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‘This Is Hell’

Danny Wicentowski goes undercover inside St. Louis’ notorious Workhouse

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Evicted in North City

Robert Langellier meets a woman fighting back after her landlord ordered her out. But what of the thousands just like her?

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‘This Is Hell’ Written by

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y reputation, the St. Louis Workhouse is a mold-infested pit whose 700-plus detainees — nearly all of whom are merely awaiting trial — are drawn from the ranks of the poor, addicted, homeless and mentally ill. Inmates, lawyers and anti-incarceration activists have alleged that medical care is withheld for months and that guards dole out beatings and pit prisoners against each other in “gladiator-style combat.”

In the summer, the cells broil with triple-digit heat, although temporary air-conditioning units installed las m n ma finall a r ss a problem.

On Friday, RFT accompanied 15th Ward alderwoman Megan Green on an unannounced visit to the Workhouse. Green also invited a reporter from the St. Louis American and two activists from Decarcerate STL. We did not disclose our identities as media. Green introduced us as graduate students in social work studying the effects of mass incarceration.

The tour lasted nearly three hours, and while the physical conditions appeared better than the sweating hellhole described by activists earlier this month, some horror stories appeared all too real.

Among dirt and grime, detainees attempted again and again to get our attention. In some cases, they wanted to detail the bad conditions they face.

In others, they simply wanted to remind us who they are, and why they are being held — in many cases, for the smallest of offenses, and simply because they don’t have money for bail, condemning them to city custody while they’re waiting for their day in court.

The letters above the brick and glass entrance spell out “Medium Security Institution,” but everyone knows the squat, barbed-wire compound sprawled on the north riverfront as the City Workhouse.

There is irony in the nickname — it comes from an 1848 city Continued on pg 11 ordinance that

Je’re Reid, far left, talks with Lee Camp of ArchCity Defenders. The lawyers have helped her find new housing. | PHOTO BY ROBERT LANGELLIER

IN NORTH CITY HOME, EVICTIONS ARE SWIFT

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ee ‘em?” Je’re Reid asks. She kicks a pile of clothes on the basement floor, scattering roaches across the concrete. “I just sprayed.”

Reid is giving a brief, sweaty tour of the unfinished storage room from which she and her daughter are being evicted. A dim, 15-by-20-foot space with no air conditioning, it’s just big enough for a mattress, a pile of bagged, roach-infested clothes, a fridge and a microwave (both with roaches), a pantry cabinet (roaches), a water heater and a chair. Incense sticks glow from cracks in the walls where black mold has grown.

“She had another hard night,” she says, referring to her thirteen-year-old daughter. “We was fightin’ ‘em off of her.” Her daughter, who has asthma and eczema, has rashes on her skin from spider bites. “Oh, Jesus,” she says, turning on a second fan.

Reid, a single mom on disability,

rents the space for $400 a month from Reginald B. Williams Sr., a Chicago-based landlord who claims to control six properties in St. Louis, including this single-family home in north city. The surrounding houses are a mix of vacants and those holding on.

Williams’ house has been home to, depending on whom you ask, sixteen to eighteen people, many without more than a room to call their own.

Williams has a reputation, according to many residents and neighbors, of using various strongman approaches to property governance, including (take a deep breath): overcrowding; verbal abuse; maintenance neglect; roach, spider and mold infestation; coercing residents to make him their disability or social security payee; withholding lease copies; evicting tenants overnight with no judicial process; and capriciously raising the rent. He’s told tenants he needs more money to pay for an indoor pool for his son.

Reached by phone Friday, Williams denies the more serious accusations as “ludicrous” and calls his accusers “nasty,” blaming Reid, for example, for the roach infestation. He declines riverfronttimes.com

to comment on other accusations.

He also refuses to disclose any other addresses he owns, though he has people claiming to be his tenants call a reporter to testify on his behalf. He claims that Reid and other unhappy tenants are behind on rent, a charge they all deny.

“They come with nothing,” Williams says. “They ain’t got a bed. They ain’t got a dresser. So how in the world can you have somebody to make a complaint [when they] don’t want to pay rent?”

Last week, Williams was threatening to padlock the front door if Reid and two other tenants were not gone by the following morning. Reid went to ArchCity Defenders, the non-profit legal group.

In response to what ArchCity considered an illegal eviction, its lawyers slapped him with a cease-and-desist order and organized a small demonstration overnight to stop him.

In St. Louis, a landlord needs a court order and to provide 30 days’ notice in order to evict a tenant. The order also accuses Williams of “breach of the covenant of Continued on pg 10

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Reid’s room was infested by roaches. | PHOTO BY ROBERT LANGELLIER

ROACHES Continued from pg 9 uiet enjoyment, negligence, breach of contract, conversion of personal property, trespass and intentional infliction of emotional distress.”

Williams says he’s being unfairly blamed for a bad situation.

Of his tenants, he says, “They don’t have nowhere to go. They can’t pay a light bill. They can’t pay a gas bill. They can’t buy a bed. They can’t buy a sheet.

They can’t buy a stove or refrigerator.

So you let them move in because you have mercy on them. They want to live there free.”

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Elizabeth Vega, a community activist who runs a house down the street, sits on Reid’s porch Friday morning, surrounded by about fifteen protesters and speaking with Thomas Harvey of ArchCity Defenders. She’s had to take in four or five residents that Williams has evicted in the past, cases that she says also lacked the proper 30-day notice. “It’s sort of a catch-22, because if they shut [Williams] down, then there’s a bunch of people who won’t have any place to go,” she says.

Lack of affordable housing stock is the root source of many illegal evictions, according to Harvey. “This woman has benefits,” he says of Reid. “She should be able to find housing. But unfortunately, and I would guess that not only the other residents in this house, but the other people up and down the street and throughout this region, are forced into horrifying conditions with bugs, or they don’t have bathrooms ...

because the city of St. Louis and the St. Louis region hasn’t committed to providing affordable housing for folks that are vulnerable.”

At :15 a.m., one of Williams’ representatives shows up to evict Reid.

Seeing the demonstration, she calls Williams instead. After a verbal exchange with ArchCity’s lawyers, she leaves.

Reid is left on the porch, technically not evicted but with nowhere safe to go. “I want to be able to sleep without bugs,” she says, sobbing. “I want to be able to sleep without breathing in mold. I want to be able to sleep and not have to deal with all of this. “With the exception of three hours of sleep I’ve been up for 2 hours trying to keep these bugs off my daughter.” “ ou know what happens when you cry, right ” her daughter says, leaning into her.

“I have a permanent twitch now,” Reid continues. “I got over the permanent twitch when I was a kid. ow I’m back to twitching because I feel like they’re everywhere, all over me. This is not right.”

At least Reid has ArchCity Defenders supporting her. Harvey calls a friend and finds an apartment where she can stay for 30 days, rent free. any other people are not so lucky.

Thirteen percent of St. Louis residents make under $10,000 a year, which is low enough to ualify for low-income housing. St. Louis manages about ,000 Section vouchers, but has a waitlist of more than 23,000 families a whole lot of Je’re Reids.

—Robert Langellier

Alderwoman Megan Ellyia Green took reporters inside the Workhouse, which holds 700-plus detainees, most awaiting trial. | DANNY WICENTOWSKI

WORKHOUSE Continued from pg 9 stipulated that prisoners who could n a ir fin s w l c mmitted to the “Work House” to pay off their debts, and then released.

These days, many men and women in rk s fin ms l s imprisoned because they cannot pay their bonds or traffic tickets.

(Those accused of more serious crimes are typically held in the Justice Center downtown.) Although prisoners work in the jail kitchen or on cleanup crews, their meager pay cannot be used to satisfy their debts to the criminal justice system. And so they remain in the Workhouse, for months or even years, waiting for the wheels of justice to turn.

After introducing ourselves as social work students, we leave our phones at the security station and pass through a heavy metal door into the visitation area. A lieutenant leads us through a wide hallway that smells of bleach, and a sign directs us to the “Resident Visiting Cages.” Here, prisoners in yellow uniforms speak to their families using telephone receivers and interact behind thick panes of glass.

Our tour guide is a supervisor who started patrolling the Workhouse more than two decades ago, and despite her soft-spoken delivery and diminutive stature, she seems to

command immediate respect from the inmates and guards we pass along the way. She notes that previous overcrowding had forced jail staff to place inmates on bunk beds in the gym. “We had a lot of prisoners here because they couldn’t a r ir ra c ick s s says. These days, several dorm and day room areas are empty and undergoing renovation.

We come to a security office. r a a -scr n m ni r n the wall shows sixteen camera views of various dorm rooms and sleeping quarters.

Inevitably, talk turns to air conditioning. Last month, as a heat wave baked the city with temperatures as high as 107 degrees, protesters staged demonstrations at the Workhouse’s front gates, facing pepper spray and arrest as they demanded relief for the people inside the jail.

In response to the outcry, Mayor Lyda Krewson arranged for temporary A/C units to be installed. Soon after, older sections of the jail, including the men’s daytime living ar rs w r fi wi w a our tour guide refers to as “worms” — heavy white tubes running from outdoor cooling units and attached to windows.

It wasn’t just the prisoners who were relieved by the newly cooleddown areas. Guards and jail staff were just as happy. Yet it only took

days for the jail to experience the i si s an rs r is r lls us, some areas of the jail “were like icicles.” Staffers started showing up to work with jackets. Inmates complained as well; one tried to use a broom handle to damage a vent to s w c l air Green inquires about the number of inmates serving time on possession charges, and she presses for information about those who cannot afford to pay bonds. Gesturing at the “social work students,” she says we’re studying how the bail s s m c i l fills ris ns wi poor people.

It’s true, responds the second supervisor. It’s not just drug possession, she adds. Some inmates are locked up for failing to pay child support — Missouri law considers it a felony to fall behind on payments by $5,000 — and Green stops her short.

