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n the end, the circumstances and details surrounding the demise of the east side’s longest-running adult cinema are just as blurry as the films (well, tapes) that played on the venue’s smoke-stained screens.

The Colony II was established in East St. Louis in 1991, although the décor was a mishmash of ‘70s-through-‘90s influences.

It was operated by a company called Venice Films, which at one point ran two adult cinemas in East St. Louis, located just few blocks apart. The first, the Colony, preceded its younger sister in death.

For decades, the Colony II was a center for St. Louis’ swinger subculture, with the primary “couples theater” showing VHS classics in a locked room, filled with cloth-lined couches sitting atop cinder blocks. Several now sit in a sad, high pile behind the building.

While the ancillary theaters and a breathtakingly dated lounge were open to all — with lots of solo-flying gentlemen as attendees — the couples theater and secluded dance floor were limited to key-holders. Those magical entry keys were doled out by the club’s desk attendant, along with a handful of branded drink chips; on any given night the prices varied, as the night’s entertainment was often chalkmarked as a “private party.” For $30 to $60 a couple, the veil of exclusivity was lifted and you were a club member for the evening.

But it was not to last.

A s f i r s t r e p o r t e d by t h e Belleville News-Democrat, the cinema was shuttered during the early-morning hours of Saturday, May 14. The News-Democrat piece details a raid by East St. Louis’ police: “Deputy Liquor Commissioner Natavia Sanders said adult films are not allowed Continued on pg 9

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St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar (left) and Ballwin Police Chief Kevin Scott discuss an officer’s “ambush” Friday. | DOYLE MURPHY

‘OUTSTANDING’ OFFICER FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE AFTER AMBUSH

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allwin police officer Mike Flamion is fighting for his life after he was shot in the neck during traffic stop on Friday, authorities say.

The officer, a nine-year veteran, was walking back to his vehicle at about 11 a.m. when the suspect jumped out of a Ford Taurus, rushed him from behind and fired three rounds. At least one bullet struck him.

“Make no mistake, we believe during this investigation the Ballwin officer was ambushed,” St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar told reporters Friday.

Neighbors in the west county suburb called 911 as the suspect, a 31-year-old ex-con, sped off. Flamion was transported to a local hospital where he was in critical but stable condition, authorities say.

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Thanks to calls from witnesses, police were quickly able to put out a description of the Taurus. Officers responding from surrounding agencies spotted the car in nearby Manchester.

The suspect bailed out of the Taurus and fled on foot, sprinting through yards before he was captured, authorities say. He wasn’t injured. Officers recovered a semi-automatic handgun.

St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch identified the suspect as 31-year-old Antonio Taylor, whose last-known address was in the Grove. Taylor is facing charges of assault on a police officer, armed criminal action and possession of weapon as a felon. He is being held on $500,000 bail.

Taylor’s record includes auto theft in 2011 in Oklahoma, followed by a weapons violation in California while on probation. He served time in prison and was released in March 2013, Belmar says.

County police are handling the investigation. The reason for the original stop was speeding, and the in-

teraction was captured by the patrol car’s dash-cam, Ballwin Police Chief Kevin Scott says. The video shows the officer speak with the suspect, who was still sitting in the Taurus, and then walk back to the cruiser to finish some paperwork.

“You see the suspect exit his vehicle, run back toward our officer, firing shots,” Scott says.

The officer had “no chance at all” to draw his service weapon and protect himself, according to the chief.

The shooting came one day after the horrific incident in Dallas in which a sniper opened fire on police officers at a Black Lives Matter protest. Five officers were killed before the suspect was taken out by an explosive device.

Scott and Belmar say it’s a “difficult time” for police officers across the country, but they refused to speculate on whether the gunman was motivated by the killings in Dallas.

“If the men and women of this community would keep our officers in their prayers as we go through this trying time, it would be greatly appreciated,” Scott said. —Doyle Murphy

COLONY II Continued from pg 8 in East St. Louis theaters and during her investigation of the place, she found the owner to be showing adult films. They didn t have a city or state liquor license or a business license,’ she said.”

But the Colony had been showing adult films for decades.

Downright laughable is the notion that ast t. ouis o cials didn’t know what was happening until recently.

Neither the East St. Louis mayor nor police chief responded to calls and emails seeking comment last week. Calls were also made to several numbers attached to the business. Two visits to the site failed to yield anyone who could talk.

The place looked closed — and more than a bit intimidating — even when it was open. A thick treeline crept along the property line, then stopped abruptly near the building’s weathered, fortress-like walls. The eight front windows were slits, better to see out of than into.

The most interesting clue to its demise comes from an odd source. On Cinema Treasures, an adult theater blogger known as Dr. Emilio Lizardo wrote, “The business was sold when the long-time owner, Ed Komorek, passed away and in turn was sold by his heirs. From what I understand licenses were not obtained by the new owners and the business (which was to be re-named ‘Kisses’) was shuttered by the city.”

Records show that Venice Films Inc. was dissolved on December 11, 2015 by the Illinois Secretary of State. At the time, paperwork showed, the business was under the ownership of Edward Anthony Komorek III of Olathe, Kansas.

In 2000, RFT writer Eddie Silva interviewed Komorek III’s father, Edward Komorek II, for a piece titled “Video Killed the Pornography Star”: “‘Who would go to a theater when they can get their rocks off at home?’ says Ed, the owner/ manager of the Colony, the last remaining triple-X house in the region. Ed (who really isn’t interested in being in the newspapers, so leave it at Ed) has operated the Colony for 30 years ... close to a new housing development in one of the worst zones of poverty

For 25 years, the Colony II served East St. Louis — and Missouri, too. | THOMAS CRONE

The couches that previously graced the “couples theater.” | THOMAS CRONE in the region. To Ed, the rows of new homes mean nothing more than ‘more shootin’,’ which he’s prepared for — the butt end of a .45 is prominently displayed in the pocket of his blue jeans.”

Big Ed, who would have been approximately 77 at the time of his death, was the deep-voiced greeter who met theatergoers upon entry, an imposing guy behind an equally-imposing desk that overlooked the front door.

The comment he made to Silva

about “shootin’” proved eerily prophetic. In 2010, the Post-Dispatch covered a case in which a man named Travis Heard, 35, was stopped in the act of stealing metal from the roof, then shot when escaping the cinema after detention by the owner.

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building to make sure nothing else got stolen, police said… He was holding Mr. Heard as a burglary suspect and, in an attempt to call police, there was a shot fired and r. eard fled from the scene.” Since then, the Colony II’s air conditioning units have been topped by steel cages.

Time finally caught up with the Colony II this year. The Colony’s Facebook page was last updated in mid-April, advertising a weekend twerking contest.

Then… nothing. After the May raid, the building’s featured a “closed” sign, one that’s slotted right through the front door’s handles.

While the swinger community that congregated there already had established email channels and Facebook secret groups for connection outside of the place, it’s future generations of gawkers who’ll lose out.

The Colony II’s cocktail lounge, in particular, was a remarkable room, featuring multiple small TVs showing adult fare, a Smithsonian-worthy collection of kitsch, exotic wallpapers, a rotating hot dog machine and a fish tank full of neon tetras.

There was nothing else like the Colony II. Probably never will be again. n

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n June 18, the candidates for St. Louis circuit attorney gathered for a debate unlike any in the city’s long history. Held before a crowd of 270 in a sun-lit conference room on the campus of Saint Louis University, the session had been organized by Black Lives Matter protestors and local social justice organizations. A key moderator, Kayla Reed, had confronted police in Ferguson and St. Louis. Like others in the audience, she knew what was like to be arrested for protesting.

It says something about the mood of the electorate in St. Louis these days that all four candidates vying to become the city’s top prosecutor didn’t just show up for the debate — they earnestly made their case for reform to the o ce s harshest critics. Two eteran prosecutors, a retired police o cer and a state representati e all participated for nearly two hours, answering question after question about public accountability, mass incarceration and eliminating racial bias in the criminal justice system. Not one of them ever suggested that the organizers’ concerns were overblown, or that they lacked authority to challenge law enforcement.

That response came from outside the room.

Jennifer Joyce, who for sixteen years has served as the city’s circuit attorney, the woman the four candidates were seeking to replace, wasn’t at the debate — but she was, apparently, closely following while St. Louis Public Radio’s Rachel Lippmann live-tweeted the action.

“Odd that @RE_invent_ED is moderating a Circuit Attorney debate when she’s made it clear she wants to blow up the system. Seems unbalanced,” Joyce tweeted an hour into the event, using Reed’s user name.

Joyce took some shots at the candidates, too, but returned several times to decry the bias she saw in debate’s setup.

This is completely false, she tweeted an hour later, responding to a moderator s suggestion that success in the Circuit ttorney s ce is judged by conviction rate. “We’ve never measured success on convictions. This is where we need balance on the panel.

Those actually attending the debate took umbrage at the prosecutor’s sideline commentary. One audience member, Rasheen Aldridge, diagnosed Joyce’s petty outrage as an afternoon case of tweeting-under-the-influence.

“When the city of St. Louis prosecutor is at home on the couch sipping something and just mad for no reason,” Aldridge tweeted at Joyce, adding three crying-with-laughter emojis.

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TOP PROSECUTOR Continued from pg 11 Others in the crowd piled on.

“You as the CA in this town must be alot like like [sic] being a weather forecaster,” tweeted Kennard Williams, a protester and local activist. “Be wrong all the time, but still have a job.”

Later, Joyce would apologize, saying she had been out of line (and, for the record, hadn’t been drinking — she is a teetotaler).

But the moment stood as a stark reminder of what’s at stake in August.

In St. Louis’ criminal justice system, all roads lead to the desk of the circuit attorney. The job of the city’s top prosecutor is grueling and frequently thankless, a lightning rod for criticism even in the best of times. The o ce comes with the power to not only charge suspects with misdemeanors and

felonies, but to set policies that change lives in both communities and courtrooms.

Yet once elected, the circuit attorney tends to get reelected. Only three people have held the title since 1976. Joyce breezed through the last two contests unopposed.

One year ago this month, Joyce surprised allies and enemies alike by announcing she was would not run for an unprecedented fifth term.

It had been a hard couple of years for the circuit attorney’s office. The ugust police shooting of Michael Brown, a black Ferguson teenager, mobilized protesters who sought to scrutinize not only Brown’s death in St. Louis County but also how prosecutors were handling police shootings in St. Louis city.

