to a place that’s open as a coffee house or bar or restaurant,” Kirkwood says. “We wanted to particularly cater to the DIY booking scene, and then we started having ideas about a recording studio.” The single-story building is owned by Kirkwood’s former employer, furniture designer Richard Higby. Recent renovations include a newly installed bar built from recycled materials and a fully outfitted recording studio, to be operated by Ben Hinn of Mound Sound. The venue side holds approximately 150 people, making this a mid-sized concert space for the Carondelet neighborhood. “A n i s s u e t h a t w e h a v e experienced while playing in bands is that affordable, quality recording in a studio isn’t readily
Come October, this unassuming building will start making a lot of noise. | AUSTIN ROBERTS available,” Stuttler says. “We’re going to try and provide that for bands for cheap.” Hinn will move his operation from the basement under GoMusicStL on Delmar Boulevard to the Sinkhole, where the studio will be available during daytime hours. The modern, soundproof facility is located directly behind the stage, making for unique possibilities in regards to live concert recording and podcasts. While the venue is still awaiting its liquor license, the bar will serve as a supplement to the music rather than the main attraction, offering only cans, bottles and rail drinks during live events. “[The bar] is not slick or modern. The walls will be painted black,” Kirkwood says of the divey vibe. “We’ll have an open call to decorate it. Everybody in the music scene can drop off some weird crap or trash or whatever. And we’ll make it look like a big sinkhole of stuff.” At the time of this writing, no stage is in the works. The cofounders prefer the vibe of a
smaller speakeasy or basement space, with showgoers at eye level with the performers. Stuttler describes the room as “a place with character, where a little spilled beer isn’t such a big deal.” “There are a lot of cool spaces in St. Louis, but none particularly catered to the kind of DIY booking that I feel like the majority of my experience has been in,” he adds. “Everything we book there is going to be something that I’m personally invested in through the people that I’m working with, or it’s going to be the music that I want to help cultivate and help expose St. Louis to on a larger scale.” With a median age of 27, the three co-founders hope to avoid common pitfalls through their experience as musicians. Stuttler has attended a concert almost every night for the last five years. In addition to his work as a guitarist, singer and songwriter, he has worked as booker and promoter for the Heavy Anchor, Plush, Firebird, Ready Room and, currently, Foam. riverfronttimes.com
“To be able to make a final call on something you have to own it. You have to be running the space,” Stuttler says. And fans of his booking practices on Cherokee Street need not worry, as Stuttler plans to operate events at Foam and the Sinkhole concurrently, at least for the first few months. “I get a lot of booking requests for dates that could work [at Foam] but I have other shows,” he explains. “Having the exibility to have another space so I can simultaneously put two noncompeting shows on the same night would be nice. I haven’t been able to find another spot in town that’s cooperative enough to do that with, so we have to build one.” Stuttler, Kirkwood and Hinn still have a lot of work to do in the weeks ahead, but the trio plans to announce a fall season of concerts in the very near future. “The stars aligned perfectly for this venue to happen,” Kirkwood says. “It’s going to be like a clubhouse for the music scene.”n
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Eleven Magazine Says Goodbye, For Now Written by
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ocal monthly music magazine Eleven is suspending its publication indefinitely. Publisher editor van Sult announced the decision in an email sent to its contributing writers (including this writer), stating that “the cost of the magazine has been greater than the ad revenue, and this is as far as we can go unless or until something changes.” This leaves the June issue as the last one to be found in the many bars, restaurants and retail outlets where Eleven was circulated. A few completed stories intended for an August issue are being uploaded to Eleven’s website over the next few days, but no more stories are being assigned. Founded in 2008 by Washington University students, Eleven expanded its reach beyond the school’s campus by increasing its distribution and moving to Cherokee Street. In 2 2, then-publisher Hugh Scott hired Sult as its new editor. In 2 5, Scott transferred publishing duties and rights to the magazine to Sult. Although mostly known around town as one half of Sleepy itty, a hydra that is both a band and a freelance design printing operation, Sult brought extensive knowledge of the music industry to Eleven from both sides of the musician music ournalist divide. He served as a writer for The Daily of the University of ashington before becoming art director for Seattle music magazine The Rocket in . uring this time,
