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He wasn’t a dealer.

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Tim Prosser is still doing life — with no chance at parole

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pot bust at the center of a college basketball player’s expulsion from Harris-Stowe State University was bungled by school administrators who lied to the police, according to an incident report obtained by Riverfront Times.

Written by a St. Louis police officer, the report implicates Dean of Student Success Emmanuel Lalande and Director of Athletics Jamaal Mayo for inventing details to explain how they took possession of a gym bag — allegedly smelling strongly of weed — that belonged to student athlete Brittany Jackson.

The incident led to Jackson’s expulsion from Harris-Stowe — and, briefly, a warrant for her arrest on felony charges. But she claims the entire incident was manufactured and then hyped by top administrators as payback for her rejection of Lalande’s aggressive sexual advances.

She’s now preparing to sue the university.

The incident report traces the mess back to March 29, when St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officer Christopher Rauss was dispatched to Harris-Stowe, the historically black university in Midtown, for a “recovered article.” A university public safety officer told Rauss that Dean Lalande had recovered a gym bag that might contain marijuana.

Rauss’ incident report notes that Lalande had advised the public safety officer that an “anonymous Continued on pg 10

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The first would-be robber, who was armed with a revolver, got the drop on our anonymous hero just south of the intersection.

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[T]he suspect came up behind him and produced a revolver. The victim was able to fight the suspect off with an umbrella.

Moments later five other suspects appeared and were also fought off by the victim. All suspects then got into a car that had pulled onto the Euclid Meter Parking Area. The vehicle and suspects departed eastbound on McKinley Avenue. No verbal threats were made by any of the suspects toward the victim. The victim was not hurt during the incident.

The getaway vehicle is described as a mid2000s purple, four-door sedan.

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Rauss concluded there was no “anonymous source.” Instead, administrators had lied to him. source” had provided the tip that led to the bag’s discovery in a locker room. Lalande added that he’d grilled a basketball player named Brittany Jackson during a meeting the previous day, and that she had con rmed the bag belonged to her.

Rauss inspected the gym bag and found what appeared to be, yes, mari uana. A arrant was issued for Jackson’s arrest on two potential felony charges, possession of more than 35 grams of marijuana and “distribution of a controlled substance within 2,000 feet of a school.”

At some point that same day, Jackson was called into a different dean’s office. Jackson was informed that she was being expelled because she violated the school’s zero tolerance drug policy.

Getting kicked out of school, though, was the least of her worries. If convicted, those felony charges could have put Jackson in prison for years.

But the case fell apart quickly. n his report, Officer Rauss rote

that the school’s story “contained various inconsistencies.” In fact, through subsequent interviews with Jackson, Lalande and others, Rauss concluded that there had been no “anonymous source.”

Instead, administrators had lied to him.

In Rauss’ report, the true story was less a grand conspiracy than a clumsy attempt by school administrators to conceal the role head coach Hanna Haden had played in Jackson’s predicament and meddling by Dean LaLande, who apparently interrogated Jackson in a one-on-one meeting rather than waiting for police to handle the case. That’s the same meeting in which Jackson alleges she was sexually harassed.

Rauss’ investigation revealed a different sequence than what the university initially told police.

It all began when, during spring break, Jackson called up Haden, asking her coach to retrieve a gym bag left in the locker room. Haden was out of town, so on March 7 the coach called the college’s athletic director, Mayo, and asked him to grab the bag.

Mayo told Rauss that when he entered the locker room, he was confronted by the odor of weed.

The smell came from the locker containing Jackson’s bag. Mayo took the bag and went directly to Dean Lalande. hat s hen things e off the rails. Mayo would later admit to police that he lied to Jackson about

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From the report: Mayo stated to me that the “Anonymous Source” that was mentioned in the previous portion of this report was fabricated to avoid any confrontation or out lash [sic] toward Haden. Mayo also fabricated a story to Jackson to explain how the bag was located.

He told her there was a Clean Tech cleaning crew on scene who was cleaning out the locker and that’s how the gym bag was found.

Beyond the lies to the police — which could be used to undermine the university’s testimony in a criminal trial — was the matter of the bag itself. The locker where the bag was found didn’t have a padlock, and the locker room had been used by a visiting basketball team over the break. That left open the possibility that someone else had accessed the bag and planted the drugs.

Adding to the complications, after the university retrieved the bag, Lalande told police he held onto it for a few weeks — he said he kept it “awaiting Jackson’s return,” apparently so he could question her in person.

It was enough for police to rescind the warrant against Jackson.

And in a letter dated une , ac son was informed that her expulsion had been reduced to a year’s suspension.

But Jackson did not return to arris to e. And that might have something to do with what happened in that in-person meeting bet een herself and Dean Lalande on March 28, one day before police were called to the university. n a la suit led in une, ac son accused the dean of groping her.

Lalande, she claimed, told her that her drug stash had been discovered in the locker room, but that he could offer “help.”

“Mr. Lalande told me he wanted to ‘help me’ and then made sexual advances towards me, including but not limited to, touching my buttocks inappropriately,” wrote Jackson in a formal complaint filed in June with the Missouri Commission on Human Rights.

For now, Jackson has withdrawn her lawsuit against Lalande and other school officials in order to allow the Missouri Commission on Human Rights to review her

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“Harris-Stowe administrators swiftly and aggressively suspended my client from school and evicted her from her campus housing, all within about 24 hours, threatening this student athlete with being arrested for trespassing if she attempted to return to her classes, her team, or her home on campus,” said SanFilippo in a written statement. “Given this report, I believe that Harris Stowe owes their students and faculty, their generous donors and the members of the public they purport to serve an explanation.”

In a statement provided to RFT, Lalande denied Jackson’s accusation of sexual harassment and suggested the former basketball player was a known drug dealer who is now making false claims because she is upset about her expulsion.

“I vehemently refute any alleged sexual advances to this student,” Lalande wrote in an email. He maintains that nothing inappropriate happened during the March meeting “ hile in my office, never came remotely close to this student. Our conversation when she admitted to having the drugs as minutes or less. Again, this is a drug case by a student known for selling drugs.” n riverfronttimes.com

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He wasn’t a dealer.

He wasn’t a killer.

Ti m Pr o s s e r is still doing life — with no chance at parole

BY DANNY WICENTOWSKI

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t was early afternoon, December 12, 2003, when Patrick Prosser heard the phone ringing inside the lakefront home he shared with his wife in a Ste. Genevieve subdivision.

The voice on the other end was gruff, no-nonsense and familiar. It belonged to the county sheriff: “Mr. Prosser, do you want to see what your son has been up to?”

A patriarch in the Old Testament sense, Prosser and his wife had raised a tribe of nine children in the St. Louis suburb of Normandy before moving an hour south to this rural enclave. A few of their grown kids settled there as well, and among them was Tim — or “Timbo” as the family called him. The middle child, Tim had never married and lived alone in a single-wide trailer on a remote patch of land in Ste. Genevieve ounty. e dre disability bene ts

for injuries he’d suffered working for the family’s moving business. He spent his time hunting and salvaging muscle cars.

Or so Prosser had thought.

The temperature hovered below freezing, and Prosser, who was pushing 70, bundled up and made the twenty-minute drive to Tim’s trailer. Up a narrow, dirt-packed road shrouded by trees, Prosser eventually found Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff Gary Stolzer standing amid a crime scene.

The interior of the trailer looked like it had been ransacked. Pots, pans and coffee cups littered the ground, as well as strange-looking glass as s and lengths of tubing.

They were all that remained from the meth lab police had busted in an early-morning raid on the property, the sheriff said. Tim had been arrested and would soon be charged ith drug traffic ing in the rst degree.

That night, several members of the Prosser clan went to see Tim

at the county lockup. Bound in a straightjacket, Tim raved and thrashed against his restraints. He begged them to get him out. This was a side of Tim they’d never seen, more a caged animal than a son or brother.

For the most part, the extended Prosser family had been oblivious to Tim’s decline into addiction and meth-cooking. But Tim was known to the local drug task force members. n ovember , officers had even searched Tim’s trailer and discovered a meth lab and a trove of drugs.

It was more than enough, Stolzer con dently told a local ne spaper, to put Tim away for life. ut im had been a rst time drug offender with no prior felonies. After the November 2002 arrest, Carl Kinsky, the local prosecutor, merely slapped him with felony charges for possession and unlawful use of paraphernalia.

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a second time. That morning of December 12, as the wind whipped ith free ing rain, they con scated 350 grams of methamphetamine, mostly in li uid form. he officers also pulled a seventeen-year-old girl out of Tim’s bed.

“There’s no saying what you feel.

It was awful,” Patrick Prosser says on a recent evening, recounting the events of more than a decade past.

Now 80, the elder Prosser sports a shock of white beard and can speak only in a whisper. Tim, now 53, has spent the last thirteen years behind bars.

“He was the poster boy for meth, that’s what they made him,” Patrick says, speaking with a forcefulness that cracks his voice to a rasp. “We want him out.”

Without outside intervention, Tim Prosser will die in prison.

Just as Sheriff Stolzer suggested, Tim was eventually given a life sentenced for traffic ing methamphetamine in the rst degree. Due to the

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LIFE WITHOUT Continued from pg 13 quantity of drugs involved — more than three times the 90-gram minimum for rst degree drug traffic ing — he was deemed ineligible for probation or parole.

Tim’s descent into meth had followed a familiar path, starting with a spate of injuries that led him to painkillers and then, inexorably, to a substance that provided what the pills could not. He admits that he ran a kind of meth-cooking co-op out of his trailer and attributes his actions to his ravenous drug use. He is sober no . e says he s lled ith regret.

Although he has no violent crimes on his record, Tim’s 2003 arrest triggered a fate that amounts to a prolonged execution. He is serving a no-parole life sentence for drug traffic ing the only such prisoner in the state, according to a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Corrections.

On August 19, with the assistance of the Saint Louis University Legal Clinic, Tim mailed an application for clemency to Governor Jay Nixon, a former state attorney general who campaigned on his record for sustaining law and order. Nixon has allowed thousands of such petitions to gather dust on his desk.

But Tim has something those other petitioners would give anything to have: a powerful advocate on the other side of the law.

Ste. Genevieve County Prosecuting Attorney Carl Kinsky had little trouble convincing two separate juries of Tim’s guilt. The first trial, held in March 2004, ended with a guilty verdict on felony charges of drug possession and unlawful use of paraphernalia. That jury gave Tim the toughest possible sentence, eleven years.

