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or the residents of Magdalene St. Louis, undoing the damage of human trafficking amounts to a full-time effort. Women admitted to the two-year program may have been sexually abused from as early as seven years old, with drugs and prostitution derailing their lives in some cases by thirteen. But healing can take many forms, and at Magdalene that process will soon involve the chance to earn a living wage while marketing and promoting an apparel company. Called Bravely, the company will provide paying jobs to five or six residents at a time, with the only requirement being the successful completion of a six-month stay in the Old North-based treatment community. “They are a group of very skilled and resilient women, but they have trouble getting employment,” explains Magdalene St. Louis executive director Hope Jernagan. “They have arrests on their records and have experienced so much trauma in their lives. Our idea is to create a business to help them overcome the trauma and help them build resiliency in the workplace.” Earlier this week, Magdalene launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $50,000 to assist with startup and payroll funding for the first year of operation. The women will be paid $13 per hour for their work, and Jernagan notes that the job comes with “no strings attached.” Having already been admitted to Magdalene St. Louis, the women are provided with housing, food, medical care and therapy at no cost. 8
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wage for the rest of their lives,” says Jernagan. The products will bear a personal touch, though. The women chose the phrases that appear on shirts, water bottles and tote bags, including “Love is brave” and “I am a work in progress.” Those messages are more than mere branding.
“It’s their voices,” Jernagan says. “They get to choose what they want to say and how they want to put it out there. It’s them saying, ‘This is what I want to tell the world about my recovery and my journey forward.’” Jernagan expects Bravely’s first line of apparel to be available for purchase by November. n
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hen you become a refugee, you don’t get a moving truck. Instead you gather the few things you can carry. You leave your house, your town and your country, and you depart from those places you hold in your heart with more nothing than something. There are steps and stops along the way, but when you arrive at your final destination, the south side of St. Louis, the International Institute helps you begin to acquire the building blocks of a life interrupted and then begun again: an apartment, the English language, a card table with hard black chairs. The International Institute’s program lasts about three months. During that time, you begin to find community others who are or who have very recently been in your position, who might even be from your country. Many share Islam as a common bond, and word of new arrivals gets back to the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis — and in turn, to a woman named Lisa Grozdanic. Grozdanic works as a task manager for the Islamic Foundation’s social services division. She spends much of her time focusing on its House of Goods program, which assists refugees who have passed that threemonth mark with the International Institute and are no longer eligible for its continued support.
BY KRYSTIN ARNESON The concept of House of Goods — or Baitulmal, to use the Arabic — is simple: Give donated items away for free to those in need. It can mean food, baby clothes, furniture, toys, shoes. The recipients don’t have to be refugees or Islamic, although they often are. Grozdanic started working with Baitulmal through her son, who volunteered back when donations were still stored in a room in the West Pine Masjid. Soon after the foundation moved the items into a Tower Grove South warehouse in late 2015, she went to pick him up from a Saturday shift. “Donations were all the way from one end of the building to the next, and all the way to the ceiling, and only two people were in there sorting through clothes,” she says. “When I walked in seeing how much donations they had and how [few] people, I couldn’t go home knowing all that stuff was there.” Grozdanic stayed that night until 7 or 8 p.m. and returned the next morning for another all-day organization spree. From there, she says “it basically became my full-time job.” She had good reason for wanting to help. The child of a mother from Austria and a father from the Philippines, Grozdanic grew up in south city. In high school, she met her husband, who came from Bosnia. He’d arrived in St. Louis after living in a concentration camp for nine and a half months. “When he was ten years old, his family had everything in their home,” she says. “They went to bed one night, and they woke up the next morning, and they lost everything.” Continued on pg 12 riverfronttimes.com
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HOUSE OF GOODS Continued from pg 11 Now, the organization has just undergone its third move in a year: from mosque to small warehouse, and now from the small warehouse to a space almost twice the size. They’re aiming to reopen in their new digs by mid-October, so long as leaders can get the zoning permit they need from City Hall. Adil Imdad started the Islamic Foundation’s social services program in 1997, coming off a master’s degree in environmental engineering at Washington University (he’d moved from Pakistan for the opportunity). Bosnians were just beginning to arrive in St. Louis, eeing the war in Yugoslavia — a country that Imdad hadn’t even realized included predominantly Muslim areas like Kosovo and Bosnia. “When they started coming into the city through International Institute, that’s what gave me a chance to connect with them,” says Imdad, now the chairman of social services for the Islamic Foundation. Imdad and his friends began to organize, arranging to help with payment for refugees’ utilities, rent, small medical bills and medication. round the city, five medical and dental clinics run by the Muslim community were opened to refugees at no cost. Two doctors assisted with psychological services — and antidepressants for those who’d arrived traumatized. Imdad took inspiration from a story in the Qur’an about Mohammed, who almost fifteen centuries ago opened the first house of goods in Medina. It was a room or small warehouse where those who were more well-off would keep food and oils and slaughter animals for those who couldn’t otherwise afford it. “He was a man of great charity — he would keep very, very little for himself,” Imdad says. emal Bijedic, the state’s first Muslim police chaplain, spurred what would be House of oods’ first wave of donations with a Facebook post late last summer, he says. He meets refugees through his work with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, interacting with families and learning about their needs. When the donations came in — and kept coming in — Baitulmal opened an independent location in November 2015: a warehouse, formerly an old motorcycle shop, in Tower Grove South. 12
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“We have never said no to anybody. The preference is for refugees, but if you’re needy, come on in.” The mission broadened. “When the House of Goods started, they were helping refugees, and my theory was to help anybody, not refugees,” says Muhidin GamutSocoro, who until recently was the manager at House of Goods. “I didn’t focus on all Syrian refugees or Somali refugees or ethnic refugees — no. Refugees and anybody who’s living in the poverty in America, because we do have people living in the poverty situation and they need help. Why should we restrain to give them any? When you have it, you should just give it for free to those that don’t have it.” The goal is to “help out humanity,” Imdad says. “That includes any religion on this earth. We have never said no to anybody. The preference is for refugees, but if you’re needy, come on in. We’ll help
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you out.” Still, the people being served remain predominantly refugees. They hear about Baitulmal by word of mouth, through shared classes at the International Institute or through the community surrounding the Islam Foundation. ro danic also finds new families through the institute — those who have given permission for their contact information to be given out but “mainly we find them on our own or they find us,” she says. Those who aren’t refugees come to House of Goods mostly through organizations they’re partnered with, including Gateway Corrections. “They bring their clients to us so we can help them reestablish their life,” she says. Almost everyone involved with Baitulmal has a lot going on in their lives outside the organization. Bijedic works 3 to 11 p.m. as a chaplain. Imdad is a chaplain too, for the county police department. In 01 , he started the first Muslim funeral home in the state to provide free funerals for families who could not otherwise afford them (they pay only the cost of the grave site). Grozdanic, whose sister also volunteers with the organization, has a two-and-a-half year old with a heart condition. Gamut-Socoro’s wife is going to school, so he’s responsible for providing for their
two children as well as his 86-yearold mother. In late August, he left his position at House of Goods, cutting his hours with the organization to a once-a-week volunteer basis to make room for a new job as a front office clerk at a hotel that would better support his family. But they can’t stand back when a huge community needs their help. On one visit in May, the warehouse could best be described as teeming, with the space — around 2,000 square feet, according to Bijedic — packed with people and donations. Given the resources of the organization and the volume at which goods were arriving and being sorted on the sales oor, triage seemed to be the order of the day. The action isn’t only at the warehouse. Volunteers and employees gather donations from around town. They’ll also pick up people who need to make a “shopping trip,” and, after they select items at Baitulmal, drop them off at their homes. Many new refugees don’t drive, after all. “We have expanded a lot now that we’re becoming very well known in the community — not just in the Muslim community but the whole community,” Grozdanic says. “With all the new refugees coming, we’re always busy; we’re constantly on the go; the phones are always ringing … thank God we’re
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Adil Imdad founded the Islamic Foundation’s social services program. | HOLLY RAVAZZOLO receiving so many donations; it’s amazing.” On a sunny Tuesday in midAugust, Grozdanic, wearing a head scarf and cheerful pink blouse, drops in on the Shaker-Saleh family, who came to St. Louis from an area of Syria that borders Iraq in July 015. They live on the top oor of a duplex in Bevo Mill. It’s much different than their first apartment in the city, which was on a rough stretch of Oregon. They moved after just three months, once their time with the International Institute was up. Thirteen-year-old Goran, the younger of the family’s two children, opens the front door with a big smile. On the landing leading up to their at are cubbies for shoes before the final ascent up to their door. Goran opens it to reveal behind him a beaming Amina, his twenty-year-old sister. Bubbling with excitement, Amina and Grozdanic embrace like relatives at the holidays after a long separation. There is a spacious living room, and Amina, Grozdanic and the siblings’ mother, Samila Saleh, settle in an L-shaped Arabic-style sofa with at cushions on the oor. The room also has another Westernstyle sofa that Goran perches on. Later, Mohammad Saleh will join and sit quietly in an armchair in
the front room, smoking a cigarette. The Shaker-Salehs are one of the first families who have been with House of Goods since the warehouse opened last year, which means they’ve spent a lot of time with Grozdanic. “So much so now that we all love each other and look at each other like we are family,” she says. The organization is responsible for the vast majority of what’s in their apartment, and now they give back to the organization in turn: Amina visits families with Grozdanic, acting as a sort of interpreter, while Goran and his father volunteer at the warehouse. Grozdanic is recently back from vacation in Florida, and Amina says that the separation felt like a year, even though Grozdanic videoconferenced with the entire family each night she was away. “I say, ‘Lisa, what day are you back?’” Amina says, laughing. “She say, ‘Maybe tomorrow, maybe today.’ I say, ‘Every day you changed. Why do you change? No more … back please!’” When she was living in Syria, Amina was studying to become an Arabic language teacher. Her plans have changed now that she’s in a place where Arabic isn’t widely offered as a language, much less in the context of a teaching program. Continued on pg 14