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Under Evan Sult, Eleven had a renewed focus on local artists. | KELLY GLUECK his former band Harvey anger released Where Have All The Merrymakers Gone?, an album whose song “Flagpole Sitta” would become a ma or hit the following year (Rolling Stone ust named it the 25th best song of the s). He later played in Bound Stems before forming Sleepy itty, which moved to St. Louis in 2 . Sult’s stewardship of Eleven was marked by a renewed focus on St. Louis artists, finding unusual angles for stories on national acts and an insistence that the magazine publish monthly, which under his leadership it did more consistently than it had previously. Sult particularly wanted to approach local artists from a different perspective. “I wanted it to feel like certain people are famous for the purposes of this magazine,” he says over the din of basketball in Love Bank Park. “Treating Bug Chaser like they’re one of the country’s best
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freak-out bands is a way of reminding people I think we have one of the country’s best freakout bands in our city, and don’t forget to go see them. on’t forget to look at them with the eyes of like maybe this isn’t ust another band.” Also key to Sult was Eleven’s status as a print publication, not ust an online one. hile he admits that he prefers reading in print, Sult also finds it easier to sell ads for a physical product, as opposed to a website. “I don’t think anybody’s going to pay anyone to make leven nline happen,” he says. “That said, I want to use that page I built to periodically tell people about bands I love.” Although Eleven is going on hiatus, Sult thinks it served an important function. Among many things a city needs to have a thriving music scene, a publication is necessary “to put things in perspective for people in
the city and for people outside the city,” he says. According to Sult, press clips are essential for bands to book shows out of town: “If the RFT or Eleven doesn’t write about a band, who the hell’s going to ” For now, Eleven will bow out while Sult ponders his next nonSleepy itty move. He still has interest in working on a print publication but might not limit his scope to music (one idea he ponders is a magazine that acts as a tourist’s guide to St. Louis). He won’t try to act as a publisher, editor, writer and designer all at once, as he did for the past year. But Sult still feels passionate about supporting bands, local business and things about St. Louis that he likes. “I do think that the city has a lot of really fascinating stuff going for it that I think sometimes it helps to have somebody say look at it this way,’” he says. “It’s going to be hard not planning those in the future.” n
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on Burkhart, the St. Louis native who records music that seeks the danceable intersection of pop and experimental music, came late to the synths, samplers and sequencers that make up his current rig. He was formally trained on piano, guitar and trombone as a student, and spent his youth playing in conventional settings, bashing it out in cover bands and serving as sideman in his friends’ projects. But a few years living on a communal farm in rural northeast Missouri gave him time, space and inspiration to record as a solo artist. He began by using his acoustic guitar and a looping pedal, but the purchase of an entry-level Moog synthesizer — the MG1, originally distributed by non other than RadioShack — turned his head and started Burkhart down the path of synthesis. It also made him a relative oddball in the bucolic farmland setting. “The guitar-loop thing is more conservative, more traditional,” Burkhart says. “I was trying to blend traditional guitar with experimental electronics. I guess that’s how my personality works, going against the grain. There was too much folk music happening up there.” His debut recording as Hylidae, Intransitive, came out last year. It formally introduced an artist with an unabashed love for the rhythms and intent of dance music, but also graced with a willingness to whittle away at the genre’s tentpoles. But where that record was imbued with some of the Moog’s near-organic warmth, his new self-titled record embraces a new work ow (digital synths, a hardware sequencer) and the resulting move toward slightly colder and harsher sounds. “This album was totally written living here in St. Louis,” says Burkhart. “Living in an urban environment shaped that. I definitely wanted to explore how intense I can take it.” His sequences start small and pile up as they go; this time around, Burkhart pulls more liberally from straight-ahead dance music traditions. Opening track “Darondo” starts subtly enough as a playground for a clanking, whistling melody on top of susurrating slaps and underwater bass, but as it grows some nearly Hi-NRG vocal samples get resurrected from an early ’90s warehouse party. That energy turns manic on “Stress” with a faster BPM and a ange-effected bass under constant bombardment by the laser cannons that take up much of the song’s airspace. The album’s key outlier is “Flyover,” a track with spoken-word samples embedded in it. The track is a con uence of Burkhart’s more youthful obsessions: the first album by London dubstep pioneer Burial and a fascination with conspiracy theories.
