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A sheriff facing criminal charges.

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Fatal Encounter

A man needing help. A sheriff facing criminal charges. Only one would survive the day

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Hoop Dreams

Danny Wicentowski reports on yet another plan to bring basketball to Forest Park

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The St. Louis police department has 99 problems, but staffing levels aren’t one, argues Sarah Fenske

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Hoop Dreams for Forest Park Written by

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mong St. Louis’ 109 public parks, basketball courts are a relative rarity. Only 25 of them have the necessary court and hoops, and a map of their distribution shows a distinct bubble around the center of the metro area.

Most glaringly, despite its many improvements and splendor, Forest Park remains hoopless. But that could soon change.

Putting basketball courts in the 1,300-acre park has been tried before, including a 2016 effort by then-Alderman Antonio French.

But a new bill, sponsored by 23rd Ward Alderman Joe Vaccaro, just had its first reading earlier this month. If passed, the measure would instruct the city to construct four well-lit basketball courts in Forest Park by October 1.

Vaccaro was reportedly inspired

by French’s 2016 bill, though it’s interesting to note that Vaccaro and French approach the issue with very different backgrounds.

French looked at the absence of courts through a racial lens. Last year, he compared Forest Park’s lack of basketball courts to an “unwelcome sign” for black residents, and “a signal that the group that the sport most appeals to is not welcome or encouraged to come to the park.” Adding courts to Forest Park, said French, would be a “small step” in helping the city “move past our prejudices.”

Vaccaro’s history with basketball courts, however, has involved opposing nuisance and harsh language.

Vaccaro himself was instrumental in moving a court in his own south city ward. In 2014, a neighborhood petition sought to eliminate the hoops from Tilles Park, but instead of erasing the basketball courts completely, the Continued on pg 10

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he ACLU of Missouri has filed a federal lawsuit against the Rolla Public Library, which would not let a medical marijuana advocate hold a meeting in its public space.

Randy Johnson, a volunteer with New Approach Missouri, which is aiming to get a medical marijuana measure on the 2018 ballot, tried in February to hold a training session at the library, seeking to instruct volunteers how to “properly and ethically” collect signatures for the new petition.

When the director learned the purpose of the meeting, she told Johnson that he could not hold the meeting because the room is “by the children’s area,” according to Johnson.

An attorney for New Approach tried to discuss the issue with the library director and its lawyer, but when he and others with New Approach received no response, they reached out to the ACLU. “The Rolla Public Library violated Mr. Johnson’s fundamental constitutional rights in denying him access to a public forum for organizing a public event,” Tony Rothert, ACLU of Missouri legal director, stated in a press re-

lease. “His right to free speech was infringed upon by the library when it denied him access to the meeting rooms rather than following the library’s own policies.”

Diana Watkins, director of the library, did not return a call seeking comment.

She also declined comment on an earlier story about the controversy.

Medical marijuana advocates are organizing training for volunteers in hopes of making state ballots in 2018. They nearly had a medical marijuana measure on the ballot in 2016, but in September, a judge invalidated 10,000 signatures from people who signed petitions in the wrong voting district. That meant New Approach did not have enough signatures.

After the library denied Johnson use of the meeting room, he relocated the training to the Centre, a community center in Rolla, which charged him to use the space, according to the suit.

The suit points to library policy concerning its public meeting rooms, which are available free of charge.

“Requests for use of the facility shall be made through the library staff who will book on a first come, first serve basis no more than 30 days in advance,” the library website states.

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prove or disapprove any application.”

The ACLU contends that New Approach Missouri “was denied because of their political viewpoint,” the suit states. “But for the content of and viewpoint expressed in plaintiffs’ request, plaintiffs would not have been denied a meeting room.”

The plaintiffs are seeking compensation from the library for damages and attorneys’ fees and costs.

Asked whether the ACLU has taken on cases from medical marijuana advocates elsewhere, Rothert writes, “It is not uncommon for small, more localized government entities to forget that they are the government and, thus, not allowed to favor or disfavor expressive activity based on its viewpoint. In addition, governmental officials seem to get confused by conflating the lawful process of advocating for an update of our drug laws with the advocacy of illegal conduct.”

Michael Hill, an attorney with New Approach, said in recent years he had to contact a municipality in the St. Louis area — he declined to name which one — after a pro-cannabis organization was denied from participating in an Earth Day festival. After speaking with an attorney, the organization was allowed to participate. —Eric Berger

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HOOP DREAMS Continued from pg 9

A proposal at the Board of Aldermen would bring hoops to Forest Park. | FLICKR/ERIC E CASTRO alderman found a compromise. He used money from a bond issue to relocate the courts farther from a playground.

The decision wasn’t a matter of racial prejudice, he told St. Louis Public Radio (KWMU) last month, but a matter of public decency.

“What it is is a certain age group that likes to play, in their teens and twenties, it’s m-f this, and m-f that,” Vaccaro said. “I don’t think anyone has ever sent me any email telling me that, ‘Gee, we have a certain group of people playing basketball and I just don’t want to see them.’”

Some neighborhoods’ resistance to basketball, however, has not gone unnoticed by black city residents.

Alderman Terry Kennedy, who represents the 18th ward in north city, tells Riverfront Times that associating basketball with rowdy crowds or illegal activity “borders on stereotypes.”

“I don’t see any reason why there hasn’t been any basketball courts at Forest Park,” Kennedy says. “There is a general feeling basketball courts bring out young black men, and with it there is a stereotypical idea that it’s going to bring crime. Those two things are not synonymous. It’s a stereotype that the city needs to work through.”

Kennedy supports building basketball courts in Forest Park, though he says he hasn’t yet read though the details of Vaccaro’s bill.

Vaccaro’s bill, Board Bill 36, directs the city’s parks department 10

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to track the courts’ usage and to report the data to the Board of Aldermen on an annual basis for the ne t five years. The board will use that data to determine whether additional courts need to be built to meet demand.

The construction would bring lasting change to the face of Forest Park, and it won’t come without careful planning. If passed, the bill would vest Greg Hayes, who heads the city’s Department of Parks, Recreation, and Forestry, with “sole discretion” to determine the courts’ locations in Forest Park.

In a statement emailed to KSDK (Channel 5), Hayes notes that Forest Park’s “master plan” — which was approved in 1995 and laid the groundwork for a decadelong, $100 million restoration — was drawn up without basketball courts in mind.

“Although outdoor basketball courts were not envisioned in the Master Plan, the plan calls for a balance of diverse open space, cultural and recreational needs and activities,” Hayes said.

“Any proposed amenity/project is reviewed to determine its impact on all other existing systems in the park. This type of process lends itself to informed decisionmaking with respect to the spirit of the Master Plan. In addition, any proposed capital project for Forest Park must go through a deliberate 9 step design/construction process with the Forest Park Advisory Board.” n

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he union representing St. Louis police officers has begun running a campaign designed to scare city voters — suggesting in media interviews and paid Facebook ads that the city faces a “dire” staffing shortage.

The only problem? It’s just not true.

FBI statistics for the most recent year available, 2015, show that the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department actually has more employees per capita than its counterparts in all but two other large cities in the entire U.S. Only Washington, D.C., and New York City have a higher ratio of police employees to city residents.

And even if you disregard the civilian personnel who staff the department, looking solely at sworn officers, St. Louis is still among the nation’s most heavily policed cities.

In 2015, the city had 38.3 officers for every 10,000 residents, FBI statistics show — No. 7 in the entire U.S. when it comes to police officers per capita.

The union, which is clearly seeking a leg up in contract negotiations, has posted messages on its Facebook page and in a sponsored campaign on the site alleging that city politicians need to step up.

“County politicos understand that excellent public safety is paramount to economic sustainability and growth. City politicians? Not so much,” read one sponsored post.

In an interview with KSDK promoted by the Facebook ad, the police union’s controversial business manager/spokesman Jeff Roorda argued that the SLMPD could be in real trouble thanks to county voters’ recent vote to raise its sales tax to increase officer pay.

Yes, the city has 1,196 sworn officers and just 315,685 residents.

But Roorda argues that the number of officers is certain to drop, with cops defecting to higher pay in the county. And anyway, he argued, the number of SLMPD officers is

Jeff Roorda, the controversial spokesman for the St. Louis police union, has argued St. Louis will face a serious police shortage absent higher pay. | DANNY WICENTOWSKI actually lower than that — once things like maternity, military and sick leave are factored in, he posited, it might be closer to 1,000.

Again, that’s simply not true — a police spokeswoman tells us the number of officers on active duty is currently 1,150, which, yes, puts St. Louis among the nation’s highest police staffing levels.

Yet a post on the union’s page urges city residents to call the president of the Board of Aldermen, Lewis Reed, as well as their alderperson, and “ask them to #BackTheBlue and come up with a plan to retain and recruit the Police Officers needed to keep the peace in our neighborhoods.”

That has at least one alderwoman hopping mad.

Alderwoman Cara Spencer, who represents an area that includes Dutchtown, notes that contract negotiations are between the mayor, the public safety director and the union — period.

“The city politicians are not negotiating contracts with the police officers association,” she says.

Spencer was not aware of the Facebook ads before being contacted by the RFT, but she was well-versed in the city’s proportionately high number of officers.

In spite of that, she believes neighborhoods are being underserved.

She notes that in the police district that encompasses her ward, only 90 officers are assigned to patrol.

Extrapolating to the six police districts across the city, that suggests that no more than 550 or so officers are assigned to patrol, total.

“That’s just 30 percent of the police officers in the city,” she says.

“That’s absurd. We’re spending almost half of our city budget on the police department, yet for all that

money, we’re not getting officers who are patrolling.”

On any given night, Spencer, notes, just eight officers are patrolling the district that includes her ward — a wide swath of south city for such a small crew.

Adds Spencer, “We don’t have a police resource problem. We have a problem in the distribution of police resources.”

Koran Addo, a spokesman for Mayor Lyda Krewson, said the administration would have no comment on the police union’s social media campaign. However, Addo noted that he was not aware of any specific proposal on the table from the union, just a general quest for higher wages.

The police union endorsed Krewson in the close-fought mayoral election, although she still ended up calling for Roorda’s firing after he blasted her opponent in a particularly boorish way. The controversial union spokesman has a long history of pissing off city voters. Now the question is whether he can run a campaign that will convince them to buy what he’s selling — heading off any exodus of city cops for higher salaries in the county — or whether his combative attitude will turn off the very voters he’s trying to woo.

But in the mean time, before city voters start blowing up their representatives’ phone lines, they might be wise to take a look at actual staffing statistics in St. Louis. There may be some dire things about the police presence in St. Louis, but the number of officers currently on the city’s payroll is certainly not among them. n

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FATAL ENCOUNTER A man needing help. A sheriff facing criminal charges.

Only one would survive the day

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BY DOYLE MURPHY ory Sanders walked out of the early morning darkness on May 5 and into the glowing lights of the Flying J truck stop. He was on the edge of the small town of Charleston in the Bootheel region of Missouri, nearing the end of a confused, winding journey that would ultimately end with his death.

At the time, though, he seemed like any other traveler. “I just give him a few cigarettes,” says Jessica Housman, who was working the deli at the Flying J. “He seemed like a nice guy.”

It must have been about 4 a.m., Housman figures, and Sanders sat around for a few hours. The truck stop has a laundry, and he was killing time while he washed a pair of pants. In between bumming L&M 100s from Housman, he began chatting with her and other employees. Eventually, he asked if they would call the police for him.

He explained that he believed that he was wanted on a warrant back in his hometown of Nashville, Tennessee; he wanted to clear it up with officers.

It had been a long night for Sanders. The 28-year-old married father of eight suffers from depression and had set out the day before on a road trip to “clear his head,” an aunt says. He was apparently driving toward Memphis, where he had family, but made a wrong turn and drifted north into Missouri. He ran out of gas just across the state line near the town of Marston, population 500.

A stranger in an unfamiliar place, Sanders had ditched his green Toyota Avalon there and hitched a ride about 25 miles north to a Walmart.

