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Feature
Bad Buzz: King Bee building residents have turned on downtown St. Louis developers Sam Glasser and Dave Jump
By Kathleen McLaughlin
Published: May 14, 2008
Six years ago, downtown developer Sam Glasser introduced Jill Holtrop to the King Bee building, a turn-of-the-century millinery warehouse on the western edge of the Washington...
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Letters
Rant Radio: RFT readers weigh in on the meltdown at KWMU
Published: May 14, 2008
Editor's Note An ad in our May 1 issue attempted, unsuccessfully, to clarify the various honors this paper and/or its readers have bestowed upon two local steak houses, Mike...
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News Real
Just Shoot Me: Photographer's My Chemical Romance nightmare has a happy ending
By Chad Garrison
Published: May 14, 2008
Last week was a wild one for freelance photographer Nichole Torpea. The 22-year-old UMSL grad was shooting the May 3 My Chemical Romance concert at the Pageant for Riverfront...
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Unreal
Unreal cleans our sidearm and champions Phyllis Schlafly
Published: May 14, 2008
Stoking the Star Maker Machinery Washington University is catching beaucoup flak for giving an honorary degree to Phyllis Schlafly, who has worked since the 1960s on...
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Amazing Facts & Beyond
The Truth About Cat Calendars
By Kevin Huizenga
Published: May 14, 2008
Little-known facts about cat calendars.
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B-Sides
B-Sides takes a Jazz Journey and says hello to Ne-Yo
By Kristy Wendt and Dean C. Minderman
Published: May 14, 2008
After Ne-Yo opened for Alicia Keys last month at the Scottrade Center, he stuck around to present six songs from his upcoming album Year of the Gentleman at Grove club the...
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Critics' Picks
Slaid Cleaves
7 p.m. Thursday, May 15. Lucas School House, 1220 Allen Avenue
By Roy Kasten
Published: May 14, 2008
Slaid Cleaves is known as a "songwriter's songwriter," which is usually a polite way of saying "he can't sing." But there's no need for decorum with the Maine-born, Texas-based...
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Music
Low's Alan Sparhawk finds comfort in noise with the Retribution Gospel Choir
By Roy Kasten
Published: May 14, 2008
The paradox of the Retribution Gospel Choir starts with its name. The Gospel, both the divine text and the divine music, is based in forgiveness and mercy, not revenge and...
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Homespun
The Whiskey Ring
Better than Some, Worse than Others
(self-released)By Christian Schaeffer
Published: May 14, 2008
A little Googling reveals that the Whiskey Ring was an 1875 scandal that involved several politicians making millions off of federal liquor taxes — a scandal that began...
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Cafe
Let's Get High: Gambling once again on Lumière Place, Ian looks up Cielo
By Ian Froeb
Published: May 14, 2008
Cielo is several steps above the usual St. Louis restaurant. Literally: The restaurant is on the eighth floor of the new Four Seasons hotel adjacent to Lumière Place on...
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Gut Check
Ian charts S'more comings and goings on the local restaurant landscape
By Ian Froeb
Published: May 14, 2008
The June 2008 issue of Food & Wine magazine features a recipe from Mathew Rice, pastry chef at Niche and its bakeshop, Veruca. Rice's semifreddo s'mores —...
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Drink of the Week
Ultimate Margarita
T.G.I. Friday’s
5262 South Lindbergh Boulevard
314-849-4556By Kristie McClanahan
Published: May 14, 2008
Last weekend, the New York Times sent its esteemed restaurant critics out to regular ol' chains — Applebee's, T.G.I. Friday's and Outback Steakhouse among them —...
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Keep It Down
Snoots and Fried Tripe Sandwich
A barbecue master schools Malcolm in the mysteries of baby backs, snoots and the ethereal fried tripe sandwich.
By Malcolm Gay
Published: May 14, 2008
When Carl Roper offers you a plate of what he claims are "the best shrimp in the known universe," you take him up on it. It was a cloudy afternoon. I'd stopped in about an...
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Film
Prince (Less) Charming: Facing Indy at the box office, Narnia sequel ups the action and loses some magic
By Ella Taylor
Published: May 14, 2008
"Things never happen the same way twice." Thus boometh Aslan the lion (Liam Neeson), alias the Son of God, popping his computer-generated shaggy head briefly into The...
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Night & Day
Vanishing America
We've paved paradise
By Paul Friswold
Published: May 14, 2008
Picture your ideal city: Does it include acres of big-box stores, identical strip malls and unbroken stretches of parking lots long enough to double as jetport runways? No?...
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Night & Day
Enter the Dragon
Enjoy the garden
By Mark Dischinger
Published: May 14, 2008
Entering the Chinese Garden at the Missouri Botanical Garden (4344 Shaw Boulevard; 314-577-9400 or www.mobot.org) removes you from this continent and from yourself; it's an...
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Night & Day
Free Love
City Museum wants you to feel it
By Paul Friswold
Published: May 14, 2008
Maybe you've heard the rumors — and they are just rumors — that the City Museum (701 North 15th Street; 314-231-2489 or www.citymuseum.org) was perilously close to...
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Night & Day
Live in the Past
At least for a weekend
By Alison Sieloff
Published: May 14, 2008
Even without modern "conveniences" such as laptops (now, we can work around the clock!), cell phones (anyone can reach us anywhere — anytime!) and ATM cards (overspending...
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Night & Day
A Different Kind of 'Net
Trailnet is pro exercise
By Alison Sieloff
Published: May 14, 2008
You don't mind exercise. Really, you don't. But you're not in love with the places around town set up specifically for working out. Those gyms keep you confined, regimented...
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Night & Day
Same Ol' Kids
Brand-new material
By Paul Friswold
Published: May 14, 2008
The appeal of Canadian sketch-comedy troupe the Kids in the Hall is the wonder and the mystery in everything its members write. Regardless of how straightforward a Kids sketch...
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