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“The samples that are on that song are from a UFO conspiracy theorist’s speech I found on YouTube. A lot of time with conspiracy theories, they’re all the same — they all have the same vibe of ‘you’ve got to wake up, people!’” he says with a laugh. “Content-wise it wasn’t that interesting, but the way he was talking was drawing me in,” Burkhart continues. “I tried to remove all the content and tried to emphasize the paranoia and fear. What conspiracy theorists are tapping into is real — the fear is real. You can insert your own conspiracy theory into it.” On Intransitive, Burkhart wasn’t shy about using his own vocals on tracks, but on this self-titled release only one track, “Smoldering Event,” features his voice front-and-center. It’s the song that follows the most conventional pop-song structure, though he subverts the form with dreadful subject matter. “That one references the est Lake nuclear fire,” he says, referring to the underground landfill fire in north St. Louis County that caught national attention last fall. “The lyrics are all over the place but the chorus references that.” For Burkhart, a time of post-surgery convalescence coincided with what he calls “a critical mass of people finding out about this looming situation and what it means for people living here.” That rumination on impending doom and relative immobility informs the track. “That’s kind of the vibe for my project in general — take heavy subject matter and make it fun, make it danceable.” Hylidae will have its physical release on the Minneapolis tape label Night People, which has previously released work by acts such as Beat Detectives and Circuit des Yeux. The seven-track album’s release coincides with Burkhart’s first outof-state tour as Hylidae; he’ll do an eight-date run at the end of the month with local artist Larva. According to Burkhart, the self-titled album is as close as he’s come to capturing his live performance. “I am thinking of this as perfecting what I’ve been doing live for the past year or two,” he says. “It’s a blend of trying to keep things spontaneous and chaotic.” —Christian Schaeffer
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THURSDAY 18
The Loot Rock Gang, Kristo and the Strange
AMERICAN OPERA: w/ I Could Sleep In The
Places, Bob Reuter’s Alley Ghost, The Hobo-
Clouds 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226
sexuals, Rum Drum Ramblers, Sidney Street
[CRITIC’S PICK]
Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226.
Shakers, The Hooten Hallers 1 p.m., $10. Off
AUSTIN JOHN WINKLER: w/ Through Fire 8 p.m.,
Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-
$12. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,
3363.
314-535-0353.
COLIN JOST: 8 p.m., $35-$55. The Pageant, 6161
BILLY BARNETT BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
ROCKIN’ CHAIR: 7 p.m., free. St. Ferdinand Park,
436-5222.
25 St. Ferdinand Park Dr., Florissant, 314-839-
BLANK GENERATION: 5 p.m., free. Cortex Com-
7670.
mons, 4270 Duncan Ave., St. Louis, 314-254-
R.O.E.: 9 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359
3326.
Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL: 7 p.m., free. The
TOM HALL: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups,
Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-
700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
6161. HELL NIGHT: w/ Sweat Shoppe, White Fire 7
SUNDAY 21
p.m., $7. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-
BURN HALO: 6 p.m., $12-$14. Fubar, 3108 Locust
289-9050.
St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
HILLSONG WORSHIP: w/ Kari Jobe, Rend Collec-
CORNET CHOP SUEY: 6 p.m., free. Carondelet
tive, Housefires, Urban escue, Chad each
Park, Leona Ave. & Holly Hills Blvd., St. Louis.
p.m., $25.95-$49.95. Hollywood Casino Amphi-
THE KILLER HEARTS: w/ Switchblade Paradox,
theatre, I-70 & Earth City Expwy., Maryland
Danger Bird 7 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108
Heights, 314-298-9944.