His travels after that are a bit of a mystery, but he eventually popped up another sixteen miles east, at the Flying J in Charleston.

For a city guy who’d spent the past twelve hours or so lost in the

low farmlands of southeast Missouri, this latest stop probably seemed about the same as the others. But he had now crossed into Mississippi County, setting himself on a collision course with Sheriff Cory Hutcheson, a rural lawman of growing infamy. Hutcheson was out on bond following his arrest the month before on eighteen criminal charges, including accusations that he’d robbed and assaulted a 77-year-old hairdresser. He was also facing civil lawsuits in federal court, alleging he was responsible for the ghastly stillbirth of a pregnant inmate’s baby and the overdose death of a young mom who’d been arrested for DUI after a fender bender.

Those are not the kind of things you know, however, when you’re a stranger, lost and stranded nearly three hours from home.

At the Flying J, Sanders seemed clear-eyed and sober to Housman.

“He was very calm,” she remembers. “He just sat there in the lounge for at least a couple of hours.”

The staff did call police, but only because Sanders himself requested it. Eventually, a Charleston cop pulled up in a patrol car and met Sanders out front. Housman was not outside then and isn’t certain what happened next. She assumed Sanders left with the officer. She didn’t think much more about it. Even when she heard about a death at the Mississippi County Detention Center, she did not immediately connect the news to the nice man she met that morning.

Now that she has, she thinks of him and his family, and she wonders what happened.

“Everybody deserves an answer,” she says.

Across the nation, both media and activists have paid increasing attention to black men and women who end up dead after coming into contact with law enforcement,

sometimes for no greater reason than a routine traffic stop. ases like that of Sandra Bland, who was pulled over in the Houston suburbs for failure to signal a lane change and later found dead in a jail cell in an apparent suicide, have generated serious discussion about why police sometimes escalate at exactly the moment when they should stand down.

As a young black man who initially reached out to officers because he needed help, Sanders fits the pattern of some of the more high profile cases. ut the facts of his final days seem even more disturbing because the sheriff who was present in his jail cell — and by some accounts led the fatal confrontation — was himself under indictment, even while Sanders was facing no charges in Mississippi County.

The fact that Sheriff Cory Hutcheson was still on the job when Tory Sanders came to town was part legal leniency and part stubbornness.

Elected in November, the 33-year-old had been in office less than four months when he was arrested on charges filed by Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley. Hutcheson, a Republican in a county that voted heavily for Trump even while most local office holders remained Democrats, had promised during a bitter campaign to rid the county of drugs and drug dealers. fter he took office in anuary, he promoted his image as a man who could get things done, leading a newly assembled team of deputies to make dozens of narcotics arrests as he taunted suspects through Facebook and the local newspapers.

Hawley, however, had begun to see the brash young sheriff as a threat to the people of Mississippi County and the rule of law. On pril 5, he filed criminal charges against Hutcheson and had him arrested. riverfronttimes.com

At the bail hearing, Hawley says, a prosecutor from his office tried to get the judge to deny the sheriff bond or at least set conditions of his release that would keep him from continuing to run the sheriff’s office while under indictment.

Both requests were denied.

The charges against Hutcheson covered a pair of cases, filed in tandem. In the hairdresser case, the sheriff is accused of stepping in the middle of a dispute between his 23-year-old sister-in-law, Kasey Hall, and the elderly sisters who operate Joyce’s Beauty Shop in his hometown of East Prairie.

Hutcheson went in uniform in March to collect his sister-in-law’s 28 final paycheck and ended up handcuffing 77-year-old Bonnie Woods’ left wrist and snatching the check from her right hand, according to the criminal complaint. The confrontation led Woods to suffer a heart attack, authorities say.

Hutcheson also filed a bogus probable cause statement with the county prosecutor, alleging Woods kidnapped and assaulted his sister-in-law, authorities say.

The sheriff has acknowledged in court filings that he at least tried to handcuff the septuagenarian after she used “physical force” and that he later deposited the check into Hall’s bank account. He also admits he sent a document regarding the case to the county prosecutor, but he claims he did that before he saw Woods that day. Everything he did, according to the defense outlined in court documents, was done properly and within his duties as a law enforcement officer.

“If an injury occurred to Ms. Woods in the course of the facts alleged in the complaint, it was due to her unlawful acts in not submitting to the arrest,” Hutcheson’s attorney argued.

Hutcheson also denies wrongdoing in the second case, which originated in an FBI investigation in Continued on pg 16 2014, when

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FATAL ENCOUNTER Continued from pg 15 he was still a deputy. Hutcheson is accused of forging paperwork to persuade a security company to release GPS data that allowed him to track the cell phone locations of a judge, five state troopers and the county’s then-sheriff — the man he would successfully challenge in the 2016 election.

Hutcheson’s arrest made statewide news, but he was unbowed.

After a few hours in jail, he posted $75,000 worth of bonds and returned to work. Even when the state took emergency action to suspend his peace officer’s license, Hutcheson continued to head the department.

He was supposed to be acting only as an administrator, prohibited from overseeing investigations, making arrests or even responding to emergency calls.

All of those duties were to fall under the watch of the chief deputy.

But even that fraught separation of powers proved to be too much authority for Hutcheson, Hawley says — something that became all too obvious on the day Tory Sanders died.

Charleston police agreed to check out the warrant. They took him to the Mississippi County Detention Center, where they asked for a mental health professional and ran a warrant check on Sanders.

He did have a warrant, but it was not a serious enough charge to extradite him to Nashville, according to Hawley. About noon, the mental health professional arrived, evaluated Sanders and found there was no reason to hold him.

Sanders was free to go, but there was a problem — Hawley says the out-of-towner did not want to

As the day of May 5 wore on, Tory Sanders’ family went from concern to panic to disbelief. His mother, Quinta Sanders, had spent the night before and early morning fielding his phone calls, trying to help him figure out how to get home to Nashville.

“If I go to the police, will they help me?” he asked, according to his aunt.

His mother assured him that officers would at least direct him to the nearest bus station. About 4:30 a.m., Quinta Sanders had to get off the phone and go to work.

With any luck, her son would sort out the problem by the time she was off-duty. But that is not what happened.

Sanders eventually made it over to Casey’s General Store in Charleston later that morning, awley says. is first encounter with police at the Flying J had not led anywhere, so he tried again with officers at the convenience store. Sanders showed signs of distress and asked to see a counselor, according to Hawley. He also told the officers he had a warrant for his arrest as a result of an altercation with the mother of his kids before leaving Tennessee. It was now about 11 a.m., and he’d been on the road for almost 24 hours.

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leave.

“Details at this point are still unclear, but it appears Mr. Sanders declined to leave the holding cell in which he was waiting at this time,” Hawley told reporters at a news conference. “Our early indications are that he became increasingly agitated at this point for reasons that are also still unclear.”

Shortly before 4 p.m., Sanders borrowed a cell phone from the sheriff’s chief deputy and dialed his mother. It was the first she had heard from him since that morning, and she was startled to learn he was in jail. Sanders’ aunt, Na-

tasha Nance, says the deputy told them that Sanders seemed to have suffered a mental breakdown. Deputies were supposedly trying to get him to a hospital.

Mother and son traded multiple calls during the next half-hour, according to the family and Hawley.

About this time, jail staff called the mental health professional back to the jail for a second evaluation.

This time, the counselor decided Sanders should be held for 96 hours in protective custody. Nance says the family was under the impression Sanders would soon be on his way to a hospital in Poplar

Tory Sanders called his mother multiple times from the Mississippi County jail before his death. | JUSTICE FOR TORY SANDERS FACEBOOK Bluff, and Quinta Sanders tried to reassure her son on the phone.

“Calm down, Tory,” she said, according to Nance, who was sitting beside her. “They’re trying to help you.”

But Sanders was frightened.

“They’re not trying to help me,” he told his mom. “They’re trying to kill me.” He claimed they were “electrocuting” him at the jail.

Indeed, according to Hawley, Sanders was shocked with a stun gun at least three times throughout the day. Nance says the family was told during a follow-up call with the jail that Sanders had been hit with a Taser twice but not to worry, because it did not seem to faze him.

Around 6 p.m., jail staff decided to move Sanders from the holding cell where he had spent the afternoon to another cell.

“Mr. Sanders was apparently unwilling to move,” Hawley says.

“This resulted in a series of exchanges and altercations between the jail staff and Mr. Sanders that lasted until approximately 6:45 p.m.”

At the beginning of the confrontation, jail staff called in Charleston police to pepper-spray Sanders.

The showdown continued into evening, heading toward a crescendo around 7 p.m. That’s when Hutcheson himself arrived at the jail and started organizing his staff and the Charleston cops, Hawley says.

Fifteen minutes later, a crew of at least six stormed the cell, according to the attorney general. Ten minutes after that, at about 7:25 p.m., they called for an ambulance.

Sanders was down, and his life was

slipping away.

He was transported to the Missouri Delta Medical Center in nearby Sikeston, but it was already too late. The county coroner confirmed his death shortly after 8 p.m.

Tory Sanders’ relatives still cannot figure out what happened inside that jail.

Mississippi County Coroner Terry Parker says an autopsy showed no signs of trauma on Sanders’ body, and he will have to wait for a toxicology report and review the 28-year-old’s medical history before determining the cause of death.

“In the efforts to restrain him, he collapsed, which we think there must have been some kind of medical or medicine issue involved here,” Parker says.

The U.S. Department of Justice has warned against repeatedly tasing people, because research has shown the practice can increase the chance of death. And manufacturer Taser International, which has changed its name to Axon, warns against using the drivestun mode, in which the device is jammed directly against the target’s body, on mentally ill people.

“Drive-stun use may not be effective on emotionally disturbed persons or others who may not respond to pain due to a mindbody disconnect,” says a company warning. “Avoid using repeated drive-stuns on such individuals if compliance is not achieved.”

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licly. Parker did not respond to follow-up questions about Taser use in the case.

Until May 5, Sanders’ relatives were blissfully unaware of Mississippi County’s problems or Sheriff Cory Hutcheson. Quick Google searches that night turned up the news about the sheriff ’s arrest from the month before, and they have begun to sort through the disturbing allegations contained in multiple civil lawsuits.

The suits include the cases of Tara Rhodes and Somer Nunnally, both of whom were inmates in Mississippi County while Hutcheson was the jail administrator, his post before he was elected sheriff.

Rhodes, who was pregnant, spent five days begging for medical help as she went into preterm labor in December 2014, according to the complaint filed by the merican Civil Liberties Union on her behalf.

It was not until Hutcheson’s staff transferred Rhodes to a women’s prison across the state that she was seen by a doctor, and by then the baby was as good as dead. The child was stillborn on Christmas Eve. Nunnally was a young mother, arrested at the scene of a one-car crash. She was dangerously high, and both the Charleston cops who arrested her and jailers knew it, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of her children. Instead of getting her help, corrections officers laughed after she urinated on herself and slumped onto the oor of her cell, the suit says. She died right there.

Sanders’ family called the NAACP in Tennessee after his death. They have been speaking to attorneys in hopes of uncovering answers.

A lawyer for the family says they will wait on the full investigation to decide their next steps, but what they have heard so far is troubling.

“This is not how you respond to a mental health crisis,” Nashville-based attorney Michael Hoskins told reporters at a news conference. “If someone is having a mental health crisis, you do not detain them and forcibly restrain them and tase them and brutalize them in a cell. This is not the way you treat people with mental health issues in America. This is a complete travesty.”

Nance says there are just too many questions. She wants to know the jail’s protocol for dealing with the mentally ill. She wants to

know why the only signs of trauma on her nephew’s body were from a Taser when Hutcheson has claimed that Sanders put si officers in the hospital. And she wants to know why Hutcheson, a man facing eighteen criminal charges, was still running the sheriff’s office.

The answers are slow in coming, but Hutcheson and his crew will eventually have to answer, Nance says.

“They’ve got a long road ahead of them,” she says. “They better get ready to see us.”

