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Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of Missouri and Statutory Propositions To be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri at the General Election to be held on Tuesday, the 8th day of November, 2016. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 1 [Proposed by Article IV, Section 47(c), Missouri Constitution (SJR 1, 2005)] OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE: Shall Missouri continue for 10 years the one-tenth of one percent sales/use tax that is used for soil and water conservation and for state parks and historic sites, and resubmit this tax to the voters for approval in 10 years? The measure continues and does not increase the existing sales and use tax of one-tenth of one percent for 10 years. The measure would continue to generate approximately $90 million annually for soil and water conservation and operation of the state park system.
In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, done at the City of Jefferson, this 26th day of August, 2016.
Article IV, Section 47(c) of the Missouri Constitution:
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 2
Section 47(c). Provisions self-enforcing, exception—not part of general revenue or expense of state—effective and expiration dates.—All laws inconsistent with this amendment shall no longer remain in full force and effect after the effective date of this section. All of the provisions of Sections 47(a), 47(b) and 47(c) shall be selfenforcing except that the General Assembly shall adjust brackets for the collection of the sales and use taxes. The additional revenue provided by Sections 47(a), 47(b) and 47(c) shall not be part of the “total state revenue” within the meaning of Sections 17 and 18 of Article X of this Constitution. The expenditure of this additional revenue shall not be an “expense of state government” under Section 20 of Article X of this Constitution. Upon voter approval of this measure in a general election held in 2006, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, the provisions of this section, 47(b), and 47(a) shall be reauthorized and continue until a general election is held in 2016 or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose. Every ten years thereafter, the issue of whether to continue to impose the sales and use tax described in this section shall be resubmitted to the voters for approval. If a majority of the voters fail to approve the continuance of such sales and use tax, Section 47(a), 47(b), and 47(c) shall terminate at the end of the second fiscal year after the last election was held.
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I, Jason Kander, Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, hereby certify that the
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foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of Constitutional Amendment No. 1, to be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri at the General Election to be held the eighth day of November, 2016.
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OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE: Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to: • establish limits on campaign contributions by individuals or entities to political parties, political committees, or committees to elect candidates for state or judicial office; • prohibit individuals and entities from intentionally concealing the source of such contributions; • require corporations or labor organizations to meet certain requirements in order to make such contributions; and • provide a complaint process and penalties for any violations of this amendment?
It is estimated this proposal will increase state government costs by at least $118,000 annually and have an unknown change in costs for local governmental entities. Any potential impact to revenues for state and local governmental entities is unknown.
Be it resolved by the people of the state of Missouri that the Constitution be amended: One new section is adopted by adding one new section to be known as section 23 of Article VIII to read as follows: Section 23. 1. This section shall be known as the “Missouri Campaign Contribution Reform Initiative.” 2. The people of the State of Missouri hereby find and declare that excessive campaign contributions to political candidates create the potential for corruption and the appearance of corruption; that large campaign contributions made to influence election outcomes allow wealthy individuals, corporations and
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special interest groups to exercise a disproportionate level of influence over the political process; that the rising costs of campaigning for political office prevent qualified citizens from running for political office; that political contributions from corporations and labor organizations are not necessarily an indication of popular support for the corporation’s or labor organization’s political ideas and can unfairly influence the outcome of Missouri elections; and that the interests of the public are best served by limiting campaign contributions, providing for full and timely disclosure of campaign contributions, and strong enforcement of campaign finance requirements. 3. (1) Except as provided in subdivisions (2), (3) and (4) of this subsection, the amount of contributions made by or accepted from any person other than the candidate in any one election shall not exceed the following: (a) To elect an individual to the office of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor, attorney general, office of state senator, office of state representative or any other state or judicial office, two thousand six hundred dollars. (2) (a) No political party shall accept aggregate contributions from any person that exceed twenty-five thousand dollars per election at the state, county, municipal, district, ward, and township level combined. (b) No political party shall accept aggregate contributions from any committee that exceed twenty-five thousand dollars per election at the state, county, municipal, district, ward, and township level combined. (3) (a) It shall be unlawful for a corporation or labor organization to make contributions to a campaign committee, candidate committee, exploratory committee, political party committee or a political party; except that a corporation or labor organization may establish a continuing committee which may accept contributions or dues from members, officers, directors, employees or security holders. (b) The prohibition contained in subdivision (a) of this subsection shall not apply to a corporation that: (i) Is formed for the purpose of promoting political ideas and cannot engage in business activities; and (ii) Has no security holders or other persons with a claim on its assets or income; and (iii) Was not established by and does not accept contributions from business corporations or labor organizations. (4) No candidate’s candidate committee shall accept contributions from, or make contributions to, another candidate committee, including any candidate committee, or equivalent entity, established under federal law. (5) Notwithstanding any other subdivision of this subsection to the contrary, a candidate’s candidate committee may receive a loan from a financial institution organized under state or federal law if the loan bears the usual and customary interest rate, is made on a basis that assures repayments, is evidenced by a written
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instrument, and is subject to a due date or amortization schedule. The contribution limits described in this subsection shall not apply to a loan as described in this subdivision. (6) No campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee, exploratory committee, political party committee, and political party shall accept a contribution in cash exceeding one hundred dollars per election. (7) No contribution shall be made or accepted, directly or indirectly, in a fictitious name, in the name of another person, or by or through another person in such a manner as to conceal the identity of the actual source of the contribution or the actual recipient. Any person who receives contributions for a committee shall disclose to that committee’s treasurer, deputy treasurer or candidate the recipient’s own name and address and the name and address of the actual source of each contribution such person has received for that committee. (8) No anonymous contribution of more than twenty-five dollars shall be made by any person, and no anonymous contribution of more than twenty-five dollars shall be accepted by any candidate or committee. If any anonymous contribution of more than twenty-five dollars is received, it shall be returned immediately to the contributor, if the contributor’s identity can be ascertained, and if the contributor’s identity cannot be ascertained, the candidate, committee treasurer or deputy treasurer shall immediately transmit that portion of the contribution which exceeds twenty-five dollars to the state treasurer and it shall escheat to the state. (9) The maximum aggregate amount of anonymous contributions which shall be accepted per election by any committee shall be the greater of five hundred dollars or one percent of the aggregate amount of all contributions received by that committee in the same election. If any anonymous contribution is received which causes the aggregate total of anonymous contributions to exceed the foregoing limitation, it shall be returned immediately to the contributor, if the contributor’s identity can be ascertained, and, if the contributor’s identity cannot be ascertained, the committee treasurer, deputy treasurer or candidate shall immediately transmit the anonymous contribution to the state treasurer to escheat to the state. (10) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (9) of this subsection, contributions from individuals whose names and addresses cannot be ascertained which are received from a fund-raising activity or event, such as defined in section 130.011, RSMo, as amended from time to time, shall not be deemed anonymous contributions, provided the following conditions are met: (a) There are twenty-five or more contributing participants in the activity or event; (b) The candidate, committee treasurer, deputy treasurer or the person responsible for conducting the activity or event makes an announcement that it is illegal for anyone to
make or receive a contribution in excess of one hundred dollars unless the contribution is accompanied by the name and address of the contributor; (c) The person responsible for conducting the activity or event does not knowingly accept payment from any single person of more than one hundred dollars unless the name and address of the person making such payment is obtained and recorded pursuant to the record-keeping requirements of section 130.036, RSMo, as amended from time to time; (d) A statement describing the event shall be prepared by the candidate or the treasurer of the committee for whom the funds were raised or by the person responsible for conducting the activity or event and attached to the disclosure report of contributions and expenditures required by section 130.041, RSMo, as amended from time to time. The following information to be listed in the statement is in addition to, not in lieu of, the requirements elsewhere in this chapter relating to the recording and reporting of contributions and expenditures: (i) The name and mailing address of the person or persons responsible for conducting the event or activity and the name and address of the candidate or committee for whom the funds were raised; (ii) The date on which the event occurred; (iii) The name and address of the location where the event occurred and the approximate number of participants in the event; (iv) A brief description of the type of event and the fund-raising methods used; (v) The gross receipts from the event and a listing of the expenditures incident to the event; (vi) The total dollar amount of contributions received from the event from participants whose names and addresses were not obtained with such contributions and an explanation of why it was not possible to obtain the names and addresses of such participants; (vii) The total dollar amount of contributions received from contributing participants in the event who are identified by name and address in the records required to be maintained pursuant to section 130.036, RSMo, as amended from time to time. (11) No candidate or committee in this state shall accept contributions from any outof-state committee unless the out-of-state committee from whom the contributions are received has filed a statement of organization pursuant to section 130.021, RSMo, as amended from time to time, or has filed the reports required by sections 130.049 and 130.050, RSMo, as amended from time to time, whichever is applicable to that committee. (12) Political action committees shall only receive contributions from individuals; unions; federal political action committees; and corporations, associations, and partnerships formed under chapters 347 to 360, RSMo, as amended from time to time, and shall be prohibited from receiving
contributions from other political action committees, candidate committees, political party committees, campaign committees, exploratory committees, or debt service committees. However, candidate committees, political party committees, campaign committees, exploratory committees, and debt service committees shall be allowed to return contributions to a donor political action committee that is the origin of the contribution. (13) The prohibited committee transfers described in the subdivision (12) of this subsection shall not apply to following committees: (a) The state house committee per political party designated by the respective majority or minority floor leader of the house of representatives or the chair of the state party if the party does not have majority or minority party status; (b) The state senate committee per political party designated by the respective ma ority or minority floor leader of the senate or the chair of the state party if the party does not have majority or minority party status. (14) No person shall transfer anything of value to any committee with the intent to conceal, from the Missouri ethics commission, the identity of the actual source. Any violation of this subdivision shall be punishable as follows: (a) or the first violation, the issouri ethics commission shall notify such person that the transfer to the committee is prohibited under this section within five days of determining that the transfer is prohibited, and that such person shall notify the committee to which the funds were transferred that the funds must be returned within ten days of such notification; (b) For the second violation, the person transferring the funds shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor; (c) For the third and subsequent violations, the person transferring the funds shall be guilty of a class D felony. (15) No person shall make a contribution to a campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee, exploratory committee, political party committee, and political party with the expectation that some or all of the amounts of such contribution will be reimbursed by another person. No person shall be reimbursed for a contribution made to any campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee, exploratory committee, political party committee, and political party, nor shall any person make such reimbursement expect as provided in subdivision (5) of this subsection. (16) No campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee, exploratory committee, political party committee, and political party shall knowingly accept contributions from: (a) Any natural person who is not a citizen of the United States; (b) A foreign government; or (c) Any foreign corporation that does not have the authority to transact business in
this state pursuant to Chapter 347, RSMo, as amended from time to time. (17) Contributions from persons under fourteen years of age shall be considered made by the parents or guardians of such person and shall be attributed toward any contribution limits prescribed in this chapter. Where the contributor under fourteen years of age has two custodial parents or guardians, fifty percent of the contribution shall be attributed to each parent or guardian, and where such contributor has one custodial parent or guardian, all such contributors shall be attributed to the custodial parent or guardian. (18) Each limit on contributions described in subdivisions (1), (2)(a), and (2)(b) of this subsection shall be adjusted by an amount based upon the average of the percentage change over a four year period in the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index for Kansas City, all items, all consumers, or its successor index, rounded to the nearest lowest twenty-five dollars and the percentage change over a four year period in the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index for St. Louis, all items, all consumers, or its successor index, rounded to the nearest lowest twenty-five dollars. The first ad ustment shall be done in the first quarter of 01 , and then every four years thereafter. The secretary of state shall calculate such an adjustment in each limit and specify the limits in rules promulgated in accordance with Chapter 536, RSMo, as amended from time to time. 4. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 3 of section 105.957, RSMo, as amended from time to time, any natural person may file a complaint with the Missouri ethics commission alleging a violation of the provisions of section 3 of this Article by any candidate for elective office, within sixty days prior to the primary election at which such candidate is running for office, until after the general election. Any such complaint shall be in writing, shall state all facts known by the complainant which have given rise to the complaint, and shall be sworn to, under penalty of perjury, by the complainant. ( ) ithin the first business day after receipt of a complaint pursuant to this section, the executive director shall supply a copy of the complaint to the person or entity named in the complaint. The executive director of the Missouri ethics commission shall notify the complainant and the person or entity named in the complaint of the date and time at which the commission shall audit and investigate the allegations contained in the complaint pursuant to subdivision (3) of this subsection. (3) ithin fifteen business days of receipt of a complaint pursuant to this section, the commission shall audit and investigate the allegations contained in the complaint and shall determine by a vote of at least four members of the commission that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of law has occurred within the jurisdiction of the commission. The respondent may reply in writing or in
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person to the allegations contained in the complaint and may state ustifications to dismiss the complaint. The complainant may also present evidence in support of the allegations contained in the complaint, but such evidence shall be limited in scope to the allegations contained in the original complaint, and such complaint may not be supplemented or otherwise enlarged in scope. (4) If, after audit and investigation of the complaint and upon a vote of at least four members of the commission, the commission determines that there are reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of law has occurred within the jurisdiction of the commission, the commission shall proceed with such complaint as provided by sections 105.957 to 105.963, RSMo, as amended from time to time. If the commission does not determine that there are reasonable grounds to believe that such a violation of law has occurred, the complaint shall be dismissed. If a complaint is dismissed, the fact that such complaint was dismissed, with a statement of the nature of the complaint, shall be made public within twenty-four hours of the commission’s action. (5) Any complaint made pursuant to this section, and all proceedings and actions concerning such a complaint, shall be subject to the provisions of subsection 15 of section 105.961, RSMo, as amended from time to time. (6) No complaint shall be accepted by the commission within fifteen days prior to the primary or general election at which such candidate is running for office. 5. Any person who knowingly and willfully accepts or makes a contribution in violation of any provision of section 3 of this Article or who knowingly and willfully conceals a contribution by filing a false or incomplete report or by not filing a required report under Chapter 130, RSMo, as amended from time to time, shall be held liable to the state in civil penalties in an amount of at least double and up to five times the amount of any such contribution. 6. (1) Any person who purposely violates the provisions of section 3 of this Article is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law which bars prosecutions for any offenses other than a felony unless commenced within one year after the commission of the offense, any offense under the provisions of this section may be prosecuted if the indictment be found or prosecution be instituted within three years after the commission of the alleged offense. (3) Any prohibition to the contrary notwithstanding, no person shall be deprived of the rights, guarantees, protections or privileges accorded by sections 130.011 to 130.026, 130.031 to 130.068, 130.072, and 130.081, RSMO, as amended from time to time, by any person, corporation, entity or political subdivision. 7. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) ppropriate officer or appropriate officers , the person or persons designated
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in section 130.026, or any successor section, to receive certain required statements and reports; (2) “Candidate”, an individual who seeks nomination or election to public office. The term candidate includes an elected officeholder who is the sub ect of a recall election, an individual who seeks nomination by the individual’s political party for election to public office, an individual standing for retention in an election to an office to which the individual was previously appointed, an individual who seeks nomination or election whether or not the specific elective public office to be sought has been finally determined by such individual at the time the individual meets the conditions described in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subdivision, and an individual who is a write-in candidate as defined in subdivision (26) of this section. A candidate shall be deemed to seek nomination or election when the person first (a) Receives contributions or makes expenditures or reserves space or facilities with intent to promote the person’s candidacy for office; or (b) Knows or has reason to know that contributions are being received or expenditures are being made or space or facilities are being reserved with the intent to promote the person’s candidacy for office; except that, such individual shall not be deemed a candidate if the person files a statement with the appropriate officer within five days after learning of the receipt of contributions, the making of expenditures, or the reservation of space or facilities disavowing the candidacy and stating that the person will not accept nomination or take office if elected; provided that, if the election at which such individual is supported as a candidate is to ta e place within five days after the person’s learning of the abovespecified activities, the individual shall file the statement disavowing the candidacy within one day; or (c) nnounces or files a declaration of candidacy for office. (3) “Cash”, currency, coin, United States postage stamps, or any negotiable instrument which can be transferred from one person to another person without the signature or endorsement of the transferor. (4) “Committee”, a person or any combination of persons, who accepts contributions or makes expenditures for the primary or incidental purpose of influencing or attempting to influence the action of voters for or against the nomination or election to public office of one or more candidates or the qualification, passage or defeat of any ballot measure or for the purpose of paying a previously incurred campaign debt or obligation of a candidate or the debts or obligations of a committee or for the purpose of contributing funds to another committee. (5) “Committee”, does not include: (a) A person or combination of persons, if neither the aggregate of expenditures made nor the aggregate of contributions received during a calendar year exceeds five