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
JOE METZKA BAND: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues
LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: 8:30 p.m., $10. BB’s
& Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
5222.
314-436-5222.
LOCAL H “AS GOOD AS DEAD” 20TH ANNIVERSARY
TRUE STORM BREWING: 5 p.m., $15. BB’s Jazz,
TOUR: 8 p.m., $15-$18. The Ready Room, 4195
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
Local H. | JOHN OAKES /CREATIVE COMMONS
Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929. THE SHOW PONIES: 8 p.m., $10. Old Rock House,
436-5222. THE WOOLLY BUSHMEN: w/ Bucko Toby, the Lan-
1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
Local H
FRIDAY 19
8 p.m. Thursday, August 18.
galeers 9 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359
Hailing from Zion, Illinois, a small town equidistant from Milwaukee and Chicago, Local H has been peddling its brand of grunge rock since 1990, when four high school friends took up instruments and started learning power chords. That lineup wouldn’t last, with half of the band leaving before they’d recorded a single album. Their loss, though: Local H carried on as a duo, securing a major record deal with Island Records that included the release of As Good As Dead, the 1996
album whose single “Bound for the Floor” reached No. 5 on the Billboard Alternative chart. The record, which was eventually certified gold by the RIAA, turns twenty this year. Drummer Joe Daniels, who left the group in 1999, will return for this tour, which features As Good As Dead performed in its entirety. We Got the Beat: Local H’s current drummer has local roots — Ryan Harding used to play in St. Louis act Sullen with Justin Slazinik and Shanna Kiel in the early to mid 2000s. Harding will be sitting on the sidelines for most of this show, but will perform on the band’s newer tracks. – Daniel Hill
LEROY PIERSON: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues &
House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
$10-$12. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester
JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ
Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-
ROCKIN’ CHAIR: 7 p.m., free. Creve Coeur Park,
Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828 Olive
5222.
2143 Creve Coeur Mill Road, Maryland Heights,
BAGHEERA: w/ Foxholes, Bad Cover Band Sam 9
Blvd, University City,
NO THANKS: 9 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer,
314-615-4386.
p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave.,
KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS: w/ The Sadies
3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
SEX FUNERAL: w/ Double God, Kevin Harris +
St. Louis, 314-352-5226.
8 p.m., $22.50/$25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar
OH SNAP!: 5 p.m., free. Saint Louis Zoo, Forest
Alex Cunningham uo
BARBARA CARR BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
Park, St. Louis, 314-781-0900.
Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
PRETTY LITTLE EMPIRE: w/ Joan of Dark 9 p.m.,
2337.
436-5222.
WEDNESDAY 24
THE BIG MUDDY RECORDS BIG SUMMER PICNIC:
BIG RICH MCDONOUGH & THE RHYTHM RENE-
w/ Johnny Walker and the All Seeing Eyes,
GADES: 9 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700
Maximum Effort, Arson for Candy, Tortuga,
S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
5 SECONDS OF SUMMER: 7 p.m., $25-$79.95. Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth City Expwy., Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944. BE MY DOPPELGANGER: w/ Hospital Job, The C-Sides, Horror Section, Eaten Back To Life 7 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. DAVID DEE & THE HOT TRACKS: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. FAMILY: w The orge,
uaere erum, Ashes
and Iron, A Dark Orbit 8 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. I ACTUALLY: w/ Mountain Doom, Grand House 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226. JOSHUA STANLEY: w/ Shotgun Creek 8 p.m., $7$10. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave,
The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Avenue. $15 to $18. 314-833-3929.
St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
p.m., free. Schla y
314-773-3363.
SATURDAY 20
RADNEY FOSTER: 8 p.m., $15-$25. Old Rock
ALL BLACK PARTY: w/ King B, Ken Ken 8 p.m.,
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MONDAY 22 CARNIFEX: 6 p.m., $13-$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. SOULARD BLUES BAND: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314621-8811. THIRD SIGHT BAND: 8 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222.
