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21. News Real

    Stripped Bare: Sometimes even Chesterfield CEOs, like Jim Neumann, must stand naked

    By Keegan Hamilton

    Published: March 19, 2008

    On January 7, 2005, Sherry Flotron says she awoke from a midday nap in a Las Vegas hotel room and found her boss, Jim Neumann, naked and on top of her, straddling her legs and...

22. Unreal

    An official state beer? Unreal's all over that one! Plus: We ring them bells and play CDs to our dog.

    Unreal

    Published: March 19, 2008

    VFW Post 805 in O'Fallon, Illinois, sent a special appeal to Unreal a few days ago on behalf of Captain Stephen Eratell, the U.S. military chaplain in Mosul, a city of 1.7...

23. Letters

    Readers are still buzzing about those traffic-light cameras

    Published: March 19, 2008

    FEATURE, MARCH 6, 2008 Camera-Ready Commentary riverfronttimes.com readers are still buzzing about Chad Garrison's feature story "Red Alert" about traffic-light cameras. On...

24. Amazing Facts & Beyond

    How To Beat The Digestive System

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Leon Beyond tells it like it is — and then some. Click here for the full-sized version

25. Ask a Mexican

    Mano a Mexicano

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Dear Mexican: Since moving to Aztlán from Boston, I've spent so much time with my next-door neighbor from Mexico City that I've taken to using the word manito as a term...

26. Music

    Holy Junkies: Michael Timmins and the Cowboy Junkies release a 20th anniversary edition of Trinity Sessions

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Most touchstone albums draw on some zeitgeist. Others create their own. Recorded in November 1987 and released twenty years ago, the Cowboy Junkies' second album, The Trinity...

27. Music

    Dora Magrath was blessed with a beautiful voice. She's gone, but you can still hear it.

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Meet Dora Emily Holtzman Magrath, a 22-year-old singer-songwriter and University City resident: The young woman sits in front of a Web cam, showing off her ukulele. Like so...

28. B-Sides

    B-Sides catches up with Lou ex-pat Black Spade and finds out how Black Moutain manages to rock so hard

    By Ryan Wasoba and Keegan Hamilton

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Some may use prefixes such as "progressive" or "stoner" to describe the music unleashed by Black Mountain. But the Vancouver quintet is, above all else, a rock band. Its list...

29. Critics' Picks

    O'Death/Langhorne Slim

    9 p.m. Thursday, March 20. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Boulevard.

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: March 19, 2008

    When Ralph Stanley contributed his bone-chilling version of "O Death" to the watershed O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, it was a stark reminder of the grim, morbid tone...

30. Critics' Picks

    Dropkick the Robot

    9 p.m. Thursday, March 20. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Boulevard, University City.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Dropkick the Robot may be the most educated local band around, at least musically: All are graduates of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's well-respected jazz program,...

31. Critics' Picks

    The Showbiz Kids/Shining Star

    8 p.m. Friday, March 21. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Boulevard.

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Two seemingly disparate '70s acts will become one on Friday night, when the local cover band Groovethang transforms into both Steely Dan (as the Showbiz Kids) and Earth, Wind...

32. Critics' Picks

    Colourmusic

    9 p.m. Saturday, March 22. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Boulevard.

    By Roy Kasten

    Published: March 19, 2008

    What to do with a hopelessly pretentious but inarguably catchy band like Colourmusic? Though the Stillwater, Oklahoma, natives claim a bloodline to Sir Isaac Newton and a...

33. Critics' Picks

    The Paper Chase

    9 p.m. Tuesday, March 25. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Boulevard.

    By Shae Moseley

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Like Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock, Paper Chase frontman John Congleton relies on rambunctious vocal melodrama as much as he does lyrical content to set a mood. But unlike Brock's...

34. Critics' Picks

    The Starting Line

    6:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 26. Pop's, 1403 Mississippi Avenue, Sauget, Illinois.

    By Jonah Bayer

    Published: March 19, 2008

    The Starting Line recently announced that it's going to take a break to focus on other projects, meaning that there's more of an incentive to see 'em live. After a tumultuous...

35. Critics' Picks

    Jill Scott

    7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 26. The Fabulous Fox Theatre, 527 North Grand Boulevard.

    By Dan Leroy

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Nearly a decade her ago, Jill Scott's debut album asked Who Is Jill Scott? The answer to that question just keeps evolving. Not only is Scott a Grammy-winning R&B singer who...

36. Rotations

    American Music Club

    The Golden Age
    (Merge)

    By Michael D. Ayers

    Published: March 19, 2008

    When Mark Eitzel re-formed American Music Club a few years ago, it sounded pretty much like the same San Francisco group that pioneered sadcore back in the early '90s. Since...

37. Rotations

    Times New Viking

    Rip It Off
    (Matador)

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: March 19, 2008

    Columbus' Times New Viking takes a cue from fellow Ohioans Guided by Voices, recording its fuzzy indie rock under a thick gauze of guitar noise. There's little to no production...

38. Homespun

    DJ Trackstar Presents

    Boogie Bang Vol. 12
    (Self-released)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: March 19, 2008

    DJ Trackstar continues to act as this town's biggest hip-hop evangelist, spreading positive vibes and slick beats in equal measure. In addition to hosting the weekly hip-hop...

39. Cafe

    Building a Better Bistro: Chef Andy White proves there's life after Balaban's at Off the Vine

    By Ian Froeb

    Published: March 19, 2008

    How all of this compares to Balaban's in 1972, 1992 or even last year, I can't say. But I do know that when I return to the restaurant, it won't be because it's Balaban's the...

40. Drink of the Week

    Springboard Ale

    LeGrand's Market
    4414 Donovan Avenue
    314-353-6128

    By Kristie McClanahan

    Published: March 19, 2008

    We'd be rich, but not too rich. And we wouldn't realize it until years later when we'd pass our handsome brick childhood home in St. Louis Hills and realize that it was big and...