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Board Eyes Crackdown on Illegal Evictions Written by

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or Rhonda Tunstall, a move to St. Louis this summer became a nightmare — when her landlord illegally locked her out of her home, threw her possessions in the backyard and then pointed a gun at her.

Tunstall moved here with her family from Norfolk, Virginia, in June and found her landlord through word of mouth. But her situation has been a frightening introduction to a problem that some advocates say is all too common in St. Louis: Landlords who don’t know, or don’t follow, the rules.

It’s a problem Alderman Terry Kennedy hopes to prevent with a new bill pending at the city’s Board of Aldermen.

Board Bill 87 aims to discourage landlords from illegally locking out tenants they evict. If the bill passes, landlords who block tenants from

Rhonda Tunstall, right, hugs attorney Kalila Jackson, who helped her through what she says was a harrowing ordeal. | PHOTO BY KATIE HAYES their possessions or homes without following the rules outlined by law could face fines of to , up to days in ail or both.

“I think it’s a significant piece of legislation,” Kennedy says.

The roots of the problem for Tunstall and her family began at a tax sale in ugust . That’s when amont ranks paid , for the home he later leased to the Tunstalls.

That home is now condemned, but before Tunstall was evicted, she says she lived in a house infested with roaches, termites, lead and mold so severe her son with asthma had to be taken to the hospital.

Tunstall was steadily paying her rent, but she says Franks continued to ask her for more money to make repairs — and then, she says, never made them. When she stopped pay-

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ing, he filed a notice of eviction in city court.

Tunstall was luckier than many city residents: Kalila Jackson, a staff attorney at Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council, or EHOC, agreed to take her case. In court on ugust , Tunstall showed receipts of payment, and the udge agreed she owed ranks nothing. Still, Continued on pg 11

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‘Bad Ass Pat’ Takes Aim at Gun Violence

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ix years ago, Patricia Maisch ripped an ammo clip from the hand of a gunman who had ust murdered si people and wounded thirteen others, including then-Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords.

The year old t. ouis County native was among a group of everyday citi ens who on anuary , , disarmed the deranged 22-year-old and pinned him to the ground until help arrived. Thanks to them, an unknowable number of people were spared that day in Tucson, Arizona.

By separating a mass murderer from his bullets as he tried reload, Maisch kept a tragedy from getting worse. She has worked ever since to make those kind of heroics unnecessary.

“It’s about making an impact,” says Maisch, who grew up in Oakville. “It’s about saving lives.”

The Notre Dame High School grad has become a fearless advocate for gun control legislation since the Tucson attack, using her experience in one of the country’s most notorious mass shootings to lobby lawmakers for tougher laws, including more stringent background checks. On a recent visit to Missouri from her adopted home in Arizona, she met Representative Stacey Newman (DSt. Louis) for lunch at Pi Pizzeria in the Central West End. Newman doesn’t need to be lobbied. She and Maisch are already friends, as well as allies in the fight for gun control. They’re part of a small, informal group of advocates from across the country — most of them survivors and relatives of victims of gun violence — who regularly talk online and by phone to support each other and plan new strategies.

“We call her ‘Bad Ass Pat,’ Newman says.

Two years after the Tucson shooting, Maisch was detained by police in Washington, D.C., for shouting “Shame on you!” at senators from the gallery. Lawmakers were considering new gun legislation prompted by the slaughter of twenty kids at Sandy Hook Elementary School,

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Pat Maisch wears more than a dozen bracelets in honor of victims of gun violence. | DOYLE MURPHY and Maisch was infuriated when even that horror of a mass shooting couldn’t persuade a ma ority to act.

She was arrested last year in D.C. after she and other gun violence protesters staged a sit in on the oor of the Capitol rotunda. She notes that the background checks police ran on her during those interactions were far more rigorous than anything done to keep dangerous people from buying guns in Missouri or Arizona.

Less than two months before the Tucson shooting, 22-year-old Jared Loughner, who had a history of mental health problems, was able to legally buy the semi-automatic Glock he used to spray 33 rounds into the crowd.

Maisch had arrived that Saturday for Gifford’s “Congress on Your Corner” event outside a Safeway grocery. People were casually chatting when they heard the first shot.

“Other people thought it was a balloon popping,” Maisch says. “But I knew it was a gun.” he looked up to see a figure coming down the line. She decided her best move was to lie on the ground.

Loughner was working his way forward, pumping round after round into bystanders. He killed six, including nine-year-old Christina-Taylor Green. Giffords was shot in head and barely survived. A woman next to Maisch, Mary Reed, was hit three times while shielding her daughter, who was a page for the congresswoman.

Reed survived, but Loughner was apparently preparing to reload. That’s when two men from the crowd — Bill Badger, 74, and Roger al geber, lunged forward and tackled the gunman. Maisch says the three of them landed right next to her. When she got to her knees, she

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was at the small of Loughner’s back, and she could see he was pulling another clip from his pocket.

Maisch reached over and snatched it out of his hand. Badger and Salzgeber were still wrestling with Loughner, who was flailing with his legs to try to break free, so she made for his ankles.

“I put one of my knees on each of his ankles,” Maisch says. “At that point, the shooter says, ‘Oh, oh, you’re hurting me. Stop. You’re hurting me.’”

They held him there until law enforcement arrived. Loughner was eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to seven consecutive life terms. The three citizen heroes would later oke about who should get credit for making the killer whine in pain — Maisch with her knees pressing his ankles into the pavement or one of the guys who had him in a choke hold.

Regardless, Maisch credits the heroics to Badger and Salzgeber.

Whenever she hears anyone argue the answer to gun violence is more “good guys with guns” she thinks of them.

“How do you know who the good guy with a gun is?” she asks. “In our case, we had two good guys without guns.”

Each new shooting creates another bunch of survivors and advocates, Maisch says. They come from Aurora, Newtown and Orlando and dozens of others. She wears a necklace for Christina-Taylor Green, and her left wrist is covered in bracelets in honor of people who were killed.

“People talk about being in the wrong place at the wrong time,” she says. “Fuck them. They’re in the right place at the wrong time. The person with the gun is wrong.” n

ballot proposition that seemingly suffered a narrow defeat this spring could see new life — with the city of St. Louis now asking the board of election to reexamine the results.

Prop NS, which was led by a grassroots neighborhood group to tackle the city’s vacant house problem, won 58 percent approval in April. But the Board of Election Commissioners had said it needed a two-thirds majority, or 66 percent. Prop NS was presumed dead.

But Alderwoman Cara Spencer took on an effort to question that interpretation.

While the city charter seeks two-thirds passage for bond issuances, when state law and the city charter conflict, state law wins. And state law only requires foursevenths of voters sign off on matters involving bond issuances — or 57 percent.

By that metric, Prop NS had eked out the narrowest of victories.

At the urging of volunteers with SLACO, or the St. Louis Association of Community Organizations, Spencer had asked the city counselor’s office for a legal opinion to determine which standard applies. Last week, that office did her one better — filing a lawsuit that attempts to get the elections board to reexamine its conclusion.

The lawsuit, filed by City Counselor Julian Bush, seeks a writ of mandamus ordering the board to state that the proposition has actually passed. If the court agrees, Prop NS would become law after all — six months after it was written off as dead.

Spencer said she was thrilled with the city’s decision to take up the fight.

“This was an initiative that started over two years ago that was spearheaded by SLACO and a group of volunteers, who put together a plan to address the vacant houses in our neighborhoods,” she says.

“The petitioners believe it passed, and I agree with them. I praise their efforts to continue to push forward on this project.”

By raising a very small tax on property owners — roughly $3 on a home valued at $150,000 — the proposition would give the city the authority to issue about $6 million in bonds every year for seven years. With that money, the city could do some basic fixes on the vacant homes in its Land Reutilization Authority, or LRA. (The tax increase would go away after the bonds are paid off, which backers say would be twenty years.)

And that, backers hope, would allow those homes to be sold to people who’d fix them up further and put down roots in the city.

Says Spencer, “We haven’t had a plan to deal with vacant houses in this city.

This is a fantastic opportunity.”

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EVICTIONS Continued from pg 9 he ruled that Franks had the right to evict her.

Under the law, an eviction becomes final ten days after a udge rules in favor of the landlord. The proper procedure after that time passes is to contact the sheriff’s office, says ackson. deputy sheriff then posts a final notice of eviction after setting an eviction date with the landlord.

Jackson and Tunstall say that never happened.

Ten days after the udge’s ruling, all of Tunstall’s possessions were thrown into the backyard without additional notice. Franks was changing the apartment locks when Jackson spoke to him on the phone and told him he needed to contact the sheriff’s o ce to handle the eviction legally.

That’s when things got really bad.

Tunstall says she was picking up her possessions when she saw a gun pointed at her. Through the bushes lining the fence of the backyard, Tunstall saw Franks and at least one more person in a car.

At first she thought maybe she was imagining things, but then, she alleges, Franks pointed the gun in the air and fired it.

“I thought, maybe it’s not [a gun],” she recalls. “Then I kept walking and turned again and it was a gun, pointed, boom. ou see the fire coming out of the trees and the trees coming down. They drove off down the street.”

Franks has now been charged with unlawful use of a weapon. (The charge is pending.) His attorney, Terence Niehoff, denies that Franks threw Tunstall’s belongings in the yard and pointed a gun at her. Tunstall, he claims, threw her own possessions outside to get money from Franks and see him prosecuted.

For EHOC’s Jackson, however, landlords throwing their tenants into the streets or otherwise violating the law is something her organization sees all too often.

“In certain communities this happens,” Jackson says. “There are landlords who build their reputation on pulling kicked doors on tenants who don’t pay them their rent. We don’t talk about those people because they tend to only operate in low-income minority communities that are invisible to large segments of the population.”

EHOC has been working with Kennedy for the last year on Board Bill 87, an ordinance cracking down

on illegal evictions.

Kennedy says the bill will particularly benefit low to moderate-income renters, but ultimately property owners as well.

“I’ve seen some evicted in ways that I thought were illegal,” Kennedy says. “Much of the remedy became them finding their own legal counsel in those particular areas. I’ve seen twenty instances through the past five years where you could say they followed the laws and statutes, but the protection was not as clear or strong as it could be.”

Not even members of the sheriff’s o ce seem to understand the full requirements of the law, Jackson says. At Tunstall’s home, she says, a sergeant seemed ready to assist her landlord in forcing her out.

“If it were not for the intervention of the St. Louis city police department, who intervened on Rhonda’s behalf, this situation would have gone much differently,” Jackson says. “Basically she would have been evicted.”