Cory Hutcheson remains defiant.

After Sanders’ death, he told the Riverfront Times in an email that Sanders had become “combative” and had “seriously injured si officers before he could be restrained.”

All of them had to be hospitalized, he claimed.

Hutcheson has not responded to additional questions from the RFT, but he reportedly sent text messages to KFVS 12 news anchor Kathy Sweeney after Hawley announced plans to investigate the incident.

“I wish you would ask Hawley how the si officers hospitali ed that night are doing,” he wrote, according to Sweeney. “Were they able to re-attach the jailer’s thumb?

How’d the other jailer’s shoulder surgery go?”

The state attorney general toured the jail after the May 5 confrontation and asked a judge for a writ of quo warranto — a rarely used legal maneuver to strip the sheriff of his office. ithin hours, udge William Syler granted a temporary order that barred Hutcheson from entering the sheriff’s office and installed Parker, the coroner, as the acting sheriff.

Parker tells the RFT that the work of the sheriff’s office is still getting done, despite the ongoing turmoil. He even has a full staff, a fact that might seem surprising given Hutcheson’s comments about severed thumbs and shoulder surgeries.

“No one was to the point where they can’t work,” the coroner says.

Hutcheson is hoping he can return to work, too. His attorneys have called the attorney general’s bid to have the sheriff removed from an elected office a “drastic” move that will not hold up in court. While he awaits a decision, Hutcheson has stayed mostly quiet, aside from rallying supporters online and posting a few jabs at Hawley.

“Upon taking office, I did ex-

Sheriff Cory Hutcheson was supposed to be limited to administrative work. Instead, the AG says, he led jailers and police into Sanders’ cell. | MISSISSIPPI COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE FACEBOOK actly what I promised I would do,” Hutcheson wrote on Facebook, “and I will fight the state’s heavy handed bureaucracy with that same resolve. While the wheels of justice may move slow, I am confident we will prevail.”

In case his message was not clear enough, he later switched his Facebook cover photo to an image of chess pieces.

“They’re not playing fair so they have an early lead,” he wrote. “I’m looking to the end game & know I’ll prevail.” e is fighting a multifront battle. He has hired Blitz, Bardgett & eutsch, which has offices in layton and Jefferson City, to challenge the suspension of his law enforcement license and the order forcing him out of office. ape irardeau attorney A. M. Spradling III is defending him in federal court against the civil suits. And he has retained prominent St. Louis defense attorney Scott Rosenblum for the criminal case.

In a urry of filings, his lawyers have contested all the charges against Hutcheson.

For his part, Hawley has asked a judge to revoke Hutcheson’s bond as a result of Sanders’ death. He describes the county’s former top cop as a “danger to the community” who needs to be locked up.

“Three people have died at the Mississippi County jail on his watch,” Hawley says in a statement. “The court should act now, by revoking his bail, to prevent further tragedy and any interference in our investigation.”

A hearing on the request has been set for June 22. Hawley says

his office is conducting a criminal investigation into Sanders’ death, and he has hinted that he is reviewing numerous other incidents linked to utcheson. In court filings, the deaths of Rhodes’ baby and Nunnally were both listed among the reasons to remove the sheriff from office.

“We are learning about troubling events and troubling actions regarding Hutcheson all the time,” Hawley told reporters at a news conference. “We’re looking at all that very carefully.”

Natasha Nance says her nephew was a “jokester” who liked to spend time with his eight young children.

They recently all spent Easter together.

“I tell myself it’s like a dream, like a bad dream I have to wake up from,” she said during a May 10 news conference in Nashville. She sat beside a pair of attorneys and leaders from the local chapter of the NAACP. They were already suspicious about the circumstances of Sanders’ death, but the accusations swirling around Hutcheson have made them skeptical of everything they hear out of Mississippi County.

NAACP leaders say they’re worried people will try to make Sanders seem like a monster — violent, frightening, powerful — instead of a lone man in a cell.

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hear code words like, ‘He looked like the Hulk.’”

Online in Mississippi County, it had already begun. Hutcheson’s supporters started sharing a February 2016 news story out of Nashville in which police accused Sanders of resisting arrest and threatening an officer’s family during a traffic stop. There does not seem to have been a follow-up story, but online court records show Sanders ultimately was convicted of four misdemeanors.

There were also the Facebook posts from the Mississippi County jail’s nurse, Emily Brown, written in response to criticism of Hutcheson. She claimed Sanders possessed “super human strength,” almost certainly fueled by the “drugs he had consumed.”

“I have never seen anything like the rage and strength that this man presented,” wrote Brown, who was hired by Hutcheson. Brown has since deleted her posts.

Around the county, this version of a superman able to shrug off Tasers and pepper spray as he throttled at least a half-dozen cops and jailers has taken hold among Hutcheson supporters. They suspect their sheriff is the victim of a conspiracy, or at least a politically ambitious attorney general. Even as the county prosecutor has ac-

knowledged the allegations against Hutcheson are serious enough to warrant review of the cases he built, and that some will almost certainly have to be thrown out, he continues to find support.

On May 18, nearly two dozen Hutcheson backers took seats in the Charleston library, having persuaded the local TV station to listen to their thoughts on the controversial sheriff. They had printed “INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW” on sheets of white copy paper for the occasion and designated two women to speak for the group.

They are certain of several things: Hutcheson was cleaning the streets like never before, media coverage has been one-sided and they need their sheriff back.

Toward the end of a 28-minute amateur video recording of the interview, the reporter asked specifically about allegations that Hutcheson had personally played a role in the final confrontation with Sanders.

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kingmaking gossip columnist. J.J. offers Sidney a deal: Keep tabs on Susan and make sure she doesn’t get attached to that ivory-tickling bum, and J.J. will take Sidney to the stars. The Marvin Hamlisch and John Guare musical The Sweet Smell of Success takes audiences back to McCarthy-era New York for a ride through the sleazy underworld of the power elite. New Line Theatre presents The Sweet Smell of Success at 8 p.m. Thursday to Saturday (June 1 to 24) at the Marcelle Theatre (3310 Samuel Shepard Drive; w w w. n e w l i n e t h e a t r e . c o m ) .

Tickets are $15 to $25.

FRIDAY 06/02 The Winter’s Tale Leontes has everything a man could want. He’s the King of Sicilia, he and his beautiful wife are expecting another child, and his childhood friend Polixenes is visiting. Polixenes plans to return home soon (he is the king of Bohemia; his people need him), but Leontes wants him to tarry longer.

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marbles. Convinced Polixenes consented to Hermione because the two are having an affair, Leontes imprisons his wife, has his new daughter abandoned in the wild and orders the murder of Polixenes. When Leontes calms down, he regrets everything — only it’s too late. Hermione died in prison, his daughter is gone and Polixenes is dead. All that’s left for Leontes is grief. But what if all his advisors and subjects had more sense and compassion than their king, and some of his victims survived? Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale begins as a tale

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samples of more than 100 beer styles. Kirkwood Station Brewing Company, 4 Hands Brewing, Heavy Riff Brewing, White Rooster — these are only a small sampling of the professional brewers that are participating, with a large contingent of home brewers on hand as well.

Your ticket gets you into one session of the festival — either from noon to 4 p.m. or from 6 to 10 p.m. — as well as a commemorative tasting glass and unlimited samples.

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Circus Flora Would it be possible to experience summer in St. Louis without Circus Flora o one wants to find out.

The one-ring circus sets up in Grand Center at the start of June, acting as a de facto starter’s pistol for the season’s fun. This year’s show, Time Flies, is inspired by the fourth dimension — time itself.

Acrobat Sasha Harrington, juggling champion Kyle Driggs and the

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always-popular Flying Wallendas will take you with them as they travel through space and time, magically making you feel like a kid again. ew this year is e uestrienne Heidi Herriott, who teams up with dancer Andrea Murillo to unveil the world’s first tango performed by a human and a horse. Circus Flora does it all in the Circus Flora Big Top (Samuel Shepard Drive and North rand oulevard www.circus ora. org) from June 1 to 25. Tickets are $10 to $50.

St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival If you want to gauge what’s happening right now in the St. Louis craft beer scene, the St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival should be your first stop. The outdoor beer party features more than 50 regional breweries, which will be offering

Stages St. Louis opens its 31st season with the crowd-pleasing musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. The Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice show is inspired by the life of the Biblical Joseph, whose eleven brothers are jealous of the fantastic coat be ueathed to him, so they sell him into slavery and tell Dad his favorite son has been killed. Joseph finds fame and fortune in gypt as a soothsayer, while his brothers regret their actions and suffer from famine. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is performed at 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 4 and 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday (June 2 to July 2) at the Robert G. Reim Theatre (111 South Geyer Road, Kirkwood; www. stagesstlouis.org). Tickets are $41 to $63.

SUNDAY 06/04 The Grand Market It happens far too often. Riddled with summer boredom, you give in and head to one of the county’s shopping malls, only to regret it immediately. The empty shops, the giant baby carriages coming at you from all angles — it feels like Mad Max in Romper Room, and it is depressing as hell. You can still satisfy your hunter/gatherer tendencies, just do so in the city. The Continued on pg 26

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Solomon Burke, Van Morrison and the Isley Brothers to great success with his production work. The documentary film Bang! The Bert Berns Story chronicles the life and career of this unknown musical legend. Steven Van Zandt narrates the film, which was directed by Brett Berns (Bert’s son) and Bob Sarles. Bang! screens at 7 p.m. this evening at the Landmark Plaza Frontenac Cinema (1701 South Lindbergh Boulevard, Frontenac; www.stljewishfilmfestival.org as part of the St. Louis Jewish Film Festival. Tickets are $8 to $13.

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Summer is the perfect time for a road trip, and Amy Blue and Jordan White are experiencing one for the ages. She’s obnoxious even for a speed freak, and he’s terrified of having sex for fear of contracting AIDS. Together they roam an endless landscape of convenience stores — until they pick up Xavier Red. He’s mysterious and sexually available, and he ratchets up the violence level uite a bit. reg raki’s 1995 film The Doom Generation is the middle piece of his “teen apocalypse trilogy,” and it’s packed with unexpected cameos.

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prime minister, set over four days in the spring of 1944 as the Allied forces prepare to launch Operation Overlord, the D-Day invasion of ormandy. hile you may already know the outcome, the film focuses on the agony of those not yet certain, the leaders who lay the plans and weigh the possible results.

In Teplitzky’s account, no one suffers over the decision more than Winston Churchill, haunted by memories of an earlier beach landing — the disastrous battle of Gallipoli in World War I. Played by rian o , he’s a lumbering beast who transforms over the course of the four days depicted. First, he’s seen as a dotty old man who keeps poking his nose into military business, the embarrassing old uncle who thinks wars are still fought with trenches and mustard gas. But as his anxiety increases, he becomes a kind of monster, an angry old warrior snapping at his servants and smashing the breakfastware.

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nervous breakdown, it also serves as a kind of refresher course in How We Won the War, a brief guide to some of the names and personalities. There are encounters with the stammering ing eorge I, played by ames urefoy but likely intended to recall Colin irth’s performance in The King’s Speech. (Curiously, Churchill’s own speech impediment a lifelong lisp — isn’t duplicated.) He also butts head with General Eisenhower, played with great charm but a strictly business attitude by ohn Slattery. ell, maybe not all business, since Teplitzky keeps the unidentified ay Summersby Ike’s reputed paramour hovering in the background almost every time he’s on screen . The film treats these war heroes with respect as well as with realism. It’s respectful of the si e of these monumental figures, even as it teases the notion of tipping them over.

As period pieces go, there’s a refreshing sense of economy to the direction. There are no battle scenes, no CGI landscapes and a minimum of period details.

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tectural elements to mask any trace of the 21st century, yet his simple staging, which places the figures against dynamic columns and towering landscapes, gives the film a stark look, even as it almost subliminally reminds the viewer of the heroic stature of its subjects.

