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For Alderman Who Killed Wage Increase, a Different Standard for His Wife ctivists and politicians backing a higher minimum wage in St. Louis received an unwelcome surprise to start the weekend. On Friday, June 26, 23rd Ward Alderman Joe Vaccaro unilaterally canceled all future hearings on a bill that would raise the hourly minimum within St. Louis’ borders from its current $7.65 to $15. Many experts believe Vaccaro’s move likely killed the bill. But despite Vaccaro’s opposition to a city minimum-wage hike, we already know he’s fine with some types of wage increases — that is, as long as the extra cash could benefit his wife. Earlier this month Vaccaro was busted by Post-Dispatch reporter Nick Pistor for quietly sponsoring a bill that would create a bonus system for employees in the Recorder of Deeds Office, where his wife has worked since 2011. The bill — which would replace one passed in 2012 — seems shady: The details of the bonuses are buried in sixteen pages of city legislation that usually follows a rote structure and receives little scrutiny from other aldermen. Yet Vaccaro’s bill would grant embattled Recorder of Deeds Sharon Carpenter wide leeway to distribute bonuses for employee actions, like gaining additional accreditation or training, as well as creating an “Employee Suggestion Program” that “grants cash and other awards to recognize employee suggestions, which improve Recorder of Deeds Office services or operations.” That last bit raised the suspicions of longtime Recorder of Deeds whistleblower Marie Ceceski, who theorizes that the bonuses and “suggestion program” are simply another way for Carpenter to police her staff’s political loyalties and reward those who have her back. The pay bill would also create new office positions, possibly to accommodate the recent part-time hires of relatives of Alderman Freeman Bosley Sr. and Alderwoman Beth Murphy. Vaccaro’s ties to Carpenter, who lives in his 23rd Ward, run deep: The alderman didn’t abandon Carpenter when she was forced to resign her office in 2014, after it was revealed that she violated the state’s nepotism statute. In fact, Vaccaro admitted to the Post-Dispatch that Carpenter’s office had actually authored the bonus-packed pay bill. 8

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St. Louis fast-food workers and their supporters have protested low wages for years. Here they are in December 2013.

(Vaccaro, it should be noted, disputes that he did anything wrong in backing the pay bill. He has since removed himself as the bill’s sponsor.) The upshot is that Vaccaro has been willing to push for pay increases for Carpenter’s loyal foot soldiers, even though Carpenter appears to have few limits to her sense of entitlement. The city’s minimum-wage workers are a much different story. Here’s how Vaccaro defended his decision to kill the minimum wage bill, which he says was rushed to committee and didn’t stand a chance of being properly vetted before the board’s July 10 summer-break deadline. “To put this in front of us with three meetings to go is not fair,” he told St. Louis Public Radio. “We didn’t have the time to make a reasonably good decision on this. So, yes, some people are going to be upset. Some people are going to be happy. I understand that. But I have to do what I feel is right for the city of St. Louis and myself and my own conscience.”

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Talk about a contrast. So when it comes to Carpenter and the Recorder of Deeds, Vaccaro will play the dutiful errand boy and sponsor a bill that would funnel more power to one of the city’s shadiest and most embattled public officials — and more cash to workers such as his wife. But when it comes to allowing open debate and study on a minimumwage hike for the city’s workers? That’s when Vaccaro’s conscience suddenly steps up to say hello. — DANNY WICENTOWSKI

This picture could influence his sentence.

Facebook Posts Now in Play for Criminal Defendants

he guy in the above photo is Terry Swopes. A few months ago, a city jury convicted him of unlawful possession of a firearm — four counts, all felonies. How long should he spend behind bars? That was up to the judge. To help the judge decide, the Circuit Attorney’s Office filed a sentencing memorandum with some details on the “defendant’s character” — in this case, writing that Swopes was a “documented member of the Arlington Mob Gang” with “numerous gang tattoos” who is known to hold up “gang signs.” Top-secret intelligence? Not really. Swopes posted all that himself on Facebook. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s office now has a special “Crime Strategies Unit” tasked in part with mining social media for evidence to use against criminals. Some of the data they collect goes into sentencing memos, and within the next week or so, the circuit attorney is poised to start posting select memos on its website — provided sentencing is already over and the memo is not sealed by a judge. “The general public does not have enough info about how system truly works,” says Rachel Smith, chief prosecutor of the Community Partnership Bureau inside the Circuit Attorney’s Office. The more they know, she says, “the more likely they are to cooperate, appear as jurors and have confidence in the system.” Yet Mary Fox, who heads the St. Louis Public Defender’s Office, says she suspects the prosecutors’ real motive is to imply — outside the formal courtroom setting — that some sentences are too low. “If they’re not happy with the success of their sentencing arguments,” says Fox, “they need to look to themselves, rather than complain about decisions the judges are making.” The unit is comprised of four or five attorneys and investigators, Smith says. She

declines to get specific on how it actually gathers and analyzes info from sites such as Facebook and Twitter. She does say, though, that criminals have always advertised their prowess and their goals; social media is simply their newest platform. By paying attention to it, the circuit attorney is just “keeping up with the times.” In Swopes’ sentencing memo, prosecutor Lauren Collins not only catalogued the offender’s criminal history, which involved guilty pleas of robbery, assault, seconddegree murder and armed criminal action (all felonies). She also weighed in on the defendant’s “character” by alleging that he is “extremely violent and has no control over his temper.” She linked Swopes to the Arlington Mob Gang and included a photo of him apparently flashing a gang sign. “The number of guns and types of guns the defendant was in possession of is frightening,” wrote Collins, who added photos of the rifles and shotgun found with Swopes when cops arrested him in July 2014. “There is no legitimate reason the defendant should be in possession of firearms with the history that he has.” Smith says that if an offender receives a suspended imposition of sentence and successfully completes probation, the site will automatically take down his or her sentencing memo. Nevertheless, Fox has expressed concern that material on the Internet tends to stick around even after removal. “What are they going to do if a sentence gets reversed?” asks Fox. “Will they take it down then?” In response to Fox’s suggestion that the circuit attorney’s true goal is to argue that sentences are too lenient, Smith tells Daily RFT, “The judges asked us for more information, and we are happy to provide that for them. In addition, the public has a right to know what sentences prosecutors are requesting, why they are requesting them and what sentences are given by the courts.” The circuit attorney will not be posting any memos that aren’t already public records and available in paper form at the courthouse downtown. — NICHOLAS PHILLIPS riverfronttimes.com

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“My family is in Nigeria; I will see them before the end of the year. I like the history museum here. In the process of taking the test, I learned so much about the history of the country, the U.S. constitution; it’s so great. I love that.”

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“My sister-in-law lives here, so she was always telling us that, ‘It’s good here, you live good,’ and she always said good things about St. Louis and America, so that’s why we decided to move here.”

gleaming white smile breaks across Adetola “Tola” Olayefun’s face as a stream of five elementary-age boys and girls stroll into the burnt red courtroom rotunda. These children, accompanied by several teachers, are from St. John School in Ellisville, where Olayefun works as a janitor. They’ve come to celebrate Olayefun’s new United States citizenship. Olayefun, a native of Nigeria, was selected along with nine other immigrants to participate in the June 12 Naturalization Ceremony at the Old Courthouse downtown. U.S. District Court Judge John A. Ross presided over the event.

The immigrants come from countries around the world — Bosnia, China, Albania, Iraq. They have never met each other before, but on this day, they will all become American citizens together. Olayefun’s journey to citizenship started in 2000, when he came to work in America on a visa. He has been working at St. John since December 2012, building strong relationships with the students and staff at the Lutheran elementary school, thanks to his ever-present smile and penchant for high-fives. “Tola is a wonderful man. The kids just love him; they just think he’s fantastic,” says fourth-grade teacher Jennifer Holshouser, one of eighteen St. John School staff members who came to the

courthouse to support Olayefun. “The kids just rallied around him, and when they found out that he had passed the test and was getting his citizenship, we were all just really excited for him.” In 2013, 779,929 immigrants were naturalized as United States citizens. That includes 4,817 in Missouri — more than half of whom were residing in St. Louis, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Getting to that point is not an easy task. Immigrants hoping to become naturalized citizens must be at least eighteen years of age. They must have been living in the United States for five years as a lawful permanent resident, and have been physically present in the U.S. for at least 30 months. They must also have “good and moral character,” be able to speak, read, write and understand the English language, and have basic knowledge of U.S. government and history. The ten-step process of proving themselves ready includes preparing and submitting an application, getting fingerprinted, undergoing an extensive background check, completing an interview with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office, and passing English and civics tests. The process takes an average of six months, depending on the person and the location. In areas with heavy immigrant populations, it can take several years.

“It really is a journey,” says Judge Ross. “And the naturalization ceremony is the final step in that journey. It’s a celebration of their efforts in becoming a citizen. It serves as a reminder to all of us as United States citizens when you see what people do in order to become a citizen and what is involved in citizenship.” Antoneta Haxholli, a blonde woman from Albania, sits third from the left in the first row of new citizens. Her brightly patterned skirt matches her glowing face as she nods at everything Judge Ross says in his introduction to the ceremony. For Haxholli, completing the civics and English tests and passing the interview were simple. She is nearly fluent in English. “The interview is easy. I mean, if you speak English, then it’s easy. If not, then you will not understand anything,” Haxholli explains. Haxholli and her husband came to St. Louis from Albania several years ago to pursue a better life. “My sister-in-law lives here, so she was always telling us that, ‘It’s good here, you live good,’ and she always said good things about St. Louis and America, so that’s why we decided to move here,” Haxholli says. But an immigrant’s story is almost always a difficult one. “We had jobs in Albania and were living very good continued on page 12

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there, and when we came here, we had to face a lot of looking for jobs, finding and not finding one, so you have to start from zero, wherever you move — it’s not only if you move from Albania to America, it’s wherever you move,” Haxholli says. With a bachelor’s degree in English education, Haxholli found a job working as an assistant director of a preschool center. Her husband, who didn’t speak English, didn’t have as much luck. He’d had his own business in Albania, but here he found himself hustling just to get a menial job. Frustrated with how little money he was making, Haxholli says, he was ready to give up on America. Then she found out she was pregnant. “Now he’s working in a factory and has been working there for six years,” she says. “So now he’s good and [his job] is set, but at first it was really hard for him.” Now he, too, is in the process of applying for naturalization. Some of the immigrants at the ceremony have had an easier time, including Demira Handzic. Currently a student at Truman State University, she’s from Bosnia and Herzegovina, but has lived in St. Louis almost

“I feel great. I passed the test, and here I am today. I learned so much about the history of the country, the U.S. Constitution; it’s so great. I love that.” her whole life. Her English, not surprisingly, is perfect. “I feel like I’m at home,” she says. It was her parents who chose St. Louis: “They were both born in Bosnia too. When we first came to the States, St. Louis was the first place that we came to, and we’ve been here since. We had family here before, so it was a little easier having somebody here that you knew and helping you translate.” Her only regret: That her parents can’t be here today. They’re both at work. Olayefun, in contrast, has a whole cheering

section — students, teachers and staffers from St. John School who came to support him at the ceremony. “He’s more than a janitor, he’s a friend,” says teacher David Lochmann. In fact, Lochmann let Olayefun join in with his seventh-grade class when they were studying the U.S. Constitution — “he sat with us for about four weeks” as preparation for his civics test. It wasn’t just Olayefun who benefited from the class time. “The seventh graders really got to see that this is meaningful, that there’s a purpose to this, that there are people that still think this is a great country and they don’t want to take it for granted, and they also want to become citizens,” Lochmann says. “All of the things that they learned were all relevant and meaningful whenever they were interacting with Tola.” As for Olayefun, he’s almost too excited to speak about his newly earned citizenship. “I feel great. I passed the test, and here I am today,” he says. “In the process of taking the test, I learned so much about the history of the country, the U.S. constitution; it’s so great. I love that.” Even the St. John School principal is in attendance. “It’s been so great for our students to realize that there are authentic reasons for learning what they’re learning, they were learning about the Constitution and Bill of Rights,” says Heidi Hays. “To them it seemed kind of perfunctory, until they got to see it through somebody else’s eyes.”

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“I’m happy today.” (Her companion, Muhammed Jabarrazi, adds, “She only speaks one language, Arabic, and a second language is very hard to learn, but she fight it, and she got it.”)

No matter the path that each immigrant took to get to this point, they come together on this Friday at 1:45 p.m. Judge Ross invites all of the immigrants to stand and raise their right hand, or to affirm if they are more comfortable. His deputy clerk then requests that all of them repeat the oath of allegiance on her direction. It takes two minutes for the immigrants to say the oath, renouncing all “allegiance and fidelity” to other nations, and stating their duty to support and defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The ten new citizens raise their voices in unison as they repeat the last lines of the oath: “I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion: So help me God.” ■ riverfronttimes.com

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Smith who seems to have nothing better to do than come to Missouri and wave his gun around. “Would anyone like to engage in dialogue?” Smith asks a woman holding sign made of orange construction paper. It bears a message in purple marker: “Zoos are for Animals, Not Guns.” “My sign speaks for me,” the woman says. “No, we just want guns out of our zoo,” another replies. Smith walks back to his shaded spot. A selfsatisfied smile flashes across his clean-shaven face. “My experience is they have a mindset, and you’re not going to shed any light into the deep dark recesses of someone’s mind like that,” he says. “I have no expectations of converting someone who dislikes or hates guns into someone who likes them.” Rather, Smith believes he has a much higher calling: to force Missouri’s public officials to confront the reality of the state’s new gun laws. Amendment 5, which voters approved in August 2014, enshrines an “unalienable” right to “keep and bear arms” in the Missouri constitution. The amendment’s provisions appear to be so powerful and wide-ranging that no one — not Smith, not prosecutors, not even the state legislator who sponsored the ballot measure — can say for sure what its limits are, or if indeed there are any. The zoo, Smith argues, is opposing the state’s progress on gun rights with a mixture of bureaucratic obstinance and legal doublespeak. And that amounts to a rejection of the will of the people. “I’m trying to advance gun rights, I’m working on the laws being recognized as they are,” he says. “I’m hopeful that Missourians look at the legal filings here, look at the position of the zoo and think, ‘Oh my goodness gracious, this is what they think of us? Is this is what they think of the law? Really?’”