Sheriff Vernon Betts, however, disputes that. He says he dispatched a sergeant to check out the property, but that the o cer did not go there to evict anyone. Then, Betts says, ranks told the o cer that Tunstall had been shooting at him.

Jackson and Tunstall say the officer attempted to evict Tunstall immediately, but gave her another week when St. Louis police intervened.

“With illegal lockouts, there is no database — there is no way to track that information,” Jackson says. “But so many other people, police o cers come and people are maybe told this is a civil matter, and the police don’t get involved. So locks are changed, people are set out, families are literally torn apart instantaneously and there’s not a clear process or protocol in the city of St. Louis and the t. ouis region for how police o cers should handle those situations.

Unless you have a department that is proactive, or you have an o cer that is conscientious, the outcomes vary wildly.”

Franks’ bond has been set at , .

“Mr. Franks has not been convicted of anything, but this is now a very serious situation and he’s being charged with a felony,” Jackson says. “So his life is now on the line here too and it ust didn’t need to happen like this. This didn’t have to happen and I don’t know if education or some information might have changed the circumstance, but we need to do better.” n riverfronttimes.com

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Ed Domain moved to St. Louis from Chicago, lured by the Arch Grants program. | DOYLE MURPHY

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ive years ago, Ed Domain moved to St. Louis with big dreams and good health. When he left a few weeks ago, he was limping and in worse financial shape than when he arrived.

Domain stares into the overstuffed U-Haul in front of his empty Cherokee Street apartment.

“My whole life fits in a fifteen foot truck,” he says. “There’s probably a message in that.”

His 45th birthday was four days ago, and he’s starting over. A new city. A new job. Everyone agrees this is best.

He watches as movers finish loading the last of his furniture.

They have managed to cram in the high-end rowing machine he hopes will help him rebuild his strength, the bicycle he would like to ride one day and an aluminum-frame walker he keeps just in case.

“I don’t want to be negative,” he insists, a refrain he has repeated during the past several days every time he finds himself wandering too far into the old battles.

He can list dozens of people who helped him in St. Louis — business connections who adopted him as family because they knew he arrived here alone, grown men who dressed up in costumes to cheer him up at the hospital and friends who told him the truth when they worried he was losing himself in

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the fight. But it is hard to separate these kindnesses completely from what was taken from him during his time in St. Louis. The greatest acts of generosity were only necessary because of appalling injustices. The good was the counterweight to the bad, and the bad drove him for so long.

“The rage was there,” Domain says. “It was like this hate furnace.”

This move will be good, he says.

He is heading west to Denver. He loves the outdoors, and his new apartment will have a view of the

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UNBROKEN Continued from pg 13 mountains. Best of all, he doesn’t know the politicians or lobbyists, and they don’t know him. Colorado offers an opportunity to begin anew — if only he can make peace with what happened to him here.

“I can either be angry the rest of my life,” he says, “or I can move on.”

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d Domain rolled into town in 2012 with the entrepreneurs’ equivalent of a golden ticket.

Arch Grants, a new nonprofit designed to lure innovators to the city, chose him for its first round of awards. The honor was not only generous — winners were given $50,000 and promised a suite of support services in exchange for their move to St. Louis — it instantly marked him as someone to watch in the local startup scene.

“Ed was a very engaging, outgoing guy who was passionate about his business,” remembers Arch Grants co-founder Jerry Schlichter, a nationally known attorney dubbed “the Lone Ranger of 401(k)s” by the New York Times.

“He really wanted to make a difference in so called yover country by showing what was going on in tech outside the coasts.”

An Army vet who was raised in a blue-collar suburb of Chicago, Domain was big, loud and gregarious. His business was a news media site called Techli, an online

Domain spent six months in hospitals and a nursing home after a 2013 crash. | COURTESY OF ED DOMAIN publication he created to report on startups in the heartland. He had tried a couple of other ventures before — a pair of social networks geared toward teachers and the military but Techli was the first to gain much traction. It combined his passions for tech and startup culture with a long-held desire to build and run his own business, a dream he had nurtured ever since he began reading about Silicon Valley stars in Wired magazine as a college student.

By its nature, Techli also gave him a perfect entry into the closeknit community of innovators who had begun filling shared work spaces within repurposed

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warehouses in the city’s central corridor. With a few notable exceptions, the largely young and ambitious entrepreneurs here lived so completely in the shadow cast by the giants of Silicon Valley and, to a lesser extent, innovation hubs on the East Coast, that they barely existed in the minds of the national tech media.

“When an entrepreneur starts a business, whether they admit it or not, one of the things they desperately desire is recognition that their idea is a good one,” says Aaron Perlut, a co-founder of marketing firm Elasticity. “That is a basic human instinct.”

The struggle to be noticed was not solely a matter of vanity — although there were certainly elements of that. Media coverage was also an opportunity to attract the attention of the venture capitalists whose investments can mean life or death for young companies.

In the quest to be seen, Domain quickly emerged as an ally. He profiled both established and up and-coming stars of the St. Louis scene with genuine enthusiasm for their ideas. And unlike the city’s print and television journalists, they recognized Domain as one of their own. He had an o ce alongside other startups in the old T-REX business incubator downtown, and he kept the same crazy hours, popping in during the middle of the night to work when he couldn’t sleep.

“The joke is that you can work any fifteen hours of the day,” he says.

His excitement expanded

beyond even the website. He and Perlut made plans to launch an innovation-focused event called Startup Voodoo, modeled after Austin’s South by Southwest. He had even begun recording a talk show “The Domain Tech Report.”

In the pilot, he danced onto the set alongside a beautiful, dark-haired woman — a friend who’d agreed to play along — spun her theatrically and leaned in for a stage kiss before settling down to begin an interview with LockerDome CEO and co-founder Gabe Lozano.

“When you talk to that guy, you get excited,” Lozano, who now counts Domain as a friend, tells the Riverfront Times. “It’s hard not to get excited.”

Less than a year after arriving, Domain had become a man to know in St. Louis’ entrepreneurial world, showing up at conferences and mixers all over town. He was headed to a Cinco de Mayo party hosted by GlobalHack executive director Matt Menietti on May 4, 2013, when he called Harris Cab for a ride.

The blue minivan arrived shortly after, and Domain climbed inside with two friends visiting from out of town, texting Menietti from the road.

“We’re in the cab,” Domain wrote. “Be there in a few minutes.”

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he collision of a full-sized van slamming headlong into the ank of the ta icab must have made a terrible sound, but Domain doesn’t remember it.

In the last seconds of his life as

Domain snapped this photo of a Harris' taxi, blocked up on rocks, as he tried to illuminate the company's practices. | COURTESY OF ED DOMAIN a healthy man, he recalls the cab driver looking up from his phone as they cruised right through a red light. The man spoke a single word: “Oh.” Domain followed the driver’s eyes to his right just as the van hit. The sensation was more of a feeling than a sound, like a shock.

An explosion of glass, metal and plastic sprayed across the intersection of Russell Boulevard and Gravois Avenue. Domain and his friends must have been ung from their seats, but any glimpse of how that happened is lost to time. One moment they were riding toward a party, and the next they were

in a heap, bleeding and confused.

His friend Danyelle Michelini was crumpled on her knees. Domain landed on her back. His left foot was wrenched behind him and caught under one of the seats.

“I said, ‘I think my leg is broken,’” he recalls. “That was my hip shattering.”

Michelini’s ribs snapped and punctured her lung. Domain, who was seated next to the sliding door, took a direct hit. His pelvis was nearly destroyed and his left hip so thoroughly mangled that his femur had broken loose at the top end and was oating around in his thigh. Doctors would later chronicle serious injuries to his left knee, neck, chest, back and head. His nose was broken. His right shoulder was torn to pieces, and the brachial artery in his right arm was severed, bloating his arm with blood and injuring it so terribly surgeons would later consider amputation.

The third friend suffered only minor injuries, but Domain and Michelini were loaded into an ambulance and rushed to the hospital. He remembers asking the EMTs to check on Michelini only to hear her call out from his side, “I’m here. I’m fine.”

It’s hard for him to sort out everything that happened that day.

His mind was fogging over in the shock and trauma, but he clearly remembers an EMT asking if there was a pastor or someone they should call.

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UNBROKEN Continued from pg 15 fuzz in my thinking,” Domain says today.

“Am I going to die?” he asked.

“Not if we can help it,” the EMT replied.

“Good,” he told them, “because I don’t plan on dying today.”

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n his nightmares, Domain used to see that van coming.

The crash was like a bomb dropped into the middle of his life. Between the hospital and a nursing home, he spent six months recovering before he was strong enough to move back into an apartment. The former English major would read a paragraph without understanding its meaning. The dancing talk show host had to learn to use a wheelchair and then a walker.

Still, it is not the crash itself that tortures him now. He can recite his memories of those bloody moments without anguish, and the nightmares are in the past. It is the injustice that lingers.

“I don’t think I would have gotten so mad if I had just been treated decently,” he says.

Unbeknownst to Domain, the cab that picked him up for the Cinco de Mayo party was uninsured. It seemed almost impossible that Harris Cab was still in business at all.

“It was remarkable that the cab company didn’t have insurance,” says Schlichter. The Arch Grants co-founder and prominent attorney took on Domain’s case. “They made it very clear they had no insurance, and if we sued them, they would go bankrupt.” When the lawyer insisted on seeing their financials, he learned that arris had been slapped with more than twenty civil judgments over the years and was the subject of federal tax liens in excess of $140,000.

Domain was stunned. He wrote a letter to the Metropolitan Taxicab Commission, which regulates taxi service in the St. Louis region, hoping the MTC would take Harris off the road, step up enforcement and include new protections to keep others from getting hurt. He figured he was the perfect person to push for more accountability, given the personal hell he had suffered and the fact that he had some standing as an Army veteran and Arch Grants recipient.

No one even bothered to respond, although commissioners would later say they weren’t given

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"They made it very clear they had no insurance, and if we sued them, they would go bankrupt." the letter by staff. Harris never faced any discipline from the regulators. (The taxi commission says that's for two reasons: One, they claim they didn't know about the incident until years later. Two, they believe any lapse in coverage was not the fault of the cab company. They blame its broker.)

