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Adonis Reddick spent his life defying expectations — until he encountered the one thing he couldn’t tame

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ast week, after more than a century of life on a tree-shrouded lot in south city St. Louis, death finally came for 2811 Chippewa. On June 14, flames ripped though the insides of the two-story Gravois Park structure, unleashing a shroud of ugly, stinking smoke into the evening sky.

Three days later, a dozen or so mourners gathered on the home’s broad lawn. They passed cans of beer, brown liquor and paper cups, paying their respects to a building that had been poised for redemption — possibly as a bar or business — but which now stands decimated, a soot-blackened mausoleum to what might have been.

Michael Allen was among the mourners. An architectural historian and director of the Preservation Research Office, he lives just down the street from 2811. When he spotted the smoke rising above Chippewa Street last week, Allen’s first worry was that his own home was burning.

When he saw that it was 2811 engulfed in flames, there was still less relief than devastation.

“This building has been a source of wonder and curiosity to a lot of people,” Allen said during a winding and spirited eulogy on June 17.

“This house is different than a lot of what’s around here. The setback, this fence, the concrete columns, the brick covered in stucco. It’s been a bit of a mystery to people.”

Historical records point to the house being built in the 1880s, Allen said, noting an 1890 permit for a two-story brick tenement on the lot. In 1894, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the home had been occupied by a pair of petty shoplifters, a woman and her niece, who had been caught stealing lace handkerchiefs from Nugent’s Department Store downtown. The women were considered suspects in a rash of similar crimes at other department stores, but a judge ultimately decided the pair did not deserve jail. (Allen mused: Perhaps, in some forgotten basement crawl

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The house at 2811 Chippewa made it more than a century. | DANNY WICENTOWSKI space, a trove of ill-gotten handkerchiefs had lain hidden for more than 100 years, only to be destroyed in the fire.)

“The life of this building is really a testament to the philosophy that there’s really nothing static in the architecture of cities,” Allen continued. He described the additions made in 1917 and 1921 that accounted for the presence of modern concrete block and a rear garage.

This was a building that never quite fit, was never quite complete. Various owners kept tweaking and adding to the structure, each according to a different vision.

Developer Jason Deem bought the building, which was just a few blocks west of Jefferson, near California, at a tax sale in May 2014. He said that he’d been in talks with contractors as recently as two weeks before the fire. He had planned to renovate the property for commercial use, and had begun putting together a concept for a bar.

He had already settled on a name: Homestead.

“There’s a very small chance we may try and save portions of this too. We have to have engineers and architects look at it and see what’s possible,” Deem said.

The fire department is still investigating the fire, which Deem considers a likely case of arson. There were no utilities connected to the building, and the developer said that he’s spotted kids breaking into the property in the past.

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“It’s a beautiful structure, and it’s kind of cool to recognize it before it gets demolished if that’s what we have to do,” said Deem. “I think every building deserves a funeral when something like this happens.”

But few buildings do. Ward 20 Alderwoman Cara Spencer, who attended Friday’s ceremony, angrily noted that suspicious fires have claimed four buildings in the area in just the past month. The loss of 2811 was especially painful. “It’s a heart breaker,” she said. “It’s a very unique building. It was iconic in a way.”

In wrapping up his eulogy, Allen turned to Martin Heidegger, citing the German philosopher’s writings about how humans can use history as a coping mechanism for facing their own mortality and an unknowable future.

“History is our way of recognizing there’s a future beyond us, and we keep track of the time in between,” Allen said. He raised his beer in a final toast.

“I think this house is a beautiful testament to that, because it’s always been in that place, of ‘having been.’

It was one thing, and then it was another. Today it’s a charred, fire-damaged shell. But maybe, in fact, this is just another ‘having been’ moment of this property, where it becomes something else and in the future we’ll look back and see this as just another twist, another turn in the plot of this building’s life, which has never been a straight line at all.”

— Danny Wicentowski

he University of Missouri-St. Louis criminologist who’s been one of the biggest skeptics of the “Ferguson Effect,” which blames rising crime on the protests that followed Michael Brown’s death at the hands of a police officer, is changing his tune.

Rick Rosenfeld now says he believes there is a Ferguson Effect — something he had long doubted — but that it might not be as simple as originally postulated.

In fact, he says there are two possible versions of the Ferguson Effect, and both offer intuitive explanations for why 56 U.S. cities are experiencing their worst homicide wave in decades.

One, the original theory: That police officers responded to the 2014 protests by actively withdrawing from certain enforcement duties out of fear of liability or negative publicity.

The second version posited by Rosenfeld, a professor of criminology at UMSL, flips the perspective. It suggests that residents in disadvantaged minority communities lost their faith in law enforcement, leaving them less likely to call the cops when something goes wrong. “As people really become distrustful in the police, or lose confidence in the police to protect them, they’re more apt to take matters into their own hands and settle disputes with violence,” Rosenfeld explains. “Crime rates, and homicide rates specifically, might go up for that reason.”

All that’s missing — and will be until this fall — is the evidence.

“These are both plausible,” Rosenfeld says.

In a paper he authored for the U.S. Department of Justice, published last week, Rosenfeld grappled with last year’s 17 percent increase in homicides in the nation’s largest cities. The Ferguson Effect is our best available answer, the paper concludes — but it’s still not clear what’s driving it, and what it means.

For Rosenfeld, his newly released report represents the

A Ferguson protester. | STEVE TRUEDELL latest twist in his relationship to the Ferguson Effect. Until now, critics have pointed to Rosenfeld’s own work to debunk the “myth” that linked the 2014 protest movements to the recent crime wave. Now, Rosenfeld has seemingly resurrected the theory as legitimate.

It was St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson who coined the term Ferguson Effect in November 2014, but at the time he wasn’t talking about homicides. Arrests in the city had decreased as the protests over Michael Brown’s death diverted officers from their regular duties. The enforcement vacuum had left criminals feeling “empowered,” Dotson told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

At the time, Rosenfeld cautioned that there just wasn’t enough data to back up Dotson’s theory, though he didn’t discount it completely. However, Rosenfeld sounded confident in declaring that the Ferguson Effect couldn’t explain St. Louis’ rising homicide total, which was already spiking before Brown was killed by a Ferguson officer on August 9. In the same Post-Dispatch article, Rosenfeld said the killings were connected to disputes in the illegal drug market, not to protests or police scrutiny.

Rosenfeld repeated that reassurance in a June 2015 report for the Sentencing Project, writing, “We can conclude with reasonable certainty that the events in Ferguson were not responsible for the steep rise in homicide in St. Louis.”

But when Rosenfeld expanded his research, the data on homicide increases in cities across the country told a different story. Across the board, murders increased sharply after August 2014.

“The one brute fact that recommends some version of the Ferguson Effect over other explanations for the homicide rise is that at least the Ferguson Effect gets the timing right,” he says. “Whatever produced that homicide rise must have changed relatively abruptly.”

Supporting the Ferguson Effect theory with data would go a long way in clarifying this terrifying trend in murders, but the FBI won’t be ready to release the complete set of 2015 crime stats until later this fall.

The delay frustrates Rosenfeld to no end.

“If police were withdrawing, that would be reflected in declining arrest rates where we’ve seen the largest homicide increases,” says Rosenfeld.

“The idea that we’re looking at this fall to receive information we need to evaluate what happened in 2015, that just baffles me.”

The second version of the Ferguson Effect will be even more difficult to corroborate. Arrest statistics won’t help here. Researchers need to conduct indepth studies in affected communities in order to determine residents’ perceptions of police.

“It’s going to be painstaking to compile,” Rosensfeld admits. “But I can’t think of another way of getting at this other version of the Ferguson Effect.

It’s a tough one.”

At this point, Rosenfeld says, we still don’t know enough to draw solid conclusions about the cause (or causes) of the nationwide increase in homicides.

We don’t even have the full picture of crime rates in 2015.

“I have no problem with people criticizing my views,” Rosenfeld says.

“What I would hope is that the criticisms are accompanied by alternative explanations.

“We all should be interested in what gave rise to a such a precipitous increase in homicides in a single year. What I’ve tried to do is suggest some research directions that would place that public debate on firmer foundation, make it a little bit more evidence-based and a little bit less ideology based. That’s the best I think a researcher can do.”

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Adonis Reddick spent his life defying expectations — until he encountered the one thing he couldn’t tame

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races of Adonis Reddick’s battles fill the house on the hill.

There’s the trophy he carried home from a national convention in 2 1 .

Pictures of the daughter and granddaughter no one e pected him to have. liers for organi ations he built so others would learn to fight alongside him.

And, on a southern window, a darker memento of his last battle: flecks of dog blood spattered across a low-hanging shade.

The house itself a threebedroom, three-bathroom in panish ake with a sunroom that looks out over a backyard ringed with trees is a testament to the victories he notched against long odds.

Adonis ignored relatives who worried the home was too big and too much responsibility for a man with his physical limitations. orn with cerebral palsy, he was about five feet four inches tall and weighed maybe 11 pounds. He walked with halting, jerky steps and struggled so hard to form words, his speech was sometimes impenetrable to strangers. ut he also possessed a steely will and a tactician’s wit, sharpened by sarcastic humor.

At any rate, Adonis wasn’t asking permission to buy a house. He was buying a house. He quietly negotiated the real estate deal himself and moved in si years ago, bringing with him his teenage daughter. pon learning of the purchase, his father, Aaron Reddick, remembers asking what Adonis needed him to do. othing, Adonis told him, the word emerging slowly but full of a mischievous pride. Dad, you taught me well. t was Adonis’ father and brother who found the 4 -year-old dead on ay , laid out on his tile floor after he was mauled by a pit bull he’d taken in. The death was gruesome and shocking, and the comment sections on news stories soon unwound in arguments over dangerous dogs.