And scrutinize they did. In the span of two months following Brown’s death, St. Louis metro

Candidates seek to show they can both fill Joyce’s shoes and bring major change. police shot and killed two young black men. oyce s o ce in estigated both cases, but chose not to bring charges against the o cers.

After the second case failed to yield criminal charges, protesters

showed up on Joyce’s front porch.

Seven were arrested on the scene.

The organi ers of the une debate didn’t try to hide their anticipation for oyce s departure. The debate’s printed program, distributed to attendees, featured suggested hashtags for live-tweeting the event. One was #ByeJennifer.

Now the candidates vying to replace her face a formidable task.

They need to con ince oters that they have the experience to prosecute murderers and rapists, but also hold the police in check. They need to show they care about victims, but — in this increasingly complex political climate — also show that they don’t want to bring down the hammer on poor defendants.

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doesn’t bother Reed, the debate moderator targeted by Joyce’s derision.

“I think it’s OK to live in the tensions of both,” she says. “Instead of just blindly saying what Jennifer has been, I wanted to give the candidates some space to show us what they are.”

Of the four candidates running in the Democratic primary, two currently work for Joyce. Since St. Louis tends to lean hard to the left, the winner of the primary vote on August 2 will almost certainly become Joyce’s successor.

Mary Pat Carl, the lead homicide prosecutor in the Circuit Attorney’s Office, has been endorsed by Joyce and has the double-edged sword of being her heir apparent. Patrick Hamacher, a prosecutor in the Circuit Attorney’s Office, has five years’ experience under his belt and seeks to position himself as an idealistic (yet capable) alternative to the establishment Carl.

State Representative Kimberly Gardner is a black former prosecutor and nurse who left the Circuit ttorney s ce in to pursue politics in the state legislature.

The true outlier is te e armon, a former metro police o cer and son of t. ouis first black police chief (and later mayor), Clarence Harmon.

All four are licensed attorneys, though two — Harmon and Gardner — have never prosecuted a murder case. Harmon is the only one who has never worked for Joyce.

As outsider candidates, Harmon and Gardner took the hardest lines on oyce. They needled at her office s lack of di ersity and faulted

her leadership for failing to engage minority communities. Unsurprisingly, Carl and Hamacher shied away from directly bashing their current boss, but both argued the o ce should do more than simply lock people up. respect her o ce, but at the same time the challenges of yesteryear are not the challenges going forth,” Gardner said in an early moment of the debate. “When you talk about how we move forward, that’s about building trust, and I’m the only candidate on this stage who is able to do that.”

In a debate full of tough questions and implied comparisons to Joyce, the candidates did their damnedest to stand out. After Gardner’s opening salvo about how she was “the only candidate” who could return trust to the Circuit Attorney’s Office, the others leapt to add their own self-declared superlatives.

“I’m the only candidate with managerial and administrative experience,” Harmon said, touting his lengthy career as a homicide detective and police commander.

“I’m the only candidate who as a prosecutor has successfully diverted non-violent individuals out of the criminal justice system,” said Hamacher. He launched into a stump-speech anecdote about a seventeen-year-old he’d personally mentored through probation, avoiding a life-altering conviction that could have saddled the youth with a felony conviction.

Carl took a somewhat different approach. Battle-tested over thirteen years, she rose through the ranks of the Circuit Attorney’s Office while handling domestic abuse and other special victims’ cases, including 36 rape trials. In speeches, she likes to point out that she has more years of prosecutorial experience than the other three candidates — combined.

“I respect her office, but at the same time the challenges of yester-year are not the challenges going forth.”

patrick hamacher All Lives Matter,” he said.

The crowd was silent.

“I was raised in a Christian household,” he continued. “As a former t. ouis police o cer, e treated all people the same, regardless of their race, ethnicity, their background, where they lived, their sexual orientation. I believed that everyone’s life is equal and all lives matter.”

It was not the message this audience wanted to hear. And from his seat in the audience, Rasheen Aldridge cringed.

The erguson protester had served on the Ferguson Commission, met President Barack Obama and is now part of a wave of young activists entering the political arena, running for committeeman in the 5th Ward.

“Being a protester, what shocked me was when Harmon said All Lives Matter,” Aldridge later explained. The mo ement has fought on this over and over. It’s not about all lives, not about black lives. It’s about how people of color are being locked out of opportunities.”

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“Being tough on crime, that alone isn’t enough. We have to be smart on crime,” Carl told the audience. “I’m the only one in this race that has the experience and the know-how to know the difference.”

Considering her links to Joyce, Carl should have been the candidate on the hot seat in this particular debate. And most of the time, she was, though she handled herself with aplomb. When her opponents offered rambling tangents, Carl spouted off paragraphs of detail without as much as an “um” to interrupt her argument.

And at the conclusion of the debate s first round, it was armon who managed to irk the audience.

The former cop is nobody s apologist. He wears a chunky gold ring with the emblem of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department on his right ring finger. Back in 2005, he reported a detective to Internal Affairs after watching the o cer abuse a prisoner with a stun gun. He retired from the force two years later, though he says the two events were unrelated.

But an outsider black candidate like Harmon should have been ready for the final uestion of the debate’s first round. Instead, he stumbled.

Addressing all four candidates, Reed asked them to explain answers they’d provided to a pre-debate sur ey. The sur ey had asked them to choose among four statements: “Black Lives Matter,” “All Lives Matter,” “We Must Stop Killing Each Other” or “I’d rather not say.”

Of the four, three candidates had picked Black Lives Matter.

Carl answered first. Though it is true that all lives matter, right now we need to concentrate that black lives matter because they’re not mattering enough.”

“Of course black lives matter,” followed Gardner. “I’d like to say I live a black life. So I understand the issues in terms of how African Americans are treated in the criminal justice system.”

Hamacher offered a slightly different take. To me, lack i es Matter stands for a movement,” he said, noting that it was the movement that focused awareness on police shootings.

Then came armon. answered

On a muggy weeknight days after the debate, a St. Louis Hills neighborhood meeting opens with a special ceremony. Carrying the gravitas of a kindergarten graduation, a representative of the St. Louis Grand Jury Association presents a middle-aged woman with a certificate and a medal. er heroic act? Calling 911 on a man stealing copper wiring.

This wasn t rescuing a family from a burning building,” she acknowledges, accepting the gifts.

“What I did is something very simple that any of you could have done. I looked out of my kitchen window, and I used my voice to call the police.”

Hamacher joins the modest crowd — 35 sweating attendees, all white — in a round of applause.

Since launching his campaign, he’s attended four or fi e neighborhood meetings every week, all over the city. This one, in one of the city s safest areas, is just one of many.

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“ TOP PROSECUTOR Continued from pg 15 opens by congratulating the night’s honoree.

“I know we wish that we had more witnesses and victims just like yourself,” he says. Meaning: The kind who aren t afraid to call that call the police.

He launches into one of his stump speeches.

“I was about fourteen years old when I knew I wanted to be prosecutor,” he begins. “I used to love shows like Dateline and 20/20. I used to watch them with my mom.

I was really interested in the stories they would tell, but especially the prosecutors in those cases.”

Born in Brentwood, the DeSmet grad attended Loyola before studying law at Mizzou and getting a chance to live his teenaged prosecutorial dream while interning in the Cook County prosecutor s o ce in Chicago. After he passed the bar, oyce hired him to join her o ce in St. Louis.

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need someone as the next circuit attorney who has the leadership ability to really bring people together to address these issues.”

So far, Hamacher’s youth and idealism has worked on the campaign trail. His emphasis on diversion programs and the need for special prosecutors to investigate police shootings has won him allies with activists and an endorsement from the Ethical Society of Police, the St. Louis equivalent of a black police union.

But he’s also struggled in headto-head comparisons with his coworker, ary at Carl. The o ce s Lead Homicide Prosecutor, Carl has tried eight murder cases and oversaw several additional trials while training other prosecutors.

Hamacher has tried just one murder case. And at 31, he’ll have to work overtime to persuade voters he’s not too young for such a big job.

Hamacher isn’t the only one struggling to outshine Carl. Like Hamacher, Kimberly Gardner also spent about fi e years as a t. ouis prosecutor, handling misdemeanors and some felony cases, but no murders.

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come in her telling; in fact, it’s part of her sales pitch.

“As one of the rare minority prosecutors, I felt there was not a lot of opportunity for me to move up within that organization,” Gardner says during an interview in her campaign o ce. That s why only stayed there for a certain amount of time. As a lawyer you want to expand yourself. You don’t want to be limited by duties or functions of the o ce. They need to do a better job of retaining good talent and diverse culture.”

For Gardner, the race is about more than prosecutorial experience. She notes that the violence that continues to bloody the streets in north St. Louis neighborhoods — where most of the city’s murders take place — has roots in poverty, over-policing and longstanding imbalances in education and transportation. The residents there are disheartened, says Gardner.

Where she’s from, witnesses and victims are afraid to call 911.

“It’s the system where they feel like they have no voice. No one can identify with the struggles in some of these hard-hit, economically depressed areas. I think I can go in and bridge the gap.”

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narrow line here: Sure, she doesn’t have Carl’s career chops as prosecutor — but she also embodies why young black lawyers seem to keep lea ing the Circuit ttorney s ce for other pastures.

“I know a lot of lawyers who would love to have the opportunity to work in the prosecutor s o ce, she says. “But opportunities are limited. pace is limited. This idea we cannot have a diverse prosecutor s o ce that s not true.

Six days after the debate, Jennifer Joyce sits in her wood-covered office on the fourth floor of the Carnahan Courthouse, turning a snow globe in her hands. She gives it a shake.

This is my ady ustice snow globe,” Joyce says. Gold foil billows around the female figure encased in glass. “Somebody gave it to me because change this o ce all the time. I call it snow-globing the office.

Now Joyce’s impending departure portends a shake-up that hasn t been seen in the o ce in more than a decade.

“I care very much about this office, and care ery much about who succeeds me, oyce says. The work here is so important, and

there’s a lot of people doing this work and I’m going to correct any misrepresentation by anybody.”

That s why the debate worried her. The stakes are too high for platitudes and fuzzy propositions about bringing trust back to the office. The ne t circuit attorney won’t have any time for on-the-job training, she says. There is work to be done, and it waits on nobody.