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hundred dollars and if no single contributor has contributed more than two hundred fifty dollars of such aggregate contributions; (b) An individual, other than a candidate, who accepts no contributions and who deals only with the individual’s own funds or property; (c) A corporation, cooperative association, partnership, proprietorship, or joint venture organized or operated for a primary or principal purpose other than that of influencing or attempting to influence the action of voters for or against the nomination or election to public office of one or more candidates or the qualification, passage or defeat of any ballot measure, and it accepts no contributions, and all expenditures it makes are from its own funds or property obtained in the usual course of business or in any commercial or other transaction and which are not contributions as defined by subdivision (7) of this section; (d) A labor organization organized or operated for a primary or principal purpose other than that of influencing or attempting to influence the action of voters for or against the nomination or election to public office of one or more candidates, or the qualification, passage, or defeat of any ballot measure, and it accepts no contributions, and expenditures made by the organization are from its own funds or property received from membership dues or membership fees which were given or solicited for the purpose of supporting the normal and usual activities and functions of the organization and which are not contributions as defined by subdivision (7) of this section; (e) A person who acts as an authorized agent for a committee in soliciting or receiving contributions or in making expenditures or incurring indebtedness on behalf of the committee if such person renders to the committee treasurer or deputy treasurer or candidate, if applicable, an accurate account of each receipt or other transaction in the detail required by the treasurer to comply with all record-keeping and reporting requirements; or (f) Any department, agency, board, institution or other entity of the state or any of its subdivisions or any officer or employee thereof, acting in the person’s official capacity. (6) The term “committee” includes, but is not limited to, each of the following committees: campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee and political party committee; (a) “Campaign committee”, a committee, other than a candidate committee, which shall be formed by an individual or group of individuals to receive contributions or make expenditures and whose sole purpose is to support or oppose the qualification and passage of one or more particular ballot measures in an election or the retention of judges under the nonpartisan court plan, such committee shall be formed no later than thirty days prior to the election for which the committee receives contributions or makes expenditures, and which shall terminate the later of either thirty days after the general
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election or upon the satisfaction of all committee debt after the general election, except that no committee retiring debt shall engage in any other activities in support of a measure for which the committee was formed; (b) “Candidate committee”, a committee which shall be formed by a candidate to receive contributions or make expenditures in behalf of the person’s candidacy and which shall continue in existence for use by an elected candidate or which shall terminate the later of either thirty days after the general election for a candidate who was not elected or upon the satisfaction of all committee debt after the election, except that no committee retiring debt shall engage in any other activities in support of the candidate for which the committee was formed. ny candidate for elective office shall have only one candidate committee for the elective office sought, which is controlled directly by the candidate for the purpose of making expenditures. A candidate committee is presumed to be under the control and direction of the candidate unless the candidate files an affidavit with the appropriate officer stating that the committee is acting without control or direction on the candidate’s part; (c) “Continuing committee”, a committee of continuing existence which is not formed, controlled or directed by a candidate, and is a committee other than a candidate committee or campaign committee, whose primary or incidental purpose is to receive contributions or ma e expenditures to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters whether or not a particular candidate or candidates or a particular ballot measure or measures to be supported or opposed has been determined at the time the committee is required to file any statement or report pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. “Continuing committee” includes, but is not limited to, any committee organized or sponsored by a business entity, a labor organization, a professional association, a trade or business association, a club or other organization and whose primary purpose is to solicit, accept and use contributions from the members, employees or stockholders of such entity and any individual or group of individuals who accept and use contributions to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters. Such committee shall be formed no later than sixty days prior to the election for which the committee receives contributions or makes expenditures; and (d) “Connected organization”, any organization such as a corporation, a labor organization, a membership organization, a cooperative, or trade or professional association which expends funds or provides services or facilities to establish, administer or maintain a committee or to solicit contributions to a committee from its members, officers, directors, employees or security holders. An organization shall be deemed to be the connected organization if more than fifty percent of the persons ma ing contributions to the committee during the current calendar year are members, officers,
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directors, employees or security holders of such organization or their spouses. (7) “Contribution”, a payment, gift, loan, advance, deposit, or donation of money or anything of value for the purpose of supporting or opposing the nomination or election of any candidate for public office or the qualification, passage or defeat of any ballot measure, or for the support of any committee supporting or opposing candidates or ballot measures or for paying debts or obligations of any candidate or committee previously incurred for the above purposes. A contribution of anything of value shall be deemed to have a money value equivalent to the fair market value. “Contribution” includes, but is not limited to: (a) A candidate’s own money or property used in support of the person’s candidacy other than expense of the candidate’s food, lodging, travel, and payment of any fee necessary to the filing for public office; (b) Payment by any person, other than a candidate or committee, to compensate another person for services rendered to that candidate or committee; (c) Receipts from the sale of goods and services, including the sale of advertising space in a brochure, booklet, program or pamphlet of a candidate or committee and the sale of tickets or political merchandise; (d) Receipts from fund-raising events including testimonial affairs; (e) Any loan, guarantee of a loan, cancellation or forgiveness of a loan or debt or other obligation by a third party, or payment of a loan or debt or other obligation by a third party if the loan or debt or other obligation was contracted, used, or intended, in whole or in part, for use in an election campaign or used or intended for the payment of such debts or obligations of a candidate or committee previously incurred, or which was made or received by a committee; (f) Funds received by a committee which are transferred to such committee from another committee or other source, except funds received by a candidate committee as a transfer of funds from another candidate committee controlled by the same candidate but such transfer shall be included in the disclosure reports; (g) acilities, office space or equipment supplied by any person to a candidate or committee without charge or at reduced charges, except gratuitous space for meeting purposes which is made available regularly to the public, including other candidates or committees, on an equal basis for similar purposes on the same conditions; and (h) The direct or indirect payment by any person, other than a connected organization, of the costs of establishing, administering, or maintaining a committee, including legal, accounting and computer services, fund raising and solicitation of contributions for a committee. (8) “Contribution” does not include: (a) Ordinary home hospitality or services provided without compensation by individuals volunteering their time in
support of or in opposition to a candidate, committee or ballot measure, nor the necessary and ordinary personal expenses of such volunteers incidental to the performance of voluntary activities, so long as no compensation is directly or indirectly asked or given; (b) An offer or tender of a contribution which is expressly and unconditionally rejected and returned to the donor within ten business days after receipt or transmitted to the state treasurer; (c) Interest earned on deposit of committee funds; or (d) The costs incurred by any connected organization listed pursuant to subdivision (4) of subsection 5 of section 130.021, RSMo, as amended from time to time, for establishing, administering or maintaining a committee, or for the solicitation of contributions to a committee which solicitation is solely directed or related to the members, officers, directors, employees or security holders of the connected organization. (9) “County”, any one of the several counties of this state or the city of St. Louis. (l0) “Disclosure report”, an itemized report of receipts, expenditures and incurred indebtedness which is prepared on forms approved by the Missouri ethics commission and filed at the times and places prescribed. (11) “Election”, any primary, general or special election held to nominate or elect an individual to public office, to retain or recall an elected officeholder or to submit a ballot measure to the voters, and any caucus or other meeting of a political party or a political party committee at which that party’s candidate or candidates for public office are officially selected. primary election and the succeeding general election shall be considered separate elections. (12) “Expenditure”, a payment, advance, conveyance, deposit, donation or contribution of money or anything of value for the purpose of supporting or opposing the nomination or election of any candidate for public office or the qualification or passage of any ballot measure or for the support of any committee which in turn supports or opposes any candidate or ballot measure or for the purpose of paying a previously incurred campaign debt or obligation of a candidate or the debts or obligations of a committee; a payment, or an agreement or promise to pay, money or anything of value, including a candidate’s own money or property, for the purchase of goods, services, property, facilities or anything of value for the purpose of supporting or opposing the nomination or election of any candidate for public office or the qualification or passage of any ballot measure or for the support of any committee which in turn supports or opposes any candidate or ballot measure or for the purpose of paying a previously incurred campaign debt or obligation of a candidate or the debts or obligations of a committee. An expenditure of anything of value shall be deemed to have a money value equivalent to the fair market value. “Expenditure” includes, but is not limited
to: (a) Payment by anyone other than a committee for services of another person rendered to such committee; (b) The purchase of tickets, goods, services or political merchandise in connection with any testimonial affair or fund-raising event of or for candidates or committees, or the purchase of advertising in a brochure, booklet, program or pamphlet of a candidate or committee; (c) The transfer of funds by one committee to another committee; and (d) The direct or indirect payment by any person, other than a connected organization for a committee, of the costs of establishing, administering or maintaining a committee, including legal, accounting and computer services, fund raising and solicitation of contributions for a committee. (13) “Expenditure” does not include: (a) Any news story, commentary or editorial which is broadcast or published by any broadcasting station, newspaper, magazine or other periodical without charge to the candidate or to any person supporting or opposing a candidate or ballot measure; (b) The internal dissemination by any membership organization, proprietorship, labor organization, corporation, association or other entity of information advocating the election or defeat of a candidate or candidates or the passage or defeat of a ballot measure or measures to its directors, officers, members, employees or security holders, provided that the cost incurred is reported pursuant to subsection 2 of section 130.051, RSMo, as amended from time to time; (c) Repayment of a loan, but such repayment shall be indicated in required reports; (d) The rendering of voluntary personal services by an individual of the sort commonly performed by volunteer campaign workers and the payment by such individual of the individual’s necessary and ordinary personal expenses incidental to such volunteer activity, provided no compensation is, directly or indirectly, asked or given; (e) The costs incurred by any connected organization listed pursuant to subdivision (4) of subsection 5 of section 130.021, RSMo, as amended from time to time, for establishing, administering or maintaining a committee, or for the solicitation of contributions to a committee which solicitation is solely directed or related to the members, officers, directors, employees or security holders of the connected organization; or (f) The use of a candidate’s own money or property for expense of the candidate’s personal food, lodging, travel, and payment of any fee necessary to the filing for public office, if such expense is not reimbursed to the candidate from any source. (14) “Exploratory committees”, a committee which shall be formed by an individual to receive contributions and make expenditures on behalf of this individual in determining whether or not the individual see s elective office. Such committee shall terminate no later than ecember thirty-first of the year prior to the general election for the possible office. (15) “Fund-raising event”, an event such
as a dinner, luncheon, reception, coffee, testimonial, rally, auction or similar affair through which contributions are solicited or received by such means as the purchase of tickets, payment of attendance fees, donations for prizes or through the purchase of goods, services or political merchandise. (16) “In-kind contribution” or “in-kind expenditure”, a contribution or expenditure in a form other than money. (17) “Labor organization”, any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work. (18) “Loan”, a transfer of money, property or anything of ascertainable monetary value in exchange for an obligation, conditional or not, to repay in whole or in part and which was contracted, used, or intended for use in an election campaign, or which was made or received by a committee or which was contracted, used, or intended to pay previously incurred campaign debts or obligations of a candidate or the debts or obligations of a committee. (19) “Person”, an individual, group of individuals, corporation, partnership, committee, proprietorship, joint venture, any department, agency, board, institution or other entity of the state or any of its political subdivisions, union, labor organization, trade or professional or business association, association, political party or any executive committee thereof, or any other club or organization however constituted or any officer or employee of such entity acting in the person s official capacity. (20) “Political action committee”, a committee of continuing existence which is not formed, controlled or directed by a candidate, and is a committee other than a candidate committee, political party committee, campaign committee, exploratory committee, or debt service committee, whose primary or incidental purpose is to receive contributions or make expenditures to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters whether or not a particular candidate or candidates or a particular ballot measure or measures to be supported or opposed has been determined at the time the committee is required to file any statement or report pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. Such a committee includes, but is not limited to, any committee organized or sponsored by a business entity, a labor organization, a professional association, a trade or business association, a club or other organization and whose primary purpose is to solicit, accept and use contributions from the members, employees or stockholders of such entity and any individual or group of individuals who accept and use contributions to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters. Such committee shall be formed no later than sixty days prior to the election for which the committee receives contributions or makes expenditures. (21) “Political merchandise”, goods such as bumper stickers, pins, hats, ties, jewelry, literature, or other items sold or distributed at a fund-raising event or to the general public for publicity or for the purpose of
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raising funds to be used in supporting or opposing a candidate for nomination or election or in supporting or opposing the qualification, passage or defeat of a ballot measure. (22) “Political party”, a political party which has the right under law to have the names of its candidates listed on the ballot in a general election. (23) “Political party committee”, a state, district, county, city, or area committee of a political party, as defined in section 115.603, RSMo, as amended from time to time, which may be organized as a not-forprofit corporation under issouri law, and which committee is of continuing existence, and has the primary or incidental purpose of receiving contributions and making expenditures to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters on behalf of the political party. ( ) ublic office or office , any state, judicial, county, municipal, school or other district, ward, township, or other political subdivision office or any political party office which is filled by a vote of registered voters. (25) “Write-in candidate”, an individual whose name is not printed on the ballot but who otherwise meets the definition of candidate in subdivision (2) of this section. 8. The provisions of this section are selfexecuting. All of the provisions of this section are severable. If any provision of this section is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unconstitutional or unconstitutionally enacted, the remaining provisions of this section shall be and remain valid. EXPLANATION—Matter enclosed in brackets [thus] in the above initiative petition is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in underline type in the above initiative petition is proposed language. STATE OF MISSOURI Secretary of State
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I, Jason Kander, Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of Constitutional Amendment No. 2, to be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri at the General Election to be held the eighth day of November, 2016. In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, done at the City of Jefferson, this 26th day of August, 2016.
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 3 [Proposed by Initiative Petition] OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE: Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to: • increase taxes on cigarettes each year through 2020, at which point this additional ta ill total cents er ack of ; • create a fee paid by cigarette wholesalers of 67 cents per pack of 20 on certain cigarettes, hich fee shall increase annuall ; and • deposit funds generated by these taxes and fees into a newly established Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund?
When cigarette tax increases are fully implemented, estimated additional revenue to state government is $263 million to $374 million annually, with limited estimated implementation costs. The revenue will fund only programs and services allowed by the proposal. he fiscal im act to local o ernmental entities is unknown. NOTICE: You are advised that the proposed amendment to the constitution changes, repeals, or modifies by implication, or may be construed to change, repeal or modify by implication, Article IV of the Missouri Constitution and the following provisions of the Missouri Revised Statutes — Sections 33.080, 66.340, 66.350, 149.015, 149.021, 149.065, 149.160, 196.1003, 210.102, and 210.320. The proposed amendment enacts four new sections in Article IV of the Missouri Constitution, to be known as Sections 54, 54(a), 54(b), and 54(c). Be it resolved by the people of the state of Missouri that the Constitution be amended: Article IV is amended by adopting four new sections to be known as Sections 54, 54(a), 54(b), and 54(c). Section 54. The provisions of Sections 54 through 54(c) shall be known as the Early Childhood Health and Education Amendment. It shall be the public policy of this state to improve the health and education of children, from birth through age five, and to improve accountability for early childhood health and education funding. Section 54(a). 1. There is hereby created the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund. The fund shall consist of all moneys collected as provided in Section 54(c) and shall also include the balance of the Coordinating Board for Early Childhood Fund, which shall cease to exist as a discrete fund after its proceeds are transferred into the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund upon the effective date of this section. Interest and moneys earned on the fund shall be deposited in the fund. Moneys in the fund may be invested by the state treasurer, and any income therefrom shall be
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credited to the fund. Any moneys credited to and deposited in the fund shall be used only for purposes which are authorized by this section, shall not be diverted to any other purpose, and shall not be subject to the provisions of section 33.080, or other similar law. The net proceeds from the moneys collected as provided in Section 54(c) shall constitute new and additional funding for the activities, initiatives, and programs and shall not be used to replace existing funding as of July 1, 2016, for the same or similar activities, initiatives, and programs. The funds deposited in the fund and available for distribution to public and private entities shall be distributed as follows: a. t least seventy-five percent ( ) of funds shall be disbursed in grants for improving the quality of and increasing access to Missouri early childhood education programs, including preschool, home visitation, parent and family support and education, professional development and training for early childhood development providers, and increasing coordination of and public information about the importance of early childhood development; b. o less than ten percent (10 ) and no more than fifteen percent (1 ) of funds shall be disbursed in grants to Missouri hospitals or other health care facilities to improve access to quality early childhood health and development programs, including preventative health care, obesity prevention, infant mortality prevention, health and developmental screenings for Missouri children ages birth through five; and c. o less than five percent ( ) and no more than ten percent (10 ) of funds shall be disbursed in grants to provide evidencedbased smoking cessation and prevention programs for Missouri pregnant mothers and youth to be used solely for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, and enhancing activities, programs, and initiatives to promote tobacco use quit assistance and prevention, including a comprehensive statewide tobacco control program that incorporates the use of nicotine replacement therapy products regulated as drugs or devices by the United States food and drug administration under Chapter V of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and public health for tobacco-related diseases. The comprehensive statewide tobacco control program shall be consistent with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s, or its successor agency’s, best practices and guidelines for tobacco control programs, if any, and shall be designed to be effective to prevent and reduce tobacco use, reduce the public’s exposure to secondhand smoke, and identify and eliminate disparities related to tobacco use and its effects among different population groups. The components of the comprehensive statewide tobacco control program shall include, but not be limited to: state and community based interventions, health communication interventions, cessation interventions, surveillance and evaluation, and administration and management.
