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21. Night & Day

    Feel Like Family

    By Brooke Foster

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Our grandmother, rest her sweet soul, was no cook. The drive to Grandma’s was around 1,100 miles (“over the river and through the woods,” psssh). We’d arrive on her doorstep,...

22. Night & Day

    Fang Territory

    By Anna Teekell Hays

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Prior to heading out for the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis’ production of the ultimate screamer, Dracula, we recommend eating a garlicky meal. Or at the very least,...

23. Night & Day

    Putting the “Happy” in “Happy Halloween”

    By Alison Sieloff

    Published: October 10, 2007

    When you were a little kid, Halloween always seemed much more fun for the older children. You had to stand on your grandma’s kitchen table wearing a shoulders-to-knees pumpkin...

24. Night & Day

    Wild Turkey Bourbon Tasting and Dinner

    Published: October 10, 2007

    James C. Russell, Wild Turkey's Master Distiller hosts a sampling of five Wild Turkey bourbons, followed by a six-course meal. Thu., Oct. 11, 7 p.m., 2007

25. Stage

    Craps

    The Rat Pack -- Live at the Sands deals a losing hand at the Fox.

    By Dennis Brown

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Usually in a big auditorium like the Fox, the closer you sit to the stage, the more satisfying the experience. But at The Rat Pack — Live at the Sands, the further back...

26. DVDish

    You'll Laugh Dying

    You Kill Me

    By Jordan Harper, Jim Ridley and Robert Wilonsky

    Published: October 10, 2007

    You Kill Me (Genius) Funny thing seeing Philip Baker Hall in You Kill Me, as he's already played the role of a drunken hit man's boss in The Matador, to which this feels like...

27. News Real

    Law and Anarchy

    St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa and his officers may stand trial for violating the civil rights of “anarchists” in 2003.

    By Chad Garrison

    Published: October 10, 2007

    St. Louis Police Chief Joe Mokwa and a handful of police officers could face a civil-rights trial should the United States Court of Appeals uphold a lower court's decision. In...

28. B-Sides

    Show Me the Garage Rock!

    B-Sides highlights must-see acts in this weekend's Show-Me Blowout.

    By Jason Toon

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Along with river otters, meth tweakers and John Ashcroft, Missouri is richly populated with a dazzling variety of garage-rock bands. And in a moving spectacle reminiscent of...

29. Drink of the Week

    Beermosa

    Square One Brewery
    1727 Park Avenue
    314-231-2537

    By Kristie McClanahan

    Published: October 10, 2007

    It is nice to know someone reads this column besides our parents. The best affirmations of that are the helpful drink suggestions from readers who are not related by blood...

30. Stage

    Purr Relations

    Muddy Waters takes the bite out of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

    By Dennis Brown

    Published: October 10, 2007

    This year Muddy Waters Theatre Company is devoting its season to three plays by Tennessee Williams. But the opening offering, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, more resembles Eugene...

31. Game On

    Hype Machine

    Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: October 10, 2007

    What's left to say about Halo 3? How about this: All the pomp and circumstance surrounding its launch sure have been distracting. Commercials that look like clips from a...

32. Unreal

    Zombie Road

    Unreal plays superhero matchmaker, takes a trip down Zombie Road with some ghost busters, checks in with a parachuting local blogger and talks back to "Town Talk."

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Next Monday, October 15, the Paranormal Task Force takes to the small screen in a straight-to-DVD release of Children of the Grave, an "action-oriented hard-documentary" about...

33. Critics' Picks

    Dionne Warwick

    8 p.m. Thursday, October 11. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Boulevard.

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: October 10, 2007

    It would be easy to talk about Dionne Warwick only in terms of her work with Burt Bacharach and Hal David. As the muse-in-residence of the songwriting duo, Warwick's voice...

34. Keep It Down

    Deb El Onion & Cheese Scramblettes Dried Omlette & Scrambled Egg Mix Made with Egg Whites

    $4.39
    Schnucks
    6600 Clayton Road
    Richmond Heights

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Low fat. Low cholesterol. These aren't the sort of descriptors that spring to mind when talk turns to eggs. Then again, the 4.6 ounces of dehydrated magic that makes up a can...

35. Stage

    St. Louis Stage Capsules

    Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene.

    By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold

    Published: October 10, 2007

    The 1940's Radio Hour Director William Whitaker remarks in the program notes for this Washington University Performing Arts Department production that "there's very little plot...

36. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Season Three (Universal) Black Sheep Unrated (Genius) Bob Mould: Circle of Friends (Granary) Bruce Springsteen: Under Review-1978-82: Tales of...

37. Letters

    Cheesehead Chatter

    The Best of St. Louis? Not everyone thinks so.

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Best of St. Louis, September 27, 2007 Long live Provel: The RFT did a hatchet job on the creamy deliciousness of Provel in the backhanded award "Best Use of the Worst...

38. Critics' Picks

    We Versus the Shark

    9 p.m. Thursday, October 11. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

    By Jonah Bayer

    Published: October 10, 2007

    Athens, Georgia, has a legendary musical history ranging from R.E.M. and the B-52's to the Drive-By Truckers and Neutral Milk Hotel. The latest addition to that elite group...

39. You Are Here

    Notes From a Second Class Citizen, Part 8

    Week of October 11, 2007

    By Timothy Lane

    Published: October 10, 2007

40. Critics' Picks

    Anais Mitchell

    Friday, October 12. Mad Art Gallery, 2727 South 12th Street.

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: October 10, 2007

    On first listen, Vermonter Anais Mitchell seems to join the parade of over-studied, over-hyped indie folkies whose little girl voices and fabulist lyrics inspire prepubescent...