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rmed protesters marched through the Central West End neighborhood on Sunday in a show of force following last week’s murder of Ferguson activist Darren Seals. Video footage shows a group of some 20 to 30 people walking along residential streets on their way to the area’s bustling business district, chanting “Who killed Darren Seals?” and “Defend black lives.” Several people carrying rifles and shotguns openly declared their affiliation with the Revolutionary Black Panther Party. Clad in black tactical vests, the heavily armed cadre added chants of “Fuck the pigs” and “Free us — or you die cracka.” A protest leader in Ferguson in 2014, Seals later became known for his criticism of national Black Lives Matter groups and those activists he perceived as having ignored struggling communities like Ferguson in favor of profit and prestige. Last week, Seals’ body was discovered in a burning vehicle in Riverview. He had been fatally shot before being burned. Police are treating the death as a homicide, but investigators have yet to release any new information about their leads. “We came out here to represent for D Seals,” protester Dhoruba Shakur said in a Facebook Live video. “The man was assassinated by the police, attacked by the state.” Shakur isn’t alone in believing that Seals’ death was more than just a street killing, and Sunday’s protest seemed to straddle the grief, anger and suspicion that continue to swirl around the 29-year-old’s death. Last week, as
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the news sent shockwaves through St. Louis’ local protest community, theories sprouted on social media suggesting Seals was killed by police, or that the investigation is being suppressed or otherwise manipulated as a cover-up. In videos shot by LaShell Eikerenkoetter, protesters can be seen dragging American flags and confronting patrons using the outdoor patio of the Gamlin Whiskey House. “People are dying, for what? Be sad about that,” Eikerenkoetter says to the gawking brunchers. “Who killed Darren Seals? Care about that. Y’all mad about a flag, and people are dying.” Later Sunday night, a different protest group — now lacking the Black Panther presence and firearms — showed up in the Delmar Loop. Video shows a smaller crowd entering Mission Taco, where the protesters chanted for about two minutes and left without incident.
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shley Everett is no stranger to the attentions of a large crowd. As superstar Beyoncé’s dance captain, Everett regularly performs complicated choreographed dance routines in front of tens of thousands of people. If stage fright were an issue, she’s in the wrong line of work. But at Saturday night’s concert at the Dome in St. Louis, Everett found that all the eyes in the room were on her for a much more personal reason: a marriage proposal. Immediately following her performance of “Single Ladies,” Queen Bey handed the microphone off to John Silver, one of her backup dancers and a St. Louis native. Silver surprised Everett by taking her hand and addressing the crowd. “She’s my queen, so I feel like it’s
only right to come out here in my hometown and show you guys what the epitome of a young woman looks like that knows how to deal with all the nonsense and the B.S. of a St. Louis n-i-g-g-a,” he said, spelling out the letters of the last word. “So baby, I know you think I don’t express my love to you in front of everybody. So I thought, what better time than now?” With that, he dropped to one knee and produced a ring. To the audience’s applause, Everett said yes. “Shocked is an understatement,” Everett later wrote in an Instagram post. “I’m so overly excited for this new chapter in our lives and of course I can’t wait to be your WIFE!!!” Before that could happen though, the show had to go on. “Now let’s see you do the choreography after that,” a delighted Beyoncé joked onstage. Good thing Everett is a pro. Congrats to the happy couple! – Daniel Hill
PROTESTS Continued from pg 8 But it was different story at Salt + Smoke, the barbecue restaurant in the heart of the oop. Here, the group entered the restaurant and set about chanting for a couple minutes — only to find University Police officers were waiting at the exit. Dhoruba Shakur was arrested, but officers also dragged another person away in handcuffs. That’s where things get hazy. Eikerenkoetter, who was filming the protest on the Loop as well, said in her videos that officers had grabbed not only Shakur but an uninvolved black teenager whose only crime was eating at Salt + Smoke. A part of the arrest was captured on video, though it doesn’t clearly explain why University City officers targeted him. he arrest footage starts about 30 seconds into the video.) Distraught over the seemingly random arrest, the protesters made their way to the nearby University City Police Department. On the way, Eikerenkoetter recorded several witness statements detailing the strange arrest and how the teenager had been slammed against a concrete planter and then roughly placed in a squad car. At the police station, as the video shows, about a dozen protesters waited for updates on Shakur and the teenager. A few people were allowed into the station to talk with officers, and when they exited someone announced that the police were claiming that the owner of Salt + Smoke had requested the teen’s arrest. t’s not clear whether police actually made that speci c claim, or whether something got lost as the conversation was relayed. A message left with University City Police aptain arry Hampton onday was not returned by press time.) However, om Schmidt, the owner of Salt + Smoke, tells Riverfront Times that he ordered no such arrest. He couldn’t have, since he was busy at overseeing the restaurant’s booth at LouFest. Schmidt returned to the Loop several hours later, around 11 p.m., and he says he debriefed the staff members who had witnessed the ruckus.
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TEDDY Drone flights, pet detectives and an army of volunteers. Inside the search for the most wanted dog in St. Louis
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eddy ran away on St. Patrick’s Day. It seems crazy now that it started so simply. Before the drone searches, the 900-member public Facebook group and then the smaller, secret one, before # T e a m T e d d y, motion-sensor cameras and K9 tracker teams from out of state, Teddy was just a ginger-haired dog who hopped over a chain-link fence in the suburbs of south county one evening and trotted away. A pet detective hired to untangle the case would later theorize something on a nearby street spooked the eight-year-old shepherd and retriever mix, which made sense. Teddy had always been a nervous dog. Mike and Carolyn Holden rescued him and his brother from a shelter in late 2008. The brother, a chubby flu ball, was easily the more gregarious of the two. For Christmas that year, the Holdens showed both pups to Mike’s mother and told her to pick one to keep as her present. She chose the brother, so timid little Teddy went home with them to O’Fallon. He eventually made friends with the young couple’s beagle and the revolving pack of kittens that Mike and Carolyn fostered. But he remained
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shy and cautious of strangers. “That dog tucked his tail tighter than any dog I’ve seen in my life,” Mike’s mother, Mary Holden, recalls. She had agreed to watch Teddy for eleven days in March while Mike and Carolyn went on vacation to Florida and the Bahamas. Two days after they left, on March 17, Mary left home for a bit, returning at 8:30 p.m. All the dogs were inside, except for Teddy. Her younger son told her the dogs had been in the yard, but Teddy wouldn’t come when he called. Knowing Teddy’s personality, he decided to give him some space and try again later. Mary Holden looked outside, but the yard was empty. The sun had already set, and the late evening was quickly growing dark. She and her son raced out into the neighborhood and called out for the missing dog. “Teddy!” they yelled. “Teddy!” They got in their cars and drove along the streets. Mary Holden recruited her brother-inlaw to help them search. They cruised round and round, widening their search and doubling back or hours. hey took flashlights out on oot. “Teddy! Teddy!” ear midnight, they nally returned home, exhausted and upset. Teddy was gone. Carolyn and Mike’s trip was already off to a rough start when they learned the news. The couple usually love to travel. It’s one of the few times when the two of them can spend riverfronttimes.com
much uninterrupted time together. Carolyn, who at 34 has long brown hair and a broad smile, runs her own business, making and selling high-end soaps from a storefront off South Main Street in St. Charles. In 2007, she had also been working with an organization that helps people with special needs get jobs. Mike, a manager at a Wehrenberg Theatre, hired one of the program’s clients, and he met Carolyn when she came to help get the woman set up. They started to date shortly after and married in 2010. They always seem to be running in different directions. At 32, with a touch of gray creeping into his beard, Mike keeps unusual hours as part of his job at the theater. He often spends his time off helping out Carolyn at the shop in St. Charles, but the only time they really get to relax together is when they travel. In March, they spent a couple of days in Orlando and then drove south to Miami, where they boarded Flogging Molly’s three-day Salty Dog Cruise. They’d taken the same cruise the year before and had a blast, but Carolyn caught some sort of bug this time and felt miserable. “It was literally the worst trip of our lives,” she says now. She was still sick when the cruise ended. They picked up their rental car in a Miami parking garage, planning to spend another day in the city and then Key West before returning home. Then they checked their phones. Mike had a voice mail and a text message from his mother, both telling him to call as soon as he could. Continued on pg 12
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He nervously dialed and spoke to his mom. Teddy had already been missing for four days. “We were both in shock,” Mike says. “I don’t even know how to describe it. Carolyn was in tears.” They immediately canceled their trip and booked the rst flight out of Orlando. Losing a pet was always one of Carolyn’s worst nightmares, especially with the travels that sometimes took the couple out of the country. It worried her so much that she’d already designed missing posters in case it ever happened. “I guess I’m kind of Type A,” she acknowledges. Carolyn called her employees and asked them to start printing copies. The couple returned to St. Louis about 9:30 p.m. on March 21, and all they could think about was finding Teddy. Carolyn’s father and stepmother each drove a car to the airport to meet them, so Mike and Carolyn could take one of the vehicles and drive straight to south county to begin the search. They spread through the neighborhood, freezing every time the beams o their flashlights
reflected off the eyes of a cat or something moved in the weeds. Someone had reported seeing Teddy to the east of Mary Holden’s home along Tesson Ferry Road, but Mike and Carolyn really had no way of knowing which direction Teddy had gone or how far he had traveled since his escape. At rst glance, the area where he went missing seems covered in asphalt and the neatly trimmed lawns of brick bungalows. But as they began to search, the Holdens began to see the topography in a new way. A network of streams, cloaked in thick walls of brush, crisscrossed Sunset Hills, Crestwood and unincorporated parts of south county. Clydesdale and Whitecliff parks were both nearby, along with Sunset Country Club, cemeteries and open construction sites. Teddy could be anywhere. Mike still had about a week of vacation left from the shortened trip, and he spent it searching for his lost dog. Each night, he returned to his mom’s house around midnight to sleep a few hours on her couch before waking at 5 a.m. to set out again. Carolyn shuttled around a 70-mile triangle between their house in O’Fallon, her shop in St. Charles and the search area in
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the streets and hanging fliers. If someone called with a sighting, they went. They searched on their wedding anniversary. Neither had to work on Easter, so they searched then, too. One day, about two weeks in, someone spotted a ginger-haired dog and called. Mike’s mother got there rst and phoned them. “Oh my God, it does look like him!” she told Mike as he and Carolyn sped toward the spot. “Oh my God, Michael. It’s Teddy!” They arrived in Sunset Hills and quickly spotted the dog. He was skittish and scampered off the road when they called him. Mike and Carolyn assumed he thought he was in trouble for running away. All they had to do was assure him everything was all right and bring him home. Their hopes soared. Mike caught sight of him again in a fenced-in backyard, and he and Carolyn split up in hopes of cornering him. It wasn’t until they closed in tight that they saw the
