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Chad Sabora and Robert Riley are fighting ‘the perfect storm’ of opioid addiction from a storefront in south St. Louis BY MIKE FITZGERALD

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Give Me Something for the Pain Chad Sabora and Robert Riley are fighting ‘the perfect storm’ of opioid addiction from a storefront in south St. Louis Written by

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uring a June 10 Frontier Airlines flight from St. Louis to Denver, an unidentified male passenger subjected a woman sitting next to him to a drunken tirade — even shouting repeatedly that he was “playing my fucking white card” after crew members allegedly refused to continue serving him alcohol. The incident, captured partially on video, did not end well for the male passenger. Incident reports obtained from the Denver International Airport show that multiple police officers were dispatched to subdue the man after landing. A second video, shot by another passenger, apparently shows the man being carted off on a gurney after he was choked into submission. But four months later, it’s still unclear whether the male passenger was ever criminally charged. And the woman trapped next to him, a black passenger named Shemekia Cannon, says she’s been offered only a $250 flight voucher for her ordeal. Cannon still doesn’t even know the man’s name. “Stuff like this gets swept under the rug,” Cannon says. A letter from the airline to her lawyer shows she was offered an apology along with the voucher, though the company defended its employees’ response to the incident as “appropriate.” Cannon, however, counters that the flight staff served the man alcohol despite him being visibly drunk from the moment he got on the plane. She claims that her requests to be moved to a different seat were ignored, forcing her to experience a grown man’s racist tantrum from just inches away in a window seat. “Had I not had a recording,” she says, “this would be a ‘he said, she said’ thing.” Cannon grew up in St. Louis be-

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Shemekia Cannon says she’ll never fly Frontier Airlines again. | COURTESY OF SHEMEKIA CANNON fore relocating to Phoenix in 2010. In June, the 38-year-old returned to St. Louis to attend a friend’s wedding. While waiting to board the first leg of her flight in St. Louis — the journey included a connecting flight in Denver — Cannon says she sat at the bar in a Chili’s and observed a man in a suit flirting and drinking with a red-headed woman. To Cannon’s dismay, it turned out the couple was traveling to Denver as well. “I was in one of the last sections to get boarded,” Cannon says, “and I got to my aisle and there they are. And I’m thinking ‘Oh hell. I just want to get home and here these drunk people are.’” Cannon was seated against a window, with the drunk man in the middle and his red-headed companion in the aisle seat. Cannon says she spoke with a flight attendant about moving to a new seat, but she was told that she’d have wait until the rest of the plane filled up before the crew could accommodate her request. But for

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some reason, the flight attendant didn’t make good on that promise. The plane took off. Cannon resigned herself to her situation and tried to get some sleep. However, she claims she overheard the man flirting even more aggressively with the redhead. A flight attendant came by and served the couple drinks. Infused with more booze, Cannon says his flirting escalated to include descriptions of his penis size and what he wanted to do with the woman in the bathroom. Cannon also claims he started rubbing his pants leg and groin area. Once again, Cannon says she alerted a flight attendant. “When he described his penis size, I couldn’t take it no more,” she says. “I told them what he’d said.” At that point, continues Cannon, a flight attendant told the man that he couldn’t order any more alcohol. Instead of being suitably chastised, he turned to his companion and remarked, within earshot of Cannon, “Don’t worry, I have white privilege, I have a white card.” Cannon says she was flabber-

gasted. “I went from zero to a million. I looked at him and I said, ‘You’re a racist son of a bitch.’ I stood up and flagged for every flight attendant.” That moment also prompted Cannon to pull out her phone and started filming. The video doesn’t show the man’s face, but it does capture him shouting, “I’m playing my white card” while he repeats and mocks Cannon’s requests to be moved to a new seat. The video also shows the hand of a passenger reaching from the row behind them and grasping the drunk man’s shoulder in an attempt to hold him back. Cannon says that the crew members asked her to cross over the disruptive man to the aisle, but he was “bucking at me like he wanted to hit me.” Earlier that same day, Cannon claims she was briefly treated at a hospital for a cyst on an ovary, and so she was scared he would strike her in the side. “I’m thinking, ‘If you elbow me in my side right now it could kill me,’” she says. She remembers thinking, “’Why aren’t you guys pulling him out of this area and away from me?’ I’m pleading and begging, please get him away from me.” After Cannon was finally able to move to a different seat, she overheard the man raging and threatening the flight attendants. His behavior prompted a call to police, and once on the ground, Denver cops entered the plane to subdue the man. While Cannon says she didn’t directly witness the confrontation, she claims a detective later questioned her about the man threatening the officers and crew. “He kept screaming, ‘I’m a business owner, I’m a business owner,’” she recalls. “He wanted everybody to know is that he is a business man and he had white privilege and a white card. He was flailing and fighting everybody.” Along with the Denver Police Department, Cannon says she was contacted by an FBI agent who questioned her about the man’s threats. From there, however, information about the case seemed to evaporate into thin air. Cannon’s St. Louis-based attorney, Sam Hender-

son, says he has been unsuccessful in getting answers from the Denver police, the FBI and Frontier. A public information officer with the Denver Police Department told the RFT that because the incident was initiated in the air, “It’s an FBI case.” Reached Friday via email, a spokesman with the U.S. Attorney’s Office said that the FBI agent with knowledge of the case is currently on vacation. Henderson was able to obtain incident reports from the Denver airport, and while the transport logs show calls to EMS and police officers for a “physical disturbance,” the logs don’t disclose the man’s name or whether he was charged. The lack of detail baffles Cannon. “Who is this guy?” she says. In a way, she adds, the months of silence have proven the drunk’s racist words were correct. “He does have this invisible white card,” she says. “They’re protecting this man to the point where we don’t even know his name. He’s alive, living his life, thinking this is all over. That’s how I know that card exists.” In a letter to Cannon and her lawyer dated July 19, a Frontier “customer relations advocate” apologized for the incident, but noted: “We feel our flight crew’s actions were appropriate for the situation and regret any discomfort caused to Ms. Cannon. We do hope this isolated incident does not prevent her from traveling with us in the future and have provided a $250 travel voucher.” Cannon, though, says she’ll never fly Frontier again. Upon landing in Phoenix, she claims, she had to be rushed to the hospital to treat additional pain related to her cyst, and during her hospitalization she says she suffered a nervous breakdown. She claims the incident caused her to miss months of work for mental health reasons, and she only recently returned to her job. A Frontier spokesman emailed us a two-sentence statement on Saturday: “We take allegations of misconduct very seriously and have worked internally to investigate Ms. Cannon’s concerns. The comfort, safety and security of our crew and passengers is our first n priority at all times.”

Melissa McKinnies (left) and Ebony Williams lead protesters along Washington Avenue on Saturday. | DOYLE MURPHY

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rotesters returned to the streets of downtown St. Louis on Saturday — the 30th day since the acquittal of a white ex-cop accused of murdering a black man. “Let’s talk about some of the bad,” activist Tory Russell told the crowd gathered outside the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. “But let’s also celebrate some of the good.” The past month of demonstrations has tested the group. More than a dozen of the roughly 150 people at Saturday’s protests had been arrested, pepper sprayed or teargassed during the series of near-daily demonstrations. Five protesters were arrested just the night before at a march in Ferguson for refusing to leave the streets. A total of 306 have been arrested so far in St. Louis city, and another 22 were arrested — many of them tackled — at the St. Louis Galleria when police decided to clear them out of the mall.

Still, the marchers continue to draw crowds. Protesters managed to scare the band U2 and singer Ed Sheeran into canceling St. Louis concerts. They have temporarily shut down shopping centers and too many roads in too many places to count. On a night that ended in 143 trespassing arrests, demonstrators took over a swath of Interstate 64/40 and marched in the low beams of a line of cars that stretched out of sight. Protesters promised mass disruptions, and they have delivered. They met at 3 p.m. Saturday, formed five lines of 30 or so people in front of the police department and marched east on Olive Boulevard with their arms linked. “I believe we will win!” they chanted. They stopped in front of the Carnahan Courthouse, where on September 15 Judge Timothy Wilson found ex-St. Louis police Officer Jason Stockley not guilty of murdering 24-year-old Anthony Lamar Smith after a car chase in 2011. The case was the spark behind the current riverfronttimes.com

wave of demonstrations, but the protests have encompassed police abuse in general as activists have repeatedly called out the names of people killed by law enforcement. Antionette Harmon joined the march. Her brother, former St. Louis resident Patrick Harmon, was killed on August 13 by police in Salt Lake City. An online video that shows Harmon sprinting away from officers before they opened fired has been viewed millions of times in the past two weeks. The shooting was originally determined to be justified, but now the Salt Lake City District Attorney and the FBI are examining the case. “They didn’t have to shoot him down like a dog,” Antionette Harmon, who still lives in St. Louis, said as she marched. Her fellow protesters were sympathetic, placing the 50-year-old’s death within a pattern of police killings across the country. “These are lives being taken by people who are supposed to protect and serve,” activist Cori Bush shouted into a bullhorn. —Doyle Murphy

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Give Me Something for the Pain

Chad Sabora and Robert Riley are fighting ‘the perfect storm’ of opioid addiction from a storefront in south St. Louis

had Sabora parks his Ford SUV in front of the former beauty parlor at 4022 South Broadway, unlocks the building’s front door and disappears inside. He reappears a moment later with a sidewalk sign. Chalked on it are the words “Free Narcan Here.” The last rays of a late September sun filter through the building’s ground-floor windows as Sabora sits down behind a desk, pops open a Red Bull and fires up his laptop. Then he waits. As co-founder of the Missouri Network for Opiate Reform and Recovery, Sabora spends a lot of his time waiting in this storefront. The network’s outreach center is one of the few places in the St. Louis region where people addicted to prescription opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin and more powerful opioids including heroin and fentanyl, can walk in off the street to obtain life-saving doses of Narcan. Narcan stifles the effects of opioids and reverses an overdose. Sabora hands out Narcan to whoever shows up to get it, but only after visitors get a tutorial on how to use it effectively, as well as an impassioned lecture on the importance of getting into recovery. On this warm Friday night, Sabora does not have to wait long. Evan Reuscher, 28, walks through the door of the center, accompanied by a female friend. Reuscher explains he had almost died the night before at his house in Des Peres while doing a “speedball,” a cocktail of methamphetamine and heroin. Two friends saved his life, he says.

BY MIKE FITZGERALD “They gave me CPR,” he says. Sabora leads Reuscher and his friend into a small kitchen area. “How many times have you overdosed?” Sabora asks. “Uh, thirteen,” Reuscher replies. Sabora reaches for a cardboard box full of glass vials of Narcan. Sabora shows Reuscher and his friend how to aim a syringe into the vial and remove it quickly. “With a twist,” Sabora says. Pantomiming with his arms, Sabora says, “Then you inject it into the arms, legs or butt.” “Arms, legs or butt,” Reuscher repeats. Sabora glares at him in a no-nons e n s e w a y, then hands him business cards to give to friends who are using. Sabora makes a pitch for a Hep C and HIV testing, set up for the next day at the center. He follows with a second pitch, for a no-cost addiction treatment program in Colorado where Reuscher could go to detox and get clean. “You work during the day, go to treatment at night,” Sabora says. Reuscher stays silent. Slightly annoyed, Sabora says, “We will buy you a plane ticket to get you there if you can’t afford it.” “OK,” Reuscher says. Reuscher acknowledges he almost died the night before, but the thought of dying while doing drugs does not really scare

him, he says. Reuscher’s been using powerful painkillers since he was at least thirteen, when he began relying on them to help him heal from a football injury, he says. He notes that he only “dabbled” in heroin. Methamphetamine is his main drug of choice, he says. Reuscher uses heroin because “people kept bringing i t around,” he says. “And it got really cheap, too. I hadn’t fucked with it for a while, and the price just cut in half.” Reuscher has been through more than ten treatment programs, he says. So why hasn’t he kicked the stuff yet? Reuscher ponders the question for a beat. “I haven’t hit that point where enough is enough,” he says. America’s opioid crisis is scything a widening swath through the St. Louis region. It is killing hundreds of men and women in their twenties and thirties, causing thousands more to suffer near-fatal overdoses and throwing countless families into turmoil. It is a drug plague unlike any before it. For starters, the primary gateway for opiate addiction is not some shadowy dealer operating outside the law, but the family medicine cabinet. More than 80 percent of people hooked on heroin began with addictions to prescription painkillers.

