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“You can see how many people are using the skate park. There are kids, there are little kids, there are older people like me. There are really amazing, super-talented skaters who come here and hang out just like the beginners. It’s a neat thing because the beginners see how the experienced people handle themselves and then just absorb it. There’s not a lot of overt ‘here, do this’ or ‘don’t do this.’ Unless somebody gets out of line; then it’s like, ‘Hey, man, don’t do that. Here’s why.’ It really does work. Everybody just feels like it’s their park.”

—JONATHAN HARMS, PHOTOGRAPHED AT THE PETER MATHEWS MEMORIAL SKATE GARDEN AT MORGANFORD ROAD AND OSCEOLA STREET ON AUGUST 19

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Fall into the Arts

These twenty autumnal events will lift your spirits — and get you exploring something new

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Cover photography by

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NEWS

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Seven days worth of great stuff to see and do

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Move-In Day at the Everly

Buttressed with tax incentives, some of the priciest apartments in the city greet their new residents

Film

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon take another Trip to eat and imitate

New Hope for Prop NS

Side Dish

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The violence in Charlottesville attracts locals on the march

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Tara Gallina of Vicia has big ambitions for restaurant service

The Bronson House offers cocktails under the stars in Midtown

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Sara Graham visits Nudo House for some ramen, while Sarah Fenske checks out SweetFixx for gorgeous treats in the Grove

Did the ballot initiative actually win approval at the ballot box?

An alderwoman makes the case

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ugust 15 was move-in day at Everly on the Loop — the pricey new high-rise on Delmar targeting students at Washington University and other nearby colleges. Complementary sushi from United Provisions and Insomnia cookies were just the start of amenities that greeted new residents.

Around 250 people were moving into their furnished apartments.

Seventy-five more joined them Monday, just a week before classes start at ash . That’s enough to fill about three-fourths of the building’s 428 bedrooms, says Brant Pustay, a leasing and marketing specialist with Landmark Properties, which is managing the project on behalf of the Koman Group.

Management teams have hosted a variety of promotions over the recent months. Some marketed free food celebrating graduates at Chris Sommers’ nearby restaurants Pi and ‘ZZA, while others offered new leasees a chance to win a $10,000 scholarship. Landmark reached out Washington University students through mass emails to their school accounts. Students say Everly’s marketing team handed them freebies like Kaldi’s gift cards while visiting campus.

Still, the units are significantly more pricey than most others in the area: A studio will put you back $1,475 a month.

Construction workers, management sta and tenants filled the entrance on the summer afternoon.

“We just moved in,” says Jennifer Sun, a graduate student studying biomedical engineering at Washington University. She decided to rent at the Everly because she prefers newer construction and is atContinued on pg 10 tracted to the

Subsized with $12.8 million in tax incentives, the Everly’s amenities include a fourth-floor pool and a Jumbotron for big games. | CAITLIN LEE

Could Prop NS Still Eke Out a Victory?

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rop NS was the little ballot initiative that could. The brainchild of a committee on the St. Louis Association of Community Organization, or SLACO, it was a grassroots effort in every sense of the word. Backers didn’t just raise money and then hire professionals — they personally knocked on doors.

The committee sought to persuade city voters in April to approve a tiny property tax increase (one penny on every $100 of valuation).

That money would be used to issue bonds to stabilize city-owned vacant houses, getting them in good enough shape to be sold. The city

currently owns 12,000 vacants — but with a little structural support, backers thought they might be sold to homeowners wanting to put down roots in the city.

The ballot proposition came agonizingly close to passage, earning 31,926 votes after spending just $34,000. (Compare that to the campaign to build an MLS stadium, which spent $1 million and earned 4,000 fewer votes.) But even though it garnered 58 percent of the vote, it wasn’t enough for passage — since Prop NS involved city bonds, it needed a two-thirds majority, or 66 percent.

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Alderwoman Cara Spencer now says she believes that interpretation is incorrect. And she’s working to get those election results reexamined. riverfronttimes.com

It comes down to an interesting legal argument. The reason Prop NS needed more than a simple majority is that it has to do with a bond issuance. Under the city charter, that means (in municipal general elections like the one in April), twothirds of those voting must say yes.

But Spencer says she believes state law trumps the city’s charter in this case. And under state law, propositions involving bonds don’t need two-thirds of voters in municipal general elections. They only need four-sevenths.

By that measure, Prop NS actually made the cut. Backers would only need 57.14 percent under the state standard, and they squeaked past that by a full percentage point.

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PROP NS Continued from pg 9 an interpretation. In 2000, the eastern district of Missouri’s appellate court held that the city of Hazelwood could not require two-thirds approval for a bond plan there — state law, instead, prevailed.

Late last week, Spencer formally asked for a legal opinion from the City Counselor, asking him to clear up whether the state standard applies in this case.

“Such an opinion is necessary before the Board of Aldermen and other City officials can complete the issuance of bonds,” she wrote. “Since this election took place over four months ago, I would request an expedited response to this question.”

Contrary to the dispassionate language in her legal request, on the phone, Spencer is wildly enthusiastic about Prop NS and the ways it could help neighborhoods like the one she represents, which includes Gravois Park and part of Cherokee Street.

“We have an enormous vacancy problem in the city,” she says.

“In the 20th ward, 30 percent of our housing units are vacant.

And we have no tools to stabilize the buildings that are crumbling in our neighborhoods.”

Spencer believes the relatively small amount of money Prop NS would raise — up to $40 million — would go a long way.

“One of our city’s best assets is our beautiful historic housing stock,” she says. Beyond that, she notes, “A majority of St. Louis voted for this!”

As for the petitioners who worked so hard to craft the ballot proposition, they were initially surprised by how close they came. Says Stacy Ross, “I am shocked that our little group of people were able to be more successful than the stadium people, who had millions of dollars.”

Now they wonder if the proposition could be even more than a near-miss. Could they have won enough votes to make new policy for one of St. Louis’ long-standing, most pressing problems?

Four months after the Prop NS campaign seemed over for good, Ross and the other backers are again holding their breath, waiting for a decision.

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In a since-deleted photo, Clark Canepa, center, praised ‘a weekend for the books.’ | VIA INSTAGRAM

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fter Clark Canepa, a Ladue H o r t o n Wa t k i n s H i g h School graduate, was filmed marching alongside torchcarrying white supremacists in Charlottesville, appalled antiracists began circulating a picture from his Instagram page.

The photo shows the unrepentant 21-year-old grinning with his arms around a small bunch of friends.

“It was a weekend for the books with the St. Louis goys,” Canepa wrote in the caption, “goy” being a Yiddish word for non-Jews. The location tag was Charlottesville, Virginia, the scene of a violent and ultimately deadly clash on August 19 between white supremacists, including neoNazis, and counter protesters.

While Canepa, who told KMOV he had a “fantastic time” at the march, has drawn most of the attention, St. Louis University High grads focused on another person in the Instagram photo. Zach Morley, a 2015 graduate of the Jesuit Catholic prep school, is at the far left of the frame. (The post was later removed, and Canepa has locked down his Instagram.)

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Times last week to identify the 21-year-old, who is now a junior at Saint Louis University studying business, according to a university directory.

“This doesn’t represent SLUH as an institution,” one former high school classmate told the RFT after outing Morley.

Another sent screen grabs of bigoted posts Morley shared on his Facebook page, including a picture of a somber-looking old man sitting between two children, who appear to be of a different race. “when u realize what u fought for in WW2,” reads the caption.

Another post, from July 20, comments on a story titled, “China has an irrational fear of a ‘black invasion’ bringing drugs, crime and interracial marriage.”

The post says, “Weird. Why would they think such a thing?”

The RFT contacted Morley at his university email account and through Facebook last Friday. He later shut down the Facebook page, but he responded on email, describing himself as the victim of an “ideological witch hunt.”

“My appearance in a photo with someone who may or may not have been at the rally says nothing about my opinions whatsoever,” he writes. orley then threatened to file a lawsuit.

“If you insinuate that I hate anyone on account of their race or sympathize with neo nazis (of which there is zero evidence) you will be sued for defamation,”

Morley writes. “You personally will be sued and your company will be sued.”

We then asked Morley to further explain his opinions and clear up any confusion. Here is his response, in its entirety: It’s very saddening that we live in such a rabidly divisive society where self-proclaimed “liberals” are in reality so desperate and closed minded so as to engage in violence, defamation, and lies against those like myself trying to foster dialogue of diverse ideas.

Character slurs such as “racist” and “neo-Nazi” are last ditch attempts from a perishing ideology of global secular humanism.

Christ was crucified. Joan of Arc burned. Oscar Romero shot.

All by their own countrymen for crimes they did not commit. Today they are remembered as heroes.

Thankfully my Jesuit education has taught me to deal with the blows just like them. The guilt is on my persecutors.

We asked him to give us some specifics about those ideas and how he tries to “foster dialogue.”

We also wanted to know about his perspective on Charlottesville and asked for examples of the persecution he claims to be facing, but Morley didn’t respond further.

Representatives of the Jesuit high school and university, where Morley says he learned to deflect crucifixion-level attacks, released statements that generally condemned the racism on display in Charlottesville but didn’t specifically mention Morley.

Saint Louis University told us, “At Saint Louis University, we seek to foster an inclusive campus environment where people from all walks of life are welcomed and respected. The bigotry on display in Charlottesville, Virginia, brought shudders to American households and to our campus. With the Catholic Bishops of the United States, we “stand against the evil of racism, white supremacy and neo-Nazism.” Such loathing, degradation and false primacy are diametrically opposed to Saint Louis University’s Catholic, Jesuit values. The University condemns the propagation of hate, acts of oppression and dehumanizing of our neighbors.

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Amenities at the Everly include a tanning bed, top right, and a 24-hour gym. | CAITLIN LEE

EVERLY Continued from pg 9 apartment style set-up, amenities and location. espite having no ormal a liation with any university, the majority of the Everly’s residents are students. The Koman Group did not respond to a request for a breakdown of which universities its tenants attend or provide the number of leases held by non-students and families with children.

In March, the Riverfront Times reported that the room-by-room leasing structure and marketing campaign prioritizes college students over low-income families, despite a sizable tax incentive package enabling the development. The Everly is one of a few privately owned new builds and renovations in St. Louis with this model — part of a nationwide development trend targeting a young, a uent clientele.

In recent months, the Everly has offered discounted rates. Says Pustay, “Right now we are kinda depending on word of mouth.” The hope is that friends of residents will sign leases after visiting their friends’ new homes.

Some students weren’t interested. “I just thought it was ridiculous how expensive it was,” says Amy Chen, an undergraduate student at Washington University. “It was insulting that they thought that college students would easily spend that much money superfluously. ll those luxuries seemed unnecessary.

Also, the constant pandering to students became really annoying.”

While construction is now complete in all the apartments, it continues on the facade but is expected to be completed soon. Pustay says Koman has not yet announced commercial tenants for the street-level shops, which are being built on a deferred schedule.

Scaffolding occupies a small corner of the otherwise pristine fourthfloor roo dec , which eatures a wading pool, astroturf lawn, marble countertop flan ed grills and a Jumbotron for sports games. The floor also hosts a -hr gym and a tanning room.

