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Two Dead in South City

A double homicide. A police shooting. Now a baby’s future hangs in the balance.

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At Play in the Abandoned City

The city’s baddest crew of urban explorers takes Danny Wicentowski on an adventure

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“I had a breakdown, a severe panic attack, worse than I’ve ever had,” she says. “It took 40 minutes.

Finally, I thought, what are the other options to get off the roof?

None of them are as desirable as option A, which was climbing down.”

We laugh again, and I find myself looking up at the smokestack, suddenly wondering if there is still time to climb it myself. But we’re still too exposed on the roof, and I am coward at heart. So we clamber through a hatch leading back inside the school.

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and over hand, Adriana climbs the metal rungs of the smokestack.

The brick structure has been unused for years, but it still towers above a shuttered high school somewhere in Illinois.

Wind buffets against Adriana’s sweatshirt and tears at her grip.

She swallows the creeping nausea, and holds on.

When she reaches the smokestack’s gaping mouth, she swings her left leg over the edge. Comfortably perched, she retrieves her smartphone and begins recording video.

“Is there space for another?”

The shout belongs to Adriana’s fiancé, Riley, who is watching from the school’s roof some 50 or 60 feet below. Without hearing an answer, Riley waits a moment. Behind her, Nina, a more experienced member of the urban exploring crew, urges her on. “Go for it,” she says.

Riley cups a hand over her eyes and cranes her neck to see Adriana’s dangling left leg. “I want to try it,” she murmurs to herself. She grasps a soot-covered rung and starts climbing.

I can’t tell you Riley’s or Adriana’s real names. In fact, because of an agreement to protect the identity of their crew, I can’t even tell you the name of the school.

But with those conditions secured, this group of local urban explorers permitted me to document their forays into buildings normally barred from public access — not only by law, but in some cases with actual metal bars.

As for this particular school, the locked main entrance and warning signs might be enough to deter the everyday recreational trespasser, but not this crew. It took them only minutes to find a way inside.

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Adriana clambers up a set of bleachers, and she eventually talks me through the process of wedging my foot into a railing, pushing myself through a window and (after some additional grunting) emerging onto the roof. Then comes Riley and other two members of the crew, Jessy and Nina.

From the moment she set eyes on the smokestack, Adriana insisted on climbing it. Ten minutes later, to my relief, both she and Riley hop safely off the ladder. They crouch/walk to another section of the roof and settle behind some brick cover, since they’re other-

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wise utterly visible to the pedestrians and street traffic below.

“We all have some fear of heights,” remarks Adriana. A white-collar professional in her mid-30s, she radiates a kind of manic energy when she talks about climbing. “You definitely don’t want to think about it too much when you’re doing it, because you’ll psych yourself out. I’m not going to lie, probably halfway up the smokestack, I kind of shat my pants.”

We laugh. Sitting in a rough circle on the roof, the crew-members take turns recounting their biggest climbs. Nina, who wears a black denim jacket with ‘Stop Snitching’ written on the back, describes a terrifying experience involving a free-hanging ladder that wobbled with each step.

“These are puzzles,” Adriana observes. We are standing inside a cavernous auditorium on the second level of a condemned school in north St. Louis.

Adriana got her start in urban exploring by sneaking into subway tunnels, the kind of adventure where one miscalculation could get you plastered by an oncoming train. St. Louis’ stock of brick factories and silent schools offer a much different kind of challenge.

“These are three-dimensional, real-life puzzles,” she continues.

“The idea is, how do you access a part of a building that not everyone can access, even among the exploring community? It’s about that opportunity to test out hypotheses and finding strategies.

It’s also about the work that you’re doing in your head with yourself.”

And sometimes, she says, you decide the risk isn’t worth it and walk away.

“There’s no shame in that. But I think there’s something sacred about the process of having the opportunity to assess a risk, to sit with yourself in that moment and figure out if this is something I’m going to do or not. We’ve really taken that opportunity away from people as a society. I think you lose a lot about what it means to be human when you take that away.”

Her musing isn’t entirely hypothetical. The crew has explored this school several times before; on those visits, they placed metal bars and lengths of wood across a ruined staircase to ease the trip up.

But those measures can only take

Explorers mostly rely on word of mouth to find access points to interesting buildings. If that fails, they find (or make) their own entrances. | DANNY WICENTOWSKI them to the second story, which holds the auditorium.

Adriana wants to go higher.

At one point, the crew considers boosting Adriana from a door leaning against a wall. However, she’s too short, and there’s still the matter of getting back down. It won’t work.

But there’s also a ladder, a wooden and rickety thing discovered on the first floor, possibly left behind by another crew of urban explorers. ”We can use that to climb up!”

Adriana insists. “If we pull it up with us we might even get to the tip top.”

I volunteer to help, and we maneuver the ladder over the non-existent staircase and place it flush against a wall. Step after tentative step, I make my way across. We pull the ladder up behind us, rotate it gingerly and, after two or three failed attempts, place it over the next gap in the staircase.

Adriana is ecstatic when she reaches the third floor.

“I’ve never been this high before, it’s crazy,” she says, adding, “but that ladder is sketchy as fuck.”

Near a stack of textbooks, we stumble into another staircase, perfectly preserved and seemingly untouched for decades. The stairs have been scribbled on in chalk with names of students and dates from the ‘60s and ‘70s. We climb higher.

This next level, some kind of attic, is covered in a layer of what appears to be sawdust and pigeon poop. Adriana straps on a painter’s mask. Amazingly, we find another small ladder that leads through a crawlspace in the wall. She maneuvers through the hole and calls over her shoulder: “Do you realize where we are? Look down! We’re above the lights above the stage, dog!”

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Indeed, we appear to have found a kind of walkway or scaffolding that stretches the length of the building. Below, I can make out parts of the auditorium where Adriana talked about risk and how buildings are like puzzles.

The overcast sunlight streaks through holes in the roof, giving the scene a church-like glow.

Adriana walks along the scaffolding, narrating a video and snapping photos. It’s not just for bragging-rights on Instagram, she says. She’s trying to preserve these moments for an unknown future.

In 2007, she explains, she was diagnosed with a neurological disease. It took her doctors two years to stabilize her.

“I didn’t have the use of my left leg, and I thought for real that I would never walk normally again, let alone run, climb, the shit you see me doing. I was walking with a cane. Part of the reason I take so much video is that I know that eventually I won’t be able to do this. And I just know that when I can’t do this anymore, I’m going to be able to watch the videos, and I’m going to be able to remember all the things I did and saw. It’s really important for me to have a record of it. That I was here, and did this.”

We make our way back to the rest of the crew. I step softly on splintered ladder rungs and try not to vomit at the thought of a certain-death drop below my feet.

But the day is still young. There’s another school, nearby, where a different group of urban explorers have been posting pictures to Instagram. Adriana says it looks dope as fuck. Nina says she knows a way in, but she cautions that the doors might be alarmed.

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A double homicide. A police shooting. Now a baby’s future hangs in the balance.

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news helicopter hangs like a thundercloud above the little brick house in south city.

From this height, the halfdozen cop cars below look like toys scattered across Taft Avenue as the cameraman pans along a perimeter of yellow police tape.

“We don’t know a great deal about the situation,” he says as the footage beams live across the metro. “I can tell you the big van there on the lefthand side of the big truck is a crime scene situation. There is particular interest in the tape and the house we are showing you now.”

The tiny figures of cops pace across the street corner. The chief of police has arrived and is huddled with a small cluster of officers.

“Obviously, something significant going on in this area,” the cameraman says.

“Perhaps related to yesterday, perhaps not.”

Two young men had been shot to death the night before. Peggy Cobb’s 23-year-old son, James, was just leaving the family home in a car driven by his best friend, Haris Hajdarevic, when they were gunned down in a fatal ambush.

For the Cobbs, the long, sleepless night that followed was mercifully interrupted at dawn when a police sergeant knocked on the door. The officer asked the grieving family members to take custody of James’ baby while they continued their investigation, Peggy says. They eagerly agreed.

Just the sight of thirteen-month-old James Michael Cobb III was a boost for his heartbroken grandparents and uncle. They hadn’t seen the chubby-cheeked baby, whom they call Jae, in months thanks to an ugly custody battle between their late son and the boy’s mother. The infant’s total, blessed ignorance of the tragedy unfolding around him was their only solace in the hours after the dual killings.

But even this small kindness wouldn’t last. State family services workers, escorted by St. Louis police officers, arrived just hours later to take Jae into foster care.

The exchange was an almost immediate disaster.

James’ young pit bull, King, was also staying with the family, and he hopped over a kitchen gate, bounding toward the strangers. A startled officer drew his service weapon and fired once into the crowded living room. The bullet missed the dog and slammed directly into Peggy’s shin as she cradled Jae in her arms. riverfronttimes.com

“You just shot my mom!” Peggy’s younger son screamed. “You shot my mom!”

The unexpected blast knocked the 42-year-old grandmother to the ground.

She was still lying on her back, blood soaking into the carpet, as a family services worker hustled the baby away from the house.

It was a particularly awful moment within an excruciating collection of hours for Peggy, and not because of her wounded leg. The instant Jae left her arms, he became an unreachable pawn in a feud that continues five months later.

“I just want to hold him so bad,” she says.

It’s not only that she misses Jae. She also worries about his safety. In January, Peggy learned the state was handing over her only grandson to the boy’s mother. This despite the fact police have charged the young woman’s live-in boyfriend with killing James and Hajdarevic, possibly in retribution for James’ attempts to pursue custody.

Peggy hasn’t even been allowed to visit her grandson since that bloody day in October. She doesn’t understand.

