1. Art

St. Louis Art Capsules

Malcolm Gay encapsulates the St. Louis arts scene

By Malcolm Gay

Published: April 30, 2008

Ongoing Alex Couwenberg: Working Space Painter Alex Couwenberg brings his Southern Californian aesthetic to St. Louis in "Alex Couwenberg: Working Space," an exhibition at Bruno David...

2. 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 mostly positive,...

3. 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 — which was...

4. 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 portrayed...

5. Critics' Picks

Randy Newman

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

By 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 crafted...

6. 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 seems...

7. 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 mega-stardom...

8. 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 Merritt....

9. 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 — while...

10. 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 waiting...

11. 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 of those...

12. Unreal

Unreal eyes a tasty bride and apologizes for a Jewmongous error

Published: April 30, 2008

Weddings are supposed to be a celebration of true love, and though Unreal finds this indescribably moving, our favorite part the whole thing is when they serve the cake. It even beats...

13. Stage

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

By Dennis Brown and Paul Friswold

Published: April 30, 2008

The Caucasian Chalk Circle Reviewed in this issue. Harlem Duet A prequel to Shakespeare's Othello, Djanet Sears' Harlem Duet imagines the dissolution of Othello's (Kingsley Leggs)...

14. Stage

Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle activates Dennis' delete key

By Dennis Brown

Published: April 30, 2008

Playgoers who attend the current Hydeware production of Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle are getting two stories for the price of one. Act One chronicles the narrative of...

15. Stage

Jersey Boys more than lives up to the hype

By Dennis Brown

Published: April 30, 2008

So here's the situation: By the end of Act One of Jersey Boys, a veritable thunderclap that is currently rocking the Fox Theatre, the plot has covered a lot of turf. We've watched...

16. News Real

Downtown St. Louis residents to the Dolce' nightclub: Shut the hell up!

By Kristen Hinman

Published: April 30, 2008

Shortly before 2 a.m. on Sunday, April 20, residents of a North Broadway high-rise awoke to the kind of clatter one might associate with television cop dramas: A paddy wagon, a pair...

17. 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 country...

18. 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 2004...

19. 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 Mexican:...

20. 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 Central Region,"...