“For child support?” repeats the alderwoman, incredulous. “How does that help? If you can’t pay child support, you certainly can’t pay your child support when you’re locked up.” w il l gic is a ing law is clear-cut. As our tour guide leads us away from the security offic r n n s wi r signa i n that changing the criminal statute would take action in the state legislature.

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WORKHOUSE Continued from pg 11 n w rs fin s walking into various pods, dormitories and living spaces. It quickly becomes clear that detainees are desperate to get our attention, to share their complaints. They try both shouting and murmured messages. One woman hisses for attention, then whispers, “This place is hell.” As we depart the women’s pod to make way for dinnertime, a female prisoner motions at the showers and tells us to watch r as We’re led to a pod labeled “close observation,” one of three pods reserved for male detainees who can’t be housed with the general population. The inmates might suffer from mental illness or depression or require protective custody. A different pod houses those on suicide watch.

The “pods” don’t look like a normal cell block. The two-tiered rooms are ringed with heavy metal doors with small windows. Faces are pressed against the glass.

Our tour guide takes us to one s c c ll n firs r an c a s with the man inside. He’s left a note stuck to the window, reading, “No rec for 3 days, want to talk to supervisor.” m n n s c n r gin raising bedlam, shouting about mold and roaches and rat bites. One yells, “Don’t listen to the shit they slinging! Shit’s fucked up here!”

“Gentlemen, behave,” retorts a nearby guard.

Our tour guide estimates that ar n fi n rc n inma s require some form of observation or special care. She’s seen suicidal prisoners run up the pod stairwell and leap from the second floor. rking as a c rr c i nal c r she says, takes a sense of duty to impart “care, custody and control” of those in custody.

Dinner is not being served in the cafeteria today (too few staff, apparently), and so we are led to the “day room” area, where prisoners might be watching TV or just passing the time. Our presence sends dozens of inmates to the windows to gawk at the visitors.

Turning a corner, we come face to face with a guard dangling a grilled cheese sandwich in a gloved hand.

On a bench sits a detainee with long braids. He’s scowling up at the guard and the sandwich.

The guard, a well-built middle-aged man, grins at our tour guide. “He took this off a tray — shoplifting!” he says. The guard

repeats the charge several times in a sing-song, mocking voice. “Shoplifting! Shoplifting!” sw a a ig s airs s c n r a ris n r s s at us, “This isn’t a place for human beings.”

On s c n r rm r ms we pass through one of the living quarters that’s been upgraded with A/C. Newspaper lines the bed frames beneath mattresses, and prisoners keep what few personal belongings they have — a Bible, a Koran, a bottle of soda, a small radio, a sheaf of

hand-written notes — piled on the bed or beneath the small cots. ack n firs r w s in a room full of kitchen workers wearing white uniforms, gloves and head coverings. One man has been here two months on a weapons charge, another ten months. Neither can pay his bond. They’re relative newcomers, and they say that inmates have been known to live here — uncharged and awaiting trial — for more than two years.

Amid the crosstalk of inmates’ tales of mold and asbestos, a man

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with short braids and a clear, impassioned voice quiets the others.

He declares that the living conditions will change “when we change ourselves.” He’s jeered and laughed at. “Come on, man,” his peers tell him. He laughs along with them and doesn’t bring it up again.

As we leave the kitchen workers and make our way back to the entrance, prisoners again crowd the bars and windows separating them from the hallway. Some shout out their sentences. “I’ve been here sixContinued on pg 15 teen months

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WORKHOUSE Continued from pg 13 on marijuana,” one says. Another: “I’ve got two kids and a cousin at home.”

Despite the repeated claims about black mold and rats, I spot only a few cockroaches in the hallway, though the building, which was built in 1966, is clearly showing its age. Waste and dirt are everywhere.

At one point, I see a half-dozen black trash bags leaning against a wall, right beneath a paper sign stating: “Please do not pile trash bags in the hallway.”

Outside the Workhouse, I ask Green what she took away from the tour. She’d last visited in October 2016. Aside from the newly-installed A/C, she remarks that conditions seem largely unchanged.

“When we’re talking about people who are picked up on substance abuse charges, possession charges, and then assigned a $10,000 bond and have to put up ten percent to get out, that’s an extraordinary amount of money,” she says. “It’s an extraordinary amount of strain on our system.” ’s i c l c n a r k n system that most people never get to see up close. The Workhouse rarely grants tours to media. Green says that recent news coverage of the facility during the heat wave convinced her to arrange the undercover trip.

“I think it’s important that people who are writing about it experience it as well,” she says. “So you’re writing from a place of knowledge and not from a place of assumption.”

Green concedes that “some people in political power are not going to be happy with me” for sneaking reporters into the jail.

But Green also believes that city leaders, particularly the Circuit Attorney’s Office, need to look at reducing bail amounts and reducing the inmate population — a goal shared by Mayor Lyda Krewson.

People with addictions or mental health issues would be better served by treatment, Green says. If we deployed resources to provide that treatment, we might not even need places like the Workhouse anymore.

“The cycle just keeps going,” Green says, noting that addicts and the mentally ill are frequently r -arr s s m rg nc rooms and then placed back in the Workhouse. “At some point in time we have to say that it’s not working.”

At the same time, Green offers

praise for the jail staff, especially the supervisors she encountered Friday.

“Their budgets are continually getting cut, both from the city and the state level, and services that w r r n r fi n ars ag just aren’t available anymore,” Green says. “They’re having to get creative in how they’re able to address the mental health issues and substance abuse issues in there.”

Green shares a similar goal with anti-incarceration activists: What the Workhouse really needs, she argues, isn’t expensive upgrades

or renovation. It needs to be shut down.

Green later explains that she’s lanning a a c n r- r sal to the bill proposed by the Board of Aldermen that would place a halfcent sales-tax hike on the November ballot. Green’s proposal would also create a tax hike, but this one would hit business owners with a payroll tax instead of residents. She claims it would raise $10 million more than the current bill.

“These funds will transition the Workhouse into a rehabilitation center that helps to end the cycles

of mental illness, addiction and poverty that keep people coming back to the criminal justice system,” Green says.

Transforming the Workhouse from its current position as a jail (and a mental hospital of last resort) would take sweeping cooperation between city agencies, and likely the state as well. But if it works, suggests Green, the Workhouse would become unnecessary. On that day, the Workhouses’ services would “no longer be needed.”

And then, Green writes, “the aging facility can be closed for good.” n

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EDDIE MUNSTER IS ALIVE!!! ...and living in Missouri

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ddie Munster has been greeting his fans all afternoon.

Inside the St. Joseph Civic Arena, former child actor Butch Patrick and his wife, Leila Lilley, have set up their booth in a far corner of the main r s n a r ms It is a brutally hot Friday in mid-July, and several hundred of the weekn ’s firs isi rs s m s a r in fake blood and dressed as their a ri slas r film c arac rs lazily make their way among the stalls of the horror-themed Crypticon.

Patrick, who played Eddie on The Munsters, made the two-hour drive with Leila from their home in northern Missouri the day before, hauling plastic tubs of merchandise and a pair of replica Munster hot rods inside a trailer decorated with a protruding dragon head.

Now standing at their table are a towering, bearded fan and his wife, wearing matching T-shirts that bear the name of a haunted house in the far suburbs of Kansas City. The T-shirts are the kind of thing Patrick notices. He immediately wants to know more about the business.

“Do you own it?” he asks.

In fact, they do.

“Do you ever have celebrities?”

That’s something the man, Jeremy Toynbee, had not really considered. Business has been solid

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firs n in is garag an was successful enough to relocate and expand the operation to a barn and two acres in the small town of ar n r ansas a c l ri appearance wasn’t really on his radar. Within moments, though, Patrick is laying out the basics of a strategy where he could visit Toynbee’s House of Horrors on, say, a Wednesday, and then string together two or three appearances at Kansas City car dealerships and shops over several days, splitting his fee among all the parties. fig r w g m tom line from four different ways, and nobody has to pay too heavy,” he explains to Toynbee.

Before they’re done, Patrick has sold the haunted house proprietor a $30 autographed photo and generated a potential business lead that leaves both men happy.

“One of the things I like doing is working with people who’ve never had a celebrity event and showing them the ropes,” he says later, adding, “I do know the haunt business.”

Patrick is a master at this kind of deal making. A self-described “hustler” all his life, years after dropping out of Hollywood and beating drug addiction, Butch Patrick (legal name: a rick ill as il a fin li as a former child star. From his base in Missouri, he works his way through small and mid-sized towns across the

heartland, visiting twenty to thirty car shows, conventions and festivals every year.

Finding new opportunities among the constant churn requires the ear of a salesman and a certain amount of humility. The conventions are in many ways the absence of glamor for celebrity guests. For hours, they sit in plastic folding chairs and hawk autographed photos of their younger, more-employable selves in hotel ballrooms and re-purposed gymnasiums.

Some celebrities loathe such events, but Patrick sees them as a perfectly pleasant way to make a living.

“The people are always happy,” he says. “It’s a happy exchange, which makes it easy to do.”

The show, which ran 1964 to 1966, was film ack r an n anticipated long-running syndication.

So while The Munsters found new audiences in generation after generation of rerun-watching fans, residuals for its stars were minimal at best.

But Patrick can still make money off of events and merchandise.

Above, Butch Patrick and his wife, Leila Lilley, prepare for fans at Crypticon. Left, every inch of their booth has been arranged witih care. | DOYLE MURPHY

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On the weekend of the St. Joseph trip, he is less than three weeks from his 64th birthday. He dresses casually in shorts, black leather Chuck Taylors and a green flannel with Frankenstein’s face printed across the back. The features that made him an unforgettable little mons r n w r m sl ll w props. Stripped of his widow’s peak wig and pointy ear tips, he looks disarmingly normal. He has wavy brown hair that rises from a relatively straight horizon above his forehead. He stands a perfectly avrag fi s n can s ill see the boyishness in his face, and without the green makeup that gave him a pallid look in black and white, he appears tanned and relaxed.

His Munster events season boils wn a a fi m n s a year, Patrick says, and he collects fees of $2,000 to $5,000 per event.

