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TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE

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A Dose of Euphoria

St. Louis businessman David Palatnik sells a product that thousands swear by. The FDA wants to make it illegal Written by

RYAN KRULL Cover by

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St. Charles’ Finest

FBI agents find a big weapons cache — and white supremacist literature — in the Missouri home of an accused Amtrak hijacker

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Steven Spielberg offers a Mrs. Miniver for the Vietnam War era, writes Robert Hunt

First Look

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Saying No to MO

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Hijacker Had Guns, Desire to Kill Blacks Written by

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ast month, agents raiding the St. Charles home of an accused Amtrak hijacker found something alarming: fifteen firearms, including automatic weapons. They also found more than 800 rounds of ammunition — and evidence of ties to white supremacy.

In fact, Taylor Michael Wilson, now 26, allegedly told friends that he had an interest in “‘killing black people’ and others besides whites, especially during the protests in St. Louis.” A witness told agents that Wilson had traveled to Charlottesville for the infamous neoNazi rally in August that left one woman dead. And federal agents say that Wilson may be responsible for a 2016 road rage incident on I-70 in which he terrorized a black woman.

All those details are in federal court files in Nebraska, unsealed for the first time last week. Wilson is facing a federal charge of terrorism attacks and other violence against railroad carriers and against mass transportation systems.

In the documents, federal prosecutors say that Wilson was apprehended while traveling from Sacramento to St. Louis via Amtrak on October 22 after an assistant conductor noticed the train braking — and found Wilson in a restricted area, “playing with the controls.”

“I’m the conductor, bitch,” he allegedly told the Amtrak crew members who rushed in.

The crew fought him into submission, and the train was stopped in Oxford, Nebraska, for about an hour until federal agents could take Wilson into custody.

Wilson behaved erratically, the agents would later write. Noticing a bulge in his front left pocket, Continued on pg xx a deputy

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here not to go in 2018? According to the editor’s of Fodor’s Travel Guide, the list includes Myanmar, Honduras — and Missouri.

“Sometimes you have to say no to the ones you love,” the editors write in the intro to their annual “No List.”

“This planet offers an abundance of majestic vistas and fascinating culture that we recommend you seek out often. But this world is also more than a static viewing point — as travelers, we are witness to the many misfortunes that happen upon it. Travelers must decide how and where we can concern our efforts to observe and preserve the splendor of life around us...

“Fodor’s No List is a reflection of those considerations: where should we go — or not go — that best reflects our courtesy and concern for this wonderful world. Because sometimes you have to say no to the ones you love in hopes that they can recover, reconsider, or reform. A ‘no’ in 2018 is resolved with faith for 2019. See you then, hopefully.”

Myanmar made the list for the eth-

nic cleansing that’s seen 600,000 members of the Muslim minority Rohingya flee the nation. Honduras got a nod for having one of the world’s highest murder rates — and the fact that LGBTQ people are frequent targets.

And Missouri?

Remember S.B. 43, that nasty little piece of legislation seeking to limit racial discrimination lawsuits, a bill pushed by a guy himself being sued for racial discrimination? Supporters claimed it would merely align state law with federal standards, but that turned out not to be true — the Show Me State even lost HUD funding now that state laws no longer comply with federal anti-discrimination minimums.

That got Fodor’s attention, as did the NAACP’s recent travel advisory for the state. Both the civil rights group and Fodor’s cited the death of Tory Sanders, a Tennessee man who took a wrong turn and ended up dead in a rural Missouri jail cell, despite never being accused of a crime.

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Amusement Park, and even a museum that purports to house the holy finger of John the Baptist.

Unfortunately, Missouri is also the place where S.B. 43 was passed making it more difficult to sue employers for discrimination, a state representative argued that homosexuals weren’t human beings, a tourist who got lost and ran out of gas was later found murdered in his jail cell without ever being put under arrest, and two men were hunted down and shot on suspicion of being Muslim on the outskirts of Kansas City. And that’s just in 2017.

(Now, it’s worth noting that the final incident mentioned above is a suspected hate crime that actually happened in Kansas — but, hey, the borders are porous; the killer, in fact, was apprehended at an Applebee’s in Missouri. And Missouri definitely has to own Rep. Rick Brattin ... alas.)

Other places to steer clear of in 2018, per the editors, are a series of gorgeous spots that have been adversely affected by simply having too many human visitors. Mt. Everest, Thailand’s Phang Nga Park and the Great Wall of China all made this year’s list. In some ways, we’re in very good company; too bad it’s for all the very worst reasons. —Sarah Fenske

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Put more specifically, 6th Ward Alderwoman Christine Ingrassia spearheaded an effort to slow traffic along Compton Avenue in south city, using $300,000 of her ward’s budget to install painted bump-outs and large, concrete spheres at six intersections: Park, Lafayette, Shenandoah, Magnolia, Russell and Arsenal. Though orbs have been used in the city for years to block off streets entirely, this is the first time they’ve been put in place to try to control the flow of traffic.

Nicknamed “Slay Balls” after former mayor Francis Slay’s sizable testicles (probably?), the goal of the round roadblocks is to slow cars and discourage motorists from blowing through stop signs by narrowing the roadways at the intersections.

“It’s definitely an issue,” Ingrassia told Fox 2. “I have a number of residents who have more than one car totaled or sideswiped. People are travelling at a high rate of speed and not adhering to speed or stop signs.”

Paul Whitsitt, owner of Kitchen House Coffee by the intersection of Compton and Shenandoah, was one resident who was excited by the development.

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near-misses. We have a lot of accidents here,” he told KMOV in November. “It’s one of the major arteries and extends a long way on both sides of the neighborhood, so people use it to avoid Grand Avenue and other major streets.”

But now that St. Louis’ massive balls are finally in place, some residents have called their efficacy into question, arguing that they’ve actually caused more hazards on the roadway. St. Louis Public Radio reports that a car struck one of the balls on December 12; the heavy concrete sphere then broke free from its post and rolled away, presumably going on to narrowly miss flattening Indiana Jones. In addition, larger trucks have been forced to Austin Powers their way through turns, thanks to the significantly more narrow roadways at the intersections.

“I’ve seen moving trucks do five-point turns just to do a turn,” Tower Grove East resident Lorraine Fedio tells the public radio station. “It’s like threading a needle now.”

Discouraging larger trucks from using Compton as an alternate route to Grand was part of the plan — it’s better for commercial vehicles to use major roadways rather than residential streets.

But the narrow turns are proving difficult for residents to navigate in their own, smaller cars as well.

“A lady almost hit my vehicle today while she was making a right turn on to Russell and Compton,” writes one resident on NextDoor. “I was sitting way back from the crosswalk. She apologize

[sic] but I felt her pain. People do need to slow down and stop speeding, but in this case no one was speeding and we are jeopardizing our vehicles as well as our safety. Insurance company look out it’s about to be lots of claims.”

“I would pay money and bring friends to see a fire truck or even a small delivery truck make one of those turns without crossing into oncoming traffic,” replied another resident. “The concept is good, but the narrowing is too extreme.”

Ingrassia says the city will continue to monitor whether the balls actually improve public safety. If not, they may try a different tactic.

“If we need to tweak things, we can absolutely do that,” she tells St. Louis Public Radio. “It’s just too soon to tell right now where we are.”

Meanwhile, over at NextSTL, Michael R. Allen, senior lecturer in architecture and landscape architecture at Washington University — and a man who is not totally sold on the effort’s effectiveness — has proposed a radical idea: “Perhaps we can turn lemons into lemonade, and neither complain about the balls or the system that produces them,” he writes optimistically. “Do Slay balls have to be boring? What about holding the nation’s first concrete bollard art biennial, inviting artists from all over the world to decorate them?”

Allen is right: We should paint our balls. If they’re going to be largely useless and in the way anyway, we might as well make them look pretty.

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HIJACKER Continued from pg 9 put together a photo lineup that included Wilson, but said it was then unable to locate the victim.

The case moved to “inactive” — and, apparently, didn’t affect Wilson’s concealed-carry permit.

Wilson was charged on December 22 with one count of “terrorism attacks and other violence against railroad carriers and mass transportation systems.” He has been found competent to participate in court proceedings.

The newly unsealed case file includes documents related to a search warrant executed on Wilson’s home in St. Charles on December 21, where agents found the cache of firearms carefully concealed in a special compartment behind the refrigerator.

In the affidavit, agent Czaplewski wrote that he spoke to Wilson’s parents. They claimed that “they had never known their son to be involved with drugs or the white supremacist movement.” They also allegedly told the agent they didn’t know where their son lived — although the agent later traced his residence to a home they owned. Czaplewski also alleges that Wilson’s father seemed fully aware of the secret compartment where his son had stored the weapons.

The couple told agents “that they would not discuss any discussions they had with Taylor Wilson regarding race relations,” the affidavit notes.

Other informants were more forthcoming. According to the affidavit, one confidential witness alleged that Wilson had met up with white supremacists after finding their group online — and even traveled to Charlottesville for August’s march.

“Wilson made statements that [the witness] interpreted as Wilson representing ... that Wilson and his white supremacist group were the ones who put up some ‘Whites Only’ signs in businesses at an unknown location and [the witness] believes Wilson is serious about killing black people,” the agent wrote, detailing Wilson’s dangerous interest in the protests in St. Louis.

Wilson also allegedly told the unnamed witness about an incident on the highway that appears to match the 2016 road rage incident investigated by St. Charles police, the agent wrote. n

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asked him, “What is this?” Wilson allegedly replied, “My dick.” The deputy located a loaded speedloader with .38 bullets, as well as a fully loaded 38-caliber handgun in his front waistband. Wilson also had a business card for the National Socialist Movement.

And that’s not all. According to the Lincoln Journal Star, “He also had a backpack with three more speed loaders, a box of ammunition, a knife, tin snips, scissors and a ventilation mask inside.”

They found much, much more when they raided Wilson’s home in St. Charles just before Christmas.