But even Joyce can admit when she’s gone too far.

Little more than two hours after the debate ended, Joyce backtracked on her Twitter barrage. he tweeted at Reed, “[M] y apologies. Looks like I’m the one who lacked balance. By all accounts you did a great job.”

The difference between her initial tweets and the apology, Joyce says, was a conversation with Bruce Franks, an activist who makes it his habit to bridge the divide between protesters and the police. He had reached out to Joyce and chided her over her easy dismissal of the debate. Joyce apparently took his words to heart.

“It was pretty unfair of me to not be at the debate. This is a young woman who cares really passionately about this stuff and worked really hard on this,” Joyce says of Reed. “By all accounts the questions were fair. I was prejudging what she was going to do, and that’s exactly the thing that protesters do that annoys me. I realized that was a mistake on my part.”

It’s not often that Joyce reverses a position. On her desk sits a plaque with the words “I’m Responsible,” the same kind Rudy Giuliani kept on his desk while mayor of New York City. Over the last several years, Joyce earned a reputation for being prickly on Twitter, willing to throw down in defense of her o ce for any percei ed slight or misrepresentation. Trying to budge Joyce from a position can often be a doomed effort.

She acknowledges that she overreacted to the debate criticism, but she also knows what the next Circuit Attorney will be walking into.

It won’t be anything like an echo chamber of progressives.

They re going to ha e to know what they’re doing,” she says.

It’s not just a matter of years spent in the o ce. oyce had only si years in the prosecutor s o ce before winning the circuit attorney post in 2000. But unlike Hamacher or Gardner, Joyce had worked multiple homicide cases and spent her years in the high-stakes child abuse unit.

Not one to mince words, Joyce offers a simple assessment of Hamacher. “I don’t think Patrick has the experience to do this job,” she says.

Joyce has similar problems with Gardner. She can pound the bully pulpit about bringing trust back to the office, but to Joyce it sounds like empty political fury.

“Kim was a prosecutor here for fi e years. She’s had that experience where victims are afraid to come forward or afraid to cooperate and we have to dismiss the case. Why is it now, when she sits in that chair, that all of a sudden all the victims are going to come forward? It’s not that easy.”

If there’s one point about the job that Joyce wants to get across, it s just that There is nothing easy about being circuit attorney. The holder of that title will find him or herself threatened and pressured on all sides, pushed by police unions, legislators, mayors and high-powered attorneys. The ne t circuit attorney may look out their window one day to see protesters assembling on their lawn, as she did.

“I think this is, in some ways, the most important election,” Joyce mused, unknowingly echoing Reed’s comments. “I like

“Why is it now, when she sits in that chair, that all of a sudden victims are going to come forward?

It’s not that easy.”

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TOP PROSECUTOR Continued from pg 17 Kim Gardner a lot. I like Patrick Hamacher a lot. I don’t really know Steven Harmon. But nobody is in the same league, in my view, as Mary Pat.” When Mary Pat Carl introduces herself to a jury, she takes time to explain the story behind her face.

After giving birth to her second child, Carl was diagnosed with Bell’s palsy, a condition that causes facial nerves to swell. Overnight, Carl, who’d eventually have four kids, was unable to control the muscles on the right side of her face. Although most cases of Bell’s palsy are temporary, Carl wasn’t so fortunate. Five years after the diagnosis, her smile remains lopsided.

After returning to work, she seriously considered giving up trials for good.

“It was obvious that I had a choice to make,” Carl says on a recent weekday outing to meet voters in St. Louis Hills. “Walk away from what I loved? Walk away from my passion? Or put vanity aside and figure out a way to do it Carl settled on the latter option.

These days, when she stands before a jury, she recounts the story of her diagnosis and warns the jury that sometimes it looks like she’s smirking when she’s not. She’ll also give jurors a chance to speak up if they feel her appearance is so distracting they can’t focus on the case. No one ever has.

The day s heat inde is tipping at 103 degrees, and the air has turned to soup. Clutching a stack of campaign pamphlets in one hand, Carl peers at a smartphone app that directs her to the next address of a likely primary voter.

After growing up in Florissant, Carl attended high school at Incarnate Word Academy and claimed her bachelor’s at DePaul University in Chicago. She graduated law school at Washington University in

2002 and spent a year with St. Clair County in Illinois before moving to the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s ce.

The following thirteen years threw Carl into homicide cases as well as felonies related to guns and drugs, but it is the child abuse and domestic assaults that stick with her. Witnesses and victims need more protection, Carl says, which is why she wants to create a special witness protection unit in the Circuit ttorney s ce.

And although she’s proud to have Joyce’s support, she acknowledges that the endorsement has caused its share of problems.

“People think that I am the exact same as Jennifer because I have her endorsement,” Carl says. “I’m honored, but it doesn’t mean I’ve become a replicant of her DNA.” Carl approaches a stately brick house on Itaska Street. After some knocking, a trim, middle-aged man opens the door. Carl introduces herself, asking if the man has looked at the circuit attorney race yet.

He hadn’t. “I just don’t read the paper,” he says sheepishly.

But it turns out the man shares a mutual friend with Carl, a public defender in the city. Carl and the man banter back and forth for minute. Carl pitches her candidacy for circuit attorney and lays out her experiences as prosecutor.

The man spends se eral minutes complaining about nursing school.

Then he takes a pamphlet.

“Well, listen, thank you for what you do,” he finally says. But he doesn’t close the door just yet. “You are probably not the most popular person is some circles because of what you do, but it’s important.

So thank you, and I wish you the best of…”

The words seem to catch in this throat.

“I’m not going to say luck,” he says, “because you have the expen rience.”

“I’m honored, but it doesn’t mean I’ve become a replicant of her DNA.”

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THURSDAY 0714 Young Frankenstein

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Even Mel Brooks knows that Young Frankenstein is the best of his films, so it’s little wonder that the comedy was transferred to the stage after the rousing success of Brooks musical version of The Producers. Much of the original elements from the film ersion remain Igor pronounces his name as “Eye-gor,” Frederick goes by “Fronkensteen” instead of the more familiar pronunciation and Inga still enjoys a nice roll in the hay. But now your favorite bits come with music and dance: Frau Blücher (a horse neighs in the distance) now sings of her great love for her deceased paramour in “He Vas My Boyfriend” and Igor welcomes Frederick with the jaunty “Together Again (for the First Time). Keep your eyes on the Frau; star of stage and screen Vicki Lewis plays her in the Muny’s inaugural run of the show, which opens this week. Young Frankenstein is performed at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday through Tuesday (July 13 to 19) at the Muny in Forest Park (314-3611900 or www.muny.org). Tickets are $14 to $90.

FRIDAY 0715 John & Jen Andrew Lippa and Tom Greenwald’s musical John & Jen is the story of a young woman who vows to protect her little brother from their abusive father during childhood, but finds that keeping her promise means never engaging with her own best future.

Her choice ultimately costs Jen her brother John, but she gets a second chance with her own son, also named John. But too often history repeats itself, and it s di cult if not impossible to escape the curse of turning into your own parents. This is an unusual musical that explores

BY PAUL FRISWOLD the stages of womanhood and the familiar but always strange terrain of brother-sister relationships, as well as the mother-son dynamic. Insight Theatre Company presents John & Jen at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (July 15 to 31) at the Heagney Theatre (530 East Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves; www.insighttheatrecompany.com). Tickets are $10 to $35.

Rocky The theme of this year ’s Art Hill Film Series is the American spirit,” which is elucidated by four classic films. This week’s selection is the original Rocky, which explores the American dream through the life of Syl-

vester Stallone’s poor but proud Philadelphia boxer. It’s a story about an underdog who learns you can’t sacrifice love in your quest to be the best, because if you’re knocked off the mountain before you get to the top it’s good to have someone to catch you before you hit the bottom.

Rocky is screened outdoors on Forest Park’s Art Hill, directly in front of the Saint Louis Art Museum (www.slam.org). A host of food trucks will be parked nearby, ready to serve you everything from sliders to donuts to sausages from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

There is also an art project for adults and a DJ spinning. The film starts at 9 p.m. and admission is free, but bring money or your bank card of choice to buy treats. riverfronttimes.com

SATURDAY 0716 World Naked Bike Ride The World Naked Bike Ride is more than just the perfect opportunity to bicycle al fresco with a large group of like-minded people. It’s the most cheerful protest against oil-dependency you’ll ever see, and it’s also a celebration of the human body in all its myriad shapes, colors and styles. You’ll witness mastectomy scars, body hair, tattoos both beautiful and not-so-great, cellulite and stretch marks; but what you’ll remember are the smiles and how

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Ride as bare as you dare at the World Naked Bike Ride. | JON GITCHOFF everyone looks great in their birthday suit. The World Naked Bike Ride sets up along Manchester Avenue between Sarah Street and Kentucky Avenue in the Grove.

The pre-party starts at 5 p.m., and riders take off at 7 p.m. Admission is free, and for more information, visit www.wnbrstl.org.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Mike Nichols’ first film was the classic adaptation of Edward Albee’s powerhouse play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which chronicles one night in the life of antagonistic middle-age drunkards Martha and George. The production was fraught with problems; the amount of adult language kept the Production Code office from approving the film, star Richard Burton was unsure of his ability to play the weakwilled George and Nichols had no filmmaking e perience at the time.

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The Webster Film Series screens Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as part of its tribute to the best black and white cinematography from to . The film screens at p.m. Friday through Sunday (July 15 to 17) at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood Avenue; www.webster.edu/filmseries). Admission is $4 to $6.

SUNDAY 0717 St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase The St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase returns with 88 new films (feature-length and shorts) written, directed, edited or produced by St. Louisans or set in St. Louis. This year’s installment is spread across fi e days uly to at the andmark Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar Boulevard, University City; www. cinemastlouis.org), with the opening show a block of documentary shorts. Mark Clark and Quinsonta Boyd’s “The Delmar Connection” looks at the history of the street that divides the haves from the

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ha e-nots. rofiling ace ike Higgins” is Matthew Seilback’s biography of Mike Higgins, who grew up in St. Louis, joined the Army, served as a pastor and is now a member of the Black Lives Matter movement. The doc shorts program starts at 12:15 p.m. Sunday, July 17. Tickets are free, but you still need to pick one up at the box o ce.