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SOMETHING FOR THE PAIN Continued from pg 11 The opioid crisis’ roots reach back to the 1990s. That’s when big pharmaceutical companies began flooding the consumer market with vast quantities of narcotics as the medical community came around to the notion that too many people suffering severe and chronic pain were being under-treated. Big Pharma saw an immense money-making opportunity. It launched a decades-long push to market long-lasting, powerful opiate painkillers to both physicians and consumers. Purdue Pharma, the maker of an extremely profitable painkiller called OxyContin — which soon acquired the nickname “Hillbilly Heroin” because of its skyrocketing popularity in Appalachia — mounted marketing campaigns that convinced physicians that OxyContin was both safe and non-addictive. As subsequent litigation shows, those claims were absurdly wrong on both counts. Because of a set of tightly reinforcing factors — the lack of readily available treatment programs, the cheapness and enhanced purity of today’s heroin and the proliferation of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin — the opiate drug crisis is far deadlier and harder to treat than its predecessors. And it shows no signs of slowing down. Both St. Louis and St. Louis County set records for accidental overdose deaths in 2016, and they are on track to set new records by the end of 2017. Opiate overdoses are killing people all across the St. Louis metro area, from Section 8 apartments in north St. Louis to McMansions in west county to trailer parks in Jefferson County. More than 700 people in the St. Louis region died from overdose deaths in the St. Louis area last year, with 250 in St. Louis city alone. What is especially disturbing is that fentanyl-only deaths eclipsed heroin-only deaths last year for the first time, according to James Shroba, special agent in charge of the St. Louis Drug Enforcement Administration office. “Combine the two together, that’s a staggering number of people that are losing their lives,” Shroba says. Enter Sabora and Robert Riley, who nearly two years ago opened the Missouri Network Outreach Center as a place where anyone 12

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Chad Sabora and Robert Riley II, co-founders of the Missouri Network for Opiate Reform and Recovery, stand outside the network’s outreach center on Broadway in south city. | STL-PHOTO

Riley talks to Michelle Charbonnier, a volunteer counselor at the outreach center. | STL-PHOTO affected by the opiate crisis — be they active users, people in recovery or their family members — can find support and learn ways to survive opiate addiction. “Anybody at any point in substance abuse disorder can come in, whether they are actively using, whether they want help, whether they are in recovery,” Sabora says. “I can tell you that everybody who comes here, we do our best to make sure they survive their addiction. We do a lot of work in harm reduction. That’s our main focus.” The recovery center is located deep in south St. Louis, just past the point where Jefferson Avenue

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intersects Broadway. Surrounded by a neighborhood known for drug-dealing hot spots, the center also stands near several drug rehab facilities. “We specifically chose that spot to be able to reach the using public,” says Riley. Since its opening in December 2015, the recovery center and its unpaid staff have become a beacon of hope and a source of new ideas during a time with a shortage of both. In late August, after persistent lobbying by Sabora and Riley in Jefferson City, Missouri’s 911 Good Samaritan Law took effect. The new law provides legal protection

to people who call 911 “in good faith” in overdose cases, allowing witnesses to dial 911 for help without fear of arrest. In June 2016, then-St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay signed a similar bill that would prevent police from arresting addicts who report a drug-related medical emergency in the city. It was believed to be the first municipal ordinance of its kind in the U.S. Alderwoman Cara Spencer sponsored the measure, again after lobbying by Sabora and Riley. Sabora and Riley were also instrumental in starting a program at the St. Louis city jail that launched last month. It ensures that inmates addicted to opiates are given doses of Narcan when they leave the jail in the event they start using again and suffer an overdose. The center receives no government funding. Its budget comes entirely from private fundraising, such as poker runs sponsored by motorcycle clubs whose members have received help there. The center provides a wide range of services, including weekly family support group meetings, recovery meetings for current and former users, and tai chi and kung fu classes. Drug addicts who are homeless are encouraged to drop by the center for free “blessings bags,” which are filled with soap, toothpaste and toothbrushes, snack food and other items that

are donated by the mothers of addicts in recovery or those who’ve passed away. For Sabora and Riley, the opiate crisis cuts especially close to home. Both men are themselves recovering heroin addicts who know how hard it is to break free of opiate dependency. They met on a closed Facebook page for recovery users, then became administrators of the page because of their penchant for answering group members’ questions. “And they were questions like, ‘How long does withdrawal sickness last? Who hires felons?’” recalls Riley, who spent a stint in a federal prison in Arkansas on drug charges and today works as a certified drug treatment counselor. One day a young woman asked via the page if Sabora and Riley could come over to her house for the weekend and help her kick her heroin habit. “So we took turns,” Sabora says. “We took eight-hour shifts for three days to help her.” Not long after that experience, Sabora and Riley decided to start an outreach center to keep as many people alive as possible and then shepherd them through recovery. “There are 5,000 people getting high right now in the city,” Sabora says. “How can we save them from death?” Here’s what scares the hell out of Sabora and others fighting the opiate crisis: A few years ago the progression for opiate users went like this — they would get hooked on prescription opiates, prescribed either for themselves or someone else. And then, once the prescription ran out, they would switch to heroin, which would be mixed with fentanyl or other substances. But now, in a trend helping power the record-setting number of overdose deaths, users are going straight to fentanyl, Sabora says. “Fentanyl has a stronger rush — you get that warm feeling in your stomach when you use it,” he says. Fentanyl offers the prospect of a more intense high but one with a shorter half-life — conditions guaranteed to raise future body counts. “But now that’s all the young kids want,” Sabora says. I had come to the recovery center looking for answers. For years I had watched in dismay as the opiate crisis continued to worsen. Something had gone wrong in the American Dream, and it was clear the nation’s insatiable hunger for opiates was

somehow connected to it. What was unclear was if it was a cause of something bigger or was itself a consequence. Or maybe it was both. Last month, the New York Times reported that drug overdoses killed about 64,000 people in the United States in 2016 — a 22 percent jump from the year before. America’s opioid death toll is more than double the number in 2005, and nearly quadruple the number in 2000, “when accidental falls killed more Americans than opioid overdoses,” according to the Times. Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under age 50, surpassing the death toll from gun violence, car accidents and even HIV at its peak in the mid-1990s. Some experts believe the true number of overdose deaths is seriously under-reported and that over the next decade upwards of one million Americans will die from drug overdoses, the vast majority opioid-related. I also had a deeply personal interest in the crisis. Sixteen years ago my younger brother Joe, a hospital nurse at the time, became hooked on opiate-based painkillers, mainly Vicodin and Percocet. His drug problems eventually would cost him his job and his career, and they sent him down a spiral of shame that I believe he never recovered from. Since childhood, Joe had suffered from anxiety and depression, though those mental health problems weren’t properly diagnosed until late in his life. Not long after he went into treatment for his opioid addiction, I asked him why he turned to the painkillers in spite of the risks. We were seated at the time at a table at the Kaldi’s coffeehouse in Clayton. Joe and I would meet there regularly to talk about life, our childhoods, other stuff. Occasionally, we’d talk about his recovery. Then one day I asked him the question I had always wanted to ask him. “So what’d you get out of it, the drugs?” “I don’t know,” Joe said. “I guess it just made me stop feeling things for a while.” Joe eventually got off opiates after a two-year struggle and became extremely proud of his sobriety. But the depression and anxiety that dogged him only got worse. He took his life on February 13, 2008. Continued on pg 14

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For Sabora, anxiety also played a role in his addiction. “My whole life I felt that there was something inside me that was incomplete. I felt like an outsider even with my own friends,” he says. “I had really low self-esteem, which I overcompensated for with a superiority complex. I would use my money or my intelligence to create this wall around me. I felt if people got to know the real me, they would not like that person.” When he tried drugs like heroin, it felt as if someone had pushed a switch. “I felt complete,” he says. “When I was taking opiates, pain pills, they made me feel good, like I was ‘better.’ They made me feel complete.” He sees that time and again with the addicts he treats. “We have no real tools to give kids when they are growing up to deal with life stressors and coping skills,” Sabora says. And America is awash in pills, especially opiate painkillers. The U.S. comprises five percent of the world’s population but consumes 95 percent of the world’s opiates. The nation’s all-purpose answer for any mental health problem is “just take a pill,” Sabora says. “Then there’s all this news media about heroin, heroin, heroin. It’s making people who are apt to be experimental and rebellious try it. That’s what made me try crack in the 1990s. All the news stories about crack.” Sabora grew up in the Chicago suburbs. As a teenager he dabbled in a wide range of drugs, but held it together enough to get through college and law school and then get hired as a Cook County prosecutor. But grief caused by the sudden deaths of his mother and father led him to abuse narcotic pain pills, which in turn led him to heroin. Chicago police arrested him in February 2008 for heroin possession, costing him his job as a prosecutor. The criminal case against him was eventually dismissed, but he continued to abuse drugs until the money he inherited from his parents dried up. After three years — and six failed stints in rehab — Sabora had lost his house, his law license and his fiancee. Finally, in June 2011, Sabora decided to get clean. He took a train to the Gateway Clinic in Caseyville, Illinois, located a few miles east of St. Louis. “I walked in there as high as a

kite,” he recalls. Gateway was a natural place for a new start. His father, a recovering heroin addict, had helped start the drug treatment center. Sabora acknowledges that substance abuse runs in families, and that as the son and grandson of addicts, he was at the mercy of a genetic lottery. Now married with a young son and another child on the way, he thinks about the challenges he and his wife are likely to face raising their kids. “Yeah, it scares me,” he says, noting that one person in five has an addictive personality. “My dad did an amazing job of raising me. He couldn’t have done anything to stop me from using. And I know the same about my son. The best thing we can do to educate our next generation is empathy, and understanding it’s a mental-health issue.” Like so many human-made catastrophes before it, America’s opioids crisis began innocently, with the best of intentions. The match that lit the fuse, so to speak, was a one-paragraph letter published January 10, 1980, in the New England Journal of Medicine. The letter’s headline: “Addiction Rare in Patients Treated With Narcotics.” Its authors, physicians Jane Porter and Hershel Jick, stated they had examined the files of nearly 40,000 patients. Almost 12,000 had received at least one narcotic preparation, but only four cases were found “of reasonably well documented addiction in patients who had a history of addiction. The addiction was considered major in only one instance.” Then, in one of the most consequential sentences written in American history, Porter and Jick wrote: “We conclude that despite widespread use of narcotic drugs in hospitals, the development of addiction is rare in medical patients with no history of addiction.” The Porter and Jick letter “launched the pain revolution of the mid-1990s,” says Brandon Costerison, who studies opiate abuse for the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse St. Louis Area. At the time, Purdue Pharma was seeking to sell a powerful time-release tablet made from oxycodone called OxyContin. The company used the Porter and Jick letter to show that opioids aren’t addictive, Costerison says. “I don’t think they fully under-

stood,” he says. “But it was used as justification. Purdue wanted a way to market oxycodone and make a bunch of money off it. So combining the development of oxycodone, supposedly a time-release tablet, along with this letter saying this brand-new drug is really, really safe, those two combined is what really led to the ramp-up in prescribing.” In May 2007, three current and former Purdue Pharma executives pleaded guilty in federal court to criminal charges that they had misled federal regulators, doctors and patients about OxyContin’s addiction risks and potential for abuse. Its parent company also agreed to pay $600 million in fines and other payments, then one of the biggest amounts ever paid by a drug company to resolve criminal and civil complaints related to the painkiller’s “misbranding.” In 2016, Forbes magazine ranked the Sackler family, which owns Purdue Pharma, the nineteenth wealthiest family in America, with an estimated worth of about $13 billion, thanks to $35 billion in sales of OxyContin since it was released in 1996, according to journalist Sam Quinones, the author of Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opioid Epidemic. Last June, Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley filed a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma and two of the other largest makers of opioid painkillers. In the lawsuit, Hawley accused them of violating Missouri’s consumer protection laws. Filed in St. Louis, which has the highest overdose death rate in Missouri, the lawsuit calls opioid abuse a statewide epidemic that is a “direct result of a carefully crafted campaign of deception” that “fraudulently misrepresented” the dangers posed by the drugs the companies make and sell, deceiving doctors and patients. Hawley, a Republican, said he chose the companies because he is “confident about the evidence we have about their fraud” and because they comprise “the lion’s share” of the opiate-based painkiller market. As the 1990s progressed, another trend emerged: The American Pain Society designated pain as the fifth “vital sign” that doctors should use to detect or monitor medical problems. Pain control became a measure of patient satisfaction, which was often linked tied to a physician’s compensation under the guidelines of the health

insurance giants that were posting enormous profits. Critics of the health insurance industry complain of the “Toyotazation” of medicine, because doctors under contract to these big insurers lost much of their autonomy and were forced to meet production quotas that limited the time they could spend with patients. Insurance companies would pay for primary-care office visits and for pain pill prescriptions, while balking at alternative medical treatments or extensive physical therapy. “‘But we’ll give you a bottle of Percocet for ten bucks,’” Costerison says. The next major turning point in America’s opioid crisis began about ten years ago, as states like Colorado and Washington legalized medical and recreational cannabis. With profits from illegal pot sales fading fast, the Mexican drug cartels went all-in on heroin. “Why would Mexican drug cartels keep growing marijuana if you got to ship bales of it over, and it can’t compete what’s grown domestically?” Costerison says. “It just doesn’t make any sense. So a lot of these cartels tore up their marijuana fields and started planting opium poppies. So they were able to use the same trade routes as for marijuana.” The heroin the cartels began bringing to the U.S. was much purer and therefore more deadly. Black tar heroin of the 1980s had a purity of between three and six percent. Today’s heroin, in contrast, has a purity level of 55 percent. And then the cartels began bringing in fentanyl, made in China, to the U.S. Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin, but it costs 95 percent less. As a business strategy, “It makes perfect sense, you know,” Costerison says. Seated behind his desk, contemplating the Red Bull in front of him, Sabora reflects on the vicious cycle he’s seeing, an accelerating conveyor belt that’s sending young people to early graves in ever-growing numbers. “It’s a perfect storm,” he says. “You couldn’t have scripted this better.”