Among their findings, according to an affidavit filed by Special Agent Monte R. Czaplewski: “a tactical vest, 11 AR-15 (rifle) ammunition magazines with approximately 190 rounds of .223 ammunition, one drum-style ammunition magazine for a rifle, firearms tactical accessories (lights), 100 rounds of 9 mm ammunition, approximately 840 rounds of 5.45x39 rifle ammunition, white supremacy documents and paperwork, several additional handgun and rifle magazines, gunpowder, ammunition-reloading supplies, and a pressure plate.”

The cache included fifteen firearms, including a fully automatic rifle and ammunition and “a tactical body armor carrier with ceramic ballistic plates.” Oh yeah — and alt-right postings and “documents on how to kill people.”

While Wilson had a valid concealed handgun permit in Missouri, guns aren’t allowed on Amtrak trains. And beyond that, agents would discover that Wilson had been a suspect in a road rage incident in St. Charles in April 2016.

As agent Czaplewski would later write while summarizing his investigation of the Nebraska case, “According to the St. Charles police report, the victim, a black female, stated a white male in a Green SUV pointed a handgun at her while driving eastbound on Interstate 70 for no apparent reason.

“The victim told police the vehicle, a green SUV bore license plate AH3K5M. The plate was then traced back to Taylor Wilson.”

Wilson, the federal agent wrote, had “inexplicably tried to turn himself into police custody by contacting park rangers at Kiwanis Park in St. Charles, but would not state the reason.” The department

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n Morganford Road in Tower Grove South, between a fitness studio and a sports bar, sits CBD Kratom. What at least a few neighbors have mistaken for a large pot leaf is decaled on the store’s window. Written in chalk on the sign out front are the questions, “In Pain? Anxious?”

Inside, the wall behind the counter is lined with jars filled with kratom, a drug that looks like pale green sawdust. Affixed to each jar is a label: Red Bali, White Gold, Green Sumatra, Yellow Borneo. There are more than 40 different strains.

The menu is helpful for first-timers, breaking down where each kratom strain originated from and how it affects the user. Yellow Borneo, for instance, is said to provide “euphoria, a strong clear minded energy.” The Green Maeng Da is described as a “very effective pain reliever” that also “gives you a strong boost of energy.” Variations of “euphoric” — a “simple euphoric effect,” an “intense euphoric effect,” “extremely euphoric” — appear all over the menu. Some strains are better used as a pick-me-up, others ideally taken before going to sleep. If you have questions, the woman behind the counter can tell you more about kratom than most Starbucks baristas can say about coffee.

Kratom powder looks like it should dissolve in liquid, but it absolutely will not do that. It’s like sand in that way. It’s also incredibly bitter on the tongue. Some consumers brew it into a tea; others scoop the powder into a capsule. Many settle for what is called a toss and wash, putting kratom on their tongues and washing it down as quickly as possible. Kratom is sticky, though, and a toss and wash is a lot like trying to do the same thing with cinnamon; it’s probably going to take several swigs. David Palatnik, the 28-year-old owner of CBD Kratom, takes some of the energy-boosting Green Malay strain every morning in lieu of drinking coffee. He mixes it in a smoothie or, if he’s feeling lazy, washes it down with orange juice.

The powder sells for around a dollar a gram, and typically users take around three grams a serving, more if they want a more potent effect. A few customers who live in rural parts of Missouri and Illinois come once every couple of months and buy the product in bulk, but Palatnik says it’s much more common for customers to spend $15, $20 on enough product to last a week or so. A handful of regulars stop in every morning — the shop opens at 8 a.m. — to buy a single serving to go with their morning coffee.

A lot of the people who stop in CBD Kratom think of their purchase the way most people think of coffee: a little boost to make the day easier.

Others swear kratom is a wonder drug, something just short of a miracle.

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hirty-nine-year-old Boska Hunter-Hannan falls squarely into the “wonder drug” camp. Since high school he managed pain from a degenerative disk with the prescription opiate Vicoprofen, taking a pill every four hours and facing withdrawals when his most recent dose lost efficacy or when he wasn’t able to refill his scrip.

Then one day last July his wife, who works at a tea shop in Columbia, Missouri, brought home a sample of kratom that had been sent to the store as a promotional freebie.

Hunter-Hannan said his first inclination was to throw away the powdery substance. It looked a little bit like instant coffee and nothing like the tea leaves his wife normally sold at the store. He thought that maybe he’d heard of kratom and that it was bad. Nonetheless, he googled it and read that kratom allegedly helps in the management of chronic pain. He was dubious, but he’d been taking prescription painkillers for so long he was willing to give kratom a shot. He doubted it was going to do much of anything one way or another.

“Twenty minutes later,” he says, “my pain was gone and I was telling my wife, ‘Wow, this is not a joke. This is real. This is awesome.’”

Seven months later, Hunter-Hannan describes that day as his “aha” moment. He’d found something that not only managed his pain but was also all natural with fewer side effects than the opiates he was prescribed.

Now he tells anyone who will listen about kratom. He’s given kratom to friends. When his boss at his IT job complained of chronic pain, Hunter-Hannan gave him some, too.

By taking kratom in the morning, followed by another dose or two throughout the day, Hunter-Hannan has been able to more than cut in half the amount of Vicoprofen he needs.

Vicoprofen made him drowsy, but he compares kratom to a strong cup of coffee that also makes him feel good.

“It’s got the opiate feel,” he says.

“It’s got a little bit of that euphoria that you’re not going to get with coffee, but the high is not like what you get with Vicodin or anything like that.

It’s really simple and not something that you crave.”

Afterwards, did the tea store where his wife works start stocking kratom?

“No,” he says. “They didn’t. They didn’t want to get into all that.”

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y “all that,” Hunter-Hannan is referring to kratom’s precarious legality and the swirl of controversy that has recently surrounded it. Right now kratom is illegal in seven states, and in 2016 the DEA tried unsuccessfully to outlaw it nationwide.

David Palatnik aims to make his shop on Morganford a resource for the curious. | KELLY GLUECK Last November, the FDA signaled intentions to try to do the same. The agency issued a public health advisory that stated in part, “Evidence shows that kratom has similar effects to narcotics like opioids, and carries similar risks of abuse, addiction and in some cases, death.” The advisory cited reports of 36 deaths in the U.S. associated with its use and claimed kratom causes seizures, liver damage and withdrawal symptoms. The agency said it was particularly disturbing that kratom was being sold as a safer alternative to opioids and that those addicted to painkillers and harder drugs were using it without doctor supervision as a way to detox. Also, the FDA said, some people use kratom recreationally, just to get high.

No one is more aware of kratom’s recent bad press than Palatnik, the owner of CBD Kratom. He’s eager to talk to anyone, media included, about his product, which he sees as being seriously misunderstood. Of course he has a lot to lose financially if ratom were to be made illegal, but he seems to believe sincerely in what he sells. He’s quick to refer skeptics to websites, news articles and YouTube videos, giving the impression he genuinely thinks that the whole debate over kratom could be cleared up if only the naysayers would bother to do some research.

Palatnik says that kratom’s bad rap ultimately boils down to “a lot of politics.” The FDA, he says, makes a

lot of claims that don’t add up with its own records. He’s also quick to point out that the FDA itself is largely responsible for the opioid epidemic by failing to keep doctors from over-prescribing painkillers in the first place.

Kratom, he notes, is completely natural. Kratom (scientific name Mitragyna speciosa) technically refers to a tree that is in the same family of plants as coffee and is native to southeast Asia. The leaves of the kratom tree are harvested and ground into the very fine powder Palatnik sells in his store. This powder is not an opiate, but once ingested it activates the same opioid receptors as such drugs, hence the killing of pain and the euphoric effects.

“There is no safety issue with kratom,” Palatnik says. “We’ve been selling it for years, to thousands of people, and we’ve never had a single customer who has ever said anything bad has happened.”

But what about those 36 deaths the FDA attributes to kratom? Is the stuff really killing people? Palatnik says no. “When you look at those cases, they involve other stuff,” he says. Palatnik points to the case of a man who died of a heart attack and had kratom in his system. The FDA counted his death among the 36 caused by kratom, ignoring the fact that heroin was in his bloodstream as well.

It should be pointed out the information Palatnik is citing comes from the American Kratom Association, a Colorado-based nonprofit formed in 2014 to increase access to the substance. However, data from Columbia University researchers does show that, while kratom engages the same opioid receptors as drugs like heroin or Oxycontin, unlike those substances kratom does not depress respiration. That’s a key difference, medically; according to Mothers against Prescription Drug Abuse, the cause of death from opioid overdose is “almost always” respiratory failure.

Locally, Suzanne McCune with St. Louis County’s Office of the Medical Examiner said that she could find no cases of kratom’s active ingredient, mitragynine, being included in a recorded cause of death in the past two years. However, it was only very recently that “kratom, designer opioids, fentanyl analogs, bath salts and a host of other chemicals, legal and illegal” became part of a standard toxicology panel in the county. Previously, investigators didn’t search for evidence of such substances unless they had special cause to look for it.

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the office began using a new instrument to provide a more comprehensive analysis that will, as a default, include kratom.

Though Palatnik says he’s never heard of a bad kratom experience from a customer, many kratom users have written on erowid.org — a website where users document drug experiences of all types — about its effects, both good and bad. In addition to euphoria and pain relief, users reported increased energy, sociability and empathy. Reported negative side effects tend to be mild: nausea and vomiting, dizziness and chills. However, an analysis of all the kratom-related posts to erowid. org found that one in ten individuals reported some type of negative feeling associated with withdrawal.

Palatnik says many of those negative side effects stem from a lack of education around kratom. He says that’s in part why he opened the store in the first place.

Palatnik already owned the Mr. Nice Guy chain of smoke shops in St. Louis when he first encountered kratom three years ago at a trade show. He tried a sample himself, liked it and, after doing some research, decided to start selling it. He noticed that a lot of places in town were also selling Kratom, but nowhere was it a business’ primary product. Also, the places offered little education to consumers. They didn’t know the differences between strains and couldn’t answer customer questions about effects and dosage. That’s when Palatnik got the idea to open CBD Kratom, making sure employees undergo a lengthy training so they can recommend to customers what is right for them. He opened his first store in July 2016 in Chicago’s Bucktown neighborhood.