MONDAY 0718 Cardinals vs. Padres The Cardinals are not having a banner year, but the teams promotions department is knocking it out of the park. This week’s series of games against the San Diego Padres takes place at 7:15 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and at 6:15 p.m. Thursday (July 18 to 21), and all four games include a fun giveaway. Monday’s game is American Girl Night, and your special theme-night ticket will get you a Cardinals shirt for your American Girl doll. Tuesday night is a Bud Bash for Brad Thompson, with a bobblehead of the 2006 World Series hurler going to fans who purchase a theme-night ticket.

Wednesday is Star Wars Night, meaning theres a free t-shirt with special ticket purchase, and Thursday is Christmas in July you get a Cardinals stocking cap at that one.

All games are at Busch Stadium, and standard tickets are $10.90 to $210.90. Theme night tickets are in the $130 to $200 range.

WEDNESDAY 0720 Comedy Shorts: The St. Louis Filmmakers Festival comedy shorts block features a wide range of short films, from uick-hits ak ych s two-minute nottington University”) to longer pieces that tell a complete story, such as Joseph Puleo’s “Top Son,” a fourteen-minute mini-epic that follows a 30-year-old Tom Cruise impersonator who tries to hit the big time by entering a talent competition. In between are a noir drama about the Easter Bunny (Seth Ferranti’s “Easter Bunny Assassin”) and Michelle Davidson’s “The Perfect Note,” which is a musical about a magical piano.

The comedy shorts program starts at 9:30 p.m. tonight at the Landmark Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar Boulevard, University City; www.cinemastlouis.org).

Tickets are $10 to $13.

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s streaming boutique networks and oxymoronic Smart TVs have razed the traditional structures of film distribution and erected a strip mall of New Release junk-food joints, it’s worth remembering that the home video/ cable revolution your parents and grandparents fought back in the old days of VHS wasn’t won so that you could watch the latest Adam Sandler vehicle on a five-inch screen during your lunch break.

We were promised all of the world’s culture, past and present, within our reach, yet somehow it took etfli fi e years to reali e that was ignoring its algorithm-driven recommendations and it could keep the Family Guy episodes to itself.

All of which is simply my digressive way of saying that it’s always worth your while to look behind the loud and heavily promoted latest releases to see what else is on the shelf. n my case, that means trying to catch up on some of the DVD/ lu- ay releases that e allowed to pile up around my desk for the last few months. ou won t find many references to The Daughter of Dawn (coming from Milestone Films on July 19) in film history books. orbert yles film, shot with a cast drawn from Oklahoma’s Kiowa and Comanche tribes, had a sneak preview in Los Angeles and a short commercial run in Topeka, Kansas, before disappearing. Like far too many films from the silent era, it was presumed lost. Then, in 2005, a private investigator contacted the Oklahoma Historical Society with the news that he had received a print as payment from a client.

Newly restored (though rough

An empty room speaks volumes in Chantal Akerman’s No Home Movie. | LIAISON CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUE, PARADISE FILMS patches remain) and scored, it’s endearingly old-fashioned entertainment worthy of more than just a footnote. Myles, a West Virginia-born actor .com shows that he later became a makeup artist in Hollywood, working uncredited on Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz and many other films , persuaded more than 300 local Kiowa and Comanche people to rebuild their villages in Oklahoma’s ichita ountains, gi ing the film a valuable authenticity. The story involves rivalries between the two tribes and between two Kiowa men, White Eagle and Black Wolf, both of whom have their eye on the title character, their chief’s daughter. As the hero and heroine, White Parker and Esther LeBarre are appealing, and the rest of the large cast is amateurishly passable, although the supporting roles sometimes give off the feel of watching a historical reenactment group. Wisely, Myles concentrates on the spectacle and scale of his film, using wide shots that capture the complexity and scope of the villages and devoting a generous amount of time to the rituals and social structures of each tribe. As a Native American genre piece, The Daughter of Dawn is fast-paced and fun; as a historical document (on multiple levels), it’s a priceless rediscovery.

Jean Renoir’s 1931 La Chienne, released as a Criterion disc a few weeks ago, begins on a puppet stage, where a marionette narrator

introduces the main characters, a nod to both the theatrical dimension of the film and to enoir s embrace — and sly inversion — of a familiar melodramatic triangle. t s the story of Maurice Legrand, a bookish middle-aged man (the great, dogfaced Michel Simon) played for a fool by young prostitute Lulu (Janie Marèse, who died in a car accident before the film was released and her pimp. Renoir adds an extended glimpse of the art world and a strange, comic subplot involving the former husband of Legrand’s shrewish wife, which gi es the film its most extended comic sequence as well as its richly ironic ending.

The newly restored print shows the brilliance of Renoir’s direction (and the art direction of Marcel Courmes in the first masterpiece of his “poetic realism” period; every scene, even the real street locations, has a slightly fantastic, theatrical feel to it. s the final shot re eals, we re all just players in the puppet theater.

Chantal Akerman’s No Home Movie carus ilms ome ideo brings together many of the Belgian director’s favorite themes — landscapes, communication, her Jewish heritage, the obsessi e need to film her physical environment and, most importantly, her mother — with a deceptive coolness. Compiled from miles of footage the first assembly lasted twenty hours) and collected over an unspecified amount of time, the film is made up of what seem to be randomly selected moriverfronttimes.com

ments shot in the apartment of the filmmaker s mother, elly.

There’s no clear order or purpose to the shots at first; sometimes the figures are obscured or face away from the camera. Nor is it intentionally a biographical portrait. Nelly occasionally tells stories from her life (born in Poland, she moved to Belgium to escape the Nazis, but ended up in Auschwitz after Germany invaded the country). Just as often, though, she’s captured eating lunch or walking across her apartment. t becomes clear that the compulsi e filming is Akerman’s way of preserving a connection to her mother. Spending long periods away from Belgium as a teacher in New York, she records Skype conversations with her mother and films lengthy tracking shots of foreign landscapes, which come to represent her distance from home.

No Home Movie becomes a film that is not just about the declining Nelly (she died in 2014) , but also about absence the filmmaker s time overseas and the inevitable absence of Nelly from the rooms and hallways that her daughter has so dutifully explored and recorded. No Home Movie is a solemn film, an act of devotion. Sadly, it’s also hard not to see it as a final statement from the gifted Akerman. Treated for depression after her mother’s death, the director committed suicide last fall, just a few days before the film s U.S. premiere. n

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The Big Questions The LaBute Festival returns with plays that are weightier and smarter than ever Written by

PAUL FRISWOLD LaBute New Theater Festival

Presented by St. Louis Actors’ Studio through July 31 at the Gaslight Theater (358 North Boyle Avenue; www.stlas.org). Tickets are $30 to $35.

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he fourth installment of the always-anticipated LaBute New Theater Festival presents a slate of easy-going, fun-time plays about nothing. , not really. s always, the first half of the festival comprises four one-act plays that tackle the weighty issues of Western culture. What is art, and who gets to decide? Which is more endangered right now, the nuclear family or the environment?

Islam — religion of peace, or is Fox News right about that “Islamo-fascism nd finally, is it possible to use the lingua academia (otherwise known as, “high-falutin’ bullshit”) to justify any old assemblage of nonsense that makes it to the stage as “good theater”?

Are you excited yet? You should be; this is high-stakes, thought-provoking theater performed at an exceptional le el by a terrific ensemble cast in our own front yard.

The eponymous Neil LaBute’s twocharacter “Life Model” opens the bill, and will be performed at every show of his namesake festival (three new plays slot in behind it starting at the midpoint of the run, July 22).

Bridgette Bassa plays a high-minded artist’s model who demands that any artist who pays her to pose be proficient enny mith is the artist currently employing her, who does not show her work in any galleries or exhibitions. When Bassa sneaks a peek at the day’s drawings, she’s horrified to disco er why the artist is so secretive. What follows is a whipsmart, funny and tense argument

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Jenny Smith and Bridget Bassa in Neil LaBute’s “Life Model.” | PATRICK HUBER about what makes art “real.” The two women will make you pick a side by dint of their righteous (and self-righteous, at times) arguments, even if you think you don’t care. ire ans atches by an Francisco playwright Jeff Carter, is a comic fantasia about a family on a picnic ordered by their therapist.

Eric Dean White and Emily Baker play the parents, with Jeremy Pinson as son Randall, a teenager glued to his phone. Baker needles and belittles her husband while he vainly attempts to build a fire using his oy cout training bow drill, a stick and a pile of twigs) rather than a match.

Baker cackles at his failure, White has an explosive meltdown and Randall ignores them both as he tries to figure out why he s recei ing so many emergency texts from friends.

The play zips by in a welter of laughs and then ends with a big bang. John Pierson directs this and “Life Model” with flair and a keen eye for tensionbuilding pauses.

James Haigney’s “Winter Break” is a spellbinding three-sided argument between a college-age brother and sister (Ryan Foizey and Leerin Campbell), with their mother, enny mith, caught in the middle.

Campbell’s character has recently converted to Islam and plans to study with ufis in Turkey. oi ey is an arrogant and politically riled gay grad student who finds every

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opportunity to demean his sister’s new faith and her “terrorist friends,” and then guilt her by claiming he’s doing it because he loves her. The play is tough to watch because it’s so unflinching in its characteri ations, and because Campbell deflects e ery insult with grace and forgiveness, but it’s impossible to look away.

“Mark My Worms” is the grand finale, and it s a comic romp about a newly discovered play by a “great satirist who was a terrible typist.”

Cary Pepper’s script would be a funny read, but on stage it blossoms into a spectacular cascade of laughs as Emily Baker, Eric Dean White and David Wassilak amplify the humor with their brilliant, daffy performances.

Wassilak is the director, a prickly fuss-budget in heels and a r. pock haircut who keeps stressing that there are no typos in this play about a man with a bun who threatens to hoot. White is the frustrated actor who decries the script as nonsense, while Baker is the wide-eyed actress, dressed in black-tights and flowy skirt, who found a doctoral dissertation that contextualizes the nonsense — at least for her and the director. Michael Hogan directs these final two plays with a steady hand, despite their being vastly different in tone, style and emotional content. o, best a ute est yet ou re goddamn right it is, and it’s only half n over.