“The good guy should always win,” Peggy says.

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James Cobb’s Cadillac parked in front of the Bevo Mill house (right) where he grew up. | DOYLE MURPHY

TWO DEAD Continued from pg 11 Four generations of Cobbs have lived in the house at the corner of Taft and Ridgewood avenues. If they win the legal battle for Jae, he will be the fifth.

The first James Michael Cobb, father of the slain 23-year-old and Jae’s grandfather, spent much of his childhood in the Bevo Mill home, raised in part by his own grandparents. When they died, he inherited the house.

“My father remembers when the roads were gravel,” he says one sunny afternoon, drinking a can of Guinness on the front porch as he surveys the neighborhood.

He met Peggy in 1987 when he was nineteen and she spotted him playing guitar with the garage door open. She was six years younger, but in those days she could put on some makeup and slip into the Macklind Avenue bars with him to listen to hair metal bands on the jukebox.

They would sneak out at night and meet up at Concordia Cemetery next to Bates Street. She called him Jamie.

“It was innocent,” Peggy says. “So innocent.”

They would go as a couple to Bevo Day and school picnics at St. Mary Magdalen and St. John’s. When their boys were little, it only seemed natural to bring them along to listen to the bands and snack on food from vendors.

“We felt like we were kings of the neighborhood,” says Peggy, who still bears a slight resemblance to the Elvira poster on the family’s living

room wall. “I guess that’s what I thought James was.”

Their oldest boy, James Jr., was like the city kid version of the Crocodile Hunter. He learned to fish in Carondelet Park and dragged home turtles and lizards to keep in a collection of aquariums. When he got older, he cruised around Bevo in a champagne-colored Cadillac DeVille outfitted with a booming stereo system he’d installed himself.

He’d been a wild teen, a phase his mother attributes to hanging out with the wrong crowd. The worst of it was a heroin overdose at age fourteen.

“Ever since then, that scared his behind, and he straightened out after that,” Peggy says.

Lean with a muscular build, buzzed hair and a booming laugh, James had matured in recent years.

He landed a job at a Maryland Heights machine shop and moved nearby into a rental house, where he arranged his aquariums and hung out with his dog.

Peggy doesn’t remember exactly when James started dating Carolina Roberts, but she and Jamie didn’t object. They saw the relationship as another sign their boy was growing up and building his own life, especially when the young couple announced in early 2014 that a baby was on the way.

“He had a nice little family going – the American dream,” Peggy says.

“They’d come over to our house for barbecues and get-togethers.”

Jamie says, “She had us all fooled.

I thought the next step was marriage.”

In hindsight, the romance between Roberts and James was probably doomed from the start. She had previously dated a younger guy named Rey Hernandez, and the relationship haunted her new life. While pregnant with Jae, she even claimed on Facebook to be carrying Hernandez’s child. “this is me n reys bby soo stay out of my damn bisness we will get tested n ill prove to all u guys how dumb u r,” reads one post from May 22, 2014.

At some point, James realized Roberts was sending someone else racy photos of herself using a cell phone he’d given her, his mother says. He shut off the phone, but he didn’t break up with her.

“He stayed with her, because he wanted a family,” Peggy says.

But even the birth of the couple’s son got off to a rocky start.

James arrived at Barnes-Jewish Hospital for what he thought would be an intimate, private event and found Roberts’ room crowded with her relatives, including cousins. He was so angry, Peggy had to walk him out to another part of the hospital, where they waited until Jae arrived. He finally saw his son, who initially struggled to breathe, in the neonatal intensive care unit about six hours after the little boy was born.

The new parents eventually returned to James’ house and settled into an uneasy alliance. But trouble was coming. Hernandez was never far from the picture, and his mother, Jessica Garcia, says he truly believed Roberts was carrying his child.

“My son was prepared to take care of a little boy that he was told was his,” Garcia tells the RFT. When Jae was five months old, in February 2015, Roberts dumped James and returned to Hernandez, Peggy says. And while under other circumstances the couple might have just gone their separate ways, they now had a child together, as a court-ordered paternity test would later prove.

Co-parenting didn’t get any easier after the breakup. Roberts and the baby had moved into a Gravois Avenue apartment with her younger brothers, her mother Dana Burkett and Burkett’s boyfriend, 33-year-old Jerome “Lucky” Ingram. But the Cobbs suspected Ingram of using and dealing drugs out of the crowded apartment, endangering Jae.

James Cobb Jr. once thought the birth of his son, James Michael Cobb III, with Carolina Roberts, his girlfriend at the time, was the start of his family. | COURTESY OF PEGGY COBB They made a series of complaints to the state Division of Family Services in the spring of 2015. Those concerns prompted the agency to make a welfare check on April 13.

Escorted by city cops, staff members climbed the stairs to the second-floor apartment and met Ingram in the doorway. Upon entering, officers quickly spotted a bag of marijuana on the couch and a bottle of pills on a table, according to a police report.

When they asked Roberts about the baby, she pointed them to a back bedroom. Burkett told police it was where she and Ingram slept.

“I opened the door and immediately was overwhelmed by the smell of raw marijuana,” an officer wrote in the report. “I observed the baby in a bouncy seat next to the bed.”

The officers searched the room and found more than a dozen clear plastic bags of marijuana, a rock of crack cocaine, more pills and three pistols – a Taurus Judge .45-caliber, a Smith & Wesson .357 revolver and a Llama .45.

Ingram was charged with seven counts of drug and weapons possession. Despite the felony

charges, he was sentenced in October to just two years of probation.

And while the report indicates that police planned to stick Roberts with endangering the welfare of a child, charges were never filed. A spokeswoman for the Circuit Attorney’s Office agreed to look into the case and others flagged by the RFT for this story, but she hadn’t provided any answers as of press time.

The police report notes the complaints to family services were anonymous, but Peggy is positive Roberts and her family knew that the Cobbs were responsible for sending the police to their door.

She was even more sure when someone called the cops two weeks later and claimed to have seen James flashing a pistol out of the window of his Cadillac. Police arrested him in early May on a gun charge, but the complaint was quickly dropped when an investigator couldn’t reconnect with the supposed witness.

Peggy believes Roberts was angry about the family services raid and filed a bogus police report to get back at her son.

“That was their retaliation,” she says.

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TWO DEAD Continued from pg 13 Upset that he was rarely allowed to see his son, James sued Roberts on June 3, seeking partial custody.

Four days later, he and Hajdarevic were cruising with another friend in the Cadillac. As they headed over to meet James’ younger brother, Julian, near a Christy Boulevard shopping complex, someone opened fire on them. They heard three shots as they drove across the parking lot near Big Lots, turned left and saw a gunman fire two more.

One bullet burst into the side of the Caddy, lodging about eighteen inches below the driver’s side window. The side airbag popped open, and James sped off.

Julian was just pulling up as the gunfire began. He saw the shooter hop into a blue SUV and take off.

The two brothers and their friends escaped uninjured. They reconvened on Ridgewood, a block from the Cobbs’ house, and called 911. When police arrived, they examined the bullet hole in the Cadillac and then searched the parking lot, where they found two shell casings.

The shooter was long gone. Neither the Cobb brothers nor their friends could give investigators much of a description. Julian says they suspected Hernandez, but they weren’t sure.

“We didn’t actually know what he looked like,” he recalls.

A few weeks later, James called his younger brother. By now, he was certain.

“You know who that was?”

James asked, according to Julian.

“That was Rey who shot at me.”

Police won’t reveal whether Hernandez, nineteen, was ever a suspect, but in an email, a spokes-

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woman says detectives learned about the custody battle between James and Roberts during their investigation into the near-miss shooting. There have been no arrests in the attack; police say the victims weren’t forthcoming.

Of course, two of the victims are now dead. The case was downgraded to “inactive” after James and Hajdarevic were killed less than five months after the initial incident. The spokeswoman says that “if anyone is able to provide new information relative to the incident, investigators would still like to determine who is responsible and hold them accountable.”

In a cast full of tragic figures, Haris Hajdarevic stands out.

The 22-year-old novice truck driver was born in Germany after his family fled the civil war in Bosnia, eventually immigrating to St. Louis in the late 1990s. Slim, with an easy way about him, he was a curious kid who taught himself how to build and repair computers.

Anela Brakic grew up across the street from his family’s home near Morgan Ford Road and Neosho Street, and their lives were intertwined in all sorts of ways.

Hajdarevic dated her sister for a time. Brakic dated one of his closest friends.

“He was like a brother to me, honestly,” she tells the RFT one afternoon.

They had been classmates at Oak Hill Elementary and Long Middle School before going to different high schools. Hajdarevic looked out for

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“He would stay up all night and come down with me just to make sure I had someone there when I went down there,” she says.

James would sometimes join him in the afternoons at the bar. Neither was a big drinker – they might have a beer each, Brakic says – but they liked music and would play around with the DJ equipment. Hajdarevic called himself DJ Smash and played a mix of Bosnian and American tunes. Like James, he loved to cruise the neighborhood with the stereo pounding. Peggy always knew they were close when she heard the thump of the bass.

On the night of October 28, the two friends dropped by the house on Taft for a few minutes. Peggy was at work, and Julian was out, leaving only Jamie at home.

James ran in and wolfed down a late dinner of fried chicken. He didn’t stay long because Hajdarevic was waiting for him outside in the car. Shortly after 10:30 p.m., James, done with his dinner, slid back into the passenger seat.

The shooting began seconds after they steered away from the curb.

Jamie remembers bolting out of the house and looking up Taft toward the sound. Hajdarevic’s sedan had careened into a parked car about four houses away.