The Tower Grove location followed in the spring of 2017.

“The education is what I’m really passionate about,” Palatnik says. “A lot of smoke shops like Mr. Nice Guy sell kratom, but kratom really should be in a special place where employees are knowledgeable about it and people can get the right service. I think when you educate people they’ll be happy to be your customers and stay your customers.”

In its statement, the FDA says it is working to “actively prevent” kratom from entering the country and that the agency had “detained hundreds of shipments of kratom.”

When asked if this posed any risk to keeping his shelves stocked, Palatnik says there was “already a similar

enforcement placed on kratom imports, so not much has changed at all recently. We’re well stocked as of now and expect to be for the future.”

But, he adds, “customers are very scared. They don’t want kratom to be taken away from them.”

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r. Evan Schwarz is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Washington University’s School of Medicine and director of the school’s Medical Toxicology and Addiction Medicine Clinic. Schwarz, who spends most of his time in emergency medicine, is also the section chief for the medical toxicology section. He sees a lot of overdoses, people who have come into the ER after accidentally or intentionally taking too much medication or having complications after taking illicit drugs. He also practices addiction medicine, working with individuals abusing opioids, and it’s in this part of his job that kratom comes up.

Patients he counsels do occasionally ask about kratom as a potential therapy, and Schwarz says he advises against it. More commonly kratom becomes part of Schwarz’s conversation with patients because they are already abusing it or because someone asks if kratom could be the cause of a complication they’re experiencing.

“One of the biggest problems we have is that what’s being sold here isn’t the same as what’s being taken straight from the plant,” he says.

For instance, the packets sold around St. Louis often have much more 7-hydroxymitragynine, which is the specific metabolite that engages the user’s opioid receptors, than would be found in the kratom plant itself. Schwarz says he has taken care of people who have had liver complications and bleeding in the brain from kratom.

Making things worse, Schwarz says, is that kratom is as unregulated as bath salts and K2, which have both caused serious harm to users. When doctors have analyzed K2, for instance, they have found a lot more than just the “fake weed” present in the product. Schwarz says it’s likely the same goes for kratom sold over the counter. Lacking regulation, when people buy kratom there is no way to be certain exactly what they’re buying.

“When you go to the pharmacy to get medicine for your blood pressure,” Schwarz says, “what you get is exactly what you asked for and were prescribed — there’s not, like, four different kinds of blood pressure medication in there just

Kratom comes from the leaves of a tree in the same family as the coffee plant, which are then ground into a fine powder. | KELLY GLUECK because someone decided to throw them in. When you buy this stuff from head shops or wherever, you never know what’s in what you’re buying. and some of the stuff people put in there could make you really sick.”

Schwarz acknowledges that placing kratom on the list of Schedule I narcotics will make it very difficult to research further, and that is a legitimate reason to oppose the FDA’s push. “But,” he says, “that shouldn’t be the deciding factor.”

While Palatnik and Schwarz are defnitely not on the same page when it comes to kratom, there is a certain resonance between what the two men have to say. Schwarz says the problem with kratom is that users have no idea what they’re taking. Palatnik says he

opened his store because kratom needed to be in a “special place,” because most sellers had no idea what they were selling. His kratom, he says, is just the ground-up leaf, with nothing added. There’s no reason to doubt him but, absent any regulatory oversight, customers have to take Palatnik at his word.

Hunter-Hannan says he avoids the head shops and gas stations that sell kratom in Columbia and instead buys his kratom “exclusively online” from distributors he trusts. “You never know,” he says.

“People could be putting stuff in their kratom, but I don’t want any filler, and when I buy from these distributors I feel like they’re giving me what they’re supposed to. It smells good, it’s all the same color.

It’s all the color it’s supposed to be.”

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he lack of serious research into kratom makes it difficult to know how many people in the U.S. are using the drug, especially since most standard drug tests don’t detect it. But, Schwarz says, data suggests a recent increase in overall use — or at the very least an increase in reported serious complications associated with it. One CDC study, for instance, found a tenfold increase in kratom-related calls to poison control since 2010. What’s behind this trend is hard to identify, but Schwarz says that the drug being easily accessible in most states is likely a factor.

Much of the press coverage around kratom has placed it in the context of the country’s larger opioid crisis, focusing on the subset of kratom users who take it as an alriverfronttimes.com

ternative to illicit opiates. But Palatnik says that while people certainly take kratom for those reasons, to focus solely on them overlooks the majority of people who come into his store.

“Government agencies try to say [getting off opioids] is the main reason people are taking kratom,” he says. “It’s not the main reason. I know it’s not because I’m here at the shop all the time, and people tell me why they take it. I know better than the FDA.” One customer overhears Palatnik talking and, though he asks that I not print his name, confirms that he is a pulmonary physician in the area. He’s been using kratom for more than fifteen years, he says, primarily as a way to relax in the evenings after work, not unlike how a lot of people have a beer.

“It’s used by law-abiding citizens who own businesses and have professional jobs, people who have marriages and children and successful occupations,” he says. In the past, he adds, he’s stopped using kratom cold turkey with no negative effects.

It can seem contradictory when Palatnik and other kratom supporters speak about both the product’s near-miracle and euphoric effects as well as the notion that it’s a mild substance. But to Palatnik’s larger point, the people who come in and out of his store look like patrons of any other business — an older woman after a yoga class, a couple of younger guys, a middle-aged couple, a man in a suit, a man whose inquisitive conversation with the clerk lasts nearly as long as my interview with Palatnik — decidedly unlike people who look in desperate need of some sort of fix.

Leaving CBD Kratom, I bump into Fred, who is wearing painter’s pants and a sweatshirt speckled white and brown. He doesn’t want to give his last name, but he says he takes “a pinch of Green Maeng Da every morning with orange juice” for the pain caused by being on his feet all day. Kratom allows him to work an eight-hour day and, just as importantly, he says, “lets me stay away from the stupid stuff. I don’t want to get addicted to anything.”

When I ask if he’s ever used prescription drugs for his pain, he looks at me like I’m crazy. He wouldn’t even touch aspirin, he says. He isn’t interested in ruining his life with an addiction. n Ryan Krull is a freelance journalist who teaches in the Department of Communication and Media at UMSL.

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FRIDAY 01/12 Shadowman In the early 1980s, Manhattan’s Lower East Side became the epicenter of the art world. Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Richard Hambleton crashed the gallery scene with their street-inspired graffiti, changing the course of modern art. Both Haring and Basquiat died far too young (31 and 27, respectively), depriving the world of years of work — but what happened to Hambleton, whose stark silhouettes (dubbed “shadowmen”) decorated the sides of New York buildings and both sides of the Berlin Wall? Filmmaker Oren Jacoby tracked down the artist,

whose survival to see a second street art renaissance in the early 21st century is something of a miracle. Wracked by cancer and still dogged by addiction, Hambleton emerges from the past as one of his own youthful shadowmen, a creation of his own talent and almost destroyed by his excesses. Jacoby’s documentary Shadowman uses archival footage of Hambleton’s nocturnal painting missions from the ’80s and contemporary deathbed interviews with him to revisit the career of a lost artist.

Shadowman is presented by the Webster Film Series at 7:30 p.m.

Friday through Sunday (January 12 to 14) at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood Avenue; www.webster.edu/ film-series). Tickets are $5 to $7.

Identi-TEA The humble teapot is a staple for ceramicists. They’re functional and make good gifts (mothers love them), as well as allowing the artist to stretch creatively. A handle, a lid and a spout are the essential elements, but beyond that, anything goes. Identi-TEA: The Sixteenth Biennial Teapot exhibition at the Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design (6640 Delmar Boulevard, University City; www.craftalliance.org) features a wild and whimsical selection of teapots. The opening reception takes place from 6 to 8 p.m.

Friday, January 12, and the show continues through March 18. The gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. riverfronttimes.com

Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Admission is free.

SATURDAY 01/13 Schlafly’s Cabin Fever As you’re no doubt well aware, it’s been ferociously cold these past few weeks. Schlafly’s Cabin Fever invites you to thumb your nose at the weather and get outside for an afternoon of beer. From noon to 4 p.m. today at Schlafly Bottleworks (7260

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ner, and after following a beautiful woman underground, he discovers the awful plight of the workers. He seeks a way to aid the working class, while his father plots to stop him from throwing away his life. Maria, the beautiful woman, prophesies that someday someone will heal society’s rifts — but she’s also pursued by a deranged scientist who dreams of quelling the brewing revolt by transferring Maria’s consciousness into a robot. Filled with amazing (for the time) special effects and gorgeous Art Deco sets, Metropolis still feels fresh and exciting 90 years later. The St. Louis Art Museum screens Metropolis at 2 p.m. today with a live score. Tickets are $10 to $15.

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CALENDAR Continued from pg 19 Southwest Avenue, Maplewood; www.schlafly.com) you can sample more than 40 beers from Schlafly’s portfolio and enjoy live music, as well as the Bottleworks’ full food menu. Tickets are $30 to $35 and include a commemorative tasting glass.

Loop Ice Carnival The Loop Ice Carnival returns for another year of ice-and-snowbased fun as well as a few new surprises. All the best parts — the frozen turkey bowling (now with vegetarian turkeys), the ice slides and the ice breaker, in which you get two swings at a block of ice with a sledge hammer — are back again, while the new attractions include a 32-foot-high zipline on Leland Avenue that runs for 350 feet. Most of the local restaurants and businesses will have specials throughout the carnival, which takes place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday (January 13 and 14) along the Delmar Loop (5900 to 6600 blocks of Delmar Boulevard, University City; www. visittheloop.com). Admission is free, but some events require a small fee.

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Circus Harmony: Legato For their 2018 performance Legato, the young performers of Circus Harmony will pay tribute to American circus history from 1920 to 2010. Of special interest is their homage to the Bronx King Charles Troupe, the acrobatic unicycle/basketball act that appeared on dozens of TV shows in the 1970s. Longtime troupe member Kip Jones came to St. Louis to teach the students the tricks of his trade back in November, and now the kids get to show off what they’ve been practicing.