Adonis was seen as defenseless or foolish, rendered by his disability incapable of understanding the peril of inviting a dangerous animal into his home. ut the assumption that Adonis was a victim who didn’t know any better seemed ridiculous to those who knew him well.

That’s what bothers me about the reaction to the dog story like he didn’t have any sense, says Adonis’ friend hristopher orth. That’s bull crap. He was a strategist.

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As a younger man, Aaron Reddick was so fascinated by reek mythology he named his firstborn after a god.

He chose Adonis, a being so beautiful he sparked a battle between two goddesses. (A second son is named for the hero Achilles.) The child arrived on ovember 2 , 1 , and true to his namesake, he was a beautiful boy with deep eyes framed by long, delicate lashes. hat women would call ‘bedroom eyes,’ the father says. ut there is a darker side to the myth of Adonis. n one version of the story, Adonis’ lover begs him to stop hunting because it was too dangerous and she could not bear to lose him. He ignored her advice and was eventually killed by a wild boar. ittle Adonis Reddick had his own struggle. ot long after his son’s birth, Aaron noticed a knot on the boy’s back. He didn’t know e actly what was wrong, but Adonis spent his first ten days in a special unit at ardinal lennon hildren’s Hospital.

All could do was look at him through glass, the -year-old says. erebral palsy a neurological disorder that affects muscle control and balance was less-

His son would probably never walk or leave his parents’ care. He might not live past fifteen years old. known back then, and all they could tell the Reddicks was that their son was what was known colloquially as a blue baby.

Aaron and his then-wife, Alice, were eventually sent home and told to e ercise the little boy’s legs. t wasn’t until they saw a specialist that they learned about the cerebral palsy, Aaron says.

Doctors now know that people with cerebral palsy can often e pect a life span similar to the general population. t’s essentially a one-time brain injury, meaning it’s not going to get progressively worse. The physical effects might be severe. They might not. ome people might suffer debilitating cognitive problems. ome, like Adonis, might grow up to whip you in chess. ut in the early 1 s, the prognosis the specialist gave Aaron

“I remember one day we were riding,” Mitchell says. “He said, ‘People look at me like I have a disability, but I’m fine. Everyone else has a disability.’”

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Doctors predicted Adonis Reddick would never walk or leave his parents’ care, a fate he enthusiastically escaped. | REDDICK FAMILY ell says. He had the upper body strength we didn’t have.

The boys didn’t reali e it at the time, but Adonis was already sharpening the weapons he’d use the rest of his life. A stranger’s underestimation was leverage. Audacity was power. illpower was king. remember one day we were riding, itchell says. He said, ‘People look at me like have a disability, but ’m fine. veryone else has a disability.’ t was a mentality Adonis understood intuitively and saw echoed by his family’s tough love.

Aaron was known to throw people out of his house, even relatives, if he caught them carrying his son instead of making the boy walk.

Adonis’ maternal grandmother kept a chair for him at her house, teaching him to push it across the floor to build up his legs. He hated it at first, but he soon was shoving it around the house like a tiny football player pushing a sled. f he needed something out of a cabinet, he had to move his little chair over, climb up and get it himself.

The Reddicks divorced before Adonis was ten, and within a few years, the boy went to live with his father in De oto. n his house, life was won by those who battled.

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was dire: His son would probably never walk or leave his parents’ care. He might not live past fifteen years old.

To me, it was like someone took a dull knife and stabbed me in the chest, the father says.

The boy’s development lagged behind that of other kids. He was small for his age. His feet turned inward, causing his legs to scissor when he tried to walk. And his tongue caught in his mouth, garbling his words. ut his father, a former Army engineer who retired from the old hrysler assembly plant, also noticed a ferocity in his tiny son. He thinks now of the surgeries Adonis endured as a child in hopes of improving the function of his legs.

The pain was obviously e cruciating, but the boy refused to show it.

To keep me from seeing him cry, he would bite his lip, Aaron says. The courage of this child Other kids began to notice it, too. heldon itchell, who grew up with Adonis, remembers childhood wrestling matches. At first, the other kids took it easy on him, only to find themselves pinned flat on their backs. Distracted by his spindly legs, they’d failed to notice his powerful hands.

He would always win, itch-

Adonis was a teenager when he met a girl named aTosha Halk at an after-school program for students with disabilities. e and him had a strong chemistry, Halk says.

They started dating casually a couple of years later. Halk had fallen off a four-story porch when she was a toddler, suffering a brain injury that caused head-totoe paralysis on the right side of her body. Her worried mother, intent on keeping her from further harm, was wary of dangers lurking around every corner for a disabled girl. t wasn’t until she met Adonis that Halk began to see new possibilities. Adonis kind of a romantic person, she says took her to see movies and out to eat at restaurants. They hung out at his place and visited relatives.

After years in a protective bubble, Halk was e cited to live like other teenagers. Adonis taught her how to cook, balance a checkbook and navigate the public bus system. ew worlds were opening up. f wanted to go into a job interview, would feel uncomfortable, and he would say, ‘ o, you’re going to achieve,’ Halk, 4 , says.

They eventually moved in together. The couple welcomed a daughter, Danielle, in 1 .

Halk says they began to grow apart in their twenties, arguing over the house they’d bought together and other little things.

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SHARP TEETH Continued from pg 13 still small. Adonis moved in with relatives for a time before finding an apartment alone. e always still had a strong connection, even after they stopped dating, Halk says. e would still talk on the phone together. had two other kids, and he accepted them as if they were his own.

Adonis relished the role of the rock, the man people could turn to for help. He was well aware of the early prognosis for his life that he’d never walk, that he’d always need his parents to look after him and took pleasure in proving he could do more than anyone e pected.

His family tells stories of the Department of otor Vehicles employee who watched him pass his driving test, and then made him do it again because he was so surprised at his abilities. or years after, Adonis relived the e perience every time he caught someone watching him take those halting steps to his ord ocus. He’d soak up the shocked looks on their faces and drive away laughing. ot that everything he tried

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worked out. He attempted, briefly, to be a male model. He later managed a t. ouis hip-hop group and put on a couple of shows before deciding he didn’t have the appetite for all the drama of the entertainment industry. Adonis took low-paying jobs to cover the bills while he dreamed up new ventures. He studied business at t. ouis ommunity ollege and played as much chess as he could in his free time. He punched tickets at a movie theater for years and later landed a job at Harrah’s asino and Hotel.

He was working in the hotel’s laundry room in 2 1 when he suffered a hernia. The injury knocked him out of a job, but it also rerouted the final years of his life. o one is e actly sure how it started, but Adonis began showing up for meetings of advocacy groups shortly after he had to leave Harrah’s. He joined the social justice committee of t. ouis Arc, a nonprofit nited ay agency that provides services to people with disabilities. He joined the activist group oalition for Truth in ndependence and helped found two grassroots organi ations, Association of panish ake Advocates and

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Adonis Reddick became an organizer and activist for equal rights for people with disabilities. | ST. LOUIS ARC Alternative to heltered Adapted orkshops.

The world of organi ing was new to him. n the beginning, he was focused on himself, an aggressive defender of his own rights. Other advocates say it’s a natural stance for people with disabilities who have spent their lives battling for themselves as a means of survival. ut Adonis soon began to see the power of joining with other fighters

as an army. Organi ations such as the oalition for Truth in ndependence were direct action groups.

There was no program or agency setting the agenda. The disabled activists operated like activists anywhere, choosing and e ecuting campaigns by themselves. think Adonis was new to that type of thinking, coalition President Julie alih says, adding, t was a lightbulb moment for him.

His first major activism campaign targeted an aging cDonald’s in erguson. illiam hucky amblin, a childhood friend of Adonis’ who also has cerebral palsy, had written numerous letters to the fast-food chain, describing the ha ards that made it a hassle to navigate with his wheelchair. o one ever responded. n early 2 14, the newly formed Association of panish ake Advocates decided to take action. ight members of the group, all with varying disabilities, showed up and began to inspect the restaurant. or two hours, they tested doors and eyeballed tables. They pushed into the inaccessible bathrooms and noted every violation of the federal Americans with Disabilities Act they could find. t was a reconnaissance mission, and the group used the intel they collected to draft a new letter requesting a meeting this time under the banner of the association. hen no one responded, they wrote again, setting a deadline and warning of further action if the problems continued. f this letter is ignored it will mean cDonald’s doesn’t care about the Americans with Disabili-

ties Act nor the disabled, the letter concluded.

They responded to that one by ed , amblin says. cDonald’s regional construction manager agreed to meet with the group and informed them the restaurant would be torn down and rebuilt, according to amblin. ( cDonald’s didn’t respond to Riverfront Times’ request for comment.) onstruction began shortly after, according to building records.

Adonis followed up regularly with the contractors as work progressed. The new restaurant, which sits just south of nterstate 2 on est lorissant Avenue, reopened later that year and incorporated almost all of the association’s demands. hoa, Adonis told his colleagues. t worked. amblin smiles when he recalls the memories. He speaks using a metal wand attached to a headband to tap out the words on a computer screen. t can be a slow and frustrating process, but Adonis had the same type of cerebral palsy and could understand him even without the electronic voice.

The unday after he died, the praise singers at my church were singing ‘ od Does verything Right,’ and thought about it because od made Adonis the way he was, amblin says. broke down while they were singing that song because he was a good, strong fighter.

Adonis won joint custody of his daughter in 2 1 , and she came to live with him in the house on the hill.