When talking about programming, Pustay says, “As opposed to the fun party atmosphere, we do want to bring the academic side as well.” He notes that monthly events will center on one of four rotating themes: philanthropy, academics, wellness and social. For example, during midterm season the live-in management team may host latenight study breaks with free food and Red Bull.

Landmark’s Pustay agreed to give a reporter an impromptu tour of the building, but the company did not respond to additional requests for comment. Koman Group did not respond to emailed questions and subsequent calls requesting comment.

Landmark Properties, which specializes in student housing management, also manages the

Standard at St. Louis, a luxury “off-campus community” located near Saint Louis University’s campus. The Standard is also new construction, but unlike the Everly, the Standard was built without tax incentives from the city. The city assessor’s database reports that the Standard paid more than $752,000 in real-estate taxes in 2016.

The Everly is getting a break on all that. Move-in day at the Everly marks the beginning of a sixteen-year, $12.8 million tax abatement from the city. Mayor Lyda Krewson helped secure these incentives for the developers when she was alderwoman.

“It was galling to see [the Everly] open on the first wee o school at SLPS,” says Kathleen Carson, a St. Louis Public Schools parent.

“We’ve allowed our tax dollars, 60 percent of which would have gone to the school district, to be used to pay for private perks, while school teachers are paying out of their own pockets to make sure their students have basic supplies and working second jobs to make ends meet.”

Had the Everly been built without tax abatement, around $7 million from property taxes would go to St. Louis public schools over that sixteen-year period. That has left a bad taste in some parents’ mouths, a taste that has been lingering for a while now. In 2013 historian George Lipsitz wrote, “Despite extravagant claims that tax abatements and other subsiriverfronttimes.com

dies would increase the general wealth of cities, the St. Louis case shows clearly that subsidies… do not ‘trickle down’ to the majority of the population, but instead function largely as a means for transferring wealth and resources from the poor and the middle class to the rich.”

The Everly’s tax abatement package does not require the developers to meet any affordable housing commitments. Tia Byrd, a steering committee member of St. Louis Equal Housing and Community Reinvestment Council, says with rents increasing while wages are stagnating, the city needs to invest in its growing population of residents living paycheck-to-paycheck. She underscores that the city and its residents would benefit from a prioritization of affordable units, rather than luxury units for a uent residents.

But since the Everly is one of many high-end buildings granted subsidy from the city, the city’s implementation of development incentives is not only dictating which residents gain access to quality housing and education— but also taking a perilous toll on the city coffers. Byrd says, “These short-sighted investments have terrible long term consequences; they are bankrupting our city.” n Caitlin Lee (@_gears__) is an independent researcher in St. Louis and a graduate of Washington University.

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Fall Into the Arts

These twenty autumnal events will lift your spirits — and get you exploring something new Written by PA U L F R I S W O L D

OK, maybe it doesn’t feel like fall quite yet — the leaves are still on the trees, and the temperature regularly shoots past 80. But Labor Day weekend’s commencement promises we’ll soon be feeling that familiar nip in the air, the quickening of spirits that comes with the first sign of autumn.

And fall puts us in the mood to learn something new. Summer is all about pool parties, alcohol, float trips. The months that follow suggest museums, galleries, darkened cinemas. Could there a better time to take the plunge and explore something new?

Here are twenty things to do this fall to expand your artistic and cultural horizons. Plus, we’ve included a bonus item: something happening in the spring that you may want to start planning for now. (You’ll know it when you see it.)

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Panoramas of the City In a year in which the Missouri History Museum exhibition team has given us the stories of St. Louis’ greatest civil rights reedom fighters and returned us to the glory days of Route 66, it would take something truly spectacular for the museum to outdo itself — and yet somehow it’s done just that. The museum’s new exhibition, Panoramas of the City, is as close to time travel as you can get without involving Morlocks. The show comprises seven floor-to-ceiling size images of scenes such as Charles Lindbergh speaking to a crowd of 100,000 people on Art Hill at his “welcome home” party and a 1920 march on Olive Street by the League of Women Voters.

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joined by props and interactive media displays that give viewers a better understanding of the historical context of each scene. More than 60 panoramas of various sizes round out the exhibit, which will be on display from September 2 to August 12, 2018, at the Missouri History Museum (Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue; www.mohistory.org).

Dot Dotty is not the woman she once was — and some days, even she can admit that. Gone is the middle-class woman who raised three kids and used to entertain all and sundry during the holidays. In her place is a woman who forgets to take her pills and can’t safely prepare her own meals or be trusted alone in her own home. Her daughter Shelly has taken charge of Dotty’s care, but Shelly has her own life to get back to. What does Dotty have left? Colman Domingo’s play Dot deals with aging, Alzheimer’s and the unsettling passing of the baton that happens when children step up to care for their own parents. The Black Rep opens its 41st season with Dot. Performances take place September 6 to 24 at Washington University’s Edison Theatre (6465 Forsyth Boulevard; www. theblackrep.org).

the film, acting as both in-story soundtrack and a sort of Greek chorus. Hearing Bowie’s ‘70s-era songs in a foreign language with only Jorge’s acoustic guitar as accompaniment made them sound as new and as alien as they did when they first blasted out of your speakers. Jorge is on tour honoring the artistic legacy of David Bowie with Seu Jorge: The Life Aquatic, a Tribute to David Bowie. The show features a recreation o the film’s set, with images from the movie projected onto boat sails while Jorge performs those incredible songs in his native tongue. Seu Jorge: The Life Aquatic, a Tribute to David Bowie takes place at 8 p.m. Tuesday, September 12, at the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard; www.thepageant.com).

Seu Jorge: The Life Aquatic Seu Jorge turned in one of the most memorable performances in Wes Anderson’s film The Life Aquatic without speaking a word. The Brazilian singer played the role of Pele, a sailor who sang Portuguese versions of David Bowie songs throughout

The Feast Matt and Anna are by all accounts a happy couple. He’s a painter with a burgeoning gallery deal, she’s a modern business warrior-woman; really, all they can complain about is the groaning and gnashing of the plumbing, but what do you expect in New York? Matt doesn’t really start to worry until the sewers begin talking to him.

Then everybody he encounters speaks in the same sonorous voice, e tolling him to ulfill his great destiny. Cory Finley’s The Feast is an eerie comedy about the tenuous boundary separating reality from madness.

St. Louis Actors’ Studio opens its eleventh season with the Burroughs grad’s play. Performances take place September 22 to October 8 at Gaslight Theatre (358 North Boyle Avenue; www. stlas.org).

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BookFest St. Louis Despite boasting two major library systems, a strong set of municipal libraries, a thriving culture of independent book stores and one of the strongest literary heritages of any city in America, St. Louis has had trouble maintaining an ongoing literary festival, with the notable exception of the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival. BookFest St. Louis aims to right that wrong with a long-lasting celebration of the literary arts. The inaugural BookFest St. Louis, which is organized and supported by the Central West End, Left Bank Books and the Left Bank Books Foundation, riverfronttimes.com

will take place September 21 to 23 at multiple locations within the Central West End (www. bookfeststl.com) and will feature panels with authors who write for children, those who write literary fiction, memoir, poetry, science fiction and a celebration in honor of the centenary of T.S. Eliot’s Prufrock and Other Observations.

Penn & Teller Penn & Teller are the kind of magicians who tell you they’re going to trick you, show you how they’ll do the trick and still manage to trick you anyway. The duo have fired nail-guns into their own hands, dumped hundreds of cockroaches on David Letterman and generally ba ed and bewildered audiences for 40 years, all while being supreme showmen. And then there are their card tricks, which at one point required four-foot-high metal playing cards that the pair shu ed using electric or li ts.

Penn & Teller perform strange miracles at 8 p.m. Friday, September 29, at the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts (2300 West Clay Street, St. Charles; www. lindenwood.edu) on the Lindenwood University campus.

Borgia Infami The Borgia family has been synonymous with brilliance and the lust for power since the days the fifteenth century. They dominated politics and ecclesiastical roles while remaining cunning warriors and generous patrons of the arts. But they were also slandered and libeled by the people they out-maneuvered.

Rodrigo attained the position o pope he was o cially ope Alexander VI), but was then accused of hosting orgies in the Vatican. His son Cesare was frequently cited as an example of what not to do by Machiavelli in his famous treatise The Prince.

Cesare’s sister Lucrezia was used as a pawn by the family to gain power through marriage, and she was rumored to be the family executioner, poisoning people who had outlived their usefulness. The Borgias have all the ingredients for a fantastic opera (or soap opera), which is exactly why Harold Blumenfeld wrote Borgia Infami. Blumenfeld’s opera weaves together fact and various fictional portrayContinued on pg 18 als of the

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family to give a full picture of their significance in history. The ashington University Department of Music presents the world premiere of Borgia Infami at 7:30 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday (September 30 and October 1) at Washington University’s Edison Theatre (6465 Forsyth Boulevard; www.edison. wustl.edu).

Madco Freedom Madco brought the curtain down on its 40th season with Freedom, a collection of four new dance pieces inspired by images of the civil rights movement in the ‘60s and what happened in Ferguson just two years earlier. The four choreographers — Cecil Slaughter, Nejla Yatkin, Jennifer Archibald and Gina Patterson — didn’t seek to directly recreate scenes o fire hoses and heavily-armed police officers on stage. ather, they sought to evoke both a sense of oppression and the striving, human element that sought equality through peaceful means. Madco presents an encore performance of Freedom at 8 p.m. Saturday, September 30, at the Touhill Performing Arts Center (1 University Drive at Natural Bridge Road; www.touhill.org) on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus.

The Bodyguard Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner brought old-fashioned romance back to the big screen with their smash film, The Bodyguard.

Alexander Dinelaris adapted the film into a musical, and made a few changes along the way. Rather

than focus on ex-Secret Service guy Frank Farmer, Dinelaris centers the story on singer Rachel. And while Whitney is not going to take the stage to belt out “I Will Always Love You,” the musical is loaded with additional Houston hits, and the romance still sweeps the show along to a dramatic conclusion. The Bodyguard the Musical is presented October 3 to 15 at the Fox Theatre (527 North Grand Boulevard; www. fabulousfox.com).

Cardenio: Shakespeare’s Lost Play Of the many mysteries surrounding William Shakespeare — Was that his real name? Did he use a quill or a word processor to write? What were his thoughts on ru ed collars one o the more interesting possibilities is the fate of his play Cardenio.

Oxford’s Bodleian Library has proof it was staged in 1612, but then it seemingly disappeared.

A version of it supposedly surfaced in 1727 when an editor was given the play’s manuscript by a man who worked in the theater; after reshaping it, the editor presented it under the title The Double Falsehood. What is known for a certainty is that Cardenio was inspired by a story found in Don Quixote about a man who is betrayed in love by a friend, which causes our hero Cardenio to go live in the hollow of a cork tree in the Spanish mountains.

Gregory Doran, artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, attempted to wrangle all these threads together in a complete version of the play. Some of it is from Shakespeare, some from Shakey’s collaborator John

Fletcher, some from Cervantes and some of it is written fresh this century to hold the thing together. St. Louis Shakespeare presents the lost and found play Cardenio October 6 to 15 at the Ivory Theatre (7620 Michigan Avenue; www.stlshakespeare.org).