dog was wearing a red collar, not a black one like Teddy’s. “A complete doppelganger,” Mike says. “Dead-on.” The false sightings were exhausting, but a team of volunteers was quickly building up to support them. The fliers and a “Help Bring Teddy Home” Facebook group spread the word across south county. Some volunteers, like Tina Roe of the nonpro t group issouri ost Found Paws, were search veterans, lending a hand in dozens of missing pet cases month after month, year after year. Roe was instrumental in the high pro le search or att the Cat that dominated social media in the Shaw and Tower Grove neighborhoods for two months last winter. When the elusive feline was finally located, it was Roe who con rmed the good news by scanning the microchip embedded in his skin. Other volunteers, including iane it gerald, were rst timers. The 57-year-old bank teller noticed a flier one day in Schnucks. here was something about it that stayed
with her. She asked her daughter to look up the Facebook page, and they both decided they could help out for a couple of hours. They met Mike and Carolyn shortly after, and Fitzgerald was struck by their dedication. The two had already been searching for weeks but seemed utterly incapable of giving up. Fitzgerald remembers one moment in particular when she saw Mike, hiking alone, hoping to see Teddy around the next tree. He seemed such a tragic gure. “To see him walking down the creek, calling his dog, would bring you to tears,” she says. Fitzgerald was never an outdoors person, but she began to join Roe on nightly hikes through the woods. She also drove the neighborhoods during her lunch breaks. Every day on Facebook, the volunteers analyzed each new piece of information and coordinated the next searches or flier postings. Carolyn and Mike would occasionally chime in with updates and thanks, but it was mostly the volunteers who kept the conversation going. They shared
theories and frustrations, compared notes on miles logged and weight lost during their walks. There were inside jokes and plans for meet-ups. They called themselves Team Teddy. “I can’t explain it,” Fitzgerald says of the newly formed community, “but once you’re in it, you’re in it.” As the search continued, they began to learn of other missing dogs. One, a golden retriever mix named Bailey who’d run away in the same area, looked so similar to Teddy that callers would sometimes confuse the two when phoning in sightings. Team Teddy and Bailey’s owners shared info about the sightings to make sure no crucial tips were lost in the confusion. Bailey had been missing ten days when her owners brought in an outof-state pet detective with a team of scent dogs to help. Using a sighting from Team Teddy, the K-9 trackers were able to pick up Bailey’s trail and led the investigator straight to her. The news was bittersweet for Carolyn and Mike. They were overjoyed to see Bailey return home, but they assumed they wouldn’t
be able to follow the same steps to nd eddy. ore than a month had passed since he disappeared, and they didn’t have a dog bed or harness that hadn’t been pawed over by their other animals. It didn’t seem possible the K-9s would be able to isolate a scent for Teddy the way they had for Bailey. Would they ever be able to bring Teddy home? Pet detective Karin TarQwyn spends her days driving crosscountry to track missing dogs. Even when she’s home in Nebraska, she surrounds herself with her K-9 team of nine dogs, all rescues, while coordinating searches for lost pets by phone and computer. “I live in a pack,” she says. “My children are grown. I don’t do the marriage thing anymore. It’s me with this pack of dogs.” Licensed as a private investigator in Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and California, TarQwyn has become one of the best-known pet detectives in the nation during the past twelve years. She’s even
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expanded her business, Lost Pet Professionals, to include an additional team based in Arkansas. The peculiar nature of her work has attracted the attention of Animal Planet and a wide variety of news organizations. In 2006, the New York Times ran a picture on the front of its Metro section of TarQwyn and her lead dog, Cade, hustling across a pedestrian bridge in Queens during the search for a missing whippet named Vivi, who’d bolted from Kennedy International Airport after competing at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show. After TarQwyn’s dogs found Bailey in south St. Louis County, Carolyn and Mike eventually decided to call Lost Pet Professionals to see if it was even possible to track Teddy. TarQwyn’s dogs have picked up scents as long as nine months after pets have gone missing, she says. The challenge with the Holdens’ search would be pinning down a location. Teddy is what TarQwyn calls a STARS dog — shy, timid, aloof, reserved or skittish. He was also an “extreme roamer” who’d been sighted in areas miles apart during his time on the run. There was also a grimmer possibility. The area where he’d disappeared is cut through with busy roadways — Interstate 270 to the west, Highway 366 to the north and Tesson Ferry right through the middle — and he was probably sharing the woods with predators, such as coyotes, TarQwyn says. “Sometimes,” she says, “we come out for closure.” If Teddy was still alive, he had probably learned to hunt and was following creeks or other sources of water, she told Carolyn and Mike. He was also likely to be wary of people, even his owners, and could be spooked by searchers tromping through the woods shouting his name. TarQwyn couldn’t make it to St. Louis right away, but she agreed to dispatch the team from Arkansas, run by Angie Rutherford. Carolyn and Mike were to prepare for a ground search by wrapping Teddy’s harness in gauze and sealing it in a Ziploc bag for 24 hours to transfer his scent into the cloth. Rutherford arrived on the morning of April 29 for what would be a two-day search. The dogs circled the backyard where Teddy was last seen, taking in the 16
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atmosphere to give them a baseline before they were shown strips of the gauze to smell. Forty-three days had passed since Teddy disappeared, but the trained trackers quickly honed in on the back corner of the yard, where it was easy to imagine an eight-year-old shepherd mix hopping over the three-and-half foot chain-link fence. Rutherford’s team worked for hours checking locations where callers had reported seeing Teddy during the past six weeks. Carolyn and Mike had plotted every sighting on a map, and the K-9 trackers were able to confirm some and discount others. TarQwyn helped guide the search by phone. From her computer, she zoomed in on the area with Google Earth, using a water overlay as she relayed the location of creeks to Rutherford on the ground. By the end of the second day, they had narrowed the focus to a swath of woods and subdivisions in and around the Sunset Country Club. Teddy was clearly covering some ground. The search area was three to ve miles rom the point of escape. When TarQwyn returned two weeks later to re-canvass the area with her team, she followed a creek northeast into Whitecliff Park where the dogs again hit on his scent. A one-way trip was about two-and-a-half miles, but no one
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thought Teddy was staying put. Callers reported sightings in short succession up and down the search area and beyond. Tina Roe, the veteran searcher rom ost ound aws, had never seen a lost dog act like Teddy. They couldn’t bait him with food. They couldn’t catch up to him. Teddy always seemed to be a day or two ahead. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, what is he doing?’” Roe recalls. “He was just running.” As the search dragged on for months and costs ballooned, Carolyn began to envision an old segment of The Price is Right. A tiny yodeling man would slide up a ruler like he was climbing a mountain. The more the contestants were off in their guesses, the farther the little man would climb, until nally he reached the peak and toppled over the edge. Game over. “Are we crazy?” she asked herself. “Are we just spinning our wheels?” TarQwyn’s services were invaluable in re-orienting the search and giving them hope that Teddy was still out there running, but they weren’t cheap. The combined cost of the two searches topped $3,500, the couple estimates, and then there were the fliers. arolyn and Mike slipped them inside plastic covers to protect from the weather
and fastened them to poles with plastic zip ties. Each cost about $2, and they had plastered a couple of thousand across south county. The bills surpassed $6,000 by late summer. Even after a volunteer set up an online fundraiser that raised more than $1,500, Carolyn and Mike questioned themselves. Were they crazy? Were they the yodeling man, about to topple off the ledge? And then there were the phone calls. They always came from blocked or re-routed numbers. Some of the voices told them to get over it. Others scolded them for cluttering up the neighborhood with their signs. The worst was a particularly sadistic kid with a surfer accent who claimed he’d was watching Teddy running along the side of a busy highway. “Oh, holy shit!” he shouted into the phone. “He just got hit! Your dog’s dead!” The volunteers were trying not to overwhelm neighbors with their endless searching, but some residents had begun to cut down the fliers. akeshire olice hie Wayne Neidenberg says many of the fliers had become weatherbeaten and unreadable, so he had officers pull them down. “It had become an eyesore,” Neidenberg says. “We have a small city, and there was like 30 of them. They were on every corner.”
At the same time, the Help Bring Teddy Home page on Facebook had become a little unwieldy. More than 900 people had joined. They were well-meaning, but Carolyn and Mike soon learned if they mentioned a sighting, a crowd of people were likely to show up, shouting Teddy’s name and probably scaring him out of the area before they could reach him. They had become more strategic. Instead of sending out search parties, they set live traps in the areas outlined by TarQwyn’s searches, hoping to capture him in tall wire cages. They also installed motion-sensor cameras through the woods. Quietly, with Mike and Carolyn’s blessing, a core group of volunteers set up a second, secret Facebook page where they could share more sensitive information about the strategy while the larger group continued to spread awareness. These 30 insiders coordinated daily missions to move and bait traps with bacon grease, hot dogs and rotisserie chickens. They hauled buckets of ice water into the woods and took turns with Carolyn and Mike hiking between the seven motion-sensor cameras, plugging the video cards into laptops and checking the footage for any signs of Teddy. They even had air support. A member of the group had a drone hookup and arranged for periodic flyovers in hopes o spotting eddy from the air. All that walking and searching did turn up some results. They trapped and returned a missing cat, Torts, who’d run away seven months before. A report of a possible Teddy sighting led Mike to capture a lookalike on a golf course. The dog’s microchip listed owners in Oklahoma, but they said “Bear” was too hard to handle, so they’d given him to new owners who must have dumped him in St. Louis. Mike and Carolyn decided they couldn’t just pass him along like the others, so they adopted Bear and took him home. They started to think of him as Teddy’s brother and dreamed of the day they’d all be together. On June 20, they seemed to be closing in. One of the motionsensor cameras clicked on at 3:34 p.m., showing a ginger-haired dog wander past one of the traps placed in a clearing in the woods. He spun around and poked his nose into a blue water bucket to take a drink. “Guys, meet Teddy,” Carolyn wrote on the secret Facebook page,
posting a ten-second clip. He sure looked like their lost dog. He wore a black collar, and the ginger coloring was right. He even had the same bushy tail. But days and then weeks passed without further videotaped sightings. The Team Teddy volunteers analyzed the footage frame by frame, checking for ear shape and muzzle pattern. They compared stills of the dog in the video with a neighborhood doppelganger. Carolyn and Mike were almost positive it was Teddy. Even so, where had he gone? Carolyn and Mike had almost made it home to O’Fallon on the night of July 31 when a man called with a possible sighting. It didn’t sound promising. The man claimed Teddy was behind his apartment complex near River Des Peres, a little outside of the search area. Over the past four-and-ahalf months, dozens of callers had claimed to have seen their missing dog. One guy was positive he’d seen Teddy on the side of the road, but when Mike showed up, it was actually a dead deer. Still, this caller said he was sure. He and his daughter had driven past the eddy fliers every day, and she’d persuaded him to call. Mike and Carolyn thought for a couple of seconds, and then turned the car around. “We’re a young couple,” Mike says. “We don’t have kids. Our animals are like our kids.” The man wasn’t around when they pulled into the Cedar Creek Lodge Apartments, but they stopped a couple of neighbors and showed them Teddy’s picture. Absolutely, they had seen him, they said. They’d been leaving out food for him for weeks. He was skittish, though, and seemed to be scared of people. It sure sounded like Teddy. Carolyn and Mike decided they’d pick up some bug spray and Mike would spend the night in the parking lot in case the dog came back. Before they could even make it to the store, the man called again. He could see Teddy in front of him, he said. Carolyn and Mike raced back to the apartment complex and hopped out. It was dark, so they aimed their flashlights in the direction the man pointed. There at the edge of some trees was a ginger-haired dog. “Teddy,” they called. “Teddy Bear!”