The worried father hurried into the street and pulled open the car

door. There in front of him was his 23-year-old son, eyes wide open, already dead.

“James!” he called, taking his boy’s head in his hands. “James!”

Hajdarevic murmured softly, but Jamie couldn’t make out the words.

By the time help arrived, his son’s friend was dead too.

Jamie still sees the night in his head, rewinding from the gory discovery in the street to his son’s final meal in the house where they both grew up. A plate of chicken, and then out of the door forever.

“His belly was full,” Jamie says finally, and it’s as if that one fact gives him some small measure of peace.

Hundreds of people attended the funerals of James and Hajdarevic.

At James’, held at John L. Ziegenhein & Sons on Gravois, the pastor told mourners he thought God would put James in charge of all the turtles in heaven. They parked his prized Cadillac next to the hearse.

For her son’s burial, Peggy limped up a small hill at St. Trinity Cemetery. The officer’s bullet the day after the double murder had shattered her tibia and snapped her fibula in two, coming to rest in a tricky spot below her knee. Doctors hadn’t been able to remove it. The short walk to the grave felt like a mile.

Peggy has spent the months since then recovering. An orthopedic technician at Mercy Hospital, she had been the family’s breadwinner, but now she won’t be able to return to work until late spring at the earliest.

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TWO DEAD Continued from pg 15 She’s using the time of physical recovery for an equally arduous task: trying to make sense of what has happened. In fewer than 24 hours, her son and his friend were murdered in front of her house, a cop shot her in the leg and her only grandson was taken away. It’s been a lot to process.

Police say the shooting that left her leg fractured is under investigation. As for her son’s killing, Hernandez was quickly arrested and charged with two counts of murder and two counts of armed criminal action. He admitted pulling the trigger and even pointed investigators to the murder weapon, police say.

The quick arrest is some relief to Peggy and her family, but the problems continue in a seemingly endless cascade. Someone busted out the windows of James’ Cadillac a week after the funeral. About a week after that, Julian claims, Roberts’ little brother fired a gun at him while he was driving on Gravois with his girlfriend.

Police arrested the teenage brother on first-degree assault charges, but he was freed in February when the case was dismissed.

“It was to the point where it was like, what’s going to happen next?”

Peggy says.

She has taken over her dead son’s lawsuit against Roberts, asking a judge to award her full custody of Jae. She would at least like to see

the child again, but the courts have been slow to act and Roberts has been unwilling to grant her access.

The Cobbs face a difficult legal battle. In a 2000 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court strengthened the rights of parents — as long as they’re considered “fit” — to raise their kids the way they want. That includes decisions about granting access to grandparents. State courts, including those in Missouri, have followed suit, Saint Louis University School of Law Professor Christine Rollins tells the RFT. In cases where a parent has died, grandparents often stand a decent chance of winning visitation rights, so long as a judge decides it would be in a child’s best interests. Custody is a trickier goal.

“It is an uphill battle, and I think where Missouri courts came down is the visitation is something they’re willing to consider before the custody,” Rollins says. “The mother would have to be unfit.”

And classifying a parent unfit is its own battle. The state would have to take up the cause and prove in court Roberts was no longer capable of caring for Jae. To Peggy, it feels as though the twenty-year-old is winning as a direct result of her son’s murder.

Roberts hasn’t been implicated in the killings, but the Cobb family suspects the shootings stemmed from the custody fight.

“We don’t want her to benefit from having James killed,” Peggy says.

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Roberts’ mother, Burkett, is only slightly more talkative. She says police have “an innocent man locked up” for the murders of James and Hajdarevic. Asked about the police report that says Hernandez confessed and led detectives to the murder weapon, she pauses only briefly. “Just because you show a murder weapon, doesn’t mean he did anything.”

The Cobb family can’t be trusted, she adds. “They’re liars, point blank.”

Peggy is incredulous. “Our son is dead, and we’re liars?” she says.

She tries to be patient and leave everything in the hands of the court, but it is hard as the cases, including the criminal proceedings against Hernandez, drag on. His next court appearance, a hearing to set a trial, is scheduled for April 18 — James’ birthday. His attorney hasn’t responded to a request for comment.

Hernandez’s mother, Garcia, says very little in a brief phone conversation. Her job is to protect her son, and she doesn’t want to say anything about the case “that might incriminate him.” But she claims her family hadn’t even known about the custody battle between Roberts and James. She wants to

add that she has sympathy for the Cobb family.

“My prayers go out to them,” Garcia says, “because I know as a mother, this is one of the hardest things to deal with.”

It’s January before doctors are able to cut the bullet from Peggy’s leg. She is finally cleared to remove the orthopedic boot in early spring, allowing her to drive again. The renewed freedom inspires her to visit James’ grave for the first time since the funeral.

Julian agrees to go with her one warm March afternoon if she’ll wait until he’s finished swapping out the speakers on his brother’s Cadillac. He’s spent countless hours tinkering with the sound system, replacing the headlights, installing a backup camera and adding a touch-screen video display to the dash. This may be where he is closest to his older brother. Their father isn’t into cars, so it was James who taught Julian how to wire in the amps and hook up the speakers for maximum thumping.

Three hours after they were supposed to leave for the cemetery, Peggy is still sitting on an outdoor swing, begging him to hurry up.

“C’mon, Julian,” she pleads.

“Five minutes,” he says.

Thirty minutes later, they caravan down Telegraph Road and turn into Trinity Cemetery. A mist of rain falls as Peggy and Julian work a wooden cross and a solar-powered

angel into the ground at the head of James’ grave. Julian pours out a few sips from a 25-ounce Bud Light for his brother before eventually returning to his car. Peggy has saved the final cigarette from a pack she bought the day of the killings, and she smokes it as the rain soaks her hair. “I can’t believe James is down there,” she says.

Now that she can drive again and walk a little better, Peggy promises to visit more often. She thinks he would like the wooded setting and wildlife. Four or five geese waddle across the grass. She has heard that deer pass through some days.

One of her best memories of her dead son is from a float trip during the last summer of his life. Jamie and Julian aren’t outdoorsmen, so Peggy and James went alone to the Bass River Resort in the Mark Twain National Forest. They didn’t take many trips together anymore.

James had grown up. He had a job now and a son, and all the fighting with Roberts was almost more frustration than he could stand some days.

But in the warm August air, he was like a little kid learning to fish in Carondelet Park again. He splashed along the creek bed and caught turtles that he held up to show his mother.

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For two and a half years, Adam Oates to Brett Hull was as sure a thing as the NHL had. Oates came over to St. Louis from Detroit in 1989 (the Red Wings got the legendary Bernie Federko in the deal) and transformed Hull’s game with his arsenal of pinpoint passes, making the easygoing right winger into a scoring machine. In the 1990-91 season Hull exploded for 50 goals in 49 games, becoming only the fifth player in league history to tally 50 goals in 50 games. He finished the season with a record-setting 86 goals, 42 of them set up by Oates.

Oates had a banner year as well, setting the team record for both assists (90) and points (115) by a center. Tonight at 7:45 p.m. at the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard; www.thepageant.com) the duo is reunited as Hull & Oates Unplugged to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their shared feat.

Kelly Chase hosts the trip down memory lane, which includes a few surprise guests. Admission is $25, and the evening is for the 21 and older crowd only. If you miss that cut-off, don’t worry; next year marks the 25th anniversary of the second time Hull racked up 50 goals in 50 games.

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FRIDAY 0401 First Friday: It’s All Fun and Games According to the popularly received wisdom of mothers, “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye.” But tonight at 6 p.m. at the Saint Louis Science Center (5050 Oakland Avenue; 314-289-4400 or www.slsc.org), no eyes will be endangered. First Friday: It’s All Fun and Games celebrates the simple joys of all

sorts of games, from classics like the hula hoop to board games and collectible card games, all the way through to TV game shows and video games. You can try your hand at the World Chess Hall of Fame’s giant chess set, enter a trivia contest or thrill to classic episodes of Nickelodeon’s Double Dare, Nick Arcade and Legends of the Hidden Temple. At 10 p.m. Edgar Wright’s cult classic film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World screens in the Omnimax Theater (no charge). Admission to First Friday is free, but some activities require a small fee ($5 to $7).

Swan Lake Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake is one of the most famous ballets, but, thanks to the large number of revisions and variations the work has undergone since its 1877 premiere, it’s not the best known. It only makes sense, though, that the story of a young woman being turned into a swan would have a certain mutability.

Saint Louis Ballet presents its first Swan Lake since 2010 at 8 p.m. Friday, 2:30 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday (April 1 to 3) at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on the University of Missouri-St. Louis riverfronttimes.com

campus (1 University Drive at Natural Bridge Road; 314-516-4949 or www.touhill.org). This version uses Tchaikovsky’s score and artistic director Gen Horiuchi’s choreography to tell the tragic story of how Princess Odette, who is cursed by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart to be a swan by day and woman by night, falls in love with handsome Prince Siegfried.

Von Rothbart’s daughter Odile uses trickery to foil their love and trap Odette forever in the body of a swan.

There is one chance for the lovers to be united forever — it’s not a happy ending, though. Tickets for Swan Lake are $22 to $51.

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FRIDAY 0401 Hedwig and the Angry Inch In this world of lonely, sad people looking for a personal connection to make them feel whole, Hedwig stands alone. Born Hansel Schmidt, the East German native fell in love with an American soldier and agreed to undergo gender reassignment surgery so they could be married. But the doctor botched the operation and left Hansel with nothing recognizable as genitalia. So Hansel became the “internationally ignored song stylist” Hedwig, and now travels the world telling her story and performing with her band, the Angry Inch. John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s amazing musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch crash lands at the Tower Grove Abbey (2336 Tennessee Avenue; 314-865-1995 or www.straydogtheatre.org) for a limited engagement. Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday (March 31 to April 16) and at 8 p.m. Wednesday (April 6 to 13). Tickets are $20 to $45.