Danielle, then thirteen, was painfully shy. he had begun to clash with her mother, but rather than act out as some teens might, she turned inward. was sort of depressed, she says now. had thoughts of hurting myself, and when he took me in, felt like was blessed. n her father, she found a patient and careful listener. He had fought his entire life to be heard, and he became his daughter’s confidant. oys. chool. ife. Adonis listened to it all, offering suggestions and perspectives Danielle might not have considered. lowly, with her dad’s prodding, she began to find her voice.

He did a lot for me, she says.

He taught me to speak up for myself and say my mind.

All the lessons he’d learned as a boy and honed as a man began to filter down to his daughter. Thin and pretty with her father’s eyes, Danielle says she was a timid child, but her dad taught her to face her fears. he gives an e ample. t’s funny, well, it’s not funny, but used to be terrified of dogs, she says.

Adonis kept two in the house.

One was a small, sweet-natured erman shepherd mi named achet. The other was a 2-pound pit bull, ilow. The bigger dog belonged to a friend, -year-old Ashley heffield, whom Adonis had mentored over the years, his relatives say. heffield says she met Adonis when she was just three years old, at a time when he and his girlfriend, Halk, were still living together in a Hanley Hills apartment comple . He became a constant source of encouragement and advice. he credits him with guiding her through troubled teenage years, and she later moved into a spare bedroom of his house for a time.

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SHARP TEETH Continued from pg 15 f he couldn’t be there physically or help you financially, he would always find a way to help you, heffield says. he estimates she spent about a year living with Adonis and his daughter in panish ake. Those were good times. Adonis had a talent for fun. He would plan weekend trips to the oo or get everyone out of the house to go to the t. ouis cience enter. loved it, she says. enjoyed the time had with him and being with Danielle. t was always positive every day. heffield eventually found her own place, but they kept in touch, talking as recently as a month before he was killed.

The news of his death was devastating, she says. felt like someone had literally snatched something from inside of me that didn’t even know e isted, heffield says. And now ’m left with a lot of emotions inside of me. There’s no way that ’ll ever feel the same not being able to call him.

As for ilow, she’ll say only that Adonis knew the dog since he was a puppy. He never would have taken him on if he thought he was in danger.

He helped me with the dog, she says. He knew what he was doing.

Adonis was alone when he died.

Danielle, who’d given birth to a little girl si months before, had recently moved to Austin, Te as, where her boyfriend’s mother lived. A big catalyst was ilow.

Danielle had made her peace with dogs in general, but she still feared the brown-and-white pit bull. he had her reasons.

The dogs lived primarily in the sunroom at the back of the house.

One day, ilow spotted Danielle’s baby daughter, Aubrey, through the glass sliding door.

He just went cra y and scared the mess out of me, Danielle says.

Danielle told her father what happened and pleaded with him to get rid of the dog, but he refused.

Adonis thought ilow, while aggressive, was manageable. He worried if they passed off the dog to a shelter, he would jump on someone and that would be it. They’d have the dog euthani ed. And he’d given his word that he’d take care of ilow.

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Danielle Reddick (with daughter, Aubrey) took over her father’s house after his death. | DOYLE MURPHY Aaron Reddick knew how stubborn his son could be. Adonis had long ago learned to trust in himself and push forward where others assumed he would have to retreat. n the days before his death, he called his father to ask for some advice. There was a junk car parked in his driveway, and he wanted it gone. He said he’d tried calling police, but they wouldn’t tow a car parked on private property.

Adonis refused to tell his father how the car got there, but Aaron assumed his son had tried to help someone out with a place to park for a couple of days and the deadbeat probably never came back.

The father sometimes suspected his son’s generosity led people to take advantage of him, but he also knew it was useless to argue with him about it. Adonis wouldn’t bend. nstead, he told Adonis he’d bring over his two-ton jack and push the car to the curb. That was aturday. Aaron called his other son, Achilles, and they made plans to meet at the house on onday. hat happened in the ne t 48 hours is ha y. Relatives talked to Adonis on unday, and a friend was on his way to meet him on onday morning when he ran into Aaron and Achilles in the drive-

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way of Adonis’ house.

The Reddicks had started jacking up the car, assuming Adonis would come out when he heard the noise. Once they had it lifted, they asked the friend to help them wheel it out of the drive. The three pushed and shoved the clunker to the curb, sweating and joking about Adonis back in the house, pretending he couldn’t hear them. e’re all laughing, Aaron Reddick recalls. know he’s playing jokes on us.

Adonis had two sets of doorbells, and his father punched both of them at the same time.

Let Adonis pretend he didn’t hear that. hen he still didn’t respond, Aaron fished out a set of keys and opened the door.

The mood quickly changed once the three men were inside. They could hear the roar of the dogs as they passed through the narrow hallway into the dining room. stepped around the corner, and then see him lying in a pool of blood, Aaron says.

The sunroom door was open, and ilow was back against the glass, barking wildly, his teeth bared in the dim light. Adonis was sprawled out on the floor, gashes in his throat. His fist was raised by his head.

Achilles grabbed a chair to fight off ilow. Aaron hoped his firstborn was only badly wounded, but when he reached down to drag him to safety, he felt the stiffening of rigor mortis.

Aaron found a snow shovel and helped Achilles drive ilow back into the sunroom and lock the door. omeone called 11. Aaron draped a cloth over his son’s body. t. ouis ounty police arrived along with Animal ontrol officers.

Aaron watched them enter with a dog catcher’s pole. He says he knew it wouldn’t be enough the pit bull was in a rage. oments later, he heard the sound of one gunshot and then one more.

He spoke to the police after it was over. know ’m not supposed to move the body, he told them, but couldn’t leave him with the dog.

There is a video online of a great moment in Adonis’ life.

He was in ndianapolis for the 2 1 national convention for the Arc of the nited tates. After two years of organi ing activists, writing letters and launching campaigns to change policies at cDonald’s, etro ink and t. ouis ounty, Adonis was on hand to accept that year’s elf Advocate of

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He spent the weekend introducing himself to one person after another, shaking do ens of hands. haron purlock, director of family support for t. ouis Arc, says he was a natural networker.

He probably collected a hundred business cards, she says.

On the night of the awards ceremony, purlock and tephanie cott of t. ouis Arc introduced Adonis and then invited him to the stage. He strode to the microphone, his feet still turning inward with each step, his arms floating away from his sides for balance. ow he said. purlock and cott stepped to the side as everyone in the room focused on Adonis. want you to close your eyes, he instructed the audience. Tell me what you see.

Any answers are lost in the recording, but Adonis pushed on. ow open your eyes, he said.

Tell me what you see.

He scanned the audience. He was acting this out with them, closing his eyes, springing them back open. lose your eyes one more time and tell me what you see, he said. ow when you open your eyes, reali e that you can put in and

take out whatever you want in this world.

A medical e amination confirmed ilow killed Adonis, police say. o one knows what set him off.

All we know is the dog got at him, and we don’t know why, Aaron Reddick says. e’ll probably never know.

Animal ontrol officers removed the other dog, the erman shepherd mi , from the house without any trouble. They kept her for 2 days, but she was ultimately euthani ed when Adonis’ family didn’t claim her. ow there are two empty dog crates at Adonis’ house. Danielle moved back after the funeral, her baby in tow, and she plans to hold onto the place, because that’s what her father would have wanted. t’s sometimes creepy walking through the big house, so she invites her boyfriend and her halfbrother to come stay. ometimes ’m emotional, but sometimes ’m happy for my dad because he’s in a better place, Danielle says. He’s not struggling anymore. He’s not stressing anymore.

One of the most tragic things about Adonis’ death, friends and relatives say, is that he had just

begun to come into his own as an organi er. All those battles won and lessons learned coalesced when he found his calling as an activist. ou could spot the leadership in him, fellow oalition for Truth in ndependence activist Denise Patterson says. People cried at the group’s first meeting without him. hristopher orth, organi ing team manager for Paraquad, saw Adonis as a kindred spirit.

The two drew parallels between orth’s hard-nosed childhood in est Virginia and Adonis’ pitiless upbringing in metro t. ouis. And they both saw activism by people with disabilities as part of the larger battle for social justice across society, although they sometimes clashed over the best methods. e fought a lot, but fighting was good, he says. Healthy fighting was very good. saw him transform in front of my eyes.

Adonis was a revolutionary and a strategist, orth says. He assessed risks and took bold but calculated action to solve important problems. n that final fight, orth sees a friend who took on all challenges, even when no one thought he could win.

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PrideFest takes over Soldiers Memorial. | MARC BRUXELLE

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FRIDAY 06/24 Monty Python and Kittens Kittens and pythons don’t ordinarily mix, but tonight they do.

Crafted Events presents the singalong version of Monty Python and the Holy Grail (certainly the best film adaptation of Le Morte D’Arthur), with special furry guests from Tenth Life Cat Rescue. The kittens are available for meet-and-greets starting at 7 p.m. at Tower Grove Park (4256 Magnolia Avenue; montypythonandkittens/evenbrite.com), and the film starts at 8 p.m. nacks will be sold on site, or you can bring

your own. There’s also a costume contest, and a portion of the proceeds benefit Tenth ife. Tickets are $10 and must be purchased in advance.

42nd Street Dreams are made and hearts are broken when Peggy awyer leaves Allentown, Pennsylvania, for the bright lights of Broadway in the musical 42nd Street. Certain she has what it takes to be a chorus girl, she attempts to audition for the new show Pretty Baby, but gets shot down. The other hoofers feel sorry for Peggy and arrange for a second audition, which she aces. But when the star breaks an ankle, can Peggy overcome her doubts and nab a leading part in

the show? 42nd Street is a tribute to the pageantry of show biz. Its packed with great songs such as hu e Off to uffalo, the title track orty- econd treet and the iconic ullaby of roadway.

The show is performed at 8:1 p.m. Friday through Thursday (June 24 to 30) at the Muny in Forest Park (314-361-1900 or www. muny.org). Tickets are $14 to $90.