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SOMETHING FOR THE PAIN Continued from pg 15 lem agrees that America’s medical community needs to get out of the mindset of over-prescribing opiates. And that’s starting to happen, says Costerison, of NCADA St. Louis. Experts also agree that America needs to spend many billions of dollars more on effective treatment programs, to cut down on the long waiting periods — ranging from a month to more than five months — between when addicts choose to get clean and when they can get beds in treatment centers. Prescription drug-monitoring databases have been set up in every state, including Missouri, which this year became the last in the nation to do so (even as critics note its database is far from comprehensive). But it will likely take years for them to make a significant impact on the rate of overdose deaths. As long as there is no uniform, national database, then illicit drug users would still be free to go from one state to another to find physicians willing to prescribe them painkillers, according to the DEA’s Shroba. “The DEA’s position is that there needs to be a national system,” Shroba says. “It needs to be legislated by the federal government and not run by the federal government. .... So that doctors coast to coast can see what’s being prescribed because that’ll eliminate doctor shopping.” Physicians also need to be better educated about addiction and have greater freedom to prescribe medication therapies, which help impede the cravings that pull opioid addicts into relapse. Problem is, while literally anyone with an M.D. behind their name can prescribe opioids, physicians who endorse medication-assisted therapies must take eight hours of special education classes. Even if they take the required classes, physicians are limited by a federal law that requires them to obtain a waiver from the DEA to prescribe buprenorphine or buprenorphine-naloxone. And once they get the waiver, there’s another hurdle — the physicians can’t treat more than 30 patients in the first year, and no more than 100 patients per year going forward. The result: a huge bottleneck in providing access to treatment, a bottleneck that Congress could end at any time, but won’t, Riley says. “It’s all political,” he says. 16

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Sabora at home with his one-year-old son Jayce and wife Brittany. | STL-PHOTO While drugs like buprenorphine have an 85 percent effectiveness rate, programs modeled on twelvestep programs reject medication therapies. Riley believes that’s a huge mistake. “We’re still treating this based on 1937 methods,” Riley says. “Yet this is 2017 and we know far more about the science of the addictive brain than we knew in 1937. Then we still treated it as a moral failing, as a choice. Today we know, we know through science, that this disorder of the brain, that the brain actually sets a higher value for the release of [the neurotransmitter] dopamine than it sets a value for going to work in the morning or being honest with my parents.” There is another reason the abstinence-only model is being blamed for a rising death toll. After only a few days off opioids, especially powerful narcotics like heroin and fentanyl, an addict’s tolerance drops sharply, according to Costerison. “Their tolerance is gone and they’re at a much higher risk for an overdose if they relapse,” Costerison says. “The same thing happens if someone is locked up in jail for the weekend. They get out. Then they have a very high chance for an overdose.” Finally, America needs to move away from its current system of drug enforcement, which sets a premium on shutting down dealers and incarcerating addicts. By

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focusing on the supply side, America’s “War on Drugs” does nothing to deal with the demand. What America needs to do is adopt the strategy adopted by Portugal, Sabora says, which decriminalized drug use but made treatment programs easily accessible. “The bulk of the blame lies on our failed drug policy in the United States,” Sabora says. Since Portugal decriminalized drugs, he says, “and people are getting treatment instead of jail, their rate of addiction has gone down.” Shroba, the DEA special agent in charge of the St. Louis area, pushes back against Sabora’s suggestions. “We are the Drug Enforcement Administration, not the Drug Treatment Administration,” Shroba says. “And so while we want to help people in that regard, if we don’t interdict the supply, if we don’t interdict the most dangerous drug traffickers out there, does anyone think that will make our streets safer or limit the availability?” Shroba called it unrealistic to stop going after the suppliers of illegal drugs, especially the most addictive and powerful. “Because then we’re going to have increased availability,” he says, “which means we’d have an escalating number rising exponentially, each and every day of individuals trying to seek treatment because we’re not restricting the supply.”

“I thought I was doomed to be a junkie the rest of my life. Until I learned there is recovery.” Sabora and his wife, Brittany, live in a house in Lemay, a few miles south of the outreach center. I am seated on the couch in the front room while Sabora keeps an eye on their one-year-old son Jayce, a black-haired ball of energy who pinballs around the room between taking breaks watching Teletubbies on the big-screen TV. I can’t help myself. I have to ask the obvious question. “Ten years ago,” I say, “when you were still using, did you think you’d have all of this” — meaning the house, the marriage, the son. “I thought I would be dead,” Sabora says. Sabora recalls how his father, a drug counselor, and his mother died in 2005 and 2006, respectively. His father, a former heroin addict, died after 35 years of sobriety.

His father’s biggest fear was that “he would pass that heroin gene onto his kids,” Sabora says. “So I did two things after my parents died. I shot every dime they left me into my arm. And two, I made my dad’s worst fear come true after death.” Sabora admits it’s hard to watch opiate addicts he’s helped into recovery go through treatment programs, work hard to stay clean, only to relapse. Optimism can be hard to come by. “One hundred thousand people died last year, once it’s all said and done,” he says. “So I don’t know how I can be optimistic ... But I’m optimistic that when people come to our offices, they’re going to have a better chance.” I glance over at Jayce, who’s watching Teletubbies in rapt silence. I ask Sabora if he’s worried that Jayce someday might get hooked on drugs. After all, both Sabora and his wife are in recovery for heroin abuse. “Do you think by the time he’s a teenager, we’ll have this opioid thing fixed?” I say. Sabora shakes his head. “I don’t think it’ll be opiates anymore,” he says. “I think it’ll be synthetics.” As for drugs and his son, “I’ve got to talk to him about it. He’s got to make his choices,” he says. “It’s like a peanut allergy. We won’t know he’s a drug addict until one day he tries drugs. We know most kids are going to try drugs. If something happens to him, at least I know we’ll have the resources to help him.” Brittany Sabora, who got off heroin with her future husband’s help, is pregnant with the couple’s second child. A Christian, she credits her higher power, God, for helping her stay clean. Of her children, she says, “Realistically, yeah, they have a great chance of becoming an addict.” But, she says, she and her husband both know that doesn’t have to be a death sentence. “You have the choice to pick up, and when you do, here’s where you can go when you’re done,” she says, explaining what she’ll say to them. “They didn’t teach me that when I was growing up. “I thought I was doomed to be a junkie the rest of my life. Until I learned there is recovery.” About a week after I first meet Evan Reuscher, the Des Peres man who came to the recovery center for Narcan, I give him a call.

When I first met Reuscher, I had only spoken to him for a few minutes, but I took an immediate liking to him. At 28, he was young enough to be my son. He seemed intelligent and thoughtful. I wanted to see if he was OK. I call him on the phone. He answers and tells me, yes, he is OK, even though he had overdosed on fentanyl twice in the six days since I had last spoken to him. The last time was just the night before. Fortunately, a friend he was with gave him a dose of Narcan and he survived, he says. Critics of free Narcan programs argue that the overdose medication instills a sense of recklessness in opiate addicts. Sabora is acutely aware of those criticisms, but pushes back hard against them. The opiate epidemic is so bad right now that what matters most is survival, he says. “So we really try to push basic survival principles to people using right now,” he says. “Of course if you want to get to treatment, we will help you. But if you’re not ready, then carry Narcan, never use alone, split up times of using so you don’t overdose at the same time. Those are the principles that keep me alive.” As for Reuscher, I struggle to understand the world from his point of view. “How do you look at your life right now?” I ask. “Do you think you’re on borrowed time?” “I don’t think so,” he says. “That’s the thing. I was talking to somebody about it, the way it affects people around me, when they see it, and they have to bring me back, and all that kind of stuff. And obviously it scares the shit out of them.” But for some reason he does not share those fears, Reuscher says. “I don’t know why,” he says. “I think that in itself scares me.” “How about your parents?” I ask. “Obviously, they got to be scared.” “I mean, scared to death,” he says.“Scared shitless.” We talk for a few minutes more. I think of my late brother Joe. My brain kicks into dad mode. I have three sons. I’m scared for them, I’m scared for Reuscher. Isn’t he afraid of dying? “Where my thought processes go is a mess,” Reuscher says, “’cause it basically makes me not give a fuck as far as being more reckless and things like that.” We end the conversation a few minutes later. “Stay safe, OK?” I say. “OK,” he says. “I will.” n

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CALENDAR Continued from pg 19 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde John S. Robertson’s silent film adaptation of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde was produced in 1920, long before the advent of computer-driven special effects. And yet that doesn’t preclude the film from being effectively frightening, thanks to the acting technique of star John Barrymore. “The Great Profile” turns in amazing performance without speaking a word, relying on posture and facial expression to play two sides of the same man: one tremendously good, and the other absolutely evil. Barrymore is almost unrecognizable as Hyde, aided by a lank and greasy wig and prosthetics to make his head pointed and his fingers lengthened. Even with its barely 50-minute run-time, the film leaves a lasting impression. The Webster Film Series presents Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood Avenue; www.webster.edu/ film-series). Cinematic band the Invincible Czars performs its minimal soundtrack for the film during the screening. Admission is $10.

SATURDAY 10/21 The Wiz Charlie Smalls and William F. Brown’s “super soul musical” The Wiz has been a hit with audiences since its debut, and with good reason. The show recasts the well-known and loved story of The Wizard of Oz as an urban fantasy that changes the narrative in subtle ways. The Wiz’s Dorothy is also a day-dreamer who gets carried away to a strange world of talking metal men and cowardly lions, but when she’s returned home safe and sound at the end she’s also learned an important lesson about believing in herself and what she’s capable of doing. The COCA Theatre Company presents The Wiz at 7 p.m. Friday and at 1 and 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (October 20 to 22) at the Center of Creative Arts (524 Trinity Avenue, University City; www.coca-stl.org), with guest director Ron Himes of the Black Rep helming the show. Tickets are $14 to $18. 20

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The Rocky Horror Urinetown the Picture Show Musical Just like Christmas trees in December and Uncle Sam/Betsy Ross erotic cosplay in July, you can’t celebrate Halloween without indulging in The Rocky Horror Picture Show sometime in October. The film moved past “cult classic” status once it entered the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry in 2006, making it officially a bona fide classic. Richard O’Brien’s immortal love story tells the tale of decent American couple Brad and Janet (a couple of squares) who break down on the road and seek help at the castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter on the same night he’s about to bring his greatest, most virile creation to life. There’s very little horror (unless you’re terrified by alternative lifestyles), but a whole lot of singing about what’s hot and being brave enough to live out your dreams. The Rocky Horror Picture Show is shown at 11:55 p.m. Friday and Saturday (October 20 to 28) at the Landmark Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar Boulevard, University City; www. landmarktheatres.com) as part of the Reel Late series. The Samurai Electricians returns to perform the essential role of “shadow cast,” which recreates the movie while it screens. Tickets are $10.

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In the near future of Urinetown the Musical, having a private toilet is a crime. A long-lasting drought has dangerously depleted the world’s water supply, leaving public pay toilets as the only sane option for the citizens’ relief. But the CEO of the company that runs the toilets wants to raise the rates again, which will make the daily tinkle an unaffordable luxury for the poorest citizens. And don’t even think about whizzing in the streets — that’s a crime punishable by lifetime banishment to the grim peenal colony (tee-hee) called Urinetown. Greg Kotis and Mark Hollmann’s dark satire of modern life follows the heroic Bobby Strong as he attempts to free the people from the grip of corporatized urination. The Washington University Performing Arts Department presents Urinetown the Musical at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (October 20 to 29) at Washington University’s Edison Theatre (6465 Forsyth Boulevard; www.edison.wustl.edu). Tickets are $10 to $20.

SUNDAY 10/22 Le Corsaire Conrad is a pirate who washed

ashore with some of his crew after a shipwreck. A group of Greek women find them, and Conrad falls in love at first sight with Medora, one of the young women. Things are definitely on the upswing for Conrad, but Lankandem the Turkish slave dealer appears on the scene and absconds with Medora and her friends. Conrad and company then embark on a brave rescue mission, which requires him to conquer deception, disguises, betrayal and reversals before true love can be won. Le Corsaire, the ballet adaption of a poem by Lord Byron, is a massive undertaking; The Bolshoi Ballet’s 2007 production cost a reported $1.5 million to mount. The Bolshoi returns with a live broadcast of Le Corsaire that uses Alexei Ratmansky’s choreography (itself directly inspired by some of Marius Petipa’s 1899 choreography. The ballet is simulcast at 11:55 a.m. today at the AMC Chesterfield 14 (3000 Chesterfield Mall, Chesterfield; www.fathomevents.com). Tickets are $19.55.

WEDNESDAY 10/25 RiffTrax: Night of the Living Dead George A. Romero may be gone, but his groundbreaking film Night of the Living Dead remains very much alive. The 1968 film is a tense and unrelentingly grim experience, but those RiffTrax guys — Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy — are sure they can wring a few laughs out of the horror. Their 2013 takedown of the film returns to theaters for one night only during the Halloween season. You can see them joke their way through Night of the Living Dead at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Marcus Wehrenberg Ronnies 20 (5320 South Lindbergh Boulevard; www.fathomevents.com). Tickets are $15. Planning an event, exhibiting your art or putting on a play? Let us know and we’ll include it in the calendar section or publish a listing on our website — for free! Send details via e-mail (calendar@riverfronttimes.com), fax (314-754-6416) or mail (308 N. 21st Street, Suite 300, St. Louis, MO 63103, attn: Calendar). Include the date, time, price, contact information and location (including ZIP code). Please submit information three weeks prior to the date of your event. No telephone submissions will be accepted. Find more events online at www.riverfronttimes.com.

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Halloween 2017 Our guide to this year’s spooky fun

No, it’s not too early to start making plans for

is the can’t-miss celebration of the season.

Halloween. Whether you’re looking for some

Festivities kick off with fun daytime activities

pre-holiday chills or planning ahead to win a big costume prize, our list includes many of this year’s highlights. Check back next week for even more ghostly good times.

for the whole family. Then, as the sun sets, the party continues with an adults-only bash and costume contest, featuring $6,000 in cash and prizes. Attendees must be at least eighteen to participate in the costume contest. Sat., Oct. 28, 11 a.m.-midnight, free, 314-305-4012,

American Murder Song Presents: The Donner Party

SATURDAY

OCTOBER 28 BOARD: 8 PM

DEPART: 8:30 PM

RETURN: 11 PM

Break out your Halloween best for a chance to win the Grand Prize during this costume party cruise. Dance to music played by a DJ. Enjoy light hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar, along with Halloween treats.

ADVANCE, PRE-PAID RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED $26 • GUESTS MUST BE 21 YEARS OR OLDER

Swing by the Collinsville Library on Halloween for a marathon of classic horror movies. Wheth-

audiences back in time to 1816, to the infa-

er you want to drop by for one or catch the

mous inn that served as the hunting ground

complete lineup, there will be free candy to get

for America’s first female serial killer, pretty

you through the frights. 9 a.m.: The Old Dark

Lavinia Fisher. Now, inspired by 1960s televi-

House (1932), 10:30 a.m.: House on Haunted

sion spook shows, they have imagined the one

Hill (1959), noon: The Wolf-Man (1941), 1:30

and only true retelling of the Donner Party ex-

p.m.: The Mummy (1932), 3 p.m.: Dracula

perience via the lens of their own, fictional Twi-

(1931), 4:30 p.m.: Frankenstein (1932), 6:30

light Zone-style show: The Black Wagon. Come

p.m.: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

check out a historical, musical reenactment of

(1948). Tue., Oct. 31, 9 a.m.-8 p.m., free, 618-

cannibalistic proportions at The Donner Party

344-1112, mvlibdist.org/collinsville_calendar.