SATURDAY 0402 Little Black Dress: From Mourning to Night There was a time in America when wearing black was reserved only for those mourning the death of a loved one. When did black make the jump to evening wear, and then to everyday use? Little Black Dress: From Mourning to Night, the new exhibition at the Missouri History Museum (Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue; 314-746-4599 or www.mohistory.org), charts the hue’s long journey to daylight through the most versatile of garments. The exhibit showcases more than 60 dresses from the museum’s collection, offering a broad view of how women’s fashions have changed. The tapered-waist, puffsleeved “second-day dress” from 1895 (worn by a bride the day after her wedding) looks more uncomfortable and rigid than a mourning dress from the same decade, while the 1933 halter evening gown looks elegant and chic. What a difference 40 years, a world war and the flapper movement makes. Little Black Dress is open daily (April 2 through September 5). Admission is free.

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Elizabeth Stanley and Andrew Samonsky in The Bridges of Madison County. | MATTHEW MURPHY

Wizard World St. Louis Wizard World is back, which means you’re going to see a whole mess of li’l Batman and Doctor Strange impersonators (what? we can dream) roaming around downtown this weekend. The pop culture convention takes over America’s Center (701 Convention Plaza; www.wizardworld.com) from 3 to 8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday (April 1 to 3). In addition to the cosplayers there will be comic book creators (Danny Fingeroth! Rich Burchett! Geof Isherwood!), a couple of Doctor Whos (Matt Smith and David Tennant), the new Luke Cage (actor Mike Colter) and the original and greatest Incredible Hulk (Lou Ferrigno). Most of those folks will sign autographs for a fee, and some will appear for free at various panel discussions. In addition to the celebrities, numerous vendors of comics, films, gaming stuff and Planning an event, exhibiting your art or putting on a play? Let us know and we’ll include it in the Night & Day section or publish a listing in the online calendar — for free! Send details via e-mail (calendar@ riverfronttimes.com), fax (314-754-6416) or mail (6358 Delmar Boulevard, Suite 200, St. Louis, MO 63130, attn: Calendar). Include the date, time, price, contact information and location (including ZIP code). Please submit information three weeks prior to the date of your event. No telephone submissions will be accepted. Find more events online at www.riverfronttimes.com.

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SUNDAY 0403 Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play The Simpsons is the longest-running scripted American prime-time TV show, which speaks to the hold the program has on our collective psyches. How much of our brain capacity is occupied by quotes from the show, misremembered or not? Anne Washburn’s speculative drama Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, establishes a post-apocalyptic future in which The Simpsons is the only surviving form of entertainment. Survivors come together to recreate the episode “Cape Feare” (in which Sideshow Bob attempts to kill Bart, but is thwarted by his love for Gilbert and Sullivan) from the bits they can recall. Seven years after that night, their version of the show has attracted a new layer of poorly remembered pop-culture effluvium.

Jump forward another 75 years and the story is the foundational myth of the people. The Webster Conservatory of Theatre Arts presents Mr. Burns at 7:30 p.m. Friday, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at Stage III in Webster Hall (470 East Lockwood Avenue; 314-968-7128).

Tickets are $6 to $12.

Robert James Waller set hearts afire with his 1992 novel, The Bridges of Madison County. It’s about a lonely wife in rural Iowa who meets a National Geographic photographer one weekend while her husband and kids are out of town at the 4-H club nationals. Francesca came to America from Italy, and still misses Naples. Robert recently photographed the city, and together the two bond over their Neapolitan memories. Both know when the weekend ends Francesca’s family will return, but the pair can’t fight their growing passion. Can Francesca abandon her life to start over?

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He Meant to Do That Pee-wee Herman returns after a long absence, and he’s still as great as ever.

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Pee-wee’s Big Holiday

Directed by John Lee. Written by Paul Reubens and Paul Rust. Starring Paul Reubens, Alia Shawkat, Stephanie Beatriz and Joe Manganiello. Now streaming on Netflix.

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irst the good news: After decades of rumors and ill-fated efforts, Pee-wee Herman has made his long-awaited return to the big screen with his first feature since 1988. (Okay, it’s only Netflix — you might watch it on a telephone screen half the size of a bubble gum wrapper.) Now, the

even-better news: If you were concerned that Pee-wee’s Big Holiday was going to be a watered-down rehash of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, a compromised piece of fan-fiction (a la the recent Star Wars film) rather than the return to form his fans deserve, put this review down and charge up that gum-wrapperphone. Although clearly trying to capture the manic invention of Tim Burton’s 1985 film, Pee-wee/ Paul Reubens isn’t interested in repeating himself. Big Holiday may be another road movie, but he’s headed in a different direction.

When I mentioned the new film to a few people, a few of them (including some who had never seen the previous films) seemed to think that Pee-wee was a children’s entertainer, the ‘80s equivalent of Barney or Dora the Explorer, but Reubens’ character has always been more complex than that.

Originally created (for adult audiences) as a nostalgic throwback to kids-TV personalities of the 1950s such as Pinky Lee, a middle-aged vaudevillian who acted like a child, Reubens made a seamless trans-

fer to Saturday morning TV, but he was never just for kids. Young audiences may have liked the animated dinosaurs, but older viewers were hypnotized by the New Wave graphics, the barely hidden homoerotic jokes that kept sneaking in and the general weirdness of it all. It was a fantasy land with no boundaries, the twisted reverie of an overgrown man-child who — like everyone else born since 1950 — had watched way too much television.

In Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, much of the humor came from the idea that Pee-wee was a pipsqueak pretending to be a hero, a perpetual pre-adolescent whose ideas of masculinity and maturity were filtered by a distorted television lens. Thirty years later and Reubens, now older than Pinky Lee ever was when he did the manchild act, hasn’t changed much (the new film has been digitally retouched to make Pee-wee look ageless). It turns out that the real world got weird while Pee-wee stayed the same.

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Director John Lee effortlessly revs up the Rube Goldberg pace, and the screenplay, by Reubens and Paul Rust, is relentlessly funny. From enormous set-pieces (the first ten minutes showing Peewee’s daily routine to get to work) to genuinely odd dramatic twists (I won’t give away the New Yorkbased climax) to almost delicate throwaway gags (there’s an amazingly subtle joke based on Brenton Wood’s 1967 hit “The Oogum Boogum Song” — is that esoteric enough for you?), Pee-wee’s Big Holiday is an unqualified delight, the Pee-wee comeback we’ve all been waiting for. n

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Boyd and McCavour are both fiber artists who seek to express emotion through their work. For this show at the Craft Alliance, both artists delve deeply into more solemn feelings. Boyd creates menacing two-dimensional portraits of bleakness and despair through thickets of embroidery. All I Know, Is That I Know Nothing As to Why the Universe Exists features clusters of black floss running at crazy angles across a white background, studded by thick dark nodes where his needle has returned again and again. McCavour is represented by Black Cloud, a massive installation of feathery dark paper and loops of yarn that bell out from the ceiling to pool in strands and puddles of inky darkness.

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Melo’s offers five different pies, as well as a small selection of bottled beer. | MABEL SUEN [REVIEW]

All in the Family Joey Valenza’s new pizza joint, Melo’s Pizzeria, is a worthy heir to Blues City Deli’s legacy Written by

CHERYL BAEHR Melo’s Pizzeria

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itting in the charming courtyard at Melo’s Pizzeria, tucked behind the wrought iron fence, I had to disagree with the Louis Prima song bellowing from the speakers. “Buona sera, signorina,” the lyric went. “It’s time to say goodnight to Napoli.”

Goodnight? I was just getting ready to say hello. Before me was the quintessence of Neapolitan pizza: a puffy crust, speckled with char like a leopard’s coat; vibrant plum tomatoes, crushed into a sauce; a few ovals of still-bubbling mozzarella cheese and some firekissed basil leaves. I needed two hands to pick up a piece, one to hold onto the chewy crust and the other to handle the thinner slice as it dripped a liquid-y concoction of olive oil, molten cheese and tomato juice. To the uninitiated, this might seem undercooked. To those who have experienced the beauty of real, Neapolitan pies, however, it is the beautiful mark of authenticity.

It comes as no surprise that Melo’s serves such pizza perfection.

The tiny Benton Park spot comes courtesy of the Valenza family, better known as the geniuses behind Blues City Deli. And just as the deli has set the bar for sandwiches in this city, Melo’s aims to be the town’s standard bearer for Neapolitan pizza. If this Margherita pie is any indication, the Valenzas

are well on their way to achieving that goal.

Melo’s pizzaiolo is Joey Valenza, son of Blues City Deli owner Vince Valenza. Its origins are in a real estate deal. After renting the deli’s building and lot for almost ten years, Vince bought the property in 2013 — and with it, the small garage out back. Over the years, Joey had developed a penchant for baking and envisioned turning the garage into a bakery to service the deli.

His experimentation with bread recipes led him to play around with pizza-making, which quickly turned into an obsession.

Instead of a bread oven, then, Joey went all-in, ordering a signature domed-shaped Ferrara pizza-oven from the mother country. White tiles spell out the words “St. Louis the King” on the blue oven, as if daring someone to dispute the place’s pizza primacy.

Joey’s muscle is his late grandfather and the restaurant’s namesake, Carmelo “Melo” Valenza, whose portrait keeps watch over the space.