TUESDAY 23 ANYBODY BUT THE COPS: w/ the Conformists, Babe Lords 9 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. BOB PLANT: 8 p.m., $8. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. THE EAST SIDERS: 9 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222.
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Pretty Little Empire
Of all the bands to emerge out of St. Louis’ rock scene in the last ten years, Pretty Little Empire may turn out to be the most enduring and musically compelling. Other candidates have garnered greater attention, but none have taken harmony, melody, fury and grace as far as this quartet. Whether crafting dreamy acoustic ballads or breaking out shoegazing waves of sound, the band has always been about emotion, sonically and lyrically
translating it without pretense. Since the departure of original drummer Evan O’Neil two years ago, Pretty Little Empire has performed infrequently and its members have explored other projects. Its return this week, with Jonathan Taylor of the Provels joining the rhythm section, could be the local show of the summer. Dark Stars: New St. Louis rock band Joan of Dark — featuring members of Arson For Candy, the Skekses, Née and the McGees — opens with what singer Ellen Herget calls “lo-fi live dance music.” – Roy Kasten
BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale on
ry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd.,
Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-
University City,
7880.
FUTURISTIC: W/ Beez, Cato, Justina, Sun., Oct.
CREE RIDER: 11:45 a.m., free. Citygarden, 801
9, 8 p.m., $15-$18. Blueberry Hill - The Duck
9 p.m. Friday, August 19. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $10. 314-7733363.
oom, 5 4
Market St, St. Louis. DIXIE CHICKS: w
intage Trouble
p.m.,
4- 2 -4444.
elmar Blvd., University City,
314-727-4444.
$42-$136. Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre,
THE INTERRUPTERS: W/ Bad Cop Bad Cop, Thu.,
I-70 & Earth City Expwy., Maryland Heights,
Oct. 20, 8 p.m., $12-$14. Blueberry Hill - The uck oom, 5 4
314-298-9944.
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elmar Blvd., University
ENTERPRISE EARTH: 6 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108
City, 314-727-4444.
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
JACK GRELLE RECORD RELEASE: Sat., Nov. 5, 8
POWER PLAY: 5 p.m., free. Creve Coeur Park,
p.m., free. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.
2143 Creve Coeur Mill Road, Maryland Heights,
Louis, 314-773-3363.
314-615-4386.
JASON D. WILLIAMS: Thu., Oct. 20, 8 p.m., $15-
YOUNG VALLEY: w/ the Wilderness 9 p.m., $5.
$20. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,
Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St.
314-773-3363.
Louis, 314-772-2100.
JON MCLAUGHLIN: W/ Brad Ray, Fri., Oct. 21, 8 p.m., $17-$20. Blueberry Hill - The Duck oom, 5 4
elmar Blvd., University City,
THIS JUST IN
314-727-4444.
AGES AND AGES: Sun., Oct. 2, 8 p.m., $12.
JOYCE MANOR: W/ the Hotelier, Crying, Thu.,
Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar
Oct. 27, 8 p.m., $15. Blueberry Hill - The Duck
Blvd., University City,
4- 2 -4444.
oom, 5 4
elmar Blvd., University City,
ALL GET OUT: W/ Gates, Young and Heartless,
314-727-4444.
Fri., Oct. 28, 8 p.m., $12. Blueberry Hill - The
JOYWAVE: W/ Freeze Tag, Thu., Sept. 1, 8 p.m.,
uck oom, 5 4
elmar Blvd., University
City, 314-727-4444.
$15. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 elmar Blvd., University City,
4- 2 -4444.
AMANDA SHIRES: W/ Colter Wall, Thu., Nov.
LAURA STEVENSON: Sun., Nov. 6, 8 p.m., $10-
3, 8 p.m., $12-$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp
$12. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504
Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
elmar Blvd., University City,
4- 2 -4444.
AUSTIN JOHN WINKLER: W/ Through Fire, Thu.,
LEOPOLD AND HIS FICTION: Sat., Sept. 10, 8 p.m.,
Aug. 18, 8 p.m., $12. The Firebird, 2706 Olive
$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,
St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
314-773-3363.