N JULY 24, 2014, JUST TWO WEEKS before Missouri voters elected to add Amendment 5 to the state constitution, Republican State Senator Kurt Schaefer addressed a crowd that had gathered for the annual Watermelon Feed in Neosho, a rural city a short drive from both Joplin and the Oklahoma border. He urged them to vote yes on the measure. “If we pass this, we will have the strongest right to keep and bear arms in any state in the United States,” Schaefer said, according to the Neosho Daily News. “I look forward to that day when we get this passed.” Schaefer, a Republican based in Columbia, had sponsored the bill that put Amendment 5 on the August ballot, and it was under his watch that the bill’s language broadened to include concepts like unalienable rights and “strict scrutiny,” a legal term that essentially means the government must meet an extremely high standard to regulate something. Schaefer explained, “Anything that infringes on that right gets strict scrutiny, which is the highest level of review by a court to hold the government to the tightest restraint, and it is the affirmative obligation of the state of Missouri to uphold that right.”

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“This constant question of, ‘Why do you need a gun in the zoo?’ It’s irrelevant. It’s called the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Needs.” It’s the kind of ringing patriotic speech that sounds pretty good in a place like Neosho. But in St. Louis, the people who were aware of Amendment 5 were panicking. Here, people don’t just use guns to kill raccoons or shoot clay pigeons. Here, people use guns to kill people, and at an alarming rate.

Jeffry Smith (top, in pink polo) arrived at the Saint Louis Zoo to confront the media and foment public outrage over his proposed armed walk into the zoo grounds. In 2015, for example, according to data published by the Circuit Attorney’s Office, bullets have so far ended the lives of 83 people, a startling rise that lit a fire under law-enforcement officials. This May, Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce launched a website, stlouisguncrime.com, to track the city’s gun-related deaths and publicize stories from victims and perpetrators alike. Not surprisingly, Joyce was among loudest opponents to Amendment 5 in the run-up to the August 5 election. Along with Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters and St. Louis Metropolitan Police Chief Sam Dotson, she filed a lawsuit to strip the proposed amendment from the election ballot, arguing that its official description was misleading to voters. Voters were being asked this question: “Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to include a declaration that the right to keep and riverfronttimes.com

bear arms is a unalienable right and that the state government is obligated to uphold that right?” “It doesn’t point out to voters the seriousness of this amendment and how it’s going to elevate gun laws to a status that is almost beyond any right we have as citizens,” Burt Newman, one of the lawyers fighting the ballot language, said in a June 2014 interview. “It doesn’t tell voters that 140 years of law is going to be wiped out.” Another objection to Amendment 5 was the addition of the term “strict scrutiny,” which critics argued wasn’t explained on the ballot. That verbiage hadn’t been part of Schaefer’s initial bill. The addition came courtesy of Ron Calzone and Dave Roland, both well-known political activists in Jefferson City. “There were several people, citizens, activists and legislators alike, continued on page 16

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who recognized that we needed to speak to the court in the court’s own language,” says Calzone, who co-directs Missouri First, a nonprofit that promotes limited government. “I was trying to help craft the language in a way that the court would not be able to misunderstand at all.” Roland, an attorney and co-director of the Freedom Center of Missouri, says that adding the legal armor of strict scrutiny meant placing gun rights on the highest pedestal. “Depending on how the courts assess it,” he says, “it should one of the strongest, if not the strongest, defenses of the right to bear arms in the county.” As the August 5 election day neared, critics cried that Amendment 5 was so ambiguously written that convicted felons would soon find themselves afforded the rights of gun ownership. Boone County Prosecutor Dan Knight, speaking to the Columbia Daily Tribune, pointed to the proposed line that says “nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the general assembly from enacting general laws which limit the rights of convicted violent felons” from possessing firearms. While that may sound reasonable to a layman, Missouri statutes actually don’t include a definition for a “violent felony,” only a “dangerous felony.” That’s no small distinction. “That creates a whole new set of uncertainty,” Baker said. “A convicted drug dealer will not meet that definition.” The St. Louis Post-Dispatch blasted the amendment in a withering editorial, blaming the state’s Republican lawmakers for dragging Missouri on an “NRA-inspired gun craze” that had already included a failed bid to nullify federal gun regulations. “Now, to win favor with a small sliver of their voting base who won’t rest until the Second Amendment is interpreted to mean that every house must have a gun, and preferably several guns of whatever size, shape and killing power is available, they want voters to change Missouri’s completely appropriate and very strong constitutional gun protections,” the paper’s editorial board wrote. But it wasn’t just Republicans. Attorney General Chris Koster, a Democrat, was also a high-profile supporter. In fact, the only serious contribution to the anti-Amendment 5 campaign came from former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety, a national group that supports gun regulation. But while the organization donated $134,000 to the No on Amendment 5 committee, St. Louis Public Radio (90.7 FM) reported that the cash was spent on hiring attorneys to keep the measure off the ballot, not on awareness campaigns. The no group still outspent the gun advocates. It says something about the popularity of gun rights in Missouri that the campaign supporting Amendment 5 drew virtually no contributions from outside lobbying groups. It didn’t need them. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled it was too late to intervene in the ballot language. On Election Day, 60 percent of Missourians voted “yes” on Amendment 5 — enough to add its language to the state’s constitution. 16

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“We can dismiss the people who protested this morning as extremists who should not be taken seriously. I agree with that. But we have to take this law seriously.”

H E N J E F F RY S M I T H introduced himself to St. Louis, he did so while sporting a wide white cowboy hat and a bullpup assault rifle slung across his chest. It was an unseasonably warm October afternoon, less than two months after Amendment 5 was voted into the Missouri constitution, and Smith and about 50 armed supporters strolled through St. Louis’ whimsically chic urban park, Citygarden, on their way to the Gateway Arch. The “walk,” as Smith insisted on calling it, took the group past a larger crowd of counterprotesters, many drawn from a nearby conference hosted by Amnesty International. The counterprotesters traced lumpy chalk outlines of bodies on the pavement. A woman wearing a camouflage-printed T-shirt (and carrying an enormous handgun) pushed a stroller and raised a sign reading “SB 656 Right to Open Carry,” a reference to the 2014 bill that mandated the right to openly carry a gun to any Missourian who’d been granted a concealed-carry permit. Police officers in yellow vests watched the walk from a distance. From the stroller, the woman’s toddler-aged daughter twisted in her seat to watch a cameraman from a local news station rush by. Weeks before, spurred by what he saw as St. Louis’ unwillingness to acknowledge the new reality following to the passage of Amendment 5 and SB 656, Smith had begun emailing the city’s attorneys and police department. He requested information on how open carry would be handled in public spaces in the city’s downtown. Until the media got involved, all Smith heard back were crickets. But in the days leading up to the event, with the story featured on every local news station, Smith found himself talking to St. Louis’ police chief and a federal ranger stationed at the Arch. The rush of public attention appeared to catch city officials off guard. “What you saw on the streets of downtown St. Louis today was like a scene out of a bad Western,” St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay said during a hastily convened press conference that afternoon. “We can dismiss the people who protested this morning as extremists who should not be taken seriously. I agree with that. But we have to take this law seriously.” He added: “It’s very hard for me to believe that intelligent and supposedly responsible legislators that were elected by the people would allow this to happen.”

When it comes to gun rights, Smith says Missouri is far ahead of his native state of Ohio.

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It was just the kind of attention Smith was looking for. “I am first and I’m first and foremost a civilrights person, with an emphasis on the right to keep and bear arms,” Smith says months later. “If you describe me as enamored with guns, you’re way off base.” Born and raised in Cincinnati, Smith was first exposed to firearms in grade school when a classmate’s father, a police officer, took the boys to a local range. But it wasn’t until Smith was enrolled at the University of Cincinnati in the late 1970s and studying accounting that he saw a need to buy a pistol of his own. It was for protection, he says. “I had no interest in advocacy.” At the time, Ohio still had a ban on concealed carry. If caught with a gun, Smith could attempt to offer an “affirmative defense,” but it needed to be a good enough reason to convince a judge. That could go either way, and Smith knew it. Still, “I went to the UC library, studied what the law was, and I decided I would take this risk,” he says. Smith wouldn’t become active in the gunrights world for another two decades, but those college years spent weighing self-protection against legal risk left an imprint. In 2003, Smith hooked up with a burgeoning network of activists bent on shaking the state’s ban on concealed carry. They organized so-called “Defense Walks” that put hundreds of openly armed Ohioans in the street.

It was during these walks that Smith says he realized open carrying a firearm was, in fact, a devastatingly effective political statement. He didn’t see it as a show of force or intimidation, but a show of presence. “There are those to whom open carrying is a lifestyle, and there are those that open carrying is a sort of discipleship. When I open carry, I expect to be an ambassador.” Smith went on to organize open-carry walks at three Ohio college campuses, drawing news coverage and building a reputation along the way. He became a firearms instructor and a frequent contributor on online gun forums, weighing in on legal minutiae as the new laws bloomed across the county. What drew Smith to St. Louis, however, were two factors: First, he had a family member living in the city. The second was Amendment 5 — and a desire to see how far its protections would go. “Constitutionally, Missouri is far ahead of Ohio,” Smith says. “But that’s just words on paper until the authorities are put to the test to do what the constitution says.”

MITH’S OBSESSION WITH THE ZOO began with Sam Peyton. One day in late May, after hours of driving from Springfield, Missouri, Peyton and his wife arrived at the Saint Louis Zoo. They were eager to take in the sights. Peyton’s wife, a Chicagoan, had never before continued on page 18 riverfronttimes.com

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seen the attraction. An out-of-work licensed bodyguard, Peyton normally carries a concealed handgun in an inside-the-waistband holster. Approaching the zoo gate, however, he spotted a sign: “No firearms or weapons allowed on this property,” it read. So Peyton ambled back to his car and deposited the handgun — a .45 Springfield — in a lock box in the trunk. The day was blisteringly hot, and it wasn’t long before Peyton stripped to his undershirt, leaving the brown leather of his holster exposed above his belt. “I was in the zoo for almost three hours, and we’re getting ready to leave when I see one of the security guards,” he says. “I asked about the sign.” According to Peyton, he approached the guard and asked for the reason behind the signs. The guard replied that it was for the public’s safety, but Peyton wondered aloud how that could be so when other patrons were walking around the park smoking cigarettes. That’s when the guard gestured at Peyton’s holster. He asked Peyton if he was armed. “When I showed him I wasn’t carrying, that should have been the end of the conversation,” Peyton says. Instead, he says, the guard called for backup and told him that if he didn’t leave the park, he’d be escorted out by police. “I could see it was going to be a problem, so I put my shirt on and started walking to the exit.” Peyton says he was followed by the security guards, who became increasingly hostile as he continued to ask questions: What statute the was the ban was based on? Were they aware that the Missouri constitution had been changed, and that the right to keep and bear arms was unalienable? The zoo disputes Peyton’s version of events, but it has offered no alternative narrative of the incident. Three days later Peyton wrote about the experience on OpenCarry.org, a forum frequented by gun rights activists. He let loose his frustration with the Saint Louis Zoo. “Got kicked out of Stl Zoo for wearing an empty IWB holster,” he wrote. “Got a call from a Dustin in Marketing, and he said the Zoo is a Gated Amusement Park and they dont [sic] allow guns, [but] in same breath said they follow all the Missouri constitutional laws!! Really. What y’all think.” Another user, BB62, posted back. “As far as I’m concerned, the zoo cannot prohibit open or concealed carry,” the post read. BB62 is the user name of Jeffry Smith. Though Peyton hadn’t been able to make to the walk in October, he and Smith had corresponded over Facebook about the issues of Amendment 5 and gun rights activism. “I think Jeff just wants to see that every state and city follows the constitutional law of the land,” says Peyton. “And I think the guys in St. Louis just needed a kick in the butt just to get it going. He’s not from here, but he’s made us get together more and now we’re talking more, and trying to do some of the things that he’s doing. I appreciate him a lot.”

L E V E N M O N T H S S I NC E amendment 5’s passing, its ramifications have, as predicted, yielded controversial results. In December 2014, a convicted drug dealer attempted to use Amendment 5 to argue that the felony on his record shouldn’t disqualify him from owning a gun. Two months later, a St. Louis judge actually tossed out a firearm possession charge on a different case, after ruling that it would be unconstitutional to block a Missouri citizen — even one convicted of a felony — from the unalienable right to keep and bear arms. In a sixteen-page ruling, St. Louis Circuit Judge Robert Dierker ruled that the law prohibiting felons from possessing firearms fell far short of Amendment 5’s strict scrutiny requirement. As Kansas City prosecutor Knight had warned, the judge determined the amendment’s exception for “violent felons” had cre-

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ated a critical and unconstitutional ambiguity. The case involved 55-year-old Raymond Robinson, whom the court described as a partially disabled man with no record of violence or mentally unstable behavior. His previous felony conviction stemmed from carrying a concealed weapon in 2003, which landed him prison. He was arrested last July after police found a .380-caliber pistol in his car. “The State proffered no evidence that defendant’s purpose in possessing the pistol was to commit any illegal act or in furtherance of any criminal conduct, such as distribution of controlled substances,” Dierker wrote in his ruling. “Nor is there any reason to find that the defendant presents a demonstrable risk to the safety of any individual or of the public. His single prior felony conviction was (ironically) for carrying a concealed weapon. There is nothing in the record to suggest any misuse of weapons within the last ten years, and his risk of re-offending is low. His age and physical condition militate against undertaking violent offenses such as robbery or assault.” This is the kind of the framework defined by strict scrutiny. Suddenly, the mere fact that Robinson was a felon was no longer a good enough reason to ban him from having a gun. Robinson wasn’t the first defendant to try to use Amendment 5, though he was the first to succeed. But even before Robinson, the PostDispatch reported how St. Charles County prosecutors chose not to a file a gun-possession charge against a man with previous felony conviction for property damage. In another case, a Springfield man with felony convictions for drunk driving attempted to use Amendment 5 to toss out his own felon-in-possession charge. “This is exactly the type of litigation that I and others have warned about,” Circuit Attorney Joyce told the Post-Dispatch following Robinson’s court victory.