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. nless modified by law, eligible administrative expenses shall include only those reasonable and necessary for: (1) Salaries, fringe benefits, expenses, and equipment of staff employed by the Early hildhood ommission, as defined in Section 54(b); (2) Expenses associated with cost sharing of salaries, fringe benefits, expenses, and equipment of staff employed or contracted by the Early Childhood Commission from any other state department or agency of the state; (3) Expenses of the Early Childhood Commission associated with contracting with not-for-profit entities; and (4) Expenses of the Early Childhood Commission associated with audits and outcome evaluations of programs and activities funded under this section. Unless modified by law, no more than three percent (3 ) of the moneys deposited in the arly Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall be used for administrative expenses. The Commission shall establish guidelines and controls concerning grantees’ administrative expenses associated with meeting requirements of grants. Section 54(b). 1. As of the effective date of this section, the Coordinating Board for Early Childhood shall be reformed and shall be renamed the Early Childhood Commission. On the effective date of this section any of the Coordinating Board’s programs, duties, obligations, powers, assets, and liabilities not assumed by the Early Childhood Commission under the express terms of this Section shall, unless otherwise provided by law, be taken up by the Early Childhood Commission. Any employees of the Coordinating Board for Early Childhood shall retain the same status with the Commission on the effective date of this section, and the executive director of the board shall be the first dministrator of the Commission, unless such employees or director are lawfully terminated. 2. In addition to the duties already provided under the laws establishing and governing the Coordinating Board for Early Childhood, the Commission shall also have the duty to administer and make grants from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund as provided in section 54(a) of this article, as may be provided by law. Only Missouri residents who are also legal residents of the United States are authorized to receive services or benefits from any funds generated by this Amendment, unless otherwise prohibited by state or federal law. All services or programs that derive from funds generated by this Amendment shall be performed in the state of Missouri. Only hospitals and health care facilities operating in the state of Missouri that maintain a license in good standing pursuant to Missouri’s hospital or health care facility licensing laws shall be eligible to receive grants from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund pursuant to Section 54(a)(l)(b). The Commission shall have the power to hire an Administrator and staff, promulgate rules and regulations; apply for and receive public or private gifts, grants, or appropriations; buy, sell, or lease real and
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personal property; make disbursements and grants; and any other powers necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes and duties set out in this Amendment. None of the funds collected, distributed, or allocated from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall be expended, paid or granted to or on behalf of existing or proposed activities, programs, or initiatives that involve abortion services including performing, inducing, or assisting with abortions, as defined in law, or encouraging patients to have abortions, referring patients for abortions not necessary to save the life of the mother, or development of drugs, chemicals, or devices intended to be used to induce an abortion. None of the funds collected, distributed, or allocated from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall be expended, paid or granted to or on behalf of any abortion clinic, abortion clinic operator, or outpatient health care facility that provides abortion services, unless such services are limited to medical emergencies. No funds from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall be used for human cloning or research, clinical trials, or therapies or cures using human embryonic stem cells, as defined in Article III, section 38(d). No funds from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall be used for tobacco related research of any kind. Distributions of funds under this amendment shall not be limited or prohibited by the provisions of Article IX, section 8. 3. The Commission shall establish and maintain a conflict of interest policy for its members and staff. The Commission shall ensure a fair and equitable distribution of funds distributed as grants based on the established residency population of children ages birth through five. The ommission shall establish accountability and audit requirements for all grant recipients, including requirements that success be measured by outcomes for Missouri children and families. nless modified by law, Commission members shall include: (1) the director or the director’s designee from each of the following departments: health and senior services, mental health, and social services; (2) the commissioner or the commissioner’s designee from the department of elementary and secondary education; (3) two members of the Missouri general assembly. One member shall be the chairman of the joint committee on education. One member shall be a member of the joint committee on education, shall be from a different party and different legislative chamber than the chairman of the joint committee on education, and shall be appointed by the elected leader, either the speaker of the house of representatives or the president pro tempore of the senate, of the member’s legislative chamber; (4) The director of the Missouri head startstate collaborative office; ( ) six citizens, representing each of the following areas: early childhood education and development providers, local head start agencies, higher education, business, faith, and medicine.
The Governor shall appoint, with the advice and consent of the senate, the three citizens representing the areas of medicine, business, and higher education. The state board of education shall appoint the citizens representing the areas of early childhood education and development providers, local head start agencies, and faith. Commission members shall serve a term of three years. Such citizens shall be eligible to serve two terms. Such citizens that serve a partial term of less than eighteen months shall be eligible to serve the partial term and two full terms. Such citizens that serve a partial term of more than eighteen months shall be eligible to serve the partial term and one full term. No Commissioners shall receive any compensation for their service as a Commissioner. Section 54(c). 1. In addition to any tax levied upon the sale of cigarettes in this state, a tax shall be levied upon the sale of cigarettes in an amount equal to thirty mills per cigarette (or sixty cents per pack of twenty cigarettes), phased in, in four equal annual increments of seven and one-half mills (or fifteen cents per pac of twenty cigarettes) on January 1, 2017, January 1, 2018, January 1, 2019 and January 1, 2020. The tax shall be evidenced by stamps which shall be furnished by and purchased from the director or by an impression of the tax by the use of a metering machine when authorized by the director as provided by statute, and the stamps or impression shall be securely affixed to one end of each package in which cigarettes are contained. All cigarettes must be stamped before being sold in this state. For the purpose of allowing compensation for the costs necessarily incurred in affixing the proper tax stamps to each package of cigarettes before making a sale of the cigarettes, each wholesaler purchasing stamps from the director as required by law may purchase the stamps from the director at a reduction of three percent (3 ) of the face value of each lot of stamps so purchased, provided that all statutorily required reports have been made. The discount provided in this section shall be the only discount allowed to purchasers from the director. If a purchaser refuses to comply with the laws of the state of Missouri, the director shall require the full face value for stamps purchased until such time as the person has complied with the provisions of the law. The director may permit the use of meter machines in lieu of stamps, for the impress of the tax stamp, and where used a three percent (3 ) reduction on the total tax due shall be allowed. The director shall prescribe all rules and regulations governing the use of meter machines and may require a bond in a suitable amount to guarantee payment of the tax. The tax on any cigarettes contained in packages of twenty to be used solely for distribution as samples shall be computed on a per cigarette basis at the rate set forth in this section, and payment of the tax shall be remitted to the director of revenue at such time and in such manner as he may prescribe by rule. Stamped cigarettes in the
possession of a wholesaler or retailer before each incremental tax increase under this section is imposed shall not be subject to incremental tax increase before retail sale. 2.a. In addition to the tax provided in section 54(c). 1. effective January 1, 2017, an equity assessment fee is imposed upon the first to occur of the following the purchase, storage, use, consumption, handling, distribution or wholesale sale of each package of twenty (20) cigarettes manufactured by a non-participating manufacturer. The equity assessment fee shall be paid by the wholesaler, and collected by the director of revenue at the same time cigarette tax stamps are purchased from the director of revenue, and the payment and collection of the equity assessment fee shall be subject to the rules and regulations promulgated in connection with the payment and collection of the cigarette tax. The term on-participating manufacturer is defined as a manufacturer that is treated as such under the Master Settlement Agreement entered into by the State of Missouri and certain tobacco manufacturers on November 23, 1998. b. The rate of the equity assessment fee shall be sixty-seven cents ($0.67) per package of twenty (20) cigarettes. Beginning with equity assessment fees due in 2018, the equity assessment fee shall be adjusted each year in accordance with the nflation Adjustment in the Master Settlement Agreement, provided that, in determining the applicable nflation d ustment ercentage, inflation from 1 01 shall not be included. c. The fee imposed by this section does not apply to cigarettes or cigarette tobacco products that are sold into another state for resale to consumers outside of this state, provided that the sale is reported to the state into which the cigarettes are sold under 15 U.S.C. Section 376. d. The fee imposed by this section is in addition to any other privilege, license, fee, or tax required or imposed by state law, provided however that a manufacturer shall not be required to place funds into a qualified escrow fund under hapter 196 of the Revised Statutes of Missouri for any cigarettes that such manufacturer demonstrates in a filing with the ttorney General that the required amount of fees have been paid under this section. 3. All moneys collected as a result of the taxes and fees imposed by this section shall deposited in the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund as said moneys are received, and shall be kept separate from the general revenue fund as well as any other funds or accounts in the state treasury. The additional actual costs incurred by the state in collecting and enforcing the taxes and fees imposed by this section may be paid from moneys appropriated from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund for that purpose, but shall not exceed one and one half of one percent (1. ) of the total moneys collected in that fiscal year. Moneys from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall not be used
to pay costs that are not additional actual costs incurred by the state in collecting and enforcing the taxes and fees imposed by this section, except that one percent (1 ) of the funds deposited in the fund shall be used by the Director of Public Safety and the Director of Revenue to employ personnel for the sole purpose of criminal tobacco enforcement of existing state laws regarding tobacco products. No funds from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund shall be used for any lobbying, or for the promotion or support of any tax increase or any other state or local prohibition or limitation on tobacco products, coupons or promotions. 4. On an annual basis, the director of revenue, in consultation with the director of health and senior services, shall determine whether the taxes imposed by section 54(c) have resulted in a decrease in consumption of tobacco products and thereby directly caused a reduction in the amount of moneys collected and deposited into the fair share fund, the health initiatives fund, or the state school moneys fund, revenues generated from local tobacco taxes, or revenues generated from local sales taxes. If a reduction in the amount of moneys collected and deposited into any of those funds or revenues generated from local tobacco taxes or local sales taxes, has been directly caused by the taxes imposed by section 54(c), an amount equal to the amount of moneys that were not collected and deposited into that fund or funds or were not generated by the local tobacco taxes or local sales taxes because of the taxes imposed by this section shall be transferred from the Early Childhood Health and Education Trust Fund as follows first, to the appropriate political subdivisions, and second to the appropriate fund or funds. The aggregate amount transferred to such political subdivisions and/or funds for any year shall not exceed four percent ( ) of the total moneys collected pursuant to this section during that same year. EXPLANATION—Matter enclosed in brackets [thus] in the above initiative petition is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in underline type in the above initiative petition is proposed language. STATE OF MISSOURI Secretary of State
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I, Jason Kander, Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of Constitutional Amendment No. 3, to be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri at the General Election to be held the eighth day of November, 2016. In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, done at the City of Jefferson, this 26th day of August, 2016.
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CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NO. 4 [Proposed by Initiative Petition] OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE: Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to prohibit a new state or local sales/use or other similar tax on any service or transaction that was not subject to a sales/use or similar tax as of January 1, 2015? Potential costs to state and local governmental entities are unknown, but could be si nificant he ro osal s passage would impact governmental entit s abilit to re ise their ta structures. State and local governments expect no savings from this proposal. Be it resolved by the people of the state of Missouri that the Constitution be amended: Article X is amended by adding one new section to be known as Section 26, to read as follows: Section 26. In order to prohibit an increase in the tax burden on the citizens of Missouri, state and local sales and use taxes (or any similar transaction-based tax) shall not be expanded to impose taxes on any service or transaction that was not subject to sales, use or similar transaction-based tax on January 1, 2015. EXPLANATION—Matter enclosed in brackets [thus] in the above initiative petition is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in underline type in the above initiative petition is proposed language. STATE OF MISSOURI Secretary of State
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I, Jason Kander, Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of Constitutional Amendment No. 4, to be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri at the General Election to be held the eighth day of November, 2016. In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, done at the City of Jefferson, this 26th day of August, 2016.
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statement of this legislation shall be as follows: “Shall the Constitution of Missouri be amended to state that voters may be required by law, which may be subject to exception, to verify one’s identity, citizenship, and residence by presenting identification that may include valid government-issued photo identification . CONSTITUTIONAL MEN MENT N . 6 [Proposed by 98th General Assembly (Second Regular Session) SS HJR No. 53] OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE: Shall the Constitution of Missouri be amended to state that voters may be required by law, which may be subject to e ce tion to erif one s identit citizenship, and residence by presenting identification that ma include alid o ernment issued hoto identification The proposed amendment will result in no costs or savings because any potential costs would be due to the enactment of a general law allowed by this proposal. If such a general law is enacted, the potential costs to state and local governments is unknown, but could exceed $2.1 million annually.
EXPLANATION—Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language. STATE OF MISSOURI Secretary of State
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I, Jason Kander, Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of Constitutional Amendment No. 6, to be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of Missouri at the General Election to be held the eighth day of November, 2016. In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, done at the City of Jefferson, this 26th day of August, 2016.
Submitting to the qualified voters of Missouri an amendment to article VIII of the Constitution of Missouri, and adopting one new section relating to elections. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri as follows: That at the next general election to be held in the state of Missouri, on Tuesday next following the first onday in ovember, 2016, or at a special election to be called by the governor for that purpose, there is hereby submitted to the qualified voters of this state, for adoption or rejection, the following amendment to article VIII of the Constitution of the state of Missouri: Section A. Article VIII, Constitution of Missouri, is amended by adding one new section, to be known as section 11, to read as follows: Section 11. A person seeking to vote in person in public elections may be required by general law to identify himself or herself and verify his or her ualifications as a citi en of the nited States of America and a resident of the state of Missouri by providing election officials ith a form of identification which may include valid governmentissued hoto identification ce tions to the identification re uirement ma also be provided for by general law. Section B. Pursuant to chapter 116 and other applicable constitutional provisions and laws of this state allowing the general assembly to adopt ballot language for the submission of this joint resolution to the voters of this state, the official summary
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PR OPOSITION A [Proposed by Initiative Petition] OFFICIAL BALLOT TITLE: Shall Missouri law be amended to: increase taxes on cigarettes in 2017, 2019, and 2021, at which point this additional ta ill total cents er ack of ; • increase the tax paid by sellers on other tobacco products by 5 percent of manufacturer s in oice rice; • use funds generated by these taxes exclusively to fund transportation infrastructure rojects; and • repeal these taxes if a measure to increase any tax or fee on cigarettes or other tobacco roducts is certified to appear on any local or statewide ballot? •
State government revenue will increase by approximately $95 million to $103 million annually when cigarette and tobacco tax increases are fully implemented, with the new revenue earmarked for transportation infrastructure. Local government revenues could decrease approximately
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$3 million annually due to decreased cigarette and tobacco sales. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Missouri: A new section to be known as section 149.017 is enacted to read as follows: 149.017. 1. In addition to the tax levied in subsection 1 of section 149.015, RSMo, an additional tax shall be levied upon the sale of cigarettes at an amount equal to six and one-half mills per cigarette on January 1, 2017, two and one-half mills per cigarette on January 1, 2019, and two and one-half mills per cigarette on January 1, 2021. 2. In addition to the tax levied in subsection 1 of section 149.160, RSMo, an additional tax of five percent of the manufacturer s invoice price before discounts and deals shall be levied on January 1, 2017 upon the first sale of tobacco products, other than cigarettes, within the state, and shall be paid by the person ma ing the first sale within the state. Licensed persons making first sales within the state shall be allowed approved credit for returned merchandise provided the tax was paid on the returned merchandise and the purchaser was given a refund or credit. Such licensed person shall take such approved credit on the return for the month in which the purchaser was given the refund or credit. 3. The revenue generated in subsections 1 and 2 of this section, less any reduction allowed in section 149.021, RSMo, shall be deposited in the “Transportation Infrastructure Fund”, which is hereby created in the state treasury, and used exclusively to fund transportation infrastructure. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080, RSMo, to the contrary, moneys deposited in this fund, including any interest thereon, shall not revert to the credit of the general revenue fund at the end of the biennium. The state treasurer shall invest moneys in the fund in the same manner as other funds are invested. Any interest and moneys earned on such investments shall be credited to the fund. 4. The additional six and one-half mills per cigarette tax levied in subsection 1 of this section and effective on January 1, 2017 shall not apply to inventories of cigarettes in the possession of the retailer and wholesaler on December 31, 2016. The additional two and one-half mills per cigarette tax levied in subsection l of this section and effective on January l, 2019 shall not apply to inventories of cigarettes in the possession of the retailer and wholesaler on December 31, 2018. The additional two and one-half mills per cigarette tax levied in subsection 1 of this section and effective on January 1, 2021 shall not apply to inventories of cigarettes in the possession of the retailer and wholesaler on December 31, 2020. . The additional five percent tax levied in subsection 2 of this section shall not apply to inventories of tobacco products, other than cigarettes, in the possession of the retailer and wholesaler on December 31, 2016. 6. The additional taxes levied in subsections 1 and 2 of this section shall immediately, automatically and permanently be repealed and reduced to zero under any of the following events:
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(1). In the event any tax or fee increase on some or all cigarettes or other tobacco products is officially certified to be placed on any local or statewide ballot by the Secretary of State or any other election official at any time; or (2). In the event any provision of subsections 1 through 9 of this section is ruled null and void, invalid, unlawful, severable or unconstitutional for any reason by any state or federal court of law. 7. The provisions of subsection 6 of this section are specifically meant to include, but are not limited to, any tax increase on cigarettes or other tobacco products placed on any local or statewide ballot in Missouri at any time pursuant to chapters 115 and 116, RSMo, and Article III, sections 49 through 53, and Article XII of the Missouri Constitution or any local laws allowing submission of questions to the voters. 8. In the event any provision of subsections 6 and 7 of this section are triggered, the department of revenue shall automatically, immediately and permanently cease the application and collection of any of the taxes levied in subsections l and 2 of this section, and the department of revenue and the revisor of statutes shall automatically and immediately notify the public. The department of revenue shall authorize the state treasurer to make refunds for any erroneous payments or overpayments. 9. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 1.140, RSMo, or case law or rule to the contrary, the provisions of subsections 1 through 9 of this section are nonseverable. If any provision of subsections 1 through 9 of this section is held, in whole or in part, to be invalid, unlawful, or unconstitutional for any reason by any state or federal court of law, such decision shall invalidate and make void all of subsections 1 through 9 of this section. EXPLANATION—Matter enclosed in brackets [thus] in the above initiative petition is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in underline type in the above initiative petition is proposed language. STATE OF MISSOURI Secretary of State
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I, Jason Kander, Secretary of State of the State of Missouri, hereby certify that the foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of Proposition A, to be submitted to the qualified voters of the State of issouri at the General Election to be held the eighth day of November, 2016. In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Great Seal of the State of Missouri, done at the City of Jefferson, this 26th day of August, 2016.