Animal experts had warned them that a dog who’s been in the wild for so long wasn’t likely to respond to the sound of his name. Should they see him, Carolyn and Mike were supposed to sit down and act like they were upset or injured to play to the dog’s empathy. “Teddy, come to Mommy,” Carolyn called, dropping to the ground. “Come to Daddy,” Mike echoed. The dog zigzagged up the hillside, closing in slowly. Carolyn and Mike turned their flashlights on their own faces so he might recognize them. Slowly, slowly, the dog crept to them. When he was an arm’s length away, he hopped into Carolyn’s lap and she wrapped her arms around him. Mike hugged them both, and they cried. Gone for 136 days, smelling like death, Teddy had come to them. At the welcome-home party a week later, Team Teddy members wore T-shirts printed with Carolyn’s text message from that night: “We have him!!!!!!!” Over hot dogs and drinks, they laughed about the wild nights in the woods as storms hovered on the horizon. Diane Fitzgerald, the rookie searcher, recounted the time she had to jump over a snake while on patrol with Tina Roe. They were all still sort of stunned and giddy about what a bunch of strangers had been able to do together. “The amount of miles put on their shoes,” Roe says. “Oh, my goodness gracious.” Teddy, on a leash, worked his way through the crowd. He’d lost nearly twenty pounds during his woodland adventure. More than one of the volunteers said they just want to know what he was doing all those days. Did he see them coming? Was he watching from his hideout? He’s a little bolder since his return. The strangers didn’t seem to bother him as they bent down to rub his ears or feed him a special dog cake. They all vowed to stay in touch, and weeks later, new messages for pub crawls and Cardinals games continued to pop up on the secret Team Teddy Facebook page. Fitzgerald, who gave up her lunches to drive around looking for Teddy and became friends with animal advocates like Roe, posted a message on August 26. “Just want to put it out there!” she wrote. “I really miss everyone!” n riverfronttimes.com
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THURSDAY 0915 Miriam Makeba: Mama Africa the Musical Miriam Makeba was imprisoned when she was just six months old as a result of her mother serving a sentence for home brewing. It was not her last run-in with the South African legal system. As an adult, the singer was denied entry to her homeland because of her outspoken opposition to apartheid. Undaunted, she traveled the world to sing her own
unique concoction of traditional South African songs and American jazz, denouncing apartheid and injustice along the way. Niyi Coker’s play Miriam Makeba: Mama Africa the Musical is a celebration of Makeba’s life that deals truthfully with her exile, her marriages and her triumphant return to South Africa in 1990. The show features a cast of 40 performers from South Africa. Miriam Makeba is performed at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (September 15 to 18) at the University of Missouri-St. Louis’ Touhill Performing Arts Center (1 University Drive at Natural Bridge Road; www.touhill.org). Tickets are $25 to $35.
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the water system but retains its handsome profile thanks to the efforts of the Water Tower Park & Preservation Society. The group hosts regular open houses, allowing curious antiquarians and lovers of beauty to climb the tower on select nights — tonight being one such night. From 5:30 to midnight, guests can take the 198 stairs to the top and look out over the park (and the I-44 construction, if that’s your jam). It’s a full moon tonight as well, so everything should be clearly illuminated. Admission is just $3 to $5.
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CALENDAR Continued from pg 19 Best of the Second City I f a ny s i n g l e f o r c e s h a p e d American comedy in the t w e n t i e t h c e n t u r y, i t w a s the Second City. The improv collective’s alumni write and star in our best sketch comedy, our sitcoms and our lms. astes may have changed since the Chicago company was founded in 1959, but chances are those tastes changed because a new crop of Second City comics left the hive mind and spread them. The current roster of stars-inthe-making presents The Best of the Second City at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday (September 15 and 16) at the Sheldon (3648 Washington Boulevard; www. thesheldon.org). Tickets are $18 to , and ve percent o the price bene ts the no kill animal shelter Partners 4 Pets.
Kelley Walker: Direct Drive American artist Kelley Walker will have his rst solo American museum show right here, thanks to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. The museum throws wide its doors for Walker, allowing him to take over the entire building with works both old and new. Walker likes to explore the ways an image travels from one culture to the next, and how each culture perceives the image once it is theirs. His new series, Black Star Press, digitally prints chocolate (white, milk and dark) on canvas, depicting images of racial strife in a very unusual medium. As the images in the series are rotated 90 degrees, the power dynamic on display is obscured, altered and eventually reversed. Direct Drive opens with a free reception from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, September 16, at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard; www.camstl.org). The gallery is open Wednesday through Sunday and the show remains up through December 31. Admission is free.
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SATURDAY 0917 St. Louis Theatre Expo St. Louis has an exceptional theater scene. If you haven’t partaken of it yet, you can rectify that buffetstyle at Making A Scene: A St. Louis Theatre Expo. The event is a deep dive into how theater gets made, with demonstrations in how a show is costumed, the arts of makeup and stage combat, and discussions with Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis artistic director Steven Woolf, actor Joneal Joplin and actor/theater professor Lara Teeter. Making A Scene also gives you a chance to meet and talk with members of Opera Theatre of St. Louis, New Line Theatre, St. Louis Actors Studio, New Jewish Theatre and other companies. The Fox Performing Arts Teens and the Improv Shop round out the day with performances. Making A Scene runs from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. today at the LorettoHilton Center (130 Edgar Road, Webster Groves; www.repstl.org). Admission is free.
Hop in the City The glorious festivals of fall are upon us, even if the fall weather is a little behind schedule. Hop in the City takes over the Schlafly ap Room ocust Street www.schlafly.com today rom noon to 9 p.m., bringing with it more than 40 beer styles and a wealth of great music. Tasting tickets ($30 to $35) get you unlimited samples of both the beer and the music, while tickets just to get on the lot and enjoy the bands are $15 to $20. Food will be available for purchase, and among those previously mentioned bands are Black Pistol Fire and the mighty, mysterious Calexico.
Great Forest Park Balloon Race You’d better get up early if you want to get a good spot at the Great Forest Park Balloon Race, because seemingly everyone in the metro area is in Forest Park today. Alright, it’s actually only
150,000 people, but they’re all camped out on the central eld well before noon. This year’s race features more than 70 balloons and pilots, who start their engines at 4:45 p.m. Before that happens you can picnic in the park, watch the Miller Light Skydivers descend and enjoy the music of Griffin and the Gargoyles. Admission is free.
The production blends music, actors, the neighborhood and the spirit of adventure to prove once again that Shakespeare is one of us. Remember Me is performed at 8 p.m. Friday through Sunday (September 16 to 18) on Sutton Boulevard in Maplewood (between Marietta and Hazel avenues; www.sfstl. com). Admission is free.
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Some people claim they miss the good old days, but the good old days never really left. The St. Louis Renaissance Festival h a s a l l t h e v i l l a g e b a ke r s , blacksmiths and carpenters your parents remember, plus a bunch of old-school Germans — specifically, the Landsknechts. These mercenaries dress sharp, carry sharp objects and act sharp. They’ll show you how to wield a ten oot long pike, re a bow or black powder rifle and play sixteenth-century games (when Germans play Monopoly, they play for keeps). This year’s St. Louis Renaissance Festival is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (September 17 to October 16) in Rotary Park (2577 West Meyer Road, Wentzville; www.stlrenfest.com). Tickets are $15.95 to $18.95.
Remember Me Strange things are afoot in Maplewood this weekend. T h e s e u s , t h e m ay o r o f t h e southwestern suburb, and his ancee Hippolyta run into eternal friends Hamlet and Horatio near the Mystic Valley, which is owned by a trio of soothsaying sisters. The plot thickens with the addition of Bottom and the college student Bernardo. What’s it all about? Shakespeare in the Streets, my friend. Nancy Bell’s play Remember Me plucks familiar characters and elements from Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth to create a new story about Maplewood, home of craft beer, doughnuts and bowling.
Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1964) parodies all kinds of strange American elements (our endless wars, our tangled politics, our obsession with conspiracy theories) so well that it’s difficult to see now how risky all those decisions were at the time. Made just four years after Hollywood stopped blacklisting people deemed “unpatriotic,” the film portrays the military, the scientists and the diplomats as sel sh, flawed beings. t’s also a hoot, mainly thanks to Peter Sellers’ work as Lionel Mandrake, resident u ey and the eerie Dr. Strangelove, the former Nazi scientist who has one hand he can’t quite control. Can any of these men save the world from the impending nuclear destruction Air Force Commander Jack D. Ripper intends to unleash on those bastard commies for poisoning our water supply with fluoride on’t bet on it. urner Classic Movies presents a special screening of Dr. Strangelove at 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday (September 18 and 21). You can see it locally at the Wehrenberg Des Peres 14 Cine (12701 Manchester Road, Des Peres; www.fathomevents.com). Tickets are $10 to $12.50.
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s the season turns and we put this summer of wise-cracking CGI animals and generic superhero-destructowar-apocoblasts behind us and wait for the best of the festival/awards season to trickle in, a few current video releases are deserving of attention. Orson Welles’ centennial went by last year without much fanfare in his native country, perhaps because Welles is known to the general public less as a lmmaker than as an outsized personality, a large bearded man pitching cheap wine and frozen vegetables in old commercials. The popular notion that Welles never nished anything, or made only one lm of interest 75 years ago, has cast a shadow over his work, an eclipse that should be diminished by the two illuminating films just released by Criterion. We associate Welles with many things, but sensuousness is rarely one of them. That’s what makes The Immortal Story, an hourlong film produced for French television in 1968, such an unexpected pleasure. His rst lm in color, this adaptation of an Isak Dinesen short story offers a heavily made-up Welles as Clay, a sour millionaire living — and dying — in Macao. When he is told the tale of a sailor hired to make love to the wife of a wealthy old man, the literal-minded Clay decides to turn unreliable fiction into dependable truth. He sends his bookkeeper to the streets to hire a man and woman, a naive sailor and an aging beauty (Jeanne Moreau), to bring the concept to life. Unexpectedly, Clay’s actors have their own perspectives on
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Günther Kaufmann, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Brigitte Mira in Kamikaze 89. | ZWEITES DEUTSCHEN FERNSEHEN the tale, turning The Immortal Story into a game of narratives, a fable about storytelling and reality staged by characters who can’t tell the difference. It’s also a valentine to Jeanne Moreau, lmed lovingly as she steals both the lm and its labyrinthine plot. After two and a half decades of Shakespearean adaptations and lms noir, The Immortal Story revealed a new, more romantic side of Welles, one that he was seldom allowed to pursue. If The Immortal Story is a revelation, Criterion’s other new Welles release, Chimes at Midnight, is a major rediscovery. Welles’ own avorite o his works, the lm has been given a well-needed restoration, which includes improving the sound synchronization, a technical problem that was beyond the director’s means in 1966. Chimes is the culmination of Welles’ life-long obsession with Shakespeare. He combined an edited version of both parts of Henry IV with historical texts and a small assortment of lines
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borrowed from other plays to tell the story of Sir John Falstaff, a larger-than-life carouser and thief who plays surrogate father to young Prince Hal just before history places him on the throne. Though surrounded by a large international cast (including Moreau, John Gielgud, Margaret Rutherford, Fernando Rey and Marina Vlady), Welles dominates the lm in the center role could he have done otherwise? But where the Henry IV plays alternate comedy with historical drama, Welles finds almost nothing but tragedy. From an unrivaled centerpiece battle scene to the sad end of its robust hero, Welles turns Falstaff’s story into a study of sadness and betrayal, of love gone wrong and relationships turned sour. Welles’ definitive Falstaff takes top place among the actor’s most distinguished lead roles — Kane, Mr. Arkadin, Touch of Evil’s uinlan and the lm, dismissed or ignored for years, should now be seen as one of the director’s nest.
