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Feature
Cock and Awe
St. Louis pickup artists rule the roost.
By Aimee Levitt
Published: April 9, 2008
Trix stopped counting his conquests after he bedded more than 300 women. He met them in bars and in shopping malls. He met them on Central West End streets and in the Delmar...
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Unreal
Smokers' Olympics
Stuff Unreal likes! Plus: We smoke and run and picture Abe Lincoln on a Segway.
Published: April 9, 2008
For the umpteenth year, the GO! (formerly Spirit of) St. Louis marathon has passed Unreal by. We always dream of joining those runners, those veritable lungs on legs, who look...
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News Real
Captain America
Navy SEAL Eric Greitens has come home to St. Louis to help fellow Iraq vets.
By Kristen Hinman
Published: April 9, 2008
Eric Greitens began the month of April with a difficult phone call from an Iraq war veteran lying in a hospital bed in Hawaii. The young man, a Missouri native, was severely...
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Amazing Facts & Beyond
Leon examines cures for writer's block
By Ted May
Published: April 9, 2008
"Rats, Leon. This novel I'm writing is going nowhere! I think it's giving me O.C.D.!"
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Letters
RFT readers show their deep admiration for skunks.
Published: April 9, 2008
NEWS SHORT, March 27, 2008 Turn the Cesspool Green It's the right thing to do: Chad Garrison wrote in "Green Teams" that the Cardinals are scrambling to join the ranks of the...
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B-Sides
Remaking Michael
Why waste money (or steal) those bogus Thriller remixes when you can get better Michael Jackson reinventions legally — for free? Plus, the history of the classic Harlem Globetrotters song "Sweet Georgia Brown."
By Craig D. Lindsey and Dean C. Minderman
Published: April 9, 2008
Two months ago, the silver-anniversary reissue of Michael Jackson's Thriller — a souped-up, repackaged remembrance of the nine tracks of pop/soul perfection that the...
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Music
Slice of Life
John Vanderslice celebrates warmer weather with an exclusive mix of tunes.
By Annie Zaleski
Published: April 9, 2008
When erudite indie rocker John Vanderslice played Saint Louis University's Billiken Club last May (which was a few months before the release of his latest album, Emerald City),...
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Homespun
John Henry & the Engine
Under the Yellow Moon
(Home Tone Records)By Christian Schaeffer
Published: April 9, 2008
On Under the Yellow Moon, it's unclear if John Henry & the Engine send us their greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey, or Columbia, Missouri. The quartet is so steeped in...
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Critics' Picks
The Alice Rose/The Blind Eyes
By Shae Moseley
Published: April 9, 2008
The Alice Rose has a way of sneaking up on you and becoming a windows-down, springtime favorite. The Austin, Texas, quartet's 2006 album Phonographic Memory incorporates...
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Cafe
Peak Performance
Having moved from downtown to the Grove, Everest scales new heights.
By Ian Froeb
Published: April 9, 2008
Opening a good restaurant is miracle enough. I don't mean a four-star temple of haute cuisine or a bauble of glass and light the trend-humpers will pack for six months and then...
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Keep It Down
Can they package a Whopper into a potato chip? Yes, they can! But something's missing...
By Malcolm Gay
Published: April 9, 2008
Oh come on! Flame-broiled potato chips? Oh, excuse me, Burger King Flame Broiled Flavored Potato Snacks. That's right, Burger King, where you can Have It Your Way, is now...
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Gut Check
Food & Wine finds our Niche!
By Ian Froeb
Published: April 9, 2008
Food & Wine magazine has named Gerard Craft, executive chef and co-owner of the Benton Park restaurant Niche one of its ten Best New Chefs for 2008. Craft is the first St....
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Film
Ordinary People
Intelligence goes soft in this more obvious than smart rom-com.
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: April 9, 2008
Smart people got no reason to live — and, sure, that's not quite how Randy Newman sang it, but the point still stands. Because in Noam Murro's directorial bow — one...
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Art
St. Louis Art Caps
Malcolm Gay encapsulates the local art scene.
By Malcolm Gay
Published: April 9, 2008
The Annual Juried Photography Exhibit Each year Webster University presents a juried show featuring the work of its photography students in the School of Communications. As...
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Stage
Play It (Again), Sam
Remove Sam Shepard from this reimagining of a Frank O'Connor short story, and what's left?
By Dennis Brown
Published: April 9, 2008
Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss, a play that has died and been reborn as many times as its title character, is set in New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment. But there is...
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Game On
Just Shy of Seaworthy
Viking: Battle for Asgard shows promise, but not much more.
By Gary Hodges
Published: April 9, 2008
It's nice when a game comes along that pleasantly surprises you. I admit, I judged Viking: Battle for Asgard by the screenshots, writing it off as yet another one of those...
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News Real
All In A Name
Did the Post-Dispatch deliberately give its new blog the same title as the competition?
By Chad Garrison
Published: April 9, 2008
After a year spent preparing and fundraising, a group of retired St. Louis Post-Dispatch editors were preparing to officially launch their online news site St. Louis Platform...
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Music
A to Z
By Annie Zaleski
Published: April 9, 2008
As I wrote about last year, our music blog A to Z (blogs.riverfronttimes.com/atoz) has somewhat replaced the aim of this column: to discuss local music goings-on and...
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Critics' Picks
Napalm Death
By Mike Cracchiolo
Published: April 9, 2008
You have to to hand it to Napalm Death. Few bands in the realm of metal have had such an original vision and stuck to it for so long without selling out, getting stale or...
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Stage
You Say You Want a Revolución?
Beatles trump dictatorship in the U.S. premiere of The Concert.
By Dennis Brown
Published: April 9, 2008
An image of Fidel Castro looms at the far end of the stage, away from the action. His picture is barely lit; it never calls attention to itself. But its very existence ensures...
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