Amendment 5’s legislative sponsor, Kurt Schaefer, seemed shocked by the Robinson ruling, insisting to various media outlets that this was not the intended result of the law. He attempted to shift the blame, telling a radio station that if the definition of a “non-violent” felony was unclear, the courts should figure it out. “The issue is the court is going to have to do the heavy lifting on these, and determine who really meets that criteria and who doesn’t,” Schaefer said. “That’s what the purpose of Amendment 5 was.” However, as if anticipating Schaefer’s deflection, Judge Dierker had added a footnote to his ruling: “The Court is not at liberty to rewrite statutes so as to supply criteria for denying the right to bear arms to persons convicted of non-violent felonies... The problem is that the statute simply does not afford any basis to differentiate among persons convicted of nonviolent felonies.” The stakes were high, then, when Smith announced his second major St. Louis open-carry demonstration — and, inspired by Peyton’s interaction, chose the zoo as the place to hold it. After reading Peyton’s forum post about the zoo’s weapons policies, Smith had wasted no time. First, he attempted to copy the playbook from his October open carry walk through St. Louis’ downtown. He sent flurries of emails, demanding answers from the zoo and the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office, but he received little more than restatements of the zoo’s policies. No one could tell him, specifically, what laws supported the zoo’s signs banning weapons from its premises. But a rush of media attention spurred the zoo officials to take action. They’d seen Smith’s work before, and they wanted no part of it. On June 12, one day before the planned walk, a St. Louis Circuit Court judge granted the zoo’s

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Counterprotesters at the zoo said Smith and his ilk are a bunch of delusional, gunobsessed agitators. request a temporary restraining order against Smith and anyone working “in concert” with him. Until a formal hearing could be held, anyone entering the zoo with a firearm would face guaranteed arrest. In its motion supporting the restraining order, the zoo argued that it qualified as an amusement park, a label that would place it among the types of public spaces where guns could be restricted. The zoo maintained it actually met the criteria for four such categories: educational institutions, day-care facilities, amusement parks and places where a business open to the public chooses to restrict the carrying of firearms by posting signs. Smith only learned of the restraining order during the drive from Cincinnati to St. Louis. “They’re dodging and bobbing and weaving,”

he says over the phone. “There is no ‘amusement park’ definition in Missouri law.” (He’s right. Missouri statute does not define “amusement park.”) “Clearly,” he continues, “the zoo has some amusement rides, but if you were to take a Six Flags and put some wild animals in it, it wouldn’t turn into a zoo.” Thinking on on the fly, Smith decides to go through with the protest walk, but with empty holsters. That will still get his message out. “As far as I’m concerned, the zoo is deceiving people into giving up their rights and privileges. That’s what’s at the core of all this,” he says before hanging up. “The zoo is portraying their signage as legal and valid, and as best as I know right now — it’s not.”

“Constitutionally, Missouri is far ahead of Ohio. But that’s just words on paper until the authorities are put to the test to do what the constitution says.”

MITH CHECKS HIS WATCH AGAIN. It’s already 2:15 p.m., and Peyton is nowhere to be found. Antsy reporters are starting to ask if this grand demonstration is actually going to happen. Without a word of warning, Smith makes his move. He approaches the south gate of the Saint Louis Zoo and passes through the turnstile, followed by five or six photographers and confused looks from the other zoo patrons. He walks 50 feet into the park, halting at the fountain containing the zoo’s famous seal sculptures. He takes a sip from his water bottle and stares at the seals. It’s a surreal sight: A giant of a man, alone in a zoo, wearing an empty pistol holster and looking at fake seals. Photographers snap away. Smith takes another sip of water, turns around and walks toward the exist. He’s spent riverfronttimes.com

all of two minutes inside the zoo gate. Soon after, the reporters and counterprotesters pack up their things and leave. An hour later, Smith is striding along Delmar Boulevard to grab some lunch. This time, his holster contains a Smith & Wesson .40 pistol. Accompanying him are three other armed men who showed up at the zoo earlier that day. With the exception of one conspicuous doubletake, the posse attracts no extra attention from the Loop’s outdoor dining crowd. They arrive at Fitz’s, which is packed. Smith and Co. wait near the door until they are seated. No one, including the hostess and nearby wait staff, confronts them or asks about the handguns hanging off their waists. Though the protest itself fizzled, Smith isn’t discouraged by the day’s events. He takes a bite of a sizzling burger and drinks from a mug of cream soda. “This constant question of, ‘Why do you need a gun in the zoo?’ It’s irrelevant,” he says. “It’s called the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Needs.” Flippant as Smith may be, he has a point: Adding a new legal framework to the state’s constitution appears to have altered the legal rights of Missourians to own and carry firearms. But the specifics remain frustratingly vague. While the repercussions of Amendment 5 continue to shake out, its legacy will factor into upcoming political races: The measure’s architect, Kurt Schaefer, is running for attorney general. Chris Koster, the current attorney general and presumptive front-runner for the Democratic nominee for governor, will have to answer for his support as well. At the same time, prosecutors expect more felons facing gun charges to use Amendment 5 as a defense. In fact, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Joyce has opted to keep some gun cases out of state judicial system altogether. This week, the PostDispatch reported that Joyce referred 70 such cases to a federal prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Richard Callahan, and that she blames Amendment 5 for obstructing her ability to issue state charges in those cases. It could be even harder to prosecute gun crimes in the future. This week, the Missouri Supreme Court rejected the last remaining appeal against Amendment 5’s ballot language. For better or worse, the justices ruled that the August 5 election results will stand as law. As for Smith, he has since requested a 60day continuance to marshal his own legal support to fight the restraining order. He’s already floating ideas for another open-carry walk, this time on St. Louis public-transit trains and buses, a move that would certainly bring him back into the crosshairs of St. Louis’ government and law-enforcement officials. But here in Fitz’s, as Smith and his jocular group of armed buddies dig into burgers, there’s little evidence of the legal tempest tearing through Missouri’s courts and governments. There are just four men eating a late lunch amid the clattering of silverware and murmured conversations about weather, the Cardinals and who needs more ketchup and another refill. No one here cares about Jeffry Smith’s gun. That’s the way he wants it. Indeed, this is the America of his dreams. ■

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SBR ENDURANCE DIRT CRIT

How about something to do in our area that doesn’t involve fireworks of any kind? That should sound appealing if you, like us, get a little weary of the overabundance of multicolored explosions in the summer night (sure, they’re pretty, but they do get a little same-y). The antidote involves the antithesis of the sky — we’re talking terra firma. Good old-fashioned, basic dirt — dirt as in dirt-bike racing. Tonight at 6 p.m. at Meramec Levee Recreation Park (Cal Hedrick Way, Valley Park; www.itsyourrace.com), you can race

or watch the SBR Endurance Summer Dirt Crit Series. There are six races tailored to varying speeds, skill levels and capabilities, and at the end of the evening there’s a free kids’ race. Registration for adult riders is $10 to $25, but it’s free for spectators. — ALEX WEIR

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THE FANTASTICKS

Hucklebee and Bellomy are neighbors who dream that one day their children will fall in love and marry. To ensure this happens, the two concoct a feud so Hucklebee’s son, Matt, and Bellomy’s daughter, Luisa, will

pine for “forbidden fruit,” so to speak. They gild the lily by hiring a man to “abduct” Luisa so that Matt can rescue her and appear heroic. It’s a scheme so crazy it just might work — at least for a little while. Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones’ classic musical The Fantasticks offers an allegorical look at young love and how maturity is won in this sometimes crazy world. Insight Theatre opens its new season with a production of The Fantasticks. The show is performed at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (July 2 through 18; no show on July 4) at the Heagney Theatre (530 East Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves; 314-556-1293 or www.insighttheatrecompany.com). Tickets are $25 to $35. — PAUL FRISWOLD

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O’Fallon’s Heritage and Freedom Fest offers more bang for your buck this Independence Day with three nights of family fun, from 5 to 10 p.m. Thursday, 5 to 11 p.m. Friday and noon to 10 p.m. Saturday (July 2 through 4) at the Ozzie Smith Sports Complex (900 TR Hughes Boulevard, O’Fallon; www. heritageandfreedomfest.com). Little patriots can romp in the Kids’ Zone, which is packed with inflatables, craft areas, Hula-Hoops and giant checkerboards (with checkers), while the older crowd has access to the carnival rides and the midway games. There are also a ton of bands playing on two different theme nights: Country night continued on page 22

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(July 3) has Gloriana, Locash and the Well Hungarians, and Rock night (July 4) sees Smash Mouth, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Tonic and Superjam. And of course, there will be fireworks displays on Friday and Saturday. Admission is free, but you’ll need money for concessions and to buy ride tickets. — PAUL FRISWOLD

in the National League West. Bombs could be bursting in air — the Friars rank among league leaders in giving up the longball. The Redbirds celebrate Independence Day with giveaways at three of the games — from replica 1982 World Series rings to camo-print jerseys. First pitch is at 6:15 p.m. Thursday, 7:15 p.m. Friday, and 1:15 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (July 2 to 5), and tickets are $10.80 to $365.80. — ROB LEVY

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This year the best fireworks downtown will be at Busch Stadium (Broadway and Poplar Street; 314-345-9600 or www.stlcardinals. com) when the St. Louis Cardinals face the revamped San Diego Padres in a four-game series during the Fourth of July weekend. While the Cardinals are fending off the Pirates and Cubs, San Diego is looking for a spark to help catch the Giants and Dodgers

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three days of carnival rides, food and beverage booths, a beer garden, and a special children’s area with plenty of family-friendly things to do and see. There are also two fireworks displays, so rest assured, all your needs will be met. Riverfest is open from 5 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday and noon to 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday (July 2 through 4). The fireworks go off at 9:20 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. There are no fireworks on Thursday, but the Bottle Rockets play from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m., so you’ll still get a thrill. Admission to Riverfest is free. — M ARK FISCHER [FOURTH OF JULY]

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huge zip line ($10 a ride), as well as musical performances by Morris Day and the Time, Blondie, Melissa Etheridge and Kool & the Gang. Fireworks close out each evening at 10 p.m. New this year is the S.T.E.A.M. exhibit (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math), which offers science-related experiences such as make-your-own 3-D glasses and stomp rocket launches. Fair Saint Louis is open 5 to 10:30 p.m. Thursday, and noon to 10:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday (July 2 through 4). Call 314-434-3434 or visit www.fairsaintlouis.org for more information. Admission is free. — ROB LEVY

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Since 1981 St. Louisans have celebrated freedom at Fair Saint Louis (formerly the VP Fair), a three-day festival loaded with a starspangled array of entertainment, vendors and family fun. Planned events this year in Forest Park include a salute to our troops, a model boat regatta in the Grand Basin and a

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If you missed the Met’s well-received La Traviata when it was broadcast in April, the summer encore series always you to redress that error. Willy Decker’s production of the Verdi classic stars Natalie Dessay as Violetta, the courtesan with a secret illness. Matthew Polenzani sings the role of Alfredo, the young man whose love for Violetta endangers the future marriage of his young sister. Can a fallen woman and a wealthy fella ever find happiness in this topsy-turvy world? The rebroadcast of La Traviata screens at 7 p.m. tonight at the AMC Esquire 7 (6706 Clayton Road, Richmond Heights; www.fathomevents. 6/26/15 2:31 PM com). Tickets are $15. — PAUL FRISWOLD

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Ron Buechele, Capitalist Pig’s owner and head chef, knows that vodka and barbecue taste great together. With Sowsed, a sumptuous event featuring St. Louis Distillery’s Cardinal Sin vodka and plenty of pork, Buechele’s barbecue artistry goes whole hog with a menu of sophisticated tastes. The feast is headlined by vodkabraised smoked brisket, barrel-smoked pork, stuffed drunken summer vegetables and bread pudding. Master distillers join Buechele to discuss the creative process behind this swine dining experience. Sticky fingers meet happy feet as Miss Jubilee serves up hot jazz and tangy swing throughout the evening. Dinner is served from 7 to 10 p.m. tonight at Capitalist Pig (2727 South Twelfth Street; 314-772-1180 or sowsed.bpt.me). Tickets are $49. — ROB LEVY

From the left: Fair Saint Louis takes over Forest Park, the Grateful Dead call it a day and Capitalist Pig gets soused.