De Palma — now available on Amazon Prime and other streaming services — is the movie equivalent of Francois Truffaut’s famous book on Hitchcock, a career-spanning interview/biography that’s also a detailed e amination o a lmmaker’s cinematic style. n this case, ttingly, the subject is Hitchcock acolyte Brian De Palma. Elaborate film sequences — the death of Sean Connery’s character in The Untouchables, the high school prom in Carrie, the use of split-screen in several films — are broken down and explained eagerly by De Palma, who was a science student in his childhood and retains an eager interest in the technical details of moviemaking. Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, two younger lmmakers, became riends with De Palma and, after listening to his stories of production battles with Hollywood studios, placed him in front of a camera to recount his life and to discuss every film he’s made, no matter how
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An Act of Love The Rep whoops it up at 50 with a gorgeous Follies Written by
PAUL FRISWOLD Follies
Book by James Goldman. Music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. Directed by Rob Ruggiero. Presented by the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis through October 2 at the Loretto-Hilton Center (130 Edgar Road; www.repstl.org). Tickets are $18 to $81.50.
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t. Louis is a standing ovation town. Many shows receive them, and some even deserve them. Nancy Opel, playing show-biz survivor Carlotta Campion in the Repertory Theatre St. Louis’ current production of Follies, earned her standing “O” in the middle o the rst act. t was a spontaneous group decision by the audience after she belted her way through ’m Still Here, a song about refusing to move when life tries to shove you out of the way. Opel delivered a sublime combination of showmanship, vocal technique, mastery of the material and chutzpah, and the audience, appropriately, leapt to its feet. Follies is an exemplary musical, but this production is something else entirely. Certainly the audience was primed for the event, this being the opening production of the Rep’s 50th season. But Stephen Sondheim and William Goldman wove magic into the fabric of the play, and director Rob Ruggiero has found every last thread of it. his is by any measure a flawless presentation of a show that rewards audiences emotionally and spiritually. Theatergoers will still be talking about this Follies in 50 years. Follies is a memory play about a pair of failing relationships. The former chorus girls of the Weismann Follies reunite in the ruins of their theater on the eve of its Continued on pg 25
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John (Eric J. Conners) and Clarissa (Alicia Revé Like) dread another visit from Miss Julie. | PHILLIP HAMER [ S TA G E ]
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY The Black Rep begins its 40th season with a bang Miss Julie, Clarissa and John
Written by Mark Clayton Southers. Inspired by August Strindberg’s play Miss Julie. Directed by Andrea Frye. Presented by the Black Rep through September 25 at the Edison Theatre (6445 Forsyth Boulevard; www.theblackrep.org). Tickets are $15 to $40.
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larissa and John lead stable lives on the Hodge Tobacco Plantation. Both are free black people in Reconstruction-era Virginia, employees of a never-seen white man who is dying. They are skilled (he as a foreman, she as a traditional healer and all-purpose caregiver) and intelligent, certainly able to roll with whatever changes come after the death of Captain Hodge. Except for Miss Julie. Neither of them are prepared for what Miss Julie is about to do to their world. Playwright Mark Clayton Southers’ Miss Julie, Clarissa and John is a rewritten version of August Strindberg’s drama Miss Julie, which is about the dangerous flirtation be-
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tween upper-class Miss Julie and the servant John. Southers moves the action from class-conscious Sweden to a supposedly class-free America in which all participants are free and equal. This allows him to play with issues of race, power and wealth inequality — and Southers doesn’t play nice. The Black Rep’s current production of the play, directed by Andrea Frye, is prickly and pointed, with a tendency to direct those points into our most tender area — the conscience. It’s a play that uses family secrets, American history and the very tense present to leave a lasting mark. Eric J. Conners and Alicia Revé Like are very good as John and Clarissa. They are nominally a couple, but both still long for former lovers. Conners plays John as a man who faces all potential conflicts with confidence. Like’s Clarissa is depressed, a woman emotionally broken by the unexplained disappearance of her mother. John, who loves a good time, complains at one point that Clarissa can’t escape the slave mentality; she denies herself any enjoyment and knows only work and sorrow. Laurie McConnell’s Julie is a monster, plain and simple. The daughter of Captain Hodge, she’s the smartest, the prettiest and the most important person in the room — in her
own stated estimation. She also believes she’s the best friend John and Clarissa could ever want. This despite Julie’s habit of dismissing Clarissa as an inferior, refusing to believe her black “friends” could have dreams or desires outside of the plantation and her liberal use of racial slurs. If Facebook were around in 1888, Miss Julie would start a lot of posts with “I’m not racist, but...” Miss Julie has set her sights on sleeping with John, and she’s not shy about letting him know (and in front of Clarissa as well). She caresses, she touches inappropriately and even throws herself in John’s path. This, despite knowing it’s a death sentence for John. But John is undeniably attracted to her despite (or perhaps because of) the danger. Frye paces this deadly courtship as a series of interrupted trysts that draw Julie and John inexorably closer. By the time it’s all over the balance of power has swung to Clarissa. Her kindness and her ability to play the game — the game being control — see her through. Like delivers her final speech not entirely as a valedictory; she hones the razor edge of Southers’ play to its sharpest point: This game we’re playing destroys the winners as well as the losers. Maybe it’s time to change the rules. —Paul Friswold
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Sally (Christiane Noll) sings her way through sorrow in Follies. | JERRY NAUNHEIM, JR. destruction (full marks to scenic designer Luke Cantarella for his gorgeous rendition of the decayed theater within the theater . t’s been 30 years since the show closed, and this is the rst time the group has seen each other. Among them are former roommates Phyllis (Emily Skinner) and Sally (Christiane Noll) and their husbands Benjamin (Bradley Dean) and Buddy (Adam Heller . hyllis and en amin are comfortably wealthy and barely speaking to each other, while Sally and Buddy are getting by and making false starts toward repairing the breach in their relationship. As the evening progresses we see the past unfold and repeat itself as Young Buddy and Young Ben (Cody Williams and Michael Williams, respectively) court Young Sally and Young Phyllis (Sarah Quinn Taylor and Kathryn Boswell) beside their older selves. Their intertwined stories unfold around the memories of their ellow chorus girls Hattie oe onder Haar, who gets a massive response for her incredible “Broadway Baby”), Stella (E. Faye Butler, another house-shaker) and the aforementioned Carlotta. Follies has been criticized for setting pastiches of Golden Age songs next to modern plangent tunes of heartbreak and regret, but Ruggiero and cast make it all feel natural, human and very real.
This is life — you laugh so hard recalling the glory days that you start crying about the present. Those modern songs are killers, by the way. Adam Heller attacks “The Right Girl” with all the frenzy of a scorned husband on his last leg. Christiane Noll is an addled chanteuse lost in the dream world of “Losing My Mind.” Emily Skinner comprehensively eviscerates a caddish husband in ould Leave You.” Bradley Dean suffers a terrifying emotional breakdown during “Live, Laugh, Love.” There are highlights upon highlights, incandescent performances from every individual cast member and heart-wrenching confrontations between men and women who have lost their way and ruined themselves. All around them flicker ghostly chorus girls in opulent costumes, in the husk of a theater that has spun its last dream ending. And then we enter “Loveland,” a grandiose production number that revives the theater and restores all broken hearts. theater is a group effort to create the semblance of life on a naked stage, “Loveland” is the successful propagation of life channeled directly into the hearts of the audience. There is nothing that can adequately prepare you for the wonders of it. Warm up your hands and prepare to be lifted out of your seat — there are standing ovations in your near future. n
Charlie Le Mindu’s Pink Mohawk from his “Stronger” collection. S/S 2014. | PHOTO BY INÉS DIELEMAN
Subject Lines Philip Slein Gallery 4735 McPherson Ave. | www.philipsleingallery.com Opens 5-8 p.m. Thu., Sep. 15. Continues through Oct. 15.
This exhibition features abstract painting by Alison Hall, Donald Moffett, Liat Yossifor and Robert Zungu. Yossifor mixes oil paints together until they reach a range of gray, then slathers that gray into overlapping swoops and swathes. Moffett’s work is similarly tactile, as he squeezes out thousands of thin tubes of monochromatic oil paint, building up a terrain of fibrous-looking matter that approximates shag carpet made of cypress needles.
Ill Seen Ill Said White Flag Projects 4568 Manchester Ave. | www.whiteflagprojects.org Opens 7-9 p.m. Sat., Sep. 17. Continues through Oct. 29.
Charlie Would... Projects + Gallery 4733 McPherson Ave. | www.projects-gallery.com Opens 5-8 p.m. Thu., Sep. 15. Continues through Nov. 19.
Charlie Le Mindu is a Paris-based artist who combines the super-heated styles of the European club with drag culture and haute couture to create extravagant sculptures and performance art. Perhaps most known for his pioneering use of natural and artificial hair as a medium (what
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This group show features some of the best-known practitioners of contemporary and underground art. Downtown New York poet John Giorno, photographic pioneer Jo Spence, filmmaker/photographer John Waters, artist of the extreme Banks Violette and sculptor Yngve Holen all have work in the show. Holen’s Hater Headlight implies a menacing face in the night from cast-off objects such as a pair of headlights from a scooter and a steel mounting. —Paul Friswold
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Louie’s personalizable charcuterie board features a variety of meats and cheeses, served with foccacia, cornichon relish, bacon jam, apples, pickled onions and mustard. | MABEL SUEN [REVIEW]
Live and Let Dive Clayton’s new wine bar promises lighthearted fun — but doesn’t always deliver Written by
CHERYL BAEHR Louie’s Wine Dive
16 S. Bemiston Avenue, Clayton; 314-8759373. Mon.-Thurs. 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Fri. 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sat. 10 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m.-9 p.m.
