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“After 500 years of the same shit, things gonna change? Hahaha. Hell, no! Nothing’s gonna change. You get nothing out of marching. What do you get? Tired legs, the same unruly justice.”

—JOHNNY ROBERTS JR., RIGHT, PHOTOGRAPHED WITH RICHARD WILLIAMS DURING THE PROTEST AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS ON SEPTEMBER 17

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Season of Disruption

After a former officer’s acquittal on murder charges, St. Louis takes to the streets

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he news broke at 9 a.m. sharp on Friday, September 15: Former St. Louis cop Jason Stockley had been found “not guilty” of murder.

The decision was greeted with outrage. After allegedly witnessing a drug deal in north city, Stockley and his partner gave chase — and Stockley killed the suspect, Anthony Lamar Smith, only after Smith had already been cornered. Stockley was captured in garbled audio during the high-speed chase saying “going to kill this motherfucker, don’t you know it.” inutes later, he um ed fi e rounds through the window of Smith’s car and did just that. Prosecutors also allege he then planted a gun on the dying suspect.

In some ways, the verdict jolted the city back to an earlier time. Smith was killed on December 20, 2011 — before Ferguson brought national attention to racial injustice in the region, before Black Lives Matter became not just a fact but a movement. Many of the key figures in ower at the time were art o a re ious generation of St. Louis leadership. When Smith was killed, Francis Slay was mayor, Dan Isom was police chief and Richard Callahan was the U.S. attorney, the federal prosecutor who initially passed on the case after Isom referred it to the FBI. Beyond that, the facts were not parallel to the situation in Ferguson three years ago, when the county’s prosecuting attorney declined to aggressively pursue a case against a olice o cer. Isom did re er the case to the FBI, and Stockley was pushed out of the department. And, most critically, under pressure from activists, Jennifer Joyce, the city’s longtime circuit attorney, had brought first degree murder charges in ay 2016 her successor, Kim Gardner, had her top staffers prosecute the case vigorously. The trial was hard-fought, and it’s possible a jury of St. Louis residents would have looked at the evidence — the recorded outburst, the lack of Smith’s DNA on the gun found in his car — and convicted.

The problem for city leaders is that Stockley waived his right to a jury, choosing to be tried solely by Judge Timothy Wilson. A study conducted by an Ohio criminologist sur eyed cases where local olice o cers have been tried for murder or manslaughter related to on duty shootings. i o ted or bench trials all si were acquitted. Wilson’s decision proved no exception.

Wilson, who faces mandatory retirement when he turns 0 in ecember, is definitely art o the city s old guard. But he's now sitting in judgment of an invigorated citizenry, and even if most parts of the system

worked up until the very end, even if the powers that be were willing to accept the judge’s verdict, the people were not. Activists had warned of “mass disruption” if Stockley was acquitted, and they delivered. They took to the streets — passionately, defiantly and, yes, disru ti ely.

Beginning within minutes of the verdict’s release and for days, and nights, on end, they have marched, with signs and with drums. They have stood outside City Hall and in front of police headquarters. They have taken to the Central West End and the Loop, the campus of Saint Louis University and the streets of downtown. More than 1,000 of them showed up, more than once.

They were met with support and even appreciation. Jesuits at SLU shook their hands, even as university police blocked them from parts of campus. In the Central West End, business owners o ered them water some diners o ered high fi es.

They were also, unsurprisingly, met with a Continued on pg 10

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Those mourning Anthony Lamar Smith include his mother, Annie Smith (lower right). Cops have kept a vigilant eye on the protests — sometimes from a distance (above).

At other times, as when protesters marched to the home of Mayor Lyda Krewson Friday night and someone threw a rock through the window, they responded with force. | PHOTOS

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Police arrested 120 on Sunday alone on charges of failure to disperse.

They also blasted the Central West End on Friday with tear gas. But protesters continued to show up, using cell phone flashlights in the rain on Monday (top right) in a vigil outside the Justice Center. | PHOTOS

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UNREST Continued from pg 9 olice res onse. nd as o cial marches ended and organizers urged people to go home, agitators took advantage of the situation and began to break things.

Storefronts were shattered in the Central West End, in the Loop and downtown, and giant concrete planters were smashed. Police rounded up the people remaining, with heavy teargas in the Central West End Friday and 123 arrests downtown Sunday, including a few livestreamers and a journalist. Pi Pizzeria owner Chris Sommers, who’d greeted protesters at his restaurant Friday with water, was in turn greeted by police with teargas, as customers took cover inside, gasping. State Representative Bruce Franks (D-St. Louis), who made his name as a protester in Ferguson, agreed with those who have characterized many of the protests as “not peaceful.” “Peace is not an option,” he told the RFT while marching to City Hall Monday morning.

“Non-violence is.”

As of press time, the situation remained in u . ass disru tion continues. Marches continue. The police response continues.

Yet St. Louis remains strong. On Sunday, after nearly an entire block of stores and restaurants on Delmar were left with shattered windows, business owners worked through the night — and olunteers ocked to the neighborhood to fill the lywood co ering the broken windows with messages of hope. So many people showed up to have a meal

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or make a purchase that businesses were unusually busy. Jen Kaslow, the owner of Meshuggah Cafe, is now organizing an e ort to turn o er unday s rofits to an organization associated with the protest movement. “By the end of the day the outpouring of support that was shown was so beautiful, but I felt like we needed to share it with the larger community — not just the business community — and remember that we are all in this together and that we need to be part of the solution together,” she says. his isn t about hearts on windows it s about a very real struggle, and let’s not forget that.”

In that, her comments align with those of Sam Thomas, who was helping his friend clean up broken glass outside OSO: a Style Lab on Sunday morning. Thomas told the AP that the damage, while not ideal, was manageable. “The window isn’t murdered. Nobody is going to have a funeral for the window. We can replace it.”

Peace may not be an option. Disruption may be painful. But St. Louis may be better for it. —the Riverfront Times

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Controversy — and falling enrollment — have plagued Mizzou in recent years. Can football bring the university back together?

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n the morning of the Mizzou football game against South Carolina, Sharon Cloud walks out of her room in the Discovery Hall dormitory, eager to start tailgating.

It’s been more than 50 years since Cloud was a student at the school. Her granddaughter Kellie moved a month ago to Columbia, where she would like to study nursing. Kellie doesn’t live in Discovery Hall, though.

It is Cloud and her husband, Dennis, a fellow Mizzou alum, who are staying in a dorm room with two twin beds, two desks and two bulletin boards — arranged for roommates.

“We thought it would be a hoot to stay in a dorm again, and it’s really nice,” says Cloud, 71, who worked with her husband, a veterinarian, in his o ce be ore they both retired earlier this year.

The Wildwood resident explains that she has two daughters and two nieces who have attended the university. She and her husband were previously football season ticket holders for 30 years.

“I moved into Lathrop Hall when it was brand new and it was sparkly clean and we had o en balconies on e ery two oors and we could look at the stadium,” she recalls.

A residential life staff member overhears Cloud say that she’d lived in Lathrop, which has since been torn down. He asks her if she would like a brick from the building.

“Really?” Cloud asks.

The staff member asks Cloud which room she’s in, and Cloud, assuming he means as a student, begins to tell him, “Seven-oh—,” but then the sta er clarifies that he means in isco ery. oom 0 , she says.

“When you come back, there will be a brick waiting for you at the desk,” says ndrew ommer, the financial o cer or residential li e.

“That’s so nice of you!” Cloud says.

Sommer then asks if the couple needs a ride to the stadium in one of the golf carts standing outside the building.

“I can’t say enough nice things about residential life,” Cloud tells me a few days after the game. The other people I speak with who are staying in the dorms for the game also seem charmed by their extroverted brand of hospitality.

But there’s some irony in the scenario. Some of the people who are most excited about coming to the football games and staying in a dorm are also those who are most upset about the reasons the rooms are a ailable a significant dro in enrollment ollowing the 2015 rotests over the administration’s handling of allegations of racism on campus.

“I’m very disappointed that the university has suffered so much,” Cloud says.

“But I think it’s going to respond,” Dennis Cloud adds.

“It should, but it will hurt it,” Cloud says. She cites a daughter who works in higher education: “She said things like these are very hard to overcome because you lose your momentum.”

“We better go,” Dennis says.

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Above, Missouri fans cheer on the Tigers during the game against Arkansas on Friday, November 28, 2014, at Faurot Field.

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MIZZOU Continued from pg 15 In the first semester of 2015, after a series of hateful acts towards minorities — the then-student government president, who is black, said people riding in the back of a pickup truck called him a racial slur; a white student disrupted a Legion of Black Collegians gathering and began shouting the same word; a swastika drawn with human feces was reportedly discovered in a residence hall — some students felt the university administrators did not adequately respond to the incidents and arranged an encampment at a campus quad. They called themselves “Concerned Student 1950,” referring to the year the school admitted its first black student.

One member sent a letter to the University of Missouri Board of Curators saying that he would not “consume any food or nutritional sustenance at the expense of my health until either [university president] Tim Wolfe is removed from office or my internal organs fail and my life is lost.”

Five days after the start of the hunger strike, a significant number of black football players tweeted a photo of themselves with arms locked and said that they would not participate in any “football-related activities” until Wolfe was gone. A day later, black and white players and coaches, including head coach Gary Pinkel, tweeted a photo of themselves with the caption “The Mizzou Family Stands as one.”

The next day, Wolfe resigned.

Since then, enrollment at the school has dropped significantly. In 2015, about 6,200 freshman students were on campus. The next year, there were about 4,800, according to the school, which projected that there would be just 4,000 freshman this year. The university also projected a $59 million budget shortfall, including a $16.6 million loss owing to the enrollment decrease.

As a result, Mizzou eliminated more than 400 jobs and took seven dormitories “offline.”

Fans could then rent rooms in two dorms — Excellence and Discovery — for football games.

Despite the drama surrounding the hunger strike, the foot-

Above, students walk to class near Mizzou’s signature columns.