The trial for Tim’s second set of charges, held eight months later, played out like an encore performance. In hindsight, Tim should never have taken his second case to trial. Kinsky presented essentially the same arguments he’d used to persuade the previous jury, parading lab evidence and photos of Tim’s meth lab and calling on drug task force members to describe the extent of the backwoods Walter White’s operation. n both raids, con dential informants had been sent to Tim’s trailer with a box of pseudoephedrine pills, the key ingredient required to transform otherwise legal items (camp fuel, acetone, matchbooks, antifreeze) into homemade meth.

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In Ste. Genevieve, 80-year-old Patrick Prosser holds a photo showing his son Tim before meth derailed his life. | DANNY WICENTOWSKI The informants’ sworn statements were entered into evidence, describing how Tim accepted the pills in exchange for a future batch of the nished product.

There was also a mountain of lab-tested evidence pulled from the trailer, including numerous dishes and jars that tested positive for meth and pseudoephedrine. During the rst raid, police discovered a baggie of white powder (testing positive for meth) and an actual pipe with meth residue.

Tim did little to aid his own defense. He was more like his own worst enemy.

His worst blunder came two weeks after the December 2003 arrest. Tim foolishly placed a phone call from the county jail to the seventeen-year-old girl who had been present during the raid.

In the phone call, Tim boasted that he’d known the bust was coming, but hadn’t had the opportunity to “get to my guns” before the police swooped in. He advised the teen not to plead guilty because “they can’t charge you for what was in my house.”

Throughout the call, Tim begged her to write him letters. He called her “baby” and told her that he still loved her. He promised that he would send her money to buy “a bag of happiness.”

Like all communications going in and out of the county jail, the phone call was recorded. Kinsky played the

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Tim Prosser in his early twenties. Now 53, Tim will die in prison — unless the governor steps in.

COURTESY OF THE PROSSER FAMILY recording for the jury.

“We’re not talking about a defendant who cooks the methamphetamine, and that’s it,” Kinsky said during his closing argument. The t o ri es, t o pistols and shotgun police recovered from Tim’s trailer were legally owned, but Kinsky pointed to the recorded phone call as proof Tim wasn’t an otherwise peaceable fellow who just happened to be cooking meth.

In a recorded jailhouse interview the day after the raid, the seventeenyear-old girl (who was ultimately not charged with any crime and released) insisted that she and Tim

had never been “boyfriend and girlfriend.” Still, Kinsky impressed upon the jury that Tim had, at the very least, chosen to corrupt a person who wasn’t even old enough to buy cigarettes.

“You’re going to send a message, whatever your verdict is. I hope that message is: Not in our county,” Kinsky told the jury. “I don’t think the facts in this case tilt toward the side of leniency.”

It took the jury less than twenty minutes to reach a guilty verdict.

Given the option of ten to thirty years, or life in prison, the jury chose life.

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In November 2002, police raided Tim’s trailer for the first time, uncovering an active meth lab.

COURTESY OF THE PROSSER FAMILY Last year, a letter arrived at Tim’s cell in the Southeast Correctional Center in Charleston.

“Dear Governor Nixon,” the letter began. “I am requesting the commutation of Timothy Prosser’s sentence in the above cause. I was the prosecuting attorney who prosecuted Mr. Prosser and am the current prosecuting attorney for Ste. Genevieve County.”

Dated September 20, the letter’s stationary bore the name of none other than Carl Kinsky. Tim was abbergasted. e hadn t heard a word from the prosecutor since the disastrous 2004 trials, whose verdicts im had been ghting unsuccessfully) in various appeals ever since.

In the letter, Kinsky revealed he’d had a change of heart.

There were nagging issues with the trial itself, wrote the prosecutor.

Kinsky noted that jury members in Tim’s second trial had voiced their confusion about what a “life sentence” really meant. Before reaching their verdict, the jury had gone as far as to send a written question to Judge Kenneth Wayne Pratte, asking if the option for the life sentence came with parole.

At the time, Tim’s attorney argued that the jury absolutely needed to know that any sentence they chose would, by law, be served without possibility of parole.

That was owing to an unusual component of the law under which Tim was sentenced. Overall, very few people serve the entire sentence ordered by a judge or jury. Even offenders convicted of violent crimes are afforded the opportunity to make their case before the parole board. Did you stay out of trouble, make restitution, get your GED or complete drug treatment courses?

That could be the difference between freedom and ten more years in prison. As a result, Missouri currently houses around 30,000 inmates in its penitentiaries, while an additional 20,000 offenders are out on parole. (Another 50,000 are serving probation without having ever set foot in prison.)

But the 350 grams of meth pulled from Tim’s trailer had triggered a little-known provision in Missouri law. The provision stipulates that anyone convicted of trafficking more than 90 grams of meth automatically loses eligibility for parole.

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LIFE WITHOUT Continued from pg 15 The jury wasn’t told that. Tim’s attorney failed to convince the judge that their questions about parole deserved an answer. According to a transcript of the exchange, Kinsky argued that Missouri law is very speci c about a ury s responsibilities: They can determine guilt and punishment, that’s all. The law leaves no room to include the separate matter of parole.

Judge Pratte agreed with Kinsky.

He left the jury members to their confusion, writing back: “The Court is not allowed to give you any further instructions on the matter.”

In the 2015 letter, Kinsky implied that Tim would have been better off being convicted of murder in the rst degree. Murder carries a possible punishment of life without possibility of parole. However, the language of the murder statute actually permits a jury to be informed that a life sentence means just that — imprisonment until death.

That wasn’t the case for a drug traffic ing conviction li e im s. hat murder and drug traffic ing carry similar punishments but different jury instructions bothered Kinsky to the core. It was a clear inconsistency in the law, he would write in his letter to Governor Nixon, years after Tim was sent away for life.

“I argued against the judge so informing the jury, but now find it unconscionable that a defendant in a murder trial has the bene t of a jury being so instructed, but not Timothy Prosser,” Kinsky wrote.

The prosecutor walked a narrow line in his statements to Nixon.

Kinsky conceded no mistakes or faults in his handling of the case.

Instead, he appealed to the obvious injustice wrought at the hands of the law.

“In my opinion, Mr. Prosser was clearly guilty,” Kinsky’s letter concluded. “His decision to proceed to trial was likely the result of poor judgment caused by his drug abuse.

His conduct merited substantial punishment. Nevertheless, it did not merit this punishment and it did not merit this punishment from a jury that was not fully advised of the consequences of the sentence it assessed.”

In an interview last month with Riverfront Times, Kinsky reiterated his opinion that Tim certainly deserved to go to prison for cooking meth — but not for the rest of his life.

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After a guilty verdict, a jury picks a punishment from options laid out in the criminal code. Typically, they are correct to assume that these sentences at some point may be cut short by parole. But in rare cases, picking a life sentence doesn’t mean what the jury assumes. Tim Prosser’s jury was never informed that his particular conviction for trafficking made him ineligible for any chance at parole.

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Tim’s jury chose a life sentence without knowing they’d condemned him to a slow death behind bars. But the law isn’t consistent. Had Tim been convicted of first-degree murder, the jury would know precisely what a “life sentence” really meant. And had he been convicted of a lesser form of murder — even second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter — he’d be doing far less time. me for a while,” Kinsky says now.

“Time gives you some distance. I’ve had cases where I’ve had qualms about the punishment, but this one seems to be in a completely different class.”

After nearly twenty years, Kinsky is ready to leave the prosecution business altogether. Now in his fth term, he s decided not to run for reelection after this term runs out in 2018.

Kinsky believes Tim was tried and sentenced by the book. But the resulting sentence eats away at him.

“Life without the possibility of parole means death in prison,” says the prosecutor. “It means you’re leaving prison feet rst no matter what. If he lives to be 500 years old, he still dies in prison.”

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complicated regrets. In 2008, Tim’s family managed to locate one of his jurors from the 2003 case.

The juror, Mary Elise Samson, said she had no doubt as to Tim’s guilt. But she had been stunned to discover the reality of Tim’s life sentence. n a notari ed affidavit, she claimed that the jurors had deliberated assuming Tim was eligible for parole — the faulty assumption left uncorrected by Judge Pratte’s order.

“We were concerned that Mr. Prosser would be out on parole in a short period of time; whereas with the life sentence he would be incarcerated for a longer period of time before becoming eligible for parole,” Samson wrote. “If the jury had been informed about the parole issue hen e re uested clari cation, am con dent that e ould

have selected the lengthy sentence instead of life imprisonment.”

The road to the Southeastern Correctional Center passes alongside a verdant field of corn. The stalks rustle in the afternoon wind, as if stretching toward the August sun. Peeking above the leaves, the brutalist gray face of the prison’s intake center greets visitors entering the sprawling compound. For Tim Prosser, it is both home and coffin.

Tim’s life began falling apart long before he moved into a trailer in Ste. Genevieve. It started, he says, when he lifted a piano in 1988.

“It was just a regular household move,” Tim recalls, resting his meaty forearms on a table in the prison’s visitation room. “I moved furniture for 21 years, and I lifted

a piano, done it a thousand times, if not more. I turned wrong. I have no idea what happened. It sent a sudden pain down my back and my legs.”

Tim kept working, but the pain began to overtake his life. Doctors told him he had a couple herniated discs in his lower back. They gave him pills, starting with Vicodin and moving on to Darvocet and Percocet. The prescription drugs dulled the pain — along with everything else.

In the early ‘90s, several Prosser families migrated south to Ste. Genevieve. Tim followed, but he says memories of those years are blurred by the pills. He worked odd jobs to make a living, repairing cars and menial labor, whatever his broken-down body could handle.

In 1997, he suffered a serious car accident, and the ensuing medical costs wiped out whatever savings he had left. He moved in with his parents.

It was around 2000 when Tim, having recovered from the car accident, was offered meth by an acquaintance in a billiards league.

At rst, it felt li e a miracle cure.

“It gave me function,” Tim says.

“There was no pain and I could move. I could get up every day.”

But in just three short years, Tim’s meth addiction had derailed his life.

He found himself in the crosshairs of the Ste. Genevieve police and local drug task force.

Tim hadn’t been a perfect citizen.