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ives, like porn, are difficult to de ine yet easy to spot. You know when you’re in one there’s the musty smell o Schlit soaked carpet and
enough o a lingering nicotine ha e to make your hair smell even though smoking has been outlawed or years. he bartender is old, the lighting is dingy, and i there’s ood, it’s no more sophisticated than a bag o ld ienna chips or ’s ro en pi a. aybe there are darts. er tainly there’s otto. ost de initely, there isn’t any wine served in a bottle, unless you count airline miniatures o en dange. And strike me down i ’m wrong, there will never, ever be an glass pour o ros . ver. You will, however, ind such a curiosity at ouie’s Wine ive in layton, the St. ouis outpost o the e panding idwestern bouti ue chain. And depending on who is working on the day you visit, you might nd a warm server eager to guide you through the list. hen again, you might ind yoursel shamed or your pre erence or a di erent wine than your server’s suggested choice, which is actually
high uality. Admittedly, ’m being harsh be cause o a bad service e perience that has nothing to do with the name. r does it A ter all, no one not the own ers nor the patrons thinks that ouie’s is an actual dive. nstead, the name is meant to evoke light heartedness, a counter to the stu y attitude ascribed to high alutin’ sommeliers who look down their nose when someone orders pinot grigio. Wine is supposed to be un, e claims the restaurant’s acebook page, promising a lively e perience, ree o udgment. So about that service. ur server came up with no less than three ob ections to the wine we tried to order it wasn’t seasonal we’re going into all, you know , it wasn’t part o the happy hour spe cial so e usively touted by another server didn’t anyone e plain how the oard works and it probably wasn’t available don’t know i riverfronttimes.com
we even still have that. t’s almost all . And it was o putting as hell. Sure, there are ob ective markers o uality in wine, but ultimately it’s about pre erence, and well trained wine pro essionals should be able to listen to a guest and tailor a recommendation based on what they hear or don’t hear. n other words, when someone re uests a really dry, minerally ld World style ros , the answer is not the uicy ali ornia ruit bomb they’d already sampled and didn’t like, regardless o its uality or let’s be real here price point. he belittle ment was enough to kill our bu . Wait, thought wine was supposed to be fun o be air, on another visit, the sta succeeded. An accommodating host uickly cleared the restaurant’s one remaining table so we could be seated without delay. And while our server wasn’t a sommelier by any stretch o the imagination, she knew
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Tandoori Atlantic salmon comes with cilantro-mint chutney and quinoa. | MABEL SUEN
LOUIE’S WINE DIVE Continued from pg 27 enough to guide us through the list and, even more impressively, to ask a colleague or help when she needed it. ining at ouie’s was an entirely di erent e perience when it worked the way it was supposed to. ’m still not sure, in light o the superior wine lists all over this town, i ’ll eel the need to return. could be swayed by the atmosphere, though. he ormer ani Sushi istro’s sleek aesthetic has been replaced with ouie’s rench armhouse chic. posed brick, whitewashed walls and rus tic wooden beams that could have been pulled o o an old shed in urgundy create a warm scene. ilded ligree orbs with so t white light bulbs hang rom the ceilings, and wallpaper in a red, gray and white pattern adds a spark o color. ’m not sure i the enormous televi sion screen that broadcasts a video collage o arisian streetscapes adds or detracts rom the scene it seems more high tech than what you’d nd in the Restoration Hardware barn they’ve recreated. he ood, prepared under the direction o che atrick altes ardwell’s at the la a, oundary , is like the aesthetics o the place usually good, always passable and only a ew times brow urrowing. altes is cooking a pre ab menu rom corporate ouie’s and, to his credit, the misses were more con ceptual than related to e ecution. deviled eggs are ine enough to satis y, but not so creamy as to push them past the median o the bell curve. he meatballs, however, are e traordinary. ork, bee and talian sausage are mi ed, 28
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providing a sweet, rich taste that pops with ennel seed. he three spheres were each the si e o a gol ball on steroids, lightly crispy on the outside and resting atop deca dent mushroom cream sauce that would be too much were it not or the bright, balsamic dri le. t’s the highlight o the restaurant’s shared plates. rab poutine isn’t o ensive so much as an unnecessary novelty. nstead o meat stu on ries, ouie’s version is sea ood stu on ries in this case, crabmeat and salty sea ood gravy accompanying the usual cheese curds, mushrooms, green onion and egg. ddly, the di erence rom the more traditional tur centered version is negligible, save or a aint crab taste. you like dipping your ries in sea ood bis ue, this may work or you. ound it unappealing. he sh potato combo succeeds much better on the sh and chips. hick lets o the pearlescent sh are battered in hampagne and rice flour, then deep ried to a glis tening brown. risp, seasoned ries and kohlrabi slaw complete this respectable pub plate. nocchi is e ually respectable. he so t potato dumplings are pan ried to give the e terior a slight crunch. hey’re smothered in red wine cream sauce that’s laden with so much pork shoulder, sausage, prosciutto, ground pork you’d think the che raided a butcher’s closeout sale. t’s a magni cently rich dish, so evocative o classic olognese you may be tempted to spring or some arolo. he only thing was tempted to spring or with the ourmet Sina tra urger was a napkin. n the one hand, ’m thank ul there was
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Specials are written on a chalkboard mounted on exposed brick walls. | MABEL SUEN enough green goddess dressed lettuce and balsamic macerated tomatoes to make up or the over cooked bee patty. n the other hand, the oo e o colliding flavors overwhelmed the dish. Add bacon and cheddar cheese, and the entire enterprise is what would happen i you let an over ealous ve year old loose on a condiment bar. ld lue yes would not approve. Steak eburgo, named a ter the herb and butter sauce that origi nated in ouie’s hometown o es oines, was impeccably cooked perhaps the best medium rare ’ve seen a kitchen hit this year. A ter it’s taken o the grill, the flat iron steak is coated in a armesan, herb and butter mi ture, then placed under the broiler so the topping orms a crust. commend the kitchen or hitting the temperature on the bullseye, especially considering they had to navigate two heat sources. or dessert, ouie’s o ers the usual bread pudding with cr me anglaise an average piece o the ubi uitous dish. was more en thused by the carrot cake, and was impressed by the rich, molasses like flavor permeating the cake. A ew bites in, though, my mouth took on a metallic taste, as i someone had used too much baking powder. Hope ully, this was a one o mis take on what could have been an e cellent dessert. he biggest mistake o the night, however well, the second biggest, i you consider the rude ros e change was allowing my dining companion to order a glass o Rombauer hardonnay, a wine that costs roughly a bottle in a gro cery store. y guest, who pre ers popcorn buttery whites, asked our
server a di erent person, mind you, than r. Ros i there was an oaky hardonnay on the glass list. Without hesitation, she suggested the Rombauer. y guest agreed. We were mid meal, no menus on table, so she accepted the sug gestion blindly. Having worked at restaurants with insultingly priced glass pours, this is a tricky situation. You don’t want to insult someone by mentioning price, but you cer tainly want to avoid sticker shock. y cuto used to be . Anything less, and ’d simply get the wine. Anything more, and ’d nd a sub tle way to flag it with either a ca sual mention We have a great Rombauer or a glass or by presenting the menu and pointing to the selection in hopes that the guest will notice the price. gnoring the issue altogether, as our server did, doesn’t bene t anyone. recently talked to the general manager o one o the city’s most high pro le restaurants about the importance o service. we ust eed people, we’ve ailed, he told me. ur ob is to create an e pe rience. We were certainly treated to an e perience at ouie’s, though it wasn’t the one my interview sub ect had in mind. And despite the act that the service was much more hospitable on a subse uent visit, the scene that went down on the rst night le t a bad taste in my mouth much worse than the bad taste le t by stale beer and ager shots at a real dive bar. And this one socked me or a glass. n Louie’s Wine Dive
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T Gelineau laughs as he recalls his wife’s horror at his basement mushroom startup. “It was wintertime in 2012, and my wife and I were in a new house. I couldn’t garden outdoors, so I started looking around online and found this build-your-own mushroom kit,” Gelineau recalls. “It started out as a small basement project, but eventually my basement turned into a small-scale mushroom farm. My wife thought I was crazy 30
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— like a mad scientist. She didn’t come down there.” A chef for more than a decade, Gelineau used mushrooms on almost a daily basis to create elegant plates at Bellerive Country Club in suburban Town and Country. As he got into the cultivation side, however, he realized he knew nothing about them. “Mushrooms, like charcuterie or cheese-making, have this deep mysticism about them that you never really understand until you start growing them,” Gelineau explains. “I think it has to do with how scienti c and controlled the whole process is. But also, when you see it rsthand, you see how much mystery there is in it all — they’re not a plant, but they’re not an animal. They have their own way of growing and digesting and evolving that is really hard to explain. You just have to see it.” Before his deep dive into mushroom cultivation, Gelineau was not only a chef at a respected country club, he was also the captain of the U.S. Junior Culinary Olympic team. At the same time his mushroom business took off — he was selling to clubs and
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a few restaurants around town — he received a promotion to executive sous chef at Bellerive. Balancing the two gigs was too much for him, so he stopped his mushroom business for a year. It ate at him. “I kept thinking to myself that if I don’t do this now, I will probably get an executive chef job somewhere and never do it,” Gelineau says. “So I got together a business plan, shot ideas back and forth with my dad, looked into zoning and got approved for a loan. I was going full-blast, and then we found out my wife was pregnant. Here I was at the club with health insurance and a 401(k). We decided to go for it, but it was really nerve-racking.” Today, his business Mushrooms Naturally is one of the city’s leading providers of fine mushrooms. But most importantly, Gelineau is happier than ever. “I don’t work any less than I did in the kitchen, but the quality of life is exponentially better,” he says. “I get to see my kids at night, which is something most chefs get to do maybe once a week.” Continued on pg 31
f Jen Kaslow gets her way, the corner of Midland and Olive will become a dog and coffee lover’s dream. Kaslow, who owns Meshuggah Cafe (6269 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-726-5662) in the Delmar Loop with her husband David, submitted a proposal to University City’s Department of Community Development to turn the lot into the Dog Cafe, a gathering spot for coffee lovers and their furry friends. Their business plan was in response to the city’s request for proposals to rehabilitate the city-owned lot and its existing building as part of the overall Olive Boulevard redevelopment effort. The Kaslows were the sole responders. For Kaslow, the opportunity is the realization of a dream. “I’ve had dogs my whole life, and when I moved here from Colorado, I found that St. Louis wasn’t really conducive to bringing your pet with you to places,” Kaslow explains. “Coming from Colorado, my dog was with me all the time, and here you can’t do that.” The couple envisions the lot and accompanying building as a coffee shop, dog park and community garden that will “satisfy dog owners seeking a place to spend time with their dog(s) in a comfortable, social setting,” according to their application. They hope to offer “numerous amenities for dogs and owners,” including local baked goods, possible beer and wine offerings, dog obedience classes, coin-operated dog washing, a water feature and a viewing deck. “We’re thinking big, and if we have to, we can scale back,” says Kaslow. “The whole back area is a flood plane, so we want to flood it and make it a big swimming area for dogs. We also want to do an outdoor s’mores area with a fire pit, have live music and turn the other part of the land into a large community garden.” The Kaslows will meet with the city council at the end of the month. They also have to get additional bids from contractors to determine if their project is economically feasible. Kaslow is optimistic. “We’re far enough down the road with this that if it comes back as not being cost-prohibitive, we’re excited,” she says. “As long as we are going to be this crazy, we might as well go for it.” n