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and an American flag, Melo doesn’t have much space to keep an eye over — the restaurant is so tiny, there’s no room for seating inside.

Instead, diners can stand at the narrow ledges that line the walls and windows or, when weather permits, opt for the quaint patio that separates the pizzeria from the deli.

Melo’s menu is tiny as well, featuring just five varieties of pies as well as a small selection of bottled beer. What it lacks in breadth, though, it makes up for in quality.

Unlike the Margherita, which strictly adheres to traditional Neapolitan standards, other pizzas veer toward New York thanks to their toppings. Take away that char-blistered crust, and “The Dom” could be straight out of Brooklyn with its garlic and oregano-laden sauce and oozing cheese. Fresh mozzarella and a generous sprinkle of grated Grana provide the perfect base for the optional pepperoni or sausage.

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The “Victor Street Veggie” features mushrooms, onions and cherry tomatoes. | MABEL SUEN

MELO’S PIZZERIA Continued from pg 27 of the pie.

If you can’t decide between the two meat options, “The Veets” gives you both. Here, the pepperoni lies alongside hunks of fennel-heavy Italian sausage; its flavors of licorice and black pepper spice cut through the pepperoni’s fat, balancing out this carnivore’s delight.

And if it’s a Friday during Lent and you can’t take the lines at St. Cecilia’s fish fry, the “Victor Street Veggie” is an honorable substitute.

Spiked with garlic and oregano, the sauce is topped with hefty grilled mushrooms, onions and halved cherry tomatoes cooked to the point where they are ready to pop.

The “Angelina,” named after Joey’s grandmother, who loved to put green onions on everything, is another fine meatless option. This pie is all about the interplay of the sauce, onions and cheese, capturing the essence of the kind of baked pasta dish you’d find at a red-andwhite checked tablecloth Italian restaurant. It practically begs for anchovies, and fortunately Melo’s is happy to accommodate this addition. A few slices of the salty fish turn this from a flavorful cheese pizza to a southern Italian dish rem-

iniscent of puttanesca.

Over the past few years, St. Louis has been blessed with a handful of respectable of Neapolitan pizza restaurants. The question is therefore unavoidable: How does Melo’s pizza compare to the other top shops in town? I can’t say it occupies the No. 1 slot, but it’s certainly one of the best.

When it comes to atmosphere, however, Melo’s unequivocally takes the prize. The sense of community that permeates the space is something that cannot be replicated. Neighbors out walking their dogs stop to chat with patrons on the patio — it’s not uncommon to see someone pass a slice across the fence. And the aforementioned lack of seating doesn’t pose a problem for those who pack the restaurant on one of its few open nights (at this point, Melo’s is only open three days a week). Instead, neighbors belly up to the windowsills, a cold Moretti in hand, and chat about local goings-on as if they were on the set of Cheers.

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Jamie Jeschke Is Using Coffee to Change the World

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efore co-founding La Cosecha Coffee Roasters (7360 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-440-0337) in 2006, Jamie Jeschke thought he took his coffee seriously. He ground his own beans, brewed using a French press and had a general appreciation for different origins.

Then he went over to his friend Gio Sparks’ house, and his coffee worldview changed.

“Gio had been roasting his own beans at home using a hot air popcorn popper,” Jeschke recalls. “He told me about it, so I went over and tried it. I was blown away.”

Jeschke, who has a background in international business, had always been interested in different cultures. His newfound appreciation for roasting brought the desire to learn all he could about coffee. That led to an understanding of coffee as a commodity and how the economics of the coffee trade impact its producers. “I began learning about the farmers and how little they make,” Jeschke says. “So one day, flying back from a business trip, I thought, ‘We can do something about this.’”

Jeschke ran the idea of starting a coffee-roasting company past Sparks, who did not have to think too hard before enthusiastically saying yes. The pair began La Cosecha Coffee Roasters as a wholesale company first, focusing on providing fair trade-certified beans to their customers.

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Jamie Jeschke (right) co-founded La Cosecha Coffee Roasters with Gio Sparks (left). | HARLAN MCCARTHY would ask Jeschke and Sparks if they had a cafe where they could come to grab a cup. Finally, in 2013, the pair partnered with Great Harvest Bread Company and opened a coffee bar in Maplewood. Their business model was not the only thing to evolve: Now, La Cosecha is focusing on direct trade coffee, which ensures an even higher wage goes to the farmers.

Jeschke took a break from the roaster to share his thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage scene, his food and beverage guilty pleasures, and why he doesn’t have a problem spelling the names of all of those different coffee regions.

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I was an alternate for the spelling bee and running long jump in fifth grade.

What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you?

Enjoying that first cup of coffee.

If you could have any superpower, what would it be?

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What is the most positive thing in food or beverage that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year?

Strong support for local businesses seems to be growing each year.

Who is your St. Louis food or drink crush?

Food — Nachomama’s. Drink — Side Project Cellar.

Which ingredient is most representative of your personality?

Coffee, duh.

If you weren’t working in the coffee business, what would you be doing?

Travel host for Globe Trekker.

Name an ingredient never allowed at La Cosecha.

Cottage cheese.

What is your after-work hangout?

Hanging out at home with the family.

What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure?

Food — malted milk balls. Drink — Squirt pop.

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t was just five years ago that Derek Deaver, Derek Fleig and Ryan Pinkston opened the first Three Kings Public House, in the former Riddles spot in the Delmar Loop. But this summer, the Mizzou grads already plan to open their third location — with a new spot in the Wehrenberg Ronnie’s Plaza now about to begin construction.

The spot at 40 Ronnies Plaza, just off South Lindbergh near Tesson Ferry, will offer the same menu and the same friendly feel that has won so many fans for Three Kings’ first two locations (the second location opened two years ago in Des Peres). And at 5,000 square feet, it should have plenty of room.

“Each building and the area itself takes on its own vibe,” says Pinkston.

“But it’s going to be the same excellent food in a casual atmosphere, a place where you can get a bite before or after a movie or get a burger with your family. It’s a restaurant people visit several times in a week, or at least several times in a month.”

To that end, the partners are completing a massive renovation of what used to be a pet-boarding and grooming facility, adding a kitchen and giving it the same cozy look — exposed brick, wooden bar — as the other two locations. They’re also building out a sizable patio space, Pinkston says, and, like the Loop location, will be offering a space for private parties.

“We’ve been growing pretty fast, but it’s exciting for sure,” Pinkston says.

“We feel we have something we can offer to the public that works in these different areas.” And south county, which is starved for non-chain restaurants, should be a particularly good fit.

“We’re hoping to tap into that and offer something that people haven’t had access to there,” he says. “Our craft beer aspect is a big thing — I don’t think there are many places out there that specialize in that to the extent that we do.”

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t. Charles is developing quite the sweet tooth. The newest bakery to open is Sucrose (700 South Fifth Street, 314288-9176), a European-style pastry shop and cafe owned and operated by Florida natives Aaron Groff and his wife, Agi. Though the soft opening was just last week, they’re already seeing business pick up quickly. “We opened in a frantic rush to get permits and money flowing again. It’s not quite finished, but we’re all about getting it going now,” Aaron says.

The Groffs, who met at the Culinary Institute of America in New York, are both trained pastry chefs. They previously owned and operated 4 Seasons Bakery, also lo-

cated in St. Charles. The tiny space was tucked away between a liquor store and a gas station — easy to pass over if you weren’t looking for it. “We needed to move,” Aaron Groff says. “It was a great start, affordable, close to home, but we outgrew it quickly and wanted to open a bigger place.” A successful Kickstarter put them on the road to a new location, new name and a much broader menu.

Notes Aaron, “We wouldn’t have made it without the customer base that we built here and the support that we have. It was extremely good.”

The new space is quite large compared to their previous location, with a window counter full of treats and cafe seating. South Fifth Street is undergoing a lot of construction so if you miss it, don’t give up. The new kitchen alone is twice as big as their last space, and it’s openly visible as soon as you enter. Aaron did most of the building updates himself, installing flooring, trim and building tables. The decor is very sparse, with some basic woods and brick flourishes. Aaron refers to it as “Scandinavian.”

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And in that same spirit of science, Sucrose has partnered with Blueprint Coffee of University City, which supplies the coffee program. Radames Roldan is Blueprint’s wholesale trainer, and he’s been spending the past week teaching the Sucrose team some new coffee-brewing techniques.

The relationship is already off to a great start. “It’s been great to work with Aaron because he’s open to embracing the direction that coffee is taking, which is this third-wave, specialty coffee movement. Aaron is seeing what that progression looks like. It’s not what it was ten years ago,” Roldan says. “I’ve been in coffee for four years and it’s not what it was four years ago. It’s an exciting time to be in coffee.”

Aaron and Agi hope St. Charles will like this style of coffee, as they feel it best complements the types of desserts they’re making. “Our biggest market is more European style pastries — truffles, tarts, macaroons made from scratch,” Aaron says. “We have a full-time cake decorator, so I think our catering will start to take off very soon.”

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cated in St. Charles. The tiny space was tucked away between a liquor store and a gas station — easy to pass over if you weren’t looking for it. “We needed to move,” Aaron Groff says. “It was a great start, affordable, close to home, but we outgrew it quickly and wanted to open a bigger place.” A successful Kickstarter put them on the road to a new location, new name and a much broader menu.

Notes Aaron, “We wouldn’t have made it without the customer base that we built here and the support that we have. It was extremely good.”

The new space is quite large compared to their previous location, with a window counter full of treats and cafe seating. South Fifth Street is undergoing a lot of construction so if you miss it, don’t give up. The new kitchen alone is twice as big as their last space, and it’s openly visible as soon as you enter. Aaron did most of the building updates himself, installing flooring, trim and building tables. The decor is very sparse, with some basic woods and brick flourishes. Aaron refers to it as “Scandinavian.”