The MTC was created in 2002 to bring order to the unruly world of cars for hire in the city and county, but it has always retained the air of a fox watching the hen house. By law, four of the nine commissioners must come from the industry, ensuring cab company owners maintain a

powerful voice in how they are regulated. Unsurprisingly, when the commission did crack down, it focused on the drivers, rather than the companies. A Riverfront Times investigation published last year found the commission fined drivers, whose fees fund the MTC, a total of $21,918 between January 2014 and September 2015. Just one cab company was fined during the same period, despite numerous complaints from consumers about their experiences. Naturally, it was Harris Cab, cited in 2015 for allowing an unlicensed person to drive.

The fine .

The only companies the MTC seemed to have any real interest in fighting were the newcomers, app-based services Uber and Lyft, which cab owners saw as potentially lethal competitors to their business model. Led by its chairman, the in uential lobbyist and longtime St. Louis political insider Lou Hamilton, the commission argued it was simply looking to keep people safe. It painted the ride-sharing services as lawless renegades in contrast to regulated cab drivers.

Even after cities across the nation let the ride-sharing companies in, St. Louis resisted. The MTC sued Lyft and won an injunction in 2014 to bar the service, and then immediately began citing Lyft drivers who continued to operate.

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in court, insisting that its drivers submit to the commission’s background checks, including fingerprinting. Uber claimed that the mandate was needlessly burdensome and that its online background checks were just as effective.

The commission’s fight against Uber struck Domain as emblematic of the lethargic, in uence driven political system that he believed was choking the city’s progress. It just seemed dumb for St. Louis not to welcome a new technology that was already ubiquitous in cities across the country, especially at a time when the city was trying to position itself as a hub for innovation.

And then there was the commission’s argument that MTC oversight was the safety net that would protect riders. All Domain had to do was look at his scarred leg or remember he could no longer lift his right arm above his shoulder to see the gaps in that logic. Wasn’t this the same MTC that was supposed to ensure that Harris’ taxis had insurance before the company sent one of them to pick up Domain and his friends in 2013?

“They’re so bad at being bad, they don’t even try to hide it,” he says.

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In July 2015, Domain decided he had had enough. A friend alerted him to a St. Louis Public Radio story on the ber fight. omain tuned in just in time to hear a representative from Harris Cab tell the host the ride-sharing services should heed what was “simply an old kindergarten rule: Follow the rules.”

Domain could not believe it.

He called the station in hopes of getting on air to confront the rep, but the program was just about over. So then he turned to Twitter. During the next five hours, he tweeted times. orty five of them were directed at Hamilton.

“Does the MTC only preach safety when they don’t have to answer to their own MASSIVE failings?” he wrote in one.

He included pictures of himself

lying in his hospital bed after the crash and highlighted bits of the vehicle-for-hire code that prohibit driving a cab without insurance.

“So either Harris lied to the MTC or the MTC is run by incompetent, protectionist tyrants,” he added.

Domain now says that it was a conscious decision to go after Hamilton and the MTC on a public forum. They had ignored him for two years, and here was an opening to make them finally feel the pressure.

But while the theatrics of an hourslong Twitter shaming may have been calculated, the anger was real.

“Silence won’t work for you @ Hamiltonstl,” Domain wrote in a sign-off message, “if [you] think twitter was something today, wait till you see the crowd I can bring to you in person.”

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He posted an open letter on Techli to then-Mayor Francis Slay and County Executive Steve Stenger that laid out the strengths and possibilities of entrepreneurs at work in St. Louis, describing the extreme kindness with which they

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had treated him since his crash, and then contrasted that with the “cancer” of the MTC. He also gave interviews to reporters and vigorously debated MTC lawyer Neil Bruntrager during a KSDK show hosted by Casey Nolen. e continued to fire away on Twitter, where he soon began to spar with attorney Jane Dueker, who is the registered lobbyist for a cab company and is often seen as an ally of Hamilton. He targeted MTC commissioners Tom Reeves, who would go on to succeed Hamilton, Pasta House owner Kim Tucci and Laclede Cab owner Dave McNutt as part of the problem.

The battle hit a crescendo in late July. Domain had rallied dozens of people from the entrepreneurial community and beyond to fill the MTC meeting in support of UberX. The meeting had been moved to St. Louis Community College at Forest Park to accommodate a large crowd, which arrived expecting a vote that could open the door for the service.

But there would be no vote.

Hamilton announced that Slay and Stenger, who share appointing power for the nine-member commission, had asked members

to wait until they could consider a potential agreement with Uber.

Domain, dressed in a dark sports coat and blue tie, was among the dozens who planned to speak during the public comment session, but Hamilton cut off the comments five to ten minutes early, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

Domain stormed the microphone and shouted “Coward! Coward!”

Hamilton had him escorted from the room.

Outside in the hall, Domain came face to face with McNutt, the owner of Laclede Cab and a commissioner.

Domain says McNutt chest bumped him and tried to goad him into a fight, telling him, “ hat are you going to do? You going to hit me, big man?”

The encounter resulted in a furious Domain shouting in McNutt’s face as a crowd began to notice. He figures that was the cab owner’s goal, to egg him on and make him look like a lunatic. He says he later spotted McNutt walking toward the parking lot, chuckling. (McNutt didn’t respond to a request for comment.)

“He got me,” Domain says. “Totally made me look like an idiot.”

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omain knew he had become too easy to bait.

“I can be very loud; I can be very persuasive,” he says. “But when I’m being loud and negative, it doesn’t help anybody.”

It was a difficult balance. He had committed to persistence, to showing St. Louis’ old guard that they could not just ignore him and expect him to go away. He had also become a spokesman for those who sought to shake up the city’s insular power elite. Some people supported him in private, even as they feared the political and financial retribution if they confronted the wrong people.

“He didn’t care about the political stuff of St. Louis,” says Maxine Clark, philanthropist and founder of Build-A-Bear. “He wasn’t born here. He took a lot of the heat for people who had to play the softer ball.”

At the same time, friends could see that years of fighting were taking a toll. Always a happy networker, the emcee for countless conferences and events, he had grown so angry he began to turn down social engagements. He was in nearly constant physical

pain. Domain has lost track of how many surgeries he’s had since the crash, estimating the number is now in double figures.

Techli had also suffered. Domain lost a crucial investor during a stretch of repeated hospitalizations. He had dreamed of turning the site into a major news platform with video and thought-provoking stories in the model of Vice, but every time he got going again he was interrupted by another surgery.

And, really, he was out of money.

In , after two years of fighting, Schlichter was able to negotiate a settlement of $200,000. Domain says he was left with about $90,000 after medical bills and fees. The money kept him a oat for about eighteen months, and then it was gone, too.

He took a friend’s advice last year and began to see a counselor, working through crash-related PTSD. He says he learned that in the five stages of grief, most get stuck in the second stage — anger.

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to Castlewood State Park during his last weeks in Missouri.

Maybe the most surprising thing, he says, is to find people still want to work with him when he was certain his very public, very loud crusade had made him toxic.

“I thought I was done, but then people started calling and saying, ‘Hey, would you be interested in this?'” he says. “The second I started letting it go and being positive, everything started happening.”

To this day, he has deep allies in St. Louis, who describe him as a genuine and kind man who refused to bow to city politics.

“Ed did it his way, and I really admire how he didn’t give up,” says Ginger Imster, who was the executive director of Arch Grants before joining the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership, “I might not do it the same way, but I appreciate the tenacity with which he approached the situation.”

Says Clark, "People thought they could bury him. They couldn't, but they thought they could."

Liz Lohman, the founder of Cubicle.com, and her entrepreneur husband, Dan, basically adopted Domain as part of their family after he was injured. It was heartbreaking to see him struggling to keep the dream of his company alive while also fighting so hard for what she and others in the startup community generally saw as a righteous cause.

“When he stood up and pointed at the taxicab commission — that was him trying to make things better,” she says. “He was wronged, almost killed, and he was just trying to make things better.”

Friends sometimes questioned his tactics, but they point out he was ultimately effective. Uber and Lyft now operate in the city and county. Two years after Domain first went public with his war on the MTC, the services have even gained access to St. Louis Lambert International Airport, one of the last strongholds of the cab industry.

He has also outlasted several of his enemies. Harris Cab has quietly gone out of business, and construction crews at its former Washington Boulevard headquarters last week were busy renovating the space for something new.

Hamilton, who famously had Domain tossed from the July 2015

"People thought they could bury him. They couldn't, but they thought they could." commission meeting, resigned from the MTC five months later.

He says it had nothing to do with Domain: “I just have no opinion of the guy, because I don’t know him.” But he admits he is “happy as a clam” that he’s no longer fighting the battles on the commission.

“I wish him well,” he says. “He’s not had anything good to say about me.”

The MTC did increase liability insurance for cabs to $400,000 from the $200,000 minimum at the time of Domain’s crash. But that turned out to be a little too progressive.

In May, after complaints from the cab companies, the commission lowered it to $125,000.

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omain sold Techli in July. It was difficult, but he is happy to see it live on, even if it is without him. He says the sale gave him enough money that he could live for a couple of years, which is a good feeling after grappling with medical debts that ultimately forced him to file for bankruptcy.

Newly unburdened, he visited Denver recently and liked what he saw. There are cranes everywhere, and entrepreneurs are pushing some exciting ideas.

He is not allowed to say much about his new job until his employer is ready to announce its new project, but he says he got it through a St. Louis connection.

“I’m going to keep rooting for the good parts” of St. Louis, he says, adding that maybe he’ll be back one day. “It’s definitely bittersweet. I had big plans for St. Louis, but c’est la vie. I guess I’ll have big plans for Denver.” n

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Martha is great in the kitchen, but not in the real world. | COURTESY WEBSTER FILM SERIES ing his responsibilities, ancy ell wrote an adaptation of the play set in, and focused on, St. Louis. Blow, Winds is the story of a kingdom that has allowed poverty to grow and problems to build up — but perhaps it’s not too late to undo the damage. Blow, Winds is this year’s Shakespeare in the Streets production. It will be performed at 8 p.m.

Friday through Sunday (September to at the t. ouis ublic ibrary’s Central branch (1301 Olive Street; www.sfstl.com). Admission is free.

Unsuspecting Susan usan is a something divorcee who lives in England’s Hampshire countryside. She leads a very proper and normal life, participating in the local theater and gossiping with and about her neighbors. verything in her life is fine, e cept that her son lives in London (she doesn’t like to go to the city if she can help it) and is still unmarried. ut suddenly, everything in her life isn’t fine. The police raid her house, looking for clues that could explain how her son became the lead suspect in a suicide bombing that took place in London. Stewart

ermutt’s one woman show Unsuspecting Susan charts a woman trying to figure out what went wrong, and when. The Inevitable Theatre Company presents Unsuspecting Susan at 8 p.m. Thursday through aturday eptember to 30) at the Chapel (6238 Alexander Drive; www.inevitabletheatre.org).