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RIP JAY V. HALL, STRAY DOG THEATRE PRODUCER EXTRAORDINAIRE The theater community mourns a true friend and extraordinary man Written by

BOB MCMAHON

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ay V. Hall of Stray Dog Theatre passed away Tuesday, July 5, in an apparent suicide.

Hall’s official job title was production manager, but those two words do not do justice to how essential he was to both Stray Dog and the St. Louis theater scene.

Between handling PR, selling tickets, drawing up contracts, networking to find talent, laundering costumes, acquiring supplies, helping to build and strike sets, and making sure every person involved in a production knew where to be and when, Hall did it all. He was the engine inside Stray Dog who, after joining the Continued on pg 25

JAY V. HALL Continued from pg 24 company in 2002, worked tirelessly to execute the visions of directors Gary Bell (also the company’s founder and artistic director) and Justin Been. No task was too big for Hall to tackle, yet no detail was too minor for him to address. He never shied away from doing grunt work.

Bell recalls Jay’s introduction to Stray Dog during the production of Angels in America, the company’s fourth show of its inaugural season. “He wanted to come volunteer for us, and I met him for coffee to discuss those opportunities,” Bell remembers. “After we saw how great his work was, we decided to have him join us as an employee.”

But even in light of his incredible work ethic, Hall will be most remembered for his big heart. “He was a great friend, a great lover of the theater and that job,” says Bell. “He worked our after-school program as well. He did just about anything that needed to be done.”

Among the numerous Facebook tributes to Hall, the word that keeps recurring is “genuine.” Hall indeed was genuine. He took a sincere interest in everyone who worked at Stray Dog and went out of his way to make everyone in the building feel welcome. The actors and technical crew reciprocated his devotion. “We were pretty much his family,” Bell agrees. “We did our best to always take care of him, to keep him close.”

For me personally, in my four years as a pit musician for the company, I saw and experienced Hall’s kindness in the form of thank you notes, Christmas cards, encouraging texts, the best hugs you can imagine and backstage gifts and food that were thoughtfully tailored to the musical we were performing.

One weekend after a show, I left my wallet backstage. Hall thought nothing of turning around halfway through his drive home to unlock the theater for me after 10 p.m. on a Saturday.

His kindness extended beyond Stray Dog. Mark Bretz of the St. Louis Theatre Circle notes in his Facebook remembrance that Hall was one of the first people to offer to help when the Circle presented its inaugural awards ceremony. He worked at their box office and then later as part of With Love Catering when that company provided amenities for the event.

Before becoming a masterful production manager, Hall was himself a performer. Hall was always very private about his past, Bell says, but “he’d been an actor for many years when he was younger, as a child especially.” As recently as 2006, Hall worked with the

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The loss of Hall is incalculable. It’s impossible to imagine Stray Dog without him standing behind his podium, welcoming patrons with his megawatt smile and thanking them for attending as they exit. It’s impossible to imagine working at Stray Dog without him thoughtfully attending to everyone’s needs and whims while making sure those he gratefully helped held up their end of the bargain. As veteran Stray Dog actor Anna Skidis wrote, “How can someone so constant be gone?” We were all lucky to have met him and St. Louis theater is better because of him.

Shortly after Hall’s death, Bell, Been and Rob Ogden of Stray Dog addressed the loss of their friend and collaborator with a message on Facebook. The post fearlessly confronts the truth of Hall’s death and the value of his life. It reads in part: “By giving depression and suicide a voice here, we hope that Jay and his story can help someone else, maybe save them. At the least we hope it will show that just because someone seems happy, cheerful and helpful, they may very well struggle intensely with pain and sorrow we will never know the true depths of. Keeping Jay’s suicide quiet perpetuates the stigma of it and adds a layer of unnecessary drama and secretness that will not be helpful as we all grieve him. His depression and his struggles were a part of him, as was his kindness and sweet spirit.”

A memorial service is planned, but details have not been finalized. One good way to remember Jay V. Hall is to go see a show and introduce yourself to your seat mates. Then smile at them and say how nice it is to meet them.

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A selection of dishes from Boundary: mac-and-cheese, Peruvian ceviche, kona kampachi, tuna poke and pork sugo. | MABEL SUEN [REVIEW]

Moving on Up The Cheshire’s new hotspot, Boundary, proves the excitement isn’t only in the basement Written by

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oundary, the latest concept to occupy the main dining area at the Cheshire Hotel, is an oddity of zoning. Though the outdoor area and the hotel itself are in St. Louis County,

once patrons venture through the front doors of the restaurant, they are stepping firmly onto city turf. The arrangement is so bizarre that the Cheshire has to maintain two separate liquor licenses and order its booze from different purveyors to make up for the fact that it straddles different environs. Apparently it’s not so easy operating in two different worlds.

As a restaurant, Boundary also navigates two worlds — the hybrid zone of “more than a bar, not quite a formal restaurant” that has come into fashion in recent years. It’s a marked change from the space’s last incarnation, titled the Restaurant, which served as the hotel’s formal dining area from 2012 until this past February. riginally concei ed as the flagship eatery of the property following its 2011 renovations, the Restaurant

was a well-received and popular spot — on the weekends.

Weekday evenings, however, were a different story. While throngs made their way to the Cheshire’s basement every night for the casual, Italian-inflected Basso, led by acclaimed (and now departed) chef Patrick Connolly, the Restaurant languished as a “special occasion” destination.

To the property’s managers, it appeared that the Restaurant’s linear, multi-course format no longer fit how diners want to eat — at least not often enough to pack the dining room on a nightly basis. Last December, they closed the doors and set out to build on Basso’s successful casual model with a rebrand.

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sultry — the kind of place you’d find James Bond sipping a martini after a day of fox hunting. The signature glass wine wall is still there, but instead of separating the bar from the dining room, the bar now wraps around it, while the room’s former vibrant red tones have been muted in favor of dark wood and leather. Booth seating has been replaced with semicircle banquettes that face outward, and an eye-popping kelly green leather double-sided couch adds two rows of seating in the middle of the room. The back dining room retains the open kitchen, though communal tables make it seem more casual. The changes are meant to make the space seem more like a lounge, and it succeeds, albeit as a supremely elegant one.

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BOUNDARY Continued from pg 27 but Boundary’s menu navigates its two worlds with ease. For diners who want to nosh communal style over drinks, executive chef Rex Hale has put together a selection of small plates, including the mouthwatering pork sugo toast.

Shredded pork, simmered for hours in rich tomato sauce, is served alongside slices of toast slathered with goat cheese. Though I liberally spooned the smoky meat over the toast, the tart cheese cut through the fatty pork, making a rich dish seem less so. finished every last bite.

Boundary’s poutine has no such mitigating factor. Riffs on the classic Canadian gravy fries are always rich, but Hale’s version multiples the decadence by a factor of ten.

Hand-cut fries are smothered in so much brisket gravy, I wouldn’t be surprised if they told me the entire cut of beef was included.

Golf ball-sized cheese curds jockey for position around a large, overeasy egg that oozes its liquid yolk over the plate. It’s good, if rather salty, although my main complaint is that it would be much more enjoyable in the depths of winter.

Hale opts for a Korean take on pork ribs by glazing them with the suddenly ubiquitous gochujang hot chili paste. Here, though, sliced strawberries and pickled radishes cool the meat’s aggressive spice and smoke. It’s one of the more creative interplays of sweet and spicy I’ve experienced.

Boundary’s highlight is its raw bar, perhaps owing to chef Hale’s time spent cooking in the Caribbean. You couldn’t find a fresher tuna poke, even if it came with a view of Diamond Head crater. Generously sized cubes of raw, ruby-hued tuna are kissed

Boundary’s striking good looks are only one of several reasons to visit. Another: the delicious seafood. | MABEL SUEN with soy, sesame and ginger, and paired with crisp sesame and taro chips. I thought things couldn’t get any better, but then my server presented me with a hollowedout half-coconut overflowing with Peruvian ceviche. Corvina, dressed in lime, coconut milk and aji Amarillo chili, is otherworldly — and that other world contains a banquet prepared by Neptune himself. If anyone tries to tell you there isn’t good seafood in the Midwest, send them here.

Boundary has not completely forgotten its formal past, however.

Even though the eatery seems comfortable as a small plates lounge, I didn’t bat an eye ordering a more traditional, coursed dinner with a full-sized entrée. Tender brisket soaked in a red wine jus evokes a Sunday roast beef dinner at Grandma’s house. Roasted

rainbow trout, prepared simply with roasted turnips and brown butter, is also impeccably cooked, as are the impressive sea scallops.

These massive jewels are seared to a perfect medium rare, then served atop green garlic, bacon and asparagus risotto. The fla ors combined beautifully, though the risotto was undercooked.

Normally, I would have been satisfied ending my meal with the perfectly pleasant Meyer lemon cheesecake or the rhubarb crisp with buttermilk ice cream. As good as these were, however, they couldn’t hold my attention — for in my to-go bag sat the remnants of a side of mac-and-cheese so magnificent, I couldn’t contain myself. As my ice cream melted before me, I dug into my takeaway container for a few more bites of the decadent white cheddar cream

sauce and noodles. Flecks of garlic breadcrumbs dusted on top gave a toasty crunch that made the dish taste like a molten Cheez-It. I ate it in the booth while I waited to pay and then I dug into it again in the car on the way home. The fact that I am not writing this from one of Boundary’s booths over a crock of the stuff is a feat of inner strength.

Whether ceviche with a side of cheesy pasta is what the folks behind Boundary had in mind for the rebrand is up for debate.

Probably not, but that’s the beauty of the space: You can live in two different worlds in the course of a meal — and they’re both utterly delicious. n Boundary

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oey Valenza is as south city as it gets. He lives on the Hill, his family’s Blues City Deli is a Benton Park institution and his pizzeria in the garage behind the deli is quickly becoming the go-to spot for south-siders craving Neapolitan pie. It’s no wonder, then, that he feels like he’s letting you in on a secret when he tells you where he grew up.

“My family and I are north-side Italians,” explains the owner of Melo’s Pizzeria (2438 McNair Avenue, rear, 314-833-4489). “Honestly, I feel like a little bit of an exile down here.

My grandfather grew up in north city, my dad grew up in Jennings and I’m from Bellefontaine Neighbors.”