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HOUSE OF GOODS Continued from pg 13 But she’s looking to community college, and after that, her hopes are set on medical or law school. The family dealt with culture shock upon arrival. They’d heard there wasn’t a Muslim community here — nowhere to pray, no facilities or programs. But Amina says that it’s been easy to bond with the community. Ramadan is a time that naturally brings people together. One of the biggest hurdles for refugees, Grozdanic says, is the dissonance between the America they heard about — a Hollywoodglazed, romantic one where the path to resettlement is easy and the poetry writ under the Statue of Liberty looms large — and the America they arrive in. For those yanked out of everything familiar, who would not necessarily have left their homes but for the crisis driving them out, and who are dealing with the psychological repercussions of that jolt, the on-the-ground reality exacerbates the culture shock. “Probably every home visit that we’ve ever gone onto, most of the mothers are crying because … I guess because they’re painted a pretty picture, that when they get here they’re going to get this and they’re going to get that, and when they get here, they get a very small apartment with table and chairs,” says Grozdanic. She and Amina visited a woman who had recently arrived from Jordan. “The first time I met her she was crying and screaming, ‘Send me back to Jordan, please!’” Grozdanic says. “She say … ‘I don’t like living here. Everything bad,’” adds Amina. Grozdanic’s goal is to help them understand that the first apartment is just temporary. “You’re safe here,” she tells them, asking for patience. “You have a bed to sleep in. If you’re sitting on the oor, O they’ll get everything they need slowly.” Amina also helps new arrivals bridge the culture shock. She explains to refugees taking stock of empty apartments and navigating new systems what her family had when they came — and what they have now. “Amina gives them the example of [her family’s] life,” says Grozdanic. “How they first moved here and how they didn’t go out of the house, and how they didn’t want to eat anything, and how they were so confused.” The woman from Jordan received items from House of Goods in the 14
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“Probably every home we’ve ever gone into, most of the mothers are crying.” two weeks since Grozdanic and mina’s first visit. “She was hugging me and kissing me,” says Grozdanic. “Thanking me. It was totally different.” Younger refugees tend to be Americanized fairly quickly upon arrival, she says. Amina and Goran are great examples. Amina spoke very little English when she arrived, Grozdanic says, but now look: She acts as a translator. Goran has crossed cultural bridges in other ways: When he speaks English, his soft Syrian accent is now tinged with vowels pronounced like an English-speaking Bosnian. “I can
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tell the difference from first meeting them to seeing them now, talking with them now,” Grozdanic says. Gamut-Socoro came to St. Louis in 1996, fleeing the civil war that devastated Somalia in the ‘90s. His father was a political activist who’d visited the United Nations in New York in the 1950s. When a general staged a coup in Somalia in 1969, he went into exile in Uganda. Returning to Somalia a decade later after the Ugandan government was toppled, Gamut-Socoro’s father was placed on house arrest and stripped of his passport. He never returned to politics but found success in business instead. Gamut-Socoro was seventeen when he arrived in the U.S., among the first Somalis to come here as refugees. His family came on a Boeing 747 with around 500 refugees in total, he says. “We thought all of were going to be in one state, something like that,” he says. “When they landed us in New York [at] JFK, they separated
us into different groups. I think they gave us color groups. Either blue, red, green, and we didn’t know what the color group [meant]. We came to find out they were taking us to different states. Some family ended up in Minneapolis, Ohio, San Diego and other states. We were so confused at the time.” Although the majority of his extended family was split up between cities and states, officials kept Gamut-Socoro’s immediate family together, placing them in St. Louis. The International Institute sponsored his family — one of only seven or eight Somali clans in St. Louis at the time — during those first few months. Few Muslims lived in St. Louis then, and few organizations outside of the International Institute existed to help them. “When we came, we didn’t have the House of Goods,” Gamut-Socoro says. “I wish there was something like that at the time we came because I was lost.” His family, though educated, didn’t know how to walk him through the next steps of adulthood in a completely new culture. “Nobody was there to guide us,” he says. “Nobody told us, ‘You need to go to college. You only graduated from high school.’ Or, ‘Let’s find you a way to the best opportunity.’” Gamut-Socoro worked multiple jobs to support his parents and siblings, trying to carve out something for himself, too, along the way. His father’s health was too poor to work, and his mother was torn between staying at home to care for him or going to work and putting her husband in a care home — something that isn’t done in Somali culture. He started working at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul thrift store, eventually getting promoted to the central office, where he worked with a “bunch of nuns,” he recalls. They called him “little Mo.” “I was the only black guy working with the Caucasian women,” he says, laughing. “They were treating me like their own kid. Honestly. They loved me so much, so they were bugging me more about school, and I had to change my life. Nobody did that.” The nuns helped him enroll at St. Louis Community CollegeMeramec, where he began taking computer courses before enrolling at New Horizons St. Louis, where he added business to his studies. Nine years after starting his job at St. Vincent de Paul, he began working in the hospitality industry, where he finds himself once again.
House of Goods offers everything from furniture to food stuffs. | HOLLY RAVAZZOLO Thinking of his years as a young man, he turns solemn: “It kind of hurts me, because I wasted a lot of years in my life before I end up going to college.” Maybe, he thinks, this work with House of Goods is the reason he’s here. “I myself believe there was a purpose in my life, that’s why I am doing it and what brought me to that situation,” he says. “Because before House of Goods opened, I never thought about it. I was hired for something else: I was working as a funeral apprentice.” The outreach is critical. Many of the Somalis who Gamut-Socoro came over with, he says, have ended up in trouble — drugs, alcohol or crime. “Because nobody was there to guide them,” he says. Like Gamut-Socoro, when the first Bosnians arrived in St. Louis, free storehouses like House of Goods didn’t exist: Beyond the basics provided by the International Institute, refugees sometimes found themselves looking in alleyways for discarded furniture, says Grozdanic. Today, they remember what it’s like to go three or four months without couches or the things that make a house a home. Now many Bosnians dedicate their time and resources to helping the new waves of refugees coming through. Three months ago, Imdad says, a Bosnian guy donated a whole palette of frozen salmon. “The Bosnian community helps
House of Goods a lot — and when I stress ‘a lot,’ it’s because they were coming from war-torn countries and they know how it feels to come to the U.S. and not have anything,” says Grozdanic. And the refugee families that have arrived recently enough to benefit from House of Goods are already giving back — those who live close enough by or have transportation to get there, that is. “Syrian refugees see what they came from and what they didn’t have and now what they have, and now they share it with the other Syrians,” Grozdanic says. Word has caught on within — and outside of — the St. Louis refugee community. Seven months ago, Detroit’s police department sent two palettes of noodles and non-perishable food. Non-food donations, especially those not covered by standard government assistance, like baby clothes, washers and dryers, and cutlery — are welcomed as well. They rely on the community not only to find new families to help, but to find leads for specific items. Social media plays a huge role. Whenever they’ve posted a request for a lead, they’ve procured the item within 24 hours, Grozdanic says — every time. “We all come together to try to figure out when someone’s in need of something, we always try to find it,” she says. One donation that’s especially useful is halal meat, which is Continued on pg 16
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HOUSE OF GOODS Continued from pg 15 slaughtered in a certain ritual. “They don’t sell that in everyday grocery stores,” Grozdanic says. Grozdanic’s phone is almost constantly buzzing as she dashes between the homes of those who are resettling. hen refugees first get to St. Louis, usually while they’re in the International Institute’s program or shortly after it wraps up, she’ll do a home visit. She finds out if the family includes children, and if so, their ages and gender. She brings nonperishable food and toys. More often than not, the children are waiting at the windows for her arrival. As the only employee of the organization who was born in America, Grozdanic occupies a special —and highly valuable role — with Baitulmal. “I’m so proud of having Lisa as a sister because she’s actually born in St. Louis, raised in St. Louis, knows a lot of the things that I would be confused,” says Gamut-Socoro. Even twenty years after arriving, he says, some aspects of the city are a mystery to him. But as the only woman employed by House of Goods, Grozdanic’s gender is perhaps even more valuable. It’s easier for some women, especially those who have been through trauma, to connect with her. “I cannot go to a woman who’s been traumatized from a war,” says Gamut-Socoro. “I don’t know what she has seen, or what she has been through, and it would be very uncomfortable just speaking to a guy.” The same day she visits the Shaker-Salehs, Grozdanic visits Fairview Manor, an apartment complex on a lightly industrial stretch of Morgan Ford Road. Inside a second- oor apartment, a twelveyear-old girl is bustling about in the kitchen as her nine-year-old sister stays close by. The apartment is jarringly dark compared to the bright sunlight outdoors. Their mother, Farhiya Hassan Ali, is paralyzed from a 2011 accident. She sits on one of the International Institute’s black chairs in the living room. The family came from a refugee camp in Kenya, where they lived for seven years before being placed in this apartment by the International Institute. It also provided the family with beds, a card table and chairs, and kitchen supplies — the building blocks for a new life. With limited funds per refugee, 16
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Lisa Grozdanic, left, with husband Armin and fellow volunteer Dzemal Bijedic. | HOLLY RAVAZZOLO the Alis wound up in a neighborhood where, Grozdanic says, Ali’s children weren’t safe to play outside. Once their three months with the Institute began to draw to a close, Grozdanic began searching for a new apartment in a good neighborhood, trying in vain to find a unit on the ground level. At least this one had been newly redone, and the neighborhood seemed much better to Ali. “Now I feel good, and I feel very safe,” she says. In their former neighborhood, she adds, “I feel very alarmed.” At the time of Grozdanic’s visit, they have lived in this apartment for two weeks. The twelve-year-old does the cooking and cleaning. She put up the curtains that are fastened over the apartment’s windows all by herself. Their colors and patterns give the apartment warmth, but without a rod, the panels can’t be swept aside to let in light. Grozdanic visits this family often. Her closeness with Ali and her children is evident in their familiar tones as they talk. “I am thankful for them, they help me a lot… every day calling me, asking me whatever I need,” Ali says. All of the furniture in the room — the two comfortable