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place. The scent of your grandmother’s home (mothballs and cigarettes) is more evocative than a photo of the actual house, even though a larger portion of our brains is devoted to processing visual information. 24 Hours, 15 Scents, a one-day program at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (3716 Washington Boulevard; www. pulitzerarts.org), delves into the hidden potential of our noses.

The nstitute for Art and Olfaction, author ileen ’ ell and Firecracker Press joined forces to document personal narratives from 24 t. ouisans, which are then printed out and scented so that the reader can experience a new dimension in storytelling. 24 Hours, 15 Scents takes place at 3 p.m. today, and admission is free.

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The State produced only 28 episodes of its namesake sketch-comedy show on MTV way back in the ‘90s, but the reverberations of those four seasons are still felt today. Individually and collectively the group has produced a lengthy roster of TV shows (Viva Variety, Reno 911), films (The Baxter, Wet Hot American Summer) and scripts for other actors (The Night at the Museum series and The Pacifier). It’s not a reach to claim they’re as influential in America as Monty Python is in England. But how did an improv troupe from New York University slowly infiltrate all manner of media? The Union of the State, orey tulce’s oral history, charts the group’s rise, break-up and reunion with first-person accounts from every member, as well as recollections from frequent collaborators Janeane Garofalo, Rob Corddry and Christopher Meloni. tulce signs copies of his book today from 4 to 6 p.m. at Planet core Records ( 421 anchester Road, Maplewood; www.facebook.com/planetscorerecords), where he’s joined by founding tate member evin Allison. Admission is free, and don’t miss Allison’s 8 p.m. show at lueberry Hill, at which he will introduce his storytelling podcast Risk! to t. ouis. Admission to the book signing is free; admission to Risk! is $20.

PrideFest PrideFest is normally a celebration of t. ouis’ T community, but the unprecedented slaughter of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando will no doubt cast a pall over this year’s party. Rest assured, the organizers are working closely with the police to ensure that the festival will be as safe as possible. o don’t be afraid to come together for live music from Karmin, Kim assie and Jordin parks, food trucks, guest speakers, educational seminars and healing this weekend. This year’s festival takes place from 4: to 1 : p.m. riday, 11 a.m. to p.m. aturday and 11 a.m. to p.m. unday (June 24 to 2 ) at oldiers emorial ( ourteenth and Chestnut streets; www.pridestl.org). The always-popular parade kicks off at noon on unday.

Admission is free, but donations are requested.

SUNDAY 06/26 Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis Before the interstate highway system was developed, Route 66 was the safest, fastest way to cross the western half of the country. tarting in hicago and ending anta onica, the ain treet of America came right though t. ouis, but not

The old Coral Court Motel on Route 66. | COURTESY MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY IMAGES in the mostly straight lines we’re accustomed to now. At various points in time, Route 66 traversed Watson Road, Manchester Road, the Martin Luther King Bridge and the Poplar treet ridge. That shifting route helped spur the growth of cities and businesses along the way, as travelers stopped overnight at the Coral Court Motel or grabbed a bit to eat at the Parkmoor Restaurant. Route 66: Main Street Through St. Louis, the new exhibition at the Missouri History Museum (Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue; 314-7464599 or www.mohistory.org), tells the story of the byway through roadside signs and gas pumps, historic vehicles, bus tours and photographs. Route opens aturday, June 25, and remains open through July 16, 2017. Admission is free.

TUESDAY 06/28 Rifftrax Live: MST3K Reunion t’s a party years in the making: The RiffTrax guys (Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett) reunite with most of the original cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Frank Conniff and Mary Joy Pehl) in honor of T ’s imminent return with new host Jonah Ray (who will also be present). The gang will pair off in small groups to take turns savaging a selection of educational films, as well as perform some of their bizarre comic interludes. Rifftrax Live: MST3K Reunion is broadcast

live from Minneapolis (where else?), and you can see it locally at 7 p.m. at Wehrenberg Des Peres 14 Cinema (1270 Manchester Road; www.fathomevents.com). Tickets are $15.

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Royals The Kansas City Royals won the orld eries in 2 1 , a year after losing the Fall Classic in seven games. t’s still difficult to believe pulled it off — the team was a punching bag for much of the past 30 years.

This year’s team is scu ing along in second place in its division, which just so happens to be the same place the St. Louis Cardinals sit at press time. The cross-state rivals play a home-and-home series this week, with the usch tadium ( roadway and Poplar treet www.stlcardinals. com) games taking place at :1 p.m. ednesday and :1 p.m. Thursday (June 29 and 30). Tickets are $10 to $253.

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Starring Tobias Moretti, Jeanette Hain and Cornelia Ivancan. Opens Friday, June 24, at the Landmark Tivoli Theatre.

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he vampire film, like its fanged protagonists, continues to be the rare cinematic sub-genre that refuses to die. Just a few years ago, vampires were struggling to preserve a trace of relevance, weakened by the blood-thinning persistence of the Twilight cycle and failed attempts to give the genre an arty gloss like Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive and eil Jordan’s Byzantium. Just as

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suddenly, attempts to revive stories of bloodsuckers and the people who feed them were radically refigured by carlet Johansson’s alien vampire hybrid in Under the Skin and renewed by the satirical power of the Spinal Tap of vampire movies, What We Do In the Shadows. Perhaps the only ways we can keep the bloodsuckers relevant is by either transforming them into something entirely different or by having a laugh at their e pense.

The new Austrian film Therapy for a Vampire (the original title translates as The Vampire on the Couch) takes the latter approach.

A modest comedy whose humor rests on the near-obsessive detail of the vampire film, Therapy is set somewhat incongruously in 1 2, as Dr. igmund reud is persuaded to take on a new patient, ount e a Von sn m (Tobias oretti). The ount, who speaks vaguely of marital strife, can only make appointments at night and, unnoticed by the doctor, tends to hover slightly above the analytical couch when discussing particularly annoying subjects.

Alas, those hoping to learn more about the superego of the undead will be disappointed to discover that reudian analysis is only a minor plot point. (The real reud was far more distracted in 1 2 by the im-

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pending threat of a ism and the cancer of the jaw that would kill him seven years later.)

Despite the title, the film more closely resembles the romantic farces that we associate with Vienna in a slightly earlier period, stories of mistaken identity and amorous confusion: ount Von sn m is bored with his wife and obsessed with a previous dead lover. His wife lsa is tormented by the fact that, as a vampire, she can no longer see her own reflection. Viktor, a painter (and non-vampire), is in love with his girlfriend ucy (the very charming ornelia vancan) but so obsessed with a very different physical ideal that he is unable to paint an accurate portrait of her. After seeing one of Viktor’s paintings, the ount recommends that lsa have Viktor paint her portrait he also becomes convinced that ucy is the reincarnation of his long-lost love adila. Viktor wants his girlfriend back, Von sn m longs for ucy adila, and even the ount’s servant gets in on the act thanks to a mi -up over a delayed hypnotic command. veryone loves ucy. ritten and directed by David R hm, Therapy for a Vampire is a modest comedy that balances its generic vampire elements with a lot of confused identity jokes and just-

short-of-slapstick physical comedy.

(One running joke is based on a traditional belief that vampires are obsessed with numbers, which makes it easy to escape Von sn m’s clutches just spill something, and he’s down on his knees counting like a supernatural Rain an.) There are a few bloody scenes, but also a lot of horror effects that wouldn’t be too out of place in a 1 4 s niversal outing levitation, space-defying editorial tricks and vampires converting to animals via silhouette.

The performers work their way through R hm’s theatrical contrivances with a great deal of enthusiasm but an admirable avoidance of campiness.

Although it’s nowhere near as stylish, was reminded at times of Polanski’s 1 Dance of the Vampires (released in truncated form as The Fearless Vampire Killers). That film is perhaps the only other to acknowledge the farcical quality of the vampire mythos, its social rules and compulsive-to-the point-of-meaningless discipline. The marital discord between the ount and his wife (played with callous charm by Jeanette Hain), which turns into open warfare by the end of the film, is a sly observation of the downside of eternal life: orever is a long time to keep putting up appearances. n

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Crowd Me with Love Insight Theatre presents a wellacted Company Written by

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obert approaches his 35th birthday with nagging doubts.

A surprise birthday party thrown by his friends only unsettles him more. They’re all married and Bobby is still single, albeit juggling three girlfriends.

When the moment comes to blow out the candles and make a wish, he realizes he can’t think of a single thing he wants. That realization sends him into an existential tailspin of doubt and uncertainty: What is he doing with his life?

Stephen Sondheim’s lauded musical Company is about a man coming to terms with his inability to connect emotionally with women, and himself. It has a complex, dense score that constantly surprises with its vigor, and a non-linear plot that circles back to the opening birthday party and Bobby coming face-toface with his own misgivings. It’s not an easy show to mount, but director Doug Finlayson’s staging for Insight Theatre Company mostly meets the challenge. If it seems a bit dated for reasons you can’t quite identify (it was written in 1970), that’s through no fault of the cast, which is excellent.

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“Sorry-Grateful” argues that marriage is a series of compromises, regrets and comforts. another boisterous dinner with friends to quiet misgivings about his persistent status as a third wheel. But every time his friends push him to consider getting married, or attempt to set him up with a nice girl, he questions them about their own marriages.

Phil Levelling and Meghan Baker also do great work as Harry and Sarah, who snipe at each other passive-aggressively before breaking out into a brawl triggered

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(Sarah wins, three falls to two). Any ambiguity about the nature of their relationship is further muddied by the song “Sorry-Grateful,” which argues that marriage is a series of compromises, regrets and comforts.