Bob Newhart Bob Newhart is atypical even for a comedian. He broke into showbiz by releasing a comedy record on Warner Bros. and then left his job as an accountant to tour his act in clubs across the country.

Even stranger, his act involved playing the straight man in a oneman show. Newhart plays off an invisible partner, keeping up his end of the conversation while implying what the other person is saying through calm responses laced with a quiet disbelief at what he’s hearing. On paper, it should never work. But on stage, Newhart spins gold out of these mundane set-ups. Bob Newhart’s still in the game after 56 years, and he brings his current tour to town at 8 p.m. Saturday, October 7, at the J. Scheidegger Center for the Arts (2300 West Clay Street, St. Charles; www.lindenwood.edu) on the Lindenwood University campus.

— the company’s 51st season.

Prince Hamlet mopes around castle lsinore, trying to figure out what to do with his life now that his father the king is dead and his Uncle Claudius has assumed both the throne and the heart of his sister-in-law, Hamlet’s mother.

When his father’s ghost tells Hamlet that Claudius is a murderous usurper, amlet finds his bloody purpose in life. But can he throw away everything in order to avenge his father? The Repertory Theatre St. Louis presents its first-ever Hamlet October 11

to November 5 at Webster University’s Loretto-Hilton Center (130 Edgar Road, Webster Groves; www.repstl.org).

John Mulaney Broadway baby John Mulaney is fresh off a highly successful run as cantankerous sex pest George St. Geegland in the bizarre stage show Too Much Tuna. Prior to treading the boards, Mulaney worked as a stand-up comic and writer on Saturday Night Live. His stand-up is powered by his near-obsessive layering of detail into strange-but-

true stories about his childhood and his dog and playing insidious pranks with a diner’s jukebox. Mulaney is back on the road with his new comedy tour, Kid Gorgeous.

He performs at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 19, at Peabody Opera House (1400 Market Street; www. peabodyoperahouse.com).

Giselle Saint Louis Ballet opens its new season with the romantic and haunting French ballet Giselle.

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Various computer scientists and engineers, along with a single former vice president, all claim to have created the internet, but everybody knows it was really cats who did it. How else could they attain the worship they’re due than by harnessing a mass-media system that’s on for 24 hours a day? The “human beings” (sure) at CatVideos.com bring the message to the people with the traveling show Cat Videos Live! Hosted by comedienne Carla Rhodes, the show features exclusive videos of cats doing whatever it is they do, as well as clips of local cats submitted by their proud people. The St. Louis stop of Cat Videos Live! takes place at 8:30 p.m. Sunday, October 8, at the Pageant (6161 Delmar Boulevard; www.thepageant.com). If you are owned by a cat and don’t attend, you’ll be placing your life in the beclawed paws of a cuddly murder machine.

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Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics We live in a high-tech world in which we can communicate instantly with someone on the other side of the globe — or even orbiting in space on the International Space Station — without really understanding how such techno-

Every one’s Type The new artist on Cherokee made her name through an old fixation: typewriters

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ouise Anne “LA” Marler says typewriters are in her blood. A St. Louis native, Marler will open her third studio showcasing typewriters and typewriter-inspired art on Cherokee Street next year, joining others in Santa Monica and New York.

Her space at 2308 Cherokee, located just east of Jefferson in the street’s antique district, isn’t exactly conventional. The back-of-building entrance opens up to a small studio with popart printouts and other materials scattered around the walls and in bins. Upstairs is the “salon,” named after the literary salons of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Furnished like a combination of a cozy living room and a minikitchen, the room features vintage typewriters and type-themed artwork.

“I like to show art in a different format than the traditional gallery style,” Marler says.

“It’s an immersive experience and more personal and comfortable than a standard gallery format where you have to stand around.”

In fact, some of Marler’s other installations combine rentable living spaces with art. In both Joshua Tree and St. Genevieve, she houses her artwork and collectible typewriters in Air B&B retreats she calls “TypeInns.” Marler aims to inspire writers by providing them space to finish their manuscripts — for a rental fee, of course. The St. Louis studio will also double as a Type-Inn in the future, she says.

“All of my work is really kind of based on wordplay and the idea of writing, the process of writing, dissecting the language and interpreting it,” Marler says.

L The cast of Hamilton. | © JOAN MARCUS 2016 logical marvels occur. We may as well be victims of Arthur C. lar e’s Third aw ny su ciently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

German artist Thomas Struth reveals how scientists and engineers perform their magic tricks simply by showing you where the magic happens. His monumental photographs reveal the research spaces and installations where science reshapes our world every day. Thirty-five of Struth’s visually-dense photographs make up the new exhibition Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics at Saint Louis Art Museum (1 Fine Arts Drive; www. slam.org). The show features robotics laboratories and aeronautical centers that appear to be sets from a big-budget sci-fi movie, but they’re really just office spaces for some of the most intelligent people on earth. Thomas Struth: Nature & Politics will be on display November 5 through January 21.

John Cleese with Monty Python and the Holy Grail Monty Python and the Holy Grail remains an unassailable comedy classic. It doesn’t matter if you’re a high-brow medievalist who loves the film or the period-correct pronunciation of “knight” used throughout or simply a fan of moose-bite jokes; Holy Grail has something for everyone. In fact, the only thing it doesn’t have is a live John Cleese that steps out o the film at the

end and answers all your questions about sword-throwing watery tarts as forms of government and why the French think elderberries are insulting — until now. Following a showing of the film at p.m. Thursday, November 16, at Peabody Opera House (1400 Market Street; www.peabodyoperahouse.com), John Cleese will take the stage to answer your questions. Please note that Mr. Cleese has requested “absurd and/or ridiculous questions only,” so go nuts.

Remnant The tradition of theater companies presenting Christmas-themed plays during December is an old one, but you rarely see one as alien and yet familiar as Ron Reed’s drama Remnant. The play takes place after the end of the world, in the cramped home of Barlow Sho’r and family, who live surrounded by the electric detritus of the pre-apocalypse world.

Despite the cataclysm that’s broken society, memories of Christmas still linger among the survivors — and Barlow fervently believes that if they properly perform all the Christmas rituals tonight, the world will spontaneously rejuvenate.

When a mysterious stranger arrives seeking shelter, Barlow has a tough decision to make.

Does Christmas require him to kill a man to make its miracle work? Mustard Seed Theatre made its debut with Remnant

way back in 2007. It mounts its second production of the show — even closer to the end of the world — December 12 to 23 at Fontbonne Fine Arts Theatre (6800 Wydown Boulevard; www. mustardseedtheatre.com).

Hamilton Who’d have thought a musical about one of the Founding Fathers would be a smash-hit in an era when these august old men are used as ammunition for every sort of political argument? (Especially the one who was killed in a duel with the sitting vice president.) Lin-Manuel Miranda tells the story of an orphan from the Caribbean who rises to the top of Colonial American society and then fights or his young country in the Revolutionary War. He cheekily casts people of color as his civilians, soldiers and statesmen, and incorporates a soundtrack of hiphop, R & B and traditional show tunes to transform our perception of these legends of the past, making them more human. And rather than present an anodyne version of Hamilton’s life, Miranda depicts his title character as a brilliant, complex, selfmade man — and then he hits the audience with the ultimate truth: No one gets to decide how they’re remembered. The highly anticipated musical makes its St. Louis debut April 3 to 22 at the Fox Theatre (527 North Grand Boulevard; www.fabulousfox. n com). riverfronttimes.com

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EVERYONE’S TYPE Continued from pg 15 “It has been a really fun visual literary journey for me to bridge those.”

Marler’s family history with typewriters dates back to her grandfather. He learned to repair typewriters through post-World War I military service and later trained Marler’s father in the industry.

Eventually, Marler’s father opened a business of his own, with a letter shop in the back. His repair and retail shop would honor trade ins — rin in an old manual typewriter, and you’d get mone off the purchase of a new electric one. Because of this, the family accumulated countless machines.

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scouring the universe,” Marler says.

“They came to us. We gathered more than we hunted.”

The family pastime is something Marler, in her 50s, has been exposed to for as long as she can remember.

In fact, rolling sheets of letterhead into the machines ecame arler s first real job at just ten years old.

“I didn’t realize until much later that it set the course for me wanting to pursue communicating and publishing in a bigger and wider format ever since then,” Marler says.

Before pursuing her true passion for typewriters, Marler graduated from Southeast Missouri State with degrees in marketing and psychology. Upon graduating, she stumbled upon the opportunity to move to Los Angeles when a local friend needed a roommate. riverfronttimes.com

“So I packed my little Chevy Cavalier with $200 and a sleeping bag and drove across the country,” Marler says. “I ot the classified ads to look for a job and had a job at an international magazine within one week.”

Marler worked in advertising and journalism for a while — which she says means her career has “always been about paper and ink.” On the side, she dabbled in photography, and would frequent a junkyard near her parents’ home for inspiration. Once the junkyard got cleaned up, Marler sought a new subject — one that rekindled a lifelon lo e “I thought, ‘Oh my god, what am I going to do now?’” Marler says. “And I looked around and saw the typewriters a ain and went — aha Upon facing criticism that her typewriter artwork wasn’t “sexy” enough for

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Artist LA Marler and some of her work, which focuses on typewriters. Her first St. Louis location, which she is planning for Cherokee Street, will be open by appointment only. | SABRINA MEDLER

Hollywood, Marler bought the domain name “typewritersaresexy.com” to call attention to the machine’s alluring qualities. Her fanbase grew, and she even wound up in a documentary: The Typewriter (In the 21st Century), which also features noted authors Robert Caro and David McCullough.

As her community grew, Marler wanted a new way for typewriter lovers to come together. She started hosting “Type-Ins,” consisting of writing, performances, group exhibits, community activities and speeches. Tom Hanks, who’s also a typewriter connoisseur, even donated an autographed machine to Marler for her 2016 Venice Type-In. “I thought it was fun to experience the typewriters and the actual sound of a person thinking,” Marler says. “You can tell when their ideas are gathered

and owin or when the re just stopped and processing. So it’s really kind of a fun audio experience.”

But despite all that success out West, Marler decided to return to her roots following the recent death of her father. She opened the Ste. Genevieve space in January and, in May, purchased her location on Cherokee Street.

“I thought, ‘I’m gonna set this up while I still have the energy to do it,’” Marler says. “It’s sort of a retirement plan for me, but when I say retirement — I will ne er stop workin I really expect to work until I’m 90 or 100, because I don’t consider this work. It’s an awesome life.”

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Children especially like the visible cause and effect of strikin the ke and seeing the impression. They’ve “never seen anything like it,” she says.

Marler hopes to have a private opening this December. Those interested should email Marler at louise@lamarler. com to get on her VIP list. Because the St. Louis location will feature some of Marler’s rarest collectibles, the location will open to eager typewriter enthusiasts by appointment only.

Marler hopes to grow her St. Louis business by expanding, adding a typing and tea event and perhaps opening the “Marler Museum of Typewriters” to tell the family history.

“I’m a risk taker,” Marler says.

“I’ve been playing it safe for a long time, but with my maturity I get braver and braver. So watch out.” !