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sofas, the tables and the TV, and even the cable box that Time Warner workers later come in to install — comes from Baitulmal. The family’s bills are being paid by the Islamic Foundation via donors until Ali’s disability allotment from social security begins to come in. For now, Ali has been approved for food stamps and a cash benefit the latter of which will be cut off when social security checks begin arriving. She recalls the privations of the refugee camp. “They asked me, ‘Mama, even I want something like this,’ and I don’t have money to give them,” she says. “But now … I can give everything because now I give to my kids a lot of toys. I give them everything they need … I’m happy to stay here and to get everything to give my kids. Even I feel good, the kids are happy, and I feel good for that.” It’s also the other things, the how-tos of life in a strange country — especially one where the language isn’t your own — that Grozdanic helps Ali with: how to pay bills and rent, how to sort out which mail is junk and what’s actually important. Today, there’s a question over how to pay the gas and electric bills that arrived while Grozdanic was
in Florida. “With her, it’s more of a special case; normally I wouldn’t go this far out of my way,” says Grozdanic. “When you walk in, and you see a twelve-year-old girl standing on a chair, trying to make food for her family — I mean, it does something to you.” Tomorrow is the first day of school for Ali’s daughters, who don’t yet speak English. They have brand-new backpacks, two of 77 that were donated to Baitulmal and filled with supplies. So far, their only interaction with other children has been during Ramadan, when the Islamic Foundation provided transport to the local masjid, and at the Koran class they attend there. A bus will pick them up tomorrow morning to take them to their new school, the Nahed Chapman New American Academy off Grand. Most of the city’s other refugee children are enrolled there as well. While they’re at school, Ali wants to look into beginning English lessons. Her English, learned from American movies and television, is already very good, though she hesitates with long sentences. She’s nervous she’ll say the wrong thing. With new families, Grozdanic frequently warns them how quickly their three months with
the International Institute is going to go. “My suggestion to all of the families that I meet is that you don’t waste time,” she says. “The time is going to y by, and you’re going to be on your own, and you’re going to have to pay for everything.” She also listens to the needs they have, from clothing to furniture to toys. Children are still children, after all — refugees or not. “Making the children happy, that’s what does it for me,” she explains later. Bijedic regularly posts on his Facebook page about his experiences going to visit and connecting with refugee families he met the first Syrian refugee to arrive in St. Louis last September. “In law enforcement chaplaincy you see all kinds of things happening in the streets, but every night you pass each street there is a story of people that live in these neighborhoods,” he posted last October. “I found out just saying hi or how are you to the people that live in different neighborhoods makes a huge difference them. “Today before going to work I visit an Iraqi family of six that [has] been in STL for almost a week; as soon I came at the door kids were jumping from happiness because I was carrying boxes of different items such as clothing, food items and other stuff that people donated. After that they started following me to my car and said thank you so many times.” The warehouse is not just full of goods. House of Goods is a hub, a meeting place for an exchange: of needs and vulnerabilities, of information and strands of hope, of language and religion, of stories and frustrations. There’s that saying about how you can either give a man fish or teach him how to fish he’s much better off with the last one). Like so many other parables, a version of it exists in Islam, too: The Prophet Mohammad has a beggar bring him his only two possessions, a bowl and a scrap of cloth, and sells them. He gives the beggar the two dirhams from the sale — one for food, and one for an axe — and instructs the man to gather firewood to sell it. The man earned ten dirhams over the next two weeks, enough to buy clothing and food. A similar mentality runs through Baitulmal as well. A dresser or a bag of rice or baby clothes will satisfy an immediate material need, but the larger challenge is helping new arrivals read the
Volunteers at Baitulmal, Arabic for House of Goods. | HOLLY RAVAZZOLO
As of September, 313 Syrian refugees had settled in Missouri, with 218 of those in St. Louis. cultural, bureaucratic, social and economic map that will allow them to, eventually, provide those things for themselves. On August 31, the U.S. reached its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees this fiscal year, which ends September 30. As of this month, a total of 313 of them have settled in Missouri, with 218 of those in St. Louis. Besides the Syrians, the city itself has taken in an additional 348 refugees in the last eleven months: Afghanis, Bhutanis, Burmese, Colombians, Eritreans, Ethiopians, Iranians, Iraqis, Congolese and one refugee each from Cuba and Pakistan. That’s a lot of people to help, with many different needs, and House of Goods made a critical decision. Just one year after moving into the warehouse, the Islamic Foundation’s board agreed to purchase a larger warehouse at an industrial storefront at 5911 Southwest Avenue, just off Hampton Avenue. The space is almost double the size of the old warehouse, clocking in at 3,500
square feet. The financial commitment wasn’t an easy one, says Gamut-Socoro — after all, they’re not making a profit and bills need to be paid. Bijedic says the asking price of the building was around $150,000. The hard work of transporting goods from the old Baitulmal to the new one took place over Labor Day weekend. The grand opening was slated for October 16, but as always when it comes to large projects, there’s been a hang-up: After passing inspections and thinking all was smooth sailing, they found out from the city on September 9 that they needed a different zoning classification in order to move in, Bijedic says. And that, of course, involves a hearing. It’s been scheduled for October 13, just three days before they’d planned to open their new doors. Bijedic immediately spread the world to other community organizations House of Goods has close ties with. “They said that they will came to the hearing for support,” he says. “Some of them were shocked when I told them about the issues.” In the meantime, employees and volunteers are hard at work fixing up the new space and installing the shelves that will hold the free wares. In the meantime, the old warehouse is still open on the weekends for receiving donations. After all, there’s always people to help — red tape or no. “I’m not going to stop helping people,” says Bijedic. “I will find another way — there is a lot people that are in need.” n riverfronttimes.com
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THURSDAY 0922 Dine on Dance We live in an urban environment, but many of us rarely interact with anything in it except for sidewalks and the occasional bench. Let the modern dancers who perform in Dine on Dance show you a new way. Dawn Karlovsky, Ashley Tate, Vance Baldwin and other choreographers have devised site-specific, contemporary modern dance pieces that will make use of the environment at Old Post Office Pla a Ninth and Locust streets; www.karlovskydance.org). Alice Bloch presents a suite of pieces choreographed by Isadora Duncan, restaged by Bloch to make full use of the location. Rick Kramer and Tory Z. Starbuck provide the live soundtrack for the event, which is free and takes place at noon on Thursday, September 22. On Friday, September 30, the collective performs a second Dine on Dance show at Strauss Park in rand Center rand Boulevard and Washington Avenue).
FRIDAY 0923 St. Louis Scottish Games Scottish games are a unique combination of keen athletic competition and social gathering. It doesn’t matter if you’re not Scottish it’s just a shame, is all . It also doesn’t matter if you’re not competing. If you’re there to have fun, you’re welcome. This year’s St. Louis Scottish Games return to Chesterfield, and feature an equal measure of competition and camaraderie. The games open at 3 p.m. Friday, September 23, with a sheepdog demonstration and a tug o’ war between police and firefighters from the St. Louis County Cadet Academy. After that comes a quidditch match contested by Webster University student teams and a good old-fashioned farmer’s walk, which sees two strong fellas carry a pair of 250-pound weights
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BY PAUL FRISWOLD for as long a distance as possible. The Wee Heavies band is also on the bill. Day two opens at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, September 24, and includes sword-fighting demos, a kilted kids race, highland dancing, pipe band competitions and the actual highland games. The heavies, as the gents who compete in the games are known, will compete in the open stone put, light and heavy weight throws, the Scottish heavy hammer, the sheaf toss and the caber toss. Basically, if it’s massive and unwieldy, the heavies will throw it. The St. Louis Scottish Games take place on the field at Spirit irpark West Drive and Olive Street Road
in Chesterfield www.stlouisscottishgames.com). Admission is $5 to $15, with two-day passes $ 0 and family passes good for two adults and four kids $ 5-$50 also available.
Three Tall Women “A” is dying. The old women languishes in her bed, telling stories of her long life to her younger caretaker, “B.” B deals easily with the older woman, who rambles and repeats herself as she goes. “C,” the third woman in the room, is the youngest, and is the most put-off by riverfronttimes.com
the old woman’s chatter. C is here to get A to sign important paperwork, and she has no time for advice or an old woman’s memories. Edward lbee’s Pulit er Pri e-winning drama Three Tall Women is a play about what it is to be human. There are happy memories, optimism and pride, and there is sorrow, pain and regret. St. Louis Actors’ Studio opens its tenth season with Three Tall Women. Performances take place at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday September 3 to October at the aslight Theater 35 North Boyle Avenue; www.stlas.org). Tickets are $30 to $35. Continued on pg 20
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SATURDAY 0924 Strange Folk Festival Strange Folk Festival is on the move. After bringing the strange to Union Station in 2015, the festival of DIY art, craft, music, food and whathave-you sets up shop in Lafayette Square Park and Mississippi avenues; www.strangefolkfestival. org) from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday September and 5 . This year’s Strange Folk Festival includes art vendors and sitespecific installations inspired by the Belle Epoque feeling of the neighborhood and the festival. If you get hungry, food trucks and restaurants including Fruit Crushers, Whisk, Urban Eats and Indian Sunshine Cuisine and several more) will take care of you. If your ears are starving for something good, Ellen the Felon, Androbeat, CaveofswordS and an interesting handful of additional bands perform. There’s even a designated nursing/family rest 20
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Q in the Lou Any time is the right for barbecue, but this weekend is particularly opportune. Q in the Lou returns, bringing live music and a mountain of barbecue to Soldiers Memorial downtown ourteenth and Chestnut streets; www.qinthelou.com). This year’s pitmasters include Mike Emerson Pappy’s and Mike Johnson Sugarfire Smoke House , Brad and Brook Orrison the Shed in Ocean City, Mississippi), Carey Bringle of Nashville’s Pig Leg Porker and Big Moe Cason from Des Moines’ Ponderosa BBQ Company. They’ll be serving it up from 4 to 10 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to p.m. Sunday September 23 to 25). All you have to do is show up admission is free and buy the one or six that smell the best. There’s also a IP option $ 5 that lets you skip lines and gets you an open bar, barbecue sample and entrance to the VIP lounge. Locash, Pretty Little Empire and Cracker all perform throughout the festival.
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Drunken Angel is Akira Kurosawa’s first film with frequent collaborator Toshiro Mifune, and in it are all the hallmarks of their working relationship. Mifune plays Matasunga, a small-time hood who seeks medical help from r. Sanada Takashi Shimura) for a gunshot wound. Sanada’s a drunk and Matasunga is tubercular — both men could be seen as stand-ins for post-war Japan at large, wounded and suffering. Matasunga takes the doc’s advice to stop drinking and stay in at night, but only until his boss gets out of jail. Then he’s right back at his bad habits, drinking and smoking and killing himself by degrees. The new group Analog Cinema, which is dedicated to screening actual films not s, HS tapes or digital streaming), shows a 16mm print of Drunken Angel at 6:30 p.m. Sunday through Tuesday September 5 to October 4) at the Gaslight Theater 35 North Boyle venue www. analogcinema.com). Tickets are $5.