Tickets are to .

SATURDAY 09/16 Great Forest Park Balloon Race Today marks the th anniversary of the Great Forest Park Balloon Race, which has grown a great deal since its first year, when perhaps a dozen people showed up to watch six balloons take off. There are many more balloons this year, and incredible numbers of spectators — the park will be packed. Festivities start at noon with performances by the Muny Kids and Ignite Theatre Company. Activities for the kids include in atables, games and mural painting, which should keep them occupied until balloons launch from the base of rt ill at p.m.

As always, admission is free.

Americans have wholeheartedly embraced Cinco de Mayo but have been less responsive toward Fiestas Patrias, or Mexican Independence Day. It doesn’t make you any less American to celebrate another nation’s independence; any time a country throws off the yoke of tyranny, Americans should celebrate. This year’s festivities take place from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. today on Cherokee Street between Nebraska and Iowa avenues (www. festapatriasstl.com . It’s the first year the organization Latinos en Axíon STL has presented and planned the event, and the group hopes to make a good impression.

Food and drink will be available from neighborhood restaurants and businesses, and live entertainment includes music by Dukes, rupo aso orte o and alentia Musical. Admission is free.

Hop in the City The mornings are crispy and the afternoons are pleasant, so it must be time for chla y’s Hop in the City. The annual celebration of the many beer styles brewed by the city’s oldest craft brewery takes place today from noon to 4 p.m. at the Schlafly Tap Room (2100 ocust treet www.schla y.com .

A couple of changes have been introduced to the event this year: More of each style of beer has been brewed, with a limited number of tickets available. Those tickets cost to and include unlimited beer samples. Try up to 40 styles, plus six specialty tappings. In addition, the seating area has been doubled.

The Golden Hour Art Saint Louis challenged artists to capture the golden hour — that magic time at dawn and dusk when sunlight gives the world a luminous beauty — in the medium of their choice for the gallery’s new show. The works selected for the juried exhibit run the gamut.

Lorraine Cange photographed a ewel o lily pond in black and white, focusing on the pattern of riverfronttimes.com

shadows formed on the lily pads. ussell anecek captured the glory of a Flad Avenue alley bisected by a bright box of brilliant sunlight. ob ickert’s abstract photograph of the alouse hills in ashington State is a model of contrasts, with stark shadows giving way to glowing hilltops. The Golden Hour opens with a free reception from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Art Saint Louis ine treet www.artsaintlouis.org). The show continues through October 27, and the gallery is open a.m. to p.m. Monday through Friday and 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.

TUESDAY 09/19 Margaret Atwood The T adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale has raised writer Margaret Atwood’s profile in the public consciousness, but for those in the know, Atwood was already a singular artist. She has written novels, poetry, criticism, short fiction, children’s books and libretti.

Throughout her writing she advocates for women’s rights, animal rights, a better relationship with nature and a more humanistic approach to the world and each other.

She’s prickly about how her work is classified by others, and about how her homeland — Canada — is viewed by Americans. She’s a true original; brilliant, thoughtful and a gifted stylist. Tonight at 7 p.m. Margaret Atwood receives the 2017 St. Louis Literary Award at the Sheldon ashington oulevard .

Admission is free, but registration is re uired. isit www.thesheldon. org for details.

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helly Shealy is at that point in her Christmas preparations where she’s drinking straight vodka at 10 a.m., and it’s only partially because of her mother’s creeping Alzheimer’s disease.

Shelly’s younger sister Averie, a former YouTube star, is living in her basement and the two sisters aren’t speaking. She can’t get her younger brother Donnie to answer her calls no matter how often she places them. And her best friend Jackie has just shown up in her kitchen, pregnant by a married man and on the run from the life she left in New York. This is what happens at Christmas when you’re the responsible one.

Colman Domingo’s dramedy Dot, which made its Off Broadway debut last year, is billed as a play about Alzheimer’s, and it is. But rather than limit himself to writing a disease-of-the-moment story that’s heavy on facts and short on story, Domingo has crafted a warm, wry and brutally honest story about how the disease affects everyone in contact with the patient. Domingo pulls no punches — Alzheimer’s wreaks as much havoc on the family as it does on the victim — but he also shows how family can pull together to strengthen the ties that bind them, even as one member is slipping inexorably into the lonely distance.

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It’s Christmas time, and the Shealy family has reluctantly come together. | COURTESY OF THE BLACK REP The Shealy clan’s bonds are tenuous when the story opens. Shelly (Jacqueline Thompson) has been essentially on her own in taking care of Dotty (Thomasina Clarke) for the past year, and the situation has taken on toll on both of them. Even Dotty’s smallest lapses in memory — getting up to get salt and returning instead with Oreos — enrage Shelly to the point that she screams out loud. Thompson and Clarke play beautifully off each other, as Dotty circles back to the beginning of conversations to repeat all the uestions of five minutes ago while Shelly stews, clearly tired of hearing the same stories and physically tired as well.

The source of most of Shelly’s anger is actually her siblings.

What she wants to do this Christmas is lay out a plan to manage Dotty’s future, which will involve putting her in a managed-care facility of some sort. Shelly has it all planned out; she just needs money from Donnie and Averie. But that’s something neither has.

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Thomas) has anger problems, relationship problems and a juice cleanse problem. He and his younger husband Adam (Paul Edwards) are at odds over everything, and Donnie refuses to admit how far his mother has regressed.

Donnie refuses to admit a lot of things. Thomas is always good in everything he does, and here he sketches the arc of a son who strove for perfection and always finds himself disappointed with his own best efforts.

As for Averie (Heather Beale), nobody can tell her anything, mostly because she never shuts up. She’s loud and dramatic, a onewoman reality show in search of an audience. Beale steals the show several times with Averie’s insane rants and demands for attention.

Throughout the play Domingo finds his laughs in the relationships, never making jokes about Alzheimer’s. Under director Ron Himes’ expert guidance, the Shealy kids re-fight old battles, pick at each other’s weaknesses and team up to mock the extra child, but they never joke about

the disease that none of them except Shelly will name. Many of the jokes arrive as a means of derailing that conversation before it starts.

It falls to Dotty to wake up her offspring and make them communicate. Clarke gives a commanding performance, switching effortlessly from reliving happy memories of her past as an activist and community leader to confusion about who her children are. There are no visible signals when Dotty drifts away from the moment, no warnings. Clarke captures the chilling loss of lucidity that comes as the disease eats away memories, personalities and self.

Making them come clean about their fears is Dotty’s last gift to her beloved children. What Shelly, Donnie and Averie believe will be their final Christmas all together as a family actually happened last year. Domingo ends not with one last joke, but with Dotty standing alone, her eyes vacant and her stiff arm rising and falling, waving goodbye to her children for the last time. n

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For anyone who has frequented the Bevo Mill at any point in its storied history, its cheddar and chive biscuits made an impression as big, if not bigger, than the windmill itself. Crispy like a scone, the drop-style biscuits are a composite of cheddar and chive ecked crumbles that, from the outside, seem to defy the laws of physics in their adhesion. The reason they stick together, though, is apparent when you break one open, revealing a soft interior that’s laden with so much butter it’s almost creamy.

These golden beauties don’t just make you say “mmm.” They inspire an almost religious devotion that will send you to your knees to praise whatever lord you pray to for making them available.

For years, these biscuits were about the only thing the Bevo Mill had going for it. Once a private rest stop and watering hole for

Among the German classics at Das Bevo: the brathendl, or half a spit-roasted chicken with seasoned veggies. | MABEL SUEN the Busch family, the century-old landmark eventually turned into a German restaurant best known for its brunch service. As business waned, the restaurant reduced its hours to Friday evening and a Sunday brunch that hung on in popularity thanks to the famous biscuit recipe. Eventually, a catering company took over the building and discontinued service altogether, turning the kitchen into a commissary for its off-site events business.

It seemed as if the iconic restaurant, and those famous biscuits, might be gone forever.

During this transition period in the late aughts, the building itself faced an uncertain future after the Belgian-based InBev bought the Bevo Mill’s owner, Anheuser-Busch. With the acquisition, InBev inherited the landmark and donated it to the city of St. Louis in 2008, though that stewardship did not translate into anything meaningful. The catering company that occupied the kitchen limped along under the city’s ownership until

it finally pulled out in . The lights went out, the doors locked and the mill ground to a halt.

It took seven years, but finally, last March, the city put out a request for proposals that solicited pitches from developers willing to spend big bucks restoring the space. The winning bid came from Pat and Carol Schuchard, a former Washington University painting professor and artist, respectively, whose vision for a combination restaurant, biergarten and event space was deemed to best utilize the space while honoring its legacy. The Schuchards, whose other projects include the event spaces Majorette and the Boo Cat Club, invested several million dollars to combat general deterioration and layers of prior, dated renovations.

It took them over a year, but they were finally able to welcome the first guests into the new and improved Das Bevo this past May. The Schuchards’ renovation is nothing short of stunning, a fact that is evident even before you riverfronttimes.com

step foot inside. Topiaries spelling out the name “Das Bevo” greet you as you enter the mill’s outdoor space from the patio, and whimsical metal sculptures decorate the area. On its eastern side, a mix of umbrella-covered patio and picnic tables provide ample outdoor seating; to the rear of the building, a massive covered biergarten, packed with picnic tables, an outdoor bar and an area for bands, doubles the restaurant’s seating. bright red vintage firetruck is not simply decorative: It serves as a de facto playground for the numerous kids running around the family-friendly spot.

As lovely as the outside is, the interior is positively breathtaking.

The Schuchards did not so much renovate the space as restore it to its former glory. Tiled murals of cherubs decorate the circular room underneath the windmill, while the main room looks like a lofty bierhall straight out of Bavaria (or, as my daughter noted, bears

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DAS BEVO Continued from pg 31 a striking resemblance to the tavern in Beauty and the Beast). Game trophies from the Busch family collection decorate the room, vintage chandeliers hang from soaring ceilings, and a large fireplace made of rocks from Grant’s Farm gives the room a rustic ambience. The bar, which the Schuchards dug out of an old cooler in the basement and restored, drives home the historic feel.