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

Collinsville Memorial Public Library, 408 W.

Fox, 1114 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-621-6900.

Main St., Collinsville, Illinois.

Arika Parr’s Costumes & Cocktails Halloween Parrty

The Darkness

Arika Parr’s fifth annual Costumes & Cocktails

turns for another Halloween season. All scan-

Halloween Parrty is at the Jewel Event Center

ners, props, animations and FX are new this

(formerly Yakovelli’s in Florissant). Enjoy com-

year, as is the interactive Horror Escape Room

plimentary Remy Martin cocktails the first hour,

and Zombie Laser Tag (every Thursday). Hours

not to mention prizes, surprises and a chance

vary leading up to Halloween: Oct. 13-14, 7

for you to create who you want to be. Proceeds

p.m. to 12:15 a.m.; Oct. 20-21 and Oct. 27-

help benefit the nonprofit Notes for Life Art &

28, 6:30 p.m.-12:15 a.m.; Oct. 12, 15, 19, 22,

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

23, 24, 25, 26, 29 and 30, 7:30-10 p.m.; and

www.CostumesAndCocktails.com. The Jewel

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

Event Center, 407 Dunn Rd., Florissant, 314-

com. The Darkness, 1525 S. Eighth St., St.

395-3500.

Louis, 314-631-8000.

Boo Bash

Fright Fest

p.m.; Saturdays, noon-midnight; Sundays, 12-9 p.m.; Mon., Oct. 30, 6-10 p.m.; Tue., Oct. 31, 6-10

activities and, most importantly, trick-or-treat-

p.m. Continues through Oct. 31, $63.99-$78.99.

ing. Festivities begin at 4 p.m. and end at 8

Six Flags St Louis, 4900 Six Flags Rd., Pacific, 636-

p.m. Wear your scariest costume and get ready

938-4800.

and North Grand boulevards, St. Louis.

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

Nation food truck, a bounce house, kid-friendly

grandcenter.org. Strauss Park, Washington

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St. Louis’ most terrifying haunted house re-

in the party in Strauss Park with the Cardinals

289-15223, intern@grandcenter.org, www.

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Classic Horror Movie Marathon

Terrance Zdunich and Saar Hendelman led

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

Maryland avenues, St. Louis.

During American Murder Song’s debut year,

Boo Bash is a Halloween extravaganza. Join

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info@cwenorthcid.com,

cwescene.com. Central West End, Euclid and

Central West End Halloween Party

Halloween Spooktacular on Ice

This fun-filled event, presented by the St. Peters Figure Skating Association, offers ice skating, games, prizes, candy and a costume contest. Some costume restrictions apply, including no masks or facial coverings that may restrict your vi-

Set in the vibrant and cosmopolitan Central

sion, no costumes or accessories that drag below

West End, the annual Halloween in the CWE

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Halloween Costume Party Live DJ & Drink Specials Friday, 10/27 @ 7pm

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HALLOWEEN LISTINGS Continued from pg 22

will be held in the Mini Moolah Lounge where there

Enjoy the haunting sights and sounds of the St.

Schlafly Bottleworks. Wed., Nov. 1, 8 p.m., $5.

is comfy couch seating and bar access. Sat., Oct.

Charles County Symphony for a special Halloween

Schlafly Bottleworks, 7260 Southwest Ave., Maple-

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

Concert. Orchestra members will get dressed up

wood, 314-241-2337.

your feet, no inappropriate or controversial costumes

facebook.com/lilliputianFilmFest. Moolah Theatre

in costume to deliver this free concert that the

that may offend other guests, and no costumes that

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

entire family will enjoy. Kids in costume get to pa-

may prohibit the movement of your arms or legs. All

6868.

rade around and will receive a special treat. St.

participants must wear skates on the ice. Fri., Oct. 27, 7-9 p.m., $10 (includes skate rental), 636-939-2386, ext. 1400, www.stpetersmo.net/rec-plex. St. Peters Rec-Plex, 5200 Mexico Rd., St. Peters.

Halloween/Anniversary Party

Mollyween

Peters Cultural Arts Centre is located in the west

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Cinematic musical group the Invincible Czars perform their live, minimalist soundtrack for the 1920

wing of St. Peters City Hall. Tue., Oct. 17, 7-9 p.m.,

silent film Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, starring John Bar-

Are you ready for one of the spookiest nights of the

free, 636-397-6903, ext. 1624, www.stpetersmo.

rymore. Fri., Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m., $10. Webster Uni-

year? Mollyween is coming. Freaky drink specials,

net. St. Peters Cultural Arts Centre, 1 St. Peters

versity-Moore Auditorium, 470 E. Lockwood Ave.,

dance parties, shot girls, decorations of monstrous

Centre Blvd., St. Peters.

Webster Groves, 314-968-7128.

Tails of the Night

Frankenstein Double Feature

manifestations and a $1,000 cash costume con-

Planet Score Records is celebrating its second anni-

test., What goes bump in the night? Awesome peo-

versary in Maplewood Oct 30. Since it coincides with

ple dancing in great costumes. No cover charge.

Halloween, the store makes a spooky fun time of it,

Sat., Oct. 28, 7 p.m.-1:15 a.m., free, 314-241-6200,

turnal animals lets you behind the scenes at a pro-

Frankenstein with a free screening of Bride of Fran-

with free Schlafly beer and treats for kids and adults

www.facebook.com/events/133809077251364/.

fessional wildlife rehabilitation facility, visit with wild

kenstein (1935), and Young Frankenstein (1974).

plus an array of discounts and prizes on its wheel of

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

costumed characters on the nature trail, have an

Film and Media Studies and the Center for the Hu-

up-close critter encounter with a reptile ambassa-

manities at Washington University in St. Louis have

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

organized this screening that combines horror and

A dedicated student at a medical college and his girl-

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

comedy. Watch the movies and enjoy popcorn and

friend become involved in bizarre experiments cen-

Oct. 28, 5-9 p.m., $6 in advance, $8 at the door,

sodas for free. Fri., Oct. 20, 7-10 p.m., free, Wash-

tering around the re-animation of dead tissue when

636-394-1880, education@mowildlife.org, www.

ington University, Brown School of Social Work, 1

an odd new student arrives on campus in Stuart Gor-

mowildlife.org/tailsofthenight.html. Wildlife Rescue

Brookings Dr., University City, 314-938-6846.

You are the detective in two live adventures at St.

don’s film adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft story. Fri.,

Center, 1128 New Ballwin Rd., Ballwin.

Jordan Creek Winery after dark. The first adventure

Oct. 13, 11:55 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 14, 11:55 p.m., $8.

is a haunted mystery maze. You look for clues in the

Landmark Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar Blvd., Univer-

corn maze to discover which pirate kidnapped the

sity City, 314-727-7271.

deals. Sat., Oct. 28, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., free, 314-2820777, jastulce@gmail.com. Planet Score Records, 7421 Manchester Rd., Maplewood.

Haunted Mystery Maze and Escape Adventure

Re-Animator

This family-friendly celebration of Missouri’s noc-

Celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s

Terror on the Rooftop at 360

Three Sixty’s Halloween party will include digital deco-

The Halloween Party That Shall Not Be Named Johnnie Brock’s Dungeon and Ballpark Village co-

rating and production, roaming performers, and other

host this massive, magic-themed Halloween party

tricks and surprises. Providing the music will be DJ

that includes access to four restaurants and bars,

The Tivoli Theatre’s annual Halloween screening of

Steve Meier and DJ Jwin, with a $500 costume con-

video DJ entertainment, wizarding characters, spe-

find enough evidence to bring the kidnapper to justice

The Rocky Horror Picture Show features a live shad-

test. VIP table packages are available. Sat., Oct. 28, 9

cialty drinks and a costume contest with a $7,500

before your time runs out because Dead Men Tell No

ow cast (the Samurai Electricians). Starting Oct. 20,

p.m.-2 a.m., $10-20, 314-241-8439, 360halloween.

prize package. Sat., Oct. 28, 7 p.m., $10-$20, VIP

Tales. A stout heart, sturdy shoes, keen observation

Fridays, Saturdays, 11:55 p.m. Continues through

eventbrite.com. Three Sixty St. Louis, 1 S. Broadway,

options available. Ballpark Village, 601 Clark Ave.,

and a flashlight are required. Free parking. Fridays

Oct. 28, $10. Landmark Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar

St. Louis.

St. Louis, 314-345-9481.

and Saturdays, 6:30-9 p.m. through Oct. 28; Tue.,

Blvd., University City, 314-727-7271.

Slashed

Halloween Dusk 5k/10k Run Walk Crawl

Paddy O’s Halloween Bash

Run/walk for your favorite charity the Friday night

prize money), music by DJ Mahf & DJ VTHOM, drink

nual Halloween party. $10 gets you door prizes, one

before Halloween. Dress up with the family, zombie

specials and photo booth. Fri., Oct. 27, 10 p.m.-3

house drink ticket, costume contest, appetizers,

walk or run and enjoy the night time Halloween Dusk

a.m., $10 in advance, $20 at the door. Paddy O’s,

drink specials and more. Tarot card readings are

Run. Creep your way through the route with your Hal-

618 S. Seventh St., St. Louis, 314-588-7313.

Master illusionist Keith Jozsef, fresh from celebrating

available by Eva Gehlert. Come as your favorite hor-

loween attire or run with your comfy fitness clothes.

his 25th-anniversary season, takes his annual October

ror icon or dress to impress for the costume contest

Either way, be prepared for the Halloween after-party

magic spectacular back to its roots with two intimate

and dance your life away at Mad Art Gallery in Sou-

at Big Daddy’s Soulard or the Landing. Check-in and

performances. The beautifully refurbished private event

lard. Sat., Oct. 28, 8:30 p.m.-1 a.m., $10, www.face-

registration at Big Daddy’s Soulard 4:30-6 p.m. Fri.,

and Kevin Murphy — rebroadcast their 2013 take-

space at Lynch Street Tavern will host the audience as

book.com/events/1618407504899993/. Mad Art

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

down of George Romero’s 1968 classic Night of the

Keith takes them on a journey of the imagination. Bi-

Gallery, 2727 S. 12th St., St. Louis, 314-771-8230.

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

Living Dead. Wed., Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m., $15. Wehren-

lovely maiden Buttercup, with what weapon and on what island in a sea of corn. The second adventure is a short escape game. You enter the Pirate’s Lair to

Oct. 31, 6:30-9 p.m. $11 for one adventure, $20 for both, 314-609-5488, st.jordan.pj@gmail.com, www. stjordancreek.com. St. Jordan Creek Winery, 2829 US-50, Beaufort.

He Do Voodoo

zarre magic, mind-reading and never-before-seen illu-

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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

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

RiffTrax: Night of the Living Dead

The RiffTrax team — Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett

berg Ronnies 20 Cine, 5320 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St.

Spirits of Sappington House

Boolesque! A Halloween Revue

admission. Private, cash-bar service will be available

past and take an after-dark tour of Father Dickson cem-

Room for a show hosted by LuLu LaToosh. Feel free to

to the audience throughout the evening, should you

etery. Enjoy hot cider, s’mores and an appearance by

dress in costume; there will shimmying, booty shak-

wish to conjure up spirits of your own. Fri., Oct. 13, 8-10

the macabre eighteenth-century surgeon John Murphy.

ing and high kicks too. Now all they need is you. Oct.

p.m.; Fri., Oct. 20, 8-10 p.m., $25 in advance, $30 at

Fri., Oct. 20, 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 21, 6:30-8:30

20-21 and Oct. 27-28, 7-9 p.m., from $21.99. Boom

in multiple categories, including best couple, scari-

the door, 314-650-0528, www.keithjozsef.com. Lynch

p.m., $5 for adults, $2 for children under 12, 314-822-

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

est and best mash-up. Anyone in costume gets 15

Street Tavern, 1031 Lynch St., St. Louis.

8171, shcakouros@gmail.com. Sappington House &

sions will conjure dreams and nightmares sure to linger after the show is over. Seating for this event is general

Hear from costumed ghosts in Sappington House’s

Barn Restaurant, 1015 S. Sappington Rd., Crestwood.

It Party

Join the Collinsville Library for a celebration of Stephen King’s It. The library will be showing ABC’s TV

Spooky Poochies Yappy Hour

Every weekend in October, come to the Boom Boom

Clowns on Clark

Special Halloween costume contest with live music from The Groove and DJ Ace in the Green Room.

Louis, 314-843-4336.

Star Clipper Zombie Apocalypse Party

Compete in a zombie costume contest with prizes

percent off their in-store purchase. Sat., Oct. 21, 7 p.m., no cover. Star Clipper, 1319 Washington Ave., St. Louis, 314-240-5337.

Venus in Furs’ Bloody Halloween

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

First prize is a VIP pass to the Tin Roof good for 20

miniseries in its entirety, and there will be activities,

coming up. Get out your best costume for Spooky

people and an overnight stay for two at the Westin

snacks and plenty of red balloons. Sat., Oct. 14, 1

Pooches. There will be prizes for best dog costumes,

downtown. Second prize is two free St. Louis Blues

Times, a local blood play group, ToyElephant will be

p.m., free, 618-344-1112, mvlibdist.org/collins-

tastings of dog treats, drink specials and more. Help

tickets and a $50 post-game tab at the Tin Roof.

in the house giving a needle play demo. Folks are

ville_calendar. Collinsville Memorial Public Library,

raise funds for Soulard’s Frenchtown Dog Park As-

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

welcome to bring their own needles and female bot-

408 W. Main St., Collinsville, Illinois.

sociation; 20 percent of every Yappy Hour goes to

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

toms to practice with, but those without supplies are

Lilliputian Film and Photography Festival

This is a short film screening of films perfect for Halloween as well as creepy photographic work., with costumes/cosplay encouraged. Screenings

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them. Thu., Oct. 26, 4-7 p.m., free, 314 241 6200, www.facebook.com/events/180545782506177/. Molly’s in Soulard, 816 Geyer Ave., St. Louis.