As a history lesson, Churchill is more than ade uate, but its real achievement is the raising of its subject to the level of a Shakespearean hero, thanks both to the deceptively low-key screenplay and the vigorous cigar-biting performance of o . The other characters stand at the sides in fear and awe, and Miranda Richardson, as hurchill’s infinitely patient wife lementine, its in and out, a kind of spouse ex machina, but Cox holds the center with a fury worthy of Lear or Prospero. e fumes and sulks and badgers, but we also see the fear and confusion and self-doubt nestled with his bluster. It’s a powerfully, subtly human portrayal, a revealing account of a man who fights to retain his sense of heroism, even when his heroic days are long behind him. n

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Oblong pies, including the “Thai Dye” (left) and “Postrio” (right), share space on ‘Zza’s menu with salads and even a poke bowl. | MABEL SUEN [REVIEW]

Pizza My Heart Pi’s little sister, ‘Zza, is a terrific fast-casual addition to St. Louis’ reigning pizza empire Written by

CHERYL BAEHR ‘Zza

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t took me a while to realize that if you put together the letters of hris Sommers’ agship i with those of his latest concept ‘Zza, they spell out “pizza.” Admittedly, I can be a bit slow on the uptake,

but after having dined at the new fast-casual pizzeria, I think there’s something more to my failure than just being dense. big fan of i, I’ve never considered it lacking in any way. The crust is impeccable, the sauce has just enough punch, and the liberal use of gloriously stringy mozzarella gives its pies so much goo you might think you’re eating lasagna. It’s a symphony of everything you’d want in a pizza and, if you factor in the great beer selection, a pizzeria.

Sommers, however, recognized that something was missing — not with i’s pies, but with his mini pizza empire in general. As he e panded the i brand across the country, his travels made him aware of just how white-hot the fast-casual market was becoming, especially in the pizza and salad genre. Why not take something he’d already had great success with and run with it in a different, ontrend direction?

Sommers carried this nugget of an idea with him for a few years until he came across a special kind of high-heat convection oven that would allow him to offer fast-casual cook times without sacrificing the uality i had become known for. Once they had the ovens selected, he and i’s chef Cary McDowell came up with an oblong-shaped cornmeal crust that pays homage to i’s famous base, even while maintaining a uniform texture from the outside in. The firmness of the base allowed the pair to experiment with an infinite number of non traditional toppings, and with that, ‘Zza was born.

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oor adds to the modern feel. mix of communal, window and traditional four-person table seating is available for those dining in, though Sommers has put as much thought into the takeout side of the operation: Not only does ‘Zza have a seamless online ordering system, but someone will run your order outside for curbside pickup so you don’t have to deal with the annoyance of getting out of your car.

Not that you won’t be rewarded for the efforts to find a parking spot: ‘Zza serves seriously good pizza. There are lots of contenders to be the pizza version of Chipotle (new concepts spring up nationwide seemingly every night), but Sommers is ahead of the pack with the ideal thin crust, at once delicate and crisp, firm and chewy. It’s a base that works well for simple varieties, like the classic margherita, which allows the bright tomato sauce to shine.

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‘ZZA Continued from pg 33 Fresh mozzarella, basil leaves and a sprinkle of sea salt akes make this a solid riff on the Neapolitan classic.

Inspired by the time Sommers’ wife Anne spent living in Rome, the “Rocket” is another nod to classic Italian avors. Instead of tomato sauce, the crust is drizzled with olive oil and layered with fresh mo arella, shaved armigiano Reggiano and prosciutto. Olive oil and lemon-dressed arugula — enough that you could consider it a salad — tops the pizza, giving it a burst of bright citrus and peppery avor. a has indeed captured the avors of Italy on this one.

Crossing the Ionian Sea, “Il Greco” is like summertime on a pizza. The combination uses olive oil, zucchini and blistered kumato and gold tomatoes as a stand-in for sauce, with a liberal garnish of feta cheese to add a pleasantly salty component. It’s so simple yet perfectly done. I can’t think of a better pizza option for that soonto-be-scorching weather.

‘Zza’s light crust and garden’s worth of veggies make me inclined toward the vegetarian options, but the meat offerings are just as successful. In perhaps ‘Zza’s biggest break with i, the “St. Louis Summer” uses both mozzarella and gasp rovel to cover its tomato sauce base. Hunks of spicy, fennel-studded sausage and jalapeño slices adorn the pizza for a satisfying, and decidedly hot, take on a classic sausage pizza.

The “Thai Dye” captures key Thai flavors in a pizza, with a peanut sauce base and liberal use of garlic and cilantro. Sweet peppers and crushed peanuts add gentle heat and crunch, and tender chicken proves it is possible

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The dining room is strikingly modern, with a rust-colored concrete floor providing an industrial feel. | MABEL SUEN to put the meat on a pizza without having it dry out to jerky. I was skeptical about cheese being a part of that combination, but the pizza’s mozzarella use is subtle enough to make it work, binding the components together with just a hint of richness. a’s “ ostrio” shows why barbecue chicken became so ubiquitous in the modern pizza genre. Sweet and tangy barbecue sauce is topped with hunks of chicken (again, credit is due: These are a far cry from dried-out nuggets), red onions and cilantro

for a refreshing pop, and Gouda cheese that picks up on the sauce’s smoky notes. It sets the bar for the form.

Though you wouldn’t know it from the name, ‘Zza is as much a place for meal-sized salads as it is for pizza. The “So Very Berry” pairs what seems like an entire quart of thick-sliced strawberries with mixed greens and fresh basil. ecans and smoked blue cheese infuse the salad with deep earthy avor, and though it was slightly overdressed, the berry vinaigrette brings everything together with a

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You could make two meals out of the mammoth “ a Lafel” salad — and you’d enjoy every minute of both. Kale and romaine serve as the base for what is almost a Mediterranean sampler platter in salad form. Large hunks of falafel, grilled chicken breast, tahini, red onions, cucumber and feta are wrapped in a silken yogurt dressing that is heavy with fresh mint. It’s everything you want in a Mediterranean dish — except for a sea view.

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Peanuts, sesame mix, garlic, sweet peppers and cilantro appear on the “Thai Dye.” | MABEL SUEN erhaps my biggest surprise at ‘Zza was the poke bowl, a seafood dish so thoughtful I can’t believe it’s coming from a fast-casual pizza joint. Giant cubes of watermelonhued tuna are placed atop a salad of greens, nori, edamame, brown rice, quinoa, seaweed and thinly sliced jalapeños. A sesame-ginger sauce dresses the dish, and a sriracha mayo drizzle gives a pop of heat that evokes a spicy tuna roll. Sommers says the bowl was a late addition to the menu but has become its breakout hit. I can see why.

If you’d asked me six months ago whether I wanted for anything more from i, I wouldn’t have been able to get an emphatic “no” out of my pizza-stuffed mouth fast enough. Now that I’ve had that tuna poke — and that Greek pizza, and that “ZzaLafel” I reali e what I was missing. Fortunately, Sommers

The poke bowl was a late addition to the menu but has become its breakout hit. I can see why. did too. Now that he’s expanded his repertoire with ‘Zza, his pizza formula is complete. n ‘Zza

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She Took a Chance on Beer Written by

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efore opening Earthbound Beer (2710 Cherokee Street, 314-769-9576), Rebecca Schranz had never made a single beer. In fact, when coowner Stuart Keating approached her with his business idea, she was on doctors’ orders to avoid alcohol entirely.

“When Stuart and I met, I couldn’t drink because I was misdiagnosed with an illness and wasn’t consuming any alcohol,” Schranz explains. “He was with me when I had my first drink of whiskey after learning that I was misdiagnosed. Three months after that, we signed the papers on the brewery.”

For Schranz, becoming a brewer was an unexpected path. After graduating college with degrees in psychology and anthropology, Schranz got an internship working in environmental policy. There, she met Keating, and they became friends.

Schranz was considering graduate school when Keating came to her with the opportunity to help him and another friend, Jeff Siddons, open what would become Earthbound Beer. “I realized that opening a brewery is an opportunity that only comes around once in a lifetime,” Schranz explains.

“Grad school is something I can always come back to when I’m 50. Besides, a lot of my friends are finishing grad school and having no luck in the job market.”

Learning to brew required a lot of reading, research and e perimentation. t first, eating taught her the ropes as Schranz observed and pitched in. However, when the partners bought a build-

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A friend talked Rebecca Schranz into helping him start Earthbound Beer. Now she runs its brewing operation. | SARA BANNOURA ing, Keating handed the brewing operations almost entirely to Schranz. “I was reading or shadowing and then it was sink or swim,” recalls Schranz. “I mess up a lot. I always joke that when I hear a home brewer say that they’ve never made a bad beer, I know they’re a bad brewer. You have to mess up. That’s the only way you figure out how to make good beer.”

Now, as she heads Earthbound’s brewing operation, Schranz reflects on the different path her life has taken and her unexpected turn as a brewer. “This has afforded me so many more opportunities than I would have had,” Schranz says. “At the end of the day, if the place burns to the ground I’’ll be OK and go back to where I was going to go. But I

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really don’t want that to happen.”

Schranz took a break from the brewery to share her thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage scene, why brushing her teeth is her favorite “me time” and why she is both sad and honored to be compared to a potato.

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

Being the “face” of Earthbound is the hardest part of the job for me. Being social and engaging with a number of people day to day, and especially at events, is taxing on all levels. The guys had to teach me how to make small talk when we opened because I was so clueless as to how to interact with folks. I’m much better at it now, but it still takes a lot out of me.

What daily ritual is nonnegotiable for you?

I can’t go to bed without brushing my teeth. Even my drunkest self brushes before bed.

It’s a quick moment to zone out or process the day or make faces in the mirror where I can’t be pulled away to do something else. It’s a tiny sliver of time just for me.

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

I would love to have the ability to make people stop talking on demand. Overtalkers are my kryptonite.

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

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Taps line the back wall at Tapped — but there’ s no bartender behind that bar. You’ll be pulling your own drinks. | SARAH FENSKE [FIRST LOOK]

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yan and Lindsay Reel had been talking for years about opening a restaurant when Lindsay stumbled on the perfect concept in New Orleans: a self-pour wine bar. Ryan Reel was intrigued, but offered one simple edit. “We’re in St. Louis,” he said. “We’ve gotta do beer.”

Earlier this month, the Reels opened their long-awaited, muchanticipated riff on that idea, Tapped (7278 Manchester Road, Maplewood; 314-899-0011 . It is the first self pour bar in the St. Louis area, outside a scaled-down version in Ballwin — offering not only 39 beers and eight wines, but even one tap of coldpressed coffee.

“We’re taking it to the extreme,” Ryan Reel says proudly.

The concept sounds simple (customers pull their own taps — what could go wrong?). But the devil, of course, is in the details, and the Reels have put lots of thought — and money — into making sure theirs

are just right.

Upon arrival, you check in at the hostess stand and open a tab. You then get a bracelet, but it’s more a FitBit than a Cartier — simply by tapping it on the iPad-style screen behind each tap, you’re accessing your account and allowing the system to monitor your pour. You can draw exactly as much as you want — a full glass, a few swigs, even just a sip or two, and you’ll be charged by the ounce. Confused by the proper way to draw a tap? There’s a screen carefully explaining that too.

And even though you’re controlling the pour, you’re not on your own. Tasting notes are included on each screen for those who like to educate themselves; those who’d rather talk their way through a decision can hit up the staff. ou won’t find ud Lite among the ever-rotating beer taps, but they are decidedly local Schla y, O’Fallon Brewery, Modern Brewing Co. and other local favorites are all currently represented. In fact, 38 of the 39 brews right now come from either Missouri or Illinois. The only one that doesn’t is the Bourbon Barrel Ale from Kentucky-based Good Wood, which Reel loved enough to give an exception.

Ultimately, the goal is to get customers to try something new. “You might find a bar that has a good selection of draft beers, and they’ll let you try a few,” Reel notes. “But they’re not going to let you try every

single one of them. This really allows a person to try a bunch of different things. ou can ip that tap open and close it right up.”