For all that they bring to Das Bevo, the Schuchards are developers, not restaurateurs. They wisely partnered with Mike Johnson’s ugarfire vents to conceptuali e Das Bevo’s food program. A little over a month ago, that partnership ended; chef Christian Bailey now heads the kitchen, executing a bill of fare that honors the space’s German legacy without being overly literal. ure, you’ll find wurst and kraut at Das Bevo, but it’s served as an appetizer in the form of deep-fried “Kraut Balls.” The fritters are studded with fennel-kissed sausages, sauerkraut and cream cheese that oozes out when pierced. The dish is served with a side of rich beer cheese sauce, though there’s enough goo inside the balls that you won’t need it.

Save that sauce for the housemade pretzels, perhaps the Platonic ideal of the form. The long, malty sticks glisten with salt and characteristic pretzel sheen. Served steaming hot, they are wonderful alone, but that accompanying beer cheese sauce is so decadent and tangy you’re tempted to shoot it straight from the ramekin. The kraut balls’ backup version might come in handy if you do.

An ultra-traditional “German Board” pairs G&W bratwurst with

Das Bevo’s renovations largely focused on restoring the old windmill its former glory. | MABEL SUEN sauerkraut, a pretzel and spicy beer mustard. The highlight of the dish is Das Bevo’s German-style potato salad, which takes the expected vinegar-coated potatoes and crosses them with the porky decadence you find at ugarfire.

Slivers of skin-on red potatoes drip in warm bacon grease and brown sugar-infused vinaigrette, which pools at the bottom of the bowl like the drippings off a hunk of Carolina pulled pork. It’s magical.

Das Bevo’s grilled chicken sandwich is another nod to the smoker.

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and tangy barbecue sauce, is topped with red onion and molten Gouda cheese, then served on a soft pretzel roll. It’s straightforward, as is the bratwurst, which subs out sauerkraut for an onion and beer cheese topping in a pleasant twist.

Without cheese, the “Das Bevo Burger” would be a respectable, well-seasoned burger. Covered in pub cheese, it’s outstanding. Rather than a slice of cheese to simply cap off the beef, the liquid cheese sauce gets into every nook and cranny so that each bite is equal parts meat and molten, beer-infused cheddar.

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DAS BEVO Continued from pg 32 treats as a Dutch baby, cooked in cast iron, smothered in warm cinnamon apples and served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream like a deconstructed pie.

If the Dutch baby makes you feel like you’re getting away with something by eating ice cream for breakfast, “Dasbigassburrito” will make you feel like you’ve committed a felony. The massive wrap, filled with bacon, sausage, eggs and fried potatoes, is deep-fried (because why not?), then covered in that ubiquitous beer cheese for a dish that is camera-ready for Man v. Food.

Finally, “Chicken Schnitzel and a es” sounded like a gimmick, but was one of the tastiest riffs on chicken and waffles I’ve had the pleasure of eating. A chicken breast, pounded thin, is coated in seasoned breading, served atop a vanilla scented wa e and dri led with just a touch of maple syrup.

The bratwurst subs out sauerkraut for a carmelized onion and beer cheese topping in a pleasant twist.

It’s hard to imagine wanting anything other than the schnitzel for brunch, but then those chive and cheddar biscuits arrive, and all other thoughts go out the window.

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Jared Williamson met the love of his life at a party thrown by Schlafly and then later got hired there. Now he’s the head brewer. | SPENCER PERNIKOFF

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itting at the top of one of Munich’s tallest buildings with a beer in hand, Jared Williamson of Schlafly (2100 Locust Street, 314-241-2337) can’t help but look back with amazement at how he got here.

“I started working with beer about fifteen years ago, and I was introduced to paten early in my beer education,” Williamson recalls. “And here I am at the source.

It’s a culmination, like I’m circling back to where it all began.”

Williamson’s job as head brewer at chla y has led him to Munich, where he is embarking on a tour of ermany’s hop fields. ut his beginnings were much more humble.

A native of Indiana — the part of the state just outside of Louisville, entucky illiamson was introduced to beer while working at ew lbanian rewing Company, the first place in the area to add lesser-known brews to its taps. In the late 1990s, seeing beers like Spaten, Guinness and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale was not all that common in the Midwest. The novelty, as well as the uality of these beers, piqued his interest.

Though his job was to work on the brewpub’s guest tap and bottle program, Williamson could not keep himself from wandering into the brewery. e found himself

drawn in to the beer-making side of the operation.

“I’m a musician, so I was drawn to the creative aspect, but I’m also a science nerd. The combination of the two is what really appealed to me,” Williamson explains. “Eventually, the original brewer left and they handed me and another guy the keys. The world was our oyster, and we got to make the best beer we could — and make some mistakes too.”

Though mistakes were part of the learning curve, Williamson considers himself to be fortunate to have been part of the generation of self-taught brewers who came up over the last decade. Instead of a formal, classroom-based curriculum in fermentation science, his education was completely self taught and informed by on the ob e perimentation. “If they would’ve offered intro to brewing riverfronttimes.com

in ninth grade, I would’ve taken it,” he laughs.

Williamson worked for New lbanian for several years as the operation expanded to a second location. uring that time, chla y was beginning to sell its beers in the Louisville area, and Williamson got to know people from the t. ouis brewery. In , he was invited to St. Louis to be a part of chla y’s “ rohibition repeal” party, which proved to be a fateful trip: There, he met the love of his life, and though he went back to Indiana and New Albanian, he knew he would eventually need to be in the ateway City. bout si years ago, illiamson made the move to chla y, where even now he adds to his brewing knowledge every day. “ aving a lab and the kind of uality control that we do really makes a difference,” he Continued on pg 38

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That idea marks an important turning point in the craft beer industry, he says. “It used to be us small breweries fighting the man,” he says. “ ut now that the industry has grown up enough, instead of looking at the big guys we are looking across our shoulders at one another.” e thinks this is ultimately good for the consumer The drive for uality is making a better end product. ne of those uality products will be on display at chlafly’s annual op in the City on eptember the erry erry Tart.

Williamson describes what has been crowned this year’s festival beer as a fruited wheat beer based on a rench raspberry tart with lemon curd and a graham cracker crust. “We’ve become known for taking dessert dishes and turning them into liquid form,” Williamson says. “It’s light, tart and refreshing. This will be the first time it is on the Tap oom system, and I’m excited to see what everyone thinks about it.”

In addition to the festival beer, he’s also looking forward to showcasing an old chla y pilsner recipe that has not been brewed for some time. e also has a special surprise in store for festival attendees. “We have a surprise special keg of the Eleventh Labor, which was a rare release several years ago,” he says. “ e saved it for a rainy day and are going to roll it out for the event — we just hope it doesn’t actually rain for the festival.” s he prepares for the op in the City, illiamson can’t help but think of something one of his brewer friends used to say, which always gives him a laugh. “ e would tell me, ou know, being a brewer is a lot like being a rock star, e cept your groupies are and year old men and you’re not actually a rock star,’” laughs Williamson. “And it’s true.

It’s a lot of work and you’re always cleaning and saniti ing and stuff, but you get to create e citing things for people that bring pleasure into their lives. Originally, I thought I would do that

through music, but now I get to create liquid art.”

Williamson took a break from his Munich hop tour to share his thoughts on the St. Louis food and beverage scene, ocky Mountain oysters and why this city really needs a craft beer and sushi restaurant.

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I play in a band called tank Thunder, and our music style is Viking Space Jazz.

What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you?

Coffee and listening to music.

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

The ability to end all wars.

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

That it keeps getting better.

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

A sushi restaurant that focuses on craft beer pairings. I’ve been to some in other cities and it is an overlooked niche here.

Who is your St. Louis food or drink crush?

Mission Taco Joint.

Who’s the one person to watch right now in the St. Louis food and beverage scene? ur brewer, mily yrne, has grown by leaps and bounds in her time with the company, has become a leader in the beer community and has a big future ahead of her.

Which ingredient is most representative of your personality? ops. They have a sedative uality, and I try to be laidback, but they can also be assertive and spicy, and so am I. If someone asked you to describe the current state of St. Louis’ food and beverage climate, what would you say? igh uality and diverse with so many great options.

Name an ingredient never allowed in your brewery. ocky Mountain oysters.

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A paloma.

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ichelle Jones never meant to get into the food business. She just had a lot of time on her hands — and she loved to bake. few years ago, ones was running an in home day care, which for a time involved caring for just one si month old baby. The baby slept a lot — and so she found herself dabbling in cupcakes, brownies and other treats. “I had always been a full-time working mom,” she says. “ uddenly I had an opportunity to do hobbies.”

In time, that hobby drew a following, one even bigger than her babysitting skills. fter selling custom cakes and other creations out of her north county home for years, ones began to reali e she needed a space of her own. arlier this year, her dream came true when she finally opened aby ake live treet, in a storefront just across the street from the aint ouis niversity cam-

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pus in Midtown. reviously a gym “someone left behind a treadmill,” ones laughs , it’s now a sna y dessert shop that beckons passersby with windows looking out on Olive. aby ake ’ offerings which include avored popcorn, whole “kakes” and “kake slices,” and creative cakepop bouquets — have developed quite a following on Instagram. Jones also makes elaborate candy apples and “ ret el Nibs” — which the shop offered as a snack at the grand opening only to see them become a runaway bestseller. asically, they’re caramel-dipped chocolate-covered pret els, only instead of the long pretzel rod at the core of lesser treats, these are chopped up for a perfectly proportioned snack. aby ake sells seven for .

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And now that doesn’t just include sweet offerings. On Saturdays, they’re now offering barbecue, which ary smokes behind the shop. Offerings and prices vary depending on what’s at the market. “Last week,” Jones says, “we had salmon ” The shop offers stools and a settee for those who want to linger, but everything is available to go — a cupcake, a s’mores brownie or even, come aturday, barbecue fish. In the future, ones even plans to use her kitchen to offer classes.

“I kind of fell into it,” she says of baking and cake-decorating. “If I introduce it to young ladies, it’s something they can be passionate about too.” aby ake is open Tuesday through riday, a.m. to p.m. and aturday from a.m. to p.m. aturday barbecue is available beginning at noon.

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alf & Half (220 West Lockwood Avenue, Webster Groves; 314-9421617) opened its Webster Groves location to an eager crowd on Tuesday, September 6, with customers lining up for that Blueprint coffee at 6:55 a.m.

It’s the second spot for the brunch hotspot. Chef Mike Randolph, who also owns Público and the recently shuttered Randolfi’s Italian Kitchen in University City, first opened Half & Half’s big sister in Clayton in 2011. The Clayton location has been a huge success, and even played a role in the birthing of one of the metro area’s premier coffee joints: former general manager Mike Marquard went on to start Blueprint Coffee, the acclaimed Loop java spot.