Valenza credits his family’s deeprooted local history for igniting his passion for food. “My dad’s family was in the produce business at Union Market, where the Dome [at America’s Center] is now,” says Valenza. “In fact, my grandfather Melo was a delivery driver on Produce Row. My grandmother’s family has a stand there, and that’s how they met.”

After his family moved to the county, Valenza’s father Vince kept alive the Italian traditions they had cultivated in the city. Saturdays were especially memorable for Valenza, who fondly recalls the spread his dad would put together for the lunch table.

“Every Saturday morning my dad would go to a deli and get Volpi salami, whole Sicilian olive salad, Romano cheese and Italian bread,” Valenza recalls. “We’d just eat it all day.”

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Joey Valenza’s family made its name in south city, but he’s a north-side boy at heart. | HOLLY RAVAZZOLO Those lazy Saturdays may have stuck with him, but the family’s Christmas Eve pizza parties are what turned him on to the art of pizza making. Every year, his grandmother would make sfincione, a thick, Sicilian-style pizza for dinner, topped with crushed tomatoes, green onions, Romano cheese and anchovies. “As a kid, I didn’t like it too much, alen a confides.

“But it got into my blood. I guess it came out later.”

By “later,” Valenza means 2013, the year his his father bought the Blues City Deli property after years of leasing it. The lot came with a small garage out back that the younger Valenza wanted to turn into a bakery. The plan was to make bread for the deli, but as he honed his baking skills, he developed a passion for making pizza that could not be sated by the backyard kettle grill

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he d rigged to make his wood-fired pies. He nixed the bakery plan, decided upon a pizzeria and ordered a domed Ferrara pizza oven from Naples to cook his Neapolitan-style pies.

Valenza hasn’t had much of a break since firing up elo s o ens this past winter, but he took some time out to share his thoughts on the St. Louis dining scene, his after-work go-to and why you should never bash Provel when you come into his restaurant.

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

That I am a Provel lover. We don’t offer it at the pizzeria (yet), so a lot of people see this as an open door to trash-talk the beautiful cheese concoction… it breaks my heart.

What daily ritual is non-negotiaContinued on pg 32 ble for you?

ayana Mexican Kitchen (7810 Forsyth Blvd., Clayton; 314-833-8200) opened Friday, bringing a splash of Hacienda’s flavors to downtown Clayton.

Managing partner Brian Michaels says the co-founders of the beloved Rock Hill spot Hacienda Mexican Restaurant — siblings John Rodriguez and Alex Rodriguez de Torres — brought the idea for the new concept to him a year ago. (It was originally to be called the Wet Burrito, but someone apparently thought better of that game plan.) Michaels then tasked himself with bringing Hacienda’s flavors, with a twist of his own, into an under-three-minutes fast-casual setting.

“Choices are the No. 1 thing we concentrated on. You can go anywhere and get the same thing. We wanted to expand that,” Michaels says. “We want you to come here 50 times and never get the same thing ... unless you have a favorite, of course.”

Michaels says Mayana will stand away from the typical fast-food Mexican restaurants because it offers something most chains don’t: variety.

At the 1,500-square-foot restaurant, you’re likely to be able to try something new each time, whether it’s a bowl, salad, quesadilla or burrito. Aside from the standard steak, chicken and ground beef offered by competitors like Chipotle, Mayana will also offer shrimp and Michaels’ family pork recipe.

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JOEY VALENZA Continued from pg 30 A cup of coffee. I can barely speak before I have it.

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

To be able to stop time. It goes by too fast, and there never seems to be enough of it.

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

All the new restaurants opening downtown. That’s huge for the city.

Who is your St. Louis food crush?

Mike Emerson. The man makes some great barbecue and has a beautiful beard.

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

Hana Chung and the crew opening Good Fortune.

Which ingredient is most representative of your personality?

Well, sometimes I can be pretty frank, so I guess a hot dog.

If you weren’t working in the restaurant business, what would you be doing?

Professional musician. Food and music go hand in hand.

Name an ingredient never allowed in your kitchen.

At the pizzeria, it has to be ranch dressing.

What is your after work hangout?

Hodak’s. There’s nothing better than walking down the street after work and having an ice cold Bud and some sticky wings.

What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure?

Every once in a while I really loves me some Totino’s pizza rolls.

What would be your last meal on earth?

A Saullo’s pizza — the pizza I ate n growing up in north county.

The assembly line at Mayana offers up to 700 different combinations. | KAVAHN MANSOURI

MAYANA Continued from pg 30 or a warmed verde and enchilada sauce alongside. For those looking for a meat-free option, Mayana’s calabacitas (grilled vegetables) are a perfect addition to any plate. On the flip side of the prep area are five salsa options, a chimichurri and a blend of cheese.

In all, Michaels says that Mayana offers more than 700 different combination possibilities — and everything is restocked several times a day. Freshness is a paramount ideal.

“If it doesn’t meet my expectations it gets thrown away,” Michaels says. “We wanted more. We wanted things to be fresher and we wanted things to be bolder.”

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tions are new recipes from Michaels’ culinary background. But don’t fret, Hacienda lovers: Several of the Brentwood staples’ classic recipes made it onto Mayana’s menu.

Michaels, who has been cooking since he was a seven-year-old making food beside his mother, says his background in Hispanic foods made for a rigorous perfecting of the menu.

“This has been the culmination of a lot of people working very hard to bring something new to St. Louis,” Michaels says.

Michaels and the Rodriguez brothers hope to open 100 Mayana outlets eventually — with plans for six of the fast-casual outlets in the St. Louis area. The best part of their concept? You don’t have to pay extra for queso.

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any takeout-only restaurants suffer from the problem of what to do with guests while they wait for their food to be cooked. But Kounter Kulture (3825 Watson Road, 314-7814344), the delightful new counter spot from the Kitchen Kulture duo of Christine Meyer and Michael Miller, has answered that question with rare aplomb: They’re offering complimentary beer, wine and a signature cocktail, with a friendly bartender serving them up just outside the front door.

It says something about the attention to detail at this brand-new spot that the signature cocktail on the day we visited — gin, ginger, seltzer, lemongrass — would have been at home in any of the city’s finer bars. nd that s not the only exquisite freebie they’re offering in these opening days: On our visit, we were handed a delicious appetizer, artfully plated, to tide us over during our wait.

On cold days, even this remarkable hospitality may not be enough.

Meyer and Miller, who drew a following for prepared foods at the Tower Grove Farmers Market

Spring rolls are packed with fresh vegetables and come with a carrot-sesame sauce. | SARAH FENSKE and then a series of pop-ups, have opened their first brick-and-mortar in the old Pint-Size Bakery spot in Lindenwood Park. The space, which the bustling bakery outgrew, retains the basic setup: The cooks work behind the counter, and the space in front of it is too slim even for a chair or two. After you order you’ll want to head outside to the chairs lining the building. There’s no room inside to linger.

Yet linger you may want to: Everyone here is incredibly nice. We didn’t identify ourselves on our visit, yet co-owner Miller spent a good amount of time explaining how to us how to put the finishing touches on our food after we got home and then helped us walk it to the car. “I have to make myself indispensable somehow,” he joked.

He needn’t worry. The food here is reason enough to keep

him around. Kounter Kulture is offering a tightly curated menu that delivers a powerful punch of fla or. pring rolls are studded with cucumbers, rice noodles, cilantro and radish, as well as a bright sesame-carrot sauce, while the kohlrabi salad draws on palm sugar for a hint of sweetness to cut through the acid of lime and heat of chili.

There are two noodle dishes — the cold ramen salad, which benefits from a soft egg and heaps of e pertly pickled eggies , and the chicken curry, which combines raw shallots and pickled greens with chicken and noodles . oth are great on first taste and just as good leftover.

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Muscle Memories Denver’s Muscle Brain is still rooted in St. Louis’ music scene — even though its members left years ago Written by

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im Fitzpatrick still remembers the moment he met Jordan Knecht. Fitzpatrick was sixteen years old at the time, and already playing guitar in punk bands around St. Louis. One afternoon, he was practicing with a group called Subjective Apparition when two younger boys approached the open garage door. Just thirteen years old, Knecht wasn’t intimidated

by Fitzpatrick and his high school buddies. Knecht played drums in a few bands of his own, mostly punk groups that performed aggressive songs about such heady subjects as Chinese takeout.

Without hesitation, the prepubescent Knecht started making fun of Fitzpatrick’s guitar amp. Fitzpatrick promptly warned him and his pal to fuck off.

Over the years to come, though, the two young musicians continued to run into one another around town. They shared stages at block parties and local venues such as the (now-shuttered) Creepy Crawl, and eventually became friends.

“A few years after we met, Jim’s band broke up and this friend of ours was like, ‘Hey man, would you play drums with Jim so that he doesn’t quit guitar?’” Knecht remembers. “It was just supposed to be a temporary thing. I asked Jim if he wanted to jam and he did, and it was an instant connection. After that we never stopped jamming.”

In the ten years the band has been together, Muscle Brain has sometimes been described as a punk band, but its two members, Knecht and Fitzpatrick, agree that

Of St. Louis, Jim Fitzpatrick says, “You have a lot of bands that are doing really crazy, far-out shit without a care.” | COURTESY OF THE BAND the label isn’t quite accurate. The band’s tone is more nuanced than straight-up punk rock, juxtaposing bombastic dissonance with moments of absolute serenity.

The songs follow unpredictable trajectories, with each riff adding vastly different sonic textures.

What makes Muscle Brain’s music feel cohesive is not so much a genre as the emotional resonance at the core of every song.

“I think of our songwriting process as sort of like Brutalist architecture,” Knecht says. “It’s like there’s these huge movements of different types of concrete, and they each have their own textures, but you’re still putting them together to make something that is structurally sound. We try parts different ways and record them and listen to them, but it’s really just a big conversation. A lot of the times it’s a conversation without words.”

In its formative years, Muscle rain was influenced by the highly technical, experimental sound being pioneered by local acts such as the Conformists and Yowie. But while the members of Muscle Brain are still inspired by those bands,

they have long since separated themselves from the local scene.

In 2008, Knecht left St. Louis, leaving Fitzpatrick and Muscle Brain behind. He would live in Chicago and Massachusetts before finally settling in en er.

“I left St. Louis as fast as I could because I got sick of hearing people say things like, ‘Oh you just played a show? Sorry, I had to beat this level on Halo’ and shit like that,” he says, speaking from his studio in en er.