WEDNESDAY 0928 King Baggot Tribute ing Baggot first gained fame in St. Louis has an amateur soccer player in the late 1800s. He was stunt-cast in a local play and discovered that he liked acting more than athletics — a decision that changed his life.
After starring in local productions, he moved to Broadway and then transitioned to film in 1 0 . ing Baggot starred in more than 40 films in the next two years he also somehow found time to star in an additional sixteen films with Mary Pickford in 1 11 alone . The public responded in an unprecedented way to Baggot’s good looks and his ability to project emotion in the early silent era — the studios put his name on the marquee to capitali e on the Baggot brand, setting a trend that still continues. His 1 13 film Ivanhoe, adapted from Walter Scott’s novel, was a sensation. It was filmed in the nited ingdom, even though foreign shoots were unheard of at the time, and featured epic battle scenes, pageantry and a massive cast. Tom Stockman hosts a tribute to King Baggot at 7 p.m. tonight at the Missouri History Museum Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue; www.mohistory.org). Stockman will discuss the actor’s local ties and ama ing career after a screening of Ivanhoe, scored live by the Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra. 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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Men Afraid New films from Werner Herzog and Jerry Lewis deal with fear in different ways Written by
ROBERT HUNT Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Directed by Werner Herzog. Starring Kevin Mitnick, Elon Musk and Lawrence Krauss. Opens Friday, September 23, at the Landmark Tivoli Theatre.
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Directed and written by Daniel Noah. Starring Jerry Lewis, Kerry Bishé and Kevin Pollak. Opens Friday, September 23, at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema.
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n the last few years, Werner Herzog has become something of a comic icon, the hipster equivalent of that guy from the Dos Equis commercials. This is not entirely by his own doing, although films such Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans imply he’s in on the joke. Do a quick Google search of his name and you’ll find a plethora of videos in which Herzog surrogates provide a Bavarian accent and pseudo-Nietzchean commentary for everything from Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel to Pokemon Go. Though Herzog’s awareness of this public image isn’t entirely clear, he seems to enjoy indulging it. The idea of asking this self-confessed Luddite/hermit/ technophobe to make a film about the internet — produced by a cybersecurity company — is a deliberate provocation, a chance to let his uncontrolled public image loose on a subject he barely acknowledges. The internet in Herzog’s Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World doesn’t have much in common with the one you use every day. You won’t see the director googling his own name, catching up with Facebook friends or even checking out the comments on Fitzcarraldo on IMDB. Aside from a few passing references to Wikipedia and email, Herzog’s highly selective view of the internet stays
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Werner Herzog examines the internet in Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World. | COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES on the fringes, taking us around and under the usual path of technology with dizzying randomness. It starts out benignly, with the director interviewing some scientists who developed the early ARPAnet, with footage of driverless cars and robots who can serve a cup of tea or play soccer. But he makes his real intentions clearer fewer than 30 minutes in, when a title card solemnly announces the third of Lo and Behold’s ten chapters: The Dark Side. From that point on, Herzog explores the digital world with all the subtlety of Sgt. Joe Friday interrupting a coffee-house reading of Howl, and the film becomes a Mondo Cane of the digital world. He talks to hackers, visits an isolated rehab center for video game addicts and meets people who suffer from an allergic reaction to radio waves. He speculates on the dangers of artificial intelligence, the possibility that electronic waves will create solar ares and destroy the earth, and expresses interest in Elon Musk’s plans to colonize Mars. Herzog accepts every argument, receives every idea equally. At one point, he meets a family that was the victim of online bullying after their daughter died in an accident. The mother looks at the camera and atly states “The internet is the
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antichrist.” Herzog doesn’t question it. I will take a back seat to no one in my admiration for — no, make that unabashed love of — Jerry Lewis as a filmmaker, an actor and a humanitarian. So when I hear Max Rose, his first screen appearance in two decades, described as little more than a chance to pay tribute to a 90-year-old screen legend, my first response is, “ hat’s wrong with that?” Lewis plays the title character in aniel Noah’s film, a sad, tired man recently widowed after 60 years of marriage and tormented by the idea that his wife played brie y but with charm by Claire Bloom) had been unfaithful. Rejecting the support of his family, he sulks and obsesses before finally finding the truth about the past. That’s about all there is to the film, much of it confusing and abrupt. Evidently subject to lengthy editing since it was first shown at Cannes three years ago, there are allusions to events and character details that appear to have been abandoned. The opening sequence tells us that Max was once a jazz pianist his wife’s infidelity is said to have taken place when he was out of town making his only record), yet this ends up having almost no bearing on anything on screen.
Indications of problems between Max and his son (Kevin Pollak) rise up out of the blue when the film is half over. bbreviated ashbacks and unclear shifts in time only add to the confusion. In spite of all those faults, Max Rose has its modest charms, nearly all of them emanating from the deeply felt performance of its charismatic star. (There are also welcome but brief appearances by Mort Sahl and Dean Stockwell, and affectionate supporting work from Kerry Bishé as Max’s devoted granddaughter.) It’s Lewis’ film from start to finish, and while much of it requires a complete repression of his comic side, both he and director Noah are smart enough to let a little bit of it slip in when he fumbles with a can opener, a moment that recalls one of his familiar stage bits. It’s a throwaway, but it reminds us of what’s hiding underneath both the character and the man playing him. The film is small, but has admirable sincerity. Lewis will be appearing at the Family Arena on November 12 in a one-man show of recollections and film clips, sponsored by the St. Louis International Film Festival. Lewis’ classic 1 3 film The Nutty Professor will also be included in this year’s festival, on a date to be announced shortly. n
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A selection of Scapegoat menu items: G.O.A.T. sliders, peach and burrata flatbread, and tacos. | MABEL SUEN [REVIEW]
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t seemed like a good idea: Expand the bar business at Scape, the elegant agship on Maryland Plaza, by converting its adjacent sister restaurant, Crepes, Etc., into an on-trend cocktail bar and small plates spot. A breakfast and lunch place,
after all, just doesn’t generate the same kind of profit margin as an alcohol-centric spot, and Scape didn’t have a large enough bar for the sort of crowd required to make it a scene. Scapegoat would be a casual version of Scape, the thinking went — a standalone bar in its own right or a place for a pre-dinner cocktail before heading next door for a meal. And if that cocktail turned into another, and then an appetizer and then scrapping dinner plans altogether, well, that was fine too. After closing Crepes, Etc. this past February, Maryland Plaza Restaurant Group did seemingly all of the right things. They enlisted the acclaimed firm Space Architecture + Design to give the place a minimalist black and white color palette with a large bar, a few marble tables and a row of
leather banquette seating. They called upon Scape’s bar manager to concoct a fun cocktail menu that plays upon the scapegoat theme (“Ms. O’Leary’s Cow,” anyone?) and, most importantly, they opened up access to Scape’s stunning back patio with a seamless ow between the two concepts. So who is to blame, then, for the fact that the place was completely empty at 9:30 on a Friday night? When I walked into the bar at roughly 7:45 p.m., I assumed everyone was out back. The Central West End is bustling these days, with more crowds than it can handle, and Scapegoat’s courtyard is arguably the most beautiful outdoor dining space in town — a massive patio taking up what seems like an entire city block with a multi-storied ivy-covered wall as the backdrop. Roman style columns, chic furniture and riverfronttimes.com
a massive stone bar make you feel like you’re in Italy. On a humid yet not too hot night, surely that’s where everyone was. It was nearly empty too. A handful of tables (out of a seating space for roughly 100) were having dinner on the Scape side, yet no one was at Scapegoat. It was curious, if not downright inexplicable, until the server presented me with a menu that seemed, well, empty too. Then it began to make sense — Scapegoat is a beautiful outline; it just hasn’t been filled in. That courtyard is drop-dead gorgeous, but it’s not a place you’d pick for just sliders and wings. The space begs for a refinement that seems wasted on a tiny selection of bar food. Sitting in such a lovely space, you want something more, and Scapegoat simply doesn’t have that to give, at least not on the food side. Continued on pg 26
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Renovations to the interior of Scapegoat were guided by Space Architecture + Design. | MABEL SUEN
SCAPEGOAT Continued from pg 25 The current menu deviates curiously from the elevated concept Maryland Plaza Restaurant Group announced when they closed Crepes, Etc. several months ago. Modern, gastropub fare, created by Scape’s chef Shimon Diamond, was to be the order of the day. But somehow, that idea gave way to a small appetizer menu that’s about as interesting as talking to the faux Roman columns. Perhaps more is coming, but if they simply changed their idea, it’s a shell of what was expected — and what is necessary if the place wants to succeed at becoming a destination. The endeavor reads as if Scape decided to get in on the more casual way of dining that’s increasingly displacing its sister restaurant’s white tableclothed formality, yet eschewed the exciting food that’s driving the trend in favor of a tiny menu of basic bar food. In Diamond’s defense — as well as his sous chef Eric Garcia’s — defense, the food was fine enough. “E’s Tacos,” a take on traditional street tacos that “change with the chef’s mood,” were stuffed with succulent carnitas and crowned with a fiery salsa that played well against the meat’s natural sweetness. Chef wasn’t in the mood to warm the tortillas, which would have elevated the dish, but this was a solid bar offering nonetheless. Though the national food press says it’s passé, I’m still a sucker for
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burrata. How could you not be? The luscious, cream-filled mo arella cheese gives elegance to everything it graces, including Scapegoat’s otherwise mediocre peach and burrata atbread. The idea sounds wonderful — fresh peaches, balsamic glaze, arugula pesto — but the pesto takes over and makes all other avors irrelevant. The pesto is good enough; it just makes the plate one-dimensional. Frenched chicken wings are not just a gimmick here. Removing the excess gristle and skin around the thin part of the drummy not only makes them supremely easy to eat, it also leaves only the succulent part of the wing to enjoy. The nub of meat at the end is like a chicken lollipop and pops right off like a boneless wing. Simple Buffalo sauce and some pungent blue cheese complete this perfect — though, at $14, expensive — finger food. If you can’t make it to the bar but want to know what Scapegoat’s chopped salad is like, go to the grocery store, get a bag of shredded coleslaw mix, throw in some deli salami and eat it undressed — it’s basically the same thing. A few banana peppers and alleged chickpeas (I didn’t see one) did little to help this quizzical salad. Maybe more dressing would have made it better; it certainly helped the avocado egg rolls. On their own, the crispy wonton skins, stuffed with avocado and sundried tomatoes, had little taste. Piquant green tamarind dipping sauce,