Says chef/owner Mike Randolph, “Clayton has been so good to us, being part of a community, and as we looked for a second location, we wanted to find another community that we could ingrain ourselves into and give people that same kind of neighborhood feel — where you know the staff and can get a good cup of coffee and some great food to go along with it.” When First Watch vacated the Lockwood Avenue space, it seemed like the perfect fit.

The Half & Half team knew they wanted to put their own stamp on the location before opening for business. Randolph says, “The whole dining room/bar area has been overhauled, and we worked with Space Architecture who did a great job of evolving the brand but giving it that same familiar feel.”

There’s now a mix of bar space, high and low tables, and a coffee-to-go window at the entrance for people who want a great cup of coffee but don’t want to stop in for a sit-down meal.

The same menu of inventive brunch dishes, which was overhauled last year, is served at both locations. Egg dishes (made with cage-free eggs) range from $8 to $16, and sweeter breakfast options like French toast and pancakes range from $7 to $11. The lunch menu is available after 11 a.m., with salads and sandwiches from $10 to $16 each. Half & Half also serves Blueprint and other specialty coffee, plus cocktails, beer and wine.

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cently celebrated his 100th release, both with Guided By Voices and other innumerable project names.

Prince supposedly left behind a bank vault full of unreleased recordings.

Greta Kline, Frankie Cosmos’ lead singer and primary creative force, went through a similar period. Her Bandcamp page lists about 45 releases made between 2009 and 2014. They include hundreds of songs, many downloadable for free. Kline also went through numerous names and incarnations — Ingrid Superstar, the Ingrates and Zebu Fur among them — before settling on Frankie Cosmos around 2012. “I was originally making the demos and not putting them anywhere, starting when I was like fifteen,” line says via phone from her home in New York City. “I was just recording a lot and making really short songs.

I had amassed so many of them on my computer and just wanted to make sure they were archived somewhere. That’s when I found Bandcamp. I started splitting them

up into ‘albums,’ each based on a time period or theme.”

Kline wasn’t necessarily putting them out there with any expectation of being heard. They were more a way to connect with people she knew who were doing the same thing. “I only had about five friends who were listening to them,” she says. “It was a way of interacting with those people.

There are a couple of recordings there of my friend Emma and my friend Michelle, just like singing or saying stuff. And I would just record them because I wanted to feel like other people were involved in some way.”

So when Kline had the opportunity to record a Frankie Cosmos studio album, she had a deep well from which to draw.

In 2014, Double Double Whammy Records released Zentropy, the first rankie Cosmos effort to exist as a physical product.

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Where the original tracks were largely skeletal guitar/voice and keyboard/voice arrangements, the Zentropy versions were the work of a tight, guitar-centric band.

“I definitely had no idea what I was doing in terms of recording at first,” line says. “It’s nice to be able to give those songs a new life.”

2015’s Fit Me In EP followed, a one-off foray into electronic production. By the time the most recent album, Next Thing, came out in 2016, Kline had largely abandoned the DIY approach and become a full edged touring musician. A natural step forward from Zentropy, Next Thing is full of brittle, spare songs that reward repeated listenings. The new songs “ loated In,” “ utside ith the Cuties,” “ readed C Town” not about the ast Coast supermarket chain, sadly) are concise and catchy, yet take unpredictable twists and turns.

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The character that emerges seems to enjoy social interaction, but all too often feels removed from the group. Kline’s conversational lyrics describe awkward events and second-guess good things, but also revel in simple pleasures like (as on Fit Me In’s “ and” browsing the racks outside the Strand Bookstore on a date.

Kline does admit to stage fright, which can make playing such personal songs a challenge. “I’ve actually grown to really enjoy touring and performing in a way that I’m surprised at. Especially because I started out with much worse stage fright,” she says. “ or me, the really important part of the process is getting the songs written. The performance thing is really secondary to me. If I write a song and put it on the internet, I don’t care if a million people hear it. But playing it for people and watching them react to it, that’s the part that’s scary.”

At July’s Pitchfork Music Festival, for instance, the band found itself in front of thousands at Chicago’s Union Park. “I just felt really unprepared,” she recalls. “ e started the first song, and I couldn’t hear the guitar. I was singing in a different key or something. And then, by the fifth song, I figured it out and got oriented. I got into the groove after a certain point. I mean, it was also really amazing, because I couldn’t believe how many people were watching and singing along. It just gets crazy when you go through that in front of so many people.”

The current Frankie Cosmos lineup includes longtime bassist David Maine, as well as keyboardist Lauren Martin and drummer Luke Pyenson. The group signed to Sub Pop earlier this year and recently finished a record that should be out later this year or early in 2018.

“I’m definitely starting to think about what it means means to live the life of a touring musician, just being on the road almost all year,” she says. “At this point, it has taken away a lot from how much time I get actually working on music.

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Historically populated by dude-heavy rock bands paying tribute to dude-heavy rock bands, this year’s first C show featured all women-led acts paying tribute to female singers from across the musical spectrum — Stevie Nicks, Chaka Khan, Madonna, Dolly Parton and Janet Jackson, the latter of whom briefly but powerfully channeled by the young R&B singer Paige Alyssa.

Alyssa’s set was no mere karaoke set — her crack three-piece band hammered out Janet’s muscular, synthetic soul, and a pair of backing dancers anked the headset wearing singer, who stepped in time and sang on point. Her set touched on big hits and fan favorites (including a powerful “Rhythm Nation” and searing “Black Cat”), and after she left the stage, Alyssa and members of her team collapsed into each other in a cathartic group hug. It was an image that gave a good suggestion of how important the artist, and that set, was to Paige Alyssa.

A few weeks later, Alyssa, 24, explains the feelings that were rushing through her at the end of her performance. “ hen I finally got off stage, I had rehearsed so much and I felt that I did justice to it, and I was able to present the product that I wanted,” she says. “It was a really emotional performance, and if I get emotional after a performance that means I think I did really well.”

While the Jackson set was a highlight, Alyssa is even more devoted to her career as a singer, songwriter and producer. She has released a few EPs since 2014, and her most recent release, Worth It, features four versions of the title track (including a cappella, remixed and instrumental cuts). “Worth It” channels some of the ’80s-era pop and R&B displayed in her Janet Jackson set, using the familiar, banging palette of drums and swoopy synths that defined hits by Whitney Houston and Jody Watley. It’s a heavy hit of throwback R&B, but Alyssa’s able and expressive performance keeps the heart and soul of the message at the forefront.

“Out of all the music I’ve released so far, ‘Worth It’ is the true Paige Alyssa sound,” she says. “It pulls from ’80s pop, ’90s pop, the New Jack Swing elements are in there as well.” But in composing the tune she took cues from another early ’90s obsession — her Sega Genesis video game console.

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well as video games and my gospel background. I kind of poured all of that into this track.”

Her gospel background was aided through her mother’s role as a music minister in their Baptist congregation. “I’ve been singing in church as long as I can remember; I started playing drums in church when I was nine,” she says. “Music has been a part of my life, whether through the church with my mom or through me playing some type of instrument.”

With that early tutelage in her back pocket, Alyssa enrolled in music courses at Webster University — though even then, she was aiming for her own brand of pop-music success. “I always say that I got my degree in jazz so I could apply it to popular contemporary music. None of the records I’ve come out with sound like standards or jazz — it’s all pop stuff.”

After college, she began recording her own compositions in earnest. And on last year’s Songs For Myself, she decided to be open about her sexuality. “ or my first record, when I was talking about love interests I used gender-neutral pronouns,” she says.

“That was a decision I made because I wasn’t ready to sing about other women or non-cis folks because I was still a liated with my church pretty heavily.

After that, though, I broke off my relationship with the church because it was just time for me to be honest with my music.

“At the end of the day, if they can’t accept all of me, they probably shouldn’t be listening to my music,” she adds.

Alyssa still credits her time in the church for much of her early development — “I wouldn’t be the person or the musician I am without it,” she says. But “Worth It” continues her evolution as an artist able to use established musical forms to tell of-the-moment truths. She says that the themes of the song rest on “perseverance, come what may — loving yourself regardless of what someone might say, because the love that you have is gonna be worth it.”

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COMPANY OF THIEVES: 8 p.m., $15-$18. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-4986989.

DAIKAIJU: w/ Subtropolis 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

ELI YOUNG BAND: w/ Joshua Stanley 8 p.m., $29.50. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar Blvd., St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

GIUDA: 8 p.m., $15-$16. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

IAN MOORE: 8 p.m., $12-$15. The Monocle, 4510 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-935-7003.

IVAS JOHN & BRIAN CURRAN: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. Broadway, St. Louis, 314-436-5222.

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

MONOPHONICS: 9 p.m., $13-$15. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

Monophonics. | PHOTO BY JOHN LILL

PINKO: w/ Celebration, New Primals, Motherfather 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

RUM DRUM RAMBLERS: 7 p.m., $10. Joe’s Cafe, 6014 Kingsbury Ave, St. Louis.

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

WITCHTRAP: w/ Unspeakable, Lightning Wolf 8 p.m., $15-$20. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

FRIDAY 15 ALEX CUNNINGHAM: w/ Bob Bucko Jr., Musth

Monophonics 9 p.m. Friday, September 14.

The Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street. $13 to $15. 314-588-0505.

With the emergence of blue-eyed-and-gruff singer and keyboardist Kelly Finnigan, the Monophonics has transformed from a soul-funk instrumental band searching for a noir film to soundtrack into a straight-up psychedelic-soul outfit, high on Undisputed Truth singles and echoplex, but still with groove (and flutes and horns and soul-sister backup

vocals) to burn like a canyon fire. The San Francisco band’s latest album, Sound of Sinning, slinks and swaggers like Daptone favorites the Budos Band and yet tells its own story of decadence and delirium while throwing a dance party that’s as stoned as it is stone-cold funky.

Righteous Right Now: Led by relentlessly bluesy singer Stefanie Berecz, Chicago band the Right Now opens the night with a pop-disco sound that’s still somehow gritty and street-smart.

—Roy Kasten

Bardo 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

Louis, 314-535-0353.

Louis, 314-289-9050.

U2: w/ Beck 5 p.m., TBA. The Dome at Ameri-

BLACKTOP MOJO: w/ Divine Sorrow, Axeticy 7

TOM RUSSELL: 8 p.m., $35. Off Broadway, 3509

KILBORN ALLEY BLUES BAND: 10 p.m., $10. BB’s

ca’s Center, 701 Convention Plaza St., St. Louis,

p.m., $10-$13. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis,

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

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

314-342-5201.