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Bixby’s Independence Day Breakfast: Enjoy sweet and savory breakfast fare from Bixby’s famed brunch buffet at a reduced price ($19.50 for adults, $14 for children). Reservations are required, call 314-361-7313. Sat., July 4, 7:30-10 a.m. Bixby’s, 5700 Lindell Boulevard, 314-361-7313, www. bixbys-mohistory.com. Cedar Lake Cellars’ Fourth of July Celebration: It’s an old-fashioned Fourth of July party with pie-eating contests, a corn-hole tournament and potato-sack races. Each event costs $5 per game or $12 for all three, with proceeds benefitting BackStoppers. A picnic buffet on the lawn follows ($21.95 per person), with music by the Woo Daddies. 21 and older only. Sat., July 4, 4-7:30 p.m. Cedar Lake Cellars, 11008 Schreckengast Road, Wright City, 636-745-9500. Clownvis Candy Cola Explosion: Clownvis Presley, everybody’s favorite rock & roll clown, is back in St. Louis and back in action for the Fourth of July. In honor of our nation’s birthday, Clownvis ends the show by jumping into a seven-foot-tall can of cola while handcuffed and wearing a suit covered in Mentos. The Miss Molly Simms band provides the soundtrack, and Lola Van Ella and Foxy La Feelion will also be present. Sat., July 4, 8 p.m., $10. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Avenue. Fair Saint Louis: Get ready to party on America’s birthday at Fair Saint Louis in Forest Park. Activities include the Ameren/ Purina Family Festival Zone, the largest and tallest zip line in the region ($10 a ride), the Wake Challenge Watersports Show in the Grand Basin and live music by Blondie, Melissa Etheridge, Tony! Toni! Tone!, Morris Day and the Time and Kool & the Gang. Thu., July 2, 5-10:30 p.m.; Fri., July 3, 1210:30 p.m.; Sat., July 4, 12-10 p.m., free admission, www. fairsaintlouis.org. Forest Park, Highway 40 (I-64) & Hampton Avenue. Family Fun Fest with Fireworks: Godfrey, Illinois, offers a full evening of Fourth of July fun with vendors and concessions, inflatables for the kids, a bungee bounce and zip line, cow train and arts & crafts activities. There will also be a flag ceremony and a veterans-recognition ceremony. Fireworks start at 9:15 p.m. Sat., July 4, 5-9:30 p.m., free admission, call 618-466-1483 for more information. Robert E. Glazebrook Park, 1401 Stamper Lane off Route 67, Godfrey. Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead: The four surviving members of the Grateful Dead -Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir -- call it a career with a three-night stand at Soldier Field in Chicago. Special guests Trey Anastasio, Jeff Chimenti and Bruce Hornsby help the boys through their final shows together, and all three nights are simulcast live to movie theaters nationwide by Fathom Events. July 3-5, 7 p.m., $15, www. fathomevents.com. Wehrenberg Ronnies 20 Cine, 5320 S. Lindbergh Boulevard, 314-843-4336, www.wehrenberg.com/ theaterDetail.asp?theatre=24. Firecracker Run: Get a jump on Independence Day with the O’Fallon Chamber of Commerce 31st annual Firecracker Run. Choose from 10k, 5k or 1-mile fun run courses, with a health expo and awards ceremony after the run. Sat., July 4, 7 a.m., $15-$30, www.firecrackerrun.net. TR Hughes Ballpark, T R Hughes Boulevard and Tom Ginnever Avenue, St. Charles, 636-240-2287, www.rivercityrascals.com. Fireworks on the Waterfront: Grafton, Illinois, businesses offer food and drink specials, live entertainment and games for the kids until dusk. Grab a seat on one of the decks or on the riverbank for the fireworks, which start at dusk. Sat., July 4, free admission, call 618-786-7000 for more information. Grafton Riverfront, Water & Market streets, Grafton. Fourth of July Fireworks Celebration: Free concert at 7 p.m. by Dogs of Society, an Elton John tribute band. Food

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and beverages will available, and there’s a kids’ zone with BMX stunt riders and a bubble bus. Fireworks start at 9:30 p.m. Sat., July 4, 7 p.m., free admission, www.chesterfield. mo.us. Chesterfield Mall, Clarkson Road & Chesterfield Parkway S., Chesterfield, 636-532-0777, www.chesterfieldmall.com. Heritage and Freedom Fest: Celebrate the Fourth of July with a carnival and midway, live music by Smash Mouth, Toad the Wet Sprocket and Tonic, plus kids’ activities and food & drink. Parade starts at 9:30 a.m. on July 4, and fireworks start at 10:15 p.m. Friday, July 3, and at 9:30 p.m. Saturday, July 4. Thu., July 2, 5-10 p.m.; Fri., July 3, 5-11 p.m.; Sat., July 4, 12-10 p.m., free admission, www. heritageandfreedomfest.com. TR Hughes Ballpark, T R Hughes Boulevard and Tom Ginnever Avenue, St. Charles, 636-240-2287, www.rivercityrascals.com. Highland’s Fourth of July Fireworks: Celebrate your independence with live music, inflatables for the kids and fireworks in Highland, Illinois. Food and drinks will be sold on-site; sorry, no coolers permitted in the park. Sat., July 4, 4-9 p.m., free admission, call 618-651-1386 for information. Glik Park, 12525 Sportsman Road, Highland. Mississippi River Fireworks Festival: If you miss seeing fireworks along the riverside, Alton, Illinois, has you covered. The United States Air Force Band of Mid-America performs at 6 p.m., and the fireworks start at 9:15 p.m. Fri., July 3, 5 p.m., free admission, call 618-465-6676 for more information. Alton Riverfront Park, Landmarks Boulevard between Piasa & Henry streets, Alton. Patriots in the Park: Granite City, Illinois, celebrates Independence Day with a five-day festival that includes carnival rides, concerts, carriage rides and food. Fireworks display at 9:15 p.m. on July 4 at Coolidge Middle School grounds. July 1-5, free admission, call 618-877-3059 for more information. Wilson Park, 2900 Benton Street, Granite City. Red, White & Brew Bash: Kick off Independence Day weekend with a nonstop live show and drinks. Fri., July 3, 5 p.m.; Sat., July 4, 5 p.m., $5-$10. Howl at the Moon, 601 Clark Ave in Ballpark Village, 314-736-4695, www.howlatthemoon.com. Riverfest 2015: Enjoy three days of fun at Riverfest 2015. Activities include a carnival, balloon art and a bubble bus for the kids, live music by Miss Jubilee & the Humdingers, Honey Island Swamp Band and the Cree Rider Family Band. At 10 a.m. Saturday the parade starts at Blanchette Park; fireworks displays are held at 9:20 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Thu., July 2, 5-10:30 p.m.; Fri., July 3, 12-10:30 p.m.; Sat., July 4, 10 a.m.-10:30 p.m., free admission, www.historicstcharles.com. Frontier Park, First Capitol & S Riverside drives, St. Charles. St. Louis Cardinals vs. San Diego Padres: What’s more American than baseball on the Fourth of July? The Cards take on the Padres in a four-game home series, with a different promotional item at three of those games. Friday, the first 25,000 fans sixteen and older can snag a replica 1982 World Series ring; Saturday, the first 25,000 fans sixteen and older receive an adult camo-print jersey; and on Sunday, the first 25,000 fans sixteen and older a replica Ozzie Smith bronze statue. Thu., July 2, 6:15 p.m.; Fri., July 3, 7:15 p.m.; Sat., July 4, 1:15 p.m.; Sun., July 5, 1:15 p.m., $10.80-$365.80. Busch Stadium, Broadway & Poplar Street, 314-345-9600, stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/ stl/ballpark. Troy’s Fourth of July Fireworks: The Troy, Illinois, fire department presents a fireworks display in the park. Sat., July 4, 4-9 p.m., free admission. Tri Township Park, 409 Collinsville Road, Troy.

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f you want a picture of the future, imagine Channing Tatum grinding his crotch in a human face, forever. You think I exaggerate? Between this cringe-worthy jamboree of dim-bulb manflesh (and that of the first film, which wasn’t even this embarrassing) and Fifty Shades of Grey’s celebration of abuse as romantic, Hollywood has gotten a warped idea about What Women Want. Expect more of it, soon. Because plenty of women BY have embraced these things. M A R YA N N I console myself with the thought that we women are J O H A N S O N so unused to being catered to by The Movies that many of us welcome even distorted attempts at it. Like how black audiences embrace Tyler Perry’s minstrel shows. Or else I’m just extra weird, and I need to add this to the list of ladyness things I am doing wrong. Maybe women really do want this stuff, and I am a failure at performing my gender. I don’t understand why random men taking their clothes off in front of a crowd in public is automatically sexy. If anything, Magic Mike XXL is an unintentional parody of Sexy™, an unwitting send-up of caricatures of men and women and sex and attraction that so much of pop culture — including advertising! — is built on. But we’re meant to swallow this straight-faced and unconditionally. Oh, and let’s not even get into how the male strippers here aren’t even as naked as women in movies that aren’t about stripping tend to be. Even playing at being Sexy™, this movie is still blind — maybe deliberately, maybe accidentally — to the differences in how Hollywood treats men and women in this regard. If male nudity without any context of character or situation is meant to appeal to women, then why aren’t the men nude? Not that I need to see Channing Tatum’s penis. That wouldn’t make me like this movie any more. But still. Argh. I wonder if screenwriter Reid Carolin, returning from Magic Mike, read my review of the first film, because many of my complaints 26

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you into a sex harness. (See? ’Cuz all women fantasize about getting married!) The nods to how women react to men stripping ranges from the inexplicable — Jada Pinkett Smith as the Kings’ MC asking female audiences if they are ready to be “worshiped,” which doesn’t make any sense — to the utterly mansplainy, as in the scene in which two men discuss why (they imagine) women like male strippers. There isn’t much of a story here. What there is is all cliché, half “one last job,” half “hey, kids, let’s put on a show,” as the guys travel to a stripper convention (ugh) before disbanding for reasons that we never understand, especially because they all seem

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to love it so much. In place of story, we get phallic power tools, a man (Joe Manganiello) lamenting the unfortunate large size of his cock (XXL is a tragedy, yo), and strip shows by men who aren’t even marginally “characters” like Tatum & Co. are. Cameras could have been set up in a Chippendales club and you’d be none the wiser. If that’s your cup of tea, you might enjoy this. But I expect more from my movies... and from my men. Especially from my fantasy men. You wanna turn me on? Land a rover on Mars. Or make a great piece of art. And keep your clothes on until we’re alone.■

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PATRICK BRICE’S FILM ABOUT ADULT SLEEPOVERS GOES WHOLE HOG FOR LAUGHS The Overnight Written and directed by Patrick Brice. Starring Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling, Jason Schwartzman and Judith Godrèche. Opens Friday, July 3, at the Tivoli, 6350 Delmar Boulevard, University City. Call 314-727-7271 or visit www.landmarktheatres.com.

contemporary riff on Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Patrick Brice’s The Overnight ups the sexual ante (and hetero anxiety) by emphasizing same-sex attraction over old-school wife-swap. Coproducer Mark Duplass — who co-wrote and co-starred in Brice’s first film, Creep — clearly exerts some influence: As an actor, Duplass had comic fun with a similarly charged situation in Lynn Shelton’s bromantic Humpday, and The Overnight takes the same low-key, naturalistic approach to comedy as Duplass’ writer-director collaborations with brother Jay (The Puffy Chair, Jeff, Who Lives at Home and Cyrus). Brice, however, pushes even further into the discomfiting territory that the Duplasses so provocatively explore in their terrific, bleakly funny HBO series. Togetherness: The film produces squirms and laughs in equal measure. Recent transplants to LA, Alex (Adam Scott of Parks and Recreation) and Emily (Taylor Schilling of Orange Is the New Black) lack friends in the sprawling city, and stayat-home-dad Alex seems especially fretful about the dim prospects for filling their pathetically empty social calendar. What luck, then, when suspiciously hyper-friendly Kurt (Jason Schwartzman) encounters Alex at the neighborhood park where their kids play and immediately extends an invitation to dinner at the home he shares with wife, Charlotte (Judith Godrèche). The gathering begins as

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a simple meal, but after some decidedly odd, awkward moments, Kurt manages to stretch the evening into the “overnight” with insistent offers of drinks and drugs. After tucking the children safely into bed, the adults withdraw to the pool, where Kurt and Charlotte blithely drop trou for a bracing skinny dip, urging their new friends to similarly shed their clothes and inhibitions. Despite our supposed seen-it-all sophistication, I suspect that most in the audience will register at least mild shock at Kurt’s full-frontal display of his impressively proportioned phallus. The Overnight takes obvious delight in tweaking our expectations — in a reversal of cinematic convention, the women’s nudity is handled far more discreetly — but there’s also a larger (ahem) comic payoff: Alex is mortified by the diminutive stature of his own micro-penis and must be coaxed out of his pants by Kurt’s gentle stroking of his ego (a portent of things to come). When they both finally emerge naked and do an uninhibited, dick-waggling dance, we’re as agog as their pop-eyed spouses. Of course, The Overnight isn’t entirely groundbreaking in its treatment of the male member: Given the Chia-like shrubbery that serves as his pubic hair, Scott is clearly wearing a prosthesis, and Schwartzman (like Mark Wahlberg in Boogie Nights) has presumably had his own equipment considerably enhanced. (If not, he should consider changing his name to “Schwanzman.”) Though progressive in many regards, The Overnight turns disappointingly conservative in its conclusion. Just as the homoerotic tension between Kurt and Alex is about to be blissfully released, the long-forgotten children reassert their presence in an echo of the film’s coitus-interruptus opening scene: Just as fission is about to occur, the control rods abruptly halt the reaction. And, as the film’s coda makes clear, once meltdown is averted, the nuclear family is dutifully restored. But even if The Overnight stops short of climax, it nonetheless remains a potent comedy. –CLIFF FROEHLICH

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the arts The Kids Aren’t All Right LOCAL ARTIST IMAGINES WHERE THE GARBAGE PAIL KIDS ENDED UP 30 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD t first, they were just part of the mounds of junk in Jake Houvenagle’s mother’s basement. Stacks of paper, old Halloween decorations he had made as a third grader roughly 30 years ago, and then, the childhood collection that would inspire him all over again as an adult: his original Garbage Pail Kids cards. Produced by the Topps Company, Garbage Pail Kids came out in 1985 as a big middle finger to Cabbage Patch Kids, which were then wildly popular. DeBY picted on a series of trading E M I LY cards, the Garbage Pail Kids were the dolls’ grotesque M C C A R T E R cousins. There was Noah Body, a kid with just a head; Armpit Britt, a girl with massive amounts of armpit hair; and Bony Tony, a boy whose skin unzips to expose his skeleton. “What was not to love? Bizarre kids with bizarre afflictions all with common names of people I knew — Topps made it easy to make fun of your friends,” Houvenagle explains. As a child living in central Illinois, Houvenagle loved to imagine the lives of each Garbage Pail Kid. “These cards kept my imagination running wild as a kid,” he says. “What if I had that: What if my skin unzipped? What if I could blow up the world by pushing a button? What if, what if?” After he remembered the dusty cards sitting in his parents’ basement, Houvenagle, now working in advertising, found his imagination fired up anew. He again pondered the Garbage Pail Kids — only in his daydreams, 30 years had