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Time Bank Court Could Divert Teens in Trouble Written by
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y next year, youth busted for municipal ordinance violations in two south city neighborhoods — Gravois Park and Benton Park West — may have the opportunity to face justice in something called a Time Bank Youth Court. “Time bank” is not the title of a finance-themed science fiction epic. In general, the term describes a network of people who exchange their time as a form of currency instead of cash. Maintaining such a network involves tracking the exchange of “time credits” — say, swapping an hour of music lessons for an hour of gardening. St. Louis already has a time bank, called the Cowry Collective, and it boasts about 200 active members. And last week, members of the Cherokee Street Business Association voted to support a version of time-banking that has never before been attempted in St. Louis — no less than “a different way to think about crime and the way we address it,” in the words of Julia Ho, who presented the idea to the group. With the support of the St. Louis Family Court Juvenile Division, which operates a branch on Cherokee Street, the Time Bank Youth Court will try to intervene in the lives of young offenders before they find themselves in front of a real judge for committing serious crimes. For this program, teens who choose to opt in will face a volunteer jury made up of teens and young adults, and the jury will choose alternative sentences in lieu of fines or citations. The goal? To connect youth aged eight to twenty-five with an informal network of Continued on pg 16 community
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The Taxi Commission has been all-male for thirteen years. That’s changing now. | KELLY GLUECK
Newest MTC Member: A Woman Who Rides Uber
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fter thirteen years in operation, the St. Louis Metropolitan Taxicab Commission, or MTC, will finally get its first female member. That member is Catherine Gilbert, 25, who hopes that in addition to bringing in a female voice, she can help the MTC adjust to the Uber era. “I was asked to join the Metro Taxicab Commission because I’m a young, tech-savvy woman who can bring a new perspective,” Gilbert says. What Gilbert might not share with the MTC’s other eight members, which include four taxi company owners, is a familiarity with and fondness for the ridesharing service Uber. Gilbert uses the app herself. Uber, which allows anyone to become a driver or hail a ride through its app, has drawn controversy for its
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comparatively lax background checks of drivers and aggressive moves to defy regulators. The service is still operating in St. Louis, despite a battle in federal court over the taxi commission’s efforts to keep them out. “It’s a new frontier,” Gilbert says. “When the Taxicab Commission started, there was no Uber. There were no apps.” Gilbert says while she can’t comment directly on what the MTC should be doing to address the arrival of Uber and other app-based ridesharing services in St. Louis, she thinks the city’s limited public transportation options disproportionately affect low-income people and adding more options for St. Louisans will be a positive thing. “I’m always in favor of more transportation options,” she says. Gilbert is the director of engagement at Elements Partnership, a business consulting company, but she also has a background in urban planning and helped found the Greater Gravois Initia-
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tive, “a grassroots movement bringing together neighbors, businesses and leaders to improve walkability, bikeability and transit access on Gravois.” Gilbert’s appointment is a product of the Women’s Foundation’s Appointment Project, which has partnered with St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay to address the gender disparity in political appointments. “They have done a variety of research, and one they did a couple of years ago was about women and their civic involvement,” says Mindy Mazur, a spokeswoman for the Women’s Foundation. The Appointment Project tries to overcome women’s reluctance to pursue political positions by recruiting talented women and partnering with city and state governments to encourage them to appoint more women. “There’s tons of boards in St. Louis that women have not served on,” Gilbert says. “I think we’re starting to see that change and to see some representation.” – Jessica Karins
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Local Shootings of Police Part of National Spike
of o cers fatally shot each year rises and falls but has generally decreased since the 1970s. Last year was particlarly good. total of st o cers were “feloniously” killed, according to FBI statistics. Compare that to the 1970s and 1980s, when the FBI’s annual tallies averaged more than 100. But the killings have spiked in the first half of this year. Thirty-two officers were shot to death y ly according to the National Law Enforcement cers emorial nd a non rofit that tracks line-of-d ty deaths. During the same period in a total of eighteen o cers were fatally shot. This year’s slayings include amsh-style attacks that killed five officers in allas and three in aton Rouge within two weeks in July. The same month allwin olice cer
Mike Flamion was shot in the neck d ring a tra c sto in the iet so th county suburb. Flamion survived but was paralyzed. The Gary Sinise Foundation announced plans last week to build him a high-tech “smart house” to accommodate the challenges of his new life. Belmar said the October 20 attack on one of his o cers egan when they knocked on the door of a house in Castle Point, looking for a suspect in a previous shooting. The suspect slipped out of a side entrance, squeezed off multiple rounds and ducked backed inside, authorities said. The wounded officer was hit in the left arm. He had what’s called a through-and-through hole along with an entrance wound in another part of his arm. Doctors aren’t sure if they’ll
remove the bullet, and Belmar said it’s not clear how many times he was hit. The suspect, 28-year-old Jo’Von Mitchell, was eventually taken into custody after an hours-long standoff. So far, Belmar said, the recent shootings seem to have only deepened the resolve of his o cers. “I don’t see a lot of frustration out there,” he said. “There’s not a lot of shoulders down or anything like that.” Asked what he would tell them, he said it probably wouldn’t be much. o talk to o cers a o t the fact that they’re among the very best,” he said. “Their job is worth doing. This community is worth protecting. What they do has importance. It has value and, by the way, they know that, and they really don’t have to be told that.” –Doyle Murphy
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ate on the night of October 20, as a St. Louis County police cruiser carted a loodied o cer to the hospital, news of his shooting swept across the department. Police Chief Jon Belmar visited the hospital that night, checking on his wo nded o cer and s eaking to the other cops who’d gathered there. In the hours that followed, he would talk to more police from the shooting scene and let them know the o cer would be alright, despite the bullet holes. It wasn’t fear or even anger that the chief noted in their reaction. “There was just an overwhelming sense of relief,” Belmar said later at a news conference. All things considered, the shooting could have been far worse, as the police o cers were well aware. They had ried cer lake nyder just a week before. The married father of a two-year-old was shot dead on October 6 while responding to disturbance call in south county. Thousands of people, including law enforcement o cers from across the nation, had attended the funeral. Blue lights still lit the county police headquarters in Snyder’s honor on the night of the latest shooting, which happened about 10:40 p.m. on Thursday. Overall, policing in the United States has become a much safer job in the past four decades. The number
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services, residents and business owners. “This would be processes to both divert tangible cases that are going through the courts, but also preventing crime from ha ening in the first lace o tells Riverfront Times. “It’s about providing an alternative for business owners and the stakeholders in the Cherokee neighborhood to refer youth to the program beforehand, so that they don’t feel the need to call police.” Ho, the founder of Solidarity Economy St. Louis, concedes that many operational details need refining efore the Time ank o th Court’s proposed March 2017 start-date. But her expectations are ambitious: In its first year, she thinks the program can divert at least 100 municipal ordinance violations cases in the Cherokee Street neighborhoods. A separate pilot site, at the Northwest Academy of Law high school in north city, is also in the works. According to a proposal Ho submitted to the business association the rocess wo ld first require a participant to “acknowledge responsibility for the offense in question and voluntarily opt into the program.” Failing to complete the sentence within 60 days would risk being referred back to the formal justice system. Since having too much free time can be a contributing factor in juvenile delinquency, the alternative sentences attempt to convert that time into resources
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Julia Ho describes a proposal for a Time Bank Youth Court during a meeting of the Cherokee Street Business Association. | DANNY WICENTOWSKI in St. Louis’ existing time bank community. Ho suggests that the sentences could involve programs to build educational skills like entrepreneurship, or cultural activities like music classes, community arts projects and media production. Participants would pay their debt with time credits and would leave the program with new ties to a supportive community. “This is a new type of exchange for our time bank,” says Chinyere Oteh, who founded the Cowry Collective in 2010. “As far as I know, this is the first program of its kind to engage the youth in a restorative justice way in St. Louis.” The project has garnered tentative support from Ward 20 Alderwoman Cara Spencer, whose ward includes Gravois Park. In a Facebook message to RFT, she said, “The Cherokee neighborhoods support alternative and supportive ways of dealing with juvenile
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crime, and this looks like an interesting opportunity to foster meaningful relationships and constructive solutions.” Kathryn Herman, the city’s assistant court administrator for the Family Court’s juvenile division, also conveyed her willingness to help the Time Bank Youth Court become a reality. If successfully implemented, the program could join the city’s existing network of informal diversion services. “It’s certainly a good restorative justice model,” says Herman. “We want the children to learn from the experience. We want them to understand and have some empathy on how they impact the community by their actions, and we want them to gain some competency toward taking another choice. Of course, our goal is to keep children from returning to the juvenile justice system; we want them to be on a
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hen my friends and family back home in St. Louis visit me in Brooklyn for the first time there are two places I like to take them as a social experiment — to freak out and overwhelm them and in general make them squirm. ne is across the river in anhattan Times are which is nlike anything in the iddle. magine ad lts cost med as isney characters aggressively trying to take a ict re with yo for a dollar gr nting ck yo when yo ref se a skate oarding man with five dyedpink pet rats on his head and shoulders swerving aro nd yo a ro imately a illion other eo le who are slowly sh ing in a line seven wide locking foot tra c and oftentimes car
tra c not caring that yo re trying to sh ast them eca se yo re late for work or leeding or dead on the sidewalk in front of them. The second lace is my local rooklyn Target. or me this Target is the only other locale in the city that ins ires the same feeling of offense and cla stro ho ia as Times are and because the store is so different from the friendly ltra-convenient idwestern ones my friends and family are sed to it s almost more shocking than the carnival in the middle of the ity That ever lee s. o know what? ll ask my visitors. think we re o t of toilet a er at home. o yo mind if we sto y Target? naware they agree and we re off. y ersonal relationshi with the rooklyn Target started a year after moved to the city from the St. Louis area. I had just relocated to the oro gh from the er ast ide and needed some curtain rods for my new place. aving no l ck at my neigh orhood hardware store and not knowing any etter set o t for Target. riverfronttimes.com
The sho ing center the ig- o store occ ies st o tside of downtown rooklyn ro er looks like a little slice of idwestern s r ia There s a h ck . heese s and a ath ody orks and a ictoria s ecret. f yo closed yo r eyes yo wo ld think yo were at hesterfield all. et the first thing noticed a o t the rooklyn Target is that it was a roaching lack riday levels of madness even tho gh this was a nday in e tem er The lines were long there were no carts clothes and other ieces of merchandise were strewn everywhere and people moved at a pace that was either a m ling crawl or mad dash. The second thing noticed is that there were no c rtain rods at this store eca se there was asically nothing on the shelves in the ho sewares section and the st ff that was left was scratched or broken. s was sco ring the area one last time a small child not yet tall eno gh to see over
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The man, unbothered, continued to look at Target s selection of sted- disco nt ict re frames. had the s dden almost ainf l reali ation of how far I was from home. n fact right there on my first visit to the rooklyn Target standing in a chain store created more than years ago for the sole rose of convenience reali ed that the very idea is a myth in the city. ho ing at a ig- o store in a large metro olitan area is the ltimate metaphor for the difference between city and suburban life. othing even rchasing c rtain rods is ever easy here eca se it is far too crowded sy and nr ly. f ying face cleanser or dro ing off dry-cleaning or ret rning a li rary ook in this city is hard a lying for a new o finding a nicer neigh orhood to live in researching investment o ort nities having a child insert whatever im ortant life to-do is on yo r list is ne t to im ossi le oth eca se living with so many other people increases competition for already- icked-over reso rces and eca se day-to-day min tiae eats away at your free time when everything is am- acked and the logistics are a nightmare. y a home? n this city? orry can t even manage to find an o en store. And cram too many of us into one tiny s ace e it a series of oro ghs or disco nt store and it not only rings o t the worst in everyone t there s also nowhere to hide. ity living has made me a reciate the sim le things a o t home iet convenience manners smiling and saying hi to a neigh or as yo ass her on the street. It has also turned me into a misera le crone with a tem er which tends to come o t when m st ck in a crowded store trying to find c rtain rods and no one will get o t of my damn way. f learned early on that nothing 20
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SQUARE MILES ST . LOUIS
66
ST . LOUIS
NEW YORK
315,685
8.5 MILLION
NEW YORK
305
-U.S. Census 2015
AVERAGE COMMUTE TIME
M E D I A N S I N G L E F A M I LY H O M E P R I C E
ST . LOUIS 25 MINUTES NEW YORK
45 MINUTES
-U.S. Census 2015
NEW YORK
ST . LOUIS $89,000
$375,000
-2015 National Association of Realtors / Clear Capital
-U.S. Census 2011
AVERAGE COST OF A PACK OF CIGARETTES
MEDIAN COST OF A ONE-BEDROOM RENTAL ST . LOUIS
$700
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NEW YORK
$2,200
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NEW YORK
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$12.85
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$7.41
NEW YORK
NEW YORK
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$14.30
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in the city is easy ve only recently come to nderstand a harder tr th To me ha iness is a alance of convenience and advent re and because I traded so wholly one for the other this won t e my home forever. n oan idion wrote ood ye to ll That an essay a o t reali ing that she needed to leave ew ork. idion was and so depressed with her life in the city that she co ldn t work anymore. he had to get o t for the sake of her mental health. t am considering moving for a lot less a clean Target. One of my all-time-favorite
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the handle of a cart he was shing started goofing off and ran f ll s eed at a grown man. The little g y lowed into him with s ch force that it knocked the adult to the gro nd. like everyone else near y stared in horror as the kid s mom ran and dragged her child and cart away offering no a ology. ven the Times are skateboarder with the pink rats had the decency to yell orry over his shoulder when he hit me while gliding y one time.