314-436-5222.

WILL HOGE: 8 p.m., $25. Delmar Hall, 6133

MIKE MATTHEWS PROJECT: 9 p.m., free. Night-

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

314-289-9050.

FRIEND OF YOUTH: w/ Crystal Lady, Lauren

SATURDAY 16

Waters, Ace of Wands 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole,

THE BEL AIRS: 7 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues &

shift Bar & Grill, 3979 Mexico Road, St. Peters,

7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

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

636-441-8300.

SUNDAY 17

JACOB VENINGA: w/ little falcon, Eyes From

5222.

OLD WEBSTER JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL: noon,

COURTNEY WARNER: w/ Mary Jay Berger 4 p.m.,

Above, The Slim Sadies 6 p.m., $10. Fubar,

A BENEFIT FOR MIDWEST PAGES TO PRISONERS

free. Old Webster, W. Lockwood Ave and Elm

$7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St.

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

PROJECT: w/ Modern Gold, Bobby Stevens,

St, Webster Groves.

Louis, 314-772-2100.

THE MATCHING SHOE EP RELEASE: 7 p.m., $10.

Carondelet Guy, Erin Jo 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee

OVERCOATS: 8 p.m., $10-$12. Off Broadway,

ED SHEERAN: 7:30 p.m., TBA. Scottrade Center,

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

& Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-

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

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

588-0505.

2100.

REBECCA LOEBE: 8 p.m., $12. The Stage at

GRADY CHAMPION: 4 p.m., $10-$15. National

OF MONTREAL: w/ Showtime Goma and Nancy

BRANTLEY GILBERT: 7 p.m., TBA. Hollywood

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

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

Feast 8 p.m., $20-$23. The Ready Room, 4195

Casino Amphitheatre, I-70 & Earth City Expwy.,

925-7543, ext. 815.

THE GREEN MCDONOUGH BAND: 5 p.m., $5. Villa

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

Maryland Heights, 314-298-9944.

ROKY ERICKSON: w/ Death Valley Girls 8 p.m.,

Marie Winery, 6633 E. Main St., Maryville,

PRAIRIE REHAB: w/ Andrew Ryan and the

COAST MODERN: 8 p.m., $18. The Firebird, 2706

$25-$30. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504

618-345-3100.

Travelers, Oh Caledonia 9 p.m., $7. The Heavy

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

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

LOLLAPALOSER: w/ The Vigilettes, Fatal Bus

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

HURRICANE HARVEY RELIEF BENEFIT SHOW: w/

ROVER: w/ Good Times & Co., Bone Roaster 9

Accident, The Defeated County, South City Slop,

5226.

You’re Not Kablamo, We Should Leave This

p.m., free. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester

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

SCHOOL OF ROCK: 7 p.m., $8. Delmar Hall, 6133

Tree, Biff Knarly & the Reptilians, Eternal

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

Not, Kenny Kinds 5 p.m., $8-$10. The Firebird,

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

Annihilation, Lowered A.D, Can We Win

SYNTH FESTL II: SYNESTHESIA: w/ Wingtips, Tear-

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

SHARON BEAR & DOUG FOEHNER: 7 p.m., $5. BB’s

(reunion) 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole, 7423 South

ful Moon, PRUDENCE, Reaches, ICE, Wax Fruit,

LOVE JONES “THE BAND”: 9 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,

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

Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

Ethik’s Mind, Deux Plex, NNN Cook, Jaded Evil

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

314-436-5222.

KEOKUK: w/ Elliott Pearson 5 p.m., free. Das

Lambs 7 p.m., $15. The Heavy Anchor, 5226

436-5222.

SMILE EMPTY SOUL: w/ Kaiju Killers, Skyline

Bevo Biergarten, 4749 Gravois Ave., St. Louis,

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

O-TOWN: w/ Todd Carey 8 p.m., $20-$25. The

In Ruins, Cause Of Ruin, Audioburn 7 p.m.,

314-224-5521.

TEI SHI: 8 p.m., $15-$17. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,

Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,

$12.50-$15. The Firebird, 2706 Olive St., St.

KID QUILL: 6 p.m., $15. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St.

St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

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Roky Erickson 8 p.m. Saturday, September 16.

Blueberry Hill’s Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Boulevard. $25 to $30. 314-727-4444.

Austin’s Roky Erickson has one of the most mind-blowing back stories of any musician in modern history. His bio started in the 1960s with his work as part of the pioneering psychedelic rock band the 13th Floor Elevators.

The band strongly advocated the use of hallucinogenic drugs including LSD, mescaline and DMT — all known to warp a user’s perception of reality — but when Erickson started speaking gibberish during a 1968 performance, something more serious was at play. Erickson was soon diagnosed with schizophrenia and shipped to a hospital in Houston, where he was involuntarily subjected to electroshock therapy. An arrest a year later for the possession of a single joint of marijuana left him facing ten years in prison. Erickson avoided the sentence by pleading insanity — resulting in the rocker being pushed

into another mental hospital, triggering more shock therapy and several escapes before he was finally released in 1972. Erickson spent the ‘70s and ‘80s convinced he was possessed by an alien and obsessed with the mail — the latter obsession resulted in charges of mail theft (Erickson was taking mail from neighbors who had moved and pinning it to his wall; the charges were dropped when it was proven he had never opened any of it). By the ‘90s he found a renewed interest in music, and in the early ‘00s his brother took custody of him, sorting out his legal affairs and getting him to take medication for his illness. Since then Erickson has re-emerged as a musical luminary, releasing True Love Cast Out All Evil in 2010 and touring steadily since.

Heads Up: Erickson and his band performed a full set of 13th Floor Elevators songs at a recent gig in Brooklyn last week. It is anyone’s guess if he will do the same at this show.

MUSIC UNLIMITED: 8:30 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz,

Fighting Side, Quinlan Conley & The I-90 Blues,

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

Curt Copeland & Friends 1 p.m., $5. Off Broad-

436-5222.

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

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

SCHOOL OF ROCK 2017 SUMMER END OF SEASON

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

CONCERT: 11:30 a.m., $8. Atomic Cowboy

621-8811.

Pavilion, 4140 Manchester Avenue, St. Louis,

TANNHAUSER KRIEG: w/ Hellrad, Valley, Bro-

314-775-0775.

keneck 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole, 7423 South

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

Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

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

TV MIKE & THE SCARECROWS: w/ Cree Rider 8

TETON: w/ Blank Thomas, Deux Plex, Moonrace

p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson

8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson

Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

THE TILLERS: w/ Nathan Blake Lynn 7 p.m., $10-

TUESDAY 19

$15. The Stage at KDHX, 3524 Washington Ave,

CHON: w/ The Fall Of Troy, Hail The Sun 7

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

p.m., $20-$23. Delmar Hall, 6133 Delmar

XEB: 8 p.m., $20-$25. Blueberry Hill - The Duck

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

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

GBH: w/ The Casualties 8 p.m., $20-$23. Fubar,

727-4444.

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

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JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS: w/ Ital K, Mr. Roots, DJ Witz, $5/$10. Elmo’s Love Lounge, 7828

APOCALYPTICA: 8 p.m., $30. The Pageant, 6161

Olive Blvd, University City, 314-282-5561.

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

JONNY LANG: 8 p.m., $30-$155. The Pageant,

BANKS: 8 p.m., $27.50-$30. Delmar Hall, 6133

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

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

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

KUBLAI KHAN: w/ No Zodiac, Left Behind, I Am,

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

Great American Ghost 6 p.m., $13-$15. Fubar,

621-7880.

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

ENCLOSED, CLIMATE CONTROLLED PATIO PAVILION

—Daniel Hill

RIVER CITY OPRY: w/ Cara Louise Band, The

Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

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PERPETUAL GROOVE: Mon., Nov. 6, 9 p.m., $15-$18. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

PEGI YOUNG: 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509

PINKO: W/ Celebration, New Primals,

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

Motherfather, Thu., Sept. 14, 8 p.m., $7. The

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

Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis,

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

314-328-2309.

314-436-5222.

PRUDE BOYS: W/ Pretty Girls, Big Tobacco,

WILLIAM MATHENY: w/ David Dondero, Dubb

Tue., Sept. 26, 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole, 7423

Nubb 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359

South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

PUBLIC: Sun., Nov. 5, 9 p.m., $10-$12. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,

WEDNESDAY 20

314-833-3929.

BIG RICH MCDONOUGH & RHYTHM RENEGADES: 7

RAGGED UNION: Sat., Sept. 23, 7 p.m., $7-$10.

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

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

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

314-775-0775.

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

RIVER CITY OPRY: W/ Cara Louise Band, The

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

Fighting Side, Quinlan Conley & The I-90 Blues, Curt Copeland & Friends, Sun., Sept.

7880.

Lollapaloser. | PHOTO PROVIDED BY CHRIS WARD

FOUR YEAR STRONG - RISE OR DIE TRYING 10acific, rayscale, ife essons

p.m.,

17, 1 p.m., $5. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.

YEAR ANNIVERSARY TOUR: w/ Seaway, Like .

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

LollapaLoser

MARTY SPIKENER & ON CALL BLUES BAND: 10

5 p.m. Sunday, September 17.

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

The Firebird, 2706 Olive Street. $10. 314-535-0353.

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

Spend enough time around people in bands and you’ll learn that the best musicians often have wicked senses of humor. Superchunk’s Jon Wurster is as celebrated for his absurdist wit as he is for his drumming skills, and we recently mourned Walter Becker, who contributed guitar flourishes and dark sarcasm to Steely Dan in equal measure. So it’s not a shock that Loser, St. Louis’ long-running “liveaction shame show” mixes this town’s

SIDNEY STREET SHAKERS: 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

VUKARI: w/ Oracle 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT JAZZ CRAWL: 5 p.m. continues through Dec. 27, free. The Stage at KDHX, 3524 Washington Ave, St. Louis, 314-925-7543, ext. 815.

THIS JUST IN AFROSEXYCOOL: Fri., Sept. 22, 9 p.m., $5. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

THE SINKHOLE’S ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY: W/ DJ Chris Ward, Sat., Sept. 30, 7 p.m.,

music and comedy scenes liberally.

For LollapaLoser, the show’s all-day music and comedy fest, those lines are rendered non-existent by co-hosts Chris Ward and Jeremy Essig as they corral a coterie of comedians and bands on the Firebird stage.

Hot Licks, Lotsa Laffs: Music will be provided by Other People, Defeated County and the Vigilettes; comedy sets will come from Kenny Kinds, Tim Convy and the Improv Shop. Matt Basler will probably offer some of both.