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THURSDAY 08/24 Swim Team What do you do as a parent when doctors predict your autistic child will never be self-sufficient? If you’re Maria and Mike McQuade, you form a Special Olympics swim team for your son and other local autistic children, and you just keep going. Mikey Jr., Robert Justino and Kelvin Truong are three of the competitors on the Jersey Hammerheads, but they’re the stars of Lara Stolman’s documentary Swim Team. Within the discipline of training, practice and regular competition, the trio’s lives open up — and their extended families find an understanding and empathetic social circle of their own.

Swim Team follows the Hammerheads through one season, as the young men find a new world in the pool — one that’s big enough or them to find better utures. The Webster Film Series and Easterseals Midwest present Swim Team at 7:30 p.m. tonight at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood Avenue; www. webster.edu film-series . Tic ets are $5 to $7.

USA vs Mexico Arena Soccer It’s a big year for the St. Louis Ambush. The indoor soccer team hosted the Major Arena Soccer League All-Star Game in June, and now it’s one of three Midwest hosts for the American Indoor National Team. Mexico, our neighbor to the south (we’re separated only by a resident , ta es on Team S at 7:35 p.m. tonight at the Family Arena (2002 Arena Parkway, St. harles www. amilyarena.com .

Officially this is an exhibition game, giving both sides a tune-up on the way to the World Cup (indoor soccer division in ctober.

Team USA is the defending champion, so expect Mexico to play a hard game. Tickets are $16 to $45.

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Batman has lasted almost 80 years at this point, which means the character has more than a handful of fans. It seems like almost all of them have at some point made an unauthori ed an film starring the Dark Knight Detective. Some recreate a personal favorite story from the comics, while others go for crossover appeal (Batman vs.

Darth Vader shows up in the No. 1 slot in a lot of “Best Batman Fan ilm lists or a reason . ocal filmmaker Matthew J.R. Kohler went the film noir route with his film, Batman: Master of Fear. The film features a new character, Nightmare, a mysterious masked man who works with the crime lord Black Mask in an attempt to drawn in Batman. The inaugural episode of a planned three-part “mini-web series” debuts at 8 p.m. tonight at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood Avenue; www.webster.edu/ film-series . dmission is ree, and if you enjoy it you can donate to their Kickstarter, which will fund the remaining episodes.

Howard Jones: Think Rethink Like many artists, Howard Jones is deeply enamored of his tools.

These are the objects that channel the creative vision, after all. But

Jones engages with tools beyond merely working with them. He views them as material and media, taking them apart, modifying them and reshaping them into art objects. In Jones’ hands a shovel handle sprouts three blades; the handle of a paint brush sprouts a violin neck or an assemblage of pencils; and the legs of a chair curl out in rake heads. His exhibition Howard Jones: Think Rethink features a host of tools that offer an elegant beauty — and sometimes function as well. Think: Rethink opens with a free reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, August 25, at the Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design (6640 Delmar Boulevard, University City; www.craftalliance. org . The show remains up through October 22, and the gallery is open every day except Monday.

UniverSoul Circus Now that the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus is gone, UniverSoul Circus is the top-ranked circus in America. The popular show returns to St. Louis for two weeks of performances at at 1111 North Broadway (www.universoulcircus.com , ne t to the ome.

Along for the ride this year are Detroit’s Fresh the Clowns, whose dance “JuJu on that Beat” has become a viral sensation. Along with the Clowns are the Bone Breaking Contortionists from Guinea, China’s Aerial Silks and the always popular Caribbean Dancers. UniverSoul Circus performs multiple shows daily August 24 to September 4 (no performances on August and . Tic ets are to .

Above and below, details from Barista, now on display at Gallery 210. | ADAM TURL

SATURDAY 08/26 Exposure 19: Jumbled Time Gallery 210’s long-running Exposure series brings together local artists who work in the same media or pursue the same ideas in their work. In the case of Exposure 19: Jumbled Time, Stan Chisholm, Lizzy Martinez and Adam Turl all share an interest in narrative art, whether that’s the sometimes enigmatic phrases Chisholm stamps out on bricks and other building materials, or Turl’s set-like assemblages of objects and paint that hint at the personality of their subject. Jumbled Time opens with a free artists’ reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, August 26, at Gallery 210 on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus (1 University Drive at Natural ridge oad .

Titus Andronicus Roman general Titus Andronicus is tired of war. He’s returned victorious one last time, bringing Tamora, Queen of the Goths, and her three sons back home as captives.

He makes the fateful decision to sacrifice her oldest son to the gods in memory of his own boys, who died during the war. This infuriates Tamora — and her secret lover sees his chance wreak devastation on all sides. loodshed and ruin flow rom

this moment on, ruining Titus’ remaining family, perhaps even breaking his spirit and his mind, while Rome teeters on the brink of ruin. William Shakespeare’s tragedy Titus Andronicus is gory, violent and often horrible, but there is hard truth in all that blood. St. Louis Shakespeare presents Titus Andronicus at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sunday (August to September at the Ivory Theatre (7620 Michigan Avenue; www. stlsha espeare.org .

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SUNDAY 08/27 Trailer Park Boys Every season of Trailer Park Boys begins and ends the same way. Nova Scotia’s greasiest reprobates Ricky, Julian and Bubbles are released from prison so they can raise more hell back home at the trailer park, only to be returned to jail in the last episode. The new stage show A Fucked Up Evening with Trailer Park Boys alters the model a bit, with the boys escaping from police custody. They have an unknown amount of time to drink, smoke and antagonize trailer park supervisor Mr. Lahey and his live-in boyfriend Randy before they’re busted again,

so they have to make the most of it. The Boys take the stage at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Peabody Opera House (1400 Market Street; www. peabodyoperahouse.com . Tic ets are $31.50 to $56.50.

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The Caines in Spain Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon take another Trip to eat and imitate Written by

ROBERT HUNT The Trip to Spain

Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Marta Barrio and Claire Keelan. Opens Friday, August 25, at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema.

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he Trip to Spain, the latest installment in this young century’s most consistently entertaining series of films (or “franchise,” if you insist on sounding like a second-year business student), continues in the simple pattern of its predecessors.

British actors/comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon spend a week driving through a country, visiting obscure and expensive restaurants while engaging in (mostly) good-natured comparisons of their respective careers and abilities to impersonate Michael Caine.

The concept is almost ridiculously simple, yet Coogan and Brydon, working with director Michael Winterbottom, have managed to transform this semi-improvised notion into an impressive balance of comedy and human drama. The two men are always a pleasure to watch, but there’s a bare honesty under the joking. Even though the films rest on their play ul verbal sparring, Coogan and Brydon end up revealing truths about friendship and life between quips.

Although they use their own names, Coogan and Brydon are playing characters who deliberately exaggerate or even distort their real public images. Coogan was a favorite target of the British tabloids when The Trip appeared in 2010, and much of the series plays on his vanity and self-importance.

The Welsh-born Brydon, whose greatest achievement (at least as the films have it is a squea y-voiced

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There is slightly more tension between them in the new film, their third, which depicts a friendly but pointed one-upmanship that threatens to go off the rails. The gap between their personalities widens as Coogan, fresh from the global success of 2013’s Philomena, becomes slightly paranoid. Even his nightmares are tempered by his vanity. In one, he mistakenly leaps up to accept an Oscar; in another, he’s dragged before Grand Inquisitor de Torquemada (or more accurately, Brydon impersonating Marlon Brando in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery) and tries to brag his way out of torture with a story about meeting the Pope. A running source of humor in the film is that everyone is aware o Coogan’s egotism, tolerating it and even eeding it in order to deflate it.

In one scene, Coogan is coaxed into comparing himself — favorably, of course — to Picasso, only to realize slowly just how ridiculously pompous he sounds.

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stream of celebrity impressions, a passive-aggressive contest between the two men as well as a shared affirmation of their love of pop culture.

The impressions are more than just showing off; they’re nearly the most personal way Coogan and Brydon communicate with each other.

They can be endearingly silly, as when Brydon, alone in his room, reads a travel guide in the voice of Roger Moore, but there’s also something strangely compulsive at work. In one scene, where Brydon delivers a series of jokes about the history of the Moors, again using the voice of James Bond, he seems unable to stop himself, as if possessed by the spirit of a 007-loving vaudevillian.

Throughout the Trip films, there is an interplay between the comedy of the two men and the complications of their private lives. In The Trip to Spain, those two factors become even more tangled as Coogan grows sulky and increasingly unpredictable. When a young English busker proves knowledgeable about Spanish cuisine, Coogan has a tantrum and bolts. Even the lighter moments have an underlying tension; when Brydon out-does Coogan with an anecdote about David

Bowie, I honestly worried that it would be the pop-culture straw to break their relationship.

The Trip to Spain, like its predecessors, was first presented in a six-episode TV version, then condensed into a single film. In some ways, I prefer the leisurely pace of the television presentation, in which the journey and the meals take on an almost ritualistic quality. (One advantage to the shorter version is that viewers are spared some of their lesser imitations: Neither man can do a passable William Shatner and Brydon’s Willie Nelson is awful.) oth versions benefit rom the seamlessness of Winterbottom’s direction and the cinematography, which captures the natural beauty of the Spanish locations without meandering into a travelogue. The TV series is more casual, while the theatrical film crystalli es the drama of Coogan’s eroding psyche and makes the ending, a potentially divisive surprise event, even more startling. After the good company and rambling pace o the first two Trip films, interbottom and his cast have given the series a decisive shift — and where this cerebral Hope and Crosby go next is anyn body’s guess.

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For anyone who has driven past the busy intersection, this may seem like a bizarre, if not utterly incorrect, observation. After all, a restaurant named Webster Wok has been passing off its not-soparticular brand of sauce-coated chicken nuggets as Chinese food in this exact spot for more than 30 years. Granted, it closed for about a year to undergo a facelift, but it reopened a few months ago with a menu that looks basically the same. What’s changed?

As it turns out, quite a lot. You’d never know it from a casual glance — or even from the default menu your server hands you — but about three months ago, Webster Wok stealthily transformed into a secret bastion of authentic Chinese food, courtesy of its new manager, Nora Li. A software engineer by trade, Li watched her brother and sister toil for ten years in restaurants around

town, yet they never seemed to get ahead. If they were going to work so hard for someone else, she thought, why not open their own place and apply their experience to create a better life for themselves?

Though she had zero restaurant experience herself, Li searched around town for a turnkey restaurant the family could take over. That’s when she came across an ad for Webster Wok. She worked out an agreement with the restaurant’s owners to take the place over. It was a lease, not a purchase, but she and her family were given full creative control.

Li took that notion seriously.

Though she did not want to alienate the longtime regulars who frequented the place for the Americanized fare, Li wanted to offer diners a more authentic taste of her homeland. To do this, she hired a Chicago-based chef who had received acclaim in his native riverfronttimes.com

Shanghai to head the kitchen. As he developed the menu, Li and her siblings got to work deep-cleaning and renovating the space, a job that took several months. Finally, they opened the doors of the new and improved Webster Wok at the end of May. T h e e x t e r i o r o f We b s t e r Wok looks identical to its past incarnation, so you’d be forgiven if the change went unnoticed. You’d even be forgiven for failing to recognize anything different than a fresh coat of paint if you perused the menu. This is because Li and company assume that diners come into Webster Wok looking for the Americanized dishes and, by default, hand over a menu that lists them. However, tucked away behind the counter is a secret menu that boasts traditional Chinese specialties — offerings that have about as much in common with the

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TAPPED Continued from pg 33 American menu as they do with what’s fried up at the McDonald’s across the parking lot. There are no General Tso’s McNuggets here: This food is transcendent.