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These Go to Eleven Mills Custom Music Company is taking over the world, one gearhead at a time Written by

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n a dark, secluded corner of Gravois Park, near the hipster hustle of Cherokee and Jefferson, Mills Custom Music Company is generating some noise. A lot of it, apparently, as evidenced by the rows of handmade bass and guitar amplifiers lining the walls of the tiny, chaotic shop.

“We didn’t set out to start a company,” insists co-owner Jared Scheurer. “We set out to create an amplifier.”

Scheurer is tall and lanky, with large ear gauges and an easy demeanor. Sure, he’s eager to talk about his company, but you get the sense he would happily sit down and chat with just about anyone.

He’s excited to share some of the hard work that he and his business partners, Justin Mills and Lexy Baron, have been doing the past year. In keeping, he’s become the official mouthpiece for Mills Custom, as well as his metal band Staghorn and a side business, Leave Your Mark Print Shop.

It’s a lot to focus on simultaneously, but the group has found a remarkable stride. “We work nonstop all day ‘til late at night, sometimes until 4 a.m.,” Baron says.

Last spring, the Florida natives loaded up a caravan of U-Hauls and headed for greener pastures in St. Louis. Mills calls the move one of the greatest decisions he’s ever made.

“I thought it was a good idea to move the company to the Midwest,” he says. “We do a lot of local business, but a majority of our sales are nationwide. And I like the aesthetics of this city. We went to a couple of local shows and thought there was a really great music scene, great weather. I fell in love with it in a week.”

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“We went to a couple of local shows and thought there was a really great music scene, great weather. I fell in love with St. Louis in a week.”

Scheurer and Baron are quick to agree. “We call it home now,” Baron says.

The decision to move was validated when the trio was almost immediately invited to participate in the first Tritone Expo, a locally based family-friendly music showcase now in its second year. The event is primarily for gear-heads and recording aficionados, but it’s open to anyone with an interest in high-quality musical equipment.

Last year, the trio earned so much positive feedback for its

amplifiers that the company was invited to come back to this year’s expo. “I went hoarse by the end of the day, just talking to everyone,” Scheuer reminisces.

Mills looks back on the experience with astonishment. “The look of our stuff kind of stands out. We had these huge rigs with completely poplar sides — it was very eye-catching,” he says.

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show off even more guitar and bass amplifiers and amp heads, letting musicians from across the region hear the difference for themselves.

As the bootstrapped operation has been running at full steam, the music community has been showing love every step of the way.

“We’ve been backlining shows with our amplifiers lately,” Scheurer says. “We backlined for An Under Cover Weekend at Firebird, the Foxing record release and Bruiser Queen’s ‘12 Bassists

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MILL’S AMPS Continued from pg 37 of Christmas’ show,” he says. Even up-and-coming Atlanta rockers O’Brother use the custom gear.

Mills Custom prides itself on being a 100 percent local business, practicing sustainability models rarely found in competing companies in similar markets. “We use real saddle leather for the handles so we’re not sourcing a synthetic product or something made in China,” Scheurer explains. The cabinets are fashioned from locally sourced hardwoods, and all three partners take turns at woodworking and overall design. For some of the company’s signature collections, Sump Coffee donated burlap coffee sacks, which Mills Custom uses for the tolex covers on the speakers. The effect is one of rustic allure and striking uniqueness.

“We did a lot of experimentation before coming up with what we have now,” Baron says, “We had some really cool designs in the beginning — we were just trying to do something different from everyone else. And we still are.”

Asked what it would take to really stand out from the crowd, Mills comes to life. “A lot of amps are the exact same designs they’ve been selling for 50 years,” he laments.

“It’s expensive to do R&D, but even boutique companies do the same thing. They’re just trying to sell you the same amplifier in a prettier enclosure. And I refuse to do that.

Everything I make is original design from the ground up.”

An audio engineer by trade, Mills is the mad genius behind the integral sound quality. His depth of knowledge seems unparalleled, but even he admits it’s a labor of love.

“We use vacuum tubes, but inside is a lot of modern technology that makes those tubes sound bigger, louder, better,” he explains.

“From the transformers that we use to the smaller components inside, we really try to push the envelope on what modern technology can do to improve a vacuum tube’s functionality. There’s not a lot of companies that are trying that approach. I’m not saying they make a bad product, but it’s just that everything is starting to sound the same.

I want to offer a different avenue, and I think that’s really what the next step is — more options, not less or more of the same.”

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or the chairman of the board of directors of the about-toopen National Blues Museum, Rob Endicott, his introduction to the blues came relatively late in his musical life. A classically trained trumpet player who received his master’s degree from the Juilliard School in 1988 and played with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra during his postgraduate studies, Endicott was a fan and occasional performer of jazz. But his first real exposure to the blues was just eleven years

ago, here in St. Louis.

“I was playing around town with various groups and somebody was playing with the Voodoo Blues Band — a drummer, I believe,” Endicott says. “He and a couple of the other guys said, ‘Hey, let’s add a horn section to the band.’” The trumpeter of choice for the new brass experiment, Endicott began joining the group for its weekly Sunday-evening jam sessions at Hammerstone’s in Soulard.

That’s when Endicott’s education in the blues began.

“I thought I knew something about it,” he says. “I thought, ‘Oh this’ll be easy.’ You know? ‘I went to Juilliard — got my master’s at Juilliard. I’ve been playing jazz for years and years. Oh, this’ll be fun.’

Which — I was right about that.”

As Saturday’s grand opening of the $14 million, 23,000-squarefoot museum looms, the chairman takes some time out of his busy schedule — which also includes membership on the Sheldon Concert Hall board of directors, as

well as his day job as a partner at the law firm Bryan Cave LLP — to talk about the museum’s opening, his own musical history and the state of the St. Louis blues scene.

“The blues playing in St. Louis on an everyday level is really something to behold,” Endicott says with pride. “How well people would play at a place where there’s no cover, or just a small cover, or on a Tuesday night at eleven o’clock — you sort of think, ‘Man, there’s some really special playing going on that’s just sort of under-appreciated.”

Endicott insists that it was not his connections to the city’s corporate elite via Bryan Cave that landed him atop the museum’s board of directors, but rather his involvement in that weekly Hammerstone’s jam session.

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came into Hammerstone’s and started talking to the guitar player in our band about this project, and I overheard him. And I said, ‘Hey Dave, you know I do more than just play in a blues band — I’m a lawyer. Do you need some help?’”

Endicott says Beardsley quickly accepted his offer and, after meeting with a few others working on the project, he was asked to be the board’s chairman. Now, nearly a decade after Endicott accepted the position, the group’s efforts are finally coming to fruition.

The museum’s grand opening festivities will begin Friday evening with the “Rock & Blues Concert” fundraiser at the nearby Lumiere Place (the museum’s largest financial donor), with performances by blues legends Big George Brock, Shemekia Copeland and Bobby Rush. Those who haven’t already purchased their tickets, however, won’t be able to attend. “It’s sold out, unfortunately — or fortunately, depending on your perspective,” laughs Endicott.

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The museum itself will open to the public with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday at 10 a.m., following a brief performance by the Normandy High School Marching Band as well as remarks by Endicott, the museum’s executive director Dion Brown and Mayor Francis Slay.

Opening day visitors will be greeted by live blues in the museum’s dedicated performance space — called the Lumiere Place Legends Room — the doors of which are located just within the museum’s main entrance. Performances will kick off shortly after the ribbon-cutting with local upand-comer Phi, and will conclude at 4 p.m. with the blues-inflected rock of the Jeremiah Johnson Band.

Other players include Jim McLaren, David Dee, Mickey Rogers, Marquise Knox and Renee Smith.

When asked what he hopes to accomplish with the opening of the National Blues Museum, Endicott

“I took somebody on a tour and I think they said it best. They said, ‘You know, I didn’t know I loved the blues — but I love the blues.’” says that he hopes to increase visitors’ awareness and appreciation of the integral role that the blues has continued to play in the contemporary musical landscape, and to energize people to engage with the local scene.

“I took somebody on a tour and I think they said it best,” Endicott explains. “They said, ‘You know, I didn’t know I loved the blues — but I love the blues.’” n

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he first song that Dan Mehrmann and Kara Baldus ever wrote together won them international acclaim: Their song “Missed Out” took the grand prize in the electronic category of the John Lennon Songwriting Contest in 2013. For Mehrmann especially, the award must have felt like validation for his years leading Dropkick the Robot — through four releases and many incarnations — with a pronounced love for Britpop and classic songcraft (even going so far as to have 2010’s Two Feet mastered at Abbey Road Studios).

Baldus, a more recent addition to the line-up, calls the award “really encouraging,” so much so that the pair sought the advice and influence of a few industry contacts to help push their band toward a national audience.

That was more than two years ago.

You probably know where this story is heading. The industry types, well-intentioned as they may have been, weren’t able to make hay for Dropkick the Robot. The six songs the band shopped, re-recorded and now collected as the Gadgets EP, were released online last week.

Mehrmann says that he and Baldus sought feedback owing, in part, to being outside the normal music industry channels. “We feel a little green in the industry,” he says. “We want to do this with our lives — to tour and have everyone hear this music. The people we were talking with had some major connections and painted a very pretty picture for us, but it was like a carrot dangling right in front of our face.”