Legato takes place at 2 and 7 p.m.

Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday (January 13 to 21) at the City Museum (750 North16th Street; www.circusharmony.org). Tickets are $20.

SUNDAY 01/14 Metropolis Fritz Lang envisioned a chilling future in his 1927 sci-fi classic Metropolis. The vast majority of society slaves away underground while the cultural elite enjoys lives of privilege and luxury in high-rise towers.

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Only the most dedicated cyclists have been able to get out and ride since the start of the new year. But spring is coming at some point, and if you want to get a jump on the season, there’s no better place to be than the Mississippi Valley Bike & Outdoor Expo. More than 100 vendors selling cycling necessities, running and hiking gear, and camping equipment will fill the Gateway Center (1 Gateway Drive, Collinsville, Illinois; www.bikeandoutdoorexpo.com) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. There’s a gear swap where you can sell your still serviceable equipment to other thrifty riders, a climbing wall and the return of the Spokes Virtual Bike Races. Admission is $10 to $12 (but free for kids younger than twelve), and part of the proceeds benefit the BWorks Earn-A-Bike program for children.

Kinky Boots the Musical If you had to build a creative team to write a musical about accepting people who are different, fabulous shoes and the transformative power incarnated in drag performers, you’d be hard pressed to better the one-two punch of Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein. The duo crafted the musical adaptation of the film Kinky Boots, packing it with big, brassy songs and a warm heart. Charlie is a would-be real estate agent who inherits the family shoe-manufacturing business, only to discover that the company

is failing. A chance encounter with drag performer Lola helps him realize that a shift to high-quality fetish boots for drag queens might save the factory. But first the employees have to rethink the production line — and learn to work closely with Lola and her friends without sniggering or making cruel comments.

Kinky Boots the Musical plays the Peabody Opera House (1400 Market Street; www.peabodyoperahouse. com) at 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday (January 13 and 14). Tickets are $30 to $82.

TUESDAY 01/16 School of Rock the Musical Dewey Finn is having a rough week. His band kicked him out for upstaging the singer one too many times, his roommate’s girlfriend is demanding he pay the rent or hit the bricks, and he has no job.

What’s a frustrated rocker to do?

Salvation comes from an unlikely source: A tony private school offers him a job as a substitute teacher.

Technically, the offer was extended to his roommate, Ned, but Dewey took the phone call, so he also takes the job. Once at the school, Dewey discovers that some of “his” pupils are quite talented as musicians. All they need is some coaching and they could win the upcoming battle of the bands. The only catch? They’ll need to believe in themselves as much as Dewey believes in himself. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Glenn Slater and Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes translated the hit Jack Black film School of Rock into a big-budget musical, which plays the Fox Theatre (527 North Grand Boulevard; www.fabulousfox.com) in mid-January. School of Rock the Musical is performed Tuesday through Sunday (January 16 to 28), and tickets are $35 to $115.

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Directed by Steven Spielberg. Written by Liz Hannah and Josh Singer. Starring Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk and Tracy Letts. Opens Friday, January 12, at multiple theaters.

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here may be more important films than The Post, but few that seem quite as timely, even though it deals with events that took place nearly half a century ago. Steven Spielberg’s film is a celebration of the freedom of the press, a heroic story of lies and secrets, of journalists and publishers fighting to present to the truth to their readers, of a government that is often hostile to their efforts. Sound familiar?

Some historical background: The material that came to be known as the Pentagon Papers was originally a 47-volume history of America’s involvement in Vietnam, commissioned by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967 as the war was raging. McNamara claimed that he wanted a definitive historical record for future study, but that may be stretching the truth. The documents — of which only fifteen copies were printed — were classified “top secret,” their existence known to only a few.

(Not even the president or secretary of state knew.) Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst for the RAND Corporation, a foreign policy think tank, had worked on the project and knew that it contained proof that the scope of the war was far greater than the government was telling its citizens.

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more interested in the mechanics of its publication, tracking his camera along the conveyors of a printing press as it pours out a first edition or following on the heels of errand boys as they deliver messages across town. He loves exploring the archaic technology of the period — pay phones!

Black and white television! Room-sized Xerox machines! — but shows little interest in its politics. Despite a cursory scene in Vietnam at the beginning, he has little to say about the war or The editorial staff of The Washington Post watches the nation respond to its work. | NIKO TAVERNISE © 2017 what it was doing to the TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORP AND STORYTELLER DISTRIBUTION CO LLC country. The scenes of antiwar protests are as false as what you might copy nearly all of the research pa- or embarrass their White House have seen on any TV sitcom of per, eventually getting it to a New and Pentagon friends at cocktail the day, with generic slogans and central-casting hippies, while PresYork Times reporter. After much parties. deliberation, the Times began While that may sound like a ident Nixon is rendered as a familpublishing excerpts in June 1971, slightly superficial reading of the iar cartoon figure, shouting into his only to be served with an injunc- importance of the Pentagon Pa- phone in the middle of the night.

There’s even a coda that feels tion by the Department of Justice. pers, it’s not entirely unfounded.

Days later, the Washington Post To re-use a famous Vietnam anal- like the narrative equivalent of a began its own series of excerpts, ogy, The Post is about winning Marvel comics post-credit scene, followed by more than a dozen hearts and minds, about how even suggesting that the whole film can papers across the country. Only the Washington establishment be reduced to the prequel to a reeight days after the initial publica- became aware of the folly of the make of All the President’s Men. tion, the Justice Department’s case war and the levels of deception Hanks and Streep give the film its against the now-united Times and that allowed it to escalate. While personality, but much of the film is Post went all the way to the U.S. Bradlee and Graham are far re- treated with the indifference of a Supreme Court. moved from both the fighting in bored student filling out an AmeriThe Post is the story of how the southeast Asia and the fighting on can history quiz (and perhaps supWashington Post — described in the streets, they have to struggle pressing the urge to draw flying the film as a struggling provincial with their own consciences and saucers on its margins).

Like many of Spielberg’s other paper trying to compete with es- their roles as members of a free tablished giants like the Times — press. In some ways, it’s like Viet- history lessons (Amistad, Munich, pursued the story and stood up to nam’s Mrs. Miniver, showing how Lincoln and Bridge of Spies), The both the power of the Nixon White the ugly realities of the war found Post is filmed with a sense of duty House and the social strata of the their way into newsrooms and pri- but not much enthusiasm. He knows that he has to treat the mateD.C. elite. The story forces editor vate homes.

Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) and pubIt goes without saying that rial with respect, but he can’t hide lisher Katharine Graham (Meryl Hanks and Streep are wonderful, his lack of interest. At its best the Streep) to weigh the balance be- but most of the film’s energy rests film speaks loudly about the need tween a major revelation about on the simple moral strength of for a free press and the difficulties what the government is saying and watching people — in this case, the of defending one; at its worst, it doing in Vietnam and their own many Post reporters who worked equates the quagmire of Vietnam relations with many of the same together to edit the thousands of with the social embarrassment of government figures in Washington pages of Ellsberg’s text — come to- having Secretary McNamara as a dinner guest just as you’ve called society. In a sense, it’s All the Pres- gether with a common goal. ident’s Men a distance removed, The Post tells a strong story, him a liar on your front page. Why, the feet-on-the-ground reporting maybe even a great one, but it’s we have to wonder, is the director replaced by the arguments of also a curiously impersonal film. so disengaged from history, so unpublishers who worry about how Spielberg seems indifferent to the affected by events that happened n the story will affect advertising content of the Ellsberg leak, and far within his own lifetime? riverfronttimes.com

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f you see chef Rick Lewis working the dining room of Grace Meat + Three — which he does during every service — don’t compare

the turkey leg to the one at Friar Tuck’s at Six Flags. Or, if you do, just know that you are not the first one to make the joke.

“Do you know that everyone talks about that?” Lewis offers after overhearing me reference the amusement park’s medieval-themed turkey-leg stand.

“Probably every person who orders this asks me if it’s as good as Friar Tuck’s. I didn’t think that was a very high bar to reach, but apparently that place really means something to people.”

Lewis need not worry about the competition. His version of the carnival staple doesn’t just meet the Friar Tuck’s bar; it launches past it with the velocity of the Screamin’ Eagle. Brined in sweet tea to give it just a hint of sugar and spice, the leg is then cooked in its own fat; the impossibly succulent meat slides off the bone if a fork

so much as comes within inches of it. The exterior is caramelized to a golden brown, which gives a touch of crunch and concentrates the flavor, and a parsley-heavy tapenade of fresh herbs cuts through the meaty decadence, giving each bite a bright finish.

Forget renaissance fair snack food. This is the sort of feast you’d be presented by the king after slaying Beowulf.

If Lewis gets tired of hearing the same old jokes about his food, he doesn’t show it. In part, this is because he and his wife and coowner, Elisa, are consummate hosts whose goal is to create a dining space that feels like an extension of their home. Mostly, though, it’s because the Lewises recognize that food striking a nostalgic, visceral chord with people is their niche. He calls it “blue-collar cooking,” saying it’s “the original riverfronttimes.com

farm-to-table, where cooking was about serving meals based on what was available directly from the field to the workers.” And if you tell the couple that their fare reminds you of something you gnawed on while waiting in line for Thunder River, their response is not to be offended — it’s to offer a sincere thank-you.

Lewis’ culinary beginnings did not foreshadow his future as St. Louis’ king of comfort food. After working his way up in the kitchen at the Italian mainstay LoRusso’s, he got an education in fine dining under Josh Galliano at Larry Forgione’s iconic An American Place. Lewis followed Galliano to Monarch, where he honed his craft until the restaurant closed in 2012.

His tenure at two of the city’s most prestigious restaurants meant Lewis could have gone to just

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GRACE MEAT + THREE Continued from pg 23 about any white-tablecloth spot after that. But his soon-to-be in-laws needed a chef for their south-city restaurant, Quincy Street Bistro, and Lewis took a different path.