Bobby’s own relationships are just as fraught with tension. April (Bailey Reeves) is a dim but kindhearted flight attendant; Kathy (Melissa Gerth) is a Cape Cod native who plans to move back home; and Marta (Samantha Irene) is a transplant to the city who believes only she knows the authentic New York. e first meet them as a group, serenading Bobby with the upbeat “You Could Drive a Person Crazy.” t’s a terrific song, but their voices are muddled and the lyrics are difficult to make out. This is a recurring problem throughout the show, with many of the actresses’ vocals almost indiscernible. There were occasional problems with microphones dropping out as well, but I’m not sure the two issues are related.

Margery and Peter Pack’s set is an impressive, multi-level affair with balconies, ramps and several

well-hidden staircases. Somewhere inside it or behind it is the band, ably led by Catherine Edwards Kopff.

Laurie McConnell brings down the house with her primal performance of “The Ladies Who Lunch,” both a tribute to and indictment of the vacuous lives of the aging Sex and the City brunch crowd. McConnell’s Joanne has been married several times, drinks heavily and perhaps fears she’s heading toward the same territory.

McConnell brings everything she has to the performance, moving from resentment to forgiveness.

It’s a lesson Bobby has to learn before he can move on with his life.

But does he learn it? The show ends with a return to the surprise party, only this time Bobby doesn’t show up. While his friends debate how much longer to wait for him, Bobby sings “Being Alive,” which sounds dated and overwrought.

Bobby asks for someone to “Make me confused/mock me with praise./ Let me be used/Vary my days.” It’s not so much a cry for love as it is a plea for a someone to share the misery of his company. n

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he Muddled Pig Gastropub.

Utter those four words and you’ve paid homage to just about every food trend of the past few years. Craft cocktails, gastropubs, a borderline pornographic obsession with everything pork — every last piece

in this combination feels overdone.

We already have the Copper Pig and Capitalist Pig. Salted Pig came and went. Did we really need a Muddled Pig, too?

Which is why I came close to looking past the place. What could this four-month-old spot just off Maplewood’s main drag have to add to the conversation that hasn’t already been said ad nauseam? We’ve already wrapped the culinary world in bacon and infused it with housemade bitters.

Isn’t it time to move on?

My mood toward the place changed, however, when I found out who was behind it. This particular pig is the brainchild of chefs Austin Hamblin and Michelle Allender, two longtime friends who met in culinary school and have been working in kitchens around town together ever since. Before the Muddled Pig, the pair helped to open Bella Vino Wine Bar, a tiny small plates restaurant on Main Street that was so good, it made me lift my (admittedly unfair) ban on crossing the river for dinner. The

thought of Hamblin and Allender released from the restrictions of tapas-style dining and given complete creative control was enough for me to schedule a visit.

They did not disappoint. The Muddled Pig is Hamblin and Allender’s love song to all things pork — a near-obsession that makes for a beautiful, if familiar, melody. Just because you know this tune doesn’t mean you won’t find yourself wanting to tap your feet along to the rhythm.

They’ve built their temple to all things pig in the former bar and music venue the Wood. The space seems almost too large and open for a restaurant, though Hamblin and Allender have done a decent job warming it up with dark paint, candlelit mason jars, a vintagelooking chandelier and some long, wooden communal tables. The place still seems cavernous despite a decent number of diners and bar patrons on my visits.

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the chefs replace the traditional gravy with a heaping portion of stout-braised pork shoulder. The juice from the succulent meat mixes with an over-easy egg, forming a decadent paste that begs to be sopped up with fries.

The dish’s large, battered-and-fried cheese curds are an equally good pork-gravy vehicle, their richness mercifully mitigated by sliced jalapenos and bright pickled red onion.

Plain cornbread — no matter how soft and buttery — is not enough for the Muddled Pig. Hamblin and Allender fry theirs in bacon fat so that it soaks into every nook and cranny, then drizzle it with sagehoney crème fraiche. Likewise, instead of plain old chicken wings, they offer two different varieties of “Pig Wings” as their go-to bar snack. The soy and whiskey version had a subtle brown sugar sweetness, accented with cilantro and chopped peanuts. The “Sweet and Spicy” option was equally wellexecuted, its chili-spiked spice rub pairing well Continued on pg 28

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with funky blue cheese crumbles and pickled okra.

On the entree side of things, the Berkshire pork steak is the backyard barbecue of St. Louis summers — if your family decided to spring for the good stuff. In classic style, the pork is grilled and smothered in tangy red beer barbecue sauce. Granted, it covers the delicate flavor of the heritage breed hog, but it’s about as true to form as you can get in a restaurant.

If you don’t eat red meat but want to know what all the fuss is about braised short ribs, order the coffeebraised pork shank. The succulent meat, covered in a savory sauce that could be mistaken for mole, slips off the bone and into a pool of cheddar grits that have as much butter and cheese in them as they do cornmeal. A spicy orange glaze adds a slightly sweet component to this outrageously rich dish.

As much as I enjoyed the pork shank, I would have appreciated it so much more were I not assaulted by the heat and humidity of St. Louis summertime the second I walked out the door. In fact, that’s my only real complaint about the Muddled Pig. This is heavy, stickto-your-ribs fare with little in the way of relief — even the Brussels sprouts slaw was warm and hearty.

Though left satisfied that ’d had a good meal, I was shaking with the meat sweats and nearly dove into the patio’s tomato herb garden for a taste of something green.

But even if light and healthy isn’t on the menu, a handful of non-pork entrees are, including a bone-in,

skillet-fried Amish chicken breast.

The juicy meat is coated in a thick crust, then glazed with a sweet chili-spiked sauce that comes off like the love child of Southern fried chicken and takeout Chinese.

A dry-aged strip steak, covered in bone marrow breadcrumbs, is the embodiment of ostentatious eating. Grilled to a gorgeous medium rare, the grass-fed steak was slathered in so much richness I doubt even a total glutton could finish it off. At three bites, it was excellent; anything more and it would be a case of gout.

Surprisingly, my favorite dish had nothing to do with muddling or a pig. Three fillets of pearlescent haddock, battered in beer and served with tangy remoulade, proved to be the best fish and chips in town. Forget our city’s famed fish fries this is where ’ll be every Friday during Lent.

The Muddled Pig’s house burger is thick, well-seasoned, blanketed with gooey cheddar cheese and covered in thick bacon. On Tuesdays, for ten dollars, you get this beautifully simple sandwich with a healthy shot of Buffalo Trace bourbon and a Four Hands beer. Once word gets out about the Muddled Pig’s Tuesday night special, you won’t be able to find a seat in the house.

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hen asked why she went the sweet route instead of savory, Sarah Osborn, the executive pastry chef for the new Gerard Craft restaurant Sardella (7734 Forsyth Boulevard, Clayton; 314-773-7755), doesn’t hesitate. “Everybody is really excited when you hand them a cookie,” she explains. “No one is going to say, ‘No thank you.’ I’m a people pleaser and sweets do that.

Carbs just make you happy.”

Osborn has been making people happy through her desserts for as long as she can remember. Raised in St. Louis, she fell in love with cooking at an early age because of her mother. “I grew up in a house where my mom cooked every meal seven days a week,” recalls Osborn.

“She was an excellent cook. She’s the one who taught me everything — but she can’t bake to save her life.”

While her mother wasn’t able to whip up pastries, though, she knew talent when she saw it. When Osborn was a senior in high school, her mom encouraged her to go to culinary school. Osborn took her advice and began working at Sunset 44 in Kirkwood. She was then accepted to the Culinary Institute of America in New York when she was just eighteen. This led to a job in New York City, an internship in London and a summer working in the Hamptons.

Osborn returned to St. Louis the fall after she graduated from the CIA and was offered a chance to stage for Gerard Craft at Niche.

She landed the job and worked her way up from assistant to the pas-

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“It’s where I met my husband,” Osborn says, referring to her spouse Nick Blue, who had been until recently the executive chef at Craft’s Brasserie, very briefly served in that role at Niche and, now that Niche has closed, will take that same title at Sardella when it opens next month.

“It’s a funny story,” she continues. Apparently on the first day of my stage Nick called dibs on me.

He asked me out on Facebook but I ignored him for nine months. Eventually, we were working a station together and he just won me over.”

Sardella will represent the third time Osborn and Blue have worked together, “surprisingly without killing each other,” she laughs. The pair are currently in the process of doing research and development on recipes for the forthcoming restaurant, though don’t expect her to try to improve upon her mother — the non-baker’s — excellent birthday cake recipe.

“My mom makes my birthday cake every year,” Osborn explains.

“It’s a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting that’s almost like fudge. It’s so simple and so, so good.”

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Perhaps that baking gene did come from her mother after all.

Osborn took a break from the kitchen to share her thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage community, her not-so-secret food crush and the simple meal that is near to her heart.

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

I lived in Texas for a few years as a kid, so I have a deep love of Taco Cabana, blue bonnets and Shiner beer.

What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you?

My daily iced tea with lime.

If you could have any superpower what would it be?

The ability to instantly heal. No more burns covering my arms!

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

Since the announcement of Niche closing, there has been such an outpouring of love from the entire food community in St. Louis. Over this last year, and especially these last two weeks, I have really been able to see how amazing the hospitality community in St. Louis is, front and center. This isn’t specifically food,

wine or cocktails, but it is more of everyone and everything.

Who is your St. Louis food crush?

Well, the new executive chef at Sardella, Nick Blue, is pretty cute.

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

This may be biased, but honestly, Nick Blue. I can’t wait for people to see what he is doing at Sardella.

Which ingredient is most representative of your personality?

Sugar.

If you weren’t working in restaurants, what would you be doing?

I honestly have no idea. Something creative or a dog walker.

Name an ingredient never allowed in your kitchen?

Swiss cheese. I just can’t.