“It felt like there wasn’t a priority for music when I lived there. I don’t know what it’s like now, but at the time it was much more about socializing and drinking than it was about music. There was a lot of radical stuff happening — more than en er, for sure but nobody would really come out to see it.”

When Knecht left he mostly lost contact with his bandmate, but within a couple of years, Fitzpatrick had also grown impatient with the St. Louis scene. In 2014, Fitzpatrick joined Knecht in Colorado, moving into a house right up the street.

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really crazy, far-out shit without a care — they’re just doing it because they want to, which is awesome,” Fitzpatrick says. But the lack of fan support was frustrating. “It just felt like, in St. Louis, music didn’t have this inherent value to people.

It always seemed like it was in the background to other things. [In en er , people will spend money to come to shows. People will show up because they really value music as this cultural worth.”

But while Knecht and Fitzpatrick have left St. Louis, the two musicians agree that, to some degree, they will always sound like a St. Louis band.

Their tone has shifted slightly since the move — it’s more meditative and groove-oriented than before — but those eerie melodies and wild experimentation have not dissipated.

“I feel like our music is still definitely influenced by the sort of far-out, weirdo, St. Louis thing,” Fitzpatrick says. “When Jordan and I get in a room and play music together, we’re not really thinking about our surroundings so much; we’re just thinking about what we’re doing right then. I don’t think that’s changed.” n

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ROLAND JOHNSON Imagine This soulendeavor.net

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ans of soul and blues music know that Beale on Broadway is the place to be every Wednesday night. Right around 10:30 p.m., Roland Johnson and Soul Endeavor take the stage and run through a few hours’ worth of standards and deep cuts. For many, Johnson’s sets are a hump-day tradition and a tonic for the soul.

But for the entirety of the 68-year-old performer’s career, Johnson has been singing other people’s songs. There’s not an ounce of shame in that — few singers in St. Louis can wrest something new out of “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” like Johnson can — but his new CD, Imagine This, marks a milestone in his long career. Working with songwriters and musicians Paul Niehaus IV (Letter to Memphis) and Kevin O’Connor (7 Shot Screamers), Johnson recorded and co-wrote ten original tracks. Thanks to his spirited performance and the producers’ deft touch, the album is a warm, rich and personal document, a high-water mark for St. Louis soul in 2016.

Johnson and Niehaus began working together when the singer contributed to a compilation Niehaus was producing. That song, “Ain’t That Loving You,” provided a blueprint for future collaboration.

Painted with twinkling piano, tremolo-heavy guitar triads and a mellow horn section, the song references the ’60s soul tradition that Johnson plumbs in his live sets. But its placid composition provides just enough grit for Johnson to push against, and his range helps the ballad percolate throughout.

“Paul and Kevin had that track already,” says Johnson of the song. “I just came in with a story and laid it down. Other than that, we just felt one another through these songs. They played it and I sang — we collaborated.”

“He’s so good at improvising and classic soul phrasing,” says Niehaus. After the initial session for “Ain’t That Loving You,” the partners agreed to make a new record. “We met once a week and wrote a new song each week.”

For Johnson, who had never written a song before, the process was a natural progression of the lessons he’s accumulated over the years on stage, interpreting and embodying American soul music.

“We worked together — the stories came from me,” says Johnson. “It came from melodies; every melody has a story. I’m about sounds — my ear tells me what it is and I just go with it.”

“About half the tracks, he did the lyrics to,” says Niehaus, who, along with O’Connor, played the bulk of the instruments on the album. “Most of them were pretty spontaneous — we would do it two or three times and that would be it.”

That looseness helps keep the album from sounding too studied or fussy; for Johnson, a live performer first and foremost, the magic comes

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from the performance rather than the surrounding production. It’s a lesson he shared with Niehaus.

The first take sometimes ended up being the ones that are on the record,” says Niehaus. “You couldn’t beat the first one. hen you ha e a great, sensiti e artist, the first impression is really magical.

Johnson found his collaborators, both gigging musicians and students of local blues, soul and jazz scenes, to be apt partners in the process. “We had a good vibe with each other, in terms of what we brought to the table,” he says. “Some things we agree on and some things we don’t. As long as we can smile, we’re all right.”

Johnson says his decision in recording these songs was to make them as “real and raw” as possible. He points to a standout track on the album, “Mother,” as an example of how emotions can be translated through music.

“Any time I sing a song, I try to put myself into it,” says Johnson. “Everybody wants to play that same old love song, and a lot of times I don’t hear that.

I’m listening outside of that song. Every song has its own area, in terms of style, and only the listener can bring in what they hear.”

Niehaus, 29, hopes to continue working with established R&B artists in this fashion, and plans to do a record with local soul singer Renee Smith, who duets with Johnson a few times on this album. Niehaus’ goal is to make “quality original music by these St. Louis artists.”

For Johnson, Imagine This is not just a chance to recast his talents in a new form, with his own lyrics.

These songs are a continuation of his role as both a singer and a storyteller, regardless of who wrote the story.

“I just want to tell a story, man,” he says. “The way I came up, you just told the story just how it was.

People wanted to hear the truth. I try to stay in that feel.”

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ZACH & THE HEART ATTACKS: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s

JOHN MORELAND: w/ Christian Lee Hutson 9

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p.m., $15-$17. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave.,

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

7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S.

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

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

BLUES HARP BLOWOUT: 9 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,

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THE CONFORMISTS: w/ Muscle Brain, Skin Tags,

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THE STOLEN: w/ Mike Schiavo 6 p.m., $10-$25.

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

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TATSYUA NAKATANI: 9 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee &

THE CACTUS BLOSSOMS: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Off

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Haunter, Xaemora 9 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191

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KENNY CHESNEY: w/ Old Dominion 6 p.m., TBA.

LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,

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MELODY POND: w/ Cara Louise Band 9 p.m., $5.

MARVIN GAYE TRIBUTE: featuring Justin Hoskins

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SAM BUSH: 8 p.m., $25. Old Rock House, 1200 S.

MATTHEW LOGAN VASQUEZ: 7 p.m., $13. Blueber-

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SCHOOL OF ROCK: 6 p.m., $7. The Demo, 4191

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RETRO BOOGIE BAND: 6 p.m., free. Carondelet

VANDALION: w/ Posture, Malady 9 p.m., free.

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COREY SMITH: 8 p.m., $17.50-$20. The Pageant,

Ryan Koenig, Tortuga, TJ Miller 9 p.m., $5.

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

Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St.

FREEDOM: w/ the Warden 9 p.m., $5. Foam

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

SMILE EMPTY SOUL: w/ Romantic Rebel, Beitthemeans, The Everyday Losers 7 p.m., $15-$20. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314289-9050.

SNAKE RANCH: 8 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

SOULARD BLUES BAND: 5 p.m., free. Jefferson Barracks Park, 533 Grant Road, South St. Louis County, 314-544-5714.

TREVOR HALL: 8 p.m., $18-$20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

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314-726-6161.

Milwaukee folk-punk act the Violent Femmes is inexorably linked to ‘90s music, though its moment of glory is technically a whole lot more complicated. The group’s most popular song, “Blister in the Sun,” was actually recorded in 1983 for the band’s self-titled debut, but it didn’t make its way to every alternative-rock station in the land until the release of the Femmes’ Add It Up (1981-1993) compilation in 1993. From there the infectious tune propelled its composers into the international spotlight; a decade

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later that self-titled album (which also included “Kiss Off,” “Add It Up” and “Gone Daddy Gone”) went platinum.

The rest is history.

Except Keep a Drummer: The Violent Femmes’ latest, We Can Do Anything, was just released in March. Dresden Dolls drummer Brian Viglione is credited on the album, having joined the band for its 2013 reunion (to the chagrin of former drummer Victor DeLorenzo). Viglione quit the band in January, though, and the group is now touring with John Sparrow on the skins. In any case, expect new songs.

– Daniel Hill

Square, IL-159 & Main St., Belleville.

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

WHITNEY: w/ Michael Rault 8 p.m., $10-$12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-7733363.

THE WOMBATS: 8 p.m., $20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

TUESDAY 19 ALUNAGEORGE: 8 p.m., $16-$18. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314833-3929.

AWOLNATION: w/ Death From Above 7 p.m., $40$45. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

CIVIL TWILIGHT: w/ KOA 8 p.m., $12. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

THE COATHANGERS: 8 p.m., $12. Off Broadway,

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GEMINI SYNDROME: w/ Stitched up Heart, 9Elec-

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WEDNESDAY 20 BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-6217880.

BOB SCHNEIDER: 8 p.m., $20. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

CULTURE CLUB: 6 p.m., $49-$97. Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St Charles, 636-896-4200.

ERIN BODE: 7 p.m., free. Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, 314-5779400.

ERIN BODE GROUP: 7:30 p.m., free. Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, 314-577-9400.

JESSE GANNON TRUTH: 11:45 a.m., free.

Citygarden, 801 Market St, St. Louis.

LETLIVE.: w/ Seahaven, Night Verses 7 p.m., $16-$19. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314289-9050.

NOMAD: 9 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

SIDNEY STREET SHAKERS: 9 p.m., free. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

SWEAR BEAM RECORD RELEASE: w/ Bug Chaser, Posture 9 p.m., free. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

THIS JUST IN (HED)PE: Sun., Oct. 2, 6 p.m., $15-$18. The Fire-

July Burger of the Month THE CORPORATE CLOWN 3/4 LB LOCAL BEEF, ‘MERICAN CHEESE, HOUSE MADE PICKLES, GRILLED ONIONS, LETTUCE AND CLOWN SAUCE ON A SESAME SEED BUN

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

ABOVE & BEYOND: W/ Rob Lemon, Fri., Aug. 5, 9 p.m., $35-$45. Ameristar Casino, 1 Ameristar Blvd., St. Charles, 636-949-7777.

BEARTOOTH: Wed., Nov. 9, 7 p.m., $19.50-$23.

The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

BETTY WRIGHT: Fri., Aug. 26, 7 & 9:30 p.m., $35-$40. Lumiere Place Casino & Hotel, 999 N. Second St., St. Louis, 314-881-7777.