His new bosses weren’t interested in turning their neighborhood bar and grill into fine dining; they simply wanted to do comfort food well and thought he was the person to do it. He took them up on the challenge, applying the techniques and polish from his previous jobs to down-home cooking, earning a semifinalist spot for the James Beard Rising Star Chef of the Year award in the process.

Now married, Rick and Elisa Lewis left Quincy Street when Pappy’s Mike Emerson presented them with an opportunity to do a sister concept in the space adjacent to his smokehouse. That restaurant, Southern, became a sensation just as hot as the Nashville fried chicken it served, sealing chef Lewis’ reputation.

This summer, the Lewises announced they were leaving Southern to pursue a concept fully their own, one that would build upon what they’d created at their two previous eateries. In September, they opened Grace Meat + Three in the former Sweetie Pie’s space in the Grove as a venue for Lewis to show off what he can do with the comfort food genre.

The building has not changed substantially from the Sweetie Pie’s days. The Lewises kept a similar layout as the former occupants, with a large, vintage wooden bar and counter and an adjacent overflow dining room. They even kept the iconic St. Louis-themed mural that hung at Sweetie Pie’s, though the remainder of the décor has changed. The walls have been painted a rich blue that’s a cross between navy and peacock and are hung with rustic-themed artwork, including a living wall of leafy green plants and a taxidermy wild turkey. Knotty pine boards cover one of the walls, and seating consists of a mix of communal and individual tables and a handful of wooden banquettes.

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The setup gives the feel of a nostalgic country dining hall, but as with the turkey leg, a refinement lurks just below the surface.

Consider the meatloaf, one of the week’s rotating blue-plate specials.

Just like Grandma’s, the dish consists of tender meat wrapped in bacon. Lewis’ version, however, is made from duck — 70 percent meat and 30 percent fat to give it a pate-like texture. The meatloaf is covered in a sweet soy glaze, which makes the dish reminiscent of a duck potsticker, minus the wrapper. It exemplifies the beauty that can result from mixing high-end techniques with humble dishes.

Herb-roasted beef may look like something off a smorgasbord line, but the execution is right out of a Michelin-starred dining room.

Slices of fork-tender meat are covered in a bone marrow and mushroom gravy that’s so rich, thick and concentrated with beef flavor, it’s as if the entire essence of a cow has been distilled into sauce. A pinch of crispy fried leeks add crunch and a subtle punch of earth through the decadence.

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Working next to Pappy’s day in and day out for two years must have allowed Lewis to soak up all the good barbecue vibes; his St. Louis-style Duroc pork ribs are the perfection of the form. The meat is cooked soul-food style so tender that it slides off the bone, caramelized on top for texture. The meaty coating is gilded with raw sugar and spice that’s not quite a sauce but juicier than a rub. It mixes with the rendered pork fat to form a sweet and savory glaze that will have you licking your fingers in the middle of the dining room without shame.

Perhaps Lewis’ biggest challenge with Grace was how to do fried chicken after running a place that serves the city’s gold standard. He didn’t reinvent the dish completely, but if you are looking for Southern’s fried chicken, you should go to Southern. If, however, you want fried chicken that’s different from “Nashville hot” but still damn good, stay put at Grace. Lewis marinates the meat so that it soaks up flavor before it comes anywhere near breading. Before going into the fryer it’s coated in seasoned flour that, if you order the spicy style, has a pop — not a wallop — of warm

chile heat. It will make you sweat, but it won’t make you scream — unless they are cries of joy.

Grace’s signature sandwich is the grilled bologna, a housemade meat that has about as much in common with Oscar Mayer as a McDonald’s patty has with Kobe beef. The garlicky meat is sliced to the thickness of a hamsteak, then griddled to give it a bitter punch of char. The sandwich is covered in pimento cheese and crowned with a sunny-side-up egg. Finishing it might cause your heart to stop, though there are far worse ways to go.

Part of the joy of dining at Grace — in addition to washing down Lewis’ cooking with an excellent bourbon or rum cocktail from the bar — is getting to mix and match Lewis’ quintessential country-style side dishes. All entrees come with a choice of two accompaniments (for $3 extra you can make it a true meat plus three), and he does his best to make it a difficult decision. Some are reminiscent of the Thanksgiving of your dreams: ambrosial bourbon-whipped sweet potatoes coated in toasted marshmallows, say, or the best green-bean casserole of your life Continued on pg 28

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(the difference that fresh beans and housemade mushroom soup make is shocking). Others show his penchant for high-low, like the mac and cheese, which is made from equal parts gouda and Velveeta.

Then there’s good old soul food, like cornbread infused with pork renderings and glazed with honey, and collard greens infused with ham hocks and vinegar. Here’s hoping his next concept is Grace Meat + Nine.

As much as you want to fill up on sides, though, it would be criminal to leave without at least a few bites of Lewis’ bourbon pecan pie. Unlike most renditions of the dessert, his is heavier on the pecan and easier on the corn-syrupy goo, which makes it pleasantly less sweet. His banana pudding is another signature, silken and filled with hunks of fresh bananas. The real joy is the sesame cookie garnish. The nutty, cracker-like confection tastes as if a master pastry chef had tried his hand at those nutty sugar cookies

Lewis is serving the best green-bean casserole of your life (the difference that fresh beans and housemade mushroom soup make is shocking). you get off the Chinese buffet.

Really, though, that’s about as apt of a description of Lewis’ cooking as it comes: familiar, and decidedly un-fancy, foods expertly refined to be the best versions of themselves.

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s Mandy Estrella surveys the Tower Grove South space that will become the brick-andmortar home of her Caribbean restaurant Plantain Girl (www. plantaingirl.com; 314-578-8789), she can’t help but feel like she’s come full circle.

“The first job I ever had was in a bingo-hall kitchen when I was fifteen,” Estrella recalls. “I remember thinking it was really cool that the woman who ran the kitchen got to have fun with this random concession stand and make a business out of it. Now, here I am.”

Estrella is not working in a literal bingo hall these days — the new location of Plantain Girl is being built inside the forthcoming Alpha Brewing Company, on Morganford Road — but the sentiment is the same.

For the last two years, the chef has been running her small catering and pop-up company as a one-woman show anywhere that will have her.

From catering gigs to pop-ups, Estrella has been hustling to fill the void of Caribbean food in the city’s food scene.

Though she goes by “Plantain Girl,” Estrella’s position as one of the city’s premier cooks of Caribbean cuisine is an unlikely one. A St. Louis native, she fell in love with the restaurant industry while working banquets and pursued her passion by attending culinary school at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park.

However, after moving to Orlando, Estrella quickly realized that working in the front of the house was the best way to make money.

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While in Orlando, Estrella met her now ex-husband, a Dominican man who introduced her to his native country’s food culture. As they went out to authentic restaurants and cooked together with his family, she realized what she’d been missing.

“In Florida, there are the chain Caribbean restaurants and the authentic ones,” Estrella explains. “The first time I ever had a plantain was at a chain one. I thought it was great, but when I went to the authentic places, I was like, ‘Wow, this is absolutely fantastic.’”

Estrella got more and more into Caribbean cooking, a passion that continued even after she moved back to St. Louis from Florida. As she settled back into the Midwest, she couldn’t help but notice the lack of authentic Caribbean food, even though she was certain there was demand for it. Then it came to her: She could help to fill that void.

Estrella did not have the funding or even the desire to do a full-scale restaurant, but she saw the boom of food trucks, pop-ups and counters and knew that could be her niche. At first, she began with catering, which led to a Caribbean concept inside the Crafty Chameleon and pop-ups at Six Mile Bridge brewery.

A few months ago, Estrella was approached by the owners of Alpha Brewing Company about running the food service inside of their soon-to-open south city brewery.

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Expanding from a much smaller setup downtown, the Alpha team knew they wanted to offer food at their new tasting room, but they did not want to do the cooking. They figured the flavors in Estrella’s cooking would pair nicely with their beers, so they asked if she’d like to operate Plantain Girl out of their kitchen.

She didn’t hesitate.

“It’s a huge opportunity for someone to provide a dining room for you,” Estella says. “The Alpha audience is people who are more adventurous and willing to try new foods, so it’s the right fit.”

Estrella describes the new Plantain Girl setup as being like a food truck, only not moving. There will be a window where patrons can come up and order food, something she refers to as the “Alphateria.”

“It’s a window and a counter, and people who are already there can come up and get food — just like the bingo hall,” says Estrella. “I’ve come full circle.”

Estrella took a break from the kitchen buildout to share her thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage scene, stopping time and why her calm facade actually takes a lot of work.

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

I appear calm under stress, but internally I am obsessing about small details when executing an event.

Staying focused and having a solid

plan have been my key to success.

What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you?

Coffee, all day.

If you could have any superpower, what would it be?

I would love to freeze time. Twenty-four hours in a day sometimes is not enough.

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

There are so many talented chefs and restauranteurs using collaborations to support each other and provide unique foods and experiences that otherwise wouldn’t exist.

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

For me, the answer is the same today as it was ten years ago when I moved back from Florida. We have so many fantastic ethnic dining options, yet almost no one bringing the food culture of the Caribbean/South Florida to St. Louis.

Who is your St. Louis food crush?

The Tamale Man for sure!

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

Ben Welch. I’m excited to see where he takes the Big Baby Q concept when he finds a new space and expands the menu.

Which ingredient is most representative of your personality?

Plantains. I compare the versatility and uses in their different states to my ability to jump back and forth between many roles within my own business and personal life.

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

I’d be getting a lot more sleep.

Name an ingredient never allowed in your restaurant.

Any animal’s feet. I’m sure they are delicious, but I just can’t cook something’s foot.

What is your after-work hangout?

My house. I have two sons, and they monopolize the majority of my free time.

What’s your food or beverage guilty pleasure?

Gravy, on top of anything.

What would be your last meal on earth?

Giordano’s Deep Dish Pizza and a Pepsi. n

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n September, after three years in a small Cherokee Street storefront and months of serious renovations, Earthbound Beer (2724 Cherokee Street) moved just down the block to the former Cherokee Brewing Company stock house.