It adds up. Expenses for travel and bills such as upkeep on his Munster hot rods eat a healthy chunk of the revenues, but he is still able to make what he will describe only as a “comfortable” living that allows him to spend his winters by the beach in Florida.

At Crypticon, he has two tables full of merchandise. For sale are eight-by-ten photos of a preteen Patrick as Eddie Munster, sporting the little velvet suit he wore on The Munsters. There are “Team Eddie” T-shirts, Munsters wallets, n a l ks ns rs k chains, Munsters dolls, Munsters stickers and even pouches of Munsters-themed dark roast coffee. a l r n s c i for,” Patrick says, delivering the slogan with all the music of a radio pitchman.

Even convention-goers who aren’t Munsters fans draw closer to see the eighteen-foot-long Munster Koach and gold-painted Dragula hot rods parked behind the tables. Leila, whose tireless attention to detail is the secret weapon of the business, says they began with T-shirts and photos. Now, they have a full online store at Munsters.com, where they also advertise availability for all manner of events, from birthday parties to corporate gatherings.

“We strive to give them something personal,” Patrick says. “It’s not some William Shatner thing where you wait in line and pay $100 for two minutes.”

And if he ends up doing business in the future with one or two of the people he meets, all the better.

Above, Patrick bought his grandmother’s house and has been living part-time in Macon since early 2016. | DOYLE MURPHY Right, Patrick’s mother, Patti Hunt, and grandmother, Marjorie Greenstreet, in an undated family photo. | COURTESY BUTCH PATRICK Butch Patrick jams his foot down on the gas pedal, and the Munster Koach flies down the road. Built like an oversized Model T, it has a red velvet interior and a gleaming skull for a gear shifter. The roar of the Koach’s 454 Chevrolet engine is deafening as the hot rod surges forward. a is n as gas l vard a couple of weeks ago,” Patrick shouts over the noise, “for about an hour and a half with a camera crew.” is is n gas g wing a ca l a r n a a rail r honks and waves. An old man pulls r in arking l rais s a cell phone sheathed in a camouag cas an sna s a Patrick went to eighth grade here in the small town of Macon, living with his grandmother in a hulking w -s r ic rian s w s of downtown.

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Patti Hunt, had split with his father arl n an la r marri a a r League Baseball player. When her spouse signed with the Washington Senators, she moved to the East Coast while her son stayed behind with family in California.

Patrick, it was decided, would move in with his grandmother in the Midwest. It seemed like a s rang fi r a ac -l ing ki who grew up in Los Angeles, but he now remembers that time fondly.

“I used to shoot pinball there, s l n c n s a rack he says, gesturing to a weathered building on a tour through town.

There are more empty storefronts today, but the wide streets and small-town charm have been largely unchanged in 50 years.

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He remembers exploring the s is gran m r ar ri Greenstreet, had stuffed with antiques. She was a rambler and would drive her big Cadillac cross-country in search of treasures. He attributes his love of Americana and road trips to those early adventures.

In many ways, those days in Macon were the last semblance of anything like a normal childhood for Patrick. He soon returned fulltime to acting and left Missouri behind. Greenstreet eventually sold the house and moved on to West irginia an n a As a teenager, Patrick veered hard into a life of partying that would take more than 40 years to leave, but he always remembered ac n r fi n ars r s whenever he found himself in the region, he would drive through town to see his grandmother’s old house.

In 2015, he bought it and decided to move back.

Butch Patrick has plans for the house.

An imposing brick behemoth, it is painted white and set back from a curve in the road on a shady lot.

The interior is trimmed in thick, carved wood with walls painted in ll r s an l -gra s i fir places are spaced throughout the dimly lit rooms. In the attic, for fun, a mannequin head with a stick-like torso is shrouded in white lace and suspended from the ceiling.

Patrick insists he made the purchase solely to save his grandmother’s former home from demolition. But now that it’s his, he cannot help but see the opportunities. Start with this: “It’s haunted,” says his wife, Leila.

The couple starting living there ar im in ril ac n la i n as c m home base for their summer hopscotching from one Midwestern event to the next. Patrick says he firs l arn a s ’s aranormal activities from his younger sister, who spent even more of her childhood there than he did.

“All my life, I’ve spoken to my grandmother about Miss Rubey,”

Michele Lilley says in a phone interview from her home in Manhattan Beach, California.

Miss Rubey is apparently the spirit of Elizabeth Wardell, the home’s former owner and a daughter of a local coal baron. Michele says she regularly saw her while spending summers in Macon. The g s l fig r na ar n the landing of the stairs, her head bowed.

“She’s not scary; she’s sad,” Michele remembers telling her grandmother.

Patrick says he was oblivious to any ghost sightings as a kid and has not seen anything since moving back. Michele is not surprised. Her r r is a c m assi na man now sober, he will spend hours on the phone talking to people struggling wi s s anc a s he is also stubborn, and his focus can al k s a ag s could sit on his lap while he is on his phone and he would never notice. ’s s n a g s sa s Leila, 48, is different. In many wa s s is s as c s an

is certainly more organized than her husband. But, unlike Patrick’s tendency toward tunnel vision, she sees everything. At Munsters’ ns s is firs n n tice fans lingering at the outskirts an firs s ring forward with a business card. She is also the one calling promoters weeks in advance and monitoring the Facebook fan page day and night, deleting the work of creeps who try to post explicit, photoshopped images of Lily Munster or ads for German timeshares.

It makes sense that she is also more attuned to the weirdness of the Macon house. Miss Rubey has appeared in her presence, she says, but there are other entities, too.

“The only way I can give it an analogy is like a big football player, a big entity that follows me around n ang r s n r a ning and not really a protector,” Leila sa s ’s s s m n s m ing there.” a rick sa s ila was a firs s overwhelmed by the paranormal activity that she Continued on pg 22 riverfronttimes.com

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THE MUNSTER HUSTLE Continued from pg 21 refused to sleep there, and they spent their first few nights in a hotel. But they have slowly gotten used to weird happenings.

“We decided that we would leave the lights on and work our way through it, which we pretty much have,” Patrick says.

He and Leila had been in the house about six months when they married in September. (They had been introduced several years before in Florida by legendary car designer George Barris, the man responsible for the original Munster Koach and Batmobile.) The “picnic-style” ceremony was held beside a lake in Macon on the grounds of an old military academy.

Lucinda Watson, manager of the Apple Basket Cafe in Macon, was among several townspeople who were surprised and delighted fin ms l s incl n 90-person guest list along with the couple’s friends from across the country.

“It was nothing fancy, but it was still gorgeous,” Watson says. “It was the perfect small-town wedding.”

After the ceremony, the newlyweds drove off in the Munster Koach before returning to the house for a reception. Watson, who caught Leila’s bouquet, says people in Macon have always been intrigued by min s ic rian ar i is the long-running rumors of ghosts, and part is the connection to Eddie Munster.

Patrick was quick to realize the potential marketability of combing those two aspects even before he had closed on the property.

And it was not long before ghosts began to seem like an asset. Just imagin ssi ili i s ki from The Munsters, has grown up to live in a real haunted house. Patrick and a friend who is a clairvoyant envisioned a paranormal reality show called Property Horrors, where they would use the house as the framework to explore otherworldly tales. Patrick has long felt there was a story in the time-warp simplicity of Macon. “Andy of Mayberry meets Eddie Munster in the Twilight Zone,” is his pitch.

He and Leila have never fully unpacked, leaving boxes and furniture c r in ar s s l a film cr w need a scene of them moving in, but that scenario seems increasingly unlikely as time goes on.

“It’s been a year, and I’m pretty much over that,” he says. “I don’t think it’s going to happen.”

No matter. He is now working n a lan r fi r a rs called “1313 Weekends,” a play on ns rs’ fic i nal ckingbird Lane address. As many as thirteen visitors at a time would pay $100 each to visit the house, maybe in a rick an ila r l nc a the Apple Basket and swing by the cemetery to pay their respects at Miss Rubey’s grave. He is still working out the details.

Quitting Hollywood early was always the plan, Patrick says. He acted steadily from the age of seven until he was eighteen. By the time he landed The Munsters gig, he had already worked as one of the original cast members of General Hospital and played more than a dozen, mostly minor, roles in television an film It was his portrayal of Edward Wolfgang Munster, however, that changed his life forever.

The pilot for the show had featured another child actor, who played the young werewolf as a ferocious, snarling terror. When Patrick took over for the series opener, the role of Eddie morphed into that of an earnest son. The show’s producers had recently wrapped Leave It to Beaver, and their new cast of friendly monsters navigating suburban California was a knowing twist on a traditional family sitcom, n ing k r g i ’s very Beaver-like lines.

“Gee, Pop, do you always have to pick on me?” Eddie says in a second-season episode where he ri r ns awa r m m The show also gave CBS an answer to The Addams Family, which opened the same week on ABC. The two competed in black-and-white for two years before both were canceled following the 1966 season. a rick was s w l ars old but already an established pro.

After The Munsters, he acted in s a r ig si c m era, including Gunsmoke, I Dream of Jeannie and a recurring role on My Three Sons. His sister Michele says directors liked him because he could read a script, quickly learn his lines and perform a scene in one take. was s ill s si nw n w wn ra il la a ng gang m m r in film a a a i n of the novel The Sandpit Generals.

He traces the beginning of decades of addiction to that time away from home and family. It was an intense shooting schedule, and the young actors were more or less unsupervised to drink and party when they

Major Leaguer Ken Hunt and his famous stepson, Butch Patrick, at a father-son game. | COURTESY BUTCH PATRICK

weren’t on set.

“I tell everyone he left the house looking like Richie Cunningham, and he came back looking like John Lennon,” Michele says. film was s s carr Patrick’s career to another plane, but the release was delayed. When i i finall c m i s r n in theaters was brief and unremarkable. He spent another two years acting, including a morning kids show called Lidsville that marked him as a heartthrob in a string of teen magazines. But Patrick says his boyhood plan was always to quit Hollywood at nineteen, maybe become a race car driver. He claims a relatively unknown George Lucas approached about him about starring in American Graffiti, but by then he was nearly done with full-time acting. He now says he dropped out of the running for the part that ultimately went to Richard Dreyfuss, because Lucas told him he would have to cut his long hair.