What is your after-work hangout?

“Casa Blue.” A beer, my husband, our dog and our sofa. Can’t beat it.

What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure?

Puffy Cheetos. I have an undying love for them.

What would be your last meal on earth?

BLT, corn on the cob and a very cold beer. And nothing fancy for the BLT: toasted white bread, mayo, tomato, lettuce and salt. It is my absolute favorite. n

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Club Taco (2 0 0 N . K ir k w ood R oad, K ir k w ood; 31485148 ) opened its doors this month in the space that previously held the Middle Eastern restaurant Petra.

Sandwiched between Kirkwood Station Brewing Co. and Dewey’s Pizza in the heart of the suburb’s walkable downtown area, the fast-casual eatery boasts a full bar, a huge patio facing Kirkwood Road and tacos beyond anything seen before in greater St. Louis.

It’s not just that you can get breakfast tacos here (all day!). It’s that the creative, and surprising, combos include a riff on Thanksgiving dinner, a taco stuffed with bacon-wrapped meatloaf and mashed potatoes, and even three quirky vegetarian options, only one of which features the ubiquitous portobello mushroom. The other two use as their base Southern fried tomatoes and eggplant parmesan, respectively — which should give you an idea of just how elaborate, off-the-wall and big these tacos are.

They also aren’t cheap. This might be the first time a fast-casual restaurant in St. Louis has charged $5 for a taco — and quite a few options on Club Taco’s lengthy list go there. ut they are quite filling.

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Club Taco’s offerings include “Who You Callin’ Shrimp,” left, and “From Our Seoul.” | SARAH FENSKE restaurant industry veteran Gerard LaRuffa Jr. A chef by trade, LaRuffa married into the Farotto family and spent more than a decade at the now-closed Villa Farotto in Chesterfield. He also has management experience at Canyon Cafe and Drunken Fish.

The vibe at Club Taco has something in common with that sushi hotspot; it’s not taking itself too seriously. If those goofy tacos weren’t your first clue, the club music pulsing through the space should be.

Where Mission Taco Joint is a laidback homage to a West Coast-style taco shack, Club Taco is a high-energy version filtered through a outh Beach sensibility. Among more than a dozen other fruity drinks, there are vats of fresh-made sangria and a “Hibiscus Pleasure Martini” on special at the bar; even at 4 p.m., a server will stop by to make sure you see the cocktail menu.

Club Taco underwent substantial renovations before opening, but it’s still a work in progress, as “club concierge” Nick Suna explained on

our recent visit. Perhaps most significantly, aRuffa plans to put a large awning over that gorgeous patio — and a bit of shade is likely all it will take to make this the hottest spot in Kirkwood for margaritas on a hot day.

But don’t expect to chow down on chips and salsa while you imbibe.

There are none on this menu, nor is there rice or refried beans.

“I’ve spent a lot of time in Phoenix, San Diego, Houston,” LaRuffa says. “I love Mexican food. But I didn’t want to open a Mexican restaurant. I didn’t want to be restricted by that. I just liked the idea of tacos.”

And so once you’re full up on tacos, you might want to try an order of the wildly popular “club tots” — a heaping boat of tater tots dressed with white cheddar, roasted poblano chiles, chipotle crema and a fried egg topped with radish and cilantro, they’re about as over the top as, well, Club Taco. They’re also just the thing to soak up that “Hibisn cus Pleasure Martini.”

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Vincent Van Doughnut, the food truck that grew into a thriving brickand-mortar gourmet doughnut shop in Clayton, announced last week that it will be opening a shop at Tower Grove and Manchester in St. Louis’ Grove neighborhood.

Owner and founder Vincent Brian Marsden said he hopes to open at 1072 Tower Grove Avenue by October.

“I found a great location for our second store in a vibrant, eclectic, growing area — the Grove — with neighbors such as Urban Chestnut Brewing, Atomic Cowboy and Attitudes,” said Marsden in a prepared statement. “I know a bunch of the business owners there and several of them have already called me to extend an enthusiastic welcome ... I’m excited to be expanding into this great location.”

Vincent Van Doughnut has been on a fast track: Marsden first launched the food truck in 2012 and only opened the Clayton shop, at 40 N. Central, last March.

For this new location, Marsden promises “some new twists.”

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ichael and Tara Gallina shocked the restaurant world last year when they announced they would be leaving New York state’s acclaimed Blue Hill at Stone Barns to open a restaurant in St. Louis. As it turns out, though, St. Louis had some surprises in store for them as well.

“We’ve learned a tremendous amount since we’ve been in town,” Tara says. “When we started out doing the pop-ups, we thought it would be a fun way to meet people.

It turned out it was a really smart thing to do.”

Since last fall, the Gallinas have been operating under the name Rooster and the Hen, doing pop-up dinner collaborations with local chefs and purveyors around town.

It started out as a way to get to know fellow industry professionals, but it turned into research and development for their upcoming restaurant, Vicia — planned to open later this year in the city’s Cortex district, near the Central West End. “Of course we came in with an open mind, but there have been some things that surprised us,” Tara says. “We came here from an environment that was tasting menu only, and thought that was what we’d do [at Vicia]. We quickly realized that might not work as well here.”

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The reason for eschewing the tasting menu concept wasn’t that the community wouldn’t be on board, Tara explains. It’s more about how often St. Louisans revisit their favorite spots. “Sometimes, people go out to eat multiple times a week to the same place. It made us stop and think ‘maybe we need to re-conceptualize what it is we want to do.’”

The Gallinas were also surprised by how enthusiastically St. Louisans would embrace their “vegetables first philosophy, which is at the center of their forthcoming restaurant concept. Not vegetarian, it’s instead a way of using meat sparingly, as an accent, while crops stay front and center.

“We’ve been pleasantly surprised at how excited people are about it,” says Michael. “I was even called out on it at one of the pop-ups. We had two meat courses on the menu and someone said, ‘Hey, I thought you said this was supposed to be veggie-centric.’”

Complaints of that sort should not be heard coming from Vicia’s diners. The Gallinas describe the restaurant, which will be located inside the Cortex Innovation Community’s @4260 Building at Duncan and Boyle, as a “celebration of the bounty of the Midwest, from root to flower. The food at Vicia will be “vegetable-forward

cuisine, driven by local farmers, with an emphasis on wood-fired cooking.”

The Gallinas are well-known throughout the national restaurant scene, having honed their skills under renowned chef Dan Barber at Blue Hill at Stone Barns.

Since they announced they would be returning to Michael Gallina’s native St. Louis to open a restaurant of their own last October, diners have been patiently waiting for their plans to solidify.

“It happened by accident,” Tara explains. “We were introduced to Cortex by accident. When we moved here it didn’t ring a bell to us, but after a meeting [about a pop-up event] we left with the sense that we didn’t totally get what was going on there but we needed to keep it on our radar.”

Vicia is slated to for an early fall opening, although that may change since the 2,500-square-foot space is being built entirely from the ground up. The Gallinas are not commenting on menu specifics at this time, but note that the restaurant, which takes its name from the Latin genus for vetch (a common Missouri cover crop), will be open for both lunch and dinner service and seat approximately 50 inside, with plans for an additional 1,500-square-foot outdoor dining space.

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his past weekend, on a sunny, beautiful, slightly too warm Saturday, a little event called the Riverfront Times Music Showcase celebrated its fifteenth birthday. Actually, scratch that description: There was nothing little about the event at all. Held for its third consecutive year in the Grove district, this year’s outing was our biggest yet — with more than 90 acts performing over the course of twelve hours and attendance totaling more than 3,000 people, it was technically the largest all-local music festival in t. ouis history. uite a feat, and there’s no way we could have done it if t. ouis wasn’t bursting at the seams with talent. hich brings us to the R T usic Awards, the ostensible reason for the season. n our last issue we told you about 145 different bands and acts that are more than worthy of your time and consideration. These superlative groups and solo artists were nominated by the public, with input from a committee of local DJs, promoters, venue and record store owners and employees, music writers and other scene enthusiasts. e asked you to vote for your favorites you happily obliged. e still had to weed out some ballot-stuffers (sigh — if only you guys knew how easy that is to spot), but this year’s winners prove that you have been paying

attention to the recent happenings in the local scene.

Fister and Everything Went Black, who recently released an excellent split covering one another’s songs, took home the metal and hardcore honors, respectively. 18and ounting, an impossible-to-categori e musician who has won twice before for Best Solo Project and Best DJ, won this year in the lectronic ( clectic) category some kind of hat trick, we suppose. The ndie-Pop category saw an actual tie this year a first for these awards with iddle lass ashion and hoa Thunder finishing in a dead heat.

(It is worth noting that scene vet Brian McClelland used to perform in the former and now leads the latter. ot sure what that means eCutline. actly,| but it CREDIT is data worth analy ing.)

And of course there are dozens more winners, but we’d like to stress: This isn’t just about the winners. ure, the voting process can be fun, but every one of the nominated bands is worth listening to and seeing live, and you’ll have plenty of opportunity to do that right here in t. ouis.

In keeping, we are going to reprint the full list of nominees, with the winners listed at the top of each category in bold. Tell them congrats, and then go check out the rest of the nominees as well. ou won’t be disappointed.

