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21. Letters

    The RFT gets some sage advice from a Los Angeles-based pickup artist coach

    Published: April 30, 2008

    FEATURE, APRIL 10, 2008 A Nice Pick-Me-Up Sage advice from a pickup artist coach: One of my clients just shared Aimee Levitt's article, "Pickup Artists of North America...

22. You Are Here

    The Body Electric

    Sketch night at Body Worlds 3, the Saint Louis Science Center

    By Timothy Lane

    Published: April 30, 2008

    So there they are, our amazing bodies, stripped of their skin and displayed beautifully for us, these vessels of organic intricacy and marvel, like three-dimensional versions...

23. Ask a Mexican

    Scot or Not

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Dear Readers: The paperback version of my book is out in stores now, cheap enough so that even a Guatemalan can afford it. Buy, por favor! Now, on to the preguntas... Dear...

24. This Week's Cover

    The Cover of the May 1 Print Edition

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Cover photoillustration by Jennifer Silverberg

25. Music

    Tegan and Sara find their sister act soaring with The Con

    By Ryan Wasoba

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Tegan and Sara Quin are identical twins who have been playing music and writing songs together inseparably for over a decade as (naturally) Tegan and Sara. The Canadian duo's...

26. Music

    Fifteen things you might not know about the Bottle Rockets, on their fifteenth birthday

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: April 30, 2008

    To paraphrase a former Secretary of Defense and closet alt-country historian, when it comes to the Bottle Rockets, there are known-knowns and unknown-unknowns. This year the...

27. Critics' Picks

    Caribou

    9 p.m. Thursday, May 1. Billiken Club, in the Busch Student Center on the SLU campus, 20 North Grand Boulevard

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Caribou main man Daniel Snaith has a Ph.D. in mathematics, and his father and sister are college professors in the field. Naturally, the music he creates as Caribou —...

28. Critics' Picks

    Uh Huh Her

    9 p.m. Friday, May 2. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Uh Huh Her is the synthpop partnership of Murmurs co-founder Leisha Hailey and multi-instrument Camila Grey. Both found success in Los Angeles: Hailey, as the actress who...

29. Critics' Picks

    Randy Newman

    7:30 p.m. Sunday, May 4. Sheldon Concert Hall, 3648 Washington Boulevard

    Christian Schaeffer

    Published: April 30, 2008

    With all due respect to novelist David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men would make a good title for a Randy Newman retrospective. For 40 years, Newman has...

30. Critics' Picks

    Bad Dudes

    8 p.m. Sunday, May 4. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Avenue

    By Ryan Wasoba

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Between its charmingly straightforward name and highly literal lyrics, Bad Dudes aren't leaving much to the imagination. On "Eat Drugs," technical, video-gamey guitar noodling...

31. Critics' Picks

    Allison Moorer/Steve Earle

    8 p.m. Monday, May 5. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Allison Moorer has become so identified with the outsider country scene and the singer-songwriter militancy of hubby Steve Earle that one tends to forget her flirtation with...

32. Critics' Picks

    Kathleen Edwards

    9 p.m. Tuesday, May 6. Blueberry Hill's Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard, University City

    By Annie Zaleski

    Published: April 30, 2008

    The rural routes Kathleen Edwards explored on her 2003 debut Failer were drastically different than the dusty scenes explored by like-minded souls Lucinda Williams or Tift...

33. Critics' Picks

    Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

    8 p.m. Wednesday, May 7. Lucas School House, 1220 Allen Avenue

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Margot & the Nuclear So and So's frontman Richard Edwards' trembling vocal style has always been likened to other heart-on-sleeve indie troubadours such as Conor Oberst —...

34. Homespun

    Scripts 'n Screwz

    The New Noise
    (Villainous Entertainment)

    By Calvin Cox

    Published: April 30, 2008

    When asked about their musical influences, Loose Screwz and Scripts "The Nature Boy" of the East St. Louis rap duo Scripts 'n Screwz respond, "OutKast!" without hesitation....

35. Homespun

    Femme Fatality

    One's Not Enough
    (Stickfigure Recordings)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Like the Strokes' Is This It?, the album title One's Not Enough seems to be Femme Fatality's way of preemptively baiting a backlash — but really, boys, one album was...

36. Cafe

    Do you miss good ol’ home cookin’? Revival wants to raise your spirits.

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Revival is an audacious name for any new restaurant, let alone one that's replacing an institution as beloved and influential as King Louie's. The word's connotations are...

37. Gut Check

    Grove to Grave

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Ladue landmark Busch's Grove is closing. The restaurant's last day of business will be Saturday, May 24. Restaurant officials declined to comment further. What's next for the...

38. Drink of the Week

    Landshark Lager

    Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
    14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights
    314-298-9944

    By Kristie McClanahan

    Published: April 30, 2008

    We're in line for beers at the Jimmy Buffett concert. We're going get the maximum allowed per person (two) in the hope of minimizing the amount of time we've got to spend here...

39. Keep It Down

    Malcolm is saving sardines from extinction — one spicy tin at a time

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: April 30, 2008

    Normally, the logic of healthy fisheries management goes something like this: Keep the big ones; toss back the small fry. Logical, right? That way, not only do we eaters get...

40. Film

    McDreamy tries to win over his engaged gal pal in My Best Friend's Made of Honor Wedding

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: April 30, 2008

    In Made of Honor, Patrick Dempsey plays a conveniently rich and willfully single serial "fornicator" slowly but surely domesticated by his unspoken love for longtime BFF Hannah...