Right, Jonathan Butler, the graduate student at the head of the protest movement, speaks with other members of Concerned Student 1950 at a November 2015 news conference. ball team’s actions appear to have been the real tipping point. Some speculated that the president resigned because the team would have had to pay a $1 million cancellation fee to its next opponent, Brigham Young University.

Also, as the Washington Post reported, “the team is the public face of the student body. Any number of people who live in the state but don’t have relatives in the University of Missouri system likely know student-athletes by name.”

But other Mizzou people also became household names during the protests.

There was Wolfe, who after resigning bashed the football team and other university leaders.

“The $1 million penalty associated with forfeiting the game against BYU would have paled in comparison to the more than $25 million in lost tuition and fees MU will realize with reduced enrollment this Fall,” he wrote in a letter. “The football team’s actions were the equivalent of throwing gasoline on a small fire.”

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who called for “muscle” to stop student journalists from entering the Concerned Students 1950 encampment and was later fired.

And then there was Jonathan Butler, the student who went on a hunger strike. The university chancellor, who resigned after Wolfe, praised Butler “as a person of principle,” but conservative news organizations like the National Review later held Butler’s family wealth against him and reported on online posts from years earlier in which he said he’d stolen free hotel breakfasts in order to be “Beat like Rodney King.”

What would it mean for the University of Missouri at Columbia if people around the state again talked about the players names’ rather than Butler, Click and Wolfe?

I wanted to interview Sommer about the residential life department’s approach to game day, but he said he would first need to get permission from the school’s public relations department. When I explained to a spokesman the focus of my story, he asked me why I needed to rehash the protests when the school has so many positive things happening. (I ultimately got the OK.) In addition to the golf cart rides and bricks, the school also provided guests — the majority of whom are alumni or parents of students — with a Southeastern Conference (SEC) gift bag, and fans under the age of eighteen received Future Tiger T-shirts, Sommer says.

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MIZZOU Continued from pg 17 “and make sure they have a good time,” says Sommer, an alum whose wife manages the school’s botanical garden. She would offer guests a tour that afternoon.

Most football weekends, the school has a total o 6 beds available in the two dorms. A two-room, four-bed suite goes for $120 er night. hey sold out or each of the seven home games, Sommer says. It reminded me of a quick-selling Groupon. Customers are psyched about the deal even if they likely realize why the restaurant needs to offer it: Business is slow.

Sommer himself stays in the dorms on football weekends from 1 p.m. on Friday until 1 p.m. on Sunday. “I was excited about it because I haven’t lived in a dorm or fi teen years, and it’s fun to come back,” he says.

Despite Sommer’s enthusiasm, it didn’t seem like he wanted the dorm hotel to become a fi ture o football games.

“I think this will be the only year we do it,” he says. He later adds, “You can feel the optimism when you’re on campus.” hen I was a st dent at Mizzou, football weekends were always the liveliest. There was a surplus of black and gold and burgers and charcoal and beer and red Solo cups. It didn’t hurt that 2005 to 200 led by quarterbacks Brad Smith and Chase Daniel — was one of the most successful four-year stretches in school history.

One of the staples of games is the cheer in which the student section yells “M — I — Z” and the alumni on the other side of the field res ond .”

I was hoarse on Sundays.

Our tailgates in parking lots included a solid mix of white and black students. I had more black friends in college than I had before or since. I don’t recall seeing or hearing any racism or slurs at tailgates or parties.

I never felt that Mizzou was a racist institution. But I also am white. My perception is limited.

Dorian Grady and I had been friends at Ladue Horton Watkins High School and ended up at Mizzou a year apart. He recalls “a couple isolated incidents.

There were times when trucks drove by and drunk dudes were being stupid and yelled nigger

at us. With Mizzou, you get all sorts of Missourians.”

I had never heard about that before. I also hadn’t asked.

More often, Grady says, there were just conversations with people who had not been around minorities before and “were ignorant because they didn’t know any better.”

“Overall, my experience was pretty positive. I got along with most people who were tolerant and willing to have a conversation,” says Grady, who now works as a financial ad isor in Chicago. n election night in 200 , Grady and I and other friends watched the results come in at my apartment in Columbia.

When I was in high school and the TV show 24 featured a black president, I remember thinking that it wasn’t realistic; that could never happen in this country.

And yet here we were, less than a decade later.

“That was a magical night.

The feeling around the city — it was electric,” Grady says.

The truth was, however, there might have been an even bigger stir in olumbia fi e nights earlier, when Senator Barack Obama visited. Missouri was seen as a key swing state — and the candidate’s visit drew more than 35,000 people, according to estimates from the Columbia Police Department.

Last year, President Donald Trump, who had a much different relationship with the black community, won Missouri with 57 percent of the vote. Still, one thing held true In 200 , 2012 and 2016, the only arts o the state that went to Democrats were around Kansas City, St. Louis and Boone County, which encompasses Mizzou. Many of Grady’s and my classmates were coming from parts of the state that were bright red. hen the niversit of isso ri le t the ig 12 or the in 2012, many ans were u set because the school would no longer play games against its biggest rival, the University of Kansas. University of South Carolina head football coach Steve Spurrier tried to promote a game against Mizzou as the “Battle of the Columbias,” since each university is based in a city of that name. He said the winner of the game would receive a trophy.

“improve and expand minority recruitment efforts in order to increase racial diversity on our campus.” They said they had moved up a date for a planned protest because of the events at Mizzou.

“In Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia and South Carolina, blacks represent about a third or more of each state’s college-age o ulation but less than fi teen percent of the freshman enrollment at the agshi uni ersity,” the New York Times reported.

Maybe there were the right elements for a rivalry. At South Carolina, black students made up six percent of the freshman class in 2015 at issouri, the figure was eight percent.

Or maybe there isn’t anything unique about the lack of diversity at the schools.

Shortly after the protests, FiveThirtyEight.com, a data news organization, reported that Mizzou “is almost exactly in line with its peers in terms of how representative its student body is.”

Above, former Missouri player (and current Denver Bronco) Shane Ray greets fans at Faurot Field in 2015.

Right, fans tailgate in the back of a pickup truck at Faurot Field.

The idea hasn’t really caught on. But still for the game Saturday, a significant number of Gamecocks ans ocked to the arking lot and stadium.

Eric Abel, a 30-year-old native of Greer, South Carolina, says his cousin has been named “the biggest fan of South Carolina in 2012.”

I ask him who awarded that honor.

“The Baton Rouge police department,” he says, and then gives me a koozie with his cousin’s mugshot on it. His group of fans travel to one South Carolina road game each year.

“Usually we have a crew of about twenty, but people didn’t really want to come to Missouri,” Abel says.

He says he had no idea why.

“We got here and were shocked; this place is awesome,” he enthuses as his friends play drinking games nearby. “When you look at how great of a college it is and the downtown area, this is one of the best schools in the SEC. Oh, and also there are a couple hot girls walking around.”

I wonder whether news of the protests reached South Carolina.

“We were cognizant of it,” Abel

says. He was surprised when he saw news about how much enrollment had dropped.

He and other South Carolina fans mention the racial tensions in their state, where a Confederate ag ew at the tatehouse until 2015, when ylann oo , a olumbia, South Carolina, native, killed nine black people at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.

“Me and my friends were always proponents of taking the Confederate flag down,” says J.W. Brunson, who was in the third generation of his family to attend South Carolina and is now president of the Gamecock Club in Nashville. “We were very thankful that they took it down.” es ite the ag, runson says he was “lucky enough” to not have

grown up in a racist community.

He adds, “I don’t want to say that there wasn’t racism.” The church shooting, he says, had brought the white and black communities closer together.

Just like at Mizzou, USC has dealt with hateful acts on campus.

In 2015, the school sus ended a student who was photographed writing a racial slur on a white board, which then went viral over social media, according to the Washington Post. Shortly after the protests at Mizzou, about 150 students walked out of class at USC to “protest alleged racial and gender inequalities,” the Charlotte Observer reported.

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a ri e enson, a former Mizzou defensive back, grew up in Manhattan, Kansas, home of Kansas State University, and has spent much of his life in the two college towns.

“A university brings people from out of the country, and there are black, white, Asian, Hispanic students. You ran across all walks o li e,” says enson, 6, who is black. He roomed with black and white players and says he never felt they were treated any differently around town.

He remains an enthusiastic Mizzou fan. A few hours before the game, Benson, who now directs a YMCA center in Topeka, Kansas, is walking around downtown with his daughter and some friends.

Like Grady, he believes most racism comes from ignorance.

“Things happen everywhere you go, but to think that this is more of a racist town, a racist place, a racist university, I can’t agree with that.” He notes that some of his black teammates were elevated to positions including athletic director and associate dean. “To portray this town as not accepting or against anyone who doesn’t look like them, I think that’s so far from the truth, I can’t even speak to it.”

But to walk around campus on game day, when the school is at its brightest, is of course to get a skewed perspective. Students who

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And black student-athletes’ experience may not mirror the rest of the black student body.

“If U were black at my alma mater, and ur name was not Maclin, Denmon, Pressey, English, Weatherspoon, Carroll, etc. You didn’t feel welcome,” former Mizzou basketball star Kim English tweeted shortly after the protests.

Alex Rideout, a black senior from St. Louis, plays club ultimate Frisbee at Mizzou but came to the school because he wants to be an athletic trainer for a football team.

“It’s just the atmosphere of it, where not only the players are a giant family but also the fans, the crowd,” says Rideout.

When the protests were occurring — and there were threats against African-Americans over social media, and a truck with a on ederate ag dro e by the rotesters’ encampment — Rideout says he received calls and texts from ultimate teammates to see if he was OK. Rideout said he had not experienced any racism on campus but understood where the protesters “were coming from.”

Once, at a party, he recalls, a white student sitting near him on a couch told him that he was “OK with black people as long as you don’t steal my stuff.” He says, “Immediately everyone at the party condemned it and shut him down and he ended up leaving.”