Years before succumbing to meth, he pleaded guilty in 1988 to unlawful use of a firearm, and he had enough of a drinking problem that he racked up three DWI convictions over the ensuing decade. But those crimes, all misdemeanors, resulted in nothing more than probation.

In 2003, seemingly overnight, Tim became a cautionary tale, the modern-day version of the severed head placed outside castle walls. His life sentence was heralded as a warning to other drug dealers.

“The people of Ste. Genevieve County have spoken,” a representative for the Ste. Genevieve sheriff told a local paper after Tim’s sentencing. “If you’re making, buying or selling illegal drugs in this county…it will not be tolerated.”

But there are reasons to be skeptical that Tim was anything other than a small-time meth cook primarily interested in feeding his own addiction.

First, Tim didn’t actually possess grams of meth. Officers didn t nd plastic bags bulging ith po der or crystals instead, they lled

evidence jars with the liquid bubbling in various containers found around the trailer. That’s what tested positive for containing methamphetamine.

However, liquid in the process of being distilled into meth isn’t equivalent to the stuff you sell on the street.

“That’s another bizarre aspect of the statute,” says Kinsky. “Ninety grams of pure meth is worth a lot.

Ninety grams of a liquid that contains meth is, I don’t know what it could produce typically, but it’s not the nal product. t s not going to produce anywhere near 90 grams of pure meth.”

In fact, Tim claims the 350 grams of liquid would have yielded just three to ve grams of usable meth and even that small amount would have been divided between other users who contributed ingredients.

And if Tim really was running a “large-scale” operation, where was the money Officers found a ad of $3,000 cash in Tim’s pocket, but court records show that Kinsky ultimately ordered the money returned after Tim’s family proved the cash had come from a social security settlement check. Even the informants working for law enforcement, too, had offered him ingredients, not cash.

The totality of the evidence backs Tim’s contention that he was an addict, not a kingpin. His history of chronic pain preceding prescription drug abuse follows a similar trajectory to the tens of thousands of Americans trapped in the opioid epidemic sweeping the country. Although the epidemic has gained media coverage more recently over its link to heroin overdoses, differences in regional drug markets mean that rural towns like Ste. Genevieve have been ush ith a different pain illing alternative.

At the time of Tim’s sentence, meth was decimating rural communities. Law enforcement was eager to show they were taking it seriously. But that meant, in many cases, toughening up drug laws to lock up addicts after the fact.

Tim is still in pain, a sensation he compares to being endlessly whacked about the limbs by former Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire.

These days, prison doctors have put him on a nerve-dampening medication called Neurontin. It still doesn’t do much.

As years passed, Tim settled into prison life. He kept himself out of trouble, receiving just three conduct violations since 2004. He lives

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Six years ago, Tim joined a program that allows inmates to train shelter dogs deemed unwanted and unadoptable. The program is called Puppies for Parole. So far, Tim has taught some 30 dogs basic obedience skills and socialization. Eventually, the dogs are sent home to new adoptive families.

Tim stays.

When Kinsky’s letter showed up in Tim’s cell last year, the middle-aged inmate had all but given up hope. The prosecutor’s missive, he says, “was like a light coming on at the end of the tunnel.”

But that tunnel has a gatekeeper: Governor Jay Nixon. And commuting Tim’s sentence — thus making him eligible for parole — doesn’t seem high on Nixon’s to-do list.

Until recently, Nixon largely ignored the pleas of the thousands of offenders serving lengthy prison terms in Missouri. Many of those sentences stem from the harsh drug laws passed in the 1980s and 1990s.

“These policies are coming back to haunt us,” says John Ammann, a supervisor in Saint Louis University’s civil litigation clinic and the lead author behind Tim’s petition for clemency. “People are starting to realize that this tough on crime attitude is not a good situation.

We locked non-violent people up, like Tim, for the rest of their lives.

We’re spending a lot of money to incarcerate people who could be productive citizens.”

In his seven-plus years as governor, Nixon has commuted the sentences of only a handful of Missourians, almost all who were convicted of the pettiest of crimes and who already served their full sentences. He commuted the sentence of just one person who was incarcerated at the time — a man named Jeff Mizanskey.

A Sedalia pot dealer, Mizanskey had been serving a life sentence for transporting several pounds of marijuana in 1993. Because of Missouri’s unique three-strike law for drug offenders, Mizanskey — who had two previous felony pot busts on his record — was automatically denied eligibility for parole.

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But although a change.org petition has gathered 90,000 signatures supporting Tim’s release, he is no Jeff Mizanskey. Mizanskey was messing around with marijuana, which a handful of states have since legalized. And though popular opinion is shifting on the drug war, Tim is a former meth cook. People feel differently about meth — one reason the laws that gave Tim a life sentence were passed in the first place.

“The public’s perception of people who use meth and produce meth is very dark,” concedes Amman. “They don’t consider the social, economic and medical factors that lead people to drugs. Tim was caught up in that.

He had an accident, back pain, prescription pills. For some people it leads to heroin, and for him it led to meth.”

But arguments about drug addiction and chronic pain might not sway Nixon — and they certainly haven’t changed the opinion of the woman who was pulled from Tim’s trailer as a teenager in 2003. Now 30, the woman spoke to RFT on condition of anonymity.

She says she met Tim several weeks before the 2003 arrest, through mutual friends ho had rst given her meth at a party. She would spend

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the night in the cluttered and smoky trailer, with Tim supplying meth and alcohol. The trailer had no running water and no bathroom.

Tim was prone to fits of rage.

“He was always threatening to kill everybody,” she says between bouts of sobbing. “If I didn’t do something or made him mad, there was threats toward me.” The memory of Tim’s anger, not to mention the trauma of waking up to police raiding the trailer, has never left her. When she learned that Tim was seeking a commutation, she says the years-old terror came rushing back.

There are things she won’t talk about, not to even to her doctors or therapists. he remembers rebuffing Tim’s sexual advances, but admits that there are swaths of time she can’t account for. She says she spent much of her time in the trailer passed out on a bed in a back room.

“He can play it to a tee that he has been rehabilitated, but I would put a million dollars I don’t have that he isn’t going to change,” she says.

“If that guy ever gets out, I will feel so unsafe and terri ed. don t no how I’ll manage day by day. I feel like he’d be a danger, and not just to me but to any young girl.”

Confronted with the woman’s portrayal, Tim begs ignorance. He regrets “the entire thing, everything that ever happened,” he says. But he can’t remember himself as the raging and temperamental man in

the woman’s memories. “I am not the same person I was at the time. I know that. If I get out, I need to start a new life.”

That people can change — it’s an argument repeated by prison reformers since time immemorial.

For those like Kinsky and Ammann, condemning a human being to die in prison is a punishment of last resort, reserved only for the most dangerous and unredeemable. Tim Prosser, they say, is not that.

As it stands, Tim has exhausted his appeals and has no other legal recourse. No one knows if Nixon will be swayed by Tim’s assurances or Kinsky’s regrets, but there are signs of a broader shift in how clemency is applied in the U.S. In August alone, Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 325 federal inmates, including 102 with life sentences for drug crimes. It was the greatest number of commutations ever enacted in a single month by a U.S. president.

“What we do in clemency, we don’t look at things as an excuse,” says Ammann. Indeed, even in a system honed over decades as an instrument of punishment, Governor Nixon is afforded the power to chart a path of human compassion.

Nixon has so far refused to act with such mercy. But Tim has hope.

He still believes that people — even a governor, even a meth cook, even a prosecutor — can change. n

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FRIDAY 0909 Sister Act Deloris Van Cartier has the look and the voice to be a star, but her gangster boyfriend Curtis Jackson sees her as nothing more than arm candy and won’t help further her career. In fact, Jackson makes things much worse for Deloris when he bumps off a snitch and she witnesses the crime. An old friend on the police force helps Deloris into the perfect hiding place -- a rundown convent. The quiet life of a nun isn’t exactly her style, but when Deloris energizes the choir with the power of Philadelphia soul and her own inimitable style, things start to improve. Too bad the bigger the Sunday services, the more likely it is that someone will recognize her -- someone like Jackson. Stages St. Louis closes out its 30th season with the crowd-pleasing Sister

BY PAUL FRISWOLD Act. The show is performed Tuesday through Sunday (September 9 to October 9) at the Robert G. Reim Theatre (111 South Geyer Road, Kirkwood; www.stagesstlouis.org). Tickets are $38 to $62.

Chamber Project St. Louis Chamber Project St. Louis continues to promote chamber music for a 21st-century audience. The group performs in non-traditional venues (clubs, galleries and the like), collaborating with a wide range of artists to expand the boundaries of what has long been

considered classical music. Its season opener is dedicated to the very American idea of going your own way. American Renegade includes performances of the “racing dance” “Zango Badango” by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Jennifer Higdon, Bryce Dessner’s folksy “Murder Ballades” (you might know Dessner as the guitarist for the National, or the guy who scored The Revenant) and big daddy Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring. American Renegade is performed at 8 p.m. tonight at the 560 Music Center (560 Trinity Avenue, University City; www. chamberprojectstl.org). Tickets are $5 to $15. riverfronttimes.com

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The life of Dr. John Romulus Brinkley reads like a Carl Hiaasen novel line-edited by Harry Crews. Brinkley was born dirt-poor in North Carolina to a former Confederate army doctor and died dirt-poor in Texas.

In between those hallmark events he bought a phoney-baloney medical degree, “perfected” the transplantation of goat testicles into mens’ scrotums (for virility purposes, duh) and then branched out into implanting them within women (the surgery cured atulence, as if you didn t already know that). He then started a successful sideline business as a simultaneous Continued on pg 22

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Tesseract Theatre asks the tough questions. | TAYLOR GRUENLOH radio station owner, DJ, ad salesman and pitchman. Brinkley earned millions of dollars, crammed goat balls in the coin pouches of some of Hollywood’s most famous actors (allegedly) and ran for governor of Kansas twice, losing only because of election fraud -- which was perpetrated by his opponent, amazingly enough. Brinkley should be pictured on the $2 bill, but instead he’s consigned to the dustbin of history. But no longer. Penny Lane’s perfectly titled documentary Nuts! chronicles the amazing life of Dr. John Brinkley in animation, historical reenactments and archival footage. The lm is screened at p.m. riday through Sunday (September 9 to 11) at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium ast Loc ood Avenue . ebster.edu lm series . ic ets are $4 to $6

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As the older but none-the-wiser stars of the eismann ollies return to their old stomping grounds for a reunion, old romances and resentments bubble to the surface, and a pair of marriages are stretched to the brink. Among the large cast are Broadway regulars -- Emily Skinner, Bradley Dean, Christiane Noll and Adam Heller -- as well as local favorites Joneal Joplin, Zoe Vonder Haar and Ron Himes. It’s a big show, and it’s bound to be a signal moment in the Rep’s history. Follies is performed Tuesday through Sunday 22

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(September 9 to October 2) at the Loretto-Hilton Center (130 Edgar Road; www.repstl.org). Tickets are $18 to $81.50.