Saturday Night Live skits is Kristen iig s Target ady. elieve Target Lady had to be based on an employee in the idwest eca se there is no way iig com leted a character st dy for this it at any of the ew ork ity-area Targets. She plays a kooky yet friendly cashier at the ig- o retailer who celebrates when a credit card payment goes thro gh hates that she has to take a day off and becomes so excited about the merchandise she rings that she leaves her ost a r tly to h nt down the finds in the aisles. here am ? she asks a shopper in one skit while experi-
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encing a short-lived loss of memory. o re at Target he tells her. Target ady s res onse ay Target and the Target of my youth — the one at the intersection of and id ivers all rive have a lot in common ch mmy cashiers lenty of sho ing askets no lines general cleanliness. The est art a o t id ivers Target is that on any given day it will only take yo min tes to sho yo will find everything yo need and no one will hit you with a cart beca se there are sim ly not eno gh eo le aro nd. o co ld erform somersaults down the aisles if you wanted. f yo can t find something an employee is never far off. He or she will know where anything yo co ld ossi ly e looking for is located and will not give yo attit de when asked. hen yo re finished yo can wheel everything o t to your car and drive it home — no schle ing st ff in canvas ags to the train and then to your tiny apartment. always end at a Target when visit my arents and it is liss. The last time was there ran into one of my co sins. The kids are with my h s and she said contentedly. This was her me time. eo le in the idwest go to Target to rela . ell if I know where people in Brooklyn go t it s definitely not to a ig- o store. To get to the rooklyn Target first saddle myself with em ty canvas ags like a ack m le at the end of a long o rney. t this is st the eginning. take the local train min tes north and then frogger across one of the busiest intersections in the oro gh smack da in the middle of a major transit hub and in the shadow of the ets arena avoiding gy sy ca s making illegal turns and the unwieldy mammoth s. have to get a acked escalator making a wide right t rn to avoid the crowds coming o t of le ee s efore finally reaching the front of the store where try to track down a cart. nevita ly there are no carts so start sho ing and ho e ll find an abandoned one somewhere. vent ally will t only eca se it s locking a sy aisle. The Target has two levels which means ll have to use the cart escalator. It will ro a ly reak at some oint d ring the tri so ll either forgo anything I wanted to purchase on the top oor or my cart. nce see that the lines are wra ed aro nd the store ll leave ehind on average three items and jump into the express lane which still takes forever. The
cashier will not acknowledge me when say hi. ll shove whatever ve st rchased into the totes ro ght and then fight my way ack down the escalator across the sy intersection and com lete the rest of the journey home. The cart crash with the little oy from my first Target tri was st the eginning of many indignities have witnessed at the store. There was the time d ring the middle of a artic larly sticky summer when I went in search of a box fan and saw a child puke in the middle of an aisle and then watched her mother promptly collect her and walk away making no effort to ag down an em loyee or help clean up the mess. And there was the time around the holidays when went sho ing for hristmas lights and a homeless man leaving the store s it at me. The sec rity g ard who saw it shr gged. This is the rooklyn Target his look said. There are no r les. Eighty-seven years ago, Virginia Woolf decided that a woman must have a room of her own to e s ccessf l. d e content with a h m le twelve-inch le of personal space to prevent the eo le walking ehind me the s way ste s from hitting my heels with sho ing ags and tri ing me. t with the average rice of a single s are foot of rooklyn real estate eing that too feels o t of reach. ince oolf s declaration scholars have een st dying the link etween life satisfaction and environment and with varying concl sions. or every st dy that says ig-city feat res like noise and pollution contribute to nha iness another states that living in a s arsely o lated area with little social interaction is worse. ay e the answer is somewhere in between — somewhere like the St. Louis suburbs of my youth. In a st dy lished earlier this year two tgers rofessors sed data from the . . enters for isease ontrol and revention ehavioral isk actor rveillance ystem to look at ha iness in merican co nties. ven when controlling for factors like overty and crime they fo nd that eo le living st o tside of ma or cities re ort higher levels of satisfaction concl ding that si e and density are the factors most often associated with unhappiness. In a second st dy one of those rofessors took a closer look at what si e o lation made for a gr m y o lace. a iness grad ally increases as population decreases but sharply drops when a population decreases
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to eo le. ome days eo le so nds st fine. or an introvert like me anyway who needs alone time and ersonal s ace m ing against all of these other h mans in the germy etri dish that is ew ork ity has ca sed me to develo something of a short f se. The anger ilds with each social faux pas and manifests itself in s r rising ways. hen a stranger accidentally ste s on my foot or s ddenly sto s short while walking in front of me or doesn t hold the elevator for someone feel like el owing him shar ly in the ri cage. f m waiting longer than 15 minutes on a crowded subway platform while a busker lays a screeching fiddle my left eye twitches. t gets worse. hen a kid accidentally kicks me on the train estion whether m the type of person who should have a child eca se feel like co ld go off at any moment. ne night was walking home from work and an SUV ran a red light and almost hit me in the middle of an intersection — the driver braked hard and stopped inches from me. e loded o nding my fists on the hood of his car and screaming ck yo i ed off the driver with both hands and then reali ed he had two long c rly locks of hair and a sable hat — he was a asidic ewish man. or a second felt ashamed for acting like that in front of a conservative religio s erson. t then he yelled o f ck you right ack at me and s ed off. afety aside there are other factors associated with large o lations that contri te to dissatisfaction. The igger yo r city the longer yo r commute time and smaller your home si e oth negatively associated with separation or divorce in couples. ew orkers clock the longest comm te times nationwide on average min tes one way. ew ork ity is also the most expensive place to live in the country and the seventh most expensive place to live in the world. This wo ld all e fine st move to any of the other 49 states — except that the number of people who are choosing to live in r an environs is growing. y ercent of the world s o lation will live in ig cities. cientists always telling s what we already know have a sol tion to nha iness ower yo r e ectations and yo ll feel less disa ointed. nother s ggestion which everyone reading this t me has already fig red o t ive in the idwest where yo ll have room to breathe. Continued on pg 22
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LONGING FOR HOME Continued from pg 21 Knowing I’d probably be better off elsewhere have een lotting a ret rn to t. o is which associate with all things good friends and family eace and iet few if any crowds ar ec es central air-conditioning clean athrooms no rats. et can t commit. The ne t great o is always st aro nd the corner m convinced. esides what would I do without summer days spent at the beach or on the patio of my favorite Thai-food lace? r wintery nights at the o era or allet? haven t e lored all there is to do in the s rro nding states. nd really really don t want to own a car again. Where would I even work for that matter? ow co ld live witho t a city skyline? still haven t seen Hamilton. hat is the idwestern equivalent of Hamilton? s it Target? tting off moving home ve instead tried to cultivate a life in rooklyn that s as close to a idwestern existence as possible. I live in a house surrounded by trees in the friendliest neigh orhood filled with little families. When my husband and I moved into the place at the end of the s mmer neigh ors 22
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stopped by to introduce themselves didn t know anyone at my revio s two residences. sacrificed a shorter commute for extra square footage and a ack-home feeling. am going to ake ies and set them on my kitchen windowsill to cool romised. m going to take off my shoes in entral ark and really enoy the feeling of grass nderfoot. m going to float down the ast iver in an inner t e. m going to ickle something once fig re o t where to y ason ars. This new a artment tho ght might e the sol tion to my Target ro lem. fter discovering it had si si closets decided that wo ld st oin ostco go sho ing arterly instead of weekly and stash everything in my e tra closets. The fewer tri s the etter. efore tting down the for an e ec tive mem ershi researched ostco on el to see what might e getting myself into. f yo hate yo rself lease do visit this ostco one local man wrote in tr e e aggerated self-loathing rooklynese. ant yo r car damaged? to on y. ooking for slow and rude service without a smile? o ve fo nd it here. ign me . or f n looked reviews of
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ostcos in the t. o is area. This place is very clean and do[es] seem to always e stocked one man wrote. like going here on the weekends because of all sorts of different samles they offer which is a great way for me to try new things. act ally love their wine selection [and] as a wine connoisseur [feel] they have a lot to offer. othing has ever so erfectly summed up why I love St. Louis. y first visit to the ostco in Brooklyn was on a Wednesday evening. The cra iest time to go had to e the weekend was setting this Costco trip for success. ven mid-week the store was a madho se. n ostco it t rns o t yo have to wait in lines for everything not st checking o t. ant to enter the store? ait in a line. ccess the escalator? e e . ant to r n o t of the store screaming eca se there are too many damn eo le? o right ahead after yo wait in the line to exit the store. eca se everything sold at ostco comes in a quantity meant to last the rest of yo r life the carts are twice the si e of Target s and acked with so many goods they ecome harder to see over steer and sto . ore than once narrowly esca ed ecoming ostco cart roadkill feel-
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ing my lood ress re rise with each near-miss. ended leaving em ty-handed not even a free samle to endear me to the lace. y wareho se-cl -sho ing lan for happiness had failed. For now, I’m content faking a Midwestern life in a ig city t often wonder what will finally give me the push I need to move home. Stalled career? eck in ry s stained while ying ma i ads at ostco? ay e ll have a a y and decide to raise her near family. ay e ll e co rt-ordered to leave the state after nching o t a mo th reather in the s way. ho can say? n the meantime have risten iig s Target ady to remind me of home. n one skit stin Tim erlake laying Target ady s friend tells a long-winded story a o t an em arrassing incident in the store. Then g ess who r ns into me? his character asks. y reacher from ch rch. nd g ess what he said? Target ady eyes wide res onds eaven has a Target? That heaven e ists here on earth and it is St. Louis. Amanda Woytus is an editor and freelance writer. She really hates shopping at Target in Brooklyn.
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THURSDAY 10/27 FRIDAY 10/28 Blues v Red Wings Richard III The Detroit Red Wings moved to the Eastern Conference a couple years back, and most of the players that Blues fans really hated have retired or moved on. Sure, Henrik Zetterberg is still there, but that guy isn’t nearly as hateable as Lidstrom or McCarty or Shanahan. But if you can’t boo the ones you want, boo the ones who show up. The highying St. Louis Blues take on those sucky-sucks the Detroit Red Wings at 7 p.m. tonight at Scottrade Center (1401 Clark Avenue; www.stlblues. com). This is the only home game against Detroit this year, so take advantage of it. Tickets are $34 to $357.
S h a ke s p e a r e ’s h i s t o r y p l ay Richard III may appear to be about 400 years too old for any modern relevance, but you’d be surprised. A story about a power-hungry, blood-thirsty man scheming his way to the thrones will never go out of style. The Actors From The London Stage collective brings the drama to the stage with a cast of five. Those five actors reg larly work with the Royal National Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, so they know what they’re doing. Liz Crowther takes the lead as the devious title character, a
hunchback with a chip on his shoulder. In keeping with the small cast, this production of Richard III uses few props and costumes, and the scenery is sparse. Richard III is performed at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday (October 28 and 29) at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus (1 University Drive at Natural Bridge Road; www. touhill.org). Tickets are $20.
unOrdinary There is a peculiar sense of freedom that empty spaces have — you can run through them, jump or stage an impromptu wrestling match on all that open ground. Leverage Dance Theater has conceived a new site-s ecific dance performance for just such a
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space. An abandoned school serves as the stage for unOrdinary, a Halloween-appropriate dance concert that draws its inspiration from the architecture of the building. The dancers will move from classrooms to hallways to bathrooms and even across the balconies, so be prepared to follow them through the dimly lit corridors (some limited seating will be available). Audiences are encouraged to get into the spirit of the performance and the season by wearing “creepy and/or decaying” costumes. unOrdinary is performed at 7 and 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday (October 28 and 29) at the Intersect Art Gallery (3630 Texas Avenue; www.leveragedancetheater.org). Tickets are $20 to $25.
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(some would say “slow moving”) psychological thriller about Mary. She’s a regular young woman who crashes her car into the river one fine day. She emerges alive, but changed. Mary leaves town and starts a new life in Utah, but it seems like someone is following her: She keeps spotting the same gaunt man in a nice suit wherever she goes. Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett mine this quiet cult classic for spooky comic gems in a live broadcast at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 27, and then make the same jokes in a taped rebroadcast at 7:30 p.m. Monday, October 31. You can see it both times at Wehrenberg Ronnies 20 Cine (5320 South Lindbergh Boulevard; www. fathomevents.com). Tickets are $14.
Mothers and Sons It has been twenty years since Cal and Katharine have spoken to each other. Cal loved Katharine’s son Andre and was with him when he died of AIDS, while Katharine could not accept Andre’s homosexuality — or Cal’s. After the death of her own husband, she’s driven by grief to find Cal just to be close to some memory of Andre. But Cal has a husband and a young son now, while Katharine has nothing. Terrence McNally’s p l ay M o t h e r s a n d S o n s i s about a disapproving mother and the man she once blamed for her son’s death coming to grips with loss, regret and the passage of time. The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis opens its Studio Series with Mothers and Sons. Performances take place Tuesday through Sunday (October 28 to November 13) at the Emerson Studio Theatre in the Loretto-Hilton Center (130 Edgar Road; www.repstl.org). Tickets are $43.50 to $67.50.
SATURDAY 10/29 Central West End Halloween The Central West End (Euclid and Maryland avenues; www. cwescene.com/halloween) does Halloween in a big way with its famous all-day street party. The kids’ costume contest and parade starts at 11 a.m., this year featuring Cinderella in her carriage leading the way, followed by the Moolah Shriners in their YOMO cars. At noon the kids can go trick-or-treating at participating businesses, and then at 1 p.m. the famous costumed dog parade starts. At 2 p.m. live music and street entertainers rock you sweetly while you eat and party before for the main event: The CWE’s infamous adults-only costume contest with its $2,500 top prize. Registration for the contest starts at 6 p.m., and you must be present at the 10 p.m. finals to win. 26
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Freakshow Johnny Brock’s Dungeon and Ballpark Village team up for the biggest party of the season. Freakshow is a carnival-themed party (that means psycho clowns creepy-crawling through the dance floor) that spans four bars and clubs and offers live entertainment, fire reathers freak erformances and Creepy Clown DJ (see?). This year’s costume contest comes with a $5,000 prize package, so no halfassed Batman and Joker get-ups if you want to win. Freakshow runs from 8 to 11 p.m. tonight at St. Louis Ballpark Village (601 Clark Avenue; www.stlballparkvillage.com). Tickets are $25 to $50 and include draft beer, house wine, premium well spirits and a souvenir cup. This is a 21-and-older event.
SUNDAY 10/30 Toys of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s There comes a time in every young person’s life when they decide to put away childhood things, and they give away all their toys. Those people are known as “suckers,” because vintage toys can end up being worth a lot of money — some of ’em even end up in museums. The Missouri History Museum’s (Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere
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Avenue; www.mohistory.org) new exhibition Toys of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s is proof of that. Social historians can glean valuable information about American culture from the toys that were once popular; even the reasons why one toy lasts (the venerable Slinky is still around) while another falls by the wayside (seen any erector sets lately?) offer insights into America’s past. The great toys of your parents’ and grandparents’ childhoods are displayed in recreation living rooms for full effect. And despite what you know about museum rules, on opening weekend of the exhibition you can play with some of the toys. At noon on Saturday and Sunday (October 29 and 30) you can get reacquainted with Spirographs, Lite Brites and the vastly underappreciated ViewMaster. Toys of the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s is open daily through Sunday, January 22. Admission is free.
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WEDNESDAY 11/02 Cuddles Tabby has built her life around the needs of her younger sister Eve. Ta y works in an o ce to s ort both of them, while Eve stays home all day. In fact, Eve never leaves her room. She’s never seen the outside world, never had a friend and never known another person except for her older sister. Without Tabby, Eve would die — Tabby’s blood is the only sustenance Eve has ever known. Eve’s vampirism has locked Tabby into this tightly controlled system of work and home, with no room for anyone else. But Tabby realizes if she wants more she has to fig re o t a way to deal with Eve as well. Joseph Wilde’s grim drama Cuddles has been praised both for its treatment of vampire mythology and its ability to surprise. Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble performs the chiller at 8 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday (November 2 to 12) at the Chapel (6238 Alexander Drive; www.slightlyoff.org). Tickets are $15 to $20. Planning an event, exhibiting your art or putting on a play? Let us know and we’ll include it in the Night & Day section or publish a listing in the online calendar — for free! Send details via e-mail (calendar@ riverfronttimes.com), fax (314-754-6416) or mail (6358 Delmar Boulevard, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63130, 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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Directed and written by Kelly Reichardt. Based on short stories by Maile Meloy. Starring Laura Dern, Michelle Williams and Kristen Stewart. Opens, Friday, October 28, at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema.
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Directed by Antonio Campos. Written by Craig Shilowich. Starring Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall and Tracy Letts. Opens, Friday, October 28, at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema.