“When I saw the movie two years later, I realized what a huge mistake I’d made,” Patrick says.

The film would earn Golden Globe nominations for Lucas and Dreyfuss. For his part, Patrick was s rfing an g ing ar i s

“He worked so much as a child that I think once he turned eighteen and had his money, he was like, ‘Now, it’s time to play,’” his sister says. “And that’s what he did for a really long time.”

Patrick says he was an addict for 41 years, a lifestyle that sometimes led to trouble with the law. He was arrested in 1979 for transporting Quaaludes. “I had a connection and ended up with a couple hundred of them,” he says. In 1990, he was arrested again after a limo driver told police the ex-child actor and another man beat and robbed him when he got lost on the way back to Patrick’s hotel. Patrick says he met is c n an r firs im that night in a bar, and the man decided to try to physically extract a refund from the driver, leading to criminal charges against the man and Patrick. “‘Munsters’ Actor, 37, Is Arrested,” read the headline in the Chicago Tribune. A robbery charge against Patrick was later dropped, but he was convicted of battery and r r a in fin s an fees.

The run-ins were embarrassing, but he says his substance abuse was hardest on his family.

“I did some serious damage,” he says.

The drug and alcohol abuse went on for so long, his sister wasn’t sure if he would survive.

“It was to the point I thought, ‘When is the call going to come, and how is my mom going to deal with it?’” she says.

And then he quit. He entered rehab on November 21, 2010, partly as a favor to a drug counselor who thought a celebrity success story would be a good example for others. There was another round of headlines, but then all was quiet.

Michele says she was not expecting rehab to work, at least not without a handful of relapses. She would visit her brother at the facility, and each time he would say he was about ready to quit the program. firs i was ’m n s a ing r and then “I’m leaving tomorrow,” the sister recalls. He was adamant about dropping out in time to spend li a s a m s continued to stay, remaining in place until after the new year. He will celebrate seven years of sobriety in November.

“He’s so great,” Michele says. “I can’t tell you how thrilled I am, because I was so worried.”

Patrick says his counselors described his break with substance abuse as a “burning bush experi nc rar am l r a m n aking l n firs attempt.

“I haven’t touched anything,” he says, “not a line, not a pill, not a in n a rink The Crypticon crowds in St. Joseph are decent but not overwhelming.

One booth over, David Naughton, the American werewolf in London himself, looks over at Patrick and Leila and gives them a half shrug. Oliver Robins, who played ki in firs w Poltergeist movies, leaves his perch along the arena’s upper walkway and tosses one of his homemade key fobs over the rail to the Munsters booth.

“I made this for you,” he says.

Patrick and Leila spend the slow moments straightening their displays and checking in on the Facebook fan page. During a lull, Patrick talks about his stepfather. n n s ar in ankees’ organization as a backup, and possible successor, to the legendary Mickey Mantle. A lifelong ri n an r ank s’ gr a fellow North Dakotan Roger Maris, Hunt seemed on the path to stardom. riverfronttimes.com

is main ing was fi l ing Patrick says, “He could throw it from the warning track to home n a a r ck The newly formed Los Angeles ng ls ra im r m ankees in 1961, and Hunt hit 25 home r ns wi s in is firs s as n on the West Coast. But a shoulder in r n arl r in is w r l right arm. Hunt could still play, but it was as if his shot at greatness had n s l n r m im ndered around Los Angeles for another season and a half, followed by a brief and unremarkable stint with the Washington Senators.

“He had a bad attitude,” Patrick says of his stepfather’s life after in r l lik w rl owed him something, and he faded away.”

The tale seems like an obvious parable for one of the most famous child stars of his generation, but a rick is s lling a s r liked Hunt. Some of his best childhood memories are of hanging out in the Senators’ clubhouse during a father-son game while on a weekn r ak r m filming k s a picture on his phone of himself wi n was r all a ma r ballplayer,” he says.

Before long, the crowds are moving again. He chats with a cosplayer dressed like a femme fatal from the Batman movies. One of his most loyal fans from the Facebook page drops by to show off an Eddie Munster tattoo she got that morning at a booth on the other end of the arena.

It is so new, it’s still wrapped in cellophane.

Patrick does not plan to do this work forever. Maybe a few more years on the circuit of weekend car shows and Midwest festivals. He says he could eventually cut back to August, September and October man r i ns r is always highest around Halloween an n s a ica r the rest of the year.

“I have an exit plan,” he says. rn w s ill n s alking fans and traveling around the counr ins ins an Sleepaway Camp actress Felissa Rose toward the end of Saturday for a panel discussion on the life of a child actor in Hollywood. He’s done dozens of these Q-and-A sessions in dozens of towns, but he’s ever aware that his audience hasn’t heard it before.

“I really want to do a show one day about what it’s like to move back to a childhood town and save a house,” he says. “I call it, ‘Andy of Mayberry meets Eddie Munster in the Twilight Zone.’” n

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THURSDAY 08/10 CatCon 2017 What could be more adorable than the wee, slinking predator implicated in the deaths of 3.7 million birds every year? Yes, we’re talking about Felis catus, the deadly beasts we love to love, even if they’re merely tolerating us for the kibble. Man’s not-quite-best friend gets honored every August 10 with International Cat Day, an event the kittehs surely greet with total disdain. The St. Louis County Library, thankfully, takes a more celebratory view. Its Grant’s View Branch (9700 Musick Road, Affton; www.slcl.org) hosts CatCon from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight, welcoming adult cat lovers for cat videos, face painting, refreshments and more. Learn to make a catnip sock toy or even take home a new killer from Animal House Cat Rescue and Adoption Center or Stray Haven Rescue, which will both be on site.

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FRIDAY 08/11 Spirited Away Chihiro is ten years old and perpetually sullen, especially now that her family is leaving the city for the Japanese countryside. On the family’s trip to their new home, a wrong turn lands them in a mysterious tunnel with an abandoned town at the other end. Much to Chihiro’s dismay they’re actually in the spirit world, and in short order her parents are transformed into pigs and she has to get a job in a bathhouse run by a sly witch. Hayao Miyazaki’s Oscar-winning film Spirited Away follows Chihiro as she attempts to earn her freedom, return her parents to human form and understand the lessons learned in the spirit realm. A subtitled version of Spirited Away screens at 11:55 p.m. Friday and Saturday (August 11 and 12) at the Landmark Tivoli

Kõshirõ; “Mirror”, c. 1930; color woodblock print with mica, gofun, and embossing; Saint Louis Art Museum, The Margaret and Irvin Dagen Fund for Modern and Contemporary Japanese Prints in honor of Steven Owyoung 66:2016

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A Century of Japanese Prints Japan had a long history of woodblock printing (ukiyo-e) that, although now recognized for their artistic qualities, were at the time purely commercial works. That began to change in the mid-nineteenth century, as Japanese artists were exposed to Western printmaking. These early modern artists began the creative print movement, which was motivated by a desire to explore the artistic possibilities of Japan’s traditional hand-carved woodblock printing methods. Artists such as Kobayakawa Kiyoshi and Hashiguchi cr a r rai s m rn Japanese society in prints that are both beautiful works of art and incredible documents of an era. The Saint Louis Art Museum displays a treasure trove of them in the new exhibit, A Century of Japanese Prints. The show opens on Friday, August 11, and remains up through January 28. Admission is free.

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That’s why the RFT’s United We Brunch is back for a summer edition. Today from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Louis Union Station (1820 Market Street; www.rftbrunch. com) you can enjoy bottomless beverages (try a Bellini) and a vast panoply of breakfast/lunch foods. Parker’s Table, the Dapper Doughnut, Taco Circus and Frida’s are all participating, so you’re cerain fin s m ing a sa isfi s your craving. Tickets for United r nc ar

SUNDAY 08/13 Great Muslim Food Festival Nothing brings people together faster than a meal. It’s the one s r -fir acili a r r c n rsation and a sense of camaraderie, which is why summer is stacked with festivals that focus on food.

The newest arrival on the scene is the Great Muslim Food Festival and Cook-Off, a celebration of the diverse dishes of the Muslim world. The food festival features local restaurants such as St. Louis Gyros and Yapi Mediterranean Subs and Sandwiches selling their most popular offerings, as well as a bazaar full of artists and merchants.

The cook-off portion is open to all comers, and features six categories (all of them halal, kosher or vegan).

That includes best rice and pasta dish and best dessert, along with a special class for cooks thirteen and younger. The Great Muslim Food Festival and Cook-Off takes place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. today at the World’s Fair Pavilion in Forest Park (www.cair-mo.org/cookoff). Admission is free but you’ll need money if you want to shop or eat.

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WEDNESDAY 08/16 Bonnie and Clyde Arthur Penn’s groundbreaking gangster film Bonnie and Clyde marks the birth of the “New Holl w s l filmmaking i its blend of comedy and violence (often at the same time) and its frank depiction of violence and sexual subjects, Bonnie and Clyde changed how filmmakers approached storytelling. Bonnie (Faye Dunaway) is a waitress in a small town who witnesses Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty) committing a petty crime.

She impetuously joins him, setting off on a grand romantic adventure that swoops through the Dust Bowl

states and ends in a spectacular outrs g nfir an l rn r lassic i s marks film’s anniversary with a pair of nationwide screenings. You can see it locally at 2 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m.

Wednesday (August 13 and 16) at the Marcus Wehrenberg Des Peres Cine (12701 Manchester Road, Des Peres; www.fathomevents.com). Tickets ar n

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A Tale of Two Cities A documentary and a drama show the difference truth and verisimilitude Written by

ROBERT HUNT Whose Streets?

Directed by Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis. Opens Friday, August 11, at the Landmark Tivoli Theatre and three other cinemas.

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Now screening at multiple theaters.

