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1. Feature

   Ghost Boat

   Four people disappeared from the Joe Cool. They may never be found.

   By Tamara Lush

   Published: January 23, 2008

   Two hours before sunset this past September 23, sailors aboard a U.S. Coast Guard cutter spotted the Joe Cool. The 47-foot fishing boat bobbed atop the waves, its white hull...

2. Ask a Mexican

   Doors Swing Both Ways

   Mexicans like music that doesn't involve tubas?

   Published: January 23, 2008

   Dear Mexican: At a weekly Doors tribute band gig, I've noticed the majority of the crowd is Mexican. I swear, sometimes it seems like the crowd missed the exit to the Lupillo...

3. News Real

   Phantom Punch

   Milton "Skip" Ohlsen had big plans for mixed martial arts in St. Louis. Now it seems he’s down for the count.

   By Chad Garrison

   Published: January 23, 2008

   Milton "Skip" Ohlsen dreamed of being the Don King of ultimate fighting in St. Louis. In 2006 the then-34-year-old promoter formed the company Genesis MMA (mixed martial arts)...

4. News Real

   Bowling for Dollars

   Bowling alley owners hope to be spared from what they call an unfair tax.

   By Kathleen McLaughlin

   Published: January 23, 2008

   For years, bowling alley owners fought the state Department of Revenue over collecting sales taxes on shoe rentals, only to end up throwing a gutter ball. To them, the tax is...

5. Unreal

   Puff Daddy

   Unreal gives away a toilet, gets an ice pipe, and reveals the answers to the 2007 Unreal News Challenge.

   Published: January 23, 2008

   Last Christmas, in an (uncharacteristic) act of random kindness, Unreal gave away all of our toys. Apparently, someone appreciated the gesture, because this year Christmas for...

6. Music

   Queen of the Kings

   Soul-survivor Sharon Jones and her crack backup the Dap-Kings finally bring their '60s retro-cool to the Lou.

   By Dave Wallen

   Published: January 23, 2008

   Sharon Jones doesn't sugarcoat her words. "I've been to six funerals [recently]. I've sang at four," she says. The 51-year-old soul singer has seen tough times lately, from her...

7. B-Sides

   Digging Your Scene

   B-Sides takes a pull of Earthworms' Burbon and rocks out to...Tetris?

   Published: January 23, 2008

   Some hip-hop acts sound dope on their records but fall flat on stage. Others complain about the St. Louis scene but do little to actually improve or support it. And then...

8. Critics' Picks

   Coyote Bones

   6:30 p.m. Thursday, January 24. Creepy Crawl,3524 Washington Boulevard.

   Shae Moseley

   Published: January 23, 2008

   After their former band Jet By Day called it quits, David Matysiak and Mason Brown wasted no time forming Coyote Bones. Following a move from Athens, Georgia, to the band's...

9. Critics' Picks

   Lucy Kaplansky

   8 p.m. Friday, January 25. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue.

   Roy Kasten

   Published: January 23, 2008

   The therapeutic obsession inherent in the singer-songwriter genre is enough to send listeners straight to the crack pipe (if not the razorblade). Solo strummers often forget...

10. Critics' Picks

    Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

    9 p.m. Saturday, January 26. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street.

    Brooke Foster

    Published: January 23, 2008

    The boys of Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin present a bit of a conundrum. They create such foot-stomping, genuinely fun rock music that one feels inclined to yell "Woo!"...

11. Critics' Picks

    Armor for Sleep

    7 p.m. Saturday, January 26. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

    Jonah Bayer

    Published: January 23, 2008

    It's hard to hate on New Jersey emo sensations Armor For Sleep, even if the band's latest single calls this writer's own personal neighborhood "the blueprint for Hell." But...

12. Critics' Picks

    The Dillinger Escape Plan

    7:30 p.m. Saturday, January 26. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

    Ryan Wasoba

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Once upon a time in 1999, the Dillinger Escape Plan made a record called Calculating Infinity — and subsequently wrote the book on modern technical hardcore. In the years...

13. Critics' Picks

    Mandisa

    6 p.m. Sunday, January 27. Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St. Charles.

    Kristyn Pomranz

    Published: January 23, 2008

    It may seem hyperbolic to call Mandisa's ninth-place American Idol ousting a shocker, but fans were invested in her fate. After all, she was the woman who humbled Simon Cowell....

14. Critics' Picks

    Scary Kids Scaring Kids

    7 p.m. Monday, January 28. Creepy Crawl, 3524 Washington Boulevard.

    Julie Seabaugh

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Way back in January 2006, MySpace competitor Purevolume.com's very first exclusive video premiere — Scary Kids Scaring Kids' "My Darkest Hour" — was big news in...

15. Homespun

    Council on Fidelity
    Fight! Fight! Fight!

    Reach and Frequency EP
    (self-released)Our Sister's Jeans Ain't As Tight As This EP
    (self-released)

    Published: January 23, 2008

    The keyboard-drenched reveries of those early Eels albums are revisited on Council on Fidelity's debut EP. The trio takes a low-key/lo-fi approach to these indie-pop...

16. Cafe

    Grub Street

    Gastropub, shmastropub. Newstead Tower Public House is Ian's kind of bar.

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: January 23, 2008

    On the first day of the art history class I took in high school, the teacher asked us to define "art." I assumed this was a rhetorical question and we'd spend the next 40...

17. Keep It Down

    Jin Yang Silkworm Pupa

    This week: Silkworm pupa out the Jin Yang.

    By Malcolm Gay

    Published: January 23, 2008

    You may not know this, but most likely, you stink. Don't feel bad about it. I probably stink, too. You see, we're meat eaters, and according to a recent study, the world's...

18. Film

    You Kill Me

    Following Untraceable's lame-brained argument, we're all to blame for this massively dumb movie.

    By Nathan Lee

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Regarding the irrelevance of Untraceable: First of all, torture is so 2007, and just because this drab little thriller with a flashy love of pain imagines itself a "critique of...

19. Stage

    All Talk

    Sitting through The Vertical Hour is a tall order.

    By Dennis Brown

    Published: January 23, 2008

    In 1883 Oscar Wilde returned to England after a yearlong tour of America. Upon arrival in Liverpool, the bon vivant summed up his journey by quipping to reporters, "The English...

20. Stage

    Lite Wait

    The Waiting Room spools out like a good sitcom. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

    By Paul Friswold

    Published: January 23, 2008

    Early in the second act of The Waiting Room, Uncle Pat (Eddie Webb) tells the audience in soliloquy, "Truth ain't no wimp." Pat's a straight-talking,...