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Creepshow

Hook suspensionist and organizer of Bloody Good

more than welcome to just watch the demo. Regular play is welcome after the demo. Leave your judg-

The Webster Film series screens George Romero

ments (and the boys) at home and have a good time

and Stephen King’s 1982 film Creepshow, which

with your kinky lady friends. Fri., Oct. 20, 9 p.m.-1

was their tribute to the EC horror comics of the

a.m., $5. The Crack Fox, 1114 Olive St., St. Louis,

1950s. Presented by Planet Score Records and

314-621-6900.

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s i u o l . t s o o d o o v n e e w i #char Thursday, October 26th @ 7pm Crappy Halloween Celebration and Crappy Costume Contest to Benefit Crohns and Colitis Make a costume spending under $50, win a “crappy” prize!

Friday October 27th @ 7pm NostalgiaWEEN with Nostalgic Costume Contest and Principal Belding from Saved By The Bell to Benefit USO of Missouri Dress as your favorite character from the ‘80s or ‘90s for a chance at a Grand Prize of over $1,000 in cash and prizes! Categories include funniest, sexiest and scariest nostalgic costume. Plus, Dennis Haskins (Principal Belding from Saved By The Bell) will be in the house, and merchandise including “I Got Blitzed with Belding” shirts will be available for purchase.

Saturday October 28th @ 7pm VooDoo Halloween Blowout to Benefit Responder Rescue See VooDoo come to life and support a great cause with TONS of surprises, a costume contest with multiple categories and prizes, an incredible surprise EDM DJ, and more!

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Running Out of Memory Michael Almereyda examines the problematic nature of memory in Marjorie Prime Written by

ROBERT HUNT Marjorie Prime

Directed by Michael Almereyda. Adapted for film by Michael Almereyda from Jordan Harrison’s play. Starring Lois Smith, Jon Hamm, Geena Davis and Tim Robbins. Now available on Google Play and DVD.

arjorie Prime is part of a curious but unmistakeable trend, one of several recent films to examine the effects of aging (others include I, Daniel Blake, Aquarius, Toni Erdmann and A Quiet Passion). Is this simply another example of boomers being well into retirement age, yet refusing to release their grasp over the culture they’ve dominated for the last half a century? That may be a part of it, but I don’t think it’s the whole story of

Marjorie Prime, Michael Almereyda’s new film adaptation of Jordan Harrison’s 2015 play. (Harrison is only 40, therefore free of the boomer mark.) Aging is certainly an important part of the story, but it’s also a way of raising many other questions: Are we the same person now that we were 20, 30 or 50 years ago? Is memory something we create, or is it who we are? How did we get here? It begins like this: A man and a woman are having a quiet conversation, but something seems just a little off, a little uncanny. Marjorie (Lois Smith) is 86 years old; Walter (Jon Hamm) seems to be about half that age. He shows interest in the conversation, but there’s also something reserved, as if he was carefully analyzing each statement. They talk about a shared life, about children who are now grown, and about how he proposed to her after they saw the 1997 film My Best Friend’s Wedding. It takes a few minutes to realize that Marjorie Prime takes place sometime in the middle of the 21st century — it looks contemporary, but there are subtle reveals in the production design — and that Marjorie is speaking to a computer program, a holographic reconstruction of her long-dead husband. Marjorie Prime is science fiction in the purest sense. Without

a trace of a spaceship, a lightsaber or a sandworm, it’s a story about lives transformed by technology, about scientific innovations intertwined with emotions. Thoughtful, inventive and sometimes even a little creepy, it’s a profound and disturbing examination of what it means to be human, of the things that make up our memories and how we, in turn, are remembered. Hamm, who has never been better, plays a prime, an artificial intelligence program employed by Marjorie’s family (daughter Geena Davis and her husband Tim Robbins) to keep the declining woman distracted or, at the very least, remind her to eat. A cross between Alexa and HAL 9000, Walter speaks 32 languages and can pull up just the right piece by Poulenc on the audio system. He’s nearly perfect, but who is he? Formulated from an ever-increasing database of memories, a prime can be easily accepted by some characters, while others, especially Davis, find his presence unsettling. Is it the program she’s reacting to, or is it the memories, the secrets of her family history given semi-human form? Memory can be false, or at the very least misleading, and much of the startling strength of the film comes from the revelation that the things we accept as truth are elusive, subjective and malleable. This riverfronttimes.com

is perfect material for the underrated Almereyda, combining many of the themes of his earlier films — psychology, recording technology, theater — into one intricately structured story. There are no gimmicks to Almereyda’s direction, no awkward concessions to (or contrived rejections of) his stage-confined source. He uses Harrison’s text as a means to engage directly with his cast, filming them with a conversational intimacy. The viewer is soothed and engaged on a personal level, leading to an ingeniously clever and unexpected climax. The first half of the film is a completely convincing family drama, centered on the always extraordinary Smith, who originated the role of Marjorie on stage. The second half expands the narrative in several directions and raises new questions about family history and identity. There is a brilliant, jarring moment midway through the film where Almereyda passes his camera over photographs of Smith taken over many decades. After having brought us so close to the elderly Marjorie, it’s a small shock to see an unknown, younger version. In an instant, Almereyda pulls the rug out from under how we have seen and understood the woman, creating a visceral example of the film’s message: the complex creation of the mind and the self. n

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Found in Translation Upstream Theater returns to 1933 to present a charming Polish comedy Written by

PAUL FRISWOLD Sweet Revenge

Written by Aleksander Fredro. Directed and translated by Philip Boehm. Presented by Upstream Theater through October 22 at the Kranzberg Arts Center (501 North Grand Boulevard; www.upstreamtheater.org). Tickets are $25 to $35.

et us return to those early days of the twentieth century when St. Louis’ immigrant citizens put on plays in their mother tongue in various parish halls. Among these companies was the Julius Słowacki Theatrical Society at the Sts. Cyril and Methodius Polish National Catholic Church, a troupe of amateur actors who loved classic Polish romantic comedies. Founded in 1909, the society turned off the lights in 1959, as its audience became assimilated and no longer needed to be reminded of the pleasures of a far-off home. But for a limited time, the Julius Słowacki Theatrical Society returns to October 1933 to mount one more production of the great Aleksander Fredro’s classic farce, Sweet Revenge, thanks to the good graces of Upstream Theater. Through a neat bit of magic, you’ll understand Polish like a native so Fredro’s story about warring neighbors makes perfect sense — the better to appreciate Fredro’s rhymed verse. OK, so that magic is actually director Philip Boehm’s marvelous translation, but even in English it trips along lightly. Cześnik Maciej Ratusiewicz (Whit Reichert) is an aging nobleman who shares a castle with the notary Milczek (John Contini). The two are locked in a bitter feud that has made even a castle too small for both to occupy, and so each attempts to gain the upper hand.

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Papkin (John Bratkowski) writes a will while Dyndalski (Eric J. Conners) takes dictation from Maciej (Whit Reichert). | PROPHOTOSTL.COM Maciej is choleric and ready to fight, while Milczek is more measured and prefers to use artfully crafted (some would say “exaggerated”) legal documents to do his dirty work. For now, Maciej is content to wed again and gain the lands of the wealthy widow Hanna (Jane Paradise). He’s no gentle pitcher of woo; for that he summons Papkin (John Bratkowski), an adventurer whose short stature belies his inflated opinion of himself, to plead his case to Hanna. Papkin is the star of the show. Bratkowski got his start on stage as a child at the Julius Słowacki Theatrical Circle, and it’s obvious the role of Papkin is a dream come true for him. His Papkin boasts like a lion, cringes like a mouse, antagonizes everyone he meets and rarely stops extolling his own greatness. There are no wasted moments while Papkin is onstage; whether stealing liquor in the background or writing a vainglorious will with all the seriousness of a child composing a last-minute essay, Bratkowski constantly hones his buffoonery. Pete Winfrey and Caitlin Mickey are just as enchanting as our

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thwarted lovers, Wacław (son of Milczek) and Klara (ward of Maciej). Wacław knows his father will not approve their union, so he suggests running away; Klara is horrified by the thought. (She’s also positively traumatized by Papkin’s proposal, but quickly counters with a list of impossible demands.) When Wacław attempts to reason with Milczek, he makes a childish pledge to die if he can’t marry Klara and then falls to his knees with a bizarre shriek of goose-like longing. Milczek is right to ignore the demands of such a foolish boy. There are numerous obstacles for all parties to overcome before a happy ending can be found in this strange castle of enemies and lovers. Milczek attempts to steal Hanna from Maciej so she can become Wacław’s wife, a plot that comes to a comic end, thanks to Jane Paradise’s lusty portrayal of Hanna. Maciej then tries to dictate a falsified love letter, but his right-hand man Dyndalski (Eric J. Conners) is too assiduous in his transcript. It finally comes to Maciej and Milczek facing each other over drawn sabers before young love

conquers old hates. But that isn’t the end, and for that the audience has actor Eric J. Connors to thank. Not only does Connors play the aggressor and victim in a single fight, he also gives the show its story-behind-the-story, which serves as both a charming prologue and an insightful postlude. The Eric J. Conners of 1933, it turns out, is a devoted fan of the Julius Słowacki Theatrical Society. He wanders backstage to join the cast in the pre-show singing of a Polish song and then wins the role of utility man in the company, which is down an actor. After the successful performance, Conners asks if they can go somewhere to celebrate pulling it off — as long as it’s a place a black man like he can enter in 1939 St. Louis. The cast briefly discusses the strangely divided nature of their adopted city, and how some much-needed love and understanding would do it a world of good. It’s a poignant reminder that old men locked in the battles of the past can’t win against young love and its hopeful future. n

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3 Bay BBQ & Bakery offers everything from brisket and pulled-pork sandwiches to Hawaiian pineapple pecan and pumpkin gooey butter cakes. | MABEL SUEN [REVIEW]

Fill Me Up Who would have guessed that terrific barbecue — and more — was hiding in plain sight at a Phillips 66 station? Written by

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n 2009, the heartless monsters at Sara Lee cut out a tube-shaped hole in the heart of hot dog lovers everywhere when they shuttered Best Kosher, the Chicago-based producer that made what was

inarguably the best frankfurter on the planet. You remember Best Kosher: the red and yellow standalone carts that used to send smoke signals throughout Busch Stadium, a siren song to those whose discerning palates craved a gourmet, caramelized onion and sauerkraut-covered alternative to the traditional stadium dog. It wasn’t uncommon to miss multiple innings waiting in line for one of these plump, garlicky wonders, but it didn’t matter. The taste was worth the sacrifice. And then they were gone, the victim of Sara Lee’s inexplicable decision to do away with perfection in favor of propping up mediocre brands. For seven years, I’ve been searching for an adequate substitute (not, as a brand manager suggested in response to one of my angry letters, Ball Park). The quest has led me to multiple stadiums, hot dog carts around the country

and, three weeks ago, a gas station at the corner of Woods Mill and Clayton Road — one that would not only restore my faith in hot dogs but would introduce me to 3 Bay BBQ and quite possibly the best pulled pork in town. Out of tragedy comes beauty. 3 Bay BBQ co-owner Carol Grosz understood my pain. In fact, her commiseration is how I discovered that she and her husband Rick not only cook the city’s best hot dogs, but also serve outstanding barbecue out of their Town & Country Phillips 66 station. Yes, really. Our meeting was a complete accident. I needed gas and went inside to see if their roller dog selection included Eisenberg, a brand I discovered a few years ago as a worthy heir to the Best Kosher throne. As my husband had found out a few months prior, a handful of Phillips 66 stations around town are now carrying Eisenberg. We riverfronttimes.com

never pass up the opportunity to indulge. A woman was stocking the condiment bar, and I began chatting her up, asking who handles their food service with an eye to buying a case to take home. As we talked about how much we love Eisenbergs, she saw me reach for one and stopped me. “You can get these,” she said. “But the big ones are in the restaurant.” That woman, who later introduced herself as Carol Grosz, motioned toward a hallway that looked like it contained nothing more than a couple of bathrooms. Upon closer look, though, I noticed a group of people huddled around the corner. As I walked back, the distinct smell of a smoker filled the air, with a line forming in front of a counter that bore no difference from where you drop off your keys for an oil change. Well, there was one difference:

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3Continued BAY from pg 31 Instead of a list of services and tire prices, the wall contained a menu listing everything you’d expect from a bona fide smokehouse: ribs, brisket, pork steak and a claim to the “best pulled pork this side of the Mississippi.” Grosz noticed my confusion and gave the explanation she surely repeats about 50 times a day. She and Rick have owned the Phillips 66 station for over three decades and started doing barbecue about four years ago. At first, they smoked the meat out of a little trailer in the parking lot. But the side project proved an overwhelming success, even as, in 2015, Phillips 66 issued new regulations decreeing that its gas stations could no longer have repair facilities. Unsure what to do with their three-car service bays, the Groszes decided to expand their barbecue business and convert the auto repair shop into the restaurant. 3 Bay BBQ was born. Though the Groszes also cater to takeout traffic, the full experience of 3 Bay BBQ is best enjoyed sitting in the old service area. The space retains the bare-bones industrial feel of an auto garage, though in place of car lifts you’ll find white wooden picnic tables and a cafeteria-style counter where cooks make your order. Large fans circulate air in the completely white room, and when weather permits, the old garage doors open to the outside. Carol Grosz is a gracious host, but stone-faced serious about her hot dogs. As she explained, she and her husband started carrying the Eisenberg brand a while back and loved them so much, they decided to offer a jumbo version

At 3 Bay, you can get your mac and cheese topped with pulled pork. | MABEL SUEN at 3 Bay BBQ. And “jumbo” is an apt description, as this massive frank is about ten inches long and the circumference of a half dollar. The snappy casing is scored in three spots, making the dog almost spiral out and providing extra surface area for caramelization. The taste is pure beef, spiked with smoky paprika and garlic. There are no bells and whistles — no cheese sauce or bacon or other nonsense. Just dog, bun and a choice of DIY condiments. Somewhere, Mr. Best is smiling. The hot dog may have been what

