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Steel of the Centurynew
Although firmly grounded in the grainy Midwest post-rock tradition, Riddle of Steel also incorporates plenty of stoner-rock sleaze and prog-complexity.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
12-04-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 1985, Riddle of Steel
The Brits Are Alrightnew
With a new four-CD retrospective The Brit Box, Rhino Records captures the agony and ecstasy of the golden age of Modern English rock.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
11-26-2007 |
Reviews
Girl Talk's Taser Shownew
Washington University officials promise a top-to-bottom review of the rowdy Nov. 9 concert at the campus' Gargoyle club that ended with police blasting an intoxicated, nude student in the rear end with a Taser gun.
Riverfront Times |
Kathleen McLaughlin |
11-26-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
Pen & Inc.: Comic-book Artists are Drawn to St. Louisnew
An expanding comic art network has over the past decade has gravitated to the city, thanks in part to Xplane Graphics and the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University, where many of the city's cartoonists met and worked together.
Riverfront Times |
Aimee Levitt |
11-26-2007 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
The Show Must Gonew
It's the best of times and the worst of times for St. Louis theater companies.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
11-09-2007 |
Theater
Tags: theater
The Church Ladiesnew
Two St. Louis women will soon become ordained Catholic priests -- and in a Jewish synagogue, no less.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
11-09-2007 |
Religion
Tags: religion
Shame Club: Too Loud, Way Proudnew
The huge stack of Marshall amps leaning against the far left corner hints at what the four members of Shame Club specialize in: rock 'n' roll that's loud, fast and classic. Period.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Come On, Shame Club
O'Fallon, Missouri: Grudge Citynew
It's home to petty feuds, poisonous politics -- and prickly postcards.
Riverfront Times |
Kathleen McLaughlin |
11-02-2007 |
Politics
River Ragenew
The bizarre story of a 2006 summer melee on the Mississippi will soon unfold in a St. Charles County courthouse.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
10-19-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Ween Abidesnew
Ten reasons Ween is better than your favorite band.
Riverfront Times |
Jordan Harper |
10-19-2007 |
Music
Tags: Ween
The Collapse of an Offshore Internet Gambling Empirenew
Gary Kaplan put all of his chips on BETonSPORTS and drew the worst hand of his life -- now he's making tuna casserole in a St. Louis jail.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
10-12-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Law and Anarchynew
St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa and his officers may stand trial for violating the civil rights of "anarchists" in 2003.
Riverfront Times |
Chad Garrison |
10-12-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
PJ Harvey Bewitches with 'White Chalk'new
Harvey's new studio album often feels like a sequel to Björk's Vespertine.
Riverfront Times |
Annie Zaleski |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: PJ Harvey, White Chalk
Dr. Sherman Silber, the Egg Mannew
From the "mad scientist" who brought you the reversible vasectomy comes the controversial practice of ovarian tissue freezing.
Riverfront Times |
Chad Garrison |
10-09-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Poet Pens Subversive Detective Stories Set in Chinanew
Qiu Xiaolong's creative and personal life has long been shaped by the politics of his communist homeland. It was politics that first pushed him to write and study poetry, and later induced him to immigrate to the United States.
Riverfront Times |
Malcolm Gay |
09-24-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Qiu Xiaolong, Red Mandarin Dress