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commercial photography and motion studio located at Locust and North 23rd streets downtown, Voges had the ability to make Houvenagle’s ideas come to life. The shooting locations varied for each card, Voges explains. “Adam Bomb was shot in studio along with Clogged Duane, which we built a set for. Noah Body was shot in an office building in Clayton. Bony Tony was shot at a friend’s bar/ music venue. Armpit Britt was shot at a liquor store close to my house in south city, and Barfin’ Barbara was shot in the kitchen at Lumen event space.” The casting was as diverse as the shooting locations. Some talent was found through talent agencies, and some people were friends of friends. Voges even resorted to Facebook. “Nothing like sending out a Facebook post that says, ‘Looking for a female with shorter hair to have dreadlocks glued to their armpits for a personal project,’” Voges recalls. After all of the casting and shooting, the im-

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East Side Story LASCELLES BRINGS STYLISH, UPSCALE DINING TO, YES, GRANITE CITY Lascelles Granite City 1324 Niedringhaus Road, Granite City, Illinois; 618-709-7375. Mon.-Thurs. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Fri.Sat. 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

ead east across the McKinley Bridge from St. Louis into Illinois, and the change in scenery is palpable. As the buildings that make up the downtown skyline grow smaller in the rearview mirror and you make your way into Granite City, it’s as if you’ve been transported to BY another time. C H E RY L But it’s not a nostalgic view. This company town, once a BAEHR major player in the nation’s economy, has seen better days. Granted, the massive steel mill that once bore Granite City’s name is still operational — as are the agricultural plants and the rail yard. But

time has been hard on the former manufacturing hub, and nowhere is this more evident than in its once-bustling city center. The shell of its former self is there, but the storefronts once filled with beauty parlors, hardware stores and dress shops sit vacant and in various stages of disrepair. At 7 p.m. on a recent Wednesday the place was a ghost town — like a backlot for some post-apocalyptic zombie flick. Attorney Lance Callis hopes to change this. Known in Madison County as much for his legal prowess as for his role in founding the Alton Belle Casino (now the Argosy Casino Alton), Callis is on a mission to revitalize Granite City’s rundown central business district. His development company, Lascelles Group, bought up several properties near city hall and the fiveyear-old Granite City Cinema in an attempt to breathe new life into the vacant storefronts. The cornerstone of his development efforts is Lascelles, an upscale American eatery located in the old Guardian Bank building. Callis brought in chef Eric Brenner, best known for his west-of-the-Mississippi restaurants Chez Leon and Moxy, to run the kitchen and serve as Lascelles’ general manager. The pair toyed around with the concept — originally Callis envisioned the building as a barbecue joint, and then as a craft brewery — and debated how

far they wanted to push local diners while still menu of his design. It’s a cross between country club “something for everyone” classics and a maintaining a sense of approachability. Brenner recently relinquished the day-to- hipster bill of fare — there are enough “+” signs day operations in favor of a consulting role so connecting trendy menu ingredients to choke that he can pursue other opportunities out of a Brooklynite. He has struck an approachable state. But, he says, he designed Lascelles’ food note, tending toward updated comfort fare, but choices to feel comfortable for both weekend what works conceptually is not always executed diners in search of an upscale experience as well without flaw. Brenner leads strongly with his “award winas steel workers looking to grab a burger and a beer for lunch. But while the latter group may ning” tomato bisque. (It’s what notched him a not be intimidated by the menu, they might find victory on Guy’s Grocery Games last year.) The presentation is classic: a steaming bowl of rich the atmosphere daunting. The former bank is an art-deco jewel — tomato soup served with a miniature grilledsoaring tin ceilings, the original white-and- cheese sandwich for dipping. This humble burgundy granite floors, and floor-to-ceiling dish may have been the best thing I ate at Laswindows that look out onto the flower-covered celles. I was also impressed with the Brussels sprouts. The vegetables were median that divides Niedringboth roasted and fried so that haus Road. A dark wood bar the individual leaves crisped is the focal point of the space, Lascelles Granite City up like flash-fried spinach. and several Gatsby-inspired Tomato bisque (cup) .. $5 Thinly sliced sweet chile touches, including gilded vases “Farmhouse Burger”................... $11 peppers and shallots gave the filled with peacock feathers, “Steak + Frites” ........ $24 “snack” piquant punch. dot the sage and burgundy Jumbo scallops served atop painted room. If you look buerre blanc were garnished closely, you can spot remnants of the bank, such as some of the original vaults with a refreshing cucumber-melon relish. This would have been a great summertime appebuilt into the walls. Though Brenner no longer runs the kitchen, tizer had the scallops not been over-salted. his presence is still felt at Lascelles through the Meanwhile, instead of continued on page 34 riverfronttimes.com M O N TJHU LY X X–X X , 2200105 X R RI V I VE ER RF FR RO ON NT T T TI M I ME ES S 331 riverfronttimes.com 1 - 7,

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croutons, Lascelles’ Caesar is topped with crispy calamari. It was a fun update, but the salad arrived way overdressed. Granted, the dressing was a bright and deliciously anchovyheavy version; I just could have done with about a tenth of it. Arguably the most ambitious menu item at Lascelles is the savory feta “Cheese + Cake,” served beside a pool of luscious goat-cheese sauce, two orange slices, Kalamata olive pieces and pistachios. This deliciously rich dish was meant to be balanced by the accompanying citrus fennel slaw, but the side dish was dry and lacked any hint of citrus. And though calling the shrimp and grits “New Orleans” style is debatable — they seemed decidedly more Southwestern — I enjoyed them nonetheless. I would have liked more spice on the shrimp, but the smoked Gouda grits were sweet and creamy, the cooking liquid tasted like a savory cioppini broth, and the black bean and corn relish added texture. Lascelles had its fair share of successful entrées, but its misses were bogged down by temperature and seasoning issues. The kitchen prepared the strip on the “Steak + Frites” to a perfect medium rare. Served with red wine shallot compound butter, some peppery arugula and thick-cut truffle fries, it was the quintessential bistro dish (albeit a salty one). The crisp, beerbattered whitefish, served with housemade potato chips and asparagus, was so flavorful I didn’t need to dip it in tartar sauce (though the tart, creamy condiment was tempting). The “Chicken + Dumplings” is a refined take on the comfort food dish. A smoked, skin-on half chicken, generously seasoned with thyme adds a barbecue element. It’s served over thick chicken gravy with mushrooms, peas, carrots and gnocchi so soft that it melts in the mouth. Unfortunately, the salt problem reared its head again. The chicken skin and the sauce were over seasoned individually; when combined it was enough to make me beg for water. The “Pork + Beans” fared slightly better. Yes, the rosemaryflecked white beans were a touch salty. But the

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seasoning level was balanced when all the dish’s components were eaten together, and though the meat was overcooked, it was still juicy (the server did not ask for a temperature, and it was presented medium-well). I was most disappointed with the sautéed grouper, in part because of how overcooked the fish was, but mostly because it drove me to say something I never thought I could utter — there was too much garlic. The well-done grouper was dried out, to the point that its large flakes were falling apart, and the macerated tomatoes covering it were so overwhelmed by garlic that my mouth puckered. Perhaps that is why the Parmesan risotto was bland — it was meant to balance the strong taste of the tomato relish. A few honey-roasted artichokes and some asparagus sprigs were the highlights of this otherwise unfortunate dish. Lascelles redeemed itself in a big way with its “Farmhouse Burger.” Two thin, seared beef patties are stacked with smoked Gouda, bacon and a fried egg, then served on an English muffin. The juices from the seasoned patty mingled with the bacon grease, rendering other condiments unnecessary. If I were a local, this would be my go-to dish. Desserts are another high point. The chocolate on the “Smores” is a molten lava cake, served with a triangle of graham granola and toasted marshmallow ice cream — a component that even by itself would be a standout. Tart cherries liven an otherwise traditional crème brûlée, and a frozen lemon “soufflé” (more like lemon ice) refreshes the palate after a heavy meal. Service was pleasant and attentive, from the hostess to the bartender to the servers. You get the feeling that Lascelles’ staff buys into their role at the restaurant as part of the overall Granite City renaissance, seeing themselves more as ambassadors than employees. Which is why, despite its stumbles, I’m rooting for Lascelles. This is more than the story of a restaurant. Whether it will spearhead a Granite City culinary movement is far from written in stone, but it’s a start — albeit a rocky one. ■

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hen Jim Hayden and Chad Allen announced in March their plans to open a restaurant in Soulard, the two first-time restaurateurs almost immediately garnered an unheard-of level of national attention. Within a week, and in the months that have followed, everyone from Eater to Deadspin to Food & Wine has covered the launch — even though Twisted Ranch has yet to serve a single dish or even finalize a menu. Apparently that’s what happens when you decide your restaurant’s theme is ranch dressing. America loves the stuff. Food snobs love to hate the stuff. Everybody has an opinion. The subject of all that press coverage, Twisted Ranch (1730 South Eighth Street), is nearly ready to open its doors. And after getting a sneak peek, we can confidently say it’s not the apocalypse that food writers have been predicting. It’s not going to win a James Beard Award, but it may well prove wildly popular with families looking for a spot to grab a meal before heading to a Cardinals game — or even just Soulard drinkers trying to sober up with a huge plate of loaded fries, ranch on the side. Here are the five things that most surprised us about the soon-to-open Soulard eatery.

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t’s no surprise that Jim Zimmerman makes some mighty good pizza: The owner of Pizzino (7600 Wydown Boulevard, Clayton; 314240-5134) has baking in his blood. Zimmerman comes from a long line of Lithuanian bakers dating back over three centuries. His grandfather founded Cahokia Flour Company, a major player in the artisanal baking movement; Zimmerman worked there for decades. Zimmerman believes this is the key to his success at Pizzino — build a pie on a solid foundation, and it’s bound to be good. But while his background in the flour business provides the substance for his pizzas, his time spent in Italy gives them soul. Zimmerman and his wife, an Italian expat, go on a yearly holiday to the Tuscan beach town Forte dei Marmi, which is where he was inspired to start cooking. He began as a home cook, preparing the grilled style of pizzas that he know serves at Pizzino for friends and family. Eventually, Zimmerman left the flour business to pursue his passion for cooking full-time. He perfected his crust in culinary school and opened Pizzino shortly after. Here, he shows off his baking prowess by featuring two very different types of crust — thin and grilled, or thick like a focaccia. Whichever way you slice it, he’s making his ancestors proud. Zimmerman took a break from manning the pizza oven to share his thoughts on the St. Louis food scene, his musical talents and his last meal on earth. What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did? I really enjoy playing music and wish I had more time to get out and play, as well as listen to other bands on the local scene. What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you? I must have coffee and read the newspapers every morning or the day goes off track immediately. Reading the papers seems so archaic to our kids, but for me, there is something about the way a real newspaper delivers information about things you didn’t know you didn’t know that is still superior to reading news feeds online. If you could have any superpower, what would it be? The power to travel in time to see the future. I would love to know my family will always be well and happy and living in a world that is moving towards a more peaceful existence. It wouldn’t be bad to come back with winning lottery numbers either. What is the most positive trend in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over

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the past year? From a food perspective, it is wonderful to see so many restaurants moving to better-sized portions with higher quality, fresh ingredients. We have to get away from piling plates so high that it’s hard to walk away from the table after eating. Drink-wise, I’m very happy to see more varieties of gin from U.S. producers. I really like Pinckney Bend’s Handcrafted American and North Shore’s No. 11. Who is your St. Louis food crush? Ben Poremba [Elaia] has put together some amazing operations and has such a great instinct when it comes to what an ingredient can be used for and how it will meld with what surrounds it on the plate. He is also a great resource for someone like me who is just starting out and has been very generous with his time helping me get up and running. Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene? Mike Randolph. He keeps reinventing his operation and each one seems better than the last. Público is a fantastic addition to St. Louis dining, and I can’t wait to see what he does with the new Italian concept going into the Good Pie [Randolfi’s]. I do like his pizza, so I am glad to hear it will stay on the menu. Which ingredient is most representative of your personality? Crawfish — they are hard to eat and may not seem to be worth the trouble until you get

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to the meat and find it so delicious that you have to keep going through the process over and over. If someone asked you to describe the current state of St. Louis’ culinary climate, what would you say? It really keeps surprising me how good the food scene in St. Louis has become. When I first started really traveling and getting to experience various cuisines, it was always disappointing to come home and not find food that stood up to what I had eaten while away. Today that’s not an issue, as St. Louis has become a town that offers great dining at all levels. Name an ingredient never allowed in your kitchen. Peanut butter. I am not entirely sure why I have such a dislike for it — considering I like peanuts and peanut sauces — but peanut butter doesn’t work for me. What is your after-work hangout? At this point it’s home. Boring, I know. What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure? Dim sum. I can eat and incredible amount of dumplings and fried taro balls. And Lu Lu [Seafood & Dim Sum] does it best. What would be your last meal on earth? Spaghetti con arselle at Bagno Bruno in Forte dei Marmi, Italy: tiny clamlike shellfish in a very simple but flavorful white sauce served on the beach. It is truly heaven. — CHERYL BAEHR

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2. The place is downright attractive Co-owners Allen and Hayden know what you’ve imagined: a dining room with big tubs of ranch everywhere. Or maybe even the ranch fondue set of Tinker’s nightmares. They haven’t gone that route. Formerly Sassy Jac’s, Twisted Ranch has a tasteful interior, with stainless steel tables and clean lines. That vintagelooking St. Louis sign? The co-owners found it at an antique mall and then added the bulbs themselves. The decor gives another clue: The highchairs in the corner are a clear sign that it’s meant to be family-friendly. Who loves ranch dressing more than kids? 3. They’re damn serious about loving ranch dressing OK, so the menu is trying for surprising subtlety, and the décor is pleasing. That doesn’t mean they’re luring customers under false pretenses. While both co-owners have a background in tech, this isn’t just a concept they came up with via focus groups looking for something that would test well in the heartland. The restaurant springs from Chad Allen’s sincere (and deep) love of ranch. It hardly makes him unique, though he is almost certainly the first to build a restaurant on that love. “We didn’t want something run-of-the-mill,” he explains. “We wanted something catchy.” When they were talking about what that meant in the context of those theme-park-style restaurants in Las Vegas and New York, Allen joked, “Well, I really love to force ranch dressing on people.” “After we started dabbling into the menu, we realized it could be fun,” Hayden says. The rest is history. They hired their chef in part because he, too, loves ranch (“I dip everything from hot dogs to chicken nuggets in ranch,” Tinker admits). They’ve also made sure to hire servers who like ranch — they want them to be able to describe

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Loaded fries at Twisted Ranch — with a side of ranch, natch. the highlights honestly. Neither Hayden nor Allen is quitting his day job, but they’re definitely all-in.