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JT GELINEAU Continued from pg 30 Gelineau took a break from the mushroom farm to share his thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage community, how he’d use the gi t o flight and why mo’s always brings him back to his roots. What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did? I was a chef at Bellerive Country Club for eleven years and the captain of the U.S. Junior Culinary Olympic team in 2008 before I started growing mushrooms fulltime. What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you? orning co ee is the rst thing that comes to mind, but I’m pretty routine about a lot of things. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? Flight would be pretty sweet. It would make mushroom hunting a lot easier, ha! What is the most positive thing in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year? The trend, which I think is actually more of a realization of quality and community, is local food and craftsmanship — the emergence of small businesses and craftsmen focusing on one or two things and doing them well. This ideal was always in me; it now just comes through fully with my business. Who is your St. Louis food crush? mo’s. hat was one o my rst food-related jobs and will always
bring me back to my roots. Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene? Ben Grupe. I don’t think a lot of people know about him yet, but now that he is at Elaia, that’s going to change. Which ingredient is most representative of your personality? Well, I’d have to say mushrooms, of course. They’re sought-after, elusive, respected, mysterious, intriguing, delicious, and take a deft hand to control. If you weren’t working in the mushroom business, what would you be doing? Well if I wasn’t growing mushrooms, I’d be back in the kitchen. I still feel the pull. Now my friends and amily ust bene t most rom it. I haven’t given up on the idea of having a place one day, just not today. Name an ingredient never allowed in your kitchen. Convenience products. If I can’t make it, I don’t need it. What is your after-work hangout? Home with the wife and kids. I’m old. What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure? Ice cream or pizza. I’ve been eating dairy-free recently, so those things taunt me. What would be your last meal on earth? An aged ribeye medium-rare, roasted hen of the woods, and a twice-baked potato. That or a Jumbo Jack and four tacos. That’s a tough one. n
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n the afternoon of Friday, September 13, 1996, in the intensive care unit of the University Medical Center of Southern
Nevada, larger-than-life rapper upac Shakur nally succumbed to the injuries he’d sustained in a shooting six days earlier at the intersection of Las Vegas’ Flamingo Road and Koval Lane. Shakur had been shot four times, taking two bullets to the chest, one to his arm and one to his thigh. After a week of surgeries, life-support machines and an induced coma, he flatlined after massive internal bleeding. Doctors worked to revive him, but the hemorrhaging was too great. His mother, Afeni Shakur, made the decision that they should cease their e orts. upac officially died at p.m. aci c time. Respiratory failure and cardiopulmonary arrest in connection with multiple gunshot wounds were listed as the official causes o death. His murderer was never brought to justice. Two decades later, Tupac’s memory lives on. He is one of the most well-known characters in the hip-
hop world, with a legacy of music that continues to captures the attention of rap fans worldwide. It’s only fitting, then, that on the twentieth anniversary of his death, a captivating new book delving deep into his story — and the bigger story of the rise and fall of west coast gangsta rap — was released. Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap, author Ben Westhoff’s sophomore book, dropped this week. The book delves deeply into the history of hip-hop on the West Coast, meticulously unearthing layer after layer of the true story not covered in other books or movies such as last summer’s blockbuster N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton. Unlike the sensationalized film, there is no true good or bad guy, but a group of young men (and a few women) who strugriverfronttimes.com
gled to navigate the oft-treacherous path of creating the genre of gangsta rap. Original Gangstas is a heavily researched tale that follows the path gangsta rap took throughout the late ‘80s and ‘90s — a genre intent on highlighting the realities of street life that eventually turned fatal. For old and young hip-hop fans alike it’s an in-depth look into the origins of a massive movement that still influences the rappers o today. The book has St. Louis ties. Westhoff, a former Riverfront Times staffer and current contributor, attended school at Washington University and, after working in LA for more than three years, recently moved back to our city. Westhoff is no stranger to the genre — he was a high school student when g-funk albums such as Dr. Dre’s The Chronic and
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Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle made their debut. He got the idea for the book after from being hired as the music editor for L.A. Weekly in 2011. With his newfound access, Westhoff began interviewing the very people he’d listened to as a teen, and with time the book began to take shape. Considering that interest, it should come as no surprise that Westhoff found a way to be on set during some o the lming o Straight Outta Compton. “I respect that project a lot,” Westhoff says. “I think it was able to shine a light on this era. There’s de nitely flaws, but it was e citing to tell the whole story with this book.” Original Gangstas is more of that untold story, revealing the deeply complex personalities of every character portrayed in Straight Outta Compton — and then some. ne o the most high pro le subjects is the late Jerry Heller, N.W.A’s manager, largely portrayed as a villain in the movie. Westhoff takes great pains in the book to dissect Heller’s actions, leaving the reader with a more balanced idea of the famed manager by the end. (Heller passed away this month, on September 2, at the age of 75. At the time of his death he had a lawsuit pending against the creators of the movie, objecting to the way he was depicted.) Another high pro le sub ect is rapper Snoop Dogg. His character in Straight Outta Compton is limited to about ve minutes total screen time. But in Original Gangstas his entire story is uncovered, revealing much more about the weed-smoking jokester we see on the Internet today. Westhoff’s research reinforces the fact that Snoop is a highly intelligent man who was instrumental in salvaging the hip-hop community in a time of major violence and upheaval. “With the East Coast/West Coast beef, the rhetoric started to ratchet up, and by the end of it two of the most famous rappers in history were dead,” says Westhoff, referring to Tupac and New York rapper Biggie Smalls, who was killed roughly six months after Shakur. “Things got a lot more intense and a lot less fun over the decade of ‘86 to ‘96.” This is where Snoop shines — in history and in the book. In fact, the best details about him are saved for the end.
“The coolest stuff about Snoop comes in the epilogue,” Westhoff says. “[It discusses] all the peace treaties he worked on and how he tried to save hip-hop from selfdestruction after the murders of Biggie and Tupac.” While other publications and movies portray Dr. Dre, Ice Cube and Eazy-E as simple, onedimensional characters, Westhoff is able to shed light on every aspect of these individuals. The book highlights something that many forget when looking back on this era: These self-proclaimed “gangstas” were just kids when all of this started. Many of them were teens still living with their parents. Faced with explosive fame and fortune, they did what many stars still do to this day: They made mistakes. The book also highlights just how huge an impact N.W.A had on the hip-hop community nationwide. Storytelling is a big theme, with many interviewees referring to the rappers as storytellers, and even at times comparing them to journalists. Westhoff agrees. “I think that was Eazy-E’s plan when he founded Ruthless Records,” he says. “[Compton] was the kind of place that wasn’t getting much coverage from the mainstream media, so in a way it was up to people like N.W.A to bring a lot of hard truths about life there to the mainstream.” N.W.A and the other rappers did start a nationwide conversation. Original Gangstas highlights this with a hard look at the L.A. Riots following the acquittal of the officers who beat Rodney King. This fraught time in L.A.’s history is still largely relevant today in light of the concerns of the Black Lives Matter movement, making the book all the more compelling. Original Gangstas is an informative page-turner that sheds an unbiased light on the founding gures who created the gangsta rap genre. It’s a raw but heavy look at the hardships that these rappers sought to highlight, leaving nearly no stone unturned in its research of the volatile era. Even after twenty years it brings fresh information to the table, showing there is still more to learn from these influential artists. As for Westhoff, the decade between ‘86 and ‘96 will always be the most notable in his eyes. “It’s such an explosive era,” he says. “It’s the most exciting era in hip-hop history.” n
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25,000 concert-goers on each night, thanks to what was arguably the fest’s best lineup yet. This year’s event may have also been its smoothest running to date. Despite soggy grounds that caused the closure of the south gate and a half-hour delay in the opening of the north gate, things were back on schedule within the rst hour, and the rest of the weekend went off with no apparent problems. Here’s a look back at the good, the bad and the muddy of LouFest 2016.
THE BEST The Weather After the brutal heat to which St. Louis has been subjected for most of the summer, late-week storms came through on Friday, threatening to put a damper on the weekend’s festivities. Instead, the clouds and rain promptly moved on by Saturday morning, leaving behind clear skies, a pleasant breeze and temperatures peaking
at around the 80-degree mark. For those keeping track, this was the third consecutive year of ridiculously perfect weather on LouFest weekend. It’s starting to feel like we’re straining some sort of cosmic equilibrium. Everybody You Know St. Louis is regularly characterized by locals and visitors alike — much to the ire of some residents — as a “big small town.” Regardless of whether you love it or hate it, at no time is that characterization more accurate than LouFest weekend. Taking a stroll across the festival grounds was a near-guarantee that you’d see people you knew, whether they were on stage playing, in uniform working, or just hanging out and enjoying what the fest had to offer. Greater Emphasis on Local Acts and Diversity One of the most frequent complaints about LouFests past was that — though the festival tried to brand itself as local-friendly and did sucriverfronttimes.com
ceed in some ways (a solid selection of local beer, local food vendors, etc.) — it never really seemed to offer much in the way of local acts. In previous years you’d be lucky to have a handful of St. Louis-based artists, and if you wanted to see all of them, you were shit out of luck, thanks to less-than-thoughtful scheduling that put acts in conflicting time slots. This year’s fest, on the other hand, did an impeccable job of tapping a larger and more diverse selection of St. Louis acts, and actually managed to schedule them in such a way that anyone who wanted to could catch every single one of them. Big Crowds Early Saturday It wouldn’t have been especially surprising if Saturday’s soggy conditions and resulting gate closure acted as a deterrent to those who otherwise might have shown up early to catch the day’s local acts, but that didn’t seem to be the case. By the time the north gate opened at around 11:30 a.m. sizable lines
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LOUFEST RECAP Continued from pg 37 had already formed, ready to get the festival weekend off to a start. The Sleepy Rubies got things rolling not long after, delivering their distinctive brand of vocalharmony-heavy Americana to a crowd of familiar and not-so familiar faces much larger than you might have expected so early in the proceedings.