The duo is hardly green when it comes to the actual nuts and bolts of writing, arranging and recording music. Both are adjunct professors — Baldus at Washington University, where she has taught jazz, pop and classical piano for the past six years, and Mehrmann at Southwestern Illinois College, where he’s finishing his thirteenth year in the music technology program. Mehrmann also runs Jettison Studios out of the couple’s home in

rural Illinois — he’s worked on records by Beth Bombara, Adult Fur and Mikey Wehling’s new project, Vandeventer. You would have a hard time finding two people with more technical, theoretical and practical experience.

“We wanted to push our songs and get them out to a bigger market, and that’s where some of our some doubt came in,” explains Mehrmann. “We were trying to be the student in that situation — we respect those people, but it was a learning opportunity for us. If those guys can’t get the music to a larger audience, then we just have to do it.”

Now operating as a duo, Mehrmann and Baldus have increased the presence of electronics on these tracks — most are driven by drum-machine patterns and are christened with glossy synthesizer and muscular guitar. It’s pop music that isn’t afraid to be pretty or sincere or radio-friendly. Opening track “Good Together” doesn’t even make you wait for the chorus as Baldus promises devotion over a bed of modulating synth washes and slippery low-end.

Baldus, whose day job puts her in contact with complex chord structures and graduate-level music theory, takes a more direct approach in her own compositions.

“What trumps everything for me is melody — being able to have that soar and be relatable to everyone,” she says.

Likewise, Mehrmann doesn’t shy away from pop structure in his songs. “I definitely am of the school of that it does need structure,” he says. “I approach it from a melodic standpoint and from an arc standpoint — a standard build of a pop tune. I want familiarity but something that pops out — a lyric or a melodic hook.”

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“Fall,” the lead single from Gadgets, illustrates Dropkick the Robot’s classicist sense of composition and its willingness to pervert the form. Baldus takes the lead vocals, and her synth work gives a burbling underpinning while Mehrmann’s guitar offers power chords, slinky leads and a brief funk breakdown.

Both performers are precise and occasionally passionate singers, though at times their loyalty to the song — its structure or melodic uplift — comes at the expense of personality. When the duo strips back some of the finery, as on the EP-closing ballad “Lately,” that connection comes through over acoustic guitar and piano, it feels like the emotional stakes are real.

Who knows what label reps in New York on LA or Nashville would make of two thirty-somethings singing sincere, unadorned pop songs? At this point, it’s clear that the principals in Dropkick the Robot don’t give it a second thought.

Mehrmann says he approached recording these songs by “going back to them and ignoring what everyone else said. We need to find how to make them speak in our voice.’

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BLACK TUSK: w/ Holy Grail 8 p.m., $12-$15.

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

BRUXISM NO. 15: w/ the Vernacular String Trio, the Brothers Clapp, Jeff Kolar 9 p.m., free.

Schlafly Tap Room, 2100 Locust St., St. Louis, 314-241-2337.

CHAIRLIFT: 8 p.m., $15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

GREEN RIVER ORDINANCE: 8 p.m., $12-$15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-5880505.

O-TOWN: 8 p.m., $30-$33. Wildey Theatre, 254 N. Main St., Edwardsville, 618-692-7538.

SAYWECANFLY: w/ Brandon Chaney 6 p.m., $12.

The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

SFJAZZ COLLECTIVE: 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; April 1,

Arena, 1 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis, 314-9775000.

527 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-534-1111.

BARRY MANILOW: 7 p.m., $16.75-$166.75.

WALE: w/ Hoodie Allen 8 p.m., $33-$38. Chaifetz

THE WOOD BROTHERS: 8 p.m., $20-$30. The Pag-

Rude Festival 6 p.m. Friday, April 1, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, April 2 and 3.

Fubar, 3108 Locust Street. $25 to $65. 314-289-9050.

This weekend marks St. Louis’ inaugural Rude Festival, a three-day affair bringing scores of punk bands and fans to Fubar for what is sure to be a rowdy time. Headliners for each day are Peter & the Test Tube Babies, G.B.H. and Agnostic Front — all rightly considered legendary in punk circles — along with plenty more big names further down the bill (Flatfoot 56, the Queers, Lower Class Brats). Add to that St. Louis’ own

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

punk talent — the venerable Ultraman, Dogfight, the Supermen, Hard Evidence, just to name a few — and this fest is sure to be one to remember.

How Rude: One band on the bill, the Casualties, has seen allegations of sexual misconduct leveled at its lead singer in recent years. Pull out your nearest Googler and search “I Won’t Apologize for Being Assaulted” and then ask yourself if you’d rather stand outside during the band’s set. Miss Manners would probably give the OK. –Daniel Hill

SATURDAY 2 THE BLACK LILLIES: 8 p.m., $12-$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

CHASING SAFETY: 8 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

DANNY LISTON AND FRIENDS: w/ Impala Deluxe 8 p.m., $9.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

DREAD ZEPPELIN: 7 p.m., $20-$22.50. Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314727-4444.

JEFF AUSTIN BAND: 7 p.m., $17-$20. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

RUDE FESTIVAL DAY 2: w/ the Casualties, Flatfoot 56, the Bollweevils, Sniper 66, Virgin Whores, Bent, Opposites Attack, Stinkbomb, the Timmys, Everything Went Black, the DUIs, Equinox,

7:30 & 9:30 p.m.; April 2, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m., $40.

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Soul Radics, Dogfight, the Bad Assets, Brick

DJ QUIK: 7 p.m., TBA. The Marquee Restaurant &

Assassin, Hard Evidence, 1918 2 p.m., $25-$65.

Lounge, 1911 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-436-8889.

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

ISSUES: w/ Crown the Empire, One OK Rock,

STYX: 7 p.m., $29.50-$129.50. Peabody Opera

Night Verses 7 p.m., $22-$25. The Ready Room,

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10 p.m. Friday, April 1.

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THE REVEREND PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND: 9 p.m., $13-$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

ROCK ‘N BLUES: w/ Bobby Rush, Shemekia Copeland, Big George Brock 7 p.m., $125. Lumiere Place Casino & Hotel, 999 N. Second St., St. Louis, 314-881-7777.

RUDE FESTIVAL DAY 1: w/ Peter & the Test Tube Babies, Lower Class Brats, Ultraman, the Supermen, Scene of Irony, the Bad Engrish, We Bite!, Brutally Frank, Benedict Arnold, Balsall Heathens, Find the Sound 6 p.m., $25-$65. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

SPACES OF DISAPPEARANCE: w/ CaveofswordS 9 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

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The latest album by Cedric Burnside has a plain title: Descendants of Hill Country. Yet as a grandson of R.L. Burnside — the larger-than-life musician who helped forge a whole sub-genre of hypnotic, primordial blues — son to drummer Calvin Jackson and present-day ambassador of a north Mississippi sound that defines his drumming and singing (without subsuming either), he faces a daunting task. How can he be himself, really himself, in that tradition?

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WE THE VICTIM: w/ Signals From Saturn, Scarred Atlas 8 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

Burnside’s answer is to play as hard as fuck and as free as a juke-joint dance.

Working with guitarist Trenton Ayers, the drummer runs far and wide over the terrain of what he calls “field music.”

He preserves the tradition, but he’s burned the script — and on stage he’s guaranteed to burn down the house.

Clutch Hitter: If Burnside weren’t leading his own band, he’d never want for work. The drummer has been hired by everyone from Jimmy Buffett to Widespread Panic to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

–Roy Kasten

MONDAY 4 CALL OF THE VOID: w/ Skinner, Family Medicine 7 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

FOREVER CAME CALLING: w/ The Former Me, Old State, Inner Outlines 6 p.m., $13. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

GRIM REAPER: w/ Sozorox 7 p.m., $20. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

SOULARD BLUES BAND: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-6218811.

TUESDAY 5 AMERICAN AUTHORS: 8 p.m., $20. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

DEER TICK: 7 p.m., $22.50-$25. Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-

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The Duck Room at Blueberry Hill, 6504 Delmar Boulevard. $25. 314-727-4444.

When the Providence, Rhode Island-based Deer Tick arrived on the scene with 2007’s War Elephant, the quintet trafficked in loud, rangy rock that was sprung from a thick slurry of post-punk, grunge and alt-country influences. If you peeked behind the feedback, though, you recognized the

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FATHER: 8 p.m., $17-$20. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,

DAVID SHAW: 8 p.m., $20-$25. The Ready Room,

St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

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

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

DOPAPOD: w/ Consider The Source 9 p.m., $12-

Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828 Olive

$15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis,

Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.

314-588-0505.

JUDAH AND THE LION: 8 p.m., $14-$19. Off Broad-

THE FRED EAGLESMITH TRAVELLING STEAM SHOW:

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

8 p.m., $20-$25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave.,

KIRK FRANKLIN: 7 p.m., $20-$75. Peabody Opera

St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888.

THE PAJAMA JAM: w/ Frost Money, Hittamane,

MUTEMATH: 8 p.m., $22-$25. The Ready Room,

Coopa Gold, Dani Swan, Mane Be Thugging,

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

Poetiq, Chris Matthews, Cardinal B, Mookie, RIP

TREY DAVIDSON: w/ Trixie 8 p.m., $10-$20. The

James, Saint Shane, Thrush, Dorian Sane, Slym

Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-

Corazon, Khazmo Bliss, Dorty Henry 8 p.m., $10.

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

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RAE FITZGERALD: w/ Syna So Pro, Brotherfather 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St.

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

Louis, 314-833-5532.

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

THE ROCKET SUMMER: 8 p.m., $15-$20. The Fire-

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

DAVID HALEN: w/ Peter Martin and members of

THE YAWPERS: w/ Blackfoot Gypsies 9 p.m., $10.

the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra 8 p.m., $25-

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

$30. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St.