4. They know you’re laughing, but they’re laughing with you Initially, the press coverage shocked them. “We got calls from Oregon, New York, Washington, D.C. — and we had literally just gone in to apply for the liquor licenses,” Hayden recalls. But while the tone was incredulous at best, mocking at worst, it never occurred to the coowners to be insulted. “It was funny, it was crazy, it was a good thing,” Hayden says. In the weeks before opening, they had numerous customers trying to open the doors — people were genuinely curious about what they’re up to. And if they can convert even a handful of the curiosity-seekers into regulars, well, they’re starting off better than most new restaurants. “Any publicity is good publicity,” Hayden says. 5. They’re also insane Because, let’s face it, the concept is insane. Ranch dressing? In every single dish on the menu (except, OK, the dessert)? And did we mention they’re serving a ranch-flavored vodka? Ranch-flavored vodka? They see it as an excellent choice for a bloody mary, but we can just see some Soulard drunk buying shots for the house. Ranch-flavored shots!? So what can we say? Only time will tell. Twisted Ranch might be every bit as bad as Deadspin predicts. But judging from pre-opening buzz alone, this is an adventure America is dying to hear you tweet about. And isn’t that reason enough to stop by and see the place for yourself? — SARAH FENSKE Find hundreds of restaurant listings and reviews, as well as the latest in Gut Check, at riverfronttimes.com

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Ferguson Burger Bar & More 9120 West Florissant Avenue, Ferguson; 314-388-0424. Charles and Kizzie Davis’ Ferguson Burger Bar & More started out as a humble burger joint. Then the tragic shooting of Mike Brown by then-Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson happened, and the pair was thrust into the spotlight as figureheads for a city in crisis. The husband-and-wife team have risen to the occasion, refusing to shutter as their city was stricken with chaos and grief and serving as a place for the community to gather over soul food and diner fare. The house specialty is the “Garbage Burger” — a ground-beef patty, laden with a secret seasoning blend and smashed thin on a flattop so it develops a crispy edge. The burger is topped with lettuce, thick-sliced white onions, crispy bacon, a slice of American cheese, mayonnaise and a fried egg. Ferguson Burger Bar & More serves eight different varieties of chicken wingettes, including peach, “Sweetnspicy,” and lemon pepper, as well as fried-fish dinners, shrimp and Philly cheesesteak sandwiches. Breakfast is served all day. For hungry diners, the “Hearty Man’s Breakfast” provides a sampling of nearly the entire a.m. side of the menu: breakfast meat, three eggs, French toast and hash browns smothered in cheese, peppers and onions. Wash it all down with the house’s “Muddy Water,” a refreshing blend of sweet tea and citrusy juice. $ Pearl Cafe 8416 N. Lindbergh Boulevard; FlorisT H IS C O D E sant, 314-831-3701. From TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE the owners of nearby Simply RIVERFRONT TIMES Thai comes another winning IPHONE/ANDROID APP restaurant. The menu is FOR MORE RESTAURANTS OR VISIT lengthy but not overwhelmriverfronttimes.com ingly so, a greatest hits of Thai cuisine: soups, curries, stir fries, noodles and a catchall category of house specialties. Aficionados of Thai cuisine can choose their favorite dishes with confidence. Each dish is prepared with care, paying close attention to the customary Thai balance of sweet, sour, hot and savory. The overall ambiance works equally well for either a quick lunch or a casual dinner date. $-$$ Simply Thai 2470 N. Highway 67, Florissant, 314-921-2179. A small, no-frills restaurant — one room, paper napkins, no liquor license — Simply Thai happens to turn out fantastic Thai dishes both familiar and exotic. Curries are fantastic, especially the rich, complexly spiced massaman curry and the fiery green curry. (Be warned: The kitchen might very well deliver the latter spiced as hot as you think you want it.) Tom yum and tom kha soups are great, too, as is the less-familiar gang jued tofu, a clear broth with tofu, ground meat, cilantro and scallions. Specials include numerous seafood dishes, and do not miss the fried sweet-potato appetizer. $-$$

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THE LOOP Peacock Loop Diner 6261 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314-721-5555. The latest feather in Joe Edwards’ (Blueberry Hill, Pin-Up Bowl) impressively plumed cap, Peacock Loop Diner serves breakfast and lunch staples 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The bright, retro-themed restaurant is outfitted with a dizzying array of 1950s kitsch and boasts a curtained, rotating circular booth called the Carousel of Love. The menu offers everything from omelets and biscuits and gravy, to burgers and corn dogs. On the breakfast side, the “Finals Breakfast Sandwich” is a good one: an egg, griddled ham, bacon, sriacha and mixed-berry jam are sand-

wiched between two malty waffles. Ask for a side of maple syrup, and the dish becomes a quirky take on a Monte Cristo. Another standout is the chicken curry salad melt with Muenster cheese. And don’t leave without trying at least one of the seventeen different varieties of spiked milkshakes. They are break-up cures in a frosty glass. $-$$ Salt + Smoke 6525 Delmar Boulevard, University City; 314727-0200. Salt + Smoke infuses the Loop air with the unmistakable smell of barbecue. The scent may draw diners in, but the delectable barbecue taste will keep the crowds coming back for more. The latest venture from restaurateur Tom Schmidt, best known for Franco in Soulard, Salt + Smoke features Texas-style barbecue, a huge bourbon selection and comprehensive craft-beer offerings. Fried pickles and hush puppies dipped in honey butter are standout appetizers, and the falafel sandwich is the closest thing a vegetarian can get to barbecue. St. Louis-cut ribs are dry rubbed and fall off the bone. Those who order the brisket are given the option of the fatty part, the lean part or the burnt end. The lean part is tender and needs no sauce. The thick-sliced smoked bologna, flecked with fat, jalapeños and cheddar cheese, is more like salami than the thin-sliced Oscar Mayer deli slices. Be forewarned: A little goes a long way. Salt + Smoke offers thoughtful side dishes like white-cheddar-cracker mac & cheese, coleslaw tossed with apples and fennel, and sweet creamed corn. And make sure to save room for the chocolate pie. The flaky crust and bittersweet pudding-like filling make it an excellent ending to a great meal. $$

MAPLEWOOD Bolyard’s Meat & Provisions 2810 Sutton Boulevard, Maplewood, 314-647-2567. On a typical day at Bolyard’s Meat & Provisions, chef Chris Bolyard wields a sharp boning knife from a trusty chain-link utility belt armed with additional tools of the trade. He skillfully breaks down a cut of grass-fed beef from Double B Ranch out of Perryville, one of the many local farms he sources for pasture-raised animals. Elsewhere in his new full-service butcher shop, his staff preps sausage, braunschweiger and stocks from scratch. $$-$$$ A Pizza Story 7278 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-8990011. Huhammad Alwagheri, Sherif Nasser and Nael Saad didn’t set out to open a restaurant. The three Washington University academics just loved food. But at dinner parties, the conversation would quickly turn to: “What if we opened a restaurant?” The three finally took the leap and opened A Pizza Story in downtown Maplewood. The Neapolitan-style pizzeria serves classic wood-fired pies, like the Margherita, which simply consists of perfectly charred crust, fresh tomato sauce, basil and mozzarella cheese. Heat-seeking meat eaters should try the “Thriller”: Its fiery capicola, spicy tomato sauce and caramelized onions make for a satisfying meal. Though the restaurant is called A Pizza Story, other menu offerings take a starring role: A salad of arugula and beets pairs perfectly with goat cheese and lemon vinaigrette. The two pastas, shells ragu and fettuccine all’amatriciana are lightly sauced and full of meat: The ragu is like beef stew over shell-shaped pasta, and the fettuccine is simply heaped with pancetta. Save room for the creamy tiramisu — one of the best versions in town — and housemade gelato. It’s a sweet end to a Neapolitan feast.

MIDTOWN The Dark Room 615 N Grand Boulevard; 314-531-3416. Shutterbugs and winos alike will delight in Grand Center’s Dark Room. Part art gallery and part bar, the Dark Room features monthly photography exhibits curated by the International Photography Hall of Fame alongside an artisan wine program highlighting a substantial selection by the glass or bottle. The minimal space features decorative vintage film equipment and clean, contemporary design. Pappy’s Smokehouse 3106 Olive Street; 314-535-4340. Mike Emerson has cooked with Super Smokers founder Skip Steele at the prestigious Memphis in May barbecue contest, but midtown St. Louis is the big winner now that he’s opened Pappy’s Smokehouse. The modest joint is more restaurant than shack but utterly unpretentious. Servers wear T-shirts that say “The Hog Whisperer,” and the pulled pork and pork ribs — cooked dry and slow over apple and cherry wood — are nothing short of extraordinary. Even beef brisket is practically fork-tender. Sides are simple and delicious. Pappy’s closes when each day’s barbecue sells out, so call ahead if you go late. $ Small Batch Whiskey & Fare 3001 Locust Street; 314380-2040. Restaurateur David Bailey takes the whiskey-bar trend in an unexpected direction with his vegetarian eatery, Small Batch. Bailey doesn’t bill the place as a crunchy vegetarian spot; instead, he hopes that diners will enjoy the vegetable-focused concept so much that they fail to miss the meat. The carbonara pasta, made with housemade linguine, replaces the richness of bacon with smoked mushrooms. Even the most die-hard carnivore will be satisfied by the “burger,” a greasy-spoon-style corn and black bean patty topped with creamy guacamole, Chihuahua cheese, and Bailey’s signature “Rooster” sauce (tangy mayonnaise). Small Batch’s bourbon selection and creative cocktails are also impressive. The “Smokeysweet,” a blend of smoked cherries, rye and rhubarb, tastes like drinking punch by a campfire. For a taste of summer in a glass, the “Rickey” is a bright concoction of elderflower liquor, grapefruit, lime and white corn whiskey. The gorgeous, vintage setting provides an ideal spot to indulge in some Prohibition-era-style drinking. $-$$

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Atomic Renaissance Man 40 YEARS LATER, BLONDIE GUITARIST CHRIS STEIN IS STILL MAKING WAVES Blondie at Fair St. Louis 6:30 p.m. Friday, July 3. The Budweiser Stage in Forest Park, 5595 Grand Drive. Free.

or Chris Stein, music and photography have always been married. When he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York during the late ’60s, he made it his mission to document downtown culture. As luck would have it, that culture just happened to include a music scene that was on the brink of an international explosion. “What I tell friends now, or photographers: Just take pictures of your friends, because you never know what’s going to happen,” he says. It’s fitting that the Brooklyn native and icon of the CBGB scene is speaking to us about his body of work while walking the noisy streets of New York. As the guitarist for Blondie, Stein is often credited with bringing a fresh take to the city’s burgeoning ’70s punk scene. His musical BY instincts propelled the band well past its hybrid new-wave JAIME beginnings, and together the group explored elements of LEES rap, disco, reggae and even saccharine girl-group sounds. The result was a genre-busting mixture of oddly seductive, delightfully bratty and distinctly catchy pop songs that still defy classification. “I don’t know if we thought of ourselves as Renaissance people back then, but that was part of the equation, somewhat,” Stein says. “Everybody was just doing more than one thing pretty consistently. I guess some of the people were just doing music, but a lot of people I knew were doing more than one thing.” Stein does more than one thing, too. Most recently he has received high praise for his photography book, Negative: Me, Blondie, and the Advent of Punk. Released late last year, Negative shows how Stein’s keen eye, coupled with unfettered access, made him one of the most celebrated and consistently reliable custodians of the era. The book contains hundreds of photos that archive the scene and people Stein encountered, focusing heavily on

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Chris Stein, Debbie Harry and Clem Burke of Blondie. the undeniably photogenic Debbie Harry — singer for Blondie and Stein’s then-girlfriend. The son of painter mother and a “frustrated writer” father, Stein describes his parents as “very supportive.” “It was kind of a lower-middle-class artistic upbringing,” he says. “They got me my first guitar when I was twelve, and that was it.” It’s been more than 40 years since CBGB opened and almost nine years since it closed. The Lower East Side has been scrubbed clean and Stein’s hair is now Andy Warhol silver, but the man retains the same spongelike attributes that helped to make him a world-famous musician. Though the 65-year-old admits to spending “too much time sitting around and watching TV” (Game of Thrones is a favorite), he still finds plenty of time to explore new projects. He claims that his creative drive comes in spurts, but it seems that something

inside of him is always taking notes for future artistic purposes. Stein credits his constant curiosity and energy to his young daughters. “I have the same inner conflicts as everybody else,” he says. “I have to force myself to get motivated and move forward. I have two little kids now — it’s a whole different thing dealing with those guys. They definitely keep me in a younger frame of mind because I have to deal with them physically all the time.” He keeps up with newer trends, too. “I really like Instagram. I deal with that a lot, and there is a lot of amazing photography on there,” he says. “That’s always inspiring. A lot of street photography. And it’s really coming up now with the ease of taking sneaky pictures of people. Everybody wanders around staring at their phones and taking pictures of people at the same time.” riverfronttimes.com

While he concedes he isn’t as active hunting for new music as he is with photography — “It’s just too much shit to plow through. It’s kind of overwhelming to go out seeking stuff,” he explains — Stein has found a new obsession in today’s Latin music, including reggaeton, cumbia and Latin electronica. He confesses that his Spanish is pretty lousy but says that he responds to “the musicality of it. The melodies and stuff. It’s beautiful. Reggaeton is really hard-edged — it’s a great combination of the hard-edged dance music with these beautiful melodies.” Stein rejects his generation’s tradition of writing off all modern music. “You hear it all the time: ‘There’s no good music now.’ But there is,” he insists. “It’s 50 percent garbage, but it was always 50 percent garbage. In the ’60s...nobody remembers the crap; they just remember the good stuff.” ■