CRYPTIC WISDOM: Thu., Oct. 13, 7 p.m., $12-
LERA LYNN: W/ Indianola, Fri., Oct. 7, 8 p.m.,
$14. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-
$15-$18. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504
9050.
elmar Blvd., University City,
4- 2 -4444.
CUTE IS WHAT WE AIM FOR: W/ Captains Cou-
LEWIS DEL MAR: Fri., Oct. 14, 8 p.m., $12-$15.
rageous, Secondary, Mon., Sept. 26, 7 p.m.,
Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar
$15-$18. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,
Blvd., University City,
314-535-0353.
LYDIA LOVELESS: W/ Will Courtney & the
ERIC CHURCH: TBA. Scottrade Center, 1401
Wild Bunch, Thu., Sept. 15, 8 p.m., $12-$15.
Clark Ave., St. Louis, 314-241-1888.
Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar
FLYING HOUSE: Fri., Sept. 2, 9 p.m., $8. Blueber-
50+ ARTISTS / 10 VENUES/FREE LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON!
JAZZ &
BLUES NIGHT FRIDAY SEPT 16
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Tortuga. | ROBERT ROHE
Big Muddy Records Big Summer Picnic 1 p.m. Saturday, August 20. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $10. 314-7733363.
For any independent record label, making it to the ten-year mark is a damned eternity. In the case of local label Big Muddy Records, a laser focus on local and regional roots music with nary an eye toward commercial viability should have been a detriment rather than a calling card, but this year the label made it to double-digits on the backs of an inter-connected ecosystem Blvd., University City,
fri. aug. 19 10PM Funky Butt Brass Band
sat. aug. 20 10PM Bottoms Up Blues Gang 15th Anniversary Show featuring Pepperland, Leslie Sanazaro, Tommy Halloran and more!
4- 2 -4444.
The Voodoo Players Tribute to Funk and Soul Music
thur. aug. 25 9PM DJ Mahf FREE SHOW
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elmar Blvd., University City,
314-727-4444.
Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-
SLAVES: W/ Outline In Color, Inner Outlines,
0505.
Mon., Oct. 3, 6 p.m., $16-$18. Fubar, 3108
MITSKI: Sun., Nov. 6, 8 p.m., $12-$14. Off
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-
SLOAN: Sat., Nov. 12, 8 p.m., $20-$23. Blueber-
3363.
ry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd.,
MUSHROOMHEAD:
Sun ower
ead, Unsaid
University City,
4- 2 -4444.
Fate, Sun., Oct. 2, 6 p.m., $15. Pop’s Nightclub,
STEVE ‘N’ SEAGULLS: Wed., Sept. 28, 8 p.m.,
401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis, 618-274-
$12-$14. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 elmar Blvd., University City,
4- 2 -4444.
NORA-FEST CD RELEASE SHOW: A BENEFIT FOR
STILL CORNERS: Tue., Oct. 4, 8 p.m., $15.
STRAY RESCUE OF ST. LOUIS: W/ The Lion’s
Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar
aughter,
uaere erum, Cu o, Alan Smithee,
Blvd., University City,
4- 2 -4444.
bastard, At War Within, Grand Inquisitor,
STRYPER: Tue., Nov. 8, 8 p.m., $29-$35. The
Path of Might, Shitstorm, Leon Lamont, Side-
Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,
lined, Sat., Sept. 3, 5 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108
314-833-3929.
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
THE SUFFERS: W/ Jakubi, Sat., Oct. 8, 8 p.m.,
RICK SPRINGFIELD: W/ Loverboy, Tommy
$12.50-$15. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room,
Tutone, Sat., Oct. 15, 7 p.m., $45-$90. Family
5 4
sat. aug. 27 10PM
Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St Charles, 636-
4444.
The Aquaducks Funk from Nashville
896-4200.