773-3363.

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JD MCPHERSON: W/ Nikki Hill, Renee Smith, Fri.,

AIMEE MANN: Fri., May 6, 9 p.m., $35-$40. The

June 10, 8 p.m., $22-$25. Off Broadway, 3509

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

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

533-9900.

KOO KOO KANGA ROO: W/ Superfun Yeah Yeah

ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO: W/ The Waco Brothers,

Rocketship, Mon., May 30, 2 p.m., $10. The

Sat., June 11, 8 p.m., $22-$25. Off Broadway,

Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-

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

5532.

ALONG CAME A SPIDER: W/ Roots Like Moun-

LAVENDER COUNTRY: Sat., July 9, 9 p.m., $10-$12.

tains, Hallow Point, Lockjaw Sanctuary, Stone

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

(Hen), Thu., June 16, 7 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108

773-3363.

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

M83: Mon., July 25, 8 p.m., $32.50-$42.50. The

AWOLNATION: W/ Death From Above, Tue., July

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

19, 7 p.m., $40-$45. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar

6161.

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

MARC BROUSSARD: Sat., June 4, 8 p.m., $22-$25.

BLACK IRISH TEXAS: Tue., May 3, 7 p.m., $10-$12.

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

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

588-0505.

BLITZEN TRAPPER: Fri., June 24, 8 p.m., $16-$18.

MILES NIELSEN & THE RUSTED HEARTS: W/ The

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

Homewreckers, Thu., May 12, 8 p.m., free. Off

588-0505.

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

C.W. STONKEING: Sun., June 5, 7 p.m., $13-$15.

3363.

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

PARKER MILLSAP: Fri., May 13, 8 p.m., $12-$15.

773-3363.

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

CHAPTERS EP RELEASE SHOW: W/ Embracer,

773-3363.

Mocklove, Yearlong Hours, Fri., May 13, 7 p.m.,

PHILLIP PHILLIPS: W/ Matt Nathanson, Eric

$12-$14. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St.

Hutchinson, Sat., June 25, 7 p.m., $35.50-$47.50.

Louis, 314-833-5532.

The Fox Theatre, 527 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis,

THE CLAYPOOL LENNON DELIRIUM: Sun., June 12,

314-534-1111.

8 p.m., $26.50-$31. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar

RED SUN RISING: W/ Ever More Broken, Thu.,

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

May 26, 7 p.m., $15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St.,

CODE ORANGE: Sat., May 21, 8 p.m., $12-$14. The

St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

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

ROBERT ELLIS: W/ Tom Brosseau, Tue., June 7,

CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL EXPERIENCE:

8 p.m., $15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.

Fri., June 24, 8 p.m., $10. Blueberry Hill, 6504

Louis, 314-773-3363.

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

SALES: Wed., June 15, 8 p.m., $10-$12. The

DAVID BAZAN: W/ Laura Gibson, Tue., June 28,

Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-

8 p.m., $15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St.

5532.

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SANTAH: Fri., May 6, 9 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo,

DIRTY-KING REUNION SHOW: Fri., May 27, 8 p.m.,

4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-5532.

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

THE SMOKERS CLUB TOUR: W/ Cam’Ron, The

9050.

Underachievers, G-Herbo, Smoke DZA, Nyck

DJ DRAMA: Fri., April 22, 10 p.m., TBA. The

Caution, Sat., June 25, 8 p.m., $26-$80.75. The

Marquee Restaurant & Lounge, 1911 Locust St,

Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,

St. Louis, 314-436-8889.

314-833-3929.

DONELL JONES: W/ Arvin Mitchell, Rhoda G, Sun.,

THE STEELDRIVERS: Fri., Oct. 28, 8 p.m., $20-$45.

May 8, 7 p.m., $40-$45. The Ritz-Carlton, 100

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

Carondelet Plaza, Clayton, 314-863-6300.

314-533-9900.

EAGLES OF DEATH METAL: Tue., May 24, 8 p.m.,

STORIES THROUGH STORMS: W/ From Myth and

$27.50-$32.50. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd.,

Legend, Sun., May 8, 6 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108

St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

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

ENEMY PLANES: Tue., April 26, 8 p.m., $8-$10.

VANILLA ICE: W/ Salt-N-Pepa, Coolio, Kid ‘n Play,

The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,

Young MC, All-4-One, Fri., Oct. 7, 7 p.m., $26-$76.

314-833-5532.

Chaifetz Arena, 1 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis,

FELLY: Sat., May 28, 8 p.m., $15-$18. Fubar, 3108

314-977-5000.

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

VANS WARPED TOUR: W/ Good Charlotte, Less

HARD WORKING AMERICANS: W/ Lauren Barth,

Than Jake, Sum 41, Issues, Falling in Reverse,

Thu., May 26, 8 p.m., $28-$30. Old Rock House,

New Found Glory, Bullet for My Valentine, Pep-

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

per, We the Kings, Mayday Parade, Yellowcard,

HOUNDMOUTH: Sat., June 11, 8 p.m., $20-$22.50.

Atreyu, Wed., July 27, noon, $41.50. Hollywood

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

Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth City Expwy.,

726-6161.

Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944.

HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF: W/ Nikki Lane,

WAYNE HANCOCK: Sat., July 9, 9 p.m., $12-$15. Off

Tommy Halloran’s Guerrilla Swing, Thu., June 9,

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

8 p.m., $25-$28. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave.,

3363.

St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

YOUNG THUG: Sat., April 9, 9 p.m., $43.19-$64.29.

JAMES MCMURTRY: W/ Wussy, The Vondrukes,

Lux, 2619 Washington Ave., St. Louis, 314-531-

Wed., June 8, 8 p.m., $22-$25. Off Broadway,

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ing/spoon-feeding needs met elsewhere.

BY DAN SAVAGE

Hey, Dan: Got any advice for a bi girl, formerly submissive, who wants to start dominating men?

Move to San Francisco—oh, wait.

You’re already in San Francisco.

Leave the house—get involved in local kink orgs, if you aren’t already involved, check out local sex-positive events (bawdystorytelling.com is a great place to start), and let people know what you’re looking for. There’s no shortage of submissive guys in the Bay Area, and no shortage of dominant women up for mentoring women who are curious about topping.

I was honored to speak at JCCSF— Jewish Community Center of San Francisco—last week as a part of their “Uninhibited: About Sex” lecture series. The audience submitted questions on cards, which were ably put to me by Jourdan Abel, who was wearing a wonderful uterus-themed sweater. (Check out my Instagram account— @ dansavage—to see Abel’s sweater!)

Here are some of the questions submitted by the uninhibited JCCSF audience that Abel and I didn’t manage to get to during our conversation.

Hey, Dan: I had the best sex of my life with my ex. He fucked me hard, had a huge cock and made me eat his cum with a spoon. I loved it.

Needless to say, we were incompatible in other ways. My current BF is vanilla. Very. Vanilla. When I masturbate, I think about my ex and can’t help but wish my current guy would make me slurp his come up from a utensil. We are very compatible in other (non-sex) ways. Am I doomed to fantasize about my ex?

You are—unless you open up to your current BF about what’s missing in your sex life and/or get his permission to get your hard-fuck-

Hey, Dan: What do you do when you can’t make your partner come?

Me? I hand him back his dick and go get myself some ice cream—but you shouldn’t do what I do when you can’t make your partner come.

Here’s what you should do: Keep trying, ask your partner what they need, and encourage them, if need be, to “finish themselves off” (without pouting, without laying a guilt trip on them about how they’ve made you feel inadequate, and without treating them like they’re broken). Cheerfully offer to hold ’em or play with their tits or eat their ass while they finish themselves off—or, hell, offer to go get ’em ice cream. Whatever helps!

Hey, Dan: Porn is so accessible today. How has it affected society?

One positive effect (among many): Porn’s wider accessibility forced us to stop pretending there’s one kind of sex—heterosexual, manon-top—that absolutely everyone is interested in. Thanks to the Interwebs, we can track what people are actually searching for (it’s not all hetero), where they’re searching for it (a shout-out to the great state of Utah, which has the highest porn consumption rates per capita in the nation!), and how long they’re lingering over it (long enough to finish themselves off).

One negative effect (among many): The ubiquity of porn coupled with the general lousiness of sex education—in the United States and Canada—has resulted in porn doing something it isn’t designed to do and consequently does not do well. And that would be, of course, educating young people about sex.

If we don’t want porn doing that, and we don’t, we need to create comprehensive sex ed programs that cover everything—hetero sex, queer sex, partnered sex, solo sex, gender identity, consent, kinks, and how to be a thoughtful, informed, and critical consumer of porn.

Hey, Dan: What is the one thing that concerns you most about the current political climate/election cycle?

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Donald Trump getting the Republican nomination. I’m not at all concerned about the potential destruction/implosion of the GOP— those fuckers have it coming—but with the likelihood of political violence. I’m concerned that black and brown people—Mexicans, Muslims, African Americans—will be subjected to more political/social/economic violence than they already are. People will die as a direct result of Trump getting the GOP nomination. This is a terrifying moment.

Hey, Dan: What kind of sexual fluid or act would you name after Donald Trump?

Trump, as I pointed out in a previous column, already has an alternate/more accurate meaning.

There is no authority higher than the Oxford English Dictionary, and here’s what you’ll find under “trump” at oed.com: “in reference to a sound like a trumpet… the act of breaking wind audibly.”

So remember, kids, when you see Donald Trump standing in front of a microphone… Trump isn’t talking. He’s trumping.

Listen to Dan’s podcast every week at savagelovecast.com mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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