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21. News Real

    Green Teams: The Cardnials scramble to join the ranks of the environmentally conscious

    By Chad Garrison

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Last year Cardinals fans purchased 1.5 million plastic soda bottles and scores more plastic bottles of water and beer at Busch Stadium. Nearly all of those bottles were...

22. News Real

    The Cards aren't likely to challenge for the pennant this year. In a way, that'll make them all the more interesting to watch.

    By Aaron Schafer

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Cardinal baseball. It's as much a part of summertime in St. Louis as ice-cold Budweiser, soul-crushing humidity and egg yolk-fortified ice cream. If you were raised in this...

23. Unreal

    Unreal puts "Jorts & Mandals Day" initiative on the back burner, weighs in on Saint Louis Fashion Week

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Katydid — or didn't — get turned on. That's what University of Missouri researchers Johannes Schul and Oliver Beckers set out to discern when they examined how...

24. Letters

    The end of "Mamalogues" brings on many RFT blog monologues

    Published: March 26, 2008

    STLog, March 14, 2008 blogs.riverfronttimes.com lit up with dozens of responses to the Post-Dispatch's decision to discontinue Dana Loesch's online "Mamalogues" column that...

25. Amazing Facts & Beyond

    Leon Beyond Travels the Trivia Landscape

    By Dan Zettwoch

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Leon experiences synaethesia and myopia. Click here for the full-sized version.

26. Music

    The Monads turn tradition on its tail with a stomping live show and new CD

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: March 26, 2008

    When Jason Matthews of the Monads shows up at MoKaBe's Coffeehouse for an interview, he's sporting an impressive mustache. Which wouldn't be a big deal — except his...

27. B-Sides

    B-Sides gets epic with Explosions in the Sky and chats up Chicago pop wunderkinds the 1900s

    By Shae Moseley and Jaime Lees

    Published: March 26, 2008

    When I Explode On the surface, it's surprising that Explosions in the Sky — a Texas band known for its moody, extended post-rock instrumentals — would be able to...

28. Critics' Picks

    Mike Doughty

    8 p.m. Thursday, March 27. The Gargoyle, on the campus of Washington University at Forsyth and Skinker boulevards

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: March 26, 2008

    It tells us something about the mid-'90s alt-rock boom that a left-field band like Soul Coughing landed a major-label deal. The New York quartet blended bizarro samples,...

29. Critics' Picks

    Patty Larkin

    9 p.m. Thursday, March 27. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Her hair spills in flames and her guitar work — a fusion of flamenco and the Mississippi delta — follows suit, but Patty Larkin's voice has the cool, clear...

30. Critics' Picks

    One Ring Zero

    7 p.m. Thursday, March 27. Vintage Vinyl, 6610 Delmar Boulevard and 7 p.m. Friday, March 28. Saint Louis Art Museum, One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park

    By Mike Appelstein

    Published: March 26, 2008

    You don't have to live near Park Slope to appreciate One Ring Zero, but it helps to know the subway map. Led by former St. Louisans Michael Hearst and Joshua Camp, this...

31. Critics' Picks

    School of Language

    9 p.m. Friday, March 28. The Billiken Club, 20 North Grand Boulevard

    By Jason Harper

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Hailing from Sunderland, UK, Field Music is one of the few bands to come out in recent years that's pleasing to both aristo-pop snobs who like their music smart and to...

32. Critics' Picks

    Anti-Flag

    7 p.m. Saturday, March 29. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois

    By Jonah Bayer

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Sometimes it's difficult to remember that punk rock was initially born out of a spirit of dissent and rebellion. The political punks in Anti-Flag are one of the few bands...

33. Critics' Picks

    Xiu Xiu

    9 p.m. Monday, March 31. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: March 26, 2008

    While major-label bands can always look forward to the career-spanning greatest hits cash-in, bands that labor in the upper limits of indie-dom have their own brass ring to...

34. Critics' Picks

    Clue To Kalo

    9 p.m. Wednesday, April 2. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

    By Kristyn Pomranz

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Clue to Kalo's music should be the soundtrack to a spiritual retreat for the information age: His network of salty strings, sustained harpsichords and tender tambourines is...

35. Rotations

    Stephen Malkmus & Jicks

    Real Emotional Trash
    (Matador)

    By Dan Weiss

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Popular thinking goes that Stephen Malkmus recorded his best work when he was fronting indie-rock heroes Pavement. But just listen to "The Hook," from Malkmus' 2001 self-titled...

36. Rotations

    Goldfrapp

    Seventh Tree
    (Mute)

    By Michael D. Ayers

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Starbucks, your parents and people who make car commercials will lap up the new direction Goldfrapp takes on its fourth album. The British electronic dance duo has traded its...

37. Rotations

    She & Him

    Volume One
    (Merge)

    By Mark Keresman

    Published: March 26, 2008

    "She" is indie-movie cutie Zooey Deschanel, who played Will Ferrell's love interest in Elf. "Him" is indie-rock auteur M. Ward. But Volume One isn't another one of those...

38. Rotations

    Atlas Sound

    Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel
    (Kranky)

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: March 26, 2008

    The debut solo album by Deerhunter frontman Bradford Cox travels the same electro-experimental path he often traverses with his full-time band. But where Deerhunter...

39. Rotations

    Vampire Weekend

    Vampire Weekend
    (XL)

    By Ryan Foley

    Published: March 26, 2008

    Call it an amendment to Godwin's Law: As reviews of Vampire Weekend accumulate, the probability that they'll mention Paul Simon's Graceland approaches 100 percent. It's a lazy...

40. Homespun

    Rough Shop

    Here Today
    (Perdition Records)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: March 26, 2008

    The lines separating bluegrass, jazz, rock and folk are made wonderfully hazy on Rough Shop's sophomore album. The quartet boasts three accomplished singer-songwriters, each...