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enticed me, but there is much more to 3 Bay BBQ. The pork steak is an outstanding example of the St. Louis classic, though instead of being covered in Maull’s, it’s served undressed. This allows the sweet pork flavor of the meat, dusted with nothing more than salt, pepper and the kiss of woodsmoke, to shine through unadulterated. It’s so fall-apart tender you won’t need to worry that the only available knives are plastic. 3 Bay’s pulled chicken is also shockingly delicious. The meat, pulled into large hunks and

served un-sauced, is succulent with natural juices and a simple brine. Ribs have the appropriate chew and pull you’d expect from any legitimate smokehouse and are enlivened with a dry rub that tastes of cinnamon and five-spice. If you prefer a saucy style, you can get the “sticky” ribs, which are coated with a molasses-heavy barbecue sauce that forms a sweet and smoky glaze over the meat. Both are delightful. As a Texas-style brisket fan, I found 3 Bay’s version to be adequate. There was a pleasant

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The restaurant’s order counter is tucked inside a conventional gas station. | MABEL SUEN beefy smoke flavor, and the meat was tender and juicy, but stylistically, I prefer the barkcoated fat bombs you can get at other spots. The pulled pork, however, is 3 Bay’s calling card — its claim of being the best is not hyperbole. When you first see it, you think it’s sauced, but then you realize that the liquid-y texture is rendered fat, pork jus and a sweet-forward spice rub that form a mouthwatering nectar. The texture is akin to the most succulent carnitas of your life, an effect that seems almost impossible to achieve outside of braising. You can order it as a sandwich, and allow the juices to sop into the bun, or as a platter. If you opt for the latter, I’d suggest grabbing a spoon. It’s hard to imagine you could save room for dessert at a place so decadent, but barbecue is only part of the 3 Bay story. The restaurant is also a bakery where Carol Grosz shows off her prowess with sweets, including a pecan-studded pineapple coconut cake, a variety of sweet breads and muffins and what should be considered a contender for the city’s top gooey butter cake. Plain, chocolate, pumpkin and even a brownie/ gooey butter hybrid are sweet,

Barbecue is only part of the 3 Bay story. The desserts, which include several riffs on a gooey butter cake, are also incredible. of course, but avoid the pitfall of being sickeningly so. The joy of discovering a place like 3 Bay BBQ — a delicious nofrills outpost in the most unlikely part of the St. Louis suburbs — is almost as good as the food. Almost. But then you bite into one of the pulled pork sandwiches, or better yet, that magnificent hot dog, and you realize that the real joy is in the taste. It may not be the “Best,” but it’s as good as it gets. n 3 Bay BBQ & Bakery

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Travel Inspired Cathy’s Kitchen Written by

CHERYL BAEHR

wenty-five years ago, Cathy Jenkins, who is now the chef and owner of Cathy’s Kitchen (250 S. Florissant Road, Ferguson; 314-524-9200), was hard at work using her hands to create items that brought joy to people’s lives — but her job had nothing to do with cooking. “My husband and I had a necktie company in the old St. Louis Center,” Jenkins explains. “We had a wall of fabric that customers could choose from, and I would make custom-made ties while they waited. People loved the concept. The only problem was, we started just as corporate American went casual.” Jenkins’ road from necktie-maker to chef and restaurateur was a circuitous one, paved with everything from NASA to George Clooney to the Food Network. As their custom tie business faltered, Jenkins’ husband, Jerome Jenkins, had what she describes as a vision for a chemical that would allow for inkjet printing on fabric. Jerome Jenkins developed the printing chemical, and his company became an unlikely success. (“He had no chemical background, or even scientific background,” Jenkins explains. “His degree is in public relations.”) He garnered praise from NASA, which uses his technique in its space suits, and Hollywood, where it was employed on costumes for High School Musical and a shirt worn by Clooney in Oceans Twelve. That success afforded the Jenkinses the opportunity to take a big trip every year, almost always to Disney World. One year, inspired by the cooking programs they watched on the Food Network, the family decided

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Before she opened Cathy’s Kitchen, Cathy Jenkins owned a custom tie business. | KELLY GLUECK to do something different and set out on a culinary adventure that, unbeknownst to them at the time, would serve as the basis for a restaurant. “We made our way around the entire U.S. — everywhere from Florida to California to New Mexico and back,” Jenkins explains. “It was like a Walley World-style trip, but all of our stops were based on the restaurants we saw on the Food Network.” Jenkins, who saw cooking as a way to express herself creatively, returned to St. Louis inspired to begin a home-based takeout service based on what she’d learned. As word of her creations spread, she became so busy she could barely keep up with demand and opened her restaurant, Cathy’s Kitchen, in 2013. Jenkins wanted the restaurant to mirror her culinary tour of the U.S., so she created a menu of greatest hits, grouped by geography. Instead of “appetizers,” “sandwiches” and “entrees,” guests choose a regional style of cooking, such as “New Orleans,” “New Mexico” or “California.” “My food distributor thought it was a horrible idea,” Jenkins laughs. “He said that people aren’t used to things that are new and that it was confusing. I listened to him at first and developed a traditional menu, but it

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just didn’t feel right. Once I set it up the way I wanted, it really took off.” These days, Jenkins is having the last laugh with a packed house of loyal customers and a host of celebrity visitors who make her restaurant a must-visit when they come through town — not a bad outcome for a firsttime restaurant owner who didn’t even know how to cook when she got married. “I’ve always been an entrepreneur, so I didn’t see the lack of experience as a bad thing,” Jenkins explains. “I just looked at it as a big challenge and just did it. Seeing our customers makes me know that I’m onto something.” Jenkins took a break from the kitchen to share her thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage scene, how she never misses a chance to dance with her husband and why her last meal on earth would be fit for a king. What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did? That I was in the military. What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you? Talking to my husband every morning at 6:30 a.m. If you could have any superpower, what would it be?

Speed like the Flash. What is the most positive thing in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year? That more young people are getting involved in restaurant business. What is something missing in the local food, wine or cocktail scene that you’d like to see? More African American restaurants. Who is your St. Louis food crush? Cathy’s Kitchen is my only food crush. Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene? Me! If you weren’t working in the restaurant business, what would you be doing? Continuing to be a housewife and mom. Name an ingredient never allowed in your restaurant. None I can think of. What is your after-work hangout? Dancing with my husband. What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure? Wine and chocolate. What would be your last meal on earth? Oh man! Probably an array of foods like a king back in medieval times. n

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Shuffleboard is one of many, many options at Westport Social, which offers everything from snookball to karaoke. | ELLEN PRINZI [BARS]

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estport Social (910 Westport Plaza, Maryland Heights) brings a much-needed new concept to the Maryland Heights area, one that’s a rising trend across the country: a modern adult game lounge without the annoying buzz of an arcade, coupled with a heightened food and beverage program to rival your neighborhood gastropub. From the moment you walk in, you are greeted by murals by local artist Phil Jarvis and an expansive space filled with a variety of games, including bocce ball, shuffleboard, ping pong, popa-shot basketball, darts, foosball and snookball. All of this is encompassed in two large rooms, appropriately decked out with TVs of all sizes. The larger back bar area boasts three gigantic TVs — we’re talking nine feet by sixteen feet — making it impossible to miss the ac36

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tion from the big game. Views of the screens are perfect from just about anywhere in the room, whether you’re at the bar, a booth or one of the contemporary living room-style seating areas. So out of the gate it’s already one of the best places to watch sports in town — but the atmosphere lends itself to being much more than just a sports bar. The outdoor patio area promises to remain open well into the fall, thanks to an outdoor fire pit and heat lamps. The crowds are already coming out for college football Saturdays and NFL Sundays, but the day-to-day dinner crowd proves the area was in need of a trendy but casual concept. The back room doubles as a music venue that hosts live music every Friday and Saturday. And if all that wasn’t enough, there are two private karaoke rooms upstairs. The food program is mostly made up of elevated bar bites: things like smoked chicken wings with Calabrian chile buffalo sauce, herbed french fries with smoked tomato aioli, and burnt end nachos. However, there are larger plates as well, including housemade pizzas, tacos, sliders and, of course, burgers and ribs. The drink menu is robust, with a wide range of high-quality beers, wines and spirits — plus a fantastic cocktail menu created by Kyle Mathis, an alum of Taste

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and Sardella. The restaurant has a strict 21-and-over policy starting at 4 p.m. — those of you not wanting to drink your happy-hour drink next to a screaming toddler, you are in luck. Over the past decade, Westport Plaza had been in decline, and was no longer the beating heart of Maryland Heights. All that began to turn around with the purchase of the Plaza by Lodging and Hospitality Management, or LHM, in 2012. “The Westport Plaza location is continuing to develop and add entertainment options,” says Todd Hotaling, the company’s VP of revenue and marketing. “We expect the developments to continue well into the future with three to four more restaurant or bar options, and possibly some residential condos.” It’s hard to imagine the LHM group not getting it right, with other standout concepts around town including Union Station and the Cheshire Hotel complex, to name a few. Simply put, if Westport Social is any indication of the changes to come, a Westport Plaza restored to its status as a county destination isn’t too far away. n Ellen Prinzi is our bar and nightlife writer. She likes strong drinks and has strong opinions. You can catch more of her writing via Olio City, a city guide app she started last year.

ariscos el Gato (2818 Cherokee Street, 314-449-1220), the thrilling Mexican seafood restaurant that opened on Cherokee Street last August, is headed to Bevo Mill, say its chef, Pedro Diaz, and his wife, Nancy. In the mind of owner Carlos Dominguez, however, Mariscos el Gato is staying put in its Cherokee Street location, reopening tomorrow after a brief closure due to a remodel. According to Nancy Diaz, the confusion reflects the disillusion of the partnership between the couple and Dominguez, with both parties claiming rights to the concept. “My husband is the main chef. He came up with all of the items and put the menu together,” explains Diaz. “He is ‘el Gato,’ after all. That’s his name. I don’t know why he wants to use it if he’s not going to be there.” When Mariscos el Gato first opened, she says. the Diazes agreed to a 50-50 partnership with Dominguez, though that never materialized. Instead, they were placed on a day-rate and given no profit sharing as originally promised. “We didn’t know anything about business,” Diaz explains. “We were new to this so we didn’t know how it worked.” After becoming increasingly frustrated with the situation, the Diazes decided to part ways with Dominguez and open their own Mariscos el Gato at 4561 Gravois. According to Nancy Diaz, the restaurant’s name is registered to her husband, and the dishes are entirely his. As such, they will open under the name Mariscos el Gato with the same menu, hopefully by the end of this month, regardless of the status of Dominguez’s Cherokee Street location. “I want everyone to know that when they go to the restaurant on Cherokee Street, my husband will not be there,” Diaz says. “People come in there looking for him all the time. I don’t want them to be fooled.” The Diazes’ selection of the Bevo Mill neighborhood for the new Mariscos el Gato marks one more addition to the area’s burgeoning Mexican restaurant scene in a spot that was once home to the city’s Bosnian population. As its former residents have moved out, members of the local Latin community have moved in — a transition that has led the neighborhood’s real-estate developer Tony Zanti to call the area “the next Cherokee Street.” Nancy Diaz is Continued on pg 38

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GOODBYE ‘EL GATO’ Continued from pg 36 excited for this possibility. “We’re really excited and look forward to working with the other restaurants in the neighborhood to help each other out,” she says. “We have a friend who makes Mexican desserts who is thinking about moving to the neighborhood. If all goes well with Mariscos el Gato, my husband and I also hope to open a Mexican grocery store.” Mariscos el Gato earned rave reviews for its Nayarit-style seafood feasts, including mammoth lobster, fish, shrimp, scallop and crab platters, stuffed whole fish and octopus cocktail. Its seafood platter was recently named one of the “40 Best Things We’re Eating in St. Louis Right Now” in the Riverfront Times’ Best of St. Louis 40th anniversary issue. Whether you will be able to experience that feast on Cherokee Street or Gravois remains to be seen — though Nancy Diaz assures her guests that the soul of the restaurant has relocated to Bevo Mill, with a new location in the space previously inhabited by Luna Lounge. “My husband is ‘el Gato,” she says. “This is his food. I don’t know what is happening with the Cherokee Street restaurant, but ‘el Gato’ won’t be there.” The restaurant posted a brief statement to its Facebook page about the transition over the weekend. Translated to English from Spanish, it reads, Attention: For personal issues, we have closed Mariscos El Gato on Cherokee Street! We are opening our new place next to Mi Lindo Michoacan. ‘El Gato’ will no longer be on Cherokee Street. We will see you in our new restaurant. —Cheryl Baehr

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hen John Rieker purchased Johnny’s Restaurant and Bar this summer and announced he would reopen a new concept on site just a month and a half after its closure, his plan seemed wildly ambitious. Plenty of bar owners name their opening date — very few actually hit them. Rieker did. He opened the fifth location of Harpo’s (1017 Russell Boulevard, 314-696-2969) exactly 45 days after Johnny’s final pour. The turnaround was even more impressive in light of the fact that Johnny’s had called Soulard home for 24 years. “We did a lot,” Rieker says. “We did the whole bar over, built a whole new deck on the second floor. But we maintained our schedule.” Still, Rieker’s discipline had its drawbacks. By pure coincidence, Harpo’s first opened its doors in Soulard on September 15, the same day that former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley was acquitted on murder charges. Protests broke out downtown and in the Central West End, with cops teargassing demonstrators (and even some diners). “That day a lot of bars in Soulard closed at 6:30,” Rieker recalls. “We stayed open.” And while business was fairly quiet that night, the next day, a Saturday, they were slammed. They’ve been slammed every weekend since.