however, was so pleasant it turned the eggrolls into the perfect sauce scoop. This alone made the dish. Scapegoat’s sole sandwich option is a well-executed, traditional pastrami melt. Tender, peppery meat, mouth-puckering sauerkraut, gruyere cheese and Russian dressing are piled upon griddled marble rye bread. The accompanying side of housemade chips tasted oddly of buttercream — not that I am complaining. It was just a little strange. The restaurant’s namesake dish, the “G.O.A.T.” sliders, an acronym for “Greatest of All Time,” are a play on Scape’s macadamia-crusted chicken entrée. At Scapegoat, they are served as miniature sandwiches with melted pepper jack cheese and “secret sauce” (shh, it’s honey mustard) on Hawaiian rolls. The sweet bread, which could double as a doughnut, plays well off the island-style macadamia theme. If I came in for this, as well as one of the well-balanced cocktails, I’d be happy. Though I wouldn’t be happy enough to make this my go-to spot, at least not in its current form. And that’s sad, because Scapegoat has an outline that bespeaks a lovely, gastropub-style concept that could anchor this side of Maryland Avenue. It just hasn’t been filled in and what’s missing is more than the customers. n Scapegoat Avocado egg rolls ...............................$9 “G.O.A.T.” sliders ............................. $12 Chicken wings ................................. $14
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ichael and Tara Gallina have been in town for almost a year now, getting to know the food scene, establishing relationships with farmers and introducing themselves to the community through their pop-up concept, Rooster and the Hen. Finally, their research and development efforts are about to pay off. The Gallinas’ hotly anticipated Vicia (4260 Forest Park Avenue) is slated to open at the end of fall on the corner of Duncan and Boyle in the Cortex Innovation Community. The restaurant, recently named by Eater as one of the “23 Most Anticipated Restaurant Openings of Fall 2016,” will feature vegetable-forward cuisine with an emphasis on wood-fired cooking and will be open for both lunch and dinner service. Michael was previously the chef de cuisine at the acclaimed Blue Hill at Stone Barns in Tarrytown, New York; Tara was captain there. They’ll be bringing that experience to bear in their new project. But what else do we know about Vicia? The Gallinas agreed to share a few tidbits to whet our appetites. Here are five amuse bouches to tide us over until the restaurant is ready to open and dinner is served. 1. Another St. Louis native helped inspire their vision. “For us it’s more than just one restaurant, but really a restaurateur. anny Meyer is hugely in uential to the both of us. Michael moved to New York City with Chef Daniel Humm from Campton Place to work at Eleven Madison Park when Danny was taking it to the next level. He saw how hands-on he was and dedicated to running a restaurant that was as gracious to its staff as it was its guests. He always made a point to connect with us (we always talked about our Cardinals) and really taught me how
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Michael and Tara Gallina will open Vicia late this year. | JONATHAN GAYMAN I wanted to run my own restaurant one day. “And for Tara, she was a frequent guest at Gramercy Tavern and was always inspired by their commitment to service, creating an experience that was friendly and warm but executed with grace and perfection. That same philosophy and commitment to training and teamwork drives us both as we create our team and service style for Vicia.” 2. Cortex is the best possible fit for Vicia. “From the moment we were first introduced to the area, we knew something really special was going on there; we could feel the energy. It felt like the perfect place to create the forward-thinking dining experience that we have planned for Vicia. What better community to be at the center of here in St. Louis?” 3. St. Louis is ready to put vegetables at the center of the plate. “We don’t want to make assumptions and loop everyone in the Midwest into one category based on where they live. Rather we think the Midwest, and especially St. Louis, is filled with a pretty diverse population that is excited to see the same attention and care paid to vegetables as meat. We have been so encouraged by the feedback from the guests who’ve attended our pop-up events, and many have shared how happy they are that we’re serving really fresh and vegetable-forward
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food that doesn’t weigh them down. Our philosophy is centered around working with the best ingredients that are grown with care and harvested at their peak, whether meat or vegetables, and we want that to be the driving force behind everything we serve.” 4. Lunch will be fast and casual; dinner, elevated but approachable. “Starting our own business and building a restaurant for the first time is definitely the biggest unknown we’ve ever encountered! Besides that, creating a dual concept restaurant that shifts from a quickservice lunch menu to a more elevated, full-service experience for dinner is a first for us. inner is our comfort zone, so we’re excited to challenge ourselves and create a really delicious and frequently changing lunch experience that is well-suited to the fast-paced lifestyle that so many of us have.” 5. “Vicia” has meaning — in Latin. “We wanted to select a name that invoked what goes on not just above, but within, the soil and how important soil health is to the overall quality and experience of everything we work with. ‘Vicia’ is Latin for vetch, a cover crop that is widely planted by farmers who are looking to restore lost nutrients. By selecting a word that is unfamiliar to most, we are able to start a bigger conversation about why thoughtful farming is so n important to us.”
Vietnamese restaurant is coming to the eastern edge of the Delmar Loop. VietNam Style will fill the space at 6100 Delmar that previously held Cabana on the Loop, a breakfast-andlunch spot that opened in the fall of 2014 and closed less than a year later. Thao Truong, who is opening the restaurant with husband Yun Vu, says she is just waiting on her occupancy permit and anticipates opening in October. Truong and her family moved to St. Louis eight years ago, when she was just eighteen years old. She didn’t speak a word of English, and laughs as she describes making chicken clucks while trying to communicate her McNugget order at McDonald’s. But she quickly mastered the language, earning a bachelor’s degree from Maryville University, where she studied science. She’s now close to finishing her MBA, also at Maryville. The restaurant is the fulfillment of the couple’s dream of opening their own business. “We were hanging around in the Loop, and we saw you had four Thai restaurants and Mexican restaurants and a lot of different culture, but no Vietnamese,” she says. “We saw one spot that was empty, and we thought it was time to bring Vietnamese food to everyone.” Truong plans to serve smoothies at the large bar in the front the space, but the rest of the dining area will be classic sit-down dining, with lunch and dinner service. She plans to offer a full roster of authentic Vietnamese dishes, including some dishes not currently available at any other St. Louis restaurants. She hopes the restaurant will be a way to give back to the country that adopted her. “When I moved here, I had teachers who helped me more than they had to,” she says. “They teach me about uman kindness. Now my mission statement for the restaurant is that my husband and I want to do something that not just brings us a profit, but that makes people smile. I say it from the bottom of my heart.” She adds, “All of America is so nice, and I really appreciate that.” – Sarah Fenske
Stage Left Diner will bring comfort food to Midtown this month. | ALEC WALLS [FOOD NEWS]
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his month, the greasy spoon next to the Fox Theater is getting some polish. On September 24, City Diner at the Fox Theater will reopen as Stage Left Diner (541 North Grand Boulevard; 314-884-0212), a concept that aims to elevate the comfort food served at its previous incarnation. Stage Left’s consultant Brad Beracha says to expect an updated menu and atmosphere, but that the service component is where patrons will notice the biggest changes. “We’re getting away from the ‘greasy spoon,’ but not abandoning the fare altogether. The new menu will include plenty of American classics,” explains Beracha. “But honestly, our biggest focus is trying to win back people who may not have had the best service experience at City Diner. We want to change that impression.” Beracha, whose resume includes Araka, Triumph Grill and BaiKu Sushi Lounge, has been working with City Diner owner Steve Smith for the past several months to breathe fresh life into the space. Their efforts include a facelift, updated facilities and new equipment in the kitchen. (The City Diner on South Grand has
different ownership and is not affected by these changes.) But their biggest achievement has been a change in service standards, something Beracha admits was lacking at City Diner. “We’ve just really undergone a cultural change, and we have great management now who is able to make it happen,” Beracha says. “We want to be the place people think of to go, whether it’s before a show or if they are just part of the community. I think we lost that, but we are trying to regain it.” Though the service has been the focal point of the space’s rebrand, the menu has also seen several changes courtesy of Chef Ryan Cooper. Cooper, who also runs the kitchen at Triumph Grill, was called in by Beracha and Smith to reimagine the diner’s classic American fare. Cooper kept a similar feel to the menu, but added new items, including a kale and apple salad, a portobello sandwich and prime rib with au jus. Though Stage Left sees itself as an amenity to theater-goers, Beracha hopes the breakfast and lunch hours will also make it the go-to dining spot for members of the Midtown community — and eventually those from outside the area, too. “Right now, being where we are in relation to the Fox Theater, the Sheldon and Powell Hall, we want people to think of us as a place to come when they are heading to a performance,” explains Beracha. “But eventually, especially considering all of the development that is happening in Grand Center, we hope people will think of us as a dining destination.” Stage Left will be open on Mondays from 7 a.m. until 3 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m., Friday and Saturdays from 7 a.m. until midnight, and Sundays from 7 a.m. until 9 p.m. n
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Deerhoof is just one of the forward-thinking acts playing this year’s first-ever Murmuration Festival. | JOE SINGH [ F E S T I VA L S ]
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s the summer music festival season winds down, St. Louisians can be thankful for the strides the city has taken in accommodating major outdoor events. The collapse of
the Summer Rocks partnership and the Chesterfield exile of Bluesweek were both countered by a renewed, all-local Big Muddy Blues estival over Labor Day weekend and a Lou est that drew throngs to the muddy orest Park Central ield for two well-attended days. And now comes the inaugural year of Murmuration, to be held September 23 to 25 — a festival like the aforementioned in tongue-twisting name only. A joint venture between the Cortex Innovation Hub and Lou est founder Brian Cohen, Murmuration the word is a synonym for both murmuring and a ock of starlings aims to fuse TE like panel discussions, techy expos, public art, science demonstrations and ten bands that only the most assiduous Pitchfork readers and art-school hopefuls will immediately recognize. Murmuration, in short, poses no threat to Ribfest. The idea for the weekend began last fall, when Dennis Lower, president and CEO of Cortex, approached Cohen about a public event that