During the protests, his parents asked him if he wanted to transfer.

“Even though there was a lot of turmoil going on, I have never been one to run from it, and on top of that, my friend group has always been supportive,” he says.

But Rideout was already there.

What about those who watched the protests as they were deciding where they wanted to attend college?

Students Carlisle Smith, who is black, and Austin Wise, who is white, are walking toward Memorial Stadium just before kickoff.

Smith, a freshman from Chicago, says he is “excited to see the fans and the student section.” It is the first i ou game or each o them.

Smith, a business major, decided to enroll “because I knew some people down here and liked the campus and the culture a lot.”

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Games at Faurot Field are always a sea of gold and black. tion about what might happen or what could happen but nothing that stopped me.” s to what their first month had been like, both Smith and Wise say they have been having a good time.

Do they feel as though the school has been making a concerted effort to make minority students feel welcome? Says Wise, “I think it’s just natural. You see us; we’re different races and we’re friends.” heir first game begins well. couple minutes into the second quarter, the Tigers are winning 10-0. es ite the rotests and subsequent fall-out — or maybe because of it — donors gave nearly $1 1 million to i ou during fiscal year 2016, setting a new record, according to the school.

Ed Travis has missed one home football game since 1973 and was among those donors. He tells me to find his tailgate in arking lot , where we y not only the i ou ag but also y the irkwood ag.”

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His son Ed Travis is the fourth generation with that name, and he has a son, Ed, who is a Mizzou senior. Ed Travis IV says that when he was a freshman at Kirkwood High School and playing football, his dad offered to chair a committee to raise money or lights or the field so the team could play night games.

“Everyone thought he was being very benevolent,” Travis IV says.

“It was purely so he could watch me play on Friday nights and then come to Mizzou games.”

Ed Travis III, a retired owner of a management recruiting firm, says, “We have four grandchildren on campus as we speak ... and at no time, not once, ever, did they encounter a racism problem or confrontation or evidence thereof. Not one time. That’s bullshit.”

Travis, who is white, suggests I talk with some of the black athletes who have gone on to work for the school, including Howard Richards, a former star offensive lineman recently hired as the assistant athletics director for community relations.

On Saturday, Richards and the university brought more than 2,000 elementary and middle

school students from the St. Louis area to the game as part of a new program called the Mizzou Youth Experience. The idea is to try and foster connections with children who could become first generation college kids,” as Richards says in a video promoting the program. Participating school districts include East St. Louis, Jennings and Ferguson/Florissant.

“They have all heard of college; they have heard of Mizzou, but actually getting them here so that they could see what it was — especially on a day like today, on game day —was a tremendous experience for them,” says Richards. n ugust 2 , the ni ersity of Missouri also announced that it would cover all tuition and fees for Missouri residents who are accepted to the school and eligible for federal Pell grants, meaning they come from households with an annual income of less than $30,000. he ma imum ell award is $5, 20, so the school would then cover the remaining $22,000.

Not all people were moved by news of the program.

“This is another roundabout attempt from University System

“with the significant cuts to academic retention se rvices ov e r the past decade, it’s no surprise that their enrollment rate has been plummeting.”

leadership to quell discussions of their systemic problems instead of addressing them head-on,” Representative Courtney Curtis (D-Ferguson) said in a prepared statement. Curtis said he was “appalled” the university was “using PR stunts” rather than grappling with its problems. “With the significant cuts to academic retention services over the past decade, and their inability to address recent issues, it’s no surprise that their enrollment rate has been plummeting.”

A day later, the Board of Curators approved a new $98 million football facility in the south end zone of the football stadium.

“It’s important to have an outstanding training facility and athletic facility and better locker rooms for [the] football team,” says Nick Joos, senior associate athletic director for strategic communications.

I ask a school spokesman whether any thought was given to the timing of the announcements.

One for the students, then one for the football team?

“It was just coincidental that the announcements happened

relatively close to each other,” replies Christian Basi, director of the school’s news bureau.

It does appear, however, that the school sees the fate of its student population and its football team as at least somewhat linked.

“We have gotten a division championship, but we just haven’t gotten that conference championship or that national championship,” says Benson, the former defensive back. “You get one of those things done and the statistics show that the programs that do that get a big bump in the revenue and get more people invested in the team and the school in general.”

Despite the strong start in the South Carolina game, the momentum changes quickly. A 97-yard kickoff return leads to a Gamecocks touchdown and then Mizzou quarterback Drew Lock throws an interception, setting up a second touchdown for the visitors. Final result: South Carolina win, 31-13.

It’s a big loss; Benson told me before the game that the team needed to win at least three of its first our games. he ne t week, Mizzou hosts Purdue and loses 5 , lea ing the igers with a 1 2 record. ter the layers lea e the field, Richards, who also serves as a radio analyst for football games, anoints the students who came on the youth experience as one of the three stars of the game.

Head coach Barry Odom, whose team went in his first year last season, tells Richards and the other announcers, “I’m so thankful for our fans.”

Then he makes a plea.

“Just hang with us,” he says. “I really appreciate their support.”n

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Preparations for this year’s Strange Folk Festival are almost finished. | SUSAN BENNET

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FRIDAY 09/22 Strange Folk Festival After a short period of uncertainty concerning location, this year’s Strange Folk Festival is fully primed and ready to go in Carondelet Park (3900 Holly Hills Drive; www.strangefolkfestival. com). The DIY craft fair and fete has a full array of vendors selling handmade arts and crafts, as well as the bespoke playground Fort Featherbottom (kids only, please) and the Wandering Sidecar Bar (adults only, please). Strange Folk 2017 takes place from 3 to 7

p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday (September 22 to 24). A large selection of local bands perform all three days of the festival, ranging from Prairie Rehab on Friday to Afrobeat on Sunday. Admission is free, and just to add a little verve to the proceedings, the Bosnian Festival takes place the same weekend in another section of the park.

Admission is free.

The Feast By all counts, Matt and Anna are a happy couple. He’s a painter with a burgeoning gallery deal and she’s a modern business warriorwoman; really, all they can

complain about is the groaning and gnashing of their plumbing, but what do you expect in New York? Matt doesn’t really start to worry until the sewers begin talking to him. Then everybody he encounters speaks in the same sonorous voice, extolling him to fulfill his great destiny.

Cory Finley’s The Feast is an eerie comedy about the tenuous boundary separating reality from madness. St. Louis Actors’ Studio opens its eleventh season with the Burroughs grad’s play.

Performances take place at 8 p.m.

Thursday through Saturday and at 3 p.m. Sunday (September 22 to October 8) at the Gaslight Theater (358 North Boyle Avenue; www. stlas.org). Tickets are $30 to $35. riverfronttimes.com

Urban Chestnut’s Oktoberfest It is admittedly strange that a festival named Oktoberfest starts in September, but sometimes traditions don’t make sense.

Besides, do you want to argue semantics or drink beer and pogo to polka? Exactly. Urban Chestnut’s seventh Oktoberfest is this weekend at its midtown l o c a t i o n ( 3 2 2 9 Wa s h i n g t o n Avenue; www.urbanchestnut. com), with three days of beer, traditional German festival food (brats, pretzels, roasted chicken and currywurst) and music by

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the Deutschmeister Brass Band, the Bolzen Beer Band, Dave Hylla’s Good Time Band and Die Spitzbuam. Admission is free, but you pay for food and drinks with tokens instead of cash or plastic.

Tokens are $6 each or available in advance as a pack of six for $25. One token gets you a sixteenounce beer pour or a small food item, while two tokens are worth one commemorative Oktoberfest beer stein; 33 ounces of beer in that stein; or one large food item.

Tokens can only be purchased with cash on the day of the event, so either buy ’em in advance or stand in line. ’Fest hours are noon to 11 p.m. Friday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and noon to 7 p.m.

Sunday (September 22 to 24).

SATURDAY 09/23 Bookfest St. Louis Despite boasting two major library systems, a strong set of municipal libraries, a thriving culture of independent book stores and one of the strongest literary heritages of any city in America, St. Louis has had trouble maintaining an ongoing literary festival, with the notable exception of the St. Louis Jewish Book Festival. BookFest St. Louis aims to right that wrong with a long-lasting celebration of the literary arts. The inaugural BookFest St. Louis, which is organized and supported by the Central West End, Left Bank Books and the Left Bank Books Foundation, will take place Thursday to Saturday (September 21 to 23) at multiple locations within the Central West End (www.bookfeststl.com) and will feature panels with authors who write for children, as well as those who write literary fiction, memoir, poetry and science fiction. mong the noteworthy participants are Sherman Alexie, Nebula Award winner Charlie Jane Anders and her partner Annalee Newitz (with whom she ounded the science fiction blog io9.com), and Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore. If you love books, this is the place to be.

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Playful Pairings Dance concerts usually have a visual and auditory component for the audience, but rarely include a a or (unless you know a dancer very well, of course). For Karlovsky & Company Dance’s Playful Pairings, your sense of taste will be stimulated as well. While the group performs a set of site-specific dances, wine pairings and treats devised by chef Samantha Pretto that are designed to complement the themes and movements of each piece will be served. A small ensemble featuring piano, saxophone, bass, percussion and electronics will round out the sensory extravaganza. Perfect Pairings is performed at 8 p.m. tonight at the Grandel Theatre (3610 Grandel Square; www. karlovskydance.org). Tickets are $30.

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Renaissance fests come in for a great deal of mockery from the general public, much of it unwarranted.

If you have something against jousting demonstrations, turkey legs and people dressed up as kings and queens (and that dude in Jack Sparrow cosplay who shows up everywhere) having a good time outdoors, that’s on you.

Sure, much of the entertainment is historically inaccurate, but that mishmash of time, culture and historical figures doesn t sto you from enjoying Game of Thrones.

Speaking of, there’s a replica Throne of Swords at this year’s St. Louis Renaissance Festival, and it’s free to sit on for photo ops.