For appetizers, an almost translucent, scallion-flecked pancake is neutral on the initial bite, but it gradually reveals layers of subtle flavor — the pungent herbs, the delicately nutty dough, a hint of savory oil from the frying pan. Its heartier cousin, the chives bao, is more up ront in its flavor, hitting you with the salty brine of minced shrimp mixed with eggs and chives. The concoction is stuffed into a crepe-like batter and pan-fried, a cross between a quesadilla and an omelet.

Li is particularly proud of the restaurant’s version of this dish, and it’s easy to see why.

A sizzling platter of “Country Style Pork” presents as a spice bomb — which it indeed proves to be. Rich pork belly and shockingly tender tendon compete for real estate on the plate with fiery green chiles and green onion. The spice from the peppers infuses the rendered fat, forming a chile oil glaze that gives each bite a hiccupinducing kick. However, the pork’s flavor shines through, ma ing it di cult to stop eating even as the sweat beads on your brow.

“Yushiang Eggplant” is less spicy than the pork, though it still packs a red chile-spiked punch. Large hunks of the jewel-toned vegetable are slicked with sesame oil and coated in red peppers, but the heat is offset by vinegar and sugar. The eggplant is cooked perfectly; the te ture is firm enough to retain its form, but soft enough to dissolve like tempered butter. It’s a master class in how to prepare this most

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Under the “seafood” section, an entry simply lists “shrimp, scallop, lobster and squid.” What arrived was a bounty so impressive it may as well have been commissioned

by Neptune himself. Two lobster tails, tender squid, pearlescent scallops, massive shrimp, hunks of crabmeat and bamboo stalks cut into geometric shapes bob in a thickened broth that tastes like lobster bisque. This impressive platter is positively celebratory.

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visit, but my pride was shaken when I walked into the restaurant for round two and discovered that I’d only learned part of the story.

My friend, who hails from China, had gotten there first and was perusing something even more secret: a third menu, written entirely in Mandarin, that is given out to the restaurant’s Chinese guests. Initially, I thought it was simply a translation of the menu I’d seen the other day, but it turns out to be an entirely different bill of fare with even more traditional Chinese food.

Had I not been with her, I might never have experienced the fried lamb with cumin, a sauté of meat that is so tender it literally melts in the mouth. Cumin, green peppers and chiles infuse the meat with complex heat.

Double-cooked pork belly is as succulent as the lamb, a texture that results from boiling the meat before frying so that it softens and the excess fat cooks off. Somehow, this concentrates the por flavor, while the remaining fat mingles with the green peppers and garlic leaves, forming a spicy glaze.

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A seafood platter includes shrimp, scallop, lobster, crab, squid and fish cake. | MABEL SUEN Webster Wok also serves a surprisingly authentic version of Geleshan chicken — or, at least, so pronounced the stranger at the table next to us who has had the real deal. Named after a city in China, the dish consists of bone-in hunks of meat that are floured, fried and coated in Szechuan peppercorn chile oil that imparts a menthol flavor. It has a delicious flavor profile that’s similar to the restaurant’s anise-scented beef brisket and tomato soup. Like pho on steroids, this rich broth is a warm bowl of comfort.

Sweet and sour squirrel fish is as much a feast for the eyes as for the palate. The mild white fish is splayed and cut up in a way that can only be described as looking exactly like a bloomin’ onion. The entire fish is battered and deepfried, then covered in real sweet and sour sauce that looks cloying but is surprisingly balanced. This, according to my friend, is the dish you order when you are trying to impress people.

I was indeed impressed, though when I think back to our dinner, I keep coming back to a simple

cabbage sauté. White cabbage, hand-shredded into bite-sized pieces that are like silken rose petals, glistens with sesame oil and red chiles. The earthy funk of the cabbage marries the nutty oil, creating a deep, savory flavor punctuated with pungent red pepper spice that coats the mouth.

It’s been two weeks, and I’m haunted by cabbage, something I didn’t know was possible.

As I reveled in this cabbageinduced nirvana, I noticed a man walk in for a to-go order. “General Tso’s chicken,” he said, and then left the restaurant with his order, a man standing on a whale fishing for minnows. I imagine he’s not alone — after all, the name Webster Wok has been associated with crab Rangoon and three-dollar lunch specials for the better part of three decades. And it still is, only now, that’s just one part of the story. The rest is hiding in plain sight. n Webster Wok

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hen Tara Gallina of Vicia (4260 Forest Park Avenue; 314-553-9239) was in college, she had big plans that had nothing to do with the restaurant industry.

“I was a broadcast journalism major at the University of Central Florida, with big plans to be the next Katie Couric,” Gallina laughs.

“I realized toward the end of the program that it wasn’t what I wanted. What 21-year-old knows what they want to do?”

While she was in school, Gallina worked at what she describes as a “super cheesy” chain restaurant, but she never seriously considered it as a career path. Instead, she found herself working for non-profits and eventually in human resources for a startup in Orlando. There, she quickly rose through the ranks and found herself running the department, though her professional success did not equate to personal happiness. “I found myself in over my head in something I had no intention o getting into in the first place,” Gallina explains. “I had no idea how I got there, and had this moment in my early twenties when I was unhappy with how it had all gone.”

Gallina had always enjoyed cooking, so she dealt with her professional dissatisfaction by turning to the kitchen and starting a food blog. Eventually, she realized that she was spending more time working on the blog than on her job. As she began asking herself how to realign her priorities, the answer became clear: She should go to culinary school.

Gallina decided to enroll in the French Culinary Institute (now the International Culinary Center) in New York, figuring it would be

Tara Gallina, who opened Vicia with her husband Michael, would like to see restaurant management given the respect it deserves. | SARA BANNOURA a ten-month stint. However, an internship at the renowned Blue Hill at Stone Barns changed those plans. “I moved there for a sixmonth internship and it changed my life,” says Gallina. “It was like going to graduate school or fine dining and sustainable agriculture. It’s the hardest thing I have ever done in my entire life, but it sparked something in me that I’d always been looking for.”

At Blue Hill, Gallina quickly became key player in several facets of the restaurant, but it was the service element that really caught her attention. “Blue Hill is a magical place where dining is about storytelling,” Gallina explains.

“It’s so much more than waiting tables; it’s creating an experience for someone, and that’s what really captured me in a big way.”

As Gallina rose to become the restaurant’s service captain, something — or rather someone — else captured her as well: chef Michael Gallina. The pair fell in love, mar-

ried and decided to return to Michael Gallina’s native St. Louis to open a place of their own. In just five months, that restaurant, icia, has garnered national acclaim, including recognition from both Eater and Bon Appetit as one of the year’s best new restaurants.

Though much credit or icia’s success can be attributed to what goes on in the kitchen, Gallina is equally proud of the front of the house, even though it’s an aspect that often gets overlooked. When asked why she thinks this is the case, Gallina has some ideas. “I think it’s systemic. For so long service jobs have been thought of as a stepping stone for people who are trying to do something else,” she explains. “Not a lot of people view this type of work as a long-term career. There’s a perception associated with it. Telling your mom you’re going to grow up and be a restaurant manager doesn’t have the same cachet as telling her you want to be a doctor or a CEO.” riverfronttimes.com

Gallina is trying to change this perception, however. She believes that as more people set the standard, professional service will be considered a viable career path.

“We need more champions in our industry to help drive this change,” she says. One way to do that is to create a culture where everyone feels driven to be at their best and is committed to providing the best hospitality they can. “When you have a culture like that, you feel it everywhere and feel everyone committed to those goals,” Gallina says. “I feel like that is what we are creating here.”

Gallina took a moment to share her thoughts on the St. Louis dining scene, her guilty pleasure and her St. Louis food crushes — just don’t tell her husband.

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TARA GALLINA Continued from pg 37 culinary school in New York City and tried my hand at many different aspects of the food industry before falling in love with service. I have been, and always will be, passionate about cooking.

What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you?

Walking our dogs Abby and Louie. They are the cutest little things, and spending time with them in the morning before we leave and when we get home makes everything OK. If you could have any superpower, what would it be?

To be in two places at once.

What is the most positive thing in food, wine or cocktails that you’ve noticed in St. Louis over the past year?

I’ve haven’t been in the St. Louis industry for too long, but the overall positive thing that I’ve noticed since moving here is the support restaurateurs and chefs have for one another. I have been blown away by the respect people in the industry show in good times and bad. Competition will always be there, of course, but we also recognize that a great dining culture needs to have great options, and it’s a lot more fun to share in that than to be negative and antagonistic.

What is something missing in the local food, wine or cocktail scene that you’d like to see?

More attention to people who have made service their true profession. If we can promote and highlight front of house professionals in the same way we do chefs, it would help drive our city (and industry) to put an even greater emphasis on great service.

We need more leaders dedicated to teaching and cultivating young talent and show them this can be a great career path. Service can be sexy too!

Who is your St. Louis food crush?

(Other than my husband!) it would have to be a collective combination of Sean Netzer, Ted Wilson and Brian Lagerstrom of Union Loafers. That restaurant has felt like a home to me since we moved here. They have created a place that truly nourishes you from stomach to soul.

Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis dining scene?

My girl Jen Epley, assistant general manager at icia. She is a roc star. She pours her heart and soul

into everything she does and is crazy knowledgeable about wines.

She has taken the opportunity to lead our beverage program and turned it into so much more. From staff education to telling the story of the wines to our guests on the floor, she has really blossomed as a service professional and found her place. The sky’s the limit for her.

If you weren’t working in the restaurant business, what would you be doing?

Writing about food. I went to college for journalism and really love and respect great food writing. I’d love to be able to tell stories about our industry through print or T .

What service practice is never allowed in your restaurant?

The word “no.” We always strive to meet our guests’ needs in whatever way we can. I have taught our team from day one that, when in doubt, we say yes first and figure out a way to solve the problem together.

What is one thing you’d like to see change in dining culture?

I wish that guests felt more empowered to share their feedback with restaurants in person rather than over the internet. Culturally, we have moved away from a time when people could answer the question “How did you enjoy everything?” honestly. It’s so easy to vent our frustration after the fact on social media. As restaurant owners, we would love nothing more than to be told what didn’t work right for a guest and be given a chance to correct it than find out a ter the fact and be left powerless. Our jobs are to do our best to create a great experience for people. When we fall short of that we want to know how we can do a better job so we can keep you as a customer. I know nobody likes confrontation, but you’d be amazed at what a restaurant will do to make you happy if you just let them.

What is your after-work hangout?

The patio at icia. r when we’re hungry, Taste Bar or Mission Taco Joint in the Central West End. What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure?

Pizza, always.

What would be your last meal on earth?

I don’t think I could really pick one dish, but I know it would have to be around a table with my husband, my family and our dogs, sharing a great bottle of wine and just enjoying each other’s company. n

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f you only know ramen from the cheap noodle packages with powdered seasoning sold in grocery stores, it’s time to wake up: Ramen has come a long way in the United States in the past ten years.

Originating in Japan more than a century ago, traditional ramen began showing up in New York City around twenty years ago. In recent years, restaurants specializing in the unctuous bowls of broth and noodles have opened in both St. Louis and its suburbs.