Am I Black Enough Yet? Clinton Johnson raises a host of puzzling questions in his play Am I Black Enough Yet? Through a series of vignettes performed sketch-comedy style, the players challenge the audience to rethink what race means now that science has proven that any two random humans’ DNA will be 99.9 percent identical no matter what they look like. If the two people in question come from the same part of the world, speak the same language, dress the same way and use the same slang (as in the skit “Two Black Girls, One of Them White”), why does that .01 percent of DNA matter so much? Tesseract Theatre presents Am I Black Enough Yet? at p.m. riday and aturday and at p.m. Sunday (September 9 to 18) at the Regional Arts Commission (6128 Delmar Boulevard; www.tesseracttheatre.org). Tickets are $15.

SUNDAY 0911 Labyrinth Labyrinth, which is somehow 30 years old at this point, is the platonic ideal of a cult lm. tart ith Jim Henson’s creatures, throw in a screenplay by Monty Python’s Terry Jones, get a young Jennifer Connelly to play the lead and then top it all off with David Bowie as the enigmatic Goblin King, Jareth -- it’s quite a concoction. The musical story of a young girl (Connelly) entering an

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Learn how to win in life in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. | JOAN MARCUS otherworldly labyrinth in order to rescue her younger brother has Muppet-y goblins, the gentle giant Ludo and a dancing David Bowie.

What the world needs now is Labyrinth, sweet Labyrinth. The favorite lm of t o or three generations is screened at and p.m. today at the Regal St. Louis Mills Stadium 18 (5555 St. Louis Mills Boulevard, Hazelwood; www.fathomevents. com . ic ets are . .

TUESDAY 0913 A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder Monty Navarro is distantly related to a wealthy family, but the distance is so great as to render him utterly poor. Being an enterprising sort, he realizes that if a few of those relations were to die, he’d be that much closer to the family fortune. There are eight people in line between him and a life of leisure. Could he possibly bump off eight relatives? It helps that he’s never met any of them before, but still — eight murders is substantial for a first-time killer. he Robert L. reedman and teven Lutvak musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder was the toast of Broadway for more than two years, and now it makes its St. Louis debut. The show is performed Tuesday through Sunday (September 13 to at the o heatre orth Grand Boulevard; www.fabulousfox.com). Tickets are $30 to $66.

WEDNESDAY 0914 Capturing the City St. Louis was booming in the early twentieth century, growing beyond its frontier boundaries at a rapid rate.

The St. Louis Street Department documented these growing pains, both to record the challenges it faced and to show its progress. Its photos show work in progress, areas needing improvement, nished pro ects and quite by chance — the daily life of the city. Joseph Heathcott and Angela Dietz collected some prime images in the new book Capturing the City: Photographs from the Streets of St. Louis. The book is really more of a time machine, showing a St. Louis that is familiar but vastly different: Horses being hoisted out of holes in the street are a rarity these days, and Market Street never has musicians on atbed truc s anymore urging us to keep the city clean. Heathcott and Diet discuss their pro ect at p.m. tonight at the Missouri History Museum (Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue; www.mohistory. org). Admission is free.

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The Unsullied Hero Half of Clint Eastwood makes a wholly entertaining film Written by

ROBERT HUNT Sully

Directed by Clint Eastwood. Written by Todd Komarnicki. Based on the book by Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow. Starring Tom Hanks, Anna Gunn, Laura Linney and Aaron Eckhart. Opens Friday, September 9, at multiple theaters.

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or several years, there’s been an interesting battle of wills going on between Clint Eastwood the lmma er and lint ast ood the celebrity.

Director ast ood ma es thoughtful, challenging films fueled by a rigorous, almost classical style and has a mind dra n to ambiguity and enjoys tearing down false images. elebrity lint has a pric ly side hen one reporter uotes him saying that he favors an almost entirely vegetarian diet, he ma es sure that the ne t interview is conducted while he’s eating a stea . elebrity lint ma es unfounded political statements that sometimes sound li e he s getting tal ing points from that grumpy old codger you avoid ma ing eye contact with at the bus stop. Director ast ood ma es lms that challenge racism, uestion media e ploitation in the guise of patriotism, forgive assisted suicide, attac the death penalty and even suggest that opposing sides in ar might both be orthy of sympathy, ideas that have dra n harsh criticism from the same right ing tal radio blo hards hose half ba ed conspiracy notions Celebrity Clint loves to repeat.

In a way, the two personalities have honed their differences into a well-tuned relationship. Celebrity lint plays up the macho image and tired reactionary attitudes for the press as if he were unaware that director Eastwood has spent a good

Aaron Eckhart and Tom Hanks make a great team in Sully. | © 2016 WARNER BROS. ENTERTAINMENT INC portion of his lm career slyly deflating them. e can t entirely ignore Celebrity Clint — he’s been a big star for more than a half century but e don t have to ta e him seriously. hen Director ast ood is in good form as he fre uently is — his grouchy alter ego goes into hiding and lets the better half of the duo go about his business. ast ood s ne lm Sully is the story of a man unintentionally thrust into the public eye. It’s about being forced to ta e action in an emergency situation, but also about having to question and justify that action. Though it’s based on an event that made headlines a fe years ago, it s tempting to call some of its observations on fame and the media the most autobiographical or ast ood has ever made. om an s plays aptain hesley Sullenberger, a 57-year-old pilot for US Airways who received national attention in January 2009 when he lost both engines on a 155-passenger plane and as forced to ma e an emergency landing in the middle of the udson River. e as praised as a hero by many and accused of rec lessness by others. or the modest ullenberger, both reactions e travagant praise and

impassive scrutiny ere e ually disconcerting. or much of the lm an s Sully is a stranger in a strange land, a man used to being in control of his life no dropped into a completely unfamiliar place. an s gives a careful, understated performance, reacting and absorbing the overlit orld around him li e a Rip an in le ho a es up in the middle of imes uare. As ully s co pilot eff iles, Aaron c hart is the comic side ic to the reserved an s they t together ith the congeniality of an old vaudeville team, their relationship critical to the force of the lm s nal confrontational sequence. hile an s performance adds much to the film, the genius of Sully comes from its handling of the emergency landing, hat ully frequently calls “the 208 seconds.” tructuring the film around the National Transportation Safety oard s investigation immediately after the udson landing, ast ood stages the event as a high-tech version of Rashomon, replaying the action in a variety of forms and styles. here s an e tended narrative version, showing the flight from start to finish from riverfronttimes.com

the perspectives of the crew, the passengers, the air traffic controller and even the rescue teams, follo ed by a series of simulations, media representations and nally a tense real time reenactment focusing solely on the actions of the pilots.

This is, in a sense, an investigation of an investigation, but Eastwood and screen riter odd omarnic i nd drama in its repetitions and revisions, turning what could have been a tal y series of testimonies and technical jargon into a story of courage and passion. he message that there can be a signi cant gap bet een the truth of a person or an event and the way it’s perceived — is a favorite ast ood theme from as far bac as 1980’s Bronco Billy. But the difference between Sully and the director s previous myth busting is that here he s not simply lifting the curtain on a false image as in Flags of our Fathers or lampooning a fraud as ith Richard arris character in Unforgiven es reversing the terms. ith Sully, ast ood pulls bac the layers of interpretation and speculation to find a real hero in its center. An inspirational story gets an inspired telling. n

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Four Decades of Theater That Provokes The Black Rep enters its 40th season with purpose Written by

PAUL FRISWOLD Miss Julie, Clarissa and John opens Friday, September 9, at Washington University’s Edison Theatre (6445 Forsyth Boulevard; www.theblackrep.org) and continues through September 25. Tickets are $35 to $40.

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t. Louis was a very different city in 1976. The Jefferson Bank protest of 1963 had opened up white-collar jobs for African Americans, but the actors on local stages remained overwhelmingly white — as did the audiences. Ron Himes was a student at Washington University hen he too his rst steps to s ing the balance.

“The Black Rep grew out of a student group at Wash U.,” he explains. “ he goal as to ll the void of blac actors on stage. It was really about showcasing African-American stories, because our stories weren’t being told.”

The founder and producing director of the St. Louis Black Repertory Co., Himes has a touch of gray in his hair but retains his youthful enthusiasm for theater and his community.

On the eve of the company’s historic 40th season, he’s busy producing the Black Rep’s season opener — Miss Julie, Clarissa and John, an adaptation of August Strindberg’s drama Miss Julie — even while starring in Follies, the rst sho of the Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis’ 50th season. If he’s overworked, he doesn’t look it. Four decades of experience have left him ith a casual con dence in his own abilities and those of his colleagues.

“I plan better than I used to,” Himes, 64, says when asked about the changes the years have wrought.

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The Black Rep’s production of Death and the King’s Horseman was a high point for founder Ron Himes. | STEWART GOLDSTEIN “I have a better idea of the work we want to do. We’re still true to our original mission, we’re still provocative and issue-oriented. How we address the issues our community faces is at the forefront of the process.”

The mandate to do “issue-oriented” work has garnered the Black Rep a large and loyal audience, one that has stuck with the company through several moves (some planned, some not) and the economic downturn of 2008, which still reverberates throughout the city’s theater community.

And as Himes proudly points out, that audience encompasses a broad cross-section of St. Louis. “We have the most diverse audiences in St. Louis. They’re black, white, young, old, gay, straight,” Himes boasts. “It’s everybody.”

It’s just one of many points of pride. Himes cites the company’s “ fteen or si teen orld premieres,” and landmark productions of Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman and Mbongeni Ngema’s Sarafina! as highlights of his tenure.

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ent theaters before closing.) Himes also notes the company’s success with the works of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson. ”We were the second company to complete August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle. e ere the rst company to do Gem of the Ocean at the August Wilson Center [for African American Culture],” he says, referencing his company’s premiere at the Pittsburgh based nonpro t organi ation with obvious pride.