THE WORST The Mud The more rugged among us came prepared with waterproof footwear and a resignation to the fact that the grounds were only going to get soggier. Those with more delicate sensibilities, though, seemed to have a difficult time making peace with the fact that they’d be spending the rest of the weekend wading through sometimes ankle-deep muck. More than a few pairs of abandoned footwear littered the festival grounds and surrounding area after 38
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each day was nished, but a ruined pair of shoes is a small price to pay for this year’s great weather and even better music. All of Those Decisions LouFest is not a good place for the indecisive. While organizers did manage to schedule every local act in a time slot of its own, hard choices still had to be made. Should you see the Kills at the Bud Light Stage or Anderson .Paak & the Free Nationals across the grounds at the BMI Stage? Ms. Lauryn Hill at the Forest Park Stage or Shakey Graves at the Shade Stage? There is no right answer. Aside from the music, the nearly-30 choices when it came to food vendors added to option anxiety, making the weekend an exercise in managing opportunity costs. … But None About Beer While this year’s LouFest may have been the Lou-iest so far in terms of both the food and music present, notably absent was one of the city’s greatest assets — its abundance of great craft breweries. There was no Urban Chestnut, no 4 Hands, not
even any Schlafly to be ound at this year’s festival. Beer drinkers in attendance had only Goose Island and AnheuserBusch products to choose from, which — while they do the job — don’t lend the same sense of civic pride that comes along with a local beer buzz. The Name Listen — this whole thing’s great and all, but are we really married to the name? LouFest sounds like something you’d get invited to by your uncle who tucks his t-shirt into his shorts, and then when you show up it’s just him, three of his friends from high school and a crockpot of Lil’ Smokies. Though, hey, if we’re quibbling over the moniker at this point, it should be seen as a sign that there wasn’t much at all to complain about this year. This year’s LouFest was pretty damn good, and the improvements made over past years make the festival’s future look even more promising. Here’s to a successful seventh year of LouFest. May there be many more to come. n
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few years ago, local singer-songwriter John Donovan made a four-song EP in his bedroom. That was nothing new: Donovan had been writing, recording and releasing smart, sensitive singersongwriter folk for a few years. But rather than paint these songs with close vocals and acoustic guitar, Donovan became a one-man Americana band, handling the loping rhythm section, mellow organ chords and everything else on his own. And instead of releasing this collection of songs under his given name, as he had before, Donovan invented a ctitious e as based se tet called the Ruby Troupe, populated by such unlikely musicians as Edgar “Buck” Edwin, Roscoe Fogg and Philander P. Soloman. Then something odd happened: The Ruby Troupe got a fair amount of blog buzz for its song “Buffalo Skull.” A handful of music sites included it on playlists; the modern rock station in Juneau, Alaska, played it on the air; a DJ from London requested that the “band” do a voice-over intro for his show. Meanwhile, John Donovan, erstwhile solo performer, was playing open-mic nights around St. Louis. He never claimed the Ruby Troupe ruse as his own creation. “It was almost catfishing,” Donovan says of the bi arre e perience some years later. here was something really cathartic about not taking credit for that, almost a sacri ce o art. In the years following Donovan never stopped gigging, writing and recording — the full-length Via Crucis (2013) and the EP Bernadette (2014) soon followed, both a return to the intimate, often searching folk music he began with. Donovan wanted to document his move away from solo performance and capture some of the rapport he has with his bandmates; to do that, he resurrected the Ruby Troupe moniker, reintroducing it as a name or his actual, non ctitious band on the new four-song EP Silt. “This is a lot less stressful and more fun than doing it by myself, but there is more immediate pressure — there are people depending on you to get it right,” Donovan says of his relatively new role as bandleader. “At home, you have all the time in the world to get a vocal take the way you want it. You can’t be as much of a perfectionist. But playing songs with competent, friendly musicians gives it new life.” Those musicians — guitarist Andy Berkhout, bassist Steve Lenivy and drummer Christopher Fenter — provide a loose and hazy framework for these tracks, one that pushes Donovan’s voice into a more rock-oriented atmosphere. Opening track “St. Elizabeth” is emblematic of the band’s reworking of these older songs. There’s a looseness to the rhythm as Fenter and Lenivy settle into a loose groove reminiscent of syrupy reggae. Donovan and Berkhout share guitar duties, and they dial in tones that are both ragged and starlit.
The S. Broadway R&B, Soul & Funk Festival SATURDAY SEPT. 17 Phil Wright and Friends 8PM Funky Butt Brass Band 9:45PM Al Holliday and the East Side Rhythm Band 11:30PM Southern Exposure 1:15AM
SUNDAY SEPT. 18 Dogtown Allstars 2PM Miss Jubilee & the Humdingers 3:30PM Soulard Blues Band 5:15PM Transmitter Express 7PM The Richie Kihlken Band 8:45PM Donovan and Berkhout have had many opportunities to play off of each other. Donovan plays guitar in Berkhout’s project Trotting Bear, which just released its atmospheric, twang-centric LP Currents this summer. “I think our common ground is the enormous umbrella of singer-songwriter,” Donovan says of his musical relationship with Berkhout. “His approach from the start has been more introverted and almost dreamlike in te ture, and mine tends to be more storytelling in a more forceful way, lyrically. We de nitely don’t do the same thing, and like that it shakes up my routine a lot.” Whereas Trotting Bear recorded at John Vanderslice’s famed Tiny Telephone studio in San Francisco, the Silt EP was a more streamlined and local effort. The quartet knocked out the songs over three hours at the Gaslight, the studio and bar space that opened this year on the Hill. The space was still raw and un nished when the band recorded, and ark Cange’s simple set-up — a few mics, a compressor and a ProTools rig — allowed for a warm if barebones recording. Donovan is releasing Silt as a digital-only EP as a means to capture his band in the moment; in fact, all the songs on the recording date back to earlier solo releases. It’s a stopgap of sorts, Donovan admits. “I’ve got a project in the works that will hopefully become a full-length, and if I really hack away it should be out ne t summer, he says. ’ve been doing a lot of songs in my bedroom studio and I really like the way they’re coming along.” When asked what moniker he’ll use to release these si teen or so new songs the Ruby roupe or some other pseudonym — Donovan says he plans on releasing it under his own name once again. “There’s a certain amount of pride in doing it myself,” he says. “I’m sure it will be my downfall.” –Christian Schaeffer riverfronttimes.com
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[CRITIC’S PICK]
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314436-5222. DANNY WOOD: 8 p.m., $25. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. JOE METZKA BAND: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222. LYDIA LOVELESS: w/ Will Courtney & the Wild Bunch 8 p.m., $12-$15. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444. THE MAENSION: w/ Keychain, A New State, One Rose Rebellion 7 p.m., $10-$12. Cicero’s, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009. MELODIME: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. NAAN VIOLENCE: w/ Death Panels, Vernacular String rio,
other
eat
p.m., ree. Schlafly
436-5222. SWINGIN’ UTTERS: w/ Grave Neighbors, Scene
BILLY BARNETT BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
FarFetched Brave New World Showcase 7 p.m. Saturday, September 27. The Luminary, 2701 Cherokee Street. $10. 314773-1533.
Our culture’s current fascination with dystopian futures runs deep, what with all your Hunger Games and your Maze Runners and your Divergents. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is the granddaddy of much of this fiction, and its Shakespearean title belies its fear for humanity’s forward progress. The local genre-busting collective FarFetched
of Irony 8 p.m., $13-$15. Blueberry Hill - The
has long borrowed Brave New World as the name of its yearly showcase and party, and while many of its artists have plenty to say about the present day, it’s not hard to hear a hopeful strain in the group’s futuristic blend of hip-hip, shoegaze and experimental pop. Home of the Brave: This year’s featured artists include the dubby and distorted Hands & Feet, gauzy popsmiths Golden Curls, hard-hitting live funk band Superhero Killer and hip-hop act Subtle Aggression Monopoly. – Christian Schaeffer
Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444. TIGER ARMY: w/ Creeper 8 p.m., $20-$24. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
SATURDAY 17 ANNUAL RHYTHM, BLUES & FUNK FESTIVAL: 8 p.m.; Sep. 18, 2 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222. BAYSIDE: w/ The Menzingers, Sorority Noise 8 p.m., $19-$23. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929. BETH HART: 8 p.m., $35-$55. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. BRYAN ADAMS: 8 p.m., $29.95-$$95.95. Holly-
Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-
wood Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth City
2337.
Expwy., Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944.
ROGER HOOVER: w/ Loot Rock Gang, Silver
CHRIS SCOTT: w/ Bobby Ford, Murphy’s Ford 8
Ribbons 6 p.m., $9. Dead Wax Records, 1959
p.m., $10. Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave.,
Cherokee St., St. Louis, 314-913-3692.
East St. Louis, 618-274-6720.
SHREDDED NERVE: w/ Scant, Cienfuegos, Beauty
DRACLA: w/ Path of Might, Van Buren 8 p.m.,
Pageant, DJ Ghost Ice 8 p.m., $7. Way Out Club,
$8. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-
2525 S. Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-664-7638.
9050.
TROLLER: w/ Samantha Glass, Jaded Evil Lambs,
IN MY SILENCE CD RELEASE SHOW: 8 p.m., $5-$8.
Stone Hen 8 p.m., $5. Kismet Creative Center,
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
3409 Iowa Ave., St. Louis, 314-696-8177.
ISKA DHAAF: w/ Persh, Beauty Pageant, Mondo Rip 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jeffer-
FRIDAY 16
son Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
ADVANCE BASE: w/ Mike Jones at His Honest
JOAN SHELLEY: w/ Maiden Radio 8 p.m., $10-
Weight 8 p.m., $8. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359
$12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,
Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
314-773-3363.
AUSTIN JONES: w/ Trophy Wives, Run 2 Cover,
METAL CHURCH: w/ ThorHammer 7 p.m., $18$22. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,
Curses 7 p.m., $18-$20. The Firebird, 2706
[CRITIC’S PICK]
Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
314-535-0353. NORM MACDONALD: 7 & 9:30 p.m., $30-$40.
FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE: w/ Cole Swindell, the Cadillac Three, Kane Brown 7 p.m., $30.25-
D.R.I. | PRESS PHOTO
$79.75. Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth City Expwy., Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944. FLUME: 8 p.m., $35-$40. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. I THE MIGHTY: w/ Dayshell, Artifex Pereo, Picturesque, The Greater Good 7 p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. JAYCEEOH: 10 p.m., $10-$25. Europe Nightclub, 710 N 15th St, St. Louis, 314-221-8427. JOHN D. HALE BAND: w/ Evan Webb & The Rural Route Ramblers 8 p.m., $10-$12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363. THE LANGALEERS: w/ Dead Mockingbirds, Bucko Toby 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226. LEROY PIERSON: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222. LOS LONELY BOYS: 8 p.m., $28-$30. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505. LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
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5 p.m. Sunday, September 18.
Crossover pioneers D.R.I. have been playing a warp-speed version of the thrash-metal/punk hybrid genre they helped create since 1982, when they first picked up instruments in singer Kurt Brecht’s parents’ Houston home. The band quickly developed a reputation as one of the fastest bands in the world, gaining tremendous notoriety for its high-energy tours and subsequently releasing seven full-length LPs between ‘83 and ‘95. Still a touring force, D.R.I. went silent on wax until the release of
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St., St. Louis, 314-881-7777. SOULARD BLUES BAND: 6 p.m., free. Greg Free-
Thrashamania 7 with D.R.I. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Avenue. $15 to $20. 314-833-3929.
Lumiere Place Casino & Hotel, 999 N. Second
TOM HALL: 6 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups,
this June’s But Wait...There’s More! — finally closing a 21-year gap between releases. The EP includes three new studio tracks and two re-recordings of classic material, and on the whole leans more toward the punk side of the spectrum. Here’s hoping an LP will come sometime in the next couple decades. Born to Thrash: D.R.I. comes to town as a part of Thrashamania, now in its seventh iteration, meaning wall-to-wall, high-energy metal is on the menu all night long. Buy a neck brace in advance. – Daniel Hill
700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
SUNDAY 18 AGENT ORANGE: w/ Counterpunch 7 p.m., $12$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-2899050. ANNUAL RHYTHM, BLUES & FUNK FESTIVAL: Sep. 17, 8 p.m.; 2 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. ATOMIC BLUES FESTIVAL: w/ St. Louis School of Rock, Green McDonough Duo, On Call Blues Band, Tom Hall, Kingdom Brothers, Fab Foehners, Roland Johnson, Rum Drum Ramblers, Chris Taylor & The Blues Crushers 2 p.m., $10. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-775-0775. JESSICA HERNANDEZ & THE DELTAS: 8 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-
[CRITIC’S PICK] Joan Shelley. | VIKESH KAPOOR
Joan Shelley 8 p.m. Saturday, September 17. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $10 to $12. 314773-3363.