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elly eichardt is a fiercely indeendent realist so at odds with the c rrent fan oy-driven cororate-sc l ted movie c lt re that each of her films seems like a form of rotest an act of defiance. er films are s tly olitical witho t ever losing their intimacy. They re miniat rist ieces that reveal ig tr ths like s Wendy and Lucy one of the very est of this still-yo ng cent ry in which the wanderings of a homeless yo ng woman and her dog are a microcosm of the crashing sh-era economy and its effect on ordinary eo le. ven a relative misfire like Night Moves a kind of Monkey Wrench Gang-lite offers glim ses into the lives of ordinary eo le at a ersonal level rarely shared on screen. eichardt s films even her eriod iece Meek’s Cutoff are inesca a ly contemorary not thro gh name-checking assing trends t y incl ding the otidian details that make o r emotional atmos here. Certain Women lls together three loosely connected threads drawn from stories y aile eloy. m not familiar with eloy s work t in eichardt s ada tation it s almost a stretch to call them stories they re sketches incidents little glim ses of emotion. et in r ral ontana the three arely intersecting stories feat re fo r women who are slightly lost overwhelmed
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eo le their lives conveyed not merely y their words t y the simle fact of their e istence. ni ely inde endent even within the indie world eichardt is nmatched as a chronicler of The ay e ive ow. Antonio Campos’ Christine is the story of hristine h ck a T host in arasota lorida who shot herself in the head d ring a live roadcast in ly ostensi ly as a rotest over the increasingly violent tone of local news coverage. (Christine is one of two new films ased on h ck s death. The other Katie Plays Christine will lay at the t. o is nternational ilm estival ne t month. s sensitively ortrayed y eecca all h ck is a strange nr ly fig re ne rotic self-de recating and even a little childish. he s the most contrary erson in any room the kind of erson who can t sto l rting o t whatever she thinks no matter how self-defeating it is. hen her oss defends a decision y saying it s sim le math she has to oint o t that he is in fact sing logic not math. iving with her mother and with no ho e at romance as she nears her thirtieth irthday hristine retreats to her age-ina ro riate edroom
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com lete with ict res of the arenters and a rain ow- edecked record layer to lan her career move having romised to retool her good-nat red comm nity re orts to e ose the darker side of arasota. raig hilowich s screen lay ca t res that n alanced side of its s ect along with some telling otshots at the news siness. The film ecomes a little overloaded emotionally t has a gen inely weird alance of sychological drama and o tright a s rdity ichael . all good as the station s retty- oy news anchor takes hristine on a date to a Transactional nalysis meeting all set to a rich so ndtrack of early s ha y o . es ite the comic tone which makes yo wonder what might have ha ened if Anchorman had pre-dated Network the film gives a strong sense of the many forces social rofessional ersonal ressing in on hristine and makes the inevita le concl sion oth tragic and dist r ing. t s easy to la gh at the o tdated eriod clothes or the not-as-o tdated-aswe d-like-to-think se al olitics t Christine adds a darker edge to the glossy nostalgia showing a woman not st tormented y her own demons t y the social str ct res that created them. n
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INVITE YOU AND A GUEST TO SEE Located in the Cadillac Building, the new “arts incubator” will host resident organizations and performances. | KELLY GLUECK [PERFORMING ARTS]
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here’s a new arts space in town. .ZACK, an arts incubator, theater and ballroom that also incl des o ce s ace for resident organi ations and a few other commercial businesses, too, is eginning to show its face to the lic one oor at a time. The first and fo rth oors of the -s are-foot s ace are now open, with the ones in between slot-
ted for an early o ening. The first oor which was revio sly home to Plush nightclub, now incl des a -seat theater. That art of the s ace will get its introd ction to t. o is movie lovers ne t month, as it’s scheduled to host part of the t. o is nternational ilm estival. new first- oor resta rant T rn y avid irkland is e ected to o en in an ary . The fo rth floor is already in f ll swing last week s rtists for a a se f ndraiser was held in the -s are-foot allroom event s ace which has ca acity for seated or standing . The oor also feat res a f ll ar on-site catering and a rivate dressing room complete with a sauna and rain shower for re-event rim ing. The ran erg rts o ndation has rovided oth the ins iration and the f nding for the ro ect which is something totally new for t. o is. Tenants are ercent non- rofits and incl de gnite Theatre om-
any nsight Theatre om any the Tesseract Theatre om any arvey ockhart s eal enter for the Arts, R-S Theatrics, Theatre Lab, the Tennessee illiams estival rtists for a a se nc. t. o is and ec r m which ses frican drumming to mentor children. Resident organizations are contracted for a year they will e reeval ated ann ally to make s re the relationshi is still eneficial. The goal is to rovide these organi ations room to thrive and an event s ace to connect the lic to the arts. “Local arts are the heart and so l of this city. f the local arts o rish the city o rishes says hris ansen . s e ec tive director. The ro ect is eing f nded y the ran erg rts o ndation and select artwork is on dis lay from en and ancy ran erg s personal art collection. –with reporting by Kelly Glueck
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Ill Seen Ill Said features some of the best-known practitioners of contemporary and underground art. Downtown New York poet John Giorno, photographic pioneer Jo Spence, filmmaker/ photographer John Waters, artist of the extreme Banks Violette and sculptor Yngve Holen all have work in the show. Holen’s Hater Headlight implies a
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Outside In: Paint for Peace The Millstone Gallery at COCA 524 Trinity Ave. | www.cocastl.org Closes October 30.
In the aftermath of the unrest following the death of Michael Brown, artists of all skill levels and backgrounds came together to transform the boarded-up storefronts in Ferguson and along South Grand through the power of art. Those blank plywood facades went from being grim reminders of our failings to colorful and hopeful signposts on the way to reconciliation and mutual empathy. Those original murals of doves and mandalas and affirmations of peace and community were taken down and preserved during the rebuilding process so that they could go on display at a later date. The time is now. Outside In: Paint for Peace is a selection of those Ferguson murals. More of them will be displayed concurrently at the Ferguson Youth Initiative, Missouri History Museum, Vaughn Cultural Center, University of Missouri-St. Louis’ Gallery 210 and the Sheldon. Continued on pg xx
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Charlie Le Mindu is a Paris-based artist who combines the super-heated styles of the European club with drag culture and haute couture to create extravagant sculptures and performance art. Perhaps most known for his pioneering use of natural and artificial hair as a medium (what he’s called “haute coiffure”), Le Mindu’s work is exuberant, exotic and cheeky beyond compare. A sense of fun runs through his work, which is characterized by bright color and a sense of high drama.
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The “happy accident” is a key part of many artists’ methods. Stray marks, dropped stitches, unexpected tears — these unexpected and uncontrolled incidents create gateways to new ideas and interpretations. But Robin Assner-Alvey and Dean Kessmann both intentionally induce malfunctions into their work. Assner-Alvey’s digital photographs appear to be taken by a haunted camera, her images tweaked up and glitched out into abstractions of primary color and shapes that only hint at real-world objects. Kessman also works with digital images, his seeming close-ups on a puddle with snippets of hair or grass floating in them set against a checkerboard backdrop.
Erika Diettes: Sudarios Museum of Contemporary Religious Art 3700 W. Pine Mall | www.slu.edu/mocra Closes December 4.
Colombian artist Erika Diettes’ work is about suffering. Not in the detached sense with which we often view suffering, but in a very personal and profound way. Diettes interviewed women from the Colombian state of Antioquia, who had seen their loved ones tortured and murdered during the nation’s long civil war. At the moment when her subjects were overcome by grief, their
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eyes closed — what Diettes calls “the moment that divided her life in two” — she photographed them. These photographs are printed on silk panels seven feet tall by four feet wide and displayed in the exhibition Sudarios. The show’s title is Spanish for “shroud,” a word frequently used to refer to Christ’s burial cloth. Her work is a testament to pain and mourning, and also a living memorial for the dead as they are remembered by their loved ones.
Radar Home, 11.8.13: New Work by Amy Reidel The Sheldon 3648 Washington Blvd. | www.thesheldon.org Closes January 14.
St. Louis artist Amy Reidel draws her inspiration from color MRIs, family portraits and weather radar imagery. Nobody who has lived in the Midwest for any length of time can fail to see the menace implicit in the deep reds of a heavy storm looming over the metro area. By overlaying that data on the face of a relative, Reidel combines the predictive powers of technology
with the emotional patterns we learn to recognize from infancy. The result is imagery that speaks to our sense of home and security and the threatening nature of the outside world — and those we let in.
Real/Radical/Psychological: The Collection on Display Mildred Kemper Lane Art Museum 1 Brookings Dr. | kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu Closes January 17.
Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum both celebrate tenth anniversaries this year. The birthday duo share a joint party with the opening of Real/Radical/Psychological: The Collection on Display, an exhibition that showcases work drawn from the museum’s deep collection, which was begun in 1881. Three curators have organized the show into three sections that explore how our ideas of what’s real, what’s radical and what’s psychological (artistically speaking) have changed.
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A selection of items from Yolklore: The “Classic Breakfast,” the “Mary B.E.A.R,” assorted pastries and the “Nest Egg.” | MABEL SUEN [REVIEW]
Morning Glory Yolklore is a winning addition to the county’s breakfast options Written by
CHERYL BAEHR Yolklore
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t’s Sunday morning at ten on the dot, and John Bogacki is serene as he braces for the impending chaos. Like a seasoned general standing in the face of the ene-
my’s advancing front line, he casually chats with one of his guests. “See that really big church across the street?” he asks. “They are letting out right now. In a couple of minutes they’re all going to be in here.” He adds ruefully, “I keep telling myself that I asked for this.” But if Bogacki was asking for the advancing hordes, the residents of Crestwood were positively begging for a place like Yolklore. In recent years, throngs of young families have flocked to the southwest county suburb, drawn by its good schools and relatively affordable real estate. So many people want to live in Crestwood that the area’s 63126 zip code was deemed one of the hottest markets in the country by Realtor.com last December. No one is moving here for the food, though, and as the number of hungry mouths increased in the area, the options remained pretty
much limited to the usual chain suspects or, if you were feeling more exotic, Chinese takeout or a handful of Americanized Mexican joints. Breakfast required a trek to Kirkwood or Webster Groves if you wanted something that wasn’t served in a paper wrapper. This explains the lines out the door, sometimes into the parking lot, every Saturday and Sunday at Yolklore. It’s been like this since Bogacki, his wife Mary and their longtime friend Billy Oziransky opened in July, which is probably why John Bogacki can remain calm in the face of the storm: He’s used to it by now. But while the trio likely could have slung simple bacon-and-egg platters and still generated a robust response, a glance at their menu reveals serious ambition. This is not your average pancake house. The three are redefining the day s
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most important meal, with a menu as interesting as the town’s upscale dinner spots. The fact they’re doing so with a fast-casual setup and fairly cheap prices, serving up real ho semade food in less than five minutes, is downright impressive. You wouldn’t realize this was a bastion of gourmet breakfast fare from the exterior, though — and that’s if you could see it at all. Yolklore sits awkwardly in the back of a dated strip mall whose tenants include a vape shop and an Asian massage parlor. Inside, though, the small storefront that used to be King Edward’s Fried Chicken has been transformed into a charming space with white wainscoting and eggplant-colored walls. Seating is mostly communal, with a line of stainless steel chef tables in the middle of the room in addition to a counter with stools lining one of the Continued on pg 34
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YOLKLORE Continued from pg 33 walls. Yolklore’s branding is as impressive as its food, with bright folk art patterns painted throughout the room. Even the bathroom is whimsical, covered with a wallpaper design patterned with eggs. The dining space is relatively small, but the open, subway-tiled kitchen is massive. Guests order at one counter, pick up at another when their name is called and can watch everything that happens in between. Even the massive prepkitchen is in full view of patrons, with a large window providing a peak into the behind-the-scenes activities — and considering John Bogacki’s charcuterie prowess, this is one kind of sausage-making that is fun to watch. It’s even more fun to eat. Yolklore’s “Classic Breakfast,” its most popular dish, ticks off all of the savory breakfast dishes you want but can never decide between: two farm-fresh eggs, your choice of breakfast meat, Yolklore’s gloriously pepperspeckled griddle-smashed potatoes and a portion of biscuits and gravy. I didn’t think I’d see the day where I turned up my nose at the magnificent ailey s acon but John Bogacki’s housemade sausage has stolen my heart. The ground pork, laden with garlic, sage and just a hint of pepper, comes as a patty the size of a respectable hamburger. It’s the basis of the sausage gravy, which is rich without being gloppy. Mary ogacki s aky isc its rovide a magnificent canvas. If I wasn’t eating them, I’d love to rest my head atop Yolklore’s pancakes, or “Big Dippers” as they call them, and drift off into ma le-scented dreams. The ffy
The “Nest Egg”: a biscuit with cheddar, bacon, eggs, pickled onion and preserved lemon. | MABEL SUEN
The sausage gravy is rich without being gloppy; Mary Bogacki’s flaky biscuits provide a magnificent canvas. hotcakes are the perfection of genre — crisp on the outside, yet so soft inside they almost have a custard-like texture. A slight essence of vanilla permeates these beauties. Yolklore excels equally with its less traditional items. The signature “Nest Egg” would be at home in a white-tablecloth environment. Flaky dough, shaped into a round cup, forms a basket that holds two
over-easy eggs and crumbled bacon. Pickled onions and pieces of preserved lemon cut through the richness, oozing yolks. The entire enterprise is reminiscent of a haute cuisine toad in the hole. If the “Nest Egg” displays Yolklore’s decadence, the “Pancake Roll is its firecracker. Two eggs searing hot turkey chorizo, cheddar cheese and pickled jalapenos are drizzled with lime crema and folded into a crepe-like blanket. The spice is not for the faint of heart, but rewards anyone who can handle some forehead sweat. The mushroom frittata was the only thing approximating a miss. Flavor-wise, the dish was a wonderful pairing of mushrooms, creamy goat cheese and a sweet tomato jam. The tough texture, however, seemed overcooked. Each of the owners has a namesake sandwich — if it’s supposed to re ect their ersonalities iransky is the one you’d like to drink with all night long and then hit a
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For Sauce on the Side Co-Founder, It All Began with Seinfeld Written by
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aniel Porzel laughs when he tells the story about how Sauce on the Side (multiple locations including 4261 Manchester Avenue, 314-932-7800) came to be. “It’s because of Seinfeld,” Porzel explains. “My business partner Ryan [Mangialardo] was watching the calzone episode where George gets the calzones for Steinbrenner, and he called our other partner Brendon [Maciariello] and said, ‘Hey man, we should do calzones.’” Maciarello replied, “Yeah man, I’m hungry. That sounds great.” But Mangialardo wasn’t talking about dinner: “No. I mean really do calzones, like open a calzone place.” t wasn t the first time the friends had discussed opening a restaurant. The three industry veterans always had in the back of their minds that they’d partner up to open a place, but they had never really settled on a conce t. t first we thought about doing gourmet burgers,” says Porzel. “That’s when the whole burger thing was popular, but everyone was doing them.” The holdup for Porzel wasn’t just related to finding the right conce t though — he also needed to muster the courage to make a major career change. “I’d always worked in restaurants, but I took a break and went the education route,” he explains. “I sort of came to teaching by accident, but I fell in love with it. I’d spent a large chunk of my life pursing that, but after ten years, I felt a little stagnant and needed a change. It’s really emotional, and
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Sauce on the Side’s Daniel Porzel identifies with a date: “sweet and savory.” | KELLY GLUECK being invested in the kids so much made it really hard.” Mangialardo’s calzone idea struck a chord with the three friends, and they got to work perfecting their dough recipe and playing around with different ingredient combinations. Once they had some basic concepts down, Porzel decided he was ready to leave teaching altogether to focus on the restaurant. Four years later, Porzel and his partners just opened their third location, in the city’s Grove neighborhood, and have their eye on expanding outside of the St. Louis market. That doesn’t mean Porzel has fully left his teaching role behind, though — some of his former students are now his employees. have a o t five or si of them working for me now,” he says. “I taught second, fourth and fifth grade, and now they are college kids!” Porzel took a break from the restaurant to share his thoughts on the city’s dining scene, his frozen kryptonite and why St. Louis needs a Star Wars-themed restaurant.
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What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did? That I have a wonderful singing voice. I can’t seem to get any of my staff to realize that. What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you? Similar to Stuart Smalley where I tell myself I’m good enough, smart enough and people like me...just less insecurely. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? The ability to stop time…or super speed so I could get everything done want to...or ying. amn. Great question! What is the most positive thing in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year? I think the attention to quality ingredients and overall passion for the end product. What is something missing in the local food, wine or cocktail scene that you’d like to see? A Star Wars-themed restaurant or an all-garlic-cheese-bread restaurant.
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The space that formely held Lucky Buddha is now home to a restaurant familiar to south city diners. | CHERYL BAEHR looking for the right opportunity.” He got one when Jeliti heard that the old Lucky Buddha space was available (the restaurant closed in January after less than a year). Though the space was basically turnkey, he and his team got to work putting their own stam on the lace to re ect a similar vibe to the old Spare No Rib. Though decidedly cozier than the old spot (the Gravois location is all windows), the new restaurant captures the sort of
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enna and Jason Siebert spent October 18 sorting through the wreckage of their Soulard bakery. The kitchen and decorating room in the back of the Sweet Divine (1801 S. Ninth St.; 636-9422900) are charred black. The melted brown plastic sides of a coffee machine dangle off a shelf, like a chocolate fountain in suspended motion. “Our shop was so cute,” Jenna says, surveying the damage. “But we’re going to rebuild, and we’re going to make it even cuter.” The shop had been closed on onday cto er when the fire began. Jason had stopped by earlier before making a supply run to prepare for a busy two days of events. He’d been gone maybe two hours when, at 11 a.m., black smoke signaled trouble. irefighters res onded and were a le to ickly control the fire t not before it wrecked the shop. A faulty freezer compressor appears to be to blame. It burned through the floor of the decorating room, melting plumbing and frying the building’s wiring as it crashed through to the basement.