It should come as no surprise then that Wilson’s Seven Guitars will be performed again this season. But before that comes Mark Clayton Southers’ Miss Julie, Clarissa and John, directed by Andrea Frye with an all-local cast.

Himes calls it “an urgent play.”

“It transports the Strindberg story about the love between the daughter of a landowner and the man’s servant to a plantation during the Reconstruction. It’s about gender issues, it’s about race — it’s a St. Louis story.”

Himes is similarly keen on the second show of the season, Lines in the Dust. The drama about a mother searching for options after her daughter’s name isn’t drawn in the charter school lottery touches

on the education gap, the precarious state of inner city schools and what we owe our kids. “Nikkole Salter is a hot young playwright. We had to choose between three of hers,” Himes says. It’s a luxury that makes him smile: Too many good plays by a black playwright.

In the early years choices were leaner, and Himes had to create shows for the company to do. He conceived a number of musical revues to t the bill, such as the al ays popular Tell Me Somethin’ Good (a history of black American music) and the moving Crossin’ Over, which charts the long journey from Africa to slavery to the Civil Rights movement through songs of faith. It’s a bona fide crowd pleaser, one the company has produced numerous times.

Crossin’ Over closes the current season — this production not by necessity, but by choice.

“There are more writers working, and more younger writers, like Nikkole Salter. That’s good, but it makes the decision-making more difficult. I have an obligation to maintain and celebrate work that existed in the African-American canon before us, and to do the same for the new people.” n

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Wine Before Dine The team behind Sasha’s doubles down on food at Scarlett’s Wine Bar — with mixed results Written by

CHERYL BAEHR Scarlett’s Wine Bar

4253 Laclede Avenue; 314-797-8223. Mon.Sat. 11-1 a.m.; Sun. 10 a.m. to midnight.

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confession: I’m actually writing this review of Scarlett’s Wine Bar at its sister establishment, Sasha’s on DeMun, chatting it up with the bartender. It’s where I write nearly

every week, at my favorite table right next to the secret surge protector, over a glass of wine that I don’t even have to order. Usually Kit, a veteran server I’ve grown to consider a friend, simply asks for my mood. Sometimes she doesn’t even do that. “Just drink this,” she recently told me as she handed over a glass of Italian red. “It’s what you’ve been looking for.” It’s currently my favorite wine.

I mention this not only to disclose my bias, but to illustrate why people go to the Sasha’s on DeMun, as well as its counterpart on Shaw.

Sure, I’m a regular, but judging from the packed room of familiar faces on any given Tuesday, I’m not the only one drawn to the extensive list of glass pours and the low-key vibe. Maybe I’ll order a prosciutto plate here or a cheese board there, but I couldn’t care less about the food. As long as what they are serving is passable, I’m good.

At Scarlett’s, Alan Richman and

Rachel Jones are trying to change this — the part about the food, that is. The Sasha’s owners opened their latest concept on the eastern edge of the Central West End this past June not only as a wine bar, but a bona de restaurant a place to go for dinner and not merely after-dinner drinks or an aperitivo. They put in a larger kitchen, special-ordered a pizza oven from California and crafted a more extensive menu than they serve at their other properties.

The neighborhood has responded — to the point that the wine bar component seems to be lost on patrons. The place is busy earlier in the evening, but things drop off after regular dinner hours, with the Central West End’s late-night revelers stubbornly sticking to the familiar street parade on Euclid.

Like its sisters, Scarlett’s stays open late to accommodate a drinks-only crowd, but that business hasn’t really popped. riverfronttimes.com

raffic o aside, though, if you weren’t watching the plates coming out of the kitchen, you might think Richman and Jones had simply opened Sasha’s part three. Scarlett’s boasts that sexy, candle-lit, wine crate d cor that s come to de ne their aesthetic, with a large, marbletopped, shotgun-style bar, marble bistro tables and garnet-colored walls. Framed vintage liquor posters decorate the space and gorgeous, mismatched chandeliers hang from the gilded tile ceiling.

When it’s nice outside, the front patio that faces Laclede provides a breezy setting for throwing back a glass of Sancerre.

The kitchen sits in the back of the restaurant, which ends up being quite telling — as much as Richman and Jones have positioned Scarlett’s as a dinner destination, the wine is still the draw. Smoked trout arrives with just a delicate hint of sweet wood smoke. Capers, diced onions

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SCARLETT’S WINE BAR Continued from pg 27 and tart crème fraiche, inspired by the classic smoked salmon preparation, provide a tart bite that brightens the dish.

The day’s appetizer special, a panzanella salad, was equally adequate. Crunchy bread cubes, cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions and fresh mozzarella were tossed in a pleasant, mouth-puckering vinaigrette — unfortunately there was too much of it. The kale Caesar salad suffered the same over-dressed fate. As much as I appreciated the fearless, anchovy-forward dressing, it needed less.

Having tasted some earthshattering briskets in my time, I’m admittedly ruined. This was no excuse for Scarlett’s brisket sandwich, though. The dry, stringy meat had no flavor until it was reconstituted in a salt-bomb of a jus. Presumably it was a riff on a French dip, but it was a sub-par one.

The grilled cheese turned out to be the much better sandwich.

Herbed cheddar cheese and tomatoes melted over butter-sliced bread, evoking the classic grilled cheese and tomato soup, albeit in a grown-up way. The accompanying house-made tater tots stole the show, however. More like deepfried mashed potatoes, these crispybreaded poufs are exactly what I’ll want after a few glasses of wine.

If you don’t mind lump crab cakes that are more cake than crab, Scarlett’s version is fair enough, with fresh-tasting crab. I longed for larger hunks and more of it, though at $14.40 for an order of two, I can’t complain too loudly.

I must, however, lament the salty beef tenderloin. The beef was wellcooked, encrusted with coarsely ground black peppercorns and smothered in exotic mushrooms

Tables in the back of Scarlett’s are flanked by wine storage and an open kitchen. | MABEL SUEN — all good things, had they not been overshadowed by heavy-handed seasoning.

Richman and Jones have gone out of their way to highlight their pizza oven as the biggest difference between Scarlett’s and the two Sasha’s. And considering they bought a top of the line ood red one, I expected more of a traditional Neapolitan-style pie. But while Scarlett’s pizzas are certainly woodred, they lac the characteristic leopard spotted crust that de nes traditional Neapolitan pies. The mushroom pizza, coated in assorted truffled fungi had a pleasant, earthy avor. And simply paired with the housemade ricotta, this would have been a wonderful dish.

However, its tomato sauce base and too-liberal coating of mozzarella overshado ed the other avors.

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mingling with the grease. Lettuce, tomatoes, onion and bread-andbutter pickles dressed this perfect sandwich.

As at Sasha’s, a large portion of Scarlett’s menu is devoted to cheese and charcuterie plates — and, as at those other venues, I found myself gravitating toward that portion of the menu. Pizza, beef tenderloin and the owners’ ambitions aside, Scarlett’s remains first and foremost a wine bar.

And that’s OK. Because as at Sasha’s, I found myself chatting it up with my server at Scarlett’s, had a fantastic time, and walked away with a good wine recommendation — one that happens to pair beautifully with that outstanding burger. n Scarlett’s Wine Bar

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Scarlett’s pear and prosciutto pizza is a little like communism — it sounds wonderful on paper, but it just doesn’t translate well to real life. Cooking prosciutto is ust difficult heated too much, the cured meat gets dried out, tough and overly salty. Consequently, the meat on this other ise ne pi a turned into salty bacon bits.

Surprisingly, the best dish at this sophisticated wine bar proved to be the greasy, diner-inspired burger.

A perfectly griddled butter bun cradled the meat, while melted herbed cheddar oozed over the top,

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hris Kelling of Pastaria and the soon-to-open Sardella (7734 Forsyth Boulevard, Clayton; 314-862-6603) understands why service tends to be the unsung part of the food business.

“Our jobs aren’t super sexy,” the general manager and service guru explains. “You can’t emulate what we do at home or Instagram a photo of service like you can your food.

We don’t create a tangible product, and I think that’s why we aren’t at the forefront of the discussion.”

But while Kelling may not see himself at the forefront of the discussion, his impact is unquestionable. As the man in charge of service at two of Gerard Craft’s restaurants, Kelling’s job is to make sure he creates an hospitable atmosphere so that his guests can enjoy the chef’s food. It’s not about him, he explains — in fact, an attitude like that is what makes for bad service.

“This is a stage and it’s a performance, but our job is to carry the piano so the chef can play it,” Kelling says. “Bad service is when the waiter tries to make themselves the star of the production, either with a theatrical introduction or exaggerated movements. It’s worse than being inattentive.”

Kelling’s resume includes some of the top restaurants in the country, including Michelin-starred the Restaurant at Meadowood in Napa Valley. However, the spark that ignited his passion for service was much humbler. “P.F. Chang’s in 1999,” he says. “I had a wonderful manager who understood that if you make people feel special, they

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“Our job is to carry the piano so the chef can play it,” says Chris Kelling. | HOLLY RAVAZZOLO

will put money on it. That’s the initial motivation, but then you just want to make people feel great, to put a smile on their faces.”

He adds, “We’re lucky in this business that people choose us to celebrate their most important events. And with that comes a huge responsibility. If we just feed people, we’ve failed.”

When he’s not taking care of his guests, Kelling likes to see what it is like to be on the other side of the table. Here are his picks for some of the best service experiences in St. Louis.

Fort Taco Multiple locations including 8106 Manchester Road, Brentwood; 314647-2391 “This place is not only an example for fast food establishments but friendly, compassionate hospitality in general. They ask your name, how your day is going, and if you’ve been there before — all through a drive-thru window! Asking a guest about their day is such a simple thing to do, but when it’s genuine, it makes a true personal connection with that diner, no matter the setting.”

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Reeds American Table 7322 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-899-9821 “Reeds is the perfect de nition of hospitality for a neighborhood spot. My wife and I live down the street, and we probably go there twice a month. They make you feel like you’re in a friend’s home. They know their regulars, when they’ve seen them last and any preferences that they may have. They care about those little details, which always leaves a memorable impression on the guest.”