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Brentwood’s beloved Mai Lee, according to co-owner Qui Tran.

Tran essentially grew up in his amily’s success ul ietnamese and Chinese restaurant, which has been in business more than 30 years. He and his business partner, arie- nne elasco, spent the last three years taste-testing their way across the United States, training with Shigetoshi Nakamura — one of four recognized ramen masters in Japan — and testing their recipes at pop-ups around town.

Qui describes Nudo House’s menu as “simple, fast and satisfying.” There are four types of ramen offered. The “classic Nudo” features tonkotsu ramen made from pork marrow bones cooked for 24 hours to produce a thick broth that is rich with collagen.

The “Hebrew hammer” is made with chicken bones cooked for sixteen hours and produces a similarly creamy, emulsified broth.

“O’miso spicy” is made with pork broth and earthy sesame miso.

There is even a ramen for vegetarians — the “shroomed out,” which is made with oyster mushrooms that impart a rich, savory flavor.

Four varieties of pho are also on o er. The classic ietnamese soup is made with beef, chicken or shrimp, along with rice noodles and an enticing mélange of herbs.

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petizer menu includes lotus root salad, sesame noodle salad, pickled kimchi, spring rolls and crab rangoon. For those interested in a meal between two slices of bread, Nudo House offers a pork and pickled vegetable bánh mì and a “bánh mì pho dip,” which is a riff on a French dip sandwich. It’s made with shredded flan stea that’s been cooked in pho stock, and served with au jus made from its broth.

It’s not all savory: There is also soft-serve ice cream — a different tropical flavor every day.

The restaurant, which seats 70, is located in an otherwise unremarkable strip mall in west county — a location that Tran says the partners chose for a reason. “There are a lot of restaurants in the city and an un-served market in Creve Coeur,” Tran explained. “We wanted to open an independent restaurant out here, in what is, essentially, a business district.”

The restaurant has only been open for a little over a week and is already wildly popular. Its first Saturday sold out, a fact that seemed to both please and frustrate Tran.

The restaurant does not have its liquor license yet but will be offering beer and sake by the can.

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he new bar on the edge of downtown St. Louis doesn’t have a lot of things a bar might be expected to have. Like a roof — or even a front door.

But what Bronson House (3201 Washington Avenue) lacks in amenities, it more than makes up for in ambience.

Take, for example, the lack of roof. Sure, an entirely al fresco operation might not be ideal on a rainy night (or a super muggy one). But as evening falls and a light breeze ruffles the air, being out under the stars feels positively romantic. Add a good band and the marvelous cocktails being prepared by the smart young bartenders under a lanai, and you’ve got one of the best places to drink anywhere.

The bar, which opened for the first time July 14, has an interesting back story. A construction contracting company, the Hicor Group, recently did a major renovation on the house on the corner of Washington and Compton and moved its headquarters inside. Built in 1885, the place was known as the Bronson house after its original owner, a dentist named George Bronson.

Back in its days as a dental office, the back garden was a stunning Japanese-inspired retreat. The remodel ended up turning the area into a patio with a covered bar and outdoor restrooms that makes for a terrific three-seasons space.

Hicor’s parent company, which also owns the special event space next door, Barnett on Washington, saw the potential. They ended up partnering with Artisan Well, a bar consulting and event company owned

by Noah Prince-Goldberg and Rob Somerscales, to open a new bar called Bronson House.

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he wall of SweetFixx (4420 Manchester Avenue), the new bakery in the Grove, says it all: “Kiss boring desserts goodbye.”

And if that’s the command, you’re well on your way to achieving it by visiting. ou couldn’t find a boring dessert here if you tried.

Nor is the space itself boring.

SweetFixx is sleek, shiny, sophisticated, with black chairs and one wall papered in a glittery black.

A red accent wall is behind the counter — and in the glass case alongside, beautiful treats are arranged with military precision.

Cupcakes, cake pops, candy apples and gorgeously dipped Oreos are almost too stunning to eat.

Owner Katina Mims owes her

business to a previous iteration of those Oreos. A St. Louis native wor ing in finance and dabbling in home baking, she dreamt of making desserts like the ones she saw on Ace of Cakes or Cupcake Wars.

She’d fly to iami or os ngeles whenever she could take time off, learning the latest techniques.

“I would practice, practice, practice,” she says. “My family would always have to taste everything.”

Then, four years ago, a “promoter” on Instagram stumbled on some of Mims’ Oreos. She’d made them with the Chanel logo — and the promoter was impressed. She talked Mims into signing on. “She posted it on her page, and the phone hasn’t stopped ringing since,” Mims recalls.

All that business meant that Mims needed a brick-and-mortar space, and the long-vacant storefront across the street from Urban Chestnut seemed to be calling her.

It was ust a concrete floor, she says. “You could see the bricks on the walls. It was so bad.” Seven months of renovations gave it its glossy shine — and an industrial-size kitchen. Sighs Mims appreciatively, “It’s more elbow room, less wear-and-tear on my home kitchen. My stove is saying, ‘Thank you, thank you, thank you!’ I was doing a lot of baking at midnight.”

SweetFixx is very much a family operation. Mims’ mother helps out with the front of the house and her sister, Letitia Mims-Andrews, serves as her baking assistant. But the small staff means that one thing hasn’t changed, even with the stylish new space: Mims’ services are still far more in demand than she can handle. Custom orders need to be scheduled several months out.

“I take pride in what I do,” she explains. “It’s quality over quantity, every day.”

But you don’t need to order in advance if you’re interested in trying her treats for yourself. The Grove shop opened Saturday, July 30, and is already drawing big crowds — and big buzz. There, you can get a taste of what Mims is baking, no advance ordering necessary. And while her offerings aren’t cheap — cupcakes start at $4, Oreos at $2.50 and cookies at $3.50 — she notes that she’s still charging the same prices as when customers came to her home to pick up orders.

After a huge opening weekend, she’s looking forward to catching her breath. “The turnout was amazing,” she says. “We were busy nonstop.”

Going forward, Mims plans to be open Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. n riverfronttimes.com

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BRONSON HOUSE Continued from pg 42 They see the two as companions. On evenings with inclement weather, Prince-Goldberg says, they intend to operate Bronson House inside the event space — so long, of course, as there is no wedding or other event on site. The two spaces also share a smoking section, a striking area with a firepit that you can glimpse through an iron gate along Washington. (The main entrance to Bronson House is on Compton Avenue, behind the building.)

The space does have its limitations. No real kitchen means the food menu is quite limited, with just four appetizers on offer (currently including a poke plate, skewers and beef carpaccio). And weather is always, always going to be a factor.

“There are a ton of challenges with doing an outdoor bar like this,” Prince-Goldberg acknowledges. “But it’s also an awesome opportunity.”

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On the challenge side, you can count its second weekend in business: Bronson House had a super-soft opening its first weekend, and was getting ready for more customers on the second when the mercury hit 108 degrees. “Yeah, that second weekend was slow,” Prince-Goldberg says, laughing.

But the young partners consider those quiet first weekends a blessing in disguise. The whole thing happened so quickly for them — “it was a total roller coaster,” Prince-Goldberg says — that having time to get the hang of things has been good. Now that they’re starting to get busy, they feel ready for it.

For now, the Bronson House is open just three nights a week, Thursday through Saturday, and not until 7 p.m., with service until midnight. They plan to start opening earlier in the day, and perhaps add additional days, come September. Live music is now on offer every night they’re n open.

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Maurice “Mo E” Egeston, left, is releasing a new album, along with his All-Stars. | PHOTO BY PETER Z JONES [PREVIEW]

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s much as anyone, Maurice “Mo E” Egeston had an active role in creating the music culture of Washington Avenue in the mid to late 1990s and early aughts. At the time, the club scene there was a rich mix — not perfect, of course, but possessing

both live music and DJ cultures, with a clientele that crossed a lot of demographic lines. For a handful of years, on a handful of blocks, something special was happening on Wash Ave, with Egeston often onstage, working behind the scenes or simply part of the audience.

These days, it’s a different musical community downtown, but Egeston’s still in the mix, though his view is largely that of a resident, not a performer. Living on the top floor of a converted warehouse, Egeston says that as he walks around the corner for his daily coffee, he thinks, “Oh, that club used to be there. And that other club was here. The flipside of nostalgia? “Moments when you can’t remember what was where.”

At different points in time, Egeston was active in Urban Jazz Naturals, Vargas Swing, its offshoot Vargas, Invincible Groov (“with no ‘e,’ because the ‘90s”), Soul Alliance, Coco & Mo, Brothers Lazaroff and his long-running partnership with horn player Dawn Weber — “Mo & Dawn, a working duo that

played lounges and restaurants and continued with what we were doing with Vargas and Urban Jazz Naturals.”

He recalls that time fondly.

“That era is what really sucked me into electronic music, in general,” he says. “This was before you saw VIP lines and valets on Washington Avenue. There was kind of a crew, like what’s on Cherokee now, just playing a different kind of music. It felt like a community or sure, and definitely felt like the coolest thing in town.

At least we thought so.

“It was a DJ-driven thing, but at the same time, you had bands like Zhivegas, Son of Starchild, Sky Bop Fly... these six- to eight-piece bands that were making money and able to stay together and tour by playing live music. DJ culture was big, but support for live music was there. Besides the raw fun of it, it was just a community of kinda kooky people, many of whom have remained my friends. Crazy to think that was more than twenty years ago, maybe more.” riverfronttimes.com

Throughout the years, Egeston’s been able to incorporate gigs played for cash with others that have a bit more of his heart and soul invested; he also maintains an active teaching schedule, with exactly 41 students at last count, including both kids and adults.

These days, geston’s finding his creative outlet as an instrumentalist and bandleader, offering up a new CD by his group the Mo E All-Stars, which features the eponymous leader on keys and composition, Duane “Jingo” Williams on percussion, Eric “Snoopy” Tyler on bass and the ever-in-demand Grover Stewart Jr. behind the kit.

Along with the contributions of producer/recording engineer Jason McEntire, the band is releasing Groove Suites Vol. 1, an eightsong, all-instrumental album that Egeston suggests was a long time coming.

“So I’ve been writing since Urban Jazz Naturals,” he says.

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MO E ALL-STARS Continued from pg 49 burned out, because I came from a time when we were still making physical products and moved into a time when the industry was transitioning away from physical products. A lot of writing came when I was playing at the Delmar; I just never got over that hump of putting my own stuff out, but knew I had to get an album out at some point. When Snoopy arrived, it really balanced things out and I started thinking seriously about getting things ready to record. And it felt really good to get it down.” geston has a hard time defining the album without “lots of words.”

He says, “It’s basically soulful, jazzinfluenced. Some un and atin in there. The underlying thing is the different dance grooves, with jazz, funk and soul mixed in with old-school house, drum and bass, down-tempo beats.”

After initially laying down a marathon live session on November 16, Egeston returned to Sawhorse Studios on an as-needed basis, while also laying down tracks at his loft. In time, McEntire signed on to mix and master as well as record, a process that Egeston says was perfect: “Our dynamics are best captured live, but a live recording at a show fell apart, so we wanted to capture something as close as possible to that. We burned through all the tracks in one day.