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The Schlafly Pale Ale Burger is topped with molten beer cheese and an onion ring. | SARAH FENSKE Rieker co-owns the Harpo’s location in Chesterfield and says he welcomed the idea of bringing the local chain back within the city limits. (Its previous St. Louis location, in Laclede’s Landing, closed in 1996.) While things have been tense in the city in recent weeks, Rieker says he has no regrets. “It’s an unfortunate thing, to say the least,” he says. “But we’ve gotten time to work out the kinks — to get staff scheduled and get people hired.” And every day, he notes, the place gets busier. For those unfamiliar with Harpo’s sister locations, which also include spots under different ownership in Kansas City and Columbia, Missouri, the place is not just a place to drink. Harpo’s also prides itself on its food. There’s a surprisingly vast menu, with a long list of fish, salads and pasta dishes in addition to the expected bar fare. During happy hour, which runs from 3 to 7 p.m. daily, you can get $2 off all appetizers, a great time to check out the wings or get an order of “Tiger Balls,” New Orleans-inspired rice balls stuffed with pork sausage

and “Southern spice.” (Drinks are also super cheap during those hours: $5 for a jumbo well, $2.50 for domestic pints.) “We take a lot of pride in our food,” Rieker says. “We like to say it’s the best sports bar menu in town.” The bar feels totally at home in its new digs, which happen to be a very, very old house. The three-story building on Russell was originally a four-family flat, built 118 years ago, Rieker says. The building’s provenance makes sense in light of some of the details that remain, including the two fireplaces upstairs sharing space with Golden Tee and Big Buck Hunter, and some gorgeous old stained glass on the staircase. Those roomy three floors mean lots of places to settle in, whether it’s for a DJ on Friday or Saturday night or an early weeknight dinner with the family. Unlike some Soulard competitors, Harpo’s is open Sundays, with $11 buckets of domestic beer, as well as $5.99 half-pound burgers all day ... which might be a really economical way to check out that better-than-a-sports-bar menu. n

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Future’s So Bright Georgia singer-songwriter Torres takes her sound in a synth-rock direction with new album Three Futures Written by

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ackenzie Scott hates the term “indie,” so she instead describes what she thinks is lacking in the “non-pop mainstream world.” “The theatrical aspects of a live performance are what keep up the suspension of disbelief,” she muses, “which is why people come to a show — to escape out of something or into something.” She adds, “I just think that if people come to see a show, they should get to see a show.” That attitude helps explain why Scott performs with an uncommon gravitas as the music-maker known as Torres. Every aspect of her work is heightened by drama. Take the music video for her slow-burning single, “Three Futures,” which features three versions of Torres — including one pushing a vacuum over an immaculate living-room floor and two more creepily observing from the kitchen and behind a shower door. Tension mounts with each stab of heavily effected guitar and swell of synthesizer, creating a sensual backdrop for her emotionally stark vocals. The video’s final scene is in the bedroom. Torres’ voice is dry as she sings to an unnamed lover: “You didn’t know I saw three futures / One alone and one with you / And one with the love I knew I’d choose.” Following that refrain, she, well, goes down on herself.

Torres used pedal effects to make her guitar sound like a synthesizer on the new album. | ASHLEY CONNOR The imagery stays with you. Speaking from a suburban neighborhood outside of Cleveland, Scott is touring to promote Three Futures, her 4AD debut, and is set to play Off Broadway with her backing band on October 23. As an adopted child raised by a Southern Baptist family in Macon, Georgia, Scott learned to play piano and flute, but she didn’t take to either; her first true musical love was The Phantom of the Opera. She dabbled in various musical endeavors before teaching herself acoustic guitar and writing music, mostly for herself. Scott’s entry point to performing was playing hymns for nursing home residents, and in a way religious music has stayed with her as she’s evolved from a finger-picking folk artist.

“I always try to incorporate a bit of holiness into whatever I do,” she says. “That doesn’t necessarily mean hymn-like, but I like to treat my songs with gravity.” With each album, Scott has experimented with different studio and pedalboard effects. On 2015’s Sprinter, she shrouded her anguished lyrics in the distorted guitars and feedback of hard rock. Now she’s leaning fully into synth-rock with Three Futures. Throughout the album, she makes heavy use of a polyphonic octave pedal and other effects, disguising her guitar as a synthesizer to create hooks sonically inspired by Gary Numan. “A lot of times, I’m trying to create sounds he made on a Moog with my guitar,” she says. “I like it when you can make one instrument reference another instrument.” riverfronttimes.com

As she explains it, she’s taking that new approach to playing guitar not for the sake of novelty, but necessity. “The way the new album is structured, it’s all laid out on a grid; it’s quantized music,” she says. “There’s no loosey-goosey guitar strumming on this record because there can’t be. The guitar playing is more nuanced and subtle and less bulky to fit the structure of this new album.” Thanks in part to co-producer Rob Ellis (best known for his work with PJ Harvey) the individual instrumental elements of Three Futures sound like they were cut out with an X-Acto knife. Ellis’ finely tuned ear helped Scott realize the soundscapes she was hearing in her head: “I’d describe something really nebulous, like a color scheme or a smell, or demonstrate a rhythm with my whole body and he’d say, ‘OK, maybe we should try this delay [effect] on your vocals and double the drums here.’ He was able to channel my manic descriptions into actual, concrete functions.” To bring the new material to life in the live setting, Scott’s four-member band’s stage setup is very much tech-oriented — there are lots of wires, knobs and electronic drum pads — which is ironic because Scott is more of an intuitive sort of musician. “I never read the manual,” she says. “I’m the guy who buys the guitar pedal and clicks a bunch of buttons and turns a bunch of knobs until I hear what I want, but I couldn’t explain to you its functions.” But all that matters to Scott is the end game. “More than anything, what you’re hearing on the record is a reflection of my interior world,” she says. “My hope was to create something that sounds like nothing else, so if it sounds like a left turn it’s probably because I was in an entirely different headspace.” It makes for a distinctly visceral album full of striking imagery, and you can count on Scott to play it up with dashes of theatricality. As for that self-pleasuring scene in the music video for “Three Futures,” she has a simple explanation: “At the end of the day,” she says, “all I’ve got is me, myself and I, you know?” n

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CHRISTIAN SCHAEFFER The Blind Eyes Reunion Show

9 p.m. Saturday, October 21. RKDE, 2720 Cherokee Street. $10. 314-282-8017.

ix or seven years ago, a pair of St. Louis rock bands forged a friendship based less on a similar sound and more on the members’ personalities and shared, sardonic sense of humor. The Blind Eyes, which began as a nervy garage-pop trio, and Kentucky Knife Fight, a quintet that mixed bar-band blues with dark-hearted aggression, found themselves sharing in-town bills and a few out-of-town tours as both groups carved out space in the local music scene. Their friendship culminated in three years’ worth of New Year’s Eve parties at Off Broadway, where the bands combined powers to cover hits by the Smiths, the Beastie Boys, R.E.M. and more. Both groups called it quits a few years back, but this weekend the Blind Eyes are reuniting for a onenight-only performance — and once again, Kentucky Knife Fight is involved. The show is a fundraiser in benefit of research for Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a rare disease that leaves those affected with severely fragile skin that is prone to a near-constant state of blisters and wounds. Two-year old Rowan Holler has EB, and her parents — former Kentucky Knife Fight singer Jason Holler and his wife Kate — shepherd their daughter through a regular routine of wound-dressing, doctors’ appointments and around-the-clock care to protect her fragile skin. There is currently no cure for this disease, but a group of the Hollers’ friends have partnered to raise money and awareness for EB. In addition to the Blind Eyes set, Pretty Little Empire’s Justin John-

Two-year-old Rowan Holler has inspired the one-night-only reunion of a much-loved St. Louis band. | NATE BURRELL son and William Godfred will perform, and KDHX DJ Chris Bay will spin between the bands. The event takes place on Saturday, October 21 at RKDE (2720 Cherokee Street). The benefit was planned without Holler’s involvement; he and his wife were informed a few weeks before the show was announced. “We were really moved,” Holler says over the phone from his home in Austin, Texas, where he and his family relocated when Kate was pregnant to be near her family. “I think I cried — I’m pretty sure I did. It was really moving, really touching.” The reunion of the Blind Eyes is of special importance to Holler, who speaks with fondness of sharing stages with the group. “It was a surprise to us, but if someone would have asked what St. Louis band you would like play at something like this, I would have picked them,” says Holler. “Our bands played so many shows together in several states, and we were always really close as friends.” For Blind Eyes’ guitarist and singer Seth Porter, the choice to resurrect his old band in service of a good friend was an easy one. “When the organizers came to us with this proposal, it seemed like a great chance to use whatever small amount of drawing power we have

to benefit a good cause,” says Porter. “The Hollers are the loveliest people, so anything to help them — in this case, indirectly: they insisted all of the money go to the EB Research Partnership — was a no-brainer.” Nate Burrell, an organizer and local photographer, has spent time with the family and was moved by the dedication of the parents and the tenacity of young Rowan. “When thinking of the Hollers and Rowan’s medical condition, the three words that jump to the front of the line, in my mind, are fragility, patience and resilience,” says Burrell. “To see a sweet little girl with skin abrasions is sad in itself, but knowing there is nothing you can do to fully prevent it is heartbreaking.” It’s a sentiment echoed by Holler, who didn’t attempt to mask the weariness that comes with aiding a chronically ill daughter. “Caring for your child is such an undertaking, such work,” Holler says. “It’s touched every part of our lives and it’s just such a crazy thing that there’s this disorder that I hadn’t heard of three years ago. And now here it is; every moment of my life is spent thinking about it or doing something spent catering to it.” Talking with Holler, the numriverfronttimes.com

bers begin to overwhelm: Rowan takes fifteen different medications daily; she visits the doctor at least every seven days; she was hospitalized three times in the span of 60 days at the beginning of the year. And her bandages, which need to be changed three times a week, can take between 90 minutes and four hours to wrap. Holler is quick to credit his wife, Kate, for wearing many hats — that of a mom, a nurse and a secretary to keep track of appointments, bills and insurance matters. “Kate’s taking all that on,” he says. “And so she, like I, had no idea that this is how things would be upon moving here. But I think she’s doing a wonderful job.” Holler hopes that this weekend’s benefit will raise awareness for a little-known disease with a hope toward a cure. “It’s often called ‘the worst disease you’ve never heard of,’ which is accurate,” Holler says. “Our great hope is that they find a cure, so that’s important to us rather than us getting the money. “Lord knows we can all use money,” he adds, “but I think it’s just really short-sighted to take the donations for our own sake when what we really need is a cure for this — for our daughter and for other kids.” n

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ALEX WILLIAMS: 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989. BROTHER JEFFERSON DUO: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222. BROWNOUT: 8 p.m., $12-$15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505. ENSEMBLE DE ORGANOGRAPHIA: 7:30 p.m., free. The 560 Music Center, 560 Trinity Ave., University City, 314-421-3600. HERE COME THE MUMMIES: 8 p.m., $25-$27.50. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314726-6161. HUMMING HOUSE: 8 p.m., $13-$15. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444. JOE METZKA BAND: 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222. JON BELLION: 8 p.m., $32.50-$35. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. KIM MASSIE: 10:30 p.m., $10. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880. MARINER: w/ Cult Season, Thee Oswalds 9 p.m.,

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$3-$5. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929. PLANET WHAT: w/ Sister Wizzard 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314328-2309. THE POTOMAC ACCORD CD RELEASE: 7 p.m., free. St. Louis Public Library, Central Branch, 1301 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-241-2288. ROSE MOTEL: w/ Mammoth Piano 8 p.m., $10. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. SHERWOOD: 7 p.m., $17-$22. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. TOWN MOUNTAIN: 8 p.m., $10. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-775-0775.

Bob Log III 8 p.m. Tuesday, October 24. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $10. 314-498-6989.

The one-man band known as Bob Log III performs clad in a human cannonball suit, singing through an old rotary telephone receiver mounted to a full-face helmet. This set-up leaves his hands free to simultaneously play guitar and drums — and also makes him look like a complete lunatic at every show. It’s a gimmick, for sure, but Log’s raucous, high-energy blues-punk would be enough to get the dance floor moving even without the shtick. Hell, even Tom Waits

is a fan. The legendary songwriter told Time Out London in 2002 that Log is “what I aspire to, basically,” comparing the artist to someone who glues macaroni to a piece of cardboard and paints it gold. “It’s just the loudest, strangest stuff you’ve ever heard,” said Waits. Coming from a man who once released the truly baffling song “Chick A Boom,” that’s high praise indeed. Not Intended for Children: Log’s shows can get a little risque, and are not intended for the young or faint of heart. Consider yourself fairly warned! —Daniel Hill

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

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

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

TIMEFLIES: 8 p.m., $25-$30. The Pageant, 6161

314-436-5222.

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

SATURDAY 21

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

TWO HOUSES: w/ Breakmouth Annie, Hopsital

BARE KNUCKLE COMEDY: 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy

KYU BUTLER AND YOO SUN NA: 7:30 p.m., free.

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

Job, Horror Section 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole, 7423

Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-

Webster University Community Music School,

5222.

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

5226.

535 Garden Ave., Webster Groves, 314-968-5939.

THE MATCHING SHOE EP RELEASE: w/ Gypsy Lion

THE WIRMS: w/ Molasses Disaster, Sunwyrm,

CKY: w/ City Of Parks, The Few 8 p.m., $18-$20.

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

8 p.m., $10. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St.

Big Whoop 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359

Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St.

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

Louis, 314-588-0505.

Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

Louis, 618-274-6720.

436-5222.

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JANET JACKSON: 8 p.m., $29-$125. Chaifetz Arena, 1 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis, 314-977-5000.

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Hiss Golden Messenger

M.C. Taylor had knocked around the music industry for some time before settling on the name Hiss Golden Messenger, a moniker that suggests divine prophecy as transmitted through a Tascam 4-track. But the handful of albums the North Carolina resident has released the past few years have been a bit more grounded in the earthly realms of love, duty and the struggle to stay sane through it all. Last year’s

Heart Like a Levee was a standout, the band’s best to date, as Taylor and his bandmates wrapped his warm and ragged vocals in shades of open-hearted Americana and true-believer folk. This year’s Hallelujah Anyhow provided a nice complement from a songwriter prolific enough to furnish two LPs in under ten months. The Hallelujah Choir: Anyhow was made with some of Taylor’s longtime bandmates, with a little help from luminaries such as John Paul White, Tift Merritt and Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan. —Christian Schaeffer

RYAN SPEARMAN BAND: 8 p.m., $15. The Stage at

Decrepit Birth, Necrot, Wormwitch 8 p.m.,

KDHX, 3524 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-925-

$23.50-$25. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St.