Mai Lee 8396 Musick Memorial Drive, Brentwood; 314-645-2835 “You cannot talk about hospitality in St. Louis without mentioning Mai Lee. Sit at the bar and watch how many people they know by name, even when they are slammed.

It’s not just regulars; it could be someone that’s only been in once or twice. At the front of the house, we always try to remember guests’ names, and no one in the city is as good at it as them. Or Qui [Tran] may just call you ‘baby,’ which is just as endearing. I don’t have the charm to pull that off.”

Planter’s House 1000 Mississippi Avenue; 314-6962603 “The entire team is amazing, but ed ilgore speci cally. f that man crafts you a cocktail, he wants it to be right for you. Despite the well-deserved accolades, he is the humblest guy. He could have gotten a big head long ago, but he genuinely cares that you’re enjoying the cocktail. There’s no going through the motions with Ted. He’s always willing to walk you through what you’re drinking, and I guarantee you’ll learn something along the way.”

The Peacemaker Lobster & Crab Co. 1831 Sidney Street; 314-772-8858 “The whole staff there just always seems like they are having fun. In my opinion, it’s the most fun restaurant in St. Louis. General manager Chris Trunk always has a smile on his face and is working the room in the best way possible. There’s an energy to Peacemaker, and I just feel good when I’m there. I have to be told by my wife to pick somewhere else, because I just always want to be in that dining room.” n

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8 Dollar Deli (6600 Delmar Blvd., University City; 314-776-9300) opened August 25 in what was previously a Smoothie King — offering quick service, a whole lot of good cheer and some really big sandwiches.

The place is the brainchild of Roger Morgan, a long-time entrepreneur who got a hankering for a certain type of simple, overstuffed sandwich and discovered that he couldn’t find one anywhere anymore. After testing the waters with a food trailer — and even driving an Uber for awhile to learn what passengers really wanted — he came up with his concept and signed a lease in the Loop.

The menu is incredibly simple. You can order turkey, ham, roast beef or the Big Bubba, which isn’t any bigger than the rest, but includes all three meats in one glorious pile. Get it as a sandwich, a wrap or a salad, and the rest of the toppings are compiled to order. If you want it done Morgan’s way, it comes with lettuce, tomato, onions, provolone, mustard, mayo and a marvelously tart special sauce.

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The bread is made to Morgan’s specifications each morning by Fazio’s, and even the pickles have been chosen with incredible care. “I ate so many pickles, you would not believe,” Morgan says. “I came up on this one here and I said, ‘That’s it! Hook me up with these. This is our answer.’”

Morgan has a deep, booming voice and a big, friendly personality — and his business bears the stamp of his good humor. Everything from the signs to the T-shirts proclaiming its sandwiches the “world’s biggest” are marked with a hopeful asterisk and the disclaimer “we think!” The sign on the door vowing to be open until 3 a.m. promises “you keep coming, we keep serving.” Morgan chuckles excitedly while he details his plans to upgrade the seating area outside the front door — “We’re going to put up a white picket fence and green turf, with fake grass and flowers, and put a sign on the picket fence that says ‘Garden of Eatin’!”

That’s not the only gimmick; every day the lucky someone who orders the 128th sandwich gets it for free.

“People will never know what number they are, but when they’re 128, everyone will know,” he enthuses.

He’s thinking about getting a foghorn to really put the good news on blast.

Oh, and if you help name their mascot — a statue of an old-school chef who’s stationed near the counter — they’re going to give you some sort of prize. Morgan isn’t sure what just yet. There’s no corporate office to tell him he can’t do this or that; the sky is the limit.

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en McArthur, executive chef of the acclaimed J McArthur’s, An American Kitchen (3500 Watson Road; 314-353-9463), has left the Lindenwood Park restaurant. His last day was August 28.

McArthur announced the news in a statement posted to his personal Facebook page, thanking the St. Louis dining community for embracing his vision. He also had special praise for the local farms whose products he’s relied on for his locavore dishes.

The decision marks the end of McArthur’s business relationship with the restaurant’s co-owner — his father, John. The restaurant was named after John McArthur, and as our review noted, “on any given evening, you’ll see [chef ] McArthur’s wife helping to seat tables, his father recommending wine for bar patrons and his stepmom making sure diners are enjoying their entrées.”

Although the restaurant has only been open for thirteen months, Ben McArthur says he was on-site for much longer than that.

“We just wanted to go in a differ-

Ben McArthur and his co-owner — his father, John McArthur — have had a parting of the ways. | COURTESY OF J MCARTHUR’S, AN AMERICAN KITCHEN ent direction,” Ben McArthur tells the Riverfront Times. “We’ve had the [J McArthur’s] location for two and a half or three years — it was 3500 Winehaus before, and we ran that — and we just came to a mutual agreement that it was time to move on.”

Chef McArthur wants to move into more of a true farm-to-table, table-to-farm model — more of a collaborative relationship than that of the chef-purveyor dynamic at J McArthur’s (and, indeed, most restaurants). He’s especially proud of the relationship he has devel-

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“I’ve been working with Bryan, and he is just starting to be able to deliver produce, goats and beef to restaurants,” says McArthur. “I’d really like to help them grow.”

McArthur has some ideas in the works, though he is not ready to discuss them quite yet. In the meantime, he plans to teach classes at Kitchen Conservatory and do some restaurant consulting — projects that will help him escape the gruel-

ing hours of running a restaurant.

“I’m almost 40 and my back hurts,” laughs McArthur. “Seriously, though, I want to get to a point where I am not cooking on the line every night. I’m looking at at ways to be able to do something different.”

Chef William Volny, whose resume includes the Libertine and Bixby’s at the St. Louis History Museum, assumed executive chef duties when the restaurant reopened last week.

It was shuttered over the weekend due to a mechanical failure in its n kitchen, McArthur says.

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hen the LouFest 2016 lineup was announced on May 24, you could almost hear a St. Louis-wide sigh of relief, if not surprise.

While the previous year ’s festival — with headliners the Avett Brothers, Hozier and Ludacris — saw the strongest attendance of LouFest’s six-year run in Forest Park, the lineup’s representation (or lack thereof ) of women and artists of color, along with a

distinct orientation toward indie/ alternative pop and rock, raised some eyebrows and inspired more than a few shrugs. Some wondered if LouFest’s relevance to St. Louis had come to mean little more than a name and a location.

But to return to this year’s weekend in the park: If 2016’s lineup hasn’t put those concerns to rest, nothing will.

From Buddy Guy to Greensky Bluegrass, from Anderson .Paak to LCD Soundsystem (which has never before performed in St. Louis), from Preservation Hall Jazz Band to Band of Horses, from Vince Staples to Chris Stapleton, LouFest 2016 isn’t just more diverse: It feels like a reset. Heritage acts are well balanced with rising artists, as are the genres of blues, hip-hop and soul with electronic, rock and country sounds.

The festival has also increased its local representatives. Seven St. Louis bands will perform over the weekend, some with prime mid-afternoon spots.

“This year we put diversity a little more up front when we started booking in January,” says

Mike Van Hee, part of the St. Louisbased Listen Live team that owns and produces the event. “We were a little more aggressive on artists like Charles Bradley and Preservation Hall Jazz Band. We also wanted a female artist on the top of the bill. When Lauryn Hill became available, it made all kinds of sense.

We also wanted up-and-coming hip-hop acts, to give them an opportunity on a really cool stage in a cool slot. That’s when we grabbed Vince Staples and Anderson .Paak.

This year we don’t have a hip-hop nostalgia play. That’s a bit of a departure from what we’ve done.”

In 2009, Listen Live launched LouFest with the plan to bring to Forest Park a multi-day, multi-stage festival on the model of Austin City Limits. In 2013, Listen Live began a partnership with C3 Presents, an Austin-based company that produces Lollapalooza and which gave LouFest a powerful infrastructure and a national reach.

One year later, C3 was acquired

by Live Nation. And so despite the success of LouFest 2015 (more than 50,000 attended across the riverfronttimes.com

weekend), C3 pulled out of the partnership.

“C3 has expanded its brand insanely over the years,” says Rich Toma of Listen Live. “They added three more Lollapaloozas, took Chicago [Lollapalooza] to four days and they’ve got two more days of Austin City Limits. In order for St. Louis to have the best experience from LouFest, it was a mutual decision. C3 said, ‘Look, you guys know what you’re doing. You can put your team together, and let us know how we can help.’” That means an advisory role going forward, but that’s about it.

Instead, this year Listen Live has increased its collaboration with local promoters and club owners — including staff at local venues such as the Pageant, Off Broadway, the Ready Room and Fox Theatre. “It’s a cool opportunity for one weekend a year to bring together a lot of people on the scene here to work on an event we are all passionate about,” says Van Hee. “This is what we always wanted it to be like,” adds Toma. “When you work Continued on pg 36

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with a big national company like C3, they have a crew that travels around the country, but this is a unique opportunity to grab the best of the best in St. Louis and assemble them in a team to get this done. verybody s got their ngerprint on LouFest in different ways.”

(Fourder Brian Cohen is no longer part of the company — this year Cohen is working with the Cortex hub on the Murmuration Festival, which will be held two weeks after LouFest.)

This year, the event has expanded its local food offerings (more than twenty vendors) and aims to keep the space and activities attractive for families. But the biggest shift remains a lineup that’s about as representative of St. Louis’ wideranging tastes and demographics as a local festival-goer could want.

“In the beginning, people might have questioned the lineup last year,” says Van Hee. “Every lineup is not for every person. The whole point is to get people out and have them experience new things. That’s intentional. We try to work things in that people might not have heard of. In the past we’ve always tried to get artists like Chris Stapleton or Charles Bradley. You’re wanting to book artists that are relevant to St. Louis. This year, those fell into place. And we always wanted to have more local artists, but there just weren’t enough slots.”

A week before LouFest, some of the St. Louis bands picked for the festival got together at the Tick Tock Tavern in the Tower Grove East neighborhood to hang out, listen to each other’s CDs and share stories of festivals past and present. None of

the seven picked this year — Foxing, iLLPHONiCS, Bruiser Queen, the Sleepy Rubies, Aaron Kamm & the One Drops, Karate Bikini and John Henry — have appeared at LouFest before.

Michelle Rae, the saxophone player for Karate Bikini, did perform with Jon Hardy and the Public at LouFest in 2011. She’s looking forward to returning to the park. “I am just as excited to be there and see all the bands and be a part of it as I am about playing,” she says.