—Christian Schaeffer

free. The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

ST. LOUIS STEADY GRINDER: W/ Sweet Megg, Mon., Oct. 23, 7 p.m., free. Tick Tock Tavern, 3459 Magnolia Ave, St. Louis.

STREET CORNER SYMPHONY: Wed., Oct. 11, 8 p.m., $25. Old Rock House, 1200 S. 7th St., St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

TANNHAUSER KRIEG: W/ Hellrad, Valley, Brokeneck, Mon., Sept. 18, 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St. Louis, 314-328-2309.

TERRAPIN FLYER: Fri., Oct. 27, 8 p.m., $12-$15.

Atomic Cowboy Pavilion, 4140 Manchester Avenue, St. Louis, 314-775-0775.

THE O’JAYS: W/ the Spinners, Fri., Nov. 10, 7 p.m., $50-$90. Family Arena, 2002 Arena Parkway, St Charles, 636-896-4200.

AQUEOUS: Wed., Dec. 13, 8 p.m., $10-$13. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis,

$27.50-$30. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room,

JOYCE MANOR: W/ Wavves, Culture Abuse,

TIM ALLEN: Sat., Feb. 3, 7 p.m., $46.50-$103.

314-775-0775.

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

Thu., Nov. 16, 8 p.m., $22-$26. The Ready

Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St, St.

BLACK PUSSY: W/ Rover, The Judge, Deep

4444.

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

Louis, 314-241-1888.

Space Killer, Tue., Oct. 3, 8 p.m., $10-$12.

FIVEFOLD – THE FAREWELL SHOW: W/ Ashland,

833-3929.

THE U-TURNS: Sat., Sept. 23, 9 p.m., free. Pat

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

Modern Gold, Sat., Dec. 9, 8 p.m., $15. Delmar

JUNIOR BROWN: Wed., Oct. 25, 8 p.m., $25-$35.

Connolly Tavern, 6400 Oakland Ave., St.

9050.

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

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

Louis, 314-647-7287.

BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB: W/ Night

6161.

314-498-6989.

VUKARI: W/ Oracle, Wed., Sept. 20, 8 p.m.,

Beats, Mon., Feb. 12, 8 p.m., $26. Delmar Hall,

FORTUNATE YOUTH: W/ Through The Roots,

KEVIN BUCKLEY CD RELEASE SHOW: Sat., Oct.

$7. The Sinkhole, 7423 South Broadway, St.

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

Wed., Oct. 25, 8 p.m., $13-$16. The Bootleg,

28, 8 p.m., $10. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp

Louis, 314-328-2309.

BLITZEN TRAPPER: Sat., Nov. 18, 8 p.m., $17-

4140 Manchester Ave., St. Louis, 314-775-

Ave., St. Louis, 314-498-6989.

WAYNE NEWTON: Fri., Nov. 3, 8 p.m., $65-$95.

$20. Blueberry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504

0775.

MARGO PRICE: Sun., Jan. 21, 8 p.m., $20-$22.

River City Casino & Hotel, 777 River City

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

GREYHOUNDS: Sat., Sept. 30, 7 p.m., $10-$13.

The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St.

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

CITY OF THE SUN: Tue., Oct. 17, 7 p.m., $10-

Atomic Cowboy Pavilion, 4140 Manchester

Louis, 314-833-3929.

WE CAME AS ROMANS: W/ The Word Alive,

$12. The Bootleg, 4140 Manchester Ave., St.

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

MATISYAHU: W/ Common Kings, Orphan, Fri.,

Escape The Fate, Thu., Nov. 30, 7 p.m., $20-

Louis, 314-775-0775.

HALLOWEEZER: Fri., Oct. 6, 8 p.m., $10. Blue-

Dec. 8, 8 p.m., $27.50-$30. Delmar Hall, 6133

$23. The Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave,

DAVE AUDE: Sat., Nov. 25, 9 p.m., $15. Amer-

berry Hill - The Duck Room, 6504 Delmar

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

St. Louis, 314-833-3929.

istar Casino, 1 Ameristar Blvd., St. Charles,

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

MOM’S KITCHEN: Thu., Nov. 23, 8 p.m., $10.

WIDE AWAKE: W/ Summoning The Lich, Hol-

636-949-7777.

HEAD FOR THE HILLS: Thu., Oct. 5, 8 p.m., free.

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

low, Broken Youth, Torn at the Seams, Sat.,

DIRTY KING: W/ Menace & Mad Moe/TRB, Tat-

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

314-726-6161.

Nov. 4, 6 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St,

tooed The Dog, Sails Through Storms, Blind

314-775-0775.

MY POSSE IN EFFECT: A TRIBUTE TO THE

St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

Shepherd, Sat., Sept. 30, 6 p.m., $10. Fubar,

ISLEY BROTHERS: Sat., Oct. 28, 7 p.m., $60-

BEASTIE BOYS: Wed., Nov. 22, 9 p.m., $15. The

WILCO: Mon., Nov. 13, 7 p.m., $40-$60. Mon.,

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

$100. Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market St,

Ready Room, 4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis,

Nov. 13, 7 p.m., $40-$60. The Pageant, 6161

THE DUST COVERS: W/ The Bottlesnakes, Mon.,

St. Louis, 314-241-1888.

314-833-3929.

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

Nov. 20, 7 p.m., free. Tick Tock Tavern, 3459

JACOB VENINGA: W/ little falcon, Eyes From

MYSPACE EMO PROM: Sat., Nov. 11, 6 p.m.,

WITCH JAIL: W/ Weeping Icon, MOM, G.N.A.T.,

Magnolia Ave, St. Louis.

Above, The Slim Sadies, Fri., Sept. 15, 6 p.m.,

$7-$10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-

Fri., Sept. 29, 8 p.m., $7. The Sinkhole, 7423

ELIZABETH COOK: Sun., Oct. 29, 7 p.m., $20.

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BY DAN SAVAGE Hey, Dan: My teenage daughter just came out to us as gay. We told her we love her and support her. As a heterosexual, cisgender mother, how do I make sure she gets good advice about sex? I don’t want her learning from other kids or porn. Do you know of any good, sex-positive advice books for lesbian teens?

My Inspiring Daughter Deserves Lesbian Education

“I wish every parent felt this way about their child’s sexual development, regardless of the child’s gender identity or sexual orientation,” said Peggy Orenstein, author of Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. “All young people — girls especially — need open, honest discussions about sexual ethics, including talking about pleasure, respect, decision-making, and reciprocity, or we are leaving them at the mercy of the messages they get from both the mainstream and ‘adult’ entertainment industries.”

Orenstein’s book drives home the need for comprehensive sex-education programs emphasizing the giving and receiving of pleasure. In the absence of sex-ed programs that empower girls to see themselves not just as instruments of another’s pleasure but as autonomous individuals with a right to experience sexual pleasure, girls wind up having a lot of consensual but crappy sex.

That said, MIDDLE, one big takeaway from Orenstein’s research should come as a comfort to you: Bi and lesbian girls enjoy an advantage over their heterosexual peers.

“In some ways, MIDDLE can feel more confident about her daughter as a gay girl,” said Orenstein. “Lesbian and bisexual girls I spoke to for Girls & Sex would talk about feeling liberated to go ‘off the script’ — by which they meant the script that leads lockstep to intercourse — and create encounters that truly worked for them. I ended up feeling that hetero girls — and boys, too — could learn a lot from their gay and bisexual female peers. And I don’t mean by watching otherwise straight girls make out on the dance oor for the benefit of guys.”

Since gay and bisexual girls can’t default to PIV intercourse, and since there’s not a boy in the room whose needs/dick/ego they’ve been socialized to prioritize, queer girls have more egalitarian and, not coincidentally, more satisfying sexual encounters.

“Young women are more likely to measure their own satisfaction by the yardstick of their partner’s pleasure,” said Orenstein. “So heterosexual girls will say things such as, If he’s se ually satisfied, then I’m se ually satisfied.’ Men, by contrast, are more likely to measure satisfaction by their own orgasm.

But the investment girls express in their partner’s pleasure remains true regardless of that person’s gender. So the orgasm gap we see among heterosexuals (75 percent of men report they come regu-

larly in sexual encounters versus 29 percent of women) disappears in same-sex encounters. Young women with same-sex partners climax at the same rate as heterosexual men.”

As for good, sex-positive resources for teens of all identities and orientations, Orenstein had some great recommendations.

“I’m a big fan of Heather Corinna’s S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-toKnow Sexuality Guide to Get You Through Your Teens and Twenties,” said Orenstein. “Other inclusive, sex-positive, medically accurate websites include Sexetc.org and Goaskalice.columbia.edu. And MIDDLE could think about giving her daughter a subscription to OMGYes.com, an explicit (but not tawdry) site that educates about the science of female pleasure. And finally, I think everyone who is a woman — or has had sex with a woman or ever hopes to — should read Emily Nagoski’s book Come As You Are. Even if you think you know it all, Nagoski’s book will transform your sex life.”

Hey, Dan: I’m a 32-year-old straight male. Back in April, I met this girl.

She seemed interested, but before we went out, she told me that she is a demisexual. (I had to google it.)

After a few dates, she had me over to her place, we watched a movie and started making out. But when I started to put my hand between her legs, she calmly said, “Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.” No problem, I told her, I wasn’t trying to rush her. Fast-forward a couple months.

We’re still going on dates, we hug

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and kiss, we hold hands, we cuddle on the couch and watch movies — but still no sex. Is demisexuality real? Should I keep pursuing her?

Is She Interested Totally Or Not?

Demisexuals are real people who “do not experience sexual attraction unless they form a strong emotional bond,” according to the definition at Asexuality.org. We used to call people who needed to feel a strong emotional bond before wanting to fuck someone people who, you know, needed to feel a strong emotional bond before wanting to fuck someone. But a seven-syllable, clinical-sounding term that prospective partners need to google is obviously far superior to a short, explanatory sentence that doesn’t require internet access to understand.

You’ve shown respect for this woman’s sexual orientation, ISITON; now it’s her turn to show some respect for yours. You’re seeking a romantic relationship that includes sex, and you’ve demonstrated a willingness to make an emotional investment before a relationship becomes sexual.

You don’t (or shouldn’t) want her to consent to sex under duress, but if she doesn’t see you as a prospective romantic and sexual partner, ISITON, she should tell you that. If this relationship isn’t on track to become sexual, tell her you’re open to being friends, but you’ll have to direct your romantic attentions (and more of your time) elsewhere. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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