– Daniel Hill

Americana

Country

DJ

Electronic (Eclectic)

River Kittens Arson For Candy Beth Bombara Brothers Lazaroff Loot Rock Gang

Cree Rider Family Band Jack Grelle Southwest Watson Sweethearts Tortuga Trigger 5

Nappy DJ Needles DJ MAKossa DJ Mahf DJ Uptown Mister Ben (NO HITS)

18andCounting Biggie Stardust Blank Thomas Eric Hall Hands and Feet

Blues

Cover Band

Electronic (Dance)

Experimental

The Maness Brothers 4th City Rag Big Mike Aguirre & the Blu City All Stars The Green McDonough Band Rum Drum Ramblers

Fat Pocket Bullseye Womprats The Town Drunks Warhorse We Bite

ICE (formerly known as Black James) Adult Fur D-M-Y Giant Monsters On The Horizon Hylidae

Demonlover The Conformists Hardbody Ish Yowie

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Folk

Hard Rock

Hip-Hop (Group)

Improvisational/Noise

Letter to Memphis The Aching Hearts Cara Louise Band Dubb Nubb Whsky Gngr

Buttercup Apex Shrine Boreal Hills Fumer The R6 Implant

Illphonics 3 Problems Blank Generation MME Mathias and the Pirates

Ghost Ice Beauty Pageant Brain Transplant Raglani Vernacular String Trio

Hip-Hop (Solo)

Indie Pop

Tef Poe Arshad Goods Bates J’Demul Mvstermind

Middle Class Fashion Whoa Thunder (tie) Endora Hope & Therapy Scarlet Tanager

Garage Rock Shitstorm The Bobby Dazzlers The Brainstems Kenshiro’s Tiger Rider

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Photos clockwise from the top left: The Maness Brothers (Blues), 18andCounting (Electronic), Fister (Metal), The Vanilla Beans (Pop), Little Big Bangs (Punk), Tef Poe (Hip-Hop) and Sleepy Kitty (Indie Rock).

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Jazz

Sleepy Kitty American Wrestlers CaveofswordS Foxing Town Cars

Tommy Halloran’s Guerrilla Swing Animal Children Dave Stone The Gaslight Squares Sidney Street Shakers

Jam/Dub

Metal

Aaron Kamm and the One Drops Blastar The Driftaways Thunder Biscuit Orchestra Vandeventer

Fister The Gorge Lion’s Daughter Thor Axe Van Buren

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thur. JUNE 23 10PM Aaron Kamm and the One Drops

Fri. JUN 24 10PM

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS PRESENTING THE BEST JAZZ & BLUES TO ST. LOUIS

2nd Annual Rock Paper Podcast Birthday Show with Sky Burnt White, Mathias and the Pirates and Brother Lee and the Leather Jackals

sat. JUNE 25 10PM Lil Smokies PartyGrass from Montana with Special Guests Cree Rider Family Band

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Dracla Baby Baby Dance With Me Dangerbird Marble//Wall Duo Swear Beam

The Provels Coultrain Little Rachel Love Jones “The Band” Roland Johnson & Soul Endeavor

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The Vanilla Beans 3 of 5 Dropkick the Robot The Educated Guess Golden Curls

Bruiser Queen Brother Lee & the Leather Jackals Bug Chaser Old Souls Revival Tok

Post Hardcore Blight Future Jr. looney LifeWithout Lobby Boxer Staghorn

Singer-Songwriter Miss Molly Simms Emily Wallace Sharon Hazel Township Suzie Cue Zak Marmalefsky

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“St. Louis pioneers of craft beer and live music”

Trotting Bear Record Release Show

9 p.m. Saturday, June 25. Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Avenue. $7. 314-352-5226.

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n 2010, before he began releasing albums as Trotting Bear, Andy Berkhout challenged himself to write, record and post one song per week for a full year. He’s not the only artist to undertake a songwriter’s challenge — Michael Zapruder and, more recently, Jens Lekman have laid their sketchbooks bare in the past. But for Berkhout, the e ercise pushed him to define the contours of his songwriting, without the safety net of a long gestation between creation and dissemination. think there’s a desire to censor or filter, sometimes, what you’re putting out when you’re songwriting, so I think I became more comfortable in taking risks with songwriting,” Berkhout says of the project.

He credits the 52-week exercise with helping him develop as a guitarist, particularly in the fingerpicked style that is a regular feature on his recordings; youthful dalliances in punk, rock and bluegrass bands had compelled him to emphasize force and volume over finesse. ut after that initial flush of songs, Berkhout continued to write and record swiftly, issuing three releases between 2011 and 2013. Places, which has its release show this weekend, comes after his longest gap between albums by some measure.

“I’m just getting comfortable with taking time with things and letting things breathe,” says Berkhout.

Berkhout grew up in Manitowac County, Wisconsin the setting, he blushingly confesses, of the etfli true-crime procedural Making a Murderer. He moved to St. Louis in 2009 to attend Washington University, and currently works with St. Louis’ homeless population as a social worker at St. Patrick’s Center downtown. ince the release of the first Trotting ear album in 2011, Berkhout has been a keen arbiter of gentle folk music, with songs much more interested in ambient noise and aural space than rock & roll dynamics.

On his latest album he has expanded the line-up of Trotting Bear, and in the process widened the scope of the band’s music. Berkhout has played for the last five years with local singer-songwriter John Donovan, who on this album lends melodic guitar leads and intuitive keyboard color. The rhythm section, with Ryan Soles on percussion and Steve Lenivy on bass, offers a crucial pulse to the album, feathery as it may be. Berkhout has long subscribed to that millennial-folkie dictum that quiet is the new loud, but on Places the dynamic shifts give grist to what might otherwise be unmoored passages.

In talking about the new album, Berkhout credits this iteration of Trotting Bear with giving shape to the material. “I think the most important thing is that there’s a real good sense of respect and trust and brotherhood for each other’s musicianship,” Berkhout says. “Especially for the way we made this

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“Having that ability to be able to listen and play off of one another — everyone is committed to a group dynamic,” he adds.

As on previous Trotting Bear recordings, Berkhout had initially recorded a version of this album at home, with the same hushed presentation of earlier releases. Dissatisfied with the results, erkhout called on fellow Wisconsin native Beau Sorenson to helm the production of the sessions. Sorenson, who formerly worked out of Smart Studios in Wisconsin before a fruitful stint in Portland, Oregon, that found him engineering records for Death ab for Cutie and Bob Mould, had recently relocated to San Francisco. Trotting Bear was able to secure time at John Vanderslice’s vaunted Tiny Telephone, a studio famed for its dedication to using costly but sonically superior two-inch tape.

Credit the producer’s pedigree, or the top-shelf studio gear, or band’s intuitive relationship, but the resulting record is Trotting Bear’s strongest to date.

Like Berkhout’s other releases, it is in no hurry to get from here to there, but some of its discursive passages help set the mood. Opening track “Centro” is a mere 90 seconds and serves as a seamless lead-in to “Catherine,” but the instrumental intro helps cleanse the palette and set the mood for the gentle twang of what follows.

“I think the record is made to be listened to all the way through,” says Berkhout. “Our plan is to eventually have a small vinyl release for it. At least in our minds, there is kind of a clear A and B side to it. f you listen to the first side, it probably sounds closer to how the last few Trotting Bear releases are arranged,” Berkhout continues. “The second side is more where we explore a little more sonic territory, doing a little more with the synthesizers and some extra instrumentation. There’s a little bit of dynamic contrast between the two.”

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S.L.U.M. FEST 2016: w/ Saint Oeaux, Bates,

BILLY BARNETT BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

KILBORN ALLEY BAND: 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,

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

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

Camp, Keem, Lyfestile, the Domino Effect,

Casino & Hotel, 777 River City Casino Blvd., St.

436-5222.

314-436-5222.

Bo Dean, Haiku, the Walkman, Allen Gates,

Louis, 314-388-7777.

BROTHER JEFFERSON DUO: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

NEW TONGUES: w This ity of Takers, the

Jonezy, Doorway, Indiana Rome, Jay Love,

DOMO GENESIS: 8 p.m., $15-$18. Fubar, 3108

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

Pachyderms

Jskill ,

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

436-5222.

2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.

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BRUXISM #18: w/ the Lonely Procession,

OAK STEEL & LIGHTNING EP RELEASE: w The

Louis, 314-276-2700.

Perihelion Duo, Das

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Halley 8 p.m., $12. Old Rock House, 1200 S.

CORB LUND: 8 p.m., $15-$17. Off Broadway,

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

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

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3929.

314-436-5222.

Fine Constant, Aenimus 6 p.m., $12-$15. Fubar,

p.m., $5. CBGB, 3163 S. Grand Blvd., St. Louis.

THE STAVES: 8 p.m., $12-$15. Off Broadway,

THE JAYHAWKS:

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

PHILLIP PHILLIPS: w

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

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

FAIRWAY (FAREWELL SHOW): w/ Jet Black Alley

Hutchinson 7 p.m., $35.50-$47.50. River City

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

LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: 8:30 p.m., $10. BB’s

Casino & Hotel, 777 River City Casino Blvd.,

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

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

$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-

St. Louis, 314-388-7777.

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PAUL DE JONG: w/ Golden Curls 7:30 p.m.,

Duck rown, Jamie A ton, kin Tags,

$10/$12. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson

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SCHOOL OF ROCK BALLWIN AND KIRKWOOD ADULT

Willpower 9 p.m., free. Blank Space, 2847

Houldsworth, -sharp, Town ars noon, free.

PROGRAM: 2 p.m., $5. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp

Cherokee St., St. Louis.

Ritz Park, 3147 S. Grand Blvd, St. Louis.

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

PRISM TATS: 8 p.m., 8- 1 . The irebird, 2

ROCK WITH YOU!: w

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

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TOWER GROVE PRIDE 2016: Celia Shackattack, irror,

St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

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SELENA GOMEZ: 7 p.m., $48.50-$76. Scottrade

BARBARA CARR BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

Center, 1401 Clark Ave., St. Louis, 314-241-1888.

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

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BLITZEN TRAPPER: 8 p.m., $16-$18. Old Rock

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

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8 p.m., 1 . lueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-

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ANGEL PRESENTS SOUL SEARCHING: 7 p.m., $10.