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ou probably remember the unbearably hot Saturday afternoon in August 2014 when a story popped up on your news feed that an unarmed teenager had been shot by a polic c r r n w rs the story kept getting bigger: the gr wing c mm ni rag im r m r s s an alm s as alarming as s ing i s l fact that the teenager’s body was s ill l ing n rning s r was that last detail that might have l inking r lic trying to start a riot?”

O r n rs n ws an in i a l w s an ac k s s c n in an s r risingl w r n’ s c ming in r m l cal m ia death of Michael Brown quickly became a national and eventually in rna i nal s r r m s ng l s w rk in an ranc an n ina w r man rights protesters adopted the an s n’ s c an world was looking down on a place w a r ar r rg s n iss ri Whose Streets? captures the energy and pain of that hot week in August and the months of protest an c n ic a ll w w n san s l in is ar a k s r s an w n

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In Whose Streets?, Brittany Ferrell rallies for justice in Ferguson. | COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES those same streets were invaded by tanks and other armored vehicl s r cs incr asing militarization of local municipalities that was (and continues to be) encouraged by the government’s willingness to function as a mili ar l mall Whose Streets? brings the frustration and outrage of that period to life and places the i w r in c n r ac i n A collaboration between aci is filmmak r a aa la an an l cal ar is am n a is i ’s a w r l film an a n c ssar n serving as both a cohesive catalog of the repercussions of Michael Brown’s murder and a document of the grassroots protest movement that spontaneously emerged r m is a s ws a rmath of Brown’s shooting — including the pettiness that moved g rnm n cials limina the memorials created at the scene — but also offers inspiring portraits of some of the activists who were motivated to advocate r s ic s ac i is s incl ri an rr ll a ng singl mother arrested while leading a

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ig wa - l cking r s an ai i w li m rr sc n an s ar wa c which used video to counter police efforts to stop media coverage of r ss la an an a is r c n what these new young activists are thinking and how they made the decision to rise up — an emoi nal c ic n r c r as n filmmak rs n lingering over the bookshelves of ir s c s s wing il s an a rs a ins ir m ings ma a a n as but this was not a movement that cam r m n w r is is als c rs a r c an - l r l i n ichael Brown’s death is shown in fragments of cell-phone video and stunned reactions from the peol rg s n w ic is w most of us learned about it that a r a ar in mi l a m l im ia l si n an i ’s n n ir l cl ar w r i ’s g ing whole world is watching and we’re wa c ing w l w rl we’re a little short on tools to help

us sort out what we’re constantly acc ssing il r ar r as ns to remain skeptical of the utility of the viral video (as Michael Eric s nr c n l in in New York Times w a r c n l seen acquittals in several cases in w ic lic kill narm m n even though the murders were ca r n i an n in n cas carri n ac k i Whose Streets? provides a lesson in the use of video as a poli ical an rnalis ic ins r m n mig in r s ing s a m r anal ical film a ic a l r wn an rg s n wi l gal r s an rnalis s r c mm n a rs s c as aisi a s (whose brilliant book Between the World and Me was written in reac i n gran r ’s cisi n n in ic arr n ils n a ’s a i r n film r a i rn im Whose Streets? is about li ing in ick n ’s n a r ac i n i ’s an ri nc Whose Streets? uses multiple perspectives and on-the-scene footage to turn the 2014 protests

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In Detroit, Fred (Jacob Latimore) suffers under the unkind gaze of Krauss (Will Poulter). | ANNAPURNA PICTURES AND FRANCOIS DUHAMEL in an imm rsi n a r n Bigelow tries for a similar feeling in firs min s r s Detroit w ic is as n ri s in a ci ars ag On a s r icial l l s ac i s i irs sc n s in which citizens of Detroit respond to a heavy-handed arrest with vil nc an l ing s an ansi m l i-la r s n rack create a sense of being right in the ick rning s r s they’re all technique and no consi r m an ill s ra r l g laining a w ni century saw blacks moving from ci i s in r followed by a second migration w i s r m ci s r film sn’ m c l audience understand the ‘67 riots from a historical or social perspeci n ac man cisi ns made by Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal actually undermine any n rs an ing rama ic c r Detroit is ins ir lgi rs l ncin in w ic r lack nagers were murdered and nine other people were terrorized by city polic an s a r rs ig l w reduces the nightmarish situation a rr r-film si g r l coming not from police brutality or systemic racism but from a pair of out-of-control cops who would

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The Dearly Departed St. Louis Shakespeare’s Is He Dead? is a goofy good time Written by

SARAH FENSKE Is He Dead?

Directed by Edward Coffield. Written by Mark Twain and adapted by David Ives. Presented

by St. Louis Shakespeare through August 13 at the Ivory Theatre (7620 Michigan Avenue; www.stlshakespeare.org). Tickets are $18 to $20.

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f all the great scenes in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, my favorite is the one where Tom and Huck crash their own funerals. I will admit to being envious. What fun it would be to see our actions interpreted, for once, in the generous light granted by a tragic death. And who wouldn’t secretly enjoy seeing their loved ones blubber over their absence — without the sad reality of never getting to see them again? A fake death is surely the best kind of death.

Two decades after Mark Twain brought that idea to life in his 1876 novel, he made it the center of a play, Is He Dead? His young hero, Jean-François Millet, is a talented artist who can’t manage to sell a painting. With a usurious lender demanding repayment, Millet’s friends realize he would be worth far more dead than alive. They stage his death — and build his l g n r fi s accr s as they’d planned.

But what they haven’t planned for is the impact of Millet’s “widowed sister,” Daisy. Nearly everyone who meets the eccentric widow falls madly in love with her. Of course Daisy is just Millet in a dress, there to supervise his affairs and rak in is r fi s i ’s n as being a gal, even a homely one, and poor Daisy/Millet is soon fending off suitors even while staying one step ahead of the law.

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Nicole Angeli (left) and Jennifer Quinn (right) are intrigued by Daisy (Zac McMillan), who bears a certain resemblance to her dead brother. | RON JAMES pid, it is. Twain’s script — never produced in his day, and only happened upon by a scholar nearly 100 years later — was touched up by playwright David Ives before its 2007 Broadway debut. The result is a setup that feels straight out of a goofy 1970s sitcom, complete with a bunch of silly boob jokes and zany supporting characters. Dutchy, the fat German, loves smelly cheese.

O’ a g n ss ris is fill wi blarney. Madames Caron and Bathilde are two drunk landladies with over-the-top French accents.

Can humor this broad really connect with an audience in 2017?

As it turns out, the answer is yes.

In St. Louis Shakespeare’s current production, which opened at the Ivory Theatre last weekend, Is He Dead? never feels essential. But it is a rollicking good time. Give the play a few minutes to warm up and yourself enough time to shake free

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from your postmodern snobbishn ss an ma n fin rself laughing out loud.

The direction, by Edward Coffi l la s arcical illain Andre (a hilarious Ben Ritchie) even g s is wn m sical ris r time he enters — signaling that it’s OK to treat this as one big joke. The s r ws a im s wi ac rs almost like a Marx Brothers’ movie, an l s s a s ling to great effect. His young actors skid around the stage, careen into each other and even jump over the furniture. It’s all very funny, something like a particularly good episode of Friends, with a bunch of fake accents thrown in for good measure.

Like Friends, it only works because the cast is so winning. As Millet’s tippling landladies, Nicole Angeli and Jennifer Quinn are unbelievably funny, while Molly

McCaskill, as Millet’s long-suffering gal pal, makes a lovely ingenue.

And as Millet, Zac McMillan has a touch of Jack Lemmon. He makes a decent enough romantic hero, but in drag, he’s so charming, you start to suspect something has been liberated in the inhabiting of his al r- g fin rs l r ing r ais fin a in ss A man in a dress, of course, is the oldest of shopworn plot devices. But the nice thing about having an author as astute as Twain m l ing i is a fin s a i truth along with the old jokes. It’s not just that corsets are uncomfortable or that smoking cigars is suddenly verboten. Poor Daisy has to fig s ral m n wi misc i on their mind, and even a jealous girlfriend certain the widow has stolen her man. Being fake dead is easy. Being a woman? Dear God, who’d ever choose it? n

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Henry Ford (Jason Meyers) and Coalhouse (Omega Jones) sing about achieving success by never giving up. | JOHN LAMB [ S TA G E ]

America Singing Set a century ago, Stray Dog’s glorious Ragtime remains contemporary and vital Written by

PAUL FRISWOLD Ragtime

Book by Terrence McNally, music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. Based on the novel by E. L. Doctorow. Directed

by Justin Been. Presented by Stray Dog Theatre through August 19 at the Tower Grove Abbey (2336 Tennessee Avenue; www. straydogtheatre.org). Tickets are $20 to $25.

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eorge Santayana’s most wellknown aphorism about the lessons of history — “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” — gets a lot of play these days, but only because we as a species keep bungling into the same wars, the same brutality and the same horrible outcomes. What good is a ing w rl a r fing r i s

if everything contained within it is a miserable replay of last century’s atrocities, each one a new and yet recurring nightmare?

That is when art proves its worth.

Recreating the troubles of the real world within the constraints and restrictions of a novel, play or opera allows us to recognize mistakes and lapses in judgment as they’re being made, rather than seeing them only in retrospect. The artificiali is a l ns a all ws s see clearly things for what they are.

Santayana has a quote for that as well: “The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.”

Which brings us to Ragtime.

Stray Dog Theatre’s current production of the musical adaptation of E.L. Doctorow’s novel about early-twentieth-century America is sharp, focused, relentlessly cruel and, yes, entirely lovable truth. Director Justin Been and his 26-person strong cast (the largest in Stray Dog’s history) have combined forces to show us America in all her glory and woe. It is a story as sprawling as the country it depicts, and just like America, it will break you and it will set you free.

The plot wends through the lives of three families: an established and prosperous white family, an immigrant Jew and his young daughter attempting to start over,

and a black couple who dream of their infant son one day being fully integrated into America. Their lives converge and separate in cyclical fashion, occasionally intercepting the trajectory of the famous (Houdini, Booker T. Washington) or the infamous (Evelyn Nesbit, Emma Goldman).