The reincarnation also includes a new food concept, which debuted on December 1. Mothership has been named in keeping with the brewery’s moniker, which pays homage to the classic Nintendo game.

Partners Stuart Keating, Rebecca Schranz and Jeff Siddons had planned on managing the food service themselves, but a partnership with acclaimed chef Chris Bork of nearby Vista Ramen was an opportunity they couldn’t pass up. Josh Adams, formerly of Old Bakery Beer and Vista Ramen, helms the kitchen in collaboration with Bork.

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Bork’s first step was to purchase a smoker and craft an elevated barfood menu around smoked chicken, kielbasa, turkey and pork. The small, counter-service menu is designed to pair well with Earthbound Beer’s unique flavor profiles.

In fact, some of the menu items incorporate beer as an ingredient, such as the smoked chicken chili currently made with the New World Stout, along with chickpeas, black beans and pickled daikon, and topped with cottage cheese.

A quintessential barbecue-joint offering, the smoked pulled-pork plate is served with thick Texas toast and any two sides: twelve-hourcooked baked beans, a Korean-style potato salad with peas and Japanese Kewpie mayonnaise, or a tangy, Asian-style slaw.

A housemade smoked kielbasa sandwich is made with half beef and half pork and topped with crushed pork rinds, yellow mustard and green onions.

A smoked turkey pita sandwich features turkey that has been brined overnight in honey and lemon. It’s topped with yogurt, pickled red onions, cucumbers marinated in fish sauce and ground sumac.

Schranz, a vegetarian, was the inspiration for Bork’s flavor-packed crimini-mushroom-based veggie burger, which incorporates miso, eggs, carrots, Ritz crackers, panko,

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oats, pickled garlic, the Korean chile paste gochujang and fermented black beans, all topped with fontina cheese and Kewpie mayonnaise.

A small meal unto itself, a perfectly grilled cornbread is served with gochujang butter. The bread’s secret ingredient? Corn blended with milk.

According to Bork, the menu will change periodically but will always include smoked meats, cornbread and a chili or soup.

A rotating beer menu offers fifteen beers on tap, including two guest taps. Known for its small-batch, creative lineup, Earthbound Beer offers experimental brews, such as a fragrant pale ale that uses rosemary and juniper instead of hops; the bitter Mahlab ESB, made from the pits of Syrian cherries; and a hopless witbier called Krampus Gruit, made with elderberries and peppermint. A small wine list is also available.

The building was constructed sometime before 1875 and is believed to be the oldest brewery building in St. Louis, complete with vaulted basement lagering cellars. While they’re closed to the public, some are newly cleared out and have been put into commission once again.

Still to come in the next year? A beer garden with a fire pit, a DJ night, special events and catering.

Mothership is open 5 to 10 p.m.

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he new brewery planning to open in the Grove in 2018 is bringing on some accomplished hands to provide food service — Gerard Craft and his team.

The James Beard Award-winning chef, whose restaurants include Sardella, Brasserie, Taste and Pastaria, will be handling the food at Rockwell Beer Company, the brewery announced in late December.

The joint operation is slated for 1320 South Vandeventer, just one block south of the neighborhood’s main drag on Manchester. In the announcement, the brewery said it would begin construction in January, with an anticipated opening sometime in the second quarter.

The site, at the corner of Vandeventer and Talmage Avenue, was previously the home of industrial equipment supplier HM Dinzler.

JEMA Studio is now designing the spot, a change from the previously announced architecture team, with rendering showing a cool industrial look.

And, yes, there will also be a significant food element.

“As our plan evolved, food became necessary for us.

It is an honor to be working with Chef and his talented team,” the brewery tweeted.

“More details soon!”

In a press release, Rockwell said that it would be a standalone concept, and that Craft’s team would be announcing further details in the “near future.”

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oney Pit Smokehouse (951 S. Kirkwood Road, Kirkwood; 314-698-2121), the barbecue joint that opened its doors in Kirkwood just before Christmas, would likely generate a lot of interest even without its smoker.

For one thing, there’s the location — the high-visibility corner of Kirkwood Road and South Big Bend, close to both I-44 and a ton of big-box shopping. For another, the months of construction that its co-founders put into rehabbing and retooling an old Chinese restaurant have left them with a seriously striking space. With big windows, lots of pine and some whimsical touches, it’s a far cry from the utilitarian look of many barbecue spots.

And yeah, there’s also that smoker. Co-owner Shane Mihaljevic Sr., who opened the place with son Shane Jr. and his friend Zach Fagas, boasts that it’s the only water smoker in a barbecue restaurant anywhere in Missouri. Its moisture-rich atmosphere allows for higher temperatures, cooking the meat faster without drying it out.

“Four to five hours, and you have perfect barbecue, with just the right amount of smoke,” he promises.

The smoker isn’t their only innovation. Honey Pit is also one of the few, if not the only, barbecue joints in town that make a point of serving calorie counters — or even serious athletes in training.

The “Fit Home & Health” portion of the menu offers a variety of proteins (turkey breast, chicken breast, salmon) along with a choice of three rotating sides made without butter or oil. For that portion of the menu, the calorie counts are prominently displayed. “We’re doing something a little different,” Fagas says — a true understatement.

Gluttons, however, will still be happy at Honey Pit. While the kitchen uses honey as much as possible, relying on its natural sweetness instead of high-fructose

syrups, it’s fine with decadence.

Even beyond the barbecue, the double cheeseburger topped with bacon and the Provel-topped Philly cheesesteak, you may want to save room for dessert — not only do they bake cookies in-house, but they make a mean shake with an entire slice of pie, blended right in. Naturally, there’s a gooey butter option.

Each member of the trio has restaurant experience — Mihaljevic Sr. owns a few Imo’s and Shane Jr. runs one of them, while Fagas (a friend of Shane Jr.’s dating back to grade school) has worked at Springfield-based Buckingham’s and Sugarfire Smokehouse in St. Louis.

Their quest to open a restaurant together began four years ago, when all three flew to Georgia to attend a barbecue school there. Since then, they’ve worked endlessly to perfect the techniques, with Mihaljevic Sr. parking a smoker the size of a car in his driveway for months on end as they experimented. (The neighbors, suffice it to say, did not complain.)

But it wasn’t just working on their recipes. The trio hired a pitmaster (Jim Randall) and a chef, Justin Brundeis. They also personally put some serious work into the space. “Everything in here was trashed; we basically had to gut the place,” Mihaljevic Sr. notes.

“Every wall in here, we built,” adds Fagas. They also added both a big room in the back for the smoker and a four-seasons-style room in the front for additional seating.

When everything finally came together, it was late December and they were left with a conundrum.

Catch their breath a bit and wait ’til after Christmas, or throw open the doors right away? As they tell it, there really was no choice to be made. After a few “friends and family” nights, they opened for the first time on December 22.

The stress of running a high-volume restaurant actually proved a relief.

“Construction is a hassle,” says Mihaljevic Sr. “You’re dealing with the city, the county, all these parts, all these construction issues. It ended up being two times what I thought it would cost. But now we’re open, and food is what we know how to do. For me, this is easy.”

It helps that they’re already earning raves. “It’s been a full house,” Mihaljevic Sr. says. “It’s been great.”

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‘She’s Got a Good Shot’ Regulars rally at Red’s after a harrowing shootout leaves three injured Written by

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ed’s Eighth Inning is positively bursting with customers. Every seat at the bar is filled, and the handful of tables that line the walls in the smallish space are all occupied — we’re in “standing room only” territory. It’s a big crowd for a Wednesday afternoon; normally the scene would be a lot sleepier, one patron says.

The sudden burst in business can be attributed to the shootout that happened within these walls four days before. On Saturday, December 30, two men entered the Carondelet watering hole just before 8 p.m. Each had his face covered. One lingered in the bar’s tiny foyer, keeping a lookout, while the other approached the bar.

“He’s the one that came in the bar, had a gun out in the open scene, and said, ‘Everybody get down, this is a robbery,’” explains Angela Neumann, one of the bar’s regulars, who has spoken with several customers who were there when the incident happened.

The incident was part of a disturbing recent trend in St. Louis.

In recent weeks, armed robbers have stuck up both Riley’s Pub and Tick Tock Tavern.

But at Red’s, the gunman’s demands were promptly met with gunfire, courtesy of 67-year-old owner Linda Blackwell — the eponymous “Red.” A shootout ensued, and Neumann was told that eight shots were fired in total.

Blackwell and the masked man started firing near-simultaneously, Neumann says, and both robbers quickly retreated empty-handed, with the gunman firing blindly

Ken Mitchell, Sarah Stippec and Kent Cox celebrate Red’s reopening last week. | DANIEL HILL behind himself as he fled out the door.

The aftermath saw three people inside the bar suffering gunshot wounds.

Blackwell was shot three times, twice in the left arm and once in the chest. The chest shot went all the way through and exited Blackwell’s back, nicking her lung, Neumann says. Two customers were hit as well: A 65-year-old man was struck in the head and a 30-yearold woman was shot in the ankle, both by the gunman’s indiscriminate fire.

Neumann says she was told the gunman was struck as well, but she has no further details since the man immediately fled the scene, along with his accomplice.

“Good for Red,” Neumann says.

“She’s got a good shot.”

Police describe the shooter as an unknown black male who was wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and grey pants. In their official summary, the lookout is described only as an “unknown male.” The investigation is ongoing.

Incredibly, all three victims were awake and talking when an ambulance arrived, Neumann says. Blackwell and the man were admitted to a hospital in critical but stable condition. The younger woman’s wound was only surface-deep, so she was treated and released that night.

As news of the shooting spread, the bar’s loyal customers banded together to try to help. A large portion of Red’s base consists of

current and former firefighters — the walls of the bar are lined with dozens of helmets, antique fire extinguishers and old fire hoses — and they were characteristically determined to help in whatever way they could.

“She’s supported us from day one on our bowling tournaments, our softball tournaments we travel out of town with, our fishing tournaments every year — she donates alcohol,” explains battalion chief Ken Mitchell. “Anything we’ve ever had, since 1990 when she took over this bar. She’s always been here for us; we’re always gonna be here for her.”