Other attractions this year include jugglers, a mermaid cove, improv troupe the ScallyWags and the tarttongued women in the Washing Well Wenches, plus apple cider oats. le cider oats c mon This year’s St. Louis Renaissance Festival takes place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday through October 15 at Rotary Park (2577 West Meyer Road, Wentzville; www.stlrenfest.com).

Tickets are $9.50 to $18.95, and you save money by buying your tickets in advance instead of at the gate.

a anese filmmaker ayao iya aki’s concern for the ecology and the future of the planet suffuses all of his films, but is on grand dis lay in Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. One thousand years in the future, all living things are slowly being consumed by a vast Sea of Decay. One of the few remaining patches of unspoiled earth is tucked away in the Valley of the Wind.

Nausicaä is a young woman who ignores the warnings of the elders and ventures out into the world on her small powered glider so she can observe the changes happening all over the planet. Threatened by giant insects, warring clans and the slow march of destruction, she suddenly realizes there may be a way to restart the life cycle of the planet.

Nausicaä is a swee ing film about a hero who believes in life more than she fears death. Fathom Events puts it back on the big screen for a limited time. You can see the English dubbed version at 12:55 p.m. unday and the subtitled film at p.m. Monday (September 24 and 25) at Marcus Wehrenberg Ronnies 20 Cine (5320 South Lindbergh Boulevard; www.fathomevents.com).

Tickets are $12.50.

TUESDAY 09/26 Dan Jones English historian Dan Jones has a knack for telling the big stories of history (War of the Roses, the rise and fall of the Plantagenet family) in a conversational, easy-going manner. His new book, The Templars, attempts to free the soldiers of the feared military order that rose to power during the Crusades from the centuries of legends, lies and fantasy that have built up around them. The Templars were many things holy warriors, shrewd bankers and awed men but their destruction at the hands of King Philip IV of France had less to do with devil worship and secret conspiracies than it did Philip’s massive debts to the order. Jones discusses the order and his book at 7 p.m. tonight at Left Bank Books (399 North Euclid Avenue; www.left-bank.com).

Admission is free, but you must buy a copy of The Templars through Left Bank to get in the signing line. n

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One Mean Mother Darren Arnonofsky aims to counter the objectification of women, but only ends up sucking his own wind Written by

MARYANN JOHANSON mother!

Written and directed by Darren Aronofsky.

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cannot recall the last time a film made me as angry as Darren Aronofsky’s mother! has. Maybe never. As mother! unfurled over its two-hour runtime, I found myself actually clenching my jaw with ever-increasing fury as Aronofsky’s head wended its way further and further up his own cinematic ass only to declare just how delicious his farts smell.

This is a filmmaker for whom mysticism and trippiness have been essential components of his work since his feature debut with 1998’s Pi. But never before has an uncomfortable ugliness he was exploring landed with such repulsive pointlessness. Aronofsky is intent on presenting to us in faux metaphysical trappings a “truth” he seems to believe is secret and cryptic. Instead, it’s utterly banal and inarguable. mother! — yes, that’s how the filmmakers ha e styled it is not an allegory, and it is not metaphorical, though I’m sure Aronofsky, as writer and director, would say it is. Nothing here makes a damn lick of sense except as the literal sequence of events that plods across the screen, and the “characters” are nothing more than cardboard stand-ups representing themselves. No one has a name, but the credits refer to Jennifer Lawrence’s character as “Mother,” even though she does not become

Mother (Jennifer Lawrence) takes nothing but abuse in Darren Aronofsky’s latest film. | NIKO TAVERNISE/PARAMOUNT PICTURES a mother until halfway through the film. other has no e istence outside the huge, rambling mansion in the middle of nowhere in which she lives with her husband (Javier Bardem).

He does have an external existence: He is not “Father” but “Him.” He is able to leave the house — she never does — and he is a writer, a poet, someone with work that bears no connection to her, beyond how, of course, she serves as his muse, his “inspiration.” She literally does nothing but serve him: She is renovating the house, which burned down before they met. She wants to “make a paradise” for him. She has no other desire.

But paradise is invaded: One of Him’s stalkerish fans, Man (Ed Harris), stops by for a visit and won’t leave. Later, Man’s wife, Woman (Michelle Pfeiffer), arrives and makes herself obnoxiously at home. Woman is also pretty much defined solely as a mother, to adult offspring Oldest Son and

Younger Brother (played by real-life brothers Domhnall and Brian Gleeson). If that “paradise” was a tip-off, the Cain-and-Abel dynamic between the adult sons cements it. Aronofsky is going to wallow in a tortured literalism not only about literary creation but capital-C Creation — but only from a narrow and abhorrently misogynistic perspective: Men create, and Create, and women suffer for men’s art, and for men’s religion.

In Aronofsky’s eye here, there is no vision or imagination that comes from the mind of a woman: Mother dresses in drab grays, and she’s painting Him’s house in the same noncolors. The creativity of men, however! Wow: It is chaotic and violent, apocalyptic, even. It’s an excitement that Him craves, and encourages, and too bad if Mother will become a victim of it.

Mother exists for no purpose in this tale except so that abuse may be heaped upon her, and so that she may be venerated by Him for it. But that is also the riverfronttimes.com

purpose of Mother to mother! The most generous interpretation of Aronofsky’s intent here is that he wants to condemn the reduction of women to dehumanized objects and brutalized symbols in both the overarching mythology of our culture and in the prosaic daily operations of Big Entertainment.

Aronofsky may even think he is sympathetic to Mother: The entire film is seen through her eyes, and intimate handheld cameras give us her sickened perspective on events that are menacing her. But it’s the same hatred for women masquerading as feminism that a slasher ick engages in when it se uali es a final girl s terror or the titillation of the audience.

You don’t counter the awful crap that gets piled on women by our culture, High or Low, by piling on more of the same awful crap. If mother! really wanted to decry the way women are abused and men are deified, it wouldn t merely slather an arty veneer on more of the same-old same-old. n

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Believe Albadia’s boast: The lamb chops are indeed “cooked to perfection.” | MABEL SUEN

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Way Out West Albadia brings marvelous Middle Eastern food to St. Charles County Written by

CHERYL BAEHR Albadia

3957 Mid Rivers Mall Drive, St. Peters; 636317-1777. Mon.-Sun. 9 a.m.-10 p.m.

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n my years as a restaurant critic, I’ve come to realize there is one piece of dining advice that should be codified in stone I you’re ever perusing a menu and come across a dish that is simply

called “garlic,” do not hesitate and do not question. Just order it.

Case in point is the “garlic” at lbadia, the fi e month old id dle Eastern restaurant located in St. Peters just on the edge of Cot tleville. The dish comes with no explanation, just a simple name, list of ingredients and a price, and when asked to describe it, our server curtly said, “It’s garlic.”

Had she given us a dissertation on the subject, however, it still would have failed to prepare us for the glory that descended upon our table. hat looked like lily white custard was in fact a savory dip, a cross between cream cheese like labneh and toum, the Lebanese condiment made of whipped gar lic and oil. Dip into it with warm pita bread, and the concoction re eals its u y, cloud like te ture, ortified with an oli e oil dri le, some cracked black pepper and

sumac. Pungent and soft, silken and light as air, the dish made me realize why the folks at Albadia didn t bother gi ing it a name It transcends words.

If I had any reservations about the uality o iddle astern ood that could come from a St. Charles County strip mall, Albadia’s “garlic” assuaged those concerns. The rest of the meal then not only put those doubts to bed, but converted me into a true believer. And I’m not the only one. In a few short months, Albadia has developed a loyal fan base that has been singing its praises to anyone who will listen.

The falafel, the hummus — if you read the online reviews, you detect an almost religious fervor in the tenor of the comments. t first, I wondered whether the excitement surrounding Albadia had to do with a lack of proper iddle astern s ots west o the riverfronttimes.com

issouri i er a actor that influenced owner Abed Qasam and his brother in law bli a a to o en the restaurant in the first place. A former chef at the Grand Park Hotel in the West Bank city o amallah, asam saw a need or authentic iddle astern ood in the area. He opened his first restaurant, aslik editerranean Cuisine, in Hazelwood around 2007 and developed a loyal following for his takes on alestinian in ected cuisine.

The problem was, much of Qa sam’s following came from Ches terfield and t. harles ounty, and these customers often lamented having to drive all the way to north county to enjoy his cooking. An swering the call, asam and a a opened Albadia in St. Peters this ast arch in an in iting s ace ust o id i ers all ri e near the

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ALBADIA Continued from pg 27 Page extension. Though the restau rant’s prices are reasonable, this is no mere grab and go s ot though you can do that too). Instead, the partners have created a warm, open dining room that invites guest to linger. ed ta estries decorate the walls, tables and ceilings, giv ing diners a comfortable — and closer — option for enjoying their food.

Not that you wouldn’t drive to the ends of the earth to eat that “garlic,” which turns out to be a mere precursor to the many other lu urious di s asam and a a prepare. In place of plain roasted eggplant for their baba ganoush, the partners grill the vegetable, im arting a dee , smoky a or that infuses the dish. The effect makes the baba ganoush so robust, you wonder if in fact you are eating a meat laden barbecue dish.

If you insist you’ve had good hummus, Albadia’s version will make you eat your words. How asam and a a can get such a silken texture from what’s basi cally a chickpea puree is astound ing he hummus is com letely void of any chunks. It’s pure vel vet. A generous helping of tahini gi es the di a round, earthy a vor positively laden with garlic.

If you prefer spice and texture, the hummus serves as a base for the foul moudamas, which pairs whole chickpeas with pepperon cini s iked oli e oil the addition turns what is already an excellent a eti er into a dece ti ely fiery meal.

Albadia’s falafel is some of the best in the area. Instead of the typical hard, thick exterior, this version is crisp yet delicate. It surrounds a soft, garlicky interior that is moist and u y. It s good

Albadia’s marvelous offerings include lamb chops, chicken shawarma sandwich, hummus and baba ganoush. | MABEL SUEN enough to enjoy as an appetizer on its own, simply dipped in tahini, though wrapped into a pita it also makes a satisfying sandwich.