As the Jewish father and daughter, Jeffrey M. Wright and Avery Smith arrive with high hopes that are soon dashed by life in a tenement and America’s disdain for foreigners (a recurring illness in this country). Wright is one of the strongest singers in St. Louis, but on Saturday night he was undone by a microphone on the fritz — one more indignity for Tateh to weather before ascending to the peak of society.

Mother (Kay Love) and her family are already ensconced in the society’s upper echelons, immune from toil or disappointment. But when s fin s an in an lack in r garden, she awakens to the fact that others struggle to get by. Free from the control of her husband (Phil Leveling), she makes a spontaneous decision to take responsibility for the child and his mother, Sarah (Evan Addams). Mother discovers she likes making her own decisions, and she soon indulges in the practice like an old pro. When Coalhouse Continued on pg 34 riverfronttimes.com

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Mother (Kay Love) lets Sarah (Evan Addams) and her son into her life. | JOHN LAMB

RAGTIME Continued from pg 33 Walker Jr. (Omega Jones) shows up at her door to see his gal Sarah, she welcomes him into her home too.

This sets off a string of fractures, calamities and bloodshed within both families. It always ends in blood in America.

Jones has shone in a handful of local supporting roles, but here he dominates Ragtime with his charisma, his big, rich voice and his acting technique. Coalhouse is a ragtime pianist, and he plays Mother’s piano while waiting for Sarah to forgive him. This turns into “New Music,” a song about the changes occurring in both music and in white and black families. Father is against having “this negro” in his house, but Mother and her Younger Brother find joy in Coalhouse’s playing — and so does a surprised Sarah. Jones is such an engaging and talented performer that Father seems willfully stupid for shutting himself off.

As amazing as “New Music” is, it’s not the song that ultimately sticks

with you. That would be “Till We Reach That Day,” which follows the murder of Sarah. After she’s beaten to death by the police (one of them yells “I thought she had a gun,” as they slink off stage, unpunished and anonymous), Coalhouse and the black cast members bury her.

Director Been places Ebony Easter, Melissa Sharon Harris, Dorrian Neymour and Chrissie Watkins on r in r n s ag w r they sing of blood on the ground and their hope that one day the humanity of black people will be recognized. There are tears in their eyes and rage in their voices, yet of the white cast, only Mother and the radical anarchist Emma Goldman (Laura Kyro) join in their plea.

Ragtime the novel debuted in 1975, and the musical in 1996.

Twenty-one years later, women still sing this song over the bodies of their children. More violence follows “Till We Reach That Day,” sn ng ssi l r s the lasting image of Ragtime is of six women prophesying that we will never get to heaven until we change our ways. n

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ravis Hebrank of Polite Society (1923 Park Avenue, 314325-2553) was on the brink of law school graduation, set to follow in the footsteps of his father and sister, who are both attorneys, when he made an abrupt change of course.

“I was good at it, but I knew I never had a passion for it,” Hebrank says of becoming a lawyer.

“I think a lot of people don’t realize their passion until it is too late, and fig r a i was s im to make a stupid mistake, if that’s what this was going to become. So I broached the subject of not becoming a lawyer. My parents reacted as well as they could have.”

Mom and Dad may not have been immediately thrilled with Hebrank’s decision, but they certainly saw it coming — and maybe even bore some responsibility for his subsequent turn to the hospitality industry. Hailing from southern Illinois, the Hebrank family made it a priority to dine out together regularly at some of the area’s better restaurants. The experience instilled in Hebrank a precocious appreciation for gastronomy that would sometimes become the butt of his family’s jokes.

“When I was five or six, my grandma gave me a taste of escargot, thinking I’d think it was disgusting. I loved it,” Hebrank recalls. “When I was eight or nine, I remember going to a country club in Edwardsville with my mom, dad and a friend of mine. It’s been told how funny it was that my friend ordered a hot dog and I ordered escargot.”

Hebrank gravitated toward wine when he was in high school and into college, but he didn’t get his

Travis Hebrank was a law school student who felt the siren call of wine. Eventually, he listened. | SARA BANNOURA firs r s a ran n il was a second-year law student at Saint Louis University. While dining with his family at Scape in the Central West End, Hebrank discovered that he knew one of the restaurant’s managers, and later emailed her about a job. Initially hired as a server assistant, he quickly rose through the ranks, gaining management’s trust as he took on responsibilities with the wine list.

Eventually, Hebrank was promoted to management and became Scape’s wine buyer, where he continued to develop his knowledge of wine and spirits and seek out interesting bottles. Not long after his promotion, Jonathan Schoen started as the general manager, and he and Hebrank connected over a shared vision of hospitality.

When Schoen left to develop what would become Polite Society, he had no doubt that Hebrank should run the restaurant’s bar program.

These days, Hebrank is busy tending bar at the Lafayette Square hotspot, serving thoughtful drinks and interesting glass pours to thirsty patrons. But it’s not lost on him just how close he was to work-

ing at a different kind of bar — one his parents made him pursue even as he insisted that the restaurant industry was his calling. “They still told me I should take the bar an finis sc l r rwis i would be a waste,” Hebrank says.

“I agreed with them and passed it, but to their credit, they saw in me that I knew what I was talking about and how rare it is for someone to really like something and to get an opportunity to make money doing it.”

Hebrank took a break from Polite Society’s bar to share his thoughts on the St. Louis restaurant industry, the virtues of x-ray vision and why a little bit of effort can make life so much better.

What is one thing people don’t know about you that you wish they did?

I only seem like a horribly abrasive person because I’m a bad actor.

What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you?

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

Effort. People are learning more.

And learning is a good thing on its own, but it’s also pretty cool when people learn to make their lives better. You have to have heard of black cardamom to be able to use it. If you don’t dig deep, you can miss out on some amazing things, and your food or art or whatever will be that much more boring because you didn’t put in the effort fin s n w ingr i n s r techniques.

What is one thing missing or that you’d like to see in the local food and beverage scene?

Late night. In Dublin, you could get a doner kebab at any time of day. In New York, you can get hot dogs or pizza or anything really.

Here it’s fast food.

Who is your St. Louis food or drink crush?

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TRAVIS HEBRANK Continued from pg 45 OK too, I guess… Piss off, Grant. I think Reeds is awesome — food, beverage, and people: Alisha, Andre, Zac et al. And one that I feel gets WAY too little recognition is Elliot Harris at BaiKu Sushi Lounge, the best sushi chef in wn s l s fis on rice, maybe some chives on their mackerel. Elliot always has something new for me to try. You can tell he cares. I also have to mention Little Saigon in the Central West End. It may be the most hospitable and solidly consistent restaurant in the city. (This is not an exhaustive list.)

Which ingredient is most representative of your personality?

Gin, because at heart, I am bland and uninteresting, but I am dressed up with herbs and spices and Christmas tree smell.

If you were not tending bar, what would you be doing?

I guess I’d be a lawyer, or something … put that schooling to work. I can’t be an astronaut; they don’t allow four-eyed assholes into rockets — at least in the U.S. Name an ingredient never allowed behind your bar.

Human. I’m adventurous, but you shouldn’t eat humans. Although...

What is your after-work hangout?

Usually my couch. My cat, Federica, yells at me until I feed her.

Then I eat a little too. We cuddle.

That’s about it. I work too much to go get trashed at Mangia.

What’s your edible guilty pleasure? am a firm li r in k c Chefs always make a stink about ketchup. They’re wrong. It’s sweet and salt and vinegar and tomato-umami. “But it’s boring!”

So is water, but you still use that, ya crackpot. If I had to choose between a well-prepared béarnaise or ketchup for the rest of my life, I would choose ketchup.

What would be your last meal on earth?

Probably something really bad for me because I’m going to be dead anyway, so lots of anchovies and mackerel and other pickled salty things. And probably some bacon. Wait. “Last meal on earth”… Does this imply that I’m going to some other planet?

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he newest restaurant to open in the Loop, Bing Bing (567A Melville Avenue, University City; 314-669-9229), has done zero advertising. It doesn’t have a sign out front. And even if it did, it’s hard to imagine anyone would see it — its small storefront, previously home to Moya Grill, is just far enough from the bustle of Delmar miss n s rian ra c But clearly, partners Yong Liu and Yijun Chen are doing something right: At lunch time, the place has been packed, with a host of Chinese students eager for a taste of home.

Bing Bing is unique in the St. Louis area in that it offers crepes — savory Shanghai-style crepes, stuffed with everything from fried fish to barbecue pork. In China,

they are called jianbing, or bing for short, and they have recently taken the U.S. by storm. Specialty bing restaurants have popped up in New York, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.

In fact, that profusion has already affected Bing Bing. Liu and Chen rin ir firs s m n s wi a different restaurant name, Mr. Bing, before realizing they needed to avoid confusion with the shop of the same name in New York City.

But for ex-pats eager for a taste of home, word of their concept has spread quickly.

“All the Chinese, they’ve been really excited,” Liu says. Still, he’s not getting ahead of himself: “It’s a new thing in St. Louis, so a lot of people might not even try it.” After just a few weeks of business, he and Chen are almost done with a new menu that will increase the number of non-bing options — in addition to the half-dozen appetizers on the menu, you’ll be able to order Japanese-style skewers and four different types of soup.

The restaurateurs have both been in the area for more than a decade. Liu, who also works as a hairstylist, came with his family from riverfronttimes.com

the Hong Kong area. Chen, whose family owns a Chinese restaurant in Fenton, is from Shanghai. i sa s firs as ing n a recent trip to Shanghai and was blown away. He’s in charge of the front of the house; Chen, who serves as the restaurant’s chef, has a longer history with bing. “He’s eaten them since he was a child,” Liu says.

In addition to a series of appetizers, Bing Bing offers creative beverages, including Aurora tea a c m s r m r a w r r ic rinks c m with two colors; customers are instructed to give the sealed glass a few good shakes to mix things up.