After that, I played Rhodes and topboard synths and overdubbed a lot of my stuff. I always made demos work for various things, created beats. Doing work in the 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. range has traditionally been

my strength, so I’d record bits late at night and send them his way. It was nice, having the fle ibility to do both.”

The process made him think that the next album could come a lot sooner, featuring much of the same personnel.

“I do, I do,” he says, when asked if thinks there’s another album on the horizon. “This is a nice blueprint of we can do; it really showcases the players. Yeah, it’s been a process, but I’m definitely pleased and it’s put me back into a place of wanting to keep writing.”

On (almost) every Saturday, Egeston hosts “Late Night Grooves” at Grand Center’s Dark Room, a place that allows him to workshop material constantly. He’s also wants to incorporate some new, young voices into his projects going forward, as well as working with his generational compadres.

“Paige Alyssa will be on the release gig,” he says. “Charlie Cerpa will be playing with us in a couple of weeks. I want to keep those sorts of things in mind. It’s not just about wanting to work with twentysomethings. But when we work on something original or even with songs that we’re covering or reinterpreting, they’ll pull on things from my own youth that I’ve put aside; it makes me remember that that music was actually really good.

“With the next project, we’ll have some vocalists as guests, and I want to interact with some young folks, for sure; I don’t pretend like I’m young any more. I definitely appreciate what’s going on today and want some nice creativity to go on with the younger set.” n

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beatmaker, producer and emcee, Preston Bradley has been busy this August promoting his newly released solo album — posting videos, updating social media and making sure his music is available across all streaming platforms. It’s a task that is wholly separate from the actual work of being a musician, but according to Bradley, who releases music as Cue ColdBlooded, it’s all in the game.

“It’s just another part of the process of the work,” says Bradley. “I already got tired of posting stuff yesterday, and that’s just day one.”

Normally you can find Bradley as one-half of the hip-hop duo the Domino Effect, alongside fellow emcee Steve N. Clair. The pair’s most recent album, Satellites, was a highlight of last year’s local releases, and the group’s approach — often pairing mellow, throwback beats with sharp, of-the-moment lyrics — positioned Domino Effect as both stewards of hip-hop history and truth-tellers of life on modern-day St. Louis streets.

But with Yourz Truly, Bradley has released his first solo ull-length an released under the moniker C.U.E. came out in 2014). On it, he channels many of the same soulful, hazy vibes as on his main project, but he holds his own as a lyricist who can be cocksure, vulnerable and searching across these twelve tracks.

“After doing the Domino Effect LPs, I felt like I was my most comfortable I have ever been, ever, on this project,” says Bradley. “I wouldn’t say I didn’t know who I was as an artist, but now I’m the most confident I have ever been, in my mind.

That confidence translates clearly on lead single “Making Moves,” which employs some G-funk-era production as radley glorifies the tenacity o staying on the grind. But it’s later in the album that he broaches the same subject with a bit more honesty about the mental and emotional toll. The eerie and s ittering ly way finds radley copping to self-medication as a form of escape. “‘Fly Away’ was kinda like where I wasn’t always the happiest person, even though I always had a smile on,” explains Bradley. “There is stuff you might indulge in to get away from family or money or whatever — just to get away for a minute, to refresh or recharge. That applies to being in the urban areas too for our young black brothers and sisters. That next track, ‘Freedom,’ tells them how

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you can’t lock me down.”

While Bradley’s skills as an emcee are on display, his fluency in ma ing beats helps our Truly roll out a diverse but fluid palette. e says that he sought to make this release stand apart from previous Domino Effect productions, calling this one “more of a summer album. The beats are more spacey, and the type you could play if you were chilling on the beach. e gives the nod to harrell Williams as his favorite producer and cops to a West Coast approach to much of the production here. Still, he notes a few key divergences, especially his incorporation of Southern rap.

“I still got the low end of the 808s on some tracks and they still knock, too,” he says. “I got that from and Three afia that’s stu you probably won’t hear on a Domino Effect track.”

There’s a conscious move on Bradley’s part to distinguish his solo work from his partnership with Domino Effect and his partnership with Steve N. Clair, but the pair’s relationship is still central to much of Yourz Truly: Clair took the album’s cover photo, his wife Ebony and brother Keith contribute vocals and production, and Clair himself guests on a few verses. Bradley says their relationship, which goes back to their teenage years of freestyling over Clipse’s Lord Willin’ tape, has been instrumental in Bradley’s growth as an artist.

“I will rep Steve as the best rapper in the city.

Being with him, I gotta mind my Ps and Qs to go toe-to-toe with him,” says Bradley. “I couldn’t have done none of this stuff without him. We’ve been pretty much brothers for almost twenty years.”

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DOUG DEMING & THE JEWELL TONES: 9 p.m., $10.

KDHX, 3524 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-

BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St.

925-7543, ext. 815.

Louis, 314-436-5222.

FIRST JASON: w/ Hung Like A Martyr 7 p.m.,

JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ

$12. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,

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314-535-0353.

HUSH GROOVE: 30 4 30: w/ DJ G Wiz, DJ Needles, DJ Alejan, D-Ex, DJ Furious Iceman Stylz 8 p.m., $30. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

JAILBOX: w/ Pono AM, Golden Curls 8 p.m., free.

Urban Chestnut Brewing Company, 3229 Washington Ave., St. Louis, 314-222-0143.

THE LILLINGTONS: 8 p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

MARLON WAYANS: Aug. 24, 7 p.m.; 6:30 & 9 p.m.; Aug. 26, 6:30 & 9 p.m., $35-$45. Helium Comedy Club, 1151 St. Louis Galleria Saint Louis Galleria Mall, Richmond Heights, 314-727-1260.

RAY WYLIE HUBBARD: 8 p.m., $20-$35. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.

AN UNDER COVER WEEKEND 11: Aug. 24, 7:45 p.m.; 7:45 p.m.; Aug. 26, 7:45 p.m., $12-$15.

Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314726-6161.

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Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828 Olive Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.

KIM MASSIE: 10:30 p.m., $10. Beale on Broad-

Ray Wylie Hubbard 8 p.m. Friday, August 25.

Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $20 to $25 day of show. 314-498-6989.

The fallen angels, haunted bluesmen, dead-thumb kings, rebellious sons, doomed junkies and just as doomed alt-country rockers that have long populated the sacred and profane songs of Ray Wylie Hubbard take center stage on his most Biblically obsessed, lyrically fierce and musically elemental album, Tell the Devil I’m Getting There as Fast as I Can. Like Milton’s Lucifer

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way, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880.

(whom Hubbard slyly quotes), his characters would rather reign in hell than serve anywhere, save where they can lay down a groove like a chisel into the eternal tablet of the blues. Hubbard has but one commandment: Thou shalt not sing a song that doesn’t sting or save the soul.

Winning Wit: Between-song banter is usually painful. In Hubbard’s case, it’s worth the price of admission. His biting humor is as legendary as his gritty wisdom.

—Roy Kasten

WEDNESDAY 30 BIG RICH MCDONOUGH & RHYTHM RENEGADES: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-6217880.

BOBAFLEX: w/ As Earth Shatters, Robbing Jon 7 p.m., $13-$15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

LARRY AND HIS FLASK: 8 p.m., $15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.

MILES NIELSEN & THE RUSTED HEARTS: 8 p.m., $8-$10. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

MISSY & HEINE ANDERSON: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s

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The Wargs 7:30 p.m. Sunday, August 26.

The Novel Neighbor, 7905 Big Bend Boulevard, Webster Groves. $50. 314-738-9384.

We won’t bore you with arcana and trivia about HBO’s blockbuster Game of Thrones — frankly, we don’t know any. Instead, we leave it to the evil geniuses of the ad-hoc group known as the Wargs to turn its collective love dragons, palace intrigue and premium cable nudity into grimy, twangy songs built around George R.R. Martin’s universe. To commemorate the show’s

season finale, the Wargs — helmed by Hobosexuals leader Ryne Watts and staffed with members of Sine Nomine and the Griddle Kids — will perform at the Webster Groves bookseller the Novel Neighbor for an evening of GoT revelry. Cocktails, food and assorted revelry is included with the ticket price.

Spoilers Ahead: If you can’t make the event, the Wargs’ EP Heartsbane will be released this week, featuring lead-off track — spoiler alert! — “The One Where Everybody Dies.”

THE DEVIL MAKES THREE: W/ Scott H. Biram,

314-436-5222.

Sat., Oct. 28, 8 p.m., $20-$25. The Pageant,

SLIM CESSNA’S AUTO CLUB: w/ Baby Baby Dance

6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161,

With Me 8 p.m., $10-$13. The Ready Room,

thepageant.com.

4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

FAR FETCHED COLLECTIVE: Sat., Sept. 2, 5 p.m.,

WEDNESDAY NIGHT JAZZ CRAWL: 5 p.m. contin-

free. Das Bevo Biergarten, 4749 Gravois Ave.,

ues through Dec. 27, free. The Stage at KDHX,

St. Louis, 314-224-5521, dasbevo.com.

3524 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-925-7543,

FLYOVER: A COMEDY FESTIVAL: Thu., Nov. 9,

ext. 815.

noon, $25. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929, thereadyroom. com.

*ASK: W/ Cult Season, Earthdad, Holy Crow,

THE FREMONTS: W/ Jacob Vi, Thu., Sept. 21, 8

Tattooed The Dog, Sat., Sept. 9, 7 p.m., $8-$10.

p.m., $10. San Loo, 3211 Cherokee St., St. Louis,

Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050,

314-696-2888, sanloo.org.

fubarstl.com.

HABIB KOITÉ: Wed., Nov. 15, 8 p.m., $25-$30.

ANTHONY GOMES: Fri., Nov. 3, 8 p.m., $15. Old

The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St.

Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-

Louis, 314-833-3929, thereadyroom.com.

0505, oldrockhouse.com.

HERE COME THE MUMMIES: Thu., Oct. 19, 8 p.m.,

“A VERY MESSY THANKSGIVING” WITH MESSY

$25-$27.50. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St.

JIVERSON: Thu., Nov. 23, 8 p.m., $10. Off Broad-

Louis, 314-726-6161, delmarhall.com.

way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989,

IAN MOORE: Thu., Sept. 14, 8 p.m., $12-$15. The

offbroadwaystl.com.

Monocle, 4510 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-

BATTALION OF SAINTS: W/ The Cryptics, Sun.,

935-7003, themonoclestl.com.

Oct. 8, 8 p.m., $12-$14. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,

JAILBOX: W/ Pono AM, Golden Curls, Fri., Aug.

St. Louis, 314-289-9050, fubarstl.com.

25, 8 p.m., free. Urban Chestnut Brewing

BISHOP BRIGGS: Sun., Oct. 22, 8 p.m., $25.

Company, 3229 Washington Ave., St. Louis, 314-

Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar

222-0143, urbanchestnut.com.

Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444, blueber-

LOLLAPALOSER: W/ The Vigilettes, Fatal Bus

ryhill.com.

Accident, The Defeated County, South City Slop,

THE BLACK LILLIES: Thu., Oct. 12, 8 p.m., $14.

Matt F. Basler, Other People, Tim Convy, Let’s

Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-

Not, Kenny Kinds, Sun., Sept. 17, 5 p.m., $8-$10.

498-6989, offbroadwaystl.com.