The space used to be A Pizza Story, and in addition to the tables and chairs and handsome bar now newly refinished with a penny-decked top), the Reels’ purchase included the pizza oven. A halfdozen pies, plus a build-your-own option, are joined on the menu by good bar food, perfect for absorbing all that beer. For dessert, there are pies from Pie Oh My and cupcakes from Encore Baking.

Renovations to the space included knocking out some walls so that giant windows now face the Manchester Road street parade; the gorgeous old tin ceiling is now exposed, and prints and photos showing off St. Louis’ brewing history line the walls.

A series of taps from Reel’s personal collection sit atop the doorway — the only taps in the place you can’t pour yourself.

Surprisingly for a bar, the place is family-friendly; they don’t just offer high chairs but also a line of sodas.

Those, however, come in bottles; eschewing the normal Coke and Pepsi for products from Excel Bottling Co. means the kids can’t pour their own taps just like mom and dad.

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aybe it happens after you’ve stumbled on a rerun of Cheers.

Maybe it happens when that special coworker says, “I believe you have my stapler.” Maybe it happens every Monday afternoon. Whenever and wherever it happens for you, we’ve all dreamed of dropping out of the rat race and owning a friendly little bar.

For Rachel and Scot Boman, the dream became a reality — with their twomonth-old spot 09 Pub (5204 Hampton Avenue) now serving as a neighborhood gathering spot in Southampton.

The pub’s origin story began with the closure of another local watering hole, Double D’s Den. Rachel met the owner by chance and learned he wanted to move on in February. She went home and eagerly told her husband, “Hey, we’re gonna buy this bar!”

Scot was skeptical, but upon looking into the details, he grew to share Rachel’s excitement. They opened the 09 Pub in March.

Scot, who is now full-time at the bar, admits that its management has been more time-consuming than he’d imagined.

“It’s kind of like people coming to our house — they know we own the place,” he says.

And people have been coming. A holdover from the Double D’s days, karaoke on Friday and Saturday nights from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. are a popular draw, while game days can be packed. And then there’s the near-endless parade of locals, some stopping by after another event, others needing no excuse to order a pint or three.

With the tagline “A Gathering Place,” the 09 Pub just wants to be a friendly spot to have a drink. There are plenty of options; the bar opens daily at 3 p.m.

There isn’t a kitchen, but TJ’s Pizza’s, all-beef hot dogs and jumbo pretzels are all served, along with free popcorn.

A-B products stand alongside local craft beers. They take pride in offering a wide selection of spirits.

With darts, neon lights and local memorabilia, there’s nothing trendy about the setting. It’s a place where your old friends, or a newly-made friend on the next stool, is the draw.

Ready to ditch your cube and find your own bar? “A lot of people have said ‘Oh, my God, I wanted to do that,’” says Ran chel, “Well, go and do it!”

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REBECCA SCHRANZ Continued from pg 38 tourism. It’s about time folks started visiting us for our culinary scene. I see a lot of people coming through with the sole intention of visiting breweries for three days, but they also know where to eat without needing a local’s recommendation. I’m tickled any time someone tells me their visit to St. Louis was prompted by the desires of their bellies.

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

We talk a whole lot about dudes and a whole lot about fancy places when we talk about St. Louis’ food culture. Don’t get me wrong, they and it are great. However, I would love to see more ladies while I flip through the local foodie publications. I would also like to know more about the underrated mom-and-pop shop two miles from my house instead of hearing about the same obviously-wonderful restaurant every month. I want to read a whole piece on Lynne Truong of Bahn Mi So #1. Now, that would be a captivating piece.

Who is your St. Louis food or drink crush?

I have a big ol’ soft spot for David Kirkland, who just opened Turn. I first met him while he was at Cafe Osage, and he was so damn friendly, pleasant and encouraging each time I ran into him. I need to catch up with him.

Oh, and Ari Ellis [Kounter Kulture, Bolyard’s Meat & Provisions]. We used to get high in basements together, and now she’s a force to be reckoned with. I only wish her the absolute best.

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

I’m excited to see what Abbey Spencer does at Third Wheel Brewing. I’m so pleased they handed her that brewhouse and told her to have fun. Not only is she one of the most vocal champions of women in beer, she super knows her stuff. I never thought I would say this, but I’ll have to go to St. Peters to check it out when they open later this year.

Which ingredient is most representative of your personality?

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and simple. My saltiness only makes me better. But I’m always a comforting friend.

If someone asked you to describe the current state of St. Louis’ food and beverage climate, what would you say?

I think St. Louis’ scene is at its best right now, and I don’t believe it will be slowing down anytime soon. In some cities there are just too many options for the same thing. Here we have a couple of this and a couple of that, which means everyone is putting forth their best to be the spot which ultimately brings you through the door. Even though a level of competition is motivating our actions, the folks immersed in the culinary and drink scenes are friends, and I see and feel the support every time I walk through the door of a remarkable amount of quality establishments.

Name an ingredient never allowed in your brewery.

No extracts. No syrups. Well, vanilla extract is okay. But nothing else. I will chop, juice, puree or grind every herb, spice and fruit or vegetable that goes into the beer. We don’t take shortcuts because you can taste them.

Beer is already time- and laborintensive so the extra work for something as essential as a key avor is something I will always agree to do.

What is your after-work hangout?

The crew and I end up at Whiskey Ring quite a bit due to its location, super staff and ownerof-a-small-business prices. I also regularly frequent the Royale. My husband and I end up at Yaquis on Fridays. Mostly, my couch is pretty great and where I most imagine myself after work.

What’s your edible or quaffable guilty pleasure?

I end up at Side Project a lot. I don’t feel too guilty about it, and it’s always a pleasure. I’ve known a lot of the ladies behind the bar way before we were in beer. I can go there and shoot the shit while also working on some “research and development.” On my way home I typically stop by Taco Bell and pick up a cheese quesadilla, which is the actual answer to my guilty pleasure.

What would be your last meal on earth?

A PB&J, a bag of Red Hot Riplets, and the Golden Beet Porter from S c ra t c h B r e w i n g C o m p a ny.

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wo weeks ago, Cursed Bikes & Coffee opened its doors on the corner of Pershing and Jackson, in the spot that previously held restaurants Perjax and Bici Cafe.

But the cafe/bicycle shop isn’t the only business planning to use the space. A counter-service taco shop called Taco Buddha has sublet what previously served as the secondary dining room for past tenants in Cursed’s space — and it plans to open as a standalone restaurant at 7405 Pershing as early as late June.

Kurt Eller, who will be running Taco Buddha with his partner Erin McCracken, says the spot will serve breakfast and lunch on Thursdays and Fridays, with those two meals plus dinner service on Saturday. Then, in October, they plan to extend their hours to open six days a week, and serve dinner every night.

The menu? Tacos, plain and simple.

“It’s a fusion of different food from all around the world, served in the vessel of a taco,” Eller says. That will mean both tacos with Asian flavors — a chicken tandoori taco with mango chutney salsa, a Thai street beef taco — and the classic breakfast tacos beloved in Texas. There will also be a strong influence from New Mexico, where Eller’s family has a home and where he visits frequently. Expect to see many tacos incorporating Hatch chiles, which are prized for their smoky back heat.

“Every chance I get, I bring back a carload of green chiles,” says Eller of his trips out West.

Himself a native Texan, Eller moved to St. Louis eleven years ago from Austin, leaving the restaurant industry behind (among other concepts, he coowned the well-known venue La Zona Rosa) for corporate life. “I thought I’d totally gotten out of the restaurant business,” he says.

But it’s hard to ever really quit the best job you ever had, and so three years ago, Eller found himself commissioning a custom taco trailer with a mobile kitchen. Under the Taco Buddha name, he’s been taking catering jobs — mostly weddings, he says.

He lives just a few houses away from the space at Pershing and Jackson, and when he realized it was open yet again, he ended up talking to Jeff Gerhardt, the owner of Cursed Bikes & Coffee. Gerhardt isn’t cooking anything on site, just serving coffee, smoothies and pastries baked elsewhere. And that’s when the two men realized their plans could fit together perfectly.

So Eller is taking the entire kitchen and setting up an order counter and dining room out of a space previously just used for overflow. He says it doesn’t need extensive renovations — as he and McCracken get ready to open, they’re just adding a counter and giving it a new look. Surprisingly, just that smaller space will have room to seat 25 inside, with room for another 25 on the patio, he says.

And if that sounds like a perfect place to wile away the hours, stuffing your face with breakfast tacos while the aroma of roasted Hatch chiles wafts through the air, well, you’re not alone in thinking that. Eller says he will be going for a full liquor license — the better to serve his signature margaritas with.

Still, the food will be key. “We just want to give people really good tacos,” he says. “That’s what it boils down to.”

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att Basler is pretty sure the third consecutive time that he and his band perform “Smooth” is going to be the funniest.

“Three is pretty funny. Three is the, like — ‘They’re really doing it,’” he explains. “One is like, ‘OK, let’s see, what?’ And then you do it again and it’s like, ‘Well, they’re just doing it...’ Three is the one where people go, ‘Whoa. They’re really — they’re really gonna do this.’”

“And then ten is celebratory, right?” he continues. “Like, I hope anyway. Or no one’s there and they’re all like, ‘OK, we get it, see ya.’”

It makes sense that Basler would be unsure as to how his latest plan will play out. It is, after all, as harebrained a scheme as any in recent memory.

This Friday, June 2, Basler will lead a band of local musicians in performing Santana and Rob Thomas’ 1999 smash hit no less than ten times in a row. And here is what is perhaps the craziest part: It’s not going down in someone’s living room, or hijacking an unsuspecting open mic night. It’s happening at an actual music venue, one that books legitimate shows. Joining Basler there on the Off Broadway stage will be a veritable super-group of local musicians — Jenn Malzone (Middle Class Fashion) on the key-

Local musician Matt Basler has been known to take things a bit too far. Like, oh, that time he mailed the RFT a severed head. | DANIEL HILL board, Jahi Eskridge (Fat Pocket) on trumpet, Dylan Clubb (the Langaleers) on guitar and Jerry Hill (DJ Uptown) on drums, with Matt Sawicki (My Posse in Effect) tackling any remaining percussion. Basler, meanwhile, will play bass and do his best Rob Thomas impression. Smoothies will be sold, naturally, and for the cost of admission attendees will also get a t-shirt with all of the song’s lyrics printed on it.

Basler is sitting in the crowded basement that serves as headquarters for his day job, Basler Screen Printing, which is headquartered downstairs from Sawicki’s Suburban Pro Studio. Basler has made a special Spotify playlist specifically for the interview — one comprising “Smooth” ten times in a row, of course. As the song plays on in a seemingly endless loop, Basler muses about just how many people could have stopped his ridiculous idea from happening.

“Nobody ever said no to me about any dumb thing,” he explains. “Everyone was real on

board. And every time I was really surprised. I expected everyone to be like, ‘No man, I don’t want anything to do with that. That’s real dumb.’”

Sawicki interjects. “I think I came downstairs and he goes, ‘Do you think this is funny?’ And I go, ‘Yeah, that’s funny.’ And then I kinda weaseled my way in just by default,” he says. “That’s how Jerry worked out too. Jerry walked down and Matt told him the idea, and Jerry thought it was kinda like an interview. He was like, ‘Yeah, I’m down!’”

“Jenn did say that it’s the only thing she’s ever been asked to do that compromises her musical integrity,” Basler laughs. “But then she said, ‘Yeah, sure, I’ll do it.’”

To be very clear, it is not that asler has any special affinity for the song. When asked if he has any particular memories associated with it, he replies atly in the negative. Asked if he even likes the song, he says, “That’s a good question. I don’t know.”

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hilarious.

It could be said that this type of humor is Basler’s forte. In January 2015 his band, the long-running rock & roll act Tok, recorded eight songs written by Tonetta, a mysterious 50-something living meme, famous for the surreal homemade music videos shot in his Canadian living room. In 2013, when the RFT named Tok St. Louis’ “Best Rock Band,” Basler responded by mailing us a severed head in a box. (It was a mannequin head, but still.)