Or you can try salted lemon tea or Thai tea, served in a charming lightbulb-shaped vessel.

The place is largely unchanged since its days as Moya, with a clean, stylish look and counter service.

The striking murals on the wall suggesting Ethiopian women, however, have now been joined by a maneki neko cat on the counter. Diners excited about the neighborhood’s new restaurant should cross their fing rs a i will ring g l ck Bing Bing is open seven days a week from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. n

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tix & Ice (35 Florissant Oaks Shopping Center, Florissant), which opened in late May in Florissant, is a bar, family restaurant and a hang-out spot like no other. Its specialties: kabobs and daiquiris.

Owner Erika Wilkes is a marketing, business and technology teacher at Jennings Senior High by day. She says the inspiration is simple: “We found that you can get a kid to eat almost anything on a stick. That’s where the name came from.”

The restaurant’s origins lie in the role that Wilkes’ home plays as the “neighborhood house,” the spot where kids come to eat and play while the adults talk with a spiked lemonade in hand. Stix and Ice aims to be a place where anyone can come to eat, have a drink, listen to the music they like, take pictures in the photo booth and smoke hookah, all under one roof.

The place offers house-made kabobs, with two skewers over a bed of seasoned rice for $8. Choose between chicken, shrimp, beef and/or veggies.

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comes drizzled with syrup, are $9.

The daiquiri menu consists of drinks such as “the Atomic” (grape, rum, tequila, vodka), “the Royal Hulk” (sour apple, apple whiskey with Crown Apple) and “the Angry Smurf” (blueberry, vodka). Non-alcolic a rs ar a aila l a shot to your daiquiri, known as a “topper,” to get the full effect. Drinks are $8 for a small or $10 for a larger size.

The customer service is the cherry on top. Erika Wilkes considers Stix & Ice “a Wilkes family-run business,” and makes sure to help everyone feel at home. She often comes out of the kitchen to speak directly with guests about their experience and how the restaurant can work to make things better. Customers have even helped add to the menu. “We had someone that created a drink,” she says. “They wanted every single flavor in one cup. We said OK.” Now that drink is called “the Rainbow.”

The space, which is located in the Florissant Oaks Shopping Center strip off Lindbergh, is a warm and inviting atmosphere with large windows and a spacious layout.

Stix & Ice is open for lunch noon to 11 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, noon to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday and noon to 10 p.m. on Sunday. After 9 p.m., it’s adults only.

Happy hour, held from 5 to 7 p.m., includes $4 mini kabobs and all drinks and spirits $1 off, as well as two-for-one well drinks. Stix and Ice also offers a loyalty card, with which customers receive a free daiquiri after six purchased ones.

Says Wilkes, “This is your spot. It’s what you make it. You can change the jukebox station. You can skip ahead if you don’t like what’s on.” It’s truly her goal to make everyone feel like Stix & Ice is their ultimate chill spot.

tage Left Diner (541 N. Grand Boulevard, 314-5337500) has taken its final bow.

Located next to the Fox Theatre, the bright faux-diner had been a regular stop for theater-goers in Grand Center for years, first as City Diner, then as Stage Left Diner.

But on July 31, the restaurant said goodbye, effective immediately. A Facebook post gave no reason for the closure, stating only, “We are grateful for the support of our patrons, but today Stage Left Diner has closed its doors for the final time.”

As RFT critic Cheryl Baehr reported, the restaurant’s September 2016 reboot was an attempt to solve some problems with City Diner, the second outpost of a concept with separate ownership on South Grand: [C]onsultant Brad Beracha ... told me that owner Steve Smith had opted for a new concept because the old City Diner had earned poor marks from its customers and lost the confidence of the neighborhood. Smith called upon Beracha to reimagine the greasy spoon as an elevated comfort food spot.

One of the biggest complaints about the previous incarnation, Beracha explained, was the service.

He and Smith made improving the restaurant’s hospitality the focal point of the rebrand, instilling a cultural change in the staff to try to win back displeased guests.

Baehr, for one, wasn’t won over. She called the eatery’s appearance “stunning,” but said the menu overhaul left much to be desired, writing, “[T]here wasn’t much about the food at Stage Left Diner that left me with a pleasant taste in my mouth. And that’s a shame that goes far beyond the effort its owners put into the reboot.

“Grand Center is a prominent jewel in this city’s crown, and the Fox Theatre is a national treasure,” she continued. “Restaurants catering to this crowd should see it as an opportunity to raise their culinary offerings to the level such a theater district deserves, not phone it in because they have a captive audience. We deserve better. The Fox deserves better.”

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The Blue Lotus Position A south city label and studio brings St. Louis soul to life Written by

ROY KASTEN Blue Lotus Label Revue 8 p.m. Saturday, August 12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $10. 314-498-6989.

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Pullquote Gene Jackson released his debut album, 1963, through Blue Lotus. | BOB BAUGH is wn s r al m’s m s w r l c lla ra i n a s ri acks n’s s n a ic im r g a ic i n i was ins ir a sim l ass ri r m i a s a s man s ngs r ars acks n sa s ’ mak a a an wri l rics n r a an a c l w rk wi was g ing cra wis c l a m a l w n ars ag ’s a ng cr a i min n as ng r r ing is r s m sicians ’m w rking wi a ri nc imr ising wi an s n s i a s n ar is lik n as a muscle to create on the fly, and so the opportunity to work with s m n lik a is a l ssing I make an instrumental, and put all ar s an ars g r ’ll c m ack wi l rics an i will mak s ns r m ginning n il l s la l ma ng a an i ni ia l s n ric n ss r s ca ring spirit of Motown and the sweat a is r a s i s m s sing lar rai is m sician in O’ nn r w was a l ng- im m m r r cka ill an Screamers and who continues to w rk wi ck ang i tle Rachel and others, co-produces and lays down drum parts. He also arrang s rings a l n a

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STACEY WINTER We’re Both Right Now www.staceywinter.com

Stacey Winter Record Release

8 p.m. Sunday, September 3. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. $10. 314-498-6989.

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it Hamon, known in music circles as Stacey Winter, is an adept musician on a host of instruments, a versatile songwriter, a recording engineer of skill and (every bit as much as the rest) a great conversationalist.

He’s just a few weeks away r m cial r l as his six-song vinyl EP, We’re Both Right Now, which will be celebrated at Off Broadway on September 3. A week later he’ll be performing with his wife, Beth Bombara, at LouFest; their set comes the day prior to “a 40- or 50-date run” with the electro-pop band RAC, with whom Hamon is a touring player.

First up, though, is the release of his own EP, which was largely recorded at his own Lemp Electric Studio, with instrumentation by ... himself, alongside short bursts of collaboration by friends and longtime associates, including Bombara, remix/arrangement whiz-kid Adult Fur, Aaron Stovall on synths, guitarist John Calvin Abney and, lastly, Hamon’s sonic sounding board, Karl Kling of RAC. While Kling added to the sheen, all the raw recording was Hamon’s, as was most of the instrumentation.

“I try to play the studio as an instrument,” Hamon says. “I don’t, when I’m working, think, ‘Here’s the chord progression, here’s the melody.’ Literally, the firs s ng cam wi r m rack r ms an percussion, then I added bass and chords around that.

That’s my way of writing, rather than starting out with a song that I could play on guitar in a coffeeshop.

These songs have a rhythm to them, rather than my crafting a vibe to support just the lyrics. I don’t know who cares about any of that, but it’s how I do it.

“I’m pushing and brushing against the edge of what can do with a bunch of instruments. I don’t consider myself a guitarist, though I play them in bands. I’m not a drummer, even though I’ve played drums in the touring band of RAC, at shows of 2,500 people. I just lik la ins r m n s a fi s a s ng fi s a i These six songs have a nice degree of range, two-tofour minute bursts of indie rock bliss: catchy, hooky, quickly familiar. A song that feels cut from a slightly i r n cl is fi rack an n which sounds as if it could be the under-the-credits title track of a breezy, clever art-house rom-com. “Love an n am n sa s is nl n n record that started out as a full-on song, so production went on top of that. I thought, ‘This feels soul-esque, so I’ll sing as high as I can. So I’ll sing high, then will

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Stacey Winter. | NATE BURRELL sing even higher and then I’ll put a hilarious guitar solo on, because why not?’ Honestly, I feel like this record is a practical joke on myself. I’m not sure if it’s serious, but it’s fun, so who cares?

“As far as it being any type of departure,” he adds, “I’ve played in a lot of very different projects. Some work in this same way and some don’t. But today, it seems like a pretty nice step forward for myself.” sicall am n’s ims l in a sw sition of late, even if he admits that 2017 has “been the slowest in recent years” on some musical fronts.

But he’s been opening himself up to inputs from far and wide: Abney and Kling, for example, aren’t based here, while his current live band (Bombara, Stovall, r mm r ik c rk an assis in ac mann includes some of his besties.

“I agree with a lot of the St. Louis-centric thing,” Hamon says. “There’re a lot of bands that do that and it’s really cool. There’s a lot of untapped talent locally. Not even ‘untapped,’ but tapped only locally.

And there’s something beautiful about that. But being on the road and meeting people in different places ... I’ve had so many weird late-night conversations, playing records at someone’s house. You learn something from those moments, when you’re outside the norm of the people that you see every day and hang out with on your own.”

Hamon’s the type to challenge himself frequently.

His EP album cover is an example. The colorful, patterned work is a literal mistake: His self-learned coding rendered his cover a visual example of an error made while rooting for bad code. The result, though, was lovely enough that it merited a permanent place in is ca al g scr wing a s m a r c metaphor,” he says.

For the album’s release show, Hamon plans on offering an accompanying coloring book, which will also be an option for digital-only buyers. And he’ll have a band in which the players are “all monsters. And they all said, ‘Yeah, I can play that. So let’s play it like the record,’ which is also great.”