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The fire was contained to the back of the building and to where it spread in the basement, but the smoke permeated the shop and an upstairs apartment, leaving a layer of soot on everything. The sour smell of wet ash has replaced the aroma of baking cakes. The Sieberts are trying to shake off the shock of the fire and foc s on relaunching their business, which won national acclaim in 2012 with a victory on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars. They spent the morning meeting with insurance adjusters, talking to their contractor and calling disaster cleanup companies. The repair will require a gut rehab, Jenna says, and they’re estimating it will take six months. In the meantime, they plan to rent kitchen space off-site and contin e to fill orders. The weet ivine egan as a food tr ck and they expect to lean heavily on that foundation as they rebuild. Fans of the popular shop can follow the progress on the shop’s Twitter and Facebook accounts, where Jenna and Jason have already begun posting updates. “Nobody got hurt, which is fantastic,” Jason says. “Now we need to focus on getting back to work.” n
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here is only one thing wrong with the tacos being served at the new happy hour that premiered last week at Público (6679 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-833-5780), Mike Randolph’s acclaimed Latin-inspired restaurant — and that is this: There is no drive-through access. Fast food lovers may still notice that they look familiar. Served in a crisp corn shell that’s been fried and then stuffed with meat, cheese and lettuce, they come with a side of house-made ranch on the side for dipping. In other words, they’re almost exactly like the wildly addictive tacos at Jack in the Box — only they’re made with artisan lettuce and the meat inside is no mys-
tery (it’s apparently short rib). Like their fast food counterparts, they are insanely good. The tacos are the creation of so s chef ryan sso. sso s first kitchen job was at Taco Bell, and the 26-year-old admits to having spent way too many hours messing around in the kitchen, trying to recreate the fast food classics. “Gorditas, crunch wraps — I like the food, but I also like the idea of figuring out how to do them properly, with fresh ingredients.” The Público tacos are almost certain to remain a work in progress. Because the restaurant uses farm-fresh ingredients, the lettuce that gives these babies crunch will likely change with the seasons — t that s . They take their avor from the terrific com ination of crunchy shell and soft meat, the dried chiles that inform the seasoning, the hint of cheese and a squeeze of lime. Sold in a pair for $6, they’re the perfect thing to order next time you’re craving delicious, but don’t want food that’s spent weeks in a deep freeze. Público’s new happy hour includes a host of drink specials, as well as fritters and spiced peanuts. It’s only available from 5 to 7 p.m. in the bar area, Tuesdays through Fridays. If you get a craving for these tacos after 7, well, you proba ly already know where to find the drive-through version. Just try not to think too hard about what you’re eating. n riverfronttimes.com
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And We’re Rolling St. Louis’ Sawhorse Studios keeps the music coming in its tenth year Written by
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n a Friday afternoon in early August, Jason McEntire and Chris Turnbaugh are situated behind an SSL mixing desk in McEntire’s Sawhorse Studios. The two engineers are digging through the master tapes of a piece of St. Louis music history, preparing a digital transfer of the Dazzling Killmen’s album Face of Collapse. Skin Graft Records is reissuing the famed mathrock band’s debut as a double LP this November, and McEntire, along with Killmen drummer Blake Fleming, is overseeing the restoration of the original 24-track tapes. But in the process of transferring the songs, McEntire and Turnbaugh get a peek behind the curtain at the studio tricks and tools used by renowned engineer Steve Albini. Working with the unmixed files is somewhat akin to working off a recipe without measurements — you know the ingredients but not the ratio. On one track, the engineers uncover fo r different vocal files two microphones at singer Nick Sakes’ mouth, one running through a distorted am lifier and another mic set halfway across the room. l ini s final mi corrals all these files together t sifting thro gh the raw data is something of an archaeological dig. For Turnbaugh, the experience emphasizes “the stuff you might not notice, but it made the song what it is.” ch is the magic of st dio work Recording engineers play the role of technical handyman, sonic tinkerer, cat wrangler and band psychiatrist all in one, in the service
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“I think if you look around St. Louis at the amount of musicians and the amount of studios going on, there’s still a big argument for coming into a place with world-class gear.” of executing the artists’ vision. It is, by design, a behind-the-scenes operation that results in little more public acknowledgement than a liner-note credit. For McEntire, who has been a recording engineer for more than twenty years, that level of limited visibility is part of
the charm. “It started off as me being a guy who has the tools to record stuff — that’s really my passion, that’s what I want to do,” he says. He’d rather not be seen as a producer, a term that carries a certain puppet-master connotation. His request to bands? “Just spell my name right as the engineer.” Sawhorse is located in a relatively sleepy stretch of south city, near the Dutchtown neighborhood and down the street from the famed comfort-food joint Iron Barley. The building is unmarked, save for its address, and its blacked-out storefront windows obscure the bevy of recording and musical gear inside. McEntire has been at the studio’s helm for ten years, having adapted to economic and technological trends that have simultaneously devalued recorded music and made it easier for home-recording enthusiasts to bypass professional studios altogether. His studio has helped some of St. Louis’ most accomplished bands make career-best recordings; this year
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saw the release of Kevin Bowers’ ambitious Brazilian music suite Nova, which boasted over a dozen musicians and a revolving door of guest singers. Last year the Bottle Rockets, perhaps our city’s most purely distilled vision of where rock and roots collide, brought in longtime producer Eric “Roscoe” Ambel to record South Broadway Athletic Club at the st dio. t was the first time in the band’s 25-year history that it had recorded in its hometown. “It was pretty dang nice to work as late as you needed to and drive five min tes and slee in your own bed,” Bottle Rockets leader Brian Henneman told KDHX in December of last year. While Sawhorse can help a band shepherd its recording from its initial stages through to the mixing and mastering phase, McEntire has embraced a slew of freelance engineers and welcomed them into the space to work on their own projects — home recordists who, as McEntire says, “have their own home spaces Continued on pg 42
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SAWHORSE STUDIOS Continued from pg 41 but have totally realized that they won’t be putting a drum booth in.” That e i ility for a freelancer to use Sawhorse’s spacious live room to track, say, a rhythm section or a grand iano then take the files home to tinker with, has helped sustain the studio. n the last five years ve realized that it doesn’t have to be me — it’s the studio, it’s Sawhorse now,” says McEntire. Turnbaugh is one such freelance engineer who had worked for years out of his home, recording local acts like Yankee Racers and Bruiser Queen. He’s also a gigging bass player in a variety of acts ranging from technical metal to blues to singer-songwriter material; straddling both worlds has given him perspective on the ease of a basement recording and the relative affordability of recording at a space like Sawhorse. “It’s gotten way cheaper to make records in general, which I think is a beautiful thing because you’ve got all these bands when there was a time where, if they wanted to be heard by a large audience, they had to be signed,” says Turnbaugh. “But I think if you look around St. Louis at the amount of musicians and the amount of studios going on, there’s still a big argument for coming into a place with worldclass gear.” That gear is a big part of Sawhorse s a eal cross the complex’s three studio spaces, McEntire
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and a slew of other engineers have amassed enough instruments, microphones and pre-amps to make a seasoned gear-hound’s knees buckle. Studio A’s live room currently houses a Baldwin baby grand piano, a pair of Hammond B3 organs and a few vintage Marshall, Ampeg and Silvertone amlifiers. While plenty of rock-centric bands have used Sawhorse’s live room and recorded through its SSL mixing console, McEntire credits Preston Jones, a young engineer often found in Studio B whose clients come largely from the hip-hop and R&B community. “He’s the fastest guy I’ve seen,” McEntire says of Jones, who works primarily with the all-digital ProTools interface. “Today he’s going four sessions deep, three hours apiece.” Turnbaugh, likewise, has benefitted from the in of engineers working in the space, looking over the shoulders of McEntire and Jones as they work. “Everybody that works here is community-minded,” he says. “It’s just a really creative, supportive vibe.” As Sawhorse celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, McEntire reflects on the changing face of the larger music industry and his studio’s ability to weather those changes. “I don’t see really much having to change in the industry considering that we don’t depend on the industry,” says McEntire. “You just depend on the love and the art from musicians who really want to put it out there.” n
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t. Louis has a thriving music scene, yet few musicians within it get all the attention they want or deserve. Even in an age when anyone can post music online, it can still be incredibly difficult to attract listeners. The St. Louis County Library is addressing this problem with its new Listen Up STL program — challenging the stereotype of libraries as stuffy or quiet even as it provides a new outlet for music fans to discover local artists. Open to all musicians based in St. Louis, Listen Up STL invites local acts to submit albums of original music for library cardholders to browse and stream. The library will accept all genres of music; it has already garnered more than 90 submissions of rap, rock, jazz, classical, Christian music and more. Kristen Sorth, director of the St. Louis County Library, explains that local musicians can gain a wider audience of listeners through this program, as anyone with a library card can stream music online or through the library app. With roughly 355,000 patrons, the St. Louis County Library represents an audience waiting to be tapped. And with touring musicians presented alongside groups or individuals just starting out, Listen Up will give an equal chance for exposure for all. “We have some that are musicians that definitely lay aro nd town,” says Sorth, “and some individuals or groups that are not well-known in St. Louis, which is what we wanted. We wanted to be a place where local musicians
Whoa Thunder is just one local act participating in Listen Up STL. | COURTESY OF THE BAND can put their music out so people co ld find them and ild a igger audience.” Whoa Thunder, winner of the 2016 RFT Music Award for best indie-pop band, is one of the local acts participating. Guitarist/vocalist Brian McClelland is excited about the project. “I’m a big believer in making local music available in places where people who wouldn’t normally have access, or even a desire, really, to seek out stuff being made in their own backyards,” he says. “Will having my music available on this new service help accomplish that? It certainly couldn’t hurt. I’m excited about any new program or service that helps people to start discovering local artists.” Melinda Cooper, guitarist/ vocalist for Town Cars (and an occasional RFT contributor), agrees. Her band is also involved. “Making local music available for streaming through the library not only helps artists here, it helps out our venues as well,” she says. “When you expand your music’s
availability you not only have a better chance of selling your records, you also have a better possibility of getting bodies into clubs to see a show.” Indeed, along with simply streaming the music, Sorth says that the library will link to bands’ Facebook pages and concert calendars “so that people can actually go and see them if they like what they hear on the library’s website.” In a sense, the Listen Up program can act as another publicity opportunity for local bands, although no money will change hands. The goal, Sorth says, is to build an ever-increasing collection of local music for patrons to explore. The music that bands submit, says Sorth, “stays up for two years, and then it will come down. But we will add over the course of the years.” Since the library will call for submissions two times per year after its inauguration this winter, the collection will grow as the next set of submitted albums merge with the past albums.
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This program represents an extension of the County Library’s efforts to offer new opportunities for the St. Louis community. A similar program in place for independent book publishing, SELF-e, allows local writers to submit their e-books to the library, which then chooses some submissions and puts them online for all participating Missouri library patrons to read. Though the writers are not paid for their submissions, there is no fee for them to submit, and if chosen they receive a wider reading audience. Unlike SELF-e, Listen Up STL will post all eligible music for patron streaming. Artists have until October 31 to submit their original music. “We know that St. Louis has so many creative people,” Sorth says. “There’s so much great local music and we’re just really excited to be able to introduce our patrons to that talent, and then give musicians the opportunity to get their music out there.” n
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hile many bands use the recording studio as another instrument in their arsenal — spending countless hours crafting and honing and tinkering — there are plenty of groups who need the shared, communal experience of a live performance to make their songs shine. For Salt of the Earth, a long-running folk quartet whose songs tend toward the spiritually ruminative and slice-of-life introspective, the stage has proven a more conducive environment from which to share its songs and stories. Its newest album, Unspoken, presents thirteen new original songs as recorded in concert at the Riverfront Cultural Society in New Haven, Missouri. Lynne Reif, who plays guitar and, along with Mike Schrand, splits lead singing and songwriting duties, describes the venue as “one of our favorite places to play.” Not unlike Maplewood’s Focal Point — where Salt of the Earth recorded its last live set in 2012 — Reif calls the Society “a music listening room. People come there to listen. It’s this old rustic s ace with wooden chairs and wooden oors and it has that earthy, down-home feel to it. The crowd couldn’t have been more receptive.” That friendly crowd and welcoming space had an lifting in ence according to eif. e says that while the band has no trouble communicating regardless of the setup, the back-and-forth between artist and audience has a palpable effect on the songs themselves. “I think we relate to each other the same, which is this incredibly comfortable relationship we have at this stage of the game,” she says of the band’s interpersonal interactions. t dio recording is a little more artificial, to be in different sections of a room and listening through headphones. That’s the barrier — those pieces you have to have in place to record. In these last two live records, I feel that the songs get better. There’s a groove that happens.” The groove asserts itself more in the good vibes and audible warmth with which the band performs. Reif and Schrand have been playing together since 2003 and this current lineup, with Jake Brookman on cello and Jim Hieger on guitar, congealed in 2005. Its vibe is resolutely mid-tempo and genteel, emphaszing the song’s lyrics and letting the instrumentation — Brookman’s cello especially — offer a resonant counterpoint. Reif’s songs often contain some emotional heft but carry the burden well; many of her offerings address a spiritual thirst or existential yearning while staying rooted in the here and now. “The whole time I’ve been writing, I’ve been moved typically by a moment in time, where I am present for something that I feel a strong reaction to, and it starts to form an image in my mind,” she says. “They certainly have a spiritual sense to them in searching for the meaning in whatever the moment
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is. When it started, it was moments of hardship. As the years have gone on, it’s been more the power of moments and relationships.” On the album, Reif’s “Sine Nomine” is a standout that deals with the kind of clarity that comes with age and e erience. was re ecting ack on choices ve made all the way back to childhood,” says Reif. “It was like I had a clear view that those choices that seemed weird, they were the absolutely the right choices for me.” In the chorus she intones “so we pray,” less as a traditional religious offering, Reif says, but as a reminder to unburden ourselves. “In the song there’s soul-searching, and then there’s trusting that things are unfolding the way they are supposed to.” Reif and Schrand trade songs back and forth throughout Unspoken, and they’re different enough songwriters to give a mild sense of whiplash as they pass the mic. Schrand’s songs are more up front with wry, often self-lacerating humor. As the disc progresses a few of his tracks — “Put It Down” and “Spot on a Hill” in particular — take a long, wizened view of middle age and the insight that it has brought. “I used to say that his songs were like rambling ranch houses — they kept turning corners and I never knew what corner was coming up,” Reif says of Schrand’s songs. “Today, when I hear his songs, they are in some centralized location within him.” That the two songwriters have found their concerns at a point of convergence may not be surprising for a and nearing its fifteenth year together. nd on Unspoken, the without-a-net aspect of live recording serves to underline the wordless communication between these musicians. “We’re older, and I don’t know if we’re wiser, but we have more life experience,” Reif says. “What you’re hearing is more re ection than str ggle. t s contemplative — we’re on the other side on a lot of these paths that we’ve walked.” –Christian Schaeffer
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THURSDAY 27
Puck, Moose Blood, Seaway 6 p.m., $22. Pop’s
Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
THE ALLEY TONES: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues
Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis,
JAKE’S LEG: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues &
UMPHEY’S MCGEE: 8 p.m.; Oct. 30, 8 p.m., $30-
& Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-
618-274-6720.
Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-
$35. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,
5222.
314-726-6161.
5222. DOC OTIS: w/ The Barroom Billies 9 p.m., $5.
SATURDAY 29
The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Lou-
ANDREW W. K. SPEAKING TOUR: 8 p.m., $20. The
Jai Imani 9 p.m., $8. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar
SUNDAY 30
is, 314-352-5226.
Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,
Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009.
AARON LEE TASJAN: 7 p.m., $10-$12. Off Broad-
FOY VANCE: 8 p.m., $15-$20. Off Broadway, 3509
314-833-3929.
MARGO PRICE: 8 p.m., $15. Old Rock House,
way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
ATTILA: w/ Chelsea Grin, Emmure, Sylar 7 p.m.,
1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
CONFLICT: w/ One Way System, Total Chaos 7
HERE COME THE MUMMIES: 8 p.m., $22.50-$25.
$20. Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East
MONEY FOR GUNS: w/ Accelerando, Soma 8
p.m., $15-$16. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-
St. Louis, 618-274-6720.
p.m., $8. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504
314-289-9050.
726-6161.
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER: w/ Misery Index,
Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.
JOE & VICKI PRICE: 6 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues
JOYCE MANOR: w/ the Hotelier, Crying 8 p.m.,
Murder Machine 6 p.m., $18-$20. Fubar, 3108
NEEDTOBREATHE: w/ Mat Kearney, Parachute,
& Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-
$15. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
Welshly Arms 7 p.m., $23-$43. Chaifetz Arena,
5222.
Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.
BRETT DENNEN: w/ Lily and Madeleine 8 p.m.,
1 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis, 314-977-5000.
LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: 8:30 p.m., $10. BB’s
KILBORN ALLEY BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
$22-$32. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.
PAUL MOONEY: w/ the Mooney Twins, Sir Ervin
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
Louis, 314-773-3363.
III, Tahir Moore 8 p.m., $25-$35. Ambassador,
314-436-5222.
436-5222.