Louisville, Kentucky, native Joan Shelley is an unlikely neo-folk heroine, mostly because there’s not much that is neo about her. Last year’s Daniel Martin Moore-recorded Over and Even found Shelley utterly confessional, unapologetically acoustic, fully in touch with the elusive art of voice and interlocked guitars (accompanist Nathan Salsburg plays like the singer’s soul twin) and packed with song after song of
unerring feelings and melodies. Like no songwriter — and voice — since the late Kate Wolf, Shelley evokes the spirituality of everyday life: the sensual glories of love, the unpredictable power of nature, the heartbreaking sweetness of memories and the fate of our human failings. No one sings personal truths like Ms. Shelley. Maiden Voyage: The trio of Cheyenne Mize, Julia Purcell and Shelley herself (aka Maiden Radio) will open with a set of harmony-rich, tradition-inspired songs from the bluegrass state. – Roy Kasten
0353.
Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: 8:30 p.m., $10. BB’s
621-8811.
Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,
TECH N9NE: w/ Krizz Kaliko, JL, Starrz 8 p.m.,
314-436-5222.
$27.50-$30. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St.
PALOMINO SHAKEDOWN: w/ Les Gruff and the
Louis, 314-726-6161.
Billy Goat 8 p.m., free. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.
TUESDAY 20
THRASHAMANIA 7: w/ D.R.I., Deathwish, Hell
THE DEAR HUNTER: w/ Eisley, Gavin Castleton 7
Night, bastard, Tropical Storm!, The Spiders,
p.m., $20-$50. The Ready Room, 4195 Manches-
Reign, Smash Potater, The Lurking Corpses 5
ter Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
p.m., $15-$20. The Ready Room, 4195 Manches-
GAP DREAM: w/ Boreal Hills, the Bobby
ter Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
Dazzlers 8 p.m., $8. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359
ZZ TOP: w/ Gov’t Mule 6 p.m., $20. Hollywood
Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.
Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth City Expwy.,
GREEN DAY: 8 p.m., $55-$75. The Pageant, 6161
Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944.
Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
MONDAY 19
JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.
Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-
ST. LOUIS SOCIAL CLUB: 9 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
773-3363.
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
ELIZABETH COOK: 8 p.m., $15. Blueberry Hill -
436-5222.
City, 314-727-4444.
WEDNESDAY 21
LEGACY JAZZ ENSEMBLE: 8 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
THE ATARIS: 8 p.m., $15-$17. The Firebird, 2706
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.
436-5222.
BIG RICH MCDONOUGH & THE RHYTHM RENE-
SOULARD BLUES BAND: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway
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Fletcher Moley Group with Katie Turnbull
Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828 Olive
DALE WATSON AND THE LONESTARS: 8 p.m., $15.
The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University
Rhythm & Blues • Reggae Latin • Jazz
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GADES: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700
THE LONELY BISCUITS: Sat., Nov. 12, 9 p.m.,
S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
$12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,
THE BLUES CRUSHERS: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,
314-773-3363.
Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-
LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: Sun., Oct. 2, 8:30 p.m.,
436-5222.
$10. Sun., Oct. 9, 8 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues
BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale on
& Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-
Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-
5222.
7880.
MADMAN’S DIARY – THE ULTIMATE OZZY EXPE-
DINERS: w/ Dubb Nubb, Matt Harnish’s Pink
RIENCE: Sat., Nov. 19, 8 p.m., $12-$15. Delmar
Guitar, Isaac 9 p.m., $5. Kismet Creative Cen-
Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-
ter, 3409 Iowa Ave., St. Louis, 314-696-8177.
6161.
GHOST BATH: w/ Numenorean, Frosthelm 6
MARISSA NADLER: Wed., Oct. 5, 8 p.m., $15. Off
p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-
Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-
289-9050.
3363.
THE HANDSOME FAMILY: 8 p.m., $17-$20. Off
MAXWELL AND MARY J. BLIGE: W/ Ro James,
Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-
Sat., Nov. 12, 6 p.m., $39-$199.50. Scottrade
3363.
Center, 1401 Clark Ave., St. Louis, 314-241-
PIERCE THE VEIL: w/ Neck Deep, I Prevail 7 p.m.,
1888.
$28.50-$32.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd.,
NINA DIAZ: W/ Mobley, Tue., Oct. 18, 8 p.m.,
St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
$10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-
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289-9050. NON EXOTIC: W/ Luxora, Thu., Oct. 27, 6 p.m.,
BLACK TITAN: W/ The Judge, Spacetrucker,
$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-
$8-$10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-
9050.
289-9050.
PORTER ROBINSON: W/ Madeon, Tue., Nov. 8, 8
DCLARE: W/ DJ Maximus, Mon., Oct. 3, 8 p.m.,
p.m., $35-$40. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd.,
$25-$35. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester
St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.
REEVE CARNEY: Fri., Nov. 4, 7 p.m., $12-$15.
THE DECLINE: W/ Make War, Breakmouth An-
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
nie, Mon., Oct. 17, 8 p.m., $10. Blueberry Hill -
ROBBING JOHN: Fri., Dec. 9, 7 p.m., $8-$10.
The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
City, 314-727-4444.
ROGER HODGSON: Tue., Dec. 6, 8 p.m., $45-$65.
DIGI: TEAM 10 TOUR: Sat., Nov. 12, 4 p.m., $25-
River City Casino & Hotel, 777 River City Casi-
$30. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,
no Blvd., St. Louis, 314-388-7777.
314-726-6161.
SHOW ME SHOWCASE HIP HOP FESTIVAL: Sun.,
DREAM THEATER: Sun., Nov. 6, 7:30 p.m.,
Sept. 25, 8 p.m., $10-$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust
$31.50-$66.50. Peabody Opera House, 1400
St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
Market St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888.
ST. LOUIS SOCIAL CLUB: Tue., Oct. 4, 8 p.m., $5.
EXMORTUS: W/ Oni, Fistula, Robot Army, Sat.,
BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.
Nov. 19, 7 p.m., $12-$13. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,
Louis, 314-436-5222.
St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
THE STOLEN: W/ Luxora, Strange Medicine,
THE FAT BABIES JAZZ BAND: Fri., Dec. 2, 8 p.m.,
The High The Low, I Am Dancer, Backstage
$10-$12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.
Productions, Tue., Oct. 18, 6 p.m., $10-$12. The
Louis, 314-773-3363.
Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-
FOR KING & COUNTRY: Sun., Dec. 11, 7 p.m.,
0353.
$26-$56. Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway,
THE SOIL & THE SUN: W/ Owel, Sun., Nov. 20, 7
St Charles, 636-896-4200.
p.m., $13. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.
FRUITION: Fri., Oct. 14, 8 p.m., $10-$13. The Pag-
Louis, 314-773-3363.
eant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
THIRD SIGHT BAND: Mon., Oct. 10, 8 p.m., $5.
THE GAME: Thu., Sept. 29, 10 p.m., TBA. The
BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.
Marquee Restaurant & Lounge, 1911 Locust St,
Louis, 314-436-5222.
St. Louis, 314-436-8889.
TODD SNIDER: W/ Rorey Carroll, Wed., Nov.
HELMET: W/ Local H, Sat., Dec. 17, 8 p.m., $20-
16, 8 p.m., $30-$35. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar
$22.50. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St.
Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.
Louis, 314-726-6161.
TORONZO CANNON BAND: Fri., Oct. 7, 10 p.m.,
ILIZA SHLESINGER: Thu., Dec. 1, 8 p.m., $29.50.
$10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway,
The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,
St. Louis, 314-436-5222.
314-726-6161.
WIDE AWAKE: W/ The Greater Good, Lo And
IT LIES WITHIN: W/ A Promise To Burn, Another
Behold, Polterguts, Sat., Oct. 8, 7 p.m., $10-$12.
Day Drowning, Through Burning Eyes, Thu.,
The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-
Sept. 22, 7 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust
0353.
St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
YUNG PINCH: Thu., Oct. 27, 9 p.m., $13-$15.
JONATHAN TYLER: W/ Elise Davis, Wed., Nov.
Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.
16, 8 p.m., $12-$15. Blueberry Hill - The Duck
ZEKE NETTLES BENEFIT: Sun., Oct. 9, 4 p.m., $10.
Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City,
BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.
314-727-4444.
Louis, 314-436-5222.
SAVAGE LOVE NO ON 60 BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: I’m a woman who watches porn — we do exist — and I have a mad crush on a male porn star named Small Hands. Unfortunately, his videos focus less on his handsome face and more on some girl’s ass. Do! Not! Want! Is there a way to ask a porn star to please make a few movies in a certain way? I would like to see some movies that feature less of her and more of him! Salivating About Male Performer’s Lovely Exterior “I work with anyone I get hired to work with. I don’t have just one costar,” said Small Hands, porn star, lmmaker and composer. ut the ass you’re referring to, SAMPLE, the ass Small Hands has been seen with most, is the one that belongs to his anc e, oanna Angel, the porn star director producer who pioneered the “alt-porn” genre. (Please note: “Alt-porn” has nothing to do with “alt-right.” The alt-right is about racism, anti-Semitism and orange fascists — and alt-porn is about tattoos, piercings and sexy fuckers.) “I got into porn because I started dating her,” Small Hands told me after I read him your question. “I’ve been performing for three years, and my GF has been in the game for
twelve years. She really put alt-porn on the map she was the rst girl with tattoos to appear on the cover of Hustler magazine.” If you want to watch porn that focuses more on guys, Small Hands recommends “porn for women” or “porn for couples.” hese lms do tend to give the guys a little more screen time,” Small Hands says. “Also, there’s always gay porn, which focuses 100 percent on men, so no worry about seeing a lady butt in those movies.” While we’re on the subject of porn: If you look at Small Hands’ Twitter account — or the Twitter account of any porn performer working today — you’ll notice that most have “NO ON 60” as their avatar. Proposition 60 is a ballot measure in California that is ostensibly about protecting porn performers by requiring them to use condoms and mandates penalties for companies and performers that don’t. “It’s really meant to drive the porn industry out of California under the guise of performer safety,” said Small Hands. “Among the other problems with this thing is that it could make performers’ private information public. So it’s not really about our safety at all.” The San Francisco Chronicle urged its readers to vote no on 60 in a recent editorial. “The initiative, however well intended, does not ully reflect the
realities of the industry,” the editors wrote, citing industry-standard STI screenings, the growing number of people who self-produce porn and the emergence of drug regimens (PrEP) that provide more protection against HIV infection than condoms. ut the biggest problem with Proposition 60 is how it could endanger porn performers. “The measure gives private parties the right to sue a porn producer i state health officials don’t take action, a proviso that invites legal bounty hunting,” the Chronicle continues. “Also performers, who often use screen names, could have their identities and addresses made public, a feature that invades privacy and could lead to harm from porn-addled stalkers.” If you’re a reader who lives in California, please vote no on 60. If you’re a reader who doesn’t live in California, please encourage your friends and relatives living in California to vote no on 60. And if you’re an editor at the Chronicle, please retire the term “porn-addled stalkers.” While some porn stars have indeed been stalked, porn doesn’t cause an otherwise healthy, non-abusive and sane person to become a stalker. Hey, Dan: A woman I follow on Instagram — whose account is open for all to follow — shares highly
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