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b-sides Band Theft Auto TOUR VAN BREAK-INS RETURN TO ST. LOUIS AFTER BRIEF REPRIEVE round 8 a.m. on Saturday, June 20, Colin Dean stepped outside of the Crowne Plaza hotel in Clayton. In addition to playing drums in the Atlanta-based rock band Radio Birds, Dean serves as its unofficial mechanic, and on this particular morning he had planned to look at the van in which he and his bandmates had been living for the last month. On the drive from Bloomington, Indiana, to St. Louis the day before, they had noticed a slight tremble in the steering wheel. Dean figured he would address the problem before it turned into something more serious. Except that when he stepped into the parking lot of the hotel where they had left the van the night before, it was nowhere to be seen. “We initially called [the police] and were just trying to get somebody out to the scene, but they basically told us it’s a stolen vehicle — its already gone. So there was really nothing they were going to do,” says Justin Keller, who sings in the band. “In this situation, the van was worth probably $5,000, so that’s one thing, but we had $25,000 to $30,000 worth of stuff in the back.” That afternoon, Keller and his bandmates took a plane back to Georgia. Soon after they landed, one of them received a call from St. Louis police. They had found a 1997 Dodge 3500 Ram filled with amps and music gear in

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he idea that we live in a post-racial — or, God help us, a post-racist — society has been pretty thoroughly put to bed in the past year as events in Ferguson, Baltimore, Charleston and more have underlined the deep divisions and biases across our country. But if overt acts of racism and discrimination have somewhat receded, we’ve heard more and more about “microaggressions” — those coded acts and phrases that undermine a non-dominant culture. The distance between macro and micro could be seen in the gap between, say, a burning cross on someone’s lawn and a Confederate flag sticker on someone’s car. The hip-hop duo Subtle Aggression Monopoly (S.A.M) takes this concept for its band name, and the pair’s lyrical concerns are as much personal as they are political. Race isn’t the sole or even primary focus of S.A.M, though Mike Brown gets a name-check and the president is dismissed as irrelevant. Instead, emcees P.O.E.T-j (Jose Marks) and That Kidd Casper (Wes Ragland) show wisdom beyond their teenage years while remaining melodic, playful and searching. S.A.M employs the beats and rhythms of a few local producers and

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saved us, really — that whatever happened to the suspension, it was undrivable, and whoever was in it didn’t really want to get caught with a broken-down vehicle.” Although many of their bags and laptops were gone, all of the music gear was untouched. The thieves even left behind some personal effects of their own. “When we got to the van it was definitely ransacked, but there was a ton of stuff that wasn’t ours as well,” Keller says. “There was clothing and a purse and a bunch of weird stuff,

shows the breadth and depth of the underground hip-hop scene. The duo uses the trippy, piano-blues riff of Cn Clear’s “The Way Things Were” (from last year’s fine Urban Jazz Vol. 1) for “What We Are, Aren’t and Want to Be,” which finds the pair at its most soulful and P.O.E.T-j’s verses at their most fervid. Dylan Brady lends his signature stretchedand-screwed brand of boom-bap to “Take It Back” while Casper and J adapt to the hazy surroundings. Both emcees are malleable in this way as the album cycles through a few stylistic iterations — the bouncy, horn-aided “Cool-Aid” to the gauzy, state-of-the-union “Disappointment” — without settling on one. “Thank You” ends the album with sincere gratitude to the St. Louis hip-hop scene, with shoutouts to Black Spade, Tef Poe, Mvstermind and the duo’s own FarFetched family. “We’re still at the bottom, but hopefully this shit will get us somewhere,” says Casper. That’s a nice bit of modesty and ambition, though this debut is as solid an introduction as one could expect — Casper and J sound like they’ll fit right in with the names they mention. — CHRISTIAN SCHAEFFER

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Radio Birds is just one of three bands whose van was broken into last weekend.

like a tool kit. I think that whoever stole it had hit some other cars before they took ours.” In fact, Radio Birds is just one touring band whose vehicle was broken into that weekend. Two other groups, Denver’s Of Feather and Bone and Dearborn, Michigan’s Hollow Earth, have been touring together since June 17. They were parked side-by-side outside the City Museum when their vehicles were hit. According to Hollow Earth’s guitarist, Mike Moynihan, the incident took place just before 5 p.m. on Sunday, June 21. “We’ve been [to the City Museum] probably three or four times before and never had any problems,” Moynihan says. “This time we figured, ‘Hey, it’s a Sunday, we don’t have to pay to go into a lot, we can just park on the street, we’ll be fine, it’s the middle of the day.’” The four members of Hollow Earth parked around 2:30 p.m. and explored the museum on their own for a couple of hours. When Of Feather and Bone arrived around 4:30 p.m., Moynihan met them outside and found the van as he had left it. “At 4:45 we walked inside, used the bathroom, and showed [the members of Of Feather and Bone] around a little bit, as much as you can show somebody in five to ten minutes at the City Museum,” Moynihan says. “Then on our way back out, we get to the van, and I see the lock is popped out of the door. The guy who sings for our band, his girlfriend was with him, and they were still in the museum. And I said to them, ‘Hey, you guys need to get out here; the van got broken into,’ continued on page 46

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and he just said, ‘That’s not funny,’ and I was like, ‘Nope, not a joke.” The two vans had only been left unattended for ten to fifteen minutes. The thieves made off with bags and personal effects from both bands, including cash, laptops and clothes. There was even a bite missing from a muffin that a friend had given the members of Hollow Earth the day before in Milwaukee. “It sucks because they’re going to open up my bag and be like, ‘OK, well, we have some guy’s passport and a dirty Weird Al shirt, like, cool.’ And they’re going to throw it away,” Moynihan says. “That’s what sucks the most, knowing that all this shit that we had, all of our clean clothes, socks and underwear, are just gone. It’s not like they’re going to get any use out of it. They’re just throwing it away.” Last weekend’s incidents are just the latest in a long line of similar crimes. Over the past year, St. Louis has become notoriously dangerous for touring musicians driving vans with out-of-state plates. In November of last year, RFT Music ran a story about the issue: Between May and November, at least twelve bands had their vehicles broken into while passing through the Gateway City. The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department did not respond to repeated requests for comment via email and phone, but according to Mike Cracchiolo, who owns the Firebird and the Ready Room and works closely with touring musicians, this weekend’s thefts mark the end of a sharp decrease in such crimes. “Obviously there was a larger trend at play before,” Cracchiolo says. “There was a wave of these incidents that the police and the mayor’s office and all the various venues kind of came together and helped to solve. But unfortunately one or two isolated incidents happen, and you have to wonder if it’s going to happen all over again.” Like many club owners, Cracchiolo has gone to great lengths to prevent theft on his property. He has worked to streamline communication with neighboring venues as to help monitor suspicious behavior in the area. He has reworked artist parking and installed lockers in the Firebird, so that musicians can bring all of their valuables inside. Perhaps most important, he is vigilant about warning the bands of this ongoing problem so that they can act with caution. While all of these measures have made the Firebird itself fairly safe, Cracchiolo says, there is little he can do to protect artists when they are not at the venue. Coincidentally, all three of the artists whose vans were broken into last weekend were in town to perform at the Firebird. “We really make a strong effort to impress upon the bands how serious this issue is and to be as accommodating as possible, and find places to put their stuff while they’re here,” Cracchiolo says. “We tell them what has gone on, but at the end of the day, bands don’t expect to get hit in broad daylight. They don’t expect to get hit at the hotel, and if they go somewhere and get robbed before they get to the venue, then they don’t have the benefit of hearing that speech.” Cracchiolo says that these incidents can take

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Colin Dean of Radio Birds posing with a shirt they found in their recovered van.

place almost anywhere, and have occurred at several businesses that he patronizes himself. In fact, the Firebird has a standing discount deal with the Crowne Plaza Hotel, and Cracchiolo regularly recommends the hotel to artists, in large part because of the relative safety of its parking lot. This latest wave of thefts has left Cracchiolo feeling frustrated and angry. He has heard from booking agents that some touring musicians have requested to be routed around St. Louis, and he is afraid that St. Louis is developing a bad reputation. “St. Louis isn’t the only place where this happens,” Cracchiolo says. “If you follow the issue on a national scale, you’ll see that it happens in San Francisco all the time, it happens in Chicago pretty constantly. The difference is that nobody is going to skip those markets. You can’t really do a full U.S. tour and not play those markets, because they’re major markets. St. Louis is not. It’s something where you can maybe make that decision and say, ‘We can’t avoid San Francisco, but maybe we can avoid St. Louis this time around.’” Radio Birds is scheduled to play at Off Broadway on July 30. Keller says the band has no interest in canceling the show. “This doesn’t only happen in St. Louis by any means,” he says. “Seeing as it has happened like nine times very recently is a little concerning, and we’ll definitely take precautions, but I don’t think we’ll take any more precautions than we would anywhere else from here on out.” On the other hand, Moynihan says that on Hollow Earth’s next tour, the band will likely be steering past St. Louis. “It has gotten to the point now where we’re like, ‘Fuck.’ [St. Louis] is a stop that makes sense for getting somewhere else, but the shows are never good — everybody gets their gear stolen. So why are we fucking coming here?” Moynihan says. “And then we remember the City Museum.” — DEREK SCHWARTZ

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6 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, July 2 through 4. Forest Park, 5595 Grand Drive. Free. 314-434-3434. In years past, Fair St. Louis’ biggest hook was its price point — at “free,” the event can’t be beaten on that front. Artists such as Brett Michaels, one of the headliners in 2013, weren’t exactly the most exciting for diehard music fans, but hey, it’s an excuse to get out of the house, right? That lethargy changed with last year’s move to Forest Park. The expansive space ramped up everything, including the lineup: This year’s event includes the Mowgli’s, Blondie, MC Lyte, Morris Day & the Time, Kool & the Gang and more, providing ample incentive beyond frugality to spend a day (or three) in the sun. 250,000 Is a Crowd: Last year’s party saw record numbers in attendance, with organizers claiming that the weekend drew more people to the park than any event in more than a century. Be prepared to bump some elbows. —DANIEL HILL

STEVE EARLE 8 p.m. Friday, July 3. Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street. $35. 314-588-0505. Steve Earle’s hard turn toward the blues should surprise no one who has followed his four-decades-long career of politically charged peregrinations through American roots music. Terraplane, named after one of Robert Johnson’s most iconic songs, is Earle’s sixteenth studio album, and it’s rightfully co-credited to the Dukes, the name he’s given his ever-rotating band over the years. Guitarist Chris Masterson gets it: Like Earle, he plays the blues bent but not broken, post-modern but not pretentious. If Earle seems low on songwriting inspiration, he’s still high on the sound: dirty, thumping and bad to the electric-blues bone. The Seventh Time Is Not the Charm: Earle’s embrace of the blues isn’t owed directly to the end of his seventh marriage (to singer Allison Moorer), but you don’t write a song like “Better Off Alone” without a stack of divorce papers staring you down. —ROY KASTEN 48

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EVERYTHING WENT BLACK EP RELEASE SHOW 8 p.m. Friday, July 3. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street. $8. 314-535-0353. St. Louis’ finest metallic hardcore group, Everything Went Black, will release its new Night Terrors EP at this show, the band’s first since 2013’s Mosenthein on Encapsulated Records. EWB uploaded a preview track called “Two Thousand” to its Bandcamp page in late May that reflects the same intensity and heaviness fans have come to expect, but lead singer Brandon Hoffman insists, “It’s pretty wimpy compared to the rest of the EP.” That means you can reasonably expect that the other songs will pulverize your pathetic eardrums to a pitiable pulp. Night Terrors will be the first release on Hoffman’s new Hrtwrk Collective label, which aims to put out limited runs of cassettes and more vinyl in the future. Splitsville: Alongside Blight Future, Braddock and Big Blonde, Fister will open the show. Watch for a split release between Everything Went Black and Fister later this year. —DANIEL HILL

VOMITFACE 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 7. The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street. $4. 314-535-0353. Earlier this year we reported on the spate of new releases coming from an unlikely source: local ad agency Boxing Clever. The in-house label has issued attractive platters from locals like Bruiser Queen and CaveofswordS, though increasingly the release schedule is populated by out-of-towners. One such signing is Jersey City artpunks Vomitface, whose EP Another Bad Year came out on Boxing Clever Records in the middle of May. The five-track platter owes a little to bands such as Pavement, the Pixies and Sonic Youth, though the overall effect is more than mere retread. Local Support: STL noisemakers Little Big Bangs and Bastard & the Crows (the latter also a Boxing Clever act) will warm the stage. —CHRISTIAN SCHAEFFER