He explains that many department retirees have their goodbye parties here and that Red’s has become a go-to spot for the firemen in the city. Looking around the room, he estimates that 99 percent of the people present are current or former firefighters.

“She’s like a mother to a lot of us,” Mitchell adds. “Anything we need, she’s been there for us.”

Another firefighter, Ken Cox — better known as “Biggin,” Mitchell is quick to add, as he’s easily the tallest man in the room — organized the group when he learned the bar would be reopening Wednesday for the first time since the shooting.

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pact of having a business closed for several days and also the fact that she’ll have medical bills. I was hoping to maybe draw in a good bar crowd for her, at least today, to get her started back up and running and maybe get ahead of those bills.”

Sarah Stippec, owner of the nearby Off Track Saloon, was one of the people who learned about the effort on Facebook. After seeing the event page, in fact, she immediately called up with an offer to bring food from her establishment. Thanks to her efforts, some 100 chicken wings with sides of mashed potatoes and green beans are on hand in the corner.

Asked what motivated her to pitch in, her answer is simple.

“Community,” she says. “I look up to Red. I’m a young business owner and she’s always helped the community, so why not help out?”

Neumann, who appears to be one of few regulars without a background in fighting fires, also started a Facebook event page encouraging friends of the bar to stop in this week. Such efforts are a testament to how highly regarded Blackwell is, and how much her customers appreciate her.

“I’ve been a long-going customer at the bar, almost fourteen years.

It’s my home bar,” Neumann says.

“I know that a lot of people were questioning when she was gonna reopen and I knew there was a lot of uncertainty about it all.”

As her bar swells with customers, Blackwell is on the mend, Neumann says, though she is still in the intensive care unit.

“She is improving better and better every day. She’s awake, she’s conscious, she’s talking, she’s eating,” Neumann says. “It’s just a matter of continuously monitoring that injury. She does have drains on her lung to monitor the bleeding — that’s why she’s in the ICU. And we’re hoping — they’re saying if she continues to improve like she is that she’ll be able to go home at the end of the week.

“She’s a fighter,” Neumann adds.

“She’s a fighter.”

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hen he was a young hip-hop head, taking his first serious dives into the outer boroughs of the art form, Mathias James became transfixed by the sounds he heard coming out of LA’s underground scene. Since this was in the mid-’90s and the internet had yet to open the floodgates, he had to get his fix the old-fashioned way: through a friend’s cool older brother.

“That music really resonated with us — it was boundary-less, it was less strict than East Coast hiphop was,” he recalls. “Abstract Rude was one of the first artists I discovered from the LA underground — he was one of my favorites. The opportunity to work together arose in the last couple of years. We played a few shows together, so we’ve become friends, and we started making songs together. It took us two decades to come together and make some art.”

Abstract Rude drops in for a verse on “Bump 95,” the opening cut to Mathias & the Pirates’ new EP Sadie the Goat. Fittingly, the song is an ode to the music of Mathias’ youth and the pathway that led him to dedicate his artistic life to this music — first in groups such as Jive Turkey and the Earthworms and over the past few years as the leader of the Pirates. The group has long favored a throwback, boom-bap-heavy sound — the kind Mathias lionizes in the track — but working with DJ Crucial and his sample-heavy approach only strengthened those connections.

“The reason our new album sounds that way is because of who we chose to work with in production,” Mathias says of Crucial, who still makes beats with an old-school E-mu SP-1200 sampler. “Obviously my age suggests that the ’90s will be where I came up — those sounds still resonate very greatly with me.”

Crucial’s low-slung, syrupy production hits its stride with “Sadie and Doug,” a story-song about unlikely love on the south side. He’s a Dutchtown-bred roughneck, she’s a Carondolet hood rat; Mathias says he drew the characters broadly but knows folks who fit the profile. “You go down to Loughborough Schnucks, you’re gonna see Sadie there yelling at her kids,” he says with a laugh.

“It’s a segment of the population that doesn’t get talked about or written about,” he continues. “It’s really a love story; it’s about two really flawed people living random, unremarkable lives who find each other and find love. And that’s what we all want.”

“Sadie and Doug” gives fellow vocalist Ms. Vizion the hook — she’s long been the singing yin to Mathias’ rapping yang — but she steps up on “Armée du Soleil,” the set’s most political track and

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the one that most clearly keeps Sadie the Goat from existing in a halcyon haze of 1995.

Mathias & the Pirates’ new EP came out as part of the FarFetched collective, a long-running group of hip-hop, electronic and beat-driven artists. Each January, FarFetched kicks off the new year with a fresh Prologue compilation, and this year’s edition (the seventh so far) continues the trend of mixing and matching affiliated artists on each other’s tracks.

Mathias contributes a track to Prologue VII, partnering with Hands & Feet (a.k.a. Stephen Favazza) for the track “Don’t Read the Comments,” which finds the vocalist squaring off with racist online trolls against Favazza’s pinging background tapestry and squelching, insistent foreground tones. Favazza’s production returns elsewhere, on the Hands & Feet track “Bella” and the fiery, political cri di coeur “Control” with vocalist Loren D. The year 2018 marks a slight shift in FarFetched’s distribution model as well; while all the releases will be available for individual streams and downloads, the collective has embraced the subscription model that Bandcamp offers, allowing subscribers access to not only music but physical merchandise, secret parties and more.

According to Darian Wigfall, who runs much of the day-to-day operations for the collective, the subscription model that FarFetched is adopting mirrors much of the public’s media consumption.

“Music sales just aren’t the same, so we had to find another spark,” Wigfall says. “Just looking at the trend of the way people consume entertainment now — you buy a subscription to Hulu or Spotify and you get unlimited access to all that content.

We’re catching that wave as entertainment goes that way.”

But the collective’s aim has always been about getting bodies in the same room — be it through DJ residencies at local bars or beatmaker meet-ups — so Prologue VII’s release show (this weekend at the Firebird) will bring together acts including 18andCounting, Subtle Aggression Monopoly, CaveofswordS and more.

“I have always believed in power in numbers, which I why I believe in groups more than solo stuff,” Mathias says. “The myriad sounds you hear from the FarFetched collective is so varied, but it all comes together.”

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The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis,

ST. LOUIS SOCIAL CLUB: 8 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

Louis, 314-726-6161.

LARRY GRIFFIN & ERIC MCSPADDEN: 7 p.m., $5.

314-533-9900.

Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-

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

TORREY CASEY & THE SOUTHSIDE HUSTLE: 10 p.m.,

436-5222.

Louis, 314-436-5222.

$10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway,

BILL FORNESS & ONE MORE ROUND: A TRIBUTE TO

THE MIGHTY PINES: w/ Falling Fences 8 p.m.,

St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

WEDNESDAY 17

JOHNNY CASH: 6 p.m., $49.50. Liuna Event Cen-

$12. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,

TOWER OF POWER TRIBUTE: 4 p.m., $10. BB’s

BIG RICH MCDONOUGH & RHYTHM RENEGADES: 7

ter, 4532 S. Lindbergh, St. Louis, 314-226-1010.

314-498-6989.

Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis,

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

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

w/ Dawn Turlington, Vince Martin 7 p.m., $25-

Pono A.M. 8 p.m., $10-$12. Old Rock House,

WAITING FOR FLYNN: w/ We Are Warm, Thámes

THE EAST SIDER REVIEW: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

$150. Grandel Theatre, 3610 Grandel Square,

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

8 p.m., $5. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St.

Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-

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Old Souls Revival Record Release 8 p.m. Saturday, January 13.

Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street $10.

314-588-0505.

Two years ago Old Souls Revival, a rock band with traces of Americana roots, released I Will Let You In, an album that posed the band’s lead singer Neil C. Luke as a compelling and magnetic word-slinger. The band is back with an expanded lineup and a new, self-titled record that sees its release at this weekend’s show. Old Souls Revival worked at the Cherokee

Street studio Native Sound, and the sound is a little leaner, cleaner and more direct this time around. Still, Luke holds the center with a slightly raspy but always big-hearted delivery, and the band even dips its toe in blue-eyed soul on “One-Woman Man,” a duet with Allie Vogler that also features horns from the Funky Butt Brass Band.

Active Openers: Pono AM and Le’Ponds, two bands that were leading lights in the local music scene during 2017, will open the show.

–Christian Schaeffer [CRITIC’S PICK]

Porter Nickerson

If you need another flat-top guitar hero, look no further than Willy Porter, a blindingly fleet and maddeningly nimble player. If you’re trying to get the hang of fingerstyle picking, you’ll either curse the dude or forsake all and follow him. Fellow Milwaukeean Carmen Nickerson has taken that tip, joining Porter for last year’s minor Midwestern folk gem, the appropriately called Bonfire to Ash, and hitting the

road for a tour that showcases their harmonies and spiritually-focused lyricism. Nickerson’s dusty, bluesy phrasing offers a warm counterpoint to Porter’s charred baritone and unpredictable guitar excursions, and the two get what many folkies miss: the way rhythm sets a good story song alight.

Little Folk on the Prairie: Porter and Nickerson recently got a boost from a well-received appearance on the Chris Thile-hosted Prairie Home Companion.

–Roy Kasten

FIGHT BACK MOUNTAIN: 9 p.m., $5. The Ready

Slim, OG Rach, L Meezy, G.A. Barz, Mz. Tigga,

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

Akilah Jae, Honey Kay, Cedes, Sat., Feb. 3, 5 p.m.,

3929.

$10. 2720 Cherokee Performing Arts Center, 2720

STORM LARGE AND LE BONHEUR: 8 p.m., $35-$55.

Cherokee St, St. Louis, 314-276-2700.

The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis,

FESTIVAL OF LAUGHS: W/ Sommore, Earthquake,

314-533-9900.

Tommy Davidson, Bruce Bruce, Tony Rock,

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Tue., May 1, 8 p.m., $35-$150. The Pageant, 6161

FIGHT BACK MOUNTAIN: Wed., Jan. 17, 9 p.m., $5.