THE BIG MUDDY RECORDS BIG SUMMER PICNIC: W/ Johnny Walker and the All Seeing Eyes,

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The Loot Rock Gang, Kristo and the Strange Places, Bob Reuter’s Alley Ghost, The Hobosexuals, Rum Drum Ramblers, Sidney Street Shakers, The Hooten Hallers, Sat., Aug. 20, 1 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

CONFLICT: W/ One Way System, Total Chaos, Sun., Oct. 30, 7 p.m., $15-$16. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

COWBOY MOUTH: W/ Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Thu., Nov. 3, 8 p.m., $30. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

THE DANDY WARHOLS: Sat., Oct. 8, 8 p.m., $25$28. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

DANNY WOOD: Thu., Sept. 15, 8 p.m., $25. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

DWEEZIL ZAPPA: Thu., Oct. 13, 8 p.m., $25-$50.

The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

JAY FARRAR TRIO: Sat., Oct. 1, 8 p.m., $25$27.50. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

JEEZY: Sun., Aug. 14, 9 p.m., $46-$72. The

Lavender Country 8 p.m. Friday, July 15.

Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $10. 314-7733363.

There are precious few bands that only release one album but see that record go on to live a life of its own. The original Modern Lovers and the Germs pulled it off, but in quieter corners of the music world, it’s Lavender Country that holds this distinction. Back in 1973, Patrick Haggerty sought to make the first gay country music record, and the band’s self-titled release mixed the hop-along tropes of country with Haggerty’s own experiences as a young gay man navigating his rural Washing-

ton upbringings through to the social upheaval that laid the foundation for today’s LGBTQIA+ movement. Lavender Country has been reissued a few times over the years, and for this tour Haggerty will revisit the album with help from St. Louis musicians including Jack Grelle, Melinda Cooper, Isaac Cherry and Chris Baricevic.

Wave Rider: This show marks the debut of Janewave, the acoustic folk-inclined project of Rip Rap and Swear Beam member Sam Pounders.

– Christian Schaeffer

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KISHI BASHI: Tue., Oct. 11, 8 p.m., $18-$20.

Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314726-6161.

LOCAL H “AS GOOD AS DEAD” 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR: Thu., Aug. 18, 8 p.m., $15-$18. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

LYLE LOVETT AND ROBERT EARL KEEN: Wed., Oct. 26, 8 p.m., $60-$100. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900.

MOON TAXI: Wed., Oct. 12, 8 p.m., $20-$25.

Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314726-6161.

NELLY: Sat., Aug. 27, 7 p.m., $35. The Pageant, NICK LOWE: W/ Josh Rouse, Tue., Oct. 18, 8 p.m.,

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Cheap Trick 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 16.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has a lot to answer for — just ask Steve Miller, who finds the joint irredeemable — but so do rock fans, who gave Chicago 35 million more votes than Cheap Trick. But the world’s greatest living power-pop band made it into the hall this year, and even ex-drummer Bun E. Carlos called a temporary truce with the band to light up the induction

stage. When the band returns to St. Louis (as part of a triple bill with Joan Jett and Heart) it will be back-beated by guitarist Rick Nielsen’s son and cutting its imperishable hits with new songs from the lean and loud Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello, its best album in 35 years.

Trump This: The Republican Party offered Cheap Trick $100,000 to kick off its July convention in Cleveland. The band told the RNC to stuff it.

--Roy Kasten

Oct. 22, 8 p.m., $10. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar

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

Traveling Sound Machine, Town Cars, Fri.,

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TODD BARRY: Sat., Aug. 6, 8 p.m., $20. Off

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Runaway Kids, Fri., Oct. 7, 7 p.m., $25-$30.

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RANDY & MR. LAHEY: Sat., Oct. 15, 8 p.m., $20$25. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

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SAINT MOTEL: Mon., Oct. 10, 8 p.m., $24.50-$27.

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STIR: W/ Life Without Wayne, Fri., Sept. 30, 8 p.m., $25-$30. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights, MO. All ages: $140.50$20.40. 314-298-9944.

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SAVAGE LOVE STRAIGHT UP

BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: I’m in my mid-40s, straight, never married. Ten months ago, my girlfriend of three years dumped me. She got bored with the relationship and is generally not the marrying type. The breakup was amicable. I still love her and miss her. Last week, I wrote her a letter saying that I still love her and want us to get back together. She wrote me a nice letter back saying she doesn’t feel passion for me and we’re never getting back together.

Over the past few months, I’ve started dating another girl. She’s pretty, smart, sexy and kind. If I proposed, she’d probably say yes. I want to get married. The problem is that I don’t have the passion for her that I had for my previous girlfriend. So do I “settle” for Girlfriend No. 2 or start my search all over?

How many married people “settle” for someone who is a good person but not their true love?

No Clever Acronym There is no settling down without some settling for. Please make a note of it. Also, NCA, while passion is a great feeling — totally intoxicating — it also tends to be ephemeral. It’s a hard feeling to sustain over the long haul, and marriage

is theoretically the longest of long hauls.

You felt strongly about your ex, but she didn’t share your feelings.

You don’t feel quite as strongly about your current girlfriend, but you would like to be married and Girlfriend No. 2 seems like a good candidate. I wouldn’t suggest proposing, as you’ve been seeing her for only a few months and most sane women view early, impulsive proposals as red flags. nd finally, C , the specter of a “true love” waiting for us out there somewhere, either lost or not yet found, snuffs out more good-andloving-and-totally-worth-settlingfor relationships than anything this side of cheating.

If you and the girlfriend have a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy about her hookups with others, BRUISE, then hickeys and other kinds of slow-fading marks violate the spirit of that agreement. Those kinds of marks amount to a nonverbal “tell.” You have a right to calmly point that out to your girlfriend, and she has a responsibility to remind/warn her outside sex partners that leaving slow-fading marks on her breasts, neck, thighs, forehead, insoles, eyelids, etc., is out of bounds.

For your part, BRUISE, don’t inspect your girlfriend post-hookup for the kinds of marks that fade quickly after sex, as that would amount to a nonverbal ask.

Hey, Dan: My girlfriend has started seeing other partners. It’s taking me a bit of time to adjust to the new situation, but she’s happier than she’s been in ages. Today she came back from a hotel with bite marks on her breasts. I know she’s been with a few people over the last few weeks, but being reminded of it each time I look at or touch her makes me uncomfortable. What’s more, the guy who did it knew she was part of a long-term couple. Do I need to get over it for the sake of my girlfriend or do I make an issue of hickeys?

Boy Really Unnerved In Seeing Evidence

Hey, Dan: I have to put my two cents in about Heartbroken And Devastated, the man who discovered that his wife has been cheating on him the entire time they have been together. Her constant and selfish betrayal is egregious. Instead of being honest and giving him a chance to be in an open relationship, she chose to make a fool out of him. I disagree with you about the concept of monogamy — I don’t think it is a fantasy. I believe there is something that separates us from the animals, and that’s called integrity and self-control. I am happily married to a beautiful woman. I am a singer in a band, I get hit on all the

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time, but I don’t act on it. Because some of us have a conscience and don’t betray the ones we’ve made a COMMITMENT TO. I wish HAD the best of luck, but I hope he moves on and finds someone who will appreciate him.

Monogamous And Proud In Portland I agree that HAD’s wife betrayed him in an extreme and egregious way, and I made that clear in my response. Now here’s my question for you: What did you make a COMMITMENT to? Was it to your wife or was it to an ideal? Did you commit to a fallible human being or did you commit to a principle?

Let’s say your wife screwed up and cheated — which happens all the time — and let’s say it was a far less egregious betrayal than the one HAD is suffering through.

Would you stay and try to save your marriage or would you leave your wife? Staying and trying to save your marriage says, “I committed myself to this person,” leaving says, “I committed myself to this ideal.”

If your ideals are more important to you than your spouse, I think you’re doing marriage wrong. But you’re free to disagree.

Listen to Dan’s podcast at savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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ST. CHARLES COUNTY 314-579-1201 or 636-939-3808 1 & 2 BR apts for rent. www.eatonproperties.com. Sec. 8 welcome UNIVERSITY-CITY $795 314-727-1444 2BR, new kitch, bath & carpet, C/A & heat. No pets

317 Apartments for Rent BENTON-PARK $750 314-223-8067 Beautiful, large 1 plus BR, original Wood fls, high ceilings, huge closet, new Electric CA/Furn, kitchen Appls, 1st Fl, W/D hookup.

WEST-COUNTY! $600 3140-309-2043 Save money in this 2 bedroom, appliances included, nice hardwood floors, off street parking, ready to rent! rs-stl.com RHMLT

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Nice Area near Hwys 64, 270, 170, 70 or Clayton.

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KINGSHIGHWAY! $495 314-309-2043 Updated 3 bedroom duplex, cold central air, fenced yard, all appliances, w/d hookups, some utilities paid! call rs-stl.com RHMLV LAFAYETTE-SQUARE $685 314-968-5035 2030 Lafayette: 2BR/1BA, appls, C/A, Hdwd Fl MANCHESTER! $400 314-309-2043 Roomy 2 bedroom, appliances included, redone hardwood floors, oversized living area, easy move in! rs-stl.com RHMLQ MAPLEWOOD! $525 314-309-2043 All-electric 1 bedroom, newer carpet, kitchen appliances, pets, extra storage, frosty a/c, off street parking! rs-stl.com RHMLN MORGANFORD! $385 314-309-2043 Private 1 bedroom, all kitchen appliances, central air, extra storage, custom carpet & tile, pets ok, w/d hookups! rs-stl.com RHMLR

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NATURAL-BRIDGE! $395 314-309-2043 Bad Credit OK! Recently redone 1 bedroom, hardwood floors, fenced yard, all appliances, pets ok, no credit check! rs-stl.com RHMLU

NORTH-CITY! $700 314-309-2043 Many extras in this 3 bedroom house, full basement, central air, fenced yard for pets & kids, flexible deposit! rs-stl.com RHMLZ

OLIVE! $725 314-309-2043 Updated 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath home, central air, all appliances, redone hardwood floors, pets, available now! rs-stl.com RHMLO

OVERLAND! 314-309-2043 Budget 2 bedroom house, 2 car garage, hardwood floors, fireplace, all appliances, washer & dryer included, large yard for pets! rs-stl.com RHML0

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RICHMOND-HEIGHTS $525-$575-SPECIAL 314-995-1912 1 MONTH FREE! 1BR, all elec off Big Bend.

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