The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-

BLACK PISTOL FIRE: W/ Blackfoot Gypsies, Wed.,

THE MIGHTY PINES: Wed., Nov. 22, 9 p.m., TBA.

ive St., St. ouis,

Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-

-

, firebirdstl.com.

BRAND X: Wed., Sept. 13, 8 p.m., $30. Old Rock

588-0505, oldrockhouse.com.

House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505,

MO E ALL-STARS CD RELEASE EVENT: Sun., Aug.

oldrockhouse.com.

27, 5 p.m., free. The Dark Room, 3610 Grandel

BROWNOUT: Thu., Oct. 19, 8 p.m., $12-$15. Old

Square inside Grandel Theatre, St. Louis, 314-

Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-

776-9550, thedarkroomstl.com.

0505, oldrockhouse.com.

MORNING IN MAY: W/ Diamond Aces, Take

COLTER WALL: Sat., Dec. 2, 8 p.m., $12-$15. Off

The Fall, Thu., Oct. 26, 6 p.m., $12-$14. The

Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-

Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353,

6989, offbroadwaystl.com.

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2 Chainz. | PHOTO BY DEMXX / FLICKR

2 Chainz

What’s in a name? In the case of the College Park, Georgia-based rapper Tauheed Epps, it turns out the answer is a whole lot. Epps initially launched his career under the exceptionally cringeworthy moniker “Tity Boi,” laboring for more than a decade in relative obscurity as one-half of Playaz Circle on Ludacris’ Disturbing Tha Peace imprint. In 2011 he left that label, and with it he left his stage name behind, adopting the more “family friendly” (his words) 2 Chainz. In just a year’s time he released Based on a T.R.U. Story; it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, eventually earning the powerhouse rapper four BET Hip-

Hop Awards (ironically, including one for “Rookie of the Year”) and even a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album. Fast-forward to the present and June’s Pretty Girls Like Trap Music is one of the hottest albums of the entire trap genre, packed wall-to-wall with the biggest stars in the game. Alert the Bard — it turns out names are pretty important after all.

The New Pop? Trap music, with its huge beats, skittering hi-hats and marble-mouthed delivery, has largely eclipsed more traditional forms of hiphop in 2017 — for better or worse. 2 Chainz knows it, too.” We’re the pop stars,” he told Rolling Stone in June.

“Trap rap is pop now. People’s ears have adjusted to what we have to say and how we say it.” — Daniel Hill

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p.m., free. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.

NAHKO: W/ 1,000 Fuegos, Christina Holmes,

Louis, 314-498-6989, offbroadwaystl.com.

Tue., Oct. 31, 8 p.m., $30-$35. The Pageant,

SAY ANYTHING: IN DEFENSE ANNIVERSARY TOUR:

6161 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161,

Mon., Dec. 18, 7 p.m.; Tue., Dec. 19, 7 p.m., $28-

thepageant.com.

$30. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,

OLD SALT UNION: W/ Old Shoe, Fri., Oct. 27, 9

314-726-6161, delmarhall.com.

p.m., $12-$15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St.,

SHANIA TWAIN: $26.95-$146.50. Scottrade Cen-

St. Louis, 314-588-0505, oldrockhouse.com.

ter, 1401 Clark Ave., St. Louis, 314-241-1888,

PAT WOLFE’S 50TH B-DAY SHOW: W/ The Jeremi-

scottradecenter.com.

ah Johnson Band, The Sleepy Rubies, Sat., Oct.

THE FLAMIN’ GROOVIES: W/ Polyshades, Thu.,

7, 7 p.m., $5. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St.

Oct. 26, 8 p.m., $20-$25. The Ready Room,

Louis, 314-498-6989, offbroadwaystl.com.

4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929,

PEELANDER-Z: Wed., Nov. 8, 7 p.m., $15.

thereadyroom.com.

Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050,

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA: Tue., Dec. 26, 3 &

fubarstl.com.

8 p.m., $37.25-$73.75. Scottrade Center, 1401

8 p.m. Tuesday, August 29.

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RON POPE: Wed., Feb. 7, 8 p.m., $18-$22. Del-

center.com.

mar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-

A TRIBE CALLED RED: Tue., Nov. 7, 9 p.m., $12-

6161, delmarhall.com.

$15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis,

RYAN KOENIG RECORD RELEASE: Wed., Oct. 4, 8

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SAVAGE LOVE DON’T FUCK NAZIS

BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: A few years ago, my dad was busted by the cops for using an online forum to solicit escorts. The arrest and infidelity destroyed his marriage to my mom. My brother and I were in our midteens at the time and were angry enough with him that we asked him to not seek custody. He obliged, and neither of us has seen him since. I miss my dad. I know part of my anger comes from how badly he hurt my mom. As I mature, I’m wondering if I was unfair to my dad. I don’t think sex work is immoral. But because my dad was involved in this bust, and because I had to become aware of the double life he led, I felt uncomfortable around him. I think I’d like to get to know my dad again, but I’m not sure what kind of relationship I’m ready to have. He was a wonderful father — and on some level, I recognize I cut him off when he showed me he was human.

How do I reach out to him?

Please Help Each of us is a writhing mass of contradictions, PH. We all have public personas and private personas, and there are always gaps between the two. And while those gaps, when exposed, can be mutually negating, that’s not always the case. It is possible for someone to be a good dad and a shitty husband.

The good dad you knew your dad to be? That wasn’t a lie. It was one of your father’s truths. That he failed as a husband and hurt your mom is another of your father’s truths.

You don’t say why your dad was seeking sex outside the marriage, PH,

and I can’t imagine that was a conversation you wanted to have with your dad in your mid-teens — and it may not be one you ever want to have. But it’s possible your parents’ marriage was more complicated than you know. (“The victim of an affair is not always the victim of the marriage,” as Esther Perel says.) But you’re not an awful daughter for refusing to see your dad during a contentious, confusing and most likely humiliating time.

I think email is the best way to reestablish contact after an estrangement.

You can take your time crafting what you want to say, and your dad can take his time crafting a response. And you’ve already written a good opening line or your first e-mail to your dad “I’d like to get to know my dad again, but I’m not sure what kind of relationship I’m ready to have. But I’d like to start talking — via email, for now.”

Give your mother a heads up, PH, so she doesn’t feel blindsided. Good luck.

Hey, Dan: I’m a female masochist and super subby — I see nothing wrong with that. For the last couple of months, I’ve been pursuing “death wish” fantasies.

I seek out guys on hookup sites who are sadistic enough that they might potentially help me carry it out. My therapist knows about the masochist end of things, but I’m afraid to tell her this other part because I don’t want to be put on any crazy pills. Is there a way for me to switch my brain from thinking about this and somehow find my way back to normal BDSM or something else entirely without turning off my sexuality completely?

Rather Not Say My Name There are fantasies that are simply

too dangerous to realize, RNSMN, even with a willing victim/sub and a reckless perp/Dom. And any person who pushes a woman’s “death wish” fantasy into potentially-carrying-it-out territory deserves whatever trouble comes their way. Murder is wrong, even if the person wants it.

You must open up to your therapist, RNSMN. Some people with dangerous sexual obsessions have been successfully treated with talk therapy and low-dose antidepressants — meds, not “crazy pills.” A good therapist and/or the right low-dose medication could help you find your way bac to sa er and saner BDSM practices without shutting off your sexuality completely.

Hey, Dan: I’m a woman in my early 30s having sex with a guy in his early 20s. My concern is this guy has some alt-right sympathies that reveal themselves in our political discussions. He’s a Trump guy, but hesitates to admit it because he knows I’m anti-Trump. He shares memes created by Mike Cernovich and Milo Yiannopoulos, he gets his news from hard-right publications, and his sister and brother-in-law are Holocaust deniers. This concerns and confuses me because he’s such a sweet guy and, honestly, so goddamn good in bed. He might be the best lay I’ve ever had. I can’t reconcile these two sides of him, but I also can’t help trying to enlighten him a little bit. He’s read books and watched documentaries I’ve recommended. I feel a responsibility to this young, confused and frankly not-toobright person who’s surrounded by bad influences. I want to be understanding and gently guide him in a better direction, but sometimes his ignorance is aggravating. I keep thinking of your

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Campsite Rule, and I wonder at what point does one give up throwing logic and articles at someone who thought Hillary Clinton ran a child sex ring out of a pizza parlor? Can I continue to have sex with someone who thinks the left is conspiring to turn everyone communist?

Conflicted Lover Don’t fuck Nazis.

If someone you just met tells you they’re a Nazi, don’t fuck that Nazi. If you’re already fucking someone and they reveal themselves to be a Nazi, stop fucking that Nazi. If someone tells you they’re a Nazi and you keep fucking that Nazi because they’re good at sex, your effort to “gently guide” that Nazi away from being a Nazi doesn’t make it OK for you to fuck that Nazi. , This guy might not be a a i at all — although it sure as fuck sounds like his family is. It’s possible this young, confused and not-too-bright boy is merely a Trump-supporting conspiracy theorist and maybe I’m still too upset about Charlottesville to be impartial. Or, hey, maybe this guy is already a Nazi and hasn’t revealed the full extent of his odious political beliefs to you, CL, because the sex is good and he’s hoping to fuck the Nazi into you before you can fuck the Nazi out of him.

Finally, good people don’t worry about making Nazis “feel judged.”

Nazis should be judged — à la Judgment at Nuremberg, an old film with a feel-good ending that’s worth watching right about now. Another thing good people don’t do? They don’t fuck Nazis. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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is seeking to interview candidates for a leading manufacturer in Fenton, MO. Positions include: Machine Operators Assemblers Warehouse Production General Warehouse Pay: Up to $11.00/hr Shifts: 1st / 2nd / 3rd Apply Today www.workatfocus.com or call 816.977.5815

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Requires Class E, B or A License.

S Endorsement Helpful. Must be 25 yrs or older. Will Train.

ABC/ Checker Cab Co CALL N O W 3 14-725 -9 5 5 0 150 Medical/Dental/Health

Hospitalist

(St. Louis): In hospital setting, treat patients. Reqs First Prof Medical degree, 3 years Internal Med residency, immed eligibility for perm MO license.

Full Time. Mail to Mercy Clinic, JH, 645 Maryville Centre Dr. #100 STL, MO 63141-5846.

Pediatric Hospitalist

(St. Louis, MO): In hospital setting, treat children patients.

Reqs First Prof Medical degree, 3 years Pediatrics residency, immed eligibility for perm MO license. Full Time. Mail to Mercy Clinic, LH, 645 Maryville Centre Dr. #100 STL, MO 63141-5846.

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Pay: Up to $11.00/hr Shifts: 1st / 2nd / 3rd Apply Today www.workatfocus.com or call 816.977.5815

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Focus Workforce Management is seeking to interview candidates for a leading manufacturer in Fenton, MO. If you are seeking a new challenge and a step forward to success apply today!

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If so, that person could qualify for a clinical research study of a possible new adjunctive treatment for major depressive disorder conducted by St. Louis Clinical Trials.

• Be a male or female at least 18 years old • Currently be treated with an anti-depressant drug for at least the past eight weeks • Have been diagnosed with major depressive disorder at least one year ago • If female, should not be pregnant or about to become pregnant.

Those who qualify for this study may be eligible for compensation for their time. Transportation may be available.

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