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

The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,

BLACK FAST: W/ Alan Smithee, Bastard, Sat., Jan.

314-833-3929.

27, 9 p.m., free. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester

FIRE DOG RECORD RELEASE: Sat., Feb. 17, noon,

Ave., St. Louis, 314-775-0775.

$10. The Stage at KDHX, 3524 Washington Ave,

BORN RUFFIANS: Fri., May 18, 8 p.m., $12-$14. Old

St. Louis, 314-925-7543, ext. 815.

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

FREEKBASS: Sun., Jan. 28, 9 p.m., free. The

0505.

Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-

BROTHER FRANCIS AND THE SOULTONES: Thu., Feb.

775-0775.

15, 9 p.m., $5. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester

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

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9 p.m. Saturday, January 13.

The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Avenue. $5 to $10.

314-775-0775.

St. Louis’ most visible underground rapper Tef Poe has wrapped up his time as an Ivy League intellectual after securing a Nasir Jones Fellowship and presenting at Harvard.

So now he’s going back to what he does best: releasing scorched-earth, take-no-prisoners hip-hop. Tef’s Christmas release of Black Julian 2: Never Satisfied seemed like it was dropped out of nowhere, but its sharp produc-

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tion and incisive lyrics prove that Tef put the work in. All told, it might be his best release to date, with an overall cohesion that masterfully showcases the skills of one of St. Louis’ finest.

Take Notes: Don’t worry, Tef didn’t leave the academic world too far behind. In fact, Black Julian 2 opens with an intro from the ever-provocative philosopher Cornel West, a Harvard prof with whom Tef has been closely acquainted ever since they met on the protest frontlines in Ferguson.

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The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis,

Witness, Pure October, Fri., Jan. 26, 6 p.m., $10.

Dawn Tur

314-775-0775.

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

p.m., $25-

HACKENSAW BOYS: W/ Andrea Colburn, Mud Mo-

PNB ROCK: W/ Lil Baby, Tue., Feb. 13, 8 p.m.,

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$29.50-$32.50. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St.

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THE QUEERS: W/ The Timmys, Sweat Shoppe, Guy

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Morgan, Wed., April 11, 7 p.m., $12-$14. Fubar,

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

p.m., $10.

HAVE MERCY: W/ Household, Tue., April 3, 7 p.m.,

ROBIN TROWER: Sat., April 14, 8 p.m., $45-$65.

289-9050.

$14-$16. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-

River City Casino & Hotel, 777 River City Casino

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Blvd., St. Louis, 314-388-7777.

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ROD STEWART, CYNDI LAUPER: Sun., Aug. 19, 7 p.m.,

free. The

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$30-$500. Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 &

St. Louis,

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7 p.m., TBA. Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre,

DIGITOUR:

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JAMES TAYLOR: W/ Bonnie Raitt, Mon., May 21, 7

SUGARLAND: W/ Brandy Clark, Clare Bowen, Sat.,

THE EAST S

p.m., $66-$100. Scottrade Center, 1401 Clark Ave.,

June 30, 7 p.m., $31.50-$101. Chaifetz Arena, 1 S.

$5. BB’s Ja

St. Louis, 314-241-1888.

Compton Ave., St. Louis, 314-977-5000.

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JEFF ROSENSTOCK: W/ Martha, Bad Moves, Sun.,

TAYLOR BENNETT: Sun., March 11, 8 p.m., $15-$20.

EUGENE &

April 29, 8 p.m., $15. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp

Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar

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773-5565.

MISSOURI RIVER MUSIC FEST: W/ the Guess Who,

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND: Thu., July 26, 7 p.m.,

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free. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis,

Fri., Jan. 1

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

p.m., $30-

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Louis, 314-588-0505.

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VOODOO TALKING HEADS: Fri., March 2, 9 p.m.,

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rraquib, Katarra & the Sofolkz, Cheeraz Gormon,

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

$5. BB’s Ja

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314-588-0505.

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forming Arts Center, 2720 Cherokee St, St. Louis,

WELCOME HOME: W/ The Weekend Classic,

THE GREEN

314-276-2700.

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8 p.m., $3

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Louis, 314

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Louis, 314-535-0353.

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12, 6 p.m.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: I married my high school sweetheart at seventeen, had a baby, together a few years, mental illness and subsequent infidelity led to things ending. My ex-husband remarried, divorced again and is now in another LTR. I’m in a LTR for a decade with my current partner (CP), we have a few kids, and I’m so in love with him, it terrifies me. My ex frequently makes sexual remarks to me, low-key flirts.

I feel an animal attraction in the moment. Whatever. I don’t want to be with him, my relationship with CP is solid AF, and I get amazing fucking at home from a man far more skilled. CP knows about ex-husband’s remarks and one actual physical advance. CP has offered to talk to my ex. I told him nah, I’ll deal with it and make it stop. I talked to my ex-husband today, and he said: “I’m sorry, it’s just teasing, I won’t make an actual move ever again, but you’re the only woman I ever just look at and get immediately hard for, and it’s only a few more years before our kid is fully grown and we don’t see each other anymore. So humor me because you know we both enjoy it.” And it’s true that I do enjoy it. I hate having secrets, as I feel they are barriers to intimacy, but I’m a thirtysomething mom and it is so fucking unbearably sexy to be made to feel so desirable even after all that shit between us and it’ll never, ever happen because hell no am I sleeping with my ex-hubby, but knowing this man will never get a whiff of my pussy again but can’t help but beg for it with his eyes gives me a sense of power like

I’ve never fucking felt before, but even so I don’t want to be a terrible person for hiding this from my CP because I don’t like having secrets from him but this is just one that turns me on to no end but I should nip this in the bud and put a stop to it yesterday because it’s wrong, right?

Secret Longings Utterly Titillating I love a good run-on sentence — grammar fetishists are going to get off on diagramming that doozy you closed with — so I’m going to give it a shot, too: I don’t see the harm in enjoying your ex-husband’s flirtations so long as you’re certain you’ll never, ever take him up on his standing offer, but you are playing with fire here, SLUT, so pull on a pair of asbestos panties when you know you’ll be seeing your ex-hubby, and I don’t think you should feel bad about this secret because while honesty is great generally and while the keeping of secrets is frowned upon by advice professionals reflexively, SLUT, a little mystery, a little distance, a little erotic autonomy keeps our sex lives with long-term partners hot — even monogamous relationships — so instead of seeing this secret as a barrier to intimacy, SLUT, remind yourself that the erotic charge you get from your ex-hubby benefits your CP, because he’s the one who will be getting a big, fat whiff of your pussy when you get home and there’s nothing wrong with that, right?

Hey, Dan: I’ve been with my girlfriend “J” for two years. Her best friend “M” is a gay man she’s known since high school. M and I have hung out many times. He seems cool, but lately I’ve been wondering if he and J are fucking behind

my back. For starters, J and I rarely have sex anymore. Even a kiss on the cheek happens less than once a week.

Meanwhile, J’s Facebook feed has pictures of M grabbing her tits outside of a gay club in front of her sister. He’s spent the night in her room. I’ve also recently found out that although M has a strong preference for men, he considers himself bisexual. I understand that everyone loves tits, even if they’re not turned on by them, and gay men can sleep with a girl and actually just… sleep. I also know that her antidepressants can kill sex drive. All three things at once feel like more than just coincidence, though.

At the very least, the PDAs seem disrespectful. At worst, I’m a blind fool who’s been replaced. Am I insecure or is there something to these worries?

You Pick The Acronym I Gotta Get To Work Your girlfriend’s best friend isn’t gay, YPTAIGGTW, he’s bisexual — so, yeah, it’s entirely possible M is fucking your girlfriend, since fucking girls is something bisexual guys do and, according to one study, they’re better at it. But while we can’t know for sure whether M is fucking J, YPTAIGGTW, we do know who she isn’t fucking: you. If the sex is rare and a kiss is a once-a-week occurrence, it’s time to pull the plug.

Yes, antidepressants can be a libido killer. They can also be a dodge. If your girlfriend doesn’t regard the lack of sex as a problem and isn’t working on a fix, trust your gut and get out.

Hey, Dan: I’m a recently divorced woman with a high libido. Now that I’m single, I’ve come out as a kinkster. I quickly met someone who swept me off my feet, and soon he declared himself

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as my Dom and I assumed the sub role.

This was hot as hell at first. However, his fantasies quickly took a darker turn.

When I say I’m uncomfortable with the extremely transgressive territory he wants to explore, he says, “I’m your master and you take my orders.” I think this is shitty form — the bottom should always set the limits. When we’re in play, he says that I chose him as my top precisely because I wanted to see how far I could go and that it’s his job to push me out of my comfort zone. I think he’s twisting my words. Arguing over limits mid-scene makes us both frustrated and angry. I’m not in any physical danger, but his requests (if carried out) could ruin some of my existing relationships.

Did I blow it by not giving him a list of my hard limits in advance of becoming his sub? Or is he just a shitty, inconsiderate top trying to take advantage of a novice? How can I pull things back to where I’m comfortable? Do I run from the scene — or just this guy?

Tired Of Overreaching From A Shitty Top A top who reopens negotiations about limits and what’s on the BDSM menu during a scene — a time when the sub will feel tremendous pressure to, well, submit — is not a top you can trust.

The same goes for a top who makes demands that, if obeyed, could ruin their sub’s relationships with family, friends, other partners, etc. Run from this guy, TOOFAST, but not from the scene. There are better tops out there.

Go find one.

Listen to Dan’s podcast at savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter ITMFA.org

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The above statement was summarized from Hawthorn Leadership School for Girl’s financial statements as of and for the year ended June 30, 2017. Kerber, Eck & Braeckel, LLP, Certified Public Accountants audited those statements. In their opinion, except for the effects of not consolidating Hawthorn Leadership School Foundation, the financial statements in all material respects, the assets, liabilities and net assets of Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls as of June 30, 2017, and its revenues and expenses for the year then ended in accordance with the modified cash basis of accounting.

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