“From playing it before, I really remember the whole event as much as being on stage.”

“I got to see OutKast and that was a highlight of my life,” recalls Larry “Fallout” Morris of iLLPHONiCS. “Since it started we wanted to play LouFest. It’s been a goal of ours, so it’s a bit surreal to actually get to play. We were pushing to play it, and we also asked our fans to make some noise about it. We just released our album in April and there was some buzz around the band. And now I’m hearing from people who are excited to come early to see the local acts.”

While an afternoon slot at LouFest is no more likely to break a band than a showcase at SXSW would be, the LouFest locals know the exposure is about more than just a 45-minute set.

“We got a fair amount of attention from the Bowie tribute show [in March at Off Broadway],” says Danny Hommes of Karate Bikini. “That maybe helped us with LouFest. We feel honored that we ere as ed, but the real bene t of playing has kind of already happened. We’re seeing a bump in attention and people talking about the band and listening to our music.” n

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ven over the phone, Bob Saget sounds exactly as you remember from TV. Promoting his St. Louis appearance next week at Helium Comedy Club, he’s the sentimental family man from Full House, the PG-rated narrator of egregious groin shots from America’s Funniest Home Videos, the “I used to suck dick for coke” guy from Half Baked.

And yes, obviously, Saget still sounds like a dad. Our interview begins with Saget describing his “double banger” trailer on the Los Angeles set of Fuller House — the ongoing et i se uel to the late ‘80s/early ‘90s sitcom that helped catapult Saget’s career — but after a few words he goes suddenly goes silent.

“Could you hold for one second?

I have an exterminator on the phone.”

Yes, we will hold for Bob Saget.

“So sorry about that,” he says, returning a minute later. “But I have a funny story that goes along with it.

I had given my daughters the extra car and they drove it up the coast, and they went to Yosemite and went to Tahoe. They took the lovely Prius and when they brought it back, and I got it serviced, a bunch of mice jumped out of it. There’s rats inside the car. And so then this morning there were mice in the garage. So I have to exterminate a car.”

Daughters getting into hijinks?

Unexpected challenges? A father left to clean up the mess and (undoubtedly) imparting important life lessons before bedtime? The story of Saget’s vermin-infested Prius is straight out of a Full House episode.

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Like your dad, only much, much funnier. | BRIAN FRIEDMAN “It’s a two-dimensional character,” he says. That said, he acknowledges, “In my stand-up, I really am a parent. I am a dad. I am one of the few television dads left that you can trust in life.”

At the same time, Saget is also in possession of one of the lthiest minds in show business. His brief appearance in the 2005 documentary The Aristocrats, which chronicles the history of a heinous improvisational joke, shocked audiences who had never imagined the wholesome Danny anner riffing, hilariously, about a monstrous family gang bang. The dichotomy opened more doors for Saget, including a role playing an exaggerated version of himself on HBO’s Entourage.

But who is the real Saget? If such a thing exists for any of us, in Saget’s case, it’s the self that can be found in front of a mic in comedy clubs and venues across the country. Saget’s routines dip in and out of anecdotes of his television career, being a fa-

ther, raising a family and hanging out with John Stamos. Also, dick o es, profanity and lth galore. e s not just the dad who loves coffee and cleaning; he’s also the dad who looks an audience in the eyes while declaring his intent to insert energy-efficient light-bulbs into their assholes after the show.

“The standup almost makes me a whole person,” he says. “The sides are still bipolar. One is, ‘Honey, you’ve got to love other people and treat them good,’ and the next is, ‘Hey fuck you, you just embarrassed me in front of Steven Spielberg.’”

His standup side, he suggests, really is his truest self.

“I am a free spirit, and I’m more comfortable on stage than anywhere else. When I pull the mic out of the stand, it’s like pulling a sword out of a sheath,” he says.

Then he catches himself.

“That’s a bad example,” he says.

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hen John Henry began performing and recording nearly a decade ago, he called his backing band the Engine in a nod to a locomotive’s driving power and working-class ethic. It as a tting moni er for a band that played clear-eyed roots rock with a faded Rust Belt chic. But for his latest full-length, Dark City Dark Country, Henry is releasing an album under his own name, though he recorded much of it with a core backing band. “ as craving the e ibility of a solo artist but I still wanted to have a rock & roll band,” he says.

“I didn’t want to put pressure on people in my band to be full-time members.”

To further signal a change in direction, Henry worked closely with David Beeman at his Native Sound studio. That partnership has broadened his sonic palette: For an artist who has been steeped in dark-tinted and twangy Americana for the bulk of his career, Henry embraces some more impressionistic tones, often compliments of Native Sound’s vast gear locker. An undulating synth pad lends a pulsating, resonant undercurrent to the title track, which eventually gets lled in ith metallic guitar slashes and whirring organ chords. It’s a stirring performance, and it owes as much to the band’s sustained build-up as to the recording environment.

But while Beeman’s Cherokee Street perch proved fertile ground for Henry and company to stretch out, the album’s most radio-friendly track comes care of Nashville super-producer Dave Cobb. Henry’s relationship with Cobb dates back to 2011, when the singer decamped to Music City to audition for the Americana quintet the Wild Feathers. While Henry didn’t end up joining the band, his connection with Cobb — who was on his way to renown for his work with Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton — led to a collaboration on the track “Broken City,” which sees its release on record ve years later.

“When you work with him, he’s a super nice guy,” Henry says of Cobb. “He serves the song in a certain way and lets it do what it’s gonna do.” On the track, an opening chorus of “whoa-ay-oh” and a thundering rhythm section calls to mind some of the communal appeal of singles by the Lumineers and Edward Sharpe. Those earmarks date the song a little, though it does meet Henry’s stated goal of being “snappy and catchy,” as he says. It also sheds a little light on an album often imbued with the darkness telegraphed by its title.

Another older song, “Lightning City Blues,” comes right behind “Broken City,” though it subverts the pop pleasures of that track for a spartan steeliness. The track was originally included on Under the Yellow

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“I wanted to present a more adult version of that song,” Henry says.

In the past few years, Henry has been as busy booking shows and festivals as he has been performing at them. Five years ago he founded at the Open Highway Music Festival, and along with Off Broadway’s Steve Pohlman, enry has continued to iden the net and e pand the coverage of the multi-night event. This year’s featured the requisite country and folk acts alongside outsider pop, indie rock and stand-up comedy.

“I love the music business — I love the artistic side and the business side,” he says. “I feel comfortable stepping in between those areas. Open Highway is certainly my baby — it’s something I care very much about and want to continue to grow.”

He’ll have his chance to focus solely on that artistic side at this weekend’s LouFest, where Henry and his band will be one of several local acts playing in Forest Park. As a promoter himself, Henry has a sensitivity to the machinations of booking and running a festival, albeit on a much smaller scale. “I have admired the way LouFest has gone about their organization and planning over the years. We’re putting a lot of thought and hard work into the preparations for it.”

When we spoke last week, Henry was putting the nal touches on the album s mi and as planning a rush-order at the manufacturing plant to make sure copies of Dark City Dark Country would be available for this weekend.

When asked if he’d focus his LouFest set on new, as-yet-unreleased material, Henry displays his usual brand of showmanship.

“For something like this, where I’m in a position where I’m trying to impact as many people as I can at that show, I just want to play the best material — no matter where it’s from — and give people a 45-minute snapshot of what this band is about.”

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LOS STRAITJACKETS: 8 p.m., $20-$30. Off Broad-

Free Nationals, Frightened Rabbit, The Heavy,

SOULARD BLUES BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

LOUFEST: w/ LCD Soundsystem , Chris Sta-

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

Wild Belle, Foxing, Twin Peaks, Judah and

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

pleton, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Band of Horses, Big

ODDS LANE: 9:30 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues &

the Lion, Rayland Baxter, Caveman , Chica-

436-5222.

Gigantic, The Kills, Buddy Guy, Shakey Graves,

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

no Batman,, Diarrhea Planet, Mothers, The

TOBY KEITH: 6 p.m., TBA. Hollywood Casino Am-

St. Lucia, Vince Staples, Greensky Bluegrass,

5222.

Quaker City Night Hawks, Twin Limb, Nawas,

phitheatre, I-70 & Earth City Expwy., Maryland

Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Charles Bradley

THE WHIGS: 8 p.m., $10-$12. The Firebird, 2706

Bonnie Bishop, JMR, Illphonics, Aaron Kamm

Heights, 314-298-9944.

& His Extraordinaires, Anderson .Paak & the

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

& the One Drops, Bruiser Queen, Karate Bikini,

WE ARE WARM: w/ Traveling Sound Machine,

Free Nationals, Frightened Rabbit, The Heavy,

The Sleepy Rubies, John Henry noon; Sep. 11,

Syna So Pro, Phillip Twitchell 8 p.m., $10. Blue-

Wild Belle, Foxing, Twin Peaks, Judah and

noon, TBA. Forest Park, Highway 40 (I-64) &

berry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd.,

the Lion, Rayland Baxter, Caveman , Chica-

ALLAH-LAS: w/ Tops 8 p.m., $15. Off Broadway,

Hampton Ave., St. Louis.

University City, 314-727-4444.

no Batman,, Diarrhea Planet, Mothers, The

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

OUTCOME OF BETRAYAL CD RELEASE: w/ As Earth

CREE RIDER: 4:30 p.m., free. Tower Grove Park,

Shatters, Hallow Point, Compelled To Destroy,

SUNDAY 11

4256 Magnolia Ave., St. Louis, 314-771-2679.

Signals From Saturn 7 p.m., $10-$12. The Fire-

ANDREW FRANKLIN MEMORIAL CONCERT: w/

& the One Drops, Bruiser Queen, Karate Bikini,

DELTA RAE: 8 p.m., $16-$20. Old Rock House,

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

Midwest Avengers, Steddy P and DJ Mahf, 12

The Sleepy Rubies, John Henry Sep. 10, noon;

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

PART 2: A BENEFIT SHOW FOR TIMOTHY MICHAEL

to 6 Movement, Big Brother Thunder and the

noon, TBA. Forest Park, Highway 40 (I-64) &

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

MCFARLAND: w/ Nethersphere, The Winks, Out

Master Blasters 5:30 p.m., $10. The Pageant,

Hampton Ave., St. Louis.

