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21. Letters

    Lighten Up, Dennis: Readers want Dennis Brown to rejoin the rank of the commoners

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Stage, February 21, 2008 Superior Being Dennis Brown is a smarty pants: It's always so much fun when Dennis Brown tells us how much smarter and more mature he is than the...

22. Amazing Facts & Beyond

    Amazing Facts & Beyond

    For the week of February 28, 2008

    By Ted May

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Leon explains the nexus of glam rock and science.

23. Ask a Mexican

    Special Election Edición: Where's the love for Obama?

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Dear Mexican: Why won't Mexicans vote for a black man? Hillary Hater Dear Readers: Dozens of ustedes have sent the above question since the Iowa caucuses, forwarded mainstream...

24. Music

    The legendary Mavis Staples looks ahead with a Turn Back

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Like her idols Mahalia Jackson and Nina Simone, Mavis Staples is a singer inextricably tied to the civil rights movement. It should have been no surprise then that her 2007...

25. B-Sides

    B-Sides marches to the beat of a 30-piece punk-rock marching band and explores the history of name-shifting

    By Jason Toon and Dean C. Minderman

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Friends, we got trouble. Right here at the Bluebird. That's trouble with a capital T! And that rhymes with P! And that stands for "punk"! The Chicago-based "astounding circus...

26. Critics' Picks

    Ravi Coltrane

    8:30 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Wednesday, February 27 through Saturday, March 1. Jazz at the Bistro, 3536 Washington Boulevard.

    By Dean C. Minderman

    Published: February 27, 2008

    If Albert Einstein's son had grown up to become a theoretical physicist, he might have faced a situation comparable to that of jazz saxophonist Ravi Coltrane. Like Einstein,...

27. Critics' Picks

    The Felice Brothers

    8 p.m. Friday, February 29. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

    By Jaime Lees

    Published: February 27, 2008

    The Felice Brothers — which is actually three brothers and a non-relative named Christmas — embrace and transcend its Americana roots. On its self-titled debut (out...

28. Critics' Picks

    The Redwalls

    9 p.m. Friday, February 29. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street. $10 advance, $12 day of show

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: February 27, 2008

    In the early part of this decade, Chicago-based rock nostalgists the Redwalls were touted as likely candidates to carry the torch of garage-rock revivalism even further into...

29. Critics' Picks

    Bill Callahan/Jonathan Meiburg

    9:30 p.m. Friday, February 29. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: February 27, 2008

    With an affectless baritone voice and sheaves of poignant, idiosyncratic songs, Bill Callahan cut a dashing figure as the man behind Smog, one of first and best one-man bands...

30. Critics' Picks

    Pattern Is Movement

    8:30 p.m. Saturday, March 1. The Gargoyle, on the campus of Washington University at Forsyth and Skinker boulevards

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Considering the fact that virtually every band has access to or owns its own recording gear these days, it's surprising that adventurous and hypnotizing experiments such as...

31. Critics' Picks

    Pelican

    8 p.m. Sunday, March 2. The Gargoyle, on the campus of Washington University at Forsyth and Skinker boulevards

    By Ryan Wasoba

    Published: February 27, 2008

    On paper, Chicago's Pelican is doing everything wrong. The instrumental group plays heavy riffs with clean guitars. It does doom metal in a major key. Lately, it's even traded...

32. Critics' Picks

    Avenged Sevenfold

    5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 5. Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St. Charles

    By Julie Seabaugh

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Avenged Sevenfold was just another slightly thuggish bunch of SoCal metalcore wannabes with overly dramatic aliases (M. Shadows, Zacky Vengeance, Synyster Gates) until the...

33. Homespun

    The Haddonfields

    ...Get a Nightlife
    (Knowhere Records)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: February 27, 2008

    The Haddonfields' Get a Nightlife is a no-muss, no-fuss affair: The Edwardsville band crams seven songs of streamlined pop-punk into a fourteen-minute EP. The four fellows in...

34. Cafe

    Feel a Draught?: Tigín opens an outpost in a Hampton Inn downtown? O'Really!

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: February 27, 2008

    I've visited restaurants in some strange locations. I've logged probably thousands of miles driving through St. Louis' suburban sprawl, searching for strip-mall gems hidden...

35. Gut Check

    Coming, Going, Barking

    More openings and closings — and Ian's a cat person, dammit!

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Some unfinished business concerning last week's review of Three Monkeys ("Curious Gorge," February 21) and the previous week's review of the Original Pancake House ("Griddle...

36. Drink of the Week

    Achaia Clauss Demestica Red

    Spiro's
    3122 Watson Road
    314-645-8383

    By Kristie McClanahan

    Published: February 27, 2008

    This column was supposed to be about Spiro's Greek Margarita. We were all set to say how the drink was a tug-of-war of flavors between the ouzo and the tequila (two liquors...

37. Keep It Down

    Malcolm asks the question of the day: What goes down smoother than a campaign promise?

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: February 27, 2008

    How can you tell we're in the thick of the primary season? Simple: When a politician gets behind a microphone, he's going to talk about change. Guaranteed. What sort of...

38. Film

    True Story: Columbia's True/False Film Fest hits the half-decade mark

    Aimee Levitt, Ian Froeb, Annie Zaleski, Kristie McClanahan and Chad Garrison

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Last year's True/False Film Fest in Columbia attracted nearly 15,000 people to the quaint college town. Not bad at all for a five-year-old documentary film festival set in the...

39. Stage

    (Net)Working Girl: HotCity makes The Scene. Should you?

    By Dennis Brown

    Published: February 27, 2008

    Theresa Rebeck's barbed comedy The Scene, which opens HotCity Theatre Company's season, takes some broad swings at the ostensibly jaded, surreal, vituperative world of media...

40. Stage

    Master Stroke: The Black Rep aces August Wilson's Radio Golf

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: February 27, 2008

    We're deep into the second act of Radio Golf — no, scratch that. This ceased being a play 40 minutes ago. This is real life, those are real people up there, but for...