Another excellent sandwich option is the chicken shawarma, which airs hunks o tender, s it roasted chicken with tahini, pickles, lettuce, onion and tomato, then wraps it all into a pita. So often, chicken shawarma can be dried out, but Albadia’s is surprisingly succulent and well seasoned. ee shawarma, served as a sandwich or on a platter with rice, is equally tender and well cooked, unlike the dried out erky that is so o ten passed off as this delicacy.

The ground kefta kebab is another excellent beef option.

The meat, seasoned with garlic, parsley, onions and spices, is the texture of breakfast sausage, but

so much more a or ul. ere, it is served with basmati rice, though I can only imagine how wonderful it would be as a filling or ita.

Albadia’s menu claims that the lamb chops are “cooked to er ection,” an o t em ty tagline that graces the pages of many menus. Here, there is substance to that claim, as shockingly tender lamb chops ooze their marinade and juice over spiced basmati rice.

The marinade is simple, allowing the mild a or o the lamb, kissed with grill char, to shine through.

You won’t find a better cooked piece of meat at even the city’s most expensive steakhouses.

You can get the lamb, together with uail cho s when a ailable , kefta, beef and chicken kabobs, beef and chicken shawarma and five different appetizers as part

of Albadia’s family plate — a monstrous feast that contains all the beauty of this delightful restaurant in one heaping platter.

Chesterfield, St. Peters — heck, e en em his seem like a reasonable drive to experience something so wonderful.

I’d say that this sampler platter distills everything wonderful about Albadia onto one plate. And it’s true, but you don’t have to go that over the top with your order.

Simply ask for a simple dish of “garlic” if you want to know what makes this hidden gem so special.

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f Emmy-winning food journalist Cat Neville had to pinpoint the moment she fell in love with food, it would have been while she was in the fourth or fifth grade, living in Turkey. “My dad was in the Air Force, so we lived all over the world,” Neville recalls.

I remember i idly when we first got to Turkey there was a base picnic, and the Turkish cooks were serving doner kebab. I’d never had anything like it, and it was so good that even after I spilled my 7UP all over my plate I ate it anyway.”

Though she never expected to have a career that includes running a food magazine, producing an acclaimed regional television show and launching a national public television program, Neville admits it makes sense in the context of her upbringing. Traveling from country to country and having to start over every few years, Neville saw food as a lens through which she could understand culture. “I wasn’t afraid of exploring,” Neville says. “I was the kid who would order escargot in a restaurant when I was in the second grade. I was so proud of myself.”

When she got to college, Neville pivoted to art history, though not because she was interested in memorizing paintings or artists. “I thought art was a fascinating way to explore culture — just like food was,” Neville explains. “But I also enjoyed media and began to envision myself in media or magazines or something like that.”

That vision coalesced around 2000 when Neville and Allyson Mace launched Sauce Magazine out of a south city apartment. At first, the lan was or the ubli-

Cat Neville, co-founder of Sauce Magazine and founder and publisher of Feast, is getting a national public television show. | JASON WINKELER cation to be a restaurant guide, but it became apparent that they needed to keep people on the site with quality content. “Back then we used to say we needed a site to be ‘sticky,’” Neville explains. “We didn’t want people to just come for information; we wanted them to stick around, so we started including recipes and essays and reviews. It wasn’t necessarily a grand vision, but it started taking on a life of its own.”

When Neville began working on Sauce, she still had a day job at Washington University Medical School. Every night after work, she would head home and code the site by hand. When the publication went to print in 2001, she was the designer, editor, photographer — whatever needed to be done.

As Neville explains, the St. Louis dining scene was a much different place in 2001, and she is excited to have had a front-row seat for its evolution. One of the biggest changes she has seen is the elevation of the farmer in the dining process — something that we take for granted now, but was not always the case. “I remember being at a farm dinner put together by an organization called Chef Collaborative at the Crossing early on,” Neville says. “There was this farmer who had brought in beets and lettuce, and it was just like a lightbulb going off. The idea of putting farmers on a pedestal and highlighting what they grow was a real turning point.”

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was more cutthroat, a climate that is the antithesis of today’s collaborative spirit. “I remember when the St. Louis Originals launched. It was a game-changer, because all of these independent restaurants were banking together to face the onslaught of chain restaurants coming to town,” explains Neville. It was di cult or some o the chefs, because there was this mindset of, ‘Why should I help other places when there are only so many diners to go around?’”

These same naysayers had a similar critique of local food journalism, insisting to Neville that there simply were not enough people in St. Louis who cared about food.

She proved them wrong, helping Sauce achieve a success she never

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CAT NEVILLE Continued from pg 31 dreamed of before departing the company in 2010 to launch her next project, Feast. She parlayed that success into the series Feast TV where she shares her passion for exploring culture through the people and places that make up the regional food and beverage scene.

The next step for Neville is bigger than she could have ever imagined: the development of a national television series called TasteMAKERS, focused on what she describes as the “maker movement” in contemporary food culture. For Neville, this phenomenon marks a new wave for the culinary scene, even as it impacts American culture in everything from clothing to tech. “It’s not that chefs aren’t the rock stars of the food industry, but there has just been so much coverage of chefs — and decent coverage of farmers,” Neville explains. “But there just is not a lot of storytelling digging into the maker movement. When you look at what is happening in the food industry, people are deciding to become cheesemakers or tofu makers or distillers. They don’t feel that they all have to become chefs to have that impact on the industry.”

TasteMAKERS is currently in the funding stages, and though she does not want to give away too many s ecifics, e ille is e cited about many things she has seen in the course of the series’ development. From a woman in Florida making bean-to-bar chocolate to a woman in New Mexico doing varietal honey, she hopes the show will not only show the wide variety in American cuisine but also the diverse landscapes and cultures that make up the country.

Neville sees the makers movement as arising from a hunger for something real. “The word ‘authenticity’ is so overused, but what it means in this context is that something was made as an extension of someone’s passion and drive to create. I think that’s something we are all seeking. With so much that is artificial in our li es, we are hungry for something real.”

Neville took a break from TasteMAKERS to share her thoughts on the St. Louis restaurant community, some of her favorite people and places around town, and why she always tries to be the one doing the interviewing.

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

I don’t really like to talk about myself. That’s why I’m usually the one doing the interviews!

What daily ritual is non-negotiable for you?

Coffee. First thing in the morning, I head downstairs and make coffee. Once I’ve had a sip or two, I’m ready to tackle the day ahead.

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

The ability to see into the future.

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

I don’t know if it’s just this past year, but I’m excited about the explosion of creative, chefdriven restaurants serving personal and unique food. Nothing is more boring than going into a new restaurant and seeing that the menu is something like a checklist of expected stuff. I enjoy being surprised and intrigued by what a chef has created. Confluence Kombucha is a great example. If you haven’t been there yet, go, and get the tempeh and the nukazuke.

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

I would like to see more north rican restaurants and more avors from the Middle East. I would also like to see more local wine available in restaurants and bars.

There are some outstanding wines made locally and they deserve to get more attention.

Who is your St. Louis food crush?

This is a tough question. There are so many talented, inspiring people working in the culinary industry, but I’d have to say Nathaniel Reid. He is one of the most humble, friendly people working in St. Louis right now. He could have set up shop anywhere in the country, and he chose to come home and open a bakery with his wife. The team he has assembled came here to work with Nathaniel because of his immense talent, yes, but also because they share his vision for what a neighborhood bakery can be. He is the kind of chef people admire for the right reasons: He is dedicated to his craft, cares about his team and wants to have a positive impact on his community. And, it goes without saying, his pastries are perfection.

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afe Piazza Now (1900 Arsenal Street, 314-343-0294), the restaurant that quietly opened its doors August 31 in Benton Park, may seem a bit confusing when you first walk in the door.

After all, it’s located in the former home of the Benton Park Cafe — but the space seems quite a bit smaller. And what happened to the bar?

The answer, as it turns out, is right there in the name. Cafe Piazza Now is the fast-casual arm of a brand-new restaurant with two parts — and it’s open, well, now in one-half of the space, with an entrance currently on Lemp. Soon to come: Cafe Piazza, a full-service counterpart that will take up the other, with an entrance on Arsenal.

(Eventually, the entrance on Lemp will be phased out.)

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menu items. Even the price point, says co-owner Tim Meinecke, will be similar if not the same. The only difference is the experience.

At Cafe Piazza Now, customers can order at the counter for quick service. At Cafe Piazza, they can linger.

“You can have your fast-casual environment here, or you can hang out over there and mingle a little more,” Meinecke says. “Or you can eat here and then go hang out over there.” After all, that’s where the bar is.

Meinecke got his start in the restaurant business as a busboy at Vito’s Sicilian Pizzeria & Ristorante in Grand Center, and he owes his destiny to that high school job.

After earning his degree in restaurant management from Mizzou, and running a restaurant in Lake of the Ozarks for two years, he rose through the ranks to become Vito’s executive chef. Now his co-owner at Cafe Piazza is the eponymous Vito LaFata III. Fans of Vito’s will be delighted by the menu at Cafe Piazza Now, which offers Sicilian-style deep dish pizza as well as specialty pies perfectly cooked in the state-ofthe-art oven, which deploys both wood fire and lasers yes, really for a crust that’s nothing less than perfect.

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ter dinner, they intend to bring the gelato operation that previously flourished at Vito’s in-house at Cafe Piazza; a case now occupies the front counter.

The restaurant has come together rapidly — especially in light of the fact that much of the renovations were done in-house. (In addition to giving the place a sharp new look, the team working on the project had to lift the 4,100-pound pizza oven through the window.)

Construction didn’t even begin until May 25. “I went from having the softest hands from washing them all the time in the kitchen to construction hands,” Meinecke jokes.

But the work at Cafe Piazza Now is nothing compared to what’s going on next door at Cafe Piazza.