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

Of Orbit, Lockjaw Sanctuary, The Phailures,

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

MOOSH & TWIST: w/ Pryde 7 p.m., $15-$50.

436-5222.

Captain Dee and The Long Johns, Silence The

BARNFEST BENEFIT: w/ Duck Brown 7 p.m., $7.

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

MARQUISE KNOX BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

Witness, Off The Witness, Wrecklamation 6

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

SATURDAY MORNING: 5 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,

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

p.m., free. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,

0353.

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

436-5222.

314-289-9050.

BLINK-182: w/ A Day to Remember, All-Ameri-

436-5222.

FRIDAY 9

Quaker City Night Hawks, Twin Limb, Nawas, Bonnie Bishop, JMR, Illphonics, Aaron Kamm

O.A.R.: 8 p.m., $35.25-$45.25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

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THE MOTET: 8 p.m., $15-$18. The Ready Room,

MONDAY 12 RETOX: w/ He Whose Ox Is Gored, Silent 8 p.m.,

4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-

TRAVIS TRITT: 8 p.m., $29.50-$65. Liberty

9050.

Bank Ampitheater, 1 Riverfront Drive, Alton

THE ROYAL HOUNDS: 9 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues

Township.

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

TREY DAVIDSON: 9 p.m., $13-$15. Fubar, 3108

5222.

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

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

WELCOME HOME: w/ Choir Vandals, Make

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

Room, avoid. 7 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706

621-8811.

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

WAGE WAR: w/ Torn At The Seams, We Are

THE WILDERNESS: w/ Auset Music Project and

Descendants, Behold My Enemy 6 p.m., $15.

on alley

p.m., free. chla y ap Room,

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

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

TUESDAY 13

SATURDAY 10

BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 9 p.m., $5. BB’s

BEYONCE: 6 p.m., $45-$280. The Dome at Ameri-

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

ca’s Center, 701 Convention Plaza St., St. Louis,

314-436-5222.

314-342-5201.

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BLUE OYSTER CULT: 8 p.m., $20-$40. Chestereld Amphitheater,

DIBIASE: w/ Steel Cranes and 33 on the Needle 9 p.m., free. chla y ap Room,

Locust t.,

The Allah-Las Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $15. 314-773-3363.

DR. ZHIVEGAS: 2 p.m., free. Howdershell Park,

Approximating the sound isn’t so hard — it’s called “garage rock,” after all. Capturing the excitement, the sweetness, the tension and the feel of one-hit (two-hit, if the band got lucky) rock & roll from the fuzzy and melodic margins of the ‘60s is something else entirely. Since 2008, the Allah-Las have been looking for that magic and frequently finding it in two-minute bursts of surf and psych. The just-

HELLZAPOPPIN CIRCUS SIDESHOW REVUE: 9 p.m., $10-$13. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

LARRY GRIFFIN & ERIC MCSPADDEN: 7 p.m., $5.

BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

LEOPOLD AND HIS FICTION: 8 p.m., $15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-7733363.

LOUFEST: w/ LCD Soundsystem , Chris Stapleton, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Band of Horses, Big Gigantic, The Kills, Buddy Guy, Shakey Graves,

The Wolves, Cover Your Tracks, A Promise To Burn 6 p.m., $16-$18. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St.

8 p.m. Friday, September 9.

St. Louis, 314-241-2337.

6800 Howdershell, Hazelwood.

St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

ICE NINE KILLS: w/ Secrets, Sylar, Out Came

eterans Place Drive,

hester eld.

DEE-1: 8 p.m., $15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St.,

Louis, 314-289-9050.

JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ

released Calico Review is the LA band’s finest effort, in part for its addition of sumptuous viola, harpsichord and Mellotron sounds, but mostly because the melodies linger and shine through the vintage haze.

TOPS of the Pop: Spotlighting Jane Penny’s coy and cool vocals, Montreal band TOPS opens with the sound of slightly synthy, often shimmering indie pop.

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Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828 Olive Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.

ROGER CLYNE AND THE PEACEMAKERS: 8 p.m., $18. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

WEDNESDAY 14 BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-6217880.

BOB MOULD BAND: 8 p.m., $25. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

CARROLL: w/ Tone Rodent 8 p.m., $8. Blueber-

SEPTEMBER 7-13, 2016

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Beyonce 6 p.m. Saturday, September 10.

The Dome at America’s Center, 701 Convention Plaza Street. $45 to $280. 314-342-5201.

Conventional wisdom would suggest that LouFest is going to be the biggest event in town for the weekend that the festival overtakes Forest Park.

But that thought would be foolishly dismissing the force of nature that is Beyonce, a woman whose star shines so brightly, you would be wise to lather yourself in sunscreen before attempting to share an arena with her.

LouFest’s organizers cleverly placed the similarly luminescent Ms. Lauryn

Hill on the second day of their festival, avoiding a conflict and thereby saving our city from the Godzilla-versus-KingKong-style destruction that would inevitably result from such a clash of titans. Attend both; die happy on Monday.

Have No Fear: Queen Bey canceled her Wednesday show in New Jersey this week, citing a need for “vocal rest.”

She is, however, fully expected to make it to her St. Louis stop. – Daniel Hill

ry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd.,

THE BLUES CRUSHERS: Wed., Sept. 21, 10 p.m.,

University City, 314-727-4444.

$5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.

HUNTRESS: 7 p.m., $13-$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust

Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com.

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

BROTHERS OSBORNE: Thu., Jan. 19, 8 p.m., $20-

J.P. SOARS & THE RED HOTS: 10 p.m., $10. BB’s

$25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,

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

314-726-6161, thepageant.com.

314-436-5222.

COCO MONTOYA BAND: Thu., Sept. 22, 8 p.m., $5.

KEEP FLYING: w/ Lila Ignite, Inner Outlines 6

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

p.m., $8. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-

Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com.

289-9050.

DAMIEN ESCOBAR: Wed., Dec. 7, 8 p.m., $40-$65.

RACHELLE COBA BAND: 7 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,

The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis,

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

314-533-9900, thesheldon.org.

436-5222.

EAST SIDERS: Wed., Sept. 28, 10 p.m., $5. BB’s

THIS JUST IN

FRIGHT NIGHT: Fri., Oct. 28, 6 p.m., $12-$15.

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

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

3363, offbroadwaystl.com.

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AARON KAMM & THE ONE DROPS: Fri., Oct. 28, 8

GREEN DAY: Tue., Sept. 20, 8 p.m., $55-$75. The

p.m., $10-$15. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd.,

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

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

6161, thepageant.com.

THE ALLEY TONES: Fri., Sept. 30, 10 p.m., $5. BB’s

GREEN-MCDONOUGH BLUES BAND: Sat., Sept.

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

24, 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S.

314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com.

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

ANNUAL RHYTHM, BLUES & FUNK FESTIVA: Sat.,

soups.com.

Sept. 17, 8 p.m.; Sun., Sept. 18, 2 p.m., $10. BB’s

HAMMER FIGHT: W/ Product Of Hate, Some Kinda

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

Khaos, Sun., Oct. 9, 7 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108

314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com.

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

OCTOBER 6 BOTTOMS UP BLUES BAND

ASSUMING WE SURVIVE: W/ Avion Roe, Fri., Dec.

HO HO HO POP ROCK SHOW: W/ Captains Cou-

2, 6 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St.

rageous, Decedy, New Lingo, Suppy Dudes, Jet

OCTOBER 20 BILLY PEEK

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

Black Alley Cat, Traveler, Sat., Dec. 10, 6 p.m.,

THE BAND PERRY: Sat., Oct. 22, 5 p.m., $20-$40.

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BARNFEST BENEFIT: W/ Duck Brown, Sun., Sept.

p.m., $15-$25. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd.,

11, 7 p.m., $7. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St.

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

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

GADES: Wed., Sept. 21, 7 p.m., $5. Wed., Sept.

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

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30th birthday, Franklin’s friends and bandmates will gather to pay tribute through song. Franklin’s brainchild Big Brother Thunder & the Master Blasters will perform, alongside the 12 to 6 Movement, Midwest Avengers and the duo of Steddy P and DJ Mahf.

Buck Up: The $10 suggested donation will support the band program of the University City School District, Franklin’s alma mater.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: My husband left the picture recently, and I’m now a single mom supporting an infant in Toronto. I work a retail job and am dro ning nancially. hoo ed up with a guy I met on Tinder, and I didn’t warn him that I’m still nursing because I didn’t even think of it.

Luckily, he really got off on it — so I was spared the awkwardness of “Eww, what is coming out of your tits?!” Afterward, he joked about there being a market for lactating women in the kink world. My questions f nd someone ho ill pay me to suckle my milk, is that prostitution? And if I advertise that I’m willing to be paid, can I get into trouble for that? The possibility of making some money this way is more appealing every day.

Truly In Trouble “Allowing clients to suckle her breasts is, of course, sex work,” said Angela Chaisson, a partner at Toronto’s Paradigm Law Group.

“But sex work is legal for everyone in Canada, new moms included.

The new sex work laws here — the 2014 ‘Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act,’ an Orwellian title for a draconian piece of legislation — prohibit sex work

close to where minors might be.

So if she’s engaging in sex work close to kids, she is risking criminal charges.”

No one wants sex work going on around minors, of course — on or around minors — so that’s not what makes the new law an Orwellian piece of bullshit.

Laws regulating sex work in Canada were rewritten after Terri-Jean Bedford, a retired dominatrix and madam, took her case to the courts. The Supreme Court of Canada ultimately ruled — unanimously — that criminalizing sex work made it more dangerous, not less, and consequently a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. But instead of decriminalizing sex work, Parliament made it legal to sell sex in Canada but illegal to buy it, aka the “end demand” approach.

“By making a sex worker’s body the scene of a crime,” writes sex worker and sex workers’ rights activist Mike Crawford, “the ‘end demand’ approach gives cops full license to investigate sex workers, leaving sex workers vulnerable to abuse, extortion and even rape at the hands of the police.”

Chaisson, who helped bring down Canada’s laws against sex work, doesn’t think selling suckling will get you in trouble, TIT. “But Children’s Aid Society (CAS) would investigate if they felt there

was a child in need of protection,” said Chaisson. “So the safest thing would be for her to stick to out calls only and to keep the work away from kids and anywhere they might be.”

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Hey, Dan: My husband and I have a pretty good sex life considering we are raising three kids, we both work full-time and I’m going to school.

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