He’s already got his next trick lined up: On July 8 he plans to perform a solo show at the Sinkhole with an acoustic guitar, consuming a series of increasingly spicy foods between each song. He imagines by the end of the set he will be sweating and miserable, and likely will have a very difficult time continuing to perform. He rightly assumes this will be very funny for those in attendance. The “Smooth” tribute show is just an extension of this same brand of humor.

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if someone played “Smooth” ten times in a row,’” he explains. “And then instead of going, ‘Oh yeah, that would be funny. Oh well’ — I did it. I made it a reality. That’s my new goal, is when I say dumb jokes, to go all the way.”

When he first announced the show, some of the details were unclear; all that was certain is that the song would be performed ten times.

Would it be tackled by different bands? Would it be ten different variations of the song? Artists reached out to Basler, wanting to get involved. Could their band play one of the times? The answer, in every case, was no.

“That’s just unnecessary,” he says. “It’s just one band, ten times, the same way every time. That’s the funny way to do it. In theory!

It’s a funny thing to say, anyway.”

Sawicki and Basler laugh as they discuss whether the show will be a hit or an unmitigated disaster.

Basler says that, of all the shows he’s ever booked, this one’s Facebook event page has the largest number of people who checked “going.”

Still, he doesn’t know how much faith to put into those metrics.

He compares the situation to a recent high-stakes presidential election. In the run up to election day, Basler remembers thinking, “People are saying they’re gonna vote for Trump, but when they get there, they’re gonna go, ‘Eh, I probably shouldn’t do this.’” Clearly he was incorrect, but he still sees a corollary to the show. It’s probably roughly as good an idea as electing an arrogant reality star president — even if the stakes are a whole lot lower.

“People are like, ‘This is really funny; what a funny idea,’” he says. “And then when it’s like, ‘Hey grab your keys, let’s go,’ they’re gonna go, ‘This is — they’re playing the same song ten times.’ But I hope I’m wrong about this too.”

Still, even if the show is a 2016 presidential election-level disaster, there will at least be plenty of blame to go around — good or bad, Basler never could have pulled it off alone.

“I think if it’s anybody’s fault, it’s Off Broadway’s fault,” Sawicki offers with a laugh.

“Right, it’s on them,” Basler agrees. “They shouldn’t have allowed me to do this. They’re my enabler.” n

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ne of the weirdest concerts to ever go down in St. Louis has to be the spring of 1974’s KISS kite-fly in Forest Park. The outdoor gig, put on by rock station KSHE (94.7 FM) on March 29, attracted scores of rockers to the city’s crown jewel — and only a few of them gave a shit about kites.

Most, rather, were there to see KISS. The face-painted rockers were new to the road at this point, having released a self-titled debut album barely a month prior. And by many

accounts, the show was lit: Thousands of rowdy longhairs climbed fences to see the young band, which had arrived to the park in the back of a windowless Ford Econoline. It would be KISS’ biggest headlining show yet.

Fittingly, the historic day has now been immortalized in a new song by a former Webster College student who was there — tripping balls in the front row.

“Back in ‘74” — performed by Endless Boogie, the long-running psychedelic band of guitar freaks out of New York City — tells the story of singer Paul Major’s day at the ISS kite y. The song appears on Vibe Killer, Endless Boogie’s latest album, released last week.

At the time, Major was a nineteen-year-old English major completely unaware of the pummeling he’d soon receive. His story is told over the course of a six-minute jam, a mid-tempo ride that’s unashamed of its vintage groove. The lyrics, too, are rich with warmly provincial St. Louis references.

Here’s how Major’s day went: Along with friend Wolf Roxon and

a few theater students from his Webster dorm, Major set off for the show. ut first, they dropped LSD, as one does before seeing KISS. Oh, and inspired by David Bowie, Major’s friends from the Webster conservatory had shaved off their eyebrows the night before.

Into the mob of KISS fans they waded.

“We make our way up to the stage — right up front — and the acid’s kicking in,” Major deadpans in the song. “Twenty-thousand people here, 457 kites, KISS on stage, at the kite festival. KISS did not bring their own kites. They were kiteless.”

The people in the crowd were “mostly redneck-ish type dudes” and Major and his friends from Webster stuck out like sore thumbs, a fact that dawned on them precisely as the set ended. They were surrounded by aggro headbangers, charged on Budweiser and KISS. “It became apparent literally after they finished lack iamond’ and the music stopped,” Major tells the RFT. “I don’t remember if a girl said, ‘What’s with the dudes with riverfronttimes.com

no eyebrows?’ or if the bottle hit first, but it just started right away.

All of the sudden there was a sea of angry faces around us and people shoving.”

Then, as Major sings in the song, “Somebody punched Wolf.” He himself was smacked in the face with beer bottles.

“Getting out of there was totally like Fellini Satyricon or something, where all the faces were ugly, and we were trippin’ and people were abusing us,” Major recalls. “It seemed like a million years going through this crowd to get out of there. It was truly crazy, I think one of only two times where I could say the trip was going bad in my life.”

This is, of course, the perfect sort of experience for a song. It was Jesper Eklow — he shares guitar duties with Major in Endless Boogie — who suggested Major put his story to music in the summer of 2015.

Major had a broken left arm at the time and couldn’t play guitar (it had to do with an amplifier loading related fall after a show in Brooklyn), so he put his artistic energy into the lyrics.

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[THE BLUES]

The Keys to Success Ethan Leinwand preaches the gospel of St. Louis piano blues at a piano-centric blues festival Written by

CHRISTIAN SCHAEFFER 2nd Annual St. Louis Piano Festival

7:30 p.m. Monday, June 5 and Tuesday, June 6. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 South Broadway. $15. 314-436-5222.

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n an overcast Tuesday night in downtown St. Louis, the streets are predictably quiet — at least since the Cardinals are playing an away game in Los Angeles.

But in the shadow of Busch Stadium, along Broadway, three of the city’s best-loved music clubs — Beale on Broadway, the Broadway Oyster Bar and BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups — are doing brisk business. The one-block strip is a dependable destination for locals and visitors. Outside of BB’s, a couple smokes cigarettes and speaks French in hushed voices; inside, a woman with an Australian accent inquires about the club’s titular soup selection. And on stage, two performers — one old, one young; one a native and the other a transplant — are working through a set of blues tunes for an attentive audience.

Tom Hall and Ethan Leinwand don’t get a chance to play together too often, but their sets are a fitting picture of St. Louis’ blues heritage.

Hall is one of this city’s most beloved and respected musicians, a humble sage of the steel resonator guitar and an embodiment of Soulard-bred cool and nonchalance. Leinwand is less well-known, but it’s not for lack of trying; the 34-year old Connecticut native moved to town three years ago and has set about preaching (and performing) the gospel of St. Louis piano blues.

On the sidewalk outside of BB’s, once he and Hall have divvied up the door money, Leinwand walks through a few of the tunes he and Hall performed that evening. His love of history and its many musical entanglements in St. Louis is evident from his song selection.

“I did a St. Louis one by a guy named Stump Johnson,” says Lein-

Ethan Leinwand ticklin’ the ivories. | JACK HIRSCHORN wand, “and he was cool because he played down on the levee, in the sporting houses. His brother was a talent scout for all the local companies, so a singer like Victoria Spivey, a famous blues singer, came up from Texas and went right to his record shop to get a deal.”

Leinwand’s brown bowler makes him look a bit like a John Hartford devotee, but with his tortoise-shell glasses, lanky forearms and modern anti uarian mien, he fits the role of someone whose heart throbs to the striding, syncopated beat of early 20th century music.

Leinwand talks excitedly about his latest project, the 2nd Annual St. Louis Piano Festival, which will feature Leinwand and a handful of local and national performers, each pulling on a different thread of piano music from the 1920s and ‘30s.

“A big part of the popular stuff was from St. Louis — that’s the stuff I fell in love with before I came here, and really what brought me here,” says Leinwand.

“In St. Louis, it was a low-down style,” Leinwand adds, comparing it to styles of barrelhouse and boogie-woogie piano in other parts of the country. He describes low-down piano as “a sparse sound; it’s generally an accompaniment, so the left hand will just hit out quarter notes or a crude style shu e.” e talks about the “hidden beauty” in that style of playing, which was often meant to accompany vocalists.

Leinwand has grown into that St. Louis style since moving here — he’s become a vocalist in his own right and partnered with Valerie Kirchoff, better known as local singer and bandleader Miss Jubilee. He does weekly solo gigs at the Gramophone and Yaqui’s as well.

How did a New England-born

piano play fall in love with the St. Louis blues? “It was the search for music,” Leinwand says. “It was the search for a specific piano sound I was looking for.”

That search for piano-driven blues music led him across the country brie y to ew rleans, then a six-year stint in New York — before his scholarship led him to St. Louis and its roster of innovative, if largely forgotten, piano players. In his nearly three years in St. Louis, Leinwand has only seen the interest in traditional blues music grow.

“It’s fun to be a part of the scene that I fell into here — Miss Jubilee, Rum Drum Ramblers, Gaslight Squares,” he says. “To see more people in town trying it and building it up, it’s a really cool and rare thing.

It speaks to what I love about this town.”

Leinwand sees himself preserving and promoting our city’s musical heritage; it’s also a reciprocal arrangement. “St. Louis is a blues town. For me, as a blues piano player, I’m in the very best place I can possibly be,” he explains. “I can talk about it, because it connects with the town spiritually. I get to play for a knowledgeable fan base who is passionate and makes it their responsibility to come out and support it.”

If there’s a certain backwards-looking element to Leinwand’s passion, he makes it his mission to tie the music to the present and continue what he sees as an interwoven tapestry of musicians. “What I like about St. Louis is that almost everyone is from here, almost everyone is playing music, and they can talk about the guy that they heard when they were fifteen that made them learn it,” he says. “You feel the linn eage so strongly.” riverfronttimes.com

“I was basically channeling my memories,” Major says. “I was trying to bring back that day in 19 at the S kite ying contest that turned into such a crazy nightmare.”

Endless Boogie formed in 1997 as a reason for Matador Records employees and Major (at the time a professional record dealer) to get together and jam. Despite the group’s unambitious intentions, it was asked to open for Stephen Malkmus in 2001, and later recorded two twelve-inch records (Volume 1 and Volume 2) in 2005. The band released a full-length in 2008, Focus Level, which Pitchfork called a “choogling zen-prayer” of bluesrock. And with Vibe Killer, Endless Boogie offers a six-song LP, of which “Back in ‘74” is one of the standouts.

History has made that show legendary for St. Louis and KSHE, but it was big for KISS, too. Forty-three years later, it remains the band’s go-to St. Louis story. KISS bass player Gene Simmons even brought it up during his panel at the St. Louis stop of Wizard World Comic Con in April.

Major says the show was one of his two most mind-blowing experiences in St. Louis (the other was seeing AC/DC at Mississippi Nights in 1977 along with about 200 other people). He recalls his time in the city as “magical.” He and Roxon would later form psych-rock group the Moldy Dogs here, before Major upped sticks for LA and then New York.

Other than jaunts to Europe and, recently, Australia, Endless Boogie doesn’t tour much, and Major sort of demurs when asked if he sees an Endless Boogie St. Louis gig on the calendar. “I’m obviously a much older dude now,” Major says of the fairly grueling prospect of touring the U.S. as a psych rock band in your sixties.

When Major is asked if he’s thought about whether KSHE might play the song, he seems surprised, as though it hadn’t occurred to him.

“Oh, that would be awesome,” he says. “It really brings me back to those crazy St. Louis days, that’s n for sure.”

Vibe Killer by Endless Boogie is out now on No Quarter Records.

Paul Major has a book about his decades-long record collecting obsession, Feel the Music, out May 30 on Anthology Editions.