SWEAR AND SHAKE: W/ Lauren Shera, Fri.,
RINGWORM: W/ Exalt, Everything Went Black,
Oct. 14, 8 p.m., $12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp
Mon., Oct. 24, 8 p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust
Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
ZOOGMA: Fri., Sept. 30, 9 p.m., $5-$12. Old
SHAWN MULLINS: W/ Lari White, Fri., Sept.
Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-
23, 8 p.m., $25-$30. Blueberry Hill - The Duck
0505.
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– Christian Schaeffer
MANIC FOCUS: Thu., Oct. 27, 9 p.m., $12. Old
6720.
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of hard-playing, hard-touring bands. The label’s yearly Big Summer Picnic will feature a dozen bands, including the Loot Rock Gang, Tortuga, Arson for Candy and the Sidney Street Shakers. It that’s not enough, the crew will be roasting a 100-pound hog to keep you sated between sets at this all-day event. Boss Man Boogie: Label-head and true believer Chris Baricevic will peek out from behind the scenes with his act, Kristo and the Strange Places.
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SAVAGE LOVE ALL I EVER WANTED BY DAN SAVAGE DEAR READERS: I’m on vacation for three weeks — but you won’t be reading old columns in my absence, and you won’t be reading columns by anyone who isn’t Dan Savage. You’ll be reading new columns, all of them written by Dan Savage, none of them written by me. Our second guest Dan Savage is 32 years old, single and living in London. Dan Savage is now ten years into a career in theater arts marketing and currently works for some of the West End’s biggest hit musicals. Dan has never written a sex-advice column before, but he occasionally gets angry tweets that were meant for me. A quick word about qualifications: Advice is defined as “an opinion about what could or should be done.” We’re all entitled to our opinions — but only Dan Savage, theatrical marketing exec, is entitled to share his opinions in my column this week. Take it away, Dan! Hey, Dan: I am a 65-year-old male new to gay relationships. I placed a listing on SilverDaddies and have had a LOT of responses from great young guys. I have met only one guy so far. He is 23 and says he has had only a few girlfriends and has not
had any gay experiences. He is so passionate. Very oral. Long kissing sessions, and he puts his tongue EVERYWHERE. Of course I use condoms. I asked him what he gets out of this. He said he gets an intensity he can’t explain over pleasing an older man that he doesn’t get from sex with a female. He considers himself straight, since he is attracted only to older men and is only a bottom. In any case, he will be back at grad school soon, and I will no doubt have another partner. I have never had an STD. I don’t want to get one now. I talked to a clinic over the phone about getting the HPV vaccine, and they thought it was funny and would not do it. I will be seeing young guys who are sexually active, so I think I should be able to get this vaccine. I do not want cold sores or warts or whatever at my age. This Old Pop I think it’s great — if you don’t mind me saying — that in your advanced years you are able to embark on this new sexual adventure and experimentation, TOP! And you have a hot 23-year-old visiting you for regular sex — something a lot of people much younger than you would kill for! As long as you are safe and wear a condom, you shouldn’t put too much stress on yourself regarding STIs. Maybe just don’t go around picking up boys off street corners
who look like they need a good wash. My personal opinion is this guy may not be being as honest with you as you’d have hoped. A 23-yearold straight guy, in his first homosexual encounter, being “very oral” and “only a bottom” and putting “his tongue everywhere” — that sounds to me like someone who knows what he’s doing. My experience of first times is generally a quick fumble and an even quicker ejaculation. Regardless, he is soon to leave, T P, and you will find a new sexual partner. Advice from a YoungTOP to an ldT P: o with the ow and be safe, but most of all enjoy it! (And to older gay gentlemen who think you can’t get any: TOP is! You can!) Hey, Dan: I am 39 years old and my husband is 51; we have been together nine years and married four. This morning, he was jacking off on my arse during foreplay and watching porn on his phone, which is not unusual. The problem is when I looked to see what he was watching (we often watch porn together), he got a little mad. I let it go, but when he got in the shower, I looked at his phone and saw that he was watching gay porn. MEN. I don’t think I have a problem with that, but it kind of threw me. Should I be worried that he is secretly on the down low? Or does he just like to look at gay porn
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