There, artist Paco Rosic has been spray-painting an amazing St. Louis-focused mural on the ceiling, a la Michelangelo. Smaller details of Rosic’s work are framed on the fast-casual side for those wanting to make a purchase.

For now, the partners hope to get Cafe Piazza open soon, and they continue to iron out the opening kinks at Cafe Piazza Now. “We’re new, and the concept is still evolving,” says Meinecke. “It’s like a piece of art — always in progress.”

Only this particular labor of love is a whole lot tastier.

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ike most chefs, Ari Jo Ellis, chef/ owner of the Cut (2635 Cherokee Street, 314-250-6007), knew she wanted a restaurant of her own one day.

She just didn’t know that day was now.

“I imagined opening my own thing two to five years down the road, so I decided to put out some feelers to people I know who have opened their own restaurants,” Ellis says. “Then I met up with Bob and he asked me how serious I was. I said, ‘Um, I don’t know, are you going to hold my hand through it all?’”

“Bob” is none other than Bob Brazell.

As the chef/owner behind one of the Cherokee Street neighborhood’s most popular restaurants, Byrd & Barrel, Brazell had his finger on the pulse of the district. He knew that the owners of the Fortune Teller Bar were looking for someone to take over its food service after the Little Dipper sandwich shop pulled out in late July.

A rising star chef who’s worked at Quincy Street Bistro, Bolyard’s and Kounter Kulture, Ellis had a few different ideas for a restaurant concept, but the Fortune Teller Bar’s sparse kitchen infrastructure helped her hone her ideas.

“It’s a small place, there’s not a lot of room and there’s no hood system or gas, which means you can’t really do fried foods,” Ellis explains. “I took that and decided to draw from my background. I really like to break down whole animals and got the opportunity to do so at a few of my last jobs, so the idea of sausages just made sense.”

Ellis has translated that love of wholeanimal butchery into the five sausages that make up the Cut’s menu. All are made in-house, as are as many accoutrements as possible, including kimchi and sauerkraut. They include “the O.G.,” a bratwurst with beer mustard and sauerkraut, and the “BLT Brat,” topped with bacon, lettuce and tomato.

Side dishes include hearty baked beans, slaw, Old Vienna’s Rap Snacks chips and a rotating “Wild Card,” such as braised greens with bacon and onions.

The Cut has been selling out — a sign that the area was ready for this style of accessible, whole-animal cooking, Ellis says.

“I just really like this style of cooking — being able to see something whole and then break it down into something you eat,” she explains. “Not that many people have that much of an interest in it, but I love it. I want to make it my niche.”

The Cut is open Wednesday through Saturday from 5 p.m. to midnight.

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f your idea of the Bevo Mill neighborhood is confined to windmills and Bosnian restaurants, Joel Castillo of Salinas 2 (4601 Gravois Avenue, 314-696-8877) wants to change your mind.

On August 23, Castillo and his business partners opened the doors to their Mexican restaurant, Salinas 2, in a Gravois storefront that used to house Bosnia Gold. This is the second location of the wildly popular Mexican restaurant. The original, a Riverfront Times Best of St. Louis winner for “Best Fish Tacos” and “Best Mexican Restaurant,” is located in hesterfield.

Salinas 2 is one of a growing number of Mexican restaurants that have taken up residence in this once Bosnian-dominated part of town, and from what Castillo has noticed, they have been a welcome addition. “We have all different kinds of people from the neighborhood, including many Mexicans and Hondurans who live around here,” he explains. “We welcome everyone.”

In that spirit, Salinas 2 is neither completely Americanized or fiercely authentic; it’s both.

The comprehensive menu features many gringo-friendly dishes

you d find at other e merican restaurants, such as fajitas, burritos, nachos, and chips and salsa.

However, the menu also consists of several authentic dishes like menudo, ceviche and whole grilled fish. here is something or e eryone,” Castillo says.

No matter what you order, though, Castillo proudly notes that it will be handmade. Everything from the beans, salsa and cheese dip that are served gratis to the taco shells fried to order is made in-house, something that he says is not often seen at this type of restaurant.

The original Salinas opened its doors in 1992, and though it continues to be successful, liquor laws requiring the restaurant to cease serving at 11 p.m. prohibited Castillo and his team from becoming the nightlife destination they wanted to be. “In the city, we can remain open until 1:30 a.m., which allows us to have karaoke and live music on Friday and Saturday nights,” Castillo explains.

“We have so many families come in — kids, grown-ups — everyone takes turns singing karaoke well into the evening.”

And if you need some liquid courage to get in front of that microphone, Salinas 2 offers shockingly discounted drink specials that change from night to night.

These include $1.99 “Colossal Margarita” Tuesdays, “Jumbo Margaritas” on Wednesdays and weekend beer specials. You can enjoy these beverages either inside the large, stone-accented dining room or outside on the well-lit patio.

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Born Again, Again How church, smurfs and a breakup brought about the grand chamber pop of Weyes Blood Written by

HOWARD HARDEE Weyes Blood

8 p.m. Friday, September 22. Peabody Opera House, 1400 Market Street. $36.50 to $42.

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hen Natalie Mering is on tour in Europe, she’ll often attend Sunday church services just to hear the music.

It makes sense, then, that she writes songs fit or a cathedral.

“It’s a natural inclination,” she says, “an appreciation for that kind of beauty, you know?”

The 29-year-old songwriter and multi-instrumentalist — better known by her stage name, Weyes Blood — spoke with the Riverfront Times ahead of her September 22 show at the Peabody Opera House with Father John Misty.

She explains that her exposure to church music started young. Her parents are hippies who got swept up in the Born Again Christian movement in the 1970s, and her childhood home in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, was loving, cultured and musical. Since she was gifted with an otherworldly, rafter-raising singing voice, her parents encouraged her to join choir.

But with religious life came some restrictions. Certain things were strictly disallowed s ecifically TV shows like The Smurfs and The Care Bears.

“There was some weird Christian reasons why they weren’t good cartoons for us to watch,” she says. “Care Bears were too, like, hippie-communist, and Smurfs were homosexual because there is only one female Smurf.”

Despite her appreciation for the music, Mering could hardly

Natalie Mering’s powerful singing voice first took shape in the churches of her youth. | KATIE MILLER be described as devout. The hairline fractures she saw in the religious construct as a child grew into chasms as she got older, especially regarding homosexuality.

“That was the biggest thing for me, I think,” she says. “I was like, ‘How could God not want there to be gay people? It’s the perfect solution for overpopulation!’”

At fourteen, Mering expressly denounced Christianity and started performing under the name Weyes Blood. “I kind of wiggled my way out of it, and my folks were pretty bummed about it, but they both had secular backgrounds,” she says. “So, they let me set myself free at a certain point.”

Most of her twenties have been spent touring and making music,

including her self-released debut album The Outside Room (2011) and follow-up The Innocents (2014) on Brooklyn-based indie label Mexican Summer. The latest of Weyes Blood’s albums, last year’s widely acclaimed First Row Seat To Earth, is a consistently melancholy, at times gut-wrenching breakup record. On the achingly sad “Seven Words,” she sings: “Who am I but a stranger who took you down?/ It’s starting to burn and I wanna go home/Only home I’ve known, lost in the storm.”

Having played her heartbreak songs on tour in the U.S. and Europe for the past year, however, Mering says she’s processed that phase of her life and moved on.

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past that were too sad to sing all the time,” she says, “but these songs I intentionally wrote to be a freeing experience, and not something where I’m harboring any kind of resentment. I’ve turned the songs themselves into a kind of therapy, and they don’t really traumatize me.

“I get into an emotional space that’s more universal and less about the specific person,” she adds.

In fact, she’s already facing forward and working on new material. As a student of popular music history, she draws inspiration from old-school songwriters like George Gershwin, and on her next album — tentatively due for release next year — she says she’ll explore “the long-forgotten art of the refrain.”

“It’s sometimes used in modern music, but it’s really rare,” she says. “It’s basically a song that doesn’t have a chorus. I’ve found that really inspiring to look back and see, structurally, how much popular music has changed, and I’m trying to kind of meld the oldworld pop music with the future.” he s finished writing the as yet untitled new album and is set to enter the studio next year, though she’s sure it will take on a different form once it’s all said and done.

“A lot of things will get chopped, other things will manifest out of the ether,” she says. “It always ends up being a bit different from what you set out to do. I have an album’s worth of songs, but whether or not they all make it on the album … we’ll see.”

And it’s always possible that Mering writes more music before she enters the studio with her band.

Inspiration typically strikes when she’s emotionally vulnerable — like when she’s hiding under a blanket in the tour van, far from home and the drab community churches of her childhood, thinking about life on the road.

“That’s usually when the honesty comes out,” she says. “Any time I try to force something, it doesn’t end up being as genuine.

I’ll have these moments of clarity where I’m open to myself.

“It’s like you suddenly become aware of a song that already exists in your subconscious, and now it has a path to come out.” n

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8 p.m. Wednesday, October 4. Off Broadway, 3509 Lemp Avenue. Free. 314-773-3363.

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s crowds milled about the Muny grounds on LouFest’s sunny Sunday afternoon a few weeks back, Ryan Koenig was in a familiar spot: onstage, crumpled cowboy hat on his head and raggedy bandana around his neck, offering harmony vocals and musical accompaniment for Jack Grelle’s set of rag-tag honky-tonk tunes.

It’s a stance that music fans all over the globe have come to recognize, albeit in a slightly different context. Koenig has been Pokey LaFarge’s right-hand man for nearly a decade, comprising the original South City Three (along with Adam Hoskins and Joey Glynn) and standing pat as the band has grown in size and sound.

But that Sunday afternoon show was just a momentary diversion amid a characteristically busy week for Koenig; he premiered his new record, Two Different Worlds, with a patio set at the Whiskey Ring on Friday night, and immediately after LouFest he bee-lined to take part in the festival’s bastard offs ring, u est, as a member o the ueer country outfit Lavender Country. The next night he takes a breather and cracks a can of Stag at the Tick Tock Tavern to talk about his new record, not long before he performs a solo acoustic set at the Tower Grove East bar. He’ll do a gig at Foam and a set with the long-running trio Rum Drum Ramblers at Joe’s Café later in the same week.