would combine music, innovation and technology. or Cohen, it was the perfect time to dive into a new venture. “ ive years is my sweet spot for building something and getting something off the ground, and then moving on to the next thing,” says Cohen. “I knew I wanted to stay in music. I knew I wanted to do something more urban, to get out of the park, and I’ve always had an interest in public art. The people at Cortex and I each had ideas about what we wanted to do, so it was just finding common ground, and then things came together quickly.” Along with Lower, Travis Sheridan from enture Caf and Phyllis Ellison and ine O’Connor from Cortex developed the “thought” side of the programming, while Cohen, along with Jeff Jarrett of Contemporary Productions, worked on the music side. The events will take place in both ticketed and free spaces in and around the Cortex grounds, fanning out from the intersection of Duncan and Boyle on the south edge of the Central est End. riverfronttimes.com
hen Cohen was getting Lou est off the ground nearly ten years ago, the logistics and themes of Murmuration — the predictive power of art, big data and social change, robots and humanism — would have sounded like science fiction, if not pure fantasy. “What sets this festival apart from other events,” explains Cohen, “is that each of the pieces — music, science, art and tech — are meant to come together. The motivation was, ‘How do we understand art in the context of these other things How do we understand music in the context of science and tech and art ’” ccording to Cohen, Murmuration will be able to support 10,000 attendees per day, with some streets around Cortex blocked off for the outdoor events. But given the esoteric nature of much of the music and the density of its intellectual concerns, a sizeable target audience might prove elusive. “We think about demographics, but our audience is anyone with a curious mind,” says Cohen. “If you’re
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MURMURATION Continued from pg 31 in St. Louis this weekend and you have a curious mind, I think this is where you want to be. There are different ways to plug in, to get up to speed with virtual reality, with robotics, with big data. The great thing about festivals is the journey of discovery. Maybe you came to see lying Lotus, but along the way you pass by the future innovator zone and see this large scale Rube Goldberg Machine and you play with that for a while. or me events are successful when promoters create multiple ways in and out of the festival.” Cohen acknowledges that articulating the vision of Murmuration, explaining why it’s both interesting and accessible, is one of the organi ers’ biggest challenges. “In the early years of Lou est there was a significant effort just in educating the public about what it was,” he reflects. “It did take a couple of years for it to gain traction. But the people that came in the early years fell in love with it. I felt all I had to do was get people through the door and the event would sell itself. But how do you get people through the doors those first years That’s a challenge for any event, especially if it’s a concept that’s new to the city.” Adding to that challenge is the fact that, on the music side, Cohen knew he couldn’t book merely based on draw. His goal was to feature bands genuinely connected to the event’s core themes. long with a number of artists in the electronic field including lying Lotus a.k.a. Steven Ellison , who makes his first appearance in St. Louis since 010 Murmuration will feature a host of experimental rock bands, headlined by San rancisco-based eerhoof, which has been confounding audiences for two decades. This year the band released two albums, the frequently and surprisingly catchy Magic and the gorgeous and elegiac Balter/Saunier, a collaboration with Chicago-based contemporary classical composer Marcos Balter. or eerhoof guitarist Ed odr gue , the composi-
tional restraints opened up new approaches. “ or me, as a performer, it was challenging to play in a stricter environment,” odrigue explains via email. “I’ve always been in bands that never even had a count off to start a song we’d just O nd following a conductor for tempo and phrasing was quite a change ” On the album Magic, Deerhoof sounds as free and spontaneous as it ever has, while exploring some of its most engaging tunes. This isn’t Deerhoof the garage band, but it is Deerhoof fully enjoying making rock music as a band of rockers. “We normally discuss every little aspect during the brainstorming for the next album,” says odrigue . “But this time we played it more loose. hile on the road we’ll discuss how the music is going at that moment, what aspects we’re having the most fun with and what we would like to do more of. Usually we pick themes, feels or emotions as guides, but this time we decided to just bring in whatever material we had, no matter how tiny or fully realized the idea was. We just had fun working on the songs, enjoying the magic of each moment together.” When Deerhoof takes the Murmuration stage on Sunday evening, it will be reinventing the sounds and forms that have made it instantly recognizable, even through the noisiest, most improvised layers. or odrigue , it’s the unexpected experimentation that’s most rewarding. “Sometimes when you record you just have a magical moment,” he says. “But once the tour begins, you need to create that magic every night. In that way you need to deepen your relationship with the song to have the desired emotions delivered in a carefree and fun way. ou can’t be worried about a part that’s coming up because that changes how you’re playing the part you’re in at the moment. All the songs are fun for me to play because they never stop changing, and everyone is trying different things throughout the night. Playing with people that constantly surprise me keeps each night from becoming just another show.” n
“What sets this festival apart from other events is that each of the pieces — music, science, art and tech — are meant to come together.”
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for some, the changes are a sign of opportunity. “There’s definitely a void down there,” says local producer Spike Stephens. “They’re hungry for ideas to refresh the area.” Stephens is no stranger to throwing innovative parties. He runs a promotion group called Spin Cycle with two other producers, Bradford James and Aaron Jacobs. Together they throw techno and house parties on the third Friday of each month. The trio has achieved great popularity in a short amount of time with their unique venue choices and fresh sounds. Spin Cycle celebrated its first anniversary on September 1 with a show at Hiro Asian Kitchen, a restaurant it’s been partnering with since July. With a year of event planning under his belt, Stephens pursued a solo project of creating a house music event, which will occur every Saturday night at Lucas Park Grille (1234 Washington Avenue, 314-241-7770). This no-cover event, appropriately dubbed Downtown Shake, brings a genre of music that has gained massive popularity to an area in search of something fresh. The first owntown Shake
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was held Saturday, hosting local techno group Future Ex Wife. The local talent pool is deep enough to host a different artist each week for the next few months without having to bring anyone in from outside of St. Louis. Stephens himself will also play each week, either going back-to-back with other deejays or playing opening sets for bigger acts. The music isn’t the only unique aspect of Downtown Shake. Stephens designs custom visuals for Spin Cycle parties and plans to do the same for the new event. These will be overhauled monthly with small changes thrown in each week to keep things fresh. For special events and holidays he’ll enlist guest artists to create their own custom visuals as well. Downtown Shake is part of Stephens’ overall goal of bringing new people into St. Louis’ electronic scene. He cites the growing popularity of house music combined with the need for new things on the once-bustling Wash Ave strip as the factors driving the weekly event. “These days, a lot of pop music is also house music,” Stephens points out. “People hear it, it sounds
familiar and they tend to like it.” The music won’t be the only thing that’s familiar — Lucas Park has been attracting crowds for more than ten years. The elegant, spacious restaurant should be a welcoming space for a new event to thrive. In fact, combining a classy venue with underground talent is something of a signature for Stephens and his partners. Events like Downtown Shake make the underground scene more accessible to all kinds of people. After all, lots of folks enjoy electronic music, but would rather spend their money at nicer, more mainstream places than the kind of off-thebeaten track spaces that typically host underground music. Stephens says he’s seen a lot of excitement from artists in St. Louis who like the new direction he’s taking. “I’ve gotten tons of support from the underground,” Stephens says. “All of them are excited to have a new audience and bring more energy into the scene.” n Downtown Shake will be held at Lucas Park Grille every Saturday from 10 p.m.-3 a.m.
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or all the Labor Day traditions St. Louisans hold dear — a Cardinals homestand, one last trip to the lake — fans of blues music have long held the annual Big Muddy Blues Festival as a highlight of the year, not just the long weekend. It’s a yearly reminder of our city’s contribution to the blues canon, and the downtown location calls to mind the Mississippi River’s literal and figurative presence in the evolution of the genre. The 2016 iteration of Big Muddy was especially noteworthy; not only was the brand-new National Blues Museum one of the venues, but all the acts — 45 in total — were St. Louis musicians. For the headlining set on the main stage, Jeremiah Johnson, an artist steeped in tradition but not beholden to its boundaries, had the honors of closing down the festival. “I would say that’s a testimony to how many great blues musicians we have in this city, period,” Johnson says of the all-local booking. “I was pretty proud of it, and especially proud of being the headliner on the last night.” Johnson and his band were hot off a new release, Blues Heart Attack, an album that shows his dexterity with gritty, twang-addled twelve-bar blues while allowing for movements toward soul, country and New Orleans traditions. Blues Heart Attack is the latest in a string of albums for Johnson, as he and his band release an LP every few years. But this one was a sort of homecoming, as he and his trio — Jeff Girardier on bass and Benet Schaeffer on drums — recorded with Jason McEntire at Sawhorse Studio in south St. Louis. Johnson’s last LP, Grind, was recorded in Memphis, with Devon Allman behind the board and award-winning session musicians filling in for Johnson’s regular cohorts. Here, though, he brings it all back home: Along with his trio, Johnson enlisted a few locals such as Nathan Hershey (organ and piano), Frank Bauer (tenor saxophone and Tom “Papa” ay harmonica to fill out the sound. “The cool part about this one is that we start out writing as a three-piece, so they had a real nice arrangement,” Johnson says of the writing process. “It just felt like the whole thing blew up and exploded — it just made the whole thing kind of grow.” Hershey in particular fills in the gaps nicely on a song like the hard-edged “Room of Fools,” and his overdriven Hammond B3 matches the mood. Bauer’s sax work
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House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505. BIT BRIGADE: w/ Thor Axe 9 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-7733363. COCO MONTOYA BAND: 8 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222. IT LIES WITHIN: w/ A Promise To Burn, Another Day Drowning, Through Burning Eyes 7 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314289-9050. OF MONTREAL: w/ Ruby The Rabbitfoot 8 p.m., $20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929. SLAYER: w/ Anthrax, Death Angel 7:10 p.m., $47.50-$52.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. STEVIE STONE: w/ Steve O’Brien, Eric Tha Red, Reapa, City Boi Ent, Krayzie K 8 p.m., $15. Pop’s
CATTLE DECAPITATION: w/ Eternal Sleep, Legend, Absala, Compelled to Destroy 7 p.m., $15. Pop’s
AOIFE O’DONOVAN: 8 p.m., $18-$25. Old Rock
Method Man & Redman 8 p.m. Saturday, September 24. Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Avenue, Sauget, Illinois. $27-$29. 618-274-6720.