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THURSDAY 1

WRECK THE HOLODECK: w/ Captain Jane, Brother

Sir Evan 8 & 11 p.m., $25-$35. Delmar Hall,

Howard’s in Soulard, 2732 S 13th St, St. Louis,

104.1’S SUPER JAM 2017: w/ Future, Migos, Tory

Lee and the Leather Jackals, Sister Wizzard, 3 of

6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

314-349-2850.

Lanez, A$AP Ferg, Zoey Dollaz 6 p.m., TBA.

5 8 p.m., $10-$12. The Stage at KDHX, 3524 Wash-

BILL BELLAMY: June 1, 8 p.m.; June 2, 7:30 &

DWARVES: w/ JFA, Decent Criminals, Ultraman

Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth

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

10 p.m.; 7:30 & 10 p.m.; June 4, 7:30 p.m., $27.

7 p.m., $16-$18. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St.

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

ZAC HARMON: 5 p.m., $10. National Blues Muse-

Helium Comedy Club, 1151 St. Louis Galleria

Louis, 314-289-9050.

ALARM WILL SOUND: 8 p.m., $10-$20. The

um, 615 Washington Ave., St. Louis.

Saint Louis Galleria Mall, Richmond Heights,

4TH ANNUAL SUMMER GRAS: w/ Funky Butt

314-727-1260.

Brass Band, Al Holliday & The East Side

BOO BOO DAVIS & THE BUMBLE BEE TRIO: 10

Rhythm Band, The Grooveliner, The Provels,

Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900.

SATURDAY 3

BILL BELLAMY: 8 p.m.; June 2, 7:30 & 10 p.m.;

THE BIG COMEDY EXPLOSION FEATURING AJ

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

Big Mike Aguirre & The Blu City All Stars 5

June 3, 7:30 & 10 p.m.; June 4, 7:30 p.m., $27.

JOHNSON AND HONEST JOHN: w/ Larry Green,

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

p.m., $10. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St.

Helium Comedy Club, 1151 St. Louis Galleria

Maurice G, Princeton Dew, Deandre Whitner,

THE CARY COLMAN JAZZ TRIO: 6 p.m., free.

Louis, 314-588-0505.

Saint Louis Galleria Mall, Richmond Heights, 314-727-1260.

BILLY BARNETT BAND: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222.

HAYLEY KIYOKO: 8 p.m., $15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

JOE METZKA BAND: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-4365222.

JOHN MORELAND: w/ Will Johnson 9 p.m., $15$18. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

KIM MASSIE: 10:30 p.m., $10. Beale on Broadway, 701 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-621-7880.

MICHAEL BARR: 7 p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

MIKE STUD: 8 p.m., $27-$29.50. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

PAUL THORN: 8 p.m., $43. The Sheldon, 3648 Washington Blvd., St. Louis, 314-533-9900.

SUICIDE GIRLS BLACKHEART BURLESQUE: 9 p.m., $20-$80. Pop’s Nightclub, 401 Monsanto Ave., East St. Louis, 618-274-6720.

FRIDAY 2 AN EVENING WITH SMOOTH: A TRIBUTE TO SANTANA AND ROB THOMAS: 8 p.m., $8. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

BILL BELLAMY: June 1, 8 p.m.; 7:30 & 10 p.m.; June 3, 7:30 & 10 p.m.; June 4, 7:30 p.m., $27. Helium Comedy Club, 1151 St. Louis Galleria Saint Louis Galleria Mall, Richmond Heights, 314-727-1260.

DAVID DEE & THE HOT TRACKS: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s

[CRITIC’S PICK]

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

Metallica. | PHOTO BY HERRING & HERRING PHOTOGRAPHY

314-436-5222.

DIET CIG: w/ SPORTS 8 p.m., $12-$14. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd., University City, 314-727-4444.

DRAGONDEER: 8 p.m., $8-$10. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

FIONA BOYES: 7 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

FRESH BURN: 6 p.m., free. Howard’s in Soulard, 2732 S 13th St, St. Louis, 314-349-2850.

JUSTIN JOHNSON: 7 p.m., free. Hwy 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen, 34 S Old Orchard Ave, Webster Groves, 314-968-0061.

MAN EATING TIGER: w/ Raviner, The Dive 8 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-2899050.

SURFER BLOOD: 8 p.m., $12-$15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis, 314-535-0353.

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Busch Stadium, 700 Clark Avenue. $55.50 to $155.50. 314-345-9600.

Of thrash metal’s Big Four, Metallica is clearly standing at the top nowadays. That’s not to say its music is the best — the band’s finest material, if you ask most fans, is 30 years in the rearview mirror. But Metallica is the only one that retains the power to pack Busch Stadium. Likely much to Dave Mustaine’s chagrin, Megadeth’s crowd is Family Arena-sized (as best evidenced by the band’s July 7 booking at the venue). Anthrax just performed at the Pageant a couple weeks back — the same venue Kerry King and Co. frequent when Slayer comes to town. Me-

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tallica, meanwhile, is touring stadiums this year. When the band released its self-titled black album in 1991, many accused it of “selling out.” While that may have been true, all told, it seems to have worked out.

Black Fast Was Robbed: As promotion for this tour, Metallica held a competition that local bands could enter, with the winner opening for the band on five of its stadium dates. Local H won the honor — a fact that rubbed many the wrong way; unlike most of the acts that submitted, Local H has seen major label success in its day. In a just world, it would have been St. Louis’ Black Fast opening this show.

—Daniel Hill

[CRITIC’S PICK]

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

773-3363.

FUTURE ISLANDS: 8 p.m., $22-$25. The Pageant,

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

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

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

SIGUR ROS: 8 p.m., $36.50-$76.50. Peabody

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

Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-

ext. 815.

241-1888.

SOULARD BLUES BAND: 9 p.m., $5. Broadway

THIS JUST IN

Oyster Bar, 736 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-

THE ALLEY TONES: Thu., June 29, 10 p.m., $5.

621-8811.

BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com.

TUESDAY 6

Norah Jones. | PHOTO VIA BLUE NOTE RECORDS

Norah Jones 8 p.m. Tuesday, June 6.

Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market Street. $58 to $62. 314-499-7600.

What Norah Jones lacks in edge she makes up in what matters: melody, emotion, risks (as subtle as they may be), the pure beauty of music. If her collaboration with hipster hero Danger Mouse wasn’t enough to win over indie-rockists, her new album, Day Breaks, stands no chance. A return to piano and rhythmically rich jazz, the album finds Jones doing what she does better than any peer: reshape

songs, from Neil Young to Duke Ellington, with skill and soul, and balance them with originals that stand up to her jazz, country and pop influences.

Her voice remains miraculous — one of the warmest, sexiest sounds ever captured on tape.

Have Voice, Will Travel: Jones has turned up on albums by everyone from the Foo Fighters to Herbie Hancock.

She simply loves to play and sing; when she takes the stage, there’s never any doubt of that.

—Roy Kasten

ANGEL PRESENTS SOUL SEARCHING: Mon., June

ANNUAL PIANO FESTIVAL: June 5, 7 p.m.; 7 p.m.,

26, 8 p.m., $15. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S.

$10-$20. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broad-

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

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

bluessoups.com.

EDGEFIELD C. JOHNSTON DUO: 6 p.m., free. San

BIG GEORGE BROCK: Sun., June 25, 4 p.m., $10.

Loo, 3211 Cherokee St., St. Louis, 314-696-2888.

National Blues Museum, 615 Washington Ave.,

THE GLENN MILLER ORCHESTRA: 7:30 p.m., $45.

St. Louis.

Ozark Theatre, 103 E. Lockwood Ave., St. Louis,

BIG GEORGE BROCK & THE HOUSEROCKERS: Sat.,

314-962-7000.

June 24, 10 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups,

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

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

Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828 Olive

bbsjazzbluessoups.com.

Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.

BIG MUDDY BLUES FESTIVAL: W/ Marquise

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

Knox, Roland Johnson, Marsha Evans, Jere-

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

miah Johnson, Kim Massie, Boo Boo Davis,

NORAH JONES: 8 p.m., $52.50-$68. Peabody

Big Mike Aguirre & the Blu City All Stars,

Opera House, 1400 Market St, St. Louis, 314-

David Dee, Big George Brock, Kim Massie and

241-1888.

the Solid Senders, more, Fri., Sept. 1, 2 p.m.;

ROBERT EARL KEEN: 8 p.m., $35-$50. Off Broad-

Sat., Sept. 2, 2 p.m.; Sun., Sept. 3, 2 p.m., TBA.

way, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

Laclede’s Landing, N. First St. & Lucas Ave., St. Louis, 314-241-5875, lacledeslanding.com.

WEDNESDAY 7

BIG RICH MCDONOUGH & RHYTHM RENEGADES:

AUSTIN MAHONE: 8 p.m., $25. The Firebird, 2706

Wed., June 21, 7 p.m., $5. Wed., June 28, 7

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

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

BAD SUNS: w/ Hunny 8 p.m., $18. The Ready

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

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

bluessoups.com.

833-3929.

BLIND WILLIE & THE BROADWAY COLLECTIVE:

BOB “BUMBLE BEE” KAMOSKE: 8 p.m. Beale on

Tue., June 27, 9:30 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues

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

& Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-

7880.

5222, bbsjazzbluessoups.com.

CHARLEY CROCKETT BAND: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

BOBAFLEX: W/ As Earth Shatters, Robbing Jon,

(HED)PE: w/ Motograter 6 p.m., $16-$18. The

St. Louis.

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

Wed., Aug. 30, 7 p.m., $13-$15. The Firebird,

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

JASON BOYD: w/ Jake Dowell, Scotty Bergt, Jake

436-5222.

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JOHN LATINI: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues &

Veninga 7 p.m., $7-$10. The Firebird, 2706

KALEO: 8 p.m., $30-$35. The Pageant, 6161

stl.com.

Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-

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

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

THE BOY BAND NIGHT: Sat., July 29, 8 p.m., $12-

5222.

LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: 8 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,

MAGIC GIANT: w/ Motherfolk 8 p.m., $10-$12.

$20. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis,

OH CALEDONIA: w/ Shark Dad, Superslag 9 p.m.,

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

Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar

314-726-6161, delmarhall.com.

$7. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Ave., St.

436-5222.

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

BRICK + MORTAR: Wed., Aug. 2, 7:30 p.m.,

Louis, 314-352-5226.

METALLICA: 7 p.m., $55.50-$155.50. Busch

PALLBEARER: w/ Inter Arma, Gatecreeper 8

$12-$14. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St. Louis,

PROTOJE: 8 p.m., $4.20-$25. The Ready Room,

Stadium, Broadway & Poplar St., St. Louis,

p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-

31 535 0353, firebirdstl.com.

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

314-345-9600.

289-9050.

BROTHER JEFFERSON BLUES BAND: Fri., June

ST. LOUIS CIGAR BOX GUITAR FESTIVAL: 10 a.m.,

MUSIC BENEFIT FOR THE AMERICAN HEART ASSO-

PERRILLES JAZZ PROJECT: 10 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz,

23, 11 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S.

free. Hwy 61 Roadhouse and Kitchen, 34 S Old

CIATION: 3 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups,

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

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

Orchard Ave, Webster Groves, 314-968-0061.

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

436-5222.

bluessoups.com.

WE ARE LIVE!: 8 p.m., $15. Off Broadway, 3509

PEEWEE SALOON: 2 p.m., free. Howard’s in Sou-

SOSOSUMMER 17 TOUR: w/ Deetranada, Supa

BROTHER JEFFERSON DUO: Thu., June 29, 7

Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-773-3363.

lard, 2732 S 13th St, St. Louis, 314-349-2850.

Peach, Prince of NY, Lil Key, King Roscoe, Nia

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

SCOTT REYNOLDS: w/ Breakmouth Annie, Daren

Kay, Jermaine Dupri, Bow Wow, Da Brat 7 p.m.,

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

Gratton, Guy Morgan 8 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar,

$29.50-$59.50. Peabody Opera House, 1400

bluessoups.com.

BILL BELLAMY: June 1, 8 p.m.; June 2, 7:30 &

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

Market St, St. Louis, 314-241-1888.