GORGASM: w/ Animated Dead 8 p.m., $10-$12.

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

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

Louis, 314-436-5222.

JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD: 9 p.m., $15. Off Broad-

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LEROY JODIE PIERSON: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

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

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

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

436-5222.

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PJ MORTON OF MAROON 5: 8 p.m., $20. Lux, 2619 ashington Ave., t. ouis, 14-

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POPULAR MECHANICS: w/ the Complaint Line,

The Staves

Aquitaine

8 p.m. Saturday, June 25.

p.m., free. chlafly Tap Room, 21

Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.

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

STEVEO (THE HOLY MESS): w/ Daren Gratton, Dan Johanning,

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YES YOU ARE: w/ CaveofswordS, Golden Curls, Hope And Therapy 8 p.m., 1 . The Demo, 41 1 anchester Ave, t. ouis, 14-8

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The Staveley-Taylor sisters aren’t the first acoustically inclined folk artists to experiment with electronics and beat-driven production. On their first few albums as the Staves, the British trio mixed starkly lush harmonies with moments of folk-pop charm — accordions, ukuleles and the like filled the corners of 2012’s Dead & Born Grown.

But on last year’s If I Was — and the just-released three-song EP Sleeping

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in a Car — the Staves turned to Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon for production, using his Alpha Base studio as a playground. New track “Outlaw” loops the sisters’ voices to create a perpetual game of ping-pong, but even when the tracks settle into a more steady groove, grandiose production gives a fitting backdrop for their choir of voices.

Sensors Working Overtime: Trevor Sensor, a native of Sterling, Illinois and a signee of Jagjaguwar Records, will open the show with songs from his latest EP Texas Girls and Jesus Christ.

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Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-6218811.

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TUESDAY 28 DAVID BAZAN: w/ Laura Gibson 8 p.m., $15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-5880505.

DEAN MINDERMAN & SOUL SUPPLIERS: 9:30 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

ETHAN LEINWAND & FRIENDS: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

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Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Blvd., St. Louis, 314-577-9400.

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ANDERSON EAST: W/ Brent Cobb, Sat., Oct. 1, 8 p.m., $15-$17. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

BILLY JOE SHAVER: W/ Amanda Shires, Fri., Aug. , 8 p.m., 2 -

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

BLACK CROWN INITIATE: W/ Oracle, Lyluth, Oracle, Abolith, Fri., July 8, 8 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

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BRIAN CULBERTSON: Wed., Oct. 19, 8 p.m., $35.

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BRUTAL HARMONY: W/ System Slave, Enslaved y ear, Threatpoint, asket Robbery, ri., Sept. 23, 7 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

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DEAN MINDERMAN & SOUL SUPPLIERS: Tue., June 28, 9:30 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222.

DELTA RAE: Fri., Sept. 9, 8 p.m., $16-$20. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-5880505.

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

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JAMES DURBIN: Sun., July 31, 8 p.m., $10-$12. lueberry Hill - The Duck Room,

4 Delmar

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JUNIOR BROWN: Sat., July 2, 10 p.m., $25. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314621-7880.

KILBORN ALLEY BAND: Sat., June 25, 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

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The Jayhawks 7 p.m. Sunday, June 26.

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314-726-6161.

The harmonies of Gary Louris and Mark Olson — as iconic as those of the Everly Brothers — were always the Jayhawks’ ace in the hole. But the band had many more killer cards to play: Louris’ sweetly crunching guitar-work, a deft rhythm section, soul-searching keys and songwriting that made the Midwest seem like a visionary landscape. Olson departed the band in 1995 just as it

was taking off and rejoined fourteen years later, only to withdraw again.

The turmoil, remarkably, hasn’t hurt the band’s sound or songwriting, both of which prove gorgeously and fiercely resilient, augmented by electronic flourishes and sweet psychedelic fuzz, as on this year’s Paging Mr. Proust.

What’s In a Name? Folk Uke may sound like a bad twee pun, but the Austin duo of Cathy Guthrie and Amy Nelson (daughters to Arlo and Willie) have charm and vocal chops worth hearing.

– Roy Kasten

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p.m., 1 . ubar, 1 8 ocust t, t.

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Louis, 314-289-9050.

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NONPOINT:

ailure Anthem,

Tue., July 12,

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2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center, 2720 Cherokee Street. $10 to $13. 314-276-2700.

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OTEP: W/ As Earth Shatters, Another Day Drowning, Outcome of etrayal,

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2 p.m. Saturday, June 25.

2.

River City Casino & Hotel, 777 River City Casino Blvd., St. Louis, 314-388-7777.

SCHOOL OF ROCK BALLWIN AND KIRKWOOD ADULT PROGRAM: Sun., June 26, 2 p.m., $5. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-7733363.

The St. Louis Underground Music Festival — also known as S.L.U.M Fest by acronym aficionados — really should require no explanation at this point. Now in its seventh year, the event is the largest hip-hop festival in the region, with dozens of performers celebrating all four elements of the genre in a twelve-hour time span.

Yeah, that’s right, four elements — as always, graffiti artists will be doing

live displays and breakdancers will be tearing up the dance floor alongside the event’s emcees and DJs, making for an all-inclusive affair. This year’s event will feature performances by Saint Oeaux, Indiana Rome, Doorway, Bates and many more, totaling twelve straight hours of pure hip-hop.

But Wait There’s More: For 2016, S.L.U.M. Fest has expanded to include the entire weekend. Catch the preparty on Friday at Cicero’s and head to the “artist appreciation cookout” at Blank Space on Sunday for the full experience.

– Daniel Hill

THE SPINNERS: Sat., July 30, 7 p.m., $35-$45. umiere Place asino

Hotel,

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St., St. Louis, 314-881-7777.

THE USED: Fri., Sept. 2, 8 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 3, 8

Wed., July 6, 8 p.m., free. Off Broadway, 3509

TYRONE WELLS: W/ Andy Suzuki, Sat., Oct. 15, 8

p.m., 2 .

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

p.m., 18- 2 . lueberry Hill - The Duck Room,

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

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BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: There is a guy at my work who is into puppy play. I know this because I have some friends in the gay puppy community. I don’t give two shits what anyone I work with does to get off. All well and good, except … he wants us to call him Spike, his puppy name. Isn’t this a case of him involving everyone at work in his sex life, whether we want to be involved or not?

Disturbed Over Gratuitous Gratifications Of Naming Experience t’s important to note, firstly, that pup play isn’t a se ual activity so much as it is a head space, says Amp, a puppy, a gamer, a porn performer and the cohost of atts the afeword, a kink-friendly se -education ouTube channel. or DO O ’s coworker, pup play may be a comfort thing, or a social thing or even a way for him to redefine who he is as a person so that he can take control.

Amp, who is 2 and lives in eattle, got into pup play about five years ago. ike your coworker, DO O , Amp goes by his puppy name socially and professionally. o put this question to him: Does he get a secret thrill and or a visible boner when a coworker, barista,

casual friend or rando calls him by his pup name od no says Amp. f someone calls me ‘pup’ in a really se ual way or an aggressive way, maybe, but not when someone is simply using your name. A pup name is essentially a nickname, and people use nicknames socially and professionally. o long as the kinkier aspects of pup play tail wagging, barking, ball chasing are kept out of the workplace, DO O ’s coworker using his puppy name at work doesn’t involve the office in his se life.

A quick thought e periment, DO O : et’s say a female coworker married a man and later confided in you that she married him because the se was great. And let’s say she took her new husband’s last name. ould using her new last name involve you in her se life eing married partly defines who she is, it led her to take a new name and se is an important part of her marriage. ut her new name isn’t just about se it’s about identity, intimacy, connection and se .

Pup play isn’t as serious a business as marriage, of course, but you should be able to e tend the same courtesy to pike use the name you’ve been asked to use without obsessing over his se life.

DO O should always respect how someone identifies and asks to be named, says Amp, and

regard the se ual or kink aspects of someone’s name choice as a separate detail.

Hey, Dan: My name is Peter and I’m a longtime fan. I’ve also been very involved with the Human Rights Campaign and their work in getting the Equality Act passed. I’m 21 and only recently out of the closet. I opened up about my sexuality after the passage of marriage equality last June and have since been a proud gay man. It seemed that since marriage equality, our community was only going up. Even the passage of HB2 didn’t make me cynical about the future.

But this recent shooting has changed my world completely. Fighting for equality in housing, education and employment seems like a joke after this massive act of violence in Orlando. I’m looking to someone in the community for guidance.

Peter They don’t win the haters don’t win when they chase us, beat us or kill us. They win when we stop fighting.

Please don’t stop fighting.

And please don’t despair. Hundreds of thousands of us died in the 1 8 s and ’ s when hate, fear, greed, racism, and negligence intersected with a deadly virus. A lot of us felt then the way you do now that it was over, that it was hopeless, that the coming out and the or-

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gani ing and the fighting had been for nothing, and that everything we had won up to that point was meaningless. And then we got up off our butts and we showed them we showed those motherfuckers that the fight in us was greater than the hate in them. e showed them that we were stronger and smarter than they were, we showed that fucking virus that we were stronger and smarter than it was and we made it clear to them that we were not going to shut up and die quietly or go back into the closet and die alone.

And we had only each other for a while there for a long while. or years we fought alone. ook at who is on our side today all good and decent people everywhere. The president of the nited tates and the ne t president of the nited tates. ook at the rallies, look at the vigils, look at the outpouring of love, sympathy and support. Don’t look at the killer.

Don’t look at the haters. Don’t look at the vile comments left by shit people on Twitter and acebook. ook at the good. ook at the love. ook at the good and loving people inside and outside the T community and take strength from their love and support.

Then get out there and fight.

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

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