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THIS JUST IN 7 Seconds: W/ Bishops Green, Success, Thu., Aug. 27, 7 p.m., $15. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Alex Ligertwood: W/ David Garfield, Jim Stevens Group, Fri., Aug. 28, 8 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Andie Case: W/ You, Me & Dougie, Sat., July 18, 8 p.m., $15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505. The Bel Airs: Fri., Aug. 7, 10 p.m., $10. Fri., Sept. 25, 10 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Bermuda: W/ 2x4, the Prestige, Abscala, Ascension of Akari, Wed., July 29, 7 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Betty Fox Blues Band: Sun., Aug. 9, 8 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Birdcloud: W/ Blaine Cartwright, Thu., Oct. 22, 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Black Fast Album Release Show: W/ Crimson Shadows, the Lion's Daughter, the Gorge, Sat., Aug. 1, 8 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-5350353. C2 and the Brothers Reed: Sat., Aug. 22, 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Chris Robinson Brotherhood: Thu., Oct. 1, 8 p.m., $22-$25. Old Rock House, T H IS C O D E TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, RIVERFRONT TIMES 314-588-0505. Christian Mistress: W/ IPHONE/ANDROID APP Grand Inquisitor, Path of FOR MORE CONCERTS OR VISIT Might, Tue., Sept. 15, 8 p.m., riverfronttimes.com $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Convictions: W/ My Heart To Fear, Play the Hero, Sun., Aug. 2, 6 p.m., $10-$12. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009. Damiou Williams: Sat., Aug. 1, 8 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Dedric Clark & the Animals: Thu., Sept. 24, 9 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. DiBaise: W/ Addicted, Fri., July 24, 8 p.m., $10. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009. Dikembe: W/ Bike Path, New Lives, Thu., July 16, 7 p.m., $10$12. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Drag the River: Wed., Aug. 12, 8 p.m., $10-$12. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Exotype: W/ Kingdom of Giants, Brightwell, Like Vultures, Ends of Infinity, Mon., Aug. 10, 6 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Flamingo: W/ Capitol Drive, Even Then, Fri., Aug. 14, 7 p.m., $8. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Four Year Stong: W/ Defeater, Expire, Speak Low If You Speak Love, Sat., Sept. 5, 8 p.m., $16-$18. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. Fresh Produce: Thu., July 9, 9 p.m., $5. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. The Fuck Off and Dies Record Release: W/ Braddock, Opposites Attack, Sat., Aug. 1, 9 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Gabriel Garzon-Montano: W/ Grace Brummel, Malena, Thu., July 23, 7 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Gateway Music Festival: W/ Keith Sweat, Bell Biv Devoe, Salt-N-Pepa, 112, Fri., Oct. 2, 8 p.m., $49-$125. Chaifetz Arena, 1 S. Compton Ave., St. Louis, 314-977-5000. Have Gun Will Travel: W/ Garrett Klahn, Tue., Aug. 25, 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Hidden Hospitals: W/ Man Eating Tiger, Ocean Rivals, Sat., July 11, 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Ice Hockey: W/ Hemingway, Better Off, the Neighborhood Watch, Church Key, Field Goal, Tue., July 28, 7 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Ivas John Band: Fri., Aug. 21, 10 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Jake's Leg: Fri., Aug. 7, 8 p.m., $7. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar

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Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009. Jamaican Queens: W/ Earth to Sender, We Are Like Computers, Fri., July 17, 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. James Armstrong Blues Band: Sat., Aug. 29, 10 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Joell Ortiz & !llmind: Sun., Aug. 2, 6 p.m., $15. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Joey Cape: Wed., Oct. 7, 8 p.m., $15. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Joywave: W/ Alpine, Fri., Oct. 2, 8 p.m., $12-$15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. Justin Willman: Sat., Aug. 22, 8 p.m., $25. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161. Juvenile: Sun., July 5, 4 p.m., TBA. Harry's, 2144 Market St., St. Louis, 314-421-6969. Keke Wyatt: Sat., Aug. 1, 9 p.m., $20-$30. Ambassador, 9800 Halls Ferry Road, North St. Louis County, 314-8699090. Kilborn Alley: Fri., Sept. 18, 10 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Laura Rain & the Caesars: Sat., Sept. 5, 10 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Lil Jay Malloy: Sun., July 19, 8 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Lydia: W/ Seahaven, Turnover, the Technicolors, Tue., Oct. 13, 7 p.m., $15-$18. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. Marbin: Fri., Sept. 11, 7 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Megan Nicole: Tue., Sept. 8, 7 p.m., $18-$20. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Michael Angelo Batio: Thu., Aug. 27, 7 p.m., $16-$18. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Mike Floss: Thu., Aug. 13, 8 p.m., $10-$12. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Mike Peters of the Alarm: Mon., Sept. 21, 8 p.m., $15-$25. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314588-0505. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult: Tue., Sept. 29, 8 p.m., $17-$20. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-5350353. The Nearly Deads: W/ jusTed, Running With Tarantulas, Formations, the Tortured Anomaly, Which Way, Sat., Aug. 1, 6 p.m., $12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-2899050. Official Stand Up Summer Tour 2015: W/ Deleasa, the House On Cliff, Time Atlas, Clay Borrell, My Only Escape, Six Stories Told, Drew Ryniewicz, Lauren Carnahan, Wed., July 22, 6 p.m., $15-$30. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Pears: Tue., Sept. 1, 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Pik’n Lik’n: Thu., July 9, 8 p.m., free. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009. Polly O'Keary Band: Sun., Aug. 16, 8 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. PopNation Summer Tour 2015: W/ Round 2 Crew, Sweet Suspense, Carson Lueders, the Food Conspiracy, Chris Miles, After Romeo, Frankie, KATELYN JAE, the Bomb Digz, Thu., Aug. 6, 6 p.m., $15-$30. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Pure Bathing Culture: W/ Wild Ones, Mon., Oct. 12, 8 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Rachelle Coba Band: Wed., Aug. 12, 9 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Randy McAllister Band: Sat., Aug. 22, 10 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222. Rick Gibson Band: Sun., Sept. 20, 8 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Rockin' Jake: Thu., Sept. 3, 9 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Royal Bliss: Wed., July 15, 7 p.m., $11-$13. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Safe to Say: W/ Young and Heartless, WATERMEDOWN, Sun., Aug. 9, 7 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. The Sauce Boss: Sat., Aug. 22, 7 p.m., $15. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Stacy Mitchhart Band: Sat., Sept. 19, 10 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222. Sugaray Rayford Band: Thu., Aug. 13, 9 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222. Survay Says: W/ Firestarter, Duck Brown, Snooty and the Rat Finks, Sun., Aug. 16, 7 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Twista: Fri., July 31, 7 p.m., $10-$15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Typesetter: W/ the Howl, New Lives, Sat., Aug. 8, 8 p.m., $10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Voo Davis Blues Band: Sun., Sept. 13, 8 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222. Walshy: W/ MarshyMarsh, Filthy Deluxe, the Outtakes, Fri., July 31, 7 p.m., $12. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. What Moon Things: W/ Einsam, Birds of Stanhope, Persh, Tue., July 21, 7 p.m., $8-$10. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis.

THIS WEEK Animal Children: Mon., July 6, 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. Anson Funderburgh: W/ Andy T. and Nick Nixon Band, Wed., July 8, 9 p.m., $15. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Betty Who: W/ Coin, Thu., July 2, 8 p.m., $16-$18. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. Billy Barnett Band: Thu., July 2, 7 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Boo Boo Davis & the Stingers: Sat., July 4, 10 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Brandon Maddox: W/ Matt Jordan, Thu., July 2, 8 p.m., $10. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009. Concentrator: W/ Shake Horn, Fri., July 3, 7 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-7722100. Corina Corina: W/ Brief, Armani Swayze, Sun., July 5, 3 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. Disastronaut: W/ Fumer, Planet Eater, ((ZXEL)), Thu., July 2, 8 p.m., $8. The Demo, 4191 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. Edhochuli: Thu., July 2, 8 p.m., $5. Lemp Neighborhood Arts Center, 3301 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-771-1096. Eternal Summers: Wed., July 8, 8 p.m., $10. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353. Everything Went Black EP Release Show: Fri., July 3, 8 p.m., $8. W/ Fister, Big Blonde, Braddock, Blight Future, Fri., July-3,Family 8 p.m., $8.owned The Firebird, 2706operated Olive St., St. Louis, and 314-535-0353. 1977 Extinction A.D.: W/ since Reptile Lord, Tue., July 7, 7 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. - Pizza featured on the Travel The Faded Truth: W/ Rise Above Zero, Harris, Ever More Broken, Fri., July 3, 8 p.m., $8. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Channel’s Delicious Desitinations Louis, 314-289-9050. Fair St. Louis: W/ Kool & the Gang, Blondie, Melissa Ether55 Draft beers, than idge, -Natalie Stovall and the Drive,more Parmalee, Chris Young, MC Lyte, American Authors, Tony Toni Tone, Thu., July 2, 6 150 bottles p.m.; Fri., July 3, 6 p.m.; Sat., July 4, 6 p.m., Free. Forest Park, Highway 40 (I-64) & Hampton Ave., St. Louis. LiveSun., music Good for the -Soul: July 5, 6weekly p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Jamaica Live Tuesdays: W/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ Witz, Tuesdays, $5/$10. Elmo's Love Lounge, 7828 Olive Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561. John Fogerty: Tue., July 7, 8 p.m., $45-$150. The Fox Theatre, 527 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, 314-534-1111. 314.862.0009 • www.ciceros-stl.com Juvenile: Sun., July 5, 4 p.m., TBA. Harry's, 2144 Market St., St. Louis, 314-421-6969. Left Astray: W/ Wounded Knee, Laika, Anodes, Tue., July 7, 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. Leggy: W/ Brainstems, Posture, Sun., July 5, 7 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-7722100. Leroy Jodie Pierson: Fri., July 3, 7 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Lesionread: W/ Logan Locking, Superfun Yeah Yeah Rocketship, WHSKY JANETor, Fri., July 3, 10 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. Love Jones "The Band": Fri., July 3, 10 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Night of Duos: An Ambient/Improv Secret Project Fundraiser: Wed., July 8, 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. Ravagers: W/ I Actually, Sun., July 5, 8 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Revence: Wed., July 8, 6 p.m., Free. Hard Rock Cafe, 1820 Market St., St. Louis, 314-621-7625. Round Eye: W/ Mr. Clit & the Pink Cigarettes, Tiger Rider, Mon., July 6, 9 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. Sizzle Birthday Bash: Fri., July 3, 7 p.m., $10-$13. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050. Soulard Blues Band: Mondays, 9 p.m., $5. Broadway Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-8811. St. Louis Social Club: Tue., July 7, 8 p.m., $10. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. The Steeldrivers: Thu., July 2, 8 p.m., $20-$25. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis. The Steepwater Band: Fri., July 3, 10:30 p.m., $7. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880. Steve Earle: Fri., July 3, 8 p.m., $35. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505. Steve Earle & the Dukes: W/ the Mastersons, Fri., July 3, 8 p.m., $35. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505. Tesla's Revenge: W/ Lushes, Babe Lords, Thu., July 2, 8 p.m., $5. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. Three Crooked Men: Thu., July 2, 8 p.m., Free. Cicero's, 6691 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-862-0009. Tom Byrne & Erika Johnson: Mon., July 6, 8 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Tom Hall: Sat., July 4, 6 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222. Tom Hall & Alice Spencer: Sun., July 5, 9 p.m., $5. BB's Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222.

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savage love Gymnastics Hey, Dan: I’m a gay male gymnast. Most of the guys on my college team are annoyed by the kind of objectification we routinely come in for. But I’ve always been turned on by the thought of being a piece of meat. I’ve masturbated for years about dehumanization. It finally happened. I found a guy on Recon.com. We had a long talk about what I was and wasn’t OK with: no bruises, no welts, no red marks. He didn’t bruise me, but he did something that it didn’t occur to me to rule out: He shaved off all my body hair — pits, pubes, legs, BY ass, chest. I’m angry, but at the same time, I’m seriously DAN turned on by the thought of seeing this guy again. S AVA G E I also have a boyfriend. I thought going in that this would be a onetime thing, that I would get this out of my system and never tell my boyfriend about it, but I don’t think I can do that now. What do I say to my boyfriend about being suddenly hairless and about my kink? And what do I say to the guy? I want to go back and continue to explore being an object, but I don’t feel like I can trust him. Desire Erased Humanity Until My Aching Nuts Explode

You could tell your boyfriend the partial truth, DEHUMANE, or you could tell your boyfriend the whole truth. The partial truth would go something like this: “Guess what, honey? I shaved off all my body hair all by myself just for fun. Do you like it? And, hey, we’ve been dating for a while, so I should probably lay all my kink cards on the table.” Then you tell him about these fantasies with a smile on your face and a bone in your jock. Don’t panic — and don’t hold it against him — if he reacts negatively at first. This is the start of a conversation, not the end of it, and it’s a conversation about his desires, too, DEHUMANE, not just yours. If it turns out that dehumanization/objectification isn’t something he can do, and it’s not something he could allow you to do with others, then you’re not right for each other. End the relationship and date kinksters you meet on Recon. The full truth would go something like this: Hand him this column. DEHUMANE’s boyfriend, if you’re reading this, please know that the mistake your boyfriend made — doing this behind your back in the hopes that one experience would satisfy his curiosity forever — is a common one. A lot of people, kinky and not, believe that kinky desires only have to be acted on once: Get the kink out of your system and enjoy vanilla sex for the rest of your life. But kinks don’t work that way. In the same way that “normal” people

don’t wanna fuck just once in their lives, a person with your boyfriend’s kinks isn’t going to wanna be objectified and dehumanized just once in his life. Your boyfriend didn’t know that before he did it the first time, but he knows it now. If you can find it in your heart to forgive him, you could wind up with a very hot and very grateful guy. Back to you, DEHUMANE: Put Recon Guy on hold until after you full or partial the boyfriend. If you do want to play with him again — because you’re single or because your boyfriend approves — have an out-of-roles conversation with him about what happened last time. He didn’t hurt you, he tricked you, and you’re understandably wary of playing with him again. If you do play with him again — a big if — this time anything you haven’t ruled in is automatically ruled out. No tricks. With any luck, your boyfriend will be there to keep an eye on him and to enjoy the sight of your helpless body. Hey, Dan: I’m a 26-year-old guy. I had a fling with an awesome bisexual girl, and I told her about the fantasies I’ve always had about men. She suggested I was bisexual, and it started to make a lot of sense to me. So like an idiot, I came out to my parents. They don’t seem to believe that I’m bisexual, despite my father being a trans woman. Some days I don’t feel the urge to have sex with men at all, and I feel silly for coming out. But I’ve cybered with a few guys on Gaydar, etc., and I’ve really enjoyed it. So am I bi or not? Or does it even matter? Was I stupid coming out? I am in a rural area far from the LGBT community, but I’m planning a weekend in the city soon, and I’m hitting the gay bars in the hopes that if I at least make out with a guy, I will get some clarity. Can’t Retract And Panicked

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