CAROLYN MASON AND MARQUISE KNOX: Sun.,

10 p.m.; June 3, 7:30 & 10 p.m.; 7:30 p.m., $27.

SOUL REUNION: 10:30 p.m., $7. Beale on Broad-

TONY BENNETT: w/ Antonia Bennett 7:30 p.m.,

June 18, 4 p.m., $10. National Blues Museum,

Helium Comedy Club, 1151 St. Louis Galleria

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

$41-$176. The Fox Theatre, 527 N. Grand Blvd.,

615 Washington Ave., St. Louis.

St. Louis, 314-534-1111.

THE CARY COLMAN JAZZ TRIO: Sat., June 3, 6

TWANGFEST 21 DAY 1: w/ Black Joe Lewis,

p.m., free. Howard’s in Soulard, 2732 S 13th St, St. Louis, 314-349-2850.

SUNDAY 4

Saint Louis Galleria Mall, Richmond Heights, 314-727-1260.

MONDAY 5

THE COLEMAN HUGHES PROJECT: 4 p.m., $10.

ANNUAL PIANO FESTIVAL: 7 p.m.; June 6, 7 p.m.,

Alanna Royale, Gene Jackson 8 p.m., $25-$28.

National Blues Museum, 615 Washington Ave.,

$10-$20. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broad-

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

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THE COLEMAN HUGHES PROJECT: Sun., June 4, 4 p.m., $10. National Blues Museum, 615 Washington Ave., St. Louis.

DANBURY STREET: Sat., June 10, 6 p.m., free.

Howard’s in Soulard, 2732 S 13th St, St. Louis, 314-349-2850.

THE DARRELLS: Sun., June 11, 2 p.m., free.

Howard’s in Soulard, 2732 S 13th St, St. Louis, 314-349-2850.

DEATH TO THE BALL: A TRIBUTE TO HEADBANGERS BALL: Fri., June 30, 9 p.m., $10-$15.

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

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Twangfest, St. Louis’ long-running, multi-night celebration of American music, turns 21 this year. And while the fest is officially of legal age — no more sneaking shots of Ten High when the bartender turns his back — the line-up for 2017 reflects some of the growth and maturity gained through its teenage years. So it’s not a huge step outside convention that soul music is the order of Night No. 1. Austin-based Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears will

headline the show, with its dependably ragged (and, of late, much missed) mix of garage rock and Memphis groove.

Alanna Royale and her horn-heavy band make for a solid middle set, and local soul man Gene Jackson will warm the stage with songs from his recent album 1963. All told, this is a solid, soulful aperitif to one of the summer’s most dependable musical events.

But Wait, There’s More: Twangfest continues through Saturday, with sets

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Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161, thepageant.com.

Museum, 615 Washington Ave., St. Louis.

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

MARQUISE KNOX: Fri., June 30, 5 p.m., $10.

THE STEPPIN STONES: Sun., Sept. 24, 7 p.m., $10.

773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com.

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

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MOMO FEST: W/ Alex Stewart, Carondelet Guy,

THRAK: A KING CRIMSON TRIBUTE: Sat., July 8,

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Ish, Le’Ponds, Isabel Rex, Persh, Shady Bug,

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J.P. SOARS & THE RED HOTS: Sun., June 25, 7

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MZ. SHA & THE KLE’ SHA BAND: Sun., June 11, 4

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JJ THAMES: Fri., June 9, 5 p.m., $10. National

p.m., $10. National Blues Museum, 615 Wash-

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

Blues Museum, 615 Washington Ave., St. Louis.

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JUSTIN JOHNSON: Fri., June 2, 7 p.m., free. Hwy

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VICKY MICHAELS & EDICKS WAY BLUES BAND:

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Thu., June 22, 9:30 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues

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KILBORN ALLEY BLUES BAND: Fri., June 30,

PEEWEE SALOON: Sun., June 4, 2 p.m., free.

WAX FANG: Sat., Aug. 12, 7 p.m., $12-$13. The

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Howard’s in Soulard, 2732 S 13th St, St. Louis,

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

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

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KYLE KINANE: Tue., Sept. 12, 8 p.m., $20. The

$25-$35. The Pageant, 6161 Delmar Blvd., St.

A Shogun Named Marcus: A Tribute To Clutch,

Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,

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Oracle, Sun., June 11, 7 p.m., $5-$6. The Fire-

314-833-3929, thereadyroom.com.

RAW EARTH: Fri., July 7, 8 p.m., free. Stone

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

LAMONT HADLEY: Fri., June 23, 5 p.m., $10.

Spiral, 2500 Sutton Blvd., Maplewood, 314-

firebirdstl.com.

National Blues Museum, 615 Washington Ave.,

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A WILL AWAY: Wed., June 28, 6 p.m., $12.

St. Louis.

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

LEROY JODIE PIERSON: Fri., June 30, 7 p.m., $5.

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fubarstl.com.

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

RAY WYLIE HUBBARD: Fri., Aug. 25, 8 p.m., $20-

WITCHTRAP: W/ Unspeakable, Lightning Wolf,

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$35. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis,

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314-773-3363, offbroadwaystl.com.

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

SABELLA: Sun., Aug. 6, 7 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108

ZAC HARMON: Fri., June 2, 5 p.m., $10. National

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

Blues Museum, 615 Washington Ave., St. Louis.

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Do they have a point? Does logging into a hookup app like Grindr imply openness to an immediate sexual encounter?

Talking Online Repulses Some Others Always be up front about your intentions, TORSO. The best way to do that is by creating a profile on rindr or elsewhere that clearly describes what you want and what you’re up for.

Because good partners communicate their wants clearly. Adding something like this to your profile should do it “My preferred form of sexual relationship is the friend with benefits situation. I go on rindr looking to make friends who could, at least potentially, be sex partners, but I like to do the friend thing before the sex.” rindr is an app designed and marketed to facilitate hookups, but some people have found friends, lovers and husbands on the app (usually after hooking up first). So being on a hookup app doesn’t automatically mean you’re looking for “right now,” and it certainly doesn’t obligate you

to fuck every guy you swap messages with. But if you’re not clear in your profile or very first message about what you’re doing there, TORSO, guys looking for a hookup on that hookup app will be rightly annoyed with you.

(The time and energy he sunk into you could have been sunk into someone looking for right now.) If you are clear, guys seeking instacock have only themselves to blame.

Your timing could also have something to do with guys calling you an asshole. Are you exchanging messages at two in the morning for twenty minutes ecause most guys on rindr at that hour are seeking immediate sexual encounters. If you’re just chatting in the middle of the night, then you’re probably wasting someone’s time if, again, you’re not being absolutely clear about what you’re doing there.

Think of rindr as a giant gay bar most guys are there to hook up, a few just want to hang out and chat, some dudes are really messed up (avoid them) and no one is at their best around closing time.

Hey, Dan: I’m a 25-year-old gay woman and I’ve been looking for a girlfriend for the past two years. I post on dating websites, go to the lesbian club, take part in the LGBTQ+ scene at my university and put myself in places where I might meet women. But I’m worried that my persona deters women: I’m extremely analytic, a doctoral student and university instructor. Whenever I meet a girl, our conversation always goes in the same direction: She thinks it’s cool I work with literature and then brings up her favorite pop-culture novel like Harry Potter. I say something like “I’ve never read Harry Potter, but people rave

about it. What do you like about it? I took an online Harry Potter test once for a friend, and it said I was a Slytherin.”

At this point, things change. The girl I’m speaking with gets flustered. She says something like “Oh, I’m not good at describing things,” seemingly feeling pressured to give me an intellectual response, like I’m giving her a quiz. I’m not sure what to do about this. I am having trouble maintaining casual and fun conversations despite my intentions.

I come off as intense. I think I’m a pretty attractive person, but my dating life is starting to make me feel differently.

How can I find a woman I jibe with?

A Lesbian Obviously Needs Excitement ou’re doing all the right things almost. You’re getting out there, you’re not shy about initiating conversation, and you’re moving on multiple fronts.

That said, ALONE, I’m surprised this hasn’t popped into your extremely analytic head If happens whenever I do X, and Y isn’t the desired outcome, then maybe I should knock this X shit the fuck off.

Your response to the mention of Harry Potter drips with what I trust is unintentional condescension. Don’t want women to think you’re administering a quiz? Don’t want to seem like someone incapable of keeping things casual and fun? Don’t administer quizzes, don’t subtly telegraph your disgust and keep things casual by offering a little info about yourself instead of probing. (“I haven’t read the Harry Potter books, but I’m a huge Emma Watson fangirl. Who isn’t, right?”) And maybe go ahead and read Harry Potter already.

Hey, Dan: I’m a married woman whose hot, hung husband is into “beautiful

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women and pretty boys” (his words — and he means boyish men of legal age, of course). It took a dozen years to get that out of him. I’d watched him drool over pretty male baristas and waiters, but it wasn’t until I found twink porn on his computer that he came out about his “narrow slice of bisexuality.” (Again, his words.) Now that it’s out — now that he’s out —he’s anxious to have a threeway with me and a femme guy. I’m up for it, but the pretty boys we’re finding online who are into my husband aren’t into me. My husband says he would feel too guilty doing it without me, which means he may not be able to do it at all. I want him to do it. It turns me on to think about. I don’t have to be there.

Hubby’s Underlying Bi Biological Yearnings Let your hot, hung husband find a pretty boy he likes, HUBBY, then ask for the boy’s email or phone number or I handle or whatever, and have a quick back-channel convo with him. Let him know your hot, hung husband (HHH) wants his ass and that you’ll be there but only at the start. Once drinks have been served, the ice has been broken and a little spit has been swapped (between him and HHH), tell him you’ll invent a reason to excuse yourself (your period, bad clams, whatever), leaving him alone with your HHH. At that point, HHH can decide for himself if he wishes to proceed without you, but with your blessing (which you can toss over your shoulder on your way out of the room . ood luck Listen to Dan’s podcast at savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter ITMFA.org

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Sec. 8 welcome SOUTH-CITY 314-504-6797 5052 Miami (West of Kingshighway) Renovated 1 BD with Enclosed Sun Porch, Updated Bathroom, New Cabinets, New Windows, Dishwasher, C/A, Refinished Hardwood Floors, Appliances.

Near Shopping and Bus Line.

SOUTH-CITY $495 314-443-4478 7327 Michigan Ave (near Loughborough & Hwy 55). 1 BR with large living room and bedroom. Basement storage, W/D hookup.

DUTCHTOWN $980 314-223-8067 3 BR spacious home for rent. Natural wood floor (1st flr), carpet (2nd flr). Lrg updated kitchen w/double oven gas stove, 2 bath, dining rm, bsmnt, w/d hookup, fenced yard, a/c. Lots of Closets!

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Sec. 8 welcome DUTCHTOWN $980 314-223-8067 3 BR spacious home for rent. Natural wood floor (1st flr), carpet (2nd flr). Lrg updated kitchen w/double oven gas stove, 2 bath, dining rm, bsmnt, w/d hookup, fenced yard, a/c. Lots of Closets!

NORTH ST. LOUIS COUNTY 314-579-1201 or 636-939-3808 eatonproperties.com 2, 3 & 4 bedroom homes for rent.

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Sec. 8 welcome WESTPORT/LINDBERGH/PAGE $535-$585 314-995-1912 SPECIAL-1 MONTH FREE! Nice Area near Hwys 64, 270, 170, 70 & Clayton.

Patio, laundry, great landlord!

Clean, safe, quiet.

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Gated prkng, onsite laundry. Controlled access bldgs, pool, fitness, business ctr. Pets welcome NORTH COUNTY $539 314-524-3635 We accept City & County Section 8 vouchers.

All electric, gated parking, onsite laundry, close to public transportation.

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Auction Held On Site Charming 2BR brick home w/LR & DR combo, kitchen, full bath, walk-out basement and 1 car garage. Corner lot w/2 sheds. Must See! Terms: 6% Buyer’s Premium. $5,000 down day of sale.

Balance due in 30 days.

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