It’s been seventeen years since Method Man and Redman released their collaborative LP Blackout!, bestknown for the indelible hit “Da Rockwilder.” It’s been fifteen years since the duo released their stoner film How High, which has since become something of a pothead cult classic. It’s been twelve years since Method & Red, which was, well, a lackluster TV show (hey, they can’t all be winners).
Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis, 618-274-6720.
In other words, we’ve been fascinated with the adorable bromance between the Wu-Tang legend and the Def Squad Doctor for a long time now, and with good reason — the chemistry between the two is undeniable, especially when they hit the live stage together. Sequel City: A sequel to Blackout! was already completed in 2009, with a third album apparently in the works. Meth and Red also are said to be working on a follow-up to How High as well. That TV show is mercifully staying on the shelf. – Daniel Hill
CUTE IS WHAT WE AIM FOR: w/ Captains Courageous, Secondary 7 p.m., $15-$18. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. NADA SURF: 8 p.m., $20-$22. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505. SOULARD BLUES BAND: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314621-8811. ST. LOUIS FOLK AND ROOTS FESTIVAL: w/ the Tillers, Blind Boy Paxton, Anna & Elizabeth, Sam Bush Band, Finnders & Youngberg 8 p.m., $60. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900. THIRD SIGHT BAND: 8 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222.
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Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis, 618-274-6720.
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ST. LOUIS FOLK AND ROOTS FESTIVAL DAY 2: w/ El-
p.m., $17.50-$20. The Ready Room, 4195 Man-
Louis, 314-726-6161.
ephant Revival, Katie Glassman, Greg Schochet
chester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
8 p.m., $25-$60. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington
AMOS LEE: 8 p.m., $49.50. The Pageant, 6161
Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900.
Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
BRUTAL HARMONY: w/ System Slave, Enslaved
SATURDAY 24
By Fear, Threatpoint, Casket Robbery 7 p.m.,
BLIND GUARDIAN: w/ Grave Digger 8 p.m., $30-
$10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-
$35. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave,
SUNDAY 25
289-9050.
St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
ADIA VICTORIA: 7 p.m., $10-$12. Off Broadway,
Market St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888.
DOPE: 7 p.m., $18-$20. The Firebird, 2706 Olive
BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s
3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
CORNET CHOP SUEY: 10 a.m.; Sep. 28, 10 a.m.,
St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,
$15-$18. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd.,
THE DUST COVERS: w/ Ivas John, Greg Silsby 8
314-436-5222.
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
St. Louis, 314-533-9900.
p.m., $10-$13. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave.,
DAVID COOK: 8 p.m., $27.50-$30. Blueberry Hill -
436-5222.
EDEN: 8 p.m., $15-$18. The Firebird, 2706 Olive
St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University
LUTHER VANDROSS TRIBUTE: 7 p.m., $15. BB’s
St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
ENCORE BAND: 7 p.m., free. Paul Schroeder
City, 314-727-4444.
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
ERIC HUTCHINSON: 8 p.m., $23-$25. Off Broad-
Park, Old Meramec Stn between Manchester &
GREEN-MCDONOUGH BLUES BAND: 10 p.m., $5.
314-436-5222.
way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
Big Bend roads, Ballwin, 636-391-6326.
BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.
MURMURATION FESTIVAL: w/ Flying Lotus,
JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ
KILBORN ALLEY BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
Louis, 314-436-5222.
Tycho, Deerhoof, Yacht, Dan Deacon, Suuns,
Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828 Olive
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
JOE: w/ Vivian Green 9 p.m., $35-$55. Ambas-
Prince Rama, Sky Pony, Ice, Yowie Sep. 24,
Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.
436-5222.
sador, 9800 Halls Ferry Road, North St. Louis
noon; noon, TBA. Cortex One, 4320 Forest Park
JUNIOR BOYS: 8 p.m., $15. Old Rock House, 1200
LEROY JODIE PIERSON: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
County, 314-869-9090.
Ave., St. Louis, 314-531-4500.
S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
METHOD MAN & REDMAN: 8 p.m., $27-$29. Pop’s
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KEITH MOYER FUNK & FUSION: 9 p.m., $5. BB’s
436-5222.
Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis,
2 p.m., $20. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S.
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
SHAWN MULLINS: w/ Lari White 8 p.m., $25-$30.
618-274-6720.
Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
314-436-5222.
Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar
MIKE PETERS OF THE ALARM: 8 p.m., $15-$25.
PAT METHENY: w/ Antonio Sanchez, Linda
THANK YOU SCIENTIST: w/ Apollo’s Daughter
Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.
Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-
Oh, Gwilym Simcock 7 p.m., $55-$100. The
7 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
SPOTS: w/ Ever More Broken, Bleach 7 p.m.,
588-0505.
Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis,
314-289-9050.
$8-$10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-
MURMURATION FESTIVAL: w/ Flying Lotus,
314-533-9900.
289-9050.
Tycho, Deerhoof, Yacht, Dan Deacon, Suuns,
RESF BENEFIT CONCERT 2016: 2 p.m., $12-$15.
WEDNESDAY 28
ST. LOUIS FOLK AND ROOTS FESTIVAL DAY 1: w/
Prince Rama, Sky Pony, Ice, Yowie noon; Sep.
Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar
BIG RICH MCDONOUGH & THE RHYTHM RENE-
Jim Kweskin, Geoff Muldaur, Hubby Jenkins,
25, noon, TBA. Cortex One, 4320 Forest Park
Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.
GADES: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700
Corn Potato String Band 8 p.m., $25-$60. The
Ave., St. Louis, 314-531-4500.
SHOW ME SHOWCASE HIP HOP FESTIVAL: 8 p.m.,
S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis,
THE PABLO CHAPO PROJECT: w/ DJ Jenny Craig 8
$10-$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-
BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale on
314-533-9900.
p.m., $15-$20. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
289-9050.
Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-
STEVE EWING DUO: 5 p.m., free. Tilles Park, 9551
314-289-9050.
Litzsinger Road, Ladue.
THE PINES: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Off Broadway, 3509
MONDAY 26
THE STL PLUG SHOW: 9 p.m., $5. Fubar, 3108
Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
BLOOD INCANTATION: w/ Narcotic, Unspeakable
$15-$18. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd.,
Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
SKYLINE IN RUINS: w/ Marked by Honor, Mental
7 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,
St. Louis, 314-533-9900.
TAKING BACK SUNDAY: w/ You Blew It! 8 p.m.,
Fixation, Lights Over Arcadia 7 p.m., $8. The
314-289-9050.
COUNTING CROWS: w/ Rob Thomas 6 p.m., TBA.
$35-$40. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester
Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
BUILT TO SPILL: w/ Hop Along, Alex G 8 p.m.,
Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth
Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
THE SLOW DEATH: w/ Death and Memphis, Guy
$25-$27. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester
City Expwy., Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944.
USO OF MO RED, WHITE AND BLUE BENEFIT CON-
Morgan 7 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,
Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
EAST SIDERS: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues &
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ANDY GRAMMER: w/ Gavin DeGraw 7 p.m., $26.50-$86.50. Peabody Opera House, 1400
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Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. FRANK TURNER & THE SLEEPING SOULS: w/ Arkells, Will Varley 8 p.m., $22-$25. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314833-3929. GHOST: 8 p.m., $31.75/$37.25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. SEVENDUST: w/ Crobot, Wilson 7 p.m., $20-$23. Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis, 618-274-6720.
Dreadful Collectables
STEVE ‘N’ SEAGULLS: 8 p.m., $12-$14. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.
Collectables, Jewelry, Wedding Cake Toppers, Accessories, Clothing, Artwork, Inscense, Rugs and so much more !
TWIDDLE: w/ Kitchen Dwellers 9 p.m., $10-$12. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314588-0505.
9319 B Midland Overland MO 63114
THIS JUST IN ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO: Sun., Nov. 13, 8 p.m., $25-$35. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St.
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Louis, 314-726-6161. BIG BUSINESS: Mon., Oct. 24, 8 p.m., $12-$14. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. BOBBY BONES: W/ Raging Idiots, Sat., Oct. 15, 7 p.m., $25-$50. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900. THE BOTTLE ROCKETS: Sat., Nov. 26, 8 p.m., $20. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314773-3363. BRUISER QUEEN RECORD RELEASE: W/ Crushed Out, The Homewreckers, Fri., Oct. 21, 9 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS: W/ Decedy, Jet Black Alley Cat, Pseudo Skylight, Murphy & The Death Rays, Sat., Oct. 8, 6 p.m., $10-$12. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009. CRYSTAL LADY: W/ Jennifer Hall, Circle The Wagons, Thu., Dec. 1, 7 p.m., $10. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009.
Adia Victoria 7 p.m. Sunday, September 25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $10. 314-7733363.
When Sister Rosetta Tharpe plugged in her cream-colored Gibson SG, she grabbed the electric guitar — a tool of the devil — and took it to church. Adia Victoria favors the same axe and channels some of that same ragged, bluesy energy, though on a song like “Heathen” it’s clear that Victoria sets her sights beyond the pulpit. The South Carolina native sings her songs with mysterious, beguiling
intensity on the wages of sin — both personal and, increasingly, societal. A sparsely attended club show last year found Victoria no less engaging than in front of a packed house, and her rendition of the Billie Holliday bone-chiller “Strange Fruit” was just one of her musical contributions to the conversation surrounding race, identity and white supremacy. So Ill: Hot off its LouFest performance, live hip-hop act iLLPHONiCS will warm the stage with songs from the recent Gone with the Trends. – Christian Schaeffer
DANNY GATTON TRIBUTE: Sun., Oct. 16, 5 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway,
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
MADE VIOLENT: Fri., Nov. 11, 7 p.m., $12-$14.
St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
314-436-5222.
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
DAVE AUDE: Sat., Nov. 26, 9 p.m., $10-$25. Amer-
JOHNNY GRAVES: Tue., Oct. 11, 9:30 p.m., $5.