7543, ext. 815.

Louis, 314-726-6161.

NEEDTOBREATHE: 8 p.m., $36-$46. The Pageant,

CHRIS HOLM: 7:30 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues &

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

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

NUMBERED: 8 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive

CHUCK FLOWERS “UP CLOSE & PERSONAL”: 5 p.m.,

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

$10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway,

PINACT: w/ Bearcub, the Astounds 8 p.m., $7.

St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

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

DEAD HORSES: 7 p.m., $10-$12. Old Rock House,

Louis, 314-772-2100.

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

THE SCHWAG: 8 p.m., $12-$15. Delmar Hall, 6133

HARDCORE HALLOWEEN: w/ Homewrecker, Eter-

8 p.m. Monday, October 23. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street. $15. 314-588-0505.

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

nal Sleep, Better Days, Cross Examination, Polter-

SNOW THA PRODUCT: 8 p.m., $18-$60. The Ready

guts, Magmadiver 7 p.m., $10. The Sinkhole, 7423

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

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

3929.

KATY PERRY: 7 p.m., $47.50-$177.50. Scottrade

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

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

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

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

UN: w/ Fister 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole, 7423 South

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

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

436-5222.

WOOPSIE FEST 2017: w/ No Joy, Alomar, Better

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

Now, Black Nail, The Bronzed Chorus, CityCop,

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

Euth, Foxtails, Heavy Mantle, Jouska, Joy Boy,

TODD WILSON: 4 p.m., free. Second Presbyterian

Old Sport, Pierre, Pleasures of the Flesh, Riala,

Church, 4501 Westminster Place, St. Louis, 314-

Salt Creek, Save Face, Secret Stuff, Skull Kid, This

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City Called Earth, Alan Smithee, Anodes, Ashes

WOOPSIE FEST 2017: w/ No Joy, Alomar, Better

and Iron, Einsam, Family Medicine, Jr Clooney,

Now, Black Nail, The Bronzed Chorus, CityCop,

Mariner, Royal Vessels, Seashine, Smidley,

Euth, Foxtails, Heavy Mantle, Jouska, Joy Boy,

Railhazer Oct. 20, 5 p.m.; 1:30 p.m.; Oct. 22, 1:30

Old Sport, Pierre, Pleasures of the Flesh, Riala,

p.m., $12-$60. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,

Salt Creek, Save Face, Secret Stuff, Skull Kid, This

314-289-9050.

City Called Earth, Alan Smithee, Anodes, Ashes

SUNDAY 22

and Iron, Einsam, Family Medicine, Jr Clooney, Mariner, Royal Vessels, Seashine, Smidley,

AL HOLLIDAY & THE EAST SIDE RHYTHM BAND: 7

Railhazer Oct. 20, 5 p.m.; Oct. 21, 1:30 p.m.; 1:30

p.m., $15. The Stage at KDHX, 3524 Washington

p.m., $12-$60. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,

Ave, St. Louis, 314-925-7543, ext. 815.

314-289-9050.

BAND OF HEATHENS: 7 p.m., $14-$17. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.

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BILL MAD MAN PERRY: 4 p.m., $10-$15. National

GOOD FOR THE SOUL: 8 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues

Blues Museum, 615 Washington Ave., St. Louis.

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

BISHOP BRIGGS: 8 p.m., $25. Blueberry Hill - The

5222.

Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City,

HAMILTON LEITHAUSER: 8 p.m., $20-$23. Delmar

314-727-4444.

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

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Cars, Cassie Morgan, Cara Louise Band, Fri., Dec. 1, 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989, offbroadwaystl. com.

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER: 8 p.m., $15. Old Rock

DANIELLE NICOLE: Sat., Nov. 25, 8 p.m., $12. Old

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

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

RAGGED UNION: 7 p.m., $7-$10. The Bootleg, 4140

0505, oldrockhouse.com.

Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-775-0775.

DON’T BREAK DOWN: A FILM ABOUT JAWBREAK-

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

ER: Fri., Nov. 24, 8 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108

ter Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-8811.

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

ST. LOUIS STEADY GRINDER: w/ Sweet Megg 7 p.m.,

EMPIRE: W/ Gish, Proud Larry, Sat., Oct. 28, 8

free. Tick Tock Tavern, 3459 Magnolia Ave, St.

p.m., $5. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester

Louis.

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

STEREO VIOLET: 7 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706

com.

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

GALACTIC: Thu., March 15, 8 p.m., $25-$30.

TORRES: 8 p.m., $13-$15. Off Broadway, 3509

Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-

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

726-6161, delmarhall.com. HAZING: W/ High Hopes, Wed., Nov. 15, 7 p.m.,

TUESDAY 24

$10-$12. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,

BARB WIRE DOLLS: w/ Svetlanas, 57 8 p.m., $15.

314-535-0353, firebirdstl.com.

Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar

JOE RUSSO’S ALMOST DEAD: Fri., Feb. 16, 8 p.m.,

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

$37.50-$42.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd.,

BARNS COURTNEY: 8 p.m., $18-$20. The Ready

St. Louis, 314-726-6161, thepageant.com.

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

KEVIN RENICK: Tue., Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m., $10. The

3929.

Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-

BLACKALICIOUS: 8 p.m., $20-$22. Old Rock House,

533-9900, thesheldon.org.

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

KOFFIN KATS: W/ Gallows Bound, Sat., Nov. 11, 8

BLAMESHIFT: w/ The Nearly Deads 7 p.m.,

p.m., $12-$14. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,

$12-$15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,

314-289-9050, fubarstl.com.

314-535-0353.

MIKE ZITO: Sat., Dec. 16, 8 p.m., $15. Old Rock

BLIND WILLIE & THE BROADWAY COLLECTIVE: 9:30

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

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

oldrockhouse.com.

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

ORPHAN WELLES EP RELEASE SHOW: W/ The Fade. Pono AM, Polyshades, Sat., Dec. 9, 8 p.m.,

BOB LOG III: 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509

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Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989. JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828 Olive Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561. JUST FOR LAUGHS: 7 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. KEVIN RENICK: 7:30 p.m., $10. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900. KIM MASSIE: 10:30 p.m., $10. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880. MUTEMATH: 8 p.m., $22.50-$35. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. NICK LOWE’S QUALITY ROCK & ROLL REVUE: w/ Los Straightjackets 8 p.m., $30-$35. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. RUSSIAN GIRLFRIENDS: w/ Captain Dee and The Long Johns, Sleeper Hold 8 p.m., $8-$10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. SOUND OF CERES: w/ Plume Varia, Jailbox 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

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OWLS IN THE ATTIC: W/ Anima/Animus, peace in entropy, Sleeper Hold, Sat., Dec. 9, 7 p.m.,

8 p.m. Tuesday, October 24. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Boulevard. $30 to $35. 314-726-6161.

Whether the composer likes it or not, “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding” remains Nick Lowe’s most beloved song. But if you think the answer to the question is “not a bloody thing,” you don’t know Lowe very well. Even at his most bittersweet and resigned — a tone that dominates his late-period work, even his Christmas record — Lowe invests his songs with a poignant and pungent sense of irony,

a way of rocking and rolling and now crooning through this comedy of romantic and political errors we call life. As a producer and performer, he’s among our greatest roots Renaissance men; as a songwriter, there’s no tunesmith who finds more truth in the witty and the wistful. Brilliant Disguise: Legendary surfrock mauraders Los Straitjackets will back Lowe for this show. The masks are shtick; the rock & roll is not. —Roy Kasten

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$10-$13. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353, firebirdstl.com. REBELUTION: W/ Raging Fyah, Sun., Feb. 18, 8 p.m., $25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161, thepageant.com. THE REVIVALISTS: Tue., Dec. 5, 8 p.m., $25-$35. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314726-6161, thepageant.com. RUM DRUM RAMBLERS 10TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY: W/ the Bottlesnakes, Fri., Nov. 10, 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989, offbroadwaystl.com. SANTA JAM: W/ Lee Brice, Midland, Easton Corbin, Fri., Dec. 8, 7 p.m., $9.37-$93.70. Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-499-7600, peabodyoperahouse.com. SILVERSTEIN: W/ Tonight Alive, Broadside, Picturesque, $20-$22. The Ready Room, 4195

THOU: w/ Path of Might 8 p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

$10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,

LANDLADY: 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359

through Dec. 27, free. The Stage at KDHX, 3524

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

Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-925-7543, ext.

adyroom.com.

MARTY SPIKENER & ON CALL BLUES BAND: 10

815.

SPLIT LIP RAYFIELD: W/ Clusterpluck, Sat., Dec. 30, 9 p.m., $20. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St.,

BIG RICH MCDONOUGH & RHYTHM RENEGADES: 7

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

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

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

THE NATIONAL PARKS: w/ RIVVRS 8 p.m., $12-$14.

BRIAN REGAN: Fri., Jan. 12, 8 p.m., $36.50-$62.

STREET FIGHTING BAND: Sun., Nov. 12, 8 p.m.,

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

Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar

Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Lou-

$15-$20. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.

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

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

is, 314-499-7600, peabodyoperahouse.com.

Louis, 314-498-6989, offbroadwaystl.com.

7880.

SOCIAL REPOSE: w/ Hotel Books, The Funeral

CHRIS YOUNG: W/ Kane Brown, LANco, Sat.,

TWO COW GARAGE: Wed., Nov. 1, 8 p.m., free.

FORTUNATE YOUTH: w/ Through The Roots 8 p.m.,

Portrait 7 p.m., $15-$18. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,

Jan. 13, 7 p.m., $38-$58. Chaifetz Arena, 1 S.

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

$13-$16. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St.

St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

Compton Ave., St. Louis, 314-977-5000, thechai-

498-6989, offbroadwaystl.com.

Louis, 314-775-0775.

TERA MELOS: w/ Speedy Ortiz 7 p.m., $15. The

fetzarena.com.

UN: W/ Fister, Sat., Oct. 21, 8 p.m., $7. The

JUNIOR BROWN: 8 p.m., $25-$35. Off Broadway,

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

COAT OF MANY COLORS: A TRIBUTE TO DOLLY

Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-

3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.

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PARTON: W/ Jenny Roques, Little Rachel, Town

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SAVAGE LOVE PARENTAL CONTROLS BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: My only child is sixteen years old. He was curious about sex from a very young age and very open with me, so his interest in sexual matters gave me ample opportunity to talk with him about safety and consent. He went through a cross-dressing phase when he was small — mostly wanting to wear nail polish and try on mascara — and I felt like I navigated those waters pretty well, but his father made attempts to squelch those impulses. (He and I are divorced.) Then last year, I caught him trying to shoplift a pair of panties. I’m not the sort of mom who freaks out, but I made him put them back and talked to him about his actions. When I asked him why he stole them, he refused to tell me. I asked: “Did you want them to masturbate with? Did you want to wear them?” He said he wanted to try them on. I told him that if he wanted to explore, he needed to do that with a legal purchase and in the privacy of his own room. Today, I found a girl’s bra in the laundry. He says he doesn’t know whose it is or how it got there, but this isn’t my first rodeo. What on earth do I do? He is in every way a wonderful human: kind, smart, funny, athletic, no drugs. Is this just the same kid who has always been curious about sex? Or are these warning signs of some sort of sexual deviance? Please help. Mom In Sleepy South Carolina Lovingly Educates Offspring Take a deep breath, MISSCLEO, or take two — take however many you need until you’re back in touch with your

inner mom, the one who doesn’t freak out. We can’t know whether your son is a cross-dresser, trans or merely titillated, MISSCLEO, but he’s clearly exploring and wants to do so privately. So while he could go to his mom and ask for a pair of panties and let her know exactly how he intends to use them, he doesn’t want to ask his mom for a pair of panties or share his uses for them with his mom. If this is about his gender identity, well, you’ll have to trust that he’ll share that with you when he’s ready. But if this is about a kink, he may never share that info with you, because why on earth would he? Give your son some space, including the space to make his own mistakes. As teenage misbehavior goes, swiping a single pair of panties isn’t exactly a crime spree. If you suspect he snuck into the girls’ locker room and made off with a bra, you’ll want to address that with him — not the “Why do you want a bra?” part, but the risk of getting caught, suspended, expelled or worse. There are too many prosecutors out there looking for excuses to slap the “sex offender” label on teenagers — especially in the Bible Belt. My hunch is you don’t have a sex offender on your hands or a kid drifting into organized crime. You have a slightly pervy teenage boy who’s curious about sex and who may, like millions of other men, have a thing for women’s undergarments. You should emphasize the Not OK–ness of shoplifting panties from stores or stealing bras from classmates and the possible consequences — theft charges, suspension/expulsion, losing friends, coming into the sights of a sex-negative prosecutor. (Seriously: A man like Harvey

Weinstein gets away with assaulting women for decades, but prosecutors across the country are throwing the book at teenagers who got caught sharing pics they took of themselves with their BFs/GFs/NBFs.) But otherwise, MISSCLEO, I’m going to advise you to back the fuck off. Your son knows you love him, he knows he can talk to you about anything, and he’ll confide in you if and when he’s ready — if, again, this is something he needs to discuss with you at all. Hey, Dan: My father passed away suddenly. I had a very idyllic childhood and was close to my father and my mother (who is also deceased). Upon sorting through my father’s stuff after his death, I stumbled upon his erotica collection. If it were just a stack of Playboys, I would have thought nothing of it. However, his collection contained material that was quite disturbing to me, including photos depicting violent sexual acts and fictional erotica books and magazines with themes of incest. Additionally, there were letters from people with whom he was obviously having extramarital affairs, including during the time that I was a child. Since discovering this, it has been hard for me to come to terms with it and think of my father in the way that I used to. I consider myself to be a sex-positive person, and I realize that even parents are entitled to be kinky, but I simply can’t get over this. Any suggestions for how to deal with what I’m feeling and how to try to get past it? Parent’s Arousal Really Ended Nice Thoughts Sex-positive, huh? Could’ve fooled me. Your dad was a kinky motherfucker

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