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21. Letters

    Readers question Ian's taste and tell us to leave glowsticks at home.

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Café, February 21, 2008 Fancy feast Monkey See, Monkey Do: Ian, nobody cares if you can tell herding dogs from work dogs, or if you're a cat fancier [Ian Froeb,...

22. You Are Here

    Greyhound Station, Downtown

    Hee-Haw to Tulsa

    By Timothy Lane

    Published: March 5, 2008

    There's a six-hour layover for the Tulsa-bound bus. Clearly boredom's stranglehold has wrung these sorry travelers into bleary semi-asphyxiation. Three Hispanic toddlers run...

23. Ask a Mexican

    The Mexican explains why one set of godparents just isn't enough

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans have padrinos for everything? I never understood why, can you help me out?The Godfather Fan Dear Wab: Many gabachos have long wondered about the...

24. Music

    Louder than Bombs: A Place to Bury Strangers brings the noise

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Since several influential tastemaking blogs anointed A Place to Bury Strangers as "New York City's loudest band" last year, the buzz around its self-titled debut album has...

25. B-Sides

    Producer nonpareil Pharrell Williams is happy to be just one of the band again

    By Dan Leroy

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Name a pop music A-lister, and he or she has either worked with Pharrell Williams or probably wants to. Gwen Stefani, Jay-Z, Britney Spears, Kanye West, Snoop Dogg and Madonna...

26. Music

    Texas Tornado: St. Louis musicians invade SXSW

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: March 5, 2008

    On this year's official SXSW showcase list, singer-songwriter Dan Dyer claims St. Louis as his hometown. But his official biography tells a different story: Dyer now lives in...

27. Critics' Picks

    The Fabulous Thunderbirds

    8 p.m. Thursday, March 6. VooDoo Lounge at Harrah's Casino, 777 Casino Center Drive, Maryland Heights.

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: March 5, 2008

    The Fabulous Thunderbirds circa 2008 may be a shadow of their former hit-making, ass-kicking, no-prisoner-taking selves, but they're not a pale, soulless shadow. Though only...

28. Critics' Picks

    Von Bondies

    7 p.m. Friday, March 7. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard

    By Jaime Lees

    Published: March 5, 2008

    The Von Bondies produced one superior, bliss-pop hit a few years ago: "C'Mon, C'Mon," a ringing, hook-filled tune that's jump-up-and-down-on-your-bed-in-your-underwear...

29. Critics' Picks

    Dropkick Murphys

    8 p.m. Monday, March 10. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: March 5, 2008

    What do you call a fake stone in Ireland? A sham rock, of course.  What kind of bow can't be tied? A rainbow, of course. And what band that crosses Pogues-style folk-rock...

30. Critics' Picks

    Deer Tick

    9 p.m. Tuesday, March 11. The Billiken Club, 20 North Grand Boulevard.

    By Julie Seabaugh

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Now that singer/songwriter John McCauley (a.k.a. Deer Tick) has found two talented road warriors to complement his own vagabond existence, what was once essentially a one-man...

31. Critics' Picks

    Tom Jones

    7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 11. Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St. Charles

    By Julie Seabaugh

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Tom Jones is a timeless sex symbol. But it's not because of his prodigious swath of chest hair, the cascades of sweat, the Del Boca Vista Phase II tan, or even the...

32. Critics' Picks

    Vic Chesnutt

    8 p.m. Tuesday, March 11. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Although Vic Chesnutt has used a wheelchair since he was eighteen years old — a car wreck left the Georgia-born singer and songwriter a paraplegic — his imagination...

33. Critics' Picks

    Basia Bulat

    9 p.m. Wednesday, March 12. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

    By John Vettese

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Think of Basia Bulat as a one-woman answer to Antony and the Johnsons. The Canadian songwriter's honeyed melodies and romantic melancholia on her debut, Oh, My Darling, echo...

34. Homespun

    One Lone Car

    North, South, East & the Rest
    (Uranus)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: March 5, 2008

    One Lone Car's latest full-length was recorded at Uranus Recording in Tempe, Arizona, the facility owned by Gin Blossoms frontman Robin Wilson. The connection is not...

35. Cafe

    Can Taqueria los Tarascos' tacos make you feel homesick for a place you've never lived? Si!

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: March 5, 2008

    The lamb barbacoa at Taqueria los Tarascos is served in a small chafing dish. The little blue flame heating the bowl of meat gutters as your server carries it to the table. You...

36. Gut Check

    Lists Naughty, Lists Nice

    Ian can recommend James Beard nominees Annie Gunn's, Atlas and Niche. But Missouri caviar? Not so much.

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Saturday, March 1, was the opening of trout season in Missouri, which seems as good a time as any to mention that the state's Department of Health and Senior Services has...

37. Keep It Down

    Malcolm struggles to land canned squid

    SABA Sisig Spicy Squid Bits

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: March 5, 2008

    While fishing for herring off the coast of Newfoundland one day in October 1873, Theophilus Piccott and his son, Tom, noticed what they imagined were the remains of a ship...

38. Film

    True or false, The Bank Job is too much fun to fact-check

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: March 5, 2008

    "Based on a true story," brags The Bank Job before diving into the clear blue water of the Caribbean, where, in 1970, a topless woman frolics with two swimming mates —...

39. Stage

    Stray Dog's 'night Mother is so good it hurts

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Something deeply disturbing and improbably wonderful is happening at the Tower Grove Abbey. For 90 minutes a group of strangers sits quietly in the dark. At the end of the hour...

40. Stage

    Good things come to those who wait through The Prisoner of Second Avenue

    By Dennis Brown

    Published: March 5, 2008

    Neil Simon still packs 'em in. A veritable mob scene ensued on opening night of the West End Players Guild staging of The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Extra chairs had to be...