So St. Louis music fans have had the chance to see Koenig’s development and varied styles for some time.

But with the early-October release of his solo debut, the singer and multi-instrumentalist has gathered the many strands of his musical identity — and many local musicians — to create a spirited and varied record that uidly ca tures country, rock and e ican olk music into a cohesive whole.

Opening track “Miss Edie” starts the record with a jolt as Koenig and his band channel some of the southo the border garage rock ty ified by the ir ouglas Quintet, with a wheezy combo organ leading the charge. Koenig calls his deep-dive into Doug Sahm’s catalogue “one of those discoveries where it all makes sense now,” and he gets more explicit in his use of Mexican song forms later in the disc. The bilingual “Podemos Si Te Quieres” tips a cap to Marty Robbins with accordion and a note er ect guitar solo filling in the blanks.

“I’ve always been writing with the idea of an electric band in mind, and I didn’t really have that band until recently,” Koenig says. He notes LaFarge’s drummer Matt Meyer and Grelle’s steel player Tom Heath as some o the missing ieces that hel ed esh out his idealized sound, but he also cherry-picked players from around town many a liated with his label, ig uddy Records) to prop up these songs. A coterie of local guitarists — including John Horton of the Bottle Rockets and Koenig’s longtime Rum Drum Ramblers bandmate

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Mat Wilson — each contributed to two songs, giving a distinct imprint on each track.

“Ben [Majchrzak, recording engineer] said, ‘You picked the best guitar player for every song. Their creativity makes each song what it is, and I can sing every one of their solos — which means it’s good,’” says Koenig.

At the Tick Tock, the crowds have already gathered more than an hour before Koenig’s set is scheduled to start — there’s even some competitive table-jockeying happening near the makeshift stage. But even for a relatively low-impact gig like this, Koenig refuses to stay in one lane — he’s carried two armloads of instruments to the venue, and he intends to use all of them.

“I’m gonna try a lot of stuff,” he says. “Lots of times with just solo stuff, it’s acoustic-guitar strummy, tearin-the-beer type stuff, and there’s gonna be a lot of that, but I also brought my resonator to do some finger icking. I may try a fiddle and singing number too — gonna underline ‘try.’”

The move from sideman to frontman isn’t entirely a new role for Koenig. A few years back, he and his wife Kellie Everett released an LP as the Southwest Watson Sweethearts, and he has performed intermittently as Lonesome Cowboy Ryan and his Dried-Up Teardrops.

So while being front and center isn’t a new sensation, it does carry more weight than being a cog in a much bigger machine.

“It keeps the nerves in check, that’s for sure,” Koenig says of his tenure with LaFarge’s band. “You can play to, god, probably 10,000 people — at that point who’s counting? I can’t even see the end of this crowd.

“But at the same time, the shows I play with him when there are that many people, I’ll go and play some barroom with Jack or Kellie or myself and there are ten people there,” he continues. “You have to be able to work both — and both are humbling. ‘Why is it me playing for 10,000 people? This is incredible.’ But you’re still gonna play for ten people sometimes.”

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

0.

THE STEPPIN STONES: 7 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St. Louis, 314-289-9050.

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.m., $15 $65. he

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RICHARDSON ESTATE RICHARDSON LANDESTATE

TH BEGINNING AT TH SATURDAY, OCT. 7 AT SATURDAY, OCT. 7 10:00 A.M. SATURDAY, OCT. 7TH BEGINNING 10:00 A.M. LAND

BEGINNING AT 10:00 A.M.

LOCATION: XXX SB1 ROUTE3 3&&OCT. GG ROAD, WATERLOO, IL ILAT BEGINNING TH LOCATION: XXX SATURDAY, SB1 ROUTE GG ROAD, WATERLOO, 7TH SATURDAY, OCT. 7 10:00 A.M.WATERLOO, IL LOCATION: XXX SB1 ROUTE 3 & GG ROAD, Watch for signs LOCATION: on Rt. 3XXX between Hanover Road and GG SB1 ROUTE 3 & GG ROAD, WATERLOO, IL Road BEGINNING AT 10:00 A.M.

Watch for signs on Rt. 3 between Hanover Road and GG Road

Watch for signs on Rt. 3VIEWING” Hanover Road and GG Road “OPEN & LAND LOCATION: XXXHOUSE SB1 ROUTE 3 & GGbetween ROAD, WATERLOO, IL “OPEN HOUSE & LAND VIEWING” Watch for signs on Rt. 3 between Hanover Road and GG Road

SATURDAY, SEPT. 16 & -1:00 - 3:00 P.M. “OPEN HOUSE LAND Watch for signs Rt. 3opportunity between Hanover Road and GG Road “OPEN HOUSE & LAND VIEWING” This is aon great forVIEWING” an investment, This farm has 87+ or - acres w/63.87 TH TH SATURDAY, SEPT. 16 -1:00 3:00 P.M. hunting, fishing and farming.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 16 1:00 3:00 acrestillable.

6TH acres of theP.M. tillable is SATURDAY, SEPT. 16 -- 1:00 - 3:00 P.M. “OPEN HOUSE &--LAND VIEWING” TH

This farm has 87+ or - acres w/63.87

in CRP years leftofon acresw/3 tillable.

6 has acres thecontract. tillable farm or - isacres w/63.87 This farm has 87+ or - acres w/63.87 ThisThis is zoned A287+ in farm CRP w/3 years left onAgriculture. contract.

New Hanover Road acres 6Agriculture. acres of the is ThisDescription: farmtillable. is zoned A2Parts Legal of Sec. 2 tillable acres tillable.

6 acres of the tillable is New Hanover Road Legal Description: Parts of Sec. 2 & 11 T2SThis R10W. has 87+ Route 3 ininCRP w/3farm years left or on- acres contract. in w/63.87 CRP w/3 years left on contract. in T2S R10W. Pin&#1107-02-400-015: 55.49 acres; acresistillable. acres of theThis tillable is is zoned A2 Agriculture.

Pin # 07-02-400-015: 55.496acres; This farm zoned A2 Agriculture. farm PinPin #07-11-200-009: 23.16 acres; #07-11-200-009: 23.16 acres; in CRP w/3 years left on contract.

New Hanover Road New Hanover Road Parts of Sec. 2 Description: Parts ofLegal Sec. Description: 2 PinLegal #07-11-200-002: 8.5 acres.

Pin #07-11-200-002: 8.5 acres.

This farm is zoned Agriculture.

Part of lies inA2Waterloo, Part ofthis thisthis farm farm lies ininWaterloo, & 11 in T2S R10W. Part of11 farm lies Waterloo, & in T2S R10W. New Hanover Road Legal Description: Parts of Sec. 2 IL city limits.

This property has a city limits. property (Lines Not Exact) IL IL city limits.

This This property has a has Pin #a 07-02-400-015: 55.49 acres; (Lines Not Exact) Pin 07-02-400-015: 3 room#club house, lake/pond and55.49 acres; & 11 in T2S R10W. 3 room club house, lake/pond and and 3good room club lake Pintwo #07-11-200-009: 23.16 acres; hunting woods.house, Pin #07-11-200-009: 23.16 acres; Pin # 07-02-400-015: 55.49 acres; good hunting woods.

Terms: 10% downgood day of auction. ponds, and hunting woods.

Pin #07-11-200-002: 8.5 acres.

Pin #07-11-200-009: 23.16 acres; Remainder due at closing, approx.

Pin #07-11-200-002: 8.5 acres.

Terms: 10% down day of auction.

Terms: 10% down day auction.

Part 30 days. Pin Taxes pro-rated to date of of #07-11-200-002: 8.5 acres.of this farm lies in Waterloo, Remainder due at closing, approx.

Part of this farm lies in Waterloo, closing.

Subject to tenant’s rights.

Remainder at closing, IL city limits. This property has a days.

Taxes pro-rated tocrops date of in approx.

Part ofdue this2017 farm lies Waterloo, (Lines Not Exact) 30 IL Possession when fall city limits.

This property has a 30 days.

Taxes pro-rated to3date closing.

Subject tenant’s rights. room (Lines Not Exact) IL city limits.

This property hasofaclub house, lake/pond and are harvested on to farm land.

(Lines Not Exact)GG Road 3Attorney room3forwhen club house, lake/pond and Possession fall 2017 crops Estate: David Friess, closing.

Subject to tenant’s rights. good hunting woods. room club house, lake/pond and Red Bud,hunting 618-282-4599 arePossession harvested on farm land.fall 2017 Terms: good woods. when crops 10% down day of auction. good hunting woods.

Auctioneer’s Note: This a great opportunity for an investment, hunting, fishing and farming.

GGis Road Attorney for Estate: David Friess, Terms: 10% 10% down dayday of of auction.

For information please call Auction Service.are Terms: auction. due at closing, approx.

Remainder harvested on down farm land.

Red Bud, 618-282-4599

SATURDAY, SEPT. 16

TH

Attorney Estate: David Friess, Auctioneer’s Note: This is a great opportunity for an investment, hunting, fishing andfor farming.

30 days.

Taxes pro-rated to dateofofSubject For License information please call Auction Service. Red Bud, 618-282-4599 30 days.

Taxes pro-rated to closing. date OWNER: #444000501

Remainder at closing, Remainder due due at closing, approx.

30approx. days. Taxes pro-rated to date of

to tenant’s rights. closing.

Subject to tenant’s rights. when fall 2017 crops Red Bud, IL -- 618-282-3931 Possession MARGARET RICHARDSON closing.

Subject to tenant’s rights.

Cell: 618-534-2295 Possession when fall 2017 crops ESTATE harvested on farm land.

Burmester Auction Service, LLCGG RoadPossession Website: www.burmesterauction.com when fall 2017arecrops OWNER: are harvested on farm land.