DALTON RAPATTONI: noon, $18-$68. Off Broad-
9800 Halls Ferry Road, North St. Louis County,
ROCKY & THE WRANGLERS: 4 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
LEMÂITRE: 8 p.m., $15-$20. The Firebird, 2706
way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
314-869-9090.
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
HALLOWEEN PARTY COVER SHOW: 8 p.m., free.
(SKYBURNTWHITE): w/ New Lingo, Discrepan-
436-5222.
MANIC FOCUS: 9 p.m., $12. Old Rock House,
The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Lou-
cies, OATM, Conquer As They Come, Apollo’s
SHELLAC: w/ Shannon Wright 8 p.m., $15. The
1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
is, 314-352-5226.
Daughter 7 p.m., $8. The Firebird, 2706 Olive
Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
NON EXOTIC: w/ Luxora 6 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108
HOODAT B: CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL
St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
UMPHEY’S MCGEE: Oct. 29, 8 p.m.; 8 p.m., $30-
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
EXPERIENCE: 8 p.m., $12-$15. Delmar Hall, 6133
TOM HALL: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups,
$35. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,
LOOPRAT: w/ Armani, Less, Spliff The Hippie,
YUNG PINCH: 9 p.m., $13-$15. Fubar, 3108
314-726-6161.
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
WE CAME AS ROMANS: w/ Counterparts, Fire
[CRITIC’S PICK]
FRIDAY 28
From The Gods, Reconcera, A Promise To Burn, In My Silence, We Are Descendants 5:30 p.m.,
AARON KAMM & THE ONE DROPS: 8 p.m., $10-
$18-$20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester
$15. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,
Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
314-726-6161. ADAM TORRES: w/ Thor and Friends 9 p.m.,
MONDAY 31
$12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,
ANGEL PRESENTS SOUL SEARCHING: 8 p.m., $10.
314-773-3363.
BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.
ALL GET OUT: w/ Gates, Young and Heartless
Louis, 314-436-5222.
8 p.m., $12. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room,
FISTER: w/ Hell Night, Grand Inquisitor 8 p.m.,
6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-
$10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-
4444.
9050.
BLANK: w/ Neuro-Logic 8 p.m., $7. Cicero’s,
HOUSTON PERSON QUARTET: 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.,
6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-
$35. Ferring Jazz Bistro, 3536 Washington Ave,
0009.
St. Louis, 314-571-6000.
DOYLE BRAMHALL II: 8 p.m., $20. Old Rock
KYLE CRAFT: 8 p.m., $12. Off Broadway, 3509
House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
FRIGHT NIGHT: 6 p.m., $12-$15. Fubar, 3108
Margo Price. | ANGELINA CASTILLO
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. KINGDOM BROTHERS: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222. MARQUISE KNOX BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222. OLD SALT UNION: w/ Head for the Hills 7 p.m., $12-$15. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929. ROOTS OF A REBELLION: w/ The Driftaways 8 p.m., $7-$10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. THE STEELDRIVERS: 8 p.m., $20-$45. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900. THE VIGILETTES: w/ Pirate Signal, Ish, Squircle The Destroyer 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226. THE WONDER YEARS: w/ Real Friends, Knuckle
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LISTENER: w/ Scribble, Ursa Major 7 p.m., $12$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-2899050.
Margo Price 8 p.m. Saturday, October 29. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street. $15. 314-588-0505.
Margo Price found national attention this year on the strength of a clever, gritty honky-tonk single “Hurtin’ (on the Bottle)” and the backing of Third Man Records. Skeptics still can’t get past the imprimatur of Jack White’s hipster star factory, but skeptics are silly. On her full-length album, Midwest Farmer’s Daughter, the northwestern Illinois native belts out seething and
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sinewy lines like a riot grrrl-era Loretta Lynn, draws on a lifetime of true and near-true stories, and swings a Waylon Jennings-esque country-rock sound. Whether rewinding the “cruel hands of time” or cutting through music biz bullshit — “It’s not who you know, but it’s who you blow who will put you in the show” — Price has no fucks to give and a lot of honky tonks to burn down. Immodest proposals: East Nashville jester Darrin Bradbury opens with sometimes withering, sometimes absurdist country-folk. – Roy Kasten
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RATS AND PEOPLE MOTION PICTURE ORCHESTRA: 8 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226. SOULARD BLUES BAND: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314621-8811. THE STORY SO FAR: 7 p.m., $19.99-$23. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929. TROYE SIVAN: 7 p.m., $29.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS: w/ Laura Burhenn 8 p.m., $18-$20. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
TUESDAY 1 THE BLUES CRUSHERS: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
[CRITIC’S PICK]
William Fitzsimmons 8 p.m. Monday, October 31. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street. $20. 314-535-0353.
The Pittsburgh-bred, Springfield, Illinois-based singer-songwriter William Fitzsimmons has never been shy about plumbing his own biography in the service of his songs. Over the past decade, a heaping handful of his albums have featured tracks that address his direct experiences with mental illness, divorce and related human frailties, but his warm and gentle approach to the material is always welcoming and
sympathetic. His most recent studio releases are a pair of mini-LPs inspired by the lives of his grandmothers, and a just-released live album shows Fitzsimmons and his band at work on stage. Even their reworking of Fleetwood Mac’s gossamer pop hit “Everywhere” feels imbued with the same gravity that attends Fitzsimmons’ best work. No Myth: Laura Burhenn, who normally fronts the fine piano-fired combo the Mynabirds, will open the show with a solo set. – Christian Schaeffer
MARGARET CHO | OCT 27-29 “drop dead diva”
436-5222.
6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
THE GASLIGHT SQUARES: 10 a.m.; Nov. 2, 10
TOUCHE AMORE: w/ Tiny Moving Parts, Culture
a.m., $15-$18. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington
Abuse 8 p.m., $15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp
Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900.
Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828 Olive
THIS JUST IN
Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.
5TH ANNUAL SANTA JAM: W/ Jana Kramer,
KYNG: 8 p.m., $15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th
William Michael Morgan, Thu., Dec. 1, 7 p.m.,
St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
$9.37-$19.37. Peabody Opera House, 1400
SEASONS AFTER: 7 p.m., $12-$14. The Firebird,
Market St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888, peabodyop-
2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
erahouse.com.
ST. LOUIS SOCIAL CLUB: 8 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
ALKALINE QUARTET: TRIBUTE TO ALKALINE TRIO:
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
W/ Ben Diesel, Sat., Nov. 19, 9 p.m., $10. The
436-5222.
Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis,
WEDNESDAY 2
PREMIUM EVENT SPACE
314-352-5226, theheavyanchor.com. ANTHONY BROWN: W/ Travis Greene, Jonathan
¡MAYDAY!: w/ Zeus Rebel Waters, High55, Hippy
McReynolds, Tue., Feb. 21, 8 p.m., $32-$46.50.
Nation, AZ The Fallen, Red Famous 8 p.m., $15.
Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Lou-
Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St.
is, 314-241-1888, peabodyoperahouse.com.
Louis, 618-274-6720.
APEX SHRINE: W/ Comrade Catbox, Chalk,
BIG RICH MCDONOUGH & RHYTHM RENEGADES: 7
Famous Losers, Thu., Nov. 17, 9 p.m., $7. The
p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broad-
Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis,
way, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
314-352-5226, theheavyanchor.com.
BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale on
BASSAMP & DANO’S NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIV-
Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-
ING BEER-A-THON & TURKEY TOSS EXTRAVAGAN-
7880.
ZA: W/ The Jag-Wires, Grave Neighbors, The
BOWLING FOR SOUP: w/ The Fuck Off And Dies
Fighting Side, Bassamp & Dano, Wed., Nov. 23,
8 p.m., $20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester
9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois
Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226, theheavyanchor.
CRUEL HAND: w/ Eternal Sleep, Will to Die 7
com.
p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
CASKEY: W/ Cityboistreets, Darius Hickman,
314-289-9050.
Cali_Bombay, High55, Chuck Gang Ent, SKOOB-
ERIC JOHNSON: 8 p.m., $35. Old Rock House,
EEZY, Luhh B, Fri., Dec. 16, 7 p.m., $15-$18.
1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St.
THE GASLIGHT SQUARES: Nov. 1, 10 a.m.; 10
Louis, 618-274-6720, popsrocks.com.
a.m., $15-$18. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington
CAVEOFSWORDS: W/ Gypsy Moonshine, Seash-
Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900.
ine, Town Cars, Fri., Nov. 18, 9 p.m., $7. The
LIKE PACIFIC: w/ Broadside, Rarity, Boston Man-
Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis,
or 6 p.m., $13-$15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St.,
314-352-5226, theheavyanchor.com.
St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
THE DAMNED: Fri., April 21, 8 p.m., $25-$32.
PLANES MISTAKEN FOR STARS: w/ Drug Church,
Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-
Cruel Hand, Eternal Sleep, Will to Die 7 p.m.,
726-6161, delmarhall.com.
$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-
ECCLESIAST: W/ Blind Shepherd, Out Of Orbit,
9050.
Mental Fixation, Silence The Witness, Ban-
SEVEN LIONS: 8 p.m., $26-$31. The Pageant,
WORLD FAMOUS COMEDIANS
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Cruel Hand. | PHOTO VIA HOPELESS RECORDS
Cruel Hand 7 p.m. Wednesday, November 2. Cruel Hand has come a long way since its beginnings as a humble side project. Formed in 2006 as a way for the members of Maine hardcore band Outbreak to switch around the instruments they were each playing, the five-piece has proven to have much more longevity than its forebear, which has been inactive since 2011. (By the end of Outbreak’s run the two groups no longer shared any members.) Cruel Hand has since gone on to release
five LPs to Outbreak’s two, including September’s Your World Won’t Listen, a ripping bombardment of metal-tinged, East Coast hardcore in the vein of No Warning and the Cro-Mags. Outbreak fans may continue to mourn the group’s ongoing inactivity, but at least they still have Cruel Hand to keep the pit moving. Maximum Output: Warming the stage on this tour are Pittsburgh’s Eternal Sleep and Knoxville’s Will to Die, each hardcore and heavy in its own right. Show up on time and don’t forget to stage dive. – Daniel Hill
garang, Fri., Dec. 9, 6 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108
Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050, fubarstl.com.
5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: W/ Hatchet, Lunatic,
PAT LISTON BAND: Sat., Dec. 10, 8 p.m., $25. The
Wrecklamation, Mon., Nov. 14, 8 p.m., $12. The
Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-
Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353,
6161, thepageant.com.
fire irdstl.com.
RIFF RAFF: W/ Dolla Bill Gates, Owey, Peter
FRAGILE PORCELAIN MICE: W/ NIL8, Superfun
Jackson, Fri., Feb. 3, 8 p.m., $20-$23. Pop’s
Yeah Yeah Rocketship, Wed., Nov. 23, 7 p.m.,
Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis,
$10.57-$15. Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave.,
618-274-6720, popsrocks.com.
East St. Louis, 618-274-6720, popsrocks.com.
SAFETYSUIT: Fri., Feb. 10, 8 p.m., $15. Old Rock
G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE: Sun., Jan. 15, 8 p.m.,
House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505,
$25. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave,
oldrockhouse.com.
St. Louis, 314-833-3929, thereadyroom.com.
SUNNY SWEENEY: W/ Brennen Leigh, Courtney
GREENSKY BLUEGRASS: Fri., Jan. 13, 8 p.m., $20-
Patton, Jamie Lin Wilson, Tue., Dec. 13, 8 p.m.,
$25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,
$12-$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.
314-726-6161, thepageant.com.
Louis, 314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com.
HEROINSIDE II: W/ Doorway, Monhk, Colin Rich,
VALE OF PNATH: W/ Aethere, Micawber, Mon.,
Infamous Cartel, Chel, Bo Dean, Heir to the
Dec. 5, 6 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,
Throne, Mai Lee & The Knuckles, Fri., Dec. 9, 8
St. Louis, 314-289-9050, fubarstl.com.
p.m., $10. Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave.,
THE WINTER JAM: W/ Ginuwine, SWV, After 7,
East St. Louis, 618-274-6720, popsrocks.com.
Jaheim, Thu., Dec. 1, 7 p.m., $45-$95.50. The
JMIKE DOUGHTY: W/ Wheatus, Sun., Feb. 19, 8
Fox Theatre, 527 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-
p.m., $18-$20. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St.,
534-1111, fabulousfox.com.
St. Louis, 314-588-0505, oldrockhouse.com.
WINTER LOUGRASS FEST: Fri., Dec. 2, 7 p.m.,
MUSIC UNLIMITED: Mon., Nov. 21, 8 p.m., $5.
$13. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave,
Mon., Nov. 28, 8 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues &
St. Louis, 314-833-3929, thereadyroom.com.
Fubar, 3108 Locust Street. $12. 314-289-9050.
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SAVAGE LOVE SEVEN NIGHTS BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: I love my wife, but I have a lot of resentment, disappointment, and insecurity over our sex life. After four years of marriage, huge angst remains that I have yet to get a handle on. Right now, with kids and our busy lives, she’s content with sex once a week or so, and I need relief pretty much every night to help with my insomnia. What’s more, I really don’t enjoy porn at all, but if we aren’t having intercourse, there’s pretty much no other way for me to get off. It makes me feel dirty. I would love a solution to this problem that doesn’t involve me jerking off in a dark room by a computer screen after my wife falls asleep every night. All I want to do is feel close to my wife, orgasm and sleep. I think she does sincerely care and wants to help me, but is just so tired and busy with her career and our kids. And yes, I have talked and fought with her countless times. When Orgasms Enable Sleep You’ve been married four years, you have more than one child, you both work — and if you divide household labor like most couples, WOES, your wife is doing more/most of the cooking, cleaning and child care. But even if you were childless, living in a hotel suite with daily maid service,
eating only room service, and throwing your underpants out the window after one wearing, WOES, it would still be unreasonable to expect PIV intercourse every night of the week. Frankly, WOES, once-a-week PIV is more sex than most young straight dads are getting. And if you’re demanding PIV from your wife as a sleep aid, it’s a miracle you’re getting any sex at all. And the limited options you cite — it’s either PIV with the wife or masturbation in front of the computer — aren’t doing you any favors. Consider PIV from your wife’s perspective: Her husband fucks, comes and falls asleep. She lies there for a while afterward, tingling, and may have to go to the bathroom once or twice. The PIV that puts her husband to sleep after a long day? It puts her sleep off. And if she wanted to get it over with quickly, there wasn’t much foreplay, which means she probably wasn’t fully lubricated (uncomfortable) and most likely didn’t come (unfair). That’s a recipe for resentment, WOES, and resentment kills desire. f yo e anded yo r definition of sex, WOES, if your options weren’t PIV or nothing, you might not have to masturbate six nights a week. eca se if yo r definition of sex included oral (his and hers), mutual masturbation, and frottage — and if these weren’t consolation prizes you settled for, but sex you were enthusiastic about — your wife
might say yes to sex more often. Still, you’re never going to get it seven nights a week. So make the most of the PIV you’re getting, roaden yo r definition of se and get another night or two of sex in per week, and enjoy porn without guilt the rest of the week. And if you’re concerned about the amount of porn you’re watching, try this trick: ie on the co ch or the oor or the guest bed, stroke your cock (even if it’s soft), and think dirty thoughts. Your cock will get hard, I promise, and you’ll get off. It’s how most people masturbated before the internet came and ruined everything, WOES, and it still works. Hey, Dan: When I met my partner of three years, I thought I’d hit the jackpot: a Dom who packs a wallop but knows how to listen and loves group sex (which is kinda my jam). But we have had some rough patches, especially since he has had increasing financial trouble/underemployment, whereas I am back in school and have too many jobs. I am tired. I care about my partner a lot and feel very close to him in some ways, but I also see him taking advantage of me financially and demanding endless reassurance on top of this. So my desire is to DTMFA. But when I talk about my feelings in the relationship, he argues with me — about what my feelings are or should rationally be. The prospect of breaking up feels like
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it will be an ordeal. I feel trapped. I don’t think I can stay with him, but I also don’t want to have a conversation about leaving. Sincerely Troubled Under Constant Kriticism We need someone’s consent before we kiss them, suck them, fuck them, spank them, spoon them, marry them, collar them, etc. But we do not need someone’s consent to leave them. Breakups are the only aspect of our romantic and/or sexual lives where the other person’s consent is irrelevant. The other person’s pain is relevant, of course, and we should be as compassionate and considerate as possible when ending a relationship. (Unless we’re talking about dumping an abuser, in which case safety and self-care are all that matters.) But we don’t need someone’s consent to dump them. That means you don’t have to win an argument to break up with your boyfriend, STUCK, nor do you have to convince him your reasons are rational. You don’t even have to discuss your reasons for ending the relationship. You just have to say, “It’s over; we’re done.” It’s a declaration, STUCK, not a conversation. Listen to Dan’s podcast at savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter
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