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Herbie Hancock has been at the center of so many transformations in jazz that only comparisons to the titans Miles Davis and John Coltrane — both of whom he worked with and learned from — seem apt. As if it wasn’t enough to turn jazz-funk into pop music and help create the genre of postbop, Hancock has continued to rethink and re-situate jazz well into the sixth decade of his career. He has celebrated

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the genius of Joni Mitchell and jammed with Flying Lotus and Thundercat, and recently traveled the globe for the Imagine Project, an improvisational masterpiece of world music. That restlessness, that willingness to take risks, both artistic and commercial, defines his art. His genius remains singular and boundless.

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To see the extent of Bruce Hornsby’s reach and influence, you’ll have to think past those few indelible, still-worthy hits from the mid-80s. His long association with the Grateful Dead accounts for a significant subset of his fanbase, and he brings a kind of grey eminence on the just-released Day of the Dead tribute album (he tackles “Black Muddy River” with DeYarmond

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

CHEAP TRICK: w/ Foreigner, Jason Bonham’s

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Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.

Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth

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

City Expwy., Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944.

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

HOMESHAKE: 8 p.m., $12-$14. The Monocle,

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: w/ Stages & Stereos, Kyle

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Lucas, Ashland, The Cinema Story, Disguise

KINGDOM OF GIANTS: w/ Special TBA, Afterlife,

The Limit 6 p.m., $12-$15. The Firebird, 2706

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Kriminals, Hollow, Torn at the Seams 6 p.m.,

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$12-$15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,

LIL DUVAL: Fri., Sept. 29, 7:30 & 10 p.m.; Sat.,

314-535-0353.

Sept. 30, 7:30 & 10 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m.,

MARTY SPIKENER & THE ON CALL BLUES BAND:

$25. Helium Comedy Club, 1151 St. Louis Galle-

10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S.

ria Saint Louis Galleria Mall, Richmond Heights,

Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

314-727-1260, st-louis.heliumcomedy.com.

SHAKEY GRAVES: w/ David Ramirez 8 p.m., $19-

MARLON WAYANS: Thu., Aug. 24, 7 p.m.; Fri.,

$22. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,

Aug. 25, 6:30 & 9 p.m.; Sat., Aug. 26, 6:30 &

314-726-6161.

9 p.m., $35-$45. Helium Comedy Club, 1151

SORRY PLEASE CONTINUE: 8 p.m., $5. The Heavy

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Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-

Richmond Heights, 314-727-1260, st-louis.

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THE NATIONAL PARKS: W/ RIVVRS, Wed., Oct. 25, 8 p.m., $12-$14. Blueberry Hill - The Duck

THIS JUST IN 4 HANDS PRESENTS: CITY WIDE SOUNDS: W/ Les Gruff and the Billy Goat, Emily Wallace, Elliott Pearson, Thu., Sept. 21, 8 p.m., $5. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505, oldrockhouse.com.

AMERICAN AQUARIUM: Mon., Sept. 25, 8 p.m., $17-$20. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989, offbroadwaystl.com.

ANDREW BELLE: Thu., Nov. 16, 8 p.m., $15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-4986989, offbroadwaystl.com.

BARB WIRE DOLLS: W/ Svetlanas, 57, Tue., Oct. 24, 8 p.m., $15. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314727-4444, blueberryhill.com.

BLACKTOP MOJO: W/ Divine Sorrow, Axeticy, Fri., Sept. 15, 7 p.m., $10-$13. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050, fubarstl.com.

Cheap Trick 7 p.m. Wednesday, August 16.

Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, 14141 Riverport Drive, Maryland Heights. $29.95 to $99.95. 314298-9944.

At this point, what can be said about Cheap Trick that 10,000 other music writers haven’t already written? Since 1973 the Rockford, Illinois-based rock act has been defining and perfecting the power-pop sound with endless hooks and nervy guitars, reveling in the relative simplicity that a shot of pop can bring to a muscular rock sound. From its early singles “I Want You to Want Me” and “Surrender” to its more modern

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Jukebox Heroes: Foreigner and Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Experience will open the show.

—Daniel Hill

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POST MALONE: Sun., Sept. 24, 8 p.m., $40. Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis, 618-274-6720, popsrocks.com.

PRAIRIE REHAB: W/ Andrew Ryan and the Travelers, Oh Caledonia, Fri., Sept. 15, 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St. Louis, 314-352-5226, theheavyanchor.com.

PUNK ROCK FOR PET FOOD: W/ the Danged (The Damned Tribute Band), The Five Stooges tribute band (Stooges Tribute band), We’re a Happy Family (Ramones Tribute band), Sat., Aug. 26, 9 p.m., $5. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois

BOB LOG III: Tue., Oct. 24, 8 p.m., $10. Off

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Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-4986989, offbroadwaystl.com.

588-0505, oldrockhouse.com.

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

com.

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DIRTY HEADS: W/ The Unlikely Candidates, Ty-

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Rocketship, The Death, free. The Ready Room,

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$12. The Stage at KDHX, 3524 Washington Ave,

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726-6161, thepageant.com.

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SHERWOOD: Thu., Oct. 19, 7 p.m., $17-$22. The

thereadyroom.com.

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com.

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Fruit, Ethik’s Mind, Deux Plex, NNN Cook, Jad-

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fubarstl.com.

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FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS: Thu., Nov.

JESSICA LEA MAYFIELD: Fri., Nov. 17, 8 p.m., $15.

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

W/ The Obsessives, Jetty Bones, Wed., Sept. 27,

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Parkway, St Charles, 636-896-4200, familyare-

498-6989, offbroadwaystl.com.

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$12. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504

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KID SCIENTIST PRESENTS: A REPORT FROM THE

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

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FUTURE: W/ Adult Fur, Hands and Feet, Grace

VIBES STL: THE GRAND ARTS EVENT: W/ DJ Stain,

blueberryhill.com.

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Basement, Fatal Flaws, Fri., Sept. 1, 9 p.m.; Sat.,

DJ Hoodbunny, Key!, DJ Osh Kosh, Sat., Sept.

CRAIG FINN & THE UPTOWN CONTROLLERS: W/

fubarstl.com.

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The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St.

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

com.

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A KILLERS CONFESSION: W/ Blacklite District,

p.m., $15-$18. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room,

DANCE WITH THE DEAD: W/ Gost, Sun., Nov. 5, 8

THE GROOVELINER: W/ Jesse Gannon, Fri., Aug.

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6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-

p.m., $13-$15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave.,

18, 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave.,

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

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stl.com.

YUNG PINCH: Sun., Aug. 20, 8 p.m., $15-$18. The

DEAD HORSES: Sun., Oct. 22, 7 p.m., $10-$12.

HANNAH ALDRIDGE: W/ Wave Theory, Sun.,

KORN: W/ Kings Bounty, Sat., Sept. 30, 8 p.m.,

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

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

Aug. 20, 7 p.m., $10. The Stage at KDHX, 3524

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BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: My boyfriend of eight months, K, and I are polyamorous. We started the relationship on that foot, and for a while I was the partner he spent the most time with. However, recently we both started dating the same woman, L, and they have been spending more time together than with me.

They both reassure me that they love me and care for me deeply, but I am an anxiously-attached person and sometimes I have panic attacks and fear that they’re going to leave me. I’m working on becoming more secure via books on cognitive behavioral therapy, and I’m looking into in-person therapy. This is m r t eri re ati n i tn t his (I’m 22, he’s 35). And while K has been super patient with me, my worry and grasping is a point of friction. K has told me he doesn’t want to be solely responsible for my sexual satisfaction and my need for constant reassurances. e an iet a een arin m t strongly concerning sex. I feel neglected if K doesn’t penetrate me but he penetrates L, or if L gets to penetrate K via a strap-on and I don’t. I love both my partners, but I’ve been feeling sexually neglected — and with a HIGH sex drive, it een ite ain i i m r t “trio rodeo” and I really want to make it work — I’ve seen a future with K for a while (the I-want-your-children kind), and L is joining those future visions. can n a a t create m re opportunities for sexy-time and not ruin it with anxiety attacks?

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I’m always suspicious when two (or more) people claim to be deeply in love after dating for a short period of time, O an ig m n s alifi s Premature declarations of love up the emotional stakes, which can place a strain on a newish relationship that i ma n s r ng n g ar You’ll feel a lot less anxious, BELOVED, if you make a conscious effort l w r s ak s n rw r s ial i wa ack girl You’ve been dating K for a little more than half a year, and you’ve been dating L for whatever “recently” adds up to in a world where eight months als ’ll r c r an i levels if you tell yourself you aren’t c mmi an as li ar n rs is is ginning s r la i ns i s ll ’r c mmi ted to right now is continuing to get kn w an ’r c mmi dating them and you’re committed to l ring w r is mig g ar n c mmi m Committing yourself to therapy is ag i a O an r therapist can start by reevaluating whether a poly relationship is right r in rac ic s s m n wi anxiety issues and hang-ups about all sex acts being divided up equally, poly may not be right for you, or it may not rig r rig n w r a li l therapy, who knows?

You’ve been at this rodeo for only eight months, and if these problems are already coming up, it might not be r a ac m n s l r r an i ’s ssi l is r isn’ r Hey, Dan: This is about your Campsite Rule. I think you should amend it. In

1984, when I was twenty years old, I met an LGBT rights activist who was 53. He was working with the group I contacted after I’d called the local youth crisis hotline here in Baton Rouge and got called a faggot. (I hadn’t realized they created youth crises rather than in t em m a e a a mmer in initiate me an t en went off to study in Europe. Because of him, I knew the difference between making love and getting your rocks off, and I moved through the world with the e c n ence e t me e er e t have. I ended up working in national politics for 30 years, and I did all of it as an out gay man. I moved back home a e ear a an trie t n im it no luck. Finally, about a month ago, I did. He’s in his mid-80s now and under hospice care, but he does remember me.

I got to tell him everything I’d done with what he taught me. I only got about a third of the way down the list before his e e e it tear an ri e here’s my suggested amendment: If you ene te r m t e am ite e i someone left you in better shape than they found you — look that person up and tell them what they meant to you.

And if he’s alone and in hospice care, spend some time being there for him and holding his hand.

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