Auctioneers: Col. Dale A. Burmester • Col. Kent Miller • Col. David York OWNER: License #444000501 Attorney for Estate: David Friess, are harvested on farm land.

GG Road RICHARDSON ESTATE Attorney for Estate: David Friess, Red Bud, IL -- 618-282-3931 MARGARET RICHARDSON Red Bud, 618-282-4599 GG Road Cell: 618-534-2295

Auctioneer’s Note: Website: www.burmesterauction.com

Attorney for Estate: David Friess, 314-421-9538 Red Bud, 618-282-4599 ESTATE

This is a great opportunity for an investment, hunting, fishing and farming.

richardsonestate42@gmail.com Bud, fishing 618-282-4599 Auctioneer’s Note: This is a great opportunity for an investment,Red hunting, and farming.

Auctioneers: Col. Dale A. Burmester • Col. Kent Miller • Col. David ForYork information please call Auction Service.

For information please call Auction Service.fishing and farming.

Auctioneer’s Note: This is a great opportunity for an investment, hunting,

Burmester AuctionLLC Service, LLC Burmester Auction Service, License #444000501 For information please call Auction Service.

OWNER:

OWNER: License #444000501 Red Bud, ILLLC -- 618-282-3931 MARGARET RICHARDSON Burmester Auction Service, MARGARET RICHARDSON Red Bud, IL -- 618-282-3931

Cell: 618-534-2295 OWNER: License #444000501 Cell: 618-534-2295 ESTATE ESTATE Website: www.burmesterauction.com www.burmesterauction.com Red Bud, ILWebsite: -- 618-282-3931 MARGARET RICHARDSON Auctioneers: Col. DaleKent A. Burmester Col. Kent Auctioneers: Col. Dale A. Burmester • Col. Miller • Col. •David York Miller • Col. David York Cell: 618-534-2295 ESTATE

Website: www.burmesterauction.com Auctioneers: Col. Dale A. Burmester • Col. Kent Miller • Col. David York

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4949.

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lers, ri., e t.

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

22, 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jeffer-

AFROSEXYCOOL: ri., e t. 22,

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

eady oom, 1 5

.m., $5. he

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314-833-3929.

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eart

.m., $25. ubar,

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

EVOLFO: olyshades, oreal ills, hu., e t.

ENCLOSED, CLIMATE CONTROLLED 21, .m., $ . he inkhole, 2 outh roadPAVILION way, t. ouis, 1 2 2 0 .

AMERICAN AQUARIUM: Mon., Sept. 25,PATIO 8 p.m., e t. 2 ,

.m., $20 $2 . he eady oom,

4195 Manchester Ave, St. Louis, 314-833-3929. $1 $20.

roadway, 50

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Louis, 314-498-6989.

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ANGEL PRESENTS SOUL SEARCHING: Mon., Sept.

25, 8 p.m., $10. BB’s Jazz, Blues & Soups, 700 S. roadway, t. ouis, 1 ry

San Fermin. | PHOTO BY DANNY RENSHAW

.m., $12. lueber-

he uck oom, 650

elmar l d.,

2

22,

.m., $

Old Rock House, 1200 South Seventh Street. $15.

314-588-0505.

If San Fermin had simply stuck to sumptuous orchestral pop music, as heard on its self-titled debut, that would have been understandable.

The band could have operated as a less greyscale Tindersticks and performed the multi-layered compositions that sprung from the pen and piano and Ellis Ludwig-Leone.

But the last two albums have found the eight-piece band embracing

pure pop pleasures and a healthy streak of electro-fried elegance. Both Allen Tate and Charlene Kaye have grown into their roles as co-singers while finding time to release their own solo records, but the alchemy of San Fermin remains a malleable, recognizable format where horns, strings and synths work in service of Ludwig-Leone’s songs.

Pavo? Pavo! Brooklyn quintet Pavo Pavo will open the set, playing songs from its debut album Young Narrator in the Breakers.—Christian Schaeffer

BILLY PEEK: at., e t. 2 ,

.m., $5.

oadhouse and itchen,

ld

ebster ro es, 1

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ni ersity ity, 1

2

elmar l d., .

.m., $15 $1 .

SAN FERMIN:

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

SORRY PLEASE CONTINUE:

.m., $5. he

ea y

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

all, 61

elmar l d.,

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.m., $22 $25.

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0353.

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$ 6. he ageant,

6161 elmar l d., t. ouis, 1 $5. hu., e t. 21, 10 .m., $10.

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Louis, 314-498-6989.

COLD WAR KIDS:

ir ly, un., ec. ,

.m., $1 . anchester

$ 0. e, t.

.m.,

.m.,

, lues

ou s, 00 . roadway, t. ouis, 1

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GLORIA ATTOUN: Sat., Sept. 23, 8 p.m., $10-$15.

314-560-2778. the low oys, kkomouse,

3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

THE GREEN MCDONOUGH BAND: Sun., Sept. 24, 4 p.m., $10-$15. Sun., Sept. 24, 4 p.m., free. ational lues

5222. enny o ues

BUBBAHONEY: inkhole,

2

att ace,

i

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ithu ye, ri., e t. 22,

$ 0. elmar

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.m., ree. he eady

anchester

e, t. ouis, 1

all, 61

.m., $10 $12. ubar,

oday, at., e t. 2 ,

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.m., $ $10. l enador,

on., e t. 25,

the oa , ister

outh roadway, t. ouis, 1

s a

, lues

2

2 2 0 .

Sept. 21, 7 p.m., $20. National Blues Museum, LIVE MUSIC or DJ 615 ashington e., t. ouis.

EVERY FRIDAY IMPROV & SATURDAY LAB: ed., e t. 2 , .m., $ . oam

ou s, 00 . roadway, t.

other ear,

CJ BOYD:

on., e t. 25,

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

Coffee & Beer, 3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100.

LEG: Fri., Sept.SPORTS 22, 9 p.m., $10-$12. Old HDTVs EVERYWHEREJAKE’S & ALL THE

CONVICTIONS:

Casino, 1 Ameristar Blvd., St. Charles, 636-949-

26, 7 p.m., $10-$12. Fubar, 3108 Locust St, St.

0505.

7777.

Louis, 314-289-9050.

JAMAICA LIVE TUESDAYS:

COPNECONIC:

arkness i ided, ue., e t.

ult eason, ndy ohnen,

$ 5. he ageant, 6161 elmar l d., t. ouis,

Sun., Sept. 24, 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer,

314-726-6161.

3359 Jefferson Ave., St. Louis, 314-772-2100. onica, amar ra ton, at., ec.

ard,

HURRICANE RUTH CD RELEASE PARTY: hu.,

TIËSTO: Sat., Nov. 18, 9 p.m., $60. Ameristar

.m., $ 0

i

CHUCK FLOWERS: Sun., Sept. 24, 5 p.m., $10.

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

ed., ec. 1 ,

elmar l d.,

.m., $ . he inkhole,

6989.

X AMBASSADORS:

ed., e t. 2 ,

all, 61

St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

HIGH WAISTED:

ade

.m., $22

314-726-6161. .m., $ 0 $ 5. elmar

olden urls,

e.,

elmar l d., t. ouis,

HARD WORKING AMERICANS:

833-3929.

CAVEOFSWORDS:

ashington

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

HAKEN:

, ister

useum, 615

St. Louis.

GROVES: Fri., Sept. 22, 7 p.m., $10. Fubar, 3108

.m., $ . he

outh roadway, t. ouis, 1

Louis, 314-436-5222.

MODERN ENGLISH: Fri., Nov. 3, 8 p.m., $20. Off roadway, 50

ext. 815.

.m., $10.

o . 1,

Louis, 314-833-3929.

,

25 5

s a

3124 Cherokee St., St. Louis, 314-771-2222.

ed.,

acob i, hu., e t. 21,

Sat., Sept. 23, 8 p.m., $7. Foam Coffee & Beer,

BROTHER JEFFERSON DUO: hu., e t. 21,

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

orth t. ouis ounty,

.m., $15.

e., t. ouis, 1

498-6989.

GOT VILLAINS:

26 6161.

assie, hoda ,

314-869-9090.

GLASSJAW:

WEDNESDAY NIGHT JAZZ CRAWL: 5 p.m. contin52

00

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he ocal oint, 2 20 utton l d, t. ouis, rightened abbit,

CASTLE: ue., e t. 26,

Sun., Nov. 19, 7 p.m., $25-$65. Ambassador,

w

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.

FREDDIE JACKSON:

roadway, 50

314-696-2888.

oom, 1 5

THE WONDER YEARS: INTIMATE ACOUSTIC TOUR:

ouse, 1200 . th t.,

.m., $ . he

hrine, hu., e t. 21,

5226.

unky utt

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

DESTROYER: Fri., Feb. 2, 8 p.m., $18-$20. Blue2

ld ock

THE FREMONTS:

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

ni ersity ity, 1

ouse,

ld a ital, arondelet

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE:

BUCKO TOBY:

elmar l d.,

era

FRANKIE COSMOS: ue., e t. 26,

5226.

DEATHCROWN: Mon., Oct. 16, 8 p.m., $10-$12.

he uck oom, 650

eyes lood, ri., e t.

St. Louis, 314-588-0505.

ednesdays,

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

328-2309.

ill

e,

.m. eale on roadway, 01 . roadway, t.

St. Louis, 314-726-6161.

berry

.m., $10 $ 0.

wy 61

rchard

Louis, 314-621-7880. uy, ri., e t. 22,

erland,

.m., $ 6.50 $ 2. eabody

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SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2017

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Prepare to be amazed as the RFT throws a birthday bash like no other. Drink from a champagne fountain. Grab tasty cocktails from an ice luge. Enjoy an eclectic range of entertainment including live music, fire performances, break dancers, all outrageously hosted by a fabulous drag queen emcee. Meet current and past Best of winners.

Extremely limited number of $15 tickets available. Don’t miss out! Get yours today!

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1000 CLARK AVE. • DOWNTOWN Proceeds Benefit

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SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2017

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