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21. Night & Day

    Standing at the Crossroads

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Japanese director Teinosuke Kinugasa helped usher in the so-called “golden age” of Japanese cinema in the ´50s with his visually stunning Heian period piece Jigokumon (“Gate of...

22. News Real

    The Church Ladies

    Two St. Louis women will soon become ordained Catholic priests — and in a Jewish synagogue, no less.

    By Kristen Hinman

    Published: November 7, 2007

    The usual ordination of a Roman Catholic priest takes place in a cathedral and includes a vow of obedience to clerical superiors. It then culminates in the sacred "laying on of...

23. News Real

    Prince Joe's Victory

    By Chad Garrison

    Published: November 7, 2007

    After waging a three-year battle with Major League Baseball, Riverfront Times columnist Joe Henry has won inclusion in a pension program for former Negro League ballplayers....

24. Unreal

    Blind Killer

    Published: November 7, 2007

    If you've ever been entangled in the cords of a mini blind and lived to tell about it, consider yourself among the lucky. While it's unclear how much time you've got left once...

25. Ask a Negro Leaguer

    Who Do You Love?

    By Prince Joe Henry

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Hey Joe: Who is the most influential black person in St. Louis today? Harold Ford Jr., Nashville, Tennessee I'd say former city fire chief Sherman George. I've followed him...

26. Music

    Preservation Blues

    Local niche labels keep the music coming.

    By Dean C. Minderman

    Published: November 7, 2007

    As big record companies struggle with the ways digital technology is changing the music business, they've also been abandoning entire genres of music to focus on squeezing the...

27. Critics' Picks

    Tera Melos/Heavy Heavy Low Low

    By Ryan Wasoba

    Published: November 7, 2007

    "Restless" is a good word to describe Tera Melos, a Sacramento trio that makes no qualms about aspiring to be more ambitious than the average instrumental math-rock group. On...

28. Homespun

    Bad Folk
    Bad Folk/Rats and People

    "That Great Atomic Power Scared Charlie Louvin More than God" 7"
    (self-released)"Saw a Circus" / "I Sang to Heather Nethereye" split 7"
    (self-released)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Bad Folk excels at taking an antiquated form (acoustic folk music) and giving it modern relevance. Case in point: For the band's new, vinyl-only EP, singer and banjo player Tim...

29. Rotations

    Joy Division

    Unknown Pleasures
    Closer
    Still
    (Rhino)Control Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
    (Rhino)

    By Gray, Chris

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis has waited almost 30 years to become a star of stage and screen, so he's not going to let a little thing like being dead interfere with his...

30. B-Sides

    Get in the Van

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: November 7, 2007

    It's a little too fitting that B-Sides gets a hold of the Bowerbirds as the band was driving around in the dark, looking for a campsite in western Ohio. The Raleigh, North...

31. Critics' Picks

    The Forms

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: November 7, 2007

    The Forms spent 50 consecutive days in Chicago recording its new self-titled album with Steve Albini, a feat which tested the wills, sanity and pocketbooks of the Brooklyn...

32. Rotations

    Siouxsie

    Mantaray
    (Universal)

    By Gray, Chris

    Published: November 7, 2007

    God, it's good to have Siouxsie back — although she never really went away after dissolving the Banshees after 1995's The Rapture. The Goth goddess has recorded and...

33. Critics' Picks

    Benny Benassi

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Based on the DJ List – which I gather is something like college football's BCS Standings – Italian dance-floor maven Benny Benassi is currently the...

34. Critics' Picks

    Jason Isbell

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: November 7, 2007

    As teen-tycoon Phil Spector spirals ever more madly into absolute denial, not even a song as bitter and catchy as Jason Isbell's "Brand New Kind of Actress" could save him. (In...

35. Critics' Picks

    VNV Nation

    By D.X. Ferris

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Emo, goth and punk fans who don't go for dance music may already know the Euro-duo VNV Nation: Multi-instrumentalist Ronan Harris manned the samplers on AFI's smash album...

36. Critics' Picks

    Sammy Hagar

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Having just turned 60 a few weeks ago, Sammy Hagar is only five years younger than Paul McCartney. But historical significance aside, which old dude would you honestly rather...

37. Critics' Picks

    PINK: A Benefit

    Local motion

    By Jaime Lees

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Pink is a bouncing, beat-filled party thrown by some philanthropic electro-types to benefit the Breast Cancer Awareness Foundation. But this multi-level Upstairs Lounge event...

38. Cafe

    Raita On

    The honeymoon is over for Ian — but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Listen: Yours truly had come unstuck in time. One minute my wife and I were lingering over cappuccinos after a five-course dinner at our honeymoon resort's premier restaurant,...

39. Keep It Down

    McRib Value Meal

    $5.04
    McDonald's
    4006 Lindell Boulevard

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Stopgap: stäp-gap, n., something that serves as a temporary expedient. The stopgap. Usually when we think of a stopgap, we think of emergency government spending to bail...

40. Film

    What's Wrong With This Picture?

    Robert Redford and the American façade.

    By Scott Foundas

    Published: November 7, 2007

    Although he plays a college professor in his latest film, Robert Redford was, by his own admission, never much of a student, consistently more interested in what was going on...