MR H AND THE MODERN HISTORIANS CD RE-
istar Casino, 1 Ameristar Blvd., St. Charles,
BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.
LEASE: W/ The By Gods, Four Arm Shiver, The
636-949-7777.
Louis, 314-436-5222.
Langaleers, Thu., Nov. 3, 7 p.m., $10. Cicero’s,
DEAF BY AUDIO: W/ Mississippi Clean, The Right
LEROY PIERSON: Fri., Oct. 14, 7 p.m., $5. BB’s
6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-
Hooks, Thu., Oct. 13, 8 p.m., $8. Cicero’s, 6691
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
0009.
Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009.
314-436-5222.
MUSIC UNLIMITED: Mon., Oct. 17, 8 p.m., $5. BB’s
DR. ZHIVEGAS: W/ Serbsican, Fri., Nov. 25, 8
LIGHT THE FIRE: W/ Cadmium In Yellow, Sails
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
p.m., $15-$20. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd.,
Through Storms, Thu., Oct. 20, 6:30 p.m., $10-
314-436-5222.
St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
$12. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University
MUSICAL BLADES: W/ 3 Pints Gone, Fri., Oct.
ETHAN LEINWAND & FRIENDS: Tue., Oct. 11, 7
City, 314-862-0009.
21, 8 p.m., $7-$10. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd.,
p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broad-
LIL UZI VERT: Thu., Nov. 3, 8 p.m., $35-$40. The
University City, 314-862-0009.
way, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-
NATE MILLYUNZ: W/ Lauren & Dre, Sat., Nov. 5, 8
JACKYL: Sun., Dec. 4, 7 p.m., $15-$20. Pop’s
6161.
p.m., $10. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., Univer-
Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis,
LOCASH: Sat., April 22, 8 p.m., $25-$28. Delmar
sity City, 314-862-0009.
618-274-6720.
Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-
PAUL MOONEY: W/ the Mooney Twins, Sir Ervin
JAKE’S LEG: Fri., Oct. 7, 9 p.m., $7. Fri., Nov. 4, 8
6161.
III, Tahir Moore, Sat., Oct. 29, 8 p.m., $25-$35.
p.m., $7. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., Universi-
LOUFEST 2017: Sat., Sept. 9, noon; Sun., Sept.
Ambassador, 9800 Halls Ferry Road, North St.
ty City, 314-862-0009.
10, noon, TBA. Forest Park, Highway 40 (I-64) &
Louis County, 314-869-9090.
JIM JAMES: W/ Twin Limb, Tue., Nov. 29, 8 p.m.,
Hampton Ave., St. Louis.
PROJECT 86: Tue., Nov. 15, 6 p.m., $14-$30.
$31-$36. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St.
LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: Sun., Oct. 16, 8:30 p.m.,
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
Louis, 314-726-6161.
$10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway,
PSYCHOSTICK: Wed., Oct. 19, 6 p.m., $15-$17.
JOE METZKA BAND: Thu., Oct. 20, 7 p.m., $5. BB’s
St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
Tuesdays, Aug. 30–Oct. 4
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Nada Surf. | PHOTO BY BERNIE DECHANT
Nada Surf 8 p.m. Monday, September 26. The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street. $20 to $22. 314-588-0505.
If Nada Surf isn’t the best power-pop band at work today, it’s because Cheap Trick is still alive and kicking. But then again, the New York-based foursome, for all the mainlined sugar of its breezy choruses and charging riffs, has always been more than a hook machine. Songwriter and lead singer Matthew Caws infuses his best lines with a kind of restless bewilderment at the
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isolation great pop music is meant to dispel. “Nothing happens for a reason, nothing was meant to be,” he sings on the horn-punched “Out of the Dark,” a standout track on this year’s excellent You Know Who You Are. This band definitely knows who it is: an ever-reliable cure for the tuneless indie-rock blues. Guided by Guitar: Best known for his work with Guided by Voices, Doug Gillard has become a full-time member of the band, tempering its brightness with brawny, sometimes grungy guitar. – Roy Kasten
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
$15. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broad-
RAIN: A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES: Sun., March
way, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
5, 7 p.m., $35-$100. The Fox Theatre, 527 N.
STEVE VAI: Wed., Dec. 7, 8 p.m., $28.50-$30.
Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-534-1111.
The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,
RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: W/ Trombone Shorty
314-726-6161.
& Orleans Avenue, Jack Irons, Wed., Jan. 18,
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN TRIBUTE: W/ Steve Peca-
7:30 p.m., $49-$99. Scottrade Center, 1401
ro, Tony Campanella, Mike Zito, Sat., Nov. 26,
Clark Ave., St. Louis, 314-241-1888.
8 p.m., $15-$20. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar
RED WHITE AND FLOYD: Fri., Sept. 30, 9 p.m.,
Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
$8-$10. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., Universi-
STITCHES: Sat., Dec. 10, 7 p.m., $20-$40.
ty City, 314-862-0009.
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-
REEVE CARNEY: Fri., Nov. 4, 7 p.m., $12-$15.
9050.
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-
STRIKES BACK CD RELEASE: W/ Mutts, Hold
9050.
Close, Forgetting January, Fri., Oct. 14, 7 p.m.,
SCARFACE: Fri., Oct. 7, 9 p.m., $25-$35. The
$8-$10. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., Universi-
Marquee Restaurant & Lounge, 1911 Locust
ty City, 314-862-0009.
St, St. Louis, 314-436-8889.
SUGAR RAY RAYFORD BAND: Thu., Oct. 13, 8
SHOTGUN CREEK: W/ Tanner Lee Band, Joshua
p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S.
Stanley, Sat., Oct. 15, 8 p.m., $8-$10. Cicero’s,
Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-
SUPERHERO KILLER: W/ Unifyah, Sat., Oct.
0009.
22, 8 p.m., $10. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd.,
SOULARD BLUES BAND: Fri., Oct. 14, 10 p.m.,
University City, 314-862-0009.
$5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway,
TOM HALL: Sat., Oct. 15, 6 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
ST. LOUIS SOCIAL CLUB: Tue., Oct. 18, 8 p.m.,
314-436-5222.
$5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway,
WILD NOTHING: W/ Small Black, Mon., Nov. 7,
St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
8 p.m., $16-$18. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar
STACY MITCHHART BAND: Sat., Oct. 15, 10 p.m.,
Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
SAVAGE LOVE QUICKIES BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: I’m a 27-year-old straight male and a high school teacher. I left my fiancée in June and haven’t had sex since. Needless to say, I’m really horny. I’m also in that weird in-between age where I’m not comfortable hanging out at college bars, but I’m also a bit younger than most of the women in other bars. But when I scour dating apps, I see profiles of women ages 18 to 22 — women who, for all I know, could have been students at my school. I would never fuck a former student, of course, but I’m worried that I could get my license revoked if my supervisors discovered I was online trolling for sex. So what am I supposed to do? My cock is making sad faces at me right now. Teacher Evidently Needs Sexual Encounter If you live in a college town, TENSE, there’s at least one bar where grad students hang out — look for the bar where women are grading papers, not pounding shots, and hang out there. And with more than one in three new marriages beginning with an online meeting these days, and with Pew Research telling us that 60 percent of Americans approve of online dating, I
don’t see how your supervisors could possibly object to staffers scouring dating apps and the interwebs for age-appropriate partners. Unless we’re talking about a Catholic school staffed entirely by nuns, which isn’t what we’re talking about.
want; these guys would rather see their shots intercepted than go unattempted. So while a vasectomy is an eminently reasonable way for a married man who wishes to remain childless to prevent himself from impregnating someone who isn’t his wife, SNIP, arousal often defies reason. nd ultimately this is his decision to make — his body, his choice.
Hey, Dan: I’m female, 26, and in an open marriage with a wonderful man. I have a recurring fear that he’ll get some other woman pregnant and she will refuse to abort. I trust him, but condoms break (or get holes poked in them). He inherited serious money from his father, and his father got “oops’d” into having three kids. I would immediately divorce my husband if this happened. (Yes, I’m an asshole, but my life plans have NEVER included children, step or otherwise.) My solution is for him to get a vasectomy. He says he’s for it, but it’s been a YEAR and he hasn’t made an appointment. I’m seriously considering yanking “open” until he’s sterile. Maybe he really wants children and he’s not telling me, but I keep asking and he keeps saying no. Am I being unreasonable asking for the snip? Seriously Not Into Pregnancy
Hey, Dan: I’m a single gay male in my 40s. I have a good life and do good work. I’m not worried about finding the right guy to settle down with. I’m worried about what happens next. I’ve had three serious long-term relationships and several friends-with-benefits relationships. In every single one, a time has come when I completely lose interest in my partner sexually. It’s not a matter of him being less attractive to me. It’s not a matter of my sex drive shutting down — I’m all kinds of turned on by other guys, just not the one I’m with. It’s reached a point where I’m deliberately holding myself back from getting into relationships because I’m tired of ruining good things. Confirmed Bachelor
Maybe your husband wants children, SNIP, maybe he doesn’t. Or maybe he’s one of those guys invested in/aroused by the power of spunk to make babies they don’t
You could get your ass into therapy, CB, and churn through several relationships while you work on this — relationships that could fail for this or some other reason — and
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not have anything to show for your effort ten years from now. Or you could find a guy who has the same problem you do — your predicament is not uncommon — and instead of breaking up when you lose interest in each other sexually, you stay together, you love each other, you take care of each other, and you both fuck other guys. Hey, Dan: Straight 64-year-old man wanting to try the gay side of life!!! Don’t have the bodybuilder’s body anymore!!! Average size!!! Would anyone get turned on to old-timer’s body!!! Need some advice where and how to meet other gay men!!! Also HIV is a concern!!! Any other advice would be appreciated!!! When I’m Sixty-Four Check out daddyhunt.com, WISF, the “largest gay personals site for daddies, bears, and guys that love them”!!! Don’t be paralyzed by fear!!! Of HIV or anything else!!! But consider getting on PrEP!!! And use condoms!!! And remember::: Sex with a guy who thinks he’s negative but isn’t is way riskier than sex with a guy who knows he’s positive and takes his meds!!! And stop calling yourself straight